New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1928, Page 15

DANIELSON NAHED FORSCHOOL BOARD the work of rescue. The physicians ning. Clyde Finnemore, district Members New York & Hartford Stack Exchanges set up an emergensy hospital where chairman, will preside.: Following the slightly injured were treated and‘ the report of Harry Gustafson. 31 WEST MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN H t made to assuage the . AT chairman of the building committee. ! Nominated on Firsf Ballof af| (Conunues From Fient Pase) |, R Phone. more. scriousty murt | ResigS 85 PHYSICIAN 10 ENGAGE | < fow remeric wit-ve msde mo-mmve | S6YETAl Important Stocks Are * TEL 2040 ; 5 ference for today to decide on in- |until ambulances could take them to | g < or W. Raymond Crumb, Judge New . ] A il it 2 " | nospitals, | |ell Jennings, Arthur 8. Barnes, No- | FT: ] A HARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW TELEPHONE 3-13¢3 Ropublican Cancgs | romevtory wome Rache wan g b0l | s o g 0PI PROGGR ot St vnar o sy e Fraction Lower as Harket Opens Although there were four candi- dates in the field for nomination for 1 school committecman, only one bal- lot was required last night to selcct Aaron A. Danielson as the choice of H R 00 several important stocks fractionai narshal in in. Ment since 1922, has resigned to ., several g s lonai § i i o e e it It o et b W I o ek sen Ao o, e men s | Insurance Co 8 o ision at the- hos, At e . ey il 2 24x30. erred, 8] e = 5 aar Mr'mle);nc‘:.l.:o;n :en(‘elll:'e‘:‘lm;;‘ e e 'were. rashe.| Property damage probably will not idlize in children's discases, He will | GRSTOttn ehch B4xil. ANDOVE Do EXPLOSION TAKES HEAVY LIFE TOLL the dead and many of the injured. As he entered the devastated area at the head of a searching party he stumbled over the body of Collins, lan old friend. Cases of Herolsm NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, —_— ed half a dosen priests and twice | {that number of physicians who were | summoned by the' management. Sev- | eral priests risks their lives to bringl absolution to the dying or joined in shortly after the blast were District | Attorney Robert T. Bushnell of | Middlesex county and State Detec- tives Sherlock and O'Neil. Inspector Horrigan of the state_department of public safety, was dispatched to rep- exceed $75,000. Mr. Kahle said on SATURDAY, FEBRUA Nfi in.fl—le public schools. DR, SHITHLEAVING |5 e CITY SCHODL POST | | Dedication excrcises of the mew | Fall Mountain district schoolhouse | will be held at 8 o'clock this eve- | Joseph P. O'Connell and Superin- | tendent of Schools Karl A. Reich | The singing of “America” by the ! pupils of the school will conclude | the program, which will be followc1 | by dancing. Dr. Vincent J. Smith, examining physician for boys in the public and parochial schools, who has been in the employ of the school depart- remain in the employ of the de- Wi e pifanai b e Lot andl o lade ek als o il v s L ol e A RY 11, 1928 PRICE CHANGES EVEALY BALANCET PUTNAM & CO We Offer: New York, Fob. 11 0P — Pric We Offer changes were about evenly bal anced between gains and losses u- the stock market opened today wit! Niagara Fire terday passed the dividend, ad William Flannigan, 32, a welder,| was brought to the Massachusetts| General hospital at Boston with three fellow workers. Although his face was burned almost beyond rec- ognition Flannigan gamely insisted | that the other men be treated first. | lights, the present line of the Con- necticut Light and Power company does not extend to that part of the city and for that reason it will he ! : necessary to use kerosene lamps for | Barly intcrest was most mani- any activities held in the evenings st in shares which recently have at the school. The heating system. | Fesponded to favorable trade condi- Sherwood H. Raymond four, and | Rev. Dr. J. E. Klingberg and Romeo A. Grise one each. | After Alderman William H. Judd | had called the meeting to order, | Councilman Stanley M. Cooper was | vanced 1 3-8 on announcement the General Motors will purchase out | standing holdings at 93 a share, partment until the health and sani- tation sub-committee can procure a successor. Dr. Smith has hai this plan in mind for some time. During the lirst two months of the present the basis of early estimates. He did not expect that the disaster would greatly affect the plant's production | since other etills will be “stepped up” and the reserve tanks drawn on, if needed. Price on Application. As Charles Poirler, an assistant foreman at the plant, fought off {@eath at the same hospital, his wi refused to budge from outside the |ward door where she had sobbingly taken up a waiting post. Mother of Four Collapses | Mrs. Martha Landrigan, mother |of four children, who had been early |checred by mistaken _information |trom firemen that her husband was |safe, collapsed when his body was identified. Landrigan had been a deep sea diver for years and had {only recently retired from his peril- {ous profession for what his family | thought would be safer work. Boston, Feb. 11 (® — A sweep- ng investigation into the cause of he explosion and fire in the plant |of the Beacon Oil company in Everett yesterday in which at least 12 persons lost their lives will be made by officials of the state fir: marshal’s office, Marshal George C al anneunced today. As soon as witnesses ean be summoned an in- quest will be held, he said. The state fire marshal expressed |the opinion that the disaster should not have occurred had proper care fbeen taken in handling the explo- |sive materials used n the business {and he said all officials and employes | school year he studied in Harvard | yich nas been installed in the base- {ment of the school, will not be put | in use this winter, according to pres- !ent plans, a stove in each room to furnish the required heat. The first session will be held in the mnew building next Tuesday. The building committee in charge {of the construction of the school- house has consisted of Harry Gustaf son, chairman, Frank H. Woods. Trene Clark, D. Clark Hare, Jokn Dube and Clyde Finnemore, chatr- man of the district, Rockwell, Temple Meets Rockwell Temple held its regular { tions, including packing house, bak- |ing and copper issues. American Zinc common and. preferred quickly attained mew record prices of 15 1-2 and 76 7-8 respectively and American Bnuff preferred rose {nearly 4 points to a new peak in response to favorable 1927 earn- ings. Amusement stocks which have recently undergone liquidation. showed early strength, particularly Pathe *“A,” which improved more than a point. There was some buy- |ing of smelected motor accessors ! shares, notably Eaton Axle. Yellow Truck common was extensively sold 55 West Main Street Members of New York and Hartford Stock Eschangs Edward L. Newmarker, Manager We Offer:— meeting at Arcanum hall Thursday on the poor earnings showing, fall- Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Gilligan, another of those killed,|who ~might have any information left a wife and six children, the|bearing on the explosion would he youngest of whom was born a week |summoned to appear at the in- night and excmplified the degrees of ing to the lowest level of the year. ihe order. Many guests attended Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific representatives of citles in this were up about 2 points, but other AARON A. DANIELSON elected sccretary on motion of Al-| derman David L. Nair. Alderman Falk placed the name of Mr. Danielson in nomination and Alderman J. Gustav Johnson second- ed the nomination. Councilman C. | Adrian Carlson nominated Rev. Dr, | Klingberg. The name of Romeo A. Grise was next brought into the caucus by Councilman John 8. Dixon, and nominations closed after Councilman W. Spaulding Warner had nominated Sherwood H. Ray- mond, ‘When the result ballot was made known, Alderman Nair moved that Mr. Danielson be the unanimous choice of the meect- Ing and it was so voted. The new school committee mem- ber will be elected by the council next Wednesday night and his first meeting will probably be the special session at which action will be taken on a proposed Benior high &chool addition. Mr. Danielson has been a mem- ber of the board of assessors and is prominent in Swedish-American Re- publican cluh activities. He is a real cstate dealer. Falcons to Commemorate Anniversary of Patriots A mass meeting in commemora- tion of the birthday of two pa- triots, Lincoln and Kosciuszko, will be held next Monday evening at ¥alcons’ hall, Broad sireet, under the auspices of Nest 88 of the Po- lish Falcons of America. The pro- gram will consist of speceches and gongs. The chief speaker will be Dr. T. A. Starzynski of Pittsburgh, president of the organization and colonel in the Polish army, who re- cently returned from an extensive tour of Poland. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS of the informal | ago, Friends who have not yet told her of her husband’s death, report- ed that the family had only $2 in cash, Probable Cause President R, B. Kahie of the com- |pany declared that the explosion | probably was caused by the failure of a low pressure still, The affected still formed one unit in a total of 25 in the plant which covers a tract of 50 acres on the bank of the Mys- tic river over Charlestown. The first blast came with a roar that was heard in citles for miles around and almost immediately a igigantic cloud of thick black smoke spurted upward. Within a few min- utes five alarms summoning help from half dozen nearby cities had been sounded and the entire aren was shrouded in the gloom of the oil pall through which jets of flame leaped 200 feet inte the alr, Visible Far Away The smoke was clearly visible tn Texington to the north and Brain. tree, miles to the south, and was reported by ships well down to the horizon at sea. Medical Examiner Thpmas 8. Burrell who was in S8om- erville turned his car about at the sound of the explosion and raced for this ecity, Fire apvaratus was rushed from alden, Medford, Chelsea and Bos- ton fo help check the spread of the flames which for a time threatened a battery of 10 storage tanks each containing 40.000 gallons of ofl, Firemen Are Alded A company fire brigade of 250 men joined with the regular firemen fin |battling the spread of the burning lquid in the dircction of these tanks. Preliminary investigation indicated that most of the dead and injured probably had been at work in the boiler and machine shops adjacent {to the first still which exploded. Both of the buildings were levelled by the blast and fire. 1In the plant's office, scveral score of clerical em- | ployes became panic stricken and one girl was knocked unconscious in [the rush for exits. Fellow workers |returning when it became apparent that the building was in no danger, ifound her in that condition and she was taken to a hospital to be re- {vived. | Early Arrivals l Early arrivals on the scene includ- —_— o ——————————— ] Lincoln Day Reflections {Thoughts of the immortal Lincoln sug- gest leadership—sincerity of purpose and integrity, There is character in the very name. fIn keeping with the spirit of the day this bank would emphasize the fact that the steadfast principles which govern all suc- cessful undertakings, govern individuals too. That success may be achieved, the first requisite quite naturally is a secure financial foundation and we urge the starting and maintaining of such, here with this Mutual Bank. quest. “It does mot seem to me, he sald, “that such a thing should have happened if care was taken in the handling of the business. There is an unusual amount of oil stored there. While as yet we do not know the cause of the explosion, I be- lieve from the expericnce T have had in such matters that the fire could have been prevented.” Edward F. Horrigan, state fire inspector, who was sent to the cenc immediately after the explo- slon occurred yesterday afternoon. was still there this morning but was expected to make his repori during the day. AMERIGANS TOPAY TRIBUTE 10 LINDY i (Continued From First Page) | also | Ambassador and Mrs, flew with him. Keys To City Before this flight he received the keys to the city of Havana. The greater part of the Ameri- can colony, and visiting Amcricans was expected to attend a luncheon given in Lindbergh’s honor today by the United States Chamber of Com- merce Jn Havana at the National Ceslno, The last official function in the flyer's honor will be held tonight when the Cuban Geographical so- clety gives a banquet at the Acad- emy of Sclence. President Machado will present him with the geographi- cal medal in tribute to his services to science. | 1t is understood that the Pan- | American conference has heen un- able to arrange a plenary session in { honor of Lindbergh since the con- | ference program is filled. | Tomorrow Lindbergh intends to make final preparations for his St Louls flight retiring early so as ‘o start at daybreak Monday for his home port, Judah | | Clara Bow, Facing Knife Of Surgeon, Is “Nervous” Los Angeles, ¥eb, 11 (UP)—Clara The red haired herolne of many flapper roles said she wouldn't be | “seared. ! “But it's a new | marked, *“and I'm nervous.” . it she a e 5 little § operation for appendicitis tomorrow. | © district. Veronica Carter, D. D. G. , of Plainville, was presented with a fitted traveling case. ’ Deaths_ DR. VINCENT J. SMITH | e e university. | Gustave Olson, 66 years old, of 90 He is the first full-time physician | Arch street, a resident of this city the school department had in its Practically all his life, dled of pneu- cmploy. When he came here in Monia at the New Britain General 1922, he took the place of two | hospital yesterday afternoon. part-time physicians. In his first | He was injured while at work on year he Commercial street about five weeks charge of both boys and girls and he examined 7,399 ?280. He recovered but was later children. taken sick and was in eritical condi- He ehanged the entire system ;tlon when he entered the hospital and built up his department so that | Yesterday. it grew ge enough to make nec-| He has no relatives as far as is essary an increase in the nursing |known. Funeral arrangements, in st charge of Frank P, Duffy, undertak- ! er, are incomplete, 1ff from two to four nurses. Dr. Smith is a native of this city. He was graduvated from St. Mary’ parochial school in 1909, New Britain High school in"1913. Catho- lic university in 1916, and Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1920. He had practical experience in Phila- delphia General hospital from 1920 in a hospital for ses in New York previous to taking his place in th schools her B (Continucd from Page Seven) Funerals | Joseph Mund neral services for Joseph Mund 37 Myrtle street, who collapsed on the door step of his home after a day of work at Russell & Erwin's and died of influenza a few moments later, were held this morning at § | o'clock at St. Peter's ehurch. Xev. Charles Coppens, pastor, celebrated a requiem high mass. The Austrian Singing society was represented among the six pall bearers, Burial was in St. Mary cemetery. test for ladies, ce ha the program. free style. An ob- also been entered on Application for entry to any of the events may be made at the skating house at the lageon. Fugene Jones, Sr. Five sons of Bugene Jones, Sr., veteran emiploye of Landers, Frar Forestville Woman Granted IHvorce ' o jark (o, were pall bearers at the Josophins, Wisniow of 1%orest yynoiq) of their father this morning ville was granied a divoree yester- | g grejock. The sixth pall bearer day by Judge L. Waldo Marvin in | (o 5o nosie e " n S0l Arered. the superior court at Hartford from | gy o A0 PG, O ek £nd Tgnatz jowski, an inmate 0 the |70 Ly divard | Frawley, te hospital, on the un-| ‘43 contested complaint that he had E ; | The funcral was held at St ‘s church where a solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated by ey awlor, celebrant; Rev, 1dy, deacon and Rev. Walter A. McCrann, eub dea- 1 con. | been insane for the past five years. The couple were married in New in 1916, Mrs. Wieniewski was represented by Judge S 11 Mink of this city, was gr: ody of an only child. 1 | To Ghserve Holiday " | Lincoln’s birthday, which falls o1 M T, ‘Grean jeahy ‘Ave Sundag, February 12th, will be ob | Miria” at the offertory and “Somte Sweet D the 13th. Th " at the conclusion of the y will be closed all cises will be held rved on Monds ks of the c nd specis teass 34 e at the organ. Flower bearers were Raymond Frawley, CharleseJones and Richard Scanlon, :ther Lyddy conducted the com- 2] mittal servie Burial was in St Mary's cemetery. Arthur E. Anderson. Funcral services for Arthur E. Anderson of 551 Stanley street, ve i cran of the World War who died in night, will be held at Erwin chapel this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. C. T hany church, will officiate, jurial will be in Fairview cemetery. John Babula. The funeral of John Babula of 54 Silver street will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock at his home. Purial will be in Sacred Heart cometery. ¥ ! i ¥ i 5 Emil T. Prange. Funeral services for Emil T. I'runge of 49 Linden street, veteran of the U. 8. Navy who died sudden- ly Thursday morning, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at 8t lowing prayer at his home. Rev. Martin W. Gaudian, pastor. will of- “I am a Doctor And in my profe; ognized the need and conven- ience of a checking account.” ficate. Buria! will be in Fairview cemetery. Mrs. Mary McInerney Funeral A. ‘McInerney, old resident of New- Xilos Be.Pond com . 29 following figures: Corrent anseit. 1a- |¥ ington who died Thursday at her| North & Judd 32 cluding accounts receivable, notes - |§ home, were held this morning a: | peck, Stowe & Wil 21 recelvable and cash, minus a 1,200 Firemen From Nearby s 10 o'clock at Sacred Heart church. reserve for bad debts, $110,929.74. Towns Called to Help ssion I have rec- Wethersfield. Rev. George Grady Its inventories, including merchan-| Franklin, Mass, Feb, 11 (UP)— was the celebrant; Rev. Matthew dise, raw material and supplies, | Firemen from seven mearby Com- Brady was deacon, and Rev. Ray- $320,247.37, making the total cur-'munities joined the fire department mond Kennedy was sub deacon of a rent assets $486,948.64. Land is requiem high mass. God, to Thee” at the borne from the church. |H. Goodale and Thomas F. Kerwin. \The flower Kiley of New Haven. Father was in St. Mary's cemetery, city. John J. Crean’ accompanjee ' Birooklyn Naval hospital Wednesday | Fredeen, pastor of the Swedisp | John’s German Lutheran church fol- services for Mrs. Mary Arthur Keating sang “Nearer My | end of the mass when the casket was being | The pall bearers were Edward are accounts payable of $20.597.74 The audicnce left the building in an Kiley, Howard Kiley, E. Rudolph | ™ (0rermrmicrrs army; and accrued wages and taxes of $3.- | crderly manner. The flames spread Carlson, Fred Callahan. Benjamin pird 8 ae, |252.72. making the total current quickly, necessitating calls for as- bearer was E. Myron Grady conducted com- mittal services at the grave. Burial this Price on Application rafls were quiet in the early hour. | | Leaders such as General Motors and | |U. 8. Steel were relatively idle. For- elgn exchanges opened unchanged THE MARKET A_'l' 11:30 A, M. (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) 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Earnings were at e ral Annual Statement %0, EXTOAE Tore ot erred The American Silver Co. report as of December 31, 1927, contains the ;‘;’;:'I:"’ s Fafnir Bearing Co Hart & Cooley .. landers, F ..... N B Machine ... N B Machine pfi . of this town late yesterday in fight- valued at $18,018.05; buildings. ma- ing a fire which destroyed the Merse chinery and equipment, $350,537.63. | byilding, in the business distriet, at A depreciation reserve of $21%- !5 loss estimated at $200,000, 057.41 has been set aside. |~ The fire started in the projeetion On the liability side of the ledger room of the Morse Opers Howse. Joseph A. Haffey UNDERTA Phone 1 Mary Residence 17 Su Tulips, Hyaciathe, Dafedils, Freesias. e, liabilities, $25,850.46. The capital stock is $400,000 and the surplus $195,802.05. sistance from Walpole, Neorfolk, Wrentham, Milford, Millla, Atticbore and Woonsocket, R, L y Three firemen were overcome - by smoke during the fire, but were seriously hurt. Cause of the has mot been determined. There are two million lepers in ase | the world. About one-fourth are in tsle” | China. India has nearly as many. A3 W. Mnin W, Prof. Bidg. Tel |“The Telegraph Fiorist of New Bri .