New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1928, Page 12

GANTIC WETEOR FOUND BY RUSSIAN Gives Description of Phenome- non of 1?08 Moscow, Jun. 25 J.conide Kulik in the evening news- paper Veishernaya Moskva, tells of the extraordinary clicumstances of the fall of a giant meteorite in 1908, Professor Kulik, who is head of the meteorite departinent of the ccademy of sciences, recently turned from the Yeniseisk district, Niberia, where he suceceded i lo. cating the site of the meteorite descent. (Associuted Tross dispatches last September frem Washington told of of this orite, Kulik says that the cir- deseribes are fully bundreds of eye-wit- “umstane contirmed v in the morning of July §9, 1905, he relates, “the population inhabiting the territory between the Yenissei and Lena rivers, witnessed a dazzling fic hody hurtling through the air. followed by a thun- dering detonation. It was heard 1,- 500 Kilometers, (about 1,000 miles) to the south, it caused a great air commiotion, felled men and horses and disturbed the - of lakes and rive distant. Natives walking 30 or 40 Kilometers from the spot were lifted in the air, together with cattie, “The shock was so great that scismographs recorded carth trem- ors in Irkutsk., 1,400 kilometers to the south. “During its lightning flight the meteorite’ spread tremendous heat, — Professor | " Musical which was felt hundreds of kilo- ! meters away, where watchers had the impression that their clothes had caught fire. “An immense forest area was in- stantly set afire, in which thousands of reindeer perished and unnumber- od natives disappeared.” When he reached the spot summer, Professor Kulik personally iy NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 25, 1928.. It was signed by Councllmen James | - P. Murphy, Harry T. Wilson and ETHEL Lucian Macora, all of whom are fitth ward members, ! It is. understood the firemen ad. mitted to the board that they had compiled the data by communicating with heads of departments in other (cities. | It is also understood the men who | |appeared the board last night said | {they had no intention of being in- | subordinate, but that they felt they could properly excrcige the preroga- ative held by other city employes of | cking wage creases either | ough the board or by direct ap- | peal to the common council. In this instance it is claimed Councilman | Murphy championed the firemen's cuuse without solicitation on their fuart a the Loard had rejected | their p Meeting Data Kept Secret Chief Noble, member of the board | and the clerk of the commission, to- doy refused to divulge any intorma tion as to the business before the mueting. Commissioners were plain- | ly displensed with the failure of heir cxecutive to transact its busi- ess without public notice, several of the firemen called be fore the bourd were off duty and the department’s car in charge of Driver Kobert Smith was sent after them. Others were called from the fire sta. tions where they were doing duty. They appearcd betore the commis- sioners in this order: Private Gau- dette, Livut. Ha Clerk Lough- ery. Private Finneran, Private Scar- leit, Private Moore and Private Shaw CLASS NlGli! m S, Program for This Evening. The last social event, preceding graduation, the senior mid-year class night, will be observed with & musical comedy together with the ! reading of the annual papers on the | class history, class will and class prophecy and address of welcome at the Senior High school this eve- last | RIDE- | President Fred Zehrer will de- | observed the devastation caused by !liver the address of welcome, Flo- the meteorite, and only lack of [rine Christensen will read a class | funds and technical means, he said, | prophecy which she, Warren Bra- prevented extraction of the debris of |erd and William Haswell wrote; the meteorite. But in the spring of Audrey Fagan will read the history this year a new expedition, headed | which she wrote, and Libbie Dunn | by the foremost Russian !clentllu,!wlll read the will which she and intends to proceed to the place, to William Haswell wrote. ! An elaborate stage setting for the the play has been arranged. area under which most of the debris take air photographs in order to as. certain the exact location of is buried. | | | S e ) 'Does‘n'} I GET YdE GOAT? *DARING. O'MINE ~DONT fORGEl voiRL GONG O TO DINR WITH ME, NEXT TIRGDAY ~ —~—GEEMS DNG Wil 63° UNTL THEN ~ TRE DRAG- ~ THE. OFFICE Wikl GEEM LKE A PRION — BT PACDING- MOMENT WL BRING T CLOGY! P N DONT FORGET /DEARES T, YOU GAD YOU WOoUD ke ME 10 THE — CLIE 10 DINNER 1O-NGHT /7 EVERY €T~ s N YOU MMSRIED WM< By GEORGE, MG 3 RIGRT — WELL, YOU CALL UP N REMIND. ME — OR COME. C_l_’?lerhf ON 1P 10 Ny, e ofFice TISY ?5 W2 APOIl CLOSING: Time, —OR 1Lt SURE FORGEr ' COME. GTRAGAT ON ROME / ’ City Items | Mid-vear classes begin next Mon- Secretarial school.— TERRIFIC GALE LASHING COAST “Advisory: Warnings changed to I northwest Delaware breakwater to | Eastport, Me., and warnings down | south of Hatteras to Savannah, Ga. Storm of great intensity over Muine will cause west and northwest gales | i | i today. |seams ripped open while resting on the Brooklyn side of the harbor. 70 Mile Gale Tearing at a 70-mile-an-hour pace over the city, the gale passed north- tward along the shoreline and out whipping up the waters into|¥Amato, Mary Dembek, ary Do- a string of three which had amnchor. ed in the lower. bay .over “ night, broke from its moorings in the carly morning gale. » Wind and seas swepi the barge. which was light, on the rocks off the southwest corner of the naval training station. Captaip Fullerton and his wife, the only persons aboard, were helpleas. ; The Price’s Neck coast guard crew in charge of Captain George Streeter rigged the breeches buoy and shot a line aboard the barge. Fullerton in- sisted that his wife should leave first. The crew hauled on the line, but when Mrs. Fullerton wag half | way in the line became fouled with {a telephone pole set in the . ocean bottom a short distance from the shore, The coast guardsmen tugged their hardest but could not bring the woman nearer. The waves dashed over her tfor several minutes as she sat suspended over the water, Then 4 number of sailors from the train- ing station came to the help of the coast guardsmen, and by their unit- ed efforts they brought woman, line | and telephone pole ashore. 1 The buoy was sent back to the barge and Captain Fullerton . was hauled in without mishap, Neither he nor his wife suffered serious ill effects. 3 8 T0 GRADUATE AT HALE SCHOOL | Diplomas To Be Preseated At Exercises Tomorrow Diplomas will be presnted to 78 | pupils at graduation axercises to | tomorrow afternoon The presentation will be made by ! Mrs, Laura P. Mangan of the school committee. | Otficers of the class are Simon | Butnm, president; Myrtle Carlson, | vice prestdent; Lillian Pollard, eo. 1etary; and Joseph Mlynarski, treas- | urer. The class colors are blue and | silver. The list of graduates follows: , Anna Abraham, #phild Andersom, Lucy Aparo, Beaffice Applebaum, Ruth Bagdigian, ‘John Blake, Irv- ing Blumenthal, Georgs Buckbee, Jennie Buden, 8imon Butrim, Anna Campisi, Myrtle Carison, Helen Chalke, Helen Chiebowicz, Fe- lix Cichowski, Julia Clem, Edith Cohen, Esther Cohen, Ladislaus Dabkowski, Carmelo Da- quilo, Burton Davidson, Coredo leski, Joseph Errede, Madeline Er- : Here is one ride Commander Richard E. Byrd took tha Ibe held in the auditoriam of me{'flightn While at Ponca City, Okla., recently, on his way rNathan Hale Junior High schoos through the southwest, the transatlantic flyer was a guest of at 2 o'clock. | Colonel George L. Miller at the 101 Ranch and was given % ride on Jumbo. Moving Day Is February First— Avoid vacancy by securing a tenant' now through a Herald Classifi‘ed Ad. DR, LOUIS W. RAPP |ady C i | ) ? | ew York harbor alone'rede, Veniclo Garofano, Mildred et (Continued from First Page) Plays Havoc in Tennossee Mo g * | rede, 3 I]IES W PNEUM“N'A\ Members of the democratic party | Nashville, Tenn., Jan, 25 (P—The |the waves were the highest in the | Gehring, Antoinette Gianninoto, Se. |wil | . v 3 e (A5 y o f marine officials, and they | Lastiana Glanninoto, Rose Goldberg. | meet with their town committee . storm which swept in a great semi- | MemOry o aptians Glanninato; Tose Goldberk, head. (R ook off In his tiny rePal' lclrcle south of Nashville through a |dashed against the Battery sea wall | Arthur Gorfain, Theresa Jovack, Lil- demu-]nl;b‘:?‘ L fl;’ o Altoona. | half dozen or more counties yester- b h:“‘:l"‘““ a spray was flung 40 jian Kalberg, Edward Kalkowski, J J day afternoon reached the climax of | feet in the air., tomorrow night at the party quarters in city hall. The (Continued from First Page) At the Classified Ad Counter, Edward Konicki physicians. He was especially suc- cessful in his treatment of pneu- monta, the disease which was fatal | . to him. His keen interest in humanity and | gioy ot 2 o'clock tomorrow atter Lis desire to help others at the ex-|;o0n a¢ the school auditorium. pense of his‘own health was one of | the factors which was believed tn‘,Bingh‘m Blocks Action have caused his illness. He had a serious cold for some stricken with eonditions gradually became worse. Dr. Rapp was an ex-service man. (have an investigation of the sink- During the World war he joined the army while he was still a medical |prestdential commission or by con- student and was stationed at Boston, Mass. He was a member of Tau Pi | medical fraternity at Tufts, the American Medical association, New Britain Medical assoclation and Harmony lodge, A. F. & A. M. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah (Stone) Rapp, whom he married about & year ago just previ- ous to opening his office; his parents, time, but | about two wecks ago today he was | pneumonia and his |republicans and democrats cratic women will hold their weekly | |gathering Friday, |” Richard Frank Leupold and Anna Mae Yaas have been added to the | list of pupils who will be presented |with diplomas at graduation exer | ‘Washington, horns again today on whether ing of the submarine 8-4 by a gress, Benator Swanson, democrat, Vir- |ginia, advocate of the congressionalk |inquiry, sought a vote on a resolu- tion by Benator Trammell, demo- crat, Florida, for that purpose. Benator Bingham, republican, Conecticut, who wants action on the house resolution authorizing a | presidential commission to make the | | Providence, R. L, Jan. IThousands of dollars damage wa: Caoast Guards Active, Providence, R. I, Jan. 25 All coust guardsmen at the Point | Judith and were ordered out at 10 o'clock this | morning in an effort to prevent the | wrecking of & two-masted schoone | The vessel, whose identity wes no |learned, sailed through the gap in On S-4 Investigation the breakwater at the harbor of | gio from internal injuries, Jan, 25 UP—Senate | Regue, seeking reliet from the high Jocked | ©°a8, but her anchors failed to hold. |talned a broken ankle and numer- large vesscls in distress. to|and at 10:30 coast guardsmen re- ! ported they had little hope of pre- | venting the schooner from piling on | the rocks. Later it was learned that {the vessel Narragansett stations Two men are known to be Rhode Island Hard Hit 25 P its destructiveness in Dekalb county, where a rural district school on Holmes Creck was blown over and tour children killed | probably fatally injured. The dead are: Edward Atnip. 8; Harvey Cripps. 5; George W. Smith, 14 and Ruby | Hayes, 6. Aubrey Smith, 14 is expected to H. Grady ter, teacher: sus- (ous cuts and bruises, but his condi- | | tion is not considered as serious. The school is six miles north of | Smithville and the storm which without came almost warning. !carried the news to Smithville and | doctors hastened to the scene. | Telephone connection ashville and Smithville was still Incoming liners, all delayed by !other weather disturbances of the | past few days, crept along. For the and another | first time in years they were not met today by a coast guard cutter, so rough was the harbor. | All day the harbor police and gov- ernment boats received calls for aid as barges torc loose from their moorings and were tossed about in !the harbor. No reports had been received of Conn, Shores Affected | Milford, Jan. 25 ) — A wina- | storm with heavy rain throughout is the Robert Biswick. wrecked the school and killed the|last night swept the Milford shore owned by Danlel Walls of New Ha- | children ven. |aboard and it is believed that there | 'is a third one. !from Rilver Beach west, and tore {two unoccupfed cottages between A neighbor mounted his horse and | Poles 110 and 111 at-Beaside Beach !l\o\vi ! from their underpining. . The loss was placed at $2,500. between (The owners are Anna Rosenberg of |Hartford and Walter Bunce of New s | interrupted this morning and details ) Britain, wreaked in this state early today by |of the disaster were brought h a 60-mile gale which ripped roofs |by bus. New London, Jan. 25 (A—About Edward Krem, Michael Kvedas, Mary Labas, Judson Landon, Mary LaRosa, Marion Larson, Isidore Lif- !'shitz, Elihu Lumpkin, Annie Ma- kuch, Nicholas Mancini, Loretta Marotta, Edward Matulis, John Me- ynk, Anna Meskosky, Gustave Mil- ler, Joseph Mlynarski, Paul Mud- zinski, Mary Myslievic, Phillp Nie- derer, Pearl Papasian, Alex Parda, | Anna Partyka, Helen Pisko, Halen Pizer, Lillian Pollard, Albert Ra- ! Gutis, Emily Ruscik, Andrew Sar- | tinsky, James Bcarrozzo, . Ernest Speziale, Julia Spring, Ellen Stanke- vitch, Edward Stankowicz, Frances Staubly, Bophie Terzak, Jennie Twardus, Anna Tynik, Charles Va- ness, Amelia Celente, Lloyd Vib- verts, Walter Wezowicz, Ethel Yan- chiR}s EVIDENCE Beck’s Fondness For Certain Brand courteous clerks help you word a result getting ad. The office is open from 8 A. M. to 8 P, M. Save money by coming to Classified Ad Headquarters and paying cash, The Herald Telephone 925 Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Rapp; and & |investigation, blocked the Trammell Ifrom buildings, brother, Albert Rapp. His father is |resolution for the time being with | o & veteran grocer in this city. a long speech against it. Sold in New York Club Indication of Resldence. brought telephone ; Confirmation of the bus driver'si10g local telephone stations were poles crashing down and blew in th story was obtained through a rail-'put out of commission, the toH wire The funeral will be held tomor- row afternoon at 1 o'clock at 'the home on South Main street. Burial ‘will be in Beth Mishkan cemetery. HANGS SELF IN CELL Charlestown, W. Va., Jan. 25 | —Wise Haven and | lapsed. side wall of a factory in Warren. The (road dispatcher who said that |roof of a Barrington brick firm, 200 | rural mail carrier in the storm swep! | feet long, was ripped off by the gale | district told that five or six children | | { : jand sent crashing onto the t ki had been killed when the school col- Bailey, 30, charged With |the New York = New Haven ar! 2 "between this city and Baybrook was ! torn down in two places, power service was partially crippled and icoastwise shipping was forced to shelter by a terrific southwest galc killing his mother and step-father, |Hartford railroad, where it brought | 21 Narrowly Escape | Washington, Jan. 25 P — The| fondness of James M. Beck for a certain 13 cent cigar sold by the Union league club of New York city was used as evidence against him |Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Tolliver, hang- [qown the wires of the railroad and | Twenty one children and their g:‘h’”"". ':‘f"”{rgl‘“[“““"’l" :hf""f" {today before a house elections com- {ed himselt in the county jail tofay. | Western Unlon. Traln service was |teacher barely escaped death or |} i ‘”g"! °| ";"" attained 151,/ 0ce in his fight to retain a re- The killings occurred in the Tol- | jisrupted for several hours. / Night | serious injury when a twister demol- | Delht ;‘ bt ock this mOrning. |, hyican peat in the house from [liver home at Plerpont, W. Va., 1ast | workers in the Collins Aikman com- 'ished a one story frame school |When the wind o raging with a | po;nycivania, N w P {December 26. Bailey escaped. He | pany, manufacturers of textiles, es- | house near Lang, Ky. yesterday. |Velocily of 65 miles an hour. Four|™ poo coeniative Kent, democrat, was arrested in Ashland, Ky. and {caped injury when the south wall on| An infant daughter of A. Trice, a |/arge liners bound from New York |penngiivania, prosecutor of the brought to Charleston last night by the fourth floor of the building was | farmer near Gage, Ky.. was crushed |10 Providence and Boston put into|jemocratic move to oust Beck on 7 a state policeman. blown in and bricks flew about the | bcneath the wreckage of a brick |Port and this morning they Were |the ground that he was not a legal (Continued from First Page) | room, |chimney when the Trice home was still held here awaiting the abatc- |resident of Philadelphia at the time ‘ so Hall o ! The roof of the Newport Casino |d¢molished by the winds. The storm ment of the mountainows Long Is- | of his election, contended that in or- men’s action in mailing propagands | )i ¢ A-hlke !piazza was blown off, high wavcs léft ruined homes at Wicklifte, Kevil, |land Sound seas. dering the cigars Beck had request- on wage increases is without pre- | . carrled away cement fences near the |Gage, Lamont and Paducah, ali| The corner of a lodging house (ed their shipment to *my residence SEient;and 1is migsested that an in | beach and the steamer Common- | Western Kentucky river towns. and |was carried away when a huge elmi |at 1624 21st street, Washington, D. vestigation be made. | wealth of the New England Steam- |then dipped into Illinois in the di-free, uprooted by the storm, crashed |C.” Councilman D. L. Bartlett advised ship company was blown from her | rection of Caseyville. down onto it; a section of the cop- | Wilcott Farry, borough clerk at| that the printer assumes responsi- | .dock onto the mud flats. She later _ The storm apparently dipped into |ing of the St. James' Episcopal |Seabright, N. J., testified that Beck | bility for the pamphlets appearing |was hauled off by several tugs. Fastern Tennessee and then swept!church was torn away and the cop- |had paid polf taxes in 1924 at Sea- with the officlal minutes, his con- | down into the central part of the ling on the roof of a three-story |Pright, where he owns property, tract calling for printing and matling | 10 Cottages Razed state, bearing directly we At the hujlding in Bank street was sept @nd had been appointed “honorable | of the firemen's statement, but that | Newport, R. L, Jan. 25 (P—Ten ¢Xtreme western cornes the winds crashing to the sidewalk by the [attorncy” for Seabright. He added | he wished to save the men postage small cottages and a garage near the bore northward into Kentucky and | force of the wind. |that the job carried honor only, and | charges and included the document Beavertail lighthouse were wrecked after striking several river fowns. fThree passenger and freight |10 #alary, and Beck said it was the as a stuffer. by the gale which swept the coast |Crossed the Mississippi river into | .amships, one freighter and sev. the first time he had known that he Not Skgmed by Firemen |carly today. Stones picked up by | Lllinois. al tugs with barges in tow were |1¢ld that position. The petition referred to was not the wind smashed many windows in Storm damage was reported from ! weatherbound here today. sent to the common council over the the vicinity. Cheatham “county on the west, Wil- | = o steamship ,Mmg{o“ of the signature of any member of the de- | Bections of the bathhouse walls liamson, Mavrey and = Rutherford. oo =G B0 ORS00 B C partment, investigation at the of- | at Newport beach were carried SOUth of here, and in Dekalb on the |2 OR S (NC IO Few Work for of the town clerk today shows. {across the road. At Bailey's beach |€ast. The damage in all thess coun- [[TOVId¢nee puf into port early to-|jonn Boyle Co., and Co. No. 6 of the | e | bathhouses erected last summer were | 11°%, Dekalb excapted. consisted of |1a¥ With about 40 passengers |ire gepartment was called by a| EEET———— moved four feet, the piazza of the |the unroofing of houses. destruction o "f‘ “‘10 were landed here 10 | “gtill” alarm at 12:19 last night. It west pavilion was demolished ana ©Of Outhouses and uprooting of trees, [Proced by train to Providence. is belicved an overheated furpace the canoe shed was destroyed. {Tn the towns many plate glass win- | 11¢ ship’s steward, ~ Walter | pipe sct fire to the floor and a par- stitches |vition, causing damage estimated at FIRE ON ROCKWELL AVE. Fire broke out in a cottage house | |at 19 Rockwell avenue, owned by the The Fall River Liner Common. d0Ws were destroy Schnelzer, had = several ekt Wwabt trom Hief sacerings 15 taken in his left arm as a resuls [3300. | the mud flats, was safe at her dock New York Hard Hit {of a severe cut suffered when in a| At the office of the John Boyle i i o, New York, Jan. 25 (UP)—Gales |SUdden pitch of the ship his arm|Co., today it was said the house is which blew out window panes and | WeDt through the window of a door. |unoccupied and the furnace was be- | Fall River Has Damage demolished small structures in the | D® Steamship Tennessee, of the |ing used while renovations wefe bey| Fall River, Mass., Jan. 25 (#—An |suburbs during the night were fol- | D4y State line, from New York and |ing made. | 150 mile gale early today wrecked an lowed today by storm warnings |Pound for Providence, docked hers i |amusement park, drove two barges'from the weather hureau here for 2! Noon and unloaded about 50 pas- ashore and tore off chimneys and | the Atlant aboard from the Dela- |S€Dgers who proceeded on their w: ‘ b | | portions of roofs of residences in and Ware breakwater to Eastport, M by train. {auest of $500 from the estate of {near this city. | The wind storm siruck New York K The steamer Woonsocket, bound |D. C. Knowles of Tilton, N. H., has| The roller coaster at Island Park, shortly after midnight, endangering |for Pawtucket from New York, put [been announced by Wesleyan uni- i.hm. | Portsmouth, R. I., and a number of |£hipping off the coust of the North im here early this morning and dis- |versity. A library book fund is to conces<ions situated bencath it were | Atlantic states. {charged her passengers. The |be created with the bequest, in a great many folks. levelled. The damage 18 estimated | Two ves unk in th freighter New Haven docked for |memory of Frederick Lawrenca Wonder whether the: at $10 000. bor by the storm. One wa water this morning and then an- |Knowles, ‘04, Wesleyan's most y | Barges five and six, owned hy the |U. 8. & Dewey, historic gunboat {chored in the harbor pending bet- |noted poct. | guéwillrelieve New England Oil Refinery company, |tured by American naval forces in ter weather. the pain! Baby Chicki Time Is Here . Hundreds of Herald readers are planning to raise chickens this year and now is their time of selection. A well worded ad in the Classified Advertising section will secure you a buyer quickly. Order your advgnlsgment today—telephone 925 or save money by ceming in and paying cash. % THE HERALD “New Britain's Greatest Classified Ad Market Place” $300 GIFT TO WESLEYAN 1 Middletown, Jan. 25 (P — A be- rumors are round that ‘ \ s wers went ashore near the Somerset side the Spanish-American war and o- | o2 of Mount Hopebay while in tow of named after their commander. | Thrilling Rescue the tub Interstat. They cannot be | recently was hought from the gov 1 Newport, R. 1., Jan. 25 (P—A . floated today because of the rough ernment by private interests and was | thrilling ride on the brecches buoy seas. being dismantled in the Brooklyn!across 200 yards of boiling surf | ra“ . m n Captain Sterling Fallerton | Eyesight Special ? —— docks, when high mped | brought Storm Warning it. Only two masi€ wore lefi show- of the barge Harry E You > Mai 327 Main St. Tel. 1905 Keeler and The harge, jowned by the K ransportation which went to the bottom when its company of New York, and one of oy know Sir Hall ¢z Washingion, Jan PTh. ing above the water nis wife to safety foda (ANALGLs1QUE) well here is their British au weather bureau today RELIEVES ACHES & PAINS i ocross the snows at St Moritz. following storm warning j { issued thet The other was a 4ui-ton bure