New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 (ITALIAN AVIATOR PINEDO IS SUCCESSFUL IN OCEAN FLIGHT, REACHING BRAZIL BERLIN SHOCKED BY NEGLECT OF FAMILY From Porto Praya, Myther and New Borm Babe Die Cape Verde Islands. in Destitute Home Arrives at Port Natal This Afternoon After His Long Aerial Jaunt RRITAIN HERALD 4 Arrested in Lo Charles E. Johanson and Elizabeth C. Hansen Were Traced to Far{ Western City by Letter ent Back to Conni— Was Already in Business There. | \ | i | | | i | Hartford, Feb. (P—Traced |through a letter written here Cherles and | Rains Along Spanish Coast {F([R HAD SGARLET FEVER ! Prevent Uruguayan Pi- lot From Continuing His | Trip From Italy Today. hool Nurse Said She Was Ordered By Town Health Officer to Dis- ! continue Visits—Town Demands Explanation. Pernambuco, Brazil, Feb. 22 (R— Commander Francesco De Pinedo, Ttalian iator, arrived at Port Nat- al, Brazil, at 1:20 o'clock this after- noon from Porto Praya, Cape Verd Islands. Disclosures of the almost unbe- lievable destitution of a Kensington tamily yesterday | when, at the appeal of neighbors of | | the family of George C. Simpson of |the High Road, First Sclectman Continues to Brazil. |George B. Carter tnvestigated re- Busnos Alres i Ien, 290 (Rt Per- e e S S S et nambuco dispatches to La Nacion |POTiS OF M sery in the fiome. 78 fn- , : ¢ vestigations proved the statements of sy that Commander Francesco De |YReERHO0S Droves ths statemerts of Pinedo arrived this morning at the {1 DEERDONS ©F et Island of Fernando Noronha, which | Mpediate vellet. is about 300 miles off the Brazilian | 1 1ia"3icd" Sunday morning from coast and that a short time later he P RCAY NN CLLIE pneumonia and were, until the end, Sestiauisiilighl fofB Al | unattended by a nurse and treated TR !hy a Berlin physician with no idea | of reimbursement. Three young chil dren were quarantined with her in scarlet fever in a two room apart- ! In continuance of MiS|ment by order of Health Officer Bl é;“"‘mgk‘s"’mg; T cicns | Roger M. Griswold, These children s | were also unattended by a nurss un- | il Sunday. Town Nurse Tvy Dalbey visited the home when the first of {the three children was found to [sutfering from scarlet fover |after several visits was ordered by Health Officer Griswold to discon- ached Raat French Moroceo, in | U bes by fof fe0s B0 o nl & 1,000:mile hop). | Next o ¢ flew | Cating the disease to school children othor 1000 Biles o Ve Giar | whom Miss Dalhey examines. Later st At 0 Hian Co | the two other children came down Boloma, Portuguese Guinea, from | Vith the disease and the home w which place he planned to fly direct | dUarantined, —the father being \cross {he southern Atlantic port to | Uarantined outside of his home. Port Natal, Brazil. But this plan Ol Tyt on Wigor A frantic apgeal of neighbors had to be abandoned because the | Sfine refnsed Lo vise with the heavy | Prought the case ‘to the health of > lcer's attention once more and he ask oad of fuel required for a non-sto: ; et Pled Mrs. Jean Hooker, a formc transatlantic flight. | In accordance with his changed | MUTse to visit the family. Mrs. Hook- s he flew to Dakar, Irench |er found conditions almost unbe- levably squalid in the two rooms al, and thence the 300 miles to | * the Cape Yerde Islands, Arriving |Containing three children and Mr mpson who was an there last Saturday morning. After reaching the Brazilian itinerary of the nta M - stops at Jamaica, Cuba, New | | , St. Louis, Chicago and New were uncovered her infant Malaga Tadeo aviator, today postponed Ms hop- nlf from Malaga in continuance of his Commander de Pinedo is on a four continent aeronautical expedi- tion “for the glory of Iascist Ital. He started from Cagliari, Sardinia, bruary 14, and the same day (Continued on 1\1!:9 13.) STRIKE OF SOFT COAL The people of Italy have heen in- tensely enthusiastic over the de Pinedo expedition, hoping that he | could make the hop across the At-| lantic before Major Tadeo Larre- | bol aviator, whose W : R Pl o oross the oeean | Wage Conference at Miami evideo, Uruguay, were announced A\djourns “'ithout « Agreement almost simultaneously with the start of Commander de Pinedo from Sardinia. The Uruguayan flier is A Malaga, Spain, having here in two hops from Ma Pisa. Whether he will attempt tlight dircct from Africa to the South American mainland or stop off at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, he announced, depended on atm pherie conditions. Other Notable Flights. Other notable long distance made during 1926 were: Paris to Basra, Mesopotamia—The start was made in June, 1926, by the | Brothers Arrachard, who covered 00 miles without stop in 26 nours and 30 minutes Paris to Omsk, Siberia—G r and Dordilly bettered the Arrachard rec- ord by flying 2,937 miles in 29 hours Paris to Djask, Persia—Coste and Rignot further hettered the non-stop record by flying 3,414 miles in 32 hours. New York to Buenos 8 rdo Duggan of Argentina flew 9,376 miles in a seaplane, the actual flying time being 114 hours. Commander De Pinedo made his first notable flight in 1925 when h flew from Italy to Tokyo and return. Since then the commander has been | busily preparing for a flight to the Americas. Commander Francesco De Pine- 1o's flight from Parto Praya, C Verde Islands, to Port Natal, Br represents one of the most notable air passages of the South Atlantic in history | Last now Miami, Fla., Feb. (P —The oint conference of miners and oper- ators of the unionized central com- petitive soft coal field ended today in failure to reach a new wage ment to replace the Jacks agreement which expires March 31. Adjournment sine die followed ac ceptance of the report of a sub-com- mittee which could not reconcile di- verse demands by the wage scale committee of miners and operatol Unless negotiations are resumed elsewhere and an agreement reached before April 1, union miners | matically will cea: tral bituminous field. Th ub-committee failure to agree y; a on flights a announced 1ts sterday after con- sidering three days the Lewis anil | Haskins proposals received from { the joint conference on last Wednes- day. The Haskins proposal drafted by the wage scale committee of the op- | erators sought to replace the Jack- sonville agrecment with a continu- | ous wage scale, competitive with the paid in the non-union mines of West Virginia. Its effectivencss |2 commission of aid med | final word in all disagrcements. W. H. Hasklins, operator, acted as man in presenting the plan, by John L. Lewis, pr he United Mine Workers of America, as substitute for ns proposal, the Lewis plan the conference to recognize the inadequacy of wage reductions to solve the problems of the soft coal miners, operato; Commander Ramon I'ranco, Spanish aviator, and three companions, made the first flight from Europe to South America. Com- mander Iranco's start was mad from Palos, Spain, on Jaunuary 22.|inqustry. 1926, Intermediate stops were made! o pandle at the Canary Islands (872 miles), | e industry, Cape Verde lslands (1,000 miles), the Island of Fernando Noronha (1, 32 miles) and Pernambuco, Brazil miles). Buneos Aires wa: reached on February 10, 1926. | posal to the sub-committee with a Another long distance flight made | suggested amendment to include the last year was that of Sir Alan J.| commission specified in their pro- Cobham, from London to Melbourne, | posal. Australia, and return. Intermediate| Before the report of the subcom- landings were made at Bagdad, Cal-| mittce was put to a vote, leaders for cutta, Singapore and other cities. The | j,0th sides expressed regret that the total flight distance was 26,000 mllm'conf‘“rc‘fico has not been able to an dthe flying time ch an agreement. Both declared that the obligations of the indu to the American people had been Toledo, 0., Ieh. 22 (A—Mr. and | duly considered in the deliberations, Mrs. Alex Schuster were found shot| President Lewis was ofi to and hacked th in their home |speak. here tod npposition is that| “I cannot believe this conference he wife and then | will mark the end of all efforts to Committ I'hree young | prevent chaotic conditions in the chilaren w o in an adjoining | bedroom when | olice arrived, i year ¢ problems confronting it rcquested that the joint conference continue its exist- | ence through the duration of a two | year conract. MURDER AND SUICIDE in- (Continued On Pags 12) and | expectant | MEN APRIL I IMPENDS would have been obtained through | ators, the latter to have the | the Has-| | The operators sent the Lewls pro- | ry | E. Johanson, missing builder, | Elizabeth C. Hansen, whom he |alleged to have married although his ‘r.rq wife and child still lived with !him, were arrested in Los Angeles, | Cal,, last night by the police of that city on warrants issued here charg. ing Johanson with bigamy and hi |alleged second wife with cohabita~ tion. is Left Hartford Feb. 4 Johanson left Hartford February 4, leaving behind his first wife and daughter and 50 creditors who claim 4)\!‘ owes them approximately $250,- 1000, mostly on buiiding loans. The | woman, with whom he was said to| { have lived in an apartment and had | maintained for six months at 18 Denizen street unknown to his other wife, days la |ple went to California. Tt is {lieved the Hansen girl who is twenty vears younger than Johanson does not know of the existence of | first M Johanson who lives on | Henry street, Was Already in Business That Johanson and his bride of some six months intended to make Los Angeles their residence is in- dicated by the fact that he hought a gasoline station business there, | Prosccuting Attorney son . this morning drew up extradi- tion papers for authority to bring the pair back to Hartford and Of- ficers McSweegan and Walsh were signed to go to Los Angeles for {them. They will leave as soon a Gov. Trumbull signs the o papers. “NUNN POSTHEN | FAVHF ' BURNS FOR PRESIDENT » New Britain Man Popular Candidate at Meriden* Convention (Special to Herald) Meriden, Feh. At the annual iconvention of the Connecticut Let- ter Carriers’ ociation here tod: {John F. BDBurns of w Dritain slated to be prémoted from vice- resident to president. The conven- ion has been invited by the New | Britain delegation to hold its ses- ion in that city next year. | Brit tes are Everett I, | Herwig, h Wacker, ed L. | Sunburn, Louis Lehr and Teslie A. Hartung. lio New John F. Burns of this city was ap- | pointed a letter carrier in this city in January, 1907, by the late Post- Since that time las been active among the men \\!m deliver the mail and a deleg: 1o many conventions, including the national meetings in Providence, nd Philadelphia, Pa. He held every office ion, and has ris servin trustee in 19 vithout interruption sident for the p will be the third New Brit- upy the highest ex- tate body. 11 in the s , was state president in the carly days of the organization, and late Daniel C. Darrow was pre tbout 10 yea g0. In his 21 ye s a letter carrier, Mr. Burns has covered every routc in the city. He is popular with his assocites and has been a hustler in their inter ever since donning his gray uniform. Mr. Burns is well konwn in mus ical circles. He is vice-president of the New Britain Choral club and was an officer of the Catholic Choral Union, which has ceascd to exist. He has appeared in many concerts under rv- ident (Continued on Page 17) CITY ORFICIALS MISS FLAW IN ROOFING LAW | | | | Rutherford Discovers Error Which | i Completely Reverses Intention of Three Municipal Bodies. Building authorities who were la- boring under the idea that they had scwed up the roofing laws last June in such a way that no shingles would thereafter be placed ed a jolt in the finding of Inspector A Rutherford that just the op- posite condition was created. Inspector Rutherford has found the existing laws to be so worded | that wood shingles are allowed Wwith- | in the district under certain condi- tions, so he advises no time be lost in amending the act. In the mean- time he will refuse to issue permits covering such work on the ground that a hazard would be created, he | he the act did scrutiny of the ordi- and the common all three bodies imperfection in not weaken under the the building commission nance committee | council, passing | without question, the | Franz Carl- | R. | in the state organi- | il red | the | wooden | within the fire district, have receiv- | e NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY A Week Endmg Feb. 19th verage Daily Circulation For 14,525 22, 1921. —TWENTY PAGES. Eloping Hartford Contractor Is s Angeles, Calif. Charter Amendments Approved in Toto s (Special to the Herald) Hartford, Feb. 22.—Amend- ments to the charter of the City of New Britain have been accepted in their entirety by the cities and boroughs committee of the general assembly and will be before the senate for adoption tomorrow. The amendments are fewer in number than in pre- vious years. Of chief importance is a section establishing two judgeships In the city and police courts on equal basis, supplanting the present system of one judge and a deputy. DENIES SWINDLING WOMAN OF$15.000 ‘Ex-Soda Clerk Arrested on Com- plaint of Teacher Miss Bertha M. Hitchcock Has Clarence Klug of This City Ar- { rested When He Falls to Make | Good 30 Per Cent Profit. Arrested by Detective Sergeant | W. P. McCue at the law offices of Kirkham, Cooper, Hungerford & !Camp in city hall about 5 o'clock issued warrant Attorney last evening on a Prosecuting charged obtain- [by Assistant W. M. Greenstein, ing money under false pretenses, Klug, aged of 170 Maple avenue, New York, spent the night in a cell at the police statior in default of $10,000 bonds, and lafter being arraigned in police |court this morning, w ordercil |neld until tomorrow morning in $20,000 bonds. ccording to \n~ Bertha M. st Main st | Central Junior High jcuses Klug of having made mis- “4p|4 entationa to b = as te his ility to invest her money to her | financial advantage, and he is un- able to return to her $15,000 which lshe says she advanced him for in- Vestment. Klug came to New Drit- in ¥ and conferred with {Miss Hitchcock and Miss Margarct {35. Perkins of the law firm of | Kirkham, Cooper, Hungerford & |Camp, relative to an arrangement lin the matter, but apparently the | principals were unable to come to |h satistactory agreement, as the !police were called in and the ar- rest made. Guarantees 30 Per Cent Profit | Klug, it is said, guarantsed a 30 per cent return on Miss Hitchcock's investment and urged her to with- |draw her money from the ban |take advantage of the opport he was offering. He was b Hitchcock’s home yed as a soda cler | Dickinson Drug Co. store street, He made a decidedly able impression on Miss H |according to the authoriti she trusted him implicitly Klug, according to his counsel, | Attorney Sachs of New York and Attorney Thomas I McDonough of {his city invested Miss Hitchcock's [ money in a typewriter store on Fifth avenue, New York, and had no intention of swindling her. He is maid to have $2000 cash value |the lease of the store i Bond Fixed at §; In police court Prosccuting Attorney Woods recom- mended that a $20,000 hond be fixed [because of the large amount out of which the complainant claims to have been mulcted. Attorney Me- Donough objected to such a bond, saying the entire matt | pears to have all the aspect lcivil case rather than one for | criminal courts. *“A $20,000 bond is | ridiculous,” he sai Judge | ungerford said the ct rl- ous and the amount involv is large. He fixed the bond at $20,000. | Attorney McDono nquired | whether or not Judge Hungerford vould be available during the d in the event that new facts are carthed, which might impress the judge with the validity of the claims of the defense as to the bond. Judge Hungerford replied that he would be in the city at least until noon and possibly in the afternoon. | State Ready to Proceed | Prosecuting Attorney Woods said | this afternoon that the state is ready to proceed with the trial fomorrd morning. Miss Perkins said the in- vestigation that preceded the arrest indicates that Klug was not sincere in his representations to Miss Hitch- cock. | Attorneys Sachs ana McDonough said this forenoon that an eéffort would be made to bring about a | reduction in the size of the bond. | This afternon, however, Klug was still in his cell. His wife v during the da. Clarence the authorities, Hitcheock school, ac- on Main favor- cheock. and t $10,000, 20,000 |Flu Deaths in England | Again Are on Increase | London, Feb. 22 (®—The influenza | deaths in England, which showed a decline for the week before last, in- reased again last week by 231. In London and 105 other large towns, 990 deaths were registered for the week, as compared with 75 {the week ending Feb 12 and 818 for the week ending Feb. 5. !fewer deaths in London. {BOND FIXED AT §20,000 joined him at Chicago several ' r and from there the cou- | be- of 238 t, a teacher in the | the stock of merchandise and | for | There were | UNIFORM STATUTES ON GHILD WELFARE IS LEGION'S GOAL | {Woman Director of Division| Outlines Program at Meefing of OMlicers’ School Here SURVEY T0 DETERMINE NEED OF STATE LAWS of 'HINCHLIFFE, BARRY |Electrical Examiners Bow to Common Council’s Wish 1200 Mcmbers Ix-Servicemen's Organization Guests of Eddy-| Glover Post at Conference and Thomas W, membe Hinchliffe and Joseph of the elect ng committee since eed to quit their 1CCeSSOrs are se- Course in Instructions for Execu- tives—Banquet at Noon and Visit cians ex: its To Annual Ball Social Features, | formation, hav la ured, soon as Miss Emma C. Puschner, natio director of the child welfare !sion of the Ameri gio ing before | members of the American Legion told the gathering | national program d 1 al divi- , spe in respo! y the common council's in- g committee. tetirement of Hinchliffe Auxiliary today. | ing commissioner, and that a sw g @ former commissioner, to on the ground that they clectrical business a s examiners wer s on the qualif itors. to a stion I 5 of o ion and gatheri 1 a build- arry, wh was urged are in the d in their work alled upon to ons of com- see McFarlane, e s trad nember of the Tt is another pointed and the instructor school and the thi comn will re- expected that H. T, Wil- will be ap- inspector will t the examin a main. son, instructor, P, commission to Commissioner H return his electricia lepartment and take o qualify. Th Leavitt I of building wtion sug stion They, to- her with C. J. Curtin who was in- pector at the time, issued licenses to one another without examination, ere being no body before which y could appear. Curtin# wa dropped from the department 1 week and he at once returncd “ense with an announcement vill ¢ xamination, ‘ The building commission ha ed the decision of Chal avitt that the Andre ice his that r before the board for MIISS EMMA C. PUSCHNER s uniform ing r!nll‘l has been | 500 P. was at the|V10US rence and officers’ scliool be- ld at the Eddy-Glov post rooms on Washington str naires and members of the from all parts of the st and by noon the g; grown to such propo: was necessary to crnoon session at Grotto hall West Main street. It was the It and most interesting session of K#ind cver held in this Glover post and its au as hosts and hostesses to tl number of visitors. Child Welfare Legislation Miss Pusch director of the i tional child welfare division of the American Legion, told the o ence of commanders 1 adjy the 1 on is sto as ing p o objective of w is uniform legislation governing child welfare in ev ate in the union. Miss Puschne “The last Legion in pledge made f al convention in St. Paul to obt te legislation for the protection all children where such legis! was not at that time on the st hooks, The convention decrecd that this needed 1 b 1 he phase of the Legion's child legislation every gov e taken without p as required by ordi- he must give no- ain., nanc voi tice and app The comm n considering a tion that the common coun- ked to select a board of 3,000 Cops Armed With Machine Guns and Shot- guns Patrol Streets , Feb. 22 —(P—N four minor outbr umerous 1ks of vio- lenee tion of 1 pisto n ed ¢ ton y vashing: mayorality primary lectio; men were kidnaped and one ten with fists by three men, but > had been no threat of gun play. th a warm casion a semi-holids nlly large vote was expeeted to be brought out by the precinct workers med their duties with the with which the candi- the principal contest, that e republican nomination for mayor, conducted their campaign. In the first few hours of ballot- ing an unusually large vote had heen and welfs work “Tle national commander, H , has just 4 herman W, Minn,, as viee c al Child Welfare tee to have charge work. The machiner and put in mo “A national for complete > specific commit- v is beir nation mads | So arding e in all of the | 1yq) s ition is receiv- Child will suggest the lould be enacted in each etters have gone forward *h state commander, and state child welfare chair- o asking them to cooperate with 0oy legislative committee of the | '1¢ hands on in putting the laws through, conceded The national plan provides that ttempt be made to force any fic laws upon any state, but a minium legislative program has been compiled by Senator Child as “In many states none of ¢ of this minimum p: ram are statute books In others on are lacking. On Trail of Deserting Fathers he program calls f ood family desertion and port law under which a ather can be casily extradit. goes into other | “The second is a widowed mother's allowance law which will allow help to keep children in thetr own home, in accordance with the financial abil- | ity of the community. There ar forty-one states that have a mother's pension, or a mother's allowance law, but the law has some serious defects. In most cascs when a man is per- manently hospitalized, or totally in- (Continued on Page 16) intense was fecling over the of republican factions for con- of th administration that ial police detail of more than men ned to poll place, with zun patrol more turbulent w Mayor William E. info; was machin o g of state Dever's democrats also wi of the voters but he w an casy party victory of the day was Edward Litsinger's attempt to prevent cemeback by William Hale ( Bill") Thompson, the ecity's W war in the republican Lit had the support of t republican forees behind Charles (Continued on Page 12) HUSBAND KILLS WIFE WHO WAS MOTHER OF 12 renom- in IS nd jutant man the L the issuc no spe mavyor, descrting 1if he Ohio Man Declares She Drove Him (o it Because “She Wouldn't Be Good.” Bloomington, Ill., 2 “I warned r that as going to kill her, 1t » did not be good,” sobbed George M. Brown, noa, who killed lis wife, 45, the ‘mul) r of 12 children, yesterday lafter several months of marital | trouble. The shooting occurred at the home of a neighbor, where M | Brown had l“ en living since she and ‘h:r hush arated. vicinity: | [ Brown declared that his wife had Tuesday | |been going r men. much | wouldn't THE WEATHER New Britain and Jdght snow tonight; partly cloudy, not change in temperature, at with to it riends of rrent stories , she Mrs, ng as far as they had done nothing wrong. be WILL LEAVE BOARD man | xamination of Ma-| to- | 48, of | COOLIDGE EVLOGIZES FIRST U. 3. PRESIDENT Says Washington | Great Man With a | “National Mind” ngton, Feb, (P)—Setting ion today the movement for cat celebration of George W in, n's 200th anniversary in 1832 nt Coolidgc scribed the a it of the man who had a rd of public honor and as one whose rec business m never received the attention which it was enfitlc sessio; nate a house w arranged to put into pr stion the tion, and h hookup of r: tions private ord ress to a joint lio broadcasting stz 1lions of persons throughout the nation heard extolling. Washington as a and as a n of a . “Hey was an idealist in the sense that he had a very high standard of nd public honor,” Mr. Cool- “He was prophet to of being able to forecast lable vision the growth of he founded and the which it would he was a very alyzed the man. bhefore h Having a thorough he attacked them and ¢ , with patier problem. under- standing, courage and persistenc, Declaring the ton's life, though cts of Washing- a matter of record, (Continued on Page 10) MRS. AMELIA BOLLERER HEART ATTACK VICTIM Henry Street Resident Was 82 Years of Age and Had Been a Resident of New Britain For 50 Years. Heart from a 15th c: failure which developed 1l in her home on January sed the death last night of Mrs. Amelia Bollerer, $2 years old, of 138 Henry street, a resident of | this country for 60 years over 50 was spent as a resident of 'hvs city. Mrs. Bollerer fractured her hip in I Ot B e R treated at the New Br hospital until her death at the in- stitution. Dr. John Purney the cause of death as heart trouble. was born in Germ > to this country at the age of 15 the widow of Frederick veteran of the Civil War, whom she followed in death by one vear. One of the oldest meml of the Stanley Memorial cht interest in its ¢ the hig times rviving her are two sons, Wil- liam Herwig and Ernest J. Herwig, both ot this city; six grandchildren; and nine great ichildren, Funeral i be hursday afternoon at rwin chapel. R ymond Gilman, pastor of the Stanley morial church, will officiate. remains will 1 lors of B. ock Tht RADIO STATION FOR hest Me- | Porter Sons until NEW HAVEN ROAD, Point to Point Broadcast Equipment Being Erected Near Cos Cob Plant Pridgeport, Feb. to point radio station is beir ed close to the Cos Cob power plant th Y., N. H, & H. railroad the Bell Laboratories, York. Although ownership of new station was denied today by Bardo, superintendent of elec: mainte e of the New Haven road the Bell Laboratorles company stated in a telephone Interview that the company was erecting the sta- tion for the railroad. At the Bell company offices it was ed that while the station will be of a point to point type, any radio sct within reasonable distance will have no difticulty in tuning it in. The ercction of the radio station first came to notice when a number |of Greenwich residents protested to e Greenwich Chamber of Com- | merce claiming that the proximity of the station to their recelving sets would prevent good reception of the New York radio programs. W the 1 | BROTHERS WED SISTERS | Springfield, Mass.. Feb, 22 (P—An !unusual romance culminated here foday in the wedding of sisters to brothers, when the Misscs Betty T. «nd Lillian P. Solin of Chicopee, be- came the brides respectively of nuel A. and Raymond B. Barger Holyoke. The wedding cere- {monies took place in a local hotel. of |(nr a friend who was leaving for the | south, Was | in an address to | and | ri- | French concession district h a clear in- | with | of which | ain General | gave | and | married three | The | the funeral par- 1| Inc., of | PRICE THREE CENTS SHANGHAI IS BOMBARDED TODAY AS CHINESE CIVIL WAR REACHES CITY; NO FOREIGNERS REPORTED INJURED Attempt to Bomb Ar- senal Results in Shells Falling Into Interna- tional Port—French Warship Prevents Added Destruction. *'Public Executioners Con« | tinue Chopping Off g Heads But in Less Num- hers—No Anti-Foreign Feeling Reported. | | Shanghal, Feb, 22 () — The of this city was shelled today by a national« government gunboat which was |attempting to bombard the Kiangnan arsenal, about one mile south. At least five shells fell in the French concession landing short of arsenal. | No foreigners were injured, al- though the homes of two Americans i\\m‘ damaged. Two Chinese were killed American Homes Damaged The American residences damages ere those of William Rae and F. | W. Schlobohm. The residences of R. H. T. Wade and Mrs. M. R. Harris, | British subjects, and the old French. | club, also were hit. Mrs. Rae and her children fled from their home. A shell exploded in a bedroom of the Schlobohm home. the Shells Fall Short The guns of the gunboat were dea fective, causing the shells to drop short of the Kianfinan arsenal, which is in an isolated section along the Whangpoo river and south of the | French concession and native city, which adjoin each other. I*ive shells fell in the French disa trict and five in the native city. French Threat Effective | Two Chinese cruisers, the Kiang- wel and the Kiangkang, were prea vented from taking part in the bom= hardment by two French gunboats, {the Alerte and the Marne. The French warships trained their guns upon the Chinese cruisers, but did not fire. The Chinese cruisers, it was learn- | ed on good authority, had agreed to | betray Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, ruler of Kiangsu province, and turn | over to the nationalists (Cantonese) {who are directing a campaign | against Shanghai. Their plans was | to steam up the Whangpoo river to joi~ the nationalist army above Sung! ng. | Volunteers Called Out | While the bombardment was in | progress, the authorities of tha French concession called out all volunteer and police forces, and manned with machine guns every ress from the native city to the nch section. The French cruisers Jules Miche- let, with an admiral aboard, took no part in the affair, but the French au- | thorities took every precaution to x (Continued from Page 18) AfifiRIEVEfl HUSBAND WOULD QUST ROBBINS | Petitions Bristol Govern- | ment for Health Offi- cer’s Removal 1 to the Herald) s Feb. 22 — The immedi- ate Mmo\'\l of Dr. Benjamin B. Robe |bins as city heaith offices is request« ed in a letter addressed to the mayor land members of the city council by Louis Demont of Forestville, it be- came known today. The communica« tion was handed to Councilman W, | Raymond Crumb early last evening and was to be submitted to Mayor John F. Wade today, according to Mr. Demont. Mr. Demont in his communication, pointed out the fact that on Febru- ary 4th he was granted a divorce | from his wife, Charlene, in the su- perior court at Hartford. At that time, Dr. Robbins was charged in the brief filed by Attorney James T. Mather of this city, who represented Demont, with having been guilty ot improper relations with Mrs. Demont while acting in the capacity of fama ily physician, In view of that fact, the further continuance in public office of Dr. Robbins is considered unjustified, in the opinion of Mr. De- mont. | What action will be taken Is prob= lematical. Following the conclusion {of the divorce trial, Mayor Wade ’=t‘llcd that no action would be taken |by the council umess a written |charge was made, in which event & | hearing would be held to either luh- | stantiate or disprove the charges. Dr. Robbins was re-appointed in November for his second term as city health officer, succeeding Dr. W. 1. Woisard. He was also appointed a police surgeon late last summer and it is probable that his retirement | | | frown tell |The couples first met at a reception |from this office will also be request- ed in the event the charges are proved.