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oo o SR A3 " BE TERRIAI; 60 1 . Rocial Hatreds : — Miami Beach, Fla, Feb, 16 (UP) —A clash of arrogant temperaments, of deep rooted racial prejudices, as well as of able bodied fighting uen, may make the forthcoming bat- 1lg' beiween Young Stribling and Juck Sharkey, 2 memorable one. The personalities of the promoters of the affair thus far have over- shadowed those of the principals, causing a good many people to over- ook the fact that on the night of February 27 Stribling and Sharkey ure the ones who will be doing the tighting. No prize fight in history ever was promoted cuite as this one has becn and it may be that the end will just- ify-the means. When the flood Yghts of the vast arena in Flamingo Park dimmed, leaving only a vivid splash of white canvas across which 1he fighters move from their respec- tive corners to answer the opening Vell, a scrap such as the ring seldom Ias known may ensue. It Stribling and Sharkey retain past the sharp clamor of that open- 19g bell the savage instinct each pos- sesses the innate hatred for each other, then indeed there will be modified murder for the modish Tpob. If, as cach boxer has at one e or another in the past, they leave thelr fighting hearts draped ke limp towels over the ropes in €heir corners, it will be a sorry spec- tacle, my friends. 5 Tt is not only that the two leading heavyweight contenders of the Unjted States are meeting to decide which shall go on toward the now Y t championship. Possibly leither Stribling nor Sharkey ever will wear the crown so lately and lightly laid aside by Gene Tunney. _Bomething more than calculated ambition will impell the flailing fists of these two fighters when they meet. 1f the drop of a hat insiead of tens of thousands of dollars were bring- ing them together there might be a Battle to delight the most blood- thirsty fight fan. ' The antagonism between Stribling apd Sharkey is not studied, it is in- évitable. “The black scowl of the haughty ponng southerner is matched by the thleful glare from the Bostonian's chill blue eye. Neither knows the meaning of quarter in battle for s opponent, although it would be jost incorrect to intimate that each hasn't fought a number of exceed- ingly bad fights. * Searching back into the family histories: of the two men, one that Btribling's forefathers delighted to persecute those of Sharkey on the shores of the Baltic Sea, while a little throat-slitting on the other hand was not considered amiss. “These young men who use siX ounce 'gloves instead of Asiatic dirks have something of the same generous im- E toward slaughter. * nt purposes however, Young Stribling is the fistic darling _of the southland which never yet Yuised a boy to.be a heavyweighi champlon. Jack Sharkey haila frout that effete hub which first sent the mighty John L. Sullivan roaring his deep throated challenges through the har rooms of the land. “»'it emch. fights his best, the baitls of February 37 will prove werthy of the picturesque promotion pre- peding It. ”dBOflI Stribling and Sharkey have proved disappointing in the “big +2ipments” of their fistlc careers, Yei each has an inborn ferocity which sometimes crops out in the heat of ittle, The fight should be one of the West—or worst—ever fought by first class heavyweights. — Y BUSINESS CHANGES The New Britain Market Co. at $18 Main street, has been purchased by Louls Belkin, of Benjamin Myer- oon. Other retail stores which have hands in the past few days include: Edward Jennings to An- thany Matulis, 3¢ Hartford avenue; Jossph Misiorski to Bronislaw Kar- 10 Silver street; Paolo @iordis to Frank Tricinski, 11 Beav- “Jenny says her husband never kissed her until after they was married, an’ I guess she fusses at him so much now because she still feels hurt about it.” ‘Copyright 1929, Publishers Syndicate) Adams Street Seven Room House 0il Burner i A i 'MEET DARTNOUTH FIVE Ithacs Has Chance (0 Go Isto Tie For Second Place in Eastern Section New York, Feb. 16 (h—Cornell'a court stars can go into a triple tie for second place in the eastern in- |tercollegiate basketball league it they can down Dartmouth at Han- over, N. H. tonight. Dartmouth now holds undisputed possession of second place with three victories and two defeats. Yale, through their defeat of Colum- bia last night, holds third place with an even break in six starts. Cornell has won one and lost two. A Cornell |victory tonight will tie all three of these teams for second place on the percentage system. Although Cornell gave the league leading Pennsylvania five a terrific battle before surrendering by two points last Saturday, only the most ardent of Ithacan rooters expect a Cornell victory over Dartmouth. The Indians' three victories all were {scored on their home floor and their {two defeats on alien courts. Yale's victory at New Haven last night was gained by means of a last half rally. Columbia led at half time 16 to 13 but the Bulldogs over- jwhelmed their New York rival in |the second half, scoring 24 points to jseven. Lou Nassau, Yale forward, was high scorer with four field goals and three fouls. The defeat dropped Columbia into fifth place with a single victory in four starts. NEW PONER DEAL INVOLVES HILLIORS {New England Power Body Buys Out Worcester Company Worcester, Mass., Feb, 16 UP— The Worcester Telegram said today that the Worcester Electric Light Company was sold yesterday after- noon to the New England Power As- sociation for $226 a share cash, aft- er a battle of millions in which the New England Gas and Electric as- soclation, owners of the Worcester, Cambridge and other gas and elec- tric light companies had offered $226 cash per share, which was considerably higher than an original offer made by the Power Associa- tion last week. Allowing for shares of the Worcester company previous- ly obtained by the New England Power assoclation at a much lower price, it is estimated in financial circles here that the power amocl- ation is paying approximately $21,- 000,000 for its new acquisition, Until news came tonight of the consummation of the deal, stock- holders were considering the New England Power association’s first of- fer and it was generally expected that it would be accepted, This was to have been an exchange of shares with no cash involved, and equiva- lent to $185 to $200 a share, de- pending on whether the rate for money was 5 per cent or 6 per cent. Five shares of the newly organized Massachusetts Light and Power as- soclation, paying $2 a year were to be exchanged for one ahare of Wor- cester Electric Light company pay- ing $6 a year. The new cash offer carries an op- tion to stockholders to take shares of the company instead of cash. The Power assoclation takes over the ‘Worcester company as of March 15. Counts Words in Bible; Scholarship His Reward Janesville, Wis,, Feb. 16 UP — Mark J. Goodger, a grocery clerk, pot only is & student of the Bible; he's a statistician of the Holy Book. In the past six months Goodger has read the Bible three times. He counted 775,693 words in the first reading; 31,373 verses the second time and 66 books and 1,189 chap- ters in his final study. For his accomplishment, Good- ger was awarded a scholarship by the American Bible society. He in- tends to enter the ministry. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN “I reckon I'm narrow, but when I give money to the preacher I hate to see his smart-Aleck boy spendin’ it on flappers.” (Copyright 1920, Publishers Syndicate) "NEW BRITAIN DATLY HERALD, SA’I‘U!!!IAY,‘~ FEBRUARY 16, 1929, WIN OVER GANS Batters Out Decisive Triumph From Fellow Townsman New York, Feb. 16 UPM—Jackie Fields, a fisticuffer's idea of p~rpet- uval motion, has begun an eastern invasion with another victory over Baby Joe Gans, Negro battler from Fields' own home town of Los An- geles, Boring In with both fists flying at all times, Fields battered out a decisive triumph on points over Gans in a 10-round match in Madi- son Bquare Garden last night. The official verdict gave Fields the 147-pound championship of Los Angeles but it did nothing much in the way of strengthening his posi- tion as the leading contender for Joe Dundee's welterweight crown and oga. Outweighing the Negro by five and a half pounds, Fields appeared certain to win on a knockout .as early as the second round. He had Gans stunned and reeling mid-way through this session, but apparently he didn’t know what to do with him. It was the same story in the thirl round when a looping overhand right followed by a left hook, Fields’ best weapon, had Gans holding on desperately. Try as he might, how- ever Fields could not finish his man. After that Jackie had no more of the well-known golden opportunities to send the crowd of some 15,000 home early. Gans, apparently more concerned with staying the limit than wita giving tit for tat, showed a momen. tary flash of Ms usual form in th: fourth round which he took by a wide margin. Stopping Fields' head- ling rushes with a left jab, Gans shot over jolting right hand punches to his white rival's jaw, but Fields took them all and came back for more. Both were tired under the fierce pace and there was little action in the next five rounds. Fields never quit trying, but his busy fists maul- ed the Negro around rather thas hurt him particularly. At that Jackie took the fifth, seventh ani elghth rounds with the sixth and ninth even. Gans did his best fighting in the tenth stanza. Apparently the fresh- er of the two, he sidestepped all of Jackie's wild charges and clipped the white hoy on the chin with right hooks as he went mailing by. The round was Gans’ beyond a doubt, but it could not make up for the overwhelming lead Fields had plled up in the first nine rounds. Although a small chorus of boos went up when the official verdict was announced, there seemed no question that Fields had won by a wide margin. The Assoclated Press 1acore sheet gave Fields five 1ounds, Gans two, with three even. Fields' showing wus a disappoint- ment to some eastern observers. His failure to knockout & man he outweighed by half a dosen pounds when the time seemed ripe was not calculation to boost his stock in the welterweight market. i AMAZING TALETOLD Bridgeport Bankruptcy Hearing Reveals Desceat From Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 16 UP— An amazing tale of a rapid descent from millions to the point where she pawned her jewelry to aasist her brothers, was unfloded In bankruptcy court here yesterday when Jane Locke 8hurtleff, of Low- ell, Mass., submitted to an cxamina- tion by attorneys for her creditors in a voluntary bankruptey, Mrs, Shurtleff’s affairs have be- come s0 involved with those of her husband, George L. Bhurtleff, and her two brothers, Herbert and John Locke, that it waq believed the three men who are under federal indictment in New York City, might be subpoenaed to this city to be ex- amined, Until recently Mrs, Shurtleff re- sided in an 18 room show place on the Post Road in Greenwich with the Lockes and her husband. In January, Deputy 8heriff Michael Ry- an of Greenwich took under execu- tion of judgment, household furni- ture valued at $130,000 and placed it in a 'warehouse in Greenwich, The furniture was Mrs, Bhurtleft’s only known asset, Mra. S8hurtleff was vague concern- ing the financial dealings of her husband and brothers and refused to answer many questions, 8he ad+ mitted that she did know that her brother, Herbert Locke, was the owner of an expensive European make automobile but had no knowl- edge that it had been given to Peggy Hopkins Joyce as a present, al- though it had not been completely paid for. Mrs, Shurtleff declared at one time she owned seven automobiles, the most expensive of which she sold to a taxi driver for a “mere trifling sum.” Ellen Douglas Lodge Sponsors Barrie Play Ellen Douglas lodge, No. 8, D. O. 8., will sponsor the first play to he presented by the Edinboro Players, an all Scotch organization whose purpose it is to produce ome play each year with a 8cotch locale. Their first play will J. M. Bar- rie's “What Every Woman Knows,” and will be under the direction of Mrs. Alfred Gordon Munroe at the FOR SALE BY MRS, SHURTLEFF Hartford Y. W. C. A. on Anm street oh ay, February 26, at 8:16 o'clock-\It 1 anticipated that many member§ of the New Britain D. O. 8. will att A ‘PURPLE GUNMEN . SOUGHT AS SPIES (Continued from First Page) It was the strongest declaration cne enforcement agency to another that has been heard in Chicago in a lorg time. It was followed by swift action. The police set out to make Chicago bone dry for the first time since prohibition. Shortly after midnight a sweeping i crder went forth from Commissioner Tussell’s office. All police captains closed all gambling houses, vice re- sorts, coft drink parlers, speakeasles, be- flats and any place where al- cohol is handled.” .. Frank J. Loesch, president of the Chicago crime commission, crusader against politico-criminals and first assistant state’'s attorney, dropped blame for the Moran mob massacre on the city hall doorstep. The li- censing of 7,000 soft drink parlors in Chicago, he said, had the approv- al of city officials “who knew that the applicants were men who would =ell liquor.” : “No Soft Drink Parlors” The Loesch statement parelleled the comment of his chief to police officers, The state's .attorney - had said that “there is no such thing as a soft drink parlors.” Commissioner Russell told Swan- son that the order would be obeyed; that the “parlors” would be raided ‘“regardless of what the courts do about warrants and regardless of |the city lcenses.” 1’ this order is carried -out liter- ally, Swanson said, Chicago will be {bone dry for the first time since, enactment of the prohibition law. George (Bugs) Moran, who left a hospital only a few days ago after an attack of influenza, blamed the murder of his seven associates on the Al Capone gang. Capone him- self, the outstanding figure in Chi- cago gangland, is in Florida. “There is only one gang that kills like that—one gang that would line up seven men against a wall and then shoot them down through the back,” Moran was quoted by the Ferald and Examiner as saying, “and that is the Al Capone gang.” “If there were any policemen in the shooting,” Moran added, *‘they were Cicero policemen,” Cicero is Capone’s place of residence. The al- lusion to policemen was in connec- tion with eye witness stories that two of the slayers wore police uni- forms and that the escape was made in a police squad car. No Basis for Theory The theory of Frederick D. 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It was based on the hypothesis that police officers conspired with mem- bers of the Moran gang in hijack- ing enterprises and shot down the seven when in danger of exposure. The identification of the purple gangster was made by Mrs. Michael Doody, who operates a rooming house directly across the street from the garage where the slayings took plays; George Hardway, one of her roomers, and Mrs. Mary Atkinson, proprietor of a rooming house a few doors north of Mrs. Doody’s. Mrs. Doody said the Keyweils, whom she knew as “Mr. Morris and his cousin,” had taken a room about two months ago, They had speci- fled a front room, overlooking the warage, and explained they were taxicab drivers, working at nigh They kept irregular hours, she said. They have not returned to the room since Thursday morning, a few hours before the murders. Hardway substantiated her identi- fication. Mrs. Atkinson told a similar story to that of Mrs. Doody and identified well, Police believe Phil Keywell at various times during the period be- fore the elayings, occupied first one 100m und then the other. DEAN OF AMERIGAN JOURNALISH DEAD (Continued from First Page) in my belief, to the American theo- one will challenge my firm convie- tion that our American theory of government is far and away the | Lest men, not perfect, 1 grant you, but the best existent.” Knew World Leaders | In his library were aptographed | photographs of the great figures of the world’s news from the Civil War, across more than half a cen- tury to the reconstruction period after the World War—Joffre, Taft, ‘Wilson, Roosevelt, Diaz, Caruso, the king of Siam. “Within my lifetime"” he was wont to say, “these men have made and c ged history.” Mrs. Martha McFarland Stone, to whom he was married in Chicago in 1869 survives him as does his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Beth Creighton Stone, and his brother, Professor Ormond S8tone, formerly on the faculty of the University of | Virginia. His two sons, Herbert B. Btone and Melville E. Stone, Jr., died before he did. Herbert Stone was lost when the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. French Chamber Denies Amnesty to Leon Daudet Parls, Feb, 16. P—The chamber of deputies, by a vote of 320 to 265, yesterday rejected a socialiat revolution that would have accorded amnesty to Leon Daubet, royalist leader who is a fugitive in Belgium; communists who are now in prison after ‘being elected to the chamber, and to antonomists who ' are be- ing prosecuted in Alsace, The governmenet made the ques- tion one of confidence. Louls Bar- thou, minister of justice, told the deputies that although aminesty ap- pictures of Fletcher and Phil Key- | ry of government. And I hope no| ever devised by the sons of | wolons. They were luvited lo take 3u airplane rido over the airport and— they accepted. Guests of the airmen at the air. {port yesterday, the legislators saw Boston. Including the airport and much of the offshore Atlantic. Those who went up were: Representatives Hanson, Waltham; Otis, Pittatield; Libby, Milford; Twohig, Sou Boa- ton; Connolly, Boston; Goulhart, New Bedford;; Gravel, New Bed- ford; Carp, Jawmaica Plain. iStandard Oil Employes Stand Behind Stewart Chicago, Feb. 16 .UM—The em- ployes counsel, claiming to reprpsent most of the 25,000 employees of $he Standard Oll company asking for re-election of the directors of the concern, . The employes counsel or commit- {tee represents employes under the standard oil's industrial relations plan, organized in 1919, | power to refer to the department of labor at Washington and disputes | With the management which is un- der agreement to abide by decisions made there, . . {Boston Chinamen Found ’ Not Guilty of Murder Boston, Feb, 16 (M- Ung' Hong Yen and Harry Lamb, Chinese, were ix‘ound not guitly of murder in con- and has| nection” with the dealh of leo: Wee Kin, Chineses laundryman. by & Suf-- folk county jury last wight. The! jury had becn out § hours and 4 wminutes. Lee Wee Kin was found dead in' his South End laundry, Oct, 16, 1925, ! Witnesses had testified that two Chineses had saturated his clothing with kerosene and then ignited it. Out of 588 street accidents in- quired into by, the ministry of Lrans- port, London, ‘only 24 were causcd by people on foot. 17 . City Advertisement Al N GASOLINE STATION HEARING Notice is hereby given that a hear. ing will be held in the office of the Board of Public Works at 7:30 p. m., Tueaday, February 26th, 1929, tive to the application of Gordes Auto Supply Co. for approval of ap- plication for permit for gasoline fill- ing station to be located at 63 Broad St., (on-asite of present station,) in accordance with the Public Acts of 1927, All persons interested are request- ed to be present at sald hearing, if they see cause, and be heard in re- lation. to the above. A. M, PAONESSA, Mayer. MOORLAND FARM Costs More C. R. WEIDMAN, Supt. | wear. pealed to everybody as o measure of clemency, it ought not to be ap- plied to certain cases, cspeclally if | the persons concerned would be en- | couraged by official forgiveness to! begin seditious political activity ali| over again, Bay State Legislators Learn by Airplane Ride' Boston,” Feb, 16 ‘Mazsichu- setts legislators are willing to be| shown, Before the legislature at the pres- ent time are several bills affecting | the Boston. airport. First hand| knowledge of conditions there were | considered necessary by some of the THE VERY FIRGT wiw -15 sav Y| AWAY"? ‘Golden Guernsey Milk Absolutely Safe Raw Milk, Containing All the Vitamines Worth More TEL. 3940 GARMENTS DYED Look over your wardrobe now and see if there is not a garment that by dyeing it a new shade may save you buying a new one for Spring The New Britain Dry Cleaning Corp. 96 and 415 W. Main Street Phone 364 or 1323 QUESTION T RIGHT TO HAVE WENT ~ol