New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation For 13,938 News of the World By Associated,Press Week Ending Dec. 24th ... BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926. —EIGHTEEN PAGES WILBUR STILL REFUSES TO SUDDEN DEATH UF % 3%5&% wonts oger, M0 CHAUFFEURS REPUBUCAN LEADERS IN FIFTH WARD DSHISSED P WA SO aiwipntia N OWN PARTY OVER PAJEWSKI CASE Oft Payroll At Beginning Taken by Heart Attack aEmiE leged Bridgeport Holdup Men : DAY MUCH EVIDENCE FOUND cres Serary s G (N ORSES " e and Program I Re- About a Year, Altered License Tags, Complete Dis- Declined to Give| By i Navin Field Employe De-| to be Hela Thursday. no longer needed. | Home of One. ported to enera PRICE THREE CE Several foremen fn the depart- ment of public works will end their service with the city this week and mm be retired, completing a pro- gram planned by the board for re- uumm in personnel. No announcement of those slated Hamilton | to go has been made at the office of | the public works board, no informa- | 10 | tion being given out other than that Federal Agents, Actiag on Clues guiscs and a Number of Heavy | |some foremen will be dropped for| Riyolver Bullets Taken rom | leen by Local POllce, Che(:klng the reason that their services are| Street Man’s Death is Shock to stores viein are eir il nd Robert der arrest. ! en |of the leaders in w Britain in- 'have already been removed from chau & Ball Game of holdups of gaso-| po % | died at 6:30 o'clock last night at hi ¢ month held in bonds of | s r Found to Balance by Dismissal of Police Also Seeks to Belittle Ru- | .1, man who placed alleged bets on | Of fricnds in this city and was due 10.0 | Statements Examined Are mors and Charges Navy have bee in charges|a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard Hubbard, 2 o Brit About 3 ago he en- Deceiving the American |cnat any money was bet on the game. | e Federal agents - records. that druggists are required HU NDREDS INVITED House Naval Commit- | ‘ tee Confidential Re nies Placing Bet on | George E. Christ, 48 vears oid, onc‘u::f:zphc.km nso ionmmxi'!p“:::. Bt BB o S ] UP on Records Of DruggISts Here Attack on G. O. P. 5 L allege oy police to 11\\?‘ dustry and superintendent of PI‘O'\lhfi pa;rou ductlon at the Corbin Serew Corp., | . nd in 'nm In City All Day Tuesday But Find That L]quor Polish People Humiliated | Detroit, Dec. 20 P—Fred O. West, | home, 43 Hamilton stroet. Death | port and v during the past | | Navin Dficld cimploye mreemioncd e‘ns ‘f‘uor:\c( a: a "11:0\“!0: h\: htrge lc‘l?:; FEWER FARMERS IN 3 . 0 each at pol adquarte l':z ~ AR v . | iy o howst il g7 T NEw LEHISLATURE oday follow arrest last | Accurately—Pulney Asserts Inquiry is Over' :\(')’I;l";lss(l*;n (,};;uzman, 25, 1919, that resulted ce weeks, | | ill Be Charge Made. Officers With Purposely'“g“‘“‘ Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, | K. Christ. He received his carly ed- Disguises Found : \[ Ufltll Pendmg COlll't ACthll 18 Settled ‘ 5 e |issuea o statement today denying | Reation in the public school of New | f goncn Membership of 262 But . tered the employ of the Corbin Public. |The money involved in the transac Washington, Dec. fica “war s that figured in Fall-Doheny oil trial, has come by the house naval are under inquiry committes, Clintic, of Oklahoma, a democrat mber, said today that Secretary | Wilbur had refused to give the com- mittee confidential navy reports aring on the subject Oklahoma repre- ed, the committec | requested the navy 2d in confidence a report submit- 1 by Admiral Gleaves, while he s commander of Ui he belligerent years ago.” slon had z atti- of Ja Seeret The committee secret tion of Ck to build to bring American naval strength up to a satisfactory ratio with that of | Great Britain and Japan. t was Admiral Gleaves' at defense counsel in the Doheny trial sought wi in irman Butler's proposal a report th Fall- in Pearl Harbor oil ed into t r stre the Pae contract was enter- ; the Doheny oil interests | of a national emergency ific. The Juror's Statement : rememb made the excuse 'y of disposing of our e oil lands and the con- tion of oil tan McClintie. “Tt wil at after th o1t cen ot said also membered of Mr. Fall and Mr. Doheny that one | of the juro gave out a statement ic par were given a justifiable 1son for the verdict which exoner- ated them for any wrongdoing. was ing officer in the navy ed Japanese re- contained no information I would show a belligerent at- on the part of Japan, an the department could not af. show that the | licy of the navy spect to the oil leas not justified. xllln;: of Sailor these reports, according to cone sailor and the on the water finding of after the Japanese (Continued on Page 15) 29.—{(A— The | West, was “Dutch” Leonard’s c | ccretary to | siatic fleet, | action was taken | ion, during considera- | new fleet of light cruisers | hout success | to secure from the navy department, | support of the contention that the | ered that this | s in Hawali,” | re- | recent trial | are and this | advised some time ago by | mber of con- | ports for the | with re. | & and the build- | e information given me, mostly | rn the killing of an American | some oil | tlon, he declared, was bet on a horse race. The baseball bet, according to idea. | Leonard, he said, wanted to bet the money on Detroit against Cleveland, but West, instead of placing the money on the game, bet it on the | and Representative Mc- |race, he says. “When Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and | Joe Wood say they did not bet on |the game of September 25, 1919— |the game between Detroit and Clev: |1and at Navin fleld—they are speak- g the truth: they did not bet a cent. But neither did Dutch Leon- {ard bet on thc game. “The money that figures in the case was bet on a horse and the | horse won. mone; that was given Joe Wood by me and the certified check that Wood m | Leonard was the original the winnings. Cobb and had no money up.” West declared Leonard called him to the club house on Sept. 24 and {told him he wanted to bet on the| \n.mm Cleveland game the follow- ing day. “He dsked me if I could get !a check for $1,500 cashed. T told | him I didn't think 1 could and that I didn’t want to be responsible for! that amount of money overnight.” | He called Leonard by telephone | that evening, West said, and was told to get the mo) from Joe Wood in the morning and bet it on Detroit against Cleveland. “The next morning 1 went to the hotel and met Wood,” t stat®me { continues. “He told me that Leon- ard had left the money with him and that I was to make the bet | Leonard mentioned. 1 was to tu the winnings over to Wood-after t | game and Wood said he would s b Speaker GEORGE E. CHRIST t| Screw Corp., and advanced from a | position of minor importance to his present place as director of produc- tion in the company. He was seri and had been ago lu‘;: since that time, On several occasions he w able YO visit the fac but recently he was forced to 'l!wumm ie his duties be- | canse of failing health. Active in Masonic { ally Harmony lod Rota club o the active du: De Mo w ive g the council. Mr. Christ ffiliated with the South Co tional church. His surviving fi Bess Circles active in & A M M. C. A he took In Ho s Nathan Hale s w of the | it to Leonard. o “T told Wood I had a good th for that day, a hot tip on a horse called Panam: T also told that T would like to lay the money on the horse hecause I coull get much better odd ‘Wood said ‘That| | would be a good bet. “1 was prepared to make good part of the bet if the horse lost. told Wood that I could not ma | good all of it. Wood said h make good the in | the horse losing. “Wood gave me an envelope 1}-\t held the money,” continue then placed one bet of §200 on Panaman with one handbook, he said. And two others of $100 cach | with other bookmakers. “I tried to get $200 more on the horse but fail- ed,” he added, “all the money that was lald was $400.” By accepting the lowest odds quot- ed on Panaman, West said, he ef- ("ont(nu"d on Page 1 | S Lutz Christ, two student at former Comme dauj brother, president Works of the St ner member of central and th W tate this eity, A. Coburn . D. C. How fich., and M Hill, Conn. neral services om will in officiate, Mountain gregational church, Interment will be | Grove cemetery. ) BRITISH BUILD CAR Plenty of Compliments o Wife FOR 200 MILE SPEED Hope to Break All Records | With New $100,000 Automobile London, Dec. 29 (A—A big red mystery car, costing $100,000 to con- struct and believed capable of de- veloping a speed of 200 miles an hour, thus shattering all records, Lte n in FPebruary for a speed test some Florida beach yet to be atomobile, which is shaped sen sled and has enclosed to cut down wind pressure, is feet long -and 6 feet wide. It represents o serious attempt on the vart of British manufacturers to capture speed records now held in the United States. The car weighs pounds, con- sumes 414 gallons of gasoline a min- ute and is capable of developing 1,000 horsepower. The power is ol- vided over two motors, one being ng over axle. It contains secret t sion and tem rece invented. The manufacturers of the car, which was constructed secretly at Wolverhamp- ton, claim that it is the built, The test in the United States will be held under the au pices of the contest board of the American Automobile Association. In the test it will be driven by Ma- jor H. O. Seagrave, noted British speed drive The Louis H. C ed by the St Ltd other speed car, which was designed by ntalen, was manufactur- beam Motor Car Com- in collaboration tire, gasoline and ofl any firms ng | will be sent to the United | | make control | largest ever | | which with | | " Will Go Far Towards Happy Home | Chicago Domestic Relations Judge Issues “Ten Com- | mandments” For Married People — Husband Also Should Be Made to Feel He’s Important Individual, He Declares in Advice. Chicago, Dec. 29 (P—Judge Jos- eph Burke of the court of domestic relations, Is one man who is anxious to dec his business in the new year. In the hope that some of 35,000 who make complaints in his | court each year will take advantage of his judicial expericnce, he has sued a list of ten commandents for husbands and wives. Those who ob- serve them, he said, never will his acquaintanc His commandme For husbanc Don't hesitate in the wrong. is a matter small importance and the reward is, eat. | Don't go to sleep at Don't nag. |a hing heart. Ask n he very rich buy good' Women do much The other stuff renders you men, blind, deaf and dumb—perhaps for-| Argur cver. Let it alone. structiv Make it a rule in your home nev-' them at r to let the day close unhappily. Wipe out the scorc before you £o to sleep. | sist upon dressing well. 1f he Prolong wt don't make life miserabl ble. Ther him scolding about it 1 for years. Don't refuse to go out with your Indulge liberally in compliments.| husband. It is your duty to im- They raise a wife's spirits, make her prove your disposition by relief from a better cook, a mother, and drudgery and then, a more loving companion, | Don't money. It your wife had money for| budget clothe that * the ot woman| D spends, she would probably make potty her look like a dowd, remember night that | Tell him Give your wife a diversion from est husk domestic routine often 11 ypur .wife the exact your income. Plan together to spend it. Be fair about it, petty’ business troul S Talk over wife, Take it possible her to & amount how the n the Lack your offi Lig troubles with y For wive In an argument husband to 1 wrong. . | you are follow: | Don't na | Dont arink with wnd then complain Ln‘l much. It neve wdmiration to see a is- it sof him en you were you know usband that drinks fills a man with woman drink. ght with than your to admit you ar- It forgive can eusier i de- y of listasteful too oy the onts are Men work to enj home. m s money, horri- like one i arguments is not torture are for er now Have hom waste system in your bother your hu liodschold annoyances he is the world's great- and he will be. m when ! {69 Are Agriculturists MAJORITY ARE MARRIED 214 Married Mcmbers in House and 31 or 35 Senate Members Are Wedded—Upper House Has Many Lawyers. - Connecti- the Hartford, Conn F'armers from the t 29 'ns of cut will be less in number in incoming general assembly apparent- the me than for many seasons, pre- minary manual bership un retary of S will show. cure from ea facts about themselves for informa- tion of all others. The diversity of oee ations of th w members is articularly striking especially in the counties hich are almost entirely agriculture. In Litchfield, Middl and Tolland counties combined only 8 recorded themselves as farme 1 members-elect, while re hou p of 2 ere farmers, On » are only a few peaker to name e on the judici Has Eleven Lawyers senate, h has 11 la phy- e 1 to the comn The w- so a named to t house will be s will the g 214 mar > comm mem- the of the hou o are . men mem- ator i 48 member in single bless | There nine other w woman wom are The affa acknowled but as financial themselves to b k other put himself d dent and 26 1 Merchants There wi 25 manufactr six Jumb tions in indv el rmen, &e tr ith o e clergymen, takers, one state one ornlthologist, issioner, one clerk, eler, 0 gator, four civil engincers, gist and two station com one one drug- agents, among e pursuits number 24 Among the 14 women members fn the house on home- T five ouse wives, two housekeepers, one cach s social service worker, cian an avocation. SEMI-CONSCIOUS SINGE BEING HIT ON DEC. 24 Arvid Larson, Hit While Adjusting Tire Chains, Hospital Patient 1" from ac inve two Mr. and M 6 South Burritt bedside of thelr in the Providence, where le was taken wing Christmas C. Ary stree son, automobile accident and where he has been us conditior Brown unive spend the holidays wi when his automobile d. avoid accident he drew up on roadside and was adjusting hains when another hore and skidded, knocking him tance of nearly 50 f 1 car was wrecke At Provid- cnce hospital physicians found the local man had suffered a skull frac- ture and an injury to his ear drum which will probably result in de ness in one While Larson has not gained since cldent attending physicians yester- day found favorable change in his pulse and were in a position to give c car a fully the re- consciousness ac- | out their first encouraging bulletin. police («\uvl E burlap g two complete sets of guises, altered li wumber of .45 4 in an all the calibre bag da use In holdups a army revolver has £as0 stations and held up here the robbers at the s wore red ban- over the lower In Mills' room bandana of ve bee at stores which h rchiefs Victim nt holdups one a blue reoat.” the over- when ar- from var- en g lone: (n to the localit men live and resul rest. Four ((anzstcrs Arrested —Hope to Break Up East Side Feud arrested ar with the of Albe John T. ng They are mond. all: vho were about to ro s ch at most of the s and s the resu two from sames involve dollars, § E e paid to a terworld L rom raiding bandits. s of protect their inter & protection the drug ex s of for a ride, tim and du Iy roa Hal‘lffll‘(fi[;n lelierd When \hu(k b\ Train H.v'lu 3. Co (P ping the body on a 45 o by is Receipts Pa M $2 (l()(l 000 Mark at detmrd I’ 0. Hartford, Conr cvipts at th N ce for record ar in the history £00,000 mar ittle doubt but H fortable margin, tion” of posta by B L. in third place THE WEATHER vicinity: tonight; New Britain and Fair and colder Thursday fair —# | were in N in all d ter- to keep. x He tion would Br tions nos d that no n ation until the he records of dr Putney, director in day examining [.,ls'“ there, Frank T. bition enforcemer was made in view of of ir ularity in th by druggists m e thi w Britain police Records All in Order Mr. Putney id, howev: amined we 4 out, how ations of the reflected prohi- said th lquor ney of were und correct. He poir ever, that not all vio liquor law could be turther i ade into the pending had be onnecticut Liguor is Poor erring to the possibility of a were found to have iistilled from denatured alcohol. But he stated that no deaths nor nued on Page 15) vestiga- New court ac- cen decid- | e Polish drive commu * the politics responsible in a to tions of thos hat seize been tirement of C the arrest of his b of violating t |nounced tox | ers had fai |the m jewski from the ay after republican 1 d in ttempt to have ting calle ALGORN 1S SILENT ON DRUG STORE CAMPAIGN FR. BOJNOWSKI SAYS Igeport l‘M"“"Declmei to Sa\' Whether 100 P. C. Jump in Fifth ; Ward Since Prohibition, | He Had Hand in Drive He Assert; g a news story ¢ to imor ¥ given toda nsion exis P ch, and Breat, uid ts o Hal arr kJ 1ant was appa black gan al yesterds mb of badges. vas a irc of about it before aske D as fter a comm DOUBT AS 10 IDENTITY OF AHERICAN BOAT LOST When me to society an old to g er Bojnowski would a ¥ 1 order to t ferring to an r Bojno t of unruly 21 Lives Reported Sacrificed Steamer Goes Down in Black Sea INCREASE IN DRINKING ed between Rev. ¥ priest good members of tried to stir up dis- | or rurt uphold | “We don't want res and we W of the organizers of ing dec ed today. signed by Alderman B. A. ski were sent to several hundred prominent Poles inviting them to be alcon hall this evening, and in- ations by word of mouth were id to have reached an equal num- ber. The actions of Mayor Weld, Chiet |of Police Willlam C. Hart and Pros- | ecutor Joseph G. Woods are slated {for discussion toni d leaders of the Poles favor ‘clipping” all | three. Believe Pajewski Was “Framed” > vietim of a claim of tonight's Cards Grysbow- S printed in the effect or of the| e the society | ather Bo the his ‘r.(n ds in t gatherin, e enti i ias been subjected humiliating affront by the the mayor, Pajew I com- to a the or wi to listen in may not fi 1i con iblican club le admitted today, but overflow a series of mec held in an attempt to sired message to the gr numbe: 1y morning the society denied h door or 1 ¢ the de- possible tinued. ) the ¥ to Squeleh Meeting Politicians actively identified w re movement were called in confer- e last night with republican lead- ers who attempted to persuade them that the cou cted is not the Ihat the purpose of the had 1 wa iicated another batch o was o sweil 0 aw her stated law his abilit clement one o. { the t Mid- the atte . Among the speakers be two council me Grysbowski and C Kloskowskli. tonight will Alde an n Joseph is e fifth ward since prohibi- nkenness has i nt,” he added. bition, there we Now r comm learned R en who attend sojnowski also election and = chairman of the | ame stores every ican d by shipping Two Am ers Astoria are we AWAKENED B BY BABY Five Lives Saved in Worcester Tene- ment When Child Cries, Leak is Discovered. Dec. December could be Worcester, Five lives we in the tenem 38 Ha according to the police, Mass., vy K German nd the home filled with was pu Ric 1s ir MGty ts of t » home police surge z nd the collapsed opened a doo! aft Mr. and daughter, Mr. Leader of Tvoop That » Pu sued Booth Is Dead Tion. MY Dec. 29 (P troop th Singapor 29 (P —The Malay states il worst floods in rivers having gone over in consequence of contin over Christmas, The has not been believed to be considerabl Railway services have ended and the posta the s } BULBS STOLEN. Torrington, Dee. 29 The designation > son In town, in t hortins F (0 pe @ opinion of t to a Cont ns t anest re mis- | p it at | organized. g om illuminat- | mining have ceased throu loor Christmas trees in var- state of Perak. There parts of Efforts to ap- | much damage. | prehend the offender have been un-| Some towns are successful, | business at a standstill, the ety “Before prohi- some who drank. per cent more, women, in s school.” day in whe nt were Mr two daugh- Ste but were left Korzun Malay \tale~ Suffer Heavy Flood Damages Straits Settlements, Dec. loss of ascertained, Rubher tapping and tin | isolated, men's association the ward club, wh president of the Fi lican club. Both were reco the past a3 repu was also reported J. Golon d ex-Alderman A. Karpinski have agreed to the meeting. Pajewski Will Attend “I am a member of the club and will attend th ing tonight. may be only a spectator, and T something to say. It I alled upon, as I probably will I will talk to the members.” Mr. He asked to to state- made. He fortune that has is inno- reased 100 young cases, ¢ Ta nley ldress me charged Peter | allowed (B ed from addin ments he has already keenly the m llen him and in cent of any wrong doing. Last week, federal agents visited his drug store and checked his li- quor supply, and found it s it should ¥ rding to law. “If I made a practice of selling con- trary as making big profits on 11d expect to be punished, ave never viioated the law and nobody can prove that T have,’ Girl Raffles Sent to Prison in Providence Provide °, . L. Dec o A x Mars year old New York waitress, was sentenced to 14 months in prison this morning for breaking and ¢ ring a ucket clothes shop. The young woman was & compani to t you who itered the shop had men's clothing and fur coa lued at sev- eral thousand dollars r take away. When arrested she had a loaded revolver in her possession. All Flood Records at Nashville Are Broken Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 29 (®—The sus- | most disastrous flood in the history dis- | of Nashville was predicted today by the Nashville weather burcau. The ghout the | Cumberland river, now at a 54.4 has been |foot stage and already spread out | over a large portion of tha lower with | part of town, is expected to remch 1 55.5 or 56 feet, breaking all records. and Gas 20 (P — morning lem street, Arthur ful cries, mbers of orzun who illuminat- to and Mrs. i lla, 9, and il from by two Mrs. Kor- Josephine, had n and = are suffer- years, the the bank ual rains but it e. been tem is |