New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1927, Page 9

Berlin News DR. GOODWIN HITS ATHEALTH OFFICER Contradicts Dr. Griswold on Simpson Case Statement MAKES REPLY T0 “SLAMS” Legion Plans Membership Drive For 100 Per Cent Enrollment in Weck | —School Plays Scheduled For This Evening. The following statement was re- ceived today from Dr. A. J. Good- win, attending physician of the family of George C. Simpson of the High Road, Kensington, which has bee . under discussion and investi- gation since the death of Mrs. Simp- 50 and her infant child on Sunday morning. 8 “The health officer’s statement be- direct slam at the attending ysician, I feel it my duty to let the public know. the true side of the matter, he health officer starts out by g the statement that ‘On Feb- ruary 19th I fourth child had the discase and tfie mother pneumonia. This informa- tion came to me through an indi- rect source and I did not receive official notice until the 22nd. I'his statement needs the follow- ing corrections. The child develop- ed scarlet fever on Februrry 21 and not on the 19th as stated. «hild every day and it was not il the hat the first symptom developed. A report card was mail- ed promptly and he admits that he ved it on the 22nd. The house already under quarantine rce other cases in the fami also states ‘I received no no- | tice of the death of the mother till after the bod had been removed from the house, which should not have been done without my permis- In reply I would like to state within half an hour after the of the mother, 1 called the h officer's office on tele phone and reported the death, say ing that the house being unde: qu itine, I thought the health o ficer would wi 1 have five witnes: ment, *“The health officer's son received the ’phone message and if it was ercd to the health officer lies in his own office. : states that ‘the attending iclan did not ask the proper far the services issumed the r to this state- ponsibil- the health officer, and public the chanc ion which they are entitied to. A very pretty statement—but all i In first pla nurse on the case. I want that I have the hority to call the nurse without asking the health officer. The nurse was not brought here to serve only one ician or family but for the good 10 community. ‘With Miss Lord's permission I nt to state that the children were giving = ¢ ) coming to Sunday school and/when | onc of them told her that hc ter was home sick with an ¢ on her skin, ked the nu she the nature she e if The one of of i dis nurse found the case to 1 scarlet fever. This put the under quarantine which, up this time, had been exposing until the liate to bring this case before 1 in, but I don't th ould slide by without | ed. . J. GOODWIN, M on Membership Drive ica post, American Le- 7 launch a drive 1 ship en- 1 vill terminate on March 4. at the joint post and the Ladies meeting will be at- ainder Cramer wander 1 no po D Fr meeti Aux tended of Harif ty 1 h oI of 1 vom; Ameor The local organization has at pres- ent an enroliment of 31 and need: a more Legionnaires to complete vecords and to bring the membership up to a 100 per cent basis. Cor nder Harold V has promised Commander that the feat will be accom and t about com ed Bolton-Ka e in the re t o delegati d the The State an cffort to preven ¢ from being dis ica post has been unu nt past, hav | the W under th pices of Slover post there. About snnaires and four auxiliary re secn in the school. from the local post state meeting to be Britain on Saturday dy-Glover post will of state posts in dware cf sion members we will attend held in New evening when entertzin member: its hall in th Rolto will send Ny de a piano for use in L no in the place m is given by pianos \ are carried to and from the o when occasion demands or no music at all. The Lezionnaires have received a gitt from a prominent citizen in the form-of a flag to be used qut of doors on national holidays. Previous to this, the hall on Main street, Ken- decorated with o the post did the beauti the hool chil- sirous 1sic was not v members of not hel in exhibi ful flag donated by dren which would be subjected to unfavorable weather. Charl F. Lewis, tax collector and prosecuting attorney, noticing ti lack of the hunting made arr ments for the purchase of an out-door flag and staff. This banner was first released was notified that the | I saw| for L to give some orders. | of the| for the pro-| : I did not| uption | | would go over and investigate family | 1's post of the | members | 1 veterans are scurrving ! s held in | The | to the breeze on Washington's Birth- day and received much favorable comment when first seen. The post s grateful to Mr. Lewis for the gift and | a vote of thanks will be incorporated in the minutes of the meeting which will be held this evening. Commander Ventres brother, Orville Ventres, ranging to attend a reunion of Company/E, 102nd Infantry, which will be held in New Haven, Saturday night. Commander Ventres has broadcast the news of the meeting and all members of the company are requested to be present, Comman- der Ventres was a platoon sergeant {in the company while his brother obtained a commission in the com- pany upon reaching France. A report of preliminary arrange- | ments for the drive-will be given at this evening’'s meeting. School Plays Tonight The children of the eighth and | ninth grades of the Kensington school will present two playlets this vening in the town hall under the direction of Miss Marian Viberts. The sketches are named “The Easterbrook Nieces which will be given by the eighth grade, and “Great Caesar” which will be given by the ninth grade children. Candy will be sold during intermission and dancing will follow the presentation of the play: and his are ar- Second Party The Kensington Athletic club will present its second whist and sethack party on Tuesday evening, March 6 at Lloyd hall, Kensington. The first party, held on Washington's birth- | day, proved so popular with local rd enth ts that the social com- mittee of the organization voted to cpeat the event. Refreshments and ainment will be included in the | program of the evening. Whist Successful | A large gathering assembled at | Grange hall last evening where the Kensington League of Women Vot- ers sponsored a whist and bridg party followed by a dance. Prizes in whist were won by Mrs. George , Griffith, dies’ first; M Minnie Holmgquist, second and Mrs. William Bernardo, third. The men's whist | prizes went to Edward Alling, Jo- seph Carbo and Oscar Holmquist. Mrs. Claude W. Stevens was awarded the ladies’ first badge prize and Horace Raymond took home the e in this section of the McKeon's orchestra played dancing. Home ¥For Week-End Samucl A, e, Jr., son of Rev. {and Mrs. Samuel A. Fis! he Berlin Congr: for th e, pastor of | tion church, will { return to thi: -3 s evening to spend the week-end with his parents. | | Youns Fiske is a student at Deer- field Academy, Deerficld, Mass. 2 Attend Mecting Fdwin B. Adams of Worthington Ridge attended a meeting of the State Grange Deputies held in Hart- ford today. ceral speeches were | made by prominent state Grangers which dealt with the organization program for the year. Rehearsal Sunday The Tabs Minstrels will hold a re- | hearsal Sunday afternoon at 1| o'clock instead of 2 o'clock which | Vi nnounced at last evenin L. The production is com- rounded into shape and Sun- 's rehearsal will be a dress affair t which the cor of the coming | event will b moothed over. n members of the cast are appear in their cos hatl at 1 o'clock. Scraping Roads A horse, a driver, o sC and | two men who sat on the scraper, to- | | day apeared on the Beech Swamp | {rond and transformed that bumpy | thoroughfare into a smooth boule- | vard which remained smooth until | {the first automobile went over it. | Connecticut company busses have { been dubbed “Covered Wa ns'" by passengers who have suffered from the effects of the_ruts and hollows. 0 t Your Own Risk” signs have | been suggested for certain portions of the road as some gullies threaten n 1d bumped heads. | ! in Items | The girls’ club met last evening at | aper anding of the lclub last fall. The attendance last | evening was most gratifying and the | club will meet again next Thursday evening at seven o'clock under the supcrvision of Willlam Ogle, physi- | cal director of the boys’ club. Mr. and Mrs. John Guman of Bridzeport are spending the week- s the guest of relative before her marria r of this place, The Junior basketball team will play the Junior Hi-Y basketball | team at the New Britain Y. M. C. tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock in New Britain Y gymnasium. The Ladics’ Aid society Methodist church will hold a sup- per in the banquet 1 ot ' the Community building next Tuesday Special music will be The public is invited to I+ ident th of the evening. rendered. attend ive met at the home d Kahms yesterday | \oon for their regular weekly meeting. Alan Dyer has returned to school fter being confined to his home for | the past several weeks hy illness. The Hubbard school will be closed | next w , all of the pupils enjoying a week's cation under the new va- cation plan now in effect. Mrs. E. G. Hazelwood was a visi- tor in town yesterday calling upon relatives. M i Mrs. S. M. Hazelwood have returned from Boston where they have been spending the week. They will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James McPherson over the week-end. The last party of the season by the ladies of St. Gabriel's Episcopal church will be given in the church social rooms this evening at § o'clock Joseph Petrofsky i gain after several da to his home by illness. “The chicken pox cases are on the wane, no new cases having been r ported for more than a week. There is vary little sickness in town at the present tim able to be out confinement ICH P Clinton, M . 25 (A—New prizes for a church fair will have to be provided as a result of a break in a jewelry store here late last | night. One of two men who had driven up to Albert E. Dickson's tore in an automobile broke a win- dow with a blanket-wrapped brick and selzed eleven watches from | which the pri selections were to have been made, The men escaped in their car. Dickson sald the watches were worth Inesday evening has been revised to | due, Mr. [ clus | last summer, was !the rest of the road work. In this | parish house, 1he | wi the highway account, while the as- | sessmen | thorized, will | Lessoe | being his third arrest for this of-| [y ) | Plainville, and $42 and a | longing to his brother, Ni { found. about $650. to work, pay back the money, and offend no more. But his brother complained again and Joseph was arrested yesterday; it was expected further charges would be made against him at his hearing before Justice M. O. Ryder today. Glee Club Sing: The high school boys' glee club sang soveral numbers at the card party held in the Church of Our Saviour parish house last night by the Parish gufld. The singing of the youngsters was roundly applauded, as it was of a very high grade and pleased highly those who were privi- leged to listen to it. Wwas a success jn every way. ! Board of Relief Meeting | The board of relief meeting Mon- | day afternoon will not be open to the general public for appeals, but those whose assessments were raised by the board will have a chance to ap- | pear and appeal from the raises. "he board increased about eight ments, aints again! the sors’ fig were few, only| |about haif a dozen being made; sev- eral of these were granted, Tire Stolen 1 Miss Ruth Jacobs, teacher at the| Broad strest school, reported to the | | police last night that a spare tire, | tube, and rim had been stolen from | Plainville News NEED HORE MONEY FOR TOWN AFFAIRS Selectmen Ask Budget Be Tn- creased at Special Town Meeting WASHBURN ON COMMITTEE Will Serve on Body to Rent High School Auditorium—Gnazzo Rear- rested—Strand Theater Opening— Spare Tlre Stolen—Driver Nabbed. An upward revision of the budget, giving the selectmen more money to expend for the town, will be necessary, First Selectman John J. Kimmel said today, and the call for the epecial town mecting next Wed- her automobile as it was parked outside the Church of Our Saviour. Boy Scout Meeting include action on this. Several mis- takes in the budget approved at the last regular town meeting have been | discovered by the present board of SRlictoanl znal these mudt bel eors |1ne of Boy Scout Troop 1 of Pla rected if the town finances are to be | Ville this evening. Every member is put on an orderly basis asked to attend if possibl All those The principal difficulty is with the {who have made hird houses should highway account. The budget calls |Pring them, as the judges will selec for $9,000 on this item, while $8,- |the best ones this evening. It 163 has already been expended and [hoped that some merchant will allow $800 more must be pald out for the |these houses to ba exhibited in h snow removal bills, leaving almost | Window. They will later be placcd | nothing at all for repairs or new |on poles and in trees for use by t work this spring. This situation is|birds. The making of these bird Kimmel stated, to the in- |houses is in accordance with the on of two items under the high- [ plans of the New in council for way account when they should have | promoting handicraft among the dif- Dbeen kept separate, These are the |ferent troops. snow rergoval and the Trumbull ave- | At the court of honor session thi nue surfacing. | week Ray Distin of the Plainvill “Trumbull avenue, after acceptance | troop won a merit hadge in persons surfaced by the |health and Peter Yawin town on the assessment plan, the {vanced to second class rank. property owners being assessed Day of Prayer. | enough to cover the cost. But in-| oOn the tional Day of stead of making this a separate ac- | prayer, which will be observed Fri- count, the officials included it with |qay, March 4, in the Congregational speaker at the at 1 o'clock will b yerts of th > s, when paid, had to go into ! coy, 3 wort the general fund along with other |, Tbitl 0 B e taxes. Thus the highway account | g.y N BEE(h O Ao melted away without any money | hospital hetweon 9:3 ey coming in to build it up again. The |, "1y snow removal sho also bo kept | Truck Drive eparately, Mr. Kimmel believes. | Robvert E. W No recommendation will be pre- | (o aviver for sented by the selectmen, but the | yolersiat Hhemen i iad rnoon and charged with L3 Bt (bl L ) 4C- | griving an overloaded truck. He wi HonAEvecs MAY | o tried before Justice M. O. authorize further expenditur 10T | o morrow afternoon. Grand Jur highways, appoint a committee to |12 conon will prosecute 100k into the matter, or do nothing Spring Wins. at all, But if no action is ken, | Ob, R there will be no money for ing the streets this string, and n repairing will be done in that case. And the streets are in need of much | v about $5,000 was spent out of | | Arrested. of DBrisiol, & Son, was by the state police yes- er Funk se arrested here lay ¢ | repair. the 2600 Another error was made in town attorney account, only being allowed for thi, hile the bill last year came to In regar the street lig item, only cnough was appropriated to pay the current for the old 1 ing being put in the bud are of the new Trumbull avenue. several unpald bills left over from last year. Washburn on Committee Henry S, Washburn has been named as the appointive member of | the hall committce of the high | school. This committee, provided | for when the high school wasyau- ! of¥the renting of the s ium and | ymnasium to the various organiza tions which desire to use will consist of First Select J. Kimmel and Jo: McCarthy, chairman of the school committe f ex-officio, and Mr. Washhburn, who |~ has been selected by the other two. | opivv i the employ of the Chic He has accepted the appointment. | portrait company as crew forema Strand Theater Opening His territory will include souther The Strand theater will-open to- | \assachusetts, Connecticut — and night with an audience composed of | Rhode Island. Governor John H. Trumbull, the of- | An old fashioned supper ficlals of the town of Plainville, and | served by members of the W. C. most of the prominent Lusinessmen |y, this evening at 0 o'clocl of this town and s g ones. | the home of Mrs, L, A. Irancis, The theater has been pushed ahead rapidly by the Sequassen Corp and George Le Witt and today s a worthy rival of those in : Tonight's performance is an invitation onv; the first public shows will be given tomorrow. Jdoseph Gnazzo Rearrested to Peck Spring. t to take R L1861 Joe also | Towl e 118 There were |- |/ Notes niversary high 4 at the Ch dy of Mercy tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock for the lata M liam Cunningham and Mrs, An house on Cedar . Hadfield. Lee Abbott of Maple str will be SPECIAL TOW March 2, The legal voter: | Plainville are hercby warned and| | notified that a special town meeting | Josaph, Giiaszn of Bank strest wag|Yill be held Wednesday, : e DAk fireet WASlat § o'clock at the Town hall, for | Deputy Sherift 1. W. Furrey on a |13 following purposes: i BB : | o lay a tax on the technical charge of vagrancy, it . o0 G of 1 P TEETING 1927 of the wn of nds ge cities, on | fense. veral months ago he was —To give the Board of Selc glven a suspended jail sentence of | yon power to reguls 30 days and ordered to find Work of hours of the town cler serve it. A few days later he left| atch be- | disap 3.—To revise the —Also to transact other | peared at the same time. | business proper to come before this The police were notified of the|meetir theft but no trace of Joseph was Two weeks ago he suddenly appeared in Selectman John .7.i Kimmel's office and promised to go | any electmen, AMES iD. P. PRIOR. The card party | Secur System to Be Disposed of at Hall on March 7. School honds in the | inon council last w Plan is Considered to Start Opera- There will be an important meet- | ad- New Woman Mayor New Okla., 5 widow of the former mayor. She defeated two men in the municipal election. Plainville : 3 all improve- Bristol New; de oad st In- ad street—advt improvements. . 16-2.—advt Spare tire, t Reward. 5New $430,000 BOND SALE 4 | ies For Schools and Water | amount of 000 and water bonds of $150,- | Mother Heartbroken as She Believes ill be sold at a meeting of the nee a axation at the 1, noon, March of as author the last 15 pproved by the com- JOPEN SHOP. | MAY R | | Bristo tions at Hudsori, Mass., Plant Mass., ¥cb. ning plant of t Shoe Company | here Tuesda ng of the 400 out o clos thrown 1ctory was he s would ; their pay | ploy mall portions of her s the cor 1t tax lev told to enable close. | Culler hi mol | prosec lem ttle a was b charg ail Through School Meeting this Eyening A spec of the sixth school district § o'clock this evening in or hel S be the ters to e Martin A. shaking 1p which antomobile hed. ollowing the was Britain Driver Appealed From Sentence to Jail 'MOTHER SEEKS DAUGHTER| Year Old Girl Has night—Bowling Match, The ca of William M Bri ol case scheduled o) March ONE BRISTOL GASE |- IN SUPERIOR COLRT Eloped— | Sixth School District Mteting To- in, charged with reck | driving on December 3, is the the March term of the eriminal s | perior court which Howe Moffett al of Mrs. The funeral of | of East Main stre | held at 3 o'clock { her late hom The ser | were provided, were in | | John Iore Rev. William F. Davis, Jr the As Methodist intern in the cemetery, Am of the I will be held ning at the | it 7 home of Mrs. Garden this hamber. New at t cen station only Crumb of trial 1S Nortl ies in in m was placed under arrs s automobile had r operated by V High street, Vi Pine : ville, on's car, ind s required None of the m's car w ceived cut on 11 sever was inves attorr cen an the matter civilly. to do and on Dec rought before J utin Malone and sen and fi 3 a ita and of 14 at tafford schoolhou idered will providin ing irr neth Joht The Bristol h team quinte m at § o'clock this eve | Dillon of st. | contes s . mayor s Mrs . of Poteau, D. A. Shaw, is si L two IPlremen’s hall, ay eveni I pices of the harl of the Sessions Clock for Ashley man; o, a v's office, McCul- opportunity This } nd Tho: in, h ool the Basketball Tonight h school will play th t in the local H: tford will b hool g ning. To Present Farce Fascinating 17 et farce will Forestville Leroy Pr Loughlin, a passens Non-Suppo of Jar ant o bonds Carleton t the pre numbers on buildings in t css ¢ ms 1de the cili- rict | Liquor Violator's Case T Acting upon the ey B. J. Monkiewicz of i this 1 of 1 Bishop, hah and Ken- etball high mnasi work a real 1 due to the fact support ) > sol f sol of a 0 Dol reival Wilfred Cre TONIGHT — GRAND OPENING [ @/ iron of “The Theater Triumphant” Photoplay that opened th in New MANY Doors Open 8 Night 25¢ Mat. e York OTHERS o'Clock EVERY DAY CHILDREN ADULTS 15¢ Paramount Theater Donovan Dul his fine of $100 and costs, arrested with an Kalecki of in, obika Albany A\ ergeant Henr William g ter 1 on Staffc o 1 on last a brot John s after church, es Mitchell o was Her request of Arthur Fa ella Kol Stecle Steele tville was noon from es, which charge of pastor of and Forestvillc Community Club Meeting eting of the Community club st Congregational church | 30 o'clock this ev Frederick Tire Board to Mee Postal Sub-Station Wi Nolled Ty W. Buell, houses Reopened Attor- New Brit ing re on t, New had paic Dul was nd Ignatz gallons of her of been Rocco to as- the DAUGHERTY-CASE 1S NEARING END Expected fo Go o Jury by Monday TFeb. 25 (A —— Fed- eral Attorney Buckner today in his summation for the government faced the task of refuting denials of defense attorneys in the Daugh- -Miller conspiracy trial that the defendants had accepted Lib- | erty Bonds as bribes. The case expected to go to the jury Monday. Fifty tho d dollars of bonds whi the government contend |have been traced from Richard | Merton, German capitalist, to for- Alien Property Custodian W. Miller for illegally al- 7,000,000 Amer- impounded as- s to the Societe Suisse Pour Va- s De Metaux, were not a bribe, ling to Miller's counsel, Aaron apiro, in his summation yester- New York, ey were John natior cticut, a: nt given Miller by the King, former republi- committeeman from reimbursement for a Delaware politi- gn, Sapiro maintained. H. Corbin, counsel for rney Guneral Harry M. co-defendant with Mil- L reason for Daugh- burning of certain Midland National on Court House, ment claims thes: to Daugherty's sale of Liberty come to him bribe. investigators,” at those records bin, “They wer fund. He hounded erty's ecords of 1 Washir deposits from the whi had Merton as a from want- political ed them for Daugh- ing to the verdict would die on the spot which he hears of his convic- Another ch Smith, had 1 Corbin's final that Jess W. intimate friend, 1 iilty one in the Merton of a $441,000 of the Societe there had been The *still small may have y ricide in Washing- Corbin suggested, point L hint Daugher o it by allowance claim, if dc Suisse’s ACTRESS COLLAPSES Iphia, Feb. (UP) — Rambeau, stage star, was comfortably at her hotel here oday after her collapse on the stage + local theater last night from an te attack of sciatica. css had been suffering for several days but ppear last night. After o stage floor and cut her to go to her hotel two member: she had appeared and apologized Dr. Leonard Aver- might De role again today. . ‘uritis d to ysician, Miss Rambeau able to resume he ir is the property | | sist them in locating their 17 year i old daughter, Lucy, who cd from home s 1om no word h “God Gave Me wenty Cents”’ = = she will be Meride m compai Pune The il of | nessey ot Pr held from St Mag ing 10c di ed with open arms. To Bowl Moriden a match in- an- 1 of Thomas F. Hennessey will | norrow morn- | v's church ! R the nter- lot in READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | quet | Washington, | With the secretar: |man A, to! (NEA Service, Washington Bureau) Secretary of Commerce Herbert | Hoover had to use an 18-inch knife to cut a 700-pound pie at the ban- of the California Society of which was baked under on of Mrs. Walter John- > big league pitcher's wife. here is Congre from the Golden State, M. 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