New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1927, Page 31

DRUNKEN DRIVER WAR STILL 15 ON Ocher States Are Co-operating With Connecticut Hartford, Conn., Oct. 28.—(P}— With the approach of two important football games at New Haven, which will attract thousands of automo- bilists from outside of Connecticut, attention is called by the motor ve- hicle department authoritles to a policy of reciprocity and co-opera- tlon which motor vehicle commis- sioners in the cast states and two provinces of Canada have agreed upon to hring about, among other | things, suspension of the license or s, drunken or ent driver. Through this agree- . the commissior of Con- necticut's neighbor states stand ready to co-operate with Commie- sioner Robbins B. Stoeckel in the intensive campaign which he recent- 1¥ opened to reduce the number of intoxicated motor vehicle operators on the roads going to and from the games, It was announced by the commis- sioner three weeks ago that not only wo toxicated persons “in charge of” cars on these occasions have thelr li- censes suspended; also, that any out- of-state operator found under the influence would be reported at onc to the commissioner of that driver's state and his right to drive fn Con- | necticut suspended. The agreement among the eastern states' commis- sioners goes further than reportin drunken driving cases. Any com ints whateoever, st a driver another state ether for ss driving or some other rea- son, are to be submitted at once to the commissioner of that state, who will deal with offending drivers. The e Wil hold true through t rocity agreement when Con- cnt operators inv achusetts or York or some other nearby state for games. Their violations of the motor vehicle law be reported at once to Stocekel, who will deal with them at capitol. w €a JUDGMENT FOR JOHNSON IN PETRUNTI DEATH SUIT Court Rules Against Estate of Man Who Died After Being Struck by Auto Gustave Johnson of this ble for the death of Leonard Petrunti in an automobile accident here on March 30 last, ac- cording to a judgm rendered by fury yesterday in superior court, rtford. Johnson was sued for 000 damages by the Petrunti es- 8. Gerard Casale and Frank t‘ovello represented the plaintiff, while Warren Maxwell was counsel for Johnson. Judge A. C. Baldwin presided. The ageldent occurred at the cor- | ner ©f Main and West Main at Petrunti was crossing the from the ank ‘entral park. According to the al- itions in the suit brought by P ht was in ng > south on ling the corner and striking the pedestrian. Johnson took Petrunti to the New Britain General hospital, where it was found that he had sustained in- juries to his 1 He remained at the hospital and was apparently im- proving when his condition sudden- Jy took a turn for the worse and he died on April 11, Dr. John al e utopsy nt to have sponsible for the Johnson residc Petruntl was 55 ye lived at 107 Arch str. ADAIN'S BIRTHDAY strect that 1ght the n indirectly re- death 18 Eust stree rs of age t m d According to Baltimore Compilation Father of Man Would Be 5,831 Years Old Today. Baltimore, Md,, Adam had another hirthdaygtoday. It he were living he would be 5,831 years old. For Le was horn, in the belief of the late John P. Brady, on October 28, 4004 B. C. in the Garden of Eden. Brady made tite compu- tation In connection with the erec- tion of a monument to the first man’s memory. The monument, the only shaft in America dedicated to Adain, stands on the Brady estate at Bowley's lane and Philadelphia road. It was unveiled in 1909, on Adams flve thousand, nine hundred and thirteenth birthda: It is inscribed: “To the Memory of Adam, the First Man.” Brady always maintained that Adam hadn’t been given a square deal—that he was always represent- ed as being driven from the Garden of Eden by an angel with a flaming sword or in some other unfavorahle light. He emphasized that his monu- ment was erected as a memorial to the first man and not to the first sinner. Oct. 28 (UP)— Zight Over-Passes The city of Pittsburgh now has eight over-pass strects, as a partial solation to its traffic problem. = e " FRIENDS AREFRIENDT: ™y, For “all hands”, 14 drunken drivers but also in- | Mr. | treets | corner to! the | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1927, LISBON GREETS RUTH'S SMILE AND CAP 300 ON MAFALDA |SURVIVORS TELL UNACCOUNTED FOR| HARROWING TALES: S o plemy Eare) IWreck of Mafalda Awfl Trag- - edy—Tells of Captain's Bravery Bahi fieree him died his radio operator, locked in the radio room, and at his post unti Ithe end came. Liteboats Unsafe 1 Many of the survivors declared | that the lifeboats of the Principessa Mafalda were in bad condition and that some of them shipped water while others were swamped by the crowds in them as they were lower- !ed. The Italian embassy denied that the lifesaving apparatus was faulty, lisulng a statement enying that the | liteboats had a capacity for persons while only 1,256 places were {needed, and that they had been - spected in Genoa before the I pessa. Mafalda sailed for America. B Oct. 28, —(P—Huge sharks chasing terrified swim- in the water about the sinking v Princips Mafalda, the weird thrown into ghastly relief by Nlights of rescuing vessels is the ure of the disaster oft the Bra- 1 coast given today by John yra Chaves, a first class passenger ihoard the line Mosella which If a hundred survivors other survivors have aid not any sharks, the sh, dashing kness into the circles | made a profound impression him. live Chaves and others gave great | i credit to a steward of the Mosella X for his rescue work. Chaves said this eed with steward saved the life of one man | | nd Formosa hud | into a boat he manned | answered the S O S. of the Mafalda throughout the terrible night | | passengers said, the disaster would owing the beam of a flash- | have assumed worse proportio {0\ the Jiioyes 6% B pursiing The horror of Tuesday night was Moselia’s passengers reflected in the faces of many of pailed this steward as a hero, saying those who were landed. One woman e el who lost her seven months' old SON ciiigren and delivered them aboard | was almost insane with grief, while. (ys" nearest rescue vessels withot | 3 cst res ssels without | &nolhier woal who lost & AIVE YeRE! yyine i fime fo rétumm b Bis v | ;0ld boy went temporarily insane. e i i The rescue ships today began =) transterring their survivors to Flores island where they were given ttention by doctors who found many of them in a weakened cond tion because of the lack of prope food and water. I'ood was serve [to them. The landing of the sur | vivors proceeded in good order. All of them were destitute, having lost everything when the ship sank Clothing was distributed by the Bra- zilian authorities. The Italian am- bassador is working to lessen the ring, most of the third class rs being Italians bound for homeland in South America. Survivors Tell of Horrors As the survivors gained they told of ths horrors ¢ h first | swimn {until picked up while | sengers were in the water until the rescue ships cam | ald. | Jose Cano, a ship listed I from Buenos Aires, wecording to Peliin, and | by his wife, told a r 3 panic developed quickly. There w | Associated Press that ther t deal of confusion, he said, no explosion in the ship with the pussengers wailing and ¢ six hours for the lere was no time to distribute fou er s or to lower th life “Captain Guli,” said Ca “I 1t inyself down into the sea by ished at his post. The Princiy a rope,” declared Pellin, lost Mafalda had to stop three times dur- | consciousness and woke aboard the ing the trip so that repairs could be Mosella. T saw the Mafalda disappear made to the machinery which fs thout o'clock, approximately | to operate properly between Barce- | four hours affer the first alarn lona and the Cape Verde islinds he story of the sinking as told | | “I think that about 400 must have talao Carmine, of 11 | perished. The explosion story ap- \dlas ollowe: | pears to have started among meni- bers of the crews of the reseue ships | which, arriving after the Principessa da had gone to t bottorn, ing debr The Duteh steamer Alhe about the me me were oceupied in re tims from the sea Mafalda boats till a when the rescuers co men, women and children from Mafalda which was now s | tling by the stern and listing to port. 8:15 p. m., t ‘neh s | <hip Formosa arrived and later the | Mosella, Rosetti, Solen At 9:40 p. m. nd s k. Many on Raft All boats picked up all the ors that could he found and light the vicinity was searched The survivors pr |of the rescue ships ailors aboard the |into the sea risking their E he victims floundering the debris and calling for it had not been for the which the Alhena ve bin alone i <ing iron came from about the lda shortly before it sank ac-| cording to Chaves. He believed th e | sounds came from lifeboats breaking | up filled with victims, | He that most of those strn the water were scantily | v were declared elir men Pellin Mafalda's orchestra flernoon while 1 and pa noise s and th 2 museclan in the said that in the the orchestra sengers dancing 1s heard in | Mafalda stop- | ing to Pellin, | by telling e stre th womon, cla a who veling ! then es by Ie officers ag but t and that | boats, | | il going about my usual duty | nd the ship’s orchestra t mad man’s dance when something fn- hensibile, so it scemed to me moment, happened aft of the Mafalda. The screwshaft had broken or parted. 1 “From then was confusfon, , arriv- | © and both scuing vie- trom the 7:00 p. m nued taking out onwards everything | tumult and heart- rending scenes. As is usual in dis: with women and children abourd, T with my companions did 11 that we could to get them to thef at stations. This was a titanic due to the confusion and ex- | plosions ofr’ the ters the boats wers [ g within en s in spite of the panic on mong the poor passe | would calm the passengers | teamers includir the first minutes the Rosetti which res- nt as all seemed possessed of ra : nil devils to escape from the transferred possible and I| but hand out hysterical wo- the p was mehir at day- the rescue s : 11 Avelona and t cued a number from g All the survivors w {to the Formosa with the of those ahoard the Alhen: took hers to Rio Janeiro and Rosetti which 1eft for Pernamt with 27 survivors. (Dispatches from Rio ! make no mention of these | rescue persumably will cut down t | number missing to approximately 300.) exception 7 else the the 1c0 o ts as screams and from all dircetio that only a few minutes be- band hal been playing and everyhody was happy. 1t was almost | mpossible to believe that such a ¢ could occur. What a con- groans were Janetro To think, whe Good Order Maintalned. After the first rush, good order | trast. was maintained on the Mafalda.| So overcome was Carmine hy the | | An officer who was rescued reported | memory of what took place that he | |leaving the commander the | broke into tears, apologizing for his bridge when ordered to abandon the | weeping, |ship. It was gathercd from this | — “The captain's ! officer that a shaft broke and the could not be un engines were smashed, the engine- | such a turmoil,” another survivor room being flooded and placing the | taking up the thread of the Mafalda in darkness until the “An explosion followed the {invasion of water and although nearly all the litehoats were gotten into the sea they did not live very lor They soon turned over rowing thefr human cargoes into 1o cold deep ocean and T believe that only one remained afloat whic hauled on hoard the Moselle. saw th> captain on the bridge an clectric torch fn his hand | ociated | 1oving a little circle of light onto | Industries of Massachusetts hookings 7 i BN R i e have been chartered on a steamer | ' o chin sank under the wi which will safl from New York on | (10 " oty B Gine his arms January 21 and return on Februa N ir ol andl houlinE What T 11, for Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, the ||~ wiva Talial’ ™ Canal Zone and Costa Rica. At porfs | = .q t think that he wanted to of call representatives of business |, I s S T interests ar- to be met as woll Siniin officials, and besides an exchange of ted by, us courtesies 1t is expected there will | S be discussions of commercial rela- o T shal) hevan tions tending to improvement i cne when being put I both import and export busin osefle to see so many i = | companions who only a ‘ le. T short time Plainville, Mass., Has R o ‘ (ase of Smallpox fentine dead i survivors who arrived here Boston, Oct. 28 (UP)——The firss P e of smallpox reported in M 1in one of the hest hotels here [sachusetts this vear was announced iting further fransport. One wo- |today by the state health . two men and one child died [men. | aboard the Moselle after heing res- The patient, Mildred cued. They were not identified and of Plainville, is under wore buried at sea. One of the |a nhospital in Providence, R. I, n aboard the sl read the Plainville. State health authorities 1l service while a bugler played announced that the girl's home hadd {he last call. A member of the Ma- Ibcen quarantined and members o | falda’s erew was kept aboard the | |the family vaccinate | Moselle, suffering from pneumonia. Kissing 15 not favored in Japan, | D TO DEATH with the result that $00,000 feet | Tincoln, br., Oct. 28 (UP)— of film showing embraces have been | Frank Sharp was senten cut from films recently to that in the eleetric ehatr country. { murdering his wife with a hammer. on orders at first | stood, there was Manufacturers Planning Good Will Conferenc Hartford, Oct. 28 (A—A good will ! business mission to the West Tndics and Central America 13 contemplat- ed by the Manufacturers® association of Connecticut, an announcement from its office said today. Cooperating with the as b E our <hip. we man, 1 1 limbs mn the > which in the | forget the | ahoard ti | easc depart- Sylvia, atment 15 v la few | was bla | way | but 1 tiied of th: | many of them in automobile | ne | water from seve | was in charge of the fight a | Fireman | tending across the street | erator, i %N b Ruth Elder, s man, her co-pilot (left,) and C aptain Pinheiro, head of the Portuguese Aero Club. (NEA Service Copyrighted Radiophoto) I till wearing the seaman’s cap given her by Captain Goos of the rescuing ship A nerve-racking nolse of erinding, | Barendrecht, smiles upon the welcoming multitudes at Lisbon. With her are George Halde This first picture of her arrival in Europe proper from the Azores was flown to London, radioed to New York and FIRE IN GARAGE THREATENS BLOCKS S | (Continued from First Page) | antomobiles, which roof and the in turn fire doors and within minutes, the entirs building ng and great tongu-s of led high into the air, licking wooden verandas on the reer of buildings and sending large clouds of smoke rolling out beyond the skyline, all of which gave the mpression that a conflagration was destroying the entire business dis- trict in the bloy A number of cars were driven out of the Central zarage just as the blaze made its through the partition separat- ng it from the burning building, its progress was checked with a slight scorching to the inside set to the the the Central fire headquarters was no- 1 by telephone at 10:14 o'clock. At approximately the me time, word spread through the business district that several stores were burning, and when an alarm came in from Box 14 at 10:15 o'clock the shrieking of the siren brought several hundred spectators, | , while the windows in City hall, the Bur- ritt hotel, the New Britain National | Bank building and other buildings rby were dotted by humanity. | Although the fire itselt was not visible from these places, the smoke could be seen rolling out in increa: ing volume as the firemen poured al lines of hose into the garage itself, and sprayed the! burning verandas to prevent a spread of the flam Hose was laid from hydrants on the west side of Central Park, through the driveway | between the B. €. Pbrter Sons build- | ing and the b g directly north, ! and also from the hydrant at the Globe Clothing House corner through the space to the west of the building in which the Globe is lo- cated. Co. 1, Co. 2 and Co. 2 ladder | responded to “still” alarm and Co. 1, Co. 3, Co. 6 and Co. 1 ladder an- swered the bell, Hose Lines Block Traffic First Deputy Chief E. . Barnes nd Sec- | ond Deputy Chief M. T. Souney, who | was off duty, assisted him. A num- ber of firemen who were off duty ponded. The alarm was rung by Richard Collins, chi dviver, who was off duty. Fireman William Finneran of Co. No, 2 lad-| der company suffered cuts on the hand from glass. He was attended | | by Dr. Frank Zwick and remained ton duty. jecause of the lines of hose ex- on the west side of the park, the police routed traffic fn both directions on the east side, and allowed traffic to %o east on West Main street, between the traffic light in front of City hall, and the National Bank corner. Deputy Chiet Barnes said other fires have been caused by the inc but none as serious as that of this forenoon. Building Inspec- tor A. N. Rutherford said the gar-| age, which was practicaily destroyed, will not be rebuilt of wood as th ordinances will not permit of it While the work of clearing away the debris was under way, Chief | Bames made a careful fnspection of | the premises and found that there | were loose bricks In the incinerator, which had probably allowed fire to jgnite the north wall of the g He said the building itselt w of great value, but had the gasoline | tanks on the two automobiles ex- ploded and the fire had been given | t. a serious situation | would have presented itselt. “I call | it a good stop,” he said. All Apparatus Called Out ry piece of fire apparatus inf the city department was called out within 16 minutes early this after- noon, and the successive blasts of the siren and the roar of the trucks going through the eenter of the city caused considerable excitement. Fire headquarters and the Herald office were deluged with telephone re- quests for information relative to the fires, and Captain Kelly at police headquarters was also besieged with | call The report gained wide v||~3 culation that a genecral alarm had| heen sounded for a destructive fire| in the northwestern section of the| city. At i | | a greater sta No. 3 was 1:05 o'clock, Co. in a two tenement | Governor street, and at 1 an alarm ws: of North Burritt street and Osgood | avenue, |at same fire, streets, to which Co. No. 6 and Scc- ond Deputy Ch { where rushed to The Herald by NEA Service. HUSBAND OF GHILD called by a “still” elarm to a fire house at 12§ § o'clock | sounded for the same | fire, from Eox 338 at the corner | At 1:13 o'clock, Box Farmington avenue and Com- monwezlth avenue was rung for the and the two alarms brought out all the apparatus with | the cxception of Co. No, 6. i ‘e{l U S m g ll Fire In Sweeney Block | [81 - . lligga y Hardly had the fight with the| flames on Governor street heen be- | gun than an alarm came In from | Box 42 at Main and Fast Main 446 Antonto Motto, aged 26, of Clinton street, who was married Hackensack, N. bell a few days a *f M. T. Souney re-|to the local polic sponded. E re station was | last night and re #mpty and hundreds of automobiles |tion Officer William Clark in bonds were specding from all directions {of $500 for a hearing at which he towards the northwestern sectfon. | will be required to show cause why The fire for which the last alarm 'he should not be deported to Italy. was sounded was slight, and caused | Attorney S. Gerard Casale eurren- miror damage on the rear veranda | dered Motto, for whom the police of a temement occupied by the fam- | have been looking for several wee ily of E. A. Lord in the Swecney| According to the immigration au- bullding at 450 Main street. Chief | thorities, Motto entered the United ouney said he believed children |States on May 23, 1924, having come playing with matches set fire to a|on a freighter at a time when the coal box on the veranda. quota from Italy was filled. e On Governor street, which is ap- | MIEht not have been apprehende proximately a mile beyond the gael | 2d he not insisted on courting An Putnam school on Osgood Hill, the Sclina Casserino, aged 13, of 24 Washington street, who is now firemen found the roof of a house i s O owned by Felix Bak blazing in & bride, because her parents, not wish- |Ing the glrl to marry at so young an manner that seemed Eithoigl 7 = to spell de- | (age, did all in their power to prevent structton for the entire structure, Tt | 25& D preven was necessary to lay sev ; the match and finally informed the al hundred |y inorities. Captain George J fect of hosc and pump the water. Meanwhile the fire had gained such i, it brought to Officer Clark's atten- headway that it was Impossible 10 |yion e latter had &n interview save any of the upper part of the | with Motto and obtained a warrant house, Tt s estimated that the dam- |for his arrest, but when ahout to was about $2,500. |serve the warrant, learned that Mot- Mr. Bak and family occupled the |to had left New Britain tenement on the first floor and | The child bride has told her par- in J., by Mayor Camp- was surrendered er Julius Beck and family lived on the ents that she is ready and willing to A defective accompany her husband wherever he goes and the probabili deportation has not frightened her in the least. She loves him, she said, and will remain at his sidc whatever his circums may be. second floor tenement. chimney started the fire, according to the fire department report. Co. No. b of the fire department was called at 5:02 o'clock last eve- ning to a fire in an automobile truck | owned by the Union Manufacturing Co. at the corner of East Main and Cottage place. A short circuit in the wiring caused the fire, which did practically no damage. At 7:44 o'clock last evening No. 2 ladder company responded to a call to the rear of the Lyceum theater, an overloaded {ncinerator caused a scare. There was no dam- age. READ HERALD CLASSIFIE FOR YOUR WANT ) ADS The rose has a greater commer- cial value than any other flower, for, iiesldes its big horticultural value it produces attar of roses, an expensive perfume. Forty thousand flowers are required to produce one ounce. READ YIEIK;\LD CLASSIFTED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS Is Your Girl One of the 865,000? F she isn’t, she ought to be. No girl—no boy— should grow up without a piano. Approximately 865,000 boys and girls are taking piano lessons today in the United States. What won- derful hours of pleasure lie before these youthful performers! Men Don't let your girl—your boy—begin lite without the companionship of a piano. Settle this matter today at our warerooms. Laura P. Farrell | NEW BRITAIN ARCH ST, “Save Ten Dollars a Step” THE PIANO JHE BASIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. is | received information and had | Evening Gowns, Fur Coats, Fur Pieces TRAIN IS DERAILED “Cannonball” Freight Ieaves Tracl MEN ARE BOYS AGAIN | AT HALLOWE'EN PARTY Male Teachers Bob For Apples and Enjoy Other Stunts, Includ- in Initiation The Schoolmen's club which fis made up of men connected with the public educational system, received 12 new members at its Halloween rty in Walnut Hill school Ilast |night. ~Stunts ranging from one minute speeches to blindfolded box- ing bouts were required of the neophytes before they were accept- €d into full membership. Men whose stern glance, when re- quired, brings a lull over whole clussrooms, vied with one another in <ing Into buckets of water for ples or in picking beans out of pans of flour with their teeth, prin- cipals and fire year teachers con- tributing alike to the evening's en- . Groth, president, Wilson, secretary, rvised the event. the activities of the eve- ing began in earnest, the members aken up winding staircases, 1 deserted attics and into the tower over a routs strewn 1 obistacles and from the corners hich ghosts set up continual 10ans and ominous booms. After the program of stunts, lunch was served. Near Lyme—Tish Car Completely Demolished in Crash. 28 train Bost hable freigl last night when ni; idle of the 1 piled up. nn., Oct. " freig rom per | W’»-»Thn] el with aled her cars in the m |string buckled cars went down th and r laden wit | tire d. | The wreck ot the New York, Hartford railroad 1 Tric zain and eared Ps Hartford or Pr line tr shor: All the avily 1 READ HERALD CLASSIFTED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS | READ HERALD CLASSIFTED ADS No Wonder Legion Picked Paris! 4 WAY BE DEPORTED Motto Reported to Have En-| 241 | of his | | | 11 TParisian dancer pletured here, may not have American Legion picked Paris for its she is of the reasons why the boys She’s not such a strain on the eyes, 5 vh wved so long ch capital. nyhow. Continuing SATURDAY earance of Discontinued Numbers OF RESSES—COATS—MILLINERY Toilet Goods At Genuine Reductions —THIRD FLOOR Clearance of Discontinued Numbers ’s, Women’s Children’s FOOTWEAR It would pay you to see these. —SECOND FLOOR—— Besse System Store Besse Leland’s