New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 CAPITAL C1TY COSTING HORE 10 " HAINTAIN YEARLY Hartford Expenditures Jump| From $30.67 in 1925 to $40.79 Per Person in 1926 PROPERTY TAXES PAID © LSO SHOW AN INCREASE These Represent the Total Revenue for 1926 and | Are a Gain of 116.7 Over 1018—Total for General City Departments Amounted to $6,566,538. A D. C., An the penditures Conn., for the ty, shington April 3 (A — increase in per capit ¥ of Hart and of the ci mainte ger from Ance opera- | al $30.67 19 1926 is shown in a sum- tion of the in in cial statistics of today by In 1018 public department of commere the per ca General Expenditure 1 departments amounted to $6,566,538. to these, payments of $684,7 tion of water work cemeterics, and $2,379,310 brought figure was total expenditures for in In addi o4 d on deht, ent improvements 1 to $10,416, interest uded 32 .5 per cent of | the Hartford | board ion for the fiscal year ending May 1926, in order | to bring the statisties onto a com- | parable basis with respect to othe citi studied by the department statisticians. Total Revenues of 1926 total revenues for 1926, in- | schools, amounted o $10,- ita, which the transaction of of ¢ Thi eluding ures improvement than total payments including | improvements. The revenue receipts included for the school distriet amounted to $1,016,- rent less perty taxes represented 76.8 cent of the total revenue for as against 77.6 per cent for 3 per cent for 1918. Property taxes collected increased 116.7 per cent over 1018 and 8.5 per cent over 192 Per Capita Property Tax The per capita property tax last vear was $49.07, while for 1925 it $46.35 and for 1918 $26.07. Public service cnterprises operated by the city brought in 10.7 per cent of the total revenue. The net fndebtedness (the funded or fixed debt less sinking fund assets) on March 31, 1926, was $15,757,163, or $97.87 per capita of which $4,670, 190 was for the schools. The per capita net indebtedness showed a dec of 31 cents from 1925 and of cents from 1918, The assessed valuation of prop- erty in the city subject to ad va- lorem taxation for the city corpora- tion was $318,534,840. The tax levy for all purpose for 1926 was $6.- 441.7 The per capita tax levy for city, schools, state and county was $40.01 in 1926, $39.91 in 1927 and $25 in 1918, MRS, HART WILLING TO TAKE BACK HER HUBBY Movie Star’s Divorced Wife Would Do It for Sake of Child, She Says ew York, April 4 (P—Winifred who divorced Bill actor, would take her nd back again for the sake of their four year old son, she in an interview in the oW York American today. If Bill walked in here tomorrow and said, ‘Come back to me’ I'd do it for the sake of our son. Husband and wife can never be anything but husband and wife,” said Mrs, Hart, who was granted a divorce a weeks ago in Reno and awarded custody of the boy. The interview marked the expira- tion of an imposed silence of five years, sa the American, during which time she would have lest a $100,000 scttlement had she given newspager interviews or posed for pictures. “I do not believe in divorces— there is no happiness to be found in the court said Mrs. Hart, “If | a couple have no children—y there is perhaps a remedy in di- vorce—hut when there is a child— the public always remembers.” Mrs. Hart explained that in her case it was either the divorce or lose the $100,000 which she said Lill, Jr, “might need” some day. Ars. Hart pla to reenter the mo- tion pictures, having heen a promi- nent sereen actress at the time she marricd the movie cowboy. Mrs, Hart said that Bill, Jr., is never going into the movies and that he wants to become a lawyer, but the American reporter says the youngster pointed an imaginary gun at him and said: “Hey, hombre, whyn't you go home, so I can eat?” 76.8 Per Cent of | Per Cent | Expenditures | departments 0". fow l NEW BRITAIN HERALD X Q.)qo, Ran,. A, J""" 1m0 I, 'PEACE IN POLISH PARISH EXPECTED AT CONFERENCE Leader of Insurgent Group Says Committee Will Ey tend Olive Branch to Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski members of the insurgent|and Washington streets, appointed a n sponsoring | cOmmittee to visit Bishop John % Nilan and asked for a r | t he ;Rbumn atholic church in the north- | f:,"';fmxix[“:on_ e f),,f?::\‘: i v will meet | Alderman Stanley Karpin, owski, pastor bishop told them to wait until there| art church, in & peace in the parish, it {s said next Saturday eve- | A disagreement among the f occurred ing and another meeting was call lana in a public s | mittee said it did | meeting. At th Father Dojnowski v the gener: b ch 3. v parish, | were group wh have for a new Polish | western seetion of this cif | with ¥ of ning. It is expected group will |ask that the past em in gete {ting the new church in the section jand that they,as representatives of ., will end the schism en developing in the ome time, current discontent {an some residents of tl has been obvious for several y | Many have been 1 with the tor becau itur parish socials nd dancing. he younger set was said to hav for more consideration in their re tion came to a climax| Poles gathered at Rat-| the corner of Broa not spc second mesting HhL‘ ins criticized \h t {parish for An unde the 5 Dobrowolskin o th for It ¢ of Vincenty leaders of ed pl meeting. a cost o an tributed $300 to the committee 40 made of the parish new faction, present » plans uilding he 1 it is he| mmittea of with the chai t will man the confer who three T poi h 15 i ish pastor Pollcewoman Balks at Shooting Bandit and He Kills Companion‘i San Diego Bluecoat Slain By Robber Who Had Been | Lured Into Trap When Female Cop Fails to Do Her Part for | § P that fter h As- of had ting chance tions, the holdup man approach- ed from the rear of the car. He powerful light in their glimpsing Harris, opencd The blinding Wright from secing |signed to w man's ;snoomm 4 holdup ma n lured into a de Wright, & polic [to carry out her part {the critical ent and ¢ | Harris a policeman, her co | tell before the bandit's gun sult. The two officers last night “plant- {ed” themsclves in a park to bag a holdup man who had becn using that part of the city for his opera- | |tions, T parked their automo- ! bile, and it was agreed that, on |ing accosted, Harris would throw up his hands and the woman vould cpen fire on the stickup man. Mrs. Wright's tory Wi that neither she nor her colleague had a ANOTHER HISTORIC WESTERNER PASSES "‘Quick Shot” Davis Was Pal of “Bulfalo Bill” Agree to Continue (HERO OF FAMOUS HOLD-UP TOTAL TODAY 1S $65,8%3 1+ Recovered Stage Coach and $300,- (gjlectors worker, | as a re- r shot three two of his bullet art. Tt was he recognized Harris a |officer although the latter was plain clothes spite of the turn ris managed to whip own gun and fire five shot direction of the blinding light. Then he died at the of Mrs. Wright, who drove with his body to the po- times be an in of t ol ings his in the station, JUST UNDER GOAL More Than Hall o Workers Show Enthusiasm When 000 Single Handed at Cold Springs | gratistics Are Presented at Lunch- Wyoming, on September 29, 1578 | | con Showing Objective in Cam- | \ —Was Tast Shooter. paign Is Nearly Reached. Denver, Col., April 4 (UP)— Svm!i With W. “Quick Shot"” colorful figure of frontier | Cotorado and Wyoming, was a {of the eventful past today. Death yesterday hero of the famous Cold | Wyo., holdup of September {and companion of “‘Bufialo and “Wild Bill" Hickok Fast With Gun Davis came to the west o kad 8850 guard for gold hauled by the Chey-|520.50 short of the enne-Deadwood stage lines, He won | $69,462.96, his nickname “Quick Shot” when he [are surc of going over the top outshot Buffalo Bill and “Wild | Posimaster H. Ii. Erwin, who has Bill" Hickok in a match at Hat been dirceting this year's drive. Creck, Wyo. | The workers today were the gue: Many tales are related of thelof the Probus club. oric Cold Springs stage robbery. e 1 by Davis offercd only a chuckle when | president. asked for his stor: ndits forced | learned Davis and two other messengers to|to deal and in the road while they made | | off with the stage and its safe con-|p | taining $300,000. Davis pursued the [ bandits on foot. When he arrived (0O, in Cold Springs he was driving the stage and had the money. | They Just Disappeared “Oh, they just disappeared,” w hw only explanation of his failure u, bring the bandits back with him. |for business. This is not enough; we 0l timers related that Davis had |should use our heads as well a8 our obtained a gun, surprised the hold- | hearts for charity, We are so inter- up men and forced them to stand|dependent on one another that we on the stage whila he tied ropes must us more Iod about their necks, and had driven ! methods in taking care of w oft, leaving them hanging from a institutio | | treg When the Union Pheific disp the s Davis became a sy ugent for the railroad. |Two 500 Pound Safei Are Taken by Danbury Thieves Danbury, April 4. —(®—Burglars entered grocery stores of the Logan Brothers company, 365 Muain street | erly, R. L and return in $ hours and | carrying away a 500 pound safe | | from cach place. The 5 contain- | [ed the Saturday night receipts of | the stores. The one taken from the | Main street store was found this afternoon at the roadside on Golden Hill, a mile away, where it had been | referring to the Community blown open. No trace has been ! groups, ‘should not be allowed Ifound of the safe taken from (he |uffer n deficit. We should stick to White street store. No statement | our job until we put this drive over has been made by the grocery firm | the top. Then we will be loyal to as to the amount of money in the | oursclves, our faith and our com- safes but it is estimated at about | - | $500. (Continued on Page Fifteen.) shortage of $3,600, and expressed willingness on the part of at least half of the workers in United Community | Corporatio, ‘e to “go out and get ‘i(," ofticials of the corporation today ed to continue the drive until the total quota of $69,462.96 is alized. ¢ drive officially with che jand a ge |The total approxi Davis, another times in | 't Davis. Sprin ol Bill" claimed s und flowers, specches, oral feeling of satisfaction. amount reported today .27, which is just $3 full quota of “close cnougl so that we sts They were we Attorney Edward E. Mag, “One of the things we the World War was how with questions of charity,” smented his addr check durin inally our ide: charity were buased on sympathy, {loyalty and various aesthetic ideals. base it on a more efficient been wold to u: rity and our heads the lunchcon. s of handling wrts for e are, “Another word we learncd during the war wa ‘morale.’ The man | who will fight the bust for his coun- | try must first know the reasons why | his country is in the war. We need Mlh organizations, not becausé of | sympathy or fear but because New Britain is dependent upon thein. “We don’t want our boys and girls to grow up on the streets. As long as conditions are as they are, there will be need for charity. Rabbi Hadas here mentioned the Jewish leration Charities, th organization of which took plac several days ago. He said there are 00 Jews in this city. These organizations,” he said, Ches z;'?{" NEW BRITAIN, light | in}| nately | ended today | {Maine Divorcee, 27, Seems | id Rabbi Gershon Hadas, who sup- | s with a gen-| rn and efficient | to | CONNECTICUT, ANTI-SALOONISTS " ARE STARTING ON THO YEARSDRIVE Educate Public Up to Liking | {8th Amendment | FOR PROPAGANDA WORK: | New York Methodists Tells Anti- | Saloonists Will Mect Propaganda With Propaganda and Arguments | With Arguments—Feels Sure Will Be Able to Put Over Cam- paign. New York, {Dr. O, P < I New York State Anti-s tol? the New York Met ference today the I ing a two year drive April 4 artholow, hodist of I B | i E DR. O. F. BARTHOLOW to create public opinion in favor of the 1Sth amendment and the en- forcement of prohibition law “We will meet propaga propaganda and in arguments,” he d. “We prop: | to wtilize the sccular press and every | other kind of press to put over ‘h's campaign of education.” Dr. Bartholow began his addres ng “I'm not so sure that I mu].y to address you today. | Lewls in ‘Blmer Gantry’ has said we |are a ‘boisterous, amorous crew The secular press says we are | eritical and puritanical. Herbert ,A\shm deseribed us a | growth'.” To the accom niment ter and applause from the Dr. Bartholow said that, nothwith- standing all harsh comments, he considered it as a signal honor to address the clergymen. Concluding his appeal for cooper- ation in the educational drive, h said that the two year period will cover the most critical time that has ever developed in the fight for prohibition. “In God's name awake us your aid | of the United Sto | New Yor ments of da with ith ‘ed of la members, and glve > centered on accomplish- DISCARDS WILLIE FOR [7 YEAR OLD BROTHER Determined to Mar Into Buzzell Family pril 4 (UP)—Hav- the New but without Mrs. Thelma Tibbets, 27 “nl-l divorcee, today contemplated a local campaign for a permit to wed |17 year old Eimer Buzzell. Slmer and Mrs, Tibbetts, a five year old son, journeyed miles to Portsmouth, N ¢ in quest of a marriag v Clerk Elmer E. Clark smouth, recalling that a fow weeks ago the woman was refused a license in Canaan to wed a 14 year old Willie Buzzell, denied them the necessary certificate. The city clerk supposed that the young man with Mrs. Tibbetts was Willie, but subsequent devel- that she had transferred her fections to Willic's slightly older brother. Friends of Mrs. Tibbets planned to apply for a license to Mrs. Lettie Foster, town clerk here, either ta or in the immediate future. It was Mrs, ¢ refused to is- sue a license to Mrs. Tibbetts and 14 year old Willie on the ground that Willie was too young. Vexed, the divorcee appealed to the selectmen, but they sustained | Mrs. Fdster's deciston, expressing belief that should Mrs. Tibbettsand Willie wed they might paupers and hence a burden to the town. April fooled uthorities Kuc mother of | THE WEATHER | New RBritain and vicinity: pttled tonight and Tucs- followed by rain; warm- er Tuesday. | | | * inelair | hypo- | ¢ corous | Hamnp- aid she | marriage become | MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1927.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Average Daily Circulation For Week Endm,‘ 14 681 April 2d PRICE THREE CENTS || Bathtub Is Dangerous Household F urnishing, Accident List bho“s o April 4 (BT © most da niture fn the as far as - ac al analysis of by an accidents insuranc, rsons injured i of nt to pe or out thirtysix we by falling £ rd of the ry FOUR IN HOSPITAL AFTER COLLISIOY éNew Britain Youth, Home From College, Under 81,000 Bond PLAYED 600D SAMAR[TAN John Wolff of This City, Hastcning to Hartford Hospital With Woman Found I on Berlin Turnpike When Crash Takes Pla of Joh continned ford police cou Woltf was allowed bonds of $1,000 pen come of injurics sustaine Peter: Hartford, who his d 185 Bond ‘rsection o Hartford, lay mor of the p s were hurl and four went to the 1 arc Miss Gladys 1 | Broa Daniel Ann street and Vineent Atlantic st M | yeste Six e Ke of Hu and raboski of 51 J Miss Peterson rece |furies, a fractured {collar bone, a perfor: cuts about the he {condition is ecritic ski iod. ive rious in- rib, a fractured ted lung a and body. al. was cut about : Miss Lemay was badly cut ¢ have internal inj Ken cut and Leary has an injured and severe lacera- Her Miss Grabos- the head and nd | tions. | Mr. Wolrt, | Acadeny, while tuder on at visit Norwich a to hi (Continued on Page Three) BURGLAR SHAKES OFF COP'S GRIP ON COAT' {Breaks Away and Escapes | When Caught Red Handed Attracted by a noise .n the f the Post Tire Co. store on IMre [ lin Square, near Main stroct, midnight last night, Oftficer BLloomquist reached the ) in time to see a man go over fence near the Swedish Iieth chuceh property. Following him, officer scized him by the coat sleev il‘\ll was unable to hold him an man, who appeared to be a ran through a driveway to street, Firing one shot in the ficer continued in pursuit man 1 behind the louses on the opposi street and could not be found T geant Michael Flynn and Officer Bloomgquist later found t the co lar door of Post's store had been | ripped oft and it is believed entrane: bout to be m the noise reached the At about 3 o'clock Otficer notified Sergeant Ma at headquarters that y Officer William told him an automobiie v ing in front of th store on Arch through it, the officers found a operator's license issued in the n of Angus Urquhart street, Bristol. Sergeant {phoned to the state motor nk yo Gl 0f- he the by ir ment the when loom- hias Ri- Supe stay Co. Looking vehiele (Continued on Page Three) EPIDEMIC ABATINB Assoclated Pre i Montreal, April 4 (I7--The [ phoid fever epidemic continued | i By tho ty- to show signs of abatement when only 141 cases were reported | from Friday at 5 p. m. until noon This is a comparative de- crease. Since March 4. 1872, case have been reported, with 46 deaths. IWilling to Aid Co-operative 01' | RECEIVED $10,00 FROM Today's and today, | SAPIRO ADMITS HE - WOULD NOT ASSIST | EXCEPT FOR MONEY danizations But Must Be Paid for His Work COTTON MEN SINCE 1923, Session King in Fire When Judge Cuts Short ments Between Reed and Plain- til—Ford to Be Called and Medi- cal Examinaton Demanded 1f He Docsw't. Appear to Test cot- can Unite ed counsel cor Pouliry Association Brother Milton ther Mi Mis tion 1t would He conns: ition w Mr. For Mr. Ford' 15 S Sapiro’s cross-exa i 1t ar medi counsel Members o day that if the able to appe his nam would be court fo I man objiection AY BLAMES DRIVERS - OF CITY-OWNED CARS : Declares The\ Are Not! Skilliul and Abuse skill on y-owned ’ Machir i | X with commission icient control ov the machin ! has contributed to dissatista tion which esult in discontinu- ty Mechanic Lin- ¥ the fact has in- |ing that s May The 1 tod i me h was in Weld dise conference and his ssion. The quent reports of cars in th is consi wi osts to repaired and e lity of b city service storing wing 1y disco wi yor will ping no. authority mechanic o ear ti ion of L lengt when t i would 1 commission out are work and 1 by a day her with al machine and ont the lack irs operate ivers in the ot the ot th single ms conrse Each ¢ 1y Jusive it river of skill . Tn th with the some of the least skilled have been nig nd of is to tro impossible whose ¢ contribs s (o the du opinion of those familiar | ration of city cars, rank with th {on the highways. Cars brought to the parked with flat tires bearing indi cation of many mies of operation on flat tires, this in spite of the fact that a spare tire nd tools are in each machine, Conditions such as h the commissioners complain make it practically impossible to onduct the garage with maximum cificiency ness or tan aps drivers - 5300 FINE ECHO OF | rhaps leurting them away YANKEE BLUEJACKETS OPEN FIRE ON CHINESE WHO ARE TRYING T0 CAPTURE VESSEL | Japanese Also Forced to Shoot on Band Try- ing to Enter Conces- sion—Disorders Are Spreading — Foreiga- ers Leaving. ‘ England From Word Washington Be- Awaits ADMIRAL WILLIAMS fore Sending Protest and Reparation Demand to Cantonese. HART_@M]ISPUTE; - Miss Naples Guilty of Failing to Remove Flre Ruis | opnien This Will Speed Them Chiness wh Up.” Hungerford Says When! Woman Owner Says Carpenters nese two e when a T nese cone weluding five ried off b Drive B woun inv nob Have Started to Work, Toh Japar lors, were reported the moh. oward Peking are press ve northward in the direc king, and the exodus of women and children from tk ern eapital continues. ather forcign resider nes weet have ar the coast. Americ ton their ion of foreign » north- American and s of K n to for Tientsin, which was fire on Feb- Naples, part ach of C. Hun- court this morn- | to impos th rford e ordinan - every seven allowed Mis owner, was f lice 1s0 leaving ¢ in southern Chin d a has arrived there. The v has been closed Peking in cse strikes. labor si por on orders consequence on ruins are Of ation in ns disturbed. Bann northern native s Lri troops v lines ad warships or Britain Plans Action British officials, wh awa news of the American governm ttitude say a protest and deman for reparation for the nking o rages will be sent to the “ntones: as a joint s te for identical from the powe | FEugene Chen, minister, Well, per spred them " notice of an t and bonds was not . al- 1 adviee | h the vari- © controversy o Miss Naples gave Cantorese forcign is quoted as declaring that | the natio st revolution s not { communistic, although communi {are collaborating with the Kuom: nfi » since than a (Continued on TPage Three) filRl ‘BROKE,” HUNGRY, TRIES T END LIFE i “h,n,'anushated in \tlempt to o8 110 Jump Into River in Bristol was dam- | ord notiee d March 7, d and | o'clock | Sccond Deput of the fire de nt Febru > latter hav recel partm there Ask were d by Prosec: re- | entire | - i (Special to the Tlerald) | istol, April 4—an atten Miss Jane Duane, aged | who gave me address Boston, Mass,, ake her ow Sunday morning Ly jumpin the trolley trestle, loca of the st Bristol pl New Departure Mg, Co ers Pequabuck river be- low, w by a ma made public police head At 18 as life from east of the into the the the Naples nd and mak of property 1ust of the ruins blow it impossible for him painted, one side been damaged Naples house Downes, for many now superin- ction in t school | d to the wit- | osceuting Attorne: nad visited fire. Thomas wrt- | whos i who | quarters, Accordin available, t tract tion th he we er notified 0 to oo the vo trestl fo d that the to jump, had {ween the i | led in extricating her and {in response to his questions, s} {told him that she had m at tempt to d he life, led * had not caten lays discoura information ention was posi- 1t irl, in ceom tles, U the the an effo d b ne on He ownership of sucee ing attor- cared to Miss Naples re- | ing the W she had e r Sh 1 twe from ! rom Iy on e commy mons | pur 'home, started up t toward Brist ficor Aldie sent to inter telephone mossaz escorted to police headquarters huse so This Wit the i complete » los \ as met by O ttion of mises propara her s, Tanfor, she ws filso in Scofs. was recoived nication with Iroseculing Attor- ney Woods. | Upon being questioned, she burst She assured the court that theinto tears and explained that sh 1d be clearcd of everything|had Dbeen out of work for some octionable under the by the time, which led her to become ond of t week reason | despondent and leave home. She workmen wore not {he Was thankful for the failere of her premises us testifiod ¢ they do | Mtempt and furnished the police not report o'clock, she With the mames of her parents and said. | their addre They were notified of their daughter's predicament and the mother came to head- ‘.,nmm and took her daughter mu wot law, The is th 8 on before Build, At 3 o'cloc 2 Nearly Razed this afternoon inspec tors of the huilding department re ported the Naples building was al- | home. most entirely razed. A foroe of| It is believed that the Boston ad- workmen stripped the charred strue- | ress given at first was fictitious, ture to the foundation in short due to the short time consumed by order. A permit will be sought from | the glrl's mother in reaching the tha fira chief to burn the timbers on | police station, but no information the premises o save the costs of 'Was obtainable on this point from the authorities.