New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 7

NEW REGORD MALE BY POST HANDLERS Sale of Stamps and Dispatch of Parcels at High-Figures o o, it isn’t tie echo of another Mexican revolution—neither is it a famliy argument in New Britain It is just Postmaster H. E. E win and his staff all the way from the assistant postmaster, the suger- intendent of mails and others down to the janitor, smashing another precedent and breaking another record. It is a slow ain post office broken record. So far as is known {sn't a single ord for volume, speed, efficiency, esprit de cor and financial procceds which hasn’t been broken several times this week “Doh'¢ he surprised,” says Post- master Erwin to Assisiant Post ter Edward Hunson, statement that we broke our record on Monday by selling cent stamps.” wort e su Munson, “becauss broke it 2z Superintendent y in the New Brit- which finds an un- today there Mr. w sold §¢ ? Mails James ooking man working o Juggling t at the p: t trom under an avalanche of Chr mas presents in time to see carload disappear on trucks and to receive t tion that 125 sacks had ed a: the station Santa Would Cry Quits “Parcels,” he said, “Why Banta Claus himself would have to ‘holler’ for help it he handled a small part of the packages we get here. T is no such thing as a record he: We hegan breaking them last week ani we expect to keep on breaking them every day until Christmas.” pep and willingness to| e ENERAL ASSEMBLY OF I} STATE OF CONNECTICUT TO BE HELD AT HARTFORD N THE FIRST WED) AY FOLLOWING THE FIRST MON- DAY OF JANUARY, A. D, 1927, The undersigned respectfully peti- tion: hat an “An Act In- ccrporating The Hartford Coke Company, ed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut at its Janua 5 ion, 19 emended by changing the name of said Com to The Connecticut Coke Company, or some other ap- propriate name, and by authorizing said Company to build a plant in New Haven, Connecticut, for the manufacture of gas and coke and to sell gas to The New Haven (fas Light Company of New Haven, Connecti- cut; and that your petitioners be granted either a further amendment to said act or an independent chary ter providing for the acquisition of a proper right of way and the cons struction of a pipe line and neces- sary appliances in connection ther with from said plant at New Haven through the towns of New Haven, Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Meriden, Berlin, New Britain, New- ington, and West Hartford to Hart- ford, and from New Haven through the towns of New Haven, Orange, Milford and Straiford to Bridgeport, for the purpose of transporting and conducting gas manufactured at said plant in the town of New Haven and selling the same only to public gervice corporations authorized to furnish gas for domestic, public or other uses in said territory through which said pipe lines may be con- structed. And your petitioners will pray ete. Dated at Hartford, thid,22nd day of December, 1926. F. E. EYSENBACH EDWARD M. DAY JOSEPH F. BERRY HUGH F. SMITH JOHN & BROOKF CLARENCE §. BI TO THE SHERIFF COUNTY OF HART HIS DEPUTY, GREETINGS By AUTHORITY OF THE ST OF CONNECTICUT you are hereby commanded to summon the parties edversely interested in the foregoing petition of Ernest E. Eysenbach, ¥idward M. Day, Joseph F. Berry Hugh . Smith, John §. Brookes, Jr.. and Clarence S. Blakeslee to appear . before the General Assembly of the tate of Cornecticut at its session to be held at Hartford on the first Wednesday following the first Mon- day of Jaruary, A. D. 1827, on the second day of said session, then and there to show cause, if any the lave, why the prayer of the fore- going petition should not bo granted. Hereo’ fail not but due service and return make. Dater at Hartford, this 220d day of December, Jemes W. Carpenter. COMMISSIONER OF SUPERIOR COURT. entitled ever K oFr 'THR Connecticut, 1026 Hartfc December 1928 State of Connecticut County of Hartford ! being ppearing to and found by the subscribing authority tha foregoing petition Eysenb Baward 1% Berry, Hugh F. lirookes, Jr, and Vlakeslee is of an and the adverse parties consist more than twenty individuals, it therefore ORDERED: M. Smith, John S. Clarence S nature, of is adverse that notice of the pendency of the foregoing petition ho given by publication of said peti- tion and_ the forcgoing citation once in daily newspapers published in the city of New Haven, in the city of Bridgeport, in the city of Meriden, fn the city of New Britain, and the city of Hartford. on or before the 24th day of December, 1926 Leonard J. Nickerson, A JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Bang! Cr-r-r-ash! Anagher ree- f you see a Connecticut, | enter into the spirit of the game,”| | says “Jack” Meehan, who is doing| | wonderful work, according to the postmaster, |~ “But, remember this young man,” | |and a United States postal inspector | from Washington who arrived unex- | |pectedly and unannounced as postal inspectors, railway auditors, bank | cxaminers, reporters and other nul- | sances are wont to do, added, “This | office has a record breaking crew but back of it all is a record break- ing postmaster.” Thus even Wash- | ington acknowledges the superiority | of the New Britain post office. | hile figures are not available, | here seems no doubt that not only | the bulk of mail, and the speed imyf h it i ndled each day eclipses | t of any previous day in the his. ory of the office, but also the finan- al procecds exceeded any vious day. Ask Them to Come In There is one little hitch in which help, according to re- in from time to 1 nd parcel delivery | are required to wait for | in packages are in the cold until people he receipt. Not often k them to step inside “Of course,” sald a e don't expect to stop sSip or eve hang how the invitation to i stead o! out would ve the public ca or hich time. feft stand o8 a while indoors ¢ appreciated.” s are n for an their real ¥ an amusing stery is told of a parcel post man who Is for a bill collector and does t identity is re- a West Main street home ves- y no swered the post- n's knock. ring through the windew the postman perceived the man of the house hiding behind a chair. At another house ho one answered, but a perceptible mqve- ment behind the ow curtains revealed o presence of a woman. When the mail man started away th his package. she darted out and lled him bac " philosophically ' tter carrier, “It's all in And that's the whole he New Britaln post office, Pec comments WDERMOTT CLAINS HE WAS FRANED 0P (Continued from First Page) He denied that he became acquain ed with Rudner el when all three w peniten- . L. Mills, MeDermott questions about his alleged conve sations with Pre cutor C. B. Mc- Clintock after his surrender. All of the questions were objected to by the state and the objections were sustained. The questions asked McDermott included queries about alleged of- fers of money nd immunity McDermott he would tes 4 S Rudner and Louis Mazer, indicted jointly with MeDermott. McDermott said on cross-exami- tion that he did not ride from Massillon to Canton with Mazer on the night of J but that he came to Canton on an inter- |urban car and cams later. He said changed his when he returned to Cleve from Canton because he w; he would “gr ixec casesin that “warned let Twice early tlon, Judge reprimand defense several Iy 9, lon Kascholk he had Mel- in the cross-cxamina- Dichl was forced to McDermott for retorts to McClintock. McClintock’s sistants implored him to move away from his position close to the s d. McClintock mioved k, but soo MeDermott's side, punctuating his questions by thumps on wooden witness box. Defense Attorney Durand leaped to his and protested “the prose- cutor’s methods.” Judge Diehl in- terjected with “Peace, gentlemen.” resumed his seat. McDermott declared framed.” “Do you mean Kascholk and th you?” MeClintock asked says He Was Framed “Exactly,” MeDermott shout leaning the rail the wit- ness hox. McDermott re the names of helped to hide but admitted Ben Pfaff were among tl i dom't you want Mills interrupted no McDermott re- plic He refused to tell any names than those of Nadel and Pra The prosccution Dermott be held court. The court the request GOULDN'T FRIGHTEN HIN Held Up was McClintock “I've been that RBit r and others across of to divulge some of those who him Cleveland, °l and Dan fused to tell, steadily other Me of on that contempt not rule asked in did With Own Gun, Boston Man Disregards Warning for He Knew It Wasn't Loaded. D Gutman refu his own rifle today took it away from him and manded his money. Gutman knew that the weapon was not loaded and when he shouted for help the pair fled. Harold Taylor was cap- tured and charged with larceny of the rifle, Vloyd W up with when two men Boston INCOME BLANKS AVAILABLE Income ta report blanks for 1927 Jiling ow the 1926 income will be available here January 1 for the benefit of those who go to Florida . for the Winter, according to Stanley A. Karpinski, income tax collector. Mr. Karpinski was notitied today that all collectors in the Hartford district will Be supplied by the first of the year. Returns must be filed on a com- bined income by a married ma) and his wife of ¥3,500 a $1,500 for a single man. men are allowed an exemption $400 for each child, man o Married ol NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER o COBB SAYS HE BET ONBUT THO GAMES (Continued from First Page) seandal of 1919’ uncovered in Chi- | cago a fewdays ago was said under | oath to Commissioner Landig. Any further statements from him.” ‘Wood returned from Chicago last night, and after getting in touch with Harold F. Woodcock, general manager of the Athletic Assoclation arranged to call upon Mr. Winslow today. The latter after the talk said that ¢ baseball commission would meet and probably it would refer the matter to Prof. G. H. Nettleton, chairman of the board of control. The university is in holi v recess which does not end until January 4. Decline to Comment, Coach Wood, declining to about the inqui was no sense i going over the mattee again,” called attention to a portion of the Associated Press des- patch quoting from Commissioner Landis records, a reference to a bet of $600 against $4 and ability to get odds at 5 to 2. Said he: “If a me had been ‘fixed’ and was going to be thrown do you think that y bet at odds, would be t d down?"” Mr. Winslow, Wood said: “There "he baseball committee wil but I do not know when. probably will not meet right away for as far as I can see the situation is too much ‘up in the air’ to dis cuss.’ KILLED DEFENDING WIFE by Bandits—22 should come talk mee Chicago Man Slain Robberies Reported Within Hours in Windy City. Chicago, Dec. - reported to the police with- hours resulted in the shoot- ing to death at a delicatessen proprietor, indful of a pistol aimed at him, ed to e ot his wife when she was menaced by one of two negroes who had robbed him. Mrs. rear quietly. One toward men Levy was telephoning in the the store when the negroes robbed her husband of $4. heard her voice and started her, hile the other mo- As he was shot twice in the back, ing instantly. Mrs. Levy pursued the robbersto the street but the Hope to Save Man From Christmas in a Cell| Boston, Dec. 23 (A—Attorneys for David Abbott, Providence, R. L, bus line proprictor who was sentenced to four month's imprisonment for disregarding leral court order nt i e busin for Manchest N. H, afternoon to attempt to return bott to his family for Christmas. Judge Lowell, who had nounced the sentence for contempt of court last refused t@ re- consider the this morn- ing. Judge declined to sit on the matter because he holds bonds of the Eastern Massachuse whicn was th injunction proceed- a fe this week, case here derson attorneys then deter- mined to seek a writ of super- sedeas from Judge Bingham, Hampshire justice of the federal circuit court writ if obtained would make it possibl be admitted to bail pending a h ing. Abbott's brother comm suicide in Providence about ago on the day Abbott was have been sentenced. Mrs. bott is soon to become a mother. Abbott's A ted to Conn. Breweries Is No Longer Held by Receiver Bridgeport, Dec. 23.—A four and one-half years t rship Connecticut Breweries of this »d terginated today and » assets returm®d to the directors of the company by Ju the superior court today. the stock- inks The in judge’s on is againet a grou minority of the organization who sought to have the the company, totalling about $130,000 of which $75.000 ia in real estate, sold to the highest bidder and the pro- ¢ divided among the stoc holders. n ) of of ds that Judg: decision brewery a RAPHAEL’S TOMORROW (Friday) Being the last shopping day be- fore Christmas, we will make the award of our Christmas presentsat2P.M. athletic | City Items Dr. Edward 8. Dray today com- pleted an eight week course in dia- betes given at Montifeore hospital in New York by Columbia university. James T. Connelly, a student Catholic university, Washington, C., 13 spending the Christmas ho days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Connolly of Chestnut Stree Henry T. Bray is visiting mother in this city during thi hristmas vacation. He is a student at Vermont university and was regu- ular quarterback on the freshman team of the school. Miss Viola Markie of Washington, D. C, is spending the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and { Mrs. H. G. Markie of 220 Bassett | street, Miss Markie is assistant sec retary to Senator Hiram Bingham A son was born at New Britain General hospital today to Mr. and Mrs. Emory Orcutt of Doyle, ninary. ng ti a stud Provider holidays and Mrs. of 229 West Main stre Leo J. Waskelewicz, a of the Suffolk La ton ho will ke ' Brooker’s Funeral in Ansonia This Afternoon “or 3 [V SN feut home for CASE Chattanooga IS DISMISSED Tenn Mr. Rome, Mrs. wse of in 1915 Ab- pro- | of the | city saying that *“there | ) being placed | any | °r seeing Coach | is nothing to | 1t 12/ All gift furniture must go! 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