New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1926, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg 13 732 Oct. 23rd News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER e ESTABLISHED 1870 ARMY PLANE, MANEUVERING [14¢") NURDERER OVER BOSTON, FORCED To-2 255 NIER ARREST LAND IN CHARLES Sy |Oug of Party of Seven Cangh by Aviators Are Rescued m”fl [;!’”ES Hl]“] ’ Sp“flgheld Police By et and gy OBSERVANGES 1S WANIED I BostoN Launches W hic h Glo\mnl \lorclll Were Taking Part in (0 pjages foyerer Tniormal- Navy Day Exercises. | Reongnize Dy | i ‘ volvers—Woman Released. Pilot of Disabled Machine ROOSEYELT ANMIVERSARY [Giovants Storent 56, one s urre | Watmut: mrest mna ains e by Purposely Picked Out, 4 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, 1926. —EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS fiAfiflfi 0.P.CLUB 'PLANS OF MASONIC TEMPLE READY FOR Hmm ADOPTED; CONSTRUCTION AT Republican Organization Prei ONCE COMM“TEE,S INTENT pares fo Ditch Sherfli Dewey P"NZI lUSES HIS Stmctm to e Evaitad RALLY ON FRIDAY EVENING flATTLE IN EUURT Cn Russell Street Will e ombine Dignity, Oficers Elected as First Step In Campaign — Repubtican canai- | (Tered Tumed Over to Mass. Beauty and Utlllty dates to Be Invited to Speak at 0 Serve Hls Seutefloe o waes | WILL FILE NEW APPEAL | ikora, a for- Driver Dozes at Wheel on Curve, Auto Hits Pole and Turns Over; Pins Three Occupants Underneath Victims Rescued From Debris By Residents Near Gilette’s Corner Who Are Awakened By Crash Dozing at the wheel of his auto- ripped off and 29, of Bridgeport, | Mobile, according to his story to the police, Constantino Fabretti, aged 19 ArC| ¢ 283 Clinton street failed to ne- Tound to Be Armed With -Re- gotlate Gilette's corner on West | Hartford road about 1:15 o'clock this morning and when he awaken- top mpletely Caught After Chase — All A nt. Wher at the scene, th een moved to the rig highway. He went to 's home and learned that the r had not returned. The ser- wvaited for him until after and took his statement, eant Patrick the accid Directors Decide to Pro- ceed to Build Without Delay — To Ask for Public Meeting. At a meeting of the re 20 faction in the m P. ar of 14, Bridgeport, New London, Waterbury reg v This Will Delay Return to Bay ix armed Bridgeport, Conn., men | Greenwood street were pinned be- and one woman taken into custody | neath the car, which had struck a Water for Forced Land- ing as No Field Was Anid New Ha n Have Special Ex- ercises — Roosevelt Father of Modern U, officers, is wanted in Boston on & | murder charge, according to word received after the sic men had been arraigned in district court on a | charge of carrying dangerous weap- | Burton Gilette and other who were attracted by the noise of the crash moved the car and rescued the men. Fabretti and Wisnefsky were injured about the back and Capel's he was driving to- an just before which has been tomobile acci- Bef years v E ing the corner ne of m he be were made at Fal- carly today after a chase by police | telegraph pole and overturned. Available. SoNavy ons. No detalls of the con hall 2 mander post, V a member of tee for a perm was elec Kalin, an partment w| vision of th murder : head and face were injured. They what charge were recelyed Lere, the Bos- | were taken to the home of Dr. David ton m ge saying that officers | P, Waskowitz for treatment. The ; would come here for Morelli on & | front of the car was stove in, the New Britain Natwe Aids in Rehabilitating Greek Exiles to be wanted in ('cnn'C(lOl‘ “flh u‘ bootleggers' war, ( A — While Oct. 27 ¢ S0l ¢ impact ge had b cit Boston, Oct. 27 (P)—. « plane made a forced landing on the Charles River basin this afternoon Both aviators were d. The plane was one of a squadron of An army air- en done. ¥ al Rl e n done. th ry d town vice-presid employe in the the Russell American ted corr Budnick wry of the velt day, birth of the father of 151st an- priation congress for the ce of a na- pay Woman Released of 3 The party of seven was overhauled | by ofticers in a police car after sus | picions had becn aroused by the | manner in which the Bridgeport car | was driving about the Itallan dis- trict in this city. The car was halt- ed in Longmeadow and search re vealed five loaded revolvers fn it. men in the party bestdes Morelli ave their names as Pasquale Ara- | 23, Pasquale Buonofiglio, 49, Palermo, 29, Emilio Annin- no, 37, and Joseph Pollett!, 31. o woman, held at first as a sus- | was released. 1t appeared from the storles told | by t prisoners that they had come | Charles B. Eddy, formerly of New to this city on a pleasure trip. De- Britain, has becn appointed by the tives, however, discredit this and |Council of the League of Nations as sce in the visit the possible renewal |chairman of the Greek Refugee Set- land and sea planes flying over the onding a well- r of the named who is city in observation of Navy Day. The drive shaft of the plane came disabled as the plane circ over the city. Finding no place on shore the aviators d their plane gently to the g th water near the Boston Other members of the circus observ- ed their plight and within a few minutes four seaplanes coasted over the water to them. Two launches of the metropolitan police also sped to the scens and rescued the aviators. They w Richard Cobb, flight sergeant at the Boston airport, and W. C. Ritter- son Crowds had been w niversary be- by the Con a g ed s of shore. Falcon baseball team John Su affa of fifth mpletes the firs. star of fficers in the post of secretary. To Invite State Candidates Carrying out the annou to the public through an story in the Herald last anization de plans first of a series of 101d prior to election 17 Representa- iffe and Alderman | om H. Judd, w Aids Greel\t_}—']nles i ) - % colors wer and {Charles B. Eddy Named by Council of League of Nations to Help Refu- gees. place ward re- nveyed the 1t once for heo: London the 1 to visite submarine op- ¢ to look a craft. eon of : pect week, v given to p ome of the 1 Bri report a clubs w all civie Wil | State Another Month at Ieast — | | Faces 7 to 9 Year Term in Mas- sachusetts Prison. Austin, Texas, Oct Charles Ponzi, financlal wi to- lay was ordered turned over to by the| Ponzi is | Massachusetts authorities court of criminal appeals 1d in jail at Houston. Ponzi tion for four months. has been fighting extradi- | Two hearings were held before Governor Mirlam A. Ferguson before she honored the requisition of the governor of Mas- Ponzi rear chusetts for the return of to serve a se tence upon conviction of being a “common and torfous thief” in | connection with his financial schemes in Boston. Ponzi was captured in New Or- | leans by a Texas officer who had gnized him aboard an Italian ship in the port of Houston. [ The Boston financial wizard t to prevent extradition in the court and, failing, sought | rec district Permit. The bullding committee Masonic Temple corporation considering of The after and plans om four architects for a Masonic club and temple to be located on Russell street, ted those of Valter P. Crabtres as the most de- sirable for the needs of the Masonic frat ity. At a directors \(110!\16 drawings has se meeting of the Temple corporation held last evening the building committee was authorized to secure a building permit, enter into a contract with Architect Crabtree, and request esti. mates from contractors. It is hoped that the contract may be let in the near future and operations on the building commenced at once. The exterior of the building is de signed in the Grecfan Doric style of rchitecture. The Doric order was especially loved by the Greeks and as used in the Parthenon at Athens is claimed to be as complete and as perfect an architectural feature as has ever been known in history. It i3 the standard of perfection and the acme of simplicity. Doric columns of maneuvers for two hours. Exhibiting various flight formations forming individual stunts, aviators of the army, national guard and navy had kept pedestrians straining their necks to watch the anties abo the city street canyons. Resume Exhibitions Several of the flyers resumed th: exhibition over the city as soon the rescue had been e ted. Further color was lent to the rescue by the dozen land planes, which, powerless to aid, hovered over the scene like sea gulls. One of the launches caught fire as it raced to the crippled plane but the blaze was extinguished with little damage. The momentum of the plans, d been cut down before it touched the water so that instead of ploughing under it, it ended on its nose and remained half afloat. Ritterson comes from Hightstown, N. J.,, and Cobb was born in New- port, R. I As the plane, with the engine dead, swooped down, the m released themselves from their har ness and adjusted cork beits. They clambered out on a wing until they were rescued. All aviators taking part in the ex- hibition had been ordered to keep within landing distance of the air- port or the basin. Other flyers at- tributed to this order the avoidance of casualties in the accident. POLITIGAL WRITERS DEBATING EARNINGS ' as Pratt tes Nay i al Unitec i Rear Adnm dent of the college the principal meeting to pr 1 War will ‘be mass which S nn He is to sp Meret of Guate merch vance. avy and ing th S the n an marine. Preceding the att the Yale band motion plctures of the battle fleet in southe shown. A display of mod ships of the A property of the Yal one to the public durir 0 ke ch of will p spe Amir ;xl y nd of the | ;\1.1 h“ s cr rn famaous n navy. tl aval unit, was ng the dp of 00 In Bridgeport Conn., Oct not it a naval a feature been the Bridgep vessel d to an ad- ant of : Newport, the combined lunch- civic clubs of the city this clubs participating in- Lions, Kiwani the fiy dress the 1 to iptain B, War c before t cluded | Civitan A r of Com- | merce. 14 in many of | 27T (P —| of intercity hostilities that have 1 more than one murder here. The six pleaded not guilty to of carrying dangerous weap- were held for hearing on 8. char, ons and November . CONSIER FORMATION OF AUTOMOBILE CLUB Local Drivers Reported‘ Dissatisfied With Hart- | | ford Organization j A movement to form a New Bri- tain Automobile club, or at least a New Britain branch of the Hartford Automobile club, is under discussion h the possibility of action before winter is over. Two of the people most actively interested in the formation of an organization to look after motorists and their interests In New Britain are A. P. Marsh, secretary of the Connecticut Motor Truck associa- tion, and Ralph H. Benson, secre- of the New Britain Chamber of | Commerce. It is pointed out by both of these men that an organization of New Dritain motorists, looking after New | Britain interes could get mor recognition from the state authori. ties than this city does at the pre: ent time, because there scems to be {tlement Commission. {ain, the son of the This commis- sior, consisting of two Greeks, Englishman, and an American, who ts as chairman, was constituted by the lcague in 1924 for the pur- pose of permanently settling in Greece the Greeks, numbering about 1,500,000, sent out of Turkey after the Greco-Turkish war, with some additions from other source The expenses of this enterprise are paid out of the proceeds of an in- |ternational loan, floated in Greece, |Great Britain and Americ; Mr. Eddy was born in New Brit- late James H. Eddy. He is a graduate of wai Britain high school and | Law school. He practiced law In | New York ¢ity and was on thel raflway commission during the World war as an assistant to Wil- McAdoo. His residence at Plainfield, New Jersey. | Eddy left for Athens on Oc- | tober 2, stopping at Geneva to at-| tend a conference of the League of Nations, then proceeding to Greece He was accompanied by his sister, Miss Bessle M. Eddy of Hartford. HAND T0 HAND BATTLE WITH FEROCIOUS TIGER Fearfully Clawed Before CHARLES B. EDDY 230,000 INCREASE N GAS LIGHT C0. STOCK Directors Vote to Recom- | mend Capitalization of [ $1,250,000 [ | ‘he Yale in § Mr. At the regular quarterly meeting held yesterday afternoon of the di- rectors of the New Britain Gas | Light Co. the directors recommend |ea to the stockholders that the capital stock be increased from | $1,000,000 to $1,250,000. A specia meeting of the stockholders was called for November for this pur- Man Is Attendant Can Dispatch Houston Zoo Beast. Houston, Texas, Oct. —A attend and speak at effort will also b mb the state ticket, exception of Dewey, brought | use of the many on ar of thos it is expected that the rally will be en ¥ local in na- , officlals of the club say. e new organization was formed to further the candidacy of all re- ndidates for office with ion of Edward W. Dewey, | for reclection as sheriff. Members of the club will lend their support to George Gabb, democratic shiev v nominee. All Registered Republicans ments of Al- derman B Sryshowskl 4 ex- Al A. Karpinski that ch movement is on foot in the I fth ward and that the story of anti- Dewey sentiment was promulgated by democratic interests, members of v‘\ club today pointed to the fact officers are all registered and representative of and active ele- publicans. motives which prompted for- of the club are the same as moved local delegates to convention to vote against the renomination of Dewey, | they explain. Dewey was opposed on the ground that he ignored m»\ request of the New Britain G. 0. P. that he appoint Willlam J. Rawlings. r police chlof here, as one of his deputies. Local republicans ar- ed they were entitled to consid- ration because it was the support Dewey here that elected An the cale dida ng the sta theic republicans the younger nent of fif The ‘r*\mmn | thoso t the county or giver | cal purpose is on Itallan poil, | out Ponzi was not arrested by au- the higher court, which | magnificent proportions and grace i give the entrance an impresstve and Will File Appeal Hmd ; dignity, suggesting solidarity e e | strength. The portico would be ome of Ponal's attorueys. anaouneed | CSPecially effective at night-under a 0 b 72 futol | tull flood of light which would 2 motlon Morixe hearins hefore the |¢y oy iinto. BoldNngilos thb sk win- court of criminal appeals will b“‘do\\'s, beautiful metallic doors, and filed within 15 days. This will pro- | ¢\, | symbolic medallions e long Ponal’ in the county Jall | the portica achitectiava. - O T Houston another month or more, | The sides and end of the bullding 1 estimated. | would be in keeping with the front. Auswering a contentlon of the . but of a simple troatment. ise that Ponzi's arrest was| The materials proposed for the violative of the treaty between the | exterior of the bullding is limestone United States and Italy to the effect ‘nnd brick, using a brick of such that an Italian ship in ths waters |color that would blend harmonious- of the United States for & practi- |1y With the lmestone. and| Coming up the broad and easy |flight of granite steps one enters |the foyer which glvesan atmosphere of traternal welcome in addition to having the more prosaic attitude of convenience. This foyer is 15-6x29 | feet. Opening from it on the right |is the ladles' parlor, of ample size, land with an open fireplace. On |the left of the fover is the main | staircase, leading to the floor below tody by the trespass of an individual | ‘““" to the floors ahove, with tolles affords him no immunity from |04 coat rooms on either side of rosecution,” the opinlon sald. |the stalrcase. P | Large double glazed doors lead is remedy is not to avold a trial | | from the foyer to the lounge and under the indictment but 0 Dro~|piiarg rooms. The lounging room ceed against the trespasser or Kld- | ity ftg opon fireplace was designed DEBLaT: | with but one idea In mind, a home- ltke atmosphere. Carefully selected 7 to 9 Year Term turniture, lighting fixtures and Boston, Oct. 27 (A — Ch"les‘drapmu would make this room Ponzl, who was ordered turned |cheerful and comfortable. over to the custody of the Massa-| Opening from the lounge is a' chusetts authorities in Texas today, | large reception room which acts as faces a sentence of rrom 7 to 9 {an approach to the tiler's room, and vyears in state prison as a “common [as a meeting place for members be- relief in was d vice versa, the opinlon, written by Presiding Judge Morrow, pointed thority of the United States or by state government. The opinfon declared that George Lacy, the Har- ris county, Texas, deputy sheriff who arrested Ponzl, was a tres- passer. “The fact that he comes into cus- hand to hand battle with a man-eat- tiger, resulting in wounds requir- [ing 29 stitches, is good expericnce for a man dealing with animals in the opinion of C. A. Wilson, superin- tendent of parks at Minot, N. D. pose. Should the stockholders the action of the directors money for the new s&tock will called for some time during the | CITY PAYS $750 FOR (Sl some e wues x| UISIDE LBGAL HELP, capacity at the gas works and to ppy, Berry & Reynolds Engaged For pay for a pipe line from the works to the north end of the town | as far as Allen 'he rapid | growth of the out of the city makes nec i- tion The usual dividend of 2 payable November 1 to 4P | record October 26 was vo number y in the sion will drill this no way of making local wants felt in Hartford. Many New Britain auto owners belong to the Hartford Automobile | club, It is felt that the formation of a New Britain automobile club| pecovering from a successful en- | could offer local motorlsts all the | uiter with El Tex, a big Bengal the Hartford club ofters, | yioor at Herman Zoo here, the North and that it would look after local | paota park officlal was in fine interests. New Britain members of | goirigg. Hartford Auto club have been | = wpegt kind of trafning for an ani- tisfied for some time with a|ma] man,” saild Mr. Wilson as he lency to exaggerate Hartford s |lay on his bed in a hotel room. “It an individual community instead of takes accidents like that to make a breadening out to include other com- | good zoo keeper. It teaches you how | munities ip thelr exceptional pro- |ty handle cats and helps build E your nerve.". he question of getting some ac- | \jlson was attacked by the tiger | ; oo Rl I GRLe roads | while on an _inspection tour win | Waterbury Editor Suffers subject of the problems agitating the | Hang Nagel, superintendent of the | our | lecal motorists and it is pointed out |z, Thegnnlmz\l which was born in | .‘Sho‘:k’ Cl.0ndllly-lll .G‘f;‘f’ that at least temporary improve- |captivity 16 months ago sprang from | ‘:;‘,"' Pas e e could be made 60 that these | jtg cage when Wilson sought to enter el tas m‘, nuac s & Fenision idEhaimadelmore Sa (0RO liandliwas ahatiana i llleal By ENgsliligy witea e ey iravel, it there wers an oremnlz- wnils Wilson and the tiger were| toc F SGEEE |tion here to push it ‘mmd in a death struggle. Wilson's |y ooneoion ™ yoa The Chamber of Commerce is in- | Jeft shoulder was torn by the beast's | physiclans o |terested also fn the question of K\Hd"‘lefl(h His face was clawed and his | yncpanged. & |siens pointing the way to New Brit- |left log ripped. | arlealF A Chapin! had ibaen edin] lain. In the past the chamber it '! Knowing the futllity of 1"'ml"l"'~"mr of the Waterbury American for | sald, has received little encourage- |to escape, after the Bengal had |ror¢ Teitl voasa Tt ehtanadt the ment from the highway department [t‘lnmped its huge jaws on his shoul- | newspaper field immediately fol- in its request for signs indicating |der, tearing the flesh, at the first|lowing his graduation from Yalein roads into this city, and this coupled |spring, Wilson clinched with it. He |1577, and e e Saingy was done. ; with the fact that the only way to | hugged the fighting beast to him |with the American. 4 ,"’”,"’ LEOIBIR WAt eiel drive into New Britain from Middle- | with his left arm, while holding its | The new home of the American |10:2% 1-2 and contliued until 1¢ town and the shortest way in from |left fore paw with his right hand. |was formally opened with special ‘\'(H dcn both come over the congest- | They wrestled more than a minute ylnn|\< rsary editions Sunday and 27 (B thl_nm)rml and rough Berlin roads, is D('h\('\b\‘forr Nagel could get an oppor- \[ond]) last, and In connection 4 \v'fl‘\v!.{mhy |ed out as an argument in favor of | tunity to place a shot with his re- |with that event the work Mr. dividend . gg |21, auto club here, volver. | Chapin on the American receive o We are vitally interested in this recognition from many contempor- ng e supject,” said Secrctary Benson of | aries. ‘\,’0';'”“‘ [the Chamber of Commerce in dis- : | the subject. Mr. Benson record e t Suageaied that a New Britaln auto | phyjippine constabulary troops and - |club Bo formed a band of Moro outlaws in Lanao Marsh ha n‘“’ ‘”‘ ":m‘ ““"""’f“ ")?n ‘:f"“‘;‘;:l province. There were no casualties | communica ecret : e | among the constabulary. The con- of the Hartford Auto club recently | “MON¥ th i e 2 Ton ™Mby | stabulary was attempting to arrest sking that more recognition et il R g shown New Britain road conditions. | oucn Saifort, an Amerfcan elti | B A 1 of this city 1s a di-|;qn " The outalws took refuge in a |rcctor of the Hartford Automobile | cota, or fort, which the constabulary club, Mr. Beccher was out of the | gorn - city this morning and his attitude |on the formation of a New nr|t1|n] * e | branch could not be ascertained. It | | 5 WEATHER | | confirm the be private citize he local T to the day nava at its Steel and Motors Financial .. Reports Analyzed on |7 .o “Party Basis” " | — The base, the naval st st held “open house’ observing Navy day. S sand pers inspected ous featur program ball game the United award of school (7] marine in today in thou- w Lo Oc don, 27 United o! Conn., ates services New York, Oct. 27 (A — The significance of exceptional earnings by the United States Steel corpora- tion and the General Motors cor- poration was variously interpreted by financlal commentators today he steel corporation yesterday reported earnings of ,626,526 for the third quarter of 1926, and General Motors reported $149,317 3 for the first nine months of this year. The steel corporation’s earnings &ro its highest since the final three months of 1918, at the close of the war, and the nine months' report for General Motors is larger than for any previous complete vear in its history. The steel earn rep- Tesent a net per share of $13.07 as compared with $9.43 for the same period last year, and the General Motors earnings $17 £hare as compa with § the first nine months of 1926. The republican New York Her- ald Tribune says today, “facts an figures bearing out the predictions of prosperity voiced on numerous occasions by Elbert H. Gary and | other industrial and financial lead- | Oct ers of the country were suppl £ ria 3 ay by two of the nation’s red a quarterly billlon dollar organizations, each 3-4 per thus the largest of its clds: on a seven per The independent The dividend able Times vs, “that T t kholders of ovember 1 The Pennsyly |ing an | cent or [ ex Defense of Municipality In the ate, veral the base and and vari- afternoon the a foot- se and and the to the ity for el Donnelly Case Receive That Fee, ry this for the services of ed Corporation in the | A bill for §75 attorneys who as: ( John H city's fer by | pol per cent of betwee atocl prizes of this v the navy and children the best e the 1 merch ance committee Reynolds, represt- Joseph Berry, tried city. The ftemized in court and five tha corporation F. Da by suit ssavs on marine is onc ed th Attor for the of half a his hon He wa attex mg tion was Ponhr];lu[f \hsqoun, | Has Earth Tremors Today ar Bluff, Mo., Oct. 7 P severe n tremors were to 10:25 o'clock were s six d National Obseryvance es witt ew York, October 27 (#) — To- PERN, RAILR) ON 7 PER CENT BASIS cart Windows shaken but Dircctors Today Vote To Declare Dividend of 1 3-4 30 Quarterly Cent Nov. shaken severely but ! city were o as reporte of Hnudlm ((mdmon Is Now Extremely Critical | Detroit, Oct (A—No change was reported today in the condition of Harry Houdini, magician and foe of spiri by the h he underwent an | appendicitis Monday. | oped and the p(rv‘ of health was con- eriti | DOZEN MOROS KILLED Manila, Oct. 27 (P—Twelve Moros were killed in a fight today between JUDGE'S LAWYER RESIGNS, St. Louls, Oct. 27 (P—T st Louis Post Dispatch today says Wil liam F. Zumbrunn of Washingtou, general counsel for the Ku Klux Klan, has resigned as chief counsel | Siitie T aey for Federal Judge George W. PR CA At lish of the F n Tllinois district | sigered highly in his impeachment trial before the senate opening November 10. York | securities | b the been of with (Continued on Page Mourteen) hospita Mus. Mills' B)d\' Will Be Exhumed, Simpsen Says Jersey City, N. Oct (A"r Bpecial Prosecutor Simpson of the Hall-Mills murdér case today de- cided to exhume the body of Mrs Eleanor Mills from Van Liew ceme- | tery, New Brunswick. The body of Rev h Mr ye be exhumed Brooklyn, netery processes now pending in New supreme court are successtul, son announced, mors 19 and 1-2 per cent was 6 1-2 per cent per cent. company re- come for any . 0ss receipts | . with net receipts was an in- in gross and receipts as com- same month last January 1 the gross 4 and the net ptions of the yearly In 1906 the r and in 1907 it In September ported the 1 5 was Beecher Hrgen the KENT COLLECTOR DIES. — == New Haven, (P—Charles | VIRGINLA BANK CLOSED Kirke, 72. tax collector for the town | Richmond, Va., Oct. 27 (R—The | o Kent, was found dead in bed this | doors of the First National bank of | morning at the home | Pocahontas, Va. are closed, the | of this city, whom Mr. Federal Reserve bank of Richmond | heen helping build was notified this afternoon by a Na- | with him in the meanwhile. Death tional bank examiner. The ex-|was from heart attack, according to {aminer sald he was investigating the | Mcdical Examiner M. M. Scarbor- bank's affairs, |ouga ward W. Mills four from a it court York Simp- his 79 is said, however, that Mr. Beecher | has had occasion in the past to point | out the fact that tha officlals of the Hartford club do not pay enough at- a New Britain and vicinity: Falr tonight. Thursday in- creasing cloudiness and gain wa warmer, 1$5,956,017, I \ i (Contlnued on Page 14) ]i and notorious thief.” He had pre- | | viously served a federal court sen- | tence, after pleading gullty to a | charge of using the mails tn a| scheme to defraud. | Both court cases grew out of Ponzi's frenzied finance operations | in postal reply coupons in nns state several years ago, during| which he received investmeats ag- gregating millions of dollars. | He was found not guilty in 1922 | by one fury on varlous charges of larceny and conspirac; Other {ndictments were brought | and a second jury, in 1924, report- | ed a disagreement. ty by a third jury in 1925, and | sentenced. Meanwhile an investiza tion was conducted by immigratio wuthoritles concerning his status 4 this country. He carried exceptions to state supreme court and while at | liberty on ball organized a land syndicate in Florlda. He was in- dicted there for violation of the trust laws, and was released under | bonds. Bail In Massachusetts was lefaulted when he failed to return | n | n | | Mc\; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Rock- well of Church street, residents of New Britain for the past 40 years, will observe their 50th wedding an- niversary at their home, November 1. Gathered with the couple to ob- serve the occasion will be four of their five sons and daughters and Iseveral grandchildren. Mrs. Rob- |ert C. Hartley Aberdeen, Wash, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rock- well, will be unable to attend. The |sons and daughters who will be present are, Frank C. and Albert H. [ Rockwell of his city, Mrs. C. A, | Rossberg of West Hartford, and | Mrs. C. R. Bengston of this eity. | The Rockwells were married in |South Manchester, November 1, 1876, by Rev. E. S. Ela. a Methodsit minister. Mrs. Rockwell was Miss | Hattie M. Barber, a resident of South Manchester, and Mr. Rockwell as a resldent of Newington, and |upon their marriage they moved to | Newington where they lived for 10 | years. Mr. Rockwall was for many years employed in the wood planing department of the Stanley Rule and s | Level Co. He retired several years | ago. | Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell have long | been members of the South Congre- gational church. Fraternally, Mr. | Rockwell is affiliated with Court | Charter Oak, Foresters of America, Inn.x the O. U. A. M. A son of the couple, Ensign Walter |8, Rockwell, died in Newport Naval | hospital, March 6, 1920, as a result® of {liness contracted during his serv- lice in the war nee. Ponzl, ssachusetts and to Governor Massachusott. for Ttaly with the announced inten- tion of enlisting the ald of Premier Mussc RABBI ELIAS ROSENBERG REPORTED CRITICALLY ILL Jewish Reliblous Leader at Death’s | after nsuccessful court offi- Fuller of Door From Pueumonia— Famlily at Bedside. Rabbi s Rosenberg of 17 Main streetyone of the most widely kno\xn Hebrew clargymen in the state, | dangerously ill of pneumonia at \‘c“ Britain General hospital and fears were entertained for his recovery this afternoon. Hih family was sum- moned to his bedside today. It is be- lieved he is in the crisis of the all- ment Rabbi Rosenberg is about 63 years | of age and has lived in New Britain a number of years. He is of the orth- odox bellef and for many years was| | the only rabbl in this clty. He was found | M on his behalf, sailed | fore ths lodge opens, and during intermissions. This room may also be used for other purposes for lodge work. The small lodge room {s placed in the center of the bullding (Continued on Page 15) S0TH ANNIVERSARY OF ‘CHURCH ST. RESIDENTS . and Mrs. C. H. Rock- well to Celebrate Golden Wedding