New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1926, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation For 13,969 Week Ending Dec. 11th ... ESTABLISHED 1870 CHILICKI, SOUGHT HERE AS HOLDUP MAN, IS ARRESTED IN STAMFORD EARLY TODAY Chief Hart Hears Man Wanted For Shooting Arch St. Gas Station NECTICUT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1926.—TWENTY PAGES. suaro: MUNIEROS FIRE CAUSES $50,060 DAMAGE AS | RBOUR WHITING ST. STOREHOUSE BECOMES HUGE TORCH AT MIDNIGHT ‘Highland Take One of Coldest Spots in Whole State NEW LONDON ALS0 HARD HIT , Whating || 10 STORY BUILDING | Furniture Owned By 53 Persons and Two Load- ' PLANNED IN NEW YORK| ed Five-Ten Trucks Consumed While Entire City Fire Department Battles Against Heavy Larkin Tower St‘ructure to| Cold Weather Odds. Cost About Eighteen Millions PR o |CARGO OF SILK VALUED AT $20,000 New York, Dec. 19 (P—Manhat- | ARRIVES WH]LE FLAMES ARE RAGING ton is out to kcep the record for the NEW BRITAIN, CO} PRICE THREE CENTS HAMLIN BITTER A7 o COUNCIL ‘INSULP Ellsworth and Byrd Send Messages Likens Action on MEmOral 10 o aer o e o Punch and Judy Show At the Top of the ‘World FLINGS SHATS AT MAYOR | New York, Dec. 18.—(P— Yes, | children there is a Santa Claus. Two | Champion of Perpetuating Court of Honor Resents Attitude That Only Americans who have been to the | top of the world say so, and he is | to use airplanes and dirigibles as well as reindecr this year. Noting that boys and girls all over {tho word were concerned because | | Santa and reindeer were not men- | X [tloned i’ the explorers narratives,| ‘' oie In Other Towns and Cities { Henry Woodhouse, president of the | serial league of ~America, wrote | fhem. Asked whether Santa had | | been seen, Lincoln Ellsworth of the | Norge replicd: Rk “Absolutely. T hope the time will :’:](’m’“‘ and never come when I cannot see Santa | ; Claus.” And this came from Commander | 6. e o “ Dyrd: “How could T miss seeln | pelow at 7.00 oorge g ¢ was ton B ; | 7:30 o'clock this morning Santa when I had been waiting all | ang the mercury reached the zero | my life to visit his dominion. i at Satan’s Kingdom. llsworth saw many City Reports Even Zero the Readings Were Announced at and 6 Above. Conn., Dec. 18 (B— Highland Lake report- temperatures of 12 below zero his morning as the winter's coldest t settled over this section of the Property Owners Have Voice in From Zero to 5 Winsted, Affairs of City Government, The actions of the common coun- ‘cll in the war memorial dispute is | likened to a Punch and Judy shoew Owner Has Confessed. | gulded by an unseen hand, in a Found in an Automobile Stolen in Providence and ; 8] | statemont tssued today by George V. Hamlin, leader of those who fa- Claims He Drove Car ‘1‘13:‘:;1 perpetuation of a court of Through This City Yes- | Mr. Hamlin declares he was mov- terday. . {m X reindeer, hermometers on the streets of when Byrd was over the Pole they | Winsted showed from elght to ten WOrld's tallest bullding away from \\'r‘r{* bus);:lgvl(mg new antlers and | below zero this morning, | Detroit, and in line with this plans coats for Christmas. | Ellsworth d he hopes Santa ‘| | have been filed here for construction, | beginning early next year, of a 110- ed to come out with a public state- ment because of “Inhuman, con- temptible and insulting treatm nt | we received at the hands of those | who are only our rervants, last The most destructive fire of the year, and one of the most spece Zes 5t Mo Eonon, tacular to occur in this city in somo time, destroyed the two-story store- Stamford, Conn., Dec. 18—Peter Chilickd, New Britain, is being held here for the New Britain police in connec- tion with a number of holdups and robberles in that city and vicinity recently. Chilicki was arrested here at midnight when his automobile was stopped on suspicion by two motorcycle officers. Chilicki, when questioned at po- lice headquarters, admitted he had stolen the machine in Providence, R. I, last night. The man will be questioned In New Britain regard- ing his possible connection with holdups that have occurred within the past two wee! He told the police he had left New Britain last Sunday. An oil station was robbed and & man shot that day. Chilicki came here from Worces- ter, Mass, driving through New Britain yesterday. In Worcester Thurs night he found himself without funds and was given a night's lodging at police headquar- | ters. He was rcleased yesterday morning. In 1920 Chilickl was sentenced to from six to ten years in state's prison for the theft of an automo- bile and .. holdup. He served four years at Wethersfield when, he says, he was pardoned. Chiet Hart of the local police de- partment was pleased to receive no- tification of Chilickl’s arrest. He is convinced, that the ex-convict com- mitted the robbery and shot Fred- ericks, and it is ve possible that the robbery at the which was the first in the serie similar crimes that aroused the city during the past few weeks, was committed by Chilicki, with a com- panion, he believes. According to Chief Hart, Chilicki has confessed to the crime. Immediately on being notified of the arrest, the chief detailed Ser- zeant Patrick J. O'Mara and Officer “Thomas J. Fecney to drive to Stam- ford. They left at 10 o'clock and cxpect to return with their prisoner late this afternoon. A circular bearing Chilicki’s pho- tograph and description was re- ceived by the Stamford police yes- terday and supplied the informa- tion on which the arrest was made Relative to Chilicki's statement to the Stamford police that he drove through New Eritain in a stolen car yesterday, Chief Hart said it is possible that he did so. He could hardly have visited any of his local haunts, however, as cvery police- man was on the lookout. George E. Fredericks, vietim of the robbery and shooting, heard of the arrest with great pleasure. He was angered at the gunmans' ef- frontery and disdain of his plea not to shoot after he had handed over his monecy, and despite the !uunliw cap obtained by the robber over the | police by several days' start, Mr. Fredericks has been confident all week that eventually the arrest would be made. WARRANT 1S ISSUED FOR ANDREWS’ ARREST Prosecutor Accuses Him of Yiolating Tenement House Laws Prosecutor Joseph G. Woods to- day issued a warrant for the rest of Charles S. Andrews for three violations of the state tenement house act by illegal conversion of a two-family house on Lake Boulevard into one of three tenements with- out approval of the building depart- ment. The prosccutor's action brings to a head a case that } fire for the past two wecks follow- ing complaints of neighbors to the building commission. Attorney Isrel Nair, counse several days ago that his client had been subjected to publicity unjustly and he invited Inspector A. N, Rutly crford to vlew the premises so that the inspector might fssue a sto ment that the house is actually one of two tenements. In his visit the inspector gathered additional dence which not only failed to bring forth the desired statement, but in- creased his conviction the house is one of three tenements. It is alleged that the third floor ceiling does not conform with state requirements, that the cellar ceiling has not been pla d, as is re- quired under the tenement hou act, and that iron beams, required in three-tenement hous have not been used in construction. 24, of 93 Jubilee street, Wednesday evening.” {of the common council urged elr- culation of the Hamlin petition and 1t is also charged that a member | as been hanging | 1 for Andrews, declared | PETER CHILICKI CHICAGO CHILD SLAIN Priests, Called by Un- identified Man Chicago, Dec. 18 (A — Walter |Schmich, six years old, died at a hospital early today of a fractured skull, following his kidnapping and |lice to be a mental defective. The youth was fourld unconsclous |in the loft of a riding academy by Rev. L. J. Sweeney and Rev. C. J McCarthy of St. Vincent's chugch, who were led to the place by an un- |identifled man who called at the of the attack. {demented but he was insistent and Ithe trio hastened to the loft where | |the youth was lying with a deep gash in his head. Father Sweeney raised the boy's head and asked him his name, and finally he muttered, “Walter.” At the same time Father MeCarthy, who is known for his ath- letic prowess, rushed to seize the man, who had jumped to a ladder leading from the loft, and escaped fter slamming a door in his pur- uer's face. | The priests then hurried the youth |to a hospital, where he regained |consciousness long enough to give |nis_telephone numher. They were unable to check the {number, but in the meantime a man had reported the crime to the Rogers Park police station, where it was |found that Walter Schmich had {heen reported missing. Neighbors of the boy's parents reported early last evening they had seen |walking down the street with a |strange man. athers McCarthy and Sweeney aid they were in their office when the stranger of about 30 years old appeared, and speaking with an ac- |cent, gave them the details of the attack. FIRE IN GLOUCESTER General Alarm is Sounded for Blaze On Whart and Loss is Estimated at $50,000. Gloucester, M |fire for which a general alarm was unded, destroyed a two-story build- ing on the whart of the Gloucester | & Boston Steambonat company today. | Piremen fought the flames in a tem- | perature of five degrees above zero | while a frgezing northwest breeze |fanned the fire. The loss was esti- | mated at $50,000. ’ Merchandise in the whart was {and parts of the wharf itsel¢ were | destroyed before the firemen brought {the fire under contral. A number of tugs and other craft tied up in the | vicinity were removed and saved |from destruction. | The set of the wind, which was | oftshore, averted the spread of the | fire to buildings on the water front, Sparks w own across the har- ‘lrur, how et fire to the ;rnm’s of buildings in LZast Glouces ll(’l'. Covent;; Man ArrTzsted For Fraud by the Mails Willimantic, Conn., Dec. 18 (P— Frank Edgar of Coventry | rested by United State: | P. Marsh of New Dritain this morn- {ing charged with using the mails | for fraudulent purposes. He was taken to Norwich where he given a hearing before U. S. Com- ssioner Earl Mathewson. Bdgar had been in Worcester for the past two years and returned to | his home in Coventry two days ago. 167 Year OId Blacksmith Shares Estate of 6 Million San Jose, Cal, Dec. 18 (A)—Rus- sell P. Kenyon, 67, blacksmith here for 22 years, was notifled today by attorneys in Washington, D. C., that he would share with seven brothers and sisters in the $6,000,000 estate of Clarence A. Kenyon, a brother, who died in Washington last week. Ken- yon estimates his share at approxi- mately half a million, His brother became wealthy in the tile and pav- ing business, |Boy of Six Found Dying by | jattack by a man believed by the po- | church office and told the priests | At first they thought the man was | him | Dec. 18 UP)——,\! was | T then failed to champion it when it | reached the council. He questions | whether members of that body have | feet and, if they have, whether they | would know how to use them. | ence made by Mayor Weld that only petition are property owners. This | question was not put to draftees dur- ing the war, nor to those asked for votes last spring, the spokesman for the petitioners remarks. “Local Punch and Judy Show.” His statement, captioned, “The Local Punch and Judy Show,” fol- lows:— “When I submitted our petition to the mayor, I stated that I recogniz- ed that we were defcated; and ac- | cepting that as a fact I also stated that it would now be our duty, to other situation as glorious as pos- sible. When I wrote that I meant every word of it, and T have main- tained a respectful silence until ‘mow. Now, my reason for the present out- break, is the inhuman, contemptible and insulting treatment we received at the hands of those who are only | our servants, last Wednesday eve- ning. There is that, which makes us stand wondering in amazement. “I wonder just what, in particu- |1ar, placed the monument which so | many persons detest, so near to the | hearts of the mayor and common | council. | “I wonder by just what means | they were induced to think the mat- ter so near and dear, and s0 much nearer and dearer, vo their hearts, than to the hearts of the public. 1 wonder if the mayor shed any | f | tears when he was speaking to the | | council; and I wonder just what he | meant when he asked the council to | stand upon its own feet. | “I wonder if a Punch and Judy | show ever stood upon its own feet, or, if anyone who ever attended one, | has seen the guiding hands. | “I wonder why he tried to make it appear that the public is the of- fender in this case, and the city gov |ernment the injured party. “I wonder why the city council [ has seen fit to add insult to injury by ignoring a petition honestly sub- mitted; and T wonder if that is indication that the council reflects the sentiment of the people, “I wonder what may be the Ma- | zonigle method of ingratiation, that | he can so poison the minds of city |governments, everywhere against the wishes of the people. I wonder if the glorious pageant of dedication |of the Kansas City monument, and the speech of the president of the | United States, all together, will ever cfface the odium that attaches to the | Kansas City monument. Raps Councilman “T wonder why the local council- man who said, ‘That i3 all right | Hamlin, I believe in that. Put it | over and it will be the biggest thing ever put over in New Britain, but I | can't sign it did not stand on his feet and say so, when the vote w: aken in a particular manner, for the |it appear that a misstatement had been made. “I wonder If the councll really has feet, and if it has would it know [how to use them. | “I wonder if the city council ex- | pects the public to beli jeve that it | has had a fair and honest deal in this matter. “T wonder why objection was ade by the mayor, to advising the | Im _ | public, of the secretiveness that has time | characterized all the proceedings in |reference to the new monument, | “I wonder what the mayor meant | when he said, on the floor of the | council chamber, as reported in the | N ew Britain Herald: ‘Fortunately, we are living in the United Stat where every man has a right to e | press his own opinion, provided he | has done it In the right time and in the right place. But this is not the right time.” | “I wonder 1f he monument deal, like the one just completed In New Britain, could never have passed in Darkest Africa. I wonder if he meant, also, to throw |out the merest hint of a veiled | threat, | “I wonder just how long a coal | company would continue to do busi- | ness successtully, if its assets were | managed as the city's assets seem to | e managed. T wonder just how long {it would be considered profitable to spend a quarter million or more dol- |tars, for something not wanted, it | what was wanted could be obtained | for less than one hundred thousand | dollars. “I wonder why meant that a @ the mayor and (Contlnued on Page 18) Mr. Hamlin objects to the refer- | | a small percentage of signers of the | BY MENTAL DEFECTIVE get behind the mayor, to make the | in this case, | S [rection of T.os Anceles. will always use reindeer, but he feared this progressive age would require the use of aircraft. Byrd | said he learned that Santa is using | | planes and dirigibles this year in addition to reindeer. Where he does | not go by aircraft it will be the ault of the cities, he said, as they led to provide airports on which Santa_can land safely. ORMISTON STILL MAN OF MYSTERY Says Hes in Los Angeles, Butj HE MAY SURRENDER TODAY In Statement to Public, Radio Oper- ator Wanted In Connection With McPherson Kidnapping Case, Ex- piflhls His Side. Los Angeles, Dec. 18 (P—XKen- neth G. Ormiston, will-o’-the-wisp |\radio man in the Aimee Semple Mec- {Pherson case, broadcast from a place of hiding in this city today his word that he had “surrendered” to the |authorities here. His surrender was a vicarious one at best. The district attorney's office lannounced it had no idea where he |was. The Los Angeles Examiner an- nounced O n had come here !from Chicago, had been taken into custody and would be arr; day on a charge of conspir the Los Angeles police were ant of his whereabouts as |district attorney's office. Chicago Police Left All this took place w lice in Chicago, where O: been taken after od recently in Harrisburg, Pa ingly awaited for him to surrender |there, pursuant to the promise of his attorney, E. H. 8. Martin. Ormiston’s “official spokesman” here said he had waived extraditic in Chicago. where he became “tired of waiting to be arrested” and had voluntarily come here to "find out what it was all about.” Wants Bond Reduced | The radio man declared inten- tion of asking for a reduction of the $10,000 bail which was set last Wed- nesday when a grand jury indict- ment, charging conspiracy to pervert and obstruct justice, was returned |agatnst him. | On other matters pertaining to the McPherson case, Ormiston was still {smiling and saying little. | Union Pacific railroad officials re- ported that a man answering Ormis ton's descrintion and two others, had l1eft the Golden Coast limited ves- terday morning at Cajon. Calif.. near here. Thev were met by two auto- mohiles and spirited away in the di The trio 0 in a com- had traveled from ! ost | PUTPOSE Of trapping him, or making |partment. Charges “Donble Cross” B. I. Dennison, deputy district at- |torney, last night declared his office {had been “double crossed” in con- nection with the finding of Or and his return here from Chicago. | Dennison, who is in charge of the {office in the absence of District At- |torney Keyes, now in the east, s he was unaware that Ormiston was heing brought to California at the his indictment was being |sought to facilitate his extradition {from Chicago. He also denicd re- {ports that Keyes had sanctioned such |a course. The Examiner, fn a copyrighted |story, says Ormiston is in the cus- ltody of Ben Cohn, chief of the dis- | trict attorney’s detectives, and reit- | lerates that he will appear for ar- |ralgnment some time toc Ormiston’s Statement | The radio man, who s charged |with conspiracy to obstruet justice |through his alleged connection with {the woman evangelist by alding in {the manufacture of purported false evidence regarfling her disappear- ance last spring, is quoted by the |newspaper as follows: “I want to show Los Angcles and /the world, If the world Is interest- (Continued on Page Nine) *— * THE. WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair and continued cold to- ‘ night; Sunday, increasing cloudiness and not so cold. *| New London, Conn., Dec. 18 (A— | Riding on the wings of a northwest gale that at times attained a velocity | f 65 miles an hour, the first zero weather of the season struck this vicinity this morning. At 5 o'clock the thermometer was registered ex- actly at zero, and during the later hours it picked up very slowly. The s the coldest December 18 been recorded here in 15 Hartford, Conn., Dec. 18 (A—The official reading here showed a low point of four degrees above zero at 6:40 this morning. An official read- ings on however, indicated a temperature of several degrees below zero. I Elsewhere In State. | | New Haven, Dec. 18 (A—An !cyl blas ing the nighi to 5.8 degr sweeping over Connecticut dur. ent the mercury down ahove zero, the low- ched this fall, accord- . Weather bureau figures 5 est point T It was six above zero at 8 o'clock thi morning. Bristol, Conn., Dec. 18 (A—Bristol was shivering this morning from a wintry blast that sent the mercury down to zero the business center and from four to eight below zero in the outlying districts. A cold west wind was sweeping over the cit 1 d 8 5:30 thk continu- he town o'clo his mornin 11 ron of the fire whistle vhich is located at the Ingraham Company plant. It was found that the electrical app tus was out of order, due to the cold weather or some othe nd the whistle did not stop blo until the steam was exhausted. 12 Degrees Above. Dec. 18 (P—With nding at 12 degrees ro, several score men, wom- ¢n and children were driven to the v when e plant cturing royed. The damage 0,000, by freezing lines and pressure, firemen for three hours be- it under control. Philadelphia, Dee. 18 (P—The cold wav he present gripped no New York second winter today. Watersown, buried under storm which e of t rthern which yesterday was snow in a heavy covered only a com- piratively small area, reported o minimum temperature of 13 gr below zero in the city and readings of 16 to 18 below in the ing sections. Malone, with a reading of 16 be- low, was one of the coldest spots in the state. Saranac I cd 12 below, and Oswe shore of Lake Ontario, experienced temperature of one to three de- s below. In Albany the minimum reading at the federal weather bureau wa zero. 18 (A — Winter York its coldest (Continued on GITY HAS FIRST SPELL NEAR ZERO WEATHER Two Degrees Above Zero on Thermometers Early Today The thermometer dropped to its lowest point of the season shortly after midnight today when a reading of two degrees above zero was re- corded in the center of the city, and on the outlying districts, in vicinity of Shuttle Meadow club, to three degrees below zero. he severity of th cold snap was tempered somewhat at daybreak and through the morning there has been a slow, gradual upward trend on thermometers located in all sections of the city. Merchants greeted the cold weather ¢ ticipating a possible tendency to speed up Christmas ac- tivities with more appropriate weather for the flnal week before the holiday. Garages and radiator repair shops reaped a harvest last night and to- day with many freeze-ups reported, and plnmhers likewlse are putting in a busy day, story super-skyscraper, Detroit has an 85 story project | Noble. house owned by Joseph Arbour & Son in the rear of 56 Whiting street early this morning and reduced to ashes furniture valued at approximately $25,000, the total damage being estimated at $50,000 by Chief Willlam J. The cause of the fire was an overheated coal stove, in Chief street level thermometers, ! de- | | unday way, the Book Tower, which= Noble's opinion. will be 30 stories higher than the | Woolworth building here, the world's | tallest building at present. Manhat-iSTEEL nlvu]ENn AS tan's new skyscraper will rise 1,208 | feet, which is 300 feet taller than the [Many Interpret Action to Book Tower, 506 feet higher than| |the Woolworth building, and ap-| Show Belief in 1927 : Prosperity | proximately 200 feet taller than the | Eittel tower in Paris. | Manhattan’s new glant will be known as the Larkin Tower building | nd it will be located in the Times quare section on the south side of | Forty-Second street, between eighth and ninth avenues. Its cost is esti- mated at $18,000,000 and the land it will cover cost $4,500,000. midst of joy of Plans for its construction were | Christmas dividends, shorts in filed yesterday with the Manhattan | United States Steel and some other bureau of construction by John A. | lines registered gloom today because Larkin, president of the 330 West Of the unexpected spurt in the stock Torty-Second street corporation, the | prospective builders. He and his new high levels after the Steel | brother, Edward L. Larkin, architect | corporation’s announcement of a 40 and engineer, and Alexander D.|Dper cent stock dividend. | sark, structural engineer, designed | Reactions away from Wall strect |the building. It will have 1,450,000 |ar expected by the | square feet of floor space, 950 of |Times, which points out that farm [ which will be suitable for office bloc clrcles have more or less con- purposes. | sistently opposed a high tariff as | Three other buildings surpass it | discriminatory against farmers and in its proposed rentable floor space. | in favor of i They are the Graybar building, near | World considers it significant that the Grand Central station here, the the cutting of the quitable building on lower Rroad- melon follows some time after the way, and the General Motors b. ild- | the change from the twelve to the in; in Detroit. The building will consist of one towe. piled upon another, with 10 otbacks, or banks in its 110 stores. | cavation for the foundations will 70 48 feet below street level, and thers will be a basement and two- story sub-basement. It will rest' on a reinforced concrete foundation |imbedded in the solid rock of Man- | hattan Island. | The building will be served by 60 high speed elevators, two of which will ®e expresses that do not stop | between the first and 82nd floors. IPour shuttle elevators will carry passengers upward from the 82nd story. The three top floors will be | devoted to sight-seeing purposes. | The designers say they did not ! specifically set out to build the tall- cst edifice in the world but ‘*we mply endeavored to provide the atest amount of permanent light | |and air to the greatest possible pro- portion of floor area with a surplus nates had opposed as invited ruin to tHe industry. It developed that Wall street had not discounted the stock issue in ad- vance, as is usual, having heard that the special which authorized it had been called to act upon the resignation of Elbert ago that his retirement is imminent. to get themselves on the company’s lists before the rich dividends are issued, bidding against each and some ‘bears” who had sold short before the announcement. Among the shorts who scurried to cover when steel headed the big rise in dozens of stocks were, Wall street gossip has it, a group of Chicago operators who recently made a kill- | ing in Baldwin Locomotive stock. Financial circles generally believe the stock dividend was a joint sug- |gestion of George F. Baker and J. of eclevator surface.” P. Morgan. ally interpreted as an expression on the part of the directors of complete confidence in the stabllity and pros- | and in the prospects for the coming ALEXANDERSON SAYS = USE MORE CIGARETTES Noted Inventor Predicts L Germans Sald to be Forsaking the { Its Use Within Next Decade 0ld Cigars and Preferring Shorter Smokes. | | New York, Dec. 18 UP—Within ten years persons will be able to s and talk to each other over the ocean in the opinion of Dr, E. I | W. Alexanderson, consulting engin- cer of the Radio Corporation of America and the General Electric | company. | | Dr. Alexanderson made the pre diction yesterday upon his return from St. Louis where he outlined the possibilities of television before the American Institute of Elcctrical Engineers. “The two fundamental that once made people 18.—(P— German men are forsaking the cigar for the cigarette, A Berlin woman student of psychology who has been investi- gating the matter believes the men are being “modernized” in this re- spect by feminine influence. Most women do not enjoy smoking for just the same reasons men do, | she writes, They like it, for one thing, because it gives them another medium for displaying their graces —The cigarette once lighted with dainty manipulation of the match, the upward curl of smoke is follow- say televi-|ed by the play of the eyes. The slon was impossible already have | cigarette is in facr, she claims, es- been removed,” he said. he dis-| sentlally a new weapon for woman. covery of the short wave gave us| = 3 potential speed enough for trans- Clarke Case Will Come mission. The devising of a televi-| . slon projector using Seven light| .Up Again on Monday | sources increases the useful illumi-{ New Haven, Conn., Dec. 18.—()— | nation 49 times and provides all| The case of Richard H. C. Clarke, th- light necessary for the screen.”|head of the investment brokerage Dr. Alexanderson said that in la-|house of Clarke and company and | boratory tests pictures have been three others growing out of the al- sen‘ In ten seconds, but that televi-|leged embezzlement of sum totalling sion will require the transmission,|$200,000 from clients, will be con- reception and reproduction of a pic-|tinued before Judge Sheridan T. re in one-sixteenth of a second. Berlin, Dec. obstacles | Whitaker in city court Monday. Sev- Three steps must be accomplish.|eral witnesses, who testified to los- od before television can be develop-|ing amounts varying from $2,000 ed to the point of a public utility,|to $11,000, were heard yesterday. he said. The first, he explained, is| While R. H. C. Clarke pleaded not the broadcasting of pictures, which| guilty yesterday to four counts of he declared to be almost at hand;|forgery, Jackson H. Kerans, describ- the second i3 the transmission of | ed as a member of the firm, and facsimiles of messages and letters,| Robert Cease, a salesman, pleaded and the third of radio transmission | not guilty to the | of motion pictures. them, The broadcasting of pictures has already been accomplished in la- BULLE ON EMPEROR boratory tests, he sald, and now| Tokyo, Dec. 18 UP—A bulletin is- only needs perfecting of a method|sued by the household department of reception. Likewise, he said, the|at 8 o'clock tonight said the condi- sending of facsimile messages has|tion of Emperor Yoshihito was | been accomplished but more speed | “virtually unchanged.” This is the ‘m the process s necessary before it/ first officlal report from the sick can become practical. room since noon, New York, Dec. 19 (P — In the thousands over | market which sent prices soaring to | New York | ndustry. The New York | $200,000,000 | | eight hours day, which steel mag- | meeting of directors | H. Gary, who announced some time | Speculators vied with each other | other ! The action was gener- | charges against | Orverheated Stove Blamed. Officer John Griffen turned in an ‘;\Iarm from Box 28 at 12:40 o'clock, | bringing out Companies 1, 6, 2 and No. 2 truck company, with Becond | Deputy Chief Michael T. Souney in | command. The flames were bursting through the windows and had en= veloped the entire interior of the | structure, which has brick walls but wooden floors and beams.. Within a. few minutes of thelr arrival the fire- men were directing streams of w. ter into the building but the light wooden furniture offered no resist- ance to the flames and the firemen at once realized they had slight chance of overcoming the blaze. Valuable planos, dining and living room sets, chairs, tables, beds and other household equipment crackled as the flames shot through the roof and snapped in the biting wind which froze the streams of water as quickly as they struck the building, Thermometer at Zero, The yard about the building re- sembled a skating pond as the wa- ter froze, and great {cicles hurg from the beams and on all parts of two five ton trucks which were on the ground floor. The outside wail surface resembled a glistening cur- tain, and the ladders on which .he firemen mounted the roof to pour water into the second floor were entirely covered by ice. The ther- mometer registered sero, yet the firemen, their clothing caked with ice, fought valiantly until 8 o'clock, when the last flicker of flame had been squelched and nothing remain- ed but a smoking, ice covered mass | of ruined articles, Falling Wall Grazes Firemen. A section of the east wall tottered and fell outward, narrowly missing several firemen who scurried out of the way a few seconds before the bricks crashed to the ground. Al- though they were greatly handicap- ped by the intense cold and the fcy footing, none of the firemen were in- |jured and all stayed in the fight un- til ordered to leave. Six lines of hose were used, Chief Noble reports. Shortly after the firemen arrived, Deputy Chief Souney ordered a sec- ond alarm but it did not register on account of the failure of one of the | men to close the door of the box be- fore pulling the hook, 2s must be done on some of the boxes. Chief that the | Noble said this morning (Continued on Page 15.) THRONGS AT FUNERAL OF ADELE D. MURRAY | Kensington Church Crowd- ed as Friends Pay Last Tribute The funeral of Miss Adele D, Murray, a high school teacher and |prominent member of political and social circles in Berlin and this was held this morning at 9 o'clock from §t. Paul's churchy Kensington. A solemn high mass of requienx Iwas celebrated by the pastor, Rev, John C. Brennan, assisted by Rev, Dr. Thomas Drennan as deacon, Rev. Waiter Casey as sub-deacon, and Rev. Walter A. McCrann as master of ceremonies. Seated inthe sanctuary were Rev. Thomas J, Laden, pastor of the Church of 8t. John the Evangelist; Rev. John F. Donohue, pastor of 8t. Joseph's church, and Rev. Edward V. Gri- kis, pastor of St. Andrew's church, New Britain. A speclal quartet rendered selec- tlons at the offertory and at the |conclusion of services and as the body was being borne from the church. The four priests went to the grave at St. Mary's cemetery and conducted committal scrvices. Several hundred former friends filled the Kensington church, in- ;cluding Berlin and New Britaln of- ficlals and teachers. The Kensing- (ton League of Women Voters, of, which Miss Murray was one of the most active members, was repre- sented in full, Many out of town friends were present. Floral tributes to the former teacher filled the al- tar and sides of the church, The pall bearers were, John |Brophy, Daniel Malarney, John Moore, James Fitzsimmons, James ,Morrisey and Richard Murray. The |flower bearers were Butler Roche, :J&mel Malarney and Willam Joha-