New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 e . | HARTFORD MAN IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT AFTER PARTY AT Borrowed Car Over- turns and Joseph Her- bert Receives Fatal Injuries-Wife Discov- | ers Tragedy. Had Previously Given Him Keys to Get Machine— New Britain Man Rushes Victim to Hospital But in Vain. Hartford, May 26 (#—Joseph Her- bert of 11 Myrtle street, was found lying on his back, fatally injured, on the state highway between Farming- ton and Plainville at 4:30 this morn- in 'he car he had been driving was backed against an embankment, its top ripped off, after having apparent- ly turned over several times. He was dead when he reached St. Fran- cis’ hospital, to which he was rushed when found. At Triangle Inn Herbert and his wife had attended a party at the Triangle Inn on the Iarmington-Plainville highway. In the early morning hours, as the party was breaking up, Mrs. Herbert gave her husband the keys of the car, which was the property of Miss Helen Weiner, also of 11 Myrtle street. When some time had elapsed since she gave her husband the keys to the car, and he had still not appeared with it, Mrs. Her- bert, accompanied by John Cam- pinis, of the Avon hotel, set out to look for him. Found In Highway They found him lying on his back in the highway, full in the glare of the headlights of the car he had been driving. Stopping Stanislaw Babezak of 76 Derby street, New Britain, who was driving past the scene in his sedan, Mrs. Herbert rushed her husband to Hartford. Captain Nichols of the state police this morning officially reported that the motor crash had been an acci- | dent, LINER MALOLO BEING TOWED T0 NEW YORK Seven Million Dollar Boat in Collision During Trial Cruise New York, May 26 (P—The $7.- 000,000 Matson liner Malolo, pride of the American merchant marine, with 310 persons aboard, today was anchored 90 miles oft New York awaiting a tow to this port after having been crippled in a collision on the first day of her trial cruise. The Malolo, the largest and fastest | commercial craft ever built in the| Cnited States and just completed for passenger service between San Fran- cisco and Honolulu, yesterday after- noon, was rammed amidship ir, a| heavy fog and disabled 15 miles southwest of Nantucket Light ship | by the Norwegian freighter Jacob | Christensen. Her firerooms flooded with four feet of water, the Malolo, which in the Hawailan tongue means “fiying fish,” flashed distress calls by radio and immediately a fleet of rescue craft from almost every point of the compass started to her side. After the steamer Fisher ~had | groped her way to the two fog- hidden vessels, the Jacob Christen- | sen steamed on towards New York, | leaving the Fisher standing by the anchored Malolo. | Shortly after midnight the steam- | er Gulfiand of the Gulf Refining| company also located the Malolo and in a message to the Independent | Wireless company sald she was| standing by awalting the lifting of | the fog before attempting to tow the | liner to this port. | Receipt of the liner's SOS. calls! started a dozen ships to her aid. Three tugs of the Merritt-Chapman | Wrecking company left New York, two destroyers from the coast guard left New London, Connecticut, a| fourth Merritt-Chapman company wrecker started from New London. | €d and sent to homes for the aged, |of the trees. His hand was caught in | The United States shipping board | Patrick O'Rourke, 88, and his wife, | a limb of the tree and it was nec- liner President Roosevelt, the Cun- | Margaret, $6, nalled down the win- essary for the firemen to cut away ! arders Mauretania, Carinthia, Sa- maria and Lancastria, and the An- chor Liner Transylvania deviated from their courses to go to the aid | of the Malolo but later continued on | their voyages when told help was not needed. Two fire rooms and the engine room of the Malolo were flooded and the bow of the Jacob Christensen, | bound from England for Npw York, | was crushed. No one was reported | TRIANGLE INN CHAMBERLAIN SAYS GOV, STANDS PAT Insists House Vote on Break With Soviets LABORITES ARE OPPOSED Clynes Offers Resolution For Delay But Foreign Minister Declares Measure Is Intended As One of Censure. London, May 26 (P—Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minis- ter, told the house of commons to- day that the government was not prepared to accept a motion by J. R, Clynes, laborite, that an inquiry should be held into the government's |charges of Soviet propaganda in | Great Britain, charges which have resulted in a decision to severe diplo- matic relations. | Sir Austen declared that the la- { borite motion was a vote of censure iand that the government invited a {clear expression of confidence and |approval. If it did not get it, the |government would know what steps 1it would be its duty to take. Sir Austen said that there was not la word of truth in the suggestion |that at Rome and Geneva he had tried to form an anti-Soviet union. The British government, had no idea. of embarking on any such anti- Soviet campaign, he avowed. The government, he. continued, was content to rest upon the in- formation it had disclosed. It thought |it unnecessary to produce any more |of this information. The government had a mass of evidence to show that continuously, in every quarter of the globe where { elements of trouble existed, the So- viet government had sought to take advantages of those elements to in- crease unrest and create trouble, | particularly where British {could be affected. Clynes Defends Soviets Speaking for th. laborites, J. R. | Clynes told the house of commons | that Soviet Russia “must pot be con- demned without trfal.” Mr. Clynes faced a packed floor {and gallerles when he rose, amid abor cheers, to place his motion be- |fore the house. The government, he satd, had reversed its former position that British trade and the future peace of Europe would be in- | jured by severance of relations with Russia. He understood the govern- ment position now to be that Russia was in the dock. “We accept that position,” he de- | clared, “but we demand that in this | matter she must not be condemned without trfal. We refuse to admit either the guilt or the innocence of | Russia.” | _The labor resolution, moved by | Mr. Clynes, reads: “That, having | heard the premier's statement, <this | house is of the opinion that term- | ination of the trade agreement with Russia and severance of diplomatic relations would have serious interna- tional consequences and close & | promising avenue to the restoration .ot trade and industry, and is there- Ifore a policy to which the country | ought not be committed until the re- {port of a select committee, based | upon examination of all relevant documents and full inquiry into the facts, has been submitted to this house.” To Withdraw Envoys Premier Baldwin was asked | whether the British consular offices | would be withdrawn from Russla lend what government would be | asked to take charge of British In- | terests there. The premler replied that the | British representatives at Leningrad and Vladivostok were not consular | officers; they were attached to the British diplomatic mission in Mos- [cow and would be withdrawn simul- taneously with the mission. The point raised in the latter part of the question, he said, was still under consideration. 0LD COUPLE DIE TOGETHER 88 and 86 Year Old Newark Husband and Wife Take Gas, Fearing Separation. awark, 3., May 26 (UP)— IPcaring that they would be separat- dows of thelr home in Newark and committ icide today by inhaling gas. Mrs. O'Ttourk : wrapped in blank- ets, was found in a chair in the par- lor. Her husband sat in a chair near- by. house in which ded leaving it more than 25 v owned the they lived und dr after living there years. A neighbor who brought milk every morning for the two octogen- interests | ured. |arlans, called police and doctors A radlo message received by the |when she was unable to get into the Associated Press from William P. |house. Roth, president of the Matson Navi- | Mrs. Hugh vronin, Brooklyn, a gatlon company. one of the guests |nicce of the O'Rourkes said the old on hoard. said the Malolo had wa- |couple had been persuaded to con- ter in her firehold and was unable |sent to enter a home for the aged. to proceed under her own power. |She said they had no children and A message relayed from the|were too feeble to attend to house- steamer, Tisher said the Malolo had {hold duties. They needed constant a large hole in the iron plate wall |assistance, she added, but objected nevertheless to the attention and aid {of their relatives. (Contiuued on Page Two) W BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES {Auto Plunges Down Bank to Track, Driver Escaping Without Scratch G. H. Wooding won't forget this trip. Down the west embankment a:l Black Rock Bridge without, a scratch and the machine still in gooc! shape. G. H. Wooding, of 38 Bohemia | mishap. street, Plainville, took a ride in his | take the turn into Burritt street and sedan at 9:20 this morning which Tie will probably mever be able to | Proceed toward Myrtle, he lost con- duplicate and live through when he | trol of his car and went through the dove off the northwest abutment of | wooden guard fence Black Rock bridge, went through |the railroad embankment. From two fences and landed in a nearly | there he ran about 30 feet down perpendicular position on the rail- | the steep bank, the final step being road tracks below. It was thought } a sheer drop of four to five feet off that a broken steering knuckle was | the abutment. An old mesh wire to blame for the car leaving the|fencé on the way down gave way road and careening over the em- bankment. Not a pane of glass in the heavy car was broken and the only damage which was evident at i the scene of the accident was to the | road track and the rear end pointed | skyward on the abutment. Lfront end of the machine. Mr. | Wooding had not even a scratch to| A large crowd was soon attract- remind him of the affair, and he|ed, with Motorcycle Officer Hayes had stuck to his machine all the way down the bank. Harry Smith, a repairman for the | Southern New England Telephone | Co., saw the auto disappear over the embankment and hurried to Mr. | Wooding's assistance, helping him out of the car and later running up | the track and flagging an approach- ing train. Mr, Wooding is a mover of build- But, when attempting to | ed in checking the speed of the tcar. It rested with its radiator in | were flagged and work of salvage gotten under way. After many di ficulties the car was finally remov- ed. | A motorist whose identity s not known had a thrilling experience at the same bridge last night while turning from Burritt into West Main street, heading foward the citv. On account of the wet road ings by trade and has a job in the |the car skidded and banged up neighborhood of Curtis and Myrtle | against the fence on the south side streets. He was coming to work | of the bridge but the fence remain- from his home in Plainville and had | ed intact although one of the auto's reached the intersection of Burritt | wheels was broken and the rear street, west of the bridge wi(houtlrlg!\t mudguard crumpled up. at the top of | | with little trouble but probably aid- | | the ditch alongside the west rail- | {in charge. Trains in both directions | Girl from St. Mary’s School Spelling Championship Winner ' Spelling Champion l |Marie Hahn Takes City Title and Herald Trip to Washington for Chance in National Contest. Marie Hahn, 13 years old, daugh- lter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hahn of 18 Washington street, and a |student in the St. Mary's parochial |school, carried off the honors of {the Herald city championship |spelling contest today when the |“Little Red School House” was |transplanted to the Ttotary club {luncheon, in the annual Herald spelling match. Miss Hahn had a hard battle and | for some time it was a toss up b |tween her and John Boyle wl | was going to earn the coveted Her- lald trip to Washington. | There were 24 spellers facing L. |P. Slade, principal of the senior ibigh school as the latter com- menced his list of words. were no easy words. Mr, Slade got right down to business and started ‘in with words selected from an eighth grade list. The first word |was “dccision,” which was spelled [correcu, From the very beginning there was a doubt as to whether |the coveted trip would go to a boy or girl. The girls outnumbered the | boys 15 to nine. | The words were given first to the MARIE HAHN FIRE TRUCK ON UNIQUE MISSION HITS BRIDGE Bristol Apparatus in Accident While | hoy to go down, failed on “counter- En Route to Free Warden |(°iL7 “Immensc” also proved the | Waterloo for a boy. “Marmalade | strangely enough. was the undoing | of the third boy. | The first girl who ~went down ! failed to stick on “mucilage,” while | “possess’ took the next ‘Seized” was 0o much for one girl, Boys and girls went down in turn |'with the following wor uperin- tendent, surgeon, allege, endeavor, porcelain, tortoise, dispensary, me- nagerie, municipal, inc; t, occur- ence, hippopotamus rhino- ceros.” ¢ With all down but two, Ma Huhn and John Boyle, both from Mary discernible,” It was spelled wrong by Boyle, who took a seat, acknowl- 5 Caught in Tree Fork ! is ay 26.—The aerial truck {of the Bristol Fire department was | badly damaged shortly hefore 1 o'clock this afternoon following a | called received from one of the res- idents in the central sectiori of the city The truck, driven by Captain Alfred Cittell collided with the rail- road bridge over Main street near the railroad station. The radiator | was badly damaged. Upon arrival at | | the scene of the call the firemen | {found a representative of the tree | | warden's department stalled in one and ed and Boyle was all sion” was the word given, The aerfal truck returncd to head- | Bovle mispelled it'and fook tis | quarters at 2 o'clock after releasing | n M Hahn failed {the man. | was recalled. + “Rendezvous’ ' and | | “rarefy” followed, Miss Hahn miss- ing the latter word first, but being | Haley Defeated and Thus : ; Hos it led when Boyle m Ends Challenge of U, S.|Finally “battalion” was given. 7 s | many I's was Boyle's undoing. Vis Hoylake, England, May 26 ®— |\ %orious, Miss Hahn tuckled the {H. D. Gillles of Woking, well known | (15 4nq spelled it corrcctly amid Pl f?]l‘f\.:. W ey o8 “New | the cheors of the Rotarians. Miss [Sori: cormer ivilliae: Gohtge Wthe Hahn immediately was congratulated from the Diritish amateur golf champicnship at the eighteenth hole. | The Amcrican lost to Gillis on the last grees in as thrilling a finish as that wiich gave him an cighteenth ory over Cyril Tolley yes- | the limb before the injured member ! was extricated. this afternoon elim- | (Continued on Page Thirteen) THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair and coolcr to- night and Friday. o3t by the bare margin of a | putt, and thus ended America’s un- expecied challenge for the cham.- | Ipto==Tin. e * | | There | one. | school, Mr. Slade pronounced | and Boyle | RECEPTION GIVEN | LINDBERGH TODAY REALLY WONDERFL Chesred by Parisians as No Man, Has Been Since Woodrow Wilson's Triumphant Entry ALSO IS GREETED BY FAMOUS WAR LEADERS Marshal Foch Presents American With Picture of Himself and Jofire Likewise Honors —Flier Deeply Moved at Tribute Paid Him by Delegation of French War Maimed. Parls, May 26 (/—Captain Charles Lindbergh was paraded before the | eyes of the people of Paris today to such cheers as no man has heard in | this city Woodrow Wilson | made his triumphal entry into Paris | iin 1919. It was the first opportunity that the citizens of Paris have had to see the heroic American aviator since his arrival at the Le Bourget flying | fleld Saturday night, for all his in- tervening hours have becn devoted to receiving honors from persons in high places. Thousands Throng Streets Tens of thousands of Frenchmen cheered the young American this afternoon as he was escorated from Lis country’s embassy to the Hotel | | De Ville. Under the trees that border the Champs Elysees—one of the world’s |most magnificent boulevards—the common people of France stood in great masses, waving flags and | | shouting “bravo” as the slender and | unspoiled youth from America was | driven past them In a state proces- | sion. | The place De La Concorde was packed with humanity and so was the celebrated Rue De Rivoli looking | ot upon the green trees of the | | Tulleries gardens, beautiful under a brilllant Maytime Sun. It was a day such as poets and painters have celebra‘ed for centuries, perfect {springiiise in Paris. | Flags Are Displayed The flowers were in fresh hloom and the trees wore fresh foliage, | while the tri-color of France and !the stars and stripes of the United States fluttered everywhere. Re- publican guards, mounted on horses, lined the route, while every few feet or 80 stood policemen holding back | the frenzied hero worshippers. The | scene was perfect, but the procession | was somewhat of a disappointment | |to the crowds. | | The hustle and hurry spofled it | somewhat for the patient folk who | had waited so long for a sight of | the smiling face of the man who left New York one morning and arrived in Paris the next night. The car in | which Lindbergh sat, sped through | the Champs Elysee at 20 miles an hour or more. | Municipal Reception | Tt was a few minutes after three | o'clock this afternoon when the flier left the American embassy fo ride | to the Hotel De Ville where the city of Paris had prepared a municipal reception for him. M. Godin, presi- dent of the municipal council, and M. Boujou, prefect of the Seine de- partment. called for him in an open limousine. Hscorted, as always hy Ambassador Herrick, the young flier | 'and the twe Trench officials {rove | from the American embassy through |streets packed with cheering thous- ‘ands, | Fathers and mothers Him— since | ) | held their | (Continued on Page 10) ‘YOUNG FARM WORKERS ADMIT BRUTAL MURDER Two Confess Maine Farmer—Loot Only $12 and a Watch Delfast, Wellman, 23, and Perley Jones, 20, {farm hands in the village of West! Washington, confessed early today, | county authorities said, to the bru- {tal murder of Dexter Wentworth, aged Lincolnville farmer, who wa | clubbed to death in his home last Iriday night. Wellman struck Wentworth on | |the head eight times with a heavy | | club which he had brought with him for the purpose, County Attorney [ Clyde R. Chapman announced, fol-| lowing statements from the youths. | The only loot obtained was '$12 and their victim's watch, the pris- oners declared. Although neighbors of Wentworth had told authorities he had a large roll of money on him when last seen. This has not been | tound. Suspicion was first directed to Wellman when it was learned that the 65 vear old farmer had told neighbors that the youth had rob- bed him of $400 in a transaction last fall and that there had been bad | feeling between them. Later it was learned that a ma- chine corresponding in appearance to one owned by Wellman had been reported on roads near the lonely Wentworth farmhouse last Friday. Chapman and Sherifft Frank A. Cooper, together with Frank Rogan, a Bangor detective, and Cecil Clay, (Continued on Page Four) Slaying |» Me., May 26 (P—Leland | {lin Squar | square for Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending May 21st ... 14,664 PRICE THREE CENTS FIRE BUG BLAMED FOR $40,000 LOSS - AT POLISH PRINTING CO. AND BARN Ruins of Barn on Polish Orphanage i K i i %Y FORMER SEA CAPTAIN DIES AT AGE OF 71 Edward Bergman Had Traveled to All Parts of World SEENS SCHOOL PERMIT, CONTRACT 15 NOT LET Hartford Building Concern Anticipates Getting $200,000 Job BEdward Bergman, 71 years old,| for the past thirty-two years a resi- dent of this clity, and formerly a captain in the deep sea service, died The M. A. Connor Construction| Co. of Hartford today applied for a building permit to erect a school | building on Clinton street. The| building, which is_expected to cost about $200,000, will house 14 class Morning Parade, at Court of Honor and Monument | | The graves rcgistration com- mittee of Eddy-Glover post, American Legion, will be at St. Mary's and Fairyiew cemeteries Sunday morning between 9 and 10 o'clock. The committee would appreciate the services of mem- bers of the families of dead ex- servicemen. Chairman William Kelley of the committee an- nounced today that his comm tee would decorate the graves of all ex-servicemen and also the grave of Mrs. Mary Agnes Lin- ton, a gold star mother, who was buried this week. All preparations for the annual ob- servance of Memorial Day here have peen completed and Theodore A. Johnson, marshal, has issued his or- ders and official program of parade | and ceremonies as follows: Having been elected the Memorial Day parade, 1927, by the joint Memorial Day committee of the €ity of New Britain, I hereby assume command, The following appointments hereby announced: Chief of staff, Harry C. Jackson, past department commander of the American Legion. Aides: United AT D u o airotn Mo bon | L cUI A L ttons tions committee will be held shortly [ed the merchant marine = Service. receive the award. Heating and |ages took him practically all over weke mgrried i1 New York city. ARE FULLY COMPLETED 2 v iz i g ihis home in the Church street sec- | Co. coal and wood business. The friends who will deeply mourn his| he had been employed at the P. & I ernally he was affiliated with Maria Bergman; two sons, Richard surance man; two granddaughters, Funeral services will be held at marshal of an chureh, will ofticiate. Burlal will made application for a permit, no| Mr. Bergman was born in Stock- for this purpose, and it is expected | There he rose rapidly and bscame a electrical bids will be opened at that | the world. He came to this coun- They had met in native land : |his home in Hartford and three tion. plant is now occupied by Citizens’ death. The company of which he F. Corbin division of the American the Vega society and Tegner lodge, A. Bergman, head of the invoice the Misses Irma and Doris Berg- the home Saturday afternoon and be in Fairview cemetery. |'at his home, 424 Church street, this rooms, auditorium, ~gymnasium, li-\ morning following an illness of 16 brary and offices, contract has yet been awarded. A |holm, November 3, 185 He at- meeting of the school accommoda- |tended school there and thes enter- that the Connor Co. being the 10w | captain, serving with various Euro- hidder on the general contract, Will | pean steamship companies. His voy- meeiing. |try in 1882 and settled in Bethel, e R | Conn. MEM"R[AL DAY PLANS | In 1883 he and Mrs. Bergman | : | |and became engaged. While in Bethel he was engineer fn a hat | vears atferward in 1895, he came to Exercises | this city. Since the nhe had made On his arrival here Mr. Bergman cstablished the Edward Bergman & Coal and Wood Co. His splendid| business ideals brought him many| was head was dissolved in 1910 and with the exception of a few years, Hardware corporation prior to his illne: Order of Vasa. Mr. Bergman leaves his wife,*Mrs. department of P. & F. Corbin’s and Edward N. Bergman, prominent in- man, and a brother, Major-General William Bergman of Sweden, will be private. Rev. Dr. Abel A. Ahlquist, pastor of the First Luther- SHILE WORTH $3,400 This is Value Jury Places on Ex- are i > pression of Chorus Girl Who Lost Spanish War Vet- erans, William Massey and William American Legion, Edward . C. Avery, Bdward John- son, Dewey Selander and Masor ? Andrews, Leroy C Stanley Po; Sternberg H. Woods, Post No. 11. The following orders of the are declared: Aides will report to chief Tonday morning, May 30th at sharp (daylight saving time) at junction of Peari strect and Frank- Teeth in Accident. | White Plains, N. Y.. May 26 (UP) —A valuation of $3.400 was placed on a show girl's smile today by a jury in supreme court. Miss Josephine Fruscella of Yonkers, known on the stage as Jessie Madison, was awarded that amount for the loss of five front tecth and her sunny smile. | The verdict was against Emanuel Schulder and Louis Bacon, the lat- tera pajama manufacturer. Bacon was operating Schulder's automo- bile with Miss Fruscella as a pas- enger, when an accident occurred | which the show girl lost her teeth, The suit was for $40,000. Justice Tompkins refused to set aside the | verdict sayi.g: It is much too small, rather than too large.” W. E. Latham and commander Stanley [t Comm ders of various units will report to the chief of staff Mond morning, Ma )th, at 9:30 (day- light saving time) at Franklin ssignments, Parade will be formed in the fol- .owing order: First Division Platoon of police, Chief William commanding. |First Communion Class At St. Joseph’s Church! | | | A class of 105 children, including | | 60 girls and 45 boys, received first) |communion this, morning at the 8| Chief of staff. Aides. | The ; throughout the neighborhood North End of City in Ferment as Incen- diary is Suspected of Applying Torch to Two Buildings. Evidence of Forcible Ene trance at Printing Plant Where Fire Is Found on Two Floors. NUNS RISK LIVES TO RESCUE STOCK While the entire city is alive with rumor and speculation, and the so- called Polish district in the north western section is in a turmoil of grief, excitement and suspicion, the police are conducting an investiga tion into two early morning fires that did damage estimated at $40,« 000 by Chief W. J. Noble of the fir department, in whose opinion the blaze at the printing establishment of the Polish Orphanage at 475 North Burritt street was incendiary, and that at the large barn a few hundred feet from the orphanage “very suspicious.” Chief Noble re- ported his suspicions to the police department, and in a staterhent afterwards declared that two sep- arate fires were set in the printing plant, and he believes the fire in the barn was also the work of an incendiary. May Be School Firebug On every street corner in the northwestern section the fires are the principal topic of conversation. Excited groups were gathered in the stores, homes and business places, as every phase of the destructive visit of the flames was gone into. That the guilty person or persons also started the fire that did damage of $13,565 in the Sacred Heart of Jesus parochial school December 21, 1928 was freely stated, but Rev. Lucyan 3ojnowski, pastor of the parish and director of the various undertakings that have characterized the growth and progress of the Polish section of the city in the past decade, mere- ly shrugged his shoulders and with characteristic resignation, asked “Who Knows?” Radical Element Accused Various theories were advanced by residents of the section which for the past several months has been shaken by internal dissension in the parish. Staunch supporters of Father Bojnowski did not hesitate to state today that the dissatisfied element, or at least the more radical meme hers of this group, were directly re- sponsible for the incendiarism, while others declared it to be the work of a fanatic or a demented person. Printing Plant Broken Into ‘The printing establishment was broken into by forcing the rear door, it is believed, and two fires were set, according to Chlef Noble. building {is three stories in height, the outer walls being of brick and concrete construction, while the interfor is of wood, with i the exception of the walls. The third | floor is an open attic and is seldom used. On the first floor are the press | room, composing room, offices and similar rooms, while the second floor contains a considerable amount of paper, books and like articles. There are front and rear stairs to the upper stories. Dog Arouses Neighbor Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Stanislaus Sztaba of North Burritt street, who lives Jjust north of the printing plant, with a street between the properties, was awakened by the loud and insistent barking of her dog. Looking out to d:termine the cause of the animal's actions, she saw smoke pouring out of the building, the flames inside. A telephone call was sent from hep home to Co. No. 4 of the fire depart- ment, and immediately on arrival of the firemen at 2:04 o'clock the seri- ousness of the fire was noted and an alarm was sent in from Box 38, which is nearby. Supernumerary Officer Noonan was near the fire when the telephone call James house was ree | ceived and he rode to the fire. Run= ning to the rear of the building, he seized the handle on the door and with a single pull, opened it. The smoke pouring out was suffocating. The composing room, directly inside the rear door on the first floor, was a mass of flames, which spread ta the ceiling and licked at the walls with a roar that could be heard Lead and ran like water, was the heat. e on Second Floor On the second floor, another rire was discovered and here, too, the smoke was dense and the heat al- most unbearable. Chief Noble, who responded on the bell alarm with Co. No. 3 and No. 2 ladder company, is positive, he said today, that there type was melted 50 inte; Philharmonic Band, E. J. leader. Provi ry C. N. G., Captain William W. T. Lynch, onal Battalion 169th Infan- . 'and Father Hubert of the Passion- | o'clock mass at St. Joseph's church. | Was no connection between the two {fires in the sense that one was ne ! caused by the other. There is a 16 jinch brick wall in the rcar part of | the building and the room on the The sacrament of communion wa |administered by Rev. J. J. Ke: Squire, commanding; Licut. William ist Order of West Springfield, cele- | Jackson, adjutant. |brated the mass. Company ‘1" — Licut. e Carey, commanding. } ANSONTA CHILD DROWNE Field Colors. Ansonia, Conn., May 26.—Alexan- Headquarters Company. Lieut. Mc- |der Desderato, three-year-old son of Cormick, commanding. | Mr. and Mrs. Donato Desderato of Company “H"”, machine gun com- |this city, was drowned in Beaver pany, Lieutenan. William Litki, com- [brook last evening while playing manding. |near the stream. The body was re- Second division, Scout Executive | covered this morning by a relative after a police search had failed to |fina’ 1t. Thomas (Continued on Page 10) | lighted second floor directly above the come posing room was burned only slight= ly, while the room on the opposite side of the wall was blazing fiercely. The theory is that the fires were simultaneously. The sece ond story blaze destroyed hundreds of printed books, besides gutting the shelving, the floors, walls and cells ing. The presses and other machinery (Continued on Page 10)