New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1928, Page 6

PLASTER GELING IN STORE FALLS Display Racks Save Customers From Injury by Debris Shoppers ran for their lives from the Davis Co. store at 169 Main street, last night when several tons of plaster fell from the ceiling and lodged itself on frame display racl directly over the heads of customer The material did not break in fall- ing, a f: life or injury, in ,the Building Inspector Rutherford The inspector was attending the theater located nearby and he was summoned by 8. M. Davidson, owner of the buildin He attributed the fall of the ceiling to the fact that it had been strained by the addition of several layers of material in re- modelings, Clarence J. Callahan of the Hayes Construction Co. was reached in Hartford, and placed a opinion of Arthur N, squad of 15 workmen on the job at | once, removing the plaster and pre- paring for repairs. The damage to the building and to the wearing will amount to dollars. several PLA ARRIV Newark, N. J., Dec. 21 (A — The 't which grevented loss of | pparel in the store | thousand | 'MEEKER STILL AFTER ROCHESTER WOMAN | Reaches San Francisco By Mail Plane After Jaunt Across Coun- try Pursuing Miss McConnell. | San Francisco, Dec. 21 (®—David 0. Meeker, medical student of | Rochester, N. Y., arrived at the Oak- land airport early foday in his pur- suit of Miss Ruth McConnell, pretty 26 year old musician, who ached the coast by train yesterday with the explanation that she had left Rochester three weeks ago to matrimony and the ministrations of | physicians. Meeker left the airport for an un- announced destination upon landing at 3 a. m. in an air mail plane from Reo, Nevada. Miss | ehecked out of her hotel here terday and was in seclusion toda The medical student followed the girl across the continent at the re- t of Kenneth B. Coulter, wealthy ew York broker and a friend of yes- the McConnell family who raid she | had heen il and explained that he was interested in her welfare. On her arrival yesterday Miss Me- Connell asserted she left Rochester to avotd marrying Coulter and to es- |cape physicians and relatives who were “too solicitious.” Mecker took off from Reno in the air mail plane after the plane he had chartered at Omaha Wednesday in an effort to overtake Miss McCon- |nell's train was forced down near R A A S i 310 S e AN . NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER- 21, 1928 [ officers and scattered the entire per- | sonnel of 40 throughout the five boroughs, the commissioner promot- od Arthur De Marrais to first grade detective ,thereby inercasing his sal- and a 75 year old prisoner who ary $800. The reward came as a! result of De Mararis’ solution of the | walked 220 miles to continue a life term. e bett Shelton, Green county youth convicted of killing a tenant of his tather’s farm who accepted a peni- | tentiary sentence rather than cau his father the expense of an appeal; | Brooklyn home of Irank Bailey, wealthy real estate operator. 'LONELY SISTER MAY " FIND WISH FULFILLED | Two Young Women Will Play Com- (Continued from First Page) | bined Roles of Santa Claus s $12 and his copy read: “Iree! ee! Play Silver Coin at New Or- ans tomorrow." advertisement was a fictitious Silver Coin, at 10 hi | and Good Fairies. signed firm to one, | Touched by the appeal of a young girl who wrote a letter to Santa Claus asking for a Bubbles doll to|Mame. Meconnell | (ixe” the place of her baby sister | PiCked Up a tail wind and blew in | | first. And the next day money hegan pouring in to the new tipping bureau of Maxim and Gay, which w | George Graham Rice, who was Ja- cob Simon Herzig. Had Rice bet his -§12 on Silver | Coin he would have made $120, at profit. But the tipping bureau | the letter and interviewed her. Th\*y\:.‘; ;f;‘\':“:]:‘d’é"s‘x”(foznd'u‘g l‘){‘;{o‘l_"c“;‘l“d‘ {later telephoned the Santa Claus Lo have made $3,000 pre 4 etitor of the Herald that they would | ‘foer® Eovernment closed jo gl make it thelr business to see that |y ot & FEMUON T Creor of thrhe the writer and her younger SIster|{housht ho s dreuped that §1. were not forgotten when Santa. 0900 following his own tips. whose death was caused by the up- setting of a pot of boiling colfee re- | | cently, two young women called at |the Herald office this morning and lagreed to lend their aid to Santa Claus to see what they could do. | They drove to the McClintock road address of the girl who wrote GOES T0 ATLANTA | the empty shafts of Rawhide Coali- tion before the company collapsed. | Next Rice formed the brokerage house of B. F. Sheftels which grew to be one of the largest on the curb before it exploded with a bang. That cost investors millions. Rice went |on trial and got 10 months. The third time a chapter of his life had been concluded by the clang of prison doors. When he came out he did prebably the most startling thing of his carcer. He exposed himself in a book called “My Adventures With Your Money,” which had a sensational sale. He said he was through then, but his mania for speculation soon had him back in the racket and he | | stayed until the trial that ended | with today's sentence. At one of his trials he said that $200,000,000 was represented by the | companies he had sponsored. He has made imillions and at one point of his career, the release from Black- |well's he went through bankruptcy with liabilities close to $500.000. Whether the balance is up or down at the moment is a matter of con- jecture. Mere Conjecture Tt is conjecture, too, whether Rice, now 58 years old, can come out of prison once more to catch up the golden threads of fancy finance, or | whether today's sentence actually marks the closing of one of the most spectacular careers in all the Jiistory of shearing the sheep of the. human race. » Sallies’ Fund Lags; Nearly $500 Short With just another week-end io finish collections, the Salvation Army Christmas fund has barely passed the halfway mark. Never before has the fund lagged as it is lagging this time, according to Ad- jutant Carl Fredrickson. Last night at the hockey game only $35.83 was collected. The total now amounts to $541.60. Fully $1,000 is needed to supply Christm: dinners and to finagce the Christmas party of the Army. NEW BILL INTRODUCED ‘Washington, Dec. 21 UP—Chair- man Parker of the house commerce committee, yesterday introduced a new bill to provide for joint regula- tion by states and the federal gov- ernment of motor vehicles operating as common carriers on public high- ways. He explained that the out- standing difference between the measure and one now pending in congress was with respect to the procurement of vehicle operators of certificates of public convenience and necessity. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | MAIN FLOOR "GIFT DEPT. Offers Unexcelled Selection of Gifts at Guaranteed Lowest Prices in the City. CREPE DE CHINE UNDIES SILK HOSE e KIMONOS BATHROBES HAND BAGS JEWELRY all-metal monoplane, built in secret | there late yesterday. : at Keyport, arrived aboard a barge | Whalen Starts at the Newark airport last night where it is expected test flights will | sl 2ietsy Wielding “Big Stick' New York. 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Claus comes to New Britain Monday | night. | The young women also looked | into the case of Albert, whose mod- est demands were for a candy cane, some candy, some nuts, an orange, a banana, a scooter and a tie. They have given assurances that Santa or his agent will not overlook Albert when he comes Monday night. } | Tennessee Governor I Pardons 31 Convicts| ernor Henry H. Horton issued “Christmas pardons™ yesterday to 31 inmates of the Tennessee state pris- on. Among those released were Cor- | Atter that he left the race tracks,| FE¥ecution of ;‘k:fi:fi’fie;em‘.flz where too many eyes were on him, | ; ¥ and went to Nevada to study min. | COunsel to prepare wiits of error S Do ot T e | which will be asked for all defend- “SPECIAL SALE Regular $5.95 and $6.95 | lessons he earned was that there was often more money to be got out of empty mines than ones with ore in them. He began floating stocks with such names as Blizzard and Lucky Gulch and his operations extended from ocean to ocean. 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