New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 18

MISS WCONNELL TELLS HER STORY Says Broker Wants to Marry Her—Not Uncle Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 20 (@ —A statement today from Ma- jor Henry McConnell, father of Ruth McConnell, who arrived today in Berkeley, Calif., said his daughter had been in poor health and that Dr. David O. Meeker, Rochester, N. Y., spec- ialist, had been ordered by rela- tives to follow her. Berkeley, cited, Cal, Dec. 20 (A—Ex- because of the publicity she has received and weeping occasion- Ily, Miss Ruth McConnelk 26, of New York, arrived here today on the overland limited and took a taxicab for an unannounced address. E. Lane, pullman conductor, 1 the young woman had confided t she was coming west for a va- cation and to aveid marrying Ken- neth B. Coulter, New York broker. Miss McConnell was quoted as saylng that Coulter was not her uncle, as dispatches from New York said, but was an acquaintance who had sought her hand in marriage. Lane said the girl told him she expected to g0 to San Francisco and become a inusic teacher, Despatches from New York and Omaha previously had said Miss McConnell had been missing from home for three wee Miss McConnell dodged several reporters and cameramen walting at Oakland to meet her by getting off the train here. Mystery Deepens San Francisco, Dec. 20 (A —Mys- tery concerning the airplane dash across half the United States, appar- ently in pursuit of a girl, decpened today as the principals, who have refused interviews. neared this city and contradictory reports of the af- tair continned. Miss Ruth McConnell, 20, cluded rewspaperien as she passed through Keno, Nev., on an overland train last night. a considerable distance ahead of Dr. David O. Mecker of Rochester, N. Y., who sceks to over- take her by Leaves Omaha Dr. Meeker, who took off from Omaha yesterday morning, 24 hours after the girl left there by train, loat time in the chase when he missed an airplane connection at Salt | Lake City, where he was forced to spend | night. He said he would fake to the air again today in the hope of intercepting the girl. It was reported that Meeker was acting for the girl's uncle Kenneth B. Coulter of C"lifton Spring, N. Y., and that the girl, for three wecks, reach 8an Fran for foreign ports. Mecker greeted reporters in Salt Take belligerently. He said e was only on “a little trip to surprise Miss McConnell.” Near Collapse Miss McConnell was said hy train- men to be “in a state of nervous col- lapse” when she passed through Reno. They said she had retired runaway, missing was attemnpting to sco to take passage and newspapermen were not allowed to disturb her, but the reporters said they saw & girl peer from the berth Miss McConnell occupied. A con- ductor, assuming the role of spokes- man, said his passenger was “wor- ried about & man with $60,000,000 |and an understudy named Meeker.” | He added she dgsired to reach here lbefore being detected. | Has Been I Reports from Clifton Springs quoted Coulter as saying the pur- suit interpretation was absurd. “Miss McConnell is going to her old home in the west for a visit,” he sald. “She recently had a very .e. rious illness and the doctor no doubt was concerned about her and decided he would try to catch up | with her. I am informed that her | whereabouta and plans were known to her famil Mecker's wife in Rochester, where he is a fourth year medical student at a university, said Meeker had not been home since Monday, and that she did not know where he was. Her only other comment, when |told of the pursuit, was, “Most amusing, most fantastical, most ab- surd, a fine fairy tale, a pretty bed- time story.” Dr. Meeker missed plane conuce- tions in Salt Lake when the Boeing | Air Transport company refused to hold a mail plane his telegram from Rock Springs, Wyo. His plane arrived 20 minutes after the mail plane took off, and his pilot, FFrancis D, Bowen, Omaha Indian, refused to continue in dark- ness over unfamillar and unlighted airways. 1lis efforts to secure an- other plane were unavailing, as no pilots were availabl Phone Mecker then held a 15-minute telaphone conversation with some- one in New York, sent a dozen tele- grams, and dismissed newspapermen by saying: “IU's all over for tfo- night. I'm going to catch the first plane out in the morning.” Tt was said in Omaha, where the girl boarded the train for San Fran- | cisco, that she remained in a hotel there for two days under surveil- lance of defectives commissioned by relatives, but that finally she out- witted the operatives. Large Roll An Omaha hotel port tained her sleeping car said she carried a large roll of bills and foreign pa Mecker was quoted the: ving the girl “had plenty of and that he was “sure she is heading for some foreign countr; KING GEORGE TURNS CORNER TO RECOVERY (Continued from First Page) = the king was cheering news for th publie, while in palace circles there was an air of greater optimism, al. though it has been repaatedly made clear that anxiety must continue un- til the patient has gained sufficient strength to convince his physicians that he is able to carry through to ‘cover; | "The physicians’ consultation at the palace this morning lasted | longer than usual. Sir Staney Hewett and Lord Daw- | son of Penn, the king's regular phy- | si . left the palace before noon in response to rather | NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928, phases of the iliness have been sur- mounted and there are increasingly solid grounds for hoping that recev. ery will result from this long. anx- lous struggl The evening {said: | “The king has passed a quiet day. | Both the general and local condi- ns are continuing to make slow progress.” The feeling of relief and hope among the king's subjects was but a | reflection of what had been noted in the less restrained actions and words |of members of his family. All of them have devoted part of the last 24 hours to distractions of various | kinda. The queen and Princess Mary went to the zoo for an unexpected isit. The Prince of Wales took an hour off to watch the finals of the squash racquets championship. “How's your dad today, prin- cess?” a man’ shouted to Princess |Mary at a Christmas party organ- |ized for disabled soldiers. “Getting on nicely, thank you,” |the princess replicd. Princess Mary later told one of the organizers of the party that she was delighted to be able to say that the king was much better. She add- ed: “But the queen had such a Wor- rying time.” It was certain today t the king's sons who had been scat- tered over the earth when he stricken would be at Buckingham Palace for Christmas. Prince Expected Prince George, who was 28 years old today. was expected to reach the palace in time for tea. He was com- ing to England from New York aboard the liner Berengaria. The Duke of Gloucester is due to reach England Bunday. The Portu- | guese governnient offered to provide a special train, but the Duke de- |clined with thanks since he felt that little if any time would be saved. In spite of their worries and keeping close to the palace, day |after day the queen and Princess Mary, who has remained with her mother throughout the king's illness, have found time to do their Christ- mas shopping. They sent gifts to | their friends and remembered the poor with clothes and children in the hospitals with dolls and other playthings. The article printed by the medi- cal journals was addressed to medi- cal men and expressed the hope that they would be able to soothe the public mind, made extremely sensi- tive by weeks of anxiety. Rays Beneficial The writer voiced a belicf that the |employment of ultra-violet rays {nad been heneficlal. A detailed technical analysis of the case said that the second phase of the illness presented a clinical | picture resembling a case of severe | typhold fever in the third and fourth | weeks, but with the added anxiety medical bulletin e Of attacks of dyspnoea and cynaosis | due to the strain on the heart. In the next phase the fever and the delirium subsided with the les- | sening of the toxemia. When, on De- | cember 12, effusion was discovered hetween the lung and the diaphram, | drainage by means of a rib resection H performed under general an- aesthesia, gas oxygen, ether. Inféction localized | The prominent organism in the empyema has now heen esfablished |to be identical with streptococcus {found in the blood. all of | the personal automobile ot the presi- dent to Quenabara palace. Another ear will follow with Mrs. Hoover and Senora Washington Luls. ‘ U. 8. 8 Utah, En Route to Rio | Janeiro, Dec. 20. (UP—Although Her- ]bert Hoover has decided that he will not visit Havana on the present |good will trip, 1t ‘was stated today | that he would go to the Cuban cap- |ital before his inauguration. He algo | was considering a visit to Mexico |City and Texas before March 4. | The Utah was rolling along the Brazilian coast today at better than | |15 knots. The vessel is due to dock (at Rio Janeiro at 2 p. m. tomorrow. | Mr. Hoover was busy on the {speech he will deliver at Rio Jan- eiro when formally welcomed by Dr. Washington Luis Pereira De Sou | president of Brazil. He also was a- gaged with matters which daily have been reaching him from the United States. His present desire was to get back to take up a multitude of sub- |jects awaiting his attention in con- |nection with the beginning of his administration. | The Utah will sail on tha last lap | of the journey home at noon Sunda |The Hoever party whl spend Christ- | mas aboard ship. The president-elect and Mrs. Hoover today were enjoy- |ing their present relaxation after the | strenuous days they spent in Iuenos | Aires and Montevideo. Mr. Hoover was on deck yester- |day when the Utah passed the first ship sighted since leaving Monte- | video. 1t was the Spanish freighter | Alumendi which dipped her colors and exchanged calls with the battle- ship. The president-clect was much interested and took up a position be- side thte rail as the steamer went {by with her company manning the | decks. During today the | picked up by two cruisers, the Bahia and the Rio Grande Do Sul. These vessels will accompany the battleship to the Brazilian capital a8 an escort of will be Brazilian light Utah | honor. It will be the first time that | |the ship carrying Mr. Hoover has {had an escort of more than one war- craft. GEO. HEDRICKS Buftalo, N. Y., Dec. 20 (P —George . Hedricks of Buffalo, for the last 20 years international president of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decor- lators and Paper Hangers, died late | other parishes are breaking away, it | last night at Dannville, Ont. | Hedricks, who was 64 years old, was en route from Albany hrotherhood's headquarters in | Lafayette, Ind., when he was strick- en. Death was attributed to heart illouhlc. ldven are forgotten easily, often | within a few weeks. T0 MOTHER | him and asked UKRAINAN PRIEST TAKES PASTORATE (Continued from First Page) | Eastern Galicia, the homeland of the | Ukrainians, the affalrs of their | churches and schools came under |the immediate jurisdiction of the | Polish government, which he said, began to curb some of the rights of the minority. The priests there had | their hands tied by the government and could do nothing but protest, the protestations being of no -avail he added. It was then that the peo: ple turned to their friends and rel; tives in this country for intervention. ‘The Ukrainian church in America, | since 1908, was without a bishop, an | administrator being appointed until | Bishop Bochachewsky's ~ arrival, | whose appointment it is claimed was | pressed by, the Polish government. | Upon his arrival, the priests and thelr congregations sought rellet of him to intervene, ibut he was adamant, it is alleged. |No one with the intentions of | broaching the subject of bettering conditions for their friends across |the sea, was granted an audition | with the hishop. and consequently friction arose, it is said. People be- gan to murmur and finally sought relief of their pastors, but they too | found the doors to the chancery | closed. These conditions persisted until talk of breaking away from | the mother church became a com- mon topic of discussion in the vari- | oum parishes, One by one the differ- | ent parishes throughout the country began to break away, and today | there are only between 30 any 35 i]\m'ishva cut of nearly 100 that are | still under the bishop's jurisdiction {and Rome, all the rest having sev- |ered relations with the mother church and existing independently. It was thought at first when the | parishes began to break away, that | this means of protest against the | bishop and his methods of treating his charges, would result in some | reaction on the part of Rome, and |that Bishop Bochachewsky would | be removed and someone else placed in his stead, but until now, nothing | has been done, and as time goes on |is reported, while those still under the bishop's jurisdiction are balanc- o the |ing and it is predicted that in the| | near future the Ukrainian Greek | Gatholic church of America will be |1eft without a member. | "1t is a sorry state of atrgirs, | Father Pashkiewich stated. and the } Languages learned by young chil- | American public not cognizant of} |the real causes of the situation un- | justly criticizes the people’s attitude. ! ' From the Rest of the Family I TheNew Universal towards the bishop, but sinoe no remedy could be found to cure the friction, the only cbannels of re- lief were through independence. | The New Britain congregation | numbers about 350 families and has ivuwfly valued at about $300,000. iBalk at Realty Deal, . Face Suit for $2,500 Samuel Greenstein of Suffern, N. | Y., Nettie Rotstein and Ida H. | Berkowits of this city have brought suit against Sebastiano and Santa Mozzotto, for $2500 damages and a |deed to property of the defendants |in Southington, the allegation being that the defendants after entering into an agreement with the plain. tiffs for the exchapge of the proper- [ty for that of the plaintiffs at 386- | 390 Elm street, this city, refused to complete the transaction. | Attorney W. M. Greenstein issued ithe writ, which is returnable in su- ‘vperlor court the first Tuesday in |January. | | JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT | Judge Arthur Y, Libbey has given judgment for the defendant in the action of the Poquyogh Im- provement association of Waterford against W. Spaulding Warner ot Lincoln street, this city, in the New |London county court of common | pleas. The action was brought on the question of ownership and pos- | session of a passway to the beach |at Waterford over a bridge, and | was heard In court several months |ago. Attorney Philip Z. Hankey of |New London represented the plain- tiff and Attorney Donald Gaffney of this city appearcd for the de- |fendant, Mr. Warner is a member |of the common council of this city and owns a summer home at Wa- [terford. 20-YEAR SENTENCE New York, Dec. 29 (R —Vincent Rice, 17-year-old Staten Island school boy, received a prison sen- tence of 20 years to life today for the murder of his swectheart, Alice Joost, 15, in her Port Richmond home on November 2, Kice, indicted for first degrce murder, pleaded gullty to second degree murder when his trial opened last Monday. Joost girl was struek and i strangled by Rice after, he said, she had tried to kiss him. BILL INCRE crease of $1,786,500 in the interior bill as passed by the house was au- thorized by the senate appropria- tions committes today in laying the | measure before the senate. The bill now carrics $286,468,000. 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