New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 PRATE STEANER LADEN WITH RICH LIDUOR GAFTURED Bootleg Crew Flees Police and Sails Wildly Theough Dark- ness on fo Sandbar * ARGO IS VALUED AT HALF MILLION DOLLARS Boat Is Taken to Statue of Liberty and Anchored Under Heavy Guard—Seven Large Trucks and Three Expensive Automobiles Seized—Total of 23 Men Arrested in Latest Seizure. i New York, Aug. 12 (P—A single stacked freighted steamboat said by police to contain a half-million dol- lar load of contraband liquor was anchored under guard off the Statue of Liberty today after it had fled from the surprise attack of almost half a hundred Staten Island police, had cut a sand barge in two in the Kill Von Kull and had run upon-a sand bar where it was captured by the coast guard. 23 Are Arrested Twenty-three men were arrested by Staten Island police who also captured seven T7-ton trucks and three expensive automobiles. The steamer taken to the Statue of Liberty by the coast guard today was the second rum runner to be captured in New York harbor with- in 24 hours. The British steamer Sebastopol was taken yesterday with a load of liquor estimated by the coast guard to be worth $300,000 at bootleg prices and the crew of 17 men was held for hearing later. The Sebastopol was also technically classified as a pirate ship because it was said to have changed (its name at sea to the Westmoreland. Patrolman F. Dauria of the St. George precinet was on patrol this morning at 1:45 o'clock when he saw the single stacked tied up at an abandoned dock of the defunct Downey Shipbuilding Company at Arlington. Investigating he saw hat he estimated to be 100 men zathered around a fleet of waiting trucks and apparently preparing to unload the steamer’s cargo. Surrounds Rum Runners. Without revealing his presence to the men gathered at the abandoned dock Daurla telephoned for rein- forcements and then took charge of surroudi the rum runners. T armed patrolmen rushing to hel Dauria, revealed their presence s sudde were taken completely by surprise. There was a wild scramble in the darkness zs whistles blew and the pelice called upon the throng to nder and it was believed in the xcitement that many were able to escape. Twenty-three men including those P 0 police belleve to be the ringleaders, | were arrested Carcens Through Harbor. While the police were busy tak- ing their prisoners the crew of the steamer, which had not yet begun to unload, cut the boat loose frcm the dock and started at full speed (Continued on Page Nine.) BOOTLEGGERS IN JAIL FISH AND HAVE RIDES Sheriff Says They’re Not Like Other Prisoners— Probe Is Started nton, Md., Aug. 12 (A—Because convicted bootleggers lodged in jail here “arén't like other crim- inals,” Sheriff William H. Jackson ays he permits them to fish in the Choptank river close by, loiter through long afternoons on.its bank, and play baseball in the “jail yard"” —An unwalled plot behind the lock- up. The sheriff said he also has raken “several of the boys” for a ride at night so they could get some afr, . “I believe in treating the boys fair, and in return they do not auee me a bit of trouble,” he said. They are locked in their cells at ght, and then I left them out in the jail yard. The boys can fish in the river if they feel like it, or some imes they play pinochle or base- 11, just as they feel like doing. None of them ever made an attempt o escape.” They may not, however, sit on +he front porch of the building, ch also is the sheriff's residence. Once the boys sat up on the front porch of the jail, but they threw too many cigarette stubs about, so my wife made them stay in the_yard. Then they went upon the porch of a neighbor to sit, but I soon stopped that and told them they must stay around the jail yard. Nevertheless, the sheriff asserted that his charges were never allowed to leave the jai! premises without a guard. The prisoners were sent here when Baltimore authoritles refused to maintain them for the 60 cents a day allowed by the federal govern- ment. When informed of the situation, United States District Attorney Woodeock said he would investigate and prosecute those responsible it it is found that the prisoners are granted “illegal liberties.” % ly that the men on the dock | Police Force Must Answer Fire Calls As Firemen Strike Williamson, W. Va.,, Aug. 12 (UP—With firemen on strike be- cause of a pay dispute, Mayor Hatfield today ordered members of the Willlamscn police force to respond to any fire alarms. None of the striking firemen an- swered an alarm Wednesday night. It proved to be a false one. COSGRAVE RULE N IRELAND UNBROKEN Yote of Confidence to Be Taken Tuesday \OPPOSITION HAS LEAD Much Talk About Formation of New Cabinet of Business Men, Not Members of the Dail—144 Mem- bers At Session. Dublin, Ireland, Aut. 12 (A—The life of the Cosgrave government of the Irish Free state has been pro- longed at least until next Tuesday. Postponement of the crisis ex- pected to result from the seating to- day of Eamon de Valera and ,the 44 members of his Fianna Fail party in the Dail Eireann was seen in the announcement in the Dalil this after- noon that a vote of confidencegpf no- tion of Tom Johnson, parliatfientary labor leader, would be taken Tues- day. (Counting the Fianna Fail votes, the combined opposition in the Dail will number 77, as against a possible 67 for the government.) ‘The announcement was made be- fore a crowded and expectant house which included the Fianna Fail dep- uties. It had been expected that Mr. Cosgrave might resign immediately in view of the,prospective adverse majority in the Dail. ‘When the Dail assembled for its session this afternoon 144 of the 153 deputies were present. The largest number attending any previous meeting was 99, owing to the ab- | stention of the De Valera group from | participating. Mr. Johnson inquired when the | house would be given an opportun- ity of ralsing the question of confi- | dence in the government. The speak- |er asked Mr. Cosgrave it & vote of |confidence could be taken Tueésday. land the latter replied “certainly. | “I must not be taken as agreeing Ito 1t,” he added, laughingly. Dail adjourned until Tuesday. With the impending defeat of the |government and a change of minis- try generally conceded there is much tallk about the composition of the next cabinet. Belief is expressed in some quarters that Mr. Johnson, the prospective successor to Mr. Cos- grave, will endeavor to conciliat |the business community by appoint- | ing to cabinet posts one or more bus- lines¢ men, who are not members of the Dail. Mrs. Tom Clarke, whose husband was executed in the Easter rebel- lion of 1916, was a conspicuous ad- dition to the opposition forces in the Daill today. Mrs. Clarke once was known as one of the “black widows” of the rebellion, but to- day she appeared in bright clothes and sat in the center of the De Valera group. Eamon De Valera sat front oppdsition bench together with his chief lleutenant. One of them, Sean O'Kelly, took part in the technical discussion of the cur- rency bill. He spoke only in the Gaelic tongue and was answered by the finance minister in Gaelic. ' on the | | Belfast, Ireland, Aug. 12 (A—Tom Johnson, parliamentary labor leader in the Dail Eireann who, has been mentioned as possible successor to {the post of president of the free | state executive council, is an advo- ‘cate of an Irish republic. “I belleve that to be the best form | |of governnlent,” he told a Dublin | |county meeting last May, “but I am {not going to refuse to help the peo- Iple yith the instrument at hand | (he Anglo-Trish treaty) because that {instrument is not to my liking.” | Mr. Johnson was born in Li of English parents on May 17, While still in his teens, the doctors |told him he had only six months to | |live. As a last hope he gave up his |job in an oftice and came to Ireland [to represent his firm with a fishing |fleet. There he regained his health | Now, at 55, he is sturdy of build and | ruddy of complexion. Twenty-five years ago he came to |live in Belfast and interested him- self in labor affairs here. He has {however, since shipyard apprentices |drove a lorry through an anti-con- | seription meeting which he was 'holding outside of the Belfast city hall early in the war. In Dublin he achieved much greater success, and showed skill in | keeping the labor party separate | from the Sinn Fein during the days |of armed strike. He has been labor | leader in the Dail Eireann since the | ting up the free state. New York, Aug. 12 (P—Sir Rob- ert Horne, member of parliament and former chancellor of the ex- Maurstania today, delcared the re- sult of the seating of Eamon Valera and the members of the | Flanna Fafl party {n the Dal | Etreann made the future of the Irish government uncertain but he {expressed confidence 1in President | Cosgrave and | the situation. (Continued on Page Four) The | {the scheduled execution in fgnorance rarely been seer®n northern Ireland, | | signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty set- | chequer of England. arriving on the | his ability to meet | .- COOLIDGE ASKED T0 URGE FULLER REPRIEVE SACCO ’St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sags Honor of United States ‘ Is at Stake ' RADICAL NOW IN 97TH DAY OF HONGER STRIKE Full Bench of Supreme Court Sum- moned To Meet Tuesday To Hear . + Arguments By Defense Counsel On Last Legal Recourse—Case May Go Later to Single Justice, It Is Believed. St. Louls, Aug. 12 UP—The St Louis Dispatch today telegraphed President Coolidge urging him to intervene in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti and to open the records of the department of justice to “show there relation of the government to this case.” “The Sacca-Vanzetti case has reached a point wheére, in our opin- ion, only the intercession of the president of the United States can save the country from dishonor in| the eyes of the civilized world,” the | newspaper telegraphed. “We respectfully ask you to re-| quest of Governor Fuller that he, reprieve Sacco and Vanzetti for the | period of a year. We further request you to assure the governor that if | he will do this you will open the records of the department of justice and give justice itself the benefit of | whatever those records show the re- | | 1ation of the government to this case | | have been. This phase of the case, | Mr. President, is a scandal.” The newspaper referred to ‘“the | grave dougt of their guilt,” and ad- | ded: “Guilty or innocent, Sacco and Vanzetti have long ago assumed a political importance that cannot be ignored."” | Condemned Are Hopeful | about to hop off for New York. Their Farman Goliath biplane, Boston, Aug. 12 (P)—The gloom | of the death house had lifted its pall | | from Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti today and although pne | twelfth of their stay from e.\:ecu{pn‘ hadalready expired the“men were | distinctly more cheerful as their counsel hurdled the last legal bar- | rier to presentation of their latest | contentions to the state supreme | court. | Together with Celestino Madeiros, | | who because of his identification | | with the case was respited with the | other two, they occupied freshly pre- pared_cells in a part of the prison remote from the deat hhouse where | | they waited until 15 minutes before | hat a stay had been granted them. | In the meantime the full bench of the supreme court, or as much of | it as was available, had been sum- | moned to meet next Tuesday morn- | ing to hear arguments by defense | counsel on the last two lines of lega | recourse left open to them in the | state courts. The way to both of these was paved yesterday when Judge Web- yer, superior court judge | ded at the original trial, | |and Justice George A. Sanderson | {of the supreme court, consented to |allow appeals from previous adverse fulings. | In Judge Thayer's c; the | |urist signed the defense bill of ex- ! |ceptions to his rulings of lack of | jurisdiction on motions for a new |trtal, as well as to denials of a stay | | of execution and revocation of exe- | |cution based largely on affidavits | |alleging prejudice on his own part | during the celebrated trial | Judge Thayer’s refusAl to with- draw from the casc in favor of an- |other judge, was also made a point |for determination by the supreme court, RESIGNED DRY AGENT ADVOCATES 2.75 BEER (Continued on Page 21) Col. Waddell Thinks This Would Solve Prohihi- | tion Problem Washington, Aug. 12 (UP)— Colnel James C. Wadell, who has resigned as federal supervisor of al- | cohol and breweries, today declared 2.75 per cent beer would solve pro- hibition enforcement problems in the United States. “While the prohibition bureau is making good progress in enforcing the law, with the exception of deal- ings in wort a malt product, the law cannot be enforcéd in its present ,” he said in an interview “From an enforcement standpoint | the only possible solution impossible conditions is cent beer. “Prohibition is intended to pre- vent drunkenness and one is a fa- | natic who construes it otherwise.” | The former supervisor said | per cent beer is not intoxicating. H | declared the provision of the Vol-| stead act against beverages with| more than 1-2 of one per cent al- coholic content is primary respons- | | ible for the unpopularity of the law. | “The dry law can be enforced | with the present federal corps and per | “What turn affairs will take, it i8 | the government's $13,000,000 annu-(| New Haven 11:41 a.m., 11:16 p.m. cent | | I % al appropriaiton if 2.75 per beer is legalized,” he said. |ed, he said, while he was a pillar Leon Givon (left) and Pierre Corbu, French iliers, who are also pictured, is the machine in which Maurice Drouhin had previously planned to attempt the same flight. HOUSE OF DAVID KING |LABOR HEADS REGRET WED WITHOUT DIVORGE | - COOLIDGE WON'T RUN Admits He Married ‘Queen’ Sec. Davis Says Leaders Mary Minus Dissolution | Are Virtually Unanimous of Previous Union in This Opinion Rapld City, 8. D., Aug. 12 (P— | A survey conducted by the labor de- | partment disclosed that labor lead- | ers were virtually unanimous in re- | eretting President _Coolidge’s an- | nouncement it 6 did not choose to run for re-election, Secretary Da- vis declared today upon his arrival for a visit at the summer white| | house. | The secretary reached Rapid City | by train, having taken an airplane | trom Moose Heart, Ill, yesterday to catch the train at Huron, S. D. His visit was described as purely | complimentary and as not having to do with any particular problem “Our survey showed,” Mr. Davis| said, “that the labor leaders were sorry Mr. Coolidge decided not to| run. They had learned not to expect | any favors from him but believe he gives them a square deal.” | Davis said that he didn't think that the Bituminous coal strike | | would cause hardships for the con- | concerning his early life but said sumer. The non-union mines, he {hat he and Mary Purnell who testi- | said, were producing about 1,000,- fied yesterday, had been members of [ 000 tons short of consumption but a colony headed by Michael Mills in | if they were run to capacity they Detroit some 20 years ago. |could produce all that is needed. “T don't think I did,” was his an- | There is & reserve on hand, he ad- swer to a question as to whether he | ded, of between fifty and sixty mil- had written two pamphlets intro- lion tons which on the present ba- duced by the state which instructed |sis of production would prevent a | colony members to perjure them-|real shortage for a year. | ey e ey |" Cnion miners in Ohio, Indiana | He denied flatly any mistreatment and Illinois are still out nearly 100 | of girl or woman members of the |per cent, Davis said, and a portion| colony and also denied ever having | of the miners in Pennsylvania have offered “hush money” to Ruth not yet returned to work. Swanson, a state witness, 0 DeT- | The secretary declined to suade her not to testify about ment on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. treatments alleged by the state. He confirmed news stories that When Purnell admitted he had his department was making an in- not been divorced from his first wif®, | vestigation to determine whether | his Attorney, Willlam J. Barnard. | geportable aliens are under the| interrupted with a statement that a |,yrisqiction of the state or federal divorce was not necessa in Ken- | government tucky if a couple separated befor® | mp.re hag been an increase in un-| they were 18 years old employment, he faid, in some divi- Purnell testified that a petition |gions of industry, but he declared for divorce was filed “long before he | oongitions generally were favorable. married his present wife,” but the o proceedings were never completed ] ‘BROTHERS UN]TED because his att advised him a | Officer St. Joseph, Mich., Aug. 12 BP— “King” Benjamin Purnell, on the stand as a witness for himself in the state's dissolutien suit against the House of David, today admitted on cross examination by Assistant Attorney General George E. Nichols that he had never secured a legal divorce from his first wife. “Eighteen or nineteen told me I didn't need one. I was only an ignorant boy then,” he said. It has been the contention of the state that Purnell was a bigamist, his wife, “Queen” Mary, had previ- ously insisted that Purnell had se- cured a divorce and that she was legally married to him. 'he admission came after a com- paratively brief direct examination by Purnell’'s own counsel in which, in a monotone of ‘“noes” and “I never did” Benjamin categorically denied charge after charge that has been laid against him by state wit- nesses. Purnell said he was born March 27, 1861. He was somewhat vague | attorneys | | | com- | | divorce was unnecessary Purnell told his cross-examiner that he married Angeline Brown in Greenup county, Kentuc he was 16 vears of age. Ha described what he “lighting of the grap plained there was a spirit of truth taking its place in him. Tt happe Reprimanding Speedster, Finds Him Brother Coming All the Way from Oklahoma. | | Worcester, Mass,, Aug. 12 (F—| Two brothers who haven't seen each | other in years, are reunited today. | But they haven't gotten over the shock of the strange way in which | they met. | ou h speedway or going against the law to speed in t |town,” was the greeting given Peter Satti when he arrived here to visit | his brother, coming from Okla- colony, and from Mills® of the Michael Mills led him to break a fai and set himse ‘seventh messenger.” Mills was serving a jail charges of abusing girl members of his colony Purnell said he broke away from Mills bee “Michael never had any faith” fter an hour and 35 minutes of testifying, counsel for Purnell in- o sae sisted that Purnell was exhausted. |told him it was “old stuff.” Then he He was wheeled back to o e e s e s bulance and returned to the colony. | found that he was the man sought. | -;f‘Milford Turnpike Holdup ! Nets Two Bandits $400 New Haven, Aug. 12 (P—Two New | |Haven men were being sought today | Saturday; not much change by police in connection with the rob- | in temperature. bery of C. C. Wilson of Amherst, | #———— % Mass, on the Milford turnpike last | Wilson told police that he was relieved of $400. | Wilson who had been playing | cards with the two men at Savin |Rock was taken for an automobile | ride by them on the turnpike, After | they had gone a short distance, ac- | |cording to Wilson, his money was |taken from him and he was thrown |out of the car. ink you are on a toa fire. It's 1se ined he was on 7 brother. The policeman his THE WEAMHER New Britain and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and = * nica miffs (August 13—Daylight Time) New London 10:15a.m. 10:33 pm. | | * | petency of pilots, | planes continued to be the foremost | " BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1927.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES READY TO CHALLENGE ATLANTIC THREE OCEAN AIR FLIGHTS LIKELY WITHIN 48 HOURS German Aviators Planning Hop- off by 6 A. M. Tomorrow or Earlier CALIFORNIA-HONOLULU START AGAIN PUT OFF | Pllots Will Get Away Next Tuesday —Levine and Drouhin Again Odds—Boston Offers $25,000 For Non-Stop Flight From Europe— Seattle Talks of Backing Aerfal Jaunt to Tokyo. By the Assoclated Press. If announced schedules are main- AR tained, at least three transoceanic| flights will be in progress in the nsxt 48 hours. Race from Paris to New York is waiting later weather reports, but Leon Givon was ready to jump today bia” take-offs were tentatively set for tomorrow morning. Two Junkers planes at Dessau re- ported ready for take-off in New York flight at 6 a. m. tomorrow. Otto Koennecke plans to jump sometime ahead on the Junkers on the same route. At Southampton, Courtney is re- ported waiting more favorable ‘weather reports. Start of the aerjal derby from Oakland, Cal, to Hawaii has been postponed by unanimous agreement of the entrants until next Tuesday morning. Dole Flight Postponed Aifrport, Oakland, Cal., Aug. 12 (®) —The start of the James Dole 35,000 prize aerial derby from here to Hawail today was postponed un- til next Tuesday noon by agreement among nine of the 11 entrles already here. The agreement was reached short- ly after midnight after a .day of muddled planning, during which the original starting date was condition- ally postponed two weeks, then d clared on again, and finally set bick until next Tuesday, when the pilots took a hand in the matter. The starting time originally had been set for noon today. Disaster having struck twice against the entries in two days, the subject of qualification and com- navigators and subject in flight circles today. The latest entry to be removed from the air derby {is the twin- motored triplane “Spirit of Los An- | geles,” which crashed into San Fran- | Manhattan stock. Except for ner- cisco bay yesterday while trying to land on the starting field. Captain | James L. Griffin, the pilot, Ted Lund- Machine the gren, navigator, and Lawrence Weill, a passenger, escaped uninjured and were dragged out of the water by attaches at the field. The plane was | wrecked. The accident to the “Spirit of Los Angeles” and the deaths near San Diego Wednesday of Lieutenants George W. D. Covell and R. 8 Wag- gener, of the naw while testing their monoplane served to heighten {the talk of qualifications and safety | ecautions. The Tuesday starting agreement was made to permit all signers to pass federal tests. pre 0Old Glory Has Tests Roosevelt Tield, N. Y., Aug. 12 () —O0ld Glory, the Fokker monoplane which Lloyd Bertaud and James De- Witt Hill, alr mail pilots, will fly to Rome this month completed final load test today. The plane weighed 11,250 pounds, or within five pounds of what it will weigh on the flight to Rome. Germans Are Ready Dessau, Germany, Both the Junkers transatlantic (Continued on Page Three) COOLIDGE’S STAND IS BRANDED ‘BUNCOMBE’ LaFollette Says Announce- ment Is Clever Political Maneuver Madison, Wis, Aug. 12 (F—The atement of President Coolidge that “I do not choose to run for presi- dent in 1928" is a clever piece of political maneuvering in the opinion of Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wiscons “Since the announcement has been made,” Mr. LaFollette said, “many interpretations have been placed upon his carefully selected words. The president’s most intimate friends evidently think the an- rouncement is pure political bun- combe. “William M. Butler, ex-senator from Massachusetts, chairman of the republican national committee, the president’s closest political ad- viser, says that Mr. Coolidge will take the nomination if it is handed to him. “The great army of federal job holders, the party henchmen and the hangers-on have taken their cue from Chairman Butler and the cam- palen is on to create a ‘demand’ for Coolidge which will be ‘irresistible.’ * at| its | Aug. 12 (A— | Taxi Driver Fined | | $10 for Wreck; Bee Stung Nose, He Said New York, Aug. 12 (UP)— William Weltz escaped with a $10 fine when he offered a novel explanation of how he happened to drive his taxicab onto a side- walk and into a lamp post. “A bee 1it on my nose and stung 1., I swung at it and the steering wheel slipped out of my hands,” he sald . FULLER SUSPENDED BY N. Y. EXCHANGE Wide Open Breaks in Pools Alter Manhattan Fall IS YEAR'S FIRST FAILURE | Stock Market Prepared For An- | | nouncement—Firm Reported to| | Be Identified With Sensational Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Aug. 6th ... 14,012 PRICE THREE CENTS LAKE POGOTOPAUG CLAIHS AN AND GRLINDROWNING 17-Year-0ld Middletown Miss and Cromwell Man Who Attempted Rescue Die LUNGMOTOR RUSHED 10 SCENE BUT IS USELESS Capital Theater Cashier Grabs Rese cuer About the Neck and Pullg Him Under sw;rfnce With Her3 Bodies Recovered in 10 Minutegy But Efforts of Resuscitation Provg Futile, East Hampton, Conn., Aug. 12 (P} —A 17-year-old Middletown girl and 2 man who attempted to rescue heg were drowned in Lake Pocotopaug Collapse of Thursday. New York, Aug. 12 (A—Shortly after A. L. Fuller & Company, | | members of the New York Stock | |and the “Blue Bird” and “Colum- | Exchange, were suspended today for | inability to meet their obligations, | an involuntary petition in bankrapt- | ey, with an application for the ap- pointment of a receiver, |in federal court. The firm is reported to have been {dentified with the pool in Manhattan Electrical Supply which | collapsed in sensational fashion | yesterday when the stock broke | more than 60 points. Manhattan Drops 6. Manhattan Electrical Supply opened a point higher today at 61, advanced to 6415 and then broke to 58 on the Fuller announcement from the rostrum of the exchange. This was the first stock exchange failure since July 3, 1925 when the firm of Dean, Onativia & Co., an- nounced fits inabllity to meet its | obligations. This firm later paid its debts and was restored to good standing in the exchange of which it is now a member. | Curiously, the Fuller closely followed the receipt of a | stock exchange gquestionnaire ‘n- | tended to prevent such occurrences. {This questionnalre, seeking informa- regarding all transactions in nhattan Electrical Supply since | 1ast May, with names of buyers and | sellers and the amounts involved, | was sent to all members of the cx- change two days after persistent re- ports had been circulated in Walr | | Stret that the pool had created a | “technical corner” in the stock. | Prepared For News. | The Stock Market apparently had | | been prepared for the announce- | ment as the firm's name had been | whispered about Wall Street yester- | day as being heavily involved in was filed | collapse vous liquidation of a few pool rpe- cialties, particularly White Sew.ng | market coninued to | sweep forward, with several issues mounting to new high ground. | At the offices of A. L. Fuller and | Company it was said that the firm's 1difficulty resulted from inability to yarrange new bank loans for four [ of their accounts which had been (Continued on Page 21) FIRE DOES DAMAGE E T0 BANK BUILDING | Blaze fn Incinerator Discoversd By | Policeman Injures Two Floors of Booth Block. which did damage to the extent of several h dollars, | was discovered 1 Fire, Iy this morning, by Policem: | liam Grabeck. The blaze broke | into Booth block, before it was ex- | tinguished. The policeman report geant John C. Stadler and called |Engine Co, No. 2 to the scene. | Captain Porter of the Engine i ordered a box alarm out Engine Companies 1, and Hook and Ladder 1 and 2. The fire was in an hich .was attached to e Booth block, > story brick | building occupied on the first floor |by the New Britain Trast Co. Thfl‘ flames spread through the brick- work in the walls on the second and | third floor doing several hundred dollars worth of damage The fire was discovered at 2:11 a. m. The box alarm was sent in at |2:17 a. m. and the recall an hour and four minutes later. | A double mystery featured the fire. Deputv Fire Chief Eugene F. Barnes, Building Inspector A. } | Rutherford and Harold W. Hatc | representing the Hatch Co., which owns the building made an inspec- | tion this afterncon and were unable to determine the cause of the blaze. | | Chief Rarnes, while he would rot say definitely that the fire was of | incendiary origin, said he could not | understand how it could have start- | | ed and that he could find no cause | | for the blaze. He sald Mr. Ruther- | | fora also thought it looked funny. The firemen also found a com- partment in the building, the ex; ence of which was not known before | even to the owners of the build.ng. | | An opening of chimney shape abcut | | four feet square reaching from the | cellar to the second floor was dis- covered by accident when the fire- | {men chopped through the floor. | | The opening was of brick and look- ed as though it might have “een meant for an elevator shaft. It was entirely closed in on all sides. to Ser- | | companies | inerator It ’ rear of t- | by here today. They were Olive Cullen and Ernest Nordgren, 21, of Crome well. Miss Cullen and Nordgren werq members of a party of five who had gone for a morning swim af Strong's pavilion. Miss Cullen, first of the party tq take the water, dived from shord into the waters of the lake which is quite deep at that point. and started swimming to a float abou§ 100 yards from shore. A few yardg | from land she was seen to be in dise tress and went under after calling for help. i Sink Together o Nordgren plunged into the wates to go to her aid. As he reached th¢ girl, who had come to the surfa | she grabbed him abbut the neck and both went under. The bodies were recovered within |10 minutes by three other bathersy | but an hour's desperate work to fee vive them was fruitless. A lung moe tor from the Middletown fire departe ment rushed to the scene was used without success. The girl was cashier of the Caphe tal theater of Middletown. She 8 survived by her parents, a, brothep and a sister. Nordgren was the operator of the motion picture machine at the Cap« itol. The other three members of thé party were Gilbert Lane and Misses Olva and Dorothy Dean, all of Mdi- dletown. The bodies were recovered by W. R. Farquhar of Southbridge, Mass. Robert Wall of Bridgeport and Robert Wright of New Britain. Dr. F. T. Fitch, acting medical examiner, gave permission to have the bodies removed to Middletown. LAUGHED AT COP BUT JOKE 13 ON HIN NOW | New Haven Speeder Fined Total of $150 and Jailed ! for 30 Days [\ ‘ New Haven, Conn., Aug. 12.—Videy tor Rizzutti, 16, who chided a mos torcycle policeman about a long chase which resulted in Rizzuttd being arrested for reckless drivi: | was fined $100 and sentenced to 3 day in jail today by Judge E. Tq Whitaker in city court for lecklesg driving. Fines of $25 each were also imm [posed upon Rizzutt! when he walf found guilty of operating a moto®, vehicle without a license and failing to stop on a signal of an officer. * Rizzutti was arrested on August & Motorcycle Patrolman C. Py Stratton who told the court that the youth when finally caught had madd fun of the way the officer had handled his motorcycle during the chase over wet pavements and hag told the officer that he had lots t@ learn about the finer points of mos torcycle riding. DR. ROGERS DIES Deadly Streptocorcic Germ Proves Fatal to Physician at Camp Trume bull, Niantic. Waterbury, Conn.. Aug. 12.—(P— Dr. Forest Rogers, lieutenant in the medical deta ent of the 102nd regiment, C. N. G., died at the Wa- terbury hospital at 7 o'clock this morning following a week’s illness. The deadly streptocercic germ, cons tracted during the period of en< campment at Camp Trumbull, Niantic, is given as the cause of | death by Dr. Dennis O'Connor, one of the attending physicians, who stated that the germ could have come from milk. Mr. Rogers leaves his wife, Mrs. Florence Wakeles Rogers, his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rogers of Bath, Me., and a brother, Ernest. Grade Crossing Crash But No One Is Killed Stamford, Aug. 12 (A—During the excitement which followed the sude den stopping of a passcnger train om the New Canaan line when it struck a truck at the Crescent street crosse ing in Glennbrook today, several wos men passengers fainted. Richard Jehnson, driver of the truck which was badly damaged, was cut and | bruised. He was treated by a doctors Johnson was the only one hurt, ale though the engineer, A. C. Newcoml of this city, was badly shaken up