New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 17

@ for 4 statutes providing ’ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH g& 1930. - CANNIBAL SAYS [RUINS SEARCHED FILM 15 FRAU[]} FOR MORE DEAD Chans Jungle Scenes Were, Threc Burned to Death in Du-, Taken in Bronx, N. Y. : luth Office Building Boston, March § (UP)—Dr. Dmh] Duluth Davenport, alleged African ed ruins of the . has never been in Africs 3 partment "‘f"“’" * motion pictu three persons to r]‘r“xl!v to finish a three weeks' showing lat lea sht others were battered | emont Temple here tonight, was |aside today by firemen king | produced jv. the Bronx, New York, | bodies of other possible victims. | nniFal” formerly exhibited in| The fire started the second | n with the picture ch floor and swept upward to the roof, trapping many of the 35 ,.\mrmJ | families. Tiremen, helpless hefore | the ¥ of the fire, concentrated efforts on carrying the prisoners to | Minn., Mar. 8§ (UP) ‘ six-story destroyed ich burned | and injured | il i plo W his “jungle" on Tirpo Jack, who until last was with the show as Pamma the “cannibal,” made the charges to Michael Heaphy, Boston attorney, in seeuring an attachment | on box office receipts on Tremont Temple for 700 back wa Jack said he was dischars week demanding his money. *“Jango” was manufactured from | lengths of actual jungle film and shots of a small circus which Da- | venport bought and set up “on lo- cation” in the Bronx, the negro charged. Cannibal Was Janitor Jacko, who speaks Lnglish. he was billed knowing neh dialect, said that, far being a cannibal recently brought from the jungle, he had been scaman on vessels plying be- tween New York and Africa for and was a janitor in New York when cngaged by Daven- port. lieved only Replying to the fraud c two little Davenport seid that Jacko had been = hired for one week to substitute for | JEWELRY STORE a “real cannibal” during the latter's | The jewelry store fliness. “The picture speaks for it- [100 at 166 Main strect was closed self,” he said, “No rhinoceros or fattachment today in a 3800 = giraffes are roaming around th hich the J. R. Wood & Tne streets of New York." kas instituted- for alleged non-pay Judge Michael Murray a | ment of a merchandize hill. A ant charging Davenport with ey Harold J. Bisenberg represent non-payment of wages yesterday, |the plaintiff and Constable Ired but it was later revoked, becausc | Winkle made the attachmer he law specifies the defendant must = = e 24 hours' notice of suit before | CHINLSE BAR GUN LILMS appearapce. Davenport is scheduled | Shanghai, March § () — Movics to leave town tonight, in which event | based upon crook or then he cannot be summoned, the state | have been barred from cinemas i no jurisdiction | the Chir city, although nativ over employers charged with non- | may still see them in the Internt- payme-nt of wages unless they are in | tional Settlement by the the state. made peci trict Film Censorship which its orders from the Chinese munici- pal government. l sa A 70 year Thomas, who Helen Todd, little sister, Barbara Todd, died with her little char flames. Their bodies by side. Little hope s held for of Mrs, Thomas Whittaker 50, was found frozen to the floor of her | third floor apartment. She had been badly burned and then drenched by water from fire hoses. As the was extinzuished in that part of the building. the wat and she was fastencd floor by the ice, On early checks police and old woman, Mrs. John had been caring for who was ill, and her 5 months, | s in the were found sid r congealed to the man was reported missing in of the fircmen the aged rls per residents, Iy 1id they be- woman anc ATTACHED of B. l. Odis- ued to Senatc Votes to Raise Earthenware Tariff | Washington, March § (®—The te agreed today to an incr the tariff on decorated carthen- and crockery ware, from 45 to 50 per cent ad valorem This action was to conform with that of last night when the senate approved an increase in the rate on | plain earthenware from 45 per cent 0 50 per cent and 10 cents a dozen sen asc in ware Funerals Iearson for Carl J. a9 1 st N will held ) o'cloc Erwin chapel. Rev. Dr. Abel Ahlquist AN of the First Luthcran church will cch § )— | officiate. Burial will be in ir- to abolish | view cemetc devote the | Carl Funeral servic son, d 54. of died Wednesday afternoon at SOVIET 3 any, M A communist proposal the mayor's office and money to needy children and other public welfare causes was passed today by the municipal council of this Pi an industrial city of 100,- 000, e . of who died Thu iis afternoon o'clock win cha Rev liam H. Alderson, pastor of Methodist church, will offici: ‘\ri\l’lf\l will be in Fairview Mrs. Bernard Lynch I'uncral services for Mrs. | Coyle Lynch, wife of Bernard Lynch of Thomaston, who died yesterday !in New Haven, will .be Mon- | day morning at § at the { home in Th ton and at 9 o'clock | at £t. Thom. church. Burial wiil | be in St. Thomas' cemetery, Thom- aston. Mrs 94 1 Jin Sq | be held el Wil and cemete neld Walker o'clock with Jack Oakic—Tol! NOW SHOWING EMBASSY rrinity | ¢ ' Two Boys Reach Eagle Scout Rank RICHARD LORD 1 un- pert and was the Troop . pr 1t the craft show dent at the school. Rict July, Iy from on Iy responsible for hich won first Boy Scout handi- He s city Tord joined Troop 3 in wdvanced rapid- nk to another. In ad- on to I s an cagle scout is trol 1o in his troop, he ron of and Mre, O. L Lord of 143 tt s t, ther being loczl mar Gul tef i Co. Richard <h school. he He m his for the attends H Danke his fatl m Ortl hei poined Tre 26, and at pr croand s pairol leader \ THREEMISSING I | Ciw e NEW JERSEY FIRE .. o v H ¢l hop to- to i ING Daughter a card at rnoon p Gatches Fire and Gblfl'S Folloy Dat the Civii Womanless Junior High March 27 and Moor Ve 1 give a on crar play in Centr uditorium on s of wWar, Wedding chool Mar s ey today a s explosio; to il threat Pure Oil moorcd Only Wall Street Briefs S e ) compa fanke G ding awarded the 5, cot Uong j to tal of had cr 1wl v An 1 ashor explo: he tanker a aw th hart cor from nace moanths of to 1.0 per « month to other ship itory. 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The pursuers are | vi | not prehistoric monsters, but leading American scientists, zealously dig: ing in a gypsum cave on the Col- | orado river, close 1o the Boulder | Dam site, ¥ I ion of Frenc to fly the Li “We on 330 miles step livel T.oui n tor and the | ndbergh of Dayton, | Not only the claws, ! and hide of the long v species but also remnants of a hig |1y developed human civilization the same era were accidentally bones, hair inished sloth | will not b e in dis- [ his impressior PUTNAM & CO Members New York & Hartford S:ock Exchanges 31 WEST MAIN ST., NEW BRITAIN TEL. 2040 MARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW, __ THL. 21148 We Offe American Hardware Corp. Landers, Frary & Clark Stanley Works Com. | covered, imbedded in the | And the eftort, ed manner, now spurs anthropologists and palacontotegists to wr an | even more thrilling chapter in civili- | tion's heginnings from the gypsum. | A university trained * man handling mining developme in the when long buried g mo‘ s foun It was sent to the Ame ican Museum of Natural History. T Barnum Brown lared it related to the huge ground sloths of a by- era. Traces of these have heen discovered clsewhere in Nevada and California 1 South secr cup rac A miles miles, around time o M. Ble designe in e gypsum. | 51 a small | ne in hour cot the approxims fhe ould S ave directod of the Muscum at Los Angeles red a preliminary appropriation exploration of the cave. M. It Harrington, curator of the S 1west Museum, took charge of the exple After discovery, the party joined by T Chester Btock Institute and California In- fechnology, author of au- thoritative treatises on the prehis toric ground sloth species. Another member v Dr. E. L. Furlor palacontolo University of Cali- fornia ations was stitute of Thdians, scende under Harrington. to the cave, 50 feet and under four of psum, discovered a claw, bones hide and even the coarse brown hair of the Northotherium sloth, a type recognized but little known. M. BLIRIOT. in France, been one thinke; his channel bex pianes lifetime vanced he made cross the onl: els much the aliout the cc The First Weapons party was thrilled by this dis- |civery. But more thrills were in ctore, for in the uncovering of what 1 been the floor of a covern used herd of ground sloths, spear- lieads, darts and feathers bound with W were found near the monst bones The the nt Plans New Speed Boat Bleriot has alrcady to win internatior of his plan to put up ed records He has written to of the Aero Club ex- which has @l | in flying cir- modernly was whish ages 10 man developing an weapon. TFor back to the cat-great equippe 1 back ind's first instrume these ar atl, or d andfather scien o provel for planes. csident aining his pr ready won approval cies here. It is step in to hurl a gacts dated rt thrower, of the bow » nt oject nd arrow Well dart of the haped and tooled spear and cads of flint were found. Some | ¢ dart shafts, in good preserva- I tion, were four feet long. Proof that the rs had cvolved from the primitive fo an artistic stage was/|® shown by the method in Which green | N and red mineral paints were used fo | .~ decorate the shafts. 2 Jleriot olve th hizh e we all hneider and ecase handle proble u, th control cup rac whis ned with con machin e impressi b made and with | designed and ently. The hydroplan Schneider cup races were “The sloth find is amazing.” he | ble projectiles. but they | savs. “But of particular importance | projectiles. They had was the finding of artifacts in almost | lage, cnormous floa direct association with the sloth A good projec bones and claw. TIn addition to the much more finish, | darts, there was beautifully made| Aviation t of yucca fiber and bound | hallistics { feathers, apparently from the pray-| (rving for mor er stick the Indians used to stick in | will have to « their kill, or from the head dress of | that yesembls that period. And these were within | machines in | cight inches of the bones. fve, I “This gypsum cavern might also | |&ive us the mummified body of a their sloth, with darts in it. If this should | limit 10 be found. American history will ba ' | belicye pushed back 20,000 year niete The cave in which discovery was|io | made is about 200 by $0 feet. So| | far, only a corner has been turned | up by the searchers. The bones were positively identi- fied as those of the Nothrotherium sloth by a triangular claw. His near relative, Myloden whos ool A th 1 be studied yard of th : paeiod prison - t Carson round claw 2 ind other ct avacteristic differences The Northrotherium creature was about as high as an clep and Slerlca about 15 long, according o | Sesired - the scienti restorations. 1ts three- digited paws were used in gathering its herbiferous diet, and with {he formidable claws, for defense Jungles and heavy forests were ifs habitat, its claws and prehensile lips aathering food from the ground, and also from the lower hranches of trees when the huge creature rear to its hind quarte Descendants of Sloths Changing weather and flor ditions finally drove the world in which i The tree sloth and the an to avei History Bacl 00 Years Scherer is cnthusiastic over might be disclosed in the cay- Dr what ern const no wings. Lave is and cvolvin enginec toward s the | who ar more speed uct machines hardly th today. wiil sort of boats pro- n the air by the for. propeller There is na such speed possibilitics vill do 0 kilo- | When I started 0. now maic n ars speed has be dtiplied Dy 1t will be d within 160 vears and at all ey ima pelled thro rs an fly we hour made | don- | Fast Landings Dangerous explained th Th sloth, Garganiuan the prints are foy da state 3 Nev ity, has capable sucn as When moto parachu would a long curve. e prospective Il probably | raises curiol kilometers, wiil the naise imagine, there rible engine of is possibl ink th 1 rachul o is hein a la achine, feet come of speed ahl problems e 1o of fal am am tomcd dded Twenty remain in hiding cause my i : ard folks among its descendants, Scientists long knew of the havoe ing wrought to these animals by the saber-tooth tiger, wolves and other! carnivorous beasts. But near here, | in a gypsum cave, the world is learn- | ing that apparently the monsters had their human enemics, who battled | the brutes either for food or in de- | L. fense of their lives m Just now, Dr. Scherer's be- | floor lieves the spears. darts, W will probably hurled into the sloths dur es will be ing battles with hunters. The sloths, | tania Wednc they believe, sought the cave for | Where safety and there dicd of their | wounds. _ PRINCESS WEARS RING | " Luxor, Egypt, March § (@7 « IN ACCIDENT | 1ivcrboat Mayflower with Queen | far | Stoncham, Mass. 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