New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1928, Page 5

ALL FAGTS WANTED BEFORE ANSWERING (Continued From First Page) cvsr\we course the Vestris' was fol- lowing seuth, which reported by wireless today: “It appears Captain Carey and Radio Operator O'Lough. lin went down with their ship.” ' Agents of the Lamport and Holt Mne here made a vain effort to communicate with Captain Carey after it was reported he had been picked up by the French tanker Myriam, Michael J. O'Loughlin, missing wireless operator of the Vestris, was 29 years old and came from Camolin, County Wexford, Ireland. He studied wireless telegraphy at Glasgow and served on merchant ships during the war in all parts of the world. He had many exciting experiences in- cluding going through an attack on his vessel white the ship was in the Black sea. ‘Writing recently from Rio Janeiro, O’Loughlin informed his parents of his transfer from the steamship Essequibo to the Vestris as first oper. ator. He sald he was very pleased with his new ship. - Call It “Incredible” London, Nov. 14 —When shown the comment of Carlos Quiros, chan- cellor of the Argentine consulate in New York and a passenger on the Vestris, that the distress signal of the liner had been delayed through oplimism or lack of experience by the ciew, the London office of Lam- port and Holt said today: “The story is absolutely incred- ible. We do not know the composi- tion of the whole crew but responst- bility for sending out the signal for relief would undoubtedly rest with the capthin whose record as an ex- perienced officer is well known.” PAONESSA T0 DEMAND CITY ACCOUNTS AUDIT (Continued From First Page) than it is. After the condition had been allowed to continue without improvement, the mayor recom- mended to the board of public works that an expert on books be engaged and set to work at uncovering con- ditions with reference to the unpaid assessments. In less than a month, nearly $100,000 had been listed un- der this heading. It is cxplained that Our reputation for honest dentistry is built into certain t; are made with the owners of abut- ting propertiesand the city sharing the cost, the properly owners re. ceiving their bills after the work was done. This apportionment not be- ing mede in a great many cases, ac- counts for the $100,000 due. Bewer construction work was halt- ed last Saturday after it had been gradually lessened over a period of several weeks. The department of public works explained that funds have been exhausted, the elaborate program of the summer months hav- ing been carried out without pro- vision being made in the budget. It is the mayor's plan to have the $100,000 soon to be collected re-ap- propriated to the board of public works for sewer consjruetion work, but it is expecied that the board of compensation and assessment will tequire a month after the council meets to complete its part of the task. In the meantime, unless funds come from some other sources, no new work may be done. Hach year the city borrows money in anticipation of taxes to be col- lected, this procedure being made necessary by reason of the fact that the fiscal year runs three months be- fore taxes for the year are due. It is possible that borrowing in antici- pation of the assessment payments may be determined upon as the proper plan of procedure Monday night. —_— BANK PRESIDENT 1570 YEARS OLD (Continued from First Page) Lank for two years and went to the New Britain National bank as count clerk. In this bank he rose rapidly to bookkeeper and assistant Lreasurer. It was in 1907 that the incident {occurred which determined Mr. Stan. ‘[I-ly'n future carecr in banking. A for- mer official of the Savings bunk of New Britain defaulted with approxi- mately a half million dollars of the bank’s money. While the institution had more than six million and a half on deposit at the time and was sound, the defalcation, followed in a few months by the historical panic |of 1907, caused a fecling of nervous- | ness at the institution and brought |on a decrease in de, a million and a qua time the future of the bank much in doubt Mr. Stanley was brought from the National bank to the Savings bank as treasurer, March 1, 1907. Just 21 years later he was clected president and Lucas succceded him as treasurer, The office of president, formerly an inactive position, became one of active management at this time, the president having general supervision over the activities of the bank. Mr. Stanley has retained this position ever since. Today the total deposits exceed 22 million dollars, with a sur- plus on hand of about one and a half million. Mr. Stanley- is in good health and ahserved the anniversary by appear- ing at his derk as usual when the bank opened this morning. Mr. Stan- ley has few ontside interests besides that of the South Congregational church. He is one of the charter memhers of the Shuttle Meadnw club and is A member of the New RBritain club and the Farmington Country club. Until two years ago, was very an enthusiastic golfer, during the past two years he h: followed the game closely due to pressure of business. QUIGLEY TO HEAD CITY PLAN BOARD (Continued From First Page) nomination as mayor for a fourth time, Mr. Quigley was defeated at a primary by Orson F, Curtis who was then succesful at the polls, winning over Joseph M. Halloran, who was democratic nominee in 1920. Quigley turned the tables at the republican primary of 1922 and won over Cur- s, only to lose to Paonessa by a | emall_margin of votes. Mayor Paonessa has also an- nounced that Robert Mautner of 145 Glen street, has accepted an ap- pointment to the same commission. Mr. Mautner s prominent fraternally and politically, but he has never be- fore been in public office. He i & merchant and the owner of consid- | erable realty in the southern section of the city. 3 Commissioner Quigley succeeds George K. Macauley, resigned, and Comumissioner Mautner succeeds Frank B. Cox, deceased. JAPANESE BEGIN DALJO-3A1 TODAY (Continued from First Page) pated in the earlier ceremonies did not attend the “Great Thanksgiv- ing.” None but Japancse participate in or witness any part of this awe- inspiring ceremony, and indeed nony but the emperor himself is witnesy to its most solemn moments in the dead of the chill November night, Alone, unseen. unheard, he offers to the gods of his people the first fruits of the first untained harvest of his reign and intercedes with them for the fruitfulness of the land and the prosperity of the nation. This is the first “untainted” har- vest for last year's, grown while Hirohito was actually reigning, was sown and reaped during the vear in which the nation was {tor his father, the late Emperor Taiho. Judge Gaffney Named To Study Court Laws Hartford, Nov. 14 (P—At the quarterly assembly of probate judges today, the presiding ofticer, Judge Walter H. Clark of Hartford, ap- pointed a committce to consider legislation which affects probate court The committee includes Judges VJohn E. Fahey, Rockville, William S. Hyde, Manchester, Rollin U. Tyler, Haddam, Bernard . Gaff- ney, New Britain, and John L. Gil- son, New Haven. | ST. JOHN'S CHURCH SHOW The play to be given by the young folks of St. John's German Luther- an crowd for the benefit of the com- munity house fund will be presented at Odd Fellows hall on November 21 and 22. Tt was erroneously stat- ed that it would be given tonight at the church. Shoes with uppers made of paper may soon be on sale in England. Dr. Keith’s SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY . BUILDS FOR PERMANENCE every bit of work we do. All work is done thoroughly because it is done painlessly. Nothing cheap or shoddy. Nothing fancy or elaborate. Just Good Honest Dentistry at prices that are as low as possible, consistent with first class workmanship. Dr. William F. Keith OFFICE HOURS 9to 5 Evenings By Appointment Closed Wednesday Afternoon Nurse in Attendance LEONARD BLD 300 Main St. Elevator to Third Floor still mourning | LITTLE NEGRO IS HEROIC CHARACTER (Continued From First Page) by Ramos as a hero of the rescue. The quartermaster was reticent about his own exploits but sald the Vestris began ‘taking water” a few hours after she left New York. “One of the starboard holes was not made fast and water came through it,” he said. Only Four Boats 5 Only four lifeboats were lowered from the sinking steamer Vestris, one survivor reported today. One of those was stove in while being low- ered and two others capsized, throw- ing their occupants into the water. A fifth boat broke away from the ship and many swimming passengers climbed intq it. The information about the life- boats was given by T. E. Matk, an| electrical construction superinten- | dent in Brazil whose home is in Teckla, Wyo. With his co-worker, | 0. L. Maxey of Richmond, Va., he | was rescued by the steamer Berlin. Mack- said that the Vestris was| battered by such a storm soon after | she left New York Saturday that she soon began to list and last Sunday the waves washed the furniture in the dining salon overhoard. Al that night the storm continued to rage. “In the morning,” Mack said, “the |%ea was calmer, but the ship con- tinued listing more and more unti | by 10 o'clock the starboard rail of the promenade deck was under wa- ter, Then the captain ordered every. body up and the boats lowered away on the port side. It took two hours to lower four boats to within 10 or 15 feet of the water. ‘Whe boats lowered were numbers 4, 6, 8 and 10. Number 8 had its side stove in. Attempts were made to patch it up and while the work was going on it was filled with pas- sengers and lowered away.” Women and childsen were lowerec | first, Mack said, and all the passen. | gers were very calm. He eaid the first mate and the second stewara showed the greatest hravery. | Captain Was Calm captain seemed calm Mack said, “but very unde cided as to what procedure to tak Boats number four and six capsized while being lowered. The ship wa- lying completely on its side by h time. Only two boats with abou 80 people in them were successfull lowered, number 10 and the stove It number eight. All the rest of the and ¢ Ppasscnger w jumped from the side « the ship, everyone swimming « hard as possible to get away fror the &ide of the ship before she fina ly went down two minutes later. swam only 50 feet before the sh went down. “Many passengers were swimmii with life belts on all around making for the hoats. Those whic were launched safely were great! overcrowded. 1 swam to one whic had so many people in it T turnc away so as not to increase the risk Mr. Maxey and myself swam aroun: until we located each other. The! we swam for about two and a hall hours until we loated boat number 13, which had hroken loose from | the Vestris and had been caught by | some of the crow in the water.” Mack said that about eight o'clock | Monday night those in the lifeboat ' with him sighted three other boats |being rowed and two with sails up I the AN side hud, like him, found bhoats troken loose when the Vestris went down. The six boats kept close together until nine o'clock when a sleet storm separated them. Shortly after that they saw searchlights and rowed toward them. At ‘two o'clock in the morning, he said, his boat reached the ship with the searchlight and a tanker lying near it They rowed around the tanker and shouted hut were not heard. They bad to ride out the night in their little craft, aithough the sea was rough and they had serious doubts that they could be taken aboard even if they could attract attention of a rescue ship. At dawn they sighted the battle: ship Wyoming and several other craft, including the Berlin. The Berlin swung alongside in what VELVETS, 14, 1928, Mack said was a m and took them aboard. Mack said he was absolutely sure that only two boats had been auc- cessfully lowered from the Vestris and he believed that number eight, the one stove in, must have sunk almost at once. The scene where the Vestris sank as he described it was one of horror. Bodies held on the surface by life- belta floated among the living and the few boats were terribly over- crowded. He passed one boat, he said, In which the occupants were sitting up to their waists in water, erly fashion 4,022 Placed by Employment Bureaus Hartford, Nov. 14 P —Free em- ployment bureaus maintained by the state bureau of labor in Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Norwich and Stamford, placed 4.022 | Game Associatiol individuals during the month of O tober accori to the monthly r port of the bureau issued today. Of the total number of applicants for positions, 73.8 per cent were placed as against 5 per cent the preceding month. the total number of positions offered 91.9 per cent were filled as against 92.8 per cent in September. W. 8. MONTAGUE DIES IN GARAGE (Continued From First Page) Forestville and in the P. & F. Cor- bin and Landers, Frary & Ciark printing departments Fraternally he w the Jr. 0. U. A. M. sociated with the Dress of Distinction ey, 177 MAIN STREES terans. He was a member of that company when it ive snd held the position of first tieutenant. Mr. Montague was a member of the South Congregational church and was associated with the Brotherhood of the church. i Mrs. Montague is secretary of the primary department of the Sunday school. % Surviving him ~ are a daughter. Alrs. Louis R. Tryon, of Saginaw, Mich.; a son, Sidney Montague, who is connected with the lLiberty Hase Mica Co. of Boston, Mass.; a broth- er, Frank L. Montague of New York city; a sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Lord, | of Portland, Ore., and a niece, Miss sh and |W. C and Company 1! Bur Polly Morse of Boston, Mass. Funeral services will probably be held at the chapel of the South Congregational church Friday aft- ernoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. George Hill. pastor, will officiate. ] will be in Fairview cemetery. Sale Starts Thursday 9A M A SALE THAT WILL THRILL! VALUES THAT WILL ASTOUND! TIMELY BEYOND QUESTION! NOVEMBER DRESS SALE 375 NEW DRESSES MUST BE SOLD GROUP 1 REDUCED FOR These few days...Don’t fail to come. L SILKS, SATINS GEORGETTES, FLANNELS CANTONS, OTHER MATERIALS All the newest shades and styles. Sizes 14 to 42. GROUP 2 Consists of our dresses previously priced from $15 to $19.50. The materials of this group are of high-colored silks Attractively collared styles that breathe of youth and smart- Of firm flat crepe—a surprising quality for the price. Mouet Blue, ness. Sarlet, Green, Navy. Wine, Mahogany, Tan or Values to $19.50 90 Values to $10.75 In Our Downstairs Store CHINCHILLA COATS In popular demand. Navy and Tan at very low figure. $1(0.00 CHILDREN’S HINCHILLA COATS Keep the Little Tots warm in these dressy coats. $5.95 to $15.00