New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1927, Page 17

PARKER NOMINATED ROTARTANS' LEADER | Club Votes 3256 Tor Red Crass Flood Relief Police Commission Orvi Parker was nominated wi rosition to succeed A. F. Corbin as president of the Rotary club at the | roon luncheon at the Burritt hotel today. Other officers nominated were as follows: Vice-president, A. H. Scott; secretary, B. H. McElhone; treasur- er, Anson A. Mills; sergea -ar Howard Sh Directors, Abra ham Buol, Robb and A. I Corbin, tha retiring prasident. With a membership of 85 the New 1 n ¥ ¥ club today passed t record of the Hartford Rotary clu iich has a membership of 200, | cribing $256 to the Red Cross compared to the Hartford le !;‘ op- | The money was ralsed by popular subscription in a few mmu‘s was immediately turned over to Leon A. Sprague, treasurer of the d Cross. This amount will swell the fund to such an extent that local ificials feel sure of being able to the second check for an addi- | $1,000 to national headquar- 1ors tomorrow. The club today unanimously voted pprove a boys' baseball leagne silar to that conducted for 1} few years. Tho arrangements zre in the hands of Representat Tred O. Rackliffe, chairman of bovs' work committee, : A musical program was rendered Ly the Little Symphony orchestra of I'tzinville, of which Robert Graves, Lafarian,. is leader. George H. Dyson spoke of the! convention of retail jewelers to be 2734 {n this city next Thursday. Mr. Iyson is state president. His in- ien to the Rotary club to foin welers in the weekly luncheon copted. Next Thursday at 10 linutes to 12 the Rotarians will ot at the South Congregational | hureh and will drive to the Shut- 110 Meadow club for luncheon. Th xer will be Bartley J. Doyle, Ihiladeiphia, publisher of the Key- magazine, In the afternoon Lozan Page and I . Shield will have charge o ol tour: t between the N ritain and Hartford Rotary clubs. President Corbin turned the meet- Arthur White, chairman tha business methods committer, White called upon three five nte speakors. J. W2 Marsland 1 of the troubles of the druggist, t that 40 per cent of the stomers are the “Thank means no sales. ctories, buy stamps, and ask for drini of the ! of inz over to Ny horrow di lephones K. Macauley stated t successful businessman is who applies the Golden to his business, with his em- ployes as well as his customers. He ‘4id the employes indicate the meas- | re of energy power and the morale | the employes makes the standard cnergy. “Businese run on the n Rule method is best and the in who does that need not worry t profits” ne sald. He said a ul husinessman needs the of Soloma the patience of | nd the inclinations of Ananlas. Srnest W. Christ, vice-president o Stanley Work: spoke on the ver's end of a big busin He «iid the selling end of business is nmech more adequately organized an the buying end. He spoke of | wiany unethical schemes used by #rms for the purpose of getting bus- | s3 or of beating down prices. He pointed out that the firms who gain a temporary advantage by question- lose in the rge tellow e visdon methods usually 1. RENEWED CALLS FOR RELIEF (Continued From First Page) | A report prepared by Herbert Smith, Little Rock, of the Arkansas | Power and Light company, estimat- ed the flood damage to southeastern Arkansas alone at more than $3,000, uio. It showed approximately 683,- 000 acres of land under water and 125,000 persons affected in Jeffer- | son, Lincoln, Cleveland, Desha, Ashley, Arkansas and Chicot | nties, Ten thousand families of | t sectlon wil be compelled to start 1 ane the report said. ive per cent of the families | negroes. The refugees in the concentration camp at Forest City, Ark., now num- | v more than 12,000, available re- | ports showed today. Supplied with cod by the relief agencizs, the ref- | ugees cooked their meals last night | v the light of a thousand campfires, | gleaming along the slopey of Crow- | v's Ridge from Madison to Forest | City, More than 600 persons \w'rei brought into the camp today as the | evacuation of flooded territory con- | tinued, | phy | priat Must Perfect Defenses New Orleans, La., April 27 (P— | Both Secretary of Commerce Hoov- er and Major General Edgar Jad- | win, chiet of army engineers, h:s\‘e} indicated that they are cD:\h‘mp‘:lf-“ ing the revision of the present pro- | tective levee system of the Missis- | sippi_river so as to_ adequately ! guard againet any maximum flood which can come. The commerce secretary fecls it | is essantial and a national need to cecure “adequate protection” of tertile farm lands of the valley against future floods. General Jad- win proposes a revision of the levee system and a study by his ¢ngineers of the “greatest possible rainfall and its geographical dlis- tribution.” lost of the present levees will have to be raised,” General Jad- win said, “and in some reaches 1ew levecs may have to be placed arther back." {‘ The damage caused by and yet| threatened by the present floor, “is generally estimated to ba far| creater than the cost of an ade- | | county a {10,000 | propulating | completton of new sehool; {of trade schools; | sue §100, |Law; be rated as national, because the water causing it falls in some 31 states and because the great dam- age it inflicts finds its reflections directly and indirectly in great !losses to the producers. consumers, manufacturers and investors of |many other states.”” PATHETIC SCENES | AS PEOPLE LEAVE (Continued From First Page) Orleans to prevent an attempt to dynamite it and save the two parish- es at the expense of flooding the city. Dospite tha spectacular phase of the lower Mississippi flood, tha crest of the waters still was far upstrean As the tiood continued to spread over Misslssippi and Ark ey county in the lat inundated and 600 persons driven to refuge fn Hambure exodus from McGehee, mostly under ater, continued, with the refugec ranks at Monticello, the concentra- tion point. numbering upwards of 5,000, cre was grave danger of heavy loss of life at Relzoni, M and its immediate vielnity and plans wero made for hurried relief work | toda Epidemics at Camps Epidemics were reported at 14 ref- ugea camps scattered over Arkan- sas where les, whooping cough pellagra and malaria were prevalen and it was stated the situation was becoming acute. Many of the ref- ugees to be inoculated or vaccinated. In that connection the state health aunthotities of the seven flood-dam aged states, were called to mect Memphis today with Dr. William R Redden, natlonal medical officer of the Red Cross to adopt a program of health conservation in the inun- refused | dated region: Estimates at Clarksdals, Miss., re- |llet headquarters wers that 10,000 were in danger at Hollan- Arcola and Yazoo City, Misa. with a continued rise of water called for aid fo remove thousands of per- sons. Boats were concentrated at Gulfport last night in response to the call. Greenville, Miss,, ionar through South streets was faster than th in the stream f{tsel b; s cxpectod ther rise Greenville 1n crest of the flood had south. there, altho no fur- ating the passed Looters Arrested Greoenville reported sp ing of husiness houses by negroes Seo'clock curfew law was en- reed by soldiers who patrolled in dic loot- oats with erders to shoot men re-! g to halt. Five negroes were arrested for looting and placed in the sacond story of the jail. STATE T0 HAVE LARGE SURPLLS (Continued from First Pa turee cl regula of dentistry; provi iness of “the court e the judges of the 14 common pleas court may appoint a temporary clerk, making $41,700 deficiency appropriation for the fiscal period ending June 30, 1927; providing that the clerk ot the Fairficld conuty ecommon plcas court, civil sile and sistants shall receive ealaries of to bo apportioned among the judges of tha court Provid- ing t ing t m by 1o housa passec ing for the paymer tratlon fee by n fang to their board: g $100,000 for eailors and $170,000 schools at Hartford ($ Willimantie ($50,000); Ing $30,000 to state board of cduca- tion for maintenance of a part time trade school In Martford. pending appro- fo state Gt appr state aid marines; ap- for trade ,000) and to soldier: priating $355,000 a year board of education for maintenance uthorizing city of 600 honds for em in Forest- Bristol to issue 9 a sewage disposal ville, Road Bill Sizned. Rills authorizing Ansonia to is- 10 bonds for permancit road improvement and amending the charter of the borongh of Nau- gatuck were signed by the governor in the original. Disease Problem in Flood Area Is Great ! Washington, April 28 (UP)—"The disease problem in the flooded Mis sissippl arcas 1s the gravest this country has ever had to face in peace times,” Dr. Willlam R. Red- den, Red Cross medical adviser, clared today. The concerted efforts of all agencies will be required to avoid dire results,” Redden stated His statement was made as ! health officers of seven states gath- ered to hold a joint mefcal mect. ing at Memphis, Tenn,, to rate all plans to attack i the Mississippi flood regior Representatives of Medical Association, medical assoclation: and seventh corps arca headquar- ters of the army were assisting at the conference, Redden said. the seven state | and the fourth ! er r Claims Police Tried to Coerce Woman Asked to explain his reference to police methods employed to convict | made during the trial of Charles Grabowsk! in police court today, Attorney M. A Sexton sald after court that Mrs. Frank of 280 Elm strect told him she wag closeted with detectives terday and they wanted her to admit she paid for alcohol which Grabowsko delivered to her tenement just be- fore Officer David Doty arrived Tuesday night. When she refused to answer to suit the police. accord- ing to her statement to Attorney Sexton, she was ejected from the detective bureau, A bond of $£1000 was posted for! persons, on his as- | appropriat- | coord- | scase in | American ¢ Smith NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, |ARMORY SITE MAY . BE BEHIND JAIL ThlS Is Posslble Location in New Haven ! New Haven, April 2 | for a new armory in t} ty which {m: be offered to the special com- | mission is the land in the rear of t i county jail in Whalley avenue and | fronting on Goff street. The fract is (Pr—A s i quite large and is unused, and oc- | custonally Jail prisoners are sent out (to pull up the weads on it. te w commis of the this will be merel estion, as before done senators and repre- e county must neet y wishes to 1l be offers by Col regi- can be santati to decide dispose of it. | Then the comm with the county meetlr The commissior no one had approa land for vo to fur: anything | rs said today that | d its value would have to be ad-| other side of bteglns Be Pond park play- grounds of considerable extent whinh would afford the militiamen an ath- | Then e Winc nile away., | GRAWL STROKE IS 0LD Fxpert wer + raflroad tracks are at r plant ahout half a Ascertains That the Anclent the Hellespont. UP) — When I . of the channel swir mers, crossed the Hellespont to seo Hero, he used same crawl stro! that carried Gertrude Ederle from Trance to Eng The nymph Arethusa the same stroke in 'r watery excursions, Ovid chroni- reported that the | ¢ » evidences of t 1y eraw] were director niversity nasiun Q“m‘mn‘c Method just published here. Professor Mohl subm proof of Leander's use of o antiq offered of t Antlqua | hook | the Nag: impetuous lover using tablets from swim cites ~ first mention in literature : ing water after the mode | f2shion and of the use of the br, | stroke ia in the works of 11 | Mantliushin the first contury the book id. ast Al Coolidge Goes 'to Zoo To See Newest Gifts Washington, April 28 (P —TPr nt Coolidge slipped away to the 1200 today to sce the two cub lions {sent to him from South Africa and after only a brief look he decided 0 was the best home for sf- sident seemed ple the plf! which was made mayor of Johanneshurg, Africa. A small antelope v sent to Mrs. Coolidge :lso wa |to the zoo after a brief st {temporary White House on Cirele, by at the DuPont TI-COOKING LAW York, . 25 (P—Thou- | s New York al i hy fami- lics Inust ceass getting breakfast in their rooms or face being put out e stroet, as a result of Mayor Tames J. Walker's order today for trict enforcement of the tencm i house law which prohibits conk in apartment hotel, built ostens 1 for non-housekeeping tenants, DE VALERA 1IN HARTFORD {. Hartford, April 2§ (UP)—FEamon Valera, Irish republican X here tonight nditures of the raised In this country se i ago through the sale of bonds for the Trish republic cause. A parade {will be held in his honor. He plar |t0 leava for Boston early tomorrow. Ne nds of garding 000 Il Funerals Elizabeth Farley services for Mrs. Eli: of 31 Tarmington <1d tomorrow moru at St. Mary's Mrs, enue will be ng at 9 o'clock cemetary. Hinchliffe for Samuel L. amuel L Funcral services | Hinehiifte of 150 Cherry street, "\\lll) died Tuesday, were held this | morning at § o'clock at St. Joseph | church.” 1zev. John 1. Donohue, p tor, celobrated a solemn high m uiem. Rev. Thams J. Laden sacon and Rev, John J sub deacon. bearers were Thomas B. Matthews, James ~Thomas Quintivan, — Ba- ward Porter and Edward Parker. The flower bearers were Earl Miles land Francis Hinchliffe. Father Keane conducted the com- mittal scrvices. Interment was in cemetery. Edmund P. Marsh, Jr. Funeral services for Kdmund P. Marsh, Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund P. Marsh, will he held Saturday afternoon 8t 1 o'clock at his home. Rev. Willlam Ross, pas- tor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Tnrfal will be in Oak Grove cemetery, Springtleld, at 3 o'clock Saturda Joseph A, Haffey CNDERTAKER Phone 1625-3. Goft strect | i Leander Used This in Swimming | | | | City ughter, Elaine, was t l\! to Mr, of 309 F A da Mrs. 123 North st Judga W. dent of the N of Commerce, to be a director ter o ates Chambe: ashingt Polfca ware noti the st v of ¢ 94 CHINESE EXEGUTED | Of Those Put To Death in Peking, ion would meet | One Was th And Another Was Woman. Peking, or Chines: police rai. t pound here Chang Tso-L| April neluded one amous lead The Chinese Chang «to bLa were taken in men on the co for which had diplomatic strangulation * accordin st street, ter w s Uk has ommerce. Loomis and A, P. this city are direc captured corps. 2R =%, APRIL Items 1 last Mrs. Edward Lynch Western Petrole- e ra e aaa rofit of $260,138 10¢h of April at first quarter, equal t + share on the combined s, in contrast 1Q net loss of $33,433 n the first quarter of 1926, Hungerford. presi- Britaln Chamber bee: of the ¥ H Net operating income of the Ch!- cago for March $1,288, ns $1,23 1 March nd for the firs 0 against $3,623 first q ter rovenues were $11,95 Johnston, Marsh of Was | By tha As New York Terwent | read ors. H i . M. H rank H. Johnston 1 attend the United r of Commerce ses- n next week ed th are of Al tod March gross arainst Chicago Burlington has ordered twelve awin Lo ‘ capolis, St. Paul | Marie has placed 0 Hopper cars, divided | hetween Pullman Ca ing company and Siems- nple Company. root was ¢ igarettes taken Oils sank to r on pr s that th ate e Leader T4 Ta-Hao Hercules Power Company had ne ter h the to $3.42 against in the 1 28 (UP)— wh he soviet e, were strangled order of Marshal gled Chi- woman and also ., L1 Ta-Hao. alleged or § irter last 86 fArst qu Detinr back di e prefe erly of and ers of record May 10, Company of preferred A’ v 20 to hold wors by a raid by mpound, been g 1 g Motors sold Wy ermission 1y wtagl in, permission conntry's stes irther reductions neral and follows hut 2 to the dictions 10 another sharp ay of of o v steel p threat of and wae 1 ow a than preferred | Locomotive and N 5 per cent of capr Fainst §8 to 87 per cont the week befors, and hetween S8 and S8 per cont two weeks ago. The corporation is producing at aroun: 4115 per cent, a drop of 1% per cent | under 1 Independent ronnd 77 er cent against S ent a weck ago. been falling off, which iied At ment of the infliction of the p Russian prisoners seized durin raid were not executed and still remained today 30 other ( nese in prison. Chang's death order was carri outat 1 p. m. toda Weather Bureau W arning Affecting Flood District Washington, April 28 (UP) - The weather burean toc issu wing flood bulletin stock from New Yor notice ny of received Mi; to fall Helena, Ark 101ld ba rea Vicksburg the present conditions will rising. The crest of the Illi- was $724 river has t T first quart ar whera today, rating Virginia Relow t ops earnings of th allways were o & year Tirst quarter net National against $7,4 o expected v Cona $7.843, OCULIST DISAPPEARS Woman Tells Police She Patd $6 For ssued ado river f31 ine Cars Fall Into Pit Pittston, Pa., April 28 (UP) — A nine mine cars Pair of Glasses But Cannot Locate Man Who Sold Them to He taken Lea‘ es B l | | I ‘Woman .\Tnong 20 Put to tanbsta intendent of the j church. Burial will be in St. Mary's & second naval academy. | foet ep [ ville resident tl j branch 1 into a cave hole which sud- opened under the tra®ks at the '’ Pennsylvania The police afternoon were vestigating th list who maiy overeigns 1 s a resuit of a report by t there was nobody called today whiet here i hole, which apprared without warning as the train a rect, a Plain- in the office when she for s told carth drapping vod his life by 1 ab of his engine just a second be- fore It plun ed from su:‘\r for a pair of had paid $5 tod he said, b learned she was of the of oth are seeking the ocn has a receipt for the payment she glas s at sb on th She Bequests in Memory of Two Wives Spring: Mass., April 28 OF | Bequests in - memory of his t wives are cantained in the will of 1 2, v, late of this city. n mory of his fi & £5,000 to the I tion of Danvil of which Mrs. Putney and a bhuilding site rary for this city is given v of his second wife, OTES The pupil al Junfor high school enjoyed themselyes yes- terday after school in the girls’ gym where a social was held. The pro- s will go toward paying for the recently purchased saxophone. N Groth's dance orchestra furnished the music for the dancers, who num- bered many. EN’] liT\l\ AT BRIDGE Miss Anna Goldberg three tab of bridge at her home iast evening in honor of Miss Sally Croll. The prizes were won Misses Libby Miller, Betty l‘,.lm\)‘ and Betty Rubin. McDUN Clifton ¢, Main street, Plainville. end Trene Higgins of 59 East Main streot, this ol were married last night b David L. Nalr, fustice of the peace nattve, n memo: Death by Strangulation Tek 3 hina, April 28 (P we ¥ Cainese communists, inelnd- L woman, J sted in the recent raid by the northern authorities on building attached to the soviet en bassy here, were executed today by strangling, it w semi-ofticially an- nounced. NO NEW ACADEMY (P)—Kecre- v Wilbar has disapproved a move. | | ment to establish a second naval cademy on the west coast or some other place. Writing to Representative Thateh- or, of Kentucky, Mr. Wilbur auoted a ¢hll1 of New York, and h ntial part of a report made to Arthur Little, jr. Mir Vim by Rear Admiral Nulton, super- newspaperman, married Annapolis academy Gage of Los Angeles hare yester- recommended against day in ecremonics place i within an hour other. FATHER AND Los Angeles, Callf, Arthur Little, N lisher, married arlott, taking of each who strongly SRR RSraEn a | A SPECIAL ror ‘Attractively arranged Bas- kets and other novelties for the Kiddies. Priced as low as 25¢ Come and visit our Greenhouses at Maple Hill, You'll be delighted and surprised. Watch for Our SPECIAL Next Week BOLLERER’S POSY SHOP The Telegraph Florist of New Britain PROF. BLDG. TEL. 886 break on the Teport, T Weak food a4 died 1 of a poor better | spots also cropped her of the oelvea ST(](]K PRICES IN DOWNWARD TUMBLE ":Heavy Selling Responsible for| 2d soma compar PUTNAM & CQJ Members New York & Hartford Stock Exchanges 31 WEST MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN TEL. 2040 HARTEORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW TELEPHONE 2-1141 We offer: Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co. Price on application. Burritt Hotel Bldg. New Britain Telephone 3580 MEMBERS NEW YORK AND HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGES Donald R. Hart, Mgr. 100 shares Union Mfg. Co. We do net accept Margin Accounts. r and Aroostook continued its | bad | 1musem ani afte r midday | ap- T"l MARKET AT 2:30 P. M. hed by High 14014 i 1091% Che & Dye rican Can Am Woolen Anaconda \tchison Bald Loco {Balt & O De Pasco & Ohio &8 P Gy Cop Corp C M R | Chile Ciirysl Colo) Cor | Do Bros Du Pont De to call | Motors North Iron Oro Cifs Gt North pfd Hudson Motors {11 Central Intog&aG 1 T entertained | Marland 011 Mid € Mo K Mo Pac p Mont W ! lLead 19 Y Central ..147% NYNH Nor & W, | North | North Pac | Mot Arrow tadio Corp Sine| Texas & Pa \Tobacco Pr | Unfon Fac United Fruit U8 Ct Ir Pipa 2 17 8 Ind Al S Rubber . Ste . sh R Ward Bak W Elee White Motor Willys Over Wooiworth LOCAL Wai y R Putnam Tow STOCK! & Co.) HARTFORD rtford Conn. Trust Bldg. Tel.2-7186 NEW BRITAIN Burritt-Hotel Bldg. Tel. 2420 Closs (Furnished by Patnam & Co.) In \etna Casualty Actna Life Ins Co . Aotna Fire ... Automobile Tn Hartford Tire National Fire Phoenix Fire . Travelers Ins Co Conn. Gen Am Hardware . . Am Hosiery Beaton & Cadwell | Bige-Hfd Cpt Co com Rillings & Spencer com ' Rillings & Spencer pfd | Dristol Bras: | Uolt's Ar! | Hagle Lock \Illmll‘m‘llxrlllg \(0( S s 2 107 &0 1 a truce fol- uceting of parents ch committoes were with the school ort to reach an Stock I \d\mr'c '\Iemher Is Order d Suspended WY« I (UM —M of the BALANCE $253.848 HAD THOUBLE 18 . GETTING I HOHE ‘Remus Finds Palatial Residence Locked and Barrad att, O A Remus, mi i und it mor into his own palatiai to get out of the I'o ail Rem TREASURY man for his awn the stop order fn then sold it to the stop order, th stock for one year, Senator Copeland in Agreement With Speech h April 2 (CP)e s foreign poliey his specch at th er in New York oday by Senator (UP) hoot- to get tha Ol me here smou 5 toward Nicara- Copeland tect our nation countries but we must virit of freedom and them.” had called on the presi- com pnnh(mvm . Sharpe of the boa | 5 prohibition 1 13200 Price il |ana barr foster a o ame DIE IN WR Wyo, April 28 (UP) a Colorado r train No a switch ensine hrought thtot nmen, serious in- 1 minor bruises dozen passengers THREY collision 28 between southern pas: vas only with Tee S vies to anot doors stood betwe ¥ o 1% \ hi J. R. Morgan, C. B. Ca switch en- fireman of The chalf eposs ho! Ksmith was John Schroeder, w A, ¥ the switeh loc employ Morgan, 49, of —_— Associated Gas and Electric Company due to the fact th ogene, from whom be | had removed his effe Even the Remu i styl s of shoes 61 Broadway, New York No. 9 on Class A Stock iy dividend on Stock of 50¢ per share declared for the quarter to stockbolders ¢ close of busine: able May 2, w of i eight overcoats, irobe co 3 Dividend and into and tehed the swimming Stack may purchase pool » lad to leave inyway, and the water | ¥ main.” 1300 High Sclmol Puplh Return to Their Classes ® T Jacksonville, Indiana, April 28 () —~Threa hundred high school pupils on strike hore since Monday in pro- test against the dropping of three members of the faculty, returned to {their studies this morning but made Stock (or scrip cers shares) pur- be delivered entitled thereto on or before April 21, st payment in cash. M. C. O'KEEFFE, Secretary, ot 83 W. MAIN ST. | Fatnir Bearing Co Hart & Cooley Landers T detense,” doclared General | Grabowski on his appeal to superior “This damage cannot be |court from the fine of $250 and four loeal, but must raether months {n jail. Opposite 8t. Mary’'s Church. Residence Summer Ot.—1625-3. it known that they went back “pend- quate Iadwin, g settlement.” considere