New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1927, Page 1

i+ ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW Bth:’"aJ ECTICUT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927.—EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS Two American Women WLLIONS SPNT ~ Proserity to Continue in 1926, PIRETS LGS, e | ALINWEADNESS AUTO FATALITIES AS WELL American Busi Leaders Think Setting New Record AS CITIES PLAN American Business Leaders Think| NAVY (F HAVING Tglll‘[m[l]i\{lfl ll}[llll%lgsd AS ACCIDENTS SHOW BAIN Divers Succeed in Removing DURING YEAR JUST ENDING All Obstacles in Their TOOPEN UP VAULT g s o Oni T[] WE[E{]ME 1928 :’"lk Industry Expects Record Year — Live Stock Bus- ‘[;RU[;“:lEfl B[]Y’ vrx::r;ux‘n;l' setting what iu be- , iness Improves Despite Foreign Competition — - 's adventures, New York ngm Clubs C[)HBG[; Big Motion Picture Era Predicted. Mother and Father of Com- o cromsd the Dec. 31 (A—Barring ! man of t went by automobile [l &t worias Tear| Indifference” PRle el g e BROADWAY SHOW TICKETS et o s e Ams, % |REP, MOCGLINTIC ASK - REMAINS WILL BE SENT sgLALYmsé{ ‘F)OR $20;(%:TASGH .:1';5 :"‘?,r::'_fif":z‘:f:;‘ i o | o Eramoun Ve ey Cop CO%GRESSIONALSPROBE LNDY AWAITED. DIRECTLY 10 BOSTON Chisgo Bandis The Exape ing Decrease in Motor ss Susan Frazier and Miss Potvkogs Table Chpgis and. | = Toow o 4 0R-Busvin onen a¢ the Mnauinctisiog ‘”! mander Jones Cite “Cruel | 'o"Gioranas. o frosipine e l(‘r*nr“lm. to H. \}‘nicv\lrd Jr., e L e e Mishaps , sound 1““n.lx m1 v] \!:t’v?:w;.tp)i:zaursz xi:‘“t;:s! e BY ALL N";ARAEUA After They Are Identified They Will w"h $80 000 p Slnce 1926 1dy progress in all| The live stock industry again is | Letter Written by Bereaved Couple = McMillan crossed the el sl industey 5 boat to Dakar, Senégal. From A “s ]d 0 t” s SR e The silk industry also expects a Transferred o Relatives—Con- Fransatlantic Plier to Welcome | predict slow, st iines, into its own, avers J. H. B ming New York in Air—Federal 2 gom,s\Or.:::,,’,,\v“,\hgm‘,!;”\l,:; A reer. Chiirman ot Soton :-..:;n.um With Declaration That Cloril Recep[mfl Planed fop et Work Necowaary netor MOST DARIN(! OF HOLDUPS Connectlcut Re(‘(n'(l to Suspar i (o Glamy K on ”q""r..-nm; \ction will show moderate im- | Wilmer, president of Dodge Broth| fo st omaliNiquley g Divers Get Things Ready 1o Enter P“da) Noon Is 26,611 Sources— Dry Workers Get Ready | provement over 19 penditures approaching to Make Chicago Strictly Law- (. Chemical mann with total ex- | rious impedement to| Will “Be Travesty on Justice”— ) Siv Robhers Enier Man's Honse, Socis g 47,000,000, | comttimnizi Bona businées 16 the i Hel() Fl)el’ Submarine Tomb to Get Bodies of Crashes and 310 Persons huree e onative Fundamentar | WHIe Grief for S-4 Dead Through- i Hold Parents Prisoners and Kid- oot domestio market amd are | voniitions uro sound, sass Lovls .| ut the Counte. WILL GET HIGHEST HONOR ]'X’*' k’ ‘ nap Youns Bunker, vorcing nim Kiled—11 Deaths in Abiding. counting upon American resource, | Swift, presidant of R New York. D 1 (P—A welcome: | initlative and ingenuity to mect in- | pany, who predicts full employment | Washington, Tec. 31 —The Menis oL tha rennial oF 10 Open Locks, This City. = easing eign competition, the fand continued prosperity for the !navy department was nceused today RETITS from the sunken subm. i yromising to be even madder and | Creasing ZORcOnaY | today s 1 % h . ; & | belief of ion W. Wilder, chair- ! new year. by the parents of Comn Roy “Good Wil Envoy” Will Address £0; Dec (R —XKidnaping . rier th : of the past today K. Jones, cor 00d Natic ander of the sub- w 11528 in New York. AR ma S-4, with having “erncifieg | Dargest Crowd Republic Has i 72— o of h ropr 1o Ve e ) and is comrades” ang obile 1 s As the old year prepared to mo ouridear boy and his comradeatland |& - B L il i nd off into the ages indications were wlso with having displa cruel ti during th r 101 e it ot Weloone by o A indifference” toward crew of t Buildings Flag-Decked Early. inere of abol !sunken ship. rs and the diners and dancers M. Jones, sst forth th n ool (UP)—At least 50,600 persons were rmer nd his mother, st it hotels and private parties would | Aot l ointly signed letter to R nta cted here to welcome Colonel |y, e LA p’v:v”'l‘ Lo of xeeed anything in the previous Lis- | Live McClintle, of Oklahoma, & dem-} o 0 o 0 p i e Te v r moorings over too vault tory of ““"”~‘l'. ‘Police lnclmcd to Dishe- Jersey Seeks “The Wolfacsett on s Lostuenal commie S oo gal SithantLdits o day moon H v Table Charges. | €, G s CQNETeS- : S ; e Sy = o b, with cover charzes | lieve Story Told by Who Attacks Young ol o o o eommunicles oo e R Bl R e ey son and in many | S he o Two Divers Sent Down o \ nl ; . ’ lirls “We both feel that the navy de- western Rave 5 All Are Questioned 31, 1926 an s e Ra Vagrant Detroiter ! Boys and Girls R many hundreds wo divers were then sent down M=, Wnd Wos. Aot : to work on the o's ng 1 persons would cof rine's g ades and the cruel in- e to the capi | {«nd his com 1, were taken to a polig i urther reservations were not to b A tain King rep - 5 aceidents tisiae . : It will be the largest erowd « i for questloning while their 5 o I W o 31 (P—A be. | difference which ¥ have : - B 1 ; i S bl BHL s il SRR Bicky et S I | SR e Movat T otalan ever to assemble in Nica- & in removing e g0, wag held. at the bank by pol o also hiad hoosted thedr fpolic. o7 Los Angeles continued their | Spectacled would-he kidnaper, Who [ 1o service of their country is in i 1 e w;. i i yrices and with the addi- § 3 el jth rvice he ! s in- . ¥ dde unning i 20 being rec tor that cily. Nov vriccs ar lie o) iat Welby Hunt, | calls himsel “The Wolf” and has|human and withe precedent,” Alrady people adorning the e e \.“ : et ion of the speculators’ tck= | young partner of Willinn dward |, 7 ; ; i Aireats with plotused Gl Labere R EStop i o drove his car| ) o en Comes second with 17 for als for popil Broa ShoWS | Hickman f i % ship . ferrorized this neighborhood for | the letter said ¢ s ; h work, he o 5 ar so fur. and Hartford third e st $ it e idnar? | three days, was being sought today Makes Public Statement med byfcronsed oLy b ‘\‘(A“”1 s “”" Lgs : i ore e 1 s $25 cach, far as complicity in the kidnap- i S B adey e T ol bile ihe lote tagha and tlis Unite tes. Making him cap- R i & o e M © in making public the ragua g ates. s which locked the ow Br o o _AUDining Roos Enpaged: 7 sing of Mariin Parker, Dy polico throughout the state, issued a statement declaring that | The general committes on the re- Sl e 15 entered the Home| N Britain Shws Dece The din ‘"l-s of il letding chool girl. reports| Believed to have been prompted will be a travesty on justice” for coption, which is composed of lead- Any s removed woulq @nd ordered his father and mother ‘r‘ ‘:!" -‘I" n and New Brit- ]”\” B 1‘0‘ b c poir ; t 1”\1 in his actions by reading of the kid- | congress to refuse to create u spe- citizens and officials, has an- he shipped ly to Boston © y - e ”t)m }nu:1‘1 |m how ; |l > d Astor hotels ever the i : A = 3 s S s 3 - three were take a private | €' i nber acider UL b s Aoule can naping and. slaying in Los Angeles clal committec to investigate the mead the program for avia- | for identitic to FSRaerata sanl ol riiBIS o e vear 3,311 ) for dinner and dancing, of James ;the man has made threc appearances | SHSter: IPIEIa Y. SR negon anesments 0T i L SR L e DN el El th loclaring that Hi X =gy Sl Both the 1 state t course, will be subject to the flyer's orts yesterday to finish (he day before. W the soniwas | BSHSE oF ey dagduytment sty Down and Outers. lisnostt A chrine Sisf gl ents ichnite WiTorror strisken| e wuen 1o (ol e B Drought tragedy to (12ken to the bank, two bandits were | Y 88 compared with 5,249 for 5 A -h man and Hunt had been involved in 'mothers ha Ban warne ¥ 5 5 I R ¥ s 92 artford however has ha L e oT i (mies it insl s ttha | Lo heis havaibeoniwarned o/ kespS ition foniy)prior tolthe aanounce. | iDL CuadvoiPasos miniater (of for but for his companion, |1 rd the parents in the 3“"\ ‘"I”' rd however has had Uiseei il g mo covesllabiza Gl CAELE S s Stachaclier Sholioie ehilaren lndorstwnile anslotia o IR iy S | sciaiasy AN e S S lomas Fadie, it provided his | A€ ot e LS fenin AR CINRt e UGN L e e L s e s SG S e i Wilbur that a special inquiry had to welcome Lindbergh fn the name | sccond opportunity o salvage | Tocked in Washroom e state during 1 New Haven lat (Mr. Zero), philanthropist, to sever- appearance comes sccond for i on, his work finished R ) G G N e been ordered by the navy into res- of President Adolfo Diaz when th operations to reseue a ¢ e in al hundred “doyn and outers” wWho g L 2 2 e midnight last night when he . o orations. e Tnitaat Staice | nSeinees the vaults for the r with 7. Bridgeport is third with ill be fed in front of the public ;Y<Stigators here. oy said - thal gpracked 17-year-old Reginald Dun-; : wiator lan the United States | distress s e 2,534 reported for the ye ‘ AT < Hunt was in Los Angeles last sum- = i The secre y at that time ex- marin ying field, at the out- Eadie ang C T. Ma : e ¥ hra t Fifth avenus and Forty- can, son of the superintendent of . S and there he was found The number of accidents in the JLEES L Lo imer at the time Ellsworth said the lained that the special v - | sKirts of the capital ing on opposite sides g ond streef, only a few blocks he Beverly cemetery. It was his ¥ principal towns of the state in 1927, bouts time were not Killing took place. 1 of Hickma known sucond_attempt to carry off young :UO% would supplement <he work to i <h]1|f1r;-]n ¥ :nn Tl(.r}"f"“;k;t' (o] Shen Mattox wus cut Duncan. On Thursdey night the b€ done by the paval court of i ben Lindbergh will be taken to'in, Mud buried him to t iiry and would direct itself spe- the prosidential mansion to meet he lost his air hose. m the theater district, where it is nated $1,000,000 will be spent of death, Anderson ank doors with keys he ported since the beginning of the rup to yesterday noon, with the Ler S i : hoy eseaped aft severs beatin : H te, in addi- | number for 1526 £ - : to usher in the new year Dispatehes from Kansas € oo oy esenpsd’ 4 e S Al . s el e arrying is parente, in addi or 1926 foll : were f ce @ Chamberlin, trar e b - and last night he got away before . ifically to the efforts to r the the president. From there he will st had tallen from around his neck to being guarded by two men, | Bridgeport 2,534 Danhry b spcots fo weleome |Ported that young Hunt hud admit~ iy 5 con LR 8 S0 SHEY 108 orew, stx of whom are pass through the streets lned with ‘and he was un s R e A S L B e R ) e L i Dglaen Lo ik Iyears old and more than 6 feet fn|N&Ye been alive in the to 0ol children dressed In the na- yis plight to listeners ard the | " 4o thor ontered the bark, Ands- |Hirttard 4,345 5 31 3 sou i T e { e — o sweeper Falcon fathoms ', ¢ 2 » 597 i nounced that at midnight he would "1 heic attempts fo pin on Hunt - 1¢i8ht, ¥ot hold of him. 5 e | Contin Ry g Saucprolasted e wur pumalbe to) SO0 UL MBviian ¥ over Manhatin i 0w |pagial Uame for the death of it A young woman nurse 1rustrdrd[ (Eopnued oniRagn Ning) ORI G ) ove, from which diving operations onon’ the safe until the time lock | dletown, 311—300; {eckAA i olocirlc ik et Mari T e S he Wolf's” attempt to kidnap an |are conducted. 4 1sed the doors at 8:15 a. m —144; New Rritain Trouble In Ofiing e e e B infant son of & prominent Riverton H&8$S84H958685589.009.888885L85E6$H6LH449908892 | Observers on the Falcon noted the i sattlog down fo awalt, | Haven, 3,057 5.5 The ghost of an old revenus lav burh of Alhambra which has tig- [Amily three days ago. Before the lbreak in M commumiceation on. of them holding a watch In his | 490-—465; Norwal vose today 4 SIVINES | nred so much already in the o. man’s first attack on young Duncan #'and at once tified. The 3,00 4 order not to lose a second. | Wich 464 Holt it Uyt oomista o, BB reantl Bh iy noral ton i el brol Lol et warn iRt hal Boy sllifa iy i @ later fought his way around the I j throwing a note attached to a st through their dining room winde s most expensive and w of a Nc © overhe: dest lmen reported to Year. Hickman and Hunt in conferen ¢ g : At Bi10 they forced the teller to Stamford 985--885; Waterbury 1,. ! where s fellow diver 4S I qwir] the combination opening the | —1,607; Willimantic 165—130; cwark, Dec. 31 (P—Because his umily-used a radio set without ces- unabie | trom the "wreckage, tch to extricate s Mrs. Anna G. Way, Aged 82, Passes i e BERESTR[]M | Road—] (Contlnued on FPage 13.) | Mrs. Anna G. Way, 82 years ola, n ’ d at the home of her son, Alfred r l f 64 Roxbury road, yesterday e widow of James 5 o1l Yo Hal e Had Been Stanley Works persons would dine and nce the Walsh of Kansas City, denied that | Jld year out and the new year in, he had decided on an ifisanity de Ylsed.o oo Dving At least §1.060.060° for the |fense for Hickman, He declared (Siton. he said, Andrew Kovach last that he had not yet decided on a de- | "Bt attempted suicide by slashing ‘e for the young confessed slayer. | M8 throat with a razor. He will also said that he did not be- | TECOVer. lone in the | shall do our best to serve their best interests as we have in the past. 4 below and payir privilege. N neral Services Tomorro st Clubs Warned fe Coupled with the threat made by | Walsh Morgan club raid was a letter lieve that Hickman was t all night club proprictors by |Parker crime. Adminstrator Maurice Campbell in | Police also continued their inves- which he warned that two agents tization of the death last May of zned to each club. r | would be a x cac] . He|Hunt's grandfather, A. R. Drikell | N Y R E UT[ONS % called attention to a recent fed- [Whose body was found beneath a.| i 1’: " ! 2 3 L & § ; S e D e o Los Angeles! Despite a widespread search for % freeing Mattox who, when lifted to! housands of dollars in securities| The fatalities recorded ip ° ibition agents stripped elub | High school girl was kidnapped. The Wol no trace of ]nm had 51nn surface, proved to be otherwise [ang hetween $5,000 nnd $6,000 n | towns during the vear up to yee Helen Moragn, one of the city’s most A tels m claimed to have been been found Pf\rl)’ today. . Following % uninjured silver were scorned by the roblers terday noon, are as follows: I'ri] popuar night resorts, of its $50,000 [sent by Hunt to his mother in Kan- ppearance last night depu- 2 The Herald and its staff wishes to the people of Is Sccond Rescue who confined their loot to paper | port Danbury 7: Greopwic worth of furnishings. Owners of sas City asking for information as to and a posse of citizens Joined & i 5 : o = » tadie, it W who carly the currency and gold. Hartford 16; Manches other night clubs became a |the whercabouts of Hickman at the ie hunt, which police said, wours € the city and neighboring towns a happy New Year. g operations before the last six mem- R 7; Middletown prehensive about tonight's time of th £ might be extended throughout the nation, May the coming twelve months hold bounteous cheer @ ters of the crew were n to be| Britain 11; New H o vent have heen o said. | if necessary, to capture the man, | ; - ¢! dcad, performed a similar deed for OCTOGENARIAN D]Es London &; Norwalk a Reservaiions at the night clubs| While ring on S | and prosperity for you all. To our many readers and S n o e Batnam 1 Glanray and hotels had been exhausted days Hunt were heing threshed out Hick ATTEMPTS SUICIDE :nds we give renewed assurance that we : Mic s had fouled his lines 9; \\'i:unmnn 1; Wi go and it was estimated 100,000 {man’s thiul lawyer, Jerome & was 4 : % TLHSSLHS. PEECEIPITPEFPPIITIITVIPPITIIETEIOIIIIVEG I PG40 eral servi afternoon at 2 o'clock at Gilead | donal chureh. Buriat wii| Employe for Quarter Century eral court decision in Chicago which |high "“"’4‘ at Pasadena. | lve in Gilead cemetery. | d that the mere furnishing of | T o “":‘ (UAKE ()FF WEST COAST Klasses, ¢ 3 = e HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE | used ;n consumption of liquor, was ‘CILESS 5\“&. = l\\!:"xlz\\;\‘_\ Vg:\:‘\:"::.r‘l ].“'v“ 12”\:‘2;“ Relnhola Bers s countiloz pailoch preceets Navy Radio Compass Station At EESh e i\ | Britain and stores, factories and |a member of the Twenty-Five Year Point Argucllo Reported Heavy t'/a MAZ%“ “!';”d"\'_" iness places will be closed ‘nlub of the Stanley Works and a res- Pl Holiday hours will be observed at | /1°Pt 0f New Bri oy er post office Monday. The stamp, | PArt of the 48 years he has lived in registry and general delivery win- this country, dis norning at fows will be open from ¢ to 11:00 i There will be one mail de- livery all over the city. The usual noliday collections will be made, 3 = Mr. Bergstre A. J. Sloper Predicts laufiDesater Normal Business in '28 ust prey T1st birthd ient A, J. Sloper of the N itain National bank, drean of local bankers and a di- rector of many of the city's leading industrial corporations from the navy radio comp station at Point Argucllo, to the Federal . » | Telegraph station here reported that {a heavy earthquake was fclt there at 2:10 m. tod . 5 .| Point Arguella is a rocky prom- Police to Allow Two Hours | oniory abour 50 miles west of Santa | | Barbara, ¢ and is known as a| Y . e ' | e xt gt | ~o dmw ge was reported by the | Midnight foperator at the mavy station. The | Federal Telegraph operator at Loa | | Angeles also communicated with the T'wo o'clock tomorrow morning |gte, Yale, which passed the vi- of his sou. 146 Lyons illness of = s RESOWE TO B a it w is observance of h that he st illness stricken with his hen he was about 23 years old, he came to this country and settled In T'hiladelphia for a year or two. He hen came to 1 with the I PoLcE RESOWVE |TO ORrRY vP C|T7§‘ m. | today predicted normal busin has been set as the curfew hour for | cinity a few moments before the | for 1928, with no serious de txception of = years spent New Year's Eve sociale according 10 | quake was reported felt. No tidal | | pressions and without any gr as a resident of Bridgeport and Captain George Kelly who 15 n | \wave or shoc ST booms. Southington, he had lived in charge of the New Britain police de- | St | I think we shall have only a | Eritain since that time partment during the absence of | normal business in 1928, Mr. About 28 years ago ho ¢ d the Chief William €. Hart over the holi- | Wall Street E“‘mates | » declarad. “I do not be mploy of the Staniey Works as s days. Billion in Dividends | » shall have any serious | polisher and in Ostoher, 1 In view of the fact that ,\'»\\ New York, Dee. 31 (A—Almost a depressions nor any business | was given th. 's Kve occurs tonight,” the c; billion dollars will be paid investors ooms. 1 do not believe the o its employ a r the hour of closing for |y stocks and bonds over the turn of | it building business will be | 25 vears of continuous servic ‘W Year's socials has |y, year, Wall Street estimated to- fously depressed. A strong Fraternally he was assoct en extended from midnight until | da | | g an 1 position will encourage | with the Hundred Me Luilding, particularly in the |lvedhem soc | middle west 10 a greater degree |\works Mut than heretofore. T believe tho business of the country will be more uniform and steady. In | the stock market T believe that | frequent purchases will stabilize the market s “ty, the and the Stanley 1 Aid society. He was lan attendant at the First Lutheran church. | Surviving Wim are his ouly | Charles R Bergstvom; o { Philip Bergstrom: two sisters, Mrs Szenning jerson and Mrs, Augus- itus Sandberg: two brothers, August o'clock. At that hour, steps will . This amount will establish a new taken to end all affairs held In | y;0p vovord for dishursements at any celebration of the advent of 1 ok bt “o|time. The January disbursements, A number of dinners and dances | .. o6 \nich will be made the first ve been arranged in this city for | day of the month, were estimated h Ve c and @ will las b this evening and all of them will last to exceed $750,000,000, an increase into the carly hours of tomorrow | % ! morning. Social affairs have been | ©f $75 ehron it planned at the Burritt hotel, the | his ved Blue Swan Night club, Shuttle M dow Country club, Pa 1dson 1 | and Aaron Bergstrom, building con- lon's Grill and other places in the NO HERALD MONDAY ot Gl - tractol idni THE WEATHER | |tractors. city. A midnight show will be held | The Herald will not be pub- D:SL:MA (l Do fufieral wil Henld paivaee e e e s et i o ong which s beini || Q,,”m;;,so [ 1 New britain and vicinity: ‘ at the home Monday afternoon and pected that the other theaters in the | nationally observed as New Yeaf's - T HO! < 1 | Twiin - soreioon Gt | BratiMRiEa s city will extend their programs 1o 1| holiday. On Monday afternoon Te PED P+ = ForL \ Q28— | Rain tonight and possibly R o e Jast until the New Year is ushercd | : e Bov Ou CHaMeER OF 5 ~N THAT'S, WS FITM 5 | ay morning; colder to- | |2:30 o'clock. Rev, Dr. Abel A. . N DRE AR N ’ Focald il iavE s nensbors COMMERCE RESOWES — I BRiTaTh HESes | night; much colder Sunday. | | quist, pastor of the First Lutheran Sika. will | R Gl 15 SrtRack Bla FOPUTATION ™y, : : v ] church, will officiate. Burial will be the Elks will be held tomorrow 1 dinne o AWy B¢ Ceirs X 101 9! By lEhts —_—— S e ad % {In Fairview cemetery.