New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1929, Page 3

FRIENDLY SCUFRLE RESULTS N DEATH Bivin Hil, N, Y. U. Hllbck, Dies From Bulet Wound New York, May 8 (UP)—Edwin Hill, halfback on the New York university football team last year, was fatally wounded last night in what was termed a “friendly acuf- fle” with a policeman for the latter's pistol. Patrolman Joseph Green, who was stationed in a booth in the Bronx near the university campus, said Hill and John Bunyan, also & member of the football team, stop- ped to chat with him about 11:30 p.m. Two girls nppmnchrd along the street outside the booth, Green said, and Hill shouted: “Here comes a couple of awell dares. Let's have some fun.” The patrolman declared Hill reached for his pistol and the next thing he knew the football atar was waving the gun. Green reached for the pistol and he and Hill scuffled Inside the booth. Suddenly the gun went off and Hill fell with a bullet through his chest. Physicians were summoned from ¥Fordham hospital but Hill was dead when they arrived. After a preliminary investigation, District Attorney John E. McGeehan pronounced the tragedy “a plain gase of skylarking. Hill's home was in Burgettstown, Pa. He was graduated from the Bellefonte academy in Pennsylvania where his football record earned him an athletic scholarship at the New York university. JURYHAN ARRESTED ON BRIBERY CHARGE Tennessee Atty. General Again Loses Murder Trial Vendict Nashville, Tenn., May 8 (®—B. P. Osburn, sole juror in the second trial of Walter Liggett for the mur- der of Turner Cunningham, to de- mand a verdict for acquittal and “Coon" Creswell, a grocer, were ar- rested early today on warrants charging them with acceptance of a bribe and bribery. The jury, like the first one four months ago. reported yesterday that #t was unable to agree. Eleven members of the panel were reported to have favored a first degree ver- dict carrying a prison term of 99 years. The warrants were issued last night after an investigation by At- torney General Richard H. Atkinson, They were based on a message in which Creswell told Osburn “not to worry about that bill” he owed him. *I will take care of it", Os- born Is reported to have replied “all right.” when given the message. Askinson said last night he would bring the case before each term of criminal court until a verdict is reached. Jack Quinn, itinerant boilermaker, Liggett's “surprise” eye witness to the shooting, was indicted for per- Jury in connection with his testi- mony at the first trial. He forfeited bond posted by C. L. Liggett, the de- fendant’s father, but later appeared in time for the second trial. He was not called. 1iggett shot and killed Cunning- ham in an alley behind the Cun- | ningham home on October 29 last, after keeping a tryst with Mrs. Cunningham. She and the defend- | ant admitted an affair extending over several years. MATCHED FOR BOUT Chicago, May 8 P—Al Fay. the big boy who Jack Kearns thinks is ® heavyweight champion possibil- fty, was matched today to fight Harry Dillon, the Canadian scrapper, in a 10 round bout here next Mon- | day. DROPS DEAD AFTER RACE Laurel, Miss. May 8 (P — Tory Round, 19 year old Laurel high school boy, had just finished the 440 yard dash in 55 5-10 seconds here yesterday when he dropped dead from heart disease. He was trying out for a state track meet. wait to see if 2 hudax:he “wear off.” Why suffer when there’s Bayer Aspirin? The millions of men and women who use it in increasing quantities eve year prove that it does relieve su pain. The medical profession pro- nounces it without effect on the heart, so use it as oéten a; it can spare you any pain. Every druggist always has genuine Bayer Aspirin for the prompt relief of a headache, colds, neuralgia, lumbago, etc. Fa- miliarize yourself with the proven dircctions in every package. Charles Quigley With - Hampden in “Cyrano” CHARLES QUIGLEY Charles Quigley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Quigley of 410 Stanley street, will appear in the cast of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” which will be presented at Parsons’ theater, Hartford, with Walter Hampden in the title role, for three days begin- ning next Monday. Mr. Quigley has enjoyed notable success in the field of drama, being recognized as one of the most skill- ful actors in higher class plays. He has appeared with a number of cele- brated leaders of the theater and his progress has been certain from the time he first appeared in a minor role after being graduated from New Britain High school. He has been with Jane Cowl in “The Road to Rome,” played in “A Lady's Vir- ture” and with Grant Mitchell, in addition to several others. Hampden's company is appearing in New Haven this week. Mr. Quigley’s sister, Mildred, has also achieved success in the world of the stage. FALLS DOW l'l ALTO Morris Jotkowitz 0( 90 West street reported to Detective Sergeant’ El- linger that he was driving south on Curtis street about 5:55 yesterday afternoon and a girl was crossing near Myrtle street, from the east to the west side of Curtis street. She fell down but did not appear injur- ed, and Jotkowitz said he did not know whether his truck struck her or not. The girl was frightened and criel, Jotkowitz did not learn her name and address, MOTH DAY PROGRAM The Luther league of the First Lutheran church will hold its regu- lar meeting on Thursday evening. There will be a Mother's Day pro- gram given, which is in charge of Miss Ingaborg Olson. ] i “m, A A\' i Imn‘ NN Q= NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929, ASTRONDNERS HOPE FOR GOOD WEATHER *for Solar Eclipse Manila, May 8 UP—Five groups of scientists who have spent months of | time, thousands of doll and trav- eled thousands of miles for a four minute look at the total eclipse of |the sun tomorrow, were overjoyed today at the prospect of fair weath- er for their observations. The eclipse will appear at sun- rise in the far southwestern corner of the Indian ocean and will be vis- ible over a slightly curved streak of the earth’s surface almost from the ‘enLern coast of Africa to a point i near mid-Pacific, just south of the equator. This streak, which will be !about 100 miles in width, will be darkened as the moon partially blots out the light of the sun. At Iloilo, in the central part of the Philippine archipelago, five sci- entific groups have gathered. Iloilo will be in the center of the darkened streak and about midway between the beginning and end of it, thus of- fering a point of vantage for the observations, To Study Corona The greatest hope of the scientists is that they may be able to find out more about the sun's corona. While the moon covers up the sun's face, the corona, composed of finely divided particles of matter shootiny outward in all directions from the solar surface like the blaze from & fire, can be seen through telescopes without the prospect of the direct light of the sun interfering. The matter in the corona has been nam- ed coronium, but just what elements it contains is not known. Some of them have been determined. To- morrow's observations may result in the recognition of others, The largest scientific group at Tloilo is the United States naval ob- servatory expedition, headed Ly Commander O, H. J. Keppler. An- other group is from Johns Hopkins uni\‘erslty, headed by Dr. Reginald L. Waterfield and Dr. Wyndham E. B. Lloyd, of London. A short dis- tance to the east, on the Island of Cebu, the University of Hamburg expedition, headed by Dr. Walter Beade and Dr. Bernard Schmidt awaits the phenomenon. A group of observers from the Manila o0b- servatory also are at Iloilo, The total eclipse will be observ- able only on a line running through the center of this 100 mile wide streak. From that line to the outer edge it will be seen only as a par- tial eclipse, varying in its degree of solar obscuration according to the distance from the center of the streak. In Manila the sun will be 90 per cent eclipsed at the maxi- mum. Scientists have gathered at several other points along the center of the Groups in South Pacific Waiting bath of obacuration. ' These points include 1di, Northwestern Sumatra; Alor Star, Jitra, Kodiah, Pattani and Khoke Bhode, in the federated Malay atates; at'she French islani of Poulo Condofe, southern tip of Cochin China, and on the Philip- pine Island of Palawan. PATRONAGE ROW ing Like Georgians Washington, May 8. P—A pat- ronage controversy of proportions approaching that in Georgia, ap- pears to be developing among repub- lican party leaders in Florida. It has its roots in the committee plan of handling patronage in some of the southern states and for the moment the principal contestants are Glen Skipper, republican nation- al committeeman for Florida, and A. F. Knoits, chairman of the party's state committee. Since Florida is one of the four southern states which gave Presi- dent Hoover a majority last No- vember, some party leaders are con- cerned about the present asituation. They have been hopeful of strength- ening the party machinery all along the line and consolidating the gains made in the election. Postmaster General Brown, who is | directing the activities of the admin- istration committee dealing with patronage matters here, is hopeful that the national and state party or- ganizations will be able to get to- gether and work out their problems | in_harmony. He has confered with both sides, but he and other members of his committee assert that there is no foundation for a report that the national party organization in Flori- da would be recognized on post- master appointments and the state organization on other matters. There also have been reports that this was the basis upon which the two separate committees set up in Georgia by Horace A. Mann on the one side and the postmaster general on the other, would work out their ditferences, but so far confirmation is lacking. The Georgia controversy was recently laid before President Hoover. 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