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HOONE PLAYING ¢ CLOSELY STUDIED tendance Bureeu Takes riend- Iy Tnerest in Absentes [ The old-time truancy department which consisted of one man, usually & constable, a supernumerary po- liceman or some gruff individual capable of striking terror into the hearts of youths inclined to play *“hookey” from school has passed on and in its place has been set up the highly specialized attendance bureau with its staft of experts and its im- posing array of filing cabinets and investigators. New Britain is one of the citie which this evolution has place. Iustead of the searching of & truant ocer riding up and down the side streets, the local school department has a staff of two women who formerly taught in ! school and one man who handles | detalls of the work. Miss Anna Goldsmith and Miss Anne O'Brien, both teachers of long experience, are in charge assisted hy Fdward Stebbins. Bach day the bureau s informed of absentees and | an investigation is begun forthwith. | The home is visited and the con- ditions surrounding the absence noted. In some cases it is roed | that environment or illne m- | tributed to the absence and the serv fces of some other departme is brought into play king the at- tenrance burean an agency of | greater value than the name sug- | gests. i In spite of the fact th some slement of “hookey” playing is al-| ways associated with the practice of attending schdols and it is generall considered that ev building has at least a few inveterate ahsentees as well as a great number who occa- sionally visit the movies or the| swimmin®' hole during school hours, | it is interesting to note that the| total number of absentees last school | year was less than one-half of the total enrollment. There were 9,130 cases, of which 8,809 received per- sonal attention and investigation bx: the hureau. Home conditions —— in n caused 1.050 entered in the records. Some of | these are: Iliness of another mem- ber of the family, 270; away with parents, 94; on errand for parent, | 86; looking for work, 2; weddings or | funerals, 75; holiday, 10; mother away, daughter helping at home 128; without suitable clothing 10 at- | tend sevhool, 152; inclement weather | 34:; at church, 65; too late for class, 152. Personal illness caused 1,584 ab- sences and quarantine caused 13, Of the many cases investigated only 995 were put down as voluntary truancie. The probation officer was called in to handle 16 cases and 20 boys and girls were brought before the judge of juvenile court for rep- fimanding. | To co-operate with homes where | the part-time services of children was found to be a necessity, cer- tificates were granted in 44 cases allowing some time off for home help. Tt was found that 239 chil- dren were {llegally employed or were remaining home to work without permission of the school depart- partment. The desirability attending | elasses was impressed upon 1,004 pupils in personal conference at the oftice of the attendance bureau, and where parental negligence was & pected there were 382 conferences| with the older members of the family. An enormous mass of detail work s handled by the bureau annually, of which little or nothing is ever heard. Despite the fact that many parents, particularly among the newer comers to the shores of thd United States, insist upon their ab- solate right to direct the conduct of their children and their education, | it has been found possible to cut| down absentees with but one court prosecution this year: Accidental Death, Is Ruling of Coroner Bridgeport, Conn., July 23. — A finding of accidental death was re- | turned by Coroner John J. Phelan | today In the case of Arthur Bishop, 45, of Norwalk, who died at the Nor- | walk hospital from a fractured skull | raceived on July 14 at the South Norwalk railroad station when atruck by a freight engine in chargi of Arthur Blonsky, Mount Vernon, N Y. Evidence at the coroner iInquest | showed that Bishop, who was a gage handler, was seated on the edge of the station platform with his feet of 211 Main St, New Britain) assignor to The William Schollhorn #bsences. A variety of excuses were |8 | signor to Remington- | Hartfora. { assignor to lencer Co. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927. : — e NEW BRITAIN LIES O VOLGANIC ROCK But No Extinct Craters }\re;1 Found Within 60 Miles | Were any of the hills In this of Connecticut ever volcanos question is one often asked by New | Britain people, especially when they | learn that all the trap rock so com- mon about here is of “volcani origin. Mount Lamentation in Meri- den is often cited as an example of o lan extinct voleano, of | eruptive force being visible there. i But was it? | There was much “volcanic” { tivity in the region during what is called Triassle time, but the word “volcanic” does not necessarily mean | that there was actually a volcano. {The word is used by geologists to cover all movement of the heated l‘nmznun (Javas) within the earth, A o of ALY { whether they pour out a volcano, well out more quietly through fis- sures in the earth, or flow through i zones of weakness in the earth's Patents Issued to H " structure below the surface. Connec"cut People i The first two types are said to be (List compiled weekly from the Of- ‘extrusive” in origin, the third “in ficial Gazette by the office of Harok! | trusive.” Manning, Walk-Over Shoe Store, The case of Mount Tumentation i appears to be slightly different from lany of these. The finding of frag- mentary rocks of foreign character in the solldified traprock on that ! mouritain has given rise to the be lief that they are fragments thrown | |from the crater mouth and covered | by the flowing lava, and the point {has long been known as “the vol- cano. Geologists are of the opinion however, that there was no voleano |there. They beliove that a body of i water existed in that section at onc Gaugler assignor of his entire | time and that lava flowed along the right to The Davey Tree Expert Co., | bottom of this. In such a tho | Kent, Ohio. (3 patents) Shaft coup- | top and bottom of the lava shec ling; air compressor; and power-ap- | would become solidified quickly by pliance attachment for automotive | contact with the chilling water, but yehicles, {the heat remaining within the sheet | Paul H. | of lava would produce stcam in the ignor of mud below. This would act with the Sound Beach. explosive force of a steam engine, | viee, driving upward through the lava John R. Dolan, Mount Vernon, |crust into the still molten intcrior, Y. and J. P. Shea, Greenwich, |carrying mud, water, steam and signors to United Ammonia Co., [ chunks of solidified crust with it, and Inc..'Port Chester, N. Y. Bottle creating such a formation as is George G. Going, Middictown. as- | found on Mount Lamentation. Noiseless Type- | Another spot with voleanic ev writer Corp., N. Y Y. Typewrit- | dences is the ravin of Roaring ing machine. ,brook, but it is believed that the | Harvey C. Hayes, and M. Mason, |Tock there came through a “dike” New London, assignor to Submarine | Which does not appear 1o have been signal Co., Portland, Me. J!irecln‘o!lflr{gl‘ enou?}:x to b;-lnnn of e 'acuml sound transmission. | volcano. The spot 1s a very interes Charles A. Hickson, Westficld, | Ing one despite this, for it is the only , assignor to The Fuller Brush | point in Connecticut where the Co., Hartford. Collapsible receptacle. uT\_F:uul’ lh;w of c:;m(.;cn h(‘lv;'ren 11‘nr tcorge E. Moward, Butler, Pa, ' Triassic trap and the much olde fl,i,,:,mfi to Hartford Empire crystalline rocks is visible. In other | Regulating glass feeders, | Places, such as along the Trinity Frederick G. Johnson, New Haven, | college escarpment in Hartford, the Visible Tire Gauge Co, | trap may be seen resting upon sand- | stone, but these rocks were products of the same period, whercas the “schists” at Roaring brook are mil- lions of years older. This “uncon- Clarence A Pierce. New Haven, |formity” (break in time between | signor to New England Paper Box | adjacent rocks) is considered one of | Candy. box or the 1ike; Ithe most impressive views available amuel D. Robeins, Stamford. |10 @ geological student. The break is Circuit-closing device. | easily detected because the trap is TR R & Vorsoy ENew! Havon ans [hrounlsh and the schist gray black. signor to The Berger Brothers Co. 'l'h(!‘((‘lr_\smlh{:; rock is the stump of e - an old mountain. (~J::s‘q::m,\.cm;:“!:;xmn. Greenwich, | Where, then, is there a volcano? Folding horse. {1t is considered probable that Mount | Herman H. Wolter, Meriden, as- | Carmel was at one time an active signor to The Miller Co. Bobeche, | volcano, and that Mount Holyoke Trade-Marks Registered {was another. There is also evidence The Sperry & Barnes Co., Long|9f volcanoes in Cheshire and Wharf, New Haven. Pork sausage, ‘Vallingford, but the mountains tranitontatendliholoEne] |themselves have been worn away Winchester Repeating Arms Co., | 108 ago. i New Haven. Radiators for amamo-g'm’;’“‘g‘m“‘:(‘c‘;fc"l';“l’;c‘;‘“kr:"}:“‘ o TS e {sheets which probably flowed out | Labels Registered The Roberts-Frink Co., Norwich, | 0V¢r the land or pushed through the Amie Jame Chocolate . Cocounut | FoCks under the surface, and that | Giome: Fot candt about New Britain is known to have Trade-Mark Applicants {been of the extrusive sort. This is ! shown by the coarse structure, Amendola Prothers, Inc., doing| : business as Amendola’s Laboratories, | 1¢7¢e Of auick cooling in the air. In Tew | some places the rock actually has a | ’,‘")"‘4"“‘““' Hair tonie and hair- |y, 5ug structure due to the forma- (rir:‘}.:»!‘[)t?.ay Co.. Bridgeport, Surgleal | 1100 Of air bubbles during. the quick- dressings, gauze products, adhesiv products, ete. cooling process. These air holes may |be seen in the rocks on Elijah e | Rogers farm at Shuttle Meadow and port. Upholstery springs and SPring | a1 ‘fragments of them picked up | The Bridgeport Chain Co., Bridge- | wimout much searching. Along the Sl | Trinity college ledge the sandstone B Clotes over which the lava flowed has been Nl lackened by the scorching heat. To August Koegel. Thomaston. Bev-|ipe north and south, such as at Tal- crages and syrups for making the | cott mountain and Mount Carmel, BIe: - may be seen the finer structure of I LR intrusive sheets, while a peculiar | Candle cleavage into hexagonal bars is very | Arnold J. Tanner, doing business noticeable at West Rock, New as O-T Mfg. Co., New Hg n. Fold- Haven. ! ing paper containers, There were three sheets of lava, the middle one being the largest and | Wealth of Shanghai Reaches High Mark NOW YOU ASK ONE BIBLE QUIZ 1—For what was Joseph his brothers? 2—To whom was Joscph in Egypt? 3—What position was held by Caiaphas at the time of Christ's | trfal and crucifixion? 4—For what sum o! money did Judas betray Chrise? 5—What king of smitten with leprosy amount of money sold into slavery by sold Judah in the was evidences hen the Lord punished between what three afflic- s he given cholce? did Eljah divide the waters of the Jordan that he ! might cross the river? $—What fate befell Jezreel? 9—Who was chosen king Israel that he might rise ac- Jezcbel in of up William A. Bernard, New Haven, Co. Hand tool. Earl C. Bunnel, Stratford, and H. Messinger, Jr., Bridgeport, as- to The C. 0. Jelliff Mfg. Southport. Loom with edge rs. L signors Corp., trim Walter A. Colburn, Radiator valve, James A. T and P, H. Dav Bridgeport. Sound Beach, L. Gaugle: Day Kent, Ohio, to J. A. G. Dav Power-connecting de a r Gauge. Hiram P. Maxim, lencer. Assignor to Hartford. 8i- The Maxim Si- 0. & Knapp Co.. South Norwich. hanging over. Blonsky, driving hi train at a rate of 25 to 30 miles an hour observed him when distance and blew his whistle. Ac- cording to his testimony, Bishop scrambled from his seat, walked ont | on the track and then turned sud- | denly and made for the platform. | He was not able to reach it in time | and the right front end of the motor struck him. 250 feet | Wisconsin Beer Bill Is Vetoed by Governor Madison, Wis.,, July 23 (®—T Duncan beer bill which would have allowed the manufacture and sale i Wisconsin of beer containing per cent alcohol by weight w toed yesterday Ly Govern Zimmerman. The measure, the governor point- ed out, is invalid, attempts hy indi- rection to nllify the law of the ). 1 and would & “odium, ridicule and disgrace” to the n of the state, | BURGLARS ARREST Worcester, Mass., July 2 Karl Karlson, 36, and h Frank Karlson, 34, both 7 Buffum street, arres on charges of burglary in $15,000 each today counts. They pleaded not gu walved examination. Deputy Chiet McMurray told the eourt the police had evidence to| connect the palr with eight or ten| burglaries. A search of thelr flat, disclosed #6000 worth of jewelry. D o brother living at ed Thursday were held | o two | and v attaining a thickness of hundreds of feet in places. All were of the same chemical composition, being about | 1ghai, July 23 (UP)—Shang- | half sand with large amounts of hai today possesses far more wealth | Aluminum and iron and smaller than ever before in its history. This is chiefly due to the silver stream that has poured into the city in the | of some triumph or in some role | athletes cavorted and plunged hith- ,edge that the battle was not | which used ‘his broad shoulders for | a battle ground—and he has chew- | | and bucked its way into the heavily GEDRGE GASSIDY IN HIS NATIVE HILLS H. §. Athletic Coach Vivid Pic- ture of Hustling Agriculturist In making a study of a personage, it is a common failing of biograph- vrs to take the man at the height which has either been assumed or has been cast upon him. Another popular mistake 15 to form an opin- ion about the man bascd on some nicely learned specch. A man, in his home and unaware that he is being scrutinized with a view to- wards forming a definite opinion i3 as near liable to present a natural view s it is possible for the har- rased biographer to form. Last Fall, the local High school's er and yon on a dry and trampled meadow with an earnest wish to place Letween two upright posts, a scarred and weather beaten oval of leather. In the stands some two or three thousand ardent rooters T ed their approval of the syn- cronized antics of the eleven on the ield helow them. On the sidelines forlorn figures draped in blankets huddled miserably in their knowl- for them. Beside them on the worn slab of wood termed the “bench” sat a massive figure chewing grass, his s glued on every motion of that well trained backficld. T George 8. Cassidy—"Ca coach. | New Britain—they were friends {the German navy. There was and the machine settled back on hurriedly recruited rocks and pro- ceeded to recuperate. The rest of the trip was made on foot, and the outskirts of the farm found the par- ty panting heavily from their exer- tions, .Two loud dogs, Duke and Nellie, and two roly-poly pupples, Muddy and Whitey, greeted the arrival vp- roariouly. A heavily bearded man seated on the porch of the farm house stared at them and from the barn door emerged “Cass,” the ob- ject of the visit. George Cassidy i3 no mite 1n street clothes here in New Britain. His big frame is easily distinguish- able in any sized crowd. And yet it scemed that in his farm togs, he overshadowed previous calculations as to his helght and weight. Blue overalls, wood hoots, denim shirt with sleeves rolled back, draped his heavy build. Sunburned, freckled and somehow, recognizably happy, he came over to the group of still panting visitors and wrung ever: body's hand heartily and painfull None of the group were special friends of the man. He had not been intimate with any of the visitors nd yet it was as though all of 1em had been his sole friends here tain. The party was from of in New his Introductions were made. There s Henry—"Cass’s” helper on the farim—a Canuck with a passion for story telling. The heavily bearded man turned out to be Old John who had heen'a captain on a great many vessels and had served his time in Mrs. | Henry and there were several little | Henry's. There was a sick horgs that was being doctored in a desperate | attempt to save if. They were all | pointed out, scrutinized and ap- proved. 0 Amid a storm of approv. iticism, scorn, cheers and petty intereferenc ““Cass” gat and chew- | ed grass and indirectly led the ef- | | forts of the team. Individual opin- | | individual uestions pointed to a few | ons of the man hav irged from | favorable to unfavorable and back \gain as the smile of Fortune flick- red and then grew brighter. Many storms have used his big form for an apex about which to rage. Bit er have been several of the battles and grinned thronghout. some- | s for | ed grass To New Britain, the man is what of an enigma and it that reason—the purpose pelling the curious conflicting opin- jons about the n that a reporter | mdde a trip into the Vermont hills on a het aiternoon this month. Poultney, Vermont, can never lay | laims to bustling activity. It is small, it is tree-shaded and it s sleepy. East Poultney is practically the same as Poultney ‘except that it | is a little smaller and a little sleep- | jer. Cassidy's Farm—it is spelled in | capitol letters as the place is a dis- tinct separate part of the township, such as Belvidere or Clayton are o this city—Iis situated high in the hills and is the last farm on a road which at times threatens to give up the task of winding up the side of the mountaln and dissolve into noth- ing under the wheels of the car. Directions were frecly given after Poultney. Everyone along the route | knew the farm and the owner. Fore- | fingers pointed up the road and up | and up and up, while the hard | working Ford panted and ground I z | wooded hills. The car in which the writer clung as it rocked and rolled, had never before met a hill that LUF.'\]\A" peared around bends only to shoot | up some 100 feet and then turn | and repeat the feat. On one of the | particularly dizzy ascents the low bands of the car gave up the task | | even “How are the boys?" was Cass first questi The boys” takes in a arge delegation of local youths but | of his favorites among the list of | | his proteges. To name them would name a list of local stars who have | carried the ball far and fast for the | | Red and Gold. Ile’ explained his ambitions con- cerning the farm. Over a ridge and den from the house grazed some ead of sheep. It is bition to make a shcep ranch out of the place, to quarter approxi- mately 2,000 sheep on the flung honndaries of the estate, The advan- tages of such a plan were explain- ¢d, the hilly contours of the place | being adapted to that special branch | of farming. Buckwheat was to he wed here, corn was growing there, something was to go he some-+ thing there. The talk led to fishing and it found an enthusiast in the trainer of the local gridiron athletes. Stories of big catches and hig trout were told. The fishing member of the party was invited to go fishing. e auto, resting wearlly at a 45 daEreniarglc badinacnjmonioniatly) forgotten but mention of the car's condition brought an instant offer of help from Cass, from Henry and om Old John. Cass was bound for Rutland, some 16 miles distant and there bands could e ob- tained. Clothes were changed and Cass's own car was used as a relief machine for the trip to the eity. The writer did not make the trip, Leing meeded at the farm to tow car—via the horse and chain method—from its resting place to barn vard where alterations were to be made, but reports of the trip by other members of the party were vivid. Cassidy holds certain neigh- borhood records as being the most reckless driver in Vermont. To ac- cuse him outright of being reckle +on the man. Standing in the ins the rumois of hitting the road—and such roads!—once out of every ten feet; shaving tail feathers from careless chickens and giving hound dogs something to think about, were insistent. In Rutland he was nearly arrested for several things all at once and kidded the malignant policeman out of his fury. On the trip back he roared through a gas station. drive at 40, scattering cin- ders and employes impartially. At Poultney he gave several members of the party a mild attack of ver- tigo as he drove with one hand while pointing out a residence to the rear of the car and passing a loaded farm wagon at no decrcase in_specd. Friends Pailing him and numcr- ous errands to be done prolonged the stay away from the farm long- er than was expected and it was dark when his hurtled up the drive. Too late to fix the shredded bands, he lent the visitors his own car until the mor- row. A large stone jug with a corn cob that plopped faintly as it was withdrawn, yielded sweet cider to the thirsty; his shaving were loaned those who needed them. | cade departed. Nothing definite was proved by the visit. The big man issued words of extreme wisdom and yet were and are still, thoroughly sold dim {light of the Vermont evening, hooming volce reached the depart- |ing ‘guests with some that was the last glimpse of him. In concluding it might be well to set down a few words of Henry, the “anuck, concerning his employer. Henry sald, during Cassidy’s ab- sence: “He dam’ good man, George ‘but he vi much too good to pe , ple. Ever'body tak' advantage o ! him. He get cheat out two' tree He don’ care dam’. just the same. | t'ousand dol Trust nex’ TO0K ONE STEP 100 MUCH, FLEES Miliord Court Aftendants Easy for Speeder Milford, Conn., July 23 (A—When the police of this town allowed Frank McLaughlin of Walnut Beach who had just been arrested on charge of theft, to “step out in the hall to see some friends" they allowed him to take one step too much for McLaughlin * right out of sight. The man was arrested on com- plaint of his sister, Mrs. C. C. Spald- ing whose husband conducts a chemical works. She charged that her brotber had taken a book of patent medicine formulas valued at § s after he had been' hook: at police headquarters that he w allowed to take the “step” that gave him his liberty. CAN'T SCOLD PHONE GIRLS Moscow, July 23 (UP)--Russian | telephone operators are protected by law against being scolded. If a tele- phone user loses his temper and says what he feels into the transmitter, the offended operator me: reports his number and his telephone is promptly disconnected for a time. The soviet hello-girls give few wrong numbers, however, ‘Go the Employes of LANDERS, FRARY & CLARK FAFNIR BEARING CO. . SKINNER CHUCK CO. S an accommodation to you, Raphael’s invites you, without any obligation whatever, to cash your quantities of magnesium, cacium and sodium. e | The western part of New Britain | lies on traprock which was pro past few months from all over the |duced by the second or main sheet. country, and to the influx of wealthy | Extending from Rattlesnake moun- Chinese. Shanghal and Dairen are |tain southward in a wide swath on considered as two citics reasonably | both sides of the New Britain-Plain safe during the latest warfare. [ville town line, this formation takes The preliminary negotiations that |in the quarries at White Oak, the | were supposed to lead up to the |Shuttle Meadow and Ozone Heights | revision of the status of the Tientsin | Tegion, the Jerome street district, | RBritish concession, brought ahout an | Black Rock, and the territory well | evacuation of Chiness wealth to | 40Wn toward the center. It f,xp!alns: Dairen that was nothing short of | {he numerous outcrops which for- | menal [ merty isted as ledges on Harrison | The threat of Chinese control over |Strect, Ledge court (named from it) | any community now under forsign |2nd Other streets. This sheet ex- | Jurisdiction is sufficint to drfve Chi. | tends south through Berlin, while | mess: capital out of It and inlo con. |2SHeL PALL G2 Ji fovme the clffs I | ters where control i3 not 8o Likely to | N \nston upon which the home for | Salabendoned ¥ 10 [ crippled children is located. | g ; The third or posterior sheet 1s visible in many places. East stre t’ is built along a thin strip of it, while | another long strip runs up Elm | and Stanley streets, crosses over University heights, and goes on into | Newington. There is a little outcrop at the northeast corner of the town. To the south the sheet is found along | South Staulsy street and on the heights west of Willow Brook. Be: lin is fairly spotted with this forma- tion, the largest outcrop being along | the ridge west of the railroad sta- | tion. Is Moved to New York Norwalk, Conn., July —Re- | moval to New York city immediately the plant of the Gabbe Mole Fur Works, Inc., was announced today and the 200 employes began to move as machinery was sent on ahead of them. The company has been here ght years, had a payroll of $35 000 yearly and when on full tim had more than 200 persons in its | employ. The company dresses skins The anterior or first sheet is not | for garments and furs, !found in New Britain, but it comes The explanation given was that t'hulln the surface in Plainville in the plant was too far removed from con- Scott Swamp district and along the | cerns to which immediate deliveries | Southington road. | had to be made. . { s rnt i b pay checks here. When you come to the store, ask for the PAY CHECK CASHIER. She will cash your check on any day of the week, any time dur- ing our regular shopping hours. This is a service extended to you—you don’t have to do any buying. New RBritain’s Only Cash Department Store shiny machine | utensils | | Goodbyes were sald and the caval- : no | the writer and the rest of the party | his | Godspeed— ] al about the | $2,000 bond which was being asked | cpped” H NE CRASH PLENTY 10 LAST LIFETIME Believe It or Not, Collision Victims Say So “How does it feel to be in an au- | tomobile accigent?” Undoubtedly | this question has framed itselt in the minds of many persons as they read n their newspapers every Monday throughout the fall and summer seasons, of accidents, many of them fatal. A decade ago, before the automoblle had come into the | { common use that it has at present, | a locomotive engincer or brakeman | who figured in a train wreck was 1 | 1 given me more anxiety han that which I experienced waiting for the crash.” Caught between a truck’ and a’ pleasure car, with his own car burning, was the experience of an- other driver who fortunately got out of the meass with only a scvere jarring and a good scare. He was. driving at a fast rate of speed along a turnpike in another state, hurry- ing to reach Connecticut before nightfall, when he met with the experience that atfected him to such an extent that he has mever fully enjoyed a day behind the wheel since. There was a line . ot cars moving towards him but very few going in his direction. Suddenly three cars. traveling at the rate of 45 or 50 miles an hour, cut out of the line and started to pass a heavy truck. Two of them passed but the driver of the third, apparently los- ing his nerve after starting in the wake of the others, attempted . to looked ‘upon as a great hero and | those fortunate enough to learn of | bi sexperience from his own lips considered that their good fortune was indeed complete whereas many motorists nowadays match the rail- road man's experience time after time and some even outdo him and | think 1ittle of it. “Well, all I can compare it to is i the sensation I would have it I started to run as fast as I could in the dark of night and then sudden- | !ly was caught under the chin by an | iron beam while the front of my | pull back into line. The truck driver, | slackening his speed slightly at the signal from the first car to pass. unwittingly kept the third machine out in the open while another car coming out of a side road, crashed into the latter and the local driver finding himself unable to stop soon enough to avold being in the col- lision, pulled to the right only to be hoxed in. “I felt like sardines must have felt before they became used to be- ing squeezed,” he states when relat- ing his experience. “Both sides of | head crashed against a steel slah,” is the way one motorist replicd | when queried relative to his sen- sations in an accident in which he injured. “I was driving along a moderate rate of specd and as I approached the corner of another | road, I slowed down. As 1 rounded | the corner and straightened out the steering wheel T was astonished i to find that it would not respond. Before T knew what was up, my car | was heading for a lot and then— slam bang, all was darkness and I was dazed. Later, T learned that the steering apparatus sknply broke, just as it might do at any time, and it was fortunate that I had slowed down to turn the corncr, otherwise I might have been killed by the im- pact of the car against the tree in the lot.” Another motorist related how he and a party of friends were return- ing from a nearby city in a rented | car Jate at night and everyone was thinking of everything but danger, leaving the paid chauffeur fo wo about that. Seén, however. tha lights of an approaching car shown down the highway and as they grew larg- er and more distinct, one of the party, suspected that a collision wa imminent, as the other car hor down in an irregular line, forcing { the chauffeur over as far as it was possible to go on the right. “It| ccemed like ages, but in | was only a few second rator sald. T shut my eves braced myself for the crash, but there was none, for the approach- ing car, which was of a light make, swerved backtowards the center of the highway and barely grazed our | car. The left front wheel struck the hub cap of our left rear wheel and | knocked it off and when we alight- ed, we were surprised to find that the other car had heen turned com- pletely about by the collision, No- body was hurt but T think a week in a hospital would hardly have | | the day. quickly available. In greenery of Central and buses pass the parking space to the to have an office. For floor plar | ta fror my machine were stove in and the fenders and running boards crum- bled up like so much cardboard. A piece of glass struck me on the bridge of the nose and another cui’ my check. It all happened so auickly I did not have time to think, but T realized my danger when I smelled-the fumes of gasoline and eralized my machine or one of the others was on fire. 1 was pulled out of the jam before I knew definitely it was my car that was buring. It was a thrill all right, and no mis- b KILLS HIS WIFE, AND THEN HIMSELF Carteret, N. J, Man Brooded Over Her Deserting Him Carteret, N. J.,, July 23 (UP) — | After brooding for four days over I'his wife's departure from home, Julius Szitie, 38, factory foreman, yesterday forced his way into the hiome eof his sister-in-law, where his wife was staying, and shot and kill- ed her Then he killed himself. Szitio and his wife had quarrelad months, Mrs. John Zelezie, the ster-in-law told police. he said Szitio appeared at the e this morning and was re. admittance, but forced his way into a bedroom where Mrs. io was sleeping. He fired two hots into her head and body. Then he went into the yard and fired one bullet through his brain. The couple had no children of their own but were foster parents an adopted girl seven years old. hot fused e — ] Have Your Office In The Center of Things For the up-and-coming business and pro- fessional man, an office in the new CoMm- MERCIAL TRUST CoMPANY Building on West Main Street, in the business heart of New Britain, will' mean having an office where things are doing cvery minute of On the west is the Burritt Hotel, the city's finest hostelry. A step City Hall, with all city officials and records to the east is the front is the pleasant Park, and 2 minutes away is the railroad station. Street cars door. There's ample west and in the rear. Right where things are humming in New Britain ought to be a good place for you ns and further information, write or phone WALTER M. BassForp, Treasurer Open Saturday Evenings 7—9 (D.S.T.)

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