New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1928, Page 25

A ARRAIGNED TODAY Indicted by Grand Jury—To Plead Not Guilty Albany, N. Y., April 6 M—A rief session of supreme court, call- ed for ten o'clock this morning, to| permit arraignment of former Secre- tary of State Florence E. §. Knapp, indicted on six charges, was ad- Journed until 1:30 this afternoon, to permit time for Mrs, Knapp to reach the Albany county courthouse. The delay was said to be due to the fact that Mrs. Knapp and her counsel, John J. Conway, of Albany, had not expected an arraignment so soon. They were represented as being surprised at the speed shown by the grand jury yesterday in re. turning the six indictments. Bail would be fixed, court officials fntimated, at $1,000 for each indicts ment, and Mrs. Knapp was under- stood to be arranging for bail bonds this morning. Justice Callaghan last night an- nounced that he would issue a bench warrant for Mrs, Knapp it she did not appear at 10 a. m., but he learn- ed this morning that she was in the city and would appear this after- noon. Action of the grand jury with unexpected rapidity after but @ single day spent in examination of 24 witnesses, several of whom had not testified at the previous Moreland act inquiry into Mrs. Knapp's census activities. ¥urther indictments are to be sought when the jury reconvenes next Tuesday. These will possibly be not only Mrs. Knapp, but also other persons connected her in the conduct of the enumeration. First indications that Mrs. Knapp would personally appear in connec- tion with the case came shortly after the jury had handed down its report last might and been ex- cused until next week, Samuel O. Howard of Byracuse, a close personal friend of the former sccretary of state, suddenly appear- «d in the court room and conferred with George Z. Medalie, special prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Albert Ottinger. Information which Howard ap- parently gave to the prosecutor led him to request adjorunment of the corut until 9 o'clock last night. At that hour, Medalie announced that he had received further intorma- tion that Mrs. Knapp would be unable to appear at least until to- day. “If Mrs. Knapp is not in court the adjourned hour tomorrow mornin clared Justice Calla- ghan, “I shall sue a bench warrant. T will tolerate no delays.” The former state official has suc. at eossfully evaded public appearance | , |musical circles of this city. since the night of January 22, when after traveling from Syracuse to the home of rclatives in Bed- ford, Mass., she eluded reporters by quickly chapging trains near Bos- ton. Reports from yracuse last night =aid that until at least a week ago, she had been staying with relatiyes there, but made after her indictment brought only the response that there was “po information for the press. The nature of witnesses who ap- peared yesterday led persons in the Albany county court house to be- Meve that much of their testimony, on which the indictments were based, had to do with personal trips taken by Mrs. Knapp, the ex- penses for which were alleged to Rave been charged up to state cen- came | be compelled to is- | that inquiries | Wall Street Sees Many Reasons . For Great March Stock Market | New York, Aril 6 UP—Wall Street, |seeking to explain the mammoth March market, the greatest in his- , In which stock prices scored | wide advances in the face of con- tinued irregularity in general busi- ness, has evolved some interesting | theories. In some quarters the upswing is |ascribed to substantlal reduction in |the floating supply of stock through |absorption of large blocks of lead- |ing issues by such powerful finan- iclal interests as the Fisher Broth- |ers and the duPonts. | Others believe the more than 200 |Investment trusts created in the |last three years have caused the {wihdrawal from the market of! large blocks of seasoned dividend- {paying issues and the building up of {a reserve buying power certain to make ftself felt, in major reactions. Surplus funds of some industrial |and railroad corporations similarly have been used to bolster the “bull™ movement, either through outright purchase of securlties of other cor-| |orations or by employing these | |funds in the call money market as |temporarily loans on stock collater lal. Imroved methods of transporta- | tion, obviationg the necessity of | avallable funds. Although the stock market often | |1s regarded as a business arome- ter, the fact that business has not {required excessive use of credit in |the past two years has increased |the supply available for market use. { Possibly these funds have offsct the |threat to the continuance of easy | money, which many have regarded | as the backbone of the “bull” market, occasioned by heavy exports of gold since last fall. But the general public has play- ed a large part in it all. The Lib- erty loan campaigns, which made millions investment-minded, and the extension of employe stock pur- chase and customer-ownership schemes have served to recruit an army of investors, many of whom previously had entrusted all their surplus funds to the banks. The banks themselves, through organ- ization of security company su- sidiaries have made increasingly larger investmients in high grade stocks. Extension of the New York Stock Exchange ticker service to the larger citles of the United States and Canada, coupled with the great- er publicity given by newspapers to market tables and financial de- velopments, also have been import- tant factors in the growth of se- curities trading. Inauguration of the transatlantic telephone and the growing importance of the American dollar in foreign ex- change markets, added to tremen- dous Investment of American capi- tal in foreign enterprices since the war, undoubtedly have stimulated foreign participation in American markets. Another factor has been the pro- gram of education carried on by Better Business Bureaus and their campaigns against stock swindlers, not only increasing investments, hut directing them to legitimate channels which lead {invariably to the stock exchange. | (sus funds. In connection with a lrip' jtaken by automobile to Cooper: {town by Mrs, Knapp to address a | women's club meeting, several wit- | nesses from that village were un- | derstood to have offered testimony itending to show that not all ex- | penses charged up by the former state official had been incurred. Similar testimony in connection With other trips was sald to have been given by other witnesses, in. cluding Mrs. Luella V. Ninde, sec- jretary to Mrs. Knapp at the college |of home economics at Syracuse | university, but the prosecution went into the greatest detail with regard |10 the Cooperstown journey. | ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED | The engagement of Miss Cordelin 8. Kilbourne, daughter of E. 0. Kil- {bourne of Stanley Quarter, to, |Charles A. Johnson of this city was |announced last evening at a dinner |and bridge party given by Miss Flora !Hine at her home on Clayton road. fiss Hine is a cousin of Miss Kil- bourne. | Miss Kilbourne is a senior at the | Connecticut College for Women at New London and is a graduate of the | New Britaln High school. Mr. Johnson is well known in He is jalso a graduate of the New Britain High school and a member of the | New Britain Musical club, the Etude | Musical club and a member of the |Orpheus Quartette, as well as or- |ganist at Trinity Episcopal church |in Bristol. STRIKE THREATENED. Leeds, Eng., April 8 (UP)— |Strike of 200,000 workers was | threatened today by the tallors and garment workers union because of | dissatistaction with certain clauses lin the organization's agreements | with the employers federation. The | union decided to give notice of the [terms, the wages and hours agree- ments in force for eight years. | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS —ETHEL— Springfield Attorney Faces Larceny Charge Springfield, Mass., April 6 (UP)— Attorney Scott Adams, long identi- fied with the Hampden county bar, was arralgned In district court here |today, charged with the larceny of | $2988 from Mrs. Mary J. Stevenson, elderly widow of Clinton, Conn. He pleaded not guilty and his case was continued until May 9. The defendant is alleged to have acted as counsel for Mrs. Stevenson on May 14, 1927, in connection with the sale of property. At that time, she claims to have given him a check for the amount named with the idea that he should hold the check only a few days. According to the complaint, Adams cashed the check and kept the money. In connection with another case, Superior Judge Henry T. Lumus re- cently issued an order for Adams' disbarment, but Adams has appeal- ed to the state supreme court. Hoffman Rearrested on First Degree Charge ‘Washington, April M — YLouis Hoffiman, a physiotherapeutist, held since early in March on bond while the death of Miss Eleanor M. Leh- man, was being investigated, was rearrested today on a first murder charge story told to Dis the result of a ct Attorney Rover by Dorothy Monroe, who was pres- | ent in Hoffman's office when his pa- tient died, Miss Monroe said that while Hoff- man was operating on Miss Lehman the girl suddenly went into convul- sions. 8he charged that Hoffman then rolled his patient over and de- liberated broke her neck. Then she said the man threatened her with imprisonment if she divuiged the real cause of Miss Lehman's death. Hoftman has maintained that the girl came to him for treatment for a headache and died while on the cperating table, degree | Julian Jozwik, aged 17, of 173 Broad street, was arrestcd today for !speeding on North Burritt street, by Motoreycle Officer W. §. Strolls. Charles B. Trobel was brought to the Police station this noon by Con- stable Frank Brown of Berlin, who charged him with breach of the peace and drunkenness. OLDERSHAW WITH BANK FOR 60 YEARS Secretary and Assistant Treas- | urer Receiving Congratulations | Siaty ‘yeass with the Savinss Bank of New Britain is the rccord of Charles B. Oldershaw of 83 Vine street, seere (urer, Wwho began his carcer after he left high school. ! When he entered the the bank It was in existence for six years. At that time its resources and { deposits were about $200,000 the bank itself occupicd one room rented from the National bank. The date of the heginning of his career other employe was Rev. Samuel Rockwell, who after- ward became judge of probate. Mr. Oldershaw served as clerk of the court for some time. He later be- came city auditor. The Natlonal bank was locat where probate court now stan Later, the bank took quarters where the city clerk's office i3 now located above probate court. In 1577 a bank bullding was erected where the John E. Andrews astore is now lo- jcated and in 1901 the building | which the bank’ now erected. Mr. Oldershaw is now an officer in the bank, having worked his way from an errand hoy, clerk, and teller to his present place. He had seen the resources of only $200,000 in- | crease to $22,000,000, 4 | Presidents of the whom he served Smith, Levi 8. Wells, Philip Corbin E. H. Davidson and the president who is now in office, Idward X. Stanley, bank under |Gets 25-30 Years ;u;r Killing Man in Argument | Dover, N. H, April ¢ (UP)— George H. Congdon, Kittery, Me., coast guardsman, must spend 25 to 30 yeara in prison for killing a man In an argument over a dog. | He received this sentenc lafter he had appeared before Chief Justice William H. Swyer in su- perior court and changed his plea |from not guilty to guilty of second jdegree murder. The vietim was Wil- liam H. Thurston, New Durham farmer, who was shot on March 11 last when he remonstrated with Congdon after the latter had killed Thurston’s collie dog. today ; THREE GRASS FIRES | Co. No. 6 of the fire department | was called to a grass fire on property |of the New Britain Machine Co.. op- posite Willow Brook Park on South Main street at 12:41 this afternoon and at 1:16 this afternoon Co. Ne {was called to a grass fire on Church {street, mext to the Skinner Chuck !Co. plant. At 10:11 o'clock this |forenoon, an alarm was rung from Box 428, corner of Carlton and Francis streets, for a grass fire on Carlton street. Deaths Mrs. Sophie Kowalski Mrs. Sophie Kowalski, 42 years old, mother of seven children, the oldest of whom {s 18 years and the youngest one week, died last night of complications which followed the birth of the infant a week occuples was | were William H. | | i | | | | | ry and assistant treas- | Just employ of | and | was March 31, 1865, and the only| its treasurer, | ‘ NEA Washington Bureau | The beautiful Charlotte Hanna, daughter of Mrs. Stuart Hanna {and granddaughter of the late Mark Hanna of Cleveland, recent- {1y became the bride of Richard Hume of Washington. The couple are now making their home in the national capital. 'FIRST CONGREGATIONAL \ CHURGH WILL GAIN 0 | Thirty-Seven Members to |Aviator Leaps From | Burning Plane in Chute Washington, April 6 (®—Lieut. tarnett T. Talbott, naval aviator took a parachute jump from a flam- ing plane over the Anacostia naval | : s 5 | tir station here today and was taken | ‘ ceived On Confession of Falth |1y the naval hospital suffering from and Five By Letter {severe burns. His plane crashed | |and was completely burned. | [ Twenty-seven members will be re- | bott, who lived with his mother ceived on confession of faith and |in Washington, was doing routine five by letter from other churches|tlying when his plane caught fire. | t Laster Sunday scrvices at the| With flames leaping into his face | dirst Congregational church, Those | from the motor of his plane, Lieut. in the former group are the fol- | Talbott, jumped from a height of ! lowing 0 feet, Donald Afplang) North Buri Baker, 3 {Ch Be i | Theodore Apelgren, 246 h a mass of flames, 1t street; William Avery | Fashed to carth at the southeast | Mot D | corner of the fild. The craft was | ter Brideaus, 5 Armistice street; | “Uibped with o sprinkler but nl Charles Norton Co, 41 Liberty | COUd not be detormined whether he | | street; Miss Ruth Muricl Connor, | Wds able to usc it. Watchers on the | | 140 Greenwood strect; Miss Eda May | EF0Ul 82w flames shoot out from | Barton, Elm Hill; Miss Kuth Irene (e engine and saw Licut. Talbott | | Bmmons, 3 Avmistice strect; Miss | SUIl With - the ship until the firc Barbara Olive Grove, 3 Luke court, | SPread into the cockpit. Then he | | Miss Ruth Florence Hocumb, 960 |/iped and a moment late? the [ Boxbin ayvinue:. Mits Alice dived to cartl, leaving a trail | Holcombe, 532 Church st fire and smoke | Alice Irene Humphrey, | street; Miss 1sabel Ayer Ingha | Stuart street, Maple Hill; Irvin Bur- Z 2 Baieies emvood street; | Reveal Future Plans William Adolph Lange, 122 Osgood | Washington, April 6 (UP)—W. L. | avemue; *Miss Marjorie Phyilis | CJayion of Anderson, Clayton & Co. | Leavitt, 207 Maple streot; Miss Clara |110Uston, cotton merchants, refused | larene ifersweller, b Railroad Ar- |under cross-cxamination before a \de; Raymond George Mainer, 44 |Senate agriculture sub-committee to- rview street; Miss Helen Frances ‘\‘m\' to reveal his firm's plans for the Messengor, 136 Greenwood street, | 192%-20 season. | i et | The question was put to him hy Harry Najarian, 330 East Muin;‘"‘"f;";mf";:)v:f';xr:::l“::\m of the New street; John Stuart Parsons, 204 Lin- St res - e h - |coln, street; Alice Catherine Pan-| Clayton protested that an answer |dolphi, 25 Barnett strect; Charles |Would provide his competitors with S : s useful information and that the rederick Pape, 94 Robbins avenue, | 1500 IOTIMALION and b P Maple Hil; Leonard Roy Swanson, | 1% 2 I [AsAlack, RoBic s aVenies ,,H,Dk““m Chairman Smith of the cotton in- | “hk Ui, 5 Blflfl-\ ..m‘ i vestigating committee sustained | il BAdolph Mertin Wacker, | Clayton in his refusal to answer, but | ATl jiment | FincEL By arRte i (agreed to take the matter up with 58 Foxnor Place. 4 on g |2HeT members of the committce at Those who Will be received on let- g ter from other churches are the fol- lowing: Miss Helen Knight Cary, Theodore street, Maple Hill; Duane Sprague Halvarson, Theodore s(ref!,l Stat Chamber of Commerce b i Anderson Refuses to | MENT Vashington, April 6 (UP)—Unit- PUTNAM & CO. 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Mott AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO. 1927 Figures Show $6,306,887 Earned Surplus 1,650,000 Dividends Paid 3,250,000 Invested in Reserve Equities and New Business America Entered War 11 Years Ago Today Washingten, Aprll ¢ (UP) — & ‘El-wn years ago today Washington 0. She | yranle Hill; Miss Marian HellVAT, | .presentatives will be given an op- |was the scene of the wildest tur- |206 Corbin avenue; Luclan ~HeNrY|powunity to present their arguments |moil as Woodrow Wilson signed the Stevens, 427 Monroe street: “"-l'nr large tax reduction before the |declaration of war with Germany. was the wife of Michael Kowalski of 93 Beaver street. The children are Albert, Mary, Clara, Walter, John, Edward and the infant child. Mrs. Kowalski also leaves her mother and a sister in Europe and a sister, Mrs. Mary Re- gula, and a brother, Alexander Pia- secki of this city. The funeral will be row afternoon at 1 {home and at 1:30 o'clock at Sacred |Heart church. Burial will be fn Sacred Heart cemetery. The requiem |mass will be celebrated next week. held tomor- o'clock at the —_— Frank Jarmolinski Funeral services were conducted at Bacred Heart church this after- | noon for Frank Jarmolinski of 34| Wilcox street. Burial was in Sacred | Heart cemetery. The requiem high mass will be celcbrated next Tues- day morning at the church. Mrs. Benjamin Wilkowski The fuperal of Mrs. Josephine Wil- &owski, wife of Benjamin Wilkowski of 26 Alden strect, will be held to- morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock with services st Sacred Heart church. Burial will be in Sacred Heart ceme- tery. The funeral mass will prob- ably be held next Wednesday morn- ing. Joseph A. Haffey Opposite 8¢ l‘n.:_’cm h s rel Residence 17 Summer B¢.—1625-3 TELEGRAPH FLOWERRS FOR EASTER trom “Thé Telegraph Fiorist of New Britain” o w. MaIN o, Amy Irene Andrews Stevens (Mrs. L. senate finance committee next Mo He attached his signature to the | firm of Joseph Bowman & Sons, died 2H . 'Dr. L.'T. Perrault, H.), 427 Monroe street. ! day, Chairman Smoot announced to- = | aay. Firemen on Run Fighting |, " chamier wants to ratse rainer Many Grass Fires |ixca in the nouse tax cut bil Boston, April 6 (A—Firemen in‘r» tary of Treasury Mellon want Boston and the surrounding towns | $201,000,000 maximum, were kept on the run today as brush et and grass, fired by the summer sun| HANDSHAKING caught fire. Scores of minor blazes| Rome, April 6 () were reported and in several cases |is declared to be unhygienic, in a large areas were burned over. | circutar sent by Deputy Ricei, presi- | A fire which swept about thirty | dent of the Bailla Orga lazation, to acres in Weston threatened several|the chairmen of the provincial com- large estates beYore firemen got the mittee of that institution and, should flames under control. At East Lexe|be absolutely eliminated in the daily ington an area more than a square | contacts of Italian citizens. | mile was burned and fire appar: he Fascist educators of the Ral- from several towns was called. A |illa and Avanguardista organizations cottage and garage wera burned |should insist, the circular says, that £ eve | handshaking be replaced by the Ro- It was estimated a thousand or|man or Fascist ute, which * more firemen were on duty fighting ined to exercise a most henefi fires in the metropolitan arca. t influence in formation of — },\u\fll\:nl charac ] HYGIENIC COLLAR MAN DIES i . Y., April 6 (P—Cassius . Bowman, widely known pioneer | collar manufacturer and head of {he REPORTED COMMANDI: Shanghai, April 6 (UF)—General Sen was reported today to een appointed commander of this morning at his home fn Green fhe FHlvventh Nationalist Army Island. Mr. Bowman was in the |“Dich ix campaigning against the | 82nd vear of hix age. and was promi- | "Ortherncrs. Continuing his opera- | Went 16 Masonic circles, being a |1iOns against Kuojutung, Yang Nn‘ 32nd degree Mason and member of | 148 sent three shiploads of troops up the Albany Sovorsign Consistory, |10 Strengthen his forc Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He | entered the collar business more than half a century ago and at the time of his death was the oldest manufacturer in Tro; | 370 5 YEARS | | Mass, April 6 (B — Raymond E. Johnson, Falmouth, on | |trial for assault with intent to mur- |der Frederick P. Sabens, Falmouth | liquor potter, retracted his plea of not guilty in superior court this morning, pleaded guilty and was| sentenced to from three to five 900.000 next year. Clementii Voro- | years in state prison at Charles- | shilov, commissar of war. said 1o |{gwn, day, adding that war is Inevitable. | The cost of the army this year he estimated at $375.000.000. GET arnstable, SOVIET ARMY COSTS Moscow, April 8 (UP)—The soviet |army will cost the government $500, | Tolmezzo, Italy. April 6 (UP)— ! Slight carthquake shocks were felt here today. There was no damage | Nineteen persons have been killed in this region in 10 days by earth tremors, while more than $2,500,000 damage has been reported. | MISS WOOD UNCHANGED | New York, April 6 (UP)—The condition of Miss Ann Wood, of fouth Norwalk, Conn., who fs in Post Graduate hospital with an abs- |cess of the lungs, was reported as unchanged today by her physi The king of Afghanistan receintl: |8ave $5,000 for the poor of Paris. Handshaking 'ars | here, killea her. famous_document, calling & nation | UADRUPLB' to arms, at 1:15 p. m,, April 6, 1917, | ®) while chimes of a church here play- | ed “America. | The navy and war departments | issued a call for more clerks, and | mobilization of national guardsmen | all over the country was put under | way. Milions of men joined ~the | . » many serving until well into | Why not make absolute- 105 Wi The world s still strugsling to re. | k\est‘“m .?i part of your cover from the setbacks of the war. €gg This country was too busy today to A savings account here give much more than casual observ- | not only means safety, but ance to the anniversary. in the course of years doubles, trebles, and quad- The stirring scenes of 11 years ago were commemorated here todav ruples principal. or instance: in connection with the discovery of | the North Pole 1% years ago. $1,000 in 25 years, with- out another cent Before the Arlington cemetery ! tomb of Robert E. Peary, who dis- comes out $2,697.50. In 30 years 3,290.30 covered the pole in 1909, simple | services were held to recall the polar | achievement and the war, i The services, under the auspices, In 35 years . $4.013.70 of the Admiral Robert E. Peary| In 80 years ... $7.274.40 «hip, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the| Momey banked here on or be- National Geographic society and the| fore April 5th, will draw fater- civil engineers corps of the navy,| ost from April 1st. were not greatly attended. ‘We are a National Bank di- — rectly under United States Government Supervision and chartered by the United States Government. Lioness Caught in i Culvert Finally Killed | Dallas, Tex., April § (UP)—The ways of civilization proved too much today for a lioness which escaped from a railway train near here last midnight. The beast was found to- day with her head stuck fast in a highway culvert, and Carl Peyton, farmer, of Rowlett, 20 miles from Peyton fired 20 shots into the helpless lioness, ending an exten- sive hunt by police and volunteer big game stalkers. The lioness escaped from her cage in a railroad baggage car, and at first was believed to be roaming through the streets of Highland Park, a fashionable suburb. Ap- parently, however, she fled toward | open country untll the culvert trapped her. NAUGATUCK WINS. | Chicago. April ¢ (M—Naugatuck. Conn,, 37; Pertsmouth, Va., 35.