New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 20

ASK MARTIAL AW THROUGH CILOMBIA Magdalena Banana Region Scene of Mob Violence Bogota, Colombia, Dec. 6.—P— Declaration of martial law in the Magdalena banana region, where violence has accompanied a strike of plantation workers, has been re- quested of the council of state by the ministers of interior and war. It was announced that the situa- tion was very grave and that the gov- ernment was cnergetically taking a hand in it. Official advices said the strikers had used violeace to prevent other workers from taking their places. An dus of workers from the region was reported to be under way, many of the laborers seeking employment in the towns, ‘Troops May Go Should the council of state agree to the establishment of a state of sioge, federal troops would be sent o the disturbed areas in an cffort to wert bloodshed. The strike has been in progress for several weeks. The ministry dustries, attempted to mediate be- tween workers and employers, but this attempt to settle the controversy “ailed when the United Fruit com- pany refu to accede to the re- quest of strikers for general insur- ince, Since then the strikers have clung steadfastly to their demands with the support of socialist direc- tors, News telegraphed from the affect- ed area has been scanty and little is known in the capital of the true situation. Private Despatches Private despatches received in New York by companies with inter- ests i the strike region said martial law alrcady had been proclaimed in the province of Magdalena. It was assented an army of laborers armed with machetes and other weapons had begun raiding plantations. Tywelve thousand workers were re- pdhted to be on strike under the leadership of Mexican communists. The towns of Santa Marta, Ciene- ga, Cevilla, and Aracataca were de- cired to have been affected. Property worth millions of dollars was under stood to be menaced. Private despatches reported th Colombian authorities had not been able to organize an effective military force against the strikers. It was a ed that about 1,000 soldiers we able for Magdalena but were wpered by railroad delays. Tele- phone and telegraphic communica. tion has been cut by the workers. Soldiers Gathered One private message said that yes- terday soldiers were hastily gathered at the demand of fruit companies and others and attacked laborers. hey rescued a score of their com- s, without bloodshed on either se; ava side. Another private message said 27 soldiers had been captured by raid- ing workers on Tuesday, and added that the capture was made “‘without violence.” The situation was described as growing more alarming with an armed force stated to be marching to the scene from Cienega. Workers in scattered groups were reported to be destroying fruit crops on plan- | tations and inhabitants, Sends Wire threatening American One concessionaire representative | reported to his superiors in New York that he had warned Lawrence F. Cotie, United States vice consul at Santa Marca, not to send alarm- ing information to Washington. The message added: “I have endeavored to convince him that definite action by naval authorities at this time would not only be inopportune, but very preju- dicial to American interests.” Mr. Cotie in a despatch to the state department has reported that the strikers attempted on Monday to prevent workmen from returning to their jobs and that military forces Free Enlargement With Our Xmas Special Still On Till Dec. 12th Arcade Studio LESTRA of in- | had intervened. Reports of actual en- |counters between troops and strikers |were reaching him, he stated. He ported to have I‘Opleq a menacing CHILDREN UNDER 16 INNEED OF CARE Provisions for Care of Neglected Youngsters Called Inadequate The Social Workers' club of New Britair met at luncheon Wednesday noon at the Y. W. C. Consider- | ation was given to everal of the outstanding social needs of the city and plans for the work of the year were discussed. | John L. Doyle, superintendent cf the department of public welfare, spoke concerning the needs of his department for the treatment of the syphilitic client. Miss Bristoll and E. C. Connolly of the probation department spoke The need for a temporary home |for children under 16 was show: {to be a very distressing need in th city. The particular responsibility for caring for such children, of which there are many during the year, belongs to no particular insti- tution. 'The police station, with its heterogeneous group of law break ers, is obviously no place for the juvenile delinquent or the innocent boy or girl for whom lemporary care must he provided, it was said. Oftentimes children are left uncar ed for by the parents who becaus of drunkenness or immorality have to be taken into custody. The ques- tion of caring for the children is then thrust upon the juvenile proba- tion officer whose only recourse is an established institution in the city—the police station or the town farm, the former being totally un- fit to provide the care and the lat- |ter subject to a fine of $50 per day per child if for humanity's sak it harbors these homeless childrer |in an institution which is again | wholly inadequate and unsuitable, it is said. Provision In the city of New Brit- ain for the hospitalization of cases |of communicable di.cases was con- |sidered and given some di | The club voted as its prog: |the year to endorse any movement to improve conditions and heartily |commended Miss Bristoll, chairman |of the program committee, for plan- ning a program to cover information on these subjects, The new members voted Into the lclub were: Olive Elliott, visor, iting Nurse association; Mary | oonan, hygiene teacher, Walnut | Hill school; Dr. Jacob Mellion and | | Dr. Harriet Chalmers, school phy- | |sicians; and Ruth Kimball, school | | psyehiatrist. | The next meeting of the elub will | be held January 2 at 12:30 noon at he Y. W. C. A. Those members present were {and Mrs. C. F. Erichson, Ad | Carl Fredrickson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- | ward C. Connoly, J. L. Doyle, Vent- |lie Logan, Cora M. Beale, Ruth| Kimball, Charlotte Nicoll, Mrs. Nel- | son Marcham, Mrs. H. C. Warner, | Bernadette Labadie, Mrs. Selina An- | derson, Irene Feeney, Ruth E. Bris- | toll. Rachel C. Colby, Olive Elliott, | Gwendolyn Jackson, Irene Haigis, Mrs. Jane Barker, Mrs. Ellis mm-{ sley, Helen Hayes, Mrs. Gertrude Kitson, Cora Graulich. Dr. | ANN Mr. and Mrs. August L. n of 484 engagement of their daughter, to George W. Edman, son of M-s, Emma Edman of Newington. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RI LTS GIFT FOR XMAS Diguified Comfortab A Pair of Oxfords add meas- I ureably to | one’s ap- peararce, We Carr C o mplet - Stock of Oxfords. A. PINKUS Optometrist || 300 maIN st. | a e SUITE 201 LAMONT D HIS 7 GIRLS NOW AT THE STRAND THEATER Will appear at every performance in costum es made of DENNISON’S CREPE PAPER Friday Afternoon BETWEEN 1 AND 4 O’CLOCK These Living Models Wil At this time a Denn on hand to answer all qu | Appear In Our Window ison demonstrator will be estions aboat the dres PAINTS ARNISHES HALL’S 179-183 ARCH ST. NEW BRITAIN |also said that the strikers were re- | ttitude. i | plaintifts Stanley street have announced the | NEW BRITAIN DALY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1928 INJUNGTION SUIT HEARING 15 BEGUN Case of Essell vs. Sulranski Opens in Gity Gourt The hearing of the injunction suit | of Henry W. Essell against Sevester | Sufranski in which the plaintiff | claims $3,000 damages by reason of | the undermining of a concrete wall | ong the boundary line through dig- ging and taking out of dirt and stones, was begun today in city court Lefore Judge Henry P. Koche. From the evidence presented this niorning 1t avpears that the Essells 7 Linwood somctime last April. At the ge of the property is a concrete wall about five feet in height and from 24 to inches in the ground. Il approximately 8 distant Funs a norrcw stream of water known as Willow brook Photos Sloy Sufranski At Work William E. Bucko brother-in- | law of Esscll who had moved into the pranises cbout a month after the asc, testified this morning. that in July. the defendant began making cxcavations along the wall and trans- ferred the dirt and stones onto the opposite side of the broos. dep ing it along a smilar wail. He alss | b that ‘b defendunt continued | the digzire for a week wocking | from 4 o'clock in th: merring unts | § in the evening. | Photographs showitg the defend- | ally transpor.ing the dirt in a wheelburion across the stream were introduced as evidence as well as photographs showinz the actual camage along the wali and up to the stream. These photosraphs were 'taken by the witness, according to wony. Buckeltz also testi- that nis hrother-in-law on three ‘ut occasions approached fhe defendant and asked hin to stop digging as it would ciuse the water from the broak to flow to the wall at overflow nad undermina it to which the defrndan® is alleged to have re- plied, “What o T care if your wall falls” It was further testified that during a heavy rainfall water came over hait the distancs bctween the brook and the wall, but «t no time since has wafer been scen at the According to testimony presented | ml Max Unkelback, civil engtneer, | from his findings and study of the |land it appeared that from 12 to 18 inches of ground dug up and re- moved along the wall. He also testi- | fied that the wall encroaches on the | | property of the defendant, the brook and the eight feet of land from the brook to the wall being the property of the Sufranskis. On cross-examination by Attorneyl Is- | racl Nair, the witness stated that the occupy approximately 2 feet more of the defendant’s prop- erty than the warranty deed pre- scrihes. When asked whether the digging had in any way weakened | the wall, Mr. Unkelback replied that there were no signs of weakening, Stove Repairs Complete line of stove repair parts carried -in stock. NEW BRITAIN STOVE REPAIR CO. 66 Lafayette St. Tel. 772 i e — |WHEN IN HARTFORD. | DINE WITH, US. ‘ | Don’t forget to take home {some Maryland oysters and | fresh crackers. ' HONISS’S | | 22 State St Hartford, Conn. | (Under Grant's Store) | RAILWAY MEN HERE but from experience he knows that in time the wall will suffer from overflow of water in the brook and heavy rains and frost. He also stated that in places where the stones and dirt had been taken away, the water from the stream has a tendency to divert its course, which in stormy weather will undoubtedly cause harm to the wall. ‘The defense will counterclaim the action basing its claims on the fact that the wall is on their property and that the’plaintiff or his prede- cessors built the wall over the boundary line thereby encroaching on the Sufranski property. FOR B BANOUET Special Cars Reach City Last Night and Today Railway and _steamchip men 1.ominent in the United States and Canada, some ¢ whise names are familiar across the ocean, have been arriving in this city all day today and last evening for the annual banquet of the New Britain traffic bureau this evening at the Burritt | hotel. A special Pullman car carrying of- ficials of the Erie rallroal arrived last evening and fs parked on the R. | & E. freight siding. Similar cars from several other roads arrived teday. At 8:30 o'clock this morning the visiting ilroad men were. taken on tour of the city, rtarting at the court of honor and visiting the monument and the various industrial | plants. This aft ioch the same du* sgation visited the Polish orphan- age, e C *ren's ‘lome, the state normal school and other points of interest. The banquet will hagin with a re- | ception ~t 6:30 o'clock this evening. | The visitors vere entertrined at luncheon at the loe Meadow club at noon. At noon ioday 275 reservations had been made for the banquet. | South Carolina, in 1787, passed a law classing actors as vagrants, A Crawford Sh- For Mother’s Christmas Present SPECIAL NERRILL T0 REWAIN IN BRISTOL OFFICE Renomination for Postmaster Sent to Senate Today (Special to the Herald) Bristol, Dec. 6—Frank 8. Merrill was nominated for reappointment as postmaster by President Coolidge today, his being one of several nom- inations sent to the senate. | FRANK S, MEBRILL‘ Postmaster Merrill is a native of Bristol, and has been prominent in the political and fraternal activities of the city. He was appointed to the postmastership December 10, 1924, and took office the fcllowing January, succeeding Willlam A, Hayes, the democratic incumbent who had been appointed by Presi- dent Wilson. For four years prior to becoming postmaster, Mr. Merrill served in the city council, resigning to fake over his new dutics. In the leglsia- tive session of 1923 he represented Bristol in the house, Coal Range What could give her more happiness, not only for one day, but every day in the year? Her troubles in cooking and heat- ing would be over then. A Crawford Coal Rarlge always bakes and heats and wears best. TERMS A. A.MILLS Plumbing—Heating—Sheet Me 1 Phones 5100—510. tal Work 66 West Main St. That Give Year Round Delight to Children Complete line 7 Kiddi_e Kars and Doll Carriages $1.95. Coaster Wagons F{\el‘} child wants one. Large and small slzes. Popular makes. ..... Well Speci $ -$2 50 ., Sidewalk Cycles known makes. ial low price. 12.50 Largest Display of Children’s’ Vehicles in the City $2.00 w s VELOCIPEDES § Automobiles and Trucks and Higher $8 Skates Sleds Wheelbarrows, Baby Walkers, Toy Acro- planes, Electric Toys Henderson Cycle Co. 176 MAIN STREET During the troublous' period of 1916, Postmaster Merrill was at the Mexican border as a captain iIn Company D, first Connecticut in. fantry. He was detached from this company at the outbreak of the World War, and was then assigned as an instructor in army canton- ments at Charlotte, N. C., and- at Spartanburg, 8. C, \ He is a past grand noble of Ste- phen Terry lodge, 1. 0. O. F, and is a member of Franklin lodge, A. F. & A. M. and of the Royal Arcanum. BRI SUIT FOR $500 Suit for $500 was brought today by Joseph Pienkos against Emma Blaske throur™ Attorney David L. Nair in which the plaintiff claims damages for costs incurred to bring 2 qui tam action in connection with property deeded over by the de- fendant on September 17, 1917, which was not free from encum- brances at the t'me of delivery. The three piecer of prc ty in question are located on Jerome, Clinton and Florist streets. Constable Fred Winkle seryed the papers. —bathroom —toilet —shower bath —furnace —piping —radiators —sinks —faucets —gas heater —roofing —gutters —flashings —rain pipes —stove pipes —drainage —and many other “trouble points.” H. §. GETS §262 FROM GRID CLASSIC Total Receipts of Game Against Hartford H. 8. $6,696.50 — e New Britain Senior high achool to- day received a total of $2,622.50 for its share of the receipts of the an- nual football game between New Britam and Hartford Public high schools played at Bulkeley Stadium in Hartford on November 24. Since Hartford Public high school received half of the net receipts its share.ts the same as that of the New Britaln high school. Exactly $6,696.50 was taken in at the game and the expenses including the rental of the fleld,‘olflc s, po- lice, advertising, insurance and’ other’ incidentals cost $1,461.51. The net receipts were $5,34 divided In halt gave each school its share. According to Dr. George Forx, fl- nancil head of athletics in the three Hartford achools, the retLrn is much smaller than any received in recent years. As the rule the game M Hgatford draws a larger crowd than when it is played in New Britain. ecords were made in 1934 and 1926 ‘but this year's receipts were smaller than when the game was played at Willow Brook park in 1927. Following are the expenses; rental of field (10 per cent of receiptsy $660,65; officials, $147; printing, ete., $192.49; police, $117; helper: $182; football. $9.80; setting up or bleachers, $93.51; guarantee $10; In- surance, $26.50; incidentals, $4.50, deplioer e Burgess Named for Panama_Position Washington, Dec. 6 UP—President Coolidge today nominated Colonel Harry Burgess as governor of the Panama Canal to succeed Governor Walker, resigned. "Twas the night before Xmas, And all through the place, The folke were all chilly, Almost blue in the fac When the water loses its tempera- ture on the way from the furnace to the radiators— When the rest of the house is shivery, though the cellar is nice and warm— When the water runs now and then (mostly then)— When you can’t strike a happy me- dium and must accept either red hot or stone cold— In other words, when your plumbing and heating “walk out on you,” it is your cue to call— LEROUX— The Master Plumber He is always at your service! MARSHAL OTEY WALKER CAUGHT T™E RING LEADER OF THE QANG WHO HAVE THE HABIT OF SHOOTING HOLES IN THE GoLD BALL ON ToP OF THE FARMERS NAT'MM 2 M- STt g TELEPHONE 304