New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1927, Page 1

|. MINISTER RESUMES | REVISED PLAN FOR MERGER I | News of the World By Associated Press ==Ml fl‘lfl ESTABLISHED 1870 . GRUSADE AGAINST e yonwe, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, OF THREE BIG RAILROADS " SUNDAY BUSINESS IN SOUTHWEST IS EVOLVED { I i b . Rev. Samuel Sutclifie Hits at & Proposed Opening of Movie Houses on Sabbath Afternoon DECLARES EARLY PURITANS | GAYE NATION ITS IMPETUS 1 .Mark's Rector Says Extension of » Local Option Rights is Dangerous —Picjures General Demoralizatiod of Countries Where Sunday is Not Recognized as Day of Worship. A plea against a tendency toward: commercializing the Sabbath was inade by Rev. Samuel Suteliffe, rec- tor of St. Mark's Episcopal church «t the luncheon of the Kiwanis club at the Burritt hotel today. He spoke on the proposed hearing on nd said the by putting it up to the various communities had “passed the law ned his address by stating 3 rdicss of just what their llef was, the restrictions imposed and the conirol of the fostered by the early Puritans helped the Uniled States to become the greatest mation in the world. erring directly to Sunday he said the question often asked “How Sunday if it He ope is right on Mon- he diverged for a moment to : the cxtension of the power of local. option beyond a certain point s is a dangerous tendeney and one hat should be watche: He said there are many compulsory cducation voted out if it became lecal optio “Men who have been brought up in the atmosphere of New England objeet to the further encroachmen would be a matter of \ (Continued on Page 17) PETER GURRAN DIES FROM HEART ATTACK Former Local Dry Goods | Merchant Succumbs Sud- denly in Stratford Stricken with a heart attack while e was riding in his automobile from his home to a barber shop in Strat- ford yesterday, Peter P. dry goods merchant in this city from 1912 until 1920, and a memb: the hoard of - public charities bout five years, ambulance as he was being hurried 10 the hospital yesterday afternoon. Mr. Curran, 37th hirthday anniversary, was born in Ireland and at the age of 12 yea me fo this country v. He and his ilip A, Curran, or ran Dry Goods Co, and conducted the vears Peter Curran withdrew business in 1912 ity for hrothe anized Cu of Waterbury business for 30 from the ated at 351 Main street % then sit e ,vas successful in business here. He | t0ld his business in 1920 and went into retirement. { He was very active in Irish affairs and for years he was the leading ipirit in the movements of several rish organizations in this city. vas & member of the \Mluch of his time was spent hors wack riding and the love he had for | orses never diminished. ¢ Ho was appointed to the hoard of wublic charities in 1914 by Joseph 1. Halloran, at that time mayor and erved o that board until 1918 vhen he retired. He was a member )t the Knights of Columbus and the ‘uphstag club of Stratford. Surviving him are his wife, a yrother, Philip A. Curran of Brook- yn, N. Y.: a sister in Paris, nd another sister New city. ™ uneral services {5:30 o'clock at hi dstreet, Stratford, £:30 o'clock and at & o'cloc James' church in that place. ment will be in the family Waterbury. will be held at home, 3045 Main Friday morning at at St Inter- plot in individual can a thirg be wrong | communities where | Curran, a | r of | passed away in an who was nearing his | nd settled | y nd came to this | where he bought the dry goods | store of Dennis Riordan which was | He | Emmett club. | L. F. Loree, Head of Group Involved; to Present Terms to I. C. C. Soon—New Financial Plans Provided. Washington, May 25 (#—A revised with President Coolidge. Later he Iplan for merger of southwestern |went into conference at the inter- railroads will be presented to the |state commerce commission with & interstate commerce commission | view to whipping into shape his new within ten days, L. F. Loree, head |merger proposal. of the railroad group involved, an- In disapproving the first proposal nounced today. {for the merger, the commission held The new plan which involves the |that the financial basis was not sat- Kansas City Southern; Missouri- isfactory, or-as-much as would pro- Kansas-Texas; and Cotton Belt rail- |vide that the Kansas City Southern, roads, will have a new financial set |the smallest railroad in the group, up but otherwise will be virtually the | would have conirolled the two larg- |same as originally presented to the er roads by stock ownership. commission, Mr. Loree said. The| Mr. Loree's conference today at commission disapproved the original [the commission offices was with | proposal. Commissioner Meyer, senior member | Mr. Loree called at the White |of the scction under whose super- {House House today but declined to vision the financial structures of pro- istate the nature of his conversation 'posed consolidations are considered. $33,000 PRIZES FOR MOVIE MAN STILL 1§ U. §.HONOLULU HOP AFTER YOUNG FLIER $25,000 for First and $10,- Zuker Willing to Pay Lind- 000 for Second Making | bergh $300,000 for Non-Stop Flight Film Series Star- | article James D, Honoluly, May 25 (P—The Bulletin, in & copyrighted announced today that Dole, president of the Hawaiian Pineapple company, has oifered & prize of $25,000 to the first aviator 'and $10,000 to the second flier to make non-stop flights from the Pa- ific coast to Hawail during the months starting August 15 Dole was quoted as being anxious | {01ts of the amusement world Lindbergh compete, but if i feanesandtinedbntally the New York-Paris flicr does not 10 make him rich sire to enter the offer may be( ‘L am certain” he told the el “that T never The official announcement says: | SOPS in my life. 1 James D. Dole, prosident of the hink of lx‘r.-onlc paying money to see [Hawaiian Pineapple company ot |'M¢ dance. 1 [*onolulu and a member of the Thedtrica i : 4 which probably would “."".“I ’\””4““““ 1" clation? i o millionaire overnight simply | {believing that ‘Captain Charles A. | | A x do mot impress Lindbergh. There |Lindbergivs — extraordinary feat I is’ no stage money involved in the ivros:«ng the Atlantic is a forerun- | geone oo to Lindbergl, cither. ner of eventual tran ific air| " Adolph Zuckor visited the Ameri- | transportution, oifers 000 0130 embassy four times yesterday to the first flier and $10,000 1o the | girer Lindbergh a $300,000 contract second flier to cross from the North American continent to Honolulu in | . non-stop flight.” The only attempt to span the Pa- |cific by air from the west coast to | onolulu was made August 31, 1925, when two navy planes in command of Commander John Rodgers left {San Francisco. One was forced | down the 300 mile mark, but {that in which Rodgers flew recach- | od a point about 100 miles from | ithe islands when his gasoline sup- | Fly gove out. Rodgers and his crew |were rescucd after drifting for nine days | Movements ¢ both May (UT")—Opportuni- rn hundreds of thousands of dolla have failed ad of Charles A. Lindbergh just as the adulation of Paris has failed to cause that head to swell. “We' not " remarked Lindbergh in reference to the ef- to e actors, £ a whole sporting and movie of- ol on Lindbergh's achievement in th air. But, Lindbergh refused the of- fer. Zukor still is hopeful. He told the United Press that he would kecp after Lindbergh's signature if it took all summer. of Lindbergh since he arrived here, it was predicted that'Zukor would ail. Universal pictures offered Lind- bergh a contract and four other cables from Hollywood wanted Lind- bergh to dive within range of the camera lens. Paris agents of Amerl- can theatrical producers have been pestering the flier wherever he could | be found. An offer to ps 60,000 for lec- tures in six English cities brought | | only this reply: My mother expects me home But, Lindbergh knows that some business offers to his liking may be included among the bushels of mail | received for him at the American | embassy. He instructed the secre- | |tary in charge of the mail to for- ward all business mail and telegrams |to his St. Louis, Mo., backers for | further study. “L like the at were launched re- in Honolulu and Cali- | ornia for non-stop flights as a ommercial enterprise but no defi- ‘mlo plans have been formulated. New York, May 25 (®—The Bel- nca monoplane Columbia in which | Clarence Chamberlin had hoped to be the first to France, will be entered in the $25,000 contest announced by Jjumes D. Dole in Honolulu toda The Fokker monoplane America | Which also was “beaten o the post” in the Paris flight by Charles Lind- l' vgh, may try the Hawaii flight and 1 may not. Charles A. Levine, chairman of {the Columbia Airerait Corporation, |backers of the intended Chamberlin {flight to France, received news of | the Dole prize with keen intcrest. | "Of course we'll try for it,” he said. “Chamberlin will be the pilot |and he will have with him a navig tor to be named later, “As the Dole flight can't be staged until August 1 we shall make an- | other flight in the meantime, but! we're not ready to say where to yet. 'his time we're going to do some- {thing first and talk aboat it after- rd.” Grover Whalen, speaking for Rod- n'm Wanamaker, sponsor of the America ted in the nnouncement of the Dole contest, but would not commit himself as to the likelihood of the three engined plane being entered In the western race. | “This doesn’t change our present ! plans at all,” he said. “We have an- nounced that our first prcject is to fly to Paris and that is what will be ! done. We can make no statement | {just mow about a possible Hawaii flight.” | It was pointed out to him that | there would be plenty of time for a in the building. ; = { Paris flight before the Dole contest| All of the firemen were sald to- | opens. | day to be recovering. | “Oh yes,” he replied, “I see that, e any detinite an- | Paul Kelly Guilty on | nouncement now.’ 1v Killed Whi Tos Angeles, May 25 (P—Panl Instantly Klfled While | Kelly was convicted of manslaughter Listening in on Radlo,tod.w for the killing of Ray Ray- Sudbury, Middlesex, E mond, hushand of Dorothy Mackaye, 25 P—Experts | Kelly's netress friend, in a first at- peouliar_circumstances surrounding | {Ack In Raymond's Hollywood home, |the death last night of Mrs. Violet | The conviction carrics a penalty Rainford, who was instantly 1m|ed‘°";|;:‘r"'o‘; 33":;;" e apparently as !lld .rexlfl'. of an elec- set Tuesday, May 31, as the date for tric shock while listening with ear |00 COERARR A8 0 E8 phones to a radio crystal set. It appears that she was holding KELLY (0““)“1.‘"[ an electric reading lamp at the time. It is thought there may have been | a short circuit in the lamp and that sho recoived the shock through her|iagay at Lutheran hospital. Kelly steel spectacle frames coming into | wag operated upon for acute appen- contact with the radio Wead phones, | gicitis yesterday. He will be un- the current being grounded through | able to play baseball for at least six the radio set, | weeks, it was daid at the hoepital. movi Lindbergh aid in discussing some of the pro- spectator’s point of view, I don't care much for play and I would sort of hute to take women shows. I can't picture my- selt dancing in vaudeville.” FIREMEN RECOVERING All 30 Hartford Men Overcome By Smoke Better Today—Storehouse Ordercd Changed By Chief. Hartford, Conr. May 25 (@h- Following a fire in the storage bins of the Hartford Charcoal Company 151 Walnut street, here yester- in which thirty firemen were rcome by gas fumes, fifteen of | them being removed to St. Francis' ‘h“spn.vl. Fire Chief John F. Moran | today ordered the Charcoal com- | pany to move its storcrooms. The location was described as particularly dangerous, as on one side the bullding excelsior is stored and one the other side ofl. This was the third serious fire to occur | but we can't mak re iny TODAY Kelly, infielder for the Cincinnati | Reds, to turn the | to | United | would hate to | for a series of moving pictures based | But from observations | | posals made to him, “but from lha‘ Manslaughter Charge | New York, May 25 (UP)—George | was reported resting easily | Lindbergh Can Have Air Mail Job Back Any Time He Wishes Washington, May 25 (UP)— “Lacky” Lindbergh, who used to carry the mails, can go back to his old task if he: wants to, Postmaster General New says: Informed of Lindbergh's wish in Paris to be back in the air mail service, New declared: “He can have anything in the shop.” BURIED IN RUINS OF HOUSE, UNHURT Brook St. Dwelling Topples But Naples Escapes STRUCTURE IS CONDEMNED tion Causing Floor To Drop—Re- mainder of Building Razed Today on Rutherford's Orders, Patrick Naples of 120 Beaver strect was hurlcd 25 feet amid fly- ing bricks and mortar when the west wall of a house in course of construction at 114 Brook street, | I collapsed yesterday afternoon while he was bracing the building at the second floor. He {injury. The collapse came when foundation sank in soft earth, part of which is believed to he quick- | sand. The second floor dropped with lan ominous ereaking and the brick wall pulled away. A huge the woke through the wall under Na-. o8’ weight and he was hurtled out- | l ward, ground with bricks landing all about him and | with heavy pieces of lumber, h\ the break, whizzi by hi: | Puts Foot Through Wall | Neighbors communicated at once "with Building Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford and he was at the scene of the collapse within a few min-| |nh\s. An examination of the prem- ! ises convinced him it was unsafe to ow further work and he ordered | sam Napl |out of the falling to the building. from further breaks. | the s | erford placed a foot against the | | bricking ncar the base of the build- |customary brief ing with the result that another| | ole appeared in the wall, where upon investigation at close quarter ceased at once. Rutherford’s theory fs that the heavy rains of the past few weeks ashed away the new mortar. The best, the inspector also learned. Must Start Al Over. After a_conference this morning, mission for removal of the remain- | ing wall. This was accomplished by | |attaching ropes about the building |and tugging with heavy rope. A ermit to shore the house had been sought earlicr in the day, but the with Nap! inspector would agree to nothing but ; the Atlantic by air.” |a new start. | Two other houses in the neigh- borhood being erccted by Naples | were subjected to examination but \\\l-rP ro\md to be safe. HALEY, AMERICA, IS {Brilliant New York Golfer Defeats British Star I on Last Green part in one of these Hoylake, Eng., Ma breathless a finish as was ever scen in champlonship play on this fam- | lous old golf course, the | American, Edwin H. Haley of New | York, rose to fame today by def: ling Cyril Tolley, former title holder and one of the favorites for the 1927 | British amateur which the present tournament. will decide, The match went to the last green. Starting sensationally with | irdie three Haley had T | zreat man of golf struggling all the | way. but struggling heroically and | | magnificentl ting halves and staving off the vie- tory which seemed certain for the American at the sixteenth. Haley struck a bad patch of golf jafter winning the difficult third with !a fine par four. He lost the fourth, | squared the fitth and then dropped three in succession to become | down at the ninth, Then, as the homeward journey started over the great sand dunes skirting the sea, he et himself for the fight which continued until the very last putt, where the big gallery saw him win and heartily applaud- jed him for downing their star. | Beginning with the ninth, all loles were halved with the excep- tion of the thirteenth, fifteenth and cighteenth, all of which went to the Another likely championship contender also was eliminated when 1. H. Jacobs of the Royal and An- { cient club defeated C'. O. Hezlet of the Royal Portrush (‘I\llv. 5 and 4. Roger H. Wethered, the noted fritish star, kept in the running however, by defeating Ernest Has: . 3 and 2 after being one down |at the turn. Wethered took six holes in succession, A. Jamicson, Jr, eliminated E. C. Hatton 4 and 3, while the young railway workman, William Sutton, of the West Cheshire Artisans de- feated Samuel Robinson, 8 and 2. Rain Washes Away Weak Founda- ! cscaped without | hole | loosed | vajor is cqualled only by head. | | foundation work was not of the very | | Rutherford gave per-!way people today are asking VIGTOR OVER TOLLEY 25 (P—In as | young | championship | olh winning holes or get- | ) |ernor's two | | oftice |state for first FRENCH CHAMBER FORMALLY GREETS CAPT. LINDBERGH American Today Attends Most, Tmpressive Function Thus | Far Accorded Him PROYES HIMSELF T0 BE CAPABLE AS A SPEAKER Wins Hearts of French Lawmakers | | by His Wit and Modesty—Is Intro- duced to Assemblage by Ambassa- W BRITAIN HERALD 1927. —.TWENTY PAGES. 15 Millionth Model T Ford Is Assembled At the Shops Today g Detroit, Mich, May 25 (UP) — The 15,000,000th ord Model T automobile is scheduled to be as- sembled at the Fordson plant of the company about 3 p. m. today, it was learned here today. Officials of the company re- fused to comment on a persistent rumor that this machine would be the last before production ot another model is begun. OUTLINES PLAN OF Y. M.C. A, GROWTH Tnvestigator Forwards Result of dor Herrick as “The New Am-[ bassador of America.” 3 UP—Charles Lind- {bergh, “the new ambassador of America,” was introduced to the | French chamber of deputics today | {by Myron T. Herrick, “temporar- | ily retiring ambassador.” Lindbergh | received a tremendous ovation from ! {the crowded chamber. | Impressive Ceremony The reception the most im- | pressive formal function thus far of | |u|e American airman’s triumphat | |stay in Pa Pernand Bouisson, | president of the chamber of depu- {ties, at whose side stood Vice-I'resi- | dents Pate and Lafont, greeted th birdman officially, while below th dais stood General Gouroud, presi jdent of the aviation group, Deputy Colonel Picot, head of the group of war mutilated known as the “Brok- len Mugs” and almost the entire ship of the chamb; “All of us acclaim you,” M. Bous- |, | sion told Lindbergh “and all of us | pay tribute to the illusirious aviator | |first to cross the Atlantic, whose his mod- Paris, May | memne sty The trans-Atlantic flight, | |sion continued, aroused the greatest | {enthusiasm of all Franc; “If you had flown over the departments, | |over our cities and our villages, | vour welcome would have been the me as here. Ambassador Herrick, M. Bous- _contractor and owner. | Captain Lindbergh, Police head- | | quarters was notified and a police- | come which 1 make | man detailed to protect bypassers | To determine | of the foundation, Ruth- | proved that he was just as avi Aibacn agcordod M) Makes Neat Speech Captain Lindbergh himself facile an orator as his Tiost and in one of his addresses endeared himsel€ to every one of the deputies who crowded the president’s salon to welcome him. | “When Franklin came over here 150 years ago,” the aviator said, omebody asked him ‘what good i a trial balloon?’ His reply s | ‘what good is a new horn baby | When Bleriot crossed the channel in 11909 people asked ‘what good did it | |0 to cross the channel?” in the same | ‘what | good has it done to cross the Atlan- 2 T hope it will produce the! greatest good, not onlly for the great | spirit of friendship hetween the fwo | countries, but also in futu al | and regular communications Then tic Rounds of Applause | Captain Lindbergh's words had to ibe translated for his listene !they were grected with rounds and | rounds of applause as the dignified |legislators pressed forward to shake | (Continued on {SACCO-VANZETTI JURYMAN | FAYORS LIFE IN PRISON, Page 14) {One of Pancl That Convicted Two | Mcn Hopes Their Tives May i Be Spared. ! 55 Boston, May 25 (UP) | jurors who convicted Nicola Sacco {and Bartolomeo Vanzetti of first | iegree murder, about six yearsago, | {told newspaper men here today he | {was opposed to capital punishment | 4 wished that the lives of the| doomed radicals might be spared. Unless Gov. Alvan Fuller in- | tervenes cco and Vanzetti prob- v will die in the electric chair » week of July 10. I juror in question was Frank | Weymonth, | conferred for two | governor, Lieuten- ant Gov. Frank G. Alvan and At- | torney Joseph Wiggin, the gov- | personal counsel. Marden | been calied to the executive in connecction with the per- sonal investigation which Governor Fuller is making Into the Sacce- Vanzetti case. - Marden told newspaper men aft- or the conference that he believed lite imprisonment rather than the | clectric chair should he the ex- | treme penalty demanded hy the degree murder. At | the time of the trial, he said, he was in favor of giving Sacco anil | Vanzetti life imprisonment, but the law allowed no alternative. | Marden said that he was con- | ced that Sacco and Vanzetti | were guilty at the time of the tria! | and was still convinced of their guilt. He was more strongly opposcd | |to capital punishment now than at | the time of the murder, he said, and would not he averse to having their death senfences commuted to life imprisonment. D. Marden of South who had just urs: with the had i Wva THE WEATHER New Britain and Showers tonight; mostly cloudy, ature, icinity: Thursd ‘ rising temper- * | ! | * | Yorl | cently itory of the local jout the record it has as a training | Herger |able nowhere clse in New B | near Harbor ¢ { °d non-stop flight from Paris to New | to pass over and at a time when, Survey in This City (CALLS RECORD SPLENDID New Building Required to Do Jus- to Demands On Association, McCandless Says in His James W. Report to Officials. A mew Y. M. C. A. bullding 1s needed in this city to carry on the activities of the organization, accord- ng to James W. McCandless, of New ccretary of the department of tion administration, who re- made a survey of the assoc fleld. Mr.9McCandless sent a report to- day of his survey to local Y. M. C. ofticials, portions of which have |been printed and are available to the public. In his report he goes into the his- and points school for men who have gone into flelds. He mentions the fact that cur- rent expense deficits are practically inknown here and that the association is free of any religious gifferenc The religious educational program and the men’s Bible class are d cussed and Mr. McCandless explains | with (ff of 15 per cent smaller than the average, with con- tributiony for local work 25 per cent | {lss than the average, the as orn-‘],,),or was unable to ree ion operated at 35 per cent less | cost and yet conducted most activi- tics above the average. Need gymnasium, for another andard swimming pool and other | a vities are MecCandless sa the work could b |undertaken with the present equip- ment but considerable i could be undertaken, Industrial Work Stands Out The industrial work, the report s, is one of the outstanding cteristics of the New Britain screatio out. Mr. any extension of pointed In its educational program | Mr. McCandless says the Y. M. C. A opportunities which are itain. tional guidance is said to be at help to many young men. Voc of gr but | The report states that the present !ican Federation of Labor to seek a building does not lend itself to at- ractive social new one would. Of the membership Mr. less says 72 membership consists of voung men between 17 and 30 years of age, " hile 60 per cent are unmarried. Ix;:h'v per cent of the total mem- | bership consists of men and hoy: vmnl"r 20, He adds that the pro- lgram in the nt nadequate building for this gronp is too larg: physical Dormitories “Outworn House: The present dormitories are char- i ‘outworn houses.” RBet- er cilities for business men's | classes are recommended. The mem- | | hership he says i less than it should he for New Britain and less than it (Continued on Page 14) ANOTHER FAINT CLUE ABOUT LOST FLIERS Sea Captain Reports See- ing Plane Off Cape Pine on May 9 St. Johns, Newfoundland, May (A —The Danish schooner Albert, ar- riving at Belleoram, reports that an irplane was sighted S0 miles off |Cape Pine on Monday, May 5, the day Captains Nungesser and sported to have been sighted ace on their attempt- | York. The report is being further |investigated by the government. pe Pine is'a few mil v of Cape Grace, ern tip of N is on the St. Pierr The above report is the first | definite statement of the sighting of A plane off Newfoundland on the day the IFrench aviators were expected it no other plane | air in that region, resident of Otterbury, west of bor Grace, heard a loud noise overhead the morning of May 9, hetween 9:30 and 10:00 a. m., and looking up, saw what she took to be |t large birds, flying close together, | going toward the south. Later she | said she believed it was really an airplane, south- the southeast- foundland. Belleoram Newfoundland coast near has been established, was in the A woman local local | little if ! avail- | activities such as a‘; McCand- | ¥ per cent of the senfor | v | Coli | A. F. of L. Leader in Address to Bankers WILLIAM R. GR 'LABOR PLANS FIGHT AGAINST INJUNCTION |Green ‘Announces Protec- tion Against Its Abuse Is His Aim | New York, May 25 (P—Legislation protect labor “against the abuse | | of the writ of injunction” by federal and state courts will be brought in | congress and state lcgisiatures by the | | n Federation of Labor, its| ident, William | Green, declared |in an address today before the | Bankers® club of New York. { Declaring that no nation can suc- jceed in industrial competition unless | labor like industry and capital s j bermitied to orgamize, -~ Green sald b soacile jtself | to recent court decisions upholding | injunctions in labor disputes and | | added that Jabor could not abide by | | these decisions and yet live and‘ function. | “In such a dilemma what can la- | bor organizations do? he asked. o obey these injunctions means nnihilation, death and destruction. To violate them means persecution and punishment. Labor protests ainst being placed in such a posi- | tion.” | The Tabor Federation president scrted th ide from “the de- structive effects which injunctions have upon the activi of organ- {ized labor” they impose great finan- {cial burdens because they entail long and costly court proceedings. | ‘It is the purpose of the Amer-| {remedy for the injunction evil,” he aid. “We shall draft and propose slation having this eubject in | o We have long believad that the | Sherman anti-trust law was a bar- vier to industrial, economic and ag- vicultural development. 1t has not [ prevented the growth and expansion lot big business but in eddition to ampering labor it has served to re- | Istrict and circumscribe legitimate | business and legitimate business en- it has served 1o create un- and a fecling of insecurity business wde unioni in: |among as well as| SUES FOR 200000 | R | Stamford Woman Claims This Sum From Wealthy Widow She Says | Stole Her Husband's Love. Stamford, M: 7.8 Iter toda Mrs. Mary | v brought suit in Fair- | . county superior court ainst | | Mrs. Floren . Hildebrand, wealthy | widow of J. Henry Hildebrand, who |was for many years associated with Wendall and uss in the meat busi- ness in New York, for $§250,000 dam- | Iages for the alienation of aftections er husband ymon N. Fel- ter, an antomobile salesman of Dar- ien Mrs. Felter alleges that Mrs. Hil- iebrand, who hag a marvied daugh- : ter, on November 1, 1826, induced Felter to desert his wife and their minor child and “harborad him” at the Hildebrand home in Shippan I’oint. | In conmsequence, Mrs. clared she had suffered [tress of mind and body: husband had hecome est that his affections and regard had been destroyed; that he had neglected and abandoned her and | | that she had suffered a scrious in- {jury to her character and her !-‘\‘l-i ing. of 1 ter de- | great dis- | that her nged from | |Rev. and Mrs. Heininger I To Arrive Here Saturday | A telegram was received here to- | day ting that Rev. and Mrs. A. D. { | Heininger and family, who have just | returned from China, will arrive Sat- | urday forenoon. They will spend the | | week-end in New Britain before pro- | | ceeding to Boston where Mr. Hein- | | inger will report to the American | Board of Missions. Sunday, June 6, Rev. Mr. Heining- er will speak in the First Congre- 1gumml church, telling of the pres Vent situation in China. | Detective Sergeant McCue | cause Kate A, Stanley provided | boards. Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending May 21st 14,664 PRICE THREE CENTS POLICE DETAINING TRIO SUSPECTED OF PLOTTING T0 SWINDLE LOCAL WOMAN Stock Salesmen From New York Accused of Trying to Defraud Rose Hibbard Out of $14,000. {One Taken Into Custody and Sleuths Lay in Wait for Others and Arrest Them on Reaching Hotel Belleved by the police to be dis." honest operators in stock manipula. tions, three men claiming New York as their home are under arrest here, one on the charge of attempting to swindle Mrs. Rose T. Hibbard, a widow, of 22 Mason Drive, and the other two on suspicion. This af- ternoon, the police were making an effort to determine whether or not the authorities in other places want the trio. Their finger prints were taken and classifled by Officer Thom- as C. Dolan, who is in charge of this work in the detective bureau, Then man gave their names and addresses as follows: Max Silve,r ias Max Sterlin, age 32, o 1229 ast Kings Bridge, New York; David Dubrin, alias D. H. Joyce, age 30, of 1887 Harrison avenue, New York, alias Max Sterlin, age 32, of 1229 Riverside Drive, New York. Silver |and Weinstein were arrested in their |rooms at the Burritt hotel by De- tective Sergeant Ellinger and Sere geant McAvay. They are held on suspicion. Dubrin, charged with the attempted swindle, was arrested by at Mrs, Hibbard's home. Arriving in New Britain late yes- terday afternoon for the purpose of selling stock for the Electrical Se- curity Sales Co. of 1440 Broadway, New York, the trio had a quantity of stock certificates, correspondence, receipts and other paper, in addition to a rather extensive “sucker list,” containing the names of a number of New Britain and Hartford stock. holders. It is said the list contains the names of men of prominence in the business, civic and industrial life of both cities. A call on a prominent | local manufacturer today was plan- ned, it is said. Dubrin called on Mrs. Hibbard (Continued on Page 17) MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP WON BY WESTERMAN Violinist Awarded Stanley, Prize in Competition Here George Westerman, one of the city’s most admired youthful violin- ists, will not be at the service of ing him as’ solo- Ist next fall and winter. He will be perfecting himself at the Institute of | Musical Art, New York. Westerman, wiclding an obedient | bow over pliant strings, and wooing the soul of music as well as its tech- nics, won the scholarship at Camp school auditorium last night, With it goes the title of being the most talented musical student in ew Britain and the privilege of a year's tuition at the famous New York musical center. The brilliant musical world in New York, with all its opportuni- tics for advancement and a career of note, opens up before him be- a substantial scholarship gift, which will pay the young man’s tuition for a year as a result of his victory. Six contestants were on the Walter Friskin, New York musical expert from the institute, was brought here to be the judge. He knew none of the contestants, had never heard of them before, be- ing content to bring to bear a good car and an eagle eye for musician- ship. As cach of the contestants came into view, did their bit, and passed from view, he listened and looked intently, made copious notes, and gave the impression he Was not allowing anything to evade his at- tention. Later he talked with the contestants, asking them about themselves, getting a line upon their past and their ideas on music. Mrs. Emilie Andzulatis, up to & few days ago president of the New Britain Musical club, under whose auspices the scholarship contest was arranged, was present but kept aloof from the august judge who had the fates of six young musicians in the hollow of his hands. When the contest was over the judge took some time to come to & decision. The points he had in- bed on his notebook needed areful weighing, Today it was ane nounced that Westerman had land- ed on top—by how much of a mar- gin is not known. It is generally belicved, however. that the contest was close. Judge Friskin, before leaving the city, commented upon the fine mu- sicianship shown by all the contest- ants, saying he was surprised at what he’ had heard, and that it was no easy matter to make a choice. All (Continued on" Page .14)