New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 12

12 AUTOMOBILE THIEF JAILED AND FINED Takes Car Parked at Curb and Drives to Hartford “If you did that in the with Y. they would shoot you. ¢ Connecticut provides a $1,000 and one year's imprisonment for the first offense. 1 will fine you $100 and sentence you 1o 10 days in jail.” said J police to Joseph Ricl of Church street witer the la 10 the charg without 1 declined Have west 1tomo- owner's permission, to make a statement. | Hun- | ¥ou no « lge » oclock 1 on was arrested in Har policemen follows Capitol av to ¢l overtaking him irned him 1o this morning. seen madd who this city just mid- | recant F 2 ney's Richardsor ing to the affair, arked near the c sided 1o it for a ri Iriving about on the outskirts he Alice Sher- , color . of 8 Donald . Hartford. at Corbin Place and he was wait- tford, | port of stre Church ing for a trolley car for Ha she accepted his offer of a ride had spent the evening at the home | of her aunt at 100 Che: | Dubiki testified Richardson by sight and had never had a speaking acquaintance \w'h‘ him He did not know who h Ji taken his car until Richardson was apprehended. Not Fit to Drive Auto Henry T. O'Neil, aged 47, Arch street was fined $100 and sentenced to ten days in the charge of operating an auto- al Red Cross. mobile while under influence of li-{ Not for a trifle would Hoover quor last Wednesday night. He took ' leave his muititudinous and import- COMMENDABLE WORK BY RELIEF FORCES, Page) tinued from First friends_that are doomed The Mississippl Valley is at war. a serious war, a long war, as proved of 718! by the presence in the flooded area nd costs | of Herhert Hoover, ail on | Commerce and head of the N an appeal. ant duties at Washington to remain Officer John O'Keefe testificd that he was standing in front of the Knights of Columbus building on Franklin square about 8:30 o'clock | engineers, and Gen indefinitely in this fight. With him are ary of War Davis, Gene wdwin, chife of al Cr: The NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1927. : l% JUn[iEs WILL TWO0 COPS SUSPENDED |Swedish Chorus to Sing BALLOONING COMES BACK IN EUROPE | e~ S ——————————————————— Germany is beginning to revive interest in ballooning, neglected since the war. The picture was taken at Gelzenkirchen, in the Ruhr, < i flated before the start of the elimination trials to decide which pilots would represent Germany in this year’s Gordon Bennett cup races, where that dauntless river fighter, ex-Governor John M. Parker, has been called like Cincinnatus from the plow to serve as flood dictator of Louisiana. | Between Vicksburg and Baton Rouge the same intense struggle is going on, will go on for many many | days. The same distressing things | are happening there today, that a week ago we saw on the threatened | levee above us. | Those who comprehended the ages of an unleashed Mississippi river dread an even greater disaster in Louisiana, This national calam- Iready the most appalling in | an history, must surely he added to as the mightiest of all in- undations sweeps onward to the gulf. i | The end is not yet. Perhaps the worst is just begin- ning. { while balloons were being ine : * SERVE ONGE MORE ;King, Holmes and Alderson to { Judge Spellers May 26 | Stella Gontarski is one of three pupils_selected as champion spellers |in the eighth grade at the Central, | Junior High school She has a chance against 23 others of ecqual grade to go to Washington next month for a whole week as the | guest of the Herald. | The final city spelling contest will | be a public meeting of the old| | | | hours would be the limit, and if the sea were rough the plane might have sunk at once, he said. Major H. 8. Broad, member of the 5 United States Schneider cup team, estimated the maximum time the piane could remain afloat as five or six hours, but he pointed out that Saint Roman and his companions might have been equipped with life belts which would keep them on the surface after the plane sank. STELLA GONTARSKI | fashioned spelling bee type. Tt will | take place in connection with the | regular luncheon of the Rotary | club, May 26. ! The three judges who officiated |at the city final contest last year | will officiate again. They are, P. | F. King, chairman of the board of | | education; Stanley H. Holmes, su- perintendent of schools, and Rev. | William H. Alderson, pastor of | Trinity M. E. church and chaplain | of the Rotary club. | The 24 school champions will be | guests of the Herald at the Rotary RAILROAD REJECTS | ! hotel at 12 o'clock noon on that | Chicago Park Policemen Are Accus- ed Having Beaten Up 13 Youths With Straps. Chicago, May 7 (M—Two South Park policemen have been stripped of their stars, suspended and order- ed to trial by the South Park board on charges of beating with a strap 15 youths, many from prominent south side familles. The officers are Edward McClel- land and Bernard Ziel. | One of the 15 boys whose stories are the basis of the charges is John Earle, 16, son of a brokerage house officlal. [Earle sald he was sitting near the 11th green of the Jackson Park golf course when Policeman McClelland took him prisoner at the point of a revolver. The officer said Earle was damaging the green. Earle told the park board that he was taken to a boiler room of a park building where he found a | dozen other boys. Later Officer Zicl | entered with two more youths, Earle | said. | “He took up a strap and Heat us all,” the youth continued. Parents of several of the boys | went at once to the police with their stories. The accused officers told the park board superintendent they thought it was the custom to punish | all boys who played on the golf | greens, { GERMANS DISAPPOINTED | Dislike to Sce Favorites Defeated but Flock to Tennis Mdtches Again This Afternoon. Berlin, May 7 (® — While dis- appointed at the showing of their tennis stars against Bill Tilden and Francis T. Hunter yesterday, Ger- man tennis fans flocked to the Red | and White club today to witness' the doubles match, feature of the | second day of the international tournament. Despite criticism by some sports | writers over the selection of play- ers for the German team, the ten- nis association adhered to its plan of using Dr. Heinz Landmann and Heinrich Kleinschroth in the dou- bles. Landmann fell before Hunter in vesterday's opening singles match by the straight-set score of 6-2, 6-1, 9-7. Tilden took the other sin- | of | gles from the veteran Otto Froitz- | day and will be escorted into the |yoim ot 6.3, 6-2, 6-4. ball room of the hotel. To the speller who wins the eity (Continued from First Page) way can be rounded in such a| In This City on July 9 The National Chorus of Sweden, the famous “De Svenske,” which will tour the United States under the patronage of H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolph of Sweden, will sing in New Britain the afternoon of July 9, it was announced today. The mat- inee concert will be given at the new hail of the Y. M. T. A. B. soclety, The chorus numbers more than 50 picked male voices, the finest that Sweden, the “land of song,” can produce. The American intinerary in- cludes 35 cities, including all the metropoll. The appearance of the great chorus here is regarded as an outstanding musical attraction. Two New York concerts will be given at the beginning and at the close of the tour. The New Britain Window Cleaning Co. ND— Auto Laundry announces the opening of its new, modern and completely equipped AUTO LAUNDRY 187 Arch St. (rear) furnishing the same unexcelled service that has marked manner as to make travel safe {final spelling contest, goes the trip Shen he heard a crash, and on in- | high command of America appears vestigating he found that O'Neil had [at the battle front because of the turned the corner of national ¢ er of this crisis, be- | nd Rockwell avenue ause the entire power of the U, S. s . with the result that the car | MUst be invoked to combat it. struck Mrs. Anna Kreske of § Hart- | These capable officials arrived ford avenue, injuring her arm, and shburg yesterday morning at 7:15, and like good soldicr« went at o U a telephone pole. O'Neil * = 2 influence of liquor, | ! GG tered away in social entertrinment Ll "',‘"‘ e mforth {estified that | THe secretary of war and chief mili R 11 beep fary officers inspected our camps Lo aaIiie ne 4 in which many thousands of i wine prior to the accident. He in ! : refugees are being cared for. not intoxicated, the licutenant Wi but he was not normal and in lis opinion he was not in fit condi- tion to drive an automobile. i O°Neil, in his own defense, testi- | ficd that he cut the corner so! sharply the collision with the pole | resulted. He did not believe he was | intoxicated, although he had been | drinking wine. Prosecuting Attorne Woods told Judge Hungerford th officials of the manufacturing con- | cern where O'Neil is employed | highly of him, saying he is! of the best workers in the plant and they were surprised that he should have become involved in | trouble of this kind. Joseph Falasco, aged 46, of 255 Myrtle street, charged with operat- | ing an automobile on Myrtle strect | while under influence of liquor, | abont 1 o'clock this morning, plead- ~d not guilty and had his case con- | tinued until Monday morning in $500 bonds. Lieutenant Rival on the warrant as the state’s wit- MUCH MAPLE SYRUP | T'low of Sap This Sprinz Wa$ Gen- erous and Bumper Crop is Re- ported From Districts. Wakeficld, Mass sup flowed freely s year, enabling nter to produce - crop. A report of the New England crop | reporting service, made public here, howed th ¥ per cent g above ave The current po r. Of this tota md » sugar $ syrup, amount 00 gallons, compa lons last compared wi and five five-yeo GOSLIN IS IMPROVED Famous Outficlder of Washington Senators, Il with Pleurisy, Veel- ing Good, He Says, Dittshu Gosli Washin pleurisy * Goslin said so ton 8 ing fron pretty goor is now trom his He noved o a tral eam te slin, mtii his mates in Jack Onslow, with him in be W RE KILLED BY PEAR. and three from followin Today, they, were at Baton Ropge, |oline lanks, Wil full 1anks 10 |cover his health, __ The battle hills of V" gain dotted with tents as were in the stresstul days of '63. These tents were hurriedly erect- ed—five canvas cities ot order and system that sprang up almost in a night as increasing thousands fled for s highlands. Vet- cran asoned by many a campaign, cxpress their gratification and surprise that so much had been accomplished in such a short while, It seemed remarkable that with v stampeded 1 £ a few days since, the camp routine should now run so smoothly. nitary condi- o re excellent, Although these refugees, white and black, women and tiny babies, have been exposed to untold hardships, less sickness as developed among them than probably would have been the case 1 they remaincd at home and 1 no overfiow. FFor poor people who their little 1, their spirits marvelously good The rime thought of our distin- guished officers tdday was in the na- e of first aid- saving of hu- man life and the efforts to mini- mize further loss. After that must come the even greater probiem of rehabilitation—placing thess Ameri- can farmers in a position to make & shurg are officers, Jost are have guitude, for speed, wrrying it ! lands laod. nust be This Is a t of such comy that com forward Legin Whatever is to he donc » huge cultu have now, clse sts will estoarms steps must b other. Not a lick promise, but strong and permanent such bulwark: he known, that ahov ter is em refug app ippi fortis s ¥ now . \li cainps, or wai on 1 they know that loc and roofs of sub Control, tide of hattls OCEAN FLIER 1§ PROBABLY LOST (Continued from First Page) | Brazil, to alight at some isolated spot | on the Brazilian coast, it was con- | tended. Licutenant Coli, preparing for a flight from Paris to New York with Charles Nungesser, said Pilot Moun- eyeres, who accompanied Saint Ro- man, was the best navigator who ! could have been picked in the French nav | “He could have reached Brazil if nyone could,” said Coli, expressing confidence that the aviators would be found. Nungesser Ready To Go Pari 7 (UP)—Charles Nun- zesser and Francols Coli made final preparations today for their flight from Paris to New York, which they cxpected to-start at dawn tomorrow, weather permitting. Coli, the one-eyed French war | made final tests of his navigat- ing instruments, he expressed to the U'nited Press the hope that Clarence Chamberlin and Lloyd Bertand | would be ready to start simultan- vously from New York for Paris in their Bellanca monoplane. “We hope to make it a real race,” he said. “The Americans have a splendid plane and we know from ex- erience that they are daredevils as well as splendid fiiers. Bertaud's air mail carcer shows he is a very cap- able aviator. “I still Liope to eat dinner in New k Monday.” nd Coll had hoped ta is morning but wera unable pare the plane. The landing Nad to he changed, gasoline anks emptied and refilled to insure proper fuel, and navigating instru- ts verified. storms were reported In Atlantic tod herlin Also Ready Curtis Iicld, L. L, May 7 (UP)— statement by G. M. Be the Bellanca monoplane to attempt a New York- could not start for a was helieved today that the s in condition for Cha dventure said many alterations weeks ago, It was re- that fmmediately co record was es- nea hiad said the plane Id give any other rs' start and beat it to vas reported e want- thrill of contest nndertaking by rae- for the New York- lane four ho nd it ad t azardo to r pla Paris honor. Clarence wavigator and pilot for undersiood to he any time. wor ar) told the t n nt Ro- IFrench aviator. conld t in hLis pla ive hours if . missing 1 or e was It his Uil gasoline when down, the plane Lin two Lours 1. No definite 10 liad been forced ' received . test pilot, said a of Saint Ron vith pontoons, conld in above water cight orden hours in a calm sea with empty gas water, n's, lin favor of it. T ¥ . 2% 1to Washington, with all its thrills. Traftic would pass over the Eastimp. o"\(il| pe visits to the capitol, street crossing as is done now, but [to the many government Institutions, the Allen street crossing would be | {1 done away with entirely. side trips to Mount Vernon, a boat e : |ride on the Potomac, a trip to the In order to bring the project pro-{yn Mpr v perly before the council, Mr. Bell| s and possibly a visit | with President Coolidge. will present a petition and members Then there {will be banquets and sight seeing of the railroad committee will speak | yyo o "R SRC 5l It is expected that 'y, hoy or girl who goes | the railroad company Will offer nojxay Britain need not worry about opposition and with the approval of |5 opar clothing, because the Herald | the public utllitics commission. the|win take him or her to a depart-| work can be started this year. S0{yant siore and purchase a complete | far as is known, there i no opposi from | BIG LAWSOIT SETTLED Two Million Dollar Action Against Ford Motor Company is Adjusted | Out of Court. ! Detroit, May 7 (UP)—The $2,000,- 000 suit of John M. Blair, bullding contractor, against the Ford Motor company for alleged breach of seven contracts has been settled out of court, it was announced today. Five of the contracts were not In our window cleaning business during the 20 years of our experience in this field. We are featuring cleaning, with cold water and WITHOUT SOAP, with electric vacuum assuring complete cleanliness for your upholstery. We CLEAN YOUR MOTOR, GREASE YOUR CAR and offer FREE CRANK- CASE SERVICE. A telephone call to No. 888 will bring a careful, effi- cient driver for your car, who will also return the machine lustrous and refreshed with no waste of time. sha | outfit from hat to shoes. 3 Al 8 . | dispute, it was said, and were pald tion on the part of the council| ‘rnis s not all. Eversone who |in"fui” e other two contracts will T, | ®oes to Washington is sure of Win- |y, arpitrated, each side selecting a e |ning a prize. Only one person can yan, and the two agreeing upon a NEWINGTON “Ews win the first prize of §1,000 in gold, thirg | |but everyone will get a cash prize.| It s understood that | The first prize will be $1.000, sec-| charges against Blair, who was |ond, $500, third 3200, fourth $130.|charged by Charles 1. Sorenson, | th and seventh Justice of the Peace E. Stanley |00 3000 el Welles fined C. F. LaPointe $1 and| ‘ l‘ b l. |:\ 0 1 all th ]'J general manager of the Fordson costs in Newington court last night|C2CH: eighth $50. and all the other plant with having beibed Ford pur- on a charge of fishing without a lj- | cOntestants $35 apicce. . |chase agents, will be dropped. MEETINGS ‘AT CITY HALL party of several, was arrested Sat- jin city hall include: Supplies and urday by Deputy Game Warden (harles Yeager. {a pleaded guilty i e Gl 150 UL = ; printing committee, Monday night; ive Branch | ordinance and salaries committees, in court and Grand Juror Harold Peaceful Fconomic Collaboration | Monday night; park board, Wednes- | criminal | Russians Offer ot l.ucas recommended that the mini- mum fine be imposed. Judge Welles [rongayn agreed and also asked Warden JEEY R Bt Yeager to return LaPointe’s equip-| t© Capitalistic Countries. Minimum charge $1.75 Special Inducement Rates $12 OF SERVICE for $10 May we be favored with your inspection of the service in operation? “By their car you shall know us!” ment which was taken when he was arrested. LaPointe lives at 43 City, soviet Russia today officially offered | avenue, New Britain, { the olive branch of peaceful econ- T.ouis Miller of this town was fin-| omic collaboration to the capitalistic ed $5 and costs on a charge of as-| countries, sault. It is alleged that after two| Addressing the international boys had an argument, Miller at-|economic conference, Gregoire Sok- tempted to settle the matter for | olnikoft said the Soviet 1'nion would them and in doing so, beat one of welcome industrial agreements with | the boys. | foreign countries and capitalists, land that there was no reason why the world could not have pacific competitions between the two econ- omic systems represciited by the Soviet and the other countries. | Scorcs of delegates left their | Geneva, Switzerland, May 7 (P—! Through a misunderstanding, Mr. Tibibets, the engincer of the Connec- | ticut Co., did not meet the select- men at Maple Hill avenue yesterda s had.been planned. They were to | inspect the rond and the trolley| benches and gronuped themselves | tracks at the corner of Maple Hill| about the rostrum better to hear the avenue and Robbins avenue and de- | address. At its conclusion, M. Sok- | termine whether or not the tracks OInikoff was lengthily applauded. should be raised at that point. A - meeting will probably be held ,\‘on.] day or Tuesday ZION CHURCH T. Members of the Union A. ) Zion church are holding their nual tag day today in an effort raise $1,50 Miss Rose Davison of Ohio will | be the eaker at the next meeting of the W. C. T. U. which will be, held Thursday afternoon at 2:30. s Davison is director of Ameri- q n of the National W. C. T. . and has been working in this state for about two wecks, Mildred Goodale, daughter jamin H. Goodale and a stu- dent at the Peter Brent Drigham ospital in Roston, is spending a two weeks' vacation here. Mr. and Mrs. E. Dunlap Slater and langhter, Barbara, of Newington, © returned home after a visit at » home of Rev, and Mrs, Harold Hayward in Worcester, Mass, HAS NARROW ESCAPE | Governor General Wood of Philip- pines Fscapes When His Car is Sent Into Ditch. Manila, “fay 7 (P—Governor 1 Leonard Wood badly nup and narrowly escaped vious injury today while returning Manila from Bagnio where his ive ¢} ffenr shunt auto- obile into liteh to oid hitting The driver swerved t went over a rock pil in the diteh. experionce of the car broke of Manila A statement ing the governor Iy shaken neral Wood has heen living at Baguio, a resort north of here, for several nonths in an effort to re Gone his car so it Ianding Additional trouble 1 the steering gear forty miles north o was Such a little chap to bear a name like Peter Karageorgeviteh, not to mention the responsibili- ties which go with the name. Peter is crown prince of Jugo- Slavia, and heir to the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, no casy job even for a grown man, g o later say- ral had been ) Goat Getters * T ST P WONDERFIL To HAVE GO MANY o f”