New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 SEATEN LIKELY TO BE LEGION CHIEF WITHOUT CONTEST Vithdrawal of Oliver Bells- worth Is Expected to Clear Away Opposition STATE MEMORIAL ASKED FOR AMONG RESOLUTIONS Veterans of World War in Session at Middletown Again Demand That Connecticut ‘Fittingly Honor Former Buddies Who Died in France—Election of Officers Will Take Place Tomorrow. . Middletown, Aug. 17 (A—With- drawal of Oliver Bellsworth candidate for elcction as state com- mander of the American Legion, now in annual session here today, cleared the way, it was expected, for election of Paige A. Seaton, of Waterbury, tomorrow. The elections of officers will come at the closing session. Today was given over ta the com- pletion of routine matters. Resolutions Submitted The resolutions committee suh- mitted a report and several recom- mendations. Among the latter which the convention adopted were these: Advocating proper develop- | ment of chemical warfare; incor- as a The state of Connecticut hs | deputy aviation commissioner. Brainard Field, Hartford, Britain man, having heen b: He is a pioneer aviation enthusi airplane in company with corps during the Mr. are onn war. Prana | chase to pilots who fly too low or | Chief Inspector George S. Pranaitis another NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1928 —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ew air patrol that is prepared to g late other air traffic (right), and Lient. H. W. shown heside the plane Ex-New Britainite First Aerial Cop g[}[]lmfi READY FOR atrol Inspeetor Pranaitis is a former N 1 in this city and attended the local schools ast and a number of years ago built an local man. e was in the tion itis lives in Hartford at present, FORMAL GEREWONY Plans to Plunge Right Into Cam- { paign After Tomorrow ‘jEXERGlSES OVER RADIO, Notification Program Begins at 4 P. | M. Central Standard Time—Can- didate Feeling in Great Health, | | | | \ He Announces, Topeka, Kan, Aug. 17 (®—The | | fficial program for the Curtis l'lo'i-l | fication ceremony here tomorrow | afternoon follows: ‘ | 40p m to 450 p. m., Central| { stand time—Band and vocal fass bands music and flag | J. R First —Introduction McFadden, pastor of of Dr. the Explorer Cuts Hair To End Natives’ Fear Amman, Trans-Jordan, Aug. 17 M—A lock of his own hair had to be sucrificed to science by Henry Field, leader of the Field Museum Syrian Descert expedi- tion, Wishing to ohtain specimens of the hair of Mesopotamian desert tribesmen for the mu- seum in Chicago, Field had in- duced many 1o part with locks and had caref catalogued them. But a superstitious tribesman spread the word that all who had given hair to the white man would be seriously ill at the end of thre vars. The situation was threatening untfl Field entered the chief's tent With a pair of scissors, gravely eut a lock from his own head and handed pertions of it around to the native thus ef- fectively dissolving their fears. ALLEGED SLAYER SAYS GIRL STILL 1§ ALIVE SIX PERSONS ARE Hr On Avon Turnp!ke ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED South Machine Which Gets Out of Con ‘ trol Wallingford Woman Dri\ing Near Canton This Moning— Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg 14 672 Aug. 11th . PRICE THREE CENTS ( NSAEE. 'DEATH TOLL CLINBS T0 10 w0, ‘Piojagyy < "3 T ag mun:gu;‘;,pv Car Goes UVer puvgmi AS FOUR SOUTHERN STATES CHECK UP FLODD DISASTER Thousands of Acres of Farmlands Wrecked and Bridge and High- Theofilanu)poulas Is His Name and He Says He Will Not Change It Meriden, cAugust 17 (®—S. N, Theotilantopoulas was ameng 54 applicants admittad 1o citizenship o Child Also Hurt. in city court here today. He re- | | Will fused Judge A. B. Aubrey's of- || way D“tr“Chom Hart Aug. (®—six persons | | fer to gragt him permission to | | were ously, when a | | abbreviate Tis family designation. Take Month’ to Re- car driven evieve Kelly, | 30, of 20 South ward street. South W gford, went over an em- | R \ Pa“’- pankinent on the Avon turnpike near CI]AT TAILS BURN — Suflers Broken Arm Showers Continue, But Miss M lingfore v Devine of South W a school teacher, most seriously h nead s aenes AS HE FLEES FLAMES Heavy Downpour of Past Aethodist Episcapst ehurch, Topek, | oreken s head inceradonsand an | o Few Days Has Ended w Gov. Den S Paulen, master n(‘ S ANERL0nse S ohe T Ees - g rati d bruises he body and | - . ceremonies. Radio broadcasting be- . re crations and bruises on t y = : i ) & be- | Boitzel Writes Lietter Ex- | ne st s ooty 20 oo Hanfmd Cop a Little Too and Waters Begin to Re: - vd severe lacerations. | 5:03—Invocation, Me: $ tos — - L meagion, Dr: MeFadden. | pressing Opinion to | Norma Mekay of the sunc aaress | SI0W—DPolice Motor cede. il : f s the Kelly . . of 3 Simeon D, Fess, of Ohio by Gover- Her Father R Ke Pisaredug iacerations | cycles Damaged nor Paulen 4 SR thel o Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17.—#—TFour s L et The two other passengers in | o 7, e e touiareeclZRenator, car, both of whom were hurt in the | b~ Dk southeastern states counted 10 dead Simec ; | Philadelphia, Aug 17 (- Russell HEREUIE aat A S0 Eouth E OF i SO e T e s o 2i30—Acceptance, Senator Charles | St. Clair Beitzel, former Philadel- | chara street, South Wallingford. |tOreyeles and a policepan’s coat- 204 Ereat proy : & C !_l: s - 3 ;phla store employe, held in Los | They were Julia Martin, 38, lac- ‘l;lls“\:uu !w»‘n ‘d.lu.wgwl this morn- ® llhe (r;( :lor;:lf‘:fxld fa:x] ‘D:_llt’- ;53—Audience will sing “Amerl- | Angeles for the Kiliing of Barbara | arations sbout the face and body o e SIsrohaout nihie i i i Mo ARake ;01 RepdInE | i ca.” accompanied by the mass band | Mauger, also formerly of this city. | Winifred Martin, 2, cuts and bruises lice station garage on Kinsley street, railroads, telegraph and telephone of more than 300 musicians {in a letter to Henry Mauger, father | o the face and head, Miss Kelly ‘P"‘“ blaze which was caused by a i“'y““‘_‘“”"i were struggling agaiome Curtis is Ready of the girl, said he helieved the girl | s thought to have lost control of the | SHOFL circuit in the wiring on one of heavy odds to restore communicas His 85 vears well seasoned by the | is alive, el |the motorcycles spread rapidly and tion lines which were broken by sun and winds of the western plains, | nator Curtis of Kans has given ready assent to the call of his par!v‘ for that heavy role of campaign | [“stumping” on which it usually re- | porating in law a flag code such as was adopted at an Americaniza- tion congress in 1923: requesting the state to erect a suitable me- morlal to Connecticut soldiers who ! died in France; endorcing the Bl present administration of Fitch's 8 Home for Soldiers at Noroton; and requesting the secretary of com- merce to provide that in preparing for the 1930 census provision be made for obtaining more useful in- formation. Other Conventlons in While the Legionnaires were in session the 40 and 8 and the 8 and 40, the latter being composed of | women, both auxiliary orders, were | holding their annual conventions. MRS, JORNSO, I]YING es Away at Age of 73 After Long Illness |the New Britain General Mrs. Josephine A. Johnson, of 3 Cottage place, realized tha € This afternoon the delegates and | (o ®60 TS THatiod that deat their guests went to Clarkhurst on | ; {time and in preparation for the gr the Connecticut river for a picnic. |agventure dictated a few facts of Jiospit | tions at the state convention of the |siuch fortitude came to her at American Leglon which opened here | yesterday evening, she being yesterday to elect Arthur H. Petts |years of age. Her death bed w of New Britain as state commander, | will be complied with as far as p was quickly and decidedly killed to- | ble and below will be found a ne day when an announcement was paper adaption of the hisiory made by Mr. Petts that he was un- |herself she furnished. Several weeks ago she | daughter to lier bedside and 'olrl he | she might as well realize mother was going to dir ROCKFORD'S FLIGHT Rain interfered with the plans Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer to | was active in socicties leave today®on the second leg of |She was a charter their transatlantic flight in monoplane Greater Rockford. T ake-off for Mount Evans, Green- together to form the land, ‘was postponed. Heavy rain (riow has one of the largest congre- tenl during the night ana condmona | 83“0"“ in the city. vere unsettled this forenoon. Unsettled weather prevails over he route ,according to weather re- member of alkyrian lodge, O. of V. moving figures. ports supplled to the fiiers by [N R M oronto meteorological ‘office of- | L 8 e a0 her hus- ficials. |band, John E. Johnson died. Sur- The 1,600-mile flight to Green- |yiving her are two sons, Edward ot and is over the barren territory of [ocust, L. 1. and Walter C. Johnson orthern Quebec, the tip of Labra- |of Buffalo, N. Y.; one daughter, Mrs. flor and a considerable distance over | James O'Day of this city; and seven Davis Strait. For hundreds of miles | grandchildren. hey will be out of sight of human | Funeral services will be held to- abitation with the exception of a lanorrow afternoon at ew trappers’ cabins. On the At- the home of her daughter, at 6 | {Johnson, Inoch Johnson, Mandus IFredberg, August Wallen, John An- derson and Oscar Johnson. The |flewer bearers were to be Leonard Iarson, Emil Larson and Martin Carlson. Hartford Child Badly Hurt by Speeding Car Hartford, Aug. 17 (A—Struck by | Favored by following winds, the wo pilots of the plane, Bert Hassell nd Parker Cramer, flew the 800 iles from the Illinois City here yes- rday in seven hours. They worked late into the night | esting their engines and filling the uel tanks with gasoline shipped ere from Rockford and then pro- ounced the plane ready for today's st. a hit and run motorist while playing | From Mt. Evans their route will |in the side of the street near his arry them to Reiykjavik, ‘Iceland, | home, Charles Ulcinkos, 3, of Ware- nd from there to Stockholm on the | house Point, was taken to St. Fran- nal hop. They are the first to at- | cis' hospital m this city at 1 pmpt the Atlantic flight by easy | this morning. He is in a critical ages across the morthern islands. | condition and is not expected to The fliers were guests of the board |t trade at dinner last night but ere forced to hurry away before e entertainment planned for them as given in order to complete their ork on the plane. The City of Rockford is a sister ip of the Pride of Detroft in hich Willlam Brock and Edward . Bchlee flew the Atlantic and then across Furope and Asia to Tokyo year. live. State police are working on the case and Massachusetts police hace been notified. The driver kept on, heading to- ward Springfield after the accident. MAKES HOLE-1 Norwalk, Aug. 17 (UP)—A hole- in-one has been made by Arnold Overton, 15 year old caddie, it was announced at the Shore Haven Golf |club today. -ONE MAKES FUNERAL PLANS As she lingered in her sick bed at called her at her he gave | Cochrane, Ontario, Aug. 17 P— | her native home in Sweden 49 years of |ago she made a decp impression and | and church. | the the First Lutheran church, having becn The |one of a small group which banded church. It he was also a charter member of 3 From | the first Mrs. Johnson was one of its She was a practi- :30 o'clock at | TRIES TO BURN VAY | ("auses ’ Commotion in West | Hartford Lockup | West Hartford, Au 1 Edward Sutton, al (3 1 *d the United 1| Vermont, and now heing } army au horities hy | {ford police, set Bushey, plainly with marks of soot, at which the prisoner % cell records are stored THUB TACK REMDVED | Delicate Operation Upon Youngster Proves Successful St. Prancis' Hosp!tal. Hartfor Perry, and Mrs. Joseph Perry of 56 oA, swallowed a thumb ta afternoon. was Francis’ hospital wher Aug. 1 day become lodged in the food behind the h . Ether wa the child and Dr. Edward J. Whalen passage ing an ecsaphagoscope into | Edmonton, | influenza Alta, Aug. epidemic in the 275 lives among two weeks period, says a report re- the ceived here. So far a one white man dicd of the disease. North men attribute the large | death rate among the natives to the fuct they refuseto take medicine rescribed by physicians or inn effort to fight the sickness. In- stead, they say, the natives sit moaning in their camps and cabins waiting patiently either to die or to | recover. Drugs given by medical men and missionaries are away because they do not effect an immediate cure, At (P —Marie six-year-old daughter of Mr. removed s disclosed that the tack had s given able to remove the tack by in- the | thrown | 0UT 9F P(]LI[}E CELL |New Brltam \\ oman Pass- Prisoner Some 17.—/P— ged to have de. States army in cld for the the West Hart. | |life for the newspapers, chose thos fire to the police Petts Withdraws [whom she would have bear her to|station in the basement of the town (Bpecial to the Herald) |her last resting place and made |y, T N an Middletown, Aug. 17.—The boom |orher plans for her funcral serviccs, |- D°T 15t - night in an unsue- started among some of the delega- | The death which she had faced it | °SSTul attempt to eseape who was ice station at the time, pla i in handeuffs before permitting him to leave the smoke filled cell Toom, and another policeman was placed on guard as | soon as it beea apparent that der no consideration a candidate for | Mrs. Johnson was taken to the ton wos “moving towards the | hospital about months ago sut- | goor (Continued on Page 23) fering from a critical illness. It was| jyremen arrived In a few it realized by the attendant doctors | moments, and the AT that she would not again be physi-|;goq sonie oileloth advertising si a matter of time. : the point had pushed.a H“hv] match up through the top of He was to have been turned |a histery of her life for the news- - . !papers, named to her the friends|O¥er to the army authorities today, Plane to Continue Toward hom she wanicd for pall bearers | a0 i et fsles e o . |2nd mentioned that she wanted a | IS return to the army is believed to Greenland When Rain | tuncral service from the chrel | have prompted Sutton to attempt which she took a part in organizing. }“-‘"""I“k Ceases Ber daughter agreed and her every| The room in which the fire oc- wish has been rried out curr ctly u r the town Since she came to this eity from | ¢l office, whe the town Rartford Are Dying by the Score | 17 (A —An, While Playing Circus the “Flaming Macken- | ie river country has taken a toll of | natives in a known only | make | | IFord Brothers who knew absolutely | until inform- | Earl Fleet Defendant in 87,500 Ac- |lies in its vice presidential candi- | Tomorrow Senator Curtis will notified formally of ¢ the republicans for viee-president. Sunday he will st forth on the campaign and his first trip carres | the veteran half way across the continent. He will he “riding the trails” much of the time from then be his nomination (until election day in November, a Mauger declined to ecomment on | lier in the month when one of the Greatest Menace | trail that will lead first to the east, | ©ither the Beitzel letter or the tele- | v \ motoreyeles burst into flames when | Probably the greatest menace was {hewes moutti, Rnd finlly buck inte. | EY0R. _New Orleans, La. Aug. 17 P~ it was being filled with gasoline, along the Broad river in South | his homeland in the tiddlewest anq | The letter from Beitzel, passed by | Lvidence that a game similar to| e Carolina, which is the drainage oEthavast | prison authorities was dated August sduash was played by natives of Yu- GURTIS [NVITED SPEAKER | channel for the western edge of. | 5 1 catan 2,000 years ago was found by | Nort, -Carolina s _well, Wl | e Dear Harry: T don't know how 'a ulane university expedition | -Powes dam { , WContinned on BagesTwp) vou feel toward me for what has which returned here today trom ua| AT THIRD WARD ou““e Featy burst near Usion, & C. 1 happened but T know you do not exploring trip through Central he structure, 1,000 feet long and lEAK “IS[;“]SES TAR { beticve T killed Barbara” it read. ica and_ Mexico. ur 15 HIGH POWER BEER Canyon | much to hurt Beitzel's letter came same time that M telegram from the lice rejuesting that Mr make the identification positive. Although the almost at the been made in the the body of a girl found in Stone near Hollywood, a hint that prefer that the body before any made. parents see loved Barbara her, anyws T stil love her and I do not believe she is dead. received a Los Angeles po- either he or Mauger go to Los Angeles and police communica- | tion did not infer that an error has identification of there was the authorities would the final decision is too much—too ANGIENT MAYANS HAD Evidence Squash Wis Played 2,000 Years Ago D 1 of middle American research 0f Tu lane who headed the id he found courts upon which the : GAMES LIKE MODERNY Tulane Expedition Finds Frans Blom of the department | Candidate for Vice President, it is | expedition, in a few moments the entire west ragi end of the garage was enveloped in Carolin: | names. Georgia. Policeman Ralph Merriman and| Property owners in those states [Mechanic William ~ Miller founa | contemplated thousands of acres of themselves in the midst of the fire, wrecked farm land, destrn)ed and Miller was able to dash out of the damagcd homes and * buildings, as building without being singed, but well as unestimated bridge and highe Policeman Merriman was not nimble | way damage which eannot - be enough to escape one of the leaping restored for month: 3 flames which attached itself to the | tail of his coat. | This is the second fire at the po- lice garage within the past two weeks. The other one occurred ears waters in South Virginia, North Carolina and the affected states today, the drenche ing rains and storm winds of the last few days apparently had sub- sided. 1\ feet high, cracked at midnight, threatening, as a result the Broad river valley dams to Columbia. While officials said there was no danger to residents in the wvalley, some 50 Hoped, Will Address Republi- cans September 29. “I only wish T could talk to vou game had been played by the ancient families were declared by an officer B {and tell you how sorry I am that | Mayan tribe ‘The courts still were | Charles G. Curtis. United States at Union, 8. C., to have moved to anything has happened to cause you |in excellent repair, he said. And | senator ana republican nominee for safety in the territory immediately 80 Barrels Are Confiscated |corrow. 1 would like to hear from there could be no mistahe about | vies president, has been invited to below Lockhart. - o A | you that vou don’t think I commit- |what they were used for. | be the principal speaker at the an- | Concrete Dams Nold in New Haven Freight |tea the crime 1 am charged with. 1| The game apparently had been inual barbecue of the Third Ward | Union Manufacturing company's o {would feel a lot better. You can't played with rubber balls which had | Republican club at Lake Compounce dam at Neil's shoals and the Broad Yards | Ibeen knocked back and forth across | September 29 River company’s dam at Parr Shoats, AR T | (Continued on Page 25) the court with something similar t0| The Third Ward Republican ' near Columbia were already 7 to 13 | —_ rackets, |elub’s annual outing is generally feet under the flood crest with all New Haven, Aug. 17 (P—Another | GOING “HOME" AGMN Heretofore, Dr. Blom explained, it | considered to be the opening gun gates open. Early today the ecrack of those mysterious freight car had been thought such games had|of the G. O. P. campaign and al- in the long Lockhart structure was loads of high-power beer consigned not been played in that section ear-| ways attracts several hundred lead- | believed to be small with enough to responsible parties who disclaim any knowled discovered by railroad police and | confiscated by federal prahibition | ents at 6 o'clock last night in the | Cedar Mill yards when a car billed as containing 80 barrels of tar con- ! signed to A. W. Bushnell, lughway commissioner of this city, | was found to contain so many bar- rels of beer. So far as could be learned there is no such person in or near New Haven who bears the name of A. W. | Bushnell and the nearest approach to it would appear to be A. W. Bushell, division engineer of the | p. Connecticut state highway depart- | y ment with offices avenue. at 30 Whitney | o of the shipment was | Next state When August 21, | breakfast in the little house where he was born, | gust 10. Tuesday Morning Herbert Hoover Will Breakfast in House in Which He Was Born. West Branch, Towa, Aug. 17 (®)— Herbert Hoover arrives in West Branch next Tuesday morning. he will be a guest at 54 years ago last Au- Mr. Hoover frequently expressed the wish to spend some time during | his visit here in his boyhood home. to an fnvitation from n a respon Mrs. Jennie Scellars ,present owner ¢ the property, the republican | presidential candidate, his wife, and Attemnpts to reach Mr. Bushell by | their two sons will have breakfast phone this morning in learn whether he had any knowl- | g= of the freight car load of %0- | c called “tar” failed. Federal ageiks suggested that this was probably an | other case similar to the last freight car load of beer they confiscated. In that case the consignees were nothing about the ¢ ed of it by the agents The car load of shipped from a point in Pennsylvania, the shipper's name being unknown to the federal agents, this morning. A leak in one or more of the barrels | o cavsed railroad, police to become suspicious of the “har™ and they tipped off the agents. Torch,” Aged Four Years, fs Fatally Burned Detroit, Aug. 17 (UP)—A four car old girl, who was made a flaming torch™ in a child circus Orange, Mass.. Aug. 17 ®—Four | died here of hgr injuries. new cases of infantile paralysis | The girl. Evelyn Kincaide. was|yere reported to the board of playing circus with children in an alley. as too small to be Evelyn was wrapped in barlap and given matches to burn as a “torch.” One of the matches set fire to the bur- | lap, and before neighbors arrived, | the little girl was burned fatally. BURNED TO DEATH f Warham. Mass., Aug. 17 (P—Miss| | THE WEATHER ” Johan Fraser, 82 years old, was| | burned to death yesterday in a fire| | New Britain and vicinity: | that destroyed four cottages and a| | Showcrs tonight and possibly | garage. The fire was started by an| | Saturday morning; not much | explosion of an oil stove in the cot- | change in temperature. | tage where Miss Fraser was living. | | | She was alone at the time. * L * | today by | health this morning removed to the Greenfield howpital, for contagious diseases. order to|there Tuesday Mrs. Sce is planning a meal, omprising as near as possible Mr. | Hoover's favorite dishes . AVIATOR IS SUED cident—Flew So Low It Scared Boy, 1s Claim Made. Aug. 17 (P—The se record Bridgeport, nd suit on as the result of an airplane accident, character of the | w; as brought to the superior court Donald Campbell of this Upon investigation last night the |a minor, through his father Robert flantic seaboard are the fishing vil- | Cottage place and at 3 o'clock at the | 10r0at and operating a pair of surgi- | barrels were found to contain beer | Campbell. also of this city. Dam- ages of Labrador and farther north rl irst Lutherap church. Rev. Abel|2al pliers. The child wa: arged of a high powered nature valued |ages of $7,500 are asked from 1 e the scattered posts maintained | A Ablquist and Rev. 8. G. Youngert | from the hospital Mond after- | according to an estimate this morn- | W, Fleet, Hartford aviator. Ly the Canadian mounted police. | will officiate. Miss Mildred Berg-|ncon apparently none the worse for | ing at between $3,000 and $4,000, On July 15. 1927, young Camp- e pline was Hoised on the fun- Il\llml iwm sing. Burial will be in | her experience. | s ol ot ieioa or & draid on AT ay at the fiying field near here |lairview cemetery. ) it e A — L]TTLE cmLD KILLED mile from the Bridgeport airport at | arly today ready for the hopoft to V'ollowing are the pall bearers | Fly Jg Ragmg, Natives | Lordship. 1t is claimed that the Ediland, |chosen by Mrs. Johnson: Henning defendant fiying a plane, flew over | democrat in politics. the truck so low that the blast from | the propeller frightened the boy and caused him to fall from the truck. fracturing his right arm. Orange, Mass., Has Four New Paralysis Cases and one was A second urgent appeal was made to parents to keep their children at | home, and particularly away from public gatherings. Two of the cases | reported Wheeler avenue, one in East River | 4 | district and one on Summit street. this morning are on —% HIGH TIDE — AUG. 18 New Haven 2:08 p. m. New London 12:13 p. m. l * in this county | lier than 1,000 or 1,200 A. D. Leaving New Orleans last Decem- ber, the expedition was in the field 200 days traveling through almost |impenetrable jungles a large part of the time. On one occasion seventy days was required to hack their way |ing members of the party. those who plan to be present are | Governor Trumbull and (‘hnrm n ! J. Henry Roraback of the state Len» tral committee. State and local of- ficials will be present in large num- bers and an opportunity will be af- Among | (Continued on Page 22 CHICAGO GANGSTERS through underbrush for 100 miles forded to meet candidates Nflw KIL”NE w u[ and at another time the expedition| Councfiman Donald 1. Bartlett, traveled only 350 feet in 11 davs. |president of the club, through Textiles 1,200 to 1,500 years ol | whom the invitation was extended were found in a cave in Yucat, Blom said. The cloth was still white and could not be torn without great | difficulty, It probably had been used as a mantle for a Mayan woman. eral weeks will be required lo assemble his reports, Dr. Blom ex- plained, and until that time he wi not be able to give out a full rep of what he found. He was accom- panied by Louis Bristow, Tulane st | dent The expedition was financed by sons of the late John Geddings Gray as a memorial to their father. JORN H. REGAN DIES Deceased Had Been Vice President of Tahs—Lived Here 53 Years— Funeral Tomorrow. John H. Regan, 53 years old, of 9 Lawlor street, a members of (he | Y. M. T. A. B. society of whic be is a past vice president and an active memger of several other so- cieties, died in Middletown last eve- ning after a lingering illness Mr. Regan was a native of this city and he lived here all his life He wus employed hinist in the American Hardware corporation until his illness. He was an active as a v Other traternal the Y. M. T. A. & B. society wert the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Foresters of America, | Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. | Mary A. Kegan: one sister, Mrs. | Richard Mcknroe of Lincoln street; | a brother, William Regan, all of thi city, and several nieces and nephews. The funeral will be held Saturday morning at $:30 o'clock from the funeral parlors of M C and at 9 o'clock at St. Mary's | church. Burial will be in St. Mary's i\\‘l\\tv!(r_\ Autoist, Blinded by Lights, Runs Into Pole New Haven, Aug. 177 (Ph—Alexan- | der Riceio of Meriden drove his car linto a pole on the cdge of the Mil- {ford turnpike late last night when |the lights of ‘an approaching car blinded him. Riccio was uninjured |but his car was damaged and elec- Itric light wires to nearby houses were brought down, shutting off the current. West Haven police investi- gated but found no cause for arrest. Dr. | affiliations beside | J. Kenney & | to Senator Curtis, bl has not yet re- | This Is Belief of Police— ****** Victim Slain Yegg’s ‘BRIDGEPORT WOMAN HURT "¢, i | IN AUTONOBILE AGCIDENT ' Chicago, Aug. 17 (M—Vengeance guns of the gangs, ever draws against betrayers, appeared today te have been turned for the first time- in vears against a woman. Police could not be gure that the woman whose body was found in & ditch near Crown Point, Ind., early vesterday, was involved in Chicage Mrs. Lasher and Mrs. Hubble Vic- tims of Collision at West- port, New York. Brid ort, Harvey Hubble Aug. 17 and Mrs, (P—Mrs, Walter B. Lasher, society women of this city. gangster intrigue, for identification were injured in an automobile acci- was lacking early today. Their dent in Westport. N. Y., yesterday. | theory was that the woman was it was learned here tod: Mrs. | Adeline Zaccardo, “girl friend” of Hubble 1s the widow of Harvey M. Angelo Francisco, whose body was Hubble, who founded the manufac- turing plant which bears his name, and Mrs. 1 r is the wife of the president of the American Chain company. found early this week in the abane doned automobile which five men had used in the robbery of the West McHenry State Bank. Identification was difficult be. The women left here 10 days ago cause after the woman had been for the races at Saratoga and then shot, her clothing was saturated visited Lake Placid. Yesterday they | with oil and then set afire. The | were driving to Lake Champlain single bullet in her jaw, the core from Lake Placid when their ma- |oner said, probably did not cause chine was struck by another car. death, and she may have been con- Mrs. Hubble suffered a broken scious when fire was touched to her rib and Mrs. Lasher was bruised oil soaked clothing. and cut. 1t it were Miss Zaccardo, the kill- | Both women were treated by a ing would be explained on :he Westport physician. Their families | theory that she “knew too much, and personal physicians left here according to officers. It was she for Westport immediately after re- Wwho telephoned Francisco's parents, ceiving word of the accident. urging them to look at the body of the man found in the robber's auto- j BRIDGEPORT FIRM SOLD | ivchciccacion ot "he man aa ranc cisco. Round Interests of Cleveland Take .ll-.'v:r)‘a ”V\l'\a:\:;te‘ ‘eo\;:nll;o:'ld):g: Over Chaln Company—Manage. %iccardo be wrong, the crime bge ment Will Remain Intact. | | Bridgeport, Aug. 17 (P — The Round interests of Cleveland, Ohio. WOMAR Betry Picker Falls (Continued on Page 23) |bave purchased the Bridgeport Tfl Death M Hi‘h C“‘ | Chain company of this city, accord- Bisighesnion, X, Y., Aug, 17 Ui ng to announcement made today. ! Whitz q Mrs. William Whitmarsh, 50, ef Kirkwood, plunged to her death down a 75 foot cliff while picking | berries and was found by a searche ing party late last night. The posi- | tion of the body indicated death was | The local firm will continue under the name of the Bridgeport Chain and Manufacturing company with L. D. Round president and L. D. Citell secretary and treasurer. The Round interests control in|pnot instantaneous. addition to the Rridgeport pl-nt(h~‘ Mrs. Whitmarsh started berrying Cleveland Chain and Manufacturinz | early yesterday morning and whes company of Cleveland: David Round | she did not return, neighbors made and Son, Cleveland: the Krein|an unavailing search. Later Short@ Chain company of Wapakoneta, O.,|Charles E. Watson and and the Zattle Chain and Manufac- turing company of Beattie, Wash. chft. While showers were forecast fop found the body at the fest @2 @6 AR