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FLO0D l][M[IN NOW Mlssourl Legislature May Adopt THREATENING WEST Lawto Take Stain From Two Boys|. ain Path Ui Taint of “Criminality” Officially Placed on Youngsters Aged 7 and 9 Years hy Antiquated Statute. Galifornia and Nevad Rising Waters ady 1o Give icramento; 1150 runs into state er itselr, 1'ajaro rive 1S, K Town is Isola orts from the { indicate that the Nor ross the Ameri cramento, Ihe town w ‘ z00d portion of the cit Northbound traflic ove to Northern rail cd, . Forty wmaroon:d NMarysvill overflowed. Three 10" vicat Japan: in the where lo the I'he rain in the mountains swelled e danger averted. lowering the Malones dam to control 1 Lieight of the flood a seven feet 1 o parapet. The Stanisl: its banks ne amily n o Malo ool vas gates nd then run-of of five looded half a danger in t was considercd past, The Pajord ri “outh of San Irancisc i blo the luding part trict. Many e city of of wed by water, an for tr cted merchant portatior sone atch 1 rom CENTRAL a1 SLWAYS DEAD TIRED? RHEUMATISM CASE Iept o Ma river ¢ s were ab Alarm alifor- The 1y of . Wwhich nto near ted lood district Sacram fron y was under r r the Sac W owa ol o reported ands ne Yuba r Inches of Rain bove Sonora nislaus rais During 1 of into tlood Wa d boats Reno, [ ot B Lton Edward and Ernest Shetron Jefferson City, Mo. only and 4 Ernes Even though seven years old, I t Shetron arc The souri orable nals, staty he state of Mis- the law is inex discriminations of t say so, making like th Welfare {hat the boys workers vain the pleaded in removed from Boonville reformatory. IFather J. Flanigan, who directs a boys’ hom aha, Neb., which bears his n went to Gevernor Sam asked that Bd- paroled to him. although sympa . Was powc He explained that the Missouri parole laws will not permit the removal of criminals to another state. Cherless € st heen Bdwa and war st b I excentive dhood very kdind to they criminals and ormatory they out of a babyliood in their yer, Mo, One day ad nothing to play with they decided to hecome miost ndi hroke and A hig po- hig into il they storn BEILMAN NOT HELD ON Driver Who=c Auto hilled Martin Sehultz Freed hy Action of Yrosecntion, zation havir ght no evidenee fland Villiam F. Reardon Made Manager of Stanley Hotel SUERS PATHER'S PLACE #) Kidd, daugiiter sent them to the prison at Boontille, There were of big boys there who talked about the big crimes they had committed and some explained how they would “pull bigger jobs when the got out of stir.” Naturally, T pretty small. The law might them criminals, but the other oners called them babies, To Get Their Chance Then people started coming in to talk to the boys. One was Father Flanigan, who told about the home he had up in Nebraska, where there were other guests their ag nd where a fellow had a ¢ nee to play and learn other things than how to steal automobiles with gangs. After while word that a Lill was going to e presented to the state legislature, and that their billl It was going to “special dispensation 1o erase gma of ‘crin from their » that they could be sent to Gmaha homre So Edward and Frne after all. One of these going through the hig g ville with Iather I ver come back (Copyright, s idge, who call a came HU lives" the are happy, days they're s of Toon- NEA Service, Tne.) | MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Notice REPUBLICAN PRIMARILS Republican electors are herehy notified that Primaries for the nom- ination of candidates for Town (Clerk, Collector, Treas Comptroller, Two Selectmen, two members of the Board of Relief, two members of the School Commit- tec, Registrar of Voters, Alderman in Second, Fourth and wards two Councilmen m ¢ Ward will be held on Friday, M 20th 1925, from four to eight M. in he following places First Ward: High school rect entrance. Fourth W gh school, cond, Third, Fifth ds: Republican M xth ch re P Bussctte Headquarters iin st followi for the following offices Donald 1. Ifred 1. Tho Tax Colle adotte I"or Mayor [ For Tre L [ [ or Town tler) peor Sheldor Hanford 1. Curti Voters William Lewis W Al M. Pe rs of School Committec Aaron Daniclson s W. Young ard of Relicf Hagist . Morey H VGl Gibne William May Vogel Whi Hu 1onis W Roger W tman Walter R Fallk OMMITTEL Chairman big | lots | ¥ | Morris ward and Ernest felt | pris- | fine | and go | it was | nigan-—and | "WANTED Junior | Sinth | wetitions | lett | Loomis i o Lawyer <on NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928 City Items The action of the Aetna Finance against Barry & Bamforth was e o day. There will be a special meeting of | Lovisey Moore tent, at 0dd Fellows' hall Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock followed by a social for membe I’51 {and friends. | H: | will nmond auxiliary, hold a regular mecting evening at § o'clock in ate armory. Mrs. Frances Williams will enter- members friends of L. D, 14 camp, Sons of Veterans aux- tomorrow night from to oclock at the home of Mrs Weir, 440 Church street ‘athan C. Avery, com \ander of Fddy-Glover post, Ameri- an Legion, will he the principal er at a dinner of the Norwich iversity club, which will he held it tha City ciub in Hartford tomor- row evening. His topic will be “In- lustrial Preparedness.” 1. F. McEnroe. formerly of ity, has arrived from Miani, 1 a few day her s Capta spea this Fla., Students to Take Out Whipping Insurance Cardiff, Wales, March 26 (P —Stu- s in the Penarth county organized an “insurance which offers monetary pupils wl whipped Ior a fe premium any company to in- geiting a heating. zets called up for P nt he can go from the principal’s office ters of the insurance collect his “benefit, school com balms ave any™ student can get the again case sure him a in | corporal Istraight [to the headqus |company and { payment.” The ben: |dents on e has proved 0 far and the siudents have eager- Iy “queued up” to turnover their pennics o hecome “policy holders.” shme efits also extend to ac the sport W hceler W ant: Boxing In State Under Control Rridgeport, March 26 (P—State | Senator Charles E. Wheeler, Strat. |ford, today conferred with Gov-| {ernor Trumbull in Hartford on a roposition 1o have amateur boxing put under o control until it has | been thoroughly investigated. Coroner J. J. Phelan will hold an |inquest tomorrow into the death of Aliff Ferguson of Meriden, | who died Saturday, it is belicved from injurics received Wednesday night in a boxing bhout with Tommy Carroll of Bridgeport. Carroll is | held under a technical charge of | manslaughter and as been re- [leased on bonds of §1,000: In city court today his case was continued until April 2, New Haven \\ oman Dies i After Auto Accident New Haven, March 26.—(/P—Mrs. James Brennan wife of the presi- dent of an undertaking firm here died at the 1 today from in- uries she received Thursday when {the car in which she was with her. | husband was in collision with a ma- I chine opcrated by Fred T. Manroz, [of Torestville The Brennan car nd at the time it w to determine whercin ¢ the To- sponsibility for the crash. Both Mr. | Brennan and Ranroz were charged With reckless driving and ordercd to | be in court April 10. Coroner Mix had already hegun an inquiry. hosy was demolished s pot possible SNOWSTORMS RAGING Sinferople, U. 8. 8. T, March 26. | (UP)—Unprecedented snowstorms | | have swept the Crimea, the Russian | Riviera, in recent weeks, | |involved in 674 acciden ‘“hm accident fay PASSENGER BUSES CRASH RATE HIGH 629 in 674 Accidents During |; 1927, Records Reveal Hartford, March motor buses have a hig rate, according to the number than any type of motor vehicle on Connecticut highways, reports to the state motor vehicle department show. During 1327 there were 6 huses in use and these re a rate of with an average of al- dents a day and mere ery 1 — Passenger 1er accident vehicles w 108 per cent most two ac than one accident for This accident rate was more than three times that of type of ve- hicle next most frequently in accidents taxicabs were 1,813 taxicabs in use or 34.7 per cent, were in during the year While th ident rate 1927 was an increase 2 per cent over the pre the drivers of these vel able to show marked imy by decreasing the number sions for which they we responsible. The “improye ord” of bus drivers, in applied to responsibility dents, was better than t ers of any other fype o During the year they cut the percentage which they were from 46.8 per cent per cent in 1927. Buses Travel 16,000,000 Miles The number of miles operated an- nually by passenger buses is tre- mendous and must be considered statisties are quoted 1t is estimated that the mileage of buses in Connecticut in 1927 reach- 16,000,000 miles or more, Few pleasure or husiness cars equal the mileage of buses, which are operat- ed over fixed ro r daily schedules in all se \ average of from 25.000 to : miles an- nually is estimated for each bus. Another point which may be cited in the favors of bus operations is that only persons were injur- od seriously 674 accidents in which buses were involved. Hoverer, the death rate was high, five heing killed, none of whom were passen- gers in the buses Responsibility for 46 per the accidents in which taxi involved is laid to their drivers. Ti is about 4 per cent more than the percentage dircetly caused hy buses, 2 per cent more than that for pri- vate passenger vehicles, but 3.6 per cent less than the responsibility per- age for commercial motor ve- Taxicabs are also estimated 1o operate more miles th most rivate cars heing in almost con- stant use through year. 7.525 Business Trucks in Collision The department’s record show that commercial motor vehic more frequently involved in dents than private passenger ca according to the number in use, Dur- ing 1927, approximatcly 17.2 per cent of the mercials in use were mercials, or The com were at fault in 49.6 the There and 630, accidents for of about vious year icles buses in were ovement of colli- directly ent rec- fact, as it for acci- t of driv- vehicles, able to ents for ceponsible to 42 er were of a held to 1 seven n the cent of hs were hicles. acci drivers. cent of their |%ald to have caused {giving a responsibility in | {during the year. 117.7 to | passenger involved | Ito the fire station vesterday are | | Rtiga, jone officer and thess accidents, Of the 238,643 pri- vate passenger cars in use, 85,320, or 14.7 per cent were in accidents, and 4¢ per cent were found to be directly responsible for the acci- dents. Motorcycles established an acci- dent rate of 12:5 per cent according 0 use, this being the lowest rate for ny type of vehicle in frequent use. Chere were 3,364 registered during the year, and 423 reported as in ac- |cidents, However, 196 of these were the accidents rate of 4! per cent for this type of vehicle Taxicabs and commercial moiot vehicles were the only types to show decreases in accident rates, accord- ing to the number of vehicles in use The percentage for taxicabs droped from 35.8 to 34.7 per cent, and for commercials from 17.2 per cent. Increases for other types were as follows: Private cars, from 13.5 to 14 buses or jitneys, 106 to 108 per cent; motoreyeles, 9.9 to 12.5 per cent. Bus Drivers Improve | Bus drivers led all others in the improvement records.” Not only was the percentage of accidents for which they were directly responsible lower than that for any other group, but the percentage of improvement was greater. The records of the va ious groups for 1926 and 1927 were as follows: Rus driver nt; 1927, 42 per ce 26, 44.2 per cent; commercials. 49.6 per per cent, 192 cen i per passenger, 1 44 por cent; a1.6 per cent, taxicabs, 1926 46 per cent; motoreycles, per cent, 1927, 465 per Vers of moforeycles were the only group to sh an increase in the mber of accidents for which they ere held direetly responsible. 19 19 45.6 Two Enter “Death Week” In Colorado Prison Colo., March 26.—(UP")— Raymond Noakes and Arthur Os- bhorn, today entered “death week The pair are to be hanged some time this week for the killing of | 'red N. Selak, “hermit of Grand | * whom they hanged to a tree | a dispute over land houndaries. | angman will be necessary, a anical method of hanging 15} used in Colorado. The convicted man’s weight as he steps on the trap after the noose djusted releases water from a keg. When the last drop leaves the keg | a 350 ponnd weight is released, jerking the subject into the air. |puttea out. 1 [at 'Fire In Baptist Church On Elm St. Extinguished (0. No. 2 of the fire department extinguished a blaze in the basement of the German Baptist church next on Elm street, at 8:30 o'clock, before services had been opened. | Smoke was scen issuing from the church and the firemen found that a board under the furnace had taken Had it not been discovered at once, the hlaze might have gpread | throughont the church. morning REVOLUTIONARY PLOT London, March 26 (A —An ex- change telegraph dispatch from Latvia, today says the ogpu (Soviet political police) have dis- | covered a new plot to overthrow the Soviet regime in Russia and arrested 25 other persons. | a mable to sicep al e SMITH OUT FOR PLACE ON HOUSTON DELEGATION Registrar of Voters Candidate for Delegates to National Demo- cratic Convention. democratic a Aidate Ut dele- national Thomas J. Smith, gistrar of voters, Will be for & place on the Co zation to the democrati conventien at Houston, T un- less there are other delegates in tford county who, in the opinion the local wing of the party, e of exerfing stronger influc convention Smith, who cireles Aas, of ve at the Mr has Lecn ac democratic for the past years, is one of the outstanding lowers of tie Jeficrsonian pa Connecticut and has been a f figure at many state and natic conventions, Although several names have heen mentioned to re New Britamn on the dels Registrar Smith is the only nounced candidate. tive in 40 fol- in vilian al her pre- sent an Hoover Manayzcrl‘d\m Butler As a Delegate March 26.— (P —Endorse- 1 M. Butler, chairman jcan National com- mittee, as a de 1te to the Nation- al convention Dr. Hubert Wor campaign manager for He Hoover, was announced today by Robert M. Waghburn, president of the Roosevelt club. Mr. Butler heads e party “slate” of n candidates for delegate at large from Massacliu- otts, all of wi unpledged. he presidential primary in this state comes on April 24. Mr. Wash- burn's statement follows: “Dr. Hubert Work, manager of the Boston ment of W of the Rep by e IH1oover campaign, has endorsed Wil- liam M. Butler as a delegate to the | presidential convention, although ah unpledged candidate, on the ground |that he is chairman of the national | committe Canadian Pacific Has Excellent Earnings Montreal, Que., March 26 (R—"The 47th annua! report of the Canadian 1ilways shows an increase of 0 in gross carnings during ar. but a $5.4 des L earnings 'he loss in about because of rates and ine sand 5 came ises in grain s in wages cuployes, the report The gross ears er 4 and the £ tanes) 1 surplus 1.630.180.45, year after addition of §11,576 S from spes and deduction of various dividends was 350 cial inconie ric charges shown : including X BROWNS BREAK CAMP West Balm Beach, March 26 (Ph— The St. louis Browns were on theie | way to Birmingham, Ala., today afte er breaking camp 1 night. They vill pl game against the ningham club of the Southern Assaciation tomorrow. Yesterday's ~feat by the Rrooklyn Robins was the one setback in the three game 1y oA single Bir RING TAKEN FROM CHE Miss Dessie Grabowski of 84 Grove t complained to the police that brother-in-law, who lives at 89 had stolen a diamond her hope chest. Detecs Ellinger investigated Lut hefore he located the brother-ine law, the complainant notified him that the ring had been returned and she wished to drop the case. her Orange street out Mrs. Graeff Had Dizzy Spells and Gas Pains “NO MORE NIGRT RISING A, Underwn ad to swollen— had diz just reeled 1 5 or 6 ti 3 of m rlicun i us and legs, away from work s0 bad T bad Indigestion—my ed up gas. My I just could “Hearing use of tie worse, an. were 50 bail vy sleep spel times 1 about was disturh es every night due to wealkn: adder. To make matters worse, a st d T had to st a time. I couldn't eat a t stomach w nof such & the Mexican de- A as baking, el etc. % aosh notlies & wdiad cimogs, left me, I ight and walke up feeling fit. 1 'toget I'm putting on weight. T can't liow good it fecls to regain my hea 1 before have given my name to ad er all ather remedies cal, had ided to try ch atled. The rheumatic aches have enough to eat Rever Lertise a medicine fivs Monsy 5be o cevistiAvis U would be unfaiy mot who suffered as 1 @i feel 1 to give this stor® benefit of others ESTATEs/ STATE FOR SALE | 50 Thousand Skinny Men The Kind That Will Take Pride In a Manly Figure better a man fecls ht is normal always fom gets tired a real honest to goodne | How much [ when e of ' | ook ple ener nd always fike | N man Vi Ther undown and nee Mettoy's | wo months wre s W lingly 1hin was all lot of flesh and within had gain- an excer City—h N od pounds ke a new man | offer ough MeCoy takes erweight MeCo you risl If aft 1 the MeCoy hoxes Dolar any hin wight man woman ed in ponds and with the health 1 to return nesn't | feel R ma gain complefely d improsement i horize Laver ¢ shortened Cad Metoy's Tahiets America 1et at any Listen! Girls! He Likes to Hold a Soft, Velvety Hand. Not a Nutmeg Grater | r thrill out of iy hands? And hamed of them? 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I woke up |feeling tired out, had dizzy headaches st biinded me. 1 felt like an Then my limbs started to ratns and T knew 1 was felt just run-down, exhiausted and mervous. My stomach would |get bloated with gas and I was badly constipated, “Hearlng about Magey containing that wonderful Magay Sap, 1 decided to try it, after all the other medicines proved worth T can dance with joy as T [feel the good i1t has dome me. Why, T haven't had a pain or ache as long as T can remember, mow. My feet are not swollen—have no headaches—the rheu- acles have gone. Now mo more dizzy spells. No more getting up nights, 1 slecp ke a top. feel fresh in the ing and can work all day long without tiring.” Call today and have a confidential talk [with the laboratery representative at Miiler-Hanson Drug Btore, 30 Church & says lthat a lo1a woman. Iret 11 cumati n ondition. 1 | matie | | | Here's Your Home! —and several sound reasons why you should own your own T should be the desire and ambition of every local working man of New Britain to own his own home—something tangible grow up in the crease. section. price. that he can call his very own. take it from them. ment in the world. Mother little place has made a neat profit for its owner. with which New Bri and convenient for eve required and even the smallest income can pay off the balance. Turn now to the Real Estate columns of the Herald Clas You'll find your ideal home there at a surprising| A place where knowledge that it is theirs and Then, too, theve is no safer Real estate values are ste: Earth y ain realtors require paymern one to own a home. 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