New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, GIRL LOYAL TO MARRIED MAN UNDER ARREST IN WASHINGTON AS THEIR ELOPEMENT CLIMAX “Pll Stick By Harry,” Declares Lillian Olga Wenzloff On Return Today From Capital. East Street Young Woman Didn’t Know Alward | Had Wife, She Says,! Telling of Their “Honey- moon.” “I still trust Harry and I'll stick Ly him. I've as much as accepted nim for better or for worse and it's | my duty to stick. A girl who accepts a man on those conditions and then who leaves him flat.as soon as tho «¢' comes along is vellow!” So said Miss Lilllan Olga Wenzloff, 25, ast street, today, when she from Washington, D. C., ¥ Harry E. Alward, to whom she was engaged to be married, is teing held under bonds of $1,500 on | charges of violation of the Mann act. | Alward is married and has three children. M Wenzloft arrived in New Britain this morning at 6 o'clock, | zreatly fatigued from her trip from the Capital. She was firm in her | atements that she still believes in | 14 trusts Alward who is awaiting trial for the alleged offense. | Miss Wenzloff stated today that | he met Alward on New Year's Eve | The meeting was not pianned, | she had an engagement With nd for the evening. She Vaiter Martin of Newington, & oung man with whom she had worked for about two years at a| local automobile concern, and he asied her to go out with him for the evening. She told him that she had an appointment with a girl | fricnd and that she was Eoing to| keep it. Whereupon, Martin agreed | to get a young man for the girl | friend so that they might go some- | where and dance. Tove at First Sight it waa woma time later that eve- ning that she first met Alward. She | said today that they seemed to be- tracted to each other and | er the first meeing he be- came a steady caller at her home. She resides with her parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Adolph Wenzloff. | Soon afterward, they became en- | gaged and started to malke plans for | their wedding, going so_ far as to|ciyp Jiad been fnvalided at his home | purchase furniture in Middletown and to secure a bungalow in Wind- sor for their future home. They plan- | ned to be married on January 20 in| York city and it was their idea | to take with them to the LHH" Chureh Around the Corner, two girl | friends and Martin, who were to have acted as witnesses. | A short time before the date of | the wedding, Miss Wenzloff said that | morning, but in the afternoon his| Lhinks City she received word from Alward that he had been injured in an automo- | bile accident and that the ceremony | ould have to be postponed for two | Later they changed their plans | again and decided to elope. They left this city on January 22, Martin driving them to w York. Again, | for reasons of his own, Alward asked that the ceremony be postponed. “I.| zreed to that, thinking that he' take care of the matter,” said Miss | \Wenzioff, adding that the wedding did not take place as yet. Martin With Them On Trip Martin continued to act as driver f the car and the party went to| delphia and finally to Hender- | N. C, where Martin expre ul > to return to this city, she They stayed at Henderson bu! ew hours, according to her story. They went to Washington, D. C, where they remained for some time | and where Alward secured an apart- ment, in which they lived. Miss Wenzloff admitted that Alward gave ieir names as “Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alward” and she expressed the | opinion that there was nothing | wrong with that, since she believed | that they were to be married soon. | Alward was apprehended by Washington detectives on a charge ol‘\ a Mann act violation and Miss | Wenzlof¢ was held as state’s wit- | ness, They were taken before United | States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage for questioning, after which Alward was released in bonds and Miss Wenzloff was allowed to return home. She will be called to| Washington to testify when the case comes up for trial. he denied today that she had re- fused to tell the story willingly, to wspapermen. §he said she answer- ed all questions briefly and in a usiness-like manner, but that she failed to understand why should have to testify against Al said if she had preferred | would have been a| nt matter, but that she had | not brought charges against him. “I should hate to think that anything 1| | 1ottea Miss We found no re and that she will stick b morning she read to a entative | of the Ierald, a portion of a note sent to her by Alward, through his 5 ows, “T will ye with you sorhe time and T will make you happy if it's the last thi ever do.” Thought She stated that Alward Diyorced she did not know (€ontinued on Page 26) | next July | detailed | temp Noted Financier P e—— ASSOCIATED Press (KEVETON® iEw) ELBRIDGE T. GERRY FLBRIDGE T, GERRY DIES, AGED 90 YRS. | Famous Yach fsman Long Acti w in Children’s Weliare Work CAME OF NOTED LINEAGE Grandfather Was Signer of Declara- tion of Independence—One Son Is U. S. Scnator ‘F‘rom Rhode | Island. New York. Feb. Gerry, 13 (P —Elbridge T lawyer, yachtsman, finan- | cler and active for many years as the | guiding spirit in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, died at his home here today, in his 90th year. Mr. Gerry, nown by his title of commodore, [former head of the New York Y: as ht | Isince last month by a fall, in which he suffered a broken hip. His phy siclans pronounced him out of dan- ger, but said he would never be able to walk again. Died Tn His Sleep His son, Robort L. Gerry, said that | death occurred in his sleep at a. m. He was able to sit up in a| |chair for several hours yesterday | |heart action began to fail and his |death was not unexpected. His four children were at his bedside. oted Ancestry The grandson of a signe | Declaration of Inde her of a United States Senator, bridge Thomas Gerry established | his own fame along lines outside na- | tional politics. (Continued on Page $80,000 FIRST YEAR'S SUM FOR POST OFFICE {This Is Amount Allotted New Britain Under Building Program 30) Washington, Feb. dent Coolidge today asked congress for $19,878,700 to initiate the ad- ministration’s public building pro- gram. This is the sum requirgd for the first year of the §15,000,000 program for new public buildings through- out the country. The money would be made able during the fi 1. Director Lord of the budget in transmitting the request to the speaker of the house attached a list of expenditures con- 1 for the first year. The first year apportionments in- Branford, Maind, N 18 (P—Presi- avail- clud Fairfield, ete., she | ) 000 Pitts bridg pos Conn 0; of- ' \uurl house, $16 A total of § ,000 would be for beginning a comprehen- | sive building program in the national | L It would provide funds to| start an agricultural department building, department of commerce building, internal revenue buildin liberty loans building and govern- ment printing office building. Worcester, fice ,000. BY GEOF B. MANNING Washington, 18—An appro- ation of §80,000 to begin work on ension to the post oifice build- P (Continued on Page 26) WHIPPING POST IS NOT WANTED HERE Proposed Law to Punish Wile| Beaters Rejected i LOCAL WATER RIGHTS SAFE| Lower House of Legislature Refects who was perhaps best | al year beginning | tain, | ! | choir.” | ng al- | | Measure to Repeal Burlington Grants—Two Associate Judges for . City Approved. | State Capitol, Hartford, Feb. 18 (#) —The whipping post advocated for | wife beaters by Mayor Alfred N.| Phillips, Jr., of Stamford, will not be | put in use in Connecticut. The house today on an unfavorable report of | the judiciary committee rejected the | bill which provided for the lashing of wife beaters. The senate waited until 11:45 this | morning before a sufficient number | of senators were present to make a quorum. After getting under way the senate passed five senate bills, con- curred with the house in passing | three house bills, passed a resolu- | tion appointing James cannon} judge of Windsor Locks, and re- | ceived favorable reports on nine senate bills. The house passed more house bil 20 | nate Bills Passed. | than | The | senate bills: No. 533, to include persons who | jserved in army, navy, marine corps | Dr revenue marine service of the| ‘( nited States during the I'lnnppme! | insurrection or the China relief ex- | | pedition among those exempt from | ]mxmm\ of property of United States residents who have served in time of | x\m'. No. 464, fixing salavies of the judge, deputy judge and prosecuting | aLmr'\cy of the Stamford City (ouni | at $3,000 each yearly; assistant pros: | ecuting attorney at $1,500, and clerk |at § No. 20, authorizing the granting of | right of way to Killingly across state rmory ground at Danielson. No. 210, to allow two city court | | judges in Norwalk and creating one | | judicial distriet. No. 221, giving police jurisdiction to the city of Norwich over Colches- | ter, Lebanon and Bozra , House Bills Passed. | The following house bills i ed by the senate | i of | | senate passed the following | were | No. 23, amending the charter of | the Stafford Springs association to | permit holding of property not ex- | | ceeding $250,000 in value. | No. 63, changing the name of the | New Haven County Ant association to Gaylord | tion. rm associa- ‘ { No. 92, extending the time for the organization of the Fairficld County | (\‘or'huml cn I‘Age 18) | MRS, WY I'PHERSON GIVES OPINION OF NEW YORK Wicked But! Not as Wicked as It | } Thinks It Is | New York, Feb. 18 (UP)—Aimee | McPherson believes New York a| |wicked city but not one-half as| | wicked as it thinks it is, the noted | ist told newspaper men when rrived today from Washington |to give a series of lectures at a mh»nnclo here. | After passing through a crowded ! rallway station, Mrs. McPherson | reached her hotel and received | photographers and reporters. She reiterated her opposition to night clubs and theaters and loosed lan epigram to the effect that “cards are the devil’s Bible and the theater | the devil's church.” | Mrs. McPherson will appear seven times in three days. Her sermons | will be broadeast by Station WODA of Paterson, N. J. It was under- | stood that five local radio stations declined to broadcast her talks. Before Mrs. McPherson went to the tabern e it was one interview after anot At one time she was asked about cosmetics, “Do you mean cold asked. | No, uch.” | “On, you m McPherson. * too thick. cream?” she | rouge and lipsticks and can paint,” sald Mre t shouldn’t be put on I don't us¢ any miyself.” “Then how do you account for | your rosy cheeks | “Because T am exhilarated by talk- |ing to you. The evangelist was reminded t |several Boston preachers had passed | resolutions barring her from their | | pulpits. | “I didn't intend to go there any- v, she said. “There isn't a place ig enough. Their Tremont l('l“p\(‘i o small it doesn’t even hold a | dismissed Boston, Mrs. ! on said she thought ,\'DW‘ { York “wonderful” in the best Ljur.-n‘ | Marie manner { i\[(‘l‘!\vl. MAY ASK NEW TRIAL nd, Me., Feb. 18 (#) for Benjamin H. Turner, one week ago of the irder of James D. Hallen, may | ask for a new trial on the ground | [of newly discovered evidence, sus. taining Turner's claim of self-de. lfense. A new eye-witness to | <hooting is reported to have come | forward. Turner, sentetced to life | |imprisonment, 13 held in jail here pending an appeal to the law court. Por | Counsel convicted | give their | 11-Year-0ld | peared, December 8. CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927. THIRTY-TWO PAGES Cantonese Army Drawing Closer to Shanghai as DefeM avers HARVARD RIOTER IN COURT TODAY| Injured Policeman Identifl@ Several Students 'MANY DRUNK, HE ASSERTS B: Bluecoats Tell of Fight—“Daniel| ; Hangchow Sacked, Mis- { | s Looted by Retreat- ing Sun Forces—Ningpo Also Falls Before Ad- vancing Troops — 1,200 U. S. Marines Speeding to War Zone. lis Assoclated Press. Nationalist forces of the Canton- ‘Wecbster,” Accused, Proves To m:‘ ese government In China are draw- Youth Named Daniel Westheimer Trying to Hide His Identity. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 18 (UP)— | This was Harvard's day in court. Thirty-seven students, some still sporting bandages, appeared before | District Judge Arthur P. Stone to| various versions of the now-famous Harvard riot which led to the hospital last Saturday. President Lawrence A. Dean Chester N. Grenough and | other Harvard officials sat among | scores of students who packed the| courtroom. An overflow crowd of late-comers ' | city of Hangchow, { to their arrest and sent nine persons| With no in lsmud will be Lowell, ‘pro\mm, o | —mostly Harvard undergraduates—| | | jammed the courtyard outside with| | much of the nolsy enthusiasm that |attends a major football game. Ex- |tra police were necessary to hold the admitted spectators in check. So great did the crowd inside finlly become that Judge Stone or- dered the courtroom cleared exeept of those directly Interested in the case. ruling was not enforced. Peter J. Nelligan, city solicitor of Cambridge, was In charge of | prosecution and it wa that former Judge Chase would represent all def "m(i who are charged with d |ing the peace. Policeman Called Policeman James A. Prior was the | instructions first witness for the prosecution. “At 1:30 a. m.” he testified, “I | saw a crowd coming out of the Uni- versity theater (where the riot| started) and I went into see if | everything was all right. Later a the | hal announcad | 1t Frederick C.| | tonese government | ing in closer around Shanghali. They | are in full possession of the oy 113 porum as a base, having its own| | outlet to the sea and to the Grand Canal, Def Chuan- troops of Marshal Sun ang, de made in | capital. | partiall retreating. Ningpo, a treaty port eighty miles east of Hangcliow and only a hun- dred miles from Shanghai, has been | n's troops looted and burned Hangchow before taken by the nationaiists. Its north- | ern defenders retreated hat. Telegraphic communication tween Shanghai interrupted. Foreign powers continue strengthen their forces at Shanghat as the threat of battle increases. The to Shan- be- No one left, however, and the| American transport Chaumont, car- rying 1,200 marines, has been di-| verted from Guam direct to Shang-| Another British battalion is on s way from Hongkong to Shangha. The British government continues hopeful that the negotiations with Foreign Minister Chen of the Can- regarding the status of Hankow will succeed, New were forwarded to China after last night's cabinct | meeting in London. taxi-driver told me of having some | | trouble with some students. “I went over to where this man's | cab was and found a crowd of near- ly 1000 men in the square. Some of them were pushing the taxi up the street. I tried to have them | desist and one clouted me in the | jaw. uberculosis | “I pulled my gun and sald: first man that touches me will dropped.’ | The wagon came and shouted: be I then sent in a riot call. the crowd “Turn the wagon over.' The |most of the forefgn missions there. | “The | police who had come with the wa-| gon and I drew our clubs and ar- rested several men." Saw O’Connor Kicked Prior testified that he saw a fel- low officer, Joseph O’'Connor, kicked in the stomach by one of the stu- | | communieations. dents. “Do you know which man did the | kicking 2" asked the prosecutor. “Yes,” replied Prior promptly, pointing to Liver D. Ferguson of | Paducah, Ky., a defendant. “When I went to the assistance of O'Conror,” Prior continued, “Fer- guson kicked me, too.” (Continued on Page 29) DOG FASTS 10 WEEKS Springficld Trapped in Cellar, Canine, Still - Lives— Lost 30 Pounds. Springfield, Mass., Feb. 18 (A—Al- most at the point of death from an enforced fast of 10 weeks, ia valuable Louellen setter owned by \ Dexter Rood, was found in the cel- {lar of a barn near its home last night by two workmen. The dog, which is 11 years old, had dropped from 54 to 20 pounds and had to be carried home. Two veterinaries said the animal would probably live. It} is being fed two teaspoonfuls of milk every hour. The dog apparently sumped broken window the day it disap- widespread search has been made. Maloney Has More Than 31 Pounds Advantage New York, Feb. loney had a weight advantage of 5133 pounds over Jack Delaney of Bridgeport, Conn., when the prin- cipals in Tex Rickard's heavyweight climination tournament weighed in before the state athletic commission this afternoon. Maloney scaled 203% pounds against 172 for Delaney. Herald Will Announce Fight Returns Tonight A blow by blow account of the Delaney-Maloney fight at Madi- son Square Garden tonight as carried by the Associated Press by direct wire from the ringside, will be announced by the “Herald”. The main bout will start at 10 o'clock and the re- sults of the prel given shortly befo * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled and colder tonight; Saturday generally fair and ] colder. * | vince, of Forelgn Missions Looted Shanghai, Feb. 18 () — News of the confusion resulting from the defeat of the northern army of Marshal Sun Shuan-Fang at Hang- chow by the attacking Cantonese began to nignt when word was recelved from American Baptist mission- aries at Hangchow saying the flee- ing northern troops had looted This of the confirms an earlier report general looting of Hang- chow. Other messages reccived by | foreign firms describe the looting and disorderly retreat of Sun's forces, but it was impossible to gauge“the extent of the damage. Refugees from Chekiang pro- which Hangchow s the capital, were beginning to reach Shanghal although the number was | owing to a stoppage of rail | small Marshal Sun’s censorship on the local press has broken down and | | ne of the Hangchow defeat way published by the vernacular news-| | | paper. All missionaries at Hangchow | were reported safe, the majority of | the 125 there and the 65 at Ningpo, §0 miles east of Hangchow having | cen sent to Shanghai previousls aving only a handful in both cities. London Uninformed. London, [Feb. 18 (A—So far as London knows, the report that the Cantonese have captured Hangchow is without confirmation, but it is| the general opinion that its capture | is only a matter of hours and that Sapp Ho, | into the cellar through a, Since then a | 18 (A—Jim Ma- | | | | ley, | aftr: | party, occurred in Baltimore county ! | began a search it probably will be followed by & rapid dash to Shanghai. Await Marines, In view of this situation, satis- ction is felt in nearly all quarters that Great Britain has not yi~lded to the pressure to hold ti ai defense troops at Hong Kong. e reported impending arrival of veral hundred marines is regarded as further insurance for the inter- national settlement at Shangh: against possible companying or following the entry of a victorious army into the city. The defense force will be further increased shortly by the arrival of a battalion of the Suffolk regiment, | which, according to a late Hong Kong dispatch, sailed this morning for Shanghai. News Is Awaited. Word from Miles Lampson, British minister at Peking, is being awaited by the cabinet before a def- inite decision is taken with regard to the concessions negotiations at the (Continued on Page Father of His Fiancee Fatally Stabs Young Man | Baitimore, Feb. 18 (P—Charles Ward, 29, was fatally stabbed in & fight early today with Edward Ship- father of the girl Ward was to have married within a week. The the climax of a hard cider not far from this city and Ward died a few minutes after being brought to a hospital here. for Shiple Frances Shipley, Ward's fiancee, told police the Ward drove off the road the auto- mobile in which the party were rid- ing. She and three others of the party were witnesses to the battle. WITH ARMY FLIERS Coquimbo, Chile, Feb. 18 (A—The four States army's Pan-American flight around South America, arrived here at noon, completing the 500 mile hon southward from Mejillones. Key | miles from Shanghai and enormously im-| nder of Shanghal, | are in full retreat toward Shanghai, | tion that any further| Chekiang | which Hangchow is the | and Hangchow is| to| trickle into Shanghai to- ! e Shang- | mob violence ac- | Police | men fought after | leading planes of the United | SUB-ZERD WEATHER ENGULFS THE WEST 'Snow Also Adds to Trouble in Rocky Mountain States | CALIFORNIA STORM ABATES? | Southern Part of State Emerges | | From Danger Zone—22 Known | Dead and Property Damage of | | More Than $2,500,000 is Reported. | Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 18 (P—TFed i by sub-zero nperatures in the | inorthern Rocky Mountain states a | | cold wave today enguifed the south- | w\\(al and middlewest. The ther-| ‘momnurs dropped from the upper | sixties to well below freezing at many points within 24 hours, As a cold wind brought sleet and | snow to this territory to nip budding | {trees and flowers, snow slides con- | tinued to menace Colorado and Utah | communities while Arizona and New Mexico transportation facilities were | | crippled by floods. ! | Snow In Kansas. | Kansas today reported tempera- tures from § to 20 above With two | inches of snow in the western part {of the state drifting into railroad | cuts before a strong north wind. | Similar conditions prevailed in Okla- homa and northern Texas, where | | snow or sleet was general. The mer- | cury was falling rapidly at South| Texas points after several days of | balmy weather. With snow at many Mississippi | points, indications were that the storm would extend well into the | upper Mississippi valley today and tomorrow where low temperatures { were predicted. I'our Persons Marooned. Forccasts of relief for the moun- | |tain states found Arizona with sev- eral points isolated following a | week's rain. Four persons were re- | | ported marooned on an island near | | Prioenix while rescuers made un- successful attempts to remove them. v plows were working to ex- | | Bo (Continued on Page 30.) | NEWARK GIRL POSES ASRUSSIAN COUNTESS —Photo by Johnson & Peterson | EARL JAMES RICE BOY DROPS DEAD AFTER PLAYING BASHETBALL, Earl James Rice, 18, Ex-z pires on Floor at Armory As he was about to resume play after a rest period in a basketball | game played at the State Armory between two picked up teams of the Corbin Screw Corporation last eve- ning, Earl James Rich, 18 years old, son of Sergeant William J. Rice and Mrs. Rice of 285 Arch streect, fell to the floor and died before medical aid could reach him. The boy's father who is custodian of the state armory, had given him permission to have a game on the armory floor and it began at 5:45 | o'clock. P! period short stopped for a rest before 6:30 o'clock and as the players returned to re-| sume their positions Rice fell to the floor. Deputy Medical Examiner John E. Purney was called and the police pulmotor was taken to the scene. Efforts to resuscitate the boy ! failed and Dr. Purney declared death due to heart trouble. Dr. Purney said the boy had heart lesion or leakage of the heart for |some time, it having been brought Succeeds for Week—“It | Was Fun While It | Lasted”, She Says | { Newark, J., Feb. 18 (UP)— | | It was fun while it lasted and Irene I | Anska, 13, today was ready to re- sume her studies in the eighth grade | ‘o{ grammar school after being a ‘CO\I!‘((‘ s for a weck. | The disappearance of Trene from | | her parents' home in Kearny, N. J., | | on Feb. 9, coincided with the arrival | lof a guest as th . Francis hotel | here who registered as “Countess | Irene Marie Ladjeft of Russia.” The girl had a phenomenal imag- | ination. |~ As she met other guests in the | | hotel she discoursed tearfully on her | life in Russia, her flight to Austria | to escape the Bolsheviki and her | final decision to come to the United States. She expressed comps for members of the Russian nobility who were forced to accept menial | positions, | The “Countes: | F. McDonald, Gtorested hotel manager, \ he introduced her to an elderly ench woman with whom Irene talked in French for an hour. The woman said today that the girl Lad | thorough command of the language and spoke learnedly of incidents to the French revolution and their re- | lation to the overthrow of the Ro- nanoffs, The young countess was despond- ent, the French wor told Me- Donald, and had complained that she missed the " she had known in Russia. Two detectives were as- signed to k to her, but she con- vinced them she did not m harm herself through de “Lo Comte "’ oc tributed dollar tips to hc | es. John 1 emplo At one time she called a faxi- cab and kept it for some time, telling other guests she was going to visit | cathedrals to collect rial for a | magazine article. | But in her flight from home Irene | Anska had taken with her only $50 {and that soon vanish She told | McDonald she expected a cabled re- | mittance and added that her sery- vants soon would arrive at the hotel. Then she wrote her mother, | saying she owed a $30 hotel bill The Anskas notified the police and Irene’s days of glory came to an end. But hauteur was in her gaze as she swept by grinning bellhops upon leaving the hotel. TO DEBATE IN APRIL ‘ Boston, Feb. 18 (P—April 1 has fixed as the date for the debate on | prohibition enforcement between Senator William E. Borah and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler in Boston, R. M. Washburn, president of the Roosevelt club, announced today. The debate will be held in Sym- phony hall. | August 7, | st. | Suteliffe, about by rheumatism some years ago. He had been warned against | violent exercise. He was born in New Britain on 1908, and was graduated from the New Britain Senior High school with the February, 1926, class after receiving an education in the public schools of this city. a leading part in the class night play nd was popular among his class- mates. of the cost department of the Corbin | Screw Corporation since graduation. He was a member of St. Mark's iscopal church where he sang in the choir. Surviving him are his par- ents, and a brother, Raymond E. S. Rice. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at Mark's church. Rev. Samuel pastor, will officlate. In ment will be in Fairview ceme The body will be at the funeral parlors of B. C. Porter Sons until 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. WELD 0. K.’S RESOLUTION 10 RE‘IOKE TWO LICENSES Signs Common Council Mcasure Af fecting Members of Electrical Examination Committee. Mayor Weld has indicated his ap- proval of the movement to revoke the electricians licenses held by Commissioner T. W. Hinchliffe of he building board, and ex-Commis- oner Joseph P. Barry, which were | granted without an examination by | signing a resolution that effect. Cyril J. pe re- ceived a licens ame con ditions, but from n.rvw h at his tra o under upon bein returned ould his 1 not work g cdmmis- ion of ting. mec RESCUED DOG Woodruff, 8. C., e prized cave here the whale countr; had worked and ht s died to- day of pneumonia brought about by | his 110 hour imprisonment. DIES I'eb. 18, foxhound terday day ors, DENNIS HOGAN DIES Torrington, Ieb. 18 (A — Dennis M. Hogan, member of the| board of ssessors and former | | business ma died at his home |here early tod: following a stroke of paralysis. He was a well known Elk, being a past exalted ruler of | Torrington lodge, No. 372. FALL PROVES FATAL Stamford, Feb. 18 (®-—Shock from injuries received when he fell yesterday down a flight of stairs re- sulted today in the death in the local hospital of Olat Sackerson, T4. He took | — | Judd, iken | after | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Feb. 12th ... 14,555 PRICE THREE CENTS MORE THAN THIRTY KNOWN KILLED, SCORES HURT, HOUSES WRECKED IN LOUISIANA - MISSISSIPPI TORNADO }'Heaviest Losses at Plantations South of Newellton, La.—One Man Finds Wife and Five Children Dead in Wreckage of Home. [In Another Place Dozen People at Dinner Un- injured, Though Roof and Four Walls Are Blown Away. New Orleans, Feb. 18 (/—Torna~- | does that swept through parts of Louisiana and Mississippi last night killed at least 31 persons and in- jured scores, as well as leaving & | trail of heavy damage. The heaviest toll of dead was tak« en at plantations south of Newell- |ton, in Tensas Parish, Loulsiana, where fourteen persons were reporte ied killed and at least two score ine ]urml with prospects of the total | fatalities being increased as other neighboring plantations were heard from. Nine persons lost their lives and 18 were badly hurt near Pleas- ant Hill, Sabine Parish, Loulsiana, and eight were killed and several others injured near Rose Hill, Miss. The storm apparently swept into Louisiana near Shreveport and trav- eled eastward across the northern sections of Louisiana and Missis- sippi. Fourteen were killed when the storm struck Newellton, near the Mississippl-Louisiana line. Many persons were injured there. Eight persons died and others were injured as the tornado swept across the Mississippi with abating | fury. The deaths occurred at Rose Hill where seven members of one family and six other members of the same family were injured. A doctor who visited the scene of the storm at Newellton returned to Tallulah with the statement that he had dressed the wounds of 35 per- sons. Three injured are believed to be dying at Pleasant Hill and twenty=- five or more were injured there. Half Mile Path Pleasant Hill, Sabine Parish, La., Feb. 18 (UP)—Through the debris |of Sabine Parish, searchers today (Continued on Page 26) E. B. BENNETT ADDED T0 BOARD OF L.F. & C. |Parsons New Vice Presie | dent; Guiberson New Asst. Secretary He had been in the employ | At the annual meeting of the stockholders of Landers, Frary & | Clark, held this merning the follow= ‘|ng were elected directors: Charles | F. Smith, Francis R. Cooley of Hart |ford, Andrew J. Sloper, Harris | Whittemore of Naugatuck, Fred- erick G. Platt, Frederick A. Searle, | Arthur G. Kimball, Edward N. Stan ley, Joseph F. Lamb, Charles T. Treadway of Bristol, John P. Elton o Waterbury, Pardon C. Rickey, icius B. Barbour of Hartford and ward B. Bennett of Hartford. Judge Bennett of Hartford, the new director elected to fill the va- | cancy caused by the death of George | M. Landers has long been a prac- ticing attorney in Hartford. He is | president of Hartford Gas Light Co. and a director of the Travelers In- surance Co., also the Terry Steam | Turbine Co., and is tha son-in-law of the late James L. Howard of Harte ford who for 36 years was a direc= |tor of Landers, Frary & Clark. | At the annual meeting of the di- | rectors the following officers were | elected: Chairman of the board of | directors, Charles F. dent. Arthur G. Kimball dents, Frederick A. { Wachter, Joseph F. | Rattenbury, Herbert |old M. Parso | €. Riek | Hall: a istant trea Ihert G. y A 0 | V. Guiberson lT’v\rl purchasing I agent, Miles | Par the , has been with the p: two years {from Palmer. Ma manager of the on of the company. | Mr. Guiberson, the new assistant | secretary, has been with the com- {pany the past 25 years, starting at the Chicago office and later being transferred to New Britain. The directors also declared the regular quarterly dividend of 3 per cent payable March 31 to stockhold- ers of record at the close of busi- ness March 22. The stock transfer books of the corporation will be closed from March 23, to March 31, !both days inclusive, sons, co-prest= pany for g hera is sales appliance new the co cor He elect d |