New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 18

ACCUSED OF BEING DEALER IN LIQUOR On&lrmed.smmkeeper Arested in Bridgeport Bridgeport, May 10 (P —Alleged to have been supplying liguor to in- mates at the Soldiers’ Home in Noroton, Charles E. Peterson, 60, of West avenue, 1 Heights, a storekeeper, tender again: Peterson wa Ler on a charge und because of was released wit sentence and promised to stop selling liquor. Several gallons of liquor were seized at Peterson's place last night. lie is at liberty on a realty bond of $1.000 pending arraignment in court on Saturday. WITH COURCHAINE {Continued from First Page) witness called. He stated that on April 18 Principal Brown of the l.inden street school reported to him that a telephone call had been re- ceived at the school asking that the gir! be dismissed. When the re- quest was' refused, the man on the other end of the wire sald that the girl's mother had been taken sud- denly ill and the daughter was need- od at home, Thereupon, the girl was excused. The next day, word from the girl's mother was brought | . 'telephoned the school. e might go but her boy friend was “too fresh” and he was not al- lowed to go. They first went to w Britain and r.turning to Plain. ville, went towards Compounce. When near the woods by the lake, she said, she got out of the car and started to run towards & nearby house to telephone her landlord and ask him to come out and take her home. Before she reached the place, Courchaine drew alongside 'her and told her to get in- Then they went stralght home. It was only after Grand Juror Foran repeatedly questioned her that in a burst of tears and a shrill Piping voice she related the facts in the case although she said the man did not try to assault her. Prisoncr Tells His Story Courchaine denied that he had He has lived in this section for about 27 years and is familiar with the roads. After the girl was in his automobile, he could not find the way to drive from the state road to the Hart & Hutch- inson plant looking for work, he testified. He said that he went down a road but it ended after a short time and he turned around. He went down the Compounce road. he said, looking for work on chimneys with which he is familiar. “Did you put your hands on the girl?" thundered the grand juror. ‘Why yes,” Courchaine answered, |“I just put my hand on her leg and |she jumped out and ran down the |road. 1 got her in the car arain and then took her right home.” | Grand Juror Foran pleaded for a !stift sentence saying that Courchaine | was gujity of more than it was in {the Plainville officials’ power to |charge him with. |under which the man was tried and !left the matter of punishment to the | fustice. WASHINGTON WILL | asking that a repetition of the occyp | sion be prevented because the girl| had been taken for a ride by a mar- | ried man, the father of a family. | Mr. Brown's testimony was the | same as that of the NlpPrm’Dndon'.’ Mr. Staples communicated with Constable George Schubert and he set out to find the person responsi- ble. Because of a difflculty in secur. |after he ing the correct name, it was not un- | Japancse. til yesterday that Courchaine was arrested at his home. ‘Mother Lured Out of Town NOT TALK ABOUT FAR EASTERN WAR (Continued from Yirst Page) had apologized to the Fighting Goes On Tokyo, May 10 (P —Japanese The mother of the child was call- troops today continued to battle 4 to the stand and testified that on |against the Chinege nationalists April 18 about 11 a. m., Courchaine, | around Tsinan in an attempt to dis- who has'been a fricnd of the family {arm them, and it was stated unof- for about 15 years, called at her [flelally in government circles that home and took her to visit her |Japan would neither ask nor aceept daughter in New Britain. WheR she | medfation in the Shantung affair. returned home at night, her child | Four Japanese were Killed and 20 told her about the automobile ride. | wounded when the 25th brigade un- She sald that Courchaine was no re- | jer General Sotoyama joined battle Intion of the child and had no right | with a powerful force of Chinese un- to take her on the trip. der General Chen Tiao Yuan. The Amid a storm of sobs and tears. | cninese casualties were severe. #nd trembling from nervousness and | prior 1o this engagement General fright, the child was put on the g iovimaty forces had succesded in stand. She proved to be a bright | youngster and a good witness. Nerv- onsly twisting her handkerchief . o e = ahiout her fingers and casting fright- ‘:::\]x'“i]»d T’;"l:‘,V“‘Lt::"_ "’C"“ also #ned glances towards her mother, | i v &l ) 4 + : laround Tsinan. e e he StorY. | The unofficial ~government view day that she was wanted home be. |'*#arding mediation was that Japan cause her mother was . She hur- d,'d not consider the present situa- red home to find her mother gone, | lion war and that therefore the mat. She inquired of the neighbors if she |ter could be settled diplomatically was around and discovered that her between China and Japan. It was mother had gone to New Britain. [not believed that the United States While she was in the house, Cour- | Would assume the rele of mediator chaine arrived and said that he was | and Intimations that the United zoing to ride around and look for | States would were regarded as pro work. paganda emanating from Tsinen. The girl asked it she and a boy A war office report placed the {Kotien, about 15 miles east of 1 disarming a force of southerners at | points | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1928 blame for the fresh threak of on the sationalists. It mid the Japanese, noting an absence of good faith on the part of the na-| tionalists, attempted to negotiate | with them to disarm. The nation- | alists resisted and five thousand of | them attacked the Japanese. There- | upon the Japanese swept the main ! force from the city. i The war office also said the na- | tionalists had destroyed the Japa- nese cemetery digging up the graves and committing other depredations. | Americans Safe | Tsingtae, China, May 10 —Hav- ing run a gauntlet of Chinese fire, Americans fleeing from embattled | Tsinan were safe at Tsinan today. All Americans in the war gone were belleved to be safe as the Japanese arm the Chinese nationalists and drive them from the zone outlined in tlie Japanese ultimatum. United States Consul Price at Tsin- |an was under fire yesterday. the | refugeey sald, as he was taking them |to the international train. This train |fying the American, British and Japanese flags was fired upon by the nationalists as it came from Tsinan. the Chiness attempting to pick off the Japanese guards. Bombard Tsinan The Japanese first bombarded Tsinan on Tuesday afternoon using chine guns to drive out the nation- alists, who refused to withdraw. Japanese officials taday were re- ticent regarding the situgMon. They blamed faulty communications for their meagre information. There were rumors however - of further casualties on both sides as a result He read a statute }Of the bombardment. ALSITHTALKS OF HIS CAMPAIGH | (Continued from First Page) |California by the Los Angeles Ex- | | press. i Takes Rap at K. K. K- Van Namee took a fling at the | K. K. K, the Anti-Saloon league | and anti-Catholic organizations. He sald these bodies had been making | “scurrilous attacks” on the gover- nor and that the campaign com- mittee had sent out literature “re- | futing” them. | "It makes a man indignant,” said. | You do not resent the opportuni- {ty to explain {t?" asked Ben- |ator Stelwer. | _*No, sir, I am glad to do s0,” Van {Namee replied. he |Church Organists to Wed, * | Engagement Announced | Mr. and Mra. Edmund J. Jakel of 1261 Glen street announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Eliza- |beth Alberta, to Paul Hochstrate, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hoch- | strate of Waterbury. Miss Jakel graduated from the New Britain High school with the | 1028 class and is assistant organist St. John's German Lutheran ichurch. Mr. Hochstrate is one of | the leading organists in Waterbury | He is prominent in American mus- ical circles and has often given per. formances over the radio. Special Notice i There will be a whist given dy | 8ir Francis Drake lodge at 8 o'clock tonight at the Jr. Mechanies hall. Prizes will be awarded. And this is Clean-up Week! But these figures do not show it. 0f 27 Million Homes in America, 30% have radios. 40% have phonographs. 60% have telephones. 67% have motor cars. 85% have NOT enough Bathrooms. They pay well for music — for telephones— They will ride about in motor cars, They smoke $100 worth per fam- ily. They pay $87 for furniture—$58 for gasoline—$50 for ice cream— But $19 for plumbing fixtures. 134 ARCE STREET With the tremendous increase in quality of plumbing fixtures and the DECREASE in price in com- parison with this quality—the rest of America may go BATHLESS— But not the homes in New Brit- ain, if the voice of Leroux can be raised in a plea for more and bet- ter plumbing fixtures. Our Exhibit Is Well Worth a Visit—Come In and See It. |troops continued their battle to dis- three inch guns, mortars and ma- | ROTARTANS HEAR TALKON CARTOONS Frazer Tells How Easy It Is to Make $250,000 Yearly Members of the New Britaln Ro. tary club, after listening to the re- | ports of the treasurer and secretary it the weekly luncheon in the Bur- ritt hotel this noon, were entertain- «d by Don Frazer, a cartoonist who admitted that he lived in Salem, | Conn., and was one of the democrats in the town. Frazer first gave a brief history of = profession, stating that drawing cartoons was a specialty and not an @ He sald that shortly after the War, Thomas Nast drew the first cartoons. These appeared in Harper's Weekly and were shafts | dirceted at the Tammany club and corrupt politics. They found great | favor among the readers of the | magazines and resuited in a wide- ! spread clean-up. Walter McDougal newspaper cartoonist. |the New York World. The comic strip carteonist is the most profitably paid In the business {he said. Henry (Bud) Fisher be was the first | gan work 20 vears ago at a salary | iof $10 a week working for the San | Francisco Examiner. Today his car- |toons are published in more than {800 papers in this country and jabroad and he draws a salary of {about 250,000 a year. Sidney Smith from an obscure talker and | entertainer, became a millionaire and is now a power in Chicago. Ma: {tin Branner commands $75,000 a |age. He stated that everyone has the | The treasurer’s seventh annual re- | port, but the aot under which it Is port showed total receipts for created has been found to be so |year of $7,601.58 and expenses ot’hrud a8 to set it up as a super- $7,316.15, of which $713.64 waa fer bank, Chairman Loomis explained | the bovs' work carried on, leaving a | this atternoon. Although not cha: | balance of $285.45. tered as a bank it has powers very | The flower fund amounted to much broader than one, a fact | $142.15 and $132.65 was expended, | which i giving banking {nstitutions {leaving a balance of $9.50 or & total | throughout the state great concern. !in both tunds of $294.95. |{The name of the company was In the savings bank the club has|changed from that carried original- |$655.55, and in the Chippled Chil.|ly last November when Judge | dren's Fund $498.29. These two!Simpson in the superior court a sums minus withdrawals made leaves | Bridgeport autherized the amend- i | | two ! He drew for | $1:451.54. The secretary reported that regu- | ilar mectings were held cvery week! {and a number of special sessions| were held. The club had 88 mem-/ |bers at the beginning of the year {and with new members added and! others resigning the club now has a roster of 80 members. The at- {tendance during the past year far, that of the previous seme- Sherman was presented with | |a white button for continous at-| tendance for two years. A. Leavitt was added to the membership roll,l President Alex Scott presided and | announced that due to a change in| |the constitution, he would retain' the office until the first meeting in | Nelson Egan and Ben Parker| formed a pleasing duet on the viol | [lin and piano, respectively while| George K. Rogers led in community 'LOJHIS HEADS PROBE OF BRIDGEPORT BANK. { Commercial Trust Co. President In- vestigating Strange Charter | | €ar. and Change of Name. | Cartooning began with the stone | John C. Looims, president of the Commercial Trust Co., is chairman | balance in the savings account or“ ment to the charter, ability to draw. A child’'s first scrawls are no more crude than its' of a committce of the State Bank- | first attempts to talk. The ladies are ! ers’ association working in coopera- | the more adept at painting, he said. | although they purchase their mater- ials in the drug stores. | He ended his entertainment by drawing & number of cartoons on a | chart, including many likenesses o(‘ prominent Rotarians present. | Remember YOUR Mother .l/,,[/ Specials—now—in gll these departments. lar” prices. ALE tlon with the state banking com- mission in an investigation being made of the Bankers Security Trust Co. of Bridgeport. The Bridgeport institution was chartered by the legislature as the e and Guaranty Co. of Bridge- MILL TO SHUT DOWN fanford, Me., May 10 UP—An-! nouncement was made here today ! that the Sanford Plush mill, employ- ing 2,500 persons will shut down | May 24 and will not resume opera- | tions again until June 4. The reason | given for the cessation in operations is stock taking. a2 68 Will not injure human . cats, poultry, yet iy mice every time. 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