New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 5

KNAPP WITNESSES ONCE HORE ABSENT Prosecution Incensed at Their! Dilatory Tactics Albany, N. Y, April 19 (P— Three relatives of former Sccretary of State Florence E. 8. Knapp who arrived in Albany last night to testi- fy today before the grand jury in- vestigating her conduct of the 1925 state census, failed to appear when their names were called, despite as- surances yesterday from dcfense | counsel that they would he available as witnesses at any time. Steps were considered to bring them be- | fore the jury. Charles Hubbell Smith and wife, Helen B. Smith, on subpocnas had been served calling for their appearance next Monday, were understood to have expre @ -desire to wait until Mor fore they took the stand. M A. Smith, a sister of Charles Hubbei) Smith and of Mrs, Knapp. also fu- dicated a desire to appear next Mon- day. No subpocna had been scrved on her. Members of the prose were highly aroused ure of Mrs. Knapp's rei th: stand to but Specia eutor George Medalie that he did not believe their ure to appear was in any way attri- butable to John J. Conway, chief of defense counsel, “We ended all proc terday on the a way that the rela near,” Mr, Medalie that Mr. Conway rassed in this w: G. Byron Hogabo&fi Honored at Columbia G. Byren Hogahoom Jr. has been honored at Columbia University, where he is doing pos work in chemical engincering, by being elected to Theta Tau, the honorary engineering fraternity and to Lipsilon Chi the honorary clectro- chemical fraternity. Mr. Hogaboom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hogaloom of Stanley street and is a graduate of an University where he mu- ed after his graduation from w Britain High school. his | “I o been embar- GESSI Mr. and Mrs. John Gessler of 234 Arch strect were pleasantly surpris- ed by the ladics of Teutonia Manne- | chor yesterday in honor of the 15th anniversary of their wedding. About | nt and Mr. and Mrs. sler were presented with a bou- | quet of 15 American Beauty roses. | was played and o supper | Mannechor hall, Mr. and | Mr#, Gessler were married in this' city by Rev. Martin W. Gaudian and | have one daughter, Frances, Their | wedding supper was sery same hall in which the ebscrvance | was held yesterday. THINKS Y. TEMPERATE | Providence, B. I, April 10 (®—| “New York is the most temperate city in the United States,” Jawson | , Purdy, LL. D, of New York cit clared here last night in a the church congress on t tive side of a prohibition debate. sentiment of New Yorkers on prohi- bition i3 made obvious whencver they have opportunity 1o express their feelings and because of this | honeaty the city is supposedly the ! worst offender against prohibition | laws, READ H More than FUR STORAGE eA unique SPECIAL CLEANING and GLAZING Service , « + WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE # graduate | ARE SURFPRISED. | in the | City Items FLASHES OF LIFE: MACDONALD SAYS A banquet will be held by the class in traffic t at the Y. M€ A ning at 6:30 o'clock. Prominent traffic experts | Will e here to speak. Burritt Grange will hold its re- | gular meeting Saturday evening at {Jr. 0. U. A. M. hall. The meeting | Will begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock and all applications for membership should be in at that time. Nash Suits, McCabe, Tel. advt. Laurel Court, O. of A., will mect Friday at Masonic I Il A soclal will be held at 2:30 wich supper at €:30 and the regular meeting at 7:45 o'cleck. Tho meeting will be fol- lowed by initiztion. The regular meceting of Court | Columba, 27, Catholic Daughters of America will be held this eve- ning at § o'clock in Red Men's hall: 454.— William Gugel of 860 Talcott Mr. Gugel is president of the band, ank H. Holmes who for sev- | cral years following the sale of the | Home Banking and Realty Co. in this city, was er in the real cstate business Florida, is ex- | pected to return soon 1o hecome as- jsociated with a local realty firm. judgement in favor of Anthony uskas, real e ¢ broker and ndant in an action brought inst ilim by Constant Makewisis, directed Thomas J. Mollo; common pleas in Suit for 3 of the rtford. filed today in ckliffe Bros, Co., 1. Goodwin, of v Edward A. court of Deputy a4 the papers. AL AL Mills, second viee president |of the M of Connec- ticut, will ting of the hoard of directors in Waterbury this !afternoon, at which plans will be made for the annual convention, which takes place May § and 9, in the Brass City, The Woman's saciety of the First reh will mect at the church Fri- t 9:20 . m. to sew and make surgleal dressings for the New Brit- !ain General hospital. Luncheon will [ e served at noon surritt Grange will hold its rogu- coting Satu | A. M. hall. The mecting will hegin promptly at 7:30 o'clock and all applications for should he in at that time. EGZEMA [TCHED AND_BURNED Caused Disfigurement. Cuticura Healed, ‘“‘Eczema broke out on both of my wrists. It began with an itching sensation, and the skin became dry and scales formed. The itching and burning caused me to scratch and kept me awake much of the night. It caused disfigurement and lasted for about six months, 10, sent for a free sample, It relieved the itching and burning so I pur- chased more, and in four months | was completely healed.” (Signed) Miss Dorothy Bailey, Edgemere Ave.. Shawomet, R. L., July 8,1927. Cuticura Soap, Ointmentand Tal- cum are ideal for daily toilet uses. ™ Addrens : i e BB Caticers Shaving Shek She A son has been born to Mr, and ! whom | Mrs. erift Martin H. Hor- ¢ evening at Jr. | membership yesterday by Judge | ¢ | jat the D, | chusetts and New NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APsil 1i, 1yzs. e s D R R AVERAGE AMERICAN PROVINCIAL Ottawa~—The latest estimate of the population of Canada, h, takes no count of visiting fliers, re- porters and photographers. Rangoon, Burma—A coglie who was a stowaway in a government vlane explained: “I wanted to get & near the sun god as possible.” Berlin—Calvin Coolidge has just been seen and heard in Berlin. How come? Talking movies. New York—Elsabeth Marbury is returning to stage production with a musical comedy in which, she says, | there will be novelties—no chorus but 12 lovely girls, bhlondes, bru- nettes, Titian reds, each with some- thing te say and something to do, dressed individually, and eight well- groomed boys, fresh from the col- lege ranks, if possible. Then she is going to the Houston convention. Houston—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones during the demo- cratic convention. New York—Mrs. Adolph Sprec- ckels, who 8 changed her home from San I'rancisco to New York, is having a palatial Fifth avenue rtment redecorated. The work complete enough for a dinner on the anniversary of the San Fran- cisco earthquake, ar—as the guests spoke of jt—iir Washington — Eighteen real of the American Revolu- | living, it has been disclosed A. I convention, Ma York lead with three cach. New York—The average Ameri- can, especially the New Yorker, is too provincial, in the opinfon of MacDonald, past president of ary club. He told the British cmpire chamber of commerce =0 in 1a good will address. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO SAVE Princeton, N, J—Tnterest is pub- lic speaking, debating and parlia- mentary procedure has so decreased that two clubs at Princeton are to | | have radios, casy chairs and canned | 'music in their precinets for the first | (time in their existence of a century | {or s0. They arc the American Whigh | [soclety and _the Clisophic socicty. | {Woodrow Wilson was once a| ! prominent figure in them. 1 Y ] New York—Steamship Ecuador is | lin port from South America after one of the roughest trips ever. The roughness was not due to the | weather. There was a lot of monkey | business aloft. Some of the cargo of |-|u mperance and Anti loon lcague wemhers that “dry u bLers of the South” want a presidential candidate who will wield a “big stick” in ag- gressive enforcoment of the 1Sth amendement. OFFIGERS ELECTED BY TEACHERS' CLUB, Norwalk—Edward V. Simpson 1] { Killed at 1Im street terrace and | Connecticut turnpike when a truck | he is driving crashes into a stone | {wall. Simpson was hurled from the . seat and wheels. fell benecath the rear!: Doston—Surplus and reserve ac- | counts of the Ford Motor company JHnior down nearly $30,000,000 for 1927, annual report shows. 1 Boston—Targest field of marathon | runners in history of historic B. A. A. | ° cevent ready for 26 mile grind. 1,000 par.ots, 300 monkeys, «. » love- | birds, 25 flamingos and 24 sloths o ed. The most elusive monk was christened Sandino. He kept th erew in the air six days. | Doston— Stiff cross-examination of 'Tlugo B. Monjar former Decimo club head's charges gainst Attorney General Arthur K. cading. | Danbury—Putting | eheese at one dollar out bootleg | per pound is the newest swindle brought to the attention of the police here last night when one of many purchasers com- | plained of paying $20 to two sales- men for bricks of a potato com- ously inju | pound after he had tasted a sample jccidents lof real imported cheese, Cambridge, former police chiecf 1o getting graft to | clusive Groton boys' school students. ward Leavitt, ton testifics | men killed, fourth d in two construction at new | building. | | | - | Willimantic land Editn M. on A > North ; Worcoster, Mass. — Occidental Coughlir seniors at | “supcriority compley ithe Conecticut State college of |itritation hetween western nation | agriculture, are the first girl stu- | and China by Bishop L. J. Birney of | dents to be admitted to membe rship China at Mcthodist confcrence. {in the Gamma Chi Epsilon honorary | ————— I scholastic fraternit TWO CRUSHED TO DEATH i W York, April 19 (#—Two mc | New Haven—William D. Upshaw, |\ crushed to death, two others former United States congressman ' ally injured and four men (5 s crit {from Atlanta, Ga., tells Connecticut | slightly hurt last night in the cave- | (in of an excavation for the new lsubway at Broadway and 17lst The accident occurred in a pit e —— ECZEMA SUFFERER I about 40 fect beneath the surface when a large boulder became dis- | !‘1-'-405-. irty years; then hesrd of | l0dged and fell 20 feet, carrying | Rabalm. It gave ims olial; all ot | small stones and dirt with it. | lyuwb}cm&-rm"nvl n, s&ruma-—-hu- Start RA- 3 ‘ tonight. $0c and §$1.00 at all drugge®. | READ HERALD CLASSIVIED ADS fails to weaken | cases of ex- | Sears-Rocbuck | I blamed for " Helen M. Stone Chosen Presiden at Annual Megting — | Miss Helen M. Stone of 13 Vine strect, a member of the Central | High school faculty, was clected president of the New Britain Teachers' club at a mecting held in | the club rooms in the Walnut Hill | school yesterd afternoon. She ce Miss Mildred G. Weld, term of ofce expired. s Stone is an arithmetic in- tructor at the junior high school. and for the past two years has been secretary of the Teachers' club. She | has always taken an active part in {the club, . a teach- merly sec | Scho 50 | ward V. We Chamberlain 8 of the Roosevelt and schools, who w vice ident during the past year. Mary A. Campbell, principal ihu Burritt school, way teleeted s tary to suc d Miss Miss Campbell is very active ational wo ind was one of New Britain's representatives at the | ucators' convention in Jloston. She | is @ member of the public amuse- ment commission William J. Hurley was chosen to succeed Harry Wesscls as tre He i a science teacher at tl tral Junior High school ' Knocked Off W:'a_g;fi Seat And Hurled to Ground Domenick Cirello, 20, of 110 | Maple strect, Meriden, was thrown | to the pavement from a wagon when { struek by an automobile erday | afternoon at 8:20 o'clock in that city | land apparent scaped serious in- { jury. The accident occurred on | B.C.PORTER SONS - Ipan wu surcr. | | the Grove street. Circllo was taken to his home after being examined at the Meriden hospital by Dr. H. Cap- lan, who took X-ray pictu: of his spine and pelvis. Wiiliam J. Dougherty, 105 Smalley street, this city, driver of the auto- mobile involved in the accident, re- ported to the police that he was ving his car out of a driveway en it struck the wagon. QUAKES ARE CAUSE OF GREAT UNREST Southeastern Bulgaria Is Panic- Stricken Today Bulgaria, April tern Bulgaria panic stricken today after a of earthquakes which have been shak- ing the gion since Saturda wis feared that the quak 19 ®— was i, Philippopolis, and the | Sofia and Tchir- ous than that betwee: more dis: of Saturday’ which resulted In deaths. At Philippopolis a numbep large buildings collapsed. Fives ed in various parts of the city. Th{ inhabitant: feared to reenter thel® homes, left standing, lest additionsd hocks bring the walls tumbling bout their heads, Panlc stricken, they remained out of doors. The earthquake, clectric works, plunged the city int® darkness and this added to the tee ro- of the inhabitants. Three distinct shocks wers felt af Sofia. ugoslavia and Bucharest, Rumania, id that the tremors were also felt there and caused alarm, Advices from Haskoovo sald there was considerable damage there, but s were lacking. FORM NEW SHOE COMPANY. 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