New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1928, Page 4

Rockview Pefltentiary, Bellefonte, PO.LI:. 9 (UP)=Two murderers their crimes with their lives the electric chair here today. Sabo, 8 and Helen Sabo, 6, at Castle Shannon, Pa, May 28, 1925. - William Meyers was executed for the slaying of a Philadelphia police- man, Robert Elliott, veteran executioner of Pennsylvania and New York who is scheduled to electrocute Ruth Sny-| der and Judd Gray in Sing Sing prison Thursday, performed the elec- trocution of the two men. | Winter was placed in the chair at 701 a. m. and pronounced dead by the penitentiary physician at 7:07. “I just want to say I am innocent. of this crime,” Winter said before he was strapped into the chair. “I never killed those children. This is a stain on the state that will never be wiped | off, Gor , mother.” He was ac- companied to the chair by the Rev. P. E&om" the penitentiary chap- Meyers was placed in the chair at 7:11 and pronounced dead at 7:16. He was accompanied to the chair| i"lalfln Julian Fabran of Philadel- *Seile when you win or lose” Meyers said. “Goodbye, daddy.” INSURANCE MEN IN' - HOT REPLY TO DAY (Continued from First Page) . —_— cedure i not legal and had Mr. Day referred to the Bupreme court's de- | clsion, he would have become aware of this fact. “In attempting to defend his in- | surance scheme, Mr. Day now states through the pres, ‘that it was “o”nroposhlon which we strongly rec- his contention that the city should |ommend: cancel insurance on all the school | bulldings, but that only the fire-re. |street: sistive buildings be excluded.’ “In his frantic effort to justify himself he apparently overlooked statements made by himselt and published in the New Britain Her-| ald under date of June 11th, 1927, at which time hé recommended to the achesl committee without quali- fication or reservation that they oarry thelr own insurance, At that time he also stated as follows: ‘It s o hundred to one chance that we will suffer a $10,000 loss on any school bullding.’ This statement, of course, needs no comment, |with the insurance ' Shields, “We wish also to go on recerd as ting the Commercial Com- pany for the efficlent manner in which the scheel insurance has been handled by them. “Yours very truly, “NEW BRITAIN BOARD FIRE UNDERWRITERS. “W. G. Dunn, +“Old Burritt achool, 20 East Main street: Sprinklers to be installed throughout upon dry pipe valve. “Walnut Hill schoo!l and anmnex, 21-23 Hiliside Place: Sprinklers to be installed throughout the entire area of both these buildings upon dry pipe valve. “Smalley school, 76 Talcott 8t.: “H. W, Hatch, Provide sprinklers throughout entire “F. H. Shields, {building on dry pipe valve. “G. A. Quigley, | “Bartlett school, 112 Grove street: “R. G. Wilbur, Provide sprinklers throughout entire “Special Committee.” area upon dry pipe valve, Report an 4 “East 8t. school, 594 East 8t The report of the special com-|provide automatic sprinklers mittee of the Underwriters’ associa- | throughout entire area on dry pipe tion relative to installation of |yylye. sprinkiers in each of the 23 school | “Osgood Hill school (if repaired) buildings in the city is contained in |75 Osgood Ave.: Provide sprinklers a letter to the dflnnnce fiommme:- | throughout entire area upon dry pipe This report and & similar report|valve. from the mutual insurance commit- | Im street school, 28 Elm street: tee will be acted upon by the fl<‘Pro\'ldu sprinklers throughout en- nance committee which will make |tire area upon dry pipe valve, recommendations to the board. | “Prevocational school, rear 73-85 The mutual company conduclodxllain street; Provide automatic an investigation and its rveport is|sprinklers throughout the building already in the hands of the com-|on alm-gnkt:r dry pi;)e vall.v:s. exclud- mittee. If the finance committee acts [iNg sprinklers in the c! rooms favon’,b}v on the matter and its|only, but including domestic scicnce recommendations are accepted by #Md manual training roomas. the school board, the board ot fi-| “Vocational High school, 42 Bas- nance and taxation will be asked |Sett street: This building is now to appropriate money to nnunce(hc‘“‘““""’d with a partial sprinkler {nstallation of sprinklers In the |®YStem with 6-inch alarm valve, ro- schools. {tary and electric alarms. - We sug- | gest that this system be extended to {cover all of the building, except iclnu rooms. *State Trade school, 157 So. Main 4 St.: Provide sprinklers throughout ‘New Britain, Conn. |entire area of this building on a dry entlemen: {pipe valve, unless adequate means ‘A special meeting of all of the iure provided to keep the area heat- :f::"d"hfli':fl"zn':f‘" ’: ':" v‘fl::}m. 1t such haat is to be provided ned: “w Suranc ) ® lan alarm valve may be used. 8prink- school achedule of the Consolldated |lers should cover throughout entire School District of the City of New |area of the building excluding only | Britain, held a special meeting for |offices and small lecture rooms. |the purpose of concentrating their| “Stanley St. school, 1675 Stanley efforts in an endeavor to securw street: Provide sprinklers through- propositions which they lout this building, excluding the could conscientiously submit to you. |classrooms, upon a dry pipe valve. At this meeting thc following were “Nathan Hale school, 49 Tremont elected as a committee to represent strect: Provide sprinklers throughout all of the agents and it was sug- this building upon‘a dry pipe Vi gested that this committee consult |excluding cli{ slroom;u. : authorities in| “Nathan Hale school Messrs. Duml;, Quigley, | Tremont street: Provide Hatch and Wilbur, This |throughout this building, excluding committee has met on several occa- | ClFTOOMS Upon iy DIpe. valy {sions and was represented in the Washington school, 376 and rear |conterence held in Boston on Jan-|Hish St: Provide sprinklers uary 4, at which eonference the mat. | '1roughout this building, excluding ter was very thoroughly reviewed. | Classrooms. We' wishh o submit the following| Steele St, school, Steele St: | vide sprinklers throughout | building, excluding classrooms. | evelt school, 50 Goodwin "“""(’;“’mfll‘c'l’: “?‘;‘.’"' '\“t““"; e sprinklers throughout t Amp quipment — Of [ ,i1qing, excluding classrooms. This sprinklers throughout upon & dry | puilging has & wooden roof and w pipe valve. !do not believe tha at the attic area “Rockwell achool, 111 Franklin |is 1arge cnough to allow the instal- :‘;T';l’il‘r"l‘kle;: ‘h:‘"l!gh““' entire |lation of a sprinkler system in that n dry pipe valve. arear. We, therefore, suggest that the “Northend school, 160 Bassett i : street: Sprinklers throughout entire | | avea upon dry pipe valve. Vance school, 181 Vance St: Pro- ‘Smith Street school, €6 Kelsey | vide eprinklers. throughout entire street: Sprinklers throughout entire |area of building, excluding class- area upon dry pips valve. rooms. “Junior High school, 99-109 Main Elihu Burritt school, 75 North St: street: Automatic sprinklers through- | Provide sprinklers throughout the out entire area of this building upon | entire area of building, excluding dry pipe valve. | classrooms. Sprinkler Report The report follows: “Finance Committee, “8chool Board, annex, Boston: sprinklers Pro- this vided with sprinklers. s1thin 1924 second floor of the building be pro- | This bullding, we belleve, I8 neas- ing completion and we suggest that a sprinkier system be installed throughout entire ares, excluding classrooms. Other Recommendaiions “In conuection with these ve- quirements it is our understanding that a standard supply of $ 1-3 gal- lon chemical ers, bearing the label of the Underwriters’ La- boratories, Inc, will be installed throughout these buildings. “In connection with the sprinkler systems it is oyr understanding that in all cases a €" street commection will be brought in trom not less than a 6" street main, All sprinkler ays- tems to be equipped with rotary and electric alarms, and in those schools where there is more than ene alarm or dry pipe valve, the electric coa- nections to actuate an annunciator. You will note that the proposi- tion which we have submitted above does not include the Monroe B8t school, which is now abandoned and also does not include the old Lincoln 8t. school, which we understand is being removed, “If sprinklers are installed in ac- cordance with these suggestiona, the rate will be reduced to Sc per year, or 20c on three year policies, mak- ing a net cost on three year con. tracts of 6 2-3c per day. “We have been unable to get a definite quotation for the cost of the suggested sprinkler installation but in our opinion this would cost eomewhere between $175,000 and 1$200,000. ‘The agents in New Britain wish the preceding proposition. Rates Without “It, in your opinion, the saving ip premium does not justify the ex. pense of the installation we are very pleased to advise that we have ae- | cured tentative rates for the insur- ance on the unsprinklered basis, which will be promulgated immedi. ately. These rates are as follows: “Proposition No. 1 — Average blanket rate schedule covering speci- fic on all buildings and blanket on contents with the 80 Ler cent co- insurance clause applying to the buildings and 90 per cent to con- tents—$.253, 1 year; $.6325, $ yeara. “Proposition 2 — Average blanket rate schedule covering specl. fic on all buildings and tlanket on contents with 90 per cent co-insur- ance applying to the buildings and $.685, 3 |contents—$.234, 1 year; cs. Proposition No. 3 — Average blanket rate schedule covering speci- fic on all buildings and blanket on contents with the 80 per cent co- insurance clause applying to the buildings and 90 per cent to con- | tents, with complete mechanical ex- (tinguisher credit—$.2406, 1 year; |$.6115, 3 years. “Proposition No. 4 — Average blanket rate schedule covering speci- lic on all buidings and blanket on | contents with 90 per cent co-insur. lance clause applying to the buildings and contents with complete me- chanical extinguisher credit—$.223 year; $.565, 8 years, ' “These rates, we believes to be, without a question, as attractive a to go on record as recommending || proposition on an unsprinkiered basis as there is in New England. “I¢ there is any further isferma- tion relative to either propesitions which we can supply yes with,| please lot us know. “Yours very truly, “The New Britain Board of Fire Underwriters, “W. G. DUNN,/ “H. W. HATCH, “F. H. SHIELDS “G, A. QUIGLEY, “R. G. WILBUR, “Special Committee.” Confirm Repo Griffith-Mann Wedding Los Angeles, Jan. 9 (AP)—Mem- bers of the houschold of Raymond Griffith, film comedi have con- Grmed reports that he was married early today to Bertha Mann, but the whereabouts of the couple or honey- moon plans were said to be unknown. Grifith and Miss Mann first met when they were playing on the stage nine years ago, The engagement was announced last August, Yoners Doctor Eludes ted suicide last night shooting hims:‘llfclln the hmithh’l pistol. _ A policeman found the bodx of the hysician, Dr. Casb Osterheld, 45, in ais parked automobile in a dlm was found beside the body. tives said the pk(tlyliehn was to have gone to Battle , Mich., tomor- row for uumm.d 4 First rts said that the doctor had bmnll;lduad. ORIENTAL QUEEN APPEARS — Wife of Emir of Afghanistan Re- sponds to Choers of Welcoming Party at Rome Rome, Jan. 9 (AP)—The eternal city today entertained an oriental queen upon whose unveiled face Ro- mans gazed in defiance of eastern traditions. Soon after the arrival here of Am- andullah Khan, emir of Afghanistan, and his queen, she appeared - with bared face before the Quirinal palace in response to the cheers of a vast crowd. The queen was revealed as a tall, ivory skinned beauty. She wore a smart black European dress and carried a great bouquet of red roses, presented her by the royal wel- coming party at the station. Those who welcomed the eastern potentate included the king and queen of Italy, Crown Prince Humbert and Premicr Mussolini. : During the journey here on the Steamship Rajputna both the queen and other women in the party ap- peared unveiled, It took 180 trunks to bring the clothes the women of the party con- sider necessary for the European tour, The arrival of the emir was marred by the collision of two planes “of his aerial escort. One pilot was killed. JUAN JUSTO DIES Buenos Aires, Jan, 9 (A. P.)— Juan Justo, Federal senator and founder of the Argentine socialist party, died suddenly early yesterda; at the age of 63 from a heart attacl at his country home at Lts Cardales. Meredith, Montreal Financier, Is Dead Montreal, Jan. 9 (AP)—Charles Meredith, Mont financicr,” died here Saturday night at the age of 74. He was the scventh son of the late W. C. 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