New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1928, Page 4

FLASHES OF LIFE: $3,000 OFFERED FOR BRAND NEW By the Assoclated Pres. New York—There is an oppor- tunity for someone to win $3,000 by composing a ncw American national anthem. Mrs. Florence Brooksaten of Park avenue has oftered a first prize of $3,000 and other awards to- talling as much more for a substi- tute for the “Star Spangled Banner” Five years ago, Brooksaten estab- lished a foundation for r international fricndship school children New York—2Mrs ton, height has shattered mel's worlds outdoor ex swimming record of 32 hours. w open salt water pool she cr and treaded water, occasionaldy «i ng peppermint candy. promoti among Myrtie Huddles- 5 teet, 2, weight Mrs. Lottie Schoer In Dresden, Germany—DBaron Von {luencreld, one of the three men to fly the Atlanti , has writ- ten a suceesstul play, tuck.” It has nothing wiation westw Fear of to do with phlox is nomin- ated as the American national flow- er by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry of the United States department of agricul- ture. He points out that some phlox i star-shaped, that it comes in red, white and blue, over the Fourth of July. New York Chicago—Old Chicago’s famous society castle, the Potter Palmer mansion, is to give way to 3 000,000 fifty story hotel, inten he the tallest, largest, most lusuri- ous hostelry in the world. New York—The New York Kotary club wants more business men and executives on trial juries. Learning that clerks outnumber husiness men, manufacturers and bankes to one on juries, the club oftered the services of its entire membership to the commissioner of jurors Hollywood—Doug and Mary Pickford have George Bernard Shaw novelist. who has would never come to the States, has agreed to visit Mr. Mrs. Fairbanks next year said United und oiten New York—A young Amcrican is setting out for the Dilzian (ongzo to conquer slecping sickness, annually claims 100,000 lives in that region. Warren K. Stratman- Thomas, of the University of Wisconsin will take six chemical compounds which he hopes will d stroy the deadly parasitical organ- isms responsible for the discase. Washington—A * commission of women is attacking the “complutely chaotic condition” into which 1the which question of women's nationality has | fallen through international mar- rlages. Miss Dorls Stevens. the chalrman, “a woman may find her- lurance and is in bloom | he | AMERICAN ANTHEM self possessed of several nationali- tics or of none.” New York—Flaming youth has a friend in court. Associate Justice Levy of the children’s court thinks modern boys and girls are in many | respects better than those of & gen- | crution ago. They are better able 1o look out for themselves. Speculator, N, Y.—Even hero worship can't stand Kitchen police duty. Sixteen year old Robert Pow- crs hiteh-hiked from his Chattan- | ooga, Tenn., home to Tom Heeney's | ©w Jersey training camp, and was put 1o work as cook’s helper. §o he | deserted the challenger and is now | seking pugilistic pion Geng Tunney's camp New | Haven—John Cirillo is shot five times in argument over four| pen Police are sccking Antonio Manganella for the shooting | Hamden—Body of man buried in|with intent to kill, Is arrested here | wrenched off and Wallingford cemetery Saturday identified by M Irank Smith of this place as her husband, is| Haven police which he for alleged swindle in | was suid to have cleared Seymour--State police visit alleged gambling house and arrest Arthur| I'rost, the proprietor and 56 others, Greenwich—Rodney Farson, son of New York broker, arrested on reckless driving charge after crash-| ing into milk wagon. Farson was | fined here recently on similar charge {after running into man Winsted—George Sweet, 31, d as result of being burned in fire which followed explosion at Winsted | Insulated Wire company plant. The mse of the explosion is unknown. | | Bristol—More than 6,000 visit St.| 'Josepl’s church to view relic of St Anne at services in her honor Danbury—John King of Bethel is taken to hospital here after crash- ing into tres on road which is un- der construction. enwich— in- jured in blast at Shick Razor com- pany plant dies in hospital. Explo-| sion occurred as he putting mould in ¢ Bits of iren penetrated his hody | was iners. stamford —Taxi skids into Bridzet Shaughnessy, knocking her against tree and causing injuries to her hand. At the same time. Stanley| Bouton of Darien, passenger in taxi |is thrown from and suff chest injuries, seat Stamford—Benjamin Pelely, 71, !slips off bank inte shallow stream | \}:mv} drowns in six feet of water, pointers at Cham- | . Greenwich — Gasoline explosion damages vacht Arizona 3d and causes burns to Sidney R. Coless of Springfield, Mass. Danbury—Charles Schede, Darien and Charles Weed, orth Canaan, are taken to hospital here after ma- chine Is wrecked and destroyed by fire in accident at Bedford, N. Y. Norwich—Myer Novick is crushed and killed when his truck overturns on Norwich-Colchester road. Meriden—Entire fire department called out for three alarm blaze | which destroys Church street school | Fain with loss of $40,000. New Haven—Automobile backing out of garage kills Royce Sloan, aged two. Robert Greckler, the driver of the car was not held. New res- |taurant owner is beaten and rob- bed by thug. Kringas was struck on head and $35 was taken from cash register, wanted assault Ansonia—Raymond Hill in New Haven on charge of for theft of automobile. Hill is Ingram | thought to be the man that stabbed | t- sought for more than a year by New er first attempting to steal his car. the fact that it was a Robert Anderson in New Haver Wolfeboro, N. H. ton, 21, dying at hos let wounds from father's gun; ent held after altercation rnest Moul- ital from bul- Bellingham. Mass.—Mederic Teau- parlant, 32, dies at Woonsocket, R. I.. hospital after fight with brother, Walter, Mass.—Foriier Mayor Talbot withdraws from ce for governor Fall Rive Edmond F democratic Wilham €. city author, Mass York Williamstown RBrownell, New dies at Plunges Tfimugh Guard Rail in Auto; Drowned | Rridgewater, Mass, July 23, (UP) Stephen Samory, 37, was drowned Fere when his touring car crashed through a guard-rail on Desmond Bridee and plunged 30 feet into the Satuckot river, The accident apparently ocenrred | late yesterday or last night but was not discovered until today, when William Holton of Hingham noticed the break in the guard-rail and notified police With grappling irons, authorities pulled the wreeked antomobile out of 10 feet of water. Samory's hody was found in the tonnean Samory, who was married was cmployed as a earpenter In Quiney. His wife teld pelice that he had zene on an crrand shortly o met death. She believed that he as alene In the car at the time of the accldent. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS pars hefore | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, 2% HURT IN WRECH | Spectacular Accident on Bos- [ ton's Elevated Railway Boston, July 23 { brakes or rails were sponsible today for a spectacular derailment on the Boston | elevated which resulted in two | deaths and injuries to 23 other per- sons here last night. | Many other passengers had mi- | raculous escapes as two cars of the | four-car train overturned and | |crumpled into a maze of wreckage Jabout 40 fect above the intcrsection of Harrison avenue and Beach| | street in Boston's Chinatown. { | Onc car plunged over the ¢levated ftrestle but was prevented from | crashing into the street when it I struck the roof of a one-story brick | | building and rested there. Tts rear | |truck, ~weighing three tons, was hung suspended | six feet over the sidewalk. The train, which would have been crowded with beach-goers but for | rainy night, | about 40 passengers, It was rounding a sharp curve at fair speed between the v street station and South| ation when the accident occurred. | George P. Anderson, 20, of Green- | ficld, and an unidentified man, about 40 years old, lost their lives. Of the 23 taken to hospitals, all Tt six had been discharged this morn- |ing. | The wheels of the cars screcch:d 4 warning of the impending crash | with a grating noise that was heard | for blocks around. As the cars 1oft the rails the scene was suddenly Nurse Laven Saved Twin Babies from Chafing, Rashes, Irritation | by use of Sykes Comfort Powder iTWl] ARE KILLED, | (UP)—AFaulty believed re- had only ahoard. e EN o Grand Rapids, Mich.—*“These twi | babies have been under my care sinc- | | birth. Not a day has passed without | | the use of Sykes Comfort Powder. | They have & beautiful ekin and have never hada blemishof chafing, rashes, rcaldmg. prickly heat from which eo | many babies suffer. I wish every | mother could know about Sykes | Comfort Powder.”’—Nettie C. Lavan, R Grand ng Mich. | Thisis because Sykes Comfort Pow- | der contains healing, antiseptic ingre- | dients not found in ordinary talcums, COMFORT POWDER CO., BOSTON, MASS. A Landslide 14 7 7 or CHRYSLER/ 14 Chrysler’s New St‘yle and Value Sweep the Country and Thousands Rush to Buy! Portland, Ore., showed to 16,000 and soid nearly $100,000 worth in a day. San Francisco the new "75,” In every principal city of the country people are examining, admiring and buying the new style introduced by Chrysler. They are universally voicing the sentiment that 65" and the new Chrysler- built Plymouth are — each in its class — the greatest dollar's worth in beauty, style and quality ever offered. Metropolitan New York had the tremendous total of 109,000 persons with 1,500 retail orders, totaling more than $2,000,000.00, for the new Chrysler Products. In Detroit, the center of the industry, nearly 42,000sa% thenew cars thefirst fourdays.Chry- sler dealers sold 652 cars—more than $750,000 worth—in that time. Chicago drew 32,000 to the Coliseum and made 443 retail sales. Philadelphia had 50,000 and took 309 retail orders. Cleveland’s attendance was 10,000 in one day—sales 166 cars. reported 210 retail orders. Kansas City’s opener was to 3,000 persons and sold 61 cars. Flint, Mich., drew 5,000 persons and sold 44 cars. Baltimore’s attendance was 3,000 in one day and the district sold over 300 cars. Texas points were busy—El Paso with 5,000 attend- ance and 19 sales—Dallas 1,265 people and 26 cars in a day and Beaumont showing to 1,000 people and selling 22 automobiles. Everywhere everyone agrees that, indeed, Chrysler bas dome it again—that Chrysler has providedawholly newstyle and performance— unmatched in attractiveness—and strengthen- ing the value Ieadership of this great company. Chrysleracknowledges with sincerest gratitude this endorsement and will spare no efforts to continue to merit this expression of public confidence. The City Service Station Inc., A. M. PAO. NESSA, Pres. 238 HARTFORD AVENUE 1 lighted with a blinding blaze, created+as steel parts of the train came in contact with the third rail, Witnesses of the accident, in the street below, could see the passens gers struggling to escape from the overturned cars as the fiercely bright light played about the scene. The first car was hurtled against the old Beach street station, de- molishing one wall, and this contact threw back the train so that the second car was pushed over the trestle and onto the roof of a small building Men, Women and children were Question: MONDAY, JULY 23, 1928, cars that left the rails turned over tossed from their seats as two of the and rested diagonally across the en- tire elevated structure. Me. July 23 (UP)— )laln); of ’:na irxnred ;\'crn alz,lf- to| Playing ring around the roses while crawl to the shattered Windows, | . ipine i o xame W where they clung until police and bathing in No Xafn, pond cost three firemen rescued them and carried | YOUNE Women their lives here yester- them down ladders to saftey. | day Shrieks of panic-stricken passen-| Hand in hund, the three girls, gers filled the air as rescue squads| With three’chums who had accom- battled in the rain to reach the in-|panie dthe mto the pond on a pieni jured whe were trapped within the | Were circling about and wandere wrecked cars. into deep water. | Witnesses went to the rescue and Ihrought all six ashore but three of 3 Girls Drowned Playing Lewiston, READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Will we have a radio for the fight? Answer: If you will read the Radio Special Yes helow For a Few Days Only Starting We will broadeast the fight blow by blow through our amplifying speaker, IMPERTAL POLLS ........ 3 For $1.10 OPP. 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