New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 9

EASTERN STAR OFFIGER DIES Mrs. Mary Flood of Greenwich Prominent in Ledge Greenwich, Dec. 14 (#—Mrs. Mary | Fowler Flood, who was the Ruth in | the local chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and was stricken with ‘apoplexy on the evening of the offi. cial visitation to the chapter of the grand lodge officers, died at her home in Orchard Place today. That night ore of the visiting grand lodge officers served in Mrs. Flood's place as she had been taken home. The funeral will be on Thursday afternoon from the Masonic temple ‘here and the chapter will have a service and the Rev. Frank A. Hos- mer of the Presbyterian church will officlate. Mrs. Flood was the wife of Eu- gene E. Flood and was well known not only in the Eastern Star as an officer, but in other rganizations. She leaves three sons, Myron, Eu- gene and Kenneth snd three sisters, Miss Mildred Towler and Mrs. Harry Hitchcock of New Haven, and Mrs. Nettie Bowers of Springfield, Mass. GETS BIG TATE Bilon Dollars Awarded to Daughter of Hawallan-Whitc Marriage. San Francisco, Dec. 14 (#) — The daughter of a white-man and a Ha- to the bowl It can not tip overand spill. Quality Smoke Shop Opp. Burritt Hotel Tel. 1899 -|wailan woman who-lived and loved | ture him today, in Hawail 30 years ago was awarded the entire estate of her father, sald to amount to $1,000,000, in a de- |c1510n handed down yesterday by | the United States circuit court of | appeals here. As a result of t:. decision, the| fortune becomes the property of Helen Kaiwailani McMillan, wife of a white business man in Honolulu. She won the estate against the amassed array of her father's rela- tives, who contended she had no in- terest in the property because her iparents, David Fyfe Noltey and Ka- | mahl Kawelo, were not married at | | the time she was born, although they wedded six yedrs later when Kamahi Kawelo divorced her native husband. | \COL. GREEN DENIES HE | STOLE GOVERNMENT RUM Declares That Some “Comedian” Planted Empty Bottles Out- side His Door San Francisco, Dec. 14 (A—Col. Ned M. Green, deposed dry chief, charged with the embezzlement of seized liquor from government storcrooms, today was to continue testimony in his own defense in fed- eral court here. He yesterday denied uncandnion ally that he diverted confiscated li- quor to his own use and described his term of office as a continual round of harassment and questioned motives. “Every once in a while,” he said, | “some person, to be funny, would group empty liquor hottles odutside my door. Once I found two empty champagne bottles "in my waste basket. I had to be careful, as I did not want any of the maids, jupon being questioned, to be able| |to say they ever found any empty bottles in my room.” The removal of scveral bottles of fiquor from the government sub- treasury by the former administra- tor, a point stressed by the prose- cution was admitted by the defend- ant who called it an outstanding example of a willingness to ques- tion his motives. The liquor was removed, he zald, while he studied the source from which the intoxi- cants came. Escaped Elephant Is Cornered, Not Captured Garnett, Kan., Dec. 14.—(®—Dia- mond, six ton elephant which es- caped from the winter quarters of a circus at Quenemo, Kan., Saturday has been cornered in a field near here but leaders of a posse assign- skeptical as to thelr abflity to cap- The posse was organized by county authorities after Diamgnd had wrecked numerous small farm buildings, killed a pig and fright- ened scores of persons by his at- tempts to enter butldings. Thus far | Sterling, ed to “get him dead or alive,” were | NEW BRITAIN DATLY HERALD, .TUESDAY, NORWALK CLERKS ARE SENT 0 JAIL Given Year Fach Bridgeport, Dec. 14 (# — Arthur 28, and Percy Lann, 29, former clerks in the offices of the {second taxing district of the city of |Norwalk, toda¥y pleaded ' guilty to |charges of embezzlement in criminal superior court here and were sen- |tenced to one year in jail each by Judge Alfred C. Baldwin. Dann is alleged to have taken $16,273.20 and Sterling $14,697.57 of the district funds by making false entries in the books. Partial restitution has been made by the families of the young men. Attorney Cygmut Czubak, & Bridgeport attorney, was sefitenced to three months in jail after he had pleaded guilty to embezzlement. It is alleged that he misappropriated money belonging to a client. TYW0 WOMEN BARRED Remain at Ellis Tsland. | New York, Dec. 14 (A—Two | women, who arrived aboard the {Grace liner Santa Luisa yesterday, looked across |the New York skyline today from is Island, because love and the tmmigration laws do not always | work hand in hand. One was Mrs. Jeanne Gold, 35 vears old, who says she was born in | Wakeflold, Mass., but married wealthy, Peruvian planter in Callao. Her passport expired three days ago while the liner com- ing from Valparaiso was still at sea, and she must face a speeial inqu! board before admittance. The other woman was the wife of a ship's oiler. She gave her name as Coecelia Duval, 20, of Valparaiso. She 15 £ald to have been smuggled on hoard by her husband, Alexander. Her identity was revealed when overalls, and engaged in a fight with | Alexander in the engina room when Alexander reprimanded him for ad- vances. Foth probably will he sent back to Valparaiso ‘WATER SPOUT DOES HARM Lisbon, Portugal, Dec. 14 (A—Ex- tensive damage has been caused by an enormous water spout which burst over St. Michael’s island in the Azores. Roads and houses were idestroyed. Reports received from he has injured no one. no cgsualties. Two Employed in Tax Office, Tove and Immigration Laws Do Not | Work Hand in Hand and Wives | the chilly waters to| renm(nm another ofler sensed her disguise of | |the island this afternoon mentioned | DECE'IBER 14, 1976, FORGED REVENUE STAMPS British Columbia Booze Exporters Use Them on Canadian Liquor Bottles o ‘ Vancouver, B. C., Dec. 14 (B) — British Columbia liquor exporting in- | terests have forged United States | revenue stamps and used them on Canadian bottled liquor, have mad payments of money to provineial of- ficials and have contributed to th campaign funds of Canadian polit cal party, the royal commission ir vestigating rum smuggling was t here yesterday. George Reifel, president of the Joseph Kennedy Co., a liquor house, testifled that the concern put United States whiskey labels on liquer man- ufactured in British Columbia. “And you forged the internal revenue stamp of the United States and placed it on bottles?"” Counsel Rowell of the commission asked. “Yes,” Reifel said. Rowell introduced in evfdence pink vouchers torn in two, which he | declared represented payments by |the Kennedy company to provincial | officia LITHUANIAN CLUB ELECTS |John J. Gerdis Chosen President At | Meeting of Independent Citizens' i | Brotherhood. of Lithuanian club held fits Lithuanian hall | The Brotherhood Independent Citizer lannual meet |last night |ofticers: P vice-president, cording secrefary, financial s dent, John J. Gerdis; John Pitkevich; Adam Staskelu- retary, Joseph Lu- ; dreasurer, Joseph J. Satula; assistant secretary, Joseph Pasvens- rustee - John Linick and V atulls; marshal, Joseph M: zates to ed Lithuanian Benedict and Willia | ca: |nm, dele | Mondzes! m \['\"!hq Ik } JATLED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT | Hartford, Dec. 14 (P —Albert Smiley, 26, of Bridgeport, formerly of Hartford, was Hartford county jail for six months on his plea today of guilty to a su- | perfor court charge of embezzle- | Mack Motor Truck Company. It was | claimed that he had falsified his | collection accounts. | JIM BASSE BARBER SHOP || 4 R. R. ARCADE ¢ ABefore Christmas Sale at After ChristmasPrices Value 59¢ yd. 45x36-inch Pequot Tubing Xmas Sped-l Value 25¢ yd. Cameo Ladies Cloth, No. 1000, Charmeuse finish, — Xmas Special ., ., ¥d. - 35¢ 11 XMAS CLUB CHECKS CASHED Value 29¢ yiL Pure Irish Linen Crash Toweling with ocolored horder. Xmas Special .. Yd, Value $1.49 en, 81x90-inch well known Mohawk Sheets. Xmas spocln-l veees Eao Value SgER W (o 36-in. Daintily de- signed Flannelettes for underwear. 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