New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1927, Page 1

! . Average Daily Ci l'- |FINAL Enmuul NEW..: TR 2407 w2, B ESTABLISHED 1870 “wtTAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER PRICE THREE CENTS AGE NEAR $2,000,000; ONTPELIER, VT., DELUGE; COCLIDGE SENDS PLANES TO ASSIST IN RESCUE RISIAG STEADILY By the Ass Lower State Stret 15 Inundated 3 in Hartford e pARMINGTON ROAD CLOSED the school room ot will be given a\3 BURSLAR Ag‘A':( ENSW#IIE.[&’SN RlPulf;:lcnll:igv l:ie?c:;s%d?lccl;z?olz WeekanNECTIGUT H-Um] DAM THREATENS HI WITH GUR, | Derie Americn Bluatim e LEAVES HOUSE WITH $250 - FEAR 212 DEAD IN M Plays Fashight oo (OOLIDGE FAVORS Face of Sleeping Man, | $225’fl_[1l_]’flfl" [;U'I‘ &\a\f\ ed in making the ion properly. pastors have to mak Te public education, and th to visit schools. in Exercises to Be Held by Parents and Teachers been Associations — Opening of Lincoln School. els Lool, Tur of the the city will be public which is i and see the cla in action dur ing American Education weck next weck. The committee in charge has planned an elabor program in cluding m the parents lana tea ¢ association s new { Lincoln school on Steele stree !be officially opened with a pror Tuesd ber § week Stanley 19 thrown open to the d to visit th ‘Toll of Life and Property Lost in New England’s Worst Storm Mounts Every Moment—Lieu- tenant Governor of Vermont Said to be Among Victims—Trains Unable to Move— Boston Faces Milk Famine—Seventeen Dams Break—Rivers Rising Rapidly. Summary of Flood Cenditions Stanley Putnam Nuthan Hale Washington Wednes Wednesd Warns Him to Remain Quiet and Takes Loot. Committee Meets fo Revise | Revenue Statutes of | sehool school, | wool, Kchool, Thurs- Thurs Levi Thursday; Rock Northend | amber- | all lapse of reser- lier rep. used loss of Charles B. Cadwell 1 to estimat- persons. id that 1 had perished Windsor placed of troops with a tk v eve Nov and V. B. ( Russwin Road Forced to HITS DEMOCRAT PROPOSAL Stay in Bed While Trou- | sers Pocket Is Rifled. | for the v Supt was H | program Imade public FOr | 1folmes today ments on the Glover Post of gion, the civic clubs, of Commerce and the lain school, ents and in ou- Executive Calls $400.000.000 Hints He Will Adhere To Suggestion ipt. Holmes wct that the the American the Cha parents b consulta tion of in each Slash Tmpossible— | d dead Ay work Le- —_——— tablished to prevent loot- Burlington isolated by ris- wai uilar q to fler being iso- b o Boston, Nov. 5 (AP)—New heights were reached today in | the ever mounting toll of life and property lost in the worst storm and flood disaster that New England has experienced with- |in memory, and although 30 persons were reported to be dead and material damage ran into staggering sums it was feared that when full news of the catastrophe which overtook Mont- pelier, Vt., became known the list of water victims might be greatly increased. Unconfirmed reports from White River Junction, Vt., had placed the dead in Montpelier at between 137 and 212 but in the complete failure of telephone and telegraph communication, it was impossible to verify these figures. i | President Issues Order. Washington, Nov. 5 (P—President Coolidge has ordered several army planes to fly from Boston over the | New England flood area in the hope | of obtaining information as to the extent of the disaster there. Mr. Coolldge has directed Secr: tary Davis of the war department. |to confer with Gov. Weeks of Ve imont, to ascertain If the government can be of any ald to the states in |meeting relief demanda. Neither the President nor Attor- General Sargent whose homes at {Plymouth and Ludlow, Vermont, River Overflows and Closes Unfon- = rs. restor Awakencd about 4 o'clock this teachers' associations Jorning by the glare of a flashlight | S : - playing on his face, Charles B. Cad- Lotk Nov. 5 (P—Presi-] well of Russwin Road looked down | NEW U. 3. ENVOY FAKIR BY POLICE order him to “keep still and every- | tiop to $225,000,000, the house Treasury's Recommendations. (Continued on Page 16) ville rtion i 24 hours. Highway—Cromwell Road Western area rely. Villa of 108t swept away whi ain reservoir burst. Mon- -Boston train service Boston threatened with Likewise Blockal — New York Boat's Departure is Uncertain, o g mou t a1 Hurtford, Nov. 5 P—The Connec- (s | i sus- ways ticut river, risin te of three ! o an hour, continued re the s of a foc thing will be all right” Then the and means committee again today 78 8t sranined aeberal arUols o8 ofotisien suprestions for admini-| clothing which were on a clothes ! sion of the revenue sta- (T of valur: el iy atention (6 | wtes in an ot to dwise o way| DL YOI Prittwitz-Galiron Ap- Sengeants Fecney and Flyun Ex- pointed Today - post Hartford “Panhandler” SUCCEEDS YON MALTZAN COMPAN]OflLSO IS HELD s thefloon Bestds thefhed M EIro i 3o o O Diizatlondto| to) Bove amant. Arrests Made On to swell today flood Hampshire: Northern towns cut Vorth Walpols reported feet of wa Connecticut: Rivers ord heights and property d | age near $2,000,000, | Rhode d: Many mill ‘l‘ Lst of Dead ] lams burst and 5,000 persons out of work. Maine: One hundred wash- | and landslides reported in While meagre reports from = Mountai tlood-stricken districts of York s Hudson w England indicated a tre- ROl e e mendous loss of life, the known Rt Ahova Hormals dead totalled only 22 this morn- s1 Property damage of ing. The victims included: R Ralph Winters, Barre, Vt. o riedl trom Sastax Gerald Brocke, Barre, Vt. Mrs. e p s Justine Carroll, Becket, Mass. timher swept away. Mrs. Irving Reynolds, West s pailveid Hartford, Vt. Two children, Lady Willington had narrow es. West Hartford, Vt. Martin | were in the flood area, had any de. cape when brid at Kinsey fih:-xmr.L qunn\'z!fm, Vt. John |tailed information on the situation. & Al ettt Sabula, Rutland, Vt. Mrs. Lucy | The President was represented as thelr Quebec-Mointreal train ier of Ticonderogn, N, Y. at |being greatly concerned over the HAdkpassadioy e Rutland, Vt. Charles Rubeck, (flood reports and expects the aviai- Sy ampton, — Mass, Mrs. lors to bring back information whic arles Rube, orthampton. | will help him to formulate any plans rles A. Putnam, Mill- lof relief, should they he necessary. s FLUI]I] WATERS [;R[]SS Dorothy Putnam, Under the direction of the Presi- 5 A Mass., Mrs. M. Cassius, dent, the war department also in- inds NEW Y%BQUN“ARYI Mass. Mrs. Anna [structed Major General Preston Hart- Kannia, Westfield, Mass. Ro- Brown, commander of the corps which has been dock here land Q. Lyford, Milo, Me. Car- |arca at Boston, to exert every effort of Dollars‘ Worth of Silk Destroy- ce V. | e yesterday morning. The sec- milla Bardillo, Boston. Unide to ascertain the extent of the flood d level of the company dock will tified man, Dittsticld, Vt. Harold ~land to direct Sdoamiry Yoty B ed in Wrecked Mill Ter or mnot the “Hartford” | ve for New York tonight i See—— + partially floode it the water Thousands Dewey, of Simsbury, Conn., at | ures. aches a hel f5e L nioat Westfield, Mass. Helen Moore, | Secretary Davis said after a call Ain 1 at the dock ficld. Willlam Lampson, {at the White House that it would be s alrcady aboard the hoat by noon | anaan, Conn. Albert Blacknall, /left entirely with General rown as Westerly, R. I to how many airplanes should be known as yet by company offi-| sjiany, N. Y., Nov. he constant rise of the o »r has made impossibie the un- g of another cargo at t western New docks here. Tt is estimated that — flown over the flood zone. BALLU"NIST’S BflnY ls belleved, however, that four or five wo days will be required for the DISEHVEREB IN TREE river to go down suffi ly to {would be dispatched. 1If it is found low ight from New Yor to Tennessee Reports Corpse, necessary to send relief supplies or men, the army headquarters at Bos- cleared away from the docks Highways Improved Probably That of Cap- tain H. C. Gray strative re S| ord for sine r bureau be vears ago. S morning the the United St making reports At § o'clock was at t & feet higher t ime hour ye condition pr ites we taxpayers one pocket he took $250, which he | A i l ut into his own pocket and after | Few Witnesses Today | xamining Mr. Cadwell's watch, left! The list of witnesses was short as ! where he found it. While Mr.!the hearing was arranged to permit Cadwell remained in bed within} ] rango of the revolver.sthe burglar |CONCIUSIons of discussion regurding | alked out of the Dbedroom and |the administration of the revenue! downstairs, leaving by the would be | door. cleared for consi fon Monday of | {the excise or so-called nuisance | |taxes, one of the controverted fac- tors entering into the present tax| | situation. i as . 1f present the waters will continu, ase their flow and before ch their crest prob- ably tonight or tomorrow morning will exceed (I bureau’ reeord of March 29 1923, Harry e burcau’s meteorologist reported today. Like Spring Freshet r States was inundated resembling 1 ppears at most e when the freshets cau to ¢ flow i ba of water seeping into the under | ground cables of State, Mechnis, | Potter 2 ove streets, telephones | in those sections were out of order | morning. Water came sccond level of the Hartford New York Transportation com dock at the foot of State horemen and dock °d feverishly to ‘oad the Post He Fills, Regarded As Father- ircenwood Street front |laws 8o that the way land’s Most Important Forelgn |82 Young- Where Pair Were Soliciting Alms Enters Through Window 4 10 o'clock, Sergeant T. J. ¢ at police headquarters ere- word of the burglary from °ll, and Officers T. C. While committee Lyon and J. M. .\lf‘Cm‘;L‘Mlmg the hearing, admitted th. wrried to investigate, found | they had read with interest the that the burglar had gained ‘n!r‘dl\l"‘;\\'h\tf‘ House announcement endor: to the house through a window in[ing the treasury recommendation the rear hall but on finding the|public comment was not forthcom- loor locked and the key on the in-ing, and it was indicated that th he used an ice pick which was!stitement of the views of the pr andy and a bit, to force the side|dent had failed to cha indow leading to the kitchen Al Mission—Will Be Among —Accused Calmly Rolls Cigarette of dollars re- townships, royed and Mail serv- ov. Gen. and est of Ambassadors To Ame After Being Pr—A 1 ‘aken Into Custody. this t district a ery spring the river As a result Cover his 1 hand a, holding it in a ! members, pr. Berlin, Nov. with of two da 5 er a lusion of | brown stocking wait | co cramped position beir Hartford give it the ap, crippled, was _ arrested K this noon as he a house on Greenwood he had been soliciting few minutes later, while tion of geants J and M. Flynn was di- Is Thomas Kelly of 1, alleged partner of latter removed the stock- 1d dropped it over the side of police automobile and calmly using both hands. ergeant Feeney was quick to notice the absence of the “crippled” right hand, and Clark readily admitted that he had been affecting the con- Driving back to the p vhere the car had been stopped for Kelly, the police found the stock- in not Complaints Recelved According to the poli ints have been received t : operating in the f Greenwood, Linwood ts in the south e nd last the sary formalities between ! Washington and Berlin, the gover ment this morning off nounced the appoin{ment ederich Wilhelm Von - |Gaffron as Ger mba | tlicting opinions already {the United States. ich from the porch was used tgg At the ‘White Houss 1t | The vacancy in what tand on in order that the window |y " oo, AR CCRE RS | reparded as Germany's night be more easily reached as it 00006 s {portant foreign mission is about 10 feet from the ground. e & e £ibe g s Cuts Telephone Wires ldeath of the 1 Stepping into the kitchen, the | Baron Ago Von Malt Yurglar saw Mr. Cadwell's dog, but | o <con found that there was nothing Appointment 15 Proniotion to fear from the animal, which fail- Dr. Von Prittwitz-Gattron, like Dr. ~d to give any warning of the en Leopold Von Hoesch, ( i am- rance. Before ransacking a desk bassador to France, has been pro on the first floor, the burglar cut !moted from counsellor to amba the telephone wires a precaution. dor in oene of the most importa ur move, then mounted the centers of the world without ing afrs to Mr. Cadwell's bedroom. So | |been g minister or ambassador in suddenly was Mr. Cadwell awaken- ortant post. This wis Proposed Reduction Too |some fess i «d and so quickly did the burglar) s taken to indicite t Foreign Mi operate in the darkness that tho| Shght to Cause Busi- Stresemann, who has ister Gustav police were unable to obtain a de- | frequently emphasized that he seription on which to work. Tt was ness Spurt |tonds to promote able men quickly sstablished that Mr. Cadv irrespective of burc Ao | erations of leugth o | In the opinion of President A. J.|termined to suit his actions to his i8loper of the New Britain National | word |bank, who is a director of numer-| The ous corporations, the proposed | princess of the Hohenzoller: i duction n the federal corporation |the late Baron Ago Von Malt |tax would not have the eifect of Carl Von Schubert, un 1 | pearanc Joln Clark of thout 10 a'c ame out of street, where fally an- of Dr. sador to d this the a | reduction to § (Continued on Page 14) SLOPER GIVES VIEWS ON FEDERAL TAX GUT an in a planc i the dition 5 P waters England lap- and The backwash that | ipped ped about of n- continued dges and dams eastern boundary | ge was not confined to property lv “Hub” Faces Milk Famine. Boston, Nov. 5 (#—A combination of railroads today gave New Eng- land its first emergency rall connec- tion with Albany and the west in 48 | hours. By using the Boston & Mainc main line between Ayer and North Adams and the Boston and Albany |to eat at along New York (today. Dan the flooding of homes, but included | loss in material and equipment of ranufacturing plants and power and water stations. Railroads were | Ae- |attempting to fight oft the lysis away ieratic - be (Continued on Page 14) EXPECT §7,782 GATE rvice, is a we fre she refused to 1t 1y housewife re- been insulted give money to lieved that the ¢ of th police one in th Iton will furnish them. Scveral main roads closed yestor- day by the flood were open to traf. fie today and general highway con- ditions have g tly ambassador, R and K we complaints, alt} able to find use stimulating busin but would probably be absorbed in dividend {Even from a stockholder's’ stand- ATH. S. GRID BATTLE No Standing Room New Britain- Hart- ford Contest for | proposed reduction since it would e slight and would be extended into s0 many payments that the individ- ual holders of securities would re- ceive small shares, he declared to- day. In these opinions, Mr. Sloper dif |ters trom congressmen and busine experts who appearcd bhefors the | congressional committee and urged a reduction from 13 1-2 per cent. to 110 per cent. or 12 per cent. at the ! most, on the ground that business |needs the stimulation that such a ¢ from the annual New Dritain High-Hartford Public High 00l football game which is to be played at Memorial Field, Willow irook park, on November 19 will total $7,782, if all the seats which 1ave been placed on sale are sold. | According to the figures of Newell | Cut would give. & ‘Ames, Senior High school comp- | While he discounts the iden. of troller, o total of $,332 scate will he | PUSICSS activity coming as a result available. Of this amount he has | ¢ the tax slash, Mr. Sloper does Bemiia o complimMatary | AYOr a reduction on the ground that tickets. Tickets have already been | COTPOration taxes are very high. To printed and are now in the hands ! Substantiate his statement he point- Mr. Ames : ©d to the fact that corporations pay plans to send 2,200 student tickets | BAIf a8 much in taxes as they do in ind 1,600 public tickets to Hartford | dividends today e SALARIES Monday and # is expected that they | New Britain High school students WOULD NOT CUT BUBGET will be out on sale nnmodm-w‘SLASHES IN ave been allotted 1,200 tickets and of the school authorities. public of New Britain will have tickets. Student tickets \\'Xll’ 1o sold at 75 cents and tickets to 1o public will cost $1. | Chairman Hall Figuring on thia basis rplurnsi rom the Hartford student ticket icket sale will be $1,650; from the ublic sale of Hartford tickets, $1,- 00; from the New Britain student ticket sale, $900; and from public sale in this city, $3,632. Each ticket is marked for a cer- tain section and a certain entrance. entrance will be opened. 1 will have the west side of 1 and on the east side will N Britain section. Tt is probably that the extra number of tickets the New Rritain public has | over Hartford will be in the seats ! at hoth ends of the field. New Bri n ticke will be placed on sale at Crowell's Drug store Tues- | day atternoon. Comptroller Ames | has announced that the sale will con 10 from 4 until 6 o'clock afternoon until the tickets have been sold. Tickets may be 4 : bought from students, also, he an-| Picked in Garden Today nounced. { Red ramblers and dandclions at Principal Louis P. Slade, chalr- [this time of the year are distinctly man of the athletic committee at the unusual. However, Mrs. L. . Thorpe school, has ruled that there will be of West Main street discovered no standing room tickets sold this |the flowers in h garden this morn- year. Ivery ticket sold will provide ing. She stated that the rambler for the seating of the buyer. This 'bushes bbre many buds and that the is Lelieved to be a move to prevent 'dandelions were fairly abundant, in disorders which have been noted in |spite of the chilly atmosphere last previous games, night, of Finance Board Says Effect Would Hardly be Noticeable. Reductions in pay which are be- ing considercd by members of the | common council committee on sal- aries would have so slight an effect on the s of government as to be hardly noticcable, Chairman Ed- ward F. Hall of the board of finance and taxation declared today. i The director of municipal finane- !ing policies explained that there are comparatively few instances in which the reduction may be brought about and the effect on the budget would be correspondingly slight, | With reference to the proposal to place a time clock in city hall, Chairman Hall s in hearty accord. 'Ramblers and Dandelions xpel | poigt there is little to commend the | of the foreizn m {other foreign office fumi a member of the “Borus frat at Bonn unive (Continued on Page neighbork:ood until when quick response lephone report o ir. a o (Continu this forenoon ording (o HO! Hamlin, superinten of the Connect department. Mr, ¢ G t Hamlin sai (Continued on Page fmproved, corge of re- ut hig zhway d the that floods had imposed upon them. Whitchall at the head of Lake Champlain, was believed to have in- curred the greatest monetary loss (Continued on Page 16) | THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS .« . . . by Knight FIrE DEPT HAD A LOT OF PRACTICE HALIOWEEN —Maly FALSE ALAT L. TO OQVERFIOWING THE OLD WCOMANS S ARTEQ ALL THAT FINE. WEATHE 2,T0C / HEADS Ol l RED CROSS o < ONN-CO.LIKES O UZ_MATN: ST. CROSSING - rta, hody of of Captain Hawthorne C. Gray, | who took oft from Belleville, Ind., n an attempt to establish a world's altitude record, was taken from a wrecked balloon near here today. Tenn., Nov. § (A—The a farm several miles to the south. Captain Gray left Scott Field at at 2:22 p. m. yesterday ind was accompanied for a time by four escort planes, but they lost sight of him in the clouds over Illi- nois yesterday afternoon at the time he headed in the direction of the Ohio valley and Kentucky in his free balloon. Winds of a 50-mile veloclty were reported by the piiots of the air- plane who landed late yesterday in Kentueky. Ihey expressed the bellef last night that he might have landed in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. ALLEGED MURDERER IS PLACED IN CILL 38, With nie Berko- le Charge Cavva Mathvink, Al in Willimantie, Nov. charged 1 Murder of Mrs. wits 5 with Conn., vink, 38§, of M wounding of h was placed dquarters he of Coroner will not be com- Mrs, Mathvir ory to the crime ed to have been outcome of n \ge transaction and to have the Berkowitz lome last med with a shot gun with : opened fire £ soon as the door was opencd to his knock. The full arge entered Berko at the b brain and as fell, Mathvnik 1s alleged to have pulled a pistol from bis pocket and to have fired on Berkowitz, attempting to flee in search of help. a is alle over t led mo visited M trom THER New Britain and vicinity: Unsettied, probably with light local rain tonight. Sun- day mostly cloudy, colder. * balloonist, belleved to be | The balloon had landed in a tree on | between North Adams and Pittsfield a route was established over which each railroad scheduled three freight | trains to move its accumulation of | milk, perishables and express. “The only contact of Vermont's capital with the outside world came {from an Associated Press corres- | pondent operating over a radio sta- |tlon which depended on power from {door bell batteries. Overshadowing everything else in {the storm stricken area was the | message of I. A. Kelty which told of 10 dead in the neighboring eity of Barre, including the licutenant- | governor of the . S. H. Jackson. | In Montpelicr thore was no check lon loss of life. Light and power were cut out, as they were in prac- tically every other place in the cen- |tral part of the state and many in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. | Bridges had been carried away by |swirling torrents. Water in the Win- |0oskl river was 20 feet above nor- | mal, [ The mesaage was sent out by s tion IBEB and was picked up b; [Arthur L. Kent, an amatenr opera- |tor at Binghamton, N. Y., who re- |layed it to the Associated Press, | Death Toll Monnts ewlcre throughout New Eng- land dis; stalked in ma rme and with varying fnt revised list of the dead estimatin in list xt g th but without fatalities 1 the tpelier, with 16, with 12, Westfield ced two 4 submerged i single re man be- rricd to his waters near reports s of inc among the vi Rhode Island had a with or heen e a rush of e Uy suffer heavy pro- ¥ loss while in Maine, where the rm took the form of a gale, a lineman was electrocuted while re pairing a fallen wire Raitroads Affected Continuing rain in many places {and utter inability o. railroads to cope with the extraordinary situa- tion in others brought the traffic | paralysis which has gripped the en- |tire area no nearer an end today. but it did present a fresh and grave problem. That was the threat of & mil, famine. Coincident with a warning ‘ansin