New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1928, Page 12

POLCENAN KUMM ANARDED VERDICT Jndge Sympathizes With Phai-| {ill Bat Gan Do Nothing as Molloy in the court | | | 0 Judge Thon of common pless in awarding judg- inent for Policeruan Clarence Kumm, in the $1,500 suit brought against| him by Michael Homko, Jr., as the pesult of an accident on North | sreet, Decomber 24, 1926, sympa- | hizes with the plaintiff for the in-| suffered by him, but states Ly can play no part un- | the circumsts | Judge Molloy's finding in the ca the tollowing statement: | melng ported increased number of way farers sceking relief from the cold. Mr. Zero's place ' accommodated | more than 500 additional persons. Many of these were sent to work for the city to clean the streets of snow. More than 12,000 yorkers were used to clear the two and a half inch layer of snow that covered the city’s streets, | While the cold and snow brought | suffering. to many it brought joy to! the youngsters, many of whom re- ceived sleds for Christmas and had no opportunity to use them until Sunday. The snow was drifted by a hard | wind and there were many slides made. Central park was filled Sun- day with sledders, mar were grown persons. Skaling was | popular also. | Danbury Suffers Danbury, Conn., Jan. 30 (®—Be. | low zero temperatures prevailed in | this section of Connecticut this | morning for the first time this win- NEW §3RIT.-\IN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1928, — HiCKMAN'S MOTHFR a4 SPEED LIKELY 10 RIVAL SHIP BULK Both Types of Vessels Planned " Jor Atlantic New York, Jan. 30 UP—8peed and bulk may be rivals in the passcnger | stcamship lanes of the Atlantic ocean between New York and Live | erpool with the next few years. Gigantic ocean liners, 1,000 feet long and with 60,000 tonnage, prob- |ably will carry the bulk of passen- (gers and freight. Smaller, but |switter ships are planned to carry fewer passengers, but much 6f the ,express freight and mail. They | would make the voyage in four days | Pleas for the - new shipa,.- the American especially, represent new ttempts to achleve that ambition {of the centuries, reduced time of travel between continents. Colum- bus was 37 days making his, trip (trom Spain in 1492. The Dread- naught, a clipper ship, in 1889 sail- |ed from Sandy Hook to Cape Clear, |Treland, in 13 days, eight hours. In 11905 the Atlantic, a sehqoner {yacht, reced from the Hook #p Lis- !ard, England, in 12 dajs four, Wours. !m‘ ifi"é?:-s?m n'-ddlec; p ¢ iher way in 1819 from Savainah, {Ga., t9 Liverpood in 26 days. Since {1910 the “Mauretania” has held the passenger steamship '~ record be- |tween New York and Queenstown, four days, 10 hours and ¢1 min- | utes, LAWYERS TO MEET "h. in the right rear door of the | strects, causing damage estimated at cab was smashed and damage was|$50, Officer M. J. Moore reported caused to the body, one tire, and the that the Gwiazda car was going rear bumper of the parked car. Thenorth on Main street at the latter was owned by Stanley F. King| mate speed of 20 miles an hour, and of Kensington. Officer Willlam |the other car was turning into Main O'Day found no cause for police street from Winter street. Thero action. was no cause for police action. At 2 o'clock yesterday morning, cars owned and driven by George| According to the Einsteln theory Glossop of 68 Brooklawn street and |an electric lamp burning 3,000,000 Julia Gwiasda of 121 Farmington|years would produce about an ounce avenue collided at Main and Wiuler'o! light. | flat and save 20 hours or more in | mail deliveries, as well as passen- | + ger sailing and arrival, by liberating | and receiving airplanes when 500 miles, or a day's sailing, from any | port. | The 1,000-footers appear to = be “This cus., from the plaintiff's ! point, ix a very pathetic one. cuffered a very serious which will be permanent. Th i sverytling in it to appeal 1o one's| <vmpathy. But when it comes 1o he defendant negligent in ter. Five below zero was recorded here at six o'clock and even lower ! readings e reported from out- FOR ORGANIZATION Session Will Be Held Tomorrow Washington, loing what, to the court, seems per- -etly natural and the act of an or-| under the sympathy must play 1o parl, onrt, therefore, di- vects judzr ¢ the defendant. The plaintiff, who was 13 years of fimee of the accident, was car on the south of North street in front of the iy Burritt Junior High school at Hout 8:45 p. ut. on the day in ques- tching the owner s on the wheels he weather was raining and freezing. narily prudent person cireumst at car was equipped | \ccording to testimony m and a disinterested witness, hough the plaintiff claimed Shat ehine s Jding e Jis cer having rounded the turn srom Main street. The car started <lide down the hill toward the #ked machine and Kumm blew born wnd shouted to those uther vehicle. The 1 car and a boy the work of af- n proc 1 ¥ jo was watching i the warning and | o ¥. although the plain- iy, according 1o festimony, appear- 1 not to hwar. He stood in the skidded Miichael's thigh was pinned against purked car, with the result that bis leg was broken and he suffered o e injuries, 1t wag clamied that the defendant was negligent In attempting to drive iiis car down the hill, in view of the fact that it was so slippery, but judge Molloy stated that the ma- chine was properly cquipped, that| he did what any ordinarily prudent driver would do. The skidding of the | machine did not constitute negli- gence, according to the court's find- ing. Thomas F. McDonough sented Kumm. COLD WAVE STRIKES repre- EASTERN SEABOARD, (Contiuued trom First Page) swept and traffic was not tied up or delayed. New London, Conn., Jan. 30 (P— After a snowfall in New London which left the ground white for the irst time this winter, New London | not so equipped, ' on North street, | slowly. | Washington continued today to dig itself out from its second worst snowstorm in 25 vears. Near-zero temperatures hampered the hun- dreds of men employed at clearing away Saturday’s snow, which in some cascs was piled several feef deep by icy winds over the w end. Two Dead Two deaths were trace storm. 1o the nolds, 04, shovels and dicd of heart discase. Devin Davis, 74, dicd from the same cause on his cstate near Annapolis, Md Sleighs Out in Forve Snow packed in by traffic brought out many hor: sands sleds and occasiol Skidding automobiles struck boys on sleds and injured five pe- destrians. Count Nobile Pio Macchl dl Cel- lere, attache at the Italian embassy, avoided arrest by claiming diplo- matic immunity after his car got jout of contrel on an coated street and struck down Charles E. Hall, 26. The car turned completely around three times and against a tree. Cellere escay jury as did Manuel Alonzo, I’h Qelphia tennis star, whe was riding twith him. Lecturer Stalled ! Robert H. Taft. lecturer on New- | foundland, stalled his car in an eight foot snowdrift near Perry | ville, Md., last night, found hims | unable to proceed on horschack or {afoot, and disappointed a lecture |audience here including Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 30 (P)—Sub- |zero temperatures in many scctions of upstate New York marked the { fiifth day of the present cold wave. 30 Below Zero Saranac lake, in the heart of the Adirondacks, with a minimum temperature of 30 degrees below | zero, was experiencing the coldest day of the winter. By mid-forenoon the mercury had climbed to 20 be. |low, but frost clouds still hung low | over the mountains, The lowest at Malone was ten he- low, while Lockport, in the western end of the state reported an official reading of three below. The minimum at the government | weather bureau in Albany was one | below, Not Running | Tce in the Hudson has caused the | terry plying betwen Hudson and! Athens to suspend operations. The boat had nearly equalled the season- al record for open navigation es- tablished in 1914, but the closing of crashed | nearing reality with reliable re- i ports that both the White 8tar and Cunard lines have placed orders for their construction. The American | Brown-Boveri Electric Corporation hopes to reestabiish the Amerigmn | flag on the high seas by placing 10 Fva Hickman, mother of the youthful slayer of little|of the “four-day liners” in service Marian Parker, did not attend the first day’s session of his| trial, preferring to save her strgngth for the day when she !y, She is shown here in her room in | American must testify in his behalf, | within the next three years. Laurence R. Wilder, chairman of e shipbuilding division of the Brown-Boveri Electric Los Angeles with her son Alfred, elder brother of Marian's | Corporation, has announced the for- kidnaper and murderer, Wilton are | things, and the people of The hearing at the capitol for STOECKEL BY MALL (Continued from First l'age) tokei, over the governor himself.” Quotes High Court. Counsel in tion in the discharge of his dutics. Counsel also says that Mr. Ben- nett feels duty bound to take the po- sition of refusing to obey the sum- mons for admission of authority claimed by the commissioncr “would create a harmful and dangerous precedent. Mr. Bennett fn his letter to Mr, ite police said 'sally forth now and then and a sporadic but short lived ef- fort to enforce some particular pro- | vision of the motor vehicle laws— | sometimes it’s headlights, and some- | times it's tail lights. The nets are spread to take in all comers regard- less of circumstances and at such times prosecuting officers, justices and judges are expected to move heaven and earth to see that every | arrest is equivalent to a conviction. | everything dies out, and W | are back where we were.” Raps Police, | Furiher on Mr. Bennett said: | “The superintendent of the state | police knows that two of the young !men who made the arrests which | Commissioner Stoeckel now proposcs to haul me to Hartford about have since ‘got through' and he knows why and I know wh ¢ ¢ The com= misstoner says there is a ‘special section’ etc., coveting this case. Yes, sir, special scctions tucked away in the vicinity today was in a grip of |the channel by ice forced a suspen. | Motor vehicle laws, and I am told severest cold wave of the sea- | . 'the mercury descending this | aing to eight above zero. The! wiall of Saturday night was sion Saturday night. H Five Above Zero Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 30 (P—The he is up there at every session of the legislature getting more of them put in while the peeple of the state are aslcep, or at least not awake to | ut an inch, but the gale left the ‘;(‘.oldbl[ weather of the winter was ! What is going on. ® ® ¢ sund intermittently bare and un-| + deep drifts. Zero Reached Waterbury, Conn., Jan. 30 (®— Zero temperatures and five and & half inches of snow put Waterbury this morning in the grip of wlnt!r.; lowest temperatures of the season | were recorded. At five o'clock here this morning it was zero and 8 o'clock it was two | Jdegrees above. The snowfall did | not tle up traffic to any appreciable | “xtent, { But 6 Above Torrington, Conn., Jan. 30 C(Pi— lLust night was the coldest of the season in Torrington, the mercury dropping to six degrees below zero. The thermometer registered zero at % o'clock this morning. New York, Jan. 30 (UP)—The scvere cold spell that gripped the st over the week-end, coming :r a wind storm that lashed the tern coast, continued today with prospects of even lower tempera- tures and possibly more snow. Four Deaths Result Four deaths were attributed indi- rectly to the cold, shipping was im- criled with more than 20 vessels sceking one lost coast guard cutter and one freighter reported in danger, and acute suffering was felt in the tenement districts. The Norwegian freighter, Arica last night radioed for assistance. She was reported in danger owing to broken steering equipment. Shipping Suffers Greatly recorded here this morning. The above zero, 'Weil sir, I am sorry T have talk- | theremometer registered & degrees | ¢d so much, but a red-blooded peo- won't always stand for these | ple The furious wind storm that whip- | ped the east Friday, causing thou- | sands of dollars damage, apparently | Pt out to sea and greatly en- dangered all shipping. The French liner Rochambean and the United States liner George ! Washington came into port yester- day and their commanders said the trips across had been terrible “It was the worst storm in my vears of sailing an Atlantic liner, “aptain L. Rollin of French boat said. He said the storm lasted for six days. Capta ningham of the who will take cor viathan snececding Hartley, coneurred ut In the metropolitan ar: +ring was acute. One: tound dead from cold in New Je . another man #lipped and fell t ith while two others killed en,, their car plunged throug! a guard rail into the anus car Ty had becn bl A4 by fiving mno AN the ‘ashington, 14 of the Le- Herhort motor rolief nizatione Helen Grissom 30—A present for the wife Mr! Al dre: Sen Mrs, Lots of tin ¢ ed up and no place to go Grissom your hands? Mrs. Grissom For Mrs. Helen Gri City's oificial hostess, ard when'the G. 0. P. assembles her= in June for its nominating convention she will I t. guide, governcss, friend 1 adviser ta the delegates and * ho come along the wives stay a Grissom may help pici of lingerie issorr mis Kansos ; dip! Mrz ;ShejlseemtAuH.veFunatch; will aste Mrs sines surprise Knew nttle woman who John had such good Gr 14 i has been a widow en her husband, bert Kansas City ne n 1o tecl man City wor Legion delegat So suceessful ateur that she wa p the work professio: came the Chamber of 1 greeter. has helped entions i for fiv th it American was she as asked to ta Commere handie 200 co a a by all prople ¥ years the from 25 to 30 the letter quotes from | 4 supreme colrt decision which held | (46 Conencticut 206) that a grand | juror is invested with some discres | there are a lot of these little Her- helped Kan- at home that and bLe- s have been attended Harrison Mr. Bennett had been set for to- morrow Lut it has been postponed | until Feb. 8, aithough Jesse T. Dun- bar, of Norwalk, counsel for Ben- rett referred to the Jan. 31 date in his letter to the commissione: Mr. Dunbar as personal counsel has questioned the legality of Commis- sioner Sto 's procedure, Weddings JOHNSON—VERGASON Theodore Carl Edward Johnson of Cottage Place and Mrs. Jessle Helen Vergason of 462 Church street hoth |of this city obtained a marriage [license in New York city Saturday. ,They were married in the Little | Church Around the Corner yester- | day. Mr. Johnson is the son of | ward and | bride is a native of New Britain, | daughter of Frederick and Mary Mec- | | Clintock Vergason. 8he divorced her former husband, Leroy 8. Lawyer, in Hartford on March 15, 1927, VARKELIN—ZILINSKAS Vincent Varkelin of Hartford and Miss Magdalene Zllinskas of 39 Har- vard street, were married this morn- ing at 8 o'clock at St. Andrew | church. Rev., Edward V. Grikis, pas- |tor, performed the ceremony and officiated at the nuptial high mass. FOUR ARE INJURED AS AUTO CRASHES TROLLEY Two Yale Students and Two Young Women Victims of Accident in Hartford | Hartford, Jan, 30-—Seriously |jured when the automobile in Which they were riding collided with @ | West Hartford trolley car near West | Hartford center early and two Yale students were removed |to the Prospect hospital for treat- i ment, P | The girls who were injured are Margaret O'Connell of 59 Burnside avenue, East Hartford, who is suf- |fering from abrasion and contusions lower jaw and Elizabeth Foley of $8 | Connecticut Boulevard whose injur- ies consist of a fractured left rib and contusions of the body. Monroe Fearing of Greenwich suf- |fered several fractured rigs and T. |J. Patterson, Jr.,, of Milrord the other Yale student in the car, was | badly cut about the face and legs. The two students and Miss Foley | were discharged from the hospital land removed to their homes this imorning and Miss Connell will be to the hospital authorities. According to the West Hartford police, Patternson swerved to the left, either attempting to pass thie trolley car on the wrong side or skid- ding on the slippery road, just be- | fore the crash. The automobile was proceeding toward Hartford at the time and collided with the w bound trolley car. It s believed that the automobile was en route to East Hartford returnipg with {two girls to their homes, { The report of the police is not yet complete, according to a state- {ment made today. Pattorson has Dbecin arrested on a charge of reck- less driving. Miss Carleton to Give Program in Springfield | Miss Effey Carlton, & popular | reader in this eity, will give an en- {tertainment Wednesday evening at the Springficld Girls' club, Spring- field, Mass. | The program will be as follows: PART I Araminta and The Stepladder . .. > . Mytle Reed 11 Tsa Retween Two Loves Da Leetla Boy ..... Betty at the Ball Game ©m the Street Car Jane .. Booih i PART 11 Her First Ride in an Attymobile 1 Nora and the Twins Leetle Bate . Miss Ray of Sunshine in Cme Act Comedy Play “A Pair of Lunatics” Tarkington Sick Room Jackson. W. H. Taylor and Buch soidiers in the war of | Five p ) anan—were 1518, Mathilda Johnson. The | iof the body and a fracture of the| dismissed this afternoon according | the | .. T. A. Daly . T. A. Daley | mation of the Trans-oceanic Corpo- | ration, to have a capitalization of $50,000,000. Mr. |the United S$tates shipping board ||‘or a hearing January 24 to submit a proposal for a loan of $90,000,000, | approximately 75 per cent of the | cost of six of the new liners. i Germany's colors will fly from the North German Lloyd's 46,000,- {ton “Bremen” and ‘Europa,” now being built for use by 1929, While some designers fear the 1,000-footers may find difficulty in spanning with keel virtually unsup- i ported the 300 fect between the At- \lantic’s wave crests, others point | out that the addition of only 46 feet to structural design alrcady found | satisfactory in the “Majestic,” larg- | est steamship in the world, presents ! no great problem. ! It is not expected they wiH great- ly surpass ning time of five days and 10 hours for the New York to Liverpool vo age, but they undoubtedly will re- quire the immediate construction of 11,100-foot piers, a length neither !port at present provides. They | probably will to a degree exceed the “Majestic’s” capacity of 4,000 pas- sengers and considerable freight. The proposed ‘“four-day liners” | approximate in size the new Ger- | man ships, but would surpass them lin speed at least by seven knots. L’rentath'e plans call for a length not far below 900 feet, beam of 80 feet, 31,000 tonnage and a sustain- ed speed of 33 knots through use of a propulsion system combining the | advantages of the Diesel engine and {turbo-electric drive to four propel- |lers, Crew requirements are reduced to one-third that of present passen- !ger liners and fuel expenditure to | {one-half, while the ships, sailing daily from each port with limited cargoes of express freight and mail, would make 37 trips a year as com- { pared with the present average of 4. Four hundred of the $00 passen- gers are to be accommodated in sin- gle and double staterooms and the | others in two-berth cabins at rates | i | in- | no greater than the present, due to ' Mail and | the reduced travel time. passenger planes would land and |take off from a deck running the yesterday | entire length of the ships and hav- | moruing, two East Hartford girls ing elevator connection with & be-| oree girect, Hartford, low-deck *hangar” for servicing and storage, In event of war the ships, {normally not unlike the new air- {plane carriers ‘“Lexington” and | “Saratoga” in appearance, could I conver into that type of war ve sel within an estimated 72 hours. Wilder has asked | | her sustained 25-knot! speed nor better her regular run-| Evening at Barritt Hotel | _An organization meeting of the New Britain Lawyers' club will be !held tomorrow evening at € o'clock at the Burritt Hotel, at which time | committees and permanent officers will be chosen. The club has been in an embryo state for some time and tomorrow night's meeting will isee it swing officially into action. ! Articles of association have been jcirculated among the attorneys in !this city, who have affixed their signatures thereto. By so doing they agree to associated themselves with the club to work for the lawyers having offices in New Britain. { Tomorrow night a soclal commit- tee and an executive committee will be chosen, in addition to a staff of }alflcen. It is understood that the | organization will have an annual meeting each year, together with | special meetings which will be called | when conditions warrant them. EDWARD A, PETERSON DIES . ATPARK STREET HOME Foreman of P. & F. Corbin Plating Room Resident Here For Past 36 Years Edward A. Peterson, foreman of | {the plating room at P. & F. Cor- {bin's during the greatest part of the 136 years he has been in the com- |pany’s employ and one of the fore- {most Swedish residents in this com- munity. died yesterday morning at |8:40 o'clock at his home, 402 Park istreet, following a week's illness. He | wag 69 years old. Mr. Peterson has been active in the affairs of the Swedish Evangeli- |cal Bethany church and was one of jits former deacons. He was born in |Eweden, but about 46 years ago he \came to New Britain, He took an |carly interest in the church and was {2 moving figure in two of its soci- eties, the Fryhoken and Bethesda organizations. Surviving him are his wife | Hulda Peterson; a daughter, i Robert J. S8andall of 400 Park street land two sons, Albin Peterson, a druggist in Hartford, and Rev. r:a-‘ ward J. Petcrson, former councilman {from the third ward and a former | "z‘ rmy licutenant, who ir staying at | | his parents’ home at present. There | are also seven grandchildren. Funeral services will take place | ial the home tomorrow afternoon at | 2 o'clock. Rev. Carl J. Fredeen, pas- | itor of the Bwedish Bethany church, ] officiate. Burial will be in Fair |view cemetery. TAXI HITS PARKED SEDAN As Frank T. McMahon of 123! | driving a | Yellow Cab, was going into Main | street from Arch street about 1 o'clock this mornirg, a chain slipped | off one of the rear wheels and the | cab skidded and struck a sedan | which was parked near the corner | of Chestnut and Main streets, The | | { | THE Herald will do a quick job of filling the job if you phone your help ad to 925 up to 8 p. m. ‘Surely in its 56,000 readers, the very person you want will be reached. Yes, you | can charge you r ad and we'll help yoa write it, too. | A box number | select just the from the applicants. enables you to one you want In no other way can you get the SELECTION. . T. A. Daly| Telephone 925 Now MAD*10 ORDER” {©1975. BY NEA SERVICE. WC. 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