New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1927, Page 1

(£5%] NEW BRITAIN HERALD [E=rai " THRILNG RESEOES, DARNG DEDS _ VSDEINFES Wt s FRE DPRRTHENT CORDTION FLAY OF HEROISM AS EXCURSION VESSEL OVERTURNS IN LAKE NEAR CHICAGO COLLAPSE 1§ SURE { Officials Already Speculating as to Administration’s Stand on NAVAL GONFERENCE AT UNDERWRITERS IN CAUSTIC STYLE Rushes to Defense of Firemen, Denying Lack of Discipline; IN OFFICIAL UNDERWRITERS' REPORT; QOUTSIDE INFLUENCES PARTLY BLAMED | o o A 3 . . 27 Persons, Mostly| Survivors of Disaster Say Storm Expansion Program Champions 0d Times | ARREST H. S, BOYS | TRAIN KICKS TRUCK | Appointments and Pro- " and Child af —— S Wi Women and Children, Came Too Suddenly to Plan Safety WE FOR AUTO THEFTS| OVER CROSSING BAR | o'z i o | L oiek iees 1 lamtaiv ENGLAND HAS NO NEW |SAYS INSPECTOR CA out Regard to Regula- | sl —— ST S e PROPOSALS TO OFFER IN SEARGH OF FLAWS i i . 1 i Yachtsman aids in Life Two Northampton Girls | Passengers Had No Time Owner of Stolen Car Covered Reduces Machine to Scrap But| tioms or Effect on 4 i % s s 2 A, . o Savin g Captam Shock. City !Jy Wean_ng for Life Belts, Life Boats |crisis In Tripartite Meeting At Gen- | Laughs At Suggestion City Increase With Gun Aiter Chase Driver Escapes [nlm'y Morale and Efliuency, { P Valiant Bathing Suits Shopping or Rafts and Crew Was| €@ Is At Hand With Offictals| Number o Hydrants But Admits Vo bk i R Is Charged e g Semmpten 0. 3wy 9| Unable to Direct Frights| Iy Tieins Tt Sosims| Nestof Yo sitonn wet 2t i) [NDER §,000 BONDS [BANANAS LITTER HIGHWAY i Sudden Squall and Crowd- ot Northampton yesterday when ened People. ful Conclusion At Meeting Next| Personal Pique To Blame for Part| gurton Miller and Donald Stockwell| Tony Alpier's Machine Skids Onto Laxity in Discipline, Fail- Iy ing of Passengers to One ll‘aln‘!treet z‘n dob !!:'ciir shop- = Monday Afternoon. of Engineer’s Criticism. Bound Over to Superior Court| Ralls as Hartford Bouna Local| Ure of Officers to Co- | PIEE LD one plocs bty g suiis, Chicago, July 29 (P—Survivors of | Washin; i ¢ & 5 5 , ngton, July 29 P—TWith ad-| Fire Chief William J. Noble th Side of Ship to Avoid| Pedestrians and automobile | - G L g am J. Noble this| \yhen They Admit Stealing Five| Comes Along and Enocks it Into| gperate and Cessation of drivers stopped to watch the gedy y s Journment of the three-power naval 'afternoon rose in defense of his de- Little Pl Driving Rain Believed| air but the fair damsels con- [overawed by the suddenness of the | conference without sgreement on a |partment when Informed of the Maciies Sluce: Dy 1L i Drills and Training > 3 3 e:t‘i‘; m“’:mr: :De!f‘::fls;r::?r:’& | disastrous squall which struck the |limitations treaty forecast in Wash/|sweeping criticlsm made by engi-| Two high school youths seeking a| Tony Alpleri, aged 27, of 186 X Responsible for Disaster. | {one remarns that cvmsenere | D02t virtually without warning and jIngton official circles, speculation as | neers of the National Board of Fire | vacation “thrill” according to their | Washington avenue, New Haven | Cited. ‘ greeted thelr presence. When a | 83ve the passengers no time for life [to the probable course of the ad- | "““{“"b‘m and declared the find-| 1 ments to the police following d,"“;“g an '““’m"b;f*‘d‘x“;‘ ‘;fl;‘: | crowd of curious pople besan to | belts, the lite boats or the emer- |ministration in dealing with naval | oy oe :&x:fi: “,;;;emb;. the |their arrest last evening, found za:e, St et Chicago, July 28 (P — A sudden ;\‘f}‘(’,"“{h:“i';‘.e’;"‘;:";'o the meyor | gency ratta expansion questions at the winter | engineer while in New Brital themselves this morning facing | crossing ehortly atter 7:30 o'clock | The efficlency and morale of the oft-shore squall that passed in 8! | oiacq and the young women Members of the crew also blamed | session of congress already has dis- Sent Here To Find Flaws Judge Henry P. Roche in police | this morning and escaped with abra- | -Efl“ 5“‘«’:‘ fire department i§ 16w few seconds to leave the lake as! fleq. the suddenness of the storm for the ' Dlaced discussion of the Geneva de-| Di uTsi‘ng the surveyl,dcmer .\‘olb)le O Lo e (Ao P sic:tfaboul ;he 1ev; ?I%e ojr the bod) m';;falpfmzd? 13&321‘:;1:..3! u::fi; 8 % 1 i i | v nts. E “The engineer told me at the and face and a painful injury to h o cmooth as & mill pond capsized a| Mayor Willlam M. Walsh ad- | disasier on the grounds it gave them »‘e“"’ms{,;’ = o & mobiles and carrying a dangerous |pack wnon a Beritord bonad pas, | discipline and cooperation, and ias small pleasure steamer late yester- :Le s roper m"div'e 1;;“:530; no time to direct a systematic dis- | There is no mdm‘!'ffn"wa' Pres. | weapon. Pleading not guilty they!senger train demolished the truck. | PFOPer methods of appointment ahd day, carrying at least 27 of tho| ,ivetour even in a town mage | POSal Of the life preservers. ident Coolidge and his advisers have | CNERO COIEIEL Bl next | picking himself up out of the fi_fg:i‘;g:rx“;e;‘“:”‘rl"afm of passengers, mostly ~women and| modern by Smith college wo- Little Girl's Story as yet ltakm up the formulation of L;‘:;""‘V morning i $2,000 "°“d5;:rc<;ka§'e.r ?‘p e';h Watlkeedl ld'e“;“ey ot the ity u‘;e‘;tly ;n;u"":; o i . men. He said neither was b B : - a continuing building program for | cach. : _, | hundred feet up the street and sat | children, to their deaths. A S L The story told by small Katherine |1 “Hoet. The Geneva conference Burton Miller, aged 16, of 574 | down, apparently dazed and unable | ?Q;S;bf?‘fid!t: Acting Mayor wil- The tragedy came almost 12| [ ERTR BOTR ST T Olson, daughter of the il-fated |was called in the strong hope that Arch street, and Donald Stockwell, | to comprehend what had happened. | “og (& A tOCay vears to a day from the date of Bresnahan viewed the incides 's captain, was typical of the a definite paring down of the cruiser aged 17, of 326 Monroe street, lHe was taken to New Britain Gen- m;‘de chief of which i uu.b“:‘ icago's greatest water disaster,| as a joke. declaring that there tragedy. She said the weather had tORRage it might otherwise be ne- neither of whom is known to the eral hospital where his injuries Were | 1o or 5 civil service system . ahd Sleagraa - East.| 'S but little difference between | been jdeal when the boat started fts | CCSS3TY to construct could be ac- police, selected the practice of tak-| found mot serious. compulsory retirement of firemen at BIEFER of s eeamesr. BAR| e hs Red the ofitmiry : at started IS | complished under the proposed ing of automobiles for short drives Skids Through Gate. | the age of 62 years, unless unuluuu nd with a loss of 812 lives. The | jross worn by the average girl | .p 2°d had given no indication |agreement to limit auxiliary ship | as the most convenient way of at-| Jonn Coffey, veteran supernumer- | 0% ¢ 50 B 5 two resulted from the same cause| today. A search by the police | that the afternoon would be differ- | programs. | isfying thelr whims, and as a result | ary policeman was doing duty at|” Brier excerpts from the report of —the rush of passengers to the| for the girls failed to locate the | ent from any of the 100 others she | _ All officials appear to aggee that| they face the probability of being | the crossing when the train yalled | ;o yngerwriters are as follows: * port side of the ship. | land nymphs. had spent with her daddy. the failure lof. the /conversatlons bound over to superior court. At-|out of the railroad station. At the| " (pyre gepartment) “Appointments Fifteen of yesterday's vietims | | But suddenly the clouds gathered | ‘“°““’ place a weagon of extraor-, torney Edward A. Mag appeared for | flash of his slgnal, he lowered the | yre made from the reserve list by were children—nine boys and s and the storm broke, waves dash- | value in the hands of the “big ; Stockwell and Judge W. F. Mangan | gates, doing so as Alpleri's truck | tne board of fire commissioners i girls—ten were women and one| |ing high against the side of the [navy men 1n COnETEss e ex“'f for Miller. The parents of the|laden with bananas came easterly | without due regard of regulations was a man. Some 76 women and HELEN WH.LS" T [ship. Lightning flashed and rain |Soct it would have on what con-; voung men were in the court room. | on Smalley street. The New Haven | and promotions without regard to children and half a dozen men | fell as though poured from buckets, | 5153 40¢8 With relation to the cruis- | Frank M. Kirchgessner of 18 Fair | driver evidently saw the gates be- | the effect on morale or efficiency of were thrown into the water from | the child sald, sending all the pas. |, PrOSram of the administration is | street, Forestville, who reported his! ing lowered for he applied his|the department. the vesscl—the Favorite—toppled hER Y(]UTHFUL RlVAL sengers scurrying to the opposite ey "°55,""§ o5 de'e;m‘“ atonin ‘dj: car stolen from Lake street about | brakes some distance from the| “Discipline Is lax and there is & .0 over, but 530 or more were saved, side of the boat to avoid the storm. ' guance o7 (e gasgribing @f the ney 3:30 yesterday afternoon, was being | crossover, causing the car to swerve | lack of cooperation between officers. some in a thrilling rescue by Wil- liam Hofnauer, millionaire yachts- Waves Wash Decks “The hoat began to tip,” she sald, | congress. ladministraucn eaders, however, ‘that efforts by individual members There is no doubt among | o'clock when he saw his car, driven driven home by a friend about " B slightly. Coffey's thecry of the accident is | The cessation of drills and training has tended to lower the morale of - o n e i g S, hich were | the ‘department; test runs mad man, who nced to be cruising ‘and the scores of other children by Miller, in the vicinity of Corbin |that the back tires, wh dep o MR s large secht wheénihs| Vanquishes Helen Jacobs | began to cry. I was afrafd too. \:"}’rz‘g}‘m:“; et e | avenue, Lincoln street and Ten Aere | without sufficient thread to grip, | during house inspection and opera- storm_broke: 6-1 and 6-2 on Man- w ongibig wave dash against the {hasls of pompetitive bullding againgt| . = Road. He gave chass and Milly, | skidded on the still moist macadam | tions witnessed at a Sre indicated While divers searched the lake oats fall ba¢k: Then ¢arie an- |the British cruiser plans is to be ex— speeding to escape, drave the car | causing Alpierl's truck to crash |lack of teamwork and training. A + P CHIEF WILLIAM J. NOBLE into the north side of the gate, [new drill tower is to be erected at bottom near the scene for more chester Court other but this time it splashed over |pected. against a pole near the home of Po- Into the 4 baew Iy | Btation. 7 Bar PhIE O 3 ! @ victims, de the craft | |the deck and drenched us all. Not Afmed At British outset he was sent hers by the in-[lice Commissioner R. W. Chamber- T“{Cb ;’3 ";"‘_}h*me 3& e e L) 'ug‘f ".tll_e late last night as fiood lishts were don't remember the rest very | jqministration officials who will | Surance interests and while it is the lain on Lincoln street. Jumplng SWerSl, Sfd WRER FRS S8 RET SRty meerufppmma i played on the tragic picture. The | Manchester, Mass, July 29 (P — | el There was a lot of terrible |comment at this stage do not believe | WiSh Of the city to have the rates Tom the ) o bd’;“;ds“":'[“:,e’,:"",'e’ Cofey belleves e stope | dtet:arill work % v a T 4 - h ling e { v v jon behin ut- ' = e - e last fi\ce“:: ws (:\\ .iu:?;:: As(:lx: [ Miss Helen Wills of Berkeley, Calif,, | | g\ l“?‘?ea‘;:d’ ;z;x'w‘:z:e;éa!;:g;r;:z |that President Coolidge will approve w’ ;oa“wer;: :;e“fl:? s:;\:.i:: ;1:: :::g 3:1‘\;;:;:3 i\:::e A Ten Acre | ped on the gas in an effort to clear | “The department is retrograding: ° he s , seven [. S Ehegial t {any building program that is aimed | ! nd every | . 1 Ithough it is b hours after the Favorite floundered. | :042Y defeated Miss Helen Jacobs of ' my feet. I came up and paddled and |ar tae Britieh flost . Whether e | l0ophole to avoid reductions. jRoad: swithttie imorestvlllo maniin | Reloxe) o | MeschRiEC R R BT | reviously, ;:";;::nruelqu?uy':dd:h:; Scenes of Galety fhe same city, 6-1, 6-2 in the finals paddicd, managing to keep up until |would find it possible to exercise his | “I can’t understand his ecriticism | pursuit. 4 e Ove: Gale fluences, improper methods of &p- As the vessel left Lincoln park |of the Essex County club tournament | Somebody picked me up.” veto power against such a program, |©f the working of the men at an Miller Covers Owner With Gun s ;:Lem“ who had been shout- | Pointment and promotion and laxity o o the two mile run to the mu- |nere. | Two Sons Lost |shoula 1t be enacted by congress in |actual firs. The fire he attended was | As he drew close to Z\Inler.hKlrch- e e e e ot murn. |and cessation of drills ahd tralnlhg " nicipal pier, a two-piece negro of-| yeer paking the first point in the T. Abernathy, another |place of a more moderate adminis- | the one in the Naples house on Hart | gessner, planning to make the cap- | I oleri heard an ominous erash | tend to lower the effectiveness * and chestra—banjo and mandolin— 2 S Bk 2 r whose two children perish- | tration plan for rounding out zhe | street. I was ill at home at the time | ture, was commanded to ‘“stand morale of the d a ! Bt | L Ly i | a moment later and the heavy GMC | epartment.. Local strummed “I'm Looking Over a | ixth game on a placement, Miss ed said that when the storm broke |fleet, no officlal cared to say. nd the engineer went out with |back” by the young man, who 1sted Garall faatay | conditions are such as to require the our-Leafy Clover;” children scam- |Jacobs suffered an attack of over- | he made his wife and the two bovs | The administration basis for what | Deputy Chiet Souney. Chiet Souney {pointed a revolver at his pursuer | truck was Bolsted Sompletoly over | MOSt efficlent use of apparatus and # pered along the two decks and |ggiving and Miss Wills went into the fie juprer deck. “We were |ever new construction it may recom- | aftervards told me that the investi- jand threatened to shoot. Kireh- |/ = 3¢ R0, GURR ORI, Ut | this can be obtained only with _the their elders hung over shoreward |{§a3. The younger girl's driving ap- | saser ne tnoee LoUERL {t would be {mend to congress is generally ex- | gcspnerdretreated’ andiincuasitny full cooperation of officers which at [ i y rails admiring the Chicago skyline. Boat Overturns Suddenly, when a mile out, a rain storm broke and with it came a gust of wind out of the north- west. As the captain, Arthur Olson, who has sailed the lake 13 years. sought to head his boat into tk wind, port side, away from the driving rain. The boat dipped sharply and lake water rushed over the turned over. Goes Down Quickly Children, can popeern still clutched in their hands, fought to free themselves, but the weight of chairs and other encumbrances (Continued on Page Two) DAWES SPECIAL TRAIN WRECKED, ONE KILLED Engine Plunges Through Trestle in Tenn.—Vice- President Unharmed femphis, Tenn., July 23 (A—One n was killed and tw iously injured early today wk locomotive of a special train bearing Vice-president Charles G. Dawes and his party plunged through a ‘restle on the Yazo and Missi: Valley raiiroad near Head, Miss. The vice-president was asleep in his berth and was not awakened by the accident, a telephone message from the scene of the wreck stated. . Dawes and C. H. Markham, chairman of the board of the Illinois | Central railroad, retired soon after he special train left Greenville, Miss., where Vice-president Dawes addressed the state convention of the American Legion last night The train wag bound for Memp Sam Jones, of Memp engineer of the train, was killed, his fireman, Jy F. Horton, also of Memphis. was seriously injured, as was also Henry Fletcher of Greenville, traveling en- gineer of the Yazo and Mississippi Valley railrcad. The trestle which gave way span- ned a drainage ditch which carried sbout 18 feet of water. The wooden structure mpled beneath the im- pact of the heavy locomotive. The engine was completely submerged. Messages from the scene of the ac- | cldent stated that the train was run- ning at low speed due to the weak- ened condition of the road bed as a result of ths floods which have swopt the territory. This fact alone officials of the railroad declared, probably averted ‘wrecking of the wntire train. the passengers rushed to the | on the deciding point. Thee Wimbledon champlon then | went through the seventh game on her own service. The point score of the first set showed 25 for Miss Wills and 14 for Miss Jacobs. The set lasted only [12 minutes. Once more Miss Wills demonstrat- | ed her complete command of Amer- |ican woman's tennis by defeating {her 18-year-old fellow Californian. [3iss Wills was master trom the very start. Throughout she had Miss |Jacobs on the run |\which shaved alternate sidelines. | The younger Berkeley girl's serv- ice, which is generally her most formidable weapon and which h |counted largely in her victory of |Mrs. Molla Mallory, national cham- | pion, on Wednesday, gave the Wim- {bledon champion ro trouble what- | ever. | Miss Jacobs held only two of her |service games. Miss Wil |the entire match from t {and seemed content to r. ip:\':e and accuracy for t portunities to score on plac The players took the court after Though the sun was made a short delay. |strong, a slight breeze | heat bearable Miss Wills served first. the game with a serv ths final point. The second game went to Miss Wills after deuce had been called once. Until the latter part of the match | Miss Jacobs, who had been rather 4 in the forecourt during this the Wills on her own ground and drive with her. In the last few games of the second set “Helen the second” came forward in the court and the | |service line several times with un- gettable drives to her feet. | By the victory Miss Wills won her |second leg on the Escex Bowl, which was in play for the third vear. She won it in 1925 and last year it was captured by Miss Eli beth Ryan, another Californi is now in England. This was the second meeting and the second victory for Miss Wills. Once before in 1925, when Miss Ja- cobs was yet a junior, they played in their home city and Miss Wills | won 6-3, 6-1. This week marked Miss Wills first apearance in American singles e she romped through the British hamplonships at Wimbledon early in the month for mythical world title. Her all-around p has astounded the large gallery which has scen her daily. She played through tournament without losing a set and without being behind at any time in any match, 'p(;\red weak and she double faulted | h deep dn\es‘ 4| "The truck was d ! W ournament, attempted to meet Miss | British champion caught her at the | safer up there than down with the (Continued on Page 12) AUTOIST PLUNGES INTO REAR OF MOTOR TRUCK Hartford Men Injured and One Ar- | restea For Driving While Under Influence of Liquor. en, July 29 (A—Robert . Hartford, is in New Ha- with a compound fra ull received about 3 teday when an automobila {driven by Michael J. Collins, of 44 Lubon street, (or Elliott street) |Hartford, and in w} he was rid- ing, hit a truck. The collision was on the in West Haven at Camp- [bell avenue, the beginning of the |state highway which further on is |lnown as Milford turnpike ven by Willy Noel str Spring- vas climbing the burning \\'c‘daz ia the rear and bumpe | Collins was t3ken to the hospital land lace . then t Haven lockup on the ¢ operating while under in- | fluence of liquor, and later,in town ourt the hearing was confinued to alt resuit of injuries to Beebe. | The home address of Beebe is | Elliott street. Collins gave one a dress and his registration card had Voldag owns his truck, \FALLS FROM VERANDA WHEN RAILING BREAKS Arch Street, Injured—Mrs. Barbara Mrs. John Swanson of 586 Lehmann Hurt Mrs. John Swanson, aged 51 years of 386 Arch street, was thrown headlong from the second story ver- anda at her home about 11 o'clock this forenoon, when the railing gave | way. She was hanging a washing on the line when her weight proved [too much for the railing. She was jtaken to New Britain General hos- pital, where X-ray pictures were |taken to determine the extent of her injuries. The house is owned | by Henry Hoar. | Mrs. Barbara Lehmann, aged 77 vears, fell downstairs at the Erwin Home, where she lives, about 2:45 o'clock this morning, and suffered an finjury to her back. She is at New Britain General hospital for treatment, pected by informed officials to be an estimate of naval needs that ignore as far as possible the British pro- ram. There are indications that such an estimate might include a to- tal of 18 to 20 of the 10,000 ton cruisers which were the main point of difference between the British and American delegations at Geneva. Construction of ten or twelve addi- authorized might be spread over a period of probably ten or years, it has been suggested. Such a program hardly could be viewed with concern by the London government, it is held, or be reared |as aimed at outbuilding the British {since the present British fleet of this [type of ship, built and building, has been placed at 19 during the Geneva | conversations with every indication that more will follow as the British cruiser program goes ahead. No New Proposals The British delegation has no inten- for a temporary arrangement con- | man told the Assoclated Press today when asked about a report that such was Great Britain's intention. The spokesman added that the | projected Gereva treaty would in itselt be essentially tempora | it would run only for ten vears and more over another conference must | be convoked in 1931, under the terms of the Washington treaty, to discuss whether technical and scien- tific development warranted making any modifications in the existing sizes of warships. | The spokesman further said that the British delegation assumed that §. Gibson, chief of the Ameri- can delegation, had cabled the text Wash- British | of the British proposals to ington and thought that the delegations would not plain or comment on plan until Mr. Gibson from Washington the British (Continued on Page 14) * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Thundershowers this after- noon and tonight, followed by fair weather Saturday; cool- er, moderate to fresh south- west to northwest winds. | | | l HIGH TIDE | | (July 30—Daylight Time) New London 11:28 am.11:38 p.m. New Haven 1:18 p.m. | | *. * tional ships over the eight already | more Geneva, Switzerland, July 29 (®— | tion of submitting any new proposal | cerning cruisers, a British sdokes- |} wish to ex- | had heerd | | * * | | I | | | (Continued on Page 21) 'LOVE FINDS A WAY augatuck Young Man and Waterville Girl Finally Elope Waterbury, July 29 (A — Henry Packer, 21, of Naugatuck, and Dor- cthy Buell, 19, of Waterville, a school teacher in Monroe, were mar- ried at 10 o'clock yesterday morn- ing in Bayonne, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Paul Packer, parents of the groom, were notified by telegram last night. Up to this noon the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Buell, had heard nothing from the eloping couple disappeared at cture sh. 0\\ in Waterbury second time that the 'A‘OJpIe ad made a dash fer the altar the fi; g occurred one week r a violent argument the breakfast table, \o\ r rebelled and sald she with Henry to Brewster, set married that morning. would elope N. Y. and Henry and the coup] |way to Brewst soon on their vy had reck police, however, of Danbury by a tch for them. riage were thought tb put out of Dor- nevertheless they n a few hours while a younger sister in a 1| theater here last {Saturday afternoon Alberta, the { younger sister, came home and re- | ported that she had lost Dorothy at |the show and r parents heard nothing further until Henry's par- ents called up and broke the news |to a sister of Mrs. Buell last night. Dorothy will not be welcomed back home, her mother said this morning, nor will Henry find his job as a car- penter's helper in Waterville waiting lfm— him, she declared. |Forced to Walk Home, Now She Sues Escort Washington July 29 (UP)—Rose Perlstein, 23, wants $25,000 for every mile of walking home from an auto ride. She sued Tom Moore, 52, for $75,000, alleging she fought | off his advances in a speeding car, | risked her life in a leap and then, though bruised, walked three miles before two women motorists picked her up. othy's she was w AND GOUPLE ARE WED Dorothy little automobile | journey was cut police. Lieutenant Rival detailed Sergeants Flynn and O'Mara in the former's automobile, and Detective Sergeant Ellinger and Officer Me- Cabe in the police service car. Later, Sergeant J. J. King, Officers Fred Wagner, George Moffitt, and Wil- liam P. Hayes arrived, and Build- Rutherford also {ing Inspector A. N. reported. Surrounding the area In twhich thelr quarry was hiding, the police {cordon drew closer as the bushes | were beaten and every possible hid- | ing place scoured. Fearing the young Iman would shoot if cornered, the | i (Continued on Page 21) AMAZON BITES GOPS IN MARATHON FIGHT |Resists ~ Arrest Being Brought Here From Plainville (Spectal to The Herald) Plainville, July 20 — Mrs. Mary | Weston, colored, and husky, of Whit- street gave two constables a real | and-nail battle last ‘tney arrested her. She put | truly epic struggle which las the way from her home to Brit police station, | finally lodged, much to ed all | New s “':mt-a by the woman during the struggle. Detalls of early stages of the com- bat are lacking, but it is said that Mrs. Weston had left usband, Fred Weston, about a week ago. Last t they met again and she | threw out of the house. Weston call Constable E. W. Furrey, rounded up Constable Wil ; the two officers hurried to the I«lnr‘m’ two constables more than ishe could handle, Mrs. Weston fled, | but Buys and Furrey followed in an zutomobile and picked her up along the New Britain road. From then until they left her at the New Brit- ain police station the battle was flerca and incessant. She bit Furey in several places along the arm and 2lso succeeded in fastening her teeth {about Buys' finger, both officers re- {ceiving medical attention afterward. Mrs. Weston was held by the New Britain authorities for trial here at 4 o'clock this afternoon, when charges of breach of the peace, as- sault, and resisting arrest were to be pressed against her. Justice M. O. Ryder was to be the judge and Grand Juror Charles F. Conlon the prosecutor, e were prepared for a fight, but | ght when | up af the officers, who had been severely | gate. So great was the impact that truck buried its rear end into the soft earth completely hiding from view much of the frame and body. Bananas flew in every direction. Machine Demolished. Tae crash came on the side of the truck opposite that occupied by the driver and this fact contributed to his escape from death. The heavy | I body was torn loose from the frame, which was bent entirely out of shape. Both rear wheels were torn off and rolled into a rnearby lot. The seat occupied by the driver, the floor boards, and the driving wheel | were smashed into kindling and the top of the truck telescoped and fell flat on the wreckage. Motorcycle Policemen William S. Strolls and Patrolman Thomas Do- lan were sent to do duty at the crossing This afternocon, Alpier] was dis- charged from the hospital and went to his home. Crowd Criticizes Police | Relative to criticism at the delay\ in sending the police ambulance or | rvice car to the scene of the ac- cident, it was said at police head- quarters this afternoon that both cars were out when the call was re- ceived. It was impossible to reach| them on this account. It came to Chief Hart's attemtion that the crowd at the scene of the accident criticized the police very erely | for not responding more quickly but | he pointed out that the criticism| | was not deserved. FORD'S NEWEST CAR Detroit Dealers Announce They Ex- | pect Deliveries to Begin About August 15. Detroit, Mich.,, July 28 (UP)— Detroit dealers for Ford automobiles today were informing prospective | purchasers of the new Ford cars| that deliveries could be expected | August 15. Meanwhile officials of | the Ford Motor company denied at the Dearborn experiment laborator- ies that they knew when the new car would be offered. Dealers here however, were ac cepting deposits on the new car un- der a tacit agreement that if the jcar is unsatisfactory or delivery is too late, the deposit will be funded. The price will be about the same as for the present model, it is said, Yor at least not more than 850 higher.” The naw car will be “lighter and roomier” the dealers told prospec- tive purchasers. Ford will celebrate his 64th day tomorrow and it was considered possible he ma yannounce the car at that time. On his birthday last | Zapatka re- | present, is not in evidence.” Summary of Report A summary of the report follows: “City in general. Population (Continued on Page 14) NIGHT COAL DELIVERY T0 SCHOOL REPORTED Believes Fuel Should Be Put in by, Daylight r Alderman Frank Zapatka of the fifth ward today forwarded to s member of the school committes & complaint that coal is being unload- ed into Central Junior High school after dark without provision for w ing or inspection of quality. The alderman protested against the practice pointing out that the city, by permitting this method of very, is inviting short weight and poor quality causing losses which cannot be repaid after the coal is in the bins and possibly poor fuel covered over by a better grade. “The city has a sealer of weights and measures whose duty it is to see that proper weight is given and it is especially important that his serv- ices be employed in the case of the school department where so much money is spent for fuel.” Alderman Zapatke declared. He also remind- ed of the noise and discomfort caus- €d to tenants in neighboring build- ing by the noise of a coal conveyor and the rattle of coal going down the chute into the school bins. The fifth ward official requested that no deliveries of coal be accept- ed after sundown and that every Inad he reweighed. Frim reports of the sealer of welights and meas- ures, the alderman had formed the opinion that every load hadq been reweighed. but he has been inform- ed that such s not the case. Motorcyclists Collide Head-On; One Is Dead Boston, July 29 (P—Samuel G McPherson, 19 of Newton is dead and Willlam J. Boyd. 27, of Dore chester is in a hospital with injur. ies which may cause his death, ss a result of a head-on crash betweea motorcycles ridden by the two men on the strandway near the eity point beaches. South Boston, early this morning. McPherson was thrown te the ground and dragged §0 feet by a passing automoblle before its dri- ver discovered the man. year he exhibited for the first time his fabric flivver monoplane. thousand persons crowded about the scene as both motorcycles burned tollowing the collision.