New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 31

FLABORATE PLANS T0 GET OUT VOTERS Political Organizations Ready to *Start Auto Fleets Both political parties have re- doubled their efforts to capture the vote of this city and have supple- mented the customary agencies of pre-election work by large forces of women workers who are making thorough canvass of the eity. House-to-house canvastes have been made heretofore, but they have usually been confined to the districts where the vote has been somewhat in doubt or to ascertain necessary in- formation regarding persons of known political alignment. This year, both the republicans and the democrats are confident t! vote will redound to their they are doing everything possible to get out the entire vote and trust to their judgment of the electors senti- ments. The 'T““ is expected to be & record vote. Transportation committees have blen formed in both political campa. Each has a long list of automobiles volunteered or hired, and it is prac- tically certain that no one will find it necessary to remain away from the voting booths for lack of trans- portation. Voting machine mechanics this afternoon are completing the work of setting up and inspecting the machines in school buildings. The registrars are completing their lists of election day workers, adding sev- eral checkers to the usual number in anticlpation of a large vote. It has been suggested that the voters assist the election officials by bearing 4n mind that the line can be rushed through with greater speed if they will come to the goun- ter ready to give the name of thelr street, number of the house and their own name in that order. STRAND WINS SUIT OVER BOV'S DEATH (Continued from First Page) trespasser, Mr. Pick argued, that evidence was produced wherein it was shown that the passway was owned by the Connecticut company and that it was used as a public highway for pedestrians only, that people working in a factory adja- cent the properties involved and children from the school at Chest- nut street used the passway at all times. Furthermore it the passway was the property of the Connecticut company, John Bernardo was not & trespasser on Strand theater grounds and had & perfect right to be there, where he came after hearing a fire alarm bell, to see whether he could be of any assistance. Dan Finn is Witness Prior to the arguments, a number of witnesses for the defense wers sheard, among them Dan Finn, man- ager of the theater at the time of the accident, who testified what happened in the theate., his testi- mony corroborating With that of Deputy, Fire Chiet Michael Souney. Other witnesses testified as to the operation of the ventilating sys- tem and lts construction. 14 Witnesses Testify Ten witnesses for the plaintift testified yesterday afternoon, among them the parents of the victim of the accident, Mayor Angelo M. Paonessa, Deputy Fire Chief Michael J. Souney, Police Sergeant Thomas J. Feeney and Building Inapector Arthur N. Rutherford. Sergeant Feeney, the first to testi- fy at the afternoon session, related his story of investigation, having been sent to the sceme of the acci- dent with two officers. He found, he testified, the pile of sheet metal in the passageway, part of it resting on the fence of the Connecticut com- pany's yard and the other end rest- ing against the east wall of the Strand theater building. He went to the roof of the building to examine the penthouse, where he found that the roof was torn off. Questioned whether the police received any other calls that evening about dam- #ge done to property by the high wind, the sergeant testified that there were no other accidents of any type recorded in the police head- quarters to his knowledge. Mayor Submits Broken Bolt Mayor Paonessa, who was sum- moned to appear as witness for the plaintiff testified that hs went to in- vestigate the scene the following morning with the building inspector and found nothing but the trame of the pent-houge on the main roof of the bullding. He introduced a bolt which he picked up near the pent- house as evidence of the type of bolts used by the builders of the ventilat- ing system in joining the sheet metal | roof to the frame. On cross examin- : ation the mayor stated that in his opinion the bolts which were of a three-eighth's inch variety, did mot | #eem sturdy enough to hold down the tremendous weight of the roof, which according to other testimony weighed 800 pounds. The bolt intro- dueed by the mayor bore evidence of being broken and twisted by some | tremendous force. | Not Sufficiently Anchored Mr. Rutherford. who was at the ecene of the accident about a half | hour after it had happened testified that he was called by the bolice and upon reaching the roof of the build- ing observed that the remaining por- tions of the pent-house were shaken and advised the manager to take caution that the rest would not blow off. He also stated on direct exam- ination that after examining the pent-houss he found that the over- | hang of the roof was not sufficient | to withstand a strong wind, that the bolts were not large enough and Ahat the roof apparently was not sufficiently anchored. On cross- examination the witness -testified | that in his opinion the point of fail- ure was at the holts, that they were not strong enough to hold down the | foof. Counsel fot the detense, Attroney Barry asked Rutherford why, when the permit was issued to build the pent-house and the inspection made by him after its completion, nothing Was s2id to the owners of the build- ing or the builders of the pent-house about the of the roof and the bolts used in its construction. In answer the witness stated that at the time everything seemed satis- factory and so far as the bolts were concerned no one looked under the roof te see what type of bolt was used in its construction. In answer the witness stated that at the time everything seemed satisfactory and 80 far as the bolts were concerned no one looked under the roof to see what type of bolt was used and how many wepe used as it seemed un- necessary. Thought Nokse Part of Show A graphic picture of what took place inside the theater at the time the noise from the roof wag first heard, was told by Deputy Fire Chief Souney, who was a spectator that evening. On direct question- .ing the chief stated that he first heard the noises during the showing of a motten picture “Something Al- ways Happena™ which happened to be a sort of a spooky, haunting pic- ture and at first he was under the impression that the noise was of the properties to make the plc- ture more realistic, but that after 10 or 15 minutes, during which time the noise continued, he came to the conclusion that something was really happening. People became restiess and a panic was evident, many of the spectators beginning to leave the theater sensing something wrong. The manager, Dan Fign, was called and attempted to quiet the audience. It was then that he (Chief Souney) went to the stage and also sttempted to quiet the peo- ple telling them to file out in order, which they did in about three min- utes, the witness testified. It was then that the crash came and he and the manager went to the roof of the building where he tound the roof was torn off the pent-house. Bailt for 30 Mile Gale James F. Dailey of New York, president of the concern which put up the ventilating system, testified for the defense to the effect that additional precaution was taken in putting up the pent-house, but on cross-examination by the attorney for the plaintiff Josiah N. Peck, stated that the work of bullding the struc- ture and putting on the roof was sublet to another concern. When asked what wind preasure the struc- tures are supposed to withstand, the witness stated that all peAt-houses are built to withstand a 50 mile gale. He could net explain why the roof weighing 800 pounds gave way to a windstorm, which apparently from all indications was nowhere near a 50 mile velocity, as no other reports of serious injury to property or limb were made that night. Of the other witnesses for the de- fense, two employes of the Con- necticut Co. who ran out when they first heard the fire-alarm bell, testi- fied as to the incidents prior to and following the falling of the roof. At this juncture, Judge Brown ordered recess until 10 o'clock Fri- 1 day morning. e of Victim in Tears Mr. afi@ Mrs. Arielo Bernardo, parents of the boy, who was the old- est of & family of tive, were seated in the speetators section throughout the day $nd were brought to the stand ju moment to testify to John's parentage. Mrs. Bernardo wag tearful most of the time and had to be, sypported to the stand as she is partly crippled. After lawyers for both sides were through with her, Judge Brown inquried of her how much John was making a week and what sort of a boy was he at home. Mrs. Bernardo replied that he was & good boy and was making $28 a week of which he turned over §25 to her and kept the balance. She bought him & car so that he could take her out occaslonally as she was unable to walk much, and had always conducted himself re- spectably. | Father’s Papers Faulty, Aged Veteran Can’t Vote Detroit, Nov. 3 (P—After having lived 80 years in the United Statds, served three years with the Union army during the Civil War and hav- |ing voted in ry presidential elec- |tion since 1865, Robert Morris, 85, | discovered he is not a citizen, and not entitled to vote this year. The unusual situatio; thvough a ruling by th@asi | requiring all foreign-pr! to show proot of citizenship. Morris was born in Ireland and came to the United States when he was five. Investigation of his father's naturalisatien revealed an irregularitly, disqualifying the son. | als) Mrs. Morris. ©O. T. Moore, federal naturaliza- tion officer. said the fault can be corrected, but not until after the election. This is due to court rou- tine. Morris served with the Twenty- fourth Michigan infantry and Bat- tery B of ths Fourth United States {ar tllery during the Civil War. He was one of the military escort at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. {Students Ban Spying In Honor Examinations Austin, Texas, Nov. 2 (P—Uni- versity of Texas ciudents decree they are not their brothers’ keepers in t > matter of honesty in examina- tions. By vpte of the student body. the “apy"” clause of the pledge of honor, which has been in operation since 1883, has been abolished. The hono system now is baged on a declaration by the student that he or she has neither given ner received aid on ~xaminations and| certain written work. That part of the pledgs in which the student said he had not seen ot“crs giving or receiving aid was struck out by 1,109 votes of the 1,494 cast in the referendum of the question. Crops of Northwest Missed Insect Raid Fargo, N. D., Nov. 2 M—Crops of the agricultural northwest escap- ©d inroads by insect pests this year. it was reported at a meeting of the | International Great Plains Crop Pest committee here. Grasshoppers increased in num- ters in North Dakota and the Cana- dian province of Saskatchewan, said arose y clerk voters | cntomologists, who agreed that out- breaks of a destructive nature are a possibility next year or in 1330 Bertha army worms, which caus- *d some.loss in Saskatchewan. have not been found over the American boundary. They erawl up stalks or leaves of corm, beets, cabbage and other crope. TRAGING HISTORY BY HUMAN BONES Harvard Professor Goes Back Cnturies Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 2 P—A new kind of history of the American southwest, one taken from study of human bones covering 1,000 years time, is being written at Harvard by | Dr. Ernest A. Hooton. He is associate professor of an- thropology and curator of somatol- ogy at Péabody Museum of Harvard college. The meagurements, analysis and comparisons ch have trans- lated bone relics into writeable his- tory have required years of work by tomatologists, pathologists and ar- cheologists. All of the bones are from the In- dian village of Pecos, New Mexico, which existed from about 800 A. D. to 1838. They represent about oOne- third of the population which lived there. At its prosperity peak, Dr. Hooton says, the village probably had 4,000 inhabitants, but numbered 17 persons when it was abandoned in 1838. The skeletal records were buried in eight distinct layers, whose time periods were identified by ar- cheological finds. Those of the bottom era showed a fairly healthy vigorous people. With the passing of time they be- came smaller of bone, apd their teeth were not so goed. Dr. Hooton says there is definite evidence of how population deteriorates physi- cally when hit bad by economic con- ditions, such as poor insufficient food. Lesion marks on bones show- ed progressive advance of certain disease. Cancer and tuberculosis were two of these. A third malady {has been detected and submitted {to pathologists for decision as to its character. It appears in a period an- tedating the coming of the white man to America with Columbus. When Pecos was founded, Dr. Hooton says, its inhabitants includ- ed several fairly distinct physical types of Indians. There follows every evidence that it became a prehistor- ic melting pot. At the beginning the skull types included groups which resembled negroids, Australian bush- men, FEuropeans and Mongoloids. One skull group was wholly Egyp- tian in form. The Mongoloid strain in time dominated all others. One of the results of the Pecos melting pot, Dr. Hooton says, is a pure “Buffale Nickel” Indian type. Another is the well known “Ameri- can Basket.Maker Indian™ head. Hooton has been able to identify among present day Indians all the Pecos aborigines except those which look like Egyptians and negroids. Ot these two he says: “I do not think that a thousand years ago real Egyptians were liv. ing in Pecos; nor that negroes ever resided there. The logical deduc- tion is that at the remote period when America was peopled by an Asfatic race that seems to have ar- rived via the region of Bering Strait, these newcomers carried minor strains of almost every type of blood in the world. It would be natural to find occasional individuals showing segregations of these latent ancestral strains which would make them re~ semble non-Indian races. This 1 think accounts for the Pecos Egyp- tians and the negroids.” Government Reports On Chimney Fire Hazards Washington, Nov. 2 (—After a series of studies, department of ag- riculture specialists advise that chimneys in houses of frame con- struction always should be built from the ground up and should not | be used % support any part of the house. To lessen the fire hazard on farms, the minimum thickness of chimney walls, lined with fire clay or vitri- | fied clay flue lining. should be four inches for brick, four inches for reinferced concrete, eight inches for hollow tile, and 12 inches for stone. Chimneys havirg eight.inch brick \‘ or six-inch reinforced concrete walls need not be lined, although lining is preferred in such brick structures. Idaho’s Ranges Failure In Winter Feed Test Dubois, Idaho, Nov. 2 (P—4A fed- eral experiment which lasted seven years has proven that it is not eco- nomical and practical to attempt production of winter fead for sheep {on high ranges at an altituds of 5,500 to 6.000 feet ‘The test conducted by the Tnited States Sheep Experiment station here, showed, too, that land with similar rainfall had better be left unplowed, and used for grazing un- less water is available for irrigation. Crops tested were sunflowers for clover for hay and oats for hay. As a rule, the seasons were too dry. SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Legs of Genuine SPRING LAMB e o » 45¢ MILK FED " 48¢ CHICKENS . ..m 45¢ silage, peas and oats for hay, sweet | - KLY - €.=COOLIDGE | PoPULAR D.-DAVi§ ()-ELECTORAL VOTE | (Copyright, 1928, NEA 8ervice, Inc.) GERMANY PREPARES YOUTH FOR FUTURE Training Juvenile Mind Sill Educational Policy Berlin, Nov. 2 (P—Training the jrvenile mind has always been a great German specialty. The World war has upeset many preconceived notions here, but with characteristic German theroughness the leaders of the nation have ap- plied thmselves to the question what | can be done for the coming genera |tions so that tge Fatherland may again rise, a great nation of men and women, physically and mentally equipped to claim a place in the aun. Fourteen years is the age at which | working class children leave school |in Germany and when the question ! of employment immediately comes to the forefronmt. JONES' QUALITY MARKET Tel. 285 ~ Keep This Handy When Election Retums Come In VOTE POLED IN 192¢ [C)-nuMeer of precneTs This map. showing each state’s electohal votes, number of precincts and | ®00d thing to keep handy when returns of the election Nov. 6 start coming in. Today there are in Germany about 9,100,000 voung people between 14 and 21 years of age. What are they all doing? What are their aims and objects in life? In matters of this kind Germans take a long view. What to do with coming generations up to 1940 is already engaging attention. Popula- tion figures, together with other facts relating to juvenile life and occupation, were arranged for an exposition which bore the . “Young Germany™ and was located in the Bellevue palace, once the property of the ex-kaiser. Almost the first question Mayor James J. Walker of New York was asked when he visited here last year was: “How are you educating your young people in America?” His an- swer, “We don't—they practically educate themselves,” surprised the Germans. System is ingrained in the German mind, and Germans prefer to have the channels well and truly laid to guide their youth to maturely considered destinations which in their judgment will benefit them- selves, the state and the race. To establish an eight hour werk- ing day and an annual vacation of trom two to thres weeks is & de- the The key explains it. mand which is being inbisted unn! by the leaders of the “Youth Move- ment.’ Many big firms run their own welfare and sports organizations. In addition, advice centers are spresd all over the country to assist boys and il in choosing a career. Ingenious appliances are used to test quickness of eye and deftness and steadiness of hand. In the past 12 moaths 123.000 boys and §0,000 girls secured situations judged to be peculiarly adapted to their physi- cal conditions. | ‘The party system, political and religious, seizes hold of Germany" youth early in life. More than fou million young persons, boys anm: girls, belong to established societie: |including, the small group of self |confessed “'Old Germanic Heathens. {who worship Wedan and whor emblem is the Hammar of Tho the god of Thunder. “Who controls youth controls all, said Chancellor Marx. The old snuff house in the Hay- market London. with the sign of the Rasp and Crown, dates back | more than 200 years. ] P o) () totals for Coolidge and Davis in the 1924 election, will be a POLICE CHIEF OFF FOR WASHINGTON, D. C. Holds Warraat for Arvest of Carl Panzram, Comfessed Bur- derer, in West Havea. West Haven, Nov. 3 » — Police Chief Harry Tuttle i8 em route for Washington, D. C., today with a warrant for Carl Pansram, confess- ed murderer, as & result of Pans- ram's recent letter to the New Lon- lon police written frem jail in vhich he told of killing a boy on he Boston post road in 1923 by hoking him with his belt. The New Londoa police were un- ible to recall any such case but Chief Tuttle who read the letter in the mewspapers looked over ti West Haven police records and found that on August 9 1928, e male body, badly decomposed and with a belt tightly drawa around the neck, was found in a patch of underbrush at the side of the Bos- ton Post road here. “DAVIS ® Saturday’s EVENT Lavishly Fur Trimmed Models — Richly Silk Lined —Sizes for Women and Misses At Only BLACK — BROWN GREEN — WINE TANS — BLUE Fashioned with Contrasting Furs For those who desire to take full ad- vantage of the savings in this sale and Choice of Radger Wolf Fox Lynx Squirrel and Others value, - who are not prepared to take out the garment at time of selection—a small deposit paid will hold the coat until wanted. All are high type ‘coats of carefully selected quality. Don’t miss this splendid opportunity—to secure an extraordinary ot Chiel Demand Howewer, Is Thet Ho Must Haw a Job is & tradition that should have the two Piedmont Driving elub's dance, one to sit on each side of Dee at the flower-bank table Wi bers of the dedutaste club mebe their first formal appearance i & body. This, one Atlants womas writer obeerves, is to “keep the pub- lic gueming.” Bo the debutantes to- frain from discussion a8 to whether ladies prefer tall, dark-skinned mes or bleads. FATHER SURRENDERS 50K Andrew J. Petuskis Given Into Om- tody of Windser Coustedle Whea Parent Chenges bind eu Bond Andrew J. Petuskis of this 3 who has been at liberty in $3.500 boads pending trial in Windsor, wes xs 4 1) et gheil i | ] bt