New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1927, Page 12

MILLIONARIE HEAT CUTTER WILL WORK Brother of Late Heir to Searles Fortune Shocked Detroit, Aug. 18 (A—William ‘Walker today planned to resume his accustomed place behind a block in a Royal Oak butcher shop where he is employed, despite the fact that he has been notified that| under the terms of the will of Ar- thur T. Walker, heir to the fortune of Edward F. Searles, Methuen, Mass., recluse, he will receive a large portion of the $30,000,000 es- tate, ‘The butcher was a brother of Ar- thur T. Walker, who died recently and whose will, filed in Brooklyn yesterday, leaves the bulk of the es- tate to four sisters and two broth- ers. Walker was dumbfounded when informed of the terms of the will. Interviewed last night at his home, a simple one story bungalow in Royal Oak, Detroit suburb, Walker said he would continue at his pres-! ent work “until I have time to think.” “I don't know what I'll do with the money,” he said. “I never thought of what I'd do with &0 much money. I never dreamed of belng rich. It takes time to think this thing out. We've always led a quiet life. We've got our friends; we've always managed to get along | all right in the world and have been as happy as most of us have a chance to be I guess. I hope we can go on that way.” Although he knew his brother had inherited the vast Searles fortune, Walker said he did not know he was to be given a share in the es- 40,000 HOMELESS Great Floods Deprive Peasants in Siberia of Homes—More Than 100 Reported Drowned. Viadivostok, Siberia, Aug. 18 (#— Forty thousand peasants are report- ed to have been deprived of shelter and over 100 drowned in great floods which are sweeping the maritime province following a steady down- pour of eighteen hours. ‘With rain continuing to fall today, the Usuri river was out of its banks for miles, and the Bikin, one of its meat | tributaries, was rising ten inches every hour. The Suchan also has overflowed. More than fifty villages and the two citles of Nikolskrussorisk and Spassk are flooded. Thousands of head of livestock have been drowned gether with great supplies of tim- ber and toodstuffs. The trans-Siberlan railway fis damaged, with 16 bridges reported destroyed and taffic at a standstill. Telegraph and telephone communi- catlons are also interrupted and coal mines flooded. The losses, it s estimated, will mount into millions of dollars. \WALKER'S STRAW HAT IS TALK OF LONDON \KI‘N‘.‘S Says He is Most Youthful Ap- pearing Mayor—Refer to His Panama and Suit London, Aug. | Walker's straw hat is being given | particular attention in London. Most |of the newspapers in their storles of I his brief visit to the metropolis re- |fer to the “cream colored Panama.” All of them agree that he is a uthful appearing mayor and |there is comment on his “tanned | face, lithe body and alert eyes.” |One paper calls attention to his | double breasted lounge suit. {most {terest in a tombstone near the en- |trance to Winchester Cathedral on | which was insecribed. | “In memory of Thomas Thetcher, a grenadier in the ninth regiment of hants who contracted a violent fever by drinking small beer on a | hot day and dled aged 26, May 12 1764 | e | MAY EXPEL JOWN JINKS | Dublin, Aug. 18 P—Fame may {have come to John Jinks of Sligo | through his decision to refrain from | casting a vote in Tuesday's session (of the Dail Eireann, but his action | may cost him his place in the Na- tional Leauge Party. Political circles { believe his expulsion Is likely to be | voted at the next party meeting. SEEKS TO END BANDITRY Managua, Nic., Aug. 18 (P—Gen- oral Jose Marla Moncada, who was commander in chief of the liberal forces in the campaign against the conservatives, and Major Ross E. Rowell, of the United States Marine Corps were in Ocotal today to con- fer with Sarlos Salgado in an effort to persuade him to discontinue acts of banditry. They went from Mana- gua to Ocotal by Airplane. and many crops washed away, to-| 18 (M — Mayor | Mayor Walker showed speclal in- | Boulogne — Bill Burgess, trainer of channel swimmers, is quite opti- |mistic about his charges, the Ziten- field twins of New York. “These girls,” he says, “will swim the chan- nel before any aviator crosses the Atlantic.” New York — And now a cross- country run. John J. Seiler, of At- lantic City, professional foot racer, plans to hoof 50 miles a day begin ning Sept. 10 and reach Los Angele: in two months or so. Toledo — Miss Myrtle Jarbor is pleased in more ways than one over the outcome of her stunt in jumping | | from an airplane in a parachute. A Iman and a woman rushed separately to congratulate her. And now they are bride and groom again. They are her parents, who were divorced 20 years ago. Culver City, Cal. — In a romance of undivorced movie folk Norma Shearer, 22, is to wed Irving Thal 'rg, 28, production executive. Neith- er has been married before, New York—The New York that Ramon ) whose handsome face on the screen has set hearts aflutter, is to enter a monastery, probably about Christ- mas time. Chicago — Miss Alicia Patterson, whose great-grandfather founded the Chicago Tribune is to James Simpson, Jr., son of the presi- dent of Marshall Field and com- pany. g New York — Profits made by a lawyer in stocks are immune from alimony. Mrs. Robert S. Johnstone {averred that her husband managed to make $8,000 to $10,000 a year in |the market. Supreme Court Justice | Frankenthaler based his award to {the wife on her husband's profession- {al income, saying in regard to the {stocks: “Common experience Ito the prediction that ultimately |these profits will become losses.” Norristown, Pa. — Perfumes and |bobs are necessary in a real town. There is no drug store, tailor nor barber shop in the village of Gil- {vertsville; therefore County Judge |Knight has refused it permission to |incorporate as a borough. New York -— Invitations to the wedding of Miss Jean Raymond to John Ernest Haldane Blackie, son of the Archdeacon of Stow, a chaplain to the king of England, have been recalled. The girl's family announc- marry L tends | FLASHES OF LIFE: BILL BURGESS SAYS TWINS WILL SWIM CHANNEL es the cancellation of the engage- ment. Her father is a professor at |the Lawrencevillo.school. Lawrence- vill, N. J. Blackle was formerly a mémber of the faculty. No reason was given for the broken troth. New York — The population of the world—1,850,000,000 — is in- creasing at an unprecedented rate, 50,000 a day, says Dr. Edward Als- worth Poss, sociologist, in a survey |for the Century magazine. New Haven — New Haven road stockholders approve plan to in- crease capital stock by issuing 490,- 367 shares of preferred. New London — Long search for {rody of Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, Co- | lumbia psychiatrist, ends when re- | mains are recovered near Fisher's |1sland. ] | Hartford — Boating events draw |large crowd to Connecticut river at artford Yacht club. ®Meriden — Four stolen cars are ecovered from private citizens by olice and insurance investigators. New Britain — Federal prohibl- tion agents make first call and three arrests in same night. el Middletown — Buck deer kicks s at Philip Monte who immedi- leaves for other parts. | New Haven — Lighthouse Point |ball park crowded for New Haven | Police Athletic assoclation field day. | Danbury — American Legion state convention opens with session of |executive committee. writes card congratulating son on | 21st birthday neighbors arrive to tell | her that the boy George Wilson, had {been drowned. | Manchester ‘While mother | Greenwich — Carl Jursek, Squab |company manager, is arrested on complaint of company officials who claims that weekly receipts have not been turned in since July. . Auto Painting Expert Work Low Prices Spraying or Varnishing FRANKLIN SQ. 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Dependable and conveniently lo- cated Pan-Am pump ‘stations are ready to built to assure every deal- er a constant supply of Pan-Am products. | Fists Used in Sacco Row Over Appeal to Coolidge Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, Ger- many, Aug. 1§ (P—An uproar in the municipal council here over a com- munist proposal to cable President Coolidge a protest in the Sacco-Van- zettl ease ended last night in a fist fight, in which a nationalist member 11 was knocked out by & communist. The latter refused to obey the chair. man’s order to leave the council room, and the session was suspended. ASKS EFFECTIVE TARIFF ‘Williamstown, Mas., Aug. 18 (P— A plea for “an effective tariff for all or a tariff effective for none,” was voiced at the Institute of Politics to- lay by Dr. H. C. Taylor of the de- partment of agriculture in an ad- dress in which he blamed the gov- ernment’s policy as being largely responsible for the ills of the farmer. At the base of the disparity be- tween the purchasing power of the farmer's dollar and that of the dol- lar of industry,” said Dr. Taylor, “is the protective tariff whose burden les on the farmer, to the advan. tage of industry.” TOUCHES LIVE WIRE, LIVES, Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 18 (UP)—= James Piscatelll, 11, was alive to- day after touching a wire carrying 2300 volts of electricity. The boy was painfully burned but may re- cover. Does Telephone Growth Always Mean Higher Rates? cost of plant and operation per telephone. It is well known that the number of telephones increases substantially each year. This fact fairly prompts the question stated above. It is true that the addition of each telephone sub- scriber builds up the multiplicity of connections which must be available to all, and thus tends to increase the A switch- board serving only six subscribers’ Jines, for example, requires provision for fifteen possible inter-connections; but when the number of lines grows to 6,000, then the inter-connections which must be available to all increase not in the same proportion but to the stupendous total of 17,997,000; for every subscriber must be able both to reach and to be reached by every other subscriber. Offsetting this umque characteristic of the telephone business, however, are the ever-continuing developments of the art and the opportunities for improved practices and economies common to all business engaged in what may be termed wholesale production. The extent to which we have realized upon these possibilities is evi- denced by the fact that for a quarter of a century prior to the World War our rate history is that of substantial reductions. But for the past ten years the telephone growth has not only built up the units of plant and operation per subscriber, as must always be the case, but has also been attended with higher costs per unit, due to the decreased value of the dollar. It is this double burden which has brought about the present exigency. In a word, therefore, telephone growth of itself does not necessarily mean higher rates. During a long period of stable prices, telephone rates were reduced. Under the high price conditions of the past decade, telephone rates have advanced much less than the cost of commodi- ties. Nothing can more clearly define our rate policy than this record. But at all times we must maintain rates that will provide for adequate service to the public and earn a fair return on the property of the Company. The present rates are insufficient to meet these requirements, JAMES T. MORAN, President TH.. SCGUYHERN NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE COMPANY cnch of a series of advertisements discassing various phases of the telephone business