New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1929, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 ¢ ‘, d C NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1929.—TWENTY PAGES RECORD EIGHT ESCAPE FROM SEDAN BEFORE TRAIN CRUSHES IT ON TRACKS Driver Goes Onto Crossing While Flag- man Makes Frantic Efforts to Warn Him- Engineer Puts on Hoffman and Vos Families Have Hairbreadth Escape From Death When Ice Storm Obscures Vision of Man at Wheel—Gates Not in Working Order. . (Spectal to the Herald) Plainville, Jan. 2—His automobile stalled on the East Main street rail- | protocol of conciliation and until he | road crossing in front of an oncom- ing passenger train, Charles Hoffman of Wallace street, New Britain, and scven other occupants of the ma- chine barely saved themselves from « death or serious injury by scrambling out of the car just a few seconds before the train hit and demolished it last night. The accident was caused by Hoffman's failure to see or hear a flagman who attempted to Lalt him, and it would have been IN PLAINVILLE BOLIVIA AS N SIGNED PROTOGOL Negotiations With Paraguay Are Now at Standstill LATTER COUNTRY READY Has Man at Mecting Ready to Sign but Bolivian Minister Won't Afix Signsture Ustil Ordered by His Goverament. ‘Washington, Jan. 3 UM—One of the pauses that have come so fre- quently to the progress toward peace of the Paraguayan-Bolivian quarrel today had mediators wait- ing. Dies De Medina, Bolivian min- ister, had not received instructions from his government to sign the ! does receive them there apparently |18 nothing to be done. ' Paraguay’s representative was at | the meeting yesterday of a special committee named by the Pan- American conference to settle, if possible, the controversy. He was ready to sign the protocol. Some conference delegates were | discouraged because of the latest 'interruption in the negotiations. far more serious but for work of They felt that Bolivia had had time the engineer in slowing down hh;u reply, aa the protocol was cabled train, in spite of the slippery rails,'to her when it was sent to Para- enough to delay the impact until all guay and the latter country already eight had escaped from the sedan. |nag answered favorably., Others be- REY. PLINY COONEY DIESINNE GANAAN Priest ot 81 Yours, Spest Boy- bl T Gy |LAST TLLNESS WAS BRIEF Som of Late Mr. and Mrs. Joha Codtey of Union Strect Received Early Education in Schools ef New Brita\n. New - Canana, Jan. 3 UP—Rev. Pliny C. Cooney, pastor of St. Aloy- sius church, died today after a short {llness. He had been in the priesthood | since December 21, 1907, and had' served in Meriden, New Haven, Greenwich and Broad Brook. At the time he occupied the Greenwich pulpit, Father Cooney made a trip around the world on a fund which was the gift of his parish. Father Cooney was born in El- mira, N. Y. He attended the paro- chial and high schools in New Brit- ain and studied for the priesthood in 8t. Charles' S8eminary, Baltimore, and the Grand Seminary, Montreal. Father Cooney came to 8t. Aloy- sius’ November 15, 1928. Funeral arrangements have not been made. After serving as a curate at St. Mary's in Greenwich for ten years |he went to 8t. Catherine's at Broad | Brook, East Windsor, in November, 1924, and from that parish he came here in November. Father Cooney was a member of Greenwich Lodge of Elks and the Rotary club. About six years ago he had pneumonia and after that he never fully recovered his health ; and his last sickness was traceable to the earlier serious flinesa. Rev. Pliny F. Cooney was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Cooney of Union street. Born in El- mira, N. Y., he came to this city at an early age and attended 8t. Mary's QUESTION MARK SEEKS THREE PLANES pr- ENDURBNC: S Col\“‘;::‘:" > MYR. Tfi‘r“"“"f‘.’..c.mul\ RESTING EASILY United States Ambassador to France Has Influensa NO TMMEDIATE DANGER | Hurry Call For Nurses and Oxygen Phoned in Night—Doemn't Be- leve He's Il and Wants to Get Tp. Cleveland, O., Jan. 2 UP—Myron T. Herrick, United States ambassa- dor to France, was resting easily to- day after a sudden turn for the |worse in his iliness of the last 10 |days that caused alarm :t the Her- rick estate at Gates Mills. Dr. John Phillips, Herrick's per- sonal physician who made a hurried trip to the ambassador's beside - 1y today at the call of the diplo- mat's son, Parmely Herrick, said Mr. Herrick's fever had abated and his By refueling in the air army aviators are seeking to keep the Question Mark, tri-motored en- temperature was near normal. durance plane, in the air for days during an elaborate test at Miner Field, Los Angeles. lane will remain aloft until the motors cease to hum. Fueled in the air during a recent experiment in Washington. for the endurance record photographed with Maj.-Gen. James E. Fechet. Fechet, Maj. Carl Spatz, Capt. Hoyt, Capt. Ira C. Baker, Lieut. E. R. Quesada and Serg. | Yeggs Bent On Rifling H. S. Safes The The Question Mark being re- Below: The crew that is trying Above: Roy Hooe, GIRLS BURNED T0 Left to right: Gen. | | Barring complications, Mr. Her- rick is in no immediate danger, Dr. Phillips said. The sickness was de- scribed as asthmatic influenza. About two weeks ago, Mr. Her- | rick caught a cold which developed |into & touch of influenza. Yesterday | the ambassador was forced to go to ibed. His breathing became difficult lec:ly today and he developed a tever. Parmely Herrick immediately PRICE THREE CENTS ATTEMPTING TO HANG UP NEW MARKS IN NOMAN FLYING Question Mark, Army Ship, Shutthing From Los Angeles to San Diego in Assault on Records—Plans to Re- fuel. Blaine Tuxhorn Racing Army Plane in Flight in Missouri — Miss Bobby Trout After Woman’s Endurance Mark in California. Three separate assaults on endur- ance flight records were under way in the west today with the army's big tri-motored monoplane Question Mark already on its second day of & cruise in California that may last for weeks with the aid of refueling in the air. Tp 34 Hours The Question Mark, carrying a crew of five, passed the 24th hour in the air at 7:24 o'clock this morn- ing. Taking off from Los Angeles | yesterday the Question Mark made contacts with a refueling plane at in- tervals and took aboard gasoline, oil and food. Until the three engines or the fliers wear out the plane will remaln aloft, With Mr. Hoffman were his wife and two children, also Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Vos and two children of Whit- ing street, Plainville, The Vos fam- ly had been visiting the ‘loffmans in New Britain during the cvening end Hoffman was taking them to their home here. Drives Onto Tracks The ice storm, which lasted all day, had rendered the gates at the East Main street croesing weeless, but the crossover was guarded by tenders with lunterns, As a woste bound train, No. 155, approa e crossing pt 9:44 o'clock, Dave Firbe, & spare who was employwd Jart night as an extrs guand, suddenly saw the Hoffmian car com- ing from New Britain in apparont disregard of the onrushi train, Erbe waved his lantern apd ‘plew h! police whistle, but IHo¥man, his vision affected by the etorm, did not see the signal and drovo past Erbe ¥ onto the tracks. Leave Anto Qnickly Then Hoffman saw the train and, trying excitedly to get his ear oft the track, he stalled the eagina, leaving the machine helpless in the path of the train. The engineer applied the brakes but was hamperad by the wet rails. e also sounde? a long, con- tinuous Llast of warring with the whistle, The eight imparillel pere sons \n the car, rea'izing thelr in- ability to escape otherwise, - flung open all the doors and fled' el mell just before the engine ntruck the ds- serted sedan and wrecked It. The train came to a hait a short distance beyond the cronsing and the crew ran back to find oyt if anyone had been killed or injured. ‘They found Mr. Hoffman in a congratula- tory'mood, and the New Dritain man warmly wrung the hand of the en- gineer whose prompt work has slowed down the train enough to save eight lives. Constable B. J. Wadsworth invest!- gated the crash and turned over his information to W. H. Gillis local frcight agent. The smashed car was towed to Parselle’s garage. Mrs. Vos is the proprietress of Sally’s tea room on Whiting street. BLODGET APPRAISES LOGAL BANK STOCKS ' Sfate Establishes Valua- tion for Purposes of Taxation s, L) Stock in local financial institutions is considered to be good investment, the appraisals for purposes of tax- ation, fixed by the state board of equalization indicate. Securities of banking houses in 4 nearby cities and towns are also appraised considerable higher than their par value, the ‘annual state- ment, issued from the office of Tax Commissioner Willlam H. Blodgett, discloses. The New Britain National Bank, with stock of $100 par, will be taxed on a basis of $240 a share. Stock of the City National bank will be taxed at its par, $100. The Commercial Trust Co., and the New Britain Trust Co., each with & par value of $100 a share are appraised for taxation at $32§ a share. Fidelity Industrial Bank stock, $100 par, will be levied agalst on a basis of $120, excepting «f for the block which is only partly paid, that being taxed at $80 & share. Bristol banking houses are listed as follows: Bristol National Bank, $100 par, $240 share valuation; American Trust Co. $100 par, $340 share valuation; Bristol Trust Co., $100 par, $325 share valuation. The Plainville Trust Company's stock, whose par is $50, is appraised for $195, and the Southington Bank and Trust Co. is assessed for three times its $100 par value. s LY - leved that Bolivia probably was only considering the protocol care- fully and that all would be well. Nine The protocol would appoint a mediation | tribunal of nine judges, two each from Bolivia and Para- guay, with the other five yet to be apd. Probably there will by, one pm the United States, Cuba, Argen! Brasil and Uruguay. The m‘t‘u hres countries have been aged would be ‘willing te appoint ::g- on the tribunal but they have not been heard from. Pagticipation of the United Btates and Cuba it the tribunal 8 named | (Continued on Page 18) SEES GOAL PUSTS AND HEADS FOR THEN Roy Riegels Broken-Heart- od at Losing California- Georgia Tech Game Pasadena, Calif.,, Jan. 3 (UP)— A broken hearted youngster mourn- ed today over the momentary aber- ration which yesterday caused him to run 76 yards toward his own goal .posts in the greatest football game of his career, 50 far, and cause his team, University of California to |lose by the mild margin of 8 to 7, to Georgia Tech. Roy Riegels, California center and captain-elect, tried today to find in his mind some excuse for what had happened. *I can't even think of a decent alibl,” he said. “It was the most terrible boner ever made in foot- | ball, T think.” But while Roy was in the depths of despair, Coach Nibs Price was standing back of him and branding th> error as merely an “unfortunate circumstance” and warning “sport writers had better take my advice and not laugh at that boy: if they do he'll make them cry next year because he's the best linesman on the coast. “I don’t know how it happened.” Riegels said, shaking his head |shamedly as friends tried to get him to “forget it.” “I just bounced out with the ball, saw a pair of goal posts and headed for them. “I'm absolutely broken hearted that such a boner on my part cost my team—and such a wonderful team too—a victory they deserved %0 much.” feared when Riegels had made his remarkable run in the wrong direc- tion that the lad had been hurt. ‘That, he explained, was his object in taking him from the game at the time. “C* course,” Price declared, “his mistake upset our entire .plan of battle. But the public must not condemn him for that run. Riegels is the headiest man on my squad. It is just an unfortunate circum- stance. That's all.” Sleeping Sickness in Massachusetts County Holyoke, Mass., Jan. 2 UP—There iare fifty cases of sleeping sickness in Hampden county and nearly one out of three is proving fatal, ac- cording to Dr. E. P. Bagg, jr., presi- dent of the County Medical Assocla- tion. In an address here last night, Dr. Coach Price sald that he had| Parochial school here. Upon gradu- ation, attended the New Britain high school, later entering 8t. Charles 8eminary, Baltimore. He was about 44 years old. He was assigned for study to the grand seminary in Montreal and was lordalned om December 21, 1907, at 8t. Joseph's Cathedral in Hartford (Continued on Page ¢.) ROGSEVELT EXPANDS | POLICIES OF SMITH Sends Message to State Legislature Pleading for Co-operation Albany, N. Y., Jan. 3 (UP)— Franklin D. Roosevelt, new gover- nor of New York, mentioned by some as the next democratic preai- dential candidate, sent a message to the state legislature today embody- ing and expanding the policies of his predecessor, Alfred E. Smith. The measage, read in both houses, carried even further the policy of | non-partisanship in state affairs which Smith showed in appointing republican as well as democratic of- | ficlals, Roosevelt pleaded for cooperation of both parties in enacting beneficial legislation, pointing out that “most | of our problems are not political.” He advocated appointment of = commission to study state farm: problems and reduce farm taxes. Like Smith, he favored public re- tention of water power sites, but urged action this year in develop- ing them. He pralsed Smith's fis- cal policies, saying, “I inherit from (Continued on Page 18.) HERALD GIVES ANNUAL NEWSBOYS' BANQUET More Than 400 Eat Turkey and Watch Hockey ame More than 400 Herald newsboys | launched Into approximately a quar- ter of a ton of f0od yesterday after- | noon at the annual New Year's din- ner at which the Herald Publishing Co. following & custom established | when the fathers of some of the | | guests were carriers, played host to | the entire force of “newsies.” The dinner was served at 2 o'clock ! at I. O. O. F. hall on Arch street, Willam J. Fallon catering. A squad of 30 waitresses served heaping | plates of turkey, dressing, vegetables and cranberry sauce, and the din| called Dr. Phillips, who rushed to, the Herrick estate, taking with him ' two trained nurses and two tanks of | oxygen. He found Mr. Herrick's| Blaine M. Tuxhorn and Leonard Rhiner, fiying a small open cockpit monoplahe in near-zero weather, got jare fireproof and contain " Urged to Call‘Up Superintendent Plainville School Depart- ment Hcad Pastes No- tices on Vaults for lnfi‘)r-‘ mation of M:uudigx Visitors, (Special “te the Herald) Platnville, Jan. 2—No longer wili thieving night intruders at the Plainville high school be forced to undergo the ignominy and irksome- ness of forcing doors with *jim- mies,” prowling furtively through the school corridors, and spending tiresome, sweated hours in pound- ing the steel safes with hammery’ ‘and chisels in their attempts to earn a livelihood from an unwilling school department. Complete cooperation with all ‘would-be burglars was offered today by Superintendent of Schools Leon C. Staples, and in the future he will extend them all possible aid in their ventures. In return for saving them from all the toilsome effort which past burglars have been forced to put forth, all the genial superinten- dent asks is that he be notified by telephone it a break is intended, !and he will then simplity the oner- ous task by coming to the school. working the combination, and open- ing the safe himself. This, in effect, is the gist of dupli- | cate bulletins which were pasted on the doors of the two safes at the {high school as classes were resumed today after a Christmas holiday re- cess which had been punctuated by the third robbery which the high schobl has suffered within the past year. These identic notes, one on the large safe in the main office and the other on the smaller one in ths inner sanctum of Vice Principal Douglas 8. McDonald, read as fol- lows: ‘All moneys are deposited in the Plainville Trust daily. These vauts records ony. If you want to view the interior please ring my house number, | Plainville 111, and I will open the safe for you. “Yours truly, “LEON C. STAPLES."” Mr. Staples said that he was tired of having the safes broken open and had adopted this plan as the only one which would effectively dis- courage intruders who believed hid- den treasure lay behind the locked vault doors and were determined to make those treasures their own. The last two robberies have netted the thieves only about $2 in actual cash, but the wear and tear on the school | finances caused by the necessity of buying new safes has begun to tell, and it is hoped that the offer of assistance wil stop this drain on the department's treasury. About a year ago one well-inform- created while the boys filed into the |4 thiet broke into the high school hall and took places at the tables 'On the night after the dramatic club the lads took up the serious business & considerable portion of the pro- of mastication. After the ice cream ceeds from the safe and put them to and coffee had been disposed of, the juses which he alone knows. The newsboys settled back in their chairs 'success of that venture has fired while the more talented members of others with the desire to emulate the the group staged an impromptu en- lucky burglar, and two other breaks tertainment. {have been made since that time. The ‘The Gelardl brothers, carriers for | first of these, early in 1928, increased soveral years, favored with a pro- gram of vocal numbers, winning the applause of the entire house. Patsy Patano, after some urging, also took | (Continued on Page 4) died down for about 20 minutes as |had given a play, and he extracted | Bagg declared that provision by the | the atage for a series of harmonica | state of adequate hospital faciltites | selections, and concluded his act to combat the disease were urgent, | with a clog dance. Others contribe especially for children. He pointed |uted to the program, some by re- out that there is no state institu- |quest, but more moved by the urge tion provided solely for such cases|to add something to an afternoon of ard that accommedations ia ether places were (Centinued on Page 13.) | he declared death was due to dia- THE WEATHER New Britaim and vicinity: Falr tonight and Thursdsy. A DEATH IN OREGDN Three Normal School Students Perish in Dormitory Fire GHRISTMAS TREE 1GNITES 8ix Others Escape By Leaping From Second Story to Snow Covered Ground—Had Just Returned From Vacations, Monmouth, Ore, Jan. 2 (P—A dart of flame from an illuminated Christmas tree set fire to a private dormitory on the campus of the Ore- son Normal school here last night and three girl students were burned to death. Six others escaped by leap- ing from a second story porch of the burning building, to the snow cover- ed ground. Thé dead: Miss Evelyn Ohman of Portland. Miss Florence Graham of New- port, Ore. Miss Margaret Hemmers of Gre- {| Takes Well Earned Rest (Continued on Page 18) POSTFONE FURTHER SUBMARINE TESTS Will Ascertain Fitness of “Defender” Before Con- ducting Experiments GOTTLOB F. LORCH LORCH RETIRES AFTER 60 YEARS OF INDUSTRY Veteran of American Hardware Corporation Decides to Rest New London, Jan. After 50 years of continuous serv- | safety tests plans ice in the P. & F. Corbin plant and by the navy here were postponed to- almost 60 years of service for day pending an Inspection of the branches of the American Hard- submarine Defender at Bridgeport ! ware Corp., Gottlob I*. Lorch, of 261 by navy officials to determine its fit- Maple street, who is 80 years old Ness for the next tests to be con- but doesn’t seem like more than 60, ducted. The Defender was to have has decided to retire. |been towed tirom Bridgeport to this o I'm not going to stop work- | Port today by the salvage vessel Mal- ing and live in idieness,” said Mr. lard which was to have sailed from Lorch to & Herald representative here at six o’clock this raorning for who called to wish him & Happy,the submarina New Year today, “I've just been” an 11th WOUr cnafife In orders re- {busy working on the furnace, and sulted in the Mallard remaining at I'll find enough 2 (P—Further th submarines til further orders. Lieut. Commander Palmer H. Dun- bar, who is in charge of the sub- marine safety tests, and Lieut. Carl- ton Shugg, his assistagt, left here by train this morning to make an in- spection of the Defender at Bridge- port. It was expected at the sub- marine base here that if Comman- |der Dunbar found the Defender ready for tests of her safety equip- ment, the Mallard would be ordered |to Bridgeport at once in order that tests could be started by Friday. The tests are to be held some- where in the vicinity of Block Island. One of the big pontoons used in sal- vaging submarines will be sunk to {the bottom and the Defender will submerge to the bottom alongside. Then a special escape hatch under | her stern will be used to send divers jout from the submerged submarine {to attach chains to the pontoon. It old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael is hoped to prove the practicability Panasewicz of 345 Myrtle street. of carrying on rescue and salvage He was taken to the New Britain 'operations from a submerged sub- General hospital yesterday afternoon marine regardiess of conditions on and died at 12:50 o'clock this morn- | the surface. In the 8-4 tragedy De- ing. Dr. John Purney, deputy med- | cember 17, 1927, it was surface con- ical examiner, was summoned and 'ditions that prevented the rescue of six men trapped in the submarine. If the tests with the pontoon prove satifactory it is planned to make leaves two sisters besides his par- ' further tests with the Defender and ents. |the 8-¢ which since being salvaged from the ocean bottom last March, Funeral arrangements, in charge | of Frank Brodsik & Son. under- | has been refitted as a safety experi. mental ship. takers, are incomplete. 6 -2 19 > 176339 (Continued on Page Eight) INFLUENZA BLAMED FOR DEATH OF CHILD Boy, Aged 12, First Local Victim in National Epidemic Influenza pneumonia which has been causing many deaths in other parts of the country made its first in-road to New Britain today when it was & contributing cause in the death of John Panasewicz, 12 years betes and influensa pneumonia. John was born in this cfty. He to do to keep me her berth at the submarine base un- | jcondition did not warrant adminis- “tration of the oxygen. At the Herrick home, it was said, the chief difficulty was in persuad. ‘!n: Mr. Herrick he was ill enough to remain in bed as ordered. The ambassador who is 74.years old, in- sisted he would be up thig '\ atter- noon despite his doctor’s orders. (Continued on Page 18) ‘THREE MEN HELD IN OH;0 KIDNAPING CASE Suspected of Abducting 4-Year-Old Melvin Horst Orrville, Ohio, Jan. 2 UM—Three | men were held here today in con- nection with the disappearance last { Thursday of four year old Melvin Horst. Prosecutor Walter J. Mougey said formal charges of kidnaping would be filed against them. Mougey returned to Wooster after the trlo was arrested here early this morning with the announce- ment he would file the kidnaping charges after he had had some re | The three men were held after they |told conflicting stories as to . their whereabouts the evening Melvin falled to return home from play after his evening meal. After the suspects were arrested | Deputy Sheriff Lee Pontius and a ! special detective left in an automo- bile on a mysterious 100 mile trip. ‘They are expected to return at noon with additional evidence. It is understood Columbus was their destination and it was believed they were taking a woman there in |an attempt to have Rer identified by a Columbus woman &s the per- son who was scen on & street car |in Columbus Batutday night with a | boy who resembled the missing O:r- ville lad. Mougey said the three suspects denied any connection with the sup- posed kidnaping. He added, how- ever, that they told conflicting stor- | tes relative to their movements on {the night the boy disappeared. Melvin was last seen late Thurs- day when he told & chum with whom he had been playing that he had to go home for supper and left |'pulling the little red wagon in | which he had been giving his play- mate a ride. His parents became alarmed soon afterward when he failed to appear and a search starr- ed. The wagon was found in the edge of the yard. | Authorities believed that if Mel- vin was kidnaped it was either for revenge or that he was mistaken for a neighbor's boy. Melvin's father !is a laborer while the father of the other boy, who is the same age ot | Melvin off the ground at Marshall, Mo., at 3:5¢ & m. Today in an attempt to shatter the refueling endurance flight record of 60 hours and seven min- utes held in Belgium. Fuel and supplies will be picked up from the ground by means of a device in- vented by Tuxhorn. In quest of a new endurance rec- ord for women, Miss Bobby Trout. 18, hopped off at Los Angeles at 6:05 a. m., hoping to better the pres- ent mark of 8 hours and six minutes set at Roosevelt fleld, N. Y., by Viola Gentry. Trics For Mark Los Angeles. Jan, 2 (M—S8hu‘tling back and forth from San Diego to the Metropolitan airport here the {army's tri-motored Fokker Question Mark was busily engaged today in putting aerial hours rnd miles be- hind it in the effort to set & new world's refueling endurance flight record. The fiers hope to keep the ship In the air for weeks. At 3:24 a. m. twenty hours after the takeoff the plane had reached the third way mark toward the pres- ent record of 60 hours, 7 minutes held by Belgian fliers, and averag- ing & gait of 75 miles an hour had flown 1500 miles which it in & straight line would have brought the ship and its five occupants over the | Mississippl Valley eountry at that hour. 4 The apacious monoplane, which took off here at 7:24 a. m. yester- day, completed its fitth contact with refueling planes shortly after mid- night when 200 gallons of gas was | passed into her tanks from refueling plane Number 1, piloted by Lieut. Ross Hoyt. Contact was made 3,000 feet in the air over Del Mar, Cal. (Continued on Page 18) CONNECTICUT BIRTH RATE IS DECLINING Last Three Years Show Marked Regularity in Its Falling Off Hartford, Jan. 2.—(M—A compari- son of the first ten months of each |of the last three years shows that |the birth rate in Connecticut has been declining with marked regu- larity. Statistics compiled by the state | department of health also show that | along with this decline in the birth | rate, the marriage rate is steadily decreasing in this state. The death rate in 1927 was the lowest Conecticut has ever seen. Al- though all statistics are not yet available for 1928, it is believed that ‘llll year will show the second lowest | year's death rate in the state’s his- tory altnough 1924 with a rate of and looks very much like him, s said to be wealthy. Roy Horst, city marshal, is an | uncle of the missing boy and it w {thought that his activities against |months have been. | alleged bootleggers may have had| This low death rate in 1928 has something to do with Melvin's dis- | been obtained in spite of an increase appearance. in deaths from childhood diseases, measles and whooping cough In President of Mi { particular. mmfi?:lwt. Dj: il: m@u Art Dealer Thought | Cooper Butler, 66, president of the To Have Real Rubens | First National bank, died teday at { Middlesex hospital. He had been fll since December 3. {Born in Philadelphia, he had lved ihen since his secend year. He was educated in this place and in Massa- Chusetts. In 1915, he suceeeded his father as head of the bank. His widow and a sen, Barie Dud. survive, 11.3 has good chance of being the second most favorable year if De- cember’s reports for 1928 are not as favorable as those for the earlier