New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Circulation For 14,633 A g Ao July 28th ... ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928. —SIXTEEN PAGES g juiiiini ~ THREE CENTS U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM TAKES LACING IN FINALS OF ALL TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS Sees Young Canadian|3() FAMILIES IN Run OF With 100""p \GHT BY FLOOD Meter Race and Eng- land Capture 400 Me- | foys Kan, Inundated by Ris- ing Waters of Cloudbarst ter Hurdles With Ease. Ireland Romps Through for Victory in Hammer Throw—All the Victories Were Upsets of Vary- ing Degrees. eral Hundred Thousand Dollars— Country Affected Is Dry Wheat Belt—Six Feet of Water. Hays, Kas, July 30 (® — Flood conditions prevailed in the compara- tively dry wheat belt of western central Kansas today following near Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, July 30 —Losing in all three of to- day's final events in the Olympic, cloudbursts in several sections yes- track and field competition, the| o 4 A United States athletes saw the & £ ; Y "1 Although 300 families were forced Olympic 100 meter championship | R S D e to England and the hammer-throw | 2% to Treland, all in upsets of varying degrees. The best the Americans could do in these events was to place fourth and sixth in the dash, second and third in the hurdles and third, fifth and sixth in the ham- arkness night when the swiftly rising waters inundated the low s !residence section, iwas reported here. Heavy Loss no Property was esti- mated at several hundred thousand damage here dolla NO LOSS OF LIFE KNOWN| Property Damage Will Reach Sev- | DEMOCRATS OPEN M UP HEADQUARTERS "Have Most Elaborate Offices of Any Political Party OCCUPY 4 BIG ROOMS Have Taken Over Entire Eighth Floor of General Motors' Building in New York From Which to Stockholm, Sweden, July 30 (P— The mother of Dr. Finn Malmgren, believes that he met death as re- ported to her by Captain Filippo Zappi—urging his companions on to safety while he remained dying in New York, July 30 (UP)—Demo-|a grave of ice. crats began doing business in the| Captain Zappl, who had started General Motors building at 57th and |across the ice with Dr. Malmgren | Broadway today in new headquar-land Captain Alberto Mariano after [ ters which are the largest, the most | the crash of the dirigible Italia, call- elaborate and probably the most'ed on Mme. Malmgren to give her clegantly furnished ever occupied her son's compass. With her son- by any political party. {in-law translating the conversation 45 Rooms | was carried on between the rescued | Conferees will meet, typewriters Ttalian and the mother of the Swed- | will click, and telephones will ring |ish sclentist in English. in 45 large rooms on the entire Strength Failing | eighth floor and half of the seventh Malmgren was not in good | which a Operate. | D, in the building covers form when he set ot and soon re- {whole block on upper Broadway. marked that his strength was goinz There is an airy; well-lighted and {to fail him. One day, I believe it beautifully furnished room for Gov-! crnor Alfred E. Smith, the pres ! dential candidate, to occupy when | he is in the city for political con- ferences. FFrom it, he can look down Wwas a presentation for his work with the length of Broadway. The room the Amundsen expedition of 1922- has seven windows and nine cefling [192 ligh At this point the captain handed There is a similar room for the|the compass to Mme. Malmgren, | vice presidential candidate, Senatorsaying: Joseph Robinson, though le| “You know him; all we could do rarely will use it. was to obey; he was like that.” Cost $10,000 Mme. Malmgren was later quoted Furnishings alone for the by her son-in-law as saying: quarters cost $40,000. he object of Capt. Zappi's call Soft carpeting has been laid upon |has been attained. T feel perfectly sound proof felt, eliminating any | calm. I believe absolutely that Capt. distracting noiscs. | Zapp! is telling me the truth.” private for the twelfth of June, the doctor asked me, as the only service I would do him, to dig a trench in the snow and take the compass which | | head- almgren’s Mother Believes Her Son Succumbed In Arctic Wastes While Urging Other Men Onward| Parent of Swedish Meteorologist Firmly Convinced { After Interview With Capt. Zappi That the Ital- ian Officer With Nobile’s Expedition Is Tell- ing the Truth—Hears Death Described. by what has been said about me but I have a clear conscience befors God. Dr. Malmgren kept no notes at least after the disaster.” Here Mme. Malmgren interrupted Capt. Zappi's story with the excla- | mation: “I anderstan habit.” -it was not his| | Capt. Zappi, speaking of state- | ments made by the Russian aviator | | Chukhnovsky, who discovered Zappi and Mariano on the fce, that a third | figure was nearby, told Mme, Malm- {gren that what the flyer saw must have been a pair of leather breeches | which had been thrown away. Is Satisfied The son-in-law, like Mme, gren, said he was fully satisfied with the captain’s story. He said he knew the doctor’'s strength of char- acter and was convinced that his last moments were as Zappi related. He added: “Capt. Zappl 18 a perfect gentle- man whose story gives a clear idea | of what really happened.” \l:\lm. | { by the Italian consul general. After | the interview he rejoined the other | survivors of the Italia. They were | traveling today toward Rome on the | ‘n‘zul.lr express from Copenhagen to | | i0 Mariano, sister of Cap- 1no today was on her way from Italy to Harvik, Norway, hav ing been summoned there by her | brother. He was placed in a hos- his foot aboard the breaker Krassin, Russian He expects to re- (Continued on Page 13) | amer. | Water was six feet deep in tne| There are offices Capt. Zappi also said: The winners were comparative | buildings of the Kansas State Teach- | Chairman John J. Raskob of the Rest of Friends unknowns in iwo of the three|crs’ college and also had enterea |N2tional committee, campalgn gen-| “Dr. Malmgren and 1 were the events, while Lord Davy Burghley|the Union Pacific station, Only the | cralissimo; Senator Peter G. Gerry best of friends. We were like broth- of England, who won the 400 meter | second stories of many houses were | ©f Rhode Island, chairman of the ers. T have been very much pained hurdles was listed as one of the | nove the flood. About a third of | James G. Gcr; wnost promising contenders but Was|the town was under water. nator Tydings o given little chance to beat the American, Morgan Taylor, who was defending his championship won in . Taylor was only third today, being beaten his countryman, Absence of any made necessary bouats in Hays hastily improvised rafts, while women and children re carried from their homes on men’s backs. Tracks Washed Out Railroad tra by Frank Cuhel of lowa, as well as by Burghle onds, W as Taylor has done, considering the track. Percy Williams, British Columbia schoolboy, sprang the big surprise in the 100 Hll[kffi by defeating the world's best, including the highly rated Americans, Frank Wykoff and . The time 53 2-5 sec- ich was not nearly so good but was fast ks were washed out in several pl and it was reported the Union Pacific bridge over Big Creek a half mile west of town was | doomed. The most hionable homes in the town were located in the section inundated. Bob McAllister who could do no| Residents of Hoisington, Kansas., better than fourth and sixth respec- | were forced to higher ground when tively, although the latter and Legg | flood waters, following a7 inch of South Africa who was given fifth | Yain, swept info the lower part of place ten ely finished 8o close the town. A mile of railroad track together that the final award of [ Was washed out. placcs had to be postopned until| Ahout 100 families were driven from their homes near Ellis, Kans., when Big Creek overflowed the countryside, washing out a mile of Union Pacific tracks, and flooding the town. From three to ten fect of water raged through ti streets there, Thousands of bushels of wheat in local elevators was soaked, mar was ruincd. Birds Drowned Hundreds of movies of the race could be studied. Jack London, British negro, and George Lammers the German took second and third in the race which was won in 10 4-5 seconds, 1-b slower than the Olympic record. Trish-Americans had been romp- Ing oft with the hammer throwing championship for Uncle Sam re- peatedly in past Olympics, but this time an Irishman, throwing for Ire land, won, when Pat O'Callagh® got the ball away 168 feet 71z 4 birds were found Bt meat Ossian Skond o |drowned in the courthouse square Sweden by four inches. Edmund |2 Wakeeney. following rainfall B ot o s e | which totalled 7 inches and which was a poor third, more than 7 feet behind, while histeammates, Don while | ac acres of shocked wheat nearly | ¢ sent all streams out of their banks. | ind, chairman of the senator- »aign committee and head of s Lureau, and the other AVALANCHE OF MONEY TO HIT TAX OFFICE! officials. 11 Reception Rooms Visitors may wait in any one of 11 reception rooms, Indicative of the scope of the| campaign the democrats plan, there ‘.\"v special rooms for headquarte of the labor, industrial, agriculture, ' Torcign afiaivs, colleges, commerce,| DY Tomorrow—L. F. & and women's bureau On the opposite corner of the building from Governor Smith's lyxa4 urious room is a large press room, equipped with typewriters and all the adjuncts of the newspaper trade. There is a special room for moving | pictures and radio. Switchboards | There are three telephone switch- | noards, one of them for private calls r ofticials, such as those Raskob ! probably will make frequently to the | exccutive mansion at Albany. A to- tal of 481 telephone books have been delivered for the convenience of the various offices. There are file rooms, information and rooms for every other All of them are light and | C. Pays $174,471.70 Within 24 hours, approximately 1$1,000,000 will probably pass through | the office of Tax Collector Berna- | dotte Loomis, manufacturing cor- porations taking advantage of the last day to square their accounts in avoidance of a delinquency penalty. The first of the corporation pay- | ments was made today when Lan- | ders, Frary & Clark's presented a | check for $174,471.70, Corporations !pay u total of $902,209.55 or about one-third of the entire tax revenue. The largest individual taxpayer s Fred Beloin, whose bill calls for | $11,215.10, Listed among the heaviest payers are: American Hardware Corpora- | The whole layout i characteristic | tion 724.90; Stanley Works, | of the big business man, Raskob, | $215,65 Landers, Frary & Clark, | who formerly sat in his private cffi- North & Judd Mfg. Co. | ces on the top floor and issued or- afnir Bearing Co, $38,- | Big Business | {ders which made him a giant in[192.70; New Britain Machine Co. | world of hig business. 40; Union Works, $23,691.20 Hart & Cooley, $18,821.40; American | Gwinn and Frank Conners trailed the Ttalian Poggioli who was fourth. | Amsterdam Stadium, July 30 (UP)—Point standings at the end of the second day of the sixth Olympiad were: United States, 55; Driver Fin Great Britain, 'Arrested Twice on Drink Charge, Hosiery Co. $16,766.10; Eastern Malleable Tron Co. $14.128.40; Skin- ner Chuck Co. $10,270, WILLIAM H. MACINTYRE ed and Sent to Jail 19; Finland, 17; Sweden, 16; Can- ada, 19; Ircland, 10; Germany, 9; : | France, 5: Ttaly, 4; Philippines, 3; On second Trip He| South Africa, 2. : = | Poinia are swarded as folows:| Smashes Big Window First, 10; second, 5; third, 4; fourth, Then Policeman, in Same Car, Wrecks Shop Gate. 3: fifth, 2; sixth, 1. The point scor- ing is unofficial. The European sport writers award only 6 points for first place. Dodge-Chrysler Merger Still Hanging Fire Ordinarily, to be arrcsted on the norlm:s‘ charge of operating an au- : tomobile while under the ence Baltimore, Md., July 30 (P—lof liquor and then % :»LL g‘:’\'?: the Whether Dodge Brothers, Inc., | benefit of the doubt and allowed to would be merged with the Chrysler go without arraignment in court, corporation, still hung fire today, |would have the effect of bringing a while a stockholders meeting to act | motorist to his senses so completely | on the merger plan awaited com- | \md effectively fhat he would never pilation of reports on the amount again touch a driving wheel unless of Dodge stock deposited for ex- change. | Nab Tenth Member of he was entirely sober. No so with Jchn Radzewius, however, “Thank You, Much Obliged” John, who is 38 years of age and lives at 22 Woodland street, was ob- Danbury Hat Theft Gang |sc:ved driving in an unsteady man- Danbury, July 30 (P—The arrest |2T on East Main street about $ early today of Herbert Flye, 26, the |O'clock last night and Officers John tenth member of an alleged — hat | O'Brien and Maurice Flynn arrested theft ring and holdup gang rounded |Eim. At police headquarters, how- up here over the weekeend fs the |cver. Sergeant M. J. Flynn and fore-runner of still further arrests |lieutenant Samuel Bamforth hesi- which state and local police expect to make during the present probe, it was stated today. appear to be unfit to drive, although there was no question that he had been drinking. He could have been held on charges of driving without | having his license and registration in SERIOUSLY HURT Lynn, Mass, July 30 UP—Fred- erick Felone, 22, and Clarence Jackson, 33, of Natick, were se- | riously injured in a mysterious ex- plosion at the West Lynn Junior High school today. A police investi- gation was started to determine whether dynamite had been mixed in the concrete of a floorthe men were drilling with an electric drill when the explosion happened. g0 home and get them, which he did, and as he was leaving the station, the officers and Prosecuting Attor- Iney J. G. Woods warned him that the safest move for him was to head Ifor home and stay there, and also to and gasoline do not mix when one is in the driver and the other in the car. John was profuse in his thanks and assured the officials that he would appreciate their kindness and consideration by driving home and putting the car up. He admitted he had been drinking, but he would take no more. “Good night, thank you, much obliged,” etc. and away he went. ANNA F. CLARKE Bridgeport, July 30 (® — Anna Fairchild Clarke, daughter of the Rev. Sylvester and Anna Dalrymple Clarke, died yesterday at her home in Granstan avenue. Miss Clarke is survived by a sister, Miss Grace. Rev. Clarke was the first rector of Trinity Eplscopal church here, (Continued on Page Eight) |tated to book him becanuse he did not | his possession, but he was allowed to | be sure he understood that alcohol | Former New York Broker Seriously | Hurt and Wife Killed in Auto Ac- 'HIGH SCHOOL INQUIRY cident in France. Carcassonne, France, July 30 (®— | William H. MacIntyre, understood to be a former New Yorker, was seri- ously hurt and his wife killed when | an automobile crashed against a tree here yesterday, DBroken glass severed Mrs. Maclntyre carotid art- ery. A break in the steering me- chanism caused the crash. ' BOARD MEETS TONIGHT Building Committee Will Tell Special Board of City’s Needs New York, July 30 (®—The New York Evening Post today says that the William H. Maclntyre injured in an automobile accident in Carcas- sonne, France, is the president of the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass railroad and vice president and di- rector of the Signature company. Mrs, MacIntyre, who was killed, ac- cording to the paper, was the for- me? Miss Mary Cowing. They were married in 1891 Members of the building commit- |tee of the school board will be given an opportunity tonight to convince the mayor's inquiry committee that additional senior high school ac- commodations are needed and that they should take the form of an addition to the present buildings. A joint meeting will be held at 8 o'clock at the office of Mayor Paon- | | |essa. The mayor, questioning the REACHES COMPROMISE [ wistom of the school committee's London, July 30 (P—8ir Austin Chamberlain, the British foreign sec- announced in the house of commons today that Great Britain had reached a compromise with France over the naval disarmament Guestion which would be submitted to the other naval powers and event- ually to a disarmament conference. plan, in view of the opposition volc- |ed about the city, has refused to | give his approval to the project un- 'til an expression of the public’s sen- timent is had. This he proposes to {get through a study by a committee |of 14 citizens and a public forum at retary, | which all favoring or opposing the plan will be heard, it is not expected that tonight's | meeting will be accompanied by de- hate. Chairman George A. Quigley| favors a hearing for the school com- mittee for the purposes of getting its arguments on file, after which he plans a thorough investigation of the needs and of the advisability of hav- ling a new Senior High school else- [ where. 25 REPORTED DEAD Berlin, Jured. Many houses were wrecked. Win- dows were shattered for a mile around the factory. TO HOLD MEETING Hartford, July 30 UP—The mem- bers of the Connecticut Valley To- bacco association'will hold a special meeting Wednesday, October 5, at 11 a. m., at the office on State strect to take action on terminating the corporate existence of the coopera- tive marketing organization. NO KNICKERS ALLOWED. Norwich, Conn., July 30 (UP)— Police Chief George Linton yssued an order that only men would be permitted on the streets wearing knickers. Knickers for women are |“vulgar,” the chief said. ] e et L S SN e |Loomis Expects $1,000,000 July 30 (P—Twenty-five | persons are reported to have been | killed in an explosion of benzine at | a chemical factory in Lodz, Poland. | Hundreds are said to have been in- | SHELVE PLATOON IDEA FOR STUDENTS ATH. §. ,Rooms in Rockwell School to Accommodate Excess in Fall ‘ {in about fifteen minutes (cared to wait | A two-platoon plan will not be in vogue at the Senior High school | | until February at least, under an ar- gement which school authoriti |have adopted. Iive rooms at the | | Rockwell school will be used as high | school classrooms to iake care of | |the expected increase in enrollment in September. This arrangement will not de- |crease the efficicney of the school [since the Rockwell scheol building ‘n just ucross the street from the main buildings of the high school at | [the corner of Franklin square and | Rockwell avenue Under the arrangement pupils in | three rooms of the Rockwell school | will be housed in the Walnut Hill school in rooms which gre being re- built out of former storage rooms. The other two classes will assemble |in two rooms formerly used as an uditorium. Auditorium exercises t the Rockwell school will be dis- \ensed with, School Superintendent | | Stanley H. Holmes announced toda Furniture for the five rooms is ex- | pected this week. This arrangement was found the | most satisfactory of several under 2 deration by school authorities. During the early part of this month la two-platoon plan was thought | necessary. This has been averted | for the time being but what the | school authorities will do in Febru- |ary could not be definitely predict- led, Supt. Holmes said. It is prob- able that everything possible will be done to prevent a two-platoon plan | which would require upper classmen | to attend school in the morning and |lower classmen in the afternoon. (OST OF DEDICATION | — | Sub Committees on World War Me- morial Celebration to Submit Es- timates of Expenses This Evening i An idea of what it will cost the lcity to carry through its elaborate plans for dedication of the World | War memorial will be gained to-| night when chairmen of sub-com- mittees will present estimates of | cost at a mecting of the general committee. The meeting will be held | in the city court room at 8 o'clock. Since the first meeting of chair- men, held last Monday night, meet- | ings of mearly all sub-committees have been held and efforts have been made to get figures on the costs of the dedication. s SR EX-GOVERNOR A SUICIDE Salt Lake City, Utah, July 30 (P —_John C. Cutler, 82, banker and former governor of Utah, shot and killed himselt today. | - 1 I 1 ! HIGH TIDE — JULY 31 9am.,11:08 pm. | | 33 a.m.,9:43 pm, | New Haven 11 New London } » | i_______ | by | 3 *| THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight; Tuesday fair and slightly warmer, W e SHOT BY HUSBAN FRANCE w o unilS CUP WONAN 1 DHING| e TILDEN SUCCUMBS TO New Hartford Couple, Formerly of Bristol, in Hospital But His Wife Is Not Expected to| TURNS GUN O HINSELF Elmer Berg'’s Coudition Not Serious | Live—Were Living Apart Winsted, July pends for Mrs, | Berg, shot by her last night although {at Litchfield cou thought there wa though a slim one for recove | who shot himself afterward: riously hurt, | hospital paticnt, i I h»rn n husb: inty ps a ¢ s not s the hospital to nd hance ! the bullet which he directed as rib and remained in the uud). { his heart having been deflected by a | flesh of Berg Aggrieved Berg is thou live with him, and to her home his trip to New Strattman, had found her w had had a con Suddenly F charged a a taken with i half turned at th band jumped up thy ¥ bullet enterc sed entircly lice, Mrs. Berg fell to the floor and he | following a wreck. ran outside and in the yard was seen | pital in Narvik after amputation of |10 fire another shot which lodged {heen heating their way in an empty | fce |in his own body. | lit to have bec grieved because his wife would not | with a sister, Miss Helen Berg | the home of her mother, M n | Zappi was accompanied on his call | without showing any sign of anger. r|: Jjumped up and dis- 2 calibre gun which he ' COCHET IN STRAIGHT SETS Lanky American Makes Gallant Fight But Youth of Victor is Determining Factor in Tn-CoIor Triumph Tunney Has Nothing Of Importance to Say New York, July 30 (P —Gene ney, arriving in - New York from a week-end in the country, said this aternoon that he will || have uncement” to make 3 he heavyweight Champion will attend a luncheon tomorrow afternoon in or of William Muldoon, vet- 1 member of the New York Athletic Commission and he something to say However the title holder y that he does not re- gard his promised statement “of 1t importance. then.' |“Big Bill” Has Set Point No Less Than Seven Times in Second Stanza inst | his | ‘BELIEVE 8 KILLED AS e : —Unable to Crash here, b returned after Through. Hartford where n\‘ . Henry |y, Auteuil, France, July 30 UP o v <hot mis wire. 1. | Railroad Inspectors, How-| __fuiovi: France Ju 3 oon ing dishes d - b s i "’;:n ’\1"h "r ever Are Unable to Hennessey in the final match of the Davis cup play here this afternoon, 4-6. 6-1, 1-5, 6-3, making the final score of the matches four for France and Verify Report ‘\\”3\”; 'l“‘“’:“';;lf Guernsey, Wyo. July 30 U —| one for the United States. Til- o s her DU | ilrond Inspectors early today| UCWS Win over Lacoste was the 1 her rght chest, | Were unable to verify reports lhalv only match the United States through her body |¢ight men lost their lives when fire| (°M Wwas able to garner. The Haatnoved s Bur”ngm‘; team’s defeat was the most one- Then {and was recovered later by the po- he wal sided an Amerfcan Davis cup aggregation has suffered since the clean sweep of the Aus- tralian team over McLoughlin, Larned and Wright in 1911. When the French took the cup sast of here yesterday, The men were supposed to have | ked fautomobile car, but the closely ex- way. | amined half mile of burned wreck- Homer Hotehkiss driving towards age gave up no charred corpses. . last year, they won three Winsted came across B near the Gurnsey railroaders said they saw mihakey ty e v.mnuo_ods reservoir and sOPPIN | cight men enter the automobile car, e om iy R0 i sl aisoee ,‘\n"l which was wrecked | ¥ e r"'c"‘ T 'm"‘“]““"“"“ hm e 0 e s oiohe | ana buened i Thi‘wreck iecnnereg | SR R0 iseusaghoti gl e ’w;‘:" 7 lott nim here the polive found |1'c [iloa oaat of here. and the o {0l S N0 il Torlatt iy him a fow minutes Iater, Owing to|C2k Y2rd crew sald the men could |myacn o the declding I o ANA It b FranIaly 1 the deciding match of the his condition Berg was placed in the | Sy BN Arrives in Berg had reached New Hartford |o¢ the o7 drove on. I'rom but Aut Mr. what th Ji hospual to which his wife was tak- | 0 if hose in house sald, and Mrs. Clara DPrist, | New Haven, a present, Berg entered the house and room to went into Mr: ing ill. wife. Mrs. Prist After Homer Hotchkiss Berg at his siste ton avenue Berg went outsi gun into an outhouse where this morning. Winsted officers who had heen no- | recovered by pol (Continued on Page Strattm: inquire as to her condition, Then he returned to kitchen and began to talk with his | room 2 gone the shooting oc- sister in left the law, they Hotchkis: MOVINE | sories 1n straight scts by scores of 8-6, 6-4. lose road bed a v = Jose road bed, caused by heavy | " This gave the French three of the shortly hefore, was held re-| tour matches played. ible for the derailment. Five| ol dhrslascnan xolla One more match of the challenge freight car, i | A spor 4 into automobile having been taken [0 piatie | round series remains, pitting Rene ) : itte river, while gasoline | s l:rnlo"?:::y‘\“: A |Pllisd Tnol sthere Ymited . gd 1111;\0:!‘ L S driving out that % Yerg told |"Pread along the wreckage and out|ypiiion, it e pended L over the river for a mile down- | rything depende: {them he would be re eady to return | {upon the outcome of the Tilden- ani, burning until dawn, hough the m | Cochet mate wreck occurred about e |4 4. m. Sunday, it was afternoon be- allant Fight | fore the gasoline flames had been | DBIE Bill put up a gallant fight o {against his brilliant little French was s Damtnger trains were routed by | PPONCNL, but showed the eftects of Fort Laramic, with the prospect of | the 108ing five set doubles match in mption of main line service this| “Nich he participated yesterday. St The French kept the cup as & re- '\ Tailread official set the esttmat. | Uit Of singles vietories for Cechet [t s 1mat-| ;ver both Hennessey and Tilden and : a doubles triumph for Cochet and {Jean Borotra over Tilden and Frank | Hunter, be- the and FROST THIS MORNING July 30 (#—Reports re- fotchikiss 1iad 161 | o.ived 'in (his city today from New | Cochet thus was the hero of the e in 8 Taitfield a fow miles nerth of here | challenge round, with a perfect rec- Ad gonc AWAY. larn that frost damaged the tender |OFd of three victories. e and threw Wh¢ |foliage of growing plants there ear- At His Test ice 13) Cochet was at his whirlwind best today and gave Big Bill the worst beating he ever received in Davis cup play. Never before had Tilden been trimmed in straight sets in & challenge round for the trophy. Iy this morning. The temperature {here dropped to 50 degrees above {zero during the night. | Frost age in Connecticut In |late July id to be unprecedented. San Francisco, ously injured i collision at Cortena, in Colu some ty, California, women en route American T association’s special train was par- lmlly smashed 1 Cascade Limited, Pacific train fro Francisco, while halted on the t | Seven membe acific compan | in hospitals toda Unofficial reports said the sp had stopped after rounding a ¢ ond had sent a halt the Cascade Limited, to be ten minute: two trains had also were Jul noa hom ' Cascade Limited In Collision With Bar Association Special Pullman; Thirty-seven Passengers Injured : {Southbound S. P. Carrier From Seattle to San Francisco Crashes Into Lawyers’ Pullmans Halted on Track | for Repairs—Son of State Senator Hall of New Haven Injured. men from Realizing that his best chance lay in wearing down the American, the canny young player from Lyons kept Tilden on the run constantly, deucing the sets and streching them out interminably. Tilden made a brave attempt to win the second set and seven times needed only one point to gain it and square the match, but each time failed as Cochet readily overhauled him. The third set saw Tilden again battling flercely. This time in the hope of forcing the match to four sets which would have given him the intermis- sion at the end of the third set in which to rest. Cochet had other plans, and finished off Tilden before he could gain the coveted breathing space. Cochet won his own service to start the match on two errors by Tilden and his own placements. In the second game Tilden ap- peared worried and made a double fault on his first service. Then he | vi-in a cloud of steam for a few sec- | onds. Then the two battered masses of steel turned over in the ditch. Passengers and train crews work- |ed tozether in extricating the injur- jed from the wreckage. and the r association convention just closed at Scattle, Wash.,, were Windows were smashed to gain|gorved carefully, reducing his initial | reported recovering. access to the overturned observation | ghots to much slower speed than Wil D frowers e his usual cannonball service. Deuce The wreck occurred yesterday | Doctors Respond | was called three times but Tilden when the third section of the Bar | | Every physician within miles re- ponded to emergency calls, and first game on an easy This finally lost the | stroke which he sent out. by the southbound aid was given at the scene of the|made the score of the first set crack Southern before the injured were tak- | Cochet 2; Tilden, 0. m Seaitle to San | v ambulance and automobile to| The courts had been a bit too the special was |the nearest hospitals, heavily sprinkled and both players rack for repairs.| Railroad officials announced that|were cautious on the rather slippery of the two train none of the injuries received were | footins. hurt. Southern [likely to prove fatal, Taking time to study every shot, officials announced | that only 16 of the injured remained | ¥. flagman s to the left Portland, half an hour apart, but the ( had been gaining. Flagman Ran Back Passengers said the flagman run back only a comparatively short distance when the Cascade appeared, running 50 miles an hour. man placed torp frantically. With the shriek and grinding of | nl’ 5349 North Cumberland street, edo back rear. his brakes, the Cascade attempted stop but lacked sufficient distance. M(‘ll Bronson of The locomotive steel observation car, partially tele- scoping it. The special’s wooden dining car. several lengths smashed ahead, under the impact. The special's engine and tender, [bruised leg. locked in the twisted steel of the observation car teetered uncertainly ) Al into The flag- on the track |and ran forward, waving The Injurea Tilden broke through Cochet's serv- injured list included: {ice atfer deuce was called but the B. L. Mason, Jr. Pawson,! Frenchman applied pressure on the sprained fingers; Mrs. H. L.|next game and captured Bill's ser- dcr, of Pittshurgh, cuts about ice after deuce was called but the W. F. Dalzell, 450 Fourth ave- | 3; Tilden 1. Pittsburgh; Mrs. J. F. Kaws, Returms Compliment Stratford avenue, Pittsburgh.| Tilden returned the compliment nched back: R. C. Davis of Bos- | with three successive placements off . contusions: Joseph V. Mitchell. | his backhand which helped him to York, abdominal bruises, cuts | win the next game and make the on leg and head: Mr. and Mrs. M. | count Cochet 3, Tilden 2. Big Bill The | e Md., had | K. Britt, New York city, cuts and|now shooting his fastest service and Druises: Thomas B. Cotter of Platts- | acing Henri, won the sixth game, burg, N. Y.. several fractured ribs: | allowing Cochet only one point and James F. Kane of Pittsburgh, frac- making things all even at three all. |tured right clavicle and second rib: | Mrs. Peacock of Washington, . C.. |cut on hand: Mrs. William A. Scott Cochet, taking a leaf out of Til- den's book, made it four three, ac- in gthe American who appeared to be standing still, so swift was the shot. Again Tilden won his service, this sime at love and they were even Springfield, Mase.. cuts and bruises | up again, four-all. Nelther man vas on arm: George H. Brown of Brook- |taking any chances and it seemed {line, Mass., wrenched back and|peculiar to see such volleyers as Til- bruises on head: Mrs. Brown, cuts|den and Cochet playing exclusively flag to l‘n(lhurzh bruises on chest; Wen- 31 FElam street, the splintered | and bruises; H. H. Tye of Williams- | from the base line. | burg, Ky., wrenched back: Mrs. Tye, Rreaks Through Big Bill again broke through Ce< (Continued on Page 28), (Continued on Page 13)