New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1930, Page 13

. : : a d . J R ; & ¢ R 4 . - ) » y A ¢ ‘ ~ ; ¢ ) L] * [] » ' t ‘ . v L] J [} ' . 3 » ’ \ ” Rl 2 L] y . y b ] v [l > “4 y 1 \ Y v Second Section NEW BRITAIN HERALD [~#-»] NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1930. Marathon Dance Passes 106th Day As Authorities Move to Stop Affair; Pastors Attack It From Pulpits Slow Death Probable R°BUSINESS W“MFN sult of Victory, Minister Declares — State Claims T0 HAVE ‘WEEK' 'Mrs. Elizabeth Sears Speaker at | B. & P. W. Club Banquet Detroit, March 3 (P—A marathon | dance which has been going alor for more than 106 days at lastwood Park, East Detroit, appeared ahout to end today with the state com- labor and industry it after local and Employment Law for Women Violated. The week of March 6 to 16 been sct apart by the National cration of Busines: ‘I\I Women's clubs a en’s Wee ved- | and Profession- | \\'om-‘ “Busines: " during which the feder- | missioner. of e e ation will try to show the different | communities what bu i ess women county authoritics failed to inter- | ) business women vene. arc doing. The idea of a special The marathon, which, ordm;:j“‘_“‘l‘{ f°l'v“;\_% wuu{)o‘s: a , rivals the most savage {tively new, having been i | only two years ago, but as at present 1100 clubs in the Unites States, it has been generally adopt- | of primitive people: gone on uninterrupted since last vember 18. East Detrnit is outside \Wayne county, so authorities here |¢d: In many states therc will be| have been powerless to act to stop gubernatorial procl lvufllolvr. m‘ the dance. |many cities proclamations by the Several pastors of the district at- [MAYOr and in almost all of the large | in their |cities public relations dinners. tacked the marathon dance lhc‘ unday sermons. The Rey. Roland |local merchants and the organiza- | 'l']\\' of the Mount Clemens Bap- | Hons in this city have been asked to | tist Z]x};n-h who has heen waging | €ooPerate with the local club to| he third “Business Wom- The proprie- | help make en's Week” a succ tors of several stores have consented | to feature window displays, showing | articles used or worn by the business | a campaign against it, referred to it | d4s “in Many ways the saddest, most heart breaking affair I have ever attended. Calls It Slow Death | “It was not a funeral service over | Woman. | a dead body, but far worse,” he de- | As a special feature of the week | clared. “It was the slow death of |the local Busin and Professional | the physical, mental and spirityal |[Women's club will have a reception | natures of nearly a dozen young peo- |and dinner at the Burritt hotel on ple Tuesday evening, March 11. The re- | Tugene L. Brock, statc commis- |ception will be from 6:30 to 7 and sioner of labor and industry, an-|at 7 dinner will be served in the| | ballroom. Helen Phillip of the arrangements. | secured as the speaker Mrs. I {beth Sears of New York city, tional chairman of the public T tions committee. Mrs. Sears has been | |connected in an executive capacity with the National Business and Pro- | tessional Women's club since the b ginning of the federation and at one | time was cditor of “The Independent Woman,” the club’s magaz Sears began her writing « newspaper reporter at the age of 15 and after promotion on the staft of the Omaha World-Herald she decid- ed to leave her home city for er ficlds and went to the Kansas City |8tar, later coming cast to hold sey- |eral important editorial position. | She has been publicity dircctor for |thre American Tilm Co., editor of| |Film I*un, associate editor of the| |American Magazine and has written | |articles for many periodicals. | In a nationwide hookup through | radio station WJZ, at five o'clock on Monday, March 10, Mrs. Scars will cexplain the objects of business wom- len's week. At 10 o'clock in the morning of the same day, Miss Mar- ion McClench, president of the n: |tional federation. will broadeast over | station WJR, Detroit. talking on the ;\Hflll(.)\k“: of women on business. On | Thursday evening, March 13, Con- gressvoman Ruth Hanna MeCor- mich of Illinois, over station WRC, Washington, will speak of busine womien as she has known them. At the dinner on Tuesday evening there will be, in addition to Mrs, s in charg The club has | nounced he would seck warrants for st of the persons conducting the E grounds that a state bor statute was being violated. Michigan law forbids cmployment of women for more than 54 hours a week, or 10 hours in any one da na fr. Brock says he thinks this law is ed in ) lLeing: viol allowing the five voung women who now remain in the dance to go on. If warrants are rot sd by Macomb county wu- thorities he plans to subpocna the dancers as witnesses at an investi zation and thus stop the marathon any way. Spectators have been attracted to istwood Park by morbid curiosity. Wild scenes have been enacted as the contestants dropped exhausted to the floor. The spectacle of a young pe 1 foaming at the mouth or hecom- suddenly rigid and apparently s has not been uncommon. Take Turns Sleeping When ihe marathon started fall the dancers were allowed wminutes of e hour for rest. This vest period been shortened to 10 winutes and now is being shortened one minute cach day. Only five couples have been able to continue through the winter. The partners t:ike turns sleeping. A young wom- i carrying a man »out the room while he sleeps is part of the show. The winning couple in the con- test is to receive a percentage of the gate r-eipts and thus far first prize amounts to more than $20,000, ac- cording to announcements from the managements of Eastwood Park. isst I Tas i S address, & musical program by | e 2 Miss Grace Lander: Al o = um of this Two Suicides’ Bodies city. Miss Baum has been heard in | Recovered at Boston |concert work ana Boston, March (UP)—The bodies of two persons who had cor mitted suicide by drowning were ¢ also ove Hartfor({Boat I:i;le | To Reopen March 17 the radio. covered here yesterda . That of J. Edwin Bradshaw, Jr., cw York, March 3 — It was an- former Boston broker rccently peti- [hounced today by J. Howland Gard- tioned into bankruptey, was foumd|NCT President of the New Lngland Hiar AR B Cnoltiil oo | SteamshinBCs, SR tliaL stlio. rarttard | Belion rocoveradine oy B It ova s | Linelioatisoryice, Tiath massanaet i Jientified by his widow, Mrs. Clara | freight, will be reopened on Monday Bradshaw of Brookline. T'olice had | March 17, | e e ie line was suspended for the : S winter on January 1 be e of bad he body of Miss Susan Clavk, |ice conditions in~ the Connccticut | Torice Galicol teagher andiistaden k| theREIthEtebronking vakorH)ie at Boston University who had been | € service will be resumed. During i ill health for several months, wus | the {Wo and a half months of sus- found by police floating in the |Pension. Connccticut valley points Gty GvA i i e was [have been served with full greight ST | service at the il o same rates, through € New England motor trucks in com- Dbination with the WELL BABY CONF) The schedule for the Well Baby Conferences conducted by the ing Nu association for the weels, will be as follows: More 1\1011(:;1\' eeded If | Ship Is to Be Rebuilt Boston, March UP) — Min masts or other getr. “0ld Tronside the United States frigate Constitu tion, will probably be floated March | 15, Tue: — 47 Eli About §230,000 is needed to com- |end schoel; volunteer plete the work of reconditioning the | T. 8. Whi historic craft. Although $600.000 [dance, Mrs. Las been collected, largely from |Lucia Longhi. hool children throughout the land, | Wednesda that sum already has been expended. |volunteer as Licutenant John A. Lord, naval|Bentley; nu constructor in charge of the work, |Anna Ramsey, said it was a question whether there | gor., would ever be enough money to fin- | Thursday — Washington school: ish the job. volunteer assistants, Mrs. Harold “What is needed,” he said Tayntor, Mirs. Harry Hine: nurses another Oliver Wendell Holmes."” I Al dam ol e AN LR AT Mrs. Helen Meehan. street, North- ssistant, Mrs, ker: murses in atten- Anna Ramsey, Mi; | | — Center street: stant, Miss Florence in attendance, Mrs. Mrs. Lydia Alexan- “is y CATCHERS IN BATTLE = Friday — last street school: vol- Winter Haven, Fla., March 8 P — lunteer assistant, Mrs. R. L. Whit Four youthful but rugged catchers |nurees in attendance, Mrs, Anna today began a battle to decide which Ramsey, Miss Elizabeth Tait would be selected first string back- Conferences are not held on rainy stop for the Phillies. The death of |gays. All weighing conferences arc Peck Lerian left Manager Shotton |peld from 2:30 to 3:30 p. m. A doc- without @ first class receiver and he [tor js present at all conferences at has been shopping for onc for|p m. The examining physician is Dr. months, L. B. Slysz. The quartet now in camp consists S — | of Harry McCurdy, Virgil Davis,| TLOOKS OVER ROOKIL LIST | George Susce and Al Cooper. Mec-! san Antonio, Tex., March 3 (®— | Curdy was with St Louis when [ As the third week of {raining open- Shotton was confidential man for ed today, Manager Donie Bush pre- the Cardinals, and Shotton had been |pared to sort over the rookie list of | after him. the Chicago White Sox. Davis and Susce were with the| Jt is commonly believed the un- Phillics last year and Cooper was|lucky ones will be the greener mem- acquired & few months ago from bers of the hurling stafl. And add- Birmingham, Ala " ed to these may be "luckl George - |Cox, whose arm again shows signs ITerald Classified Ads have foreed f giving out on him as it did last the ofd town crier to take his drum |season after he had turned in some and boat it impressive :pring training work. |rent weel may sce the virtual fml!(‘ym\rr of Kz D ———— Payday Again Promised In Chicago Cash Tangle Chicago, March 3 () — Today was payday-—again. Some 42,000 patient Young Bandit With Glass Pistol Shot Down In New York Street employes of the city, county and school GIEL Tt 15 = board left home this morning || ;‘”‘ ‘_‘:”*v M M; 8 (A glitter- Police were on the lookout for & | feeling a bit jaunty, filled with [[in& imitation pistol madeTof glass | ropper who held up 19 taxicab promise of | | Was in the hands of police today, an |ironical relic of the chort-lived | career of crime of a youth who call- cd himself the “Lone Wolf of Chi- cago.” hopes that the late paychecks would be the real thing and not just another mirage upon the financial desert. Silas H. Strawn, relief commit- drivers Saturday night. Captain Jo- oph L. Betz was cruising in a po- {lice car when a taxicab pa | high rate of speed. He tee chairman, summoned officials The “Lone Wolf.” with his glass |and was joined by other officers in a of the local governments to meet | |Pistol in his hand, was shot and kill- | commandeered cab. After careening today to complete the transfer of | [¢d yesterday by Patrolman John |through several streets, the fugitive 12 millions of rescuc cash into the | | Dempsey as he fled from pursuing | maneuvered his car around and col- depositor: officers after holding up taxicab |lided with the police car, wrecking The payoff was to start as soon | |driver in the Greenpoint section of |it. but none struck the suspect. as this is done. | Brooklyn. Patrolman Dempscy, attracted by With 260,000,000 pledged, Phil- At the morgue his body was the shots, saw the cab swerve onto . lip Clarke, head of the col- | [identified as that of John Rykaeven- | the sidewalk and crash into the front lectors' group, opened another [ isky, 21 years old. His brother Jo- |of a garage. The driver j ‘mped out week's canvass with a call for a | [seph, who made the identification, land ran. Dempsey called to him to quick completion of the quota of | |said John had worked steadily at a |halt and when he disregarded the $74,000,000, needed for operation [ |regular job and had been an avid order fired once. The bullet struck through the tax crisis. | reader of detective and crime stories. the “Lone Wolf” in the head, killing zram would be a later development. Capper cxp ! ssed approval of the Quitet 15 Now a Ful Game Be- Kansas Senator Believs Taril o5 v “oncsin 3"t perhaps not to the s had hoped. extent hind Columbia Lions in Race | Follows President's Ideas W ROUSH WANTS J0B Outficlder | | | ew York, March 3 (#—The cur- hington, March ™ s today indicated his Senator of Penn's bid for its third su VEteran DS ioaotiay | belief that, in effect, the democratic- senate discussion sult in tariff rate: ind actions will re- in line with Presi- ton with a lion victor) A defeat for Penn nticipated. and a victory cials s still in the running. lewis of |the marks of the engincering mind | Polli has made a great impression Cornell is the present leader with |0f President Hoover.” {on Manager Bob Shawkey and Bipointa; Forontiiziot Talai has 6 Capper named six major ional | seems certain to negotiate the major sgory of Columbia Bender, | Projects which he said the president [leaguc grade. He is 26 years old, Golumabia 4. and Bur had facing him on begining his term: [has @ good fast ball, a good curve et Gl Varm relief; law enforcement, in-|and a baffling change of pace. The league standing, to date. fol- |cluding prohibition; limited tarift _— Grin revision. inland waterways, prey i ALMOST BUT NOT ¢ UITE | Wou. Lost tions for an apvroaching economic | Jucksonville, I'la, March 3 (T)— Columbin 1 promotion of world peace. Penn e 0 s Stock Situation Move beaten the local Robert E. Lee high Yale ’ 5| He praised Mr. Hoover's handling 'school in tournament play have won Dartmouth 5 |of the stock market crash as a |state or sectional titles and have Princeton 5 (masterly piece of work,” said the gonc on to the national tourney in Cornell 6 |federal farm board “has helped the Chicago. | NOW YOU CAN BUY FOR FOR 835 +1095 AND UP F. O. B. FACTORY AND UP F. O. B, FACTORY ANE NEW INLINE A SENSATIONALLY LOW PRICE for an eight of true Dodge Brothers quality and dependability. 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The LOWEST PRICE at which you can buy a car with Mono-Piece Steel Body =safe, silent, roomy and luxurious, |sive Eastern Intercollegiate Basket- [republican independent coalition 15| tions With New York Glants to Bl lohe ah e Tonel | writing 4 tariff bill which will be Nais h”,w"p twice in soven |A8TCCEblC to President Hoover. Settle Salary Differences. games and a full game behind the | Whils the senate began what it| gun Antonio, Texas, March § (Pi— ce-setting Columbia lions, Penn |Was hoped would'be the final week's | zzgdic Roush, v n outfielder, is threatened with another defeat |Work on the measure which willlfinaly has opened negotiations with | a5 when it tackles Yale at New Haven |have occupied it just six months next the New York Giants in an effort to on Wednesday. The same evening urday, Capper said in a radio ad- | jron out a salary dispute. The Columbia meets Princeton at Prince- |dress that “It is my belief that the ! chances are that Roush will & signed within a few days, club offi- | | The only basketball teams that have | re ATLANTA OFFICIALS FACE INDICTMENTS (Six Councilmen and Clerk Named—All Deny Grait Charges N | Atlanta, (P —TIndictments ¢ said there last turn immediately night he and s statement. STATE MAY TEACH would ue SAFETY EDUCATION Traffic Daners {o Be Studied at against 20 persons, including six Norwalk Conference councilmen and the city elerk, the first truc bills {o result from a four : Practical teach of safety ed- months old inquiry, were termed A | . ucation, with particular regard “peanut charges” by authoritics 10- | yjonway dangers, and the best day in announcing a continuation of methods of introducing the sub- | and jury investigation into al- ject into the schools will he dis- d graft in the municipal govern- cussed b group of educators and ment presentatives state departments While the accused persons, two dt a conference in Norwalk on |of them women, ped vigorous de- Tuesday, Regular courses of in- Inials of guilt, Solicitor General struction. cr a state-wide pro- |Jonn A. Boykin said pig |gram, will be one of the aims of e fr i S ctting | the group, according to announced into,” and a new grand jury was P! summoned for organization sentatives May File Civil Suits institute of hu- After examining a ¢ - and department of sentment which ‘accompanicd the ition of Yale versity, the indictments and purported to dis- department of cducation, the close the existence of (ft | department of motor vehicles, be- ring” in control of the city govern- sides supervisors and {eachers in the ment, Walter McElreath, chairman | schools of Norwalk. The resources of a citizens committee, ] he had [of the burcau of character educa- |no doubt but that 4ft mon- |tion rescarch. which in conducting a could be recovered. He said un- | five-vear study in that city of char- less the city took action itself, civil |acter education, under the auspices |suits would be filed by the com- |of the Ilartley Corporation, have mittee. 50 been offered to further the con- Cases against Councilman Ilarry | ferenc York. indicted on six bribery counts, | All available information on mo- and Jack White, business partner of facing ren have been involved will b tor vehicle accidents in which chil- of- haying been mainly of a voluntary nature on the part of teachers and tducators working independent The conference will work for uni- formity of methods and regularity instruction. of Among those at {1 Profe r Irank meeting will M. Shuttle- worth of Yale; Dr. Charles J. Pro- L ska, supervisor of physical health d education, and Mrs. Ruth White Colton, director of character educa- tion, or the state department of ed- ucation; Miss Ethel Usher, statisti- clan for the department of motor vehicles; Superintendent of Schools John Lund and the teachers of the Junior High and elementary schools of Norwalk. | 2 c o b of o Thieves Chloroform Woman at Telephone P'rovidence, R. I, March 3 (UP) IFlorence Bullock, . was chloro- fermed by thieves while talking over the telephone to a friend, Dorothy Horton, here last night. When their conversation endei ibruptly after Miss Bullock screatn- cd. Miss Horton told police, who nt to the Bullock home and found the vieti conscious, though un- found Toli some siiver- ware wrapped in a napkin in a hatt- way. Miss Bullock had been living alote while her father and brother St. Andrew’s Players Will Present Sketches The young people of St. Andrew's church will have an entertainment and dance Tuesc evening at the {parish hall on Church street. The entertainment will consist of three plays and a recitation by Franees Rizs K own nts for ex- been set for tri 4 fered by the motor vehicle depart- |first to be heard. The case ment. This will include the kn | City Clerk Walter Taylor, indicted {caukes, the circumstances surround- ou 16 bribery counts. and deseribed |ing and leading up to the accide he pay-off m. the grand jand the results. Much of this infor- is to be set for trial today. |mation is expected to be used vlor through his attorneys de- | discussion and as a basis for pos- all of the char nd York sible courses of instruction. The the indictments represented |perience gained by the educational | There is no lese majeste in attack- |ing a corrupt boss. | Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, grand criticized {by the jury for the use of city tractors, men and materials on | his private land, is in St. Louis, but applied to for ods. traffic Helen Dennis, Anna Rizauskas, Alda Janison, Charlot Razitis, Stella Radavitch and Mary Xar- lonas will take part in the plays. D ing before and after the enter- 1ent will be enjoyed. GREENWICH M Greenwich, LNDS LIFE March 3 (UP)— Charles H. 40, died at Greenwich hospital Sunday from self-inflicted threat and body wounds. He left note in a Slavish explaining to par- ents in Canonsburg, Pa., “I had many a hard luck and you always think I am a thief.” FITCH-JONES COMPANY MEN’'S SHOES The driver is ready to stop a give you a demonstration. power. And these are also characteristics of the New Oakland Eight. Its 85-horse- power eight-cylinder engine develops one horsepower to « every 37 pounds of car weight. That is why few cars can equal its remarkable speed, pass it on the hills, or match its pick- up in traffic. 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Learn that the nd Oaklond Eight is not only e e e s Lanclaln | “simply another attack ou the pres- | units represented will be for Columbia will assure the lions of jdent Hoover's program, this in spite Making up for time lost because |ont representative democratic form |select the proper information no worso than a tie for the title [Of the fact that those rates, in the ot recent rains, the Gianmts went oo poutint R FERRre o8 TOU 1o B0 e B e m even should they drop their last two |last analysis, will be written in great f through a long’ workout yesterday. | jynty, the greatost ity in the| It 1s recognized by thoss who plan anes and Penn: wins two. part by political "encmics of the|The big surprise of the day waa the |south. White also ied the to attend the conference that safety Thus the Yale game may well de- |President.” Ly e assignment of Mel Ott. clouting out-| ojarpog and said the indictments | education along the lines of de the championship. 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ROYC plaved f ool n iyt participation in the past his Jacked o been invinciple on their home | racterizing Mr. Hoove first | second for a few days in spring| Woman Refuses Bond coordination in teaching methods, foor, winning from Cornell, Dart. |[YeT s president as “a year of fact | training last year but was in the| . /ORI Fetuses Boad mouth, Princeton and Columbia at |1Mding” the Kansas republican ontficld Fall Ethrough Site BICUIALE. | &, Hicte 38 rarainel daaidl e would ew Haven while losing all five of :;1‘(';\1\0‘73':“:‘1415;‘1"1 ‘,’é'l\“lfi:n']m,],?‘m(&] S RS D refuse to make the bond of $300 el s Ay IO e & ot |cd. the actions taken by President PITCHER LOOKS GOOD D cw Haven by a one-point margin |[Hoover so far, are along lines that MU e el I e e e e o D Gimnans ot ilor, o wilecbound to tbe boct intersts of frsliwcec orftaiiing fror ool SRR S AVRRIE RN BRG] el S # the entire country in the long run.’ | York Yankees has developed T 1 L not K’“’""“\'”‘;:}:Pr came this week | “Tt scems to me.” he said, “this fonc important the club mad. 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