New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1927, Page 1

ow | News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 £1819Y ~NJ AR 1 aW)S YEGGS SMASH OPEN SAFES, STEAL $375 FROM OFFICES OF AUTO SALES COMPANIES Elm and Stanley Street Places Raided Over Week-end By Bur- glars Who Leave No Clues. Two Stores on West Main Street Entered and Evi- dence of Attempted Breaks Found Elsewhere to the police over the week-end and holiday. The ft & Ferguson break was discovered yesterday morning and A\utomotive Sales and Service break was reported this morning. Ihe police are of the opinion that there is some connection between hese jobs and two which were dis- covered on East Main street several weeks ago. the Swift & Ferguson oftic was broken, At the Automotive Sales and Service Corp. office, one safe was on the ground floor and the other on the upper floor. In hoth y entrance was zained through and the tools found near the safe: The Automotive Sales and Service Corp. office was closed at 1:30 Sun- duy afternoon, the police learned to- day, and the theory Is that entranc was made that evening or carly Mon- day morning. It is believed both jobs were laid out in advance and Jone simultancously, probably by nersons who felt reasonable certain that sizeable amounts of mion would be found in the safes. Vandals Cause $1,000 Damage Damage estimated a £1,000 was done in the N ait com Woodland boys. entrance and boxes of c and cookles were ripped open and their contents thrown about the place. That the vandals were in the place time is believed by the police 10 found that everything that was moveable had been damaged. Henry Jackaway of the New Gift Shop, 58 West Main street, reported to Ofticer William Politis last night A one safe windows ational y establishment at 4 presumably by A hammer was used to gain street, clers some (Continued on Page 16) ASKS ‘FIVE-DAY-WEEK FOR MILLS IN STATE dent of Federation! of Lahor Addresses Convention Pr Middletown, Sept. 6. labor of Connecticut today looked to this city, the meeting place of the Connecticut Federation of Labor in 42nd annual convention, for the re- view of labor conditions the past year and the forecast for the year to Organiz come, The convention will be in session four days and the forccast was that it would he the busicst in years with many resolutions to be offered and acted upon, some of these dealing with labor conditions elsewhere in the United St Officers expected a harmonious session. The delegates were arriving all forcnoon and several hundred were present when President Patrick ¥ "My opened the first sitting and made his report. The keynote in the president’s address was “the five- v week.” Said President O'Mcara: “There is absolutely no need of our working people to bhe employed longer than this period due to th incr ed use of modern machinery and the general production method: used tends to tire the human by the speeding up process, and this de- mands further extension of the reereational and shorter working """ he said. ()Hv‘r recommendations for future activities touched on amendment of the workmen's compensation laws to eliminate waiting for benefits, ex- tend the number of plans covered d the amount of compensation, nd give greater protection to widows and orphans of men killed in Industrial accidents; education as to the old age pension system; and climination of child labor, provision tor playgrounds, and utilization of |° educational facilitics for children. In touching upon the death of work- in the organization President O'Meara paid tribute to the late H. Wales Lines of Meriden, and to his friends#p for and assistance to the unions, Cooperative purchasing, activitles organizational difflcultles, strikes and industrlal adfustments, juntor typographical unfon labor forums, and the present status of the move- ment toward a state labor bank were discussed in the report, and oppos- tion to mational prohibition amend- ment and its working out was re- iterated. Corp. | d | GLINE'S TRIAL IS SET FOR TOMORROW Tollaud County Superior Court Opens Today 100 VENIREMEN CALLED Today's Session of Court Ts Given Over to Naturalization Cases and Assignments for Trial — Author- morrow. The jury for the which drawn sum- the 100 veniremen is expected to be Cline trlal were sent last week following ing of names before Judge ns. While deputy sheriffs were srving the subpoen pre ations |were being completed at the court Louse to accommodate witnesses newspapermen and spectators. No |indication as to the number of nesses to be called by elther the e or the defendant b bean given. More than 20 newspapermen are cxpected. Irwin, for whos {holds Cline responsible, died at St. Joseph's hospital in Willimanti about 20 hours after he shot at Cline’'s place in from the busy death the state < x to the farm after escorting M win to the Willimantic railroad sta- tion, at the conclusion of a week- end visit with her husband, who had {been llving with Cline for some time. While awaiting trial, Cline ¥ ‘Woods | Auto Truck Driver Not to | Prosecutor Finds Weiner Blame for Boy's Death. 24, the down Berk of of 63 auto- and 94 Morri: Weiner, aged I'Willow street, driver of Mnohflc truck that ran N(.:ll\ injured Anthon: ;Booth strect ,last Mond noon H'an' of the boy's home, wa lof the charge of criminal negli- |gence this morning. Prosecuting At- [forney 3. G. Woods told Judg: Roche in police court that an in- {vestization into the circumstances |surrounding the fatality convinced [him that Weiner was not responsi- ‘Mr: within the meaning of the !statute on criminal negligence, for that reason a nolle was entered. Attorney David L. Nair represented FIVE DROWNED New England Waters Claim Flve Tives Over Holiday—Connecticut Proves Exception, Boston, Sept. 6 (UP)—At five persons were drowned in ingland waters over the holiday. Lounis H. Cohen, | lost his life at Winthrop; Elizabeth | Worthen, 13, of Newburyport, at { Salisbury; Nicholas Y¥ridol, 60, of t Roston, in Boston harbor; and George Chisholm, and his 14- year-old son, William, at Calais, Me, Bishnijlm City Hotel Man, Suit Defendant New Haven, Sept. 6—VYale D. Bishop, hotel and restaurant man was made defendant today by Roy A. Stellar of Branford in a suit claiming $15,000 damages for “al- ienation of affections” of Mrs. Stel- ler. The allegation Is that Bishop, who was divorced by his wife some years ago, met Mrs. Dorothy Steller in 1926 and since then had been very atfentive to her, taking her to var- ious places as his companion, Teast W Gehrig Gets Homer and Leads Babe Ruth by One Fenway Park, Boston, (UP)—Lou Gehrig, first ba: of the New York Yankees, batted out his 45th home run of the season in the fifth inning of the first game between the Yankees and Boston Red Sox toda ept. 6 eman I ay The blow was made off Welzer. No one was on base. The homer put Gehrig one ahead of Ruth, his teammate, Babe in the rome run race. Yeo- wit- | had been | Mansfield, | soon after the two men had returned | CHARGE IS DISHISSED in | freed | and | 19, of Peabody, | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1927. Prohibition’s Noted Crusader Is No More WAYNE WHEELER, FOE T0 LIQUOR, DIES SUDDENLY Noted Prohibition Crusader Is| Galled o Rest Soqn Aler Hs | Wile's Tragic Death in Fire | l FUNERAL IN COLUMBUS THURSDAY AT % 0'CLOCK Famous Ohlo Lawyer and | Most | f i Successtul Worker For Dry Cause ]Vn"",- B. Wheeler Passes at Most Brilliant Point in | His Oarcer—Gave His Whole Mh‘} 1 e | |were ended at a sanitarium here llate yesterday. The general counsel lof cocon and two lumps of sugar of the Anti-Saloon League had ask- | the opening of the public schools pilot boat. jed a nurse to hand him a book. He today, werr found to he crowded be- w York mmer, hetter | half lifted himselt in bed to take it | ATCFiCAn Smelting, Amertcan Can, |0, capacity. The Monroe school ade, was nine miles {Then a heart strained by diseasc | Baldwin, General Motors, Wool- | %11l have lo adopt a part time pro- off the English shors five hours and nd overtaxed by tragedy which r 400 pupils and t orth- | four miles after she entered the w i 00k the life of Mrs. Wheeler three | worth and U. S. Steel Commion |end school will have to take care of {ter at §:56 a. m., in an effort to ac- | weeks ago, stopped, b jits enrollment for the time being, {complish the difficult cross from | " At his beaside were a son, Robert | Among Other Issues, while a portable school building is|England to Fran | Wayne Wheeler, and Dr. Howard | Neg York, Sept. 6 (BT} ., (being compisted. Condifions in other | At 2:30 Mrs. Corson was swim- Hyde Russell, foundcr of the league | ovement in B R e Eherie s id, are com-|ming 16 strokes to the minute, A which Wayne B. Wheeler 80 suc- |y poc g i the S0k ey [ fortable and iLis expected that with jheavy rainstorm passed over and the | cessfully served. [ e o L the completion of the Robert J.(sky was clear again. ¥ interruptions for more than three |\ T N ctween noo a2 m | Heart Discase Fatal. \}m” ll(mk i ‘rm“_ml v school on V the| Between noon,and 2 p. m, Mrs. | Heart disease, following prolonged | treatment for kidney trouble was the cause of death. Mr. Wheeler {had come to the sanitarium week from his summer home Little Point Sable, Mich.,—the home today when a big buying move | carried more than 40 individ e: ei ighes oe f Jagt | S¢S 1o their highest prices o '~ |year, or longer, and the avers | 20 industrial leaders to the hi |16 |v | R advance which !tion had improved so much that a sumplion ot dhe sell until after much consideration, | for he had never looked #pon pro- hibition or temperance as his life finally gencral counsel Worked in Capital. | Tt was at Washington that Mr. | | Wheeler left the indelible stamp of his value to the dry cause. Every Bombs Tear Way Through . Crowds Instead of Going U p Into Sky bit of legis on remotely affecting s { the cause of prohibition came under — his eye and was bitterly fought or | ¢ & South Norwalk, Aug. 6 (P—Tol-|; nergetically endorsed as it aimed 1o e eath (o Namale | either toward harm or benefit for Txghibition hospital early today of Julius Popp, Mr. MeBride made public the rangements for the funeral. scrvices will be held at the Centra fireworks and | | paraphernalia for the | of the superintended the setting various displ will be in charge. Other speakers {will be Mr. McBride, Dr. Russell {and Dr. Ernest A. Cherrington ot Westerville, Mr. Wheeler Columbus br midst of a crowd. Seven were in- | jured, including the Popp boy, whose j Stomach was torn out and his leit | 4 {side badly injured and Paul Losu | will be buried In |1o5t one leg. Five other celehrants ide the wife whom he | were injured, more or less seriously. | Wheeler held the miration even of those him most bitterly Senator Edwards of New Jersey, (who has vigorously fought the dry cause, said when he heard of Mr.| Wheeler's death: respect and ad- | 3 who fought | . Mitshell, Jr., and an annuity of $12,000 to her husband. The remainder of the cept a few minor bequests of from $1,000 to $5,000 fo servants, left in trust for the benefit of the estate, #ientinued on Page Two) Monros s able ]. orthen ARREST MAHERS WHEN N include ara M. E. church in Columbus, Ohlo, at | ¥ qp 5 0V RC L (e final item on o S P ThE | g0 program. Instead of shooting | ¢ Rev. A. G. Schatzmann of Columbns | i B3 ™ ey explodea in the Madison for | George Welr, NFLUX OF PUPILS GAUSES CROWDING INTHREE SCHOOLS ‘850 More Than Expected Try to Enroll at Washington Scheol, High Street ‘FIFTH WARD PARISH SCHISH | { IS BELIEVED VED RESPONSIBLE *ortable Building to Be Erected For Children Tn Bassett Street District ~—100 Pupils In Monroe School to Go On Part Time Schedule Until Prisoner Copyrighted Novel. v Using garage tools to knock off the | pockville, Sept, 8 (P—The Sep.| (@ Frohibition, His Tdeal and MARKET LEAI]ERS Vanee Street Building 1s Ready combinations, burglars broke into|tomper torm of the Tolland county | Purpose. 00 0 Cranicy two safes in the office of the Auto- |qperior court opemed here today | ool smotive Sales and Service Corn., 245 |witn the case of Leonard Cline, nov- | (o 1 "5 & + Sept. § (P— 1 Approximately 330 puplls, the Elm street, and stole $300, and the | ajst charged with slaying Wiltred | " B. Wheeler, the mild-man- er part of oM are lvnln ved to |ctist, chargr slaying f [iesed R OX ol Iy hol ton s 1,. members of families which are same operatives are believed to have |1rwin in Mansfield, May 16, as the e i 5 | |not in harmony with the policies of made a similar break in the office of |ynost fnportant one on the docket, | -5 De¢n Prohibition’s most tamous ) lfldUSU’lfll Issues Reach Neww Lucyan Bojnowski, could not be Swift & Ferguson Auto Sales Corp., ’A\.\suznmont of cases and a natur: w-‘;"“" :"nif;*-‘;{'”i:“';fi{'l"? i« dead at ot unln('u:v\ d e \\1' ! ‘m;:ln office 20 Sta a ization session were to occupy the [ the zenith of a brilliant carcer. P Al d {school today. Superintendent S. ”“‘ peatiLity ‘S"T‘"”‘y "”lm'fl“h"e‘au.mim, of Judge Edward M. Yeo- Dies Suddenly. Tice llfll 6 | Holmes declared the situation was hey stole $ esides these oper-| .10 "4he presiding judge, today.| Thirty-three years energetlc mexpected and he b ot made up atlons, several others were reported |y “ey > has been set for to- | labor in the cause of temperance | 'his mind what emerg ool situation will be car- d for. The completion of the port- chool will take care of th d school, but the great prob- m will be at the Washington school where t ituation was a surpris | where on August 13 his wife was | level ever recorded. Am |The n min Franklin school burned to death when her clothing | Smelting, Americ an, Baldwin, [on Clinton strect is being construc | caught fire from an oil stove and |Gencral Motors, General Electric, jod hut will not be ready for some | Where her father, a witness of that | Woolworth, and U. S Steel com-|time to come. litragedy, haa dropped ‘dead \nmn were among the many §ssues 0| When questioned about the ac- | Specialists at the sanitarium had | |attain new top pric New York | commodations the Sacred Heart { announced only a few hours before | Central and Southern Railway also | sehool, the principal declared that | Mr. Wheeler's death that his condi- | T¢ached new high ground. | there has been little relief despite fact that the school had lost part L e imleied | mujor operation for which plans |¥as temporarily interrupted by |of its enrollment through the schism O o wiivieh e had been work- | had been made would not be neces- | Profit-taking towards the close of | which has taken place in the parish. o e a1 Shooting o6 | sary. The double tragedy at the |last weck, coincided with the sale{The annual gain in enrollment has ‘f-’ffimf}."?:.- 1:; heen visited almost | 14 Nlo Point Sable cottage was said ‘of a New York stock exchange s at | taken care of the decrease. "‘"f‘ new !daily by his wife, who has been oc N s friends to have weighed go |at & record price of $230,000, a8 |$250,000 school building has n:v% cupying the Cline house at Mans- i heavily upon Mr. Wheeler as to | against a low of §170,000 earlier in | prc sed far enough to indicate ifield, Two weeks before the shoot- have been a strong contributory |the year. | when it will be completed. An an- g she had left her husband to go | cause of his death. Fasy money rates, a continuance | nouncement of the enrollment could o New York, not returning until| Dr. Russell obtained the smr\lm‘unf which was forecast by the terms | not he made pect- several days after Irwin's death. of Mr. Wheeler In May, 1893, upon |of the new treasury financing, and |d to be much larger than last yéar. —_— the recommendation of several pro- |expectations of a sharp upturn in| Supt. Holmes has sent word among 1 fessors at ,Oberlin college. The | fall business, provided the back- | the principals to have an official CRIMINAL NEGLIGENGE T R P G G B 09 G P | vount ‘of encoltment I tho dopart- im become an assistant to Dr. Rus- | | ment office by tomorrow morning at 1 o'clock. With more than 400 students al- enrolled, the state trade school { work. Once aligned with the Anti- will have nearly 700 before the Saloon League, however, it was not | LL BUY month is over, according to Direc- long until he became one of its {tor Herman S Hall. The school major officers, becoming superin- {opencd its fall scason this morning tendent of the Ohio League and | with approximately that num\u:r. | Ir. Hall said registrations now in iew will bring this number up to ) before the end of the term. ese are day students and do not the high school part time tudents, Two of the things which attracted comment at the school this morn- ng were the number of high school wtes who have returned for in- and the tructions in craftsmanshig, 9 year old who was ono of several | et that there are studCnts from o kept close wate e (ARl 3 5 h | hombs shot along the ground at an | g pnrm)\l.\l school, St. i prohibition enforcement and was | pREE & 00 AEE B O AINCOYTE ceois ‘paroaniall Heliool wmal tite | never slow to hurl himself and the | S oS oraanisation 1o reprosented ~aninat | ireworls manufactur v st New Britain State Normal school | ed on charges of manslaughter. ill not be opened until tomorrow. {any prospective appointee who, tn | “C 08 € IR L T Rarelli, 44, e e [ is opinion, might not best Serve |,y his neiper, Jerry Metallo, 43, HIS HOME IN HARTFORD halrman of Republican State Committee Jones Buys R. L. Estate on Prospect Avenue. Hartford, Sept. aback, chair 6 P — J. Henry buried hardly more than a fort-| mmediatly after the explosion | can statc committee, president of night ago. | Calandrelll and Metallo left hurried- [the Connecticut Light and Power Gave Life for Cause Ily for their homes in Springdale, | company and a director in the » literally gave his life for the | S{amford. After the Popp child dicd {Actna Life and National Fire In- ¢ cause,” said Dr. Francis Scott|{oday detectives from here went tosurance companies, has purchased a McBride, general guperintendent of | §tamford and arrested them, They [lome in Hartford, the Anti-Saloon League, when he|\cere Lrought back here. Mr. Roraback, whose residence learned at Westerville, Ohio, of Mr. _—— is in North Canaan, has bought the \\131.»1 dagath. 5. 5 Armour “l“ DiSDOSQS '.:m,\‘”, Jones house at 9 “He was for prohibition bhecause \ % Prospect avenue he knew it was right. He fought not Of $1,000,000 Estate | . roraback said to o for himself but for the cause fn| Chicago, Sept. 6 P—The will of {hoped to move into the Jones which he believed. Throughout his |y, Ogden Armour, who once was|house by late in the fall, but le carcer Mr. Wheeler had a remark- | worth an estimated $200,000,000, | should retain his house In North |able influence upon movement | was filed today for probate and dis- |Canaan, and {he matter of his against the liquor traftic.” posed of an indicated estate of $1,- | changing his L residence to At Washington, where he was the | g90,000. Hartford would he declded in the mainepring of all Anti-Saloon | Tpe will left $100,000 outright fo | future. Mr. Roraback and his fam- League legislative activity, Mr.|hig qaughter, Lolita, now Mrs. John |ily have spent their summers at the past few years. .| RESCUES D DROWNING GHILD Jr., of Arch Strect ors, nan of the republi- | —EIGHTEEN PAGES PLANE HOPS MOTHER SWINMING | ENGLISH [}HANNEL (Mrs, Corson Fighting Waters From England to France tEMERGED VICTOR LAST YEAR Plans to Make New Record and to Bring Glory to America—Covers Two Miles in 36 Minutes—Going Strong at Noon. Aboard Tnited Press Launch in |the English Ch Sept. 6. (UF) {=-Mrs. Clemingion Corson was al- most halt way across the English m channel at 2 p. m. today. She was swimming strong after having a cup Corson swam three miles toward the French coast but owing to uxrrrm the distance covered w; {than that. The sea was ch rmy Bt |the swimmer was making unusually | 1good time, I Mrs. 1:48 p. m. She was strong and hap- py and seemed confident that she would be able to make new swim- ming history today. No woman ever has swum the channel from east to west. If Mrs. Corson succeeds she will have conquered the channel in {both directions. Mrs. Corson began her swim at 3:56 a. m., E. & T. and had been in {the water five hours and four iin- utes at 9 a, m, E. S. T. The mother of two children who last August swam from Cape Gris- Nez to Dover in 15 hrs. and 52 min- entered the water at uth nd at §:56 a. m. The temperature of the water was | degrees Fahrenheit, sibility | 53 three miles, a light southeasterly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth, To Make Record “T am out to heat Webb's time and add further lustre to America's name,” said Mrs. Corson as she step. ped into the water. She referre to Captain Matthew Webb of bourne, Eng., who back in 1875 was the first person to swim the chan- nel. He s to Sangattex heach, hours and 45 minutes. PASTOR ASKS DIVORCE SAYS WIFE LEFT HI Rev. R. N, Gilman Takes Steps For in 22 rance, Permanent Separation I'rom Wife ! He Married Abroad. A petition for divorce has been {filed by the Rey. N. Gil- man, Memorial Mrs. Raymond Stanley church of this clty, agal Irene Gilman of New Have in the case have been served on Mrs. Gilman, The case Is returnable tember term of superior Hartford. Rev. M rtion as grounds for pastor of st to the Sep- court in this action. Gilman, who was born in !Russia and belongs to the old Rus- n aristocr: of the pre-Bolshe- vik period with her mothe Helen Poroshine, was a ref the southern part of the ¢ Hore she entered 1st work. It was in connection with this work that she n Mr. Gilman, then in charge of the outfit. They were married in that country. When Rev, Mr. came to A. HELD FOR RANSOM Haven Y., W. Letter Sent ties, Corson had her luncheon at | m from the Dover sands | Papers | Gilman alleges | . lana th To Uncle Demanding | [FLIGHTS IN, BRIEF By the Assoctated itta, Ind rrives from d the — Pride of Allahabad, orld, having tra August De troit n si leg will take niles away. Harbor G i » London, Week Ending Sept. 3rd ... Average Daily Circulation For 14,133 PRICE THREE CENTS OLD GLORY ON WAY TO ROME; OFF FROM OLD ORCHARD, ME., AT 1:23 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON Bertaud and Payne Riding in Cabin ~Trip Will Cover More Than 4,100 Miles. Ship Is Exact Reproduc- Hill S dier il tion of Ill-Fated St. Ra- 8 5 last night when it narrow- 3 S I escined destruction by sire acier| phael, in Which the Fly= flight fr ribou, Me, Cranwell ing Princess and Avia- anses ( ump of the Columbia to L tomorrow. Paris — Leon Givon ready to fly Farnam “Blue Bird” to America as tors Rode to Doom. soon as weather permits, He was| Old Orchard, Me., Sept. 6 (P) — beaten 1,13 {,wr men \\ho\unlv him | plane Old Glory, hound for a cov or turning back fter [ . Rones % z whdErl tome, took oft from the beach at by . Spain — Captain F. T.|!:%3 P. m., eastern daylight time to- Courtney, British aviator, held up by | day | noor weather on resumption of flight| = The ¥ carried three men. A to New York, via the Azores and |non-stop fiight was planned. J. D. Newfoundland. Hill » toss of the coin from | Dublin — Captain R. H. Macinfosh ot, Lloyd Bertaud and took ready for attempt to beat Levine the controls. The giant across the Atlan The destin ship rolled easily down the beach at the Princess Xen of his plane, TAX RATE INGREASE PREDICTED BY HALL ¢ Finance Board Chairman | Prophesies Rise Next | | Year | ! In the opinion of Chairman Ed- ward F. Hall of the board of finance and taxation, an increase in taxes is probable next year and this without any provision for a golf course or an airport. The declaration of the city's finance director, which was made today at his office in Hartford, is |.expected toshave a depressing effect on the two movements begun with the appointment of committees last week. The airport committee has looked over several sites and has tentatively agreed on one, while the golf course proponentsware scheduled to meet tonight. Scnator Hall to called attention the fact that conside “pruning” was required this y | make the budget conform to the | revenues of a 25 1-2 mills tax and {that there is no leeway for addi- {tional improvements at that ratio of levy. Also, he pointed out, funds must be provided forythe personnel and teaching staff of the Robert J. | vance and the Benjamin Franklin {schools, both of which will be in service by next year, while the costs of upkecp, including fuel, cte., will also be great. With regard to the policy ancing public improvements over |a period of five years, which is the plan employed in the town house | addition and the war memorial, Sen- ator Hall declared against any new | programs of improvment under this fscheme until present obligations in- |curred in this method have been ‘ ELUSIVEMMILFORD MONKEY EVADES ALL RESCUERS of Firemen and Policemen to Animal Perched on Trap Tree Top and Ietter Box. , Sept. 6 (P—There s a wise monkey in a tree in the Idward Rogers, principal Devon &chool, poice and fire departments nothing to do with him have been in r amer and the firemen | Milford, C W yard of of the | vould have The police work this su cue, have been taking cats out of trees with their ladders. But taking |down a monkey from a tree top ther thing. monkey belongs to Joseph was Th America and accepted rastorat® zfondo of Naugatuck Gardens and of the local church, he brought hisleoe out of a cage two days ago. A wife with him. Inability to adapt|poinian was glven a start when herself to the habits and customs of | gt U0 HEC Hanly perched him- n American hame, sald to have | e o1 o letter box as the letters resulted in her leaving with heri o0 %) 0T van out. Next it ap- mother, who had follovied her here. | ;p;req in the yard of Mr. Rogers, e I s 0 | to Al G ey, four years ago an « g “;“'{d “'; Albert H. Flood, a neighbor. ”“‘”““‘“l”’ '“‘";' o “')‘ "m: i':i“ thought could catch the animal important position in the cign | e o languages department OrfaE G| DyausngRaranaasiba o) ceral pieces on tree limbs and the |last picce was in a lasso loop, and fr. Food's fdea was to yank the oop tight and catch Mr. Monkey around the waist. | Just as flood expected the mal came down from the tree nd ate the ba ani- top ana slices and got idow and daughter. 3Whils we weve ‘poles apart.eni " oow and daugh Sum of Money For Release of|into the noose and was caught the question of {he 1Sth amend-| B LRV o Coss Rre Yon [ 7 around the body. But Mr. Monkey ment, I always admired him for his T i Depth at Sound View. Missing Teacher. |loosened the loop and was back in convict arncst endeavor to e » o h | o zain. Ev S s 2 o otk —_— | |this city, distinguished himself at]ce; 3. McClure, a teacher in the | . i - Y fighter whether hf\l Ag;n.r: with me New Britain and vieinlts: | | Sound View Sunday fternoon when (4 e ’-‘»“U"' . “h “ Bl | would sit on the noose when he or not. And Mr. Wheeler was an in- Fair' tonight and Wednesda, sl Sards and ree. | Corning schools who has been Miss- | reached for the banana inside it veterate fighter. slowly rising temperature, ! | cued o four year old boy who wan- | ing since August 30, is held for ran-{and wbul scamper away when the SEnator [HoralafaIialo "“ikfl o | dered beyond his dept in the water, |som by kidnappers, according to ajrope was drawn. Mr. Wheeler as a “faithful, tireless | y ! " The New Britain youth was at. |letter received by the young wom-l Mondo came to get his pet but and exceptionally able advocate of » ,_',r‘ ted by the cries of help from |an’s uncle, Duncan McClure, of after chasing him off four trees a cause in which he sincerely be- ‘ HIGH TIDE "|the child and broke away from a |Johnson City. after & hard climb each time he lieved. % N —— | | group of New Britainites with whom | The letter, postmarked at Buffalo, | stopped to lay out a better bit of Mr. Wheeler, who was born on his | (Sept. 7—Daylight Time) | he was swimming and carried the |September 3, was received by Mr.|strategy. father's farm near Brookfield, Ohlo, || New London 6;38 a.m., 7:00 p.m. | |boy to safety. The rescuer received |McClure today and was turned over| The monkey grimaces at passers ew Haven 7:30 am., 8:08 p.m. | |many congratulations from specta- [immediately to the police authorl-|by and automobilists as his perch is close by the Boston Post road. } this mmnln!:) the tum After about a mile and a half the wheels left the ground and the Old start, gradually gaining momen- Glory rose sluwly but steadily into the air. There was a margin of at least a mile between the takeoff point and 014 Orchard pi hich crosses the ach. Hill bore out over the water 1 passed the end of the pier with hundred feet altitude. He kept on away south, before swinging off and taking his course. Fades in Distance A few minutes later the Old Glory was a speck on the horizon as she gained speed and altitude rapidly, with a helping wind of 15 miles from the southwest. “Phil” Payne, repres { William Randolph { sponsoring the flight, was the last to | enter the plane before the takeoff. While Hill and Bertaud were climb- ing into the cockpit, he had raced hack to kiss goodbye once more, his wite, Dorothy. Relatives and friends of all flyers had gathered around i plane, several hours before. I minute weather which continued to be | favorable, were given the mes H. Scarr of the New York weather bureau, on the basis of tele- graph reports from both sides. Scarr indicated that there was a light rain reported along the French coast, but said the was a good chance that that would clear within the 40-odd hours that the flight is expected to take. The only other bothersome point, he said, w low area some 2,000 miles from W foundland. ntative of who is the the reports, entirely men by N orm In Way This low arca was movin, ward so slowly, however, th helieved Old Glory could skirt southern edge. Shortly before the plane took off the Rev. James F. Mullen, pastor of t. Margaret's church, old Orchard, mounted an empty oil barrel, sprinkled holy water on the nose of the plane and pronounced a bless- ing. Early this morning he had con- ducted a special mass in his church for Payne, Bertaud and their fami- lies, Among those at the starting point to wish the airmen a good trip were Payne, Miss Edith Young, her r, Mrs. Bertaud and Mrs. Flor- ence Callaghan, the mother of Lloy £ for- t it was the of the barograph, which will record officially the dis- tance coversd in the flight, which its sponsors hope may be a new dis- tance record, was witnessed by Ma- jor Carl Smith of the Maine Na- tional Guard, who as repre- (tovernor Ralph O. Brewster of Tortland, whose law partner he is. Just before the plane took off, Mr. within a few days, had felegraphed each of Cfliers that if they had any doube. of the ss of the flight he illing to withdraw the plane and them the full sum of their con- 8, Both men, however, declared hat they would go ahead, unless he forbade ther Flight New York, was To Be Longest pt. 6 P—A succes flight to Rome in the OId Glory would bring to Pilots J. D. Hill and Lloyd Bertaud the record for long stop Atlantic flying, would outdistance the ise they four previous Atlantic air crossings this summer by from about 200 to more than 1,700 miies. The distance to b cove 4. By Hill and Bertaud, foliowing a modi- fled great circle course, is approxi- mate 4,100 miles, The distance covered hy Schlee and Brock, around-the-world fliers, in their hop from Harbor Grace, N. I, to London, Eng., was 2,350 miles. The distance and time in the Lind- bergh, Chamberlin and Byrd flights, as compiled by the National Gea- graphic socfet were: Lindbergh, 3,610 miles, 30 minutes Chamberlin, 30 minut Byrd, minutes. (Ry 4,200 miles.) 33 hours, 5 miles, 48 hours, miles, 41 hours, s own estimate was Like Fost Airplane New York, Sept. ¢ (A—The mono- plane Old Glory, which left Old Orchard, Me., today for Rome, is a sister ship, Identical in every detail, (Continued on Page 1 5 et