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GEORGETOWN STAR BESTS BRITISHER Jobuny Gibson Defeats Lord Burghley in Special Match Franklin Field, Philadelphia, April 23 P—Lord David Burghley, titled British hurdler from Cambridge uni- versity, was defeated by Johnny Gib- i son, stock Fordham university star, in a spectal 400 meter hurdle race it the Pennsylvania relay carnival. Another Cambridge entrant, T. C. Livingston-Learmonth, was third and last. Elliott Leads Virgil Elliott, the “Flying Parson” | from Bethany college, West Virginia, 20t off to a good start in his bid for all around athletic honors today when he won the 100 meter dash, | tirst event in the intercollegiate Jecathlon championship featuring the opening of the Pennsylvania re- lay carnival, | lliott broke the tape in 11 25| seconds, equalling the carnival de- | vathlon record he established last vear. This was one fifth second bet- ter than the performance of his near- st rival, Dick Sturtridge of Depnuw aniversity, Ind¥ina. Then athlctes from the east, south | and midwest started the gruelling all | iround ten-event program which was to last all day. The decathlor summaries: 100 meter dash—Virgin Elijott, Bethany college, 11 2-3 seconds Richard Sturtridge, Depauw univer- sity, 11 3-5 seconds; A. Stratton, Pennsylvania, and Ralph White, New York university, 11 4-5 cent Moroney, Georgotown, and John Doherty, Coliege of the City of Detrolt, 12 seconds; George Welcza, ki, Boston college, Allen Logan, Emory university, and Vernon Ken- nedy, Missouri State Teachers' col- lege, 12 1.5 seconds; Frel Wissher, Georgetown, 12 1-5 seconds. Running Broad jump—Logan, 21 feet 11 inches; Elliott, 21 feet, 7 3-8 ; hes; Sturtridge, 21 feet 3 7-8 inch inches; 20 feet 6 1-2 inches; Kennedy, 19 ©t 8% inches; Stratton, 19 feet 4% inches; Welczwki, 19 feet 4 13 inches; Weisher, 18 feet 8 1-2 inches. Shot Put—! 41 feet 5-8 feet 3 3-8 {v"elv 10 3-8 . 85 feet, 2 3 hes; Weisher,”32 feet § 3-8 inch- High jump: Doherty, § feet 11 hes; Sturtridge and Logan 5 feet Stratton and Wiesher, inches; Iennedy, 5 fe, lliott and White, 5 fee : Wilczewski, 2 inches; | ., 6 5 feet, 2 514 53 1-5 second 5 seconds; Stratton, | ski, 45 1-6; ONE HILLED WHEN AUTO HITS TRUCK (Continued from First Page.) Jiere, He was driving the women to New Haven. He reported the fnci- dent to his employer and this morning was In readiness to attend the inquest. Coroner Mix and his stenographer went to the place where the truck was parked and looked over condi- | tions. He received reports from a! state officer who had come from the | Centerbrook barracks after notifica- | tion had gone there of the collision. The coroner took testimony of wit- nesses. At the sanitarium it was | stated that Miss O'Keefe's condition during the forenoon showed no im- provement and while her injuries were mostly faclal there were evi- dences of shi The only eye witness story which could be glven to the coroner, it was nunderstood, was by Dudley, driver of | the sedan who claimed that he did | not see the truck until it loomed up in front of his car. MAY GIVE LAND FOR ROAD 10 HELP PARK PROJECT Rev. J. E. Klingberg Considers Gift to City of Strip Owmed by Children’s Home. Land for extension of Cambridge «reet from Linwood street to Doerr’s pond may be made available should the common courncil agree with members of the city plan com- mission that the Doerr property aid ts immediate environs would be de- rable for a municipal park. Soma years ago, Rev. Dr. John 1. Klingberg, superintendent of the hildren’s Home, offered to deed a |* section of his property to the city to extend the strect. The park proposi- tion had not been considered at that time and the proposal was rejected. Dr. Klingberg is not definitely on record as willing to extend the offer at this time, but he has agreed to! consider, with clty officials, such a | project. YOUNGE MONDELL INJURED Washington, April 29 (®—Willlam H. Mondell, 23 year old son of for- mer Representative Frank W. Mon. dell, was seriously injured here to- day when his automobile crashea against a steel trolley pole. He ap- parently lost control of the ma chine when the steering gear be- came deranged. Physicians did not consider his condition as critical. CHARGF. DISMISSED West Palm Beach, Fla., April 29 (#) — Charges that Paris E. Singer, heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and president of the Palm Iicach Ocean Realty company, got £1,500,000 under false pretenses were dismissed today at a prelimi- nary hearing before F. M. Houston, a justice of the peace, iso {will be divided among the =ergeants. to the day | continue on this shitt, {in the United S . land Germ | patrolman. | detective burcau for {Avpril 19, {Qctober 4, 1918, Jioe pende ‘of the Main strect rai { Removal |at |among the pupil; [report on tha tickets indic: LIEUT. MATTHIAS RIVAL PROMOTIONS MADE BY POLICE BOARD, (Continued From First Page) force, which will be filled later, At a special meeting next Tuesday eve- nin 7:30 o'clock, appointments to the supernumerary force will be made, | Shift in Assignments | Chiet Hart announced today that Sergeants-Elect Feeney and Stadler, whose appointments are effective May 1, will replace Street Sergeants P. A. McAvay and Michael Flynn, who will have charge of the night | patrol force, and later a rotating| plan will probably bs put in effect that the night and day work Under this arrangement, there will be five scrgeants in the detective Rival, promotion is effective May 1 horn in Hartford, April 1, 1% was appointed a supernumerary of- lcer April 24, 1912 and on June 1, 1914 he was promoted to the regu- | far force. He was on night duty| for a while before being transforred | force as patrol driver| and on August 1, | lt\i:l\ *d to the (4-["'-\ tivo bureau as a sergeant. On Feb- | roary 1, 1923, he was shifted to the whose {position of night desk aergeant and |° nce then he has been in charge of | headquarters on the midnight to 8 m. shift. As licutenant, he will| thus carrying | nlan of the commissioners to ! nking officer in charge at dquarters at all times, Sergeant-Elect Feeney was born | in New Dritain, Nov. 23, 1590 ang wag appointed to ‘the supernumer- ry force July 14, 1914, lle served ou Tay | | iy almost two ye 19, shortly \s appoinied a regular He has served in the| veral years | and has been active in liguor law crforcement. Sergeant-elect Stadier was 1891, in New Britain. He was appointed a supernumerary Nov. 80, 1917 and a regulor patrolman the two years' serv- | o requirement having been because of the shortage men during the war period. } a traffic officer prior to 1 charge of the liquor law enforce- ment work in the department. A few wecks ago, he was transferred from the tive bureau to a day beat. Chief Hart announced today that the commissioncrs set May 9 for the appointments of the new patrolmen to become eficetive. Changes In Traffic Lights The traffic light system about the | center was discussed at some length during the meeting, and considera. tion was glven to a plan whereb: a light would be installed Just south | ad crossing | on the cast'side of the street, to off- | set the dangerous condition caused by the stopping of vehicles on the railroad tracks when the lights| north of the track halt the traffic. | of the light at the New Britain Trust company corner to a, point directly oppesita the head of Chureh street, is also being consider- | ed, complaint Liaving been made that the present location of this light im- | pairs its visibility. The new light were intended serve as beacons at night through the flashing of the amber rays, bui thus far they have not been operat ed in this manner, it was reported the meeting. This feature will also be attended to. on No return, he of to | CENTRAL JR. H. S. NOTES The tickets for the Bird recital | at the Junior High school on March | 11 by Edward Avis are eelling | fast, The latest ! es that is selling the most -A tickets. The leaders so far this year in the Educational hanking are $-1-A, 8-2.A and D, who have had 100 per cent so far this yea The gym classes at the Central | Junjor high school are now pla; ing Indoor baschall in the schoo! ard during class periods. In the| th grade a league has been start- the gym periods. CONFER ON GARAGE A conference will be held OIIIS] afternoon at 4 o'clock at the (vfllce' |of Prosecutor Joscph G. Woods in | 'm effort to reach an agreement in | r'ho dispute occasioned by !‘on\l\r-‘“lll return when the waters hav sion of a garage into a dwelling | house on Commonwealth avenue. | L. Willlams, owner of the struc- ture, has retained Attorney David | L. Dunn to handle his interests. Attorney Dunn and Inspector A. N.| Rutherford of the building depart- | ment have been invited to the con- forence. Rutherford, acting on complaint of owners of nelghboring Iproperties, has reported facts in the ease to the prosccutor with a view to bringing about prosccution. [were de {south, | bistory of the 1 {dykes nearly | Louisiana {tor safe born | s i be released at short intervals. | ing off into t | Ithey counted the lall of the resldents jand take their NEW BRITAIN PROMOTED TO HIGHER POLICE DEPT. DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 192 RANKS . A telegram received hero says train service has heen discontinued compelled to re w MOTORCYCLE POLIGEMAN i cident oc few wor SERGT. JOHN C. STADLER ance Kumm 'LEVEE BELOW T0 BE BLASTED (Continued From First Page) - dicated today to the racing waters of the Mississippi. By this sacrifice it was hoj New Orleans, quaintest of cities, and the metropolis of nmight Le saved from the fate | of more than a score of towns to the northward now buried under waters let loose fn the greatest flood in the tion. War-Like Scencs. War-iike scenes were presented as plans went forward for the first de liberate cutting of the lcvees since the control of the father of water: was undertaken by this system of f a contury ago Long hefors the zero hour of noon, armed soldiers of ate were patrolling the breast- of t moved here an there on the river and scaplancs droned overhead, n of them equipped, however, with anything ore dangerous than a camera. Troops On the Scene, With the crack of dawn a detach- ment of the National Guard march- |ed e selected for the b iles south of ¢w Orleans, and spread out fan wise to give a last warning to the few hundred residents of the terri- tory who had failed to keed early admonitions to abandon their homes round in or neur New Or- Other soldiers d the roads from this city and S Wert given that three hours before noon the highways be cleared and the ca within two miles of the iuc.flmu‘ closed to 4 wilitary pa admitted within the cordon of troops | extremely d plans SSe8 wer pai by state tion with oftice the United army engineers corps, but| were jealously guarded for rea- sons which were not disclosed. 1000 Foot Br Word did go out in advance, low er, that the break would be one thousand feet long, between the par- of St. Bernard and Plaque- nd cxtending northward from L point witlin a hundred yards the piant of the Orange (iro finery company, & largs industrial .dvnhul works. \e purpose was to loosen the sive levee along that stretch by amile in many small , thus leaving to the force of he tlood waters the completion of the breach which is expected to re- duce the level of the waier here ap- proximatcly three feet in from three to &ix day: safety Precautlons. Extraordinary precautions mi were taken to prevent accident and in- who area. fety of all thos within the restricte ssued from the first state military district provided that after the engineers' wug had sigualled that preparations for the blasting werc completed an interval of 15 minutes would be aliowed for the romoval of troops from the danger zone and for a aplane to ascertain il the area was clear of eivilians, The planc's signal of * clea was three white sheets ot paper to That, too, was the signal for the firing of sure the might be Orders i | the blasts by means of an electric ted pn state engincers’ .asing the waters wheih d to inundate bLetore drain- ‘sun’* operal tug, thus re eventually were expe about S60 re mi gulf. Few Vessels Allowed Besides the engineers' tug. more than half a dozen other crait were | permitted within the restricted area | —the Alexander, carrying Governor Simpson and his party; the Com- manche, carrying NeWSPaper corres- pondents; the Magnolia, carrying an official party, including Major Gen- eral Jadwin, chief of army engineer: a scout boat and several coast g cutters for patrol duty, The animation and bustle at Poy- dras was in marked contrast to the acted at the concentration | camp at the army base here where hundreds of the several thousand ersons forced from their homes in aq rd seenes e |(‘d- games Leing played off during|the two southeastern parishes were | Silently from early morn | hours until the flood waters would be released to | rush across country inundating the | homes where their life interest I where they long had lived anc worked and where they ultimat gathered. receded and the state has repatred | ch made in the levee, Compensation Pledged State and city have guaranteed compensation | for the damage the waters may do their property, but even in the face of this they temporarily gave up their homes with reluctance if not | with stronger feclings., Some of the tnbabitants of the two parishes re- sed to leave, preferring to remain chainces with the the bre flood waters than to becoma efugees in a camp for six weeks or ile a deliberate break dm d in lower Louisiana, the Mis sippi river higher up was smashing t the levees with such force ti large army of men worked r day to strengthen thoss on t bank in the hope that they co withstand great flood crest be ing down toward Greenvilie tod and augmented below by the returs of flood waters to the parent s from the Mis e southward from breaks in the Ar- sas river levees in sou \rl ansas as well as that through crovi Red river and smaller strea A new area In Mississippi near Yazoo C was under water as a re- ult of ths break of a levee on a | canal there and the flogd was run- ning into the streots on the lower the little Mississippi city. Ad¢ ll!h\l"vl towns in Arkansas were refugee sity coming incre Additional hundreds w ing made homeless over the whole area daily and the Red Cross faced a remendous task in concentrating and caring for them, si M \ROO\I D IN FLOOD ZONFE Howard Humphrey of 16 R e-president of the . is marooned in Hot because of the floods Springs, Ark., Mm ning Specmls 7 In the Miss of the department _motore order Parents and Teachers treasurer, Miss Gr: food comr > informat ey was on a business trip to and stopped at Hot Springs. all 1 s St fs and he will be 1ain there until next far cek, BREAKS BONE IN ELBOW dward B. Kiely Injured When Ma- chine Throws Him to Ground ‘While Crossing cks vele Policeman Ldward B. thrown from his machina afternoon on East Main 1 suffered a splintered e T | ver the trolley tracks when th : Officer Kie! th emotoreycle only | Chief Hart said this afternoon hat Officers David Doty and Clar- will hegin tomorrow to take instructions in the op: when nec Yesterday, the officer erable pain hevanse o but its extent was not know intil toc when an X-ray picture was taken, Hold Annual Meeting | on of officers was held last the annual meeting of the chers’ association of hington school. The follow. Kuiper; Before the meeting, a conference setween the l»"!!‘"l‘ and the parents held. Miss Dor- of the dairy and Miss Rose Miller rendersd several 1 the school or- BRADSTRE REPORT York, April 29 (P—Brad- t's weekly compilation of han arings sho an aggregate (\" $10,068,474,000 an fncrease of 1.5 | I t over last year. Outslde of New York there was an fncrease | of 2.4 por ce to ]2:30 Leal ;1 Fresh SHOULDERS Lean Smoked SHOULDERS 1 18¢ 15¢ Short, Sirloin, Porterhouse Steak 1b. 39¢ Best Maine Best l"ure Potatoes pk. 39¢ LARD . All Day Specials LEGS GENUINE SPRIN( ROAST PORK (small) ... LAMB CHOP: ROAST VEAL BONELESS POT RO AST SUGAR CURED BACON . BEST FRANKFORTS . PR] IE RIB ROASTS (ho L] 1\c b 12¢ Veal ful' stew Lt"m (ou\ed Bocf YLAMB...... 1 38¢ . b 39¢ ... b 25¢ 22¢ 35¢ 18¢ 38(‘ 15¢ b 18¢ ned and 1ollcd) b Beef Ll\er Geeeeee Lamb Stew . SUGAR ' FLOUR | RINSO 10-1b sack 64 ¢ Pillsbury’: 25-1b sack $1.57, $1.15 [ Fmporaled MII‘"(MT.‘.A. yars Fresh Crisp Ginger Snaps s Best small pkg. eack 3¢ ck_llarge pks, 19¢ 3 cans 29¢ . 21hs 19¢ Sugar \(‘orn. Peas, (-rcen Ml'mg Beani 2 cans 20(‘ Best Rice . Pea Lima Beans . Chipso—soap Sunbrite Cleans Confectic Sugar . 2 bots, . bot. 10¢ Catsup e Cider Vinegar \V FD(-“ ()()D BU"‘]’[R (‘RL \'\IER\ Tub Fr exh \l.lde Challenge Milk ... Fancy Tomatoes Kidney Beans Fancy Succotash .. 2 Golden Bantam Corn 2 Sliced Pineapple .. Mustard pint hr Sweet Mised Pickles, qt. far 39¢ Maxwell Houso 0 Coffce ... Ib e 2 lbs. i or Pr mt FRESH SELECTE ,EGGS 3doz.81c -Flesh l’enmlt Butter lh 19c Good Luck Oleo ... 1b 32¢ CALIF. SUNKIST ORANGE Swi eet 'md J uicy !h .mc . lh “30¢ | 1coa l\ut Olco s st [’me Oleo .. doz. 29¢ E\tla Hemv (.rapef rmt S for 20(’- Large Ripe Bananas ............... dozen 25¢ Native Spinach ......... Sound Yellow Omons o peck 35¢ Y Ripe Tomatoes .. 1 Calif. Sunkist Lemous, doz. 20¢ New Potatoes ...... peck. 8¢ 1 1bs 23¢ Beets or Carrots, beh, 10¢ agus Dot wey Bleached Celery, boh, 22¢7 Hudson River Roe Shad Shad 16. |land Mackerel 14c lops 50c pt. merclal street. Ham Hart, New Britain General h night, er of the Power Co., ing of the Lions’ club next T leave H., where Mrs. Bryer becau {turned at | Winter streets a i noor cating a report hy Collins Paul Messina of 45 Lafayette str employed by the W The officers of the club are: Miss Helena Stahl, Miss Anna Gorman, vice-president; Mias Alice Stingle, treasurer, and Miss Irene social secretary. City Items for Saturday t committe 1g Minnie . With Miss airman, con- Constance Ostroski, Bessia a and the entertainment d of Helen Egan, Mary Donahue, 1o dance coms bangy Fresh caught I3 1b. Moore Bri Tel. 2 A son born to Mr. Jr., of 256 Hart Large 4 ows: Fred J. Tormay treet and Miss 1 10 Broad st Bristol died this morr A. 8 Campbell, Conne will speak at t via Norden; th May Lestc + Gurson §. W. GIRLS BANQUET Mr. and Mrs. E. Successful Social Tunction Conduet- this evening K. for 1 Bryor ed at Shuttle Meadow Clah With GIRL STRUCK, IN HOSPITAL Factory Officials as Guests, ed 6§ years A ho Katz of ot the We tal 4 Finkl Hartfor hospital The detective burean Is Officer that an attempt we eak into Waiter Donol East Main street en by Grors WHEN YOU COME TO T PARTNG: o ™ ~ TPY THSE ON YOUR? 0B / ©1927 B NEA STRVICE. M. fon ‘al This Home Needs No Door Mat to get its “Welcome” Across! door comes you t KNOW a model of light here MUST le maodern con- how E t window and every poreh s plenty of Tassified Ads. Read “Real Estate for Sale”— In the Classified Ads Today THE HERALD Telephone | 925 Telephone 925 “The Paper With the Classified Ads™