New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1929, Page 3

AND GRITC, DEAD Eminent Playwright and Educe- tor Victim of Influenza New York, April 1 (M—Brander Matthews, eritic, educator and play- MATTHEWS, WRITER [SCEOEL WanteD g Local Policeman Will Take Long | pared and a local police officer will be sent to Los Vegas, Nevada, to bring back Eugene Schoell of this DENIES MRS, DEKING MADE LIQUOR SALE Witaes Cames Forwand in Slay- ing of Woman By Raiders Aurora, 111, April 1 #—The man LOCATED IN NEVADA Trip After Former New Britainite, Extradition papers are being pre- wright, died yesterday of influenza and the lingering effects of a stroke ©of paralysis he suffered two and a half years ago. He was 77 years old. Born in New Orleans, he was edu- cated at Columbla university and in professor of English In 1900 he was given the 1591 became there. city to stand trial on the charge of {lalfl to have made the “buy” in the | non-support. Kchoell, who is about | De King liquor raid case has beea | declony 1;‘;':';?“; ‘b"mf:;:'b‘c; z‘y {tound. He is Philip Johnson and he Lieutenant Samuel Bamforth on the | '8 w84 stomerm st e filner same charge, supported his wife and | DIFGise liquor from Xra. Lillian two children until November, 1928, | D¢ King at all according to the police, but in De- | The shooting to death of Mrs. cember he left Connecticut. De King a week ago by a deputy LOOMIS, MALONE, CHOSEN DIRECTORS UNDER MEYER Fidelity Finance and Fidelity Com- pany, iecome Ome Concern— Bank Not Comcermed. John C. Loomis, president of the Commercial Trust company, and Judge William J. Malone of Bristol, were elected directors at 3 meeting, Saturday afternoon, which brought bout a merger of the Fidelity Com- pany of Connecticut, and the Fidelity | Finance corporation, under the name of the former. Represented at the meeting were 61,775 shares of the finance corpora- tion and 4,325 shares of the other chair of dramatic literature, which he held until his retirement in 1924. For 50 years he was a noted first nighter. His dramatic works {n. cluded “A Gold Mine,” “Margery's Lovers,” “On Probation” and “The Decision of the Court.”” He also wrote one novel, “His Father's Hon,” and numerous volumes de- voted to studies of the drama and essays on literary subjects. Remaining as a memorial to him i3 a collection of stage sets show- ing the progress of dramatic meth- ods from the Acropolis to Broad- way. This is known as the Brander Matthews Dramatic museum and is housed at Columbia. He served as president of the Na- tional Institute of Arts and Letters and was first chairman of the sim- plificd spelling board. | 8P to an. of co ca in raj th Crony of Twain and Howells Jan Brander Matthews, who dropped his first name early in his| literary carcer, was one of the last the “Eminent Victorians” of n origin. He was a crony of Mark Twain and William Dean Mowells, a friend of Kipling and Roosevelt, and co-worker in Eng- land and France with writers and stage folk of the seventies, “clegant eightics,” and “gay nineties.” Brander Matthews studied for the bar, but abandoned law for litera- | | and unable to get around except in |child, acting as a county investiga- | a wheel chair. [t is believed he went |tor, declared he had made from n} which divorces are intention to marry a woman who is was obtained was inaccurate in de- iiving in a town near New Britain. claring he personally had made the | SPRING BED FOOLS | NEW AFGHAN KING Chief Hart from Sheriff 8am Gray until an officer arrives. has not yet assigned anyone to make GIVEN THREE-YEAR Texan Who Killed Minister Will: His whereabouts were not known sherlff took place at the De King| until he started divorce proceedings |home during a raid made under a/ against his wife, charging her with search warrant. desertion and habitual cruelty, de- |turn, was predicated on a “buy” of The warrant, in ite the fhct that she is an invali |liguor which Eugene Boyd Fair- Nevada becalse of the ease with |woman at the De King home. granted there, | Fairchild told authorities that the d the police suspect that it was his 'complaint on which the warrant According to word recelved by | purchase. He sald Johnson, son of |a gas station owner at Batavia, IIL, had been the actual buyer of the ! liquor, using money which Fairchill | turnished. Johnson told attorneys represent- {ing Joseph De King that he did not | buy the liquor from a woman at the | De King home, but “from a man in | front of Stafford's fllling station, which is near the De King home. | | Shortly after Johnson's aceount was made known last night, State's Attorney George D. Carbary of Kane | county, under whose cleanup cam- | | paign the rald was made, indicated [he might turn the investigation over . !to the attorney general of Illinois. {Such an actfon would be an unusual procedure, inasmuch as Illinois law | provides that the attorney general | act only when a county prosecutor | has been found to be prejudiced. ‘Wants Complete Investigation Nevada, Schoell has engag>d unsel and threatens to institutet eas corpus proceedings. 'The lo- 1 police expect, however, that the formation contained in the war- nt will be sufficient to hold him Chiet Hart e trip. Appeal From Decision that he was ‘Resilency Loads Him to Pear : | of fellow judging from crganization. The corporation creat- ed by the merger will have a paid- in capital ot $500,000 and earned | surplus of $77,000. The consolidation -is effective to- | day with Joseph M. Chernoff con- tinuing in the presidency. The Fidel- ity Industrial bank, of which Mr. Chernoft is also the president, is not included in the merger., Presence of Assassin Bombay, April 1 (UP)—Bac sakoa’, water-carrier, rebel lead and now self-proclaimed king of Afghanistan must be a simple sort the stories which are being told about him. Habibullah, as he calls himsel?, is described as a short man Wwith a thickset figure. He wears a heavy beard, and although he gives the ap- pearance of having a bold air, he wears clothes conspicuous for their Carbary said this procedure would | lack of finery. One typical story of his stmplicity. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL §, LIQUOR AND AUTO DRAWS 100 FIN Judge Traceski Again Declares | | | Two Will Not Mix Pleading guilty to charges of driv- ing an automobile while under the influence of liguor and without @ license, Anthony Yankowski, 27, of 292 Park street, was fined $100 and costs with a suspended jall sentence of 15 days on the first charge, and $10 and costs on the second, by Judge Stalney J. Traceskl in police court today. Mrs, Mary Cornwall, 87, of 241 Chestnut street, who was with Yankowski when he was ar- rested, pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness and was fined $5 and costs. % Officer Edward roll testifled that he was on Kelsey street at 11:. a zigzag manner. Commandeering another car, the officer gave chase and Yankowsk! stopped on Rocky Hill avenue in obedience to two blasts from the police whistle. Or- dered to get out of the car and walk ten paces, Yankowski stagger- ©d, the officer sald, and on the way to police headquarters he admitted that he had iree Lottles of beer After Sergeant M. J. Flynn drive a car, the latter took the witness stand and asked for lentency. He realized that he should not have been driving in his condition and he was sorry about it. He sald he had not worked In eightcen months and |it fined he would like 90 days time in which to pay it to the probation officer. After court his sister paid hia fines and costs. Breach of the Peace Edward Deminski, 21, of 19 Locust street and James McCabe. 23, of 62 Trinity street, pleaded mot guilty to |55 Saturday night when an automo- | bile driven by Yankowski passed in i had | | testified that Yankowski was untit i charges of breach of the peace and drunkennesa, but were found guilty and fined $10 and costs each. They were arrested by Officer Willlam J. Grabeck, who testified that John Amend, proprietor of a store and pool room at 103 Myrtle street, call- ed him in about 10:15 last night and complained that the young men would not leave. They had come in about 9 o'clock and insisted on play- ing pool but Amend would not al- | low them to use the tables Lecause it was Sunday. The officer told them they must leave, but gave them time to drink clder which they had before them, McCabe, however, declared that no- body could put him out unless he wanted to go. but the officer eject- ed him and his companion and fol- lowed them down the street, still they would not go home and it was necessary to arrest them. McCabe declined to make a state- ment, but Deminski took the stand and denied that they were intoxi- cated. Each had one glass of clder, he sald, and there was no disturb- ance of any kind in the place. He sald the officer used his night stick on him and Judge Traceskl asked him if it were not true that he and McCabe were “fresh” with the of- ficer. No Windshield Wiper Frank Pletraszewski, 17, of 41 Alen street, pleaded gullty to the charge of driving an automobile without & winds..2ld wiper. Officer L. E. Harper testified that he warn. ed Pietraszewsk!'s brother last Tues. day during a rainstorm, to equip his bakery truck with a wiper, and about 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon he saw Frank driving the same truck with no wiper. Pletraszewaki told Judge Traceski | he did not know his brother had been warned, and when he was ar- rested he was on the way to have a wiper Instalied. Judgment was suspended on payment of costs. Husband vs. Wife “She said enough,” was Charles W. Palmer's only comment after pleading gullty to breach of the peace. Mrs. Palmer testified that there has been trouble in the household for eight years, and after supper Saturday night her‘ Ruanda itself, he said, was a land, husband abused her verbally, with- | of “living skeletons.” Smalipox and: out warning and for no particular | dysentery have followed famine and . reason. Money and his children are the govevrnment sent help tqo late the root of the trouble, she said. to avert the catastrophe but now is Officer L. E. Harper testified that | Spending much money and taking he made the arrest about 7:15 p. m. | “ctive steps to remedy the situationg | Palmer is 42 years of age and lives at %52 Arch street, Mrs. Palmer |sald ehe has three children by her | first husband, who is dead, and four | giien py Dugald MacMillan to the by Palmer. A 5 ; ’ ! Actna Life Insurance Co. on the Judge Traceski imposed a fine Of |}, yginess and residence building at MORTGAGE GIVEN A mortgage of $90,000 has been' |35 and costs and placed Palmer on | Main and Court streets. A former probation. | mortgage of 354.000, held by the { Rogers Realty Co., was released. Repayment will be made on a basis $4.500 a year for five years and 500 becomes due Ju . 1939, NISSIONER REPORTS " FAMINE IN CONGO The United States kilowatt hours of over 114 electricity per Failure of Crops Brings Natives year for each 1nan, woman and child; Germany uses only five anl Denmark only a fraction of one. the charge of ' To Starvation Gonditions London, April 1 (#—The D: Sxpress in a dispatch from Nairobi, today described “terrible (famine conditions” in the Kuanda | | district of the Belgian Congo. The | laccount was credited to Dr. J. E.| | Chureh, British missionary working there. | Owing to the successive failure of ! crops during two or three rainy sea- sons, the backward state of agricul- iture, and indifferent state of com- | i munciations thousands are dead and dying of starvation, the Kxpress | quotes the minister as saving. { Since December, when the Uganda government prohibited exportation of foodstuffs to Ituanda the natives of the latter district have tried to migrate to the former but thousands . {have never reached their goal and | the fever stricken district through | | which they trekked fs Mttered with ' their corpses, the missionary wrotc. | Tracks, he sald, are crowded with | i natives staggering along with falling {strength. Women and children have lain helpless by the sides of the roads and in some cases have been eaten by hyenas which began !heir{ | The Best | Spring Tonic MEDICINE Over 73 years in use — must be good. meal before they were dead. Tyler, Tex., April 1 P—Scntenced N0t necessarily mean ! to three years in prison for the mur- | prejudiced but that he de!nred‘ e : > or y ” lete investigation and punish-| 21, 1852 son of Edward Mat-|der “without malice aforethought,” | COmp L 5 el -l S - i v, New |Some pastor whom he accused of in- | laling the law. - a % I\.A\\lal "I‘Iu“:‘mm ‘:‘lx:;::?é‘er ;\l;‘l‘(iumacy with his wife, Loys Wilson, | Ie reiterated his belief that Depu-"’“, the hn'ad of the rebel -t:n;;. he : ork. I ‘)‘;)ung):p AELEL ' | Young Troup Texas' garage man, |ty Sheriff Roy Smith. who did the | eventually found h)s'ideal el roor]n iis academic degree in 1871, his law | FORE TR TORS H re o |shooting. acted in seif-defense, be- |In What liad formerly been Amanul. Oognae NOMTEMY Bioh A0E o et iigher court | lieving that Mrs. DeKing intended to | lah’s bathroom. There a spring bed other two years departed for Eu-|® HBEFLCORTL o of shoot him after he had siugged her | Vas placed for him, but uhenhhe lay rope and a career in letters. Wilson yesterday after 24 hours de- |husband, Joseph. The deputy him.|upon it for the first time he was After several years in London and | 0 v 3 | gelt 1 leg by the De | Breatly alarmed at the movements ; g g o any |iberation, while the Rev. H. H. |8elf was shot in the leg by the De | h hi Y tumned Paris writing much, - Mmaking many | wailace, the slain man's father, was | King's young son, Gerald, and is re- | e7eath im a8 he utned, ture after two years' practice. He was Lorn in New Orleans February the authenticity of which is not vouched for, deals with a spring bed. [ gntrqducing. R RAYON VELOUR the newest living room furniture covering It Never Fades --- It's Moth Proof ---Rich in Color --- Soft as Down fricnds and reading constantly, he| 5 | covering. in a Jumping out of hed, he called ! preaching an Easter morning ser- |coVering in a hospital. B hecame professor of English at Co- [mon in @ nearby church, Robert A. Ilroy, attorney repre-|Llis guard to search for an assassin lumbia university, York, in in the room, but without result. senting DeKing, announced receipt of an offer of $5,000 from Orman W. +Ewing of Salt J.ake City, for prose- Wilson said he killed the pastor a year ago because Mrs. Wilson had bro; a promise to ‘put the Habibullah's personal aversion to crime is fllustrated by the story of 1891, professor of literature the fole | lowing vear, and was professor of | dramatic literature from 1900 0| proacher out of her life It was al. | cution of officials responsible for the | fhe belnent ol & Tea Thome 104, | 1¢ged he walked up to the Rev. Mr. | shootins. [FEeURE g ol I SnaiatR 0t Although for 33 years a teacher | Wallace, shouted, “prepare to meot | Many letters offering assistance o IRE P | nave been iy by Milroy. o | Was to be secured in such a manner L eigecrived by Milroy: OB 0, he could neither sit nor stand T am 36 years old, six feet tall, | UP» and a sentry was posted by him weigh 178 pounds and am single, |10 €xplain his crime to everyone The same hand that is writing {his | th3¢ F}“I-‘“d 1:“-, . has pulled the triggers of varlous| Dachai-sakoa's power over his Vickers and Browning machine (f00P3 18 augmented by the belief | suns in Trance. T will be at your that he has a charmed life. o Once during his December attack service, should you nced me. 5 2 With the appearance of the actual | o7 Kabul he was standing in the liquor buyer, every major witness in | open, regardless of the fact that the the cas¢ was expected to be avail- of literature and dramaturgy, Mate thews led a far from cloistered life. His loves were hooks, the theater, | and writing, and his acquaintance | in all three flelds was wide in seve | eral countries of the western world. | Tn ¥ngland he was a close friend ! of Austin Dobson and Andrew Lang, | and he served for a time on the Sarurday Review. When a young man, attracted to the theat he met and married thy God!” and shot him down. Mrs. Wilson, a choir singer in the minister's church in Troup, testif; ing for her husband, told of thre intimate “love trysts’” Prosccution presented testimony to gentradict her story of two of them. The Rev. Mr. Wallace, who was 26 years old, formerly was a well | nown foothall player in Kentucky and coached a gridiron team in Troup. | enemy guns were directed against him personally. One shell fell at his \da S Smith, an actress with a able tomorrow when the inquest into | i 2 4 : ith. ress with o > B eIOT e e et et and threw him violently to the e l C f M hed P O e oy T%eun: Hushand Complains Wife |~ """ 15* 2770 % 7% ground in a shower of dust, so the n a ‘urouping o atc leces gy ¥ ‘ D ve o | | story runs, but when the air had nings’ at the Matthews home that| Decamped With Children | Rush to Escape Tax | cleared again he was getting up were a feature of stage and literary | cireles of New York for more than | a Matthew Osszust of 139 Fulton street, Brooklyn. N. Y.. called at po- | el |ilce headquarters shortly before 12 The death of his only daughter. |o'clock last night and told Sergeant the death of lis wife, and his own | M. J. Flynn his wife and two chil- reticement’ from Columbia for il |dren left him and he located them heuith in 1924, seemed to presage |at T1 Fuirviow street but bis wite to- his desertion of society. Iow.ver, |fused to return with him, nor would he suddenly put sorrow behind him, | she allow him to take the children. hegan to resume theater going, even | Sergeant Fiynn explained to him | linquent class. Saturday, 4.746 cal. | R wrote a book on the current thea |that the police were powerless to |ed at tue office of the tax collector,| Tooth brushes and handkerchiefs . compel Mra. Osszust to return. and | establishing 2 new record and turn. | have figured among the tokens of from the ground unhurt. But Habibullah does not take un- due risks now that he has attained | his objective, Realizing the enmity { with which he is faced he often at- | tends prayers surrounded by sol- out the additional delinquency tax | diers with loaded rifles who closely of $1 it was evident that there woul | guard the mosque in which he wor- be few more than 1,000 in the de- | ShIPs. | . 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