New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1927, Page 13

e = EDNA PURVIANCE + NAMED IN CASE (Continued From First Page) court order directing United Artists corporation, distributors for some of Chaplin’s pictures and named as a defendant in Mrs. Chaplin's divorce action, to withhold all money due the comedian as well as any amounts due hint in the future. Notices preventing the withdraw- | &1 of funds or the contents of safe- ty deposit hoxes were served on all banks with which the actor and his essoclates are known to have trans- ected business. In her divorce petition, Mrs. Chaplin averred the screen nctor had confessed intimacy with several motion picture women. “It's Terrible,” Charlie Says Chicago, Jan. 13 (A—Charlie Chaplin's first public comment on the divorce suit of his wife Tita) Grey Chaplin, was “It's terrible— | oo terrible for works.” | The film comedian, most of whose fortune together with his trick cane, floppy pants, derby hat and over- sized shoes, have gone into the hands of receivers in Los Angeles, | had little more than this phrase, | murmured several times, when he arrived<n Chicago last night on his way to New York. Plainly dejected, and barely able to summons a smile when reporters besieged him as he stepped relue- | tantly from a western train, Chaplin | finally posed for a picture after he | warded off reporters with these words. Declines To Comment “Really boys, Im sorry. I'd like to talk for you but this is not the time and place and T shall reserve my statement for just that—the| right time and place. I “It's just simply too terrible for| stopped a moment, irresolute, emed on the verge of going on with something more, but in the next instant his mouth tightened a bit grimly and he simply repeated that statement: “It's just too terrible for words.” Seems Broken Man There were circles under his eyes and his face was grave and gr There appeared no spring in his walk, and his shoulders seemed to| sag. Only once was there a flash of his old time humor, and that came when he was asked what was taking 7im to New York. “T an going there,” he sald, and pauseq, while a slow smile came to his lips, “to write the concluding hapters to a story of my life, which is now appearing In a New York magazine."” Denying that he intended to go to New Orleans to discuss the situation with Will Hays, director of moving pictures, Chaplin hopped into a t: cab and sped away, shaking off pu suing reporters. He was not regis- tered at any of the leading hotels, but it was believed he spent the night here, prepared to resume his Journey eastward today. Hays Not Interested Mr. Hays in New Orleans denied #hat his appearance there had a hearing on the Chaplin case. The movie ‘head said he was on his way 10 Los Angeles after attending the opening of a hotel at FRdgewater, Miss. Hays said he knew nothing of the case, had nothing to say, and 1hat it was quite probable he never would have anything to say con- fecrning it “I am, of course, not the arbiter of morals of the film industry’s fif- thousand people. However, there asn’t -or hadn’t been a scandal in Hollywood since the producers and distributors’ organization was form- ed four years ago."” May Bar Films As attorneys for Mrs. Chaplin be- gan efforts in the moving picture city to trim the payroll of the Chap- lin ilm organization, movements were started in several cities to bar films in which the comedian ap- ‘pears until the divorce case i3 dls- posed of. {portion of the business | truction of At Ottawa, Ill, the La Salle county league of women voters ask-, ed motion picture theater owners not to show Chaplin's films while Major Bertha K. Landis announced | In Seattle that she would ask the Seattle censor board to decide whether the comedian’s films should be barred from exhibition there, BLAZE IN CENTER OF SOUTHINGTON Business District Threatened\by Farly Morning Fire (Speclal to the Herald.) Southington, Jan. 13 (P)—A larg center of Southington was threatened by fire early this morning when dathage was done in the Wilcox block om Center street and four stores in the heart ot the business district. The cause of the fire was not determincd though Chief John Cronin stated that 1it was apparently started by a cigar- ette butt thrown in a closet on the second floor. Excellent work on the part of the firemen attached to Southington Hose Co. No. 1 prevented the des- adjoining buildings, all of which are attached to the one damaged today. The Wileox block is a two and a half story wooden framo structure. The blaze started on the second floor and quickly ate s way out to the back and to the roof. It was a roaring mass of flames when the alarm was sounded at 2:05 o'clock. Chief Cronin and Deputy Chief Thomas Murphy, who are stationed in the fire house which is diagonally across the way, spent but few onds in getting to the scene stringing hose. The members the company, all of whom unteers, arrived soon and after a long and hard fight, subdued the roaring mass and got it under con- trol. Under the direction of Chicf Cron- in, lines of hose were set to prevent the fire from creeping into the ad- joining building while a squad of men were gent in through an attic window to fight the fire from within. Volumes of smoke poured from the windows and other openings made by the flames and this repeatedly drove the firemen out of the building. The water froze as soon as it landed and made the work of the fire fighters precarious. After about an hour's fight the flames which had lit the sky for miles around, began to lower and it was only a matter of time before the last embers were extinguished. The building itself was damaged, it i estimated, to the extent of ahout $2,500 by the flames, but untold havoc was wrought by the sea of water poured into the upper floors by the firemen. On the ground floor are stores, a branch of the Great lantic & Pacific Tea Co., Tomass sec- and of are vol- F Ny yvou simply cross Check your coach. front ride via Liberty St. from the Grand Central Ter- minal to the Baltimore & Ohio Pershing Square Coach Sta- tion direc¢tly opposite. hand-haggage through to your train seat. Step into the waiting motor Choice of two routes— via 23rd St., with river NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FISHING AND HUNTING ti's Tatlor Shop ,a fruit store and F. Williams' shot store. These places of business were deluged with water while further damage was| caused by the thick clouds of smoke | which permeated the interor. The building stands at the corner of Center street and Center Place. It forms the western end of a chain of buildings which reach without ! interruption to the corner of Main street. Had there been any breeze | blowing, it is likely that the entire line of buildings would have been | destroyed. | On the second floor of the building | are rooms and tenements. Except for two rooms which are used as a | club room by a local group of young i {men, thawpper.pact ot the building has been unoccupied for some time. | It is thought that some of the fre- quenters of the card room might have carelessly tossed a clgarette | stub on the floor leaving It there | to smolder and start what proved to be the worst fire Southington has had in many years. The property is owned by Benfa min Solomon and Emmanucl Rich mon of New Britain and is said to | be covered by insurance. ‘A checkup foday by the managers and proprictors of the stores in the lower part of the building showed | that the stock therein ained was almost totally destroyed cither by water or smoke. The & Pacific store and Tomas oring establishment, which stand di- réctly beneath where, the fire o the worst, suffered heavy damag; though tha other two stores have litté choico in the matter of salvag- ing their wares. Another War Sure to Come Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 13 (P—Hi tory proves that another war is sure to come, Bdward Jadwin, chief en- gineenof the United States army, | declared before the Pittsburgh chapter, Society of American ginecers. The *parsimony of American tax- payers in not providing sufficient funds for the upkeep of all branches of the fighting services” was assailed by the chief engineer, who described the airplane as “probably the bigge: factor in the next war.” He also at- tacked congress for not appropriat- ing adequate funds for the proper | development of the several branthes | | of defense. n- F. G. PLATT 1 Reports from the Hartford hospi- tal today indicate that the condition Platt of New Bgltain, who A patlent there for the past improved. Members of the f'\mllv say there is no truth to rumors that Mr. Platt suffered a shock. NORMAL AND HI GIRLS Reduced rates in BALLROOM DANCING Steinhans Dancing Academy 308 Main St. Phone 3910-G. iH SCHOOL OR when you reach New York 42nd St., GRANDNS cmm} TERMINAL | along the shore and two more days| |to get According to Historian| N/ JANUARY 13, 19z(. REPORTS ENCOURAGING | Sportsmen Say it is Easy for Man to Get Legal Limit in Either ¥ish . or Birds. 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