New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 15

. DEADBOFS NOTHER " DEMES HERO TALE Mrs. Calvo Says Bartumioli Is Not Telling Trath Absolute and vehement denial of the truth of the claims to heroism made in behalf of Joseph Bartumioll, 13 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dominik Bartumioli of 165 Lawtor street at the fire in & hay barn in the rear of 12¢ Lawlor street Mon- day noon in which Frank Calvo, age five years, lost his life, was made today by Mrs. Bamuel Calvo, mother of the boy who died. Corroboration of the mother's statements was made by her two daughters, age 15 and 14 years. The denial was prompted by the efforts of well- meaning friends of the Bartumioli boy to procure a Carnegie medal for him. Bifting what are believed to be the facts from the claims made on several sides and from the story re. counted by the Bartumioli boy him- self today, investigators were led to believe that the incident was one in which imagination, stirred by the enthusiasm of the boy's playmates, played the major part. In an interview at the saddened Calvo home toda-, the grief-stricken but calm and bereaved mother stat- ed that the Bartumioli boy did noth- ing to warrant the heroism accredit- ed to him. *“He is telling a pack of lies," said Mrs. Calvo backed up by her two daughters. “He did noth- ing. Look at the barn. He run in to free the horses but there was no fire there. He didn't even take the horses out. Two men, Guido and Cosmo, who, live across the street, took the horses ot of the barn. Joe he helped but he lies when he says he was the one who saved Eddie Smith.” Mrs. Calvo then recounted the story as she said it happened Mon- day. About noon, she went into the yard to get some wood. Then she ‘went around to the front of the house and saw her son, Frank, and Eddie 8mith there. They had been play- mates for a long time. Young Smith ‘was just arriving home from school and Frankie, in the joy of meeting a boyhood chum, was waiting for him, ‘I went upstairs,” said Mrs. Calvo, “and after a little while, T went to wash my hands. As I did I looked out the window and saw the barn on fire. I quickly run downstairs and just at the front gate was Eddie 8mith. Quick, I ask him, where's WE are pleased to announce | Frankie. He say, he run away. 1 g0 look for him and can find him! no place. Then Eddie, he tell me | Frankie is in the barn. I run telling | the firemen my boy is in the.fire and | geot all byrned-and they try to find him but when they do, he all Surned up.” “Did you see Joseph Bartumioli at the time?" she was asked. *“No, I see him no place. After,” with a wave of her hand, “I see him go where the horses are but there is no fire there,” The two girls in the house told the same story. They sald that they saw young Bartumioli when he ar- rived. They sald he ran from across the street, saw the fire and then ran to the house of a neighbor to tele- phone for the fire department. “He didn't even get the horses out,” one of them said, “Guido and Cosmo the two men from across the street went in and got them. You can see that the horses would never have been burned because there was no fire In their part of the barn.” The shed that was actually burned is & frame building about 18 feek high. It had two sets of swinging dcors on it. Hay was piled from the floor to the roof. It was only one story high. Adjoining it and running south, is another section which housed a large work truck owned by 8amuel Calvo, the husband and father. The partition between this and the hay storage place and part of the roof were burned. Next to this are the stalls for the horses which were not touched by the fire and the last building in the row is a small, two-story barn. Unable to find Edward Smith who was in the barn with young Calvo, a reporter asked for his parents. Both Mr. and Mrs. 8mith who reside next door to the Calvo family, were at work and do not come home until night, “Did you talk to Eddie Smith that night and did he say anything?” Mrs. Calvo was asked. One of the daughters then explained: *Yes, that night. Monday night, Eddie’s father and mother, my mother and my sis- ter and I were in their house. I told kim that we wanted the truth and his father wouldn’t hit him if he told the truth. Eddie then told us that he and Frankle had some matches and they went into the hay pile. They set fire to the hay and both got scared. Frankie scooted to the back of the barn and Eddie ran out going around to the front of our house. No one helped him out, he came out himself, he said. There my mother found him and he was afraid to tell her that Frankie was in the barn." The Bartumioli boy today said that he saw the fire from his house which is near by. He ran across the street and the roof of the shed was burning. Then he ran back across the street and went into a that we have amranged with | house to telephone for the fire de- partment. Then he returned gpd ran in for the horses when, two sheds away, he heard a boy calling. He dashed into the burning barn and seeing only young Smith there, he threw him dowa from the hay pile, he said. He céuldn’t get down the stairs so he jumped himself. Then he dragged the boy out into the open, he said, and proceeded to un- hitch the horses and lead them down the street. Asked it he led the horses out he said he did and there were no men around. He said that had he known Frankie was inside. he would have rushed through the’ flames and rescued him. Every few sentences in the boy’s tale were punctuate® by exclamations of “Honest I did." The barn that was burned is a one-story structure. There were no stairs for him to ascend and none for him to descend. There appargnt- ly was no place for him to throw young Smith except off the pile to the ground. He then said he tried to get the horses out but couldn't get them loose. Then he admitted that there were men there who took the horses out. Fire Chie¢ Willlam J. Noble and Michael Souney and Captain Woods of Company No. 3, which arrived at the scene on a still alarm before the rest of the apparatus, knew noth- ing about the reported heroism of the boy and were not made aware of it. None of the firemen at work at the fire could tell anything about it. No one else could be found who could substantiate the claims of the Bartumioli boy. Henry L. Davis Dies In Wallingford Home Wallingford, Nov. 22 (®—Henry L. Davis, for many years deputy judge of the Wallingford court, died at his home here last night, after an illness of several months, He graduated from Yale Sheffield scientific school with the class of 1888. Besides acting as deputy judge he was a justice of peace and for- mer member of the borough water board. He recently celebrated his sixty-second birthday anniversary. EASTERN LEAGUE Waterbury, Nov. 22 (A—Attorney Herman J. Weisman, president of the Eastern League today issued a call for the annual meeting of the circuit. It will be held next Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the hotel Taft, New Haven. This follows out the usual custom of holding the an- nual meeting in the city which won the pennant. As officers were elect- ed for three years at the 1927 meet- ing in Albany, only administrative matters will come before the meet- ing. BOND MARKET HAS USUAL QUIET DAY Prices Cling o Yesterday's Level—Trading Light New York, Nov., 22 UP—Prices clung to yesterday's levels in light early trading on the bond market today. Traders apparently were dis- inclined to increase commitments and the market displayed the usual quietness of a Thuraday morning preceding the announcement of the brokers' loan total. Public Service of New Jersey ¢%s recovered some lost ground, and General Motors Acceptance 6c, In- ternational Paper bs, Postal Tele. graph 5s and Bethlchem Steel 6 1-28 also improved, but gains were frac- tional. Some oils also were in de- mand, especially Pan-American Ps- troleum 6s and Transcontinental Ol 6%8. A few railrgad issues were traded at yesterday's prices. The foreign list was dull, with Italian Industrial again attracting most buying. Announcement was made that the $15,000,000 issue of Rudolph Kar- stadt 6 per cent bonds, offered to- day, was o\'eruuburibed.. Reports from Chicago indicated the board of trade plans, with approval of mem- bers who will vote December 83, to float a $12,000,000 issue of & per cent. Bonds, proceeds to be issued for financing construction of its new 44-story exchange building. CURB MARKET IN GENERAL ADVANGE Stocks Go Briskly Upward, Wiping 0ot Losses New York, Nov. 22 (A—Stocks on the curb market went briskly for- ward again today, wiping out or diminishing many of yesterday's losses. There was a heavy accumu- lation of overnight buying orders, in expectations of further advances after yesterday's corrective reaction. St. Regis paper forged ahead 8 points and Keystone Aircraft T. Bervel preferred jumped more than 5 points to a new peak in response to merger rumors. Lehigh Coal and Navigation Rose b points. Atlas The City Bank & Trust Company of Hartford to act as trustee and custodian of the Securities and Funds of the Fidelity Company of Connecticut, Incorporated. . The Fidelity Finance Corporation 136 - . West Main Street New Britain Plywood went ahead on buying stim- ulated by good earnings and Curtiss FPublishing pushed up to a new peak. Stutz again was a strong point in the matom, jumping forward abeut 3 points. Spaulding was a weak spot, tumbling 11 points. Hazeltine lost 4 points in the early trading but re. covered it later. Newmont Mining lost about 6 points but also regained its loss. Oi} stocks were generally strong, although most of them failed to reach the high levels achieved earlier in the week. Standard of Kentueky spurted up § points to.a new peak, and Indiana rallied from carly heaviness. Humble and Prairie also went forward. Ut{lities were {rreguiar, bond * and sh and American Superpower B gaining 2 points, while American Light and Traction |feld 3. SPEGULATION I VIOLENT TODAY Pools Whirl High Priced Spe- Cialties Upward New York, Nov. 22 UP—Specula- tion for the advance was resumed in a violent manner in today's stock market after yesterday's sharp set- back. Powerful pools brought for- ward at least a dozen high priced épecialties and whirled them wup- ward 5 to nearly 35 points, presum- ably at the expense of an over- crowded short interest. With the exception of the motors, which were again under pressure, the general list joined the upswing, Although there was still a wide- spread divergence of opinion as to whether yesterday's reaction had sufficlently corrected the weakened technical position of the market, there was no question but that the market had developed an enormous reserve of buylng power. There was a marked scarcity in the floating supply of high grade issues, tending to confirm the belief that investors were not yet ready to see and that large blocks of these securities had been taken out of the market by investment trusts. Fears of an increase in the Bank of England redisconnt rate, which might result in a withdrawal of forelgn balances from New York, proved to be unfounded. Call money was firmer as a result of ap- proaching holiday demand. Wide. spread curiosity developed as to what the weekly brokers' loan fig- ures would show. Ordinarily, an advance such as that of the past week would bring about a huge in- crease, but the relatively Insignifi- cant gain last week made guessing a futile pastime. Many bankers are | of the opinion that loans are being arranged through private, corpor- ate and foreign sources which do not appear in the Federal Reserve totals. Wright Aeronautical furnished the main pyrotechnics of today's session, soaring 34 3-8 points to a new high record at 255 3-8. Mid- land Steel Products preferred ran Electric |up 27 1-2 points, Radio 25, Mont. gomery-Ward 20, Curtiss Aeroplans 15, Victor Talking Machine 12, In- spiration Copper 9, National Biscult 7 1-2, Union Carbide 7, Allled Chem- Commercial Credit 6 1-2. The brisk demand for the coppers | was inspired by the raising of the annual dividend on Greene Cananea from $4 to $6 and the resumption of payments at the rate of $3 an- nually on Inspiration, which paid its last dividend, of 25 cents, in the spring of 1927, THE MARKET AT 2:30 P. M. (Furntshed by Putnam & Co.) High Low Close Al Che & Dye 236% 234 236% Am Ag Che pd 76 15 76 American Can 112% 111% 112% Am Loco .... 101% 100% 101% Am Sumatra . 57% 51% 87% Am Sm & Re 279% 277 278% Am Sugar ... 84% 83% 84 Am Tobacco . 179% 179% 179% Am Woolen . 30% -_— —_— Anaconda Cop 112 107% 110% Atchison .... 200% 198% 200% Balt & Ohio. 115 114% 114% Beth Steel .., 81% 79% 81% Brook Man .. 66% Cer De Pasco 113 Ches & Ohio 199% CR1I & Pac 133 Chrysler Corp ..130 Colo Fuel 6% Consol Gas 1. Corn Prod ... Dav Chem .. Erie RR . . Fam Players Fleischmann Freeport Tex Genl Asphalt 113 | Genl Elec ....186% Genl Motors ..209% Glidden ...... 30 Hudson Motors 85 Hersheys ..... 67 Int Comb, Eng 69% In Cement ... 81% Int Nickel L1918% Int Harves ...376 HARTFORD 75 Pearl Street Tel. 2-7111 We Offer and Recommend: Stanley ical 6 3-4, Cerro De Pasco 6 5-8 and | Int Paper . - Ken Cop .....143 Mack Truck ..103% Marland Ol .. 49% Mo Kan & Tex 52% Mont Ward ..424 National Lead 123 N Y Central..18¢% YNHG&H 2% orth Amer... 84% North Pacific 114% Pack Mot Car 120% Pan Am Pet B 58 Phillips Pet... 52% Pullman .. 89Y% Radio Corp ..384 Remington Rd 29% Reading .. 104% Sears Roebuck 185 % Sinclair Oil ... 4% Southern Pac .125% Std Oil N J . 53% Std Oil N Y . 39% Stewart Warn 113 Studebaker .. 77 Texas Co ..... 13% Tex Gulf Sulph 79 Tim Rol Bear 147% Underwood 80% Union Pac .. 218% Union Carbide 202 United Fruit . 145 U 8 Ind Al .. 125% U 8 Rubber .. 40% U S Bteel .... 168% Wabash Ry ... 79% West Elec ... 138% Willys Over . 27% Woolworth .. 220 Wright Aero . 260% Am Tel & Tel 193% Samuel Abrahamson (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) Bid Asked 1150 915 645 470 890 1150 850 0% 79% 138 278 221% 2593 191 193% Aetna Casualty ... Aetna Life Ins Co Aetna Fire . . Automobile Ins. .. Hartford Fire National Fire . Phoenix Fire . Travelers Ins. Co. . Conn General . Bige-Hfd Cpt Co com 94 Billings & S8pencer com — Billings & Spencer pfd Bristol Brass . Colt's Arms . Eagle Lock . Fafnir Bearing Co .... 145 Hart & Cooley Landers, ¥ . N B Machine . N B Machine p Niles-Be-Pond com ... 129 North & Judd .. Peck, Stowe & Wil . Russel Mfg Co . 8covill Mfg Co Standard Screw . Stanley Works .. Torrington Co com .... 738 Union Mfg Co ......... Public Utiliues Stocks Conn Elec Power .... 90 Conn Lt & Pow pfd .. 100 Hfd Elec Light . 130 N B Gas ..... 5 Souther N E Tel 175 TREASURY BALANCE Treasury Balance, $119,640,395. B e l Wall Street Briefs New York, Nov. 22 (#—Ordinary life insurance sales in the United States totaled $764,677,000 in Octo- ber, a gain of 16 per cent over Octo- ber 1927. Life insurance sales re- | search bureau of Hartford, Conn., which represents 80 companies hav- | Ing in force 58 per cent of the legal reserve life insurance in the United | States sees in these figures prosper- ity in all sections of the country. Sales for the past 10 months are ¢ per cent ahead of the 1927 record. Large scale buying of lead and zinc featured business in nonferrous metals last week, although copper sold in close to average volume, “Engineering and Mining Journal” report. Tin-plate interests were good buyers of tin for both prompt and forward delityry at advancing prices. Platinum and quicksilver were un- settled, with no quotational change. Spag, Chalfant & Company, Inc., | of Pittsburgh, has booked an order | for 5,000 tons of 6 5-8 inch seamless | pipe, about 100 miles, for the oil line from Tulsa, Okla., to Lockport, Iil, to be built by the Texas Corporation and the Empire Gas & Fuel Com- pany. The rest of the order, which was for 12% inch pipe went to A. O. 8mith Company of Milwaukee. Spang, Chalfant’s plant is now oper- ating at 80 per cent of capacity in the seamless department and 85 in the welded mill Committee Appointed On Councilman’s Death tions on the death of Councilman Al- bert N. Anderson was appointed by the mayor today, with the following as members: Alderman J. Gustave Johnson, Councilmen John A. Larson and George Molander. Primary or crude zinc {s made di- rectly from the domestic ore. Investment Securities NEW BRITAIN 55 West Main Street Tel. 5800 Landers, Frary & Clark AND Works A committee to prepare resolu- | PUTNAM & CO. Mambers Now York & Harord Steck Buchangss 31 WEST MAIN 8T.,, NEW BRITAIN . TEL. 2040 ¢ We Offer: National Casualty Co. Price on Application. Thomson, Tenn & Co. Members of New York and Hartford Stock Exchanges 55 West Main Street New Britain Phone 2580 Stuart G. Segar, Manager We Offer: Z Bryant & Chapman Price on Application. EDDY BROTHERS &G Members Hartford Stock Exchange )" NEW BATAIN HARTFORD . yearien BurrittHotel Bidg. Hartford Conn. Trust Bid§, Colony Bidd, 10 Shares New Britain Trust 25 Shares Fafnir Bearing 50 Shares Stanley Works Shaw & Company MEMBERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE New Britain National Bank Bldg. Tel. 5200. Bernard A. Conley Brayton A, Porter, We Offer: Financial and Industrial Securities Corporation Associated Gas and Electric System Table of Exchanges of Preferred Stocks and Bonds TO BE DEPOSITED Outatan STOCKS (per share) with Publ ‘Associated Gas and Electric Co. Preforred: i) inal Series ividend .50 Dividend Underlying Preferred Stocks: Clarion River Power Co. Participating Pref. Erie hting Company Preference v Staten Island Edison Corporation $6 Pid. Waestern N. Y. Gas & Elec. Corp. §7 P: Lanc. L., P. & Cond BONDS AND DEBENTURES (Per $1,000) Associated Gas and Electric Co. 6%3% Convertible Manils Elect. Series B and C.— Underlying Bonds: Citizens L., H. & Pr. Co. Ss, due 1934 __ epew & Lancaster Co. §s, dus 1956 . Du Bois Elec. & Trac. Co. 5s, due 1932 . Erie Lighting Collslny Se, due 1967 Granville Elec. & Gas Co. Ss, due 1933 . Hopkinsville Water Company 8 ... Indiana Gas Utilities Company S, due 1946 efferson E! y Ss, due 1933 . e Shore Gas Company 5i4s, due 1950 . Lock Haven Gas & Coke Co. 6, due 1944 Long Island Water Corp. 534s, due 195S..... ll’l‘l{h Electric Co 194 - Manila Electric R. 102,558 44,066 195,214 1,615 1,416 18008 4,348 uit C Amount $2,121,600 1,411,000 545,900 174,500 3,562,500 41,500 28,000 1,147,000 168,500 759,000 70,400 —_— 3,336,000 B T N. Y. State O. & Elec. Corp. 6s, due 1952 Penn Public Service Corp. Ss, due 195¢____ Penn Public Service Corp. 6s, due 1947. Plattsburgh Gas & Elec. Co. Ss, due 1939 . Portsmouth (Ohio) Gas Co. 6s, due 1929. Richmond Light & R. R. 45, due 1952 Spring Breok Wat. Co. (N. Y.) s, di Union Oss & Electric Co. Ss, due 1939 Warren Light & Power Co. ¥s, due 1931 s 1 Bearing_Convertible Investment Certificates will be " et i :‘:ov:‘S\o‘c'l’u e o s of soch Beocks oad Bonks n Fractional amounts of I y purchase them at the sbove as to be continuous but mot are subject to_the terms of the offers to the halders of the The new securities will be mailed about December 15, 1928 or ealier, "A_Stock will not be delivered at the time of ex Convertible Debenture Certificates in the principal amount of $11 of Class A Stock deliverable, which certificates are convertible bear interest at the rate of 6% per annum Company, the holder may, if he so elects, | dividends in Class A Stock which he would reccive on the Certificate is convertible had he converted the same. 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