New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1927, Page 12

DESTITUTE FLOOD " YIGTIHS APPEAL Chinese Sufferers in Dire Nead of Financial Aid Bhanghai, July 14 (®—TUrgent dp- peals for aid were received in Shang- | hai today from the southern part of Anhwei province, the scene of a great flood disaster on July 6. which caused the death of more than a thousand persons. It was only yesterday that the first news of the overflowing of the | lower reaches of the Yangtse river | was received in Shanghai, and the | reports were still meagre today Enough has been learned however, | to indicate that tens of thousands of | persons are homeless and destitute and that vast damage to property has been done. i Floods have vied with earth- W. Pape was instrumental in hav- ing a bill put through the 1925 legislature, which gave the highway commissioner the authority to ap- ply the next appropriation coming to Newington on the Robbins av- enue contract. The new warning signs to be placed at all railroad crossings are expected to be ready within the next week. Selectman Gilbert stat- ed that six had been ordered from the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford Railroad company, which are the disc type, with the letters “RR” mounted on a 4x4 post. These {will be placed about 300 feet on |each side of the crossings and will | be placed at Elm Hill, Willard av- enue and Francis avenue. Andrew Hurlbert who was bound over to the September term of the superior court on Tuesday, by Jus- tice of the Peace C. S. Barrows, has served a term of one vear in prison at Windsor, Vermont, and a term of | one and one-half years in the fed- eral penitentiary, local report authorities | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927. RS-1 GONDITIONED FOR LONG FLIGHT {Navy's Largest Semi-Rigid Ship to Cross Country Scott Field, Belleville, Il (A— July 14, the RS-1, largest army dirig- ible and :gship of Scott Field, wili embark this month on its longest flight. A tour to Washington, New York and Boston, with a possible stop at !the Fordmooring mast in Detriot on 'the homeward trip, has been arrang- jed as an educational flight for a crew of about nine men, cammanded by Lieut. Col. John A. Pagelow com- jmandant of Scott Field. | The ship is the world's largest semi-rigid matel. craft, and is approxi- a third as large as the Los | Angeles, rigid airship of the navy. |Launched in January, 1926, its long- !est previous flight was to Detroit on [3; up the Atlanti~ seaboard by| | wa yof Mitchel Field, Long Island, | | probably as far as Boston, and !thence by a return route to Lake- | |hurst, up the Hudson river, over | |Troy and West Point, N. Y. over| | Buffalo and back to its hangar with | the conditional halt at Detriot, if | | weather permits. | Plead Not Guilty in { | Louisiana Murder | ’ Franklin, La. July 14 P — A| woman and two men, Mrs. Ada Le- | | bouef and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher {and James Beadle, a trapper, yes-| terday pleaded not guilty to charges {of murder in connection with the| slaying of James J. Lebouef, hus-| 'band of the woman. Motions by de-| | fense counsel to postpone the ar- raignment and set-a later date than |July 25 for the trial alike were de- Inied by the court. | | The meeting in the courtroom | |was their first since their arrest| . . |clubs, the Y. W. C. A., and social Fifty Factory Workers [T 00 ot senoiarehips. - on Attend Summer School which these girls - attend. Madison, Wis., July 14.—(UP)— |Stenographers, clerical workers and Fifty factory workers, 48 of them saleswomen are not admitted be- young women, are attending sum- }fl‘;“:;r':‘:cf:;’y"e‘:;l:;::‘"ed i mer school at the University of | bk e i Wisconsin where special courses in = English, economics’ and physical PILOT IS° SELECTED education are offered them. | Paris,’ July*14 P—Leon Givon, Representafives of twelve nation- |one of the staunchest pilots in alities from eight middlewestern |I'rench aviation has been selected as states are attending this fourth an- (the pilot of the Farman Steel bi- nual industrial school. Their occu- |motor Goliath for the transatlantic pations range from machine oper- 'flight from Paris to New York. The ators to pastry cooks. = Goliath was to have been flown by Individual factories, women's | Maurice Drouhin, who-recently made following the finding of Lebouef's body in Lake Palourde, near Mor-' gan City, by fishermen. Stowaway, Seeking ‘ Hanppiness. Starves | a contract with Charle: Levine to fly the mouoplane Columbia back to America. . . Givon, who has been engaged in commerclai aviation for'the past six years, 1832 years of age. He ex- || pects to bé able to start on his At- lantic flight before Drouhin and Le- vine on the Columbia. Borrow Ecconomically : THE FIDELITY INDUSTRIAL BANK under the supervision of the State Banking Department, is author- ized to make loans of $50.to $5,000, at the legal interest rate of 6 per cent per annum, plus a service charge of $1 for every $50 borrowed. Loans are‘made to- persons of good character and reputation who require-money to liquidate accumulated debts, pay taxes, mortgages, insurance premiums oi other necessities. x Arno Schubert is visiting his par- |the first leg of a proposed 1,:oo-mue\ Boston, July 14 (P—A Cuban nts at Maple Hill. He is a student hegira which was cancelled because | ., avay who sought to fulfill a aer Polytechnic Institute |Of adverse weather conditions. |long cherished dream of life in the N. ¥ On a flight here slx months 480 | r-pjieq States starved to death in an ithe RS-1 was compelled to remain | ,pgyccesstul attempt to accomplish | S |aloft for nearly 20 hours because | ;s Newport, R. L, July 14 (s, |0f @ Si-mil gale which made land- | "4viling Fernandez was taken off lda Garland Fay. man |8 impossible. It was in constant| e freight steamer Munisia yester- : Garland Fay. the oldest woman ra4io communication with the fiel &y BTt donied Rere from Hand| {resident in Newport, died lastnight| The ghip has three gondolas, two fileoi7 iha Girroloflalia e at her home, Her exact age {8 not|for engimes and one a Navigator's|not eaten nor tasted water for elght | known, but it is believed she i5|cabin, slung to an aluminfum Keel|days during which he had remained | dikes gave way. In 1925, nearly 4, MOre than 100. which gives it semi-rigidity. It is! secreted from the crew. | 000 Chinese lost their lives when 900 | She was the widow of Henry H. |282 feet long, 73 feet at its largest| A customs searching squad found | villages were submerged. This dis-| Fay. lleutenant governor of.Rhode |diameter, and has a helium capac»[mm helpless to move, ' and he was estrous flood covered a large part of |Island from 1880 to 1883. She had : 2 ity of 719,000 cubic feet. rushed to the City hospital where he | nine provinces, destroying crops and ;10 immediate relatives and lived | The eastern tour will take the!died late last night.’ Fernandez was threatening ten million persons with With a few \ servants at the Fay|RS-1 to Langley Field, Va.; Bolling believed to have been a Spanlard famine. homestead here for many years. Field, Washington; Lakehurst, N.|and about 55 years of age. The year 1925 also saw one of the v 26th Annual Summer Clearance Sale Thousands of Thrifty People in New Britain and Vicinity Profit by These MONEY-SAVING-VALUES Twice a Year! 4-PIECE WALNUT SUITE 3-PIECE MOHAIR SUITE 10-PIECE WALNUT SUITE rible fire brought death to 5,000 in quakes in taking a large toll of lif in China through the years, hardly a season passing without a catastrophe due to the overflowing of rivers, g particularly the Yangtse and Hwang- | Ho, or Yellow rivers. Midsummer is | the danger season Last year, 100 persons were/ drowned and $4,000,000 damage done by floods in the Canton district, while 3,000 persons were drowned in Hupen provihce when the Yangtse The Fidelity Industrial Bank was not organized to encourage the careless borrowing of money, but to meet economically the actual needs that may arise. THE FIDELITY INDUSTRIAL BANK 140 Main Street > DIES AT AG OF 100 MOTHER:~ Fletcher's Cas- toria is a pleasant, harmless Sub- stitute for Castor Oil Paregoric, Teething Drops-and Soothing Syrups, especially prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of m Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend i# March, 1926, when the town of Talifu, in northwest Yunnan, was destroyed. i « NEWINGTON NEWS The state hichway department | through John A. Macdonald. com- | missioner, has advised First Sclect- man James C. Gilbert that Newing- ton is entitled to reccive $10.000 under & one year program, or §20,- 060 under two years, for the con- struction of state roade in the town. Newington has been placed in the one-fourth classification, which rieans that the town meeting must appropriate $2,500 under the one | year program or §5.000 under the two year to be used for road con- stfuction with the appropriation | given by the state. Either one of | these propositions must be accepted by the town and a notice to that ef- fect filed with the state highway de- partment before October 15, 1927. A special town meeting will prob- ably be called in September to take action on this matter and also vote how and where the money will be used. Mr. Gilbert' stated last eve- | » i ’ 4 K ning that the money from the state ! g | | i | ' | could be placed in the town treas- TN 5 § [ i & L4 4 > V. ury and have the same apply on the cost of corstruction of Robbins av- enue, which was completed three | years ago or it could be put into new | road construction in the town. In! either case it must have the ap-| proval . of Highway Commissioner : Macdonald. Ex-Representative Elmer | Four-piece Suite in attractively toned walhu_t: full size bed, large dresser, full vanity and chifforobe g y $129 Other Suites $89 to $275 COTTON-FELT MATTRESSES Regularly $14.50 $10.95 CONGOLEUM RUGS Regularly $14.50 $8.95 42-INCH RED TENNESSEE CEDAR CHESTS Regularly $19.50 $14.50 Deep Fringed BRIDGE LAMPS SMOKING STANDS Equipped with handles 95c Three-piece Suite in heavy mohair; sturdy spring construction. Davenport, wing chair and club $1 10 chair, Regularly $169.00 ................cu00e. Other Suites $79 to $325 Ten-piece Suite in delicately shaded walnut; . buffet, china cabinet, server, oblong extension $139 table, 6 chairs in tapestry ......ccvuiiiiin.n Other Suites $85 to $350 NATIONAL LINK SPRINGS . | TABLE LAMPS ‘With attractively styled siik High block. Regularly $7.50 shades — porcelain 2 .9 8 $4.95 ! colored bases ..... 'BABY CARRIAGES Heywood--Wakefield Regularly $22.50 $15.95 GAS RANGES 3-burner with oven. Gray enameled Regularly $27.50 $19.50 SILK FLOSS MATTRESSES Regularly $27.50 $18.75 END TABLES Strongly built; fin- §1 @B ished in mahogany CARD TABLES With green leather- $1 : 49 ette tops, well braced Will your Child | be a victim of NEGLECT? S your little one’s disposition and health being impaired by needless sufiering? When he | grows up will he bear the telltale | marks of early neglect? The odds | prove that he will = unless you | take one important precaution. 9x12 Heavy Seamless AXMINSTERS Regularly $39.50 $29.50 4-Piece REED SUITES Settee, rocker, chair and table. Finished in walnut. Regularly $55. $39.50 INLAID LINOLEUM Regularly $1.65 $l .29 yard STROLLERS Heywood-Wakefield $ 6 4 9 5 Reguiarly $9.50 3-Door GIBSON REFRIGERATORS Regularly $27.50 $19.50 CONGOLEUM By the Yard Regularly 59¢ yard 3¢ yard Doctors now tell us that at least 665, of all babies are allowed to suffer need- lesaly the torture of Urea Irritation. The stinging acids in the urine form tiny, gritty crystals—invisible to the eye, yet harsh and cruel to tender skin. Frequent diaper changing is not enough. The one remedy is to keep these | erystals from contact with the body. Z.B.T.Baby Talcum is made exactly | for this type of irritation. It contains a special ingredient which clings to the skin and formsadelicate protective coat- | ing against acids, irritation and chafing. Use Z.B.T. tokeep Beby's ski and healthy. At all druggists: sizes—10c, 25¢, $1.00. Crystal Co., New York, N. Y. BABY TALCUM Fine for Baby’ Body— Fine for Every Body! DOUBLE DAY BED Cretonne covered mattress, HAMMOCKS Heavy duck, sturdy $8.95 spring. Reg. $14.50, Regularly $13. i b and finished in - mahog- $8.95 e J. 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