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] /| News of the World By Anodaled; Press ESTABLISHED 1870 FISH POND FOR CHILOREN INSTANLEY QUARTER PARY VHLE W NIb-AR SUPPORTED IN CITY HALL Mayor Paonessa De- clares He Is Opposed to Ban Proposed By Neighbors. Sidney G. Curran Calls for Conference and Is ‘\'ot: HELD POSITION 31 YEARS Certain Whether Peti- tion Will Be Presented. Property onners in the \vicinity of Stanley Quarter Park who would prevent boys under 16 years of age 1vom fishing in the newly stocked vond there, have been assured of nil the protection and sanitation litics necessary, but they haven't 2ot & chance to take the fishing avay from the boys. This situation was ascertaincd rorning when Sidney G. Curran, one «" the prominent movers, although | lic claims not the instigator of the viovement, against. the proposed fish- ing privilege appeared in the ma or’s office for conferenco on the sub- Joct. Mayor Will Not Interfere. Mayor Paonessa, being a cham- pion of the small boy, early in the conference left no misunderstanding us to his decision in the matter. Tollowing up a statement made y terday to a Herald representative that he would fight for his juvenile friends to the limit, he told Mr. Cur- van that he had no intention of in- terfering with the plan now on foot to have the ordinance committec change the present ordinance pro- | Libiting fishing in the park. Mr, Curran was very secretive 2hout the petition which simply asks | that there yresent erdinance. be no change He in the claimed he was not the instigator of the move- ' 1ient, declined repeatedly to tell “used to sign and would not sa liad the petition at this time. He told of boys walking across lawns, of nuisances, and va.lous other things, which Mayor Paonessa #aid could be controlled very easily. Parks Belong to Public. AMlr. Curran was accompanied by touncilman Samuel Sablotsky, who made it clear that he was not in wvor of the petition. “People are inclined to think the parks are their “ront yards” *The parks don't just belong to you yecple out there, they belong to the yublie.” he said to Mr. Curran. Mayor Paonessa asked who was the Instigator of the petition. Mr, «<urran did not answer. Later Ber- nard G. Kranowitz of the public recreation commission demanded an answer to the question. Mr, Curran said he did not know. ) Mr. Curran finally admitted that he did not know what disposition was to be made of the petition, and ho (Continued on Page 21.) POLICE MAY NOT PRESS MANSLAUGHTER COUNT Little Girl Dies Being Crushed by ' Automobile | Pleading not guilty to a technical ! charge of manslaughter, Joseph Liss, aged 25, of 22 Oakland avenue, was represented in police court today by Judge W. I". Mangan. whose rc cuest for a continuance until next | Monday was granted, Although fo | statement was made relative to the | indicated in police ! circles that unless new evidence is obtained by the police, the charge | will be dropped, an investigation | into the death of Mary Adorno, | aged I years, of 309 High street, ! indicated that Liss was not at fault, under the statute. Liss was backing an automobile out of a driveway at 415 Farming- | ton avenue about 6:15 last evening ! 2nd the child, who was on a visit to | ner grandfather, Joseph Carpenter, of that address, apparently walked | into the path of the vehicle, for Liss | Y.ad seen her a few minutes earlier, | standing near the side of a building | at the right hand side of the drive- | way., Thinkiog he had a clear w he backed out, and suddenly Ray- who had signed and who had re- | s#aid the councilman, | After | BISHOP BREWSTER | | | {Will Give Up Bishopric in State: Early in September In Farewell Report, Veteran Clergy- [ man Urges Same Cooperation Ao corded Him Be Given to His Suc | cessor, ! Harttora May 15 (P —Right Re |Chauncey B. Brewster, Bridgeport {of the Episcopal diocese of Connec Iticut told the diocesan {in annual session in |cathedral this afternoon that it wa [his intention to relinquish the car. unmistakably this | ©f the bishopric early in September effe of ive with ops ir {his resignation to he {action of the House | October. Bi of the annnal address to the cle | | | | f BISHOP BREWSTER. !c I prayer with which the was opened. Bishop's Report | Bishop Brewster said, after [ porting on diocesan statistics: | T do hereby announce tion early in September to resign as hishop of Connecticut so that the | resignation may take effect when acted upon by the House of Bishops in October. In this way it is my hope to euve the presiding hishop & {any poseible inconventence in com- {Diving with the requircments of |y i unq at the same time keep my % hen the resignation s com. |Machine from pitching. One of the % £ o n. y bl k. | picted my stipend of coures - [Plows made eversthing go black | cease. I be T should be zlad if 1 might allowed a time fair rent for ti me. | “For my successor In office T con- same kind consid- cooperation fidently ask the feration ana 1oval through these thirty-one years given to me."” | Ohituary Record | obituary record of the year just past !dwelt for a moment on the passing of Bishop Edwin cens Lines of the Newark diocese. He traced his lineage and life from a priest to a bishop and said: “In New Haven he made a notahle record as a pastor. When Jie left President Dwight of Yale declared that his departure meant a greater loss to the city than the going of any twelve men who might be named. ed a prominent place in the church at large. He was constant in urg- ing a rcflizmn that should improve the condition of those less privileg- ed in tife. His was a personality strong in its simplicity and genui- ness, a ministry of marked ability, faithfulness and untiring devotion. with results written in very many lives, Bishop Brewster address said in part “The language of the Communion of faints is praver. At Canterbury cathedral, thers are atated times of continning his (Continued on Page 14) DISMISSED AT YALE ' PLANS TO RETIRE joccupants, | convention, fwhile flying over Pontiac. ist church The announcement came as a part convention | re- my inten- isenger grabbed a to occupy the | bishop's house. paying of course a Bishop Brewster in reviewing the As bishop he fill-: NEW BRITAIN HERAL NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928 —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES AVIATOR ATTACKED Rendered Uncouscious by Ham- mer Blows From Maniac 'BOTH SERIOUSLY HURY| |Planc Crashes on Insane Hospital | Grounds in Michigan—Assailant Taken to Asylum Where He Raves AU Night. FPontiac, Mich.. May 15 (P'—The story of a battle 2.000 feet in the air between two fliers. Harry An- derson of Roseville, Mich., pilot, and {Clarence Frechett of Detroit, an {acrial exhibitionist, which resulted feulous escape from death by was under today. ! Both Hurt . i Both men were found (injured, in the plane, which was d. {molished in landing on the grounds of the State Hospltal for the Insane here late vesterday. Anderson told police he was at- d by Frechett with a hammer Losing {consciousness after repeated blows, {Anderson declared he recovered aft- 3 ler the plane had taken a sheer drop s !of nearly 1.800 fect, in time to ' lright it for a rough landing that nlaverted almost certain death for himself and his alleged assailant. Fractured Skull | Anderson's skull was jand he was painfully injured about the face, most of his teeth having been knocked out, supposedly by blows from the hammer. Frechett was less seriously injured hbut re- quired hospital treatment. liospital, Frechett ruved most of the night. talk, police said they pieced to- gether the information that the man exhibitionist who went te an avia- tion school at Roseville a few days 0 for instructions. Yesterday he engaged Anderson. who operates a small commercial fiying concern there, to pilot him to Pontiac. From letters found in Fre- chett’s clothing police declared the purpese of the trip may have been & bizarre and preconceived plan of | sclf destruction, the epilogue of he home town of his sweetheart. “Death s Message” of Pontiac oncluding as follows: | “De: my message, sweet- {and taity delegates in the conven-| “Death is my messag ition and followed th TS OF | il ar. anfiessed. 40! Trachetts mother, approached.” Anderson told the man appeared to be normal when ‘he made arrangements for the flight. When they arrived over Pon- tiac, however, the pllot said the pas- hamrer and be- an to belabor him over the head. Tried to Grapple “It was awful, Anderson said. “The first blow at me barely grazed my head. I tried to grapple with police Then I remembered coming to. 1 saw we were heading in a nose dive. T jerked the controls and tried to iright the plane, Just as T was swing- ling out of the dive, I felt the wheels of the undercarriage touch the ground for some distance and then | the ship went over the nose.” | Nose Dives to Earth | _Attaches at the asylum filled in the narrative. The plane approach- ed Pontiac cruising lelsurely at an laltitude of about 2,000 feet they said. Buddenly it began to apiral about. This continued for about a {minute, they sald, then it banked at ;an angle of about 45 degrees and |began a dizzv plunge earthward, {nose down. When within 200 feet lof the ground, according to the wit- nesses, the ship righted itself, and after attaining an even keel, made {in the plane's crashing and mira- | the | investigation seriously (GIVE SCHOLARSHIPS fractured | Under heavy police guard at a | From coherent parts of his | is a “"stunt flyer” and a parachute | which was to have been staged over | One of the letters, addressed to a, ‘Miss Georgla Pard which was couched in endearments, said he feared that “death | the | ELIZABETH CORBLY, - FOR SKILL AT .5, College Club Announces Annual Awards to Three Girls FOR HIGHER ~ EDUCATION Elizabeth Corbly, Helen Ingham and Stella Eisenberg Are Winners— Dr. Gertrude J. Kinsclla Elected President of Cluh, At its annual m uing the Colleg swarded thre g last eve- club of New Britain | Miss Elizabeth Corbly Mr. and Mrs. James lark strect, was given daughter of Corbly of 47 $250. Miss ation in June, Migs Helen Ingham. daughter of | Mr. and Mrs, W. E. Ingham of Maple Hill, was awarded $150. She lis a member of the Amphlon club and plaved a prominent part in the the Alpha Alpha sorority. She plans fo attend the Educational college & Springfield, Mass. She will be grad- uated from high school next month. Mr. and Mr: rwight stre was awarded $100. #te, was a member College club. She plans to attend Welleslay. Miss Bisenberg's brother, Harold Eisenberg, was graduated with honors from New Britatn high school. He was graduated from | Harvard college cum laude with the class of 1926 and is now attending Harvard law school. College club scholarships are based on the girls’ needs, scholar- ship and character. Since 1926 the College club has awarded at least one scholarship a year. This is made possible through the annual bridge | and entertainment. The recipient of a scholarship must attend a college granting a degree. All the past scholarship girls have accomplished excellent work in college and in many cases have attained special honors. The annual business meeting was held at the home of Miss Agnes Fin- negan of 81 Lexington street. Miss Gladys Day, president of the club for the past two years, presided. An- nual reports were given by Miss Marie May, recording secretary; (Continued on Page FEight) CO-ED DIES IN FIRE AT as it to land. When it touched land. | ‘however, the underpinning erump- | led, throwing the machine over sev- | cral times. ' Found Unconscious Anderson was found unconscious./ strapped In the pllot's seat, badly/ |dazed, still clutched In his hand, ' ithe handle of a broken hammer. 'DRUNKEN DRIVER PUNISHED' | Meriden Judge Sends Rockville Man | to Jatl For Five Days and Fines Him $100, | Meriden, May 15 (#—John E | Doherty, 24, of Rockville. was fined '5!"0 and sentenced to jail for five days by Judge Thomas P. Dunne in police court today for “driving while | “s,.,dc,“, Driver of Death Car, Ex- |under the influence of liquor.” The mond Franckowski of 22 Oukland | avenue, who was in the seat with hm, heard a cry and called to Liss to stop. The next instant the child's body was scen under the front of | the car. | At the office of Dr. John J. To- karczyk, it was found that the child was badly injured internally, and her parents were summoned 1o accompany her to New Britain Gen- cral hospital, where she died shortly | pedied For Violation of l'nl\m!lyl Rules, ! New Haven, May 15 UP—Fred- erick G. Bull of Brooklyn, N. Y.. who was bound over to the superior court yesterday by the Hamden town court for thc death of Minnie Morton, has been dropped from Yale | University for violation of the rules | relating to operation of an automo- | bile by Theo- accused appealed and bonds were set at $500. Doherty sald that he is a chauf- feur in the employ of Goodwin Beach, a Hartford broker, who is row in Europe. E. A. Mortensen, a Hartford contractor who posted bonds for Doherty, testified to the good character of the accused. Avery E}ives Cigar:ttes To Wounded Veterans after 7 o'clock, only a few minutes | 3 i, after she was admitted. Whether or | focs ‘Wasmer oae ot Toosklsn a| Commander Nate Avery, acting rot the car passed over the child is | clagsmate of Bull and owner of the | 0T the Eddy-Glover Post, Ameri- problematical. as neither Liss nor|car which struck the Morton woman | €an Legion was on hand this morn- I'ranckowski could see her. 1 hes Glso Basm, Aisniiesad. |ing at the Berlin station to give the Mary was the only daughler of| “Both Bull and Wagner were mem- |unfortunates of the world war. Mr. and Mrs. Adorno. There are hors of the class of 1930 and the |cigarettes. About 30 of them were three brothers surviving her as fol- | college rules say that only pnim—s‘mkr’n from the state hosepital in iows: Donald. Josepl, and David imay drive automobiles while college | Middletown to Berlin by bus, and Adorno. is in session and they must have fac- | Were then placed in a private car The funeral will be held at the ylty permission. The fact that Bull |under the care of Major Thomas tome tomorrow afternoon 4t 2:00 .js concerned in a fataliy was said | Bannigan. The destination is the e'clock. Burial will be in 8. Marv's{to have no bearing on the action of | government hodpital at Northport cemetery. i the college in 4dropping him. Long Island. smoke and College Club Scholarship Winners scholarships to New | g { Britain Senior High school girls. | STELLA FIS recent production and a member ori Miss Stella Eisenberg, daughter of | Julius Elsenberg of 63 Miss Eisenberg, a February gradu- of the Junior HELEN INGHAM. | | | REPORT MADE ON AR, MEETNG Her Resignation With D. A. R. “Blacklist"—Has Been Succeeded by Yale Profes. sor's Wife, New Haven, May 15 (P-A re- port on the national convention of the D. A. R. in Washington was 11ade to the members of Eve Lear chapter in annual session at Short Beach yesterday, at which time Mrs. ('harles F. Messinger relinquished the regency after serving in offlce many years. Report Submitted A report was submitted by the page to the national convention, one of the 260 in attendance In that ca- pacity, and it was a breezy recital of many incidents which were out- standing in her experiences. The report said in part: “I at- tended the pages’ ball where Miss Trumbull, daughter of our Connecti- cut governor, was the chief attrac- tion. I danced with an English officer who asked me if the D, A. R. did anything but fight, He was not “When President Coolidge ad- dressed us, he sald in partr ‘Selt- government has proven a ruccess to {the American people though there are those who would strongly advise |us to the contrary.’ |'The time to stop those who would | Again he sai weaken and loosen the fabric of our WITTENBERG GOLLEGE ! Dormitory Burned Early! Today—Three Girls Are Seriously Injured Springtield, Ohio, May 15 P— ' Fire in Woodland Hall, a girls’ dor- mitory at Wittenberg college, early teday caused the death of a co-ed and the serious injury to three others, while a score of girls were routed from their bede. Hilda Bipes, 20, Shelby, Ohto, was found dead in the building by firemen who worked an hour and a half to extinguish the blaze. She had apparently fallen victim of the smoke and was burned by the flames that destroyed the dormitory. The three co-eds taken to a hos- pital for treatment of their injuries are: Alice Olde, Detroit, cuts, burns, bruises about wrists and hands, Helen McClain, Troy, Ohio, back and ankles injured. Marie Schneider, broken nose, Almost a score of other co-eds liv- ing in the dormitory escaped after one of their number had smelled iscovered that the fire was sweeping the house in which they were sleeping. More of the girls might have been trapped in bed had not most of them remained awake longer than usual to listen to a midnight serenade of 4 campus fraternity. The dormitory of frame and brick construction housed freshman girls *ho are studants in Wittenharg col- loge. Indianapolis, government is hefore they begin.” “Hon. Dwight F. Davis, secretary (Continue on Page Fight) COMMISSION YOTES DOWN ORANGE ST. LINE CHANGE Fight Expected tn Common Council Over Petition of Fafnir Bearing Co. { A common council fight on the question of abandonment of a building line on Orange street was assured this afternoon when the board of public works voted to re ommend to the council that there b no change in the five-foot setback on the property now held by the Fafnir Bearing Co. The manufacturing company wishes to build a factory on the land which it recently acquired, and is desirous of continuing the build- ing at the sldewalk line so there will be no jog hetween the existing structure and the new. Owners of other propertics are opposed to any change. 1t is understood the Fafnir petition has supporters among mem- bers of the council, while the fifth ward delegation in particular, is opposed. i THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight: Wednesday cloudy. slowly rising temper- ature tomight. R G 'DRAG MOOSEHEAD < Average Daily Circulation For w3 14,850 May 12th ... PRICE THREE CENTS . WHAPLES, LEADER " LAKE FOR BODIES 1Search for 10 Men Drowned: There Yesterday ‘ Lone Survivor Tells How He Jumped | Into Water—Others Belicved 10: Have Been Imprisoned in the Boat, Rockwood, Me., 16 (UP)—| The sole survivor of the tragic sink- | ing of the motorboat “Mac” reeov-i | ered sufficier party of sear today to pilot a ers to the scene of {Sunday night's wreck, which cost| e | & NATIv. R, "SORD BANK CIRCLES, THIS CITY, DEAD BOAT HITS AGAINST ijUITS FOR $2[] l]i]l] 'Chairman of Board of AGAINST RAILROAD e Tt Company Basis Tor Court Action NEGLIGENCE 1S ALLEGED Double Wooster Street Fatality. ding Anniversary. |Began Career in New | Britain National Bank in Position of Discount Ithe lives of nine prominent Brock- {ton, Mass, men and their guide. ! Police Captain James % Lays, | | head lake. The sunken boat lin previous years. was thought to !iying in nearly 100 fect of about one mile [ Bar Island. assembled near this backwoods to preparatory to lifting tie as soon as its position was tained. Tnside the submergs fwere believed the hodi it not all, of the victin | Today. more than 40 {the tragedy, the exact e {accident remained a mys | Early reports were that the Ihnad struck a submerged log. fquickly, and gone fo the hottom. Captaln Lays said today, howe ithat he did not recall having enced the jolt which would uit from the bhoat's collision witt = of ma of | Brockton, who despite his 62 years. | which had car |ried the same men on fishing tri wate northwest of Sand Meanwhile stecamboats and scows ill-starred | (voodrich o from the hottom of the lake | Woost asee A tiar fil of {succeeded In swimming a quarter of a mile to shore, came here with! Administrator, searchers from Greenville and; % | sought to tocate the exact apet| Charles W. Goodrich. Sr. of Paul ter-in-law, Mrs. and her two year old son, George H. Goodrich. today brought suit for $20.000 be | Tich against the New York. New Haven & Hartford R, R Co., alleging that the d the 18 of Mrs. wn and | street grade crossing in r- | Barnesdale last Wednesday night 217t |were the result of the negligence M. of employes of the defendant com- any. Attorney tha t Tuesday in June. Mrs. Goodrich, her husband, Goodrich, the infant and ed | | riv Or. ver ex- { tomobite which was re. | west-bound passenger " | husband and oldest hoy struck by train. (aured, the latter seriously, while the Corbly is a member of the Amphion | 2 l"{;’”;”'”““ i'n‘”' "::'FD:," mother and infant reccived injuries club, Junior College club and a BAPICH A8 JopRIOn SRAL ers, | TSUItINg in death. Mrs. Goodrich cheer leader. She plans to attend Ibed e, of Ve LT (MARMEIERT 1ol e e o sy htitad etdile the Middlebury college after her gradu- | thelr camplng equipment and the| a . tinfant’s death occurred a few hours heavy gasoline engine, might have S b “Mac 1o spring a loaw |ATST the accident. The oldest boy {in it« hottom, where it would not|'$ @ hospifal patient, and his fath er left the Estates of Mrs. Frances G. Good- | rich and Her Two Year Old Son . Gerard Casale is- the writs, there being two sep- rate actions for $10.000 each. They | re returnable in superior court the | his | six vear old brother were in an au- al The | were in- | hospital the dar after Clerk 67 Years Ago. Seek Redress for Deaths Through | | Hartford, May 15 (P—>Meigs H. Whaples, chairman of the board of | !Tustees of the Hartford-Connecticut | Where the 48-footer went in Moose- | Street, Barnesdale, acting as admin- i Trust Co. and prominent in the civic | istrator of the estates of his daugh. | 374 business life of Hartford for Frances G. Good- jmore than a half century, died to- | day at the Hartford hospital where fhe had been {1 for several weelse .| Tollowing & serious operation. He 1\\;-.5 in his Sird year. i ‘llorn in This Gity ! Mr. Whaples was a native of New infant at the | Britain, where he was born July 1s, 1845, the son of Curtis and Kl b (Lusk) Whaples. After grad- ting from the New Britaln high 5chool he entered the Commercial legiate Tnstitute at Poughkee: Y., from which he was graduated. lle hegan his banking career with the New Britain National -bank re he was discount clerk in 1861, and two years later joined the Met. cantile bank of this city. He re- mained with this institution until 1869, when he was offered a place on the staff of Rear Admiral O. H. Glisson of the United States navy, whom he served as secretary with the rank of lieutenant. ? Returning to Hartford in 1872 he began his long assoclation with - the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. which later in a merger became {the Hartford-Connecticut Trust Com- pany. He remained teller for five |vears and was elected treasurer in . o he discovered until t late, Mrs. Messinger Then Hands in|" ey vermiea to the ther that the IKAS PRAISE FOR SOCIETY “Mac,” a rather old boat, had heen | {in the water only a week this season {and might not have been watertight. | Up to noon today, no bodies had [heen recoversd, giving further | welght to the heery that most ef | the fat. Ty, o 7 b ,.:lu’f.:rin»;omm to advice of 11577, eleven years Inter becoming, in According 1o the complaint in each | o> ' Numm"mn LT action, “the defendant: was negli- | Sk e gent in the premises by reason of the fact that it ran the said locomo- nd train of cars at a reckless tive Beaides his tmportant connsetion with the Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company. Mr. Whaples was offfeer and director of numerous organiza- | Says Tesignation Has Nothing to Do | and dangerous speed at where eapecial care should have been exercised by the defendant, | and that it failed and neglected to glve & reasonable notice of the ap- | proach of the train and the inten- | {the victims were trapped insids the wrecked craft Today dawned clear jover the tragic scene of the boat wreck, and calm waters made ft | possible to carry on the hunt for A place | tions. In civle life he was president and treasurer of the Connscticut River Bridge and Highway Distriet Com- mission and had been president of and bright bodies which had | vesterday er. to he postponed because of adverse weath- | tion of the persons in control there- of to rin said train acrose ald high- way along which said automobile the board of police commissioners, chairman of the city's finance board {and member of the common eouncil. | He s survived by his wife, who Seat covers, life preservers and pieces of clothing had heen wash- | ed ashore as mute reminders of the | aceident which transformed a merry fishing expedition into one of the ‘was being driven.” According to Orrin Goodrich's | statement to the police after the ac- cident, he had brought his car to & the | left in fgnorance long, T assure you. | sl worst tragedies in Moosehead La! history. Nine Lost | =4, the sole surviver {who swam a quarter of a mile (Continued on Page Eight) ! Drowned Brockton, Mass, May 15 (UP) | Flags were at half-mast in griof-stricken city today in tribute to {who were drowned in Mooseche; | Lake, Maine, late Sunday, while an annual fishing trip. | Not since the Grover disaster | 1705, when mome 50 persons perish- In a shos factory boiler explos- | ed {ion and fire, had Brockton be I struck by such a tragedy The sheriff of Plvmouth county, Brockton's fire chief and highw | commissioner, a former mayor, two | doctors, a dentist and two business. | {men, afl lost their lives in the boat| wreck | Even tod | cident, citizens seemed unable | appreciate the full extent tragedy. Business was carried Nine prominent Brockton, Mass., men and their Maine guide perish- | being Police | Captain James E. Layvs of Brockton, | BROCKTON FLAGS ARE PUT AT HALF WAST |Whole City Mourns for! | Nine Prominent Citizens this silent nine prominent citizens of the half-heartedly and public gatherings | stop to allow an eastbound train to pass, and then had driven into the | track, not being aware of the ap- | proach of the train from the oppo- site direction. Emil H. R. Vogel, & neighbor of the unfortunate family, made frantic efforts to warn Good- rich of the danger by honking the horn of his car, without avail. MRS. MARY ANN TAYLOR DIES AT THE AGE OF 79 Greenwood Street Woman Had Re- sided in This City For Half Century ke to Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor, 79 years Greenwood street, died this morn- ing of complications incident to her advanced age. She was born in Boyatt, England, November 12, 1848, and lived in this city for the past 50 years. She esters of America; New England Order of Protaction and the First Baptist church. Burviving her besides her hus- band, are a son, John B. Taylor; a sister, Mrs. Ellen Dyke, and two grandchildren, all of this city. | The funeral will be held Thurs- {day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at | Erwin chapel. Rev. Willlam Ross, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officlate. Burial will be in Falrview cemetery ad | on | of | en ay | 25 vours atter s o-. | CERMANY'S AMBASSADOR 10 WRITES T0 LOCAL LEGION Pleased on | | {old, wife of Thomas Taylor of 174/ i was a member of Pride circle, For- | |was Miss Harriet Atwater Hotehkias when they were married May 18, 1878, and by two children, Haywood Hotchkiss Whaples, & member of the- firm of Roy T. H. Barnes & Ce., and Miss Mary Atwater Whaples, | Mr. Whaples’ death occurred on |his 50th wedding anniversary, (Continued on Page Eight) MADERS ASKING $8,100 AS COLLISION ECHO Bring Action Against | Plainville Manufacturer i and Driver Two separate actions wese brought today against Henry Trum- bull and George D. Furbur, of Plainville, one for $600 dumages by Anna Mader and the other for $7 1500 by Peter Mader, & miner, through his father, Mikolaj Made}. The first writ prepared by Attornay B. J. Monkiewicz states that on No- vember 16, 1927, Peter Mader, a li- censed automobile operator, was driving a car owned by the plaintife, Anna Mader, in a southerly direc- tion on Carlton street and as he ap- proached Allen street, Trumbull's automobile driven by Furbur frem the opposite direction collided with the machine damaging it seriously. As 2 result the plaintiff was obliged to spend a large sum of ‘money for repairs and was deprived of the use |of the car for a long period, it is claimed. The second writ states that as a result of the accident Peter Mader was seriously injured, and immedi. ately after the accident was taken home to bed where a medical exam and lodge activities were curtafleq to Cooperate by Having ination revealed concussion of the while Brockton awaited tuble news of waters of the bodies. So intense was local interest in t! sent an airplane to Moosehead La s E. Sullivan, city hall flew from Boston fo ihe scene Reven of the victims were marri and five are survived by children. Sheriff Earl P. Blake. 33, one nently by chusetts. (““ontinued on Page 14.) the inevi- removal from Lake accident, that the Brockton Enter- | prise, the city's biggest newspaper, to expedite the flow of news. Josepl | Messier, telegraph editor, and Thom- | reporter, the tragedy yesterday inea Travelair the victims, had long been promi- | identified in Plymouth coun- | |ty affairs. He was appointed sheriff | N Calvin Coolidge in 1919, while Pr“ | the latter was governor of Massa- Mrs. Blake was attending Bremen Crew Place Flowers on Wooster's Grave he Commander Nate Avery, of Eddy- Glover Post, American Legion, re- jceived today, a letter from Amba: sador Prittwitz-Gaffron, of the Ger- man legation in Washington, D. The ambassador thanked the mem- hers of the Eddy-Glover Post for the kind words in thelr recent letter, ki of plane piloted by A. Lewis Mac-|and said he was glad that he could Clain, Boston airport pilot. The | cooperate with the Legion and have 200-mile trip was made in four|the crew of the Bremen decorate liours. the grave of Licutenant Staunton ed | Wooster in Arlington National ceme- tery. He terminated his letter by sending greetings to the local Le- gionnaires. Coolidge Signs of Washington. May 15 (#—Presi- dent Coolidge today signed the Mis- |sissippi river flood contrel bill. Flood Control Bill | brain, severe injuries to the eyes, which will be permanent, and other linjuries to the face, legs and other | parts of the body. The plaintift was confined to bed for a long period and was obliged to spend a large of monecy for medical attendance, nursing and medicines, it is ¢laimed. The complaint further states that the plaintiff as a result of sald in- juries was deprived of attending his occupation for a long time, suffered and will suffer pain, is subject to severe shocks and headaches, and will be permanently disabled, it is sald. The plaintiff alleges that the acole dent was due to Furber's careless and reckless driving, fallure to wara {of his approach: that he vielatéd the traffic law by driving on the | wrong side of the street and driving at an excessive rate of speed. The ipapers were served today by De- puty Sheriff Matthew Papelak and the writ is returnable in city court icn the fourth Monday in May: