New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1928, Page 2

FRENEN RETRED AT OWN REQUEST Stanton and Roper - Peitions| Approved by Gommission ‘Lieut. John F. Stanton and Hose- | man Thomas Roper . were retired | from active duty in the fire depart. ment by unanimous vote of the; commissioners who sat in special session last night to consider re- | quests by the ‘two men. Stanton - has not 'been on duty. since last April, having been requir- ed to discontinue work becapse of his physical condition. Roper is on duty at No. 6 house on Kensington avenue, where he will continue until next Monday morning at which time he will leave the work he has fol- lowed for a few months short of 25 vears, and which has broken down his health to a poft where the com. wissioners agree he is entitled to a | rest. | Fill Vacancies Tonight | Tonight the board will meet| \gain, this time to fill vacancies in the regular ranks caused by the re- tirements and by the resignation of | Leo Forsyth, and to provide a man | to the lieutenancy left vacant through the pensioning of Stanton. | Stanton was injured four years| ago when a flying hose struck him in the leg causing him to suffer a savere nerve shock which has left| him in a condition in which physi-| cians advise against further fire duty. Hs illnesses have been entire- Iv during the period following tlmj injury and a specialist engaged by | the fire beard, a private physician and the department examiner have sanctioned his release from active service, Ropr has suffered injury and ex- posure during his long period ot service and is unable to continue work without endangering his life, | reports of physicians read to the board last night show. Approved By Chiefs Chiet W. J. Noble and Deputy Chief Michael T. Souney both ex- pressed belief that the pension re- quests are justifiable and that both should be retired on half pay. The two chiefs were regretful of the con- ditions which made it necessary to lose two men who, they said, were .fire fighters of first order and valu- . able men in the ranks. The pension list now has nine callmen who receive $100 a year. Stanton will be paid $21 a week, and Roper $19.25. MESSINES REBUILT SINGE DAY OF WAR It Was Here That I+t M-~ Explosion of Histor - BY WEBB ML Messines-Wytschaete Riugematne- | field, Belgium, Nov. 13 (UP)—At| 4:10 gn the morning of June 7, 1517, | the most terrific deliberate explosion in history blew the top off this ridge. Nineteen great jpiines containing 937,00¢ pounds of dynamite, gun cotton and amnol were exploded be-| neath the German lines by the Brit- ish. | The top of the hills slowly lifted, | blinding sheets of golden flame shot upward, the earth shook like a sud- den earthquake and a blast of hot wing swept like a hurricane drop- ping fragments of men's bodies, | chunks of wodd and stones for miles. 60 great was the shock of the ex- plosion that men three miles away | toppled to the earth, thousands in, Lille, & city of 200,000 persons, 14 miles away were thrown from their beds and a panic ensued. The de. tonation was heard more than 100, iniles away. One mine alone is known | 10 have blown 1270 Germans to bits. | Thousands were blown into eternity Ly the 18 other mines. | The British guny in 24 hours fired 20,207 tons of shells into the Ger- man positions that day. The 3-inch guns alone fired 537,747 shells. Hun- dreds of Germans were driven in- sane by the horror of the explosion and bombardment and babiYed inco- herently when captured, some were totally deaf, some wept like children. Messines Rebuilt That was 111 years ago. Today standing on the lip of the largest mine crater and gazing over the rich, populous Flanders plain it is difficult to believe such terrible scenes were enacted here. In every direction lie peaceful vil- lages with their red-tiled roofs shin- ing in the autumn sun. Within easy view there are half-dozen towns which were utterly destroyed. Eight miles away in the haze is the new town of Ypres with bleaming church steeples. Nearby is Wytschaete completely rebuilt in substantial brick and tile with a big church dominating the village {the team Dead Horse Corner, 8tinking Farm, Dead Dog Farm and Suicide Corner, ‘names wiich figured frequently 11 or 12 years pgo The heap of mason- ry which was known as Hell Farm is now a group of new buildings The British miners worked six months digging the underground galleries to place the explosive un- der the Germans' lines They dug more than 6 miles of galleries but it is impossible now to fiind any trace of them. In this vicinity the Germans lost 16,000 dead and wounded in the space of 15 hours, but today the countryside is as smiling and &ruit- tul as any part of the Flanders plain. This 46 the second of a series of tour. artides dealing . with the war ome/as i is teday. The Meuse Ar- goune battlefield long will live in the mewmorics of American soldiers. To- morvow Biller will tell us how it looks today. Girl Reserve Dept. Adl Girl Reserves clubs will hold meetings this week on their regular club days. Short business meetings will be followed by games in the gym, hobby work or service work. Those interested in basketball will meet if the gym from 4:15 to 5:15. All Girl Reserves are eligible for A coach has been se- cured and after the team has been picked, wuniforms will be made. Later in the season this team will play outside ones. On Thursday the first meeting of those who wish to try out for Girl Reserve newspaper staff = will held. ANl girls who signed ‘up to help publish this newspaper are urged to come for we will have some one experienced in this work to start us off and the staff will be elected. Any girl who is interested, come to the club rooms at 4:15. The second rehearsal of the choir will be held Friday evening at 7 o'clock. All girls are reminded that the vesper service which will be held at the association building on November 18th is open to them and they may bring their (friends and parents. Physical Department Tuesday—4:30 to 5:15 jr. plunges. £.00 to 9:00 Sr. plunges. 7:00 t 7:30 clogging class. 7:30 to 8:15 gym class:. 8:15 to 9:00 reducing class. Thursday—4:15 to 5:00 tiny tota danéing. 6:00 to 9:00 jr. plunjes. 7:30 to 8:30 reducing class. Friday—4:30 to 5:15 Jr. plunges. 6:00 to 9:00 sr. swim classes. Saturday—9:00 to 10:30 ir. swig Two hours after eating acid, and the symptoms: disappearat once. You will never wuse cruds methods when once you learn the efficiency of this. Go get a small bottle to try. Be sure to get the genuine Phil- lips’ Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physicians for 50 years in correct- ing exxcess acids. 25c and 50c a bottle—any drugstore, “Milk of Magnesia” has been the U. 8. Registered Trade Mark of The| Charles H. Phillips Chemical com- pany and its predecessor Charles H. Phillips since 1875. be! NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1928, JURY 10 PROBE. WPHERSON CASE Motber and Alleged Lover of Evangelist to Appear Los Angeles, Nov. 13 (®M—Three persons wio played leading roles in the Aimee Semple McPherson con- spiracy case here two years ago were | reported to have becn ordered to ap- | pear today before the Los Angeles county . grand jury investigating charges -of corruption in the office | of District Attorney Asa Keyes. | To Be Quetied | It was understood that the trio would be questioned about evidence | previously unearthed .indicating that | a large sum. of money was spent in clearing Angelus ‘Temple Evangelist | of a charge of conspiracy to defeat| \ustice: by telling an alleged false story to a grand jury about her dis- appearance in 1926. The three persons reported called were Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the Evangelist, who has been at odds with her daughter for some months; Kenneth G. Ormiston, for- mer radio operator at Angelus Tem- ple, who was alleged to hi pied a cottage at Carmel, Cal. and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaft, the “Miss X' of the disappearance case, who said it was she and not Mrs. McPherson who was in Carmel with Ormiston. Receive Documents The present phase of the McPher- son case was begun when documents,| given to newspapermen by Mrs. Kennedy were presented to the grand jury, which recently returned indictments charging bribery againet Keyes. The exact nature of these documents has not been revealed, though it is understood they have a bearing on the disappearance case. Investigators here yesterday read without comment the dispatch from England . saying Mrs. McPherson had branded as utterly untrue ‘charges that Keyes took money from her or her associates to drop the charges against her. “I imagine it is some sort of peli- tical dodge,” the Evangelist told re- porters at Bristol, England, where | she s completing an Evangelistic campafgn. Mrs, McPherson left here about Septembe for a European foastt. vt . . Keyes, along with seven other in- !dicted persons, ‘has been ordered to court today to enter a plea to the What many pedple call’ indiges- | tion very often means excess acid in the stomach. The stomach nerves have been over-stimulated, and food | sours. The corrective is an alkali. which neutralizes avids nstantly. | And the best alkali known to medi- | cal science is. Phillips’ Milk of Mag- nesia. It hgy remained the standard With physicians in-the 50 years since its invention. One spoonful of this harmless. tasteless alkali in water will neutral- ize instantly many times as much indictments charging him with cor- ruption and bribery in handling other criminal cases. Outwardly, Keyes is out of poll- tics. He resigned from office some weeks ago with the explanation that he believed he had completed a faithtul life of public service and wantad to devote his time to his family. The resignation takes effect December 6. City Items The common council committee on claims will meet at 8 o'clock Thurs- day evening. See the new Christmas Cards. Levine, the Jeweler, 65 Church St.— advt, Laurel Court Sewing Bociety will meet Wednesday atternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Charles Bergstrom, 146 Lyons street. Don’t go to “Mary’s Other Hus- band,” if you're afraid to laugh. Tabs hall, Wed., Thur.—advt. A son was born at New Jritain Getneral hospital yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Feroletto of 495 Eurritt street. Miss Adelaide Osgood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A, Osgood, of SHERATON COLONIAL JACOBEAN MODERN— Office Furniture There is Messines, where s0o many | British were killed, rebuilt brick tor brick. It is a squalid, raw village of perhaps 100 houses, wi grass. Clinging to the side of Kem- el hill is the new hamlet of Kem- mel. The chateau has been recon- structed. On the top of Kemmel hill is a large church visible a dozen miles across the plains of Flanders. Several miies across the French frontier can be seen the smoking “factory slacks of Armentieres, To fhe right is Neuve Eglise, and fur- ther Dickenvusch, and Poperinghe: All are thrifty, placid villages. Between the scattered towns and villages are cozy little farms of a few acres with grazing cattle in the fields, and slow-moving peasants cultivating the soil. Hell Farm Built Over ‘The largest mine crater is about two miles from M ines and the cultivated wheat fields and beet patches extend right up to the brow of the hill. There has been on ef- fort te preserve the place for sight- seers. The crater is about 500 feet from edge to edge and there is a «deep pond about, 60 -yards in diame- der at the bottom’. This was the place where 12 Germans were blown to bits. Withont doubt some of the remains are still at the bhot- tom of the pond * Soldiers wha fought in this sector would have difficulty néwsin locating Your business and methods are re- flected in the appearance of your office An attractive office is not expensive We suggest a walnut suite of matched pieces, and you. will be sur furniture. | ADKINS prised at the low cost of this beautiful 66 Church Street Hilicrest avenue, took part in the Armistice Day exercises at Melrose, Mass. Miss Osgood graduated from the local high school last June and is now attending Emerson College of Oratory. You'll be kicking yourself if you miss “Mary's Other Husband,” Tabs hall. Wed., Thur.—advt. Mra. William E. Pease and son Charles of Newfield avenue have left for Little Rock, Ark., where Mra. Pease will visit her home. They will be gone for two months during which they will visit wik relatives in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Try our delicious lunches, Crowell's —advt. Adolph Carlson of Carlson & Carlson will be present at & meeting of the board of park commissioners this evening to explain details of the offer made by his firm to sell a tract of land for a park near Osgood ave- nue. The New Britain Rifle club has re. verted to its former schedule of shooting nights and until January 1, Wednesday and Thursday will be the scheduled meeting nights. Guests from Hartford, Manchester, Meriden, Bristol and Waterbury will attend a meeting of New Britain Council No. 8, O. U. A. M, at Jr. 0. U. A. M. hall on Glen street to- DISTINCTIVE DINING ROOM FURNITURE CHIPPENDALE! HEPPELWHITE DUNCAN PHYFE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY night. A selected degree team will initiate & class of candidates using the one degree ritual. Refreshments will be served. \ Funny is no name for it “Mary's Other Husband,” Tabs hall, Wed, Thur.—advt. Major and Mra Fraak H. John. ston of this city, who recently com. pleted thelr 30th voyage across the ocean, were passengers recently on the steamer Vestris which sank off the coast of Virginia yesterday. Major and Mrs. Johnston became well acquainted with the officers of the ship. Porto Rico Wants Hoover to Visit 8an Juan, Porto Rico, Nov. 13 @ —Advised today of President-elect Hoover's South American plans, Governor Towner said that aa in- vitation would be sent immediately for Mr. Hoover to visit Porte Rico. TAKE THINGS EAS™ Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 13 (UP)— The Hooslers took things easy yes- terday as they awaited the invasion of the Northwestern team this week-end. The Crimson .players came through the Minnesota game better than was expected. BOSTON COLLEGE 1S LEADING TEAW Has Unblemished Record of Six Straight Victories This Yoar Boston, Nov. 13 (UP)—~The home stretch of the 1928 football season finds unbeaten and untied Boston college far in front of 25 other elevens in the race for New England gridiron honors. With an unblemisheq record of six straight victories, including wins of Navy, Duke and Fordham, the Eagles, coached by 23-year-old Joe McKenney, seemed assured tolay of & place among America's foremost teams. The elevens which usually show strongest along the New England football frontier have slipped this season. Yale fell before both Army and Maryland. Harvard lost to Army and Pennsylvania. Dartmouth was beaten by Harvard, Yale and Brown on successive Saturdays, and Brown was defeated by Yale. Boston college 13 the high scorer of New England, with 169 points. Dartmouth; despite its three defeats, is second with 148, and Willlams third with 145, Congecticut Aggles and Lowell Textile have not been beaten, but Connecticut has beea tied three times and Lowell once. Three elevens, Vermont, Bates and Trinity, have falled to win a game, and two teams, Trinity and Bates, have failed to score. this season. Only one New Engiland goal-line, that of the Connecticut Aggies, has not been crossed. Two teams, Connecticut Aggies and New Hampshire, have each played three scoreless ties. HELD RESPONSIBLE Washington, Nov. 13 (M—The buread of safety of the interstate commerce commission today held Engineman Young and Conductor Davis responsible for a head-on collision between a passenger and freight train on the Missourl Pacific railroad near Waring, Kansas, last August 20. 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