New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 SURVEY INDIGATES BOTH CANDIDATES ARE NORE ACTIVE Past Week Sees Each Man Com- ing Out Prominently Into the Open BOOVER MEETS MANY, | SHITH GIVES STARD While Republican Nominee Was | Swinging Across Country Person- ally Greeting Thousands, Demo- | cratic Rival Was Claiming Spot- | light With His Defense of Admin- | fstration and Proposals if Elected. Washington, Aug. 25 (P —Emerg- ing from the fog of abstract discus- sion and speculation, the political campaign is disclosing aspects filled with promise for thos» voters who rely on men more than on issues, and want to get better acquainted with Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith. During what might almost be called “meet-the-candidate-week,” the country has seen at closer range than ever before the two personali- ties between whom it M choose. re than that, it has seen ample evidence that both candi- dates, liberated at last from the restraints of pre-not mean to put the full force individualities into the balance as the revealing process of the cam-| paign go on. Smith Plunges Ahead Governor Smith began the week with a public statement reviewing | and defending in detail his own record as a member of the New York legislature, attacked by Wil- lam Allen White. Then, formally accepting the nomination at a dem- ocratic Jubilee at Albany, in a speech broadcast to millions, he gave point to his promises of national reform by repeated personal references to those administrative accomplish- | ment which have led the people of | New York to re-elect times to the governorship, Hoover Mects Thousands Mr. Hoover, crossing the country meantime from California to Wash-| ington, was meeting thousands face | to face as he bantered in neighborly fashion across the rail of a rear platform and took with manifest re- lief to imromptu speech-making. He paused long enough in lowa, where | he ®at in on a conference of farm | leaders and recalled to old ac-| quaintances at birthplace how | him three | @ (Continued on Page Three) RIPLEY J. RAMAGE, 81, | DIES AFTER OPERATION! Retired Mason Contractor | in Business Here for Many Years Following an operation per-| formed at the New Britain General | hospital three weeks ago, Ripley J. Ramage, a former well known ma- son contractor, passed away at nis home 28 West Pearl street late last| evening. For two weeks his recovery was| anticipated, but the ‘shock proved too much for his advanced age, and | for a week he has been steadily fail- ing. He was in his 82nd year, having| been bori in Norwich, Nov. 4, 1846, the son of Charles and Mary Smith Kamage Mr. Ramage Wwas associated in business for a number of years with the late Cornelius E. Hills under the firm name Hills and Ramage. After the death of Mr. Hills he continued to carry on the business | under his own name. He retired| from business about eight years ago. Fraternally he was a member of Hartford lodge, No. §2, 1. 0. O. F., of Hartford and Comstock Encamp- ment, No, 29, . 0. O. F., of New Britain. He was an attendant of the First Church of Christ, Congregational. He is survived by a son, Edward| proximately R. Ramage; a daughter, Bertha G.| Mrs. Oscar A. Hildreth Mill, Long lIsland, N. Y. brother, Alfred T. Ramage of Uncas- ville, His wife died Oct. 3, 1904. The funeral will be held at his late home Monday at 2 p. m. day- light saving time. Rev. A. D. Hein- inger will officiate. Interment will be in Fairview cemetery. Three Saved From Death | As Seaplane Comes Down Qak Bluffs, Mass., Aug. 25 (#— Three New York city men were res- cued from possible drowning in Vineyard Sound last night by a coast guard boat after their seaplane had been forced down. They were Richard F. White, owner; Robert E. El pilot, and Robeft Atkins, a passenger. The plane was flying from Marion to Nantucket. It ass salvaged by the coast guard and towed into the ‘harbor here. GERMAN DEBENTURES Berlin, Aug. 25 (A—The industrial debentures bank today paid the agent gencral for reparations 150,- [mam] NEW BRITAIN HERALD 15 Foot Snake Found In Third Story Room Of New York Building New York, Aug. 25 (P—A brown and white snake, 15 fect long and weighing about s captured in a third tment at 773 Eighth avenue early today by six po- licemen who forced it into a canvas bag after struggling for almost an hour. Mrs. Mary Munno was awaken- ed when the snake knocked several cans from a cupboard in the kitchen. She fled to the street, screaming. The first officer to respond was defeated the reptile and summoned an geney squad. A yardstick down the throat of the snake finally subdued it and per- mitted its remova The police have heen unable to learn where the snake came from or how it reached the third floor of the hoi READY FOR OPENING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLY NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928 —SIXTEEN PAGES Wreckage of Ninth Car In Subway Disaster Average Daily Circulation For Aes. 160 14,580 Aug. 18th ... PRICE THREE CENTS NEW YORK SUBWAY CRASH KILLS 14, INJURES 99 AS CROWDED EXPRESS SPLITS SWITCH NEAR TIMES SQUARE v ouge eck; First Terrific Crash, Darkngssf and Then Cries, {One Car Cut in Half | Lengthwise By Par- tition, Another Over- turns While a Third and Shouts of Dying and Injured Sounded Like Thousand Wild Animals| > | Had Been Turned Loose York, Aug. were Killed and injured the subway wreek: [T School—Limit of Enrollment Ex- pected at State Normal, After an extensive pected that the northwestern section of the city will have enough ele- mentary accommodations for this | year, at ast. i Limit at Normal School | The New Britain State Normal | sehiool entering elass which is limit- ed to 180 pupils will reach this number, according to the estimate | of Principal Mareus White, With an | approximate enrollment of ahout 125 | pupils in the senior elass the school's more entire enrollment should be than 300, the principal estime School will open on W September 5. This will he year in which pupils trom W bury will b entirely eliminated, a move started 1wo years ago wh the list of applications became tou Jarge. Waterbury girls in school at the time, however, were allowed to tinish the cou Should any of the 180 applicants | now acecpted by the school author- | fties decide not fo enter, the school has a waiting list. Parochial School Opening With one exception the parochial schools will probably be open a few ays previous to the publie schools. | The exception s St. Matthew’s school which will open on September 10, | the date set for public school open- ing, St. Mar school will open on Septembel and Sacred Heart school will open on September 3. The opening date for St. Joseph's | school has not been decided, but it | is expected to be shortly after Labor Day. 69TH REGT. ORDERED 0UT FOR DEDICATION Colonel Hunter Instructs| Men to Come to ‘l This City The 169th regiment, Connecticut | National Gus which comprises ap: 1,000, men has been or- dered by Colonel D. Gordon Hunter to participate in the World War Memorial dedication celebration | which is to take place here on Sep- | tember 22 The regiment is composed of 18 companies from New Britain, Diris- tol, Meriden, Middletown, Hartford, | South Manchester and Willimantic. | 1t is very unusual for the colonel to order the men out for service. Their participation in public ceremonies is usually the result of a request. | Captains of tne New Britain com- | | panies, 1. E and headquarters, an- | nounced he is ready to call the com- panies, and he is confident that it/ will again have a 100 per cent at- tendance as it did in camp last month. Six Meriden Places Are Visited by State Police Meriden, Aug. 25 (A —Six state H0- lice officers with as many members of the local police department vi ed six business establishments here vesterday afternoon and arrested four persons on charges of keeping liquor with intent to sell and repu- tation. The officers were unsuccessful in nuitaing pro- | Will Accompany Him on Fyench Plane Pmly Wrecked in:Cranston Terrace Lad May Anna Kane, | Anne McGroarity. year old | Two unidentified women. apher of Brooklyn, at Belle- | he injured: (at hospitals). | Some of the stories follow: | Tells Graphic Story Miss Alma Veascau, stenog 069 WEl_iUSBANI]? BEGUN, POST PONED SLEEPING BOY ON HEAD prings next Thursday. | ceiling fell. He suffcred a severe Andr | having taken off on what was hoped | The crowd just scemed to push m=> arica, 34 Wilson A funeral serv Joseph D. Nair. | occupants from possible death Suddenly, he said. there was & O'Brien, el ST Isabella Condon. Arthur Condon, her husband. Edith Haviland. ‘nnic Wisky. Rarney Sadowitz, Edward Newman. Max Rosenbaum. David Goldstein. Cecilia Block, Elias Ha Munzio Emil Borg. James Cullen, Louis Cherlin. Joseph D. Nair Ted Kamille. THIS WEEKS AFFAIRS . . . . . Mrs. D. Becker. ticardo Gomez. { Alice Palange. i Lillian Harvey. Ll . Joseph Seidenberg £R68Enats JuBIANT Memion L - OVERL COV-SMITH'S SPEECH— Rernard Sneed. Morris Stearn. ATTY TUOS F McDONOUGH Edwe ilcahy AIMS TO O STATE SENATOR —— Ternice Rosenthal NOW FOR FutuTe. ToM 1S PUITE DEMOCTATIC Marilyn Rosenthal TILOENS.” s Can TACE AT Mar Rosentha COUNTY ¥y TEnNIS Ceov AT BT wavs) Altred Richmond. SHELTS TouTAAMENT Julius Smith, TODAY —— John EKIte: Paul Harm Irving Finkelman. Thomas Mascarri. Cecilia Medan, Michael Price. Marcus Sanchez, Yonker: J TLouis Weisman. David Rabinowitz. Richard Tarkington. Richard Ward. Emanuel Rosenfeld Aaron Chinin, Edgemere, 7. Tony Cornello. George Ford. CiTY ERGINEET P A MERIAN Elizabeth Frebold. SUES CTY OF AEW DTTAN " S e TAGUSAND DOUATE wer William Fysician. John Garritg. / 7 L John Gerritu. P. Kanby, Rockaway o cuse fen: MAYOR. PAONESSA AND CHAIMAN JONN €.t KBEVEZS AGREE TO ¥ORGET DIFFERENCES —— Beach, 000,000 marks, this being the inter- est due on industrial obligations un- der the Dawes plan. two places, but a quantity of alleged beer and liquor was confiscated in each of the other four places, |One Passenger Says Moans‘ Dead nd lnjured in Subway Tragedy A A SRR | (®—The fol- | s otherwise noted the per- | nson, who accompanied |would be a non-stop flizht to New |thock in addition to the injury 1o |past people screaming, moaning and City, J. the senator east for Gov. Alfred York. his collar bone. Persons who ob-!dying.” Kenley, smith's notification, of his nomin In taking off, the plane narrowly |served conditions at the scene after | Got Very Mot Appiebaum. tion as democratic & ard bearer, missed colliding with high tension |the accident were astonished that| Clarence A. Smith of Brooklyn, a ck Murray, Central Islip, L. L. explained that campaizning would | electric wires skirting ihe field and | he was not more seriously hurt | passenger in the seventh car, who on Chanin. b )¢ new to her. She said she |it was due only to dexterous hand- | i e cscaped with an injured nose, said| ‘viillam Dorlan. had accompanied her husband many | ling by Captain Louis Courdouret, | ~ FROTHINGHAM FUNERAL he estimated there were betwen| Lcrtha Branson, times in eampaigns for the the pilot, that the machine w North Easton, Mass. Aug. two end thre bundred pessons| oosies Schweliser governorship and house of 1 saved from destruction and its three | (UP)—With most of Massachusetts'| ;20 0q in the car. William _Jesycioa. E A Rockville Cen- William Larcombe, Perth Amboy, Plows Into Wreckage | =Darkness and Smoke | Add to Horror of | Catastrophe. | —Panic Was Terrible. | sons are trom New York.) W. G. Baldwin, in Charge ) . . The dead: ClaSSOS WIll Be Resumed n ThlS‘ This remarkable picture shows the casualty center in ) York's frightful subway disaster. it is a photo- | s S Jumes Burke, Merrick, N. Y. of Tracks, Held on Homi- . graph of what was left of the ninth car in a ten-car train subway express aftter it dashed from the rails | New York, Aug. (® -~ The Joseph Cone, no address. 2 G][y septembfi]‘ 10 E the Tumes Square station, Killing 14 persons and injuring 99. In the ninth car, most of the casualties |yragic story of the Times Square| GtorSe Frey, Rockville Center, cide Charge, Had Ap- 3 | occurred. The car smashed against the steel and concrets walls of the subway structure. Reicue workers | bl R sol N0 Y. & | are seen using oxysen torches to cut away the wreckage. [subway crash was vividly told DY | Uy Mary Haines, Staten Island. proved Rails—Rescuers { Isurvivo 1 Vincent Menegus, 1 Kimball av- | L i | . [ R ¢ GHANGES l“ NORTH END ' | They told of the sudden shock,|enuc, Clifton, N. J. Find Decapitated Body —~——— MRS R[]BINS[]N PLANS I)ART []I: EEIL!NG l | the darkness, the dense smoke, the| Mabel Whittman 7 £ Baby. = e e o et TN, ULE! | i e e et of Baby. lieves Situation at Washington S rush of thousands| ;g Marion Zips and her son.| —— e pan e Herber 'WOMEN TRAMPLED | IN WILD PANIC . | vue hospital suffering from cuts, sonias Ford, Western Springs, = gram which included the constru 1, | . | byvises and 5 sancl 2 ) = 7 : f g g Ibruises and possible internal - | 1 S tion of several rooms in elementary Tour of More Than 1 M[em [ed Take.o“ Have Injured Collar | juries, was a passenger in one of 3 AMite . My, 386 Barishive.avs | oo L0ik AUs. 35 (Tt buildings throughout tha city, the 36 States Bone | the rear enue, Bridgeport, Conn, persons were killed and ninety-nine school department is ready for the e The first indication of the impend- | Maude Jackson, 128 Union avenue, ,';'f,:":ds‘:fin; eibmay . Sraih . el opening of public schools on Sep- = |ALL HAVE GLOSE CALL ing tragedy, she said, was a terriflic | Belleville, N. J. evening. i En Route to Litile Rock, Indian- | X-ray photographs ar expected to EFININg nolse George Blanchard, 253 Little | A" complete official list issued by : 3 5 apalis, Aug. (A—Undaunted by | _— reveal whether Austin Gran, 16, syf-| A sccond later T saw the car be- | strcet, Belleville, N. J. thi Bolioe \Aparims Five rooms at the Rockwell 5100l [ 1o prospeet of a strenuons cam- | . _ X |fored any scrious effects when a|hind ours rip right through a steel| William Marcombie, Perth Amboy, pmc:’ Nl l:t‘ml‘ Sarly today e e e et o e o ERat aliwest ERlEhES Ealle=Bllat i o, Hor byt iz s iy | RUME RS oug anve ks UL anitiae it b sa L) poses lmore than 35 staics, Mrs. Joe T | Obliged to Zizgzag Among Wires |20 inches dropped from the celling | banged 1o a_ stop. Everybody w Dok Wesbetndgide, Mahwab |15t wan ety s it m: Xn? £ | Robinson already is making plans and struck him while he was asleep | velling and screaming. Everybody | N, J. s Two new rooms have been con- < i : jured died. Several others were in ! haeniy to accompany her husband whercver | and Around Trees, Being Unable |at his home, 19 Cranston torrace. It |rushed to the doors. William Grienwetsky. a serious condition structed in the old Burritt school. e jmay go in his fight for the viee| is thought possible that his collar| “Oh, the horror of it all. T saw| FEdgar Braithwaite. 2 g Ohe Tsrach Potnam =alhiool §8 réady |presidency, She said today that ups| ‘@ GetHuke Plano lnto Alr, | bone above the loft shoulder was|women with their legs cut off lying| Martha Braithwaite. " EL""’""’," is Arrested o oa i oiant i |ob! heearrivi)t oniHENARGTARIB| T Gioureet pranselAny 25 (B | octured alilicues Ehidhonlyl come ibebieen thejtache Do nagc S an Zandant. My'mu',,B.?{'ffie‘"iniffii‘r:“":'fi' o o t she 4 star : ekl | pla dit at he fering | blackene S5 by Gome! 0 g u fotlowed the fire in the bulding sev- | RocK, Ark. that she would start!sn’attempt to span the Atlantic by |PIIDC todiy it hs i eufioning | blackenod, I pusss by Hhe siectio; | Max (Bouwen I Tiiuait Ehinact iwas i) 451 ] e e schoo i |BELNS ready at once and be pre-|air from cast to west failed s, | from a pain like that which would | current, was Iying across the third | Walter Kwartkouski | ctineae of Bem it . T cral months age. The scho B T ikl (he serintar on | moratar hon® na’ onoplane | e caussd by a strained Houldersl | {xail, 1 gilsdsihia Ted fbasn glectzo- | Guy Greonwald. |charge of homisids satter M (SN take care of 300 pupils. This will | bt @ 1t e medis | Fomen returend o the flying field | Gran was slecping soundly Thurs- | cuted John Kratner. :“" ?“"“"“"’ for several hours eliminate the four portable buildings |0 ® v W HEE 0 S Rl Rl o JEE y e n o S o : [ by police officials, incl Com- B N Wiasliion sihan] B e e | MIE BTSNy Qmmsl mobNRRB gL hons W0 U5l £ uinl, Shoslly Whter | day night when section of sthe | *I don't know how I ever got out. zabeth Scibold, P uding Com: missioner Warren, and by Walker. The ninth car of a ten car West Side subway train split a damaged switch near Times 8quare station at 5:09 p. m. and riped through & con- crete and stone partition, 30 feet | high, separating the north and south bound express tracks, breaking in |two as it struck. Second Worst Accident ey Mayor am very much interested in| Crew of Plane ssman Louis A.| Sl . s 3 Joseph Roura. The tragedy was the second worst iy | The crew consisted of Courdourte, m were to be held at ‘“':'I":‘! "k‘”“: 'ffll‘ “"“"’J‘f“"v’!“ h Virginia Lawrence in the history of New York rapid (Continued on Page 11) |Count Louis de Mailly-Nesle, relief urch here at noon today. I"‘ 1“"‘, "l‘ b the car was| gn ynidentified woman, transit. Ninety-six persons were Kkill- 8 SO | pilot, and Captain Mailleux, naviga- Durial will be in Unity Church ceme- PIUNEED 21 (0T KDOEE, Among the injured who were|©d on November 1, 1918, in the de- = & 5 [tor. ' The attempt to lift the ma- tery. Frothingham died suddenly Then it got hot,” he said. “Ob.| rated and sent home were: rallment of a Brooklyn Rapid Tran- Cutter Ends Its Search {chine, loaded with 1,-20 gallons of carlier this week aboard his mcm‘!“’“’_";’""l"‘“‘»" -“‘]“E'“ began "0‘“‘[ Emanuel Rosenfeld, 271 Mapes |Sit train running through an open for ) gasoline, was made more difficult by |at North Haven. Me. |ing into the car like a gas attack | gy, swark, N. J. cut in Brooklyn. On Sept. 11, 1905, “l' 91 l:l:sse\lyll an‘d, (;amer an unfavorable wind. | - e i‘xurm‘g the war. ]h\-‘n :.\] woman be- | Jdward Gillis, 236 Grand street, [tWelve persons were killed and 42 whington, Aug. 5 So little altitude had been gained | g——— ., l®an to screcam and the men to|Jersey City, N. J. injured when an elevated train ran coast gnard cutter Marion, ad -d‘:,t the end of the take-off stretch | | |shout and everybody tried to fight| Danicl Hagarty, Richmond Hills, into an open switch and a car load- headquarters here last night that it {hat the landing gear struck a board | | THI: WEATHER his way out. Oh, it was horrible. (L. I ed with passengers crash:d to the had abandoned the search for thelfence bounding the field, smashing | | | “We spent aimost an hour n| George R. Allen, Huntington, L. L. |street below at 53rd street and 9th missing plane, q: ater RRocktord, be-|one of the wheels. The next moment New Britain and vicinity: {there. It emed like eternity. Austrid Nylen, 31 Boardman |avenue, Manhattan, cause of lack of definite information ' death stared the fliers in the face | partly cloudy and cooler to- | |Through the back of the car came |street, Worcester, Mass. Last night's crash occurred on the that the plane had hm»n{\"vvv in the for, after clearing the fence, they night and Sunday, \ |the dreadful groans and screams of Helga Sjostron, 24 Westminster |line of the Interborough Rapid waters near Fiskernes, Greenland. found they could not ascend rapidly | | | the injured and dying. I'll re-live | road, Worcester, Mas; Transit company, advertised as “the The message from the Mdrlvlf‘vvnough to pass over the electric | % ——————% |that ghastly experience all the rest Anna Stedmond, 527 Sixteenth |safest rallway in the world” and commander, Licut. Commander E. wircs strung & short distance out- | = ———— lof my life.” street, Union City, N. J. equipped with all modern safety de- H iwmm.' ve .“1‘: e ”‘snlv’. Wi | HIGH TIDE — AUG. 20 ‘ Ted S Kanuille of Brooklwn. a|, Andy T"""'\r' on, 128 Thorn street | vices. The ten car train consisted “Discontinued search for Hassell| skillful Handling I Aasheer dnan s ot e i anis crsey City, N. . of all-steel cars. It carried about in licu of authen eports of his| Taking the only alternative, (‘m\r»‘ New London 6:51 a.m. .m. g = ,,k,u : Bordon Burke, Inwood, L. I 1,800 passengers. ighted near Fiskernes, Green- s ‘l New Haven 8 .m. | (Continned on Page 14) E. O. Scanlon, 262 Washington Car Sheared in Two (Continued on Page 11) F e % Jersey Ci The ninth car, thrown against the concrete wall, was sheared in two, half of it careening 200 feet down the dark tunnel stiil attached to the train before collapsing, & steet shroud for its mangled passengers. The eighth car also turned over as it was dragged from the track by the weight of the ninth ear. The tenth car crashed on into the wreck- age but remained upright. Lights Go Out With the crash all but the emer- gency lights on the train went out and the scene was lighted only by those dim bulbs and the blue flames thrown off by the third rail, short circuited by the tangled steel thrown across it. When the accident occurred, the (Continued on Page 10) 'LAST GREAT WRECK IN N. Y. RUINED COPANY { Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co. Foroed Into Bankruptcy After 1918 Disaster New York, Aug. 25 (UP)—The last big railway wreck in New York threw the railway on which it oc- curred into bankruptcy. After the death of 93 persons and the injury of 103 in the Malbone street elovated wreck in Brooklyn in |1918, the Brookiyn-Manhattan | Transit company was required to {pay damage claims amounting to several millions of dollars. The fi- Y. |nancial burden was too great and the B-M-T went into bankruptcy. Last night's wreck may seriously cripple the Interborough Rapid Transit company. It was pointed out | by traction experts that should the Interborough fail to win its fight for N.la seven cent fare it might be | thrown into bankruptcy or into the E. Kenway, Rockaway Beach, N.|hands of the city. ¥ Some public utilities in New York Emma Kraft have had to pay as high as $150,000 Emelio Mastereo. for a single life lost through the William Mitchell. negligence of employes. Mrs, O'Mara, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. Stock of the I. R. T. company. sold nlece of secretary of Cardinal [off at 1 7-8 at 44 1-8 at the opening Dougherty of Philadelphia. of the New York Stocfi Exchange Guy Trunkett, today.