New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1928, Page 32

PROBE ATTENPT 70 WRECK TRAIN Carrier Thonght to Have $4,000,000 for Banks Abroad | Loulsville, Ky., Dec. 21 (f—De- tectives of the Pennsylvania rail- road, aided by county officers of In- diana, today were investigating a reported attempt to wreck and loot a fast Chicago-Louisville passenger ' train, supposediy carrying $4,000,- 000 for delivery to Loulsville banks. as it sped south on the last 120 wiles of the route from Indianapolis to Louisville, early yesterday. Both the engineer and fireman of | the train reported the attempted wreck immediately after the train reached Louisville. | Jacob Sehr, engineer, said as the | train was nearing Whiteland, Ind. about 40 minutes following depar- | ture from Indianapolis, C. M.| Crooks, the fireman, saw right of way lights a short distance down | the truck suddenly shift from gre to red. Sehr declared he quickly| closed the locomotive's throttle and applied breaks, stopping the train just as the engine was passing from | the main line to a switch. Car Disappears | Simultaneously, he said, an auto- moblle parked on a nearby highway suddenly started and disappear2d down the road, traveling at a high speed. Subsequent investigation of the switch revealed the lock had been broken. Sheriff Charles E. Bowen arrested a megro suspect at Franklin, Ind, shortly after the case had been re- ported to his office, but did not re- veal the evidence against the pris- | oner. Earller In the night a store in| Whiteland had been entered and tools, believed to have been used in | breaking the switch lock, were re- moved. Sehr sald he believed occupants of the automobile had thrown the switch and had planned to loot the train when it wrecked. Had the train been wrecked, how- ever, the large consignment of | money would not have been avail- able, railroad officials here revealed. | as the money was transferred to the second section of the train, shortly before leaving Indianapolis. GERWANY NEFTS ALL HER DEBTS Money Due Under Dawes Plan Paid Promptly Berlin, Dec. 21 (P—Reduction of | unemployment, a rise in the stan- dards of living, and increased ex- ports have been reported for the fourth annuity year by commission- ors and trustees of the agent general for reparations. All reports showed ! that payments due under the Dawes plan had been met promptly | by Germany. The trustce for German {ndus-| trial debentures sald a high level | had been reached in the output of | German industries. This was shown | by a reduction in unemployment | figures and the Increased export of | finished goods. The increased export | was principally of iron and steel | and machinery. | The commissioner of the Reichs- bank found there had been far-| reaching reorganization and ra-| tionalization of Germany's industrial | system. The standard of living| among the poorest has risen appre- | ciably, and in the case of the gcn-‘ eral part of the working classes had | reached or surpassed the pre-war level | Serions Feature ‘The commissioner added that the large short-time debt of Germany | remained a serious feature. He re- garded it as matisfactory that the | position of the Reichsbank had | strengthened continually and that today it was stronger than at any time in the last four years. | The commissioner for German railways stated that both volume of traffic and amount of receipts had | developed in a satisfactory manner, although expenditures for sta® ‘wages and salaries had been in- creased measurably. He advocated severe restrictions on expenditures | %0 a8 to obtain a greater return on the present staff and stock. City Items Henry Lamont of 226 Washing- ton street, who was taken into cus- tody in Bristol yesterday, was brought to this city by Officer Fred Wagner yesterday afternoon on re- quest of Probation Officer E. C. Connolly. He is still on probation in the local court and the probation officer turned him over to his mother. Gifts cost less, Axelrod's, Broad St. —advt, A son was born on Sunday, De- cember 16, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McDonald of 450 Main street, Clayton Morecroft of 319 Rocky Hill avenue reported to the police vesterday the theft of a bicycle from Central Junior high school. Good coal makes warm friends. City Coal & Wood Co. Tel. 217.— advt. The police were notificd today of the return of the right to operate, an automobile to Alfred Scalise of 45 Whiting street and Paclo Ruscica of 27 Sexton street, also return of the license of Steve Surawski of 113 Miller strect. Complaint was made to the police | last evening that boys broke windows in the South church mission house in the vicinity of Corbin avenue and Belmont street. Good coal makes warm friends. City Coal & Wood Co. Tel. 217.— advt. Mrs. McLaughlin of 106 Rockwell avenue complained to the police of the theft of several articles of wear- ing apparel off her clothes line, John Juchenivich of 160 Washing- ton street reported to the police at | i 5 last night that his car struck the traffic post in front of the Fair store on Main street. Officer John Riley reportcd that the post was not damaged. Open until 9 o'clock every evening until Christmas. Blair & Brodrib, 170 Main St.—advt. Miss Cathcerine Kenney of 1340 | Stanley street reported to the police | at 12:20 this morning that her auto- mobile was stolen in front of 132 Kelsey street. A short time later it was reported that Miss Kenney had rccovered the car on Henry street. Mi Smma N. Dawson, a Senior High school teacher who makes her home at 123 Glen street during the | school year, will spend the Christ- mas holidays in Cliftondale, Mass. Mrs. Amy C. Guilford, director of the Senior High school Amphion club and a teacher of German, will visit at her home in Ashfield, Mass., dur- ing the holidays. Miss Helen E. Barksdale will spend Christmas at her home in Sherbourne, Mass. She is a Senior High school teacher. SUGGESTION FOR NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1928 ‘ Xmas Greeting Cards % price, | Axelrod’s, Broad, cor. Washington. —advt. | Miss Dorothy M. Carr will leave tonight for South Manchester, where he will stay during the holidays. she is a biology teacher at the Sen- ior High school. Miss Florence E. Meacham of Tol- land, Mass., will spend the holidays in that place. Miss Mary M. Souther will spend the Christmas holi ys in Braintree, Mass. She 1s a teacher of French at the Senior High school. Miss Elizabeth L. Mackintosh of Peabody, Mass., will leave for that ce tomorrow morning. She will rcturn at the reopening of the Sen- ior High school on January 7. Miss Erna E. Westhaver, teacher of English at the Senior High school, left last night for her home in Lun- enberg, Nova Scotia, where she will spend the Christmas holidays. John Grip of Sexton street, a stu- dent at Fordham university, will re- turn to his home tomorrow. He will spend the holidays with his parents. Miss Katherine Griffin will leave for Ashfield, Mass, where she will spend the Christmas vacation. She is an English instructor at the Sen- ior High school. Roger Scully of Hart street, a Fordham university student, will spend the holidays with his parents in this city. | Coach George M. Cassidy of the New Britain High school will go to Poultney, Vt., where he will spend the Christmas vacation. Miss Helen H. Stahl of New | Hampshire will spend the holidays in her native state. She is a Senior | High school instructor. Miss Bertha Jones, a Senfor High school instructor, will spend the holi- days with relatives in Somerville, M 3 Miss Sylvia Hawes, a Latin in- structor at the Senior High school, will spend her vacation at Allston, Mass. i‘ JONES IN GOLF MATCH Miami, Fla., Dec. 21 (UP)—Bobby Jones, national amateur champion, will make his first appearance in a | golf match in many months here Sunday, December 30. He will ‘play in an exhibition for the benefit of the student fund of the University of Miami. He plans to arrive here next Friday. COCHRAN LEADS SCHAEFER New York, Dec. 21 (UP)—Welket Cochran held a lead of 2,800 to 2, 639 over Jack Schaefer in their special 4,800-point 18.2 balkline bil- RADIO AUDIENGE 100 COMFORTABLE Serge Rachmaninoll Refuses to Broadoast Piano Recitals Paris, Dec. 21 UP—Serge Ragh- maninoff, noted pianist, thinks ra- dio makes its audience too comfort- able, “Radio is not yet perfect enough really to do justice to good music,” he said. “That is why I have stead- ily refused to play for it. But my chief objection is on other grounds. “It makes listening to music too comfortable. You often hear peo- ple say, ‘Why should § pay to sit n an uncomfortable seat at a concert when 1 can stay at home and smoke my pipe and put my feet on a chair and be perfecttly comfortable.’ “Now I believe one shouldn’t be too comfortable when listening to really great music. In order to ap- preciate good music one must be mentally alert and emotionally re- ceptive. You can't be that when you are sitting at home with your feet up on a chair, More Strenuous “No, listening to music is more strenuous than that. Muslc is like poetry; it is a passion and a prob- lem; you can't enjoy and understand it merely by sitting still and letting it soak into your ears. “Another thing, music is not all listening. The sight of a great mas- ter playing on his instrument or an inspired conductor leading his or- chestra Is almost as thrilling as the sound of music itself. Then too there 1s a powerful contagion in mass emotion. Naturally, this factor is completely lacking in radio con- certs.” In England and Wales the average duration of life has risen almost one-third since Pasteur's discovery that many diseases are carrled by germs, liard match when play was resumed | § in the eighth block today. Cochran won the seventh block yesterday, | 432 to 239. 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Last night they came to New Britain to visit at 309 Elm atreet. | They stayed later than they had ex- pected to, and when Hamlet tried to ter expressed his determination to |stay. According to James, Hamlet :became provoked and ‘“smacked” him in the face, whereupon James macked"” Hamlet. Supernumerary Officer Thomas ; Riley testified in police court today that the pals were arrested early this morning. James was charged with drunkenness, breach of the peace {and assault, and Hamlet was charg- | ed with breach of the peace and as- sault, Hamlet's eye was swollen where James “smacked” him, Judge | Roche imposed a fine of $5 and costs in each case, suspending exe- cution of the sentence, with a warn- ing to the pair to stay out of trouble in the future, HINDENBURG'S OPINION Says Government Within Rights in Appointing New Members of Board of Directors of Rallways, Berlin, Dec. 21 (/—President Von Hindenburg today expressed the opinion that the government had acted in accordance with the con- stitution and had not encroached on Ithe constitutional rights of the su- new members to the board of direc- D. MILLER CO. —26 CHURCH STREET — Christmas Specials , Towel Sets, consisting of one Towel and Two Wash Cloths | $1.00 $1.25 Silk Bed Spreads All Colors $3.95 ,, $6.29 Kenwood All Wool Blankets $9°$11813* Kenwood Bathrobes All Colors $17.00 Fancy Table Scarfs $1.98 , $5.00 Ladies’ Silk and Wool Hose 98¢ ., $1.50 Men’s Fancy Wool Hose 506 and 750 Pair Men’s Silk and Wool Hose 98¢ Men’s Neck Ties Neatly Boxed 65¢ up have James start for home, the lat. | | preme state tribunal in appointing || tors of the federal rallways. He expreased this opinion in & reply to Dr. Walter 8imons who resigned trom the presidency of the federal supreme court and the supreme court judicature because the Berlin government did not wait for his de- cision on a petition by the state of Baden for an injunction to prevent the government from filling vacan. cies on the board before Jan. 1. 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