New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1927, Page 24

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UOASTGUARDSHEN. E*CRE0R irRinGe I IN THRILLING JOB Constantly Matching Wits With Rum Runners Fort Lauderdale, One thrillir 3 er, rivalling those of e ships sailed the succaneers compelled t to walk the plank, makes up life of coast guardsme rum runners in Flori Prices have been put upon the heads of several 1 ticers halt come the battling of- zling of liquor 1 Winter's turning th rd, activity acute. winds in the north are bows of many runncrs resulting in increased 1long the Flo When a s ¥ governme chaser, arme one-pound closes in on the boat filled with legal cargo, the res 8¢ ether will ndon the vessel ght it ot , for example, about 30 miles off Fort | Lauderdale in which three were Kkilled and a fourth when Coast Guard Boat il- 1dom sur- or the re- cent battl woun No. 240 carrying Ro cret service oper- > counterfelt $50 bills 1sed fn rum transactions, when it spotted and closed in on the rum oat and captured Horace Alder- man and Robert E. Weech, While officers transferred the car- g0, Sidney Sanderlin, boatswain, sought to get in touch by radio ired down the hatch and killed | 5°° s Sunderlin. Vioter A. Lamby, motor| 20° thureh regards the mateh as iinist, rushed to aid the fallen iive, to Bonn, Germany, Nov. 4 (B—The angelical Preshyterian church has refused to permit for the use of its bullding here for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Victorla Schaumburg-Lippe, 63-year-old sis ter of the former Kaiser, and Ale NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927. IS REFUSED OWN CHURCH cause of the lisparity anc le it is un- ser William, llern house, has declined to give his con the mayr “unethic whwich has been an- nounced for November 18 will be a e's home, an and was mortally wounded by | v bullet through his sp b Alderman grabbed Lamby's gun, gzave it to Weec! ordered the cther six government men to “line up.” “Move the whiskey back to our boat,” he instructed Weech, “and | . then go below and set this govern- | Attempts to smuggle by alrplane s i ety lare no longer novel. As Weech went into the hold | €asily fly between the British Ba- Webster jumped for Alderman. He |hamas and TFlorida, but federal was killed instantly with a bullet | OPeratives now know how to deal through his head. Jodle L. Hol- | Ith them. They are sighted lingsworth, following the secret the air and kept from landing. service man, was wounded through | Even when rum runners desert the eye and n . But it was the their boats, danger lurks often in “break,” and the rest of the small | Pombs with time fuses or explo- crew rushed upon Alderman and | Sives attached to the ignition. Weech and overpowered them, and |than 8000 miles of coast line Lrought them to port, They mnow |around Florlda offet innumerable ait trial at Jacksonville for first [avous and inlets where rum run- P s try to land cargo. To mest Closely allied with rum running | e situation reinforcements are is the smuggling of aliens and nar- | P¢ing added and a section base cotics. An affidavit in government possession tells how a rum boat took 27 aliens from Cuba to an island off Florida, only to return in a few days to rob them of all they had. Other stories 1 of aliens paying the smuggling fees, taken aboard, and at sea or drowned. oftener than force to land liquor. Submersible steel tanks, carrying about s of liquor, were used with suc- s for awhile, towed behind boats and cut adrift if guardsmen pressed too closely. Strategy 13 used an off-shore patrol of six vessel The coast guard also uses planes. — e CLARK'S ROUND THE WORLD CRUISE (Wost) 15 daye Jun. 10; 81.20-5.40; Medltarra- Toa, G2 days, . 137 8 orway, 6 S AR by chartered Conarders. R include hotels, guides, drives, fo FRANK C. CLARK, Times Building, N.Y. being being eet adrift 600 | Planes can | in More | fs | | to be set up at St. Petersburg with | |Italian King Visitor At Wheat Exposition Rome, Nov. 4 (UP)—King Victor | Emmanuel today visited the wheat | exposition which closes Sunday. by Minister of Na- | Belluzzo, | Accompanied tlonal Economy Ginseppe Director Angelini and other officials, the king inspected closely the vari- | ous exhibits, He showed expe pressed highest success of the exhibition he said, to have e atis ects beneficial |to Italian agriculture. A large crowd cheered the enthusiastically. king Coastwise Service Is Resumed at Nautla Vera Cruz, Mexico, Nov. 4 (P— The military authorities have au thorized the resumption of coastwi service at the ports of Nau pan and other pended since t however, I t naval officer to gt pa aboard o rebellion. Vessc have aboard ard against he rebel ge revol cone rece “Electric Power!— A Consumer-Owned Industry” Says Haley Fiske President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company “There can be no doubt that light and power distribution is a most important element in our life, in the community, in the neighbor- hood, in the household. The ownership of the electric light and power companies is now in the hands of more than 2,000,000 direct in- vestors in public utilit tocks, and indirectly, in the hands of millions more of bank depo: itors and holders of life insurance poli es through their ownership of public utility bonds. This is people’s ownership under pub- lic regulation.” INCE M. Fiske’s statement was made, the number of investors in electric power companies has arown to over three million. high their dealir mated that dur 1926 nearly four hundred thousand cus- tomers bought over three million sharves in the electric power com- pani them. All told, oy cen and a half million 5 of stock have been pur- ed by the customers of these ompanie are found in every walk of life. Two companies alone report nearly four- teen thousand customer holders, representing 269 separate occupations. Operated and edness, thes definitely with the serving These owners Ame stock- developed movement toward customer of industry finds its expression in the electric OV lan petuated. under principle of individual divected identified interest of the that the structure prosperity and progress re a large degree upon tl power companies because of the sense of responsibili veloped by these companies rs with the public. de- in Ameriean initiative, of the by a personnel tested integrity and public-mind- companies have so themselves of unequalled level of com- fort and prosperity, made possible through cheap, abundant power, under principle of individual initi the best of reasons why that prin- ciple should be preserved and per- the Amer tive, n is *The complete text of Mr. Fiske’s statement will be furnished upon request The Connecticut Light & Power Co. nt to | JUDFANS TO MEET IN SESSION' HERE | {Annual State Convention Will Be Held Sunday The annual state convention of | Young Judeans will be held in this |city Sunday for the first time in |nine years. Plans are being made {for the entertainment of approxi- | mately 150 delegates. Attorney TIrving Rachlin of this city wiil give the address of wel- come at the opening sesslon in Tal- | mud Torah hall on EI mstreet. Mr. 1 speak on behalf of the New Britain Zionist organization. Other addresses will be by Rabbis Gershon Hadas and Joseph M. | Aronson. Luncheon will be served in the vestry of the synagogue at 2 m. Harry Grossman of New Haven {will preside. Officers will be elecid at 4 p. at which time reports will be le by officers and committees. Appointments will be made to the tate executive committee. GIRL, SCOUT NEWS The senior division will hold the first meeting of the fall at the home jot Mrs. E. L. Warren, 31 Curtis street, tonight at 7:30 to meet the new captain, Mrs. Logan Page. This meeting will take the form of a get-together” party with a short scout program, games and refresh- ments. The senior division is open to | T allgirls who are 14 or within three | months of being 14 and are second class Girl Scouts. | Al girls who are eligible to the | division may come tonight with the | idea of deciding before next meeting | | whether they wish to join the senior | division or remain with the troops n which they are already registered. Girl Scouts who are temporarily | without leaders are urged to partici- | pate tn the community service work oftered by the Red Cross until No- vember 11, Four thousand envelopes I need to be addressed for the annual | roll call which begins on that date. | Fifteen girls have reported this week { and already accomplished one-fourth {nl the work. Girls willing to do this | service are asked to report Saturday | morning or after school any day next week to Miss Weir of the Chamber {of Commerce, on the third floor of | 99 West Main street. She will give | each girl who participates a certifi- cate of hours served for the com | munity eervice record books. Mi i cline would like to have the girls | call the Girl Scout office and report ! how many can go from each troop. The Hartford council has invited the New Britain council to partici- | pate in a patrol leaders' conference jon November 12 and 13 with as many of the patrol leaders of local troops as can attend. The conference | will open Saturday afternoon, No- vember 12 at 3 o'clock in the Hart- tord headquarters at 175 Broad street. The girls are invited to spend {the night at the homes of reliable | | Girl Scouts. Any troop wishing to send dele- ! gates should notify the Girl Scout |office by November 7. The program | |15 arranged to have individual enter- | | talnment, special church services and |a “Scouts Own" in addition to the | conferences. A very successful con- |ference of this sort was held in | southern Connecticut last spring. | The quarterly meeting of the Con- necticut Girl Scouts will be held in Waterbury on Friday, November 11. The morning session will begin at 11 o'clock in the Mattatuck Historical soclety on West Main street. There will be round table discussions at luncheon on court of awards and | Brownies. The afternoon session will | begin at 1:30. Mrs. Frederick Edey, chairman of the national field com- mittee, will give an address that will | be interesting to any woman even | though she i6 not a council member. | Two of the Girl Scouts who attend- | ed the international camp at Geneva | last summer will tell about the trip and the life in the international camp. WHY LEVINE DIDN'T REACH BERLIN IS 0UT Directions and Latter Took place Chamberlin Says. New Haven, Nov. 4.—(P—The | “inslde story” of why the monoplane | Columbia fafled to reach Berlin on | its transatlantic flight is out. It was | told here last night by Clarence D. Chamberlin, who piloted the ma- chine when he told the story of the hop before the unlon league club, “The inside story o why we didn't | get to Berlin”, sald Chamberlin “was | that Mr. Levine.and I had different | opinions as to the right direction | toward that city. “Passing over a went low over asked those gathered there the way to Berlin, not knowing ourselves, and we had forgotten to bring a map of Germany in our hasty departure. “They all pointed in the same gen. eral direction in response to our signals but Mr. Levine and I dis- At Controls, small town, we | | | | | | | | I | with the abundant and tailored. Cloths Dull Finish Suede Lustrous Broadcloth New Pile Fabrics 3roadtail Cloth G. Fox SPECIAL FREE TELEPHONE CALL—3500 IMPLICITY of line—beautiful styles—together as decidedly of the mode of 1927. Faultlessly lined Black—New Tans—Grey Light and Dark Brown HARTFORD A November Selling Event That Commands Your Attention! 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