New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTAB GALLS PROHIBITION LAW FLAT FAILURE Registrar Smith Speaks From Experience of Many Years OPPOSED T0 OLD SALOON As Total Abstainer from Alcoholic LISHED 1870 Beverages, He Says Conditions arc | Worse Since Enactment of “Dry” Statute, In answer to a request of Chair- man John J. Raskob of the llflmo-i committee that he cratic National give his opinion of the prohibition laws, Thomas J. Smith. democratic registrar of voters. has declared them to be a flat failure, adding that the young people of America are in greater danger than in the worst days of the saloon, and that the law should be changed In his letter the registrar ad- mitted that he was a drinker in his youth, but in 1599 he stopped and has not indulged in intoxicating REGISTRAR T. J. SMITH liquor since. He said he joined the Y. M. T. A. & B. socicty, and gave up drinking without the aid of a prohi- bition law or legislative act. Mr. Smith has been one of the leaders in the Y. M. T. A, & B. so- ciety almost 30 years and has held many offices, including the presi- dency, His letter to Mr. Raskob follows: “Your letter of July 9th asked for & reply. As a young man I was a drinker. In the vear 1899, 1 stop- | ped drinking altogether. 1 did this | vithout the aid of any prohibition | law or other.legislative act, and be- | came a member of the Y. M. T. A. & B. society (a Catholic organization in this city.) 1 did so to promote the idea of temperance among our young | men and felt the way to do this, was | to join an organization whose pur- | pose was to educate them in the| value of temperance. i “This organization has given our | state and city men who have served (Continued on Page Four) MANSLAUGHTER GASE DECISION RESERVED Justice Inspects Coupe Involved in Death of Boy After a lengthy hearing in police court today, Attorney Michael A. Bexton, sitting as & justice in the case of Thomas J. Barron, aged 21, of 771 Farmington avenue, charged with manslaughter, reserved de- citsion. He and Judge W. F. Man- gan, defense counsel, Prosccuting Attorney J. G. Woods and Sergeant P. J. O'Mara left the court room immediately at the conclusion of the hearing to examine Barron's coupe at & local garage, Attorney Sexton cxpressing the wish to sce the vehi- cle before making a decision. Barron was arrested by rgeant O'Mara after Joseph Pienkos, aged 11, of 96 Gold street, was insfantly killed between 12:30 and 12:45 o'clock last Sunday on Broad street, the police investigation that the boy was thrown from a parked truck by the impact of Bar- ron's coupe against the rear of the truck. Barron has been at liberty in $2,000 bonds since the fatality. Dr. Waterman Lyon. medical ex- aminer, testified that the boy's skull was fractured, the right leg was broken and the skin of the right side of the face was practically en- tirely scraped off. It was a com- pound fracture of the skull and in his opinion resulted from contact with the pavement. ' FIST FIGHT ENDS WHEN - NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928, Who Taught Him Delighted to Resident Come Up On Pl to Distinguished Gue: Singled out from senators, gov- ernors, mayors ang prominent poli- tocians for a personul greeting, Miss | Eunice A, Lyman of Kensington, who taught Senator Charles Curtis 50 years ago when he was a pupii at high schoel in Topek Kansas, was warmly, welcomed by the vice presidential nominee of the republi- can party at Rocky Point, R. I, | vesterday afternoon and then pub- licly eulogized by the candidate Who insisted that she share the speakers’ platform with him for a time and accept introduction to the great crowd present. Recognizes Former Teacher Senator Curtis was giving his | opening campaign address before an immense gathering when he noticed | his former teacher sitting in the first row. As soon as he finished his speech and the applause had died down, Senator Curtis rose and spoke in glowing terms of his former teacher. He recalled with a chuckle how she had tried to teach him algebra and latin. (Continued on Page 22) Candidate Curtis Honors Woman In His Boyhood; Greet 5. Lyman ’Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Has Kensington | atform to Be Introduced sts After His Speech at Rocky Point, L. L. | MISS EUNICE A. LYMAN BRITISH GIRL SWIMS ENGLISH CHANNEL Fails to Equal Miss Ederle’s Record Aug. 24 (UP)—Miss London Dover, Eng.. Laddie Sharp, 17- year-old girl, swam the English Channel to day, arriving at Dover from Gris Nez, at 3:55 p. after 15 hours and 5 minutes in th Cape | France, m., | water, Miss Sharp is the 15th person to| and the fif h the difficult i Es\\im the Channel | | woman to accomplish feat. The London girl, secking a £1,000 prize offered by a newspaper break the woman's record establish- ed by Gertrude Ederle of 14 hours and 31 minutes, was unable to bet- ter the mark. Another woman, Miss Ivy Hawke, 25 years old, conquercd the Chan- nel only five days ago, completing | the swim in 19 hours and 16 min- Sharp trained on a dict of raw steak with an occasional glass of stout. She said that these made her fat and thus added to her buoy- ancy in the water. Her special boast is that the circumference of the calf of her leg, 16 inches, is the same as the measurement of Gene Tunney's celebrated under-pinning. Miss Sharp -aid she has not worn stockings for several years because® the sunshine strengthens her legs. She is double jointed, which fact enables her to use a double scissors kick stroke. This is her specialty in swimming and ' she does 25 full strokes a minute. She had been swimming since the | age of ten. Lately she has been | training under Jabez Wolfte, coach of many cross channel aspirants. About the time that Miss Sharp was sighted off Plymouth, adv were received from Cape Gris Nez that Dr. Schultz, a German, had| started a channel swim, beginning at 11:45 a. m, He was proceeding slow- Iy and it took him an hour to make the first mile. 17 Year Old Laddie Sharp‘ to | 'HOPE CURTIS WILL BE AT 3RD WARD OUTING Date Would Be Changed to Accommodate Westerner Upon | Charles nominee | would the vice that presidential hearing Curtis, news of the republican party, speak in Connecticut within the next month, Chairman William H. Judd of the republican town com- mittee declared today that the Third Ward Republican club would be ady to change the date for its outing if could be made to engage him as the | speaker for the occasion. | Recently he was invited by Presi- | ‘d< nt Donald L. Bartlett of the club | {to be the speaker at the outing, but | no reply has been received as yet. Mr, Judd expresscd doubt that the | vice presidential nominee would be | able to fulfill the engagement. Ac- cording to present plans the outing | will be held on September 29. Information came to this city throuch State Representative Claude W. Stevens of Berlin yesterday. Sen- ator Curtis was giving his first cam- peign speech at Rocky Point, R. 1. After the speech Mr, Stevens was in- troduced to Senator Curtis and he asked if the latter planned to speak | at the outing, T vice presidential nomince said he had a speaking date in Connecticut, but he did not know where it was. annual arrangements 1 CO-OPERATIVE PLANS Hartford-Bigelow Carpet |1 Company | Council, Organizes Works Fore- men’s Council and Advisory Board P—To for Ang. 24 channels Thompsonville, provide proper con- | structive sugzestions and means for | ter before going to New York. | shop problems, a| works' council, foremen's council and advisory hoard have been or- ganized at the Bigelow-Hartford carpet company plant here. The works' council will comprise pproximately 45 members on a basis of one representative for each 5 employes. The foremen’s council discussion of Will Pilot Roma BOTH PARTIES IN - NEW HAVEN SPLIT Republicans and Democrats | 3 Facing nternal Dissatistactions | | IPRECONVENTION ~ FIGHTS| Cahill and FitzGerald Factions Bat- tling in Democratic Ranks and | Ullman and Blakeslee in G. 0. P. Row Over Places on Ticket. New Haven, Aug. 24 (P—Politics |of the town and wards of New Haven began to sizzle today as time approaclied for the first of sever ctional contests which have stirred up both major parties, | Tenight the democrats have their | primaries to selcct delegates to the | city convention which will name | deleg to the state convention and there was no prospect of harmoniz- |ng differences between the factions | Deaded by General Registrar Thomas |12 Cahill and that of former Mayor | David E. FitzGerald. | In nine of the 33 wards Cahinl| {men will oppose FitzGerald men, so- | called, the latter being “orfaniza- |tion™ men as opposed to those in | |control of the city and state ma- | chinery of the party who are called “independents.” Against State Officers The latter are desirous of linking Up in the state all who are opposed to National C mmitteeman Thomas |1 Spellacy, State Chairman J. J. | {\Walsh and others in the state com- Goebel and Harry Tucker, mittee in an effort to secure & |yonday compiete, strategic position in the coming state |, ;N\n\vnl\on. The entire situation is the aftermath of the national con- | vention in New York four years ago. | The strength of the “independent movement and following in the | |democratic party is not known, but | jhere in New Haven it has been fore- {cast that it will be shown at the |state convention through support of jcertain candidates. It is known | ‘thfl every effort ade this week to Ih differences hers b f | CESARE SABELLI GOEBEL AND TUCKER AT HARTFORD TODAY Take Plane There for Overhauling—Plans of “Roma” Uncertain Hartford, Aug 24 (P —Arthur who on pleted a non-stop flight |from Los Angeles to New York in less than 19 hours, arrived at Brain- ard field here at 10:38 this morning fom Curtiss field, Long Island. After making a short inspection of the plant of the Prait & Whitney Alrcraft Co., and being entertained {at lunch by officials of the com- | pany, they were to return to New York early this afternoon. “The Yankee Doodle,” Goebel's record breaking ship. is to remain at the “|Pratt & Whitney experimental | hangar here for some days while its Bergin With Canill | Wasp motor is checked over. Cahill is joined with Frank Ber- gin who was ambitions o become 2 town committee chalrman but lost | New York, Aug. 24 (P—Colonel |out to David J. McCoy who had the |Arthur Goebel and Harry Tucker, support of the TitzGerald faction. |Who broke the transcontinental alr | 1t is understood that no opposi- |CrO3siNg record recently, took off to- | tion will be offered to Philip Troup 12V for the second time for Har . ford, Conn., in their plane, T | —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. WILD ENTHUSIASH INSTOCK MARKET | Bulls Run Wi, Sendine. Many | Issues to New }_;} | %, 'BROKERS' LOANS REU¥., 325 emm Unexpected “f'du('l;l About i‘.‘x:-) l"? le?'sy I‘T.H HIMSELF i “* “YARGE TODAY 000,000 Sends | “ Great Blocks of | Stocks Soaring—Early Gains From $2 to $14 Per Share, Personally Directs Cam- | paign Before Leaving for Sea Girt, N. J, New York, Aug. 24 (B—The stock market, which has been under the straining influence of high money rates for several weeks, broke out "in a wild outburst of bullish enthusi- | asm today on buying influenced by | the unexpected reduction of nearly i | York, Aug. 24 5 while today Govern. 323,000,000 in brokers' loans. Blocks |hing 5 tig. ey | of 00 to 10,000 shares changed |democratie | bands at frequent intervals, with the | carly gains in the popular issues run- I ning from 3$2 to $14 a share. More | | than & score issues broke info new !hvsh #round for the year in the first | half hour of trading ; Decrease a Surprise Inasmuch as stock prices had ad- Ivanced steadily during past {week, Wall sireet was looking for a big increase in brokers' loans, many |of the estimates running above $100,000,000. The decrease was at | tributed in some quarters to the dis- solution of hond svndicates, which had been borrowing large sums on unsold bonds, and in others to the | fact that the bulk of last week's Luying was for the account of pro fossional operators who were able fo | finance their purchases w out re- course to bank borrowing, i (P—For Smith sat be- desk reserved for him at national headqua |and personally directed his cam paign for the presidency. In New York for an overnight stay | |before proceeding to Sea Girt, N. J., for a big democratic rally tomorrow. | |the nominee was besieged at head quarters by hundreds of party w ork—l {ers and well-wishers. | A steady stream of men and wom- | en flocked into his office on the | eighth floor of the General Motors | vilding. Al wished the governor | uccess and many attempted to get | his ear for a moment to give s |gestions as to the conduct of | campaign. | Among those who greeted the | nominee Justus . Wardwell, | democratic candidate for governor in | lifornia. two years ago and at present director of finance in that state for the democratic national | committee. Governor Smith told newspaper- men that he had conferred for haif i the Chrysler, National Cash Register | and Armour A each opened with | blocks of 10,000 shares, at 100, |0 nour jast night with Hoke 79 7-8 and 5-8, respectively, all \gith, former democratic senator fiew high records. Adams EXPress |rom Georgia, who, he said, assured tallied $14 a share, Case THreshing |pip that “every thing 1s all right” Allied Chemical and Midland |in ne south, The Georgian de Steel Products preferred $6.50 each | crat wag the only political leader the and American Can, Sears Roebuck, | governor saw last night after his ar- Gold Dust. Atlantic Refining, Wright |rival from Albany. Acronautical, Radio and Rossia In- | While newspapers and photog- surance advanced §3 a share. or 'paphers were having a session with | more, in the first outburst of buy- |the presidential nominee today at ing {his office Chairman Raskob of the So great was the volume of trad- | gemocratic national committee asked ing that the ticker quickly fell be- |\he governor to give him some time hind the market, and the abbreviated |for a discussion of the political sit- quotation system was put into effect | yation before his departure for New in an cffort to keep pace with trad- | Jersey. ing, | Governor Smith decided to make {the trip to Sea Girt by motor, lea {ing his suite at the Biltmore early | | His party was Average Daily Circulation v Week Eudiuy -~ Aug. 18th ... 14,580 PRICE THREE CENTS RADID MESSAGES FLASHING THROUGH SPACE GIVE HOPE FOR SAFETY OF TWO FLIERS Experts However, Think Dispatches Picked up By Ama- teurs Signed “Has- sell” Are Only a Hoax In Meantime Fact Seems Established Plane Was Sighted Over Greenland Sunday and Search Is Renewed. New York, Aug. 24 (#—Eric Palmer, Jr., of Brooklyn, an imateur radio operator, report- “d this afternoon that he had Just been in communication with a station representing it- self as that of the missing plane Greater Rockford. The Mmessage received confirmed the com- munication intercepted last night at Chicago. The message as copied by Palmer read: “Hello, old man, e are on an island about §0 miles north of Newfoundland. Our food supply is getting low. Using wind generator for power for transmission. Talked last night with 9CDJ, Chicago, Please send help, Rockford. KHAH." Palmer began his communi- cation with the station at 11:18 4. M. eastern standard time, when he answered its repeated calls of “CQ, CQ, €Q" (the code for calling stations when a4 message is to be transmitted). Palmer said the station was working on 42.8 meters. The exact fate of Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer with thelr plane “The Greater Rockford,” missing al- most a week, today is uncertain us ever, although alternate hope and discouragement has arisen thi man avenue, other stating the “\il\l to end |house at 34 Highland place. DISPUTANT BREAKS LEG | will pass on any problems brought | ! hefore it by the works' council, and Y | (Contilied on Rag=’81) Yankee Doodle.” The plane’s Patt & Whithey 240 “horsepower Wasp engine 'is to be overhauled at the factory there. Captain Earl White of the Air Associates, Inc. pilot, and A. R. Martine in another Lockheed Vega plane, accompanied them. They will bring back Tucker and Gocbel to New York. IS ROANTIC SUICIDE s New Haven Man, Employed In New | York, Dics Listening to Phono- | graph Playing Love Music. West New York, N. J., Aug. 24 (&) —Tired of life and disappointed in ove, and welcoming ‘a at adventure,” ceath as Clarence Sully, 27, | a reporter for Zit's theatrical week- | Rome in Sabelli's w York, today committed sui- | side by inhaling gas while a phono- | graph softly played romantic waltzes. | flight companions He left two letters, one to his | mother, Mrs. T. R. Sully, 272 Sher- | New Haven, and the | reasons that led his life in a boarding Sully wrote that as the gas over | give no information as to plans for | [powered him he could hear the mu- s c softly telling of love, which. like | ite, had brought him only despair. | New Haven, Aug. 24 (®—Clarence | Sully, New York reporter who com- | mitted suicide by inhaling illuminat | ing in his West New York, N. 1. ing house, was on the stafl b |of the New Haven Evening Unlon weather had caused and the w Haven Ev ning Regis- | In New York he worked on the Bronx Home News and the Evening Graphic, then went to Zit's, TOWNS I DATED Khabarovsk, Siberia, Aug. (UP)—The town of Zeya and many | villages have been inundated by the | Sergeant ivers Zeya and Amur, which were | rising still higher today. Hartford, Aug. tainty surrounded the plans of Count Cesare Sabelli and his three flight companions, preparing for a hop to Bellanca plane this morning. Italian ace and his three -Dr. Leon Piscul- li, Roger Q. Williams and Pierro Bonelli—had not returned from Newark up to 10 a. m. Officials at the Pratt & Whitney hangar, where the “Roma” awaits, groomed for the long hop, could “Roma,"” The the flight, the first leg of which was expected to be made today. Sabellf, after settling his differ- ences with Dr. Pisculli Wednesday night, had announced the “Roma" would be flown to Old Orchard, Me.. today, hopping off from there for Rome within a few days. 1t was Delieved that doubtful postponement of the fiight to Old Orchard fov at least a day, and that Sabelli would probably leave Saturday upon his veturn from New York. Broad street about 11:30 last night J. C. Stadler found she had lost $80 and was almost hys- terical. indicating | | Terrifiic Staged in Grove Street Yard—Winner Reports Battle | John Blumstein, aged 40, of 170 Grove street, sustainmed a fracture |of the right leg and painful abra- sions about the head in a fight last | night with Carl Crazewski, aged 40, | of 83 Orange street. In police court | today, Orazewski pleaded guilty to | the charge of breach of the pvucc‘ and assault and his case was con- | tinued until September 4 in $200 bonds. It will be several weeks be- | |fore Blumstein can leave New Britain General hospital, it is said. | The police were unable to learn | the cause of the fight, which was| staged in the front yard at Blum- | stein’s boarding place. Mrs. Rose Labienic, who boards Blumstein, told the police the men were in the | | house about 9:15 o'clock and went | Losing Four Teeth. the advisory board, composed of overseers will adjust points of dif- ferences between the other two!l bodie Formation of the three groups marks the first time in the history of the plant that the workers have been called on for suggestions given an opportunity to discuss their problems on the compan time. FOUR ESCAPE DROWNING Motor Boat Sinks Of West Haven | Falls Off, Reported Killed | 24 (P—Nine South America i Baltimore, Aug. stowaways from | were overcome and seven of them at least were reported to have died when the steamship Steel Inventor, from Brazil, was fumigated at quarantine here today with hydro- | cyanide acid fumes, When Stuffing Box Causing Craft to Founder. West Haven, Aug. 24 (P—Four persons narrowly escaped drowning here yesterday when the motor boat Pamada sank after the stuffing box | The fumigation was given because | Nine Stowaways Overcome and 7 By Fumes From Fumigating Acids at Baltimore | First Intimation That Anyone Was In Hold Came When ‘ Officers Investigating Stumbled Over Bodies Where the Men Had Sought Pure Air. The death list was increased to seven when one of the men died while being taken to a hospital in Baltimore. “ive who failed to re- spond to resuscitation efforts on ship | board were the first to be sent to| hospitals, and it was feared others of those would die. Officers of the ship had no idea /in_ the afternoon. confined to members of his family. | number of reports that the men | were either sighted or were in radio 24 (UP)—Uncer- 'LEVINE, ACOSTA AND ' MAN, APPARENTLY CRAZY, | | gl MR‘ ARRESTED IN CEMETERY | Start From Germany for | England on First Leg of Ocean Hop Had Made an Attempt to Open Re- | cent Grave of Viscount Haldane in Scotland | | Gleneagles, Scotland, Auz. 24.— | The grave of Viscount Haldane, The “Queen of the Alr” | British_statesman who was burled | plane purchased by Charles A. Le- | here yesterday, was found opened vine, took off from the Junkers air- | this morning with indications that | drome for Croydon, | Dessau, Germany England, at | an attempt had been made to pry | 3:32 o'clock this afternoon. | open the coffin. Levine, Bert Acosta, William | Lying asleep beside the opened | Carney, an American pilot, and the | grave was a man who stopped lhe; Junkers mechanic, Heyse, were on | funeral procession of the former board. | cabinet minister in High street yes- | Levine is understood to be plan- | terday at Auchterarder. | ning a transatlantic flight to the | Awakened by a cemetery attend-| United States, the hop to Croydon “l"". ““’ih““";’ l“':’ p“‘r‘::’;i']‘i‘;"le::"‘ e e first s i claring that he had s s s, DR LR, \'fp,of et {tngs and had an appointment with London, Aug. 24 (M—In a tele. the viscount. When he stopped the gram to Miss Mabel Boll here, | Procession yesterday he asserted that | Charles A. Levine, who plans | Haldane was not dead and he re- ssatlantic flight to America, an- |Peated this in the gravevard today. nounced he would land at Croydon| The police said that the man had Airdrome at 5 | admitted opening the grave with tools left by a gravedigger. ' RESCUED BY FIREMEN Germany. 296 Guests In Denver Hotel Are lLevine announced yesterday that le would attempt the ocean crossing Taken to Safety by Firemen Early This Morning. | | in a new Junkers plane which was delivered to him and the American | aviator, Bert Acosta, at Dessau early | this werk i Miss Boll some time ago planned | to fly from New York to Europe in | the Columbia, Levine's plane in | | which he and Clarence Chamberlin!| Denver, Colo., Aug. 24 —Trapped | crossed the Atlantic from New York | in the anditorium hotel here this to Germany. Her plan was abandon- | niorning by a fire starting In a store led when Miss Amelia rhart [room, 296 guests were rescued by | achieved the crossing in the Friend- | firemen. |ship before the Columbia’s flight| Albert E. Snider of Stroudsburg, could be effected. | Pa., a guest, and A. E. Duffield, a “I certainly am going with ir. fireman, were rendered unconscious Levine if he flies to America,” Miss | by smoke and were removed to a Toll told the Associated Press, “but | hospital where it was reported their 1 am not sure-he intends flving over. | condition was serious | I have made no extra preparations More than 50 persons were given | for the flight because 1 am uncer- | first aid treatment by the rescue and tain as to what Mr. Levine's exact | Pulmotor squad of the fire depart- slbEn e {ment when they were overcome by T [smoke. < s s | Vina Elizabeth Wilson and Evelyn Stultz Is Forced Down Glasscock, vacationers from Austin, | By Fog at Morris Cove Toxas. .were rescued trom sth story New Haven, Aug, 24 (—Lost in |Windows by firemen. J the fog which shrouded most of | Damage to the hotel, which was New England yesterday, Wilmer | filled with visitors here for the sum- Stultz, pilot for Miss Amelia Ear-|er season, was estimated at §$10,- hart on her transatlantic flight, | 000. brought his Sikorsky plane down at | Morris Cove, slightly damaging one | pontoon. Stultz, with Cornelius Van- | GRUESOME DISCOVERY Philadelphia, Aug. 24 (UP)—A | a communication with the states. It seems fairly certain now that the plane really was sighted Sunday over the south Greenland coast. Last night radio amateurs reported re ceiving messages signed by the Rock- ford crew, giving an approximate location and messages. These how- | ever, possibly were the cruel hoax of some amateur for not only did the wave lengths differ, but Cramer, who worked the Rockford's radio, is @ decidedly inexperienced sender, while the messages received had been sent with considerable skill. Cramer’s sending had been limited | to the clicking off of certain letters in a prearranged code. The mes- sages received were fairly long, and thus it is generally believed among those versed in radio work, as well as those personally acquainted with (Continued on Page Four) CHARLES A. BRUENNER HEART ATTACK VICTI Church Street Man Sud- denly Stricken by Fatal Iliness \ Awakened about midnight by 1li- ness, Charles A, Bruemmer, 71 years old, of 81 Church street went to the bathroom where he fell dead over the bath tub, the victim of heart disease. He was widely known in this city, having worked at P. & F. Corbin's for 40 years and the Stam- ley Rule & Level Co., for 15 years. Mr. Bruemmer was born in Han- | over, Germany, July 30, 1857 and came to this country with his parents when he was about six years of age. The family settled in New Britain |and Mr. Bruemmer has made his home here during the 65 years that followed. He entered the employ of P. & F. Corbin and was employed in & packing department. He resigned his place and went to work in a stock room at the Stanley Rule & Level plant where he was employed to the time of his death. For 35 vears he was secretary- treasurer of A. W. Harvey lodge, A. 0. U. W. Surviving him are two sons, Fred- erick D. Bruemmer of New York city and Howard J. Bruemmer of this city: and a daughter, Miss Ger- trude Bruemmer of Hartford. | derhilt Whitney, Jr., was attempting human thumb and coat sleeve Sergeant O'Mara. testified that he | ! had fallen off and allowed the water | when or where the stowawavs had |to fly from Boston fo Saratoga but | Were found in a seven foot shark | Funeral services will be held to- was detailed to investigate the case, by Captain Kelly. He found the boy's body between the sidewalk and the curb on the north side of Broad street. There was a truck narked at the north curb and witnesses told the sergeant that the boy had been standing on the hub of the left rear wheel of the truck when Barron's coupe struck it and knocked the boy tc the ground. A door handle was knocked off the coupe and therc were marks on the door and the side of the coupe. The sergeant quoted Rarron as having s1id he was driving west on Rroad street. not knowing how fast he -was going because there was no speedometer on his coupe. He felt (Continued on Page 18) into the vard to settle a dispute. | She and Andrew Stasoick and M |Eva Bingiel of 169 Grove str | were summoned as witnesses by Of- | ficers Lee, Hopkins and Riley, who | were on the scene. | Orazewski Yeadily admitted his | part in the fracas, according to the | police, and cldimed to have had| four teeth knocked out by Blum- | stein. D'ANNUNZIO ILL Rome, Aug. 24 M—A Gardone dispatch to Giornale D'Italia says that Gabriele D'Annunzio is slightly | indisposed in consequence of a| strenuous flying program which he carried out for the past few days. The poet-warrior is obliged to re- main indoors, but expects to resume work shortly, | » llow fever is raging in the ports| to enter. They were Mr. and Mrs. [¥° a ; Charles Beehler, their grandson, | from which the Steel Inventor had Charles Delzell and Mrs. Bessie Wor- | ©°m®. All sailors were ordered off o, 11 of s towe, the boat during the fumigation, and Frank Donegan, also of West the first intimation that there had aven, reached the boat just before |Deen anybody in the hold came sank and took its occupants in |When officers inspecting after the fumigation was over, stumbled over e E S Sy |the bodies where the stowaways had 3 sought pure air. g Flagman Leaps From Car, "7l "l ™0 o' geck ana Snatches Child Off Track | while efforts were made to revive Columbia, Pa., Aug. 24 (UP)—F. |them police and fire boats and res- T. Calhoun, a flagman, leaped from |cue apparatus were rushed to the | the caboose of a westbound freight ship in response to a wireless call | train and carried a 2 year old haby ‘fnr aid picked up by the municipal off the tracks just before an east | radio station. | bound train sped over the spot| Dr. H. 8. White, in charge of the| where the baby had been sitting. | rescue work on the boat, said he The child had wandered away from | believed two of the men were dead its home which is about 100 yards | when found. Later six were reported H: it his boat. gotten on board the Steel Inventor, which had touched at a number of ports. ¥ HIGH TIDE — AUG. 25 | | New Haven 7:33a.m.3:31 pm. | i New London 5:37 am.6:14 pm. | B THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Showers tonight or Saturday; cuoler Saturday. from the tracks. dead. | | * | | sot lost over the Berkshires. captured far out at sea by Charles After landing, Stultz telephoned McNulty, of Philadelphia, it became Curtiss field to arrange for ,.t.p,,,,.s‘known here today. The shark was to the pontoon and a short time |CaUght with a very heavy hook and later took off again, this time for |line and five pistol shots were re- Long Island quired to kil ft. is Cove is on the east shore of BI:\"H-,\ 0 D city, facing Long Island. T Bt B troni, 25 vear old barber, was beaten to death early today by two men who waylaid him and a friend. The friend was beaten insensible. Bu- troni’s jewelry and. money were left untouched. | thi N ear-Freezin; ‘\'eather Reported in Northwest t. Paul, Minn., Aug. 24 (UP)— Freezing or near freezing tempera- fures were reported in the northwest today after two storms which earlier in the week caused nearly $2,000,000 damage to crops and buildings, and the death of nine porsons. Fes- senden, N. D., was the coldest spot in the northwest with a reported temperature of 25 degrees. GIRL BROUGRT BACK HOME Helen Lada, alias Landers, of 164 Grove street, who left home recent- Iy, was brought back by her broth- having been located in New York by the police. morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at Er- win chapel. Rev. B. B. Btrying, as- sistant rector of 8t. Mark's Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. i Drowns in an Attem| To Rescue Young Woman Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 24 UP—An at- tempt to rescue a young woman as she sank in Cayuga Lake last night resulted in the drowning of John G. Pertsch, Jr., 40, professor of elee- trical engineering at Cormell wml- versity. \ Miss 8idne Sjoren, assistant medi- cal instructor at Cornell, whem Pertsch tried to pull to shere was saved by Harold Flack. Pertseh sank when his companions theught he was safe.