New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1929, Page 2

"o NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, PTEMBER 17, 1929. the progress of the negotia- JAPAN WILL SEFi HIGH SHIP RATING IN NAVAL PARLEY rned with the ] ke a total ton- Cabinet Censiders Situaticn consonance authorities preparator: Yamaguchi vill sail from | ONE DAY FUNERAI STRIKE 15 FAILURE “ontinued From Firs Received Coolldge ttritstrEREEGNRLid had received his ad heen sent to union expense “What did they administrat was no God thef1al” here raving in wh it out and some negotiations and th the proposition of wi proy with union mem? urging organization xdmitted being at t harrus county. s Alley Gate Down MARTINIQUI + STATE CONSCRIPTS FOREST FIRE HELP (Continued From Iirst Page) canyon last night after it had been fed to seething fury by the oil be- spattered side of the mountain About 250 residents of the canyon area were ordered out of their homes as a precautionary measure When the fire reached the top of | Sulphur mountain a tank containing contents toward the valley below. Damage was estimated in excess of Large Tield Not Hit The oil derricks already burned were not considercd part of the Yen- tura Avenue field which stretches out northea of town and which | ricks. The Ventura field is an old one red a good producer with drilling going on daily for new production 0il men said tremendous loss could result should the fire, which has still s consid ravaged more than 7.000 acres, | reach the field. Considerable storage oil in tanks is scattered about the! district threatened by the flames. Weary Men DBattle Blaze Portland, Ore.. Sept army of weary, sleepless men were stationed along far flung fronts in | the foothills of the Cascades today tching the progress of a forest in its erratic pro Sunday had blackened 13, res, destroyed six hou ss since ) tim- bere hotel, a school, a logging camp. two tempor: vy forestry camps, tr 200 fighters and sent one workman to a hospital violently insane fire swept down from the t Hood National Ilorest Sunday rday a stiff it roaring down t and early yes southeast wind s the Clackamas river valley toward Estacada Ore., a town of 2,000 population, and hefore its advance conld be checked, it had licked a 16 mi pathway through the forest to in five miles of the city limits. 200 Fighting Blaze Somewhere to the east of the firc line in what apparently had been a inferno Sunday night when a strong wind whipped it into fury, the 200 fire fighters, headed by T. H Sherrard, supervisor of the Mount Hood National forest. were either fighting new blazes or beating their way back to civilization. Forest trails were blocked by fallen, smouldering {rees. Roads which penetrated this district were strewn with ashes an inch deep in places and by great| trecs which went down under the ry of the flames Special couriers, sent out from the Pacific northwest district fire office here scoured the territory in search of the party. Oificials said they believed the men were safo, | that all were experienced forest men, although they indicated some inquiries for uneasiness by repea them Terrific heat from the wind fan ned flames which threatened Esta- cada yesterduy sent Roy Van, of | Esiacada, a fire fighter, to a hospi- physicians enfd was a fit of temporary insan- ity. Lozging Camp Destroyed In a space of one hour the log- ging camp of the La Dee Logging company burned leaving me women and children stranded twos and threes they fought their way through tangled underbrush to| the safety of Estacada Two temporary forestry —camps. established as bases for fire fight- ers, were consumed. Dozens of Sxkes nandginumee Land i buskeel ()j) Tan melted. The same blaze destroye the $50,000 log l.a Barre hotel, m\o\ {ime prominent Cascade summer re- | [ cands of gallons of oil this afternoon sort. Although Estacada residents feared the town might be winod out, only a few loft the city with their belongings for Portland and other northern sections. However in the rural districts, settlers hur ly packed their hou-ehold ¢ ri yards in anticipation of flecing be fore the flames. Some abandoned homes and went to Estacadd the Others remained to fight the flames | only to see their homes reduced to 1shes Children perched themselves atop their homes with water buckets to watch advancing flames or recover- eod their school books from desis rriedly removed from the burn- nz school building. Livestock was herded into corals preparatory to 1 «wift run to places of safety. ted Cross on Job Portland Red Cross officials last t were in IEstacada surveying the damage and rounding up set- ers made homeless. Ofiicials said that if a wind did the situation probab'y vould be controlled before n fall Ol Tank Explodes Ventura, Cal 17 (P—A fi at started from a broken electric power line and whipped its ) L 7,000 acre inferno when fed by g oil from a tank that explod- ed from the resulting heat threat- cned the home of Santa Paula inyon near here today. A force of g to save th safety measure. estimated at about $2.- 1 heen done by the bla nd 1t still was burning with terri ic force, although it had been par tially controlled. Iire wardens said acated as a that many homes still were in da ger but that they hoped to entirely subdue the blaze before it had de- stroyed much more property. The fire st ed yesterday five miles north of Sunta Paula swept toward the canyon, soon ting a p two miles wi bout five iles along Ranch houses, oil derricks and other pro- perty went up in flataes When the blaze reached the sum- mit of hur mountain a tan} 11,000 hare ed over from the heat black tide of liquid fue ontainin of oil boil 1 se into 1 valley below. T fire picked up the oil and rolled toward the resi- tial section of the canyon. I wdens said they could save th vacated homes unless the wind fa ored the fire Three Are Missing Fire wardens reported that two was seriously automobile which had crawled in were overcome chairman | terday and last n wind carried flames away intelligent and cfficient fireman who | dicate exactly what Peacox’s def 11,000 barrels of oil boiled over from | | zood officer the heat and spilled its inflammable continuously the ground surrounded s two or three hundred der-| sonsideration 'TRYING FOR COMPROMISE ON ANDREWS' STORE FIGHT Being Preps Consideration compromise | {Pr—An | strants in Belvidere. Attorney Isracl Nair is having to Attorney or objectors to t full hoard at ate meeting held previous to the ap od | nEsE! Nair is counsel Andrews who is t to recognition of appointment sulted in a prot not discussing the ntleman who received the a aring before was halted was a candidate last Novem- Chairma i dj another man much young- m:»pur with a suggestion that a com- representa- y Nair's move . by a gentie- FRENCH DENY RUMOR OF NEW OCCUPATION (Continued ns to me at that ti of the firemen now and capable to cover the (o French garrison posts mayor was afraid no appointed fearing have heen accused of » he could not get | ity defense, but 1 ment to he evacuated from Coblenz, | nepotism, and s to be followed by lwhether they wen th will return to their homes after long service not get the appointment departure of | shonld others got munitions to have to recall reopen some sore spots in cobblestones of » of the retreating armies during the dramatic preventirz me from doing so befare the appointment Naval Ballomliéts Land .'\'efl_r York Village_. Me. illetting deta Metz and Alsace. quarters at Ablaze in Hull, England Today 17 (A—Tho balloon to earth Moulton here The landing was m: talloonists noted the Piscataqua heavy current xm s shook 1 prevented them from seeing the into trucks or set them yn‘.mmh:r tank containing | from Hull and surrounding = = SPEEDER PAYS FINE | the blazing tanks shot hundred feet. It was expected the the charge of speeding on police court TITERARY GUILD MEETING to superior ng tomorrow organizations, arrangements commercial . . on the dot . . on the spot armth j after police had ordered | ‘Westinghouse Electrification THE SPRING & BUCKLEY ELECTRIC €O, New Britain, Conn. RAYMOND ELECTRIC COMPANY, & BAMPORTH 29 School Street, Bristol, Conn. (LAIMS PAONESSA NAMIE EIGHTH AN PROPOSED VERANO FOR PEAGOX JURY: + TRIAL SLOWING 0P : (Continued Irom First Page) ght. Tt was expect- ed the jmy would be completed to- day and that the detense would in- would be Although Sydney A. Syvme, Peacox t efense counsel for vou cnied the authenticity of the con- jon authoritics said they ed from Peacox after the death o his wite, Dorothy he made it plain yesterday the defense would not at- ltempt to deny Peacox Killed her in their apartment in a fo mily house on the ts of Mount Vernon late on iy last April. In fact, Syme made a point of telling cach prospect ror that I'cacox himself wou et stand and tell of killing Dorot «d if this fact would preju 1en in reach their verdic et said Peacox would tell o is tempt to burn ' o oad side five days ' Must Prove Premeditation He rveminded the talesmer the state must prove the slay premeditated and liberate tain the vedict ot guilty of first-de gree murder, by which it sevhs to send Peacox to the ¢ He said Peacox would Nilled his wife with () revolver durinz an altercation in which she attempted to strike with a metal hook-end. Beyond t however, he gave no intimation he would combat the sta tention that the killing v neditated To combut the prosecution’s at- empt to sho ately planned to estibl with the aid of Miss Dorothy New- man of New York, the defendant will testify concerning his s with Miss Newman. Syme s - cox met her at a Bro ladl on eclection night last November ter his bride of only bad left hin In ne told the tales man, Dorothy d 1o a reconcili- tion, Peacox furnished the apart- went in Mt. Vernon, and thea tried to make a “go” of it again. They remained together only 10 days Then Mrs. Peac who was 21 vent back to New York. and her hushand, according to Syme, resum- ed his illicit relations with Miss Newman, whom it is understood {he state will eall as a witne Tnsanity Questions A ked Syme announced previous opening of the ftrial t discarded all thought an yesterday he b n o question the men as to prejudiced Ainst such a *fense in murde District Attorney Frank H. Coyne id he mould make a ‘st nurder. case of it” and h vestérday indicated a-desire ‘to d prateh the case as quickly as pos sible. is, actio Justice Arthur S. Tompkins sum- | exhausted. More than 60 of a speciz !moned a new group of talesmen for today, in case the first group was mel of 134 were examined yester- sy before seven jurors were select Jarors Chosen Yesterday he jurors chosen yesterday wer No. 1, Edward C. Rossmaster, silk manufacturer, 18 Circle Road, Scars- dale, N. Y. Married and father of four children. No James Fleming, retired grocer, of Mamaroneck. Married No. 3, Paul Londenau, builder, 57 Union avenue, Peckskill. Married, father of five children. No. 4. RRuben Duancy, real estat: man of Ry« No. il Herman Krausk lothicr, of 1 Fountain Plac 1tochelle No. 6, Emmett L. Recd, vice p ident of Grassmere Hall apartme in New Rochelle, marricd No. H. Ubelacker, piano 1 - DETROIT MAN 1S HELD A PRISONER (Continued From Iirst I’age) day night after a running gun fight with a police scout car which was ecking a stolen taxicab. Police at that time did not know of the kid- naping. Wilds and Honfer admitted last night, however, after the youns man's release, that they we men- hers of the band that kidnaped him and that more than $4,000 one of | them was carrying represeated part f the ranzom money Posed As Policemen Investigation by TInspector Garvin and Frank G. Schemanske an as vealed t t W his house Holdreith was kidnape sday from in fiont v thres men who posed 15 policem They iold him he was g er arrest fo investigation in connection with an automobile ac At the point of guns he was faken n apartment omy a fev hlocks from the Holdreith home where he blindfolded with with adhesive tape, vith v chains to a then further olindfolded wrapped arounl his head In the meantime acgotiations for payment of rar czun with the elder Holdreith. No frace has heen found of the third member of the kidnaping par- Indianapolis Plane Forced Down Today Indianapolis, Ind.. Sept. 17 (11 The Indianapolis Il g0 plan ittempting a new world's endurance record, was forced down this morn ing at 6:20 o'clock when it became lost in a fog and ran out of gaso lin¢ e plane had been in the air 78 hours #nd 25 minutes when it land- undamaged, near Knightstown 35 miles east of Indianapolis is the Herald's Classific dept. telephone number, | by the leaders and or om money ere | PHYSICIAN DEMURY TOSUIT BY BANH (Continued I'rom First Page suggested it to his attorney wat Lrought out by Attorney Brady ir letters and other material whick exhibited at the time In the demurrer Attorney Brady claims Dr. O'Connell had no respon sibility in the debt until the T. A | B. society refased to pay. The phy sician was only secondary liable wccording to Attorney Brady, whe Jdleges that the society did not ro fuse (o pay the debt, never has ) fused fo pay it and is now working on a plan which is satisfaciory (¢ hank Brady 1id toduy 11 e case may be withdrawn betors it reaches the court. In the meur me, the 10 picces of property 1l in the possession of Dr. O'C nell’'s wife and his brother Ontario Flection Date Set As 30th of October Toronto, Ont.. Sept. 17 (A—Days of speculation were ended last night with Premier G. H. Ferguson's an- nouncement that a general election in Ontario would be held on Octo- ber 30 and today plans for the cam paign were in course of preparatio rs of th ani; three political partics in the provinc Dissolution of the 17th lezislatu was officially brouzht about yester ! day This was followed today by the issuance of the premicr's in which he promised a program of expansion. > standing of the parties at the time of dissolution was as follows anifesto Conservatives 75; liberals 16 gressives 11; independent libe Chinese Clash With Russians, Reports Mosco P— cial v cy dispatches from fur eastern Siberia continue to report ay off ws ag incursions into Russian territory by hese soldiers detachments of ¢ Russian white gnards, or czari sympathizers On Sunday Chinese troops crossed the Russian border five miles north- cast of the Manchurian villaze of Pogranichnaya. retreating after skirmish with Russian frontier guards On the same day Chir opened fire on Soviet frontier guards in t! district between Dogranichnaya and Poltavskay Reports from Manchuria say the | Chinese arn; is modernizing 3 trenches on Furopean world war lines SUNSHINE SOCIETY MERTS A meeting of the Sunshine society oon at the church. Twer was held Mor South Congreg ty-two were present and reported making 104 sick calls dur i the past week. The sick wers remembered with bouquets of flow ers and 101 oranges were given. to patients at the hospital. Committees were appointed for the state con vention to he held September 24 it | this city. In Covert Their weight is just right for the first. days of fall They lend themselves beautifully to this s softer, more feminine type of tailoring. And In Jersey ‘ Lightweight Wool FASHION HEADQUARTERS HARTFORD op o) @ M o In Tweed | Are Smart for Fall the modern woman knows they are right Our inexpensive dress shop features a large collection | at the above attractive price. All the important wool frock shades are here, in one and two-piece styles. | for practically every daytime occasion. Sizes from 14 to 20 and 36 to 44. | FOX’S—DRESS SHOP—THIRD FLOOR I_n Mixtures eason’s Frocks | i3] 3] |