New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1927, Page 24

WHDGETS REAKS TOSELLTHISGAS? "flty ommls Have Perplexing Station Tangle to Unravel ‘Who will sell gasoline, the per- son who holds the permit, or the person who holds the lease for the " property? ‘This is the peculiar problem which city officials and officials of the de- partment of motor vehicles at Hart- ford have been called upon to de- cide. The issue is raised by the trans- | for of the lease of a filling and serv- ice station at High and Broad | streets by Mrs. Mary Wisk to George | Jackson and B. H. Tirrell, proprie- tors of George's Tire service station | at Park and Stanley streets. Some time ago Frank Prosperi of the P. V. Tire and Battery Co., 261 | Myrtle street, applied at City hall for | & permit to sell gasoline at High and Broad streets, saying he was going to lease the station at that place. His application was approved and a local permit granted. Prosperi had not yet received a state permit, without which he would not be permitted to sell, when City Items Dawn Dance, Sun. Nite, July 4, 1-5 a. m., Black Kittens, Farmington. advt. A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Haisetz ot New York city. Mrs. Haisetz was formerly miss Lil- llan Kennedy of this city. Breakfast at Crowell’'s.—advt. St. Joseph's Parish society will meet tonight at 8:15 o'clock. Final reports are expected on the recent church eircus. Hot Lunches at Packard Drug.— advt. a. m, , Black advt. | Marcus White, principal of the State Normal school, underwent an |operation at Hartford hospital yes- |terday afterncon. Reports indicate [that he is resting comfortably. Louise Stallings, New York so- prano, at Chautauqua next weelk. —advt A son was born at New Britain 1 hospital today to Mr. and rute of ‘50 Mill street. Alex shevechuk of 117 Shuttle Meadow avenue reported to the po- lice that the chain was stolen off his |bicycle in the rear of city hall. | 0. J. Sclander of §3 Dwight | street reported the theft of his |bicyele in front of his home. i The police were asked last eve- ning .to notify Johnson Wanderlun | of 3 Seymour street that his father | Kittens, | Gener | Mrs. James Dawn Dance, Sun. Nitz, July 4. 1-5 | “armington. FISHERMEN FIRST T0 GREET FLIERS AFTER THEY LAN (Continued from First Page) |coast of Normandy after landing in the sea with his three trans-Atlagtic compantons worn out from an ‘all t batt _ in the air to find a safe g place. Commander Byrd and his com- panions came down on the sea this | morning at 3 o'clock in front of the lighthouse here which had caught | their attention and came ashore on {their raft,” Mayor Bonnet of Ver- | Sur-Mer today told the Associated | Press. “They were taken in by the lighthouse keeper. They are all per- |fectly safe and sound and for {time being sleeping soundly. Their | families have been informed by | telegraph. Meanwhile the waves were break- ling over the trans-Atlantic plane | America which was hardly more |than 200 or 300 yards from shore | {and Admiral de Cacqueray, naval | commander at Cherbourg, this after- | noon was directing the operations to salvage the machine, Saliors this afternoon boarded the plane when the tide had receded Mr. Jackson calldd at fhe office of |18 critically ill in Torrington hospi- | sufficiently and took off all the scien- Mayor Weld yesterday to obtain a similar permit for the same station, saying that he and his partner were | going to lease the property. I learned to his surprise that Prosperi | bad, applied, paid his $25 fee, and obtained the local permit. Jackson immediately called at the Wisk home where the lease was signed giving his firm the use of the property for five years. IHe then filed the lease with the town clerk. Later he went to Hartford and lald the matter before the motor vchicle department. Nothing could be done there at the time, since it is neces- sury to obtain a local permit first. He was told that, pending an ad- | gustment of the mixup, no state li- cense would be issued to Prosperi. Mr. on Mayor Weld for a local permit, which he said would immediately void the permit now held by Pros- perl. Mayor Weld told him to file an application in the usual manner and the whole affair would be thrashed out at a future hearing. Messrs. Jackson and Tirrell this morning took over the station. Since the owner of the property holds a | permit to sell gasoline which does | not expire for a year, gasoline is being sold today by the latter. Until the hearing before the board ®f public works, the situation gow stands with Jackson and Tirrell in possession of the station but with no right to sell gasoline in th own name, and with Prosperi in pos: session of a local permit to sell gaso- line but with no legal right to op- erate the station, while the owner | of the property under an existing permit still sells gasoline. Some- body hds wasted a perfectly good $25.00. 1t is likely that Jackson and Tir- rell will be required to submit blue prints of the location of the prop- | erty and other data at the hearing. | They are represented by Attorney | Harry I. Ginsberg. Attorney Donald Gatftney represents Prosperi. " British Tennis Star Still Remains Amateur London, July 1 (A—Miss Betty Nuthall, the brilliant young English tennis player who recently was ported €o %o turn professional involving a sum re- variously estimated from $20.000 to | $60,000, will remain an amateur, her | mother announced today. Several leading tennis players at the same time as Miss Nuthall were | approached by British promoters in the hope that they would turn pro- fessional, but Miss Nuthall alone | deferred her decision, the others, in- cluding Helen Wills, Elizabeth R and Mrs. Kathleen McKane Godfree making clear immediately their re- fusal of the offers. NEDO CHEERED Rome, July 1 (UP)—Col Frances- co De Pinedo was given an enthu- sisatic reception by the Rome troll workers. A parade with ga ners flying and bands playing pre- cede presentation of a gold medal in honor of his four-continent flight. The medal ‘was inseribed “to De Pinedo’ the Duec's eagle.” PI Jackson last evening called | it | vent to be considering a contract | ban- | | tal. A judgem s been award- intiff in the action of New Britain Real and | Title Co., against Bmery Frazee, scheduled for trial soon. Kirkham, ! Cooper, Hungerford & Camp repre- sents the plaintiff. nouncement open F sed Saturday at nd August.—advt. Parker & Parker, [218 Main & until 9 p. m. noon, during Ju! | Announcemen 218 Main St, open Friday evening luntil 9 p. m. Closed Saturday at noon, during July and August.—advt. 2y your Big Bang Cannons for the Fourth of July at H. L. Mills' | Hardware Store.—advt. Gain two months. Summer school arts Tuesday, July 5. One session Herman O. Wu Konstin Place is at New Britain General hos- | pital where he is receiving treat- | ment. | An anntversary requiem high mass for Mrs. Molina Roy will be cele- brated at St. Peter | row morning at 8 o'cloc | Clergyman Will Return | To His Home, He Says | Wilmington, Del, July 1 (® — Hiram McVey, retired piscopal minister, Who Clkton, Md., at the start lof the investigation concerning the tatus as a minister of the Rev. Richard T. Westren, son,” has notified church here he will leave Elkton |row for his |Del,, in accord with the wishes of |the church. N nce the has made charges against M tren that {he held no orders as a Methodist Episcopal min Mr. McVey has married numerous couples TTACKS BOY. m of 22 West Pearl street complained to Officer John | Kennedy last evening that a dog !O\Vns‘d by Mrs. Welinski of 18 Pearl i!r[‘r‘[ had attacked her son three The Rev. Methodist officials tomor- the last time ripping off his| |shirt. Mrs. Welinski, however, told the officer that the boy threw stones the dog and brought on the al- leged attack. The matt>r was re- ferred to Dog Warden Wagner. ISCAPES BULLET ette street | lo filvoflt a 4|0~ which had been run over by an automobile, Officer H. C. Lyon was detailed post ha evening, but when he arrived learned that the dog had turned tail |and run. | QUEEN OF BEAUTY | Danville, Ky., July 1.—(®—Many universities have May Queens, but | Centre college, where such husky males as “Bo” fame as football stars, has a queen of beauty who reigned | June. | | the Institution Danville, and she was coronated at “Carnival of 1927." Introducing MILEAGE Gasoline and Motor OQils HOLIDAY SPECIAL—SAT., SUN., and MON. Mileage Gasoline 1 8(: gal. Other Services include:— Alemite and Zerk Greasing Springs Graphited—Tires Repaired Goodrich Tire Sales and Service The Mascon Operating Corp. 0. F. Everson, Mgr. Cor. SO. MAIN and TRINITY STS. Telephone 5173 t by stipulation in the | iday evening Tarker & Parker, | church tomor- | “marrying par-, home in Greenwood, | ,llhc instruments and documents. Rain was falling heavily as the men | worked. | The plane previously had been se- curely mooréd to shore by line car- | curely moored to shore by lir car- |rection of Captain Hamburger, French officer, who whs sent to Ver- Sur-Mer by the authorities as soon s word | Summarizes Trip. | Ver-Sur-Mer, France, July 1 (UP) —Commander Richard E. Byrd, still tired after his heroic flight and fts | today summar- of the nerve-testing finish, ized the last aerial hours America's flight to France. “We were trying to land on the | sand ach,” he said. | “Our landing wheels broke. Our | ship skimmed on out to sea. We returned safely in our rubber boat.” “I thought, but I was not sure, that 1 was over Paris around 2 o'clock this morning,” “But for a long time I did not know where I was.” As he falked, what appeared be the wreck of the America was being pounded by the channel seas. But the fliers themselves were safe. Noville were up, though still tired after a log-like sleep of only hours. Bert Acosta and Bernt Balchen, austed, were still sleeping. The United Pres correspondent found the America lying like a brokenu-winged bird off the beach. Back-fuselage, wings, and tail were broken. In the center of the big single vlane there was a hole, two feet in diameter, into which the seas were ! pouring. The three propellers were broken. The plane itself was tied to the | shore by ropes, but, because the | tide had come in while it was moor- that a | McMillan achieved | wroughout | A She is Miss Angusta Robinson, of ; 408 MAIN ST. the | had been received of the | descent of the America on the sea. Byrd added. | to Byrd and Lieutenant George O. | six | . "NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927. seas were buffeting it as if in agger. B)rd continued his story. ‘Shortly before 3 o'clock we found it obviously necessary to land. | "“We tricd our hardest to get down safely on the sandy beach. But our | wheels struck the ground too hard | They were knocked off, and we and the plane skidded op out a hundred yards into the sea. . “When we stopped, we thought it a good time to test the rubber boat we had brought along. “We climbed in, n)l four, and rode safely ashore in it. Commander Byrd continued that after reaching shore, he and his fellow voyagers were taken to the village, a mile away. They went to the home of Mayor Georges Bonret, he sald, where the motherly Madame Bonnet's first thought to go through her husband’s wardrobe and get them clothes to replace the drenched gar- ments already stiffening with galt water, they were wearing. They had been standing tiredly, it seemed from Byrd's story, apparent- Iy afraid of wetting the furniture. | Byra and Noville volunteered to leave Mayor Bonnet's modest home, able to harbor only two of the four. Acosta, the pilot, who had borne the brunt of the work, and Balchen, remained and went to bed. | "Byrd ana Noville went further in- to the village, and found refuge at [the low ceilinged fisherman’s cot- tage occupicd by the villagescouncil- or. There, able solicitude, they gladly went to bed at 6:30, Byrd sald. Byrd and Noville slept until 12:30. ! They had not waited at Mayor Bonnet's to get the dry clothes | Mme. Bonnet had sought. While they were waiting for | ATTENTION MOTORISTS! YOUDO NOT NEED CASH To Buy Tires welcomed with a hospit- | their adventure of the night, Byrd and Noville went to the beach. They saved all possible important portions of the airplane’s equip- ment. While they were on the beach, a representative of Premler Poincare whom he had ordered sent through the prefecture of Calvados, arrived to congratulate them on behalf of the government. S. Hamilton Wiley, American consul at Cherbourg, arrived also. to offer all possible aid. Byrd sald he would await advice from Rodman Wanamaker, New York backer ot the flight and Shel- don Whitehouse, counselor at the American embassy in Paris and act- ing ambassador in the absence in the United States of Ambassador Herrick, before deciding what to do. Byrd told the United Press he was communicating with Wanamaker, expressing his regret that he had not landed at Paris, and informing ‘Wanamaker that he would report in detail later the circumstances of his forcéd ending. He would add, he said, that he hoped to salvage the America. . Acosta and Balchen were- still sleeping at Mayor Bonnet's home when Byrd and Noville returned to the village of their host, the vil councilor. There, Byrd donning a sweater and a rough and ready suit that had been found for him, they received reporters. Byrd, deadly pale, unshaven, with hloodshot, staring eyes admitted that he had had no sleep for three days before his landing and added that he had had little sleep for five. Nearly 9,000 pairs of twins were born in England and Wales in the past year. ON FRAUD CHARGE Said to Have Cheated Firm Ont of $100,000 New London, Eonn., July 1.—(®— Charged with defrauding the Gen- eral Contract Purchase corporation of New York of more than $100,000, George J. Findlay, proprietor of the Maytag Washing Machine company of this city, and Willlam H. Treat, Jr., ot Niantic, a salesman for the concern, were arraigned in police court today. Upon request of Attor- ney Morrfs Lubchansky counsel for both men, the cases were continued until July 19 under bonds of $7,500 in each case. Both men were arrest- ed yesterday and in default of $10,- 000 bonds spent last night in jail. It is alleged by the state that Findlay' who was manager of the Maytag Washing Machine for East- ern Connecticut and his salesmen, fraudulently executed more than 1,300 fictitious contracts for the sale of washing machines in this ter- ritory alone. Each machine costs approximately $150 and it is claim- ed that the two men worked their game as follows. A contract made out to a fictitious party would be executed and an or- der with a duplicate copy of the contract would be sent into the headquarters of the company, with the amount of a first payment, to- gether with a conditional bill of sale and the machine would be sent to the local establishment and prompt- on the machines so recorded as sold would be paid to Findlay and his salesmen by the General Contract Purchase corporation, which is a concern engaged in the business of financing automobiles, washing ma- chines, frigidaire ice boxes, etc. For a long time Findlay, it is alleged, covered himself by forwarding monthly payments on the varipus machines which he was supposed to have been sold. Findlay has practi- cally admitted his guilt and has of- fered to tender whatever assistance he can in straightening the matter out. Prior to his arrest he turned over to agents of the General Con- tract Corporation a sedan owned by him, a sedan owned by his wife, ap- proximately $7,500 in cash, 37 wash- ing machines, and 18 vacuum clean- ers, September 12 Date Set For Scott Sanity Trial | Chicago, July 1 (UP)—Chief Jus- tice William J. Lindsey today sef September 12 as date for retrial of the sanity case of Russell Scott, for- mer Canadian millionaire, and con- victed murderer. Scott escaped hanging on a plea he had become insane while in jail. He was later found sane, but the state supreme court found error in the case and ordered a new sanity trial. Scott appeared in court wearing colored glasses and a new mustache. | | NO MANILA FLIGHT Washington, July 1 (#—The army plans no Manila flight, Secretary of War Davis and Assistant Secretary Davison asserted emphatically today in answering rumors that such a venture was planned. ity Methodist ' AGENT 15 ACCUSED B S A DIES AT AGE OF 70 YEARS Invalid Passes Away At Stanley Street Home After Long Residence In City Mrs. Celia Ann Willlams, 70 years old, wife of Willlam Willlams, Jr,, of 624 Stanley street and a resident of this city for the past 44 years, died at her home at 5:40 o'clock yester- day afternoon following an illness of many years. Mrs. Willlams was born in Andol ver and while she was a resident of this city she was a member of Trin- - church. Surviving her besides her husband, is a daugh- ter, Mrs. Rebie May Willlams Bra- den of this city, and a sister, Mrs. Eugene I Lathrop, of West Som- erville, Mass. Funeral services will take place at her home Satyrday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. William' L. Ross, pas- tor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in Fair« | view cemetery. WANT PROPERTY PROTECTED. Dr. R. W. Pullen, superintendent of health, has forwarded to Chlef W. C. Hart of the police department, a letter from the Stanley Rule and Level plant, asking that the city au- thorities assist in keeping the Ellis street property of the company free from objectionable mattsr which is dumped there. A sign and a gate on the property were destroyed, accord- ing to the representative of the company and the situation has reached the point where drastic ace tion must be taken to camblt the acts of vandalism. THE HERALD Sent To You When You Are On YO UR Keep informed on the affairs in New Bkitain, it’s like a letter from : home. Prepaid VACATION 18ca Week or 75¢ aMonth