New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 TONYRT “uHo)) ‘pIOJUIZH ‘PO “3dag APy £xumyT S RADICAL CHANGE PROPOSED FOR HANDLING ATHLETICS BY BILL BEFORE ASSEMBLY Measure Would Make Secretary of State Commissioner Ex-Of- ficio With Power to Name Five Deputies. Another Proposal Would Levy Excise on Use of State Highways by Pub- lic Service Motor Busses‘. State Capitol, Hartford, Jan. 26 () ~—Radical changes in the handling of athletics in the state are suggested in a bill offered the general assem- bly today by Senator Goss by re- quest “of a lawyer.” Instead of the single commission- er, the secretary of state would be ex-officio the state athletic commis- sion. He would appoint five depu- ties, one from each congressiongl dis- trict, who together with the secre- tary would constitute the state ath- letic commission. Each deputy shall told office for two years at an an- nual salary of $500 and expenses. The commission would make nec- essary rules and regulations, have a secretary, an office and “enjoy all the powers now enjoyed by law of said athletic commissioner, but each deputy shall have sole control of and Jurisdiction over all boxing exhibi- tions and wrestling bouts held in the state by any persons, club corpora- tlon or association, whether profes- sional or amateur boxing of wrest- ling bouts.” Auto Bus Tax A Dbill introduced in the general assembly by Senator Walcott im- poses an excise on the use of pub- lic highways by public service mo- tor buses. The tax imposed on buses operat- ing on routes wholly in the state would be 3 per cent of gross re- celpts. Buses operating on routes partly In this state and partly in another would pay one cent a bus mile, while companies operating one or more routes entirely in-the state and one or mors part in and part out, would be taxed 3 per cent of gross receipts and one cent a bus mile. The bill provides for regular re- ports on movement of the buses. Much New Business. The large volume of new business which poured into the general as- sembly yesterday with the introduc- tion of more than 200 bills was add- ed to today by a greater number. “Stubby” to Be Placed In Red Cross Museum sl ‘Washington, Jan. 28 (®— “Stubby,” famous mascot dog of the 102nd infantry during the ‘world war, who died here a year ago, is to be placed in the mu- seum of the National Red Cross headquarters here. The mascot, decorated many times in France, was the prop- erty of J. Robert Conroy of New Britain, Conn., ngw secre- tary to Representative E. Hart Fenn, of Connecticut. He joined the army at New Haven, at- taching himself to recruits drill- } ing on the Yale field, and served throughout the war. His blanket made by French women, is weighted down with medals and carries service and wound stripes, the latter being awarded as a result of “Stubb; being struck by a shell eplinter., Upon his death “Stubby” was turned over to Smithsonian Institution taxi- dermists for mounting. WELD ASKS BETTER INSURANCE RATES Writes to New England Ex- \change, Stressing Improvements SURVEY WILL BE MADE Mayor Calls Attention to Modern Equipment For Fighting Fires and Proposed Ordinances to Lessen Hazard in This City. Mayor Weld has taken steps to have a higher Insurance rating with lower fire insurance premiums placed on New Britain through a re examination of the city's system for | sateguarding its ppoperties checking the spread of flames. and He has received assurance that no | time will be lost in making the de. sired survey although the letter sent him from the New England Insur- ance Exchange and received by him | today gives no definite promise of a better rating. - In a letter to the exchanga, the | mayor called attention to numerous |improvements made here since the survey of 1923. His statement to the district office of the National Board of Fire Underwriters follows: “New England Insurance Exch. “18 Oliver street, “Boston, Mass. “Gentlemen: IRINIIRUU0) BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1927. —TWENTY PAGES. WHEELER CHALLENGES SENATORS T0 TAKE STAND ON NICARAGUAN ISSUE; KELLOGG'S STATEMENT KEPT SECRET MOTHER FOLLOWS | ‘PEAGHES' T0 TELL OF FAMILY WOES Then Mrs. Catherine Mayer, Friend of Long Standing Adds | Her Recital to Record 'MRS. HEENAN INDIGNANT | - AT LAWYER'S ATTITUDE ;Prolcsfis Matter Is No Joke to Her | | But' Court Holds That Levity Is | | | | Better Than Anger — “Peaches” Protests Thi. She Was Good Girl | Before She Was Married to Rich | Realtor. Court House, White Plains, N. Y., | {Jan. 26 P—Mother Carolyn Heenan | land her woman friend of five years, | Mrs. Catherine Mayer, today came to the ald of Mrs. Frances (Peaches) Heenan Browning, and added their | testimony to the 16 year old girl's in an attempt to show that her six | months of marriage with the wealthy |New York realtor, was a life of quar- | rels—at ledst one scream—and many | trights. | Mrs. Heenan Wwas the third wit- | Iness of the day, following Mrs. | Mayer, the friend and companion | and at times the house guest of the |two women, who lived with Mr. Browning. | She said she first met Mr. Brown- | ing on March 15, 1926, when he vis- | ited their home, to call upon Frances, | then 15 years cld. Thought Him Very Nice | “I thought him a very fine gentle- man,” she said, “and he showed me many beautiful letters to prove it. They were from young women who Iwanted to marry him, and in one case there was a letter from a man offering Mr. Browning a step-daugh- |ter for a wife.” The mother testified to the que: ons put to her by her daughter chief counsel, Henry Epstein. She [said she “always waited up for her | |daughter” when the girl and the real | | (Continued on Page 10.) SENSATIONAL ESCAPE {One Recaptured — Two | Others Still Free—First CHINESE BELIEVED PLANNING BIG. DRIVE ON SHANGHAI IMMEDIATELY Married 50 Years and Thinks He Ought to Be Retired on a Pension ‘Washington, Jan. 26 (UP)— Believing that a man married 50 years should receive some reward from the government, E. D. Howe, Weedsport, N. Y., has asked Representative Tabor, republican, New York, to secure passage of a bill granting him a pension. SACHS' AN ALLAS, COUNSEL ADHITS Lawyer for Alleged Swindle Makes Revelation in Court CASE AGAIN CONTINUED Chief Inspector Lahey of New York Sends Long Record of Criminal Acts Believed Committed by Aaronson — Extradition Hearing. Counsel for Arthur Aaronson, who is held by the local police in default of $40,000 bonds for the authorities of Newport News, Va.,, who hold a warrant for him in connection with a $5,000 bank swindle, this morning unmasked him, Attorney Thomas F. McDonough informing Judge W. C. Hungerford in police court that al- though his client had re; a local hotel as Benjamin was ‘“‘booked” by the police under that name, he had in fact merely assumed it. *At this time, I would like to make a statement, Your Honor,” Attorney McDonough said when Assistant Prosecuting Attorney W. M. Green- stein asked that Aaronson's case be continued until tomorrow morning. “After a conference yesterday with this man’s wife and his New York attorney, and with the prisoner him- self this morning, I want to say his name is not Sachs and never was Sachs. He was booked downstairs as Sachs and was registesed at the hotel as Sach. to which Judge Hungerford ’Nationalists Evidently Hope to Capture City Before British Can Rush in Their 20,000 Troops. ?L. S. Consulate Preparing" Havens of Refuge for| Americans Should Emer- gency Arise. | | | | | | | | | | Shanghai, Jan. 26 (P—Heavy| | concentration of Cantonese (na-| |tionalist) goverament troops which |is reported on the Chekiang province | front has caused apprehension in | Shanghai. | Nationalists interpret the concen- tration as part of a supreme effort to be made by the Cantonese to capture Shanghai before the ma- | jority of the British expeditionary force of 20,000 army and navy men | arrives at the end of February. | | It is also feared that the landing | of Punjabi troops tomorrow from | Hong Kong will provide the match | that will light a new anti-foreign, | especially anti-British, conflagra- | tion in the provinces held by th nationalists, which included about | half of all China. | In view of this danger and the | threat” that the nationalists will over-run Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces, in the latter of which Shanghai is situated, the possible necessity of evacuating American | women and children from these | provinces is under careful consed- | | eration. Marshal Sun Chaun-Fang, ruler of | Chekiang, Anhwel and Kiangsu | provinces, is concentrating his troops | to resist the Cantonese concentra- | tion in the region of Hangchow, | rorthern Chekiang. Sun is denud- | ing neighboring towns of troops for | this. i Refugee Plans Prepared | Shanghai, Jan. 26 (UP)—Havens | safety at which Americans would | be concentrated in the event of a great ~mergency today were being prepared by the United States con- sulate as reports arrived from Hang- DR, REEKS FAVORS MAKING A GOT IN CDST OF SCKNESS Hospital Superintendent Sug- gests This Might Be Done Through Endowments MAN OF AVERAGE MEANS FINDS BURDEN IS HEAYY Annual Report to Corporators Meeting This Afternoon Outlines Rapid Improvement of Scientific Equipment and Personnel—Local Residents Patronizing Home Spe- clalists to Greater Extent. In in annual report to the corp- orators of New Britain General hos- pital at their meeting this afternoon, the superintendent of the institu- tion, Dr. T. E. Reeks, discussed the “high cost of sickness,” pointing out that modern scientific laboratory |equipment and treatment are add- ing to the financial burden of the man of average means. Speaking of laboratory procedure, Dr. Reeks said: “These advantages re enjoyed by the well-to-do at no particular financial stress and by the poor at practically no expense hut the man with the average income ; whose pride forbids him taking ad- vantage of free service bears a fi- nancial burden which he usually shoulders for many months follow- ing his discharge from the hospital. And the end is not yet, for hospitals must look forward to maintaining | further secientific equipment and per- b SENATOR WHEELER. BIG WINE SEIZURE MADE BY POLICE Haul Effected in Arch St. and Holmes Ave. House |KGENT" PAVES THE WAY Terryville Police Arrest Stanley Babula and Frank Bogdanski After Finding Abandoned Auto Containing 100 Gallons of Alcohol. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Maino of 383 Arch street and Mr. and Mrs. Vin- cenzo Bartolucel of 39 Holmea |avenue were arrested this morning by Officers John C. Etadler and ;Daniel Cosgrove on charges of viola- | tion of the liquor law, folowing al- leged purchases of wine by a police “agent” at both addresses. . Both Imen were taken to police head- | quarters and put under bonds for | {Montana Senator Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Jan. 14,447 22nd . .. PRICE THREE CENTS Foreign Relations Com- mittee Declines to Make Public Secre- tary’s Own Deleted Story on Situation. Aims Barbed Shafts at Presi- dent and Protests Money Interests Alone Dictate Policy in Nicaragua. ‘Washington, Jan. 26 (/—The sen- ate was challenged today by Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, *“‘to take a stand either with our state department and its tyranny or against it” on the Nicaraguan quee- tion. Makes Snappy Address. In an address teeming with barbed shafts aimed at both President Cool- idge and Secretary Kellogg, the Montanan also called on the scnate forelgn relations committee to “hold a public hearing in which the whole subject may be aired in the light of day,” and declared members of the committes would be ‘“recreant in their duty it they fail to do thi Accusing President Coolidge of wittingly or unwittingly withhold- ing from congress the true facts as to Nicaragua, Senator Wheeler said the executive's recent message to congress showed that he had been mislead in his dealings with Nicar- agua. © other or more charitable statement could be made concerning such @ message,” he sald. Diaz the “Yes Man,” Contending that Juan B. Sacasa, liberal, is the constitutional presi- dent of the Central American repub- lic, the Montanan described tire con- servative president, Adolfo Diaz, as “the handpicked ‘ves man’ ¢f our AT ATLANTA PRISON © smilingly rejoined, w, 100 miles to the south, that he Chinese troops defending Shan hai were being defeated by Can- tonese nationalists. Meantime, the work of adding to the barricades around foreign sei- dements continued. “with apologies to the local attor- ney,” meaning Attorney Morris D. of this city, the pronunciation of whose name is identical to that of Aaronson's assumed name. Will Fight Extradition, Attorney McDonough stated after court that he and Attorney Benja- min Sandler of New York were in conference in the latter's office yes- British Preparations. London, Jan. 26 (A—British land and naval forces are converging on China as a demonstratioi of readi- niess to protect British life and prop- crty should they be placed in jeop- ardy through belligerent acts by the Chinese. When the fighting ships ordere terday, and both will be present at he hearing tomorrow afternoon at Governor Trumbull's office at the state capitol, Hartford, to fight ex- tradition to Virginia. During the conference Attorney Sandler told At- torney McDonough to lose no time sonnel to meet the demands as medi- | cine advances. | Continuing his discussion of this | subject, Dr. Reeks spoke of the fact th their appearance in police court to- morrow morning. Their wives were ordered to be In court without being |taken to the police station. t no charge is made for many| , large quantity of wine was diagnostic alds, adding: “I deem this 'geizeq in each raid, In addition to |matter worthy of tho earnest |, small amount of beer and liquor. | thought of the public and board of | Among the stuft taken in the Arch directors for if the hospital 3 to street raid are listed three barrels jadhere to this policy of maintaining 'of wine, each containing 30 gallons; | expensive laboratories at no charge two seven gallon barrels of wine: to the patient then further endow-'one 50 gallon barrel with traces of ment will be required to enable it to wine; two 30 gallons barrels with |do so; and the board of directors |traces of wine; one gallon jug halt | | full of wine; one gallon jug of color- 'ing matter; six single quart bottles | (Continued on Page 18) | | of beer, a quart and a pint of whis- | key, a wine press. The Holmes |state department, despised by his oft-betrayed people, held in con- |tempt by almost the whole Latin- |American world, and yet twice war- | shipped into the Nicaraguan presi- dency, and safety-pinned there by American bayonets.” “It would be a perversion of lan- (guage to say that Don Adolfo Diaz |was ever elected president of Nic- |aragua,” he added. “There has been but one presidential election since |the autocratic rule of our state de- partment began. “State department favorites have isimply been marched into office to | the music of the marine band, which |continued to play as long as they lling for t ro- to proceed to Chinese waters from e aar = Resolutions calling for the app! “In 1928 the National Board of Yars D d ter: i |were ‘good’—Good to New York priation of the following county commissioners were adopte New London county: Elisha Wa- terman, Lebanon, end Charles H. Smith. New Haven: Mrs. Clara N. Coker, East Haven, and Hubert Platt, Mil- ford. ‘Windham: Arthur C. Keith, Put- nam, and Senator Urgele La France, Plainfleld. Senator Griffin introduced a bill which amends the workmen's com- pensation act to read three instead of five employes where employer may elect to be regulated as to con- Tire Underwriters in report No. 161 classed New Britain in a No. 4 rating, our points of deficiency being 1790, or 200 points more |than a No. 3 rating. Sinee that [time many changes have been |made that would reduce to quite An extent these four points of de- ficiency. For instance, 24 new fire alarm boxes have been added, |water proof covers, eight Foamite |hand chemicals, 1,350 fect of three inch and 6,500 feet of two and one- halt inch hose, two 750 gullon triple combination pumpers, and tract with his employes and provides | have equipped chemical and hose for an increase for loss of leg, arm or eye, and for burial expenses and death allowances, and for practical disability. ‘Women's Jury Bill A women's jury service bill, intro- (Continued on' Page 17) L.F. & C. WILL CLOSE FOR LANDERS FUNERAL Body of Former Mayor Brought to This City Today Funeral services for George M. Landers, former mayor and indus- trial leader here, remained incom- plete this afternoon pending infor- mation from relatives upon whose arrival will depend the time of aervices, The body reached New Britain to- day and was taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Grace Judd Lan- ders of East Main street. Services will probably be held from the home tomorrow with interment in Falir- view cemetery. Out of respect for Mr. Landers, the several plants of Landers, Frary & Clark in this city will shut down for at least half the day of the funeral services. Gets Nothing in Will of Brother, Man Drops Dead | Providence, R. I, Jan, 26 (P— ‘After he had heard the reading of his brother's will, which cut him | oft from any share in a million- gullar estate, Samuel Orrell, retired | purrillville mill man, dropped dead ll%st night at a home in Glendale, . L. where he was a visitor. His| brpther, Willlam Orrell, president of the, Orrell Mills, Inc., died last Sat- urduy, i A e s |wagon with' turret pipe. A new en- |gine house has been erected on Stanley street, to be open about “ebruary 1, equipped complete |with a personnel of eight men, to- gether with an up-to-date drill {tower which is expected to be ready by the first of April. The electrical ~ department has been equipped With 550 new storage bat- terles, and a manual transmitted is being installed. “Soon after April. first a city service ladder complete will be es- [tablished in the northwest part of the city with a personnel of 10 men, also 15 new fire alarm boxes, a new electrlc siren to call the off platoon, two special operators to {handle telephone alarms, and 300 feet of three inch hose and 2,000 feet of two and one half inch hose, (Continued on Page Elght) Break Since Chapman’s Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 26 (UP)—One jof three prisoners who escaped last | night from Atlanta federal peniten- | tiary, Hugh Baughart, was captured today | Baughart, hiding in some brush ! 5 |mear the soldiers' home two miles |from the prison, was taken without | |a struggle by Captain John M. Mar- | tin. | Blboahounda) sent liere! frou lcons| viet road camps, citizen, posses and guards from the penitentiary had [Been unable to pick up the trail of ¢he men who escaped through the jail yard amid volleys of shotgun fire at “school hour” last night. The other men were: Albert Rosenbers, Trenton, N. J., [serving 10 years for a post office robbery. | Fred McGoldrick, New York clty, serving three years for stealing an | admitting the falsity of the Aaronson had given. The New York attorney was quite concerned over the possible injury or embarrassment to Attorney Saxe through the use by Aaronson of a name so similar to his, Attorney McDonough said he | merely told Aaronson this morning before court that he and Attorney Sandler are satisfied that Sachs is an alias and would not be used again in the case, to which Aaronson made no reply, his attorney said. ‘Wanted by New York Police Chief Hart this morning received the following communication from the various naval bases of the Brit- ish Tsles, the East Indies and the Mediterranean, join the warships al- ready on the scene ,there will be as- sembled the most impressive flotilla of fighting units since the armistice ended the World War in 1918. istimates of the total number of ives which will then be ready for eventualities, both on land and sea, place them at between 19,000 and 21,000, . The land forces will be under command of Major General John Duncan, who had notable service in the world war. He left YALE STUDENT FOUND | HANGING IN HIS ROOM [R. S. Untermeyer Used Bathrobe Cord in Com- mitting Suicide | | New Haven, Jan, 26—Richard for the Far Fast yesterday aboard |starr Untermeyer, a sophomore in th | New York police department | son, Chief Inspector M. J. Lahey of the plying to your letter of the 21st in- stant, relative to one Arthur Aaron- alias Benjamin Sachs, beg to enclose herewith criminal record; also to advise that Aaronson is wanted here for grand larceny and violation of parole. Will advise you further in a few days.” marines were leaving Portsmouth | for Shanghal. Before the end of the work it is expected that more than 11,000 infantry men will be en route to China. It is thought likely that orders also will be given to a number of nurses, some of them women ‘rom A -3 ntory had not been com- | {Avents Mymntory {bankers, not to thelr own people. | pleted this afternoon, but the police | sald it will show a greater amount of | evidence than was taken on Arch | street. The truck loads of barrels, jugs | | the knowing ones knew that the sig- |and bottles making the trip to the I police station aroused great curios- ity. The appearance of the loads |indicated a larger haul than was | actually made, because of the empty [lmrrnls. Babula and Bogdanski Held Bristol, Jan, 26.—Stanley Babula |of 98 Booth street, New Britain, and transport Megantic just as 1,000 | yale college, took his life by hang-|I'rank Bogdanski of 40 Horace ing in his room in Welch hall to-|s reet same city, were arrested at | Blames Money Interests. *“When the band ceased to play, as it did a few ‘months before Solor- 2ano's government was overthrown, nal had been given in New York or (Continued on Page 10) DIPLOMAS FOR 103 AT NATHAN HALE SCHOOL the military hospitals, to be prepar- | {day. The body was found by a|2:50 a. m. today on North Main |danitor who went to the room. | street near North street by Officer Young Untermeyer using the cord |John McLaughlin, after a telephone of his bathrobe had hanged himself call had been received from Deputy from the transom between his bed- Sheriff George Buckley of Terryville room and the living room. He room- | that two men had deserted a car in ed alone, Classmates who live in|front of the Whitbeck gas station Welch hall said that the student|and taken to thelr heels just prior tlosa CHHA | The record which is on file with ‘Tho brefk was the frst at Atlanta | the New York police is In the name fary since 1923, when Gerald | 0 4aron Aronowitz, alias Andrew 1 and Dutch Anderson, both | Ros¢nwald, and William Greenbaum, now dead, made ther way to liveriy. | 10 contains the folloving entrice digftizee menvhedinlian thiouEl (oo iy S oo fhrgeny, no) nnal |a bar on’a cell window. They re- . 3 Moved the bar and dropped from the | 4iSposition; Aaron Aronowitz, 1920, {window 20 feet to the flluminated jail yard below. Wearing their prison forms, they werc grey uni-| quickly seen by ! (Continued on Page 10) SPECTATOR F The sharp report of a pistol and a flash of fire in the darkened audi- torium of the Rialto theater on Broad streat last night threw the house into an uproar and almost caused a panic, as practically every- one started to leave, fearing that a fire had broken out, it was stated in police court this morning by Assist- ant Prosecuting Attorney W. M. Greenstein, in his outline of the case of Joseph Lipski, aged 23, of Curtis street, charged with breach of the peace. The manager of the house, assisted by police, hastened to reassure the audience that there was no cause for alarm and after several minutes order was restored. Accord- NEAR PANIC IN THEATER AS Joseph Lipski, Aged 23, Sent to Jail For Five Days For Shooting Gun in Rialto IRES REVOLVER ing to reports, it was the nearest ap- | proach to a panic to occur in a local playhouse in a number of years. Lipski, according to Mr. Green- | stein, fired a blank cartridge pistol | while sitting in the theater. The | | pistol and cartridge were on display | before Judge Hungerford. Lipski, in his own defense, said he felt the Santa Barbara, Ca., worthless checks, 13 months San Quentin pri- son; Aaron Aronowitz, June 28, 1923, New York city, srand larceny, sen- tence suspended by Judge Crain, general sessions; Andrew Rosenwald, April 7, 1922, Cleveland, Ohio, worthless checks, one year to twenty years Ohio state penitentiary, erimi- nal court; Willlam Greenbaum, October 11, 1923, Montreal, Canada, bogus checks, no final disposition. Fingerprints Match Inasmuch as the finger prints tak- en of Aaronson here match those of the man who has this record, Chief Hart sald there can be no doubt that the prisoner is a notorious swindler. The entries which note that no final disposition of cases was made, probably mean that the pri- | soner forfeited his bond, the police say. In this morning’s mail came a let- ter from Chief Alex West of the Charlotte, N. C. police, as follows: “Enclose warrant Herbert Grossman, allas Nathan Lowenthal, for false pretences. Getting requisition papers for return.” The warrant charges that W. C. Wilkinson was swindled ed to go on with the infantry bri- gades, either on the same or other transports. The hospital ship Maine | is being refitted at Malta and soon (Contlnued on Page 10) HUNDREDS DYING FROM | iIn Some Places People | Stand in Line to Get Death Certificates London, Jan. 26 (M—) | deaths from influenza in |during the last week have been |recorded with the authorities. In | some of the poorer districts of the city people had to stand in line to | get death certificates. Reports to the ministry of health show that 470 persons died from the | disease last week in the 105 largest | cities outside London. | During the last five wecks there | kave been 600 more deaths from influenza than for the corresponding period last year. carly 200 London | % | pistol under him as he took his seat.| out of $500 on or about January 3, | and when he removed it, it dise | charged under his touch, as his fin- | ger came in contact with the trigger. | Judge Hungerford imposed a sen- |tence of five days in jail, remarking that Lipski hax no business having |the pistol, and it was fortunate ‘lhere ‘were no serious results from the incident. |extradition fight Attorney 1927, by use of a bogus check, In case Governor Trumbull rules against Aaronson, tomorrow on the McDon- ough will go to Virginia and aid in the defense there. Attorney Sandler is attorney for (Continued on Page 10.) | THE WEATHER “ New Britain and vicinity: | | Generally fair tonight and | | Thursday with a cold wave tonight; slowly rising temper- ature Thursday afternoon. FLU QVER IN LONDON| for several days had acted strange- ly but they could give no further information. Dr. James C. Greenway, medical director of the university health bureau, who knew Untermeyer said that the student. was normal in every sense and he could attribute no reason for the act. Untermeyer, wrier and poet and of Mrs. Jean Starr Untermeyer widely |known in the literry world, He (Continued on Page 11) The student was a son of Louis!| | to his arrival on the scene. | According to Sheriff Buckley, he rcceived g telephone call shortly after 1 o’clock this morning that there was a car in front of the gas |station and two men were engaged lin changing a tire. When he ar- |rived at the point In question, the | car was still there but the men had disappeared. A subsequent search |of the automobile showed it to con- tain 100 gallons of alcohol, which | was seized by the officer. He noti- (Continued on Page 17) In spite of a sincere plea by Chiet of Police William C. Hart to have provision made that the widows of poiicemen who die in the service be granted compensation out of the pension fund, it was decided last night to incorporate no such provi- sion in the law. The pension committee voted to have members of the fire depart- ment pay into a fund an amount equal to two per cent of their week- ly wage until such time as the ac- count shows itself to be on a sound financial basis, After the receipts from the firemen's ball and from donations have been deducted from the annual withdrawals, the city will | 'No Pensions for Widows of . Policemen Dying in Service Project, Sponsored By Chief Hart, Turned Down— Firemen to Contribute to Their Fund appropriate the difference into the pension fund, it has been decided. No payments out of wages are now made by the firemen into their fund, but the police department has such a provision, Charter amendments covering this point will be submitted directly to the legislative committee on cities and boroughs, other amendments having already gone before the gen- eral assembly and having been so referred. The pension committee is headed by Senator Edward F. Hall, who with School Committeeman Henry T. Burr, is aiding the police and fire departments in recorganizing their pension system. | | | | Graduation Exercises to Be Held Next Friday Morning A class of 103 students will be graduated from the Nathan Hale Junior High school at the first jun- ior high school exercises to be held in the school, on Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Willlam H. Alder- son will deliver the address and Wil- liam H. Day, a member of the school committes, will present the diplo- mas. The class colors are crimson and silver. Following are the class offi- cers: Maurice Marholin, president; Virginia Barrett, vice president; Eleanor Hine, secretary; and Clar- ence Derrick, treasurer. The program follows: March—*"Connecticut”— by Wil- llam Nassann .by Max Herzberg “Gavotte Souvenir'— Orchestra Invocation—Rev. E. V. Grikis. Soprgno Solo—Willlam Westerman. Address to Graduating Class— --+.Rev. Willlam H. Alderson | The Dream of the Birds' Return— stsssisassenes.. . Irish Folk Tune Send out Thy Light—..... Gounod Glee Club Presentation of Diplomas— viveriensesieee. Willlam H. Day Member of the school committee. Star Spangled Banner— Audience. Following are the graduaf Stasia Adams, Vincent Ammon, Carl Anderson, Helen Anderson,, Leonard Anderson, Mary Andrews, Paul Appell, Alice Bakevich, Virgin- ia Barrett, Helen Barwikowski, Mar- garet Benjamin, Ethel Berkowits, Milton Berkowitz, Mary Bernat, Bennie Birnbaum, Marcus Black- man, Theresa Bolslard, Napoleon Camden, Mary Carrozza, Dora Cav- arini, Thomas Cillizza, Mary Clark, Anna Clem, Barbara Crocker, Edwin Curtls, Edward Kaelin, Lo Kalin- (Continued om Page 8)