New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 3

" HARTFORD GOUNTY TOBACCO CENTER Second in Production Among All Gounties in U. §. BY GEORGE H. MANNING . (Washington Bureauof the N. B. Herald) Washington, D. C., June 28— Hartford county ranks second among all tobacco producing counties in the United States. The Bureau of Census, Depart- ment of Commerce, will soon issue a bulletin in which it will state that Hartford county is second only to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in the production of tobacco. It will| show that in 1924, the last year for which - figures are available, Hart- ford county produced 28,875,690 pounds of tobacco while Lancaster county produced 51,468,470 pounds. Hartford is the only Connecticut county in which tobacco is grown to any appreciable enent the bulletin will say. Among other lhlnn the bulletin will state, that the tobacco industry paid a total of $369,60,000 in taxes last year, of which New York con- tributed $34,670,000; New Jersey, $28.672,000; Pennsylvania, $22,300,- 000; North Carolina, $172,349,000; and Virginia, $40,815,000. The combined production of cigars in registered factories and bonded manufacturing warehouses was 7. §,300,000; of cigarettes, $99,050, 270,000; and of chewing and smok- ing tobacco and snuff, 415,000,000 pounds. There were 9,539.000,000 cigarettes exported during the year leaving 90,000,000,000 for domestic consumption. A very large percentage of the to- tal production of five cent cigars were manufactured in West Virginia and the 23rd district of Pennsyl- vania. The total area planted in tobacco last year was-1,684,7§0 acres which produced a - crop of 1,323,388,000 pounds. There were imported dur- ing the vear 67,905,655 pounds ofl lsaf tobacco- valued at $60, .1 as well as tobacco products to the value of $8,918,492, while the ex-| ports of leaf tobacco amounted to| 478,773,000 pounds valued at ap- |:rox1m:xleh' $137,000,000, and to- bacco products valued at $20,499,- $00, Of the total number of “large” | cigars,” 6,429,000,000, removed tax paid during the calendar year 1923, 2.676,000,000, or 42 per cent were intended to retail for not more th five cents ig that the t e its popularit among enteen per| cent, were intended to retail at from five to eight cents; 39 per cent or 2,487.000,000, were intended to retail at from eight to| 15 cents, and two per cent, or 136,- 100,000, for more than 15 cents. According to latest {information avatlable, the 1924 tobacco crop was ’grown on 396,352 farms in 1,016 counties in 29 states. Of the tofal| number of counties 275 returned less than 1,000 pounds each: 210, 1.000 but less than 10,000 pom\dfl.{ Hs 10,600 but less than 100,000 pounds 163, 100,000 but less than| 1.600.700 pounds; 151 1,000,000 but less than 5,000,000 pounds; and 67, which produced - about: three-fifths | of the crop. 00,000 pounds or more. Of the 139 counties, showing 2,500,000 pounds or more, 52 are in Kentucky, 30 in North Carolina, 16 in Virginia, 11 in Tennessee, 7 in Ohio, 6 in South Carolina, -§ in}| Maryland, 3 in Massachusetts and “Wisconsin, 2 in Indiana, and 1 each in Connecticut, Florlda, Georgia and Pennsylvania FIVE FILW. FOLKS GIVEN SENTENCES Meist Serve Terms as Result of Kerrick's Death Los Angeles. June 29.—M—Five men and women, four of them mem- bers ‘of the - motion picture colony here, yesterday were denled proba- tion on their conviction of man- slaughter in connection with the death of Tom Kerrick, film cowboy, last April during & wild. liquor party. Judge Carlos Hardy, proval by the state's atterney their plea for they must serve their terms of one to ten years in San Quentin. Those sentenced were Kerrick's widow, Mrs. Sarah Kerrick," Iris Burns, - Anita Davis, - Henry Isabell and Joe Hunt. All but Hunt were small parts players in motion plc- tures. Judge Hardy, in overruling the pleas of the state and the report of probation officers, declared that in the first -place Isabell and Miss Davis were violating the moral code by living together while un- wed; and that Kerrick and his wife had lived together before they were married. Miss Burns, he point- ed out had been “married a couple of times and was not living with her husband.” Attorneys announced that would file notices of appeal. despite ap- of they New Hampshire Town Is Threatened by Fire East Kingston, N. H,, June 29.— (UP)—Fliremen from two states joined here today in battling a fire which destroyed a large farm at a loss cstimated at $35,000 and threat- ened ‘the entire village. A house, barn and outbuildings were destroyed and 5000 chickens and 500 hens were lost in the flames. John C. Hilliard, owner of the property, ‘his wife and child, and Mrs. Annie Buswell, another occu- pant, were driven out. Aid was summoned from Newton, Exeter and Kingston, and from Haverhill, Mass. Handicapped by water shortage, the firemen were nnable to save the ' Hilllard farm, but, with chemicals, prevented the ‘fire from spreading to the East Mngnsn station of the Boston and “Maine Tajtrond and Chartes Mnight's |- general store. probation, decided | NEWINGTON NEWS Suit for $6,000 damages against Thomas F. Garvan, Inc., to recover on.an endorsement of a note of the Bradley Fire-proofing Products Co. of New York for $2,000, has been brought by the Phoenix Coal Co. of New York. Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Lord of Hartford attached. the defendant’s property in Newington yesterday. The writ s returnable in the superior court on the first Tuegday in September. The regular meeting of the Grange was held in the hall last night. Those in charge were Steward Harry Webster, Steward Miss Ada Parker. jof Hillside street in Maple Hill, the road is being scraped. Work on the hardening of the street will be started soon. The selectmen have completed the work of scraping Rob- bins avenue and the general appear- ance of the street has been greatly improved by the removal of weeds along the side of the road. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nolan have returned to their home in Auburn, Mass. ,after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond V. Hal- leran. Mrs. D. K. Perry and family are spending the summer at their cot- tage at Hotchkiss Grove, Indian Neck. Mrs. H. A. Lienhard and family will leave Saturday for Indian Neck, where they will spend the month of July. Mrs. G. Ernest Root and family are spending the summer at their jcottage at East River. AUTO RACE WITH TRAINIS TRAGEDY {Car Leaves Road, One Dead, Other Dying Council Grove, Kas., June 29 (A— The attempt of Samuel Klein, head of a Chicago jewelry firm, and his father, Morris Klein of Chicago, to beat the fastest rail time between their home city and Los Angeles in an automobile, ended in disaster here vesterday when their machine left the road, killing the son and seri- ously injuring the father. Leaving Chicago at 3 o'clock ves- terday morning, they piloted their roadster to St. Louis without incident and roared through Kansas City at 2:11 'p. m., four minutes ahead of the schedule announced for the 2,- 440 mile rout They covered the 551 miles to Kansas City at an aver- age of approximately 55 miles an hour. Turning westward on the Santa Fe trail en route to Santa Fe, N. M, they maintained an average of about 45 miles an hour. As they ap- proached Bushong, 10 miles east of here, :the road narrowed at a culvert near which another car was parked. The roadster missed the bridge and hurdled a small stream. It landed on the bank of the creek and fell back into the water. When farmers and reached the machine Samuel was dead. His chest was crushed. His father was unconscious and was re- moved to a hospital here. He sus. tained a fractured skull, his left arm and right hip were broken and his right foot was crushed. Physiclans | said he had little chance to recover. They were ahead of the schedule | when they crashed. British Flier and His Wife Make Long Flight Calshot, England, June 29 (®— | Captain F. P. Courtney, British aviator, who is planning a round trip fiight from England to New York, arrived here last night in a non-stop flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany. He covered the distance of 800 miles in 915 hours and en- countered strong headwinds and sev- eral hail storms en route. The aviator was accompanied by his wife who thus accomplished the 1 longest non-stop flight by any woman. motorists The Farmer I can always count on Champions—they're dependable. That's why I use them in all myengine-driven farm equipment as well as for my own car, CHAMPION TULIDOUHIO fichmm' o enrtsha Assistant Steward 000 bonds Arthur Prescher, and Lady Assistant | gullty to smuggling drugs into the KEW BRITAIN DXILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, , 1927 |GUARD AT PRISON CAUGHT SHUGGLING Was Bringing in Drugs for Addict Prisoner Hartford, June 29.—(®—Byron Richards, 54, for the past two years |a guard at the state prison at Weth- erstield, was lodged in the county jail here yesterday in default of $5,- after he had pleaded institution. The narcotics, it was learned, In preparation for the hardening | Were for Lawrence H. Ferrone, sen- tenced to a 30 year term in 1922 under the habitual criminal act. year, | narcotics having been bought in New The drugs had been furnished to Ferrone by Richards for about a prison authorities said, the York by friends of the convict, who also paid Richard sums varying from $25 to $50 for each delivery. Another former prison guard, Earl Davis, has been in the county jail for scme time, awaiting trial for charges involving him as an ac- complice in an unsuccessful at- tempt by Ferrone and another pri- soner-to escape from the institution last September. David was paid $1,500 by Ferrone's friends for de- livering’ hacksaws and ignoring the efforts of the prisoners to free themselves from their cells. Ferrone, one of the few criminals against whom the Connecticut “Baumes law" has been invoked, is under more or less constant surveil- lance at the prison and it was the ignoring by Richards of warnings from his, superiors that he was | spending too much time in the |dift. vi- | cinity of Ferrone's cell which form- ed the basis of the suspicions cli- maxed by the arrest of Richards as he reported for duty Monday night. The guard. was taken into cus- today by County Detective Edward J. Hickey, and after questioning, v\':u presented before Justice of the Peace Frank E. Anderson in the Wethersfield town hall at 12:30 a. | m. today. Grand Juror Joseph H. Maurice prosecuted. Richards plead- ed guilty and was at once bound | over to the superior court, bonds be- | ing fixed at $5,000. Jul\e 29 (P TOTAL ECLIPSE IS WONDERFUL SIGHT, England Today Giggleswick, Yorkshire, wThonsands See Sun Obscured in! Iserved in perfection here at Giggle: |wick, whero a large crowd was as- |#bmbled and where astronomical | watches made what were described as the best observations they have! ever been able to make. The thrilling scene occurred -after |a tense race betw n the sun and |clouds, and when the totality perlod | came it was watched with a feeling almos. impossible to describe. light became a weird grayish brown, the atmosphere grew colder, a wind | swept over the moors. The people | England, {who had been singing lightheartedly ns of thousands of Suddenly were struc When arrested Richards had in awed spectators in the totality belt his possession an envelope of pow- | der which he said was a narcotic | destined for Ferrone. An analysis sight such as had | of this morning’s solar cclipse saw a |the magnificent been witnessed In Great Britain not in was being made today to determine fmore than a hundred years. 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