New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1930, Page 16

BANKER PREDICTS | : FAHINEIN FISH| Trust Company Vice President Sees New Luncheon Dish Friday = Tish, insofar as Conpecticut is Toncerned, are doomed. Oysters, or aay be salt mackerel will have to &e the Friday luncheon dish from mow on, according to Harry H. Howard, vice president of the New ritain Trust company, in an ad-!| <ress to the Kiwanls club today. = Mr. Howard was ‘*booked” to Speak on three sybjects. Secretary villiam R. Fenn announced that r. Howard would speak on “Some Phases of Trust Work” in his ca- acity as trust officer of the bank E’res!dent Hugh McKenna introduc- ed Mr. Howard as prepared to speak on “In God we Trust. Mr. Howard himself, however, announced his gubject as “When and Where to | Jish.” = Calling attention to the fact that| the state is said to have stocked Jrout streams with 75,000 fish, Mr. Howard said statisticians in his de- spartment have figured out that out of the 30,000 fishermen who were dut on the streams yesterday it is Teported that 20,000 caught one fish each. Assuming that the other 10,- €00 had been asleep an Hwake toda nd catch on for what they missed yesterday addition to each of the 30,000 get- ting a fish for today, told the| Kiwanians that by 1y there jvon't be any fish left in Connceti- cut. - Many of the prominent member: ©f the club are active in the fish| &nd game association and all who aere admitted having been fishing ¥esterday. the best fish story. Sherman I Avery, who last year announced that he had performed a surgical opera- | tion on a trout, was barred as a pro- | fessional from competing. Pa Commissioner A, E. Berg announced | Ihat he knew a private stream | avhere the fish were so hungry a| snan had to stand back of u tree | trial of K | herself and S s A Bequest Left to Horse Will Not Be Taxable Los Angeles, April 16 (P— David Tannebaum, state inheri- tance tax attorney, anpounced tos day that no tax would be levied against a bequest of nearly $20,- 000 to Miss Noria, a horse, Miss Noria will escape pay- ment of the levy because the state has compiled no life expec- tancy tables for horses, it was explained. The mare, a favorite of Jo- sephine Callaghan, armless wom- an flier, killed in an airplane ac- cident near Abilene, Tex., last September, was left the money by the aviatrix. The will speci- fied that Miss Noria should never be worked, ridden or sold as long as she lived. DEFENSE RESTS N EXTORTION HEARING Woman Delendant Only Witness in Charge of Amster New York, April 16 (#—The de- today in fensc rested its case the neral court of Olga Eide Bdwards, charged on complaint of Nathan L. Amster, traction magnate, with extortion Miss Edwards, who spent yester- day and part of today on the stand, was the only defense witne Miss Edwards left the stand after examination that extended terday afternoon and sessions | through this forenoon. A prize was offered for| Under cross-cxamination today ¢ declared that the proposal that her income from Amster be $1,000 a month, instead of the $500 paid from the $100,000 trust fund for the boy who she says is his child, camc from Amster and not from her. Assistant District Attorney Rich- ard I1. Gibbs said yesterday that he to bait his hoclk. . Fred Monier reported that he Inew a’place where the fish came eut and chased rabbits through the woods. When the rabbit supply v | Zxhausted he said the fish started | £ating gra: He offered to show | < bunch of grass that he took out| of the stomach of a fish he caught| Jesterday to prove his statement. % Attorney Edward A. Mag was Presented with a lily by officials of the Y. M. C. A. President McKenna “Bnnounced that it was in erronecous Leliet that the prominent attorney had died. :Prepare Dedication < Of Pulaski Memorial Steps for the dedication of the “Pulaski monument which was erect- §d in Pulaski park at Burritt and | Broad streets last December, will be | accepted tonizht. Pajewski has beeu | “taken next Tuesday evening at | ®'clock when the Pulaski committes vhich was in charge of the cele- “bration commemorating the 150th | nniversary of the death of the Po- | ish patriot, will meet in Room 201, Lity Hall. | -~ Frank Zapatka, chairman, will yesmn. He requests that all mem- | bers of the committee be present to | begin plans for the dedication on May 30. Several noted speakers Fill be engaged for the occasion. TO SPEAK IN HARTFORD | Rev. Frank Edmons Henry, Mm! 35 speaking at the* sacond annual | aeeting of the Council of Congrega- ‘tional Women of Connecticut, in the Becond Church of Christ, Hartford, -on Tuesday, April 29, is editorial and field sécretary of the Congregational | Zhurch extension boards. He is a| graduate of Grinnell college. His| <heological training was obtained at | Union Seminary and Chicago Theo- | Togical Seminary. He has held pas- | dorates in California, Nebraska and dowa. About 15 years ago he took up homesteading in nariheds!flrn| WMontana, oné of the great rural| -parishes of the state, which under | his care grew to seven churches, ten “Sunday schools and 20 preaching points. Mr. Henry Is known as +The Man From Montana." d . | Special N « Unfon Barber Shops will 1 Good Friday morning until 12 noon w—advt. | ;City Advertisement HMENT CONCESSION, WILLOW BROOK PARK | 7 Bids will be received until May 13th at § p. m. for the refreshment | concession at Willow Brook Purk for | one year. This concession the sale of candy, fruit, to provide his own stand or building. BOARD OF PARK N COMMISSIO! . Room 416, City Hall | - =0 ity Advertisement " REFRESHME ~ WASHINGTO) * Bids w be receiv D. m. Bty 15th for (He refreshment son: fon at the Washingto, Schonl Park for one year { the Board of TPar NT CONCESSION, SCHOOL PARK d ur ‘provide » Y 5 BOAF i COMMIS -~ Room 414, 3% - whre o City Alvartisem ~ A hearing will be 1 Board of S the City of New B No. 205, City Hall 8 o'clock p. m.. extension of wa Road from Stz lettes' Corne pense of said extension property adjacent to 1 Lerehy notified to he it the m meeting, and Leard in rel | democratic would put one of two witnesses on hat the ¢ tomorrow. PAJEWSKI QUITS POST OF FIFTH WARD ALDERMAN New Member of School Committee Will Be Succeeded By Joseph Mlynarski, Next Month Alderman Peter J. Pajewski of the fifth ward today filed his resignation from the common council at the of- fice of Town Clerk Alfred L. Thompson. The resignation will be clected to the school board, Since it is required that a special | meeting of the council be held to fill | vacancies, Councilman Joseph L. rski will not be clevated to the W tonight, but his elec- at of Walter jowski as councilman will take place at {he May meeting. Few Candidates Report Expenses in Campaign Statements filed with Town Clerk A. L. Thompson today show no cam- paign expenditures in the last clec- tion by the following candidates: Alderman Walter R. Falk, Alderman J. Gustave Johnson, friddo and Victor Watkins who failed of election in the fourth ward, Walter Zajkowski who failed of election in the fifth ward, Council- man Clesson W. Parker, and John E. Meskill, a candidate for council- man on the dependent ticket. Contributions of $10 each to the town committee were made by Councilman Lucian Maciora and Relief Board Member Lawrence P. Mangan: Burton C. Mo re- elected to the board of relief con- tributed $10 to the republican town commiftee, and Councilman ¥, Wil- liam Huber gave $5 to the same fu German Glider Pilot Killed in Plane Crash German April 16 (# Johannes Nehri Germany oremost glider p was killed to day when the plane he was flying crashed near the island of Kueh- koph in the Rhine. His obhserver. Steinhaueser. saved himeelf by jumping with a parachute Nehring was in a Junkers plane taking a regular daily weather ob- servation flight. He reached a con- siderable altitude when his motor 1stadt, covers | failed and his steering gear went|the Jones law 2 fce cream, | Wrong and the plane crashed near|fenses and 80da, tobacco, etc., and the Fidder is | the junction of the Althrein with the | penaltic Rhine. He w from the s dead when extricated wreckage. BASEBALL PRA The first practice of the Holy s Dbaseball team will he held for both the nd nior teams of the cl de- cided at last night's 1 1d in TICE CALLED I fnior the hasement of the church ms teams of the ndidates will pportunity for Most of the players on t will be of last year who on championship though other c given club, also be positions will be becausn cr of GIRL STILL CRITICAL HERALD CLASSIFILD ADS muel Gion- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY H‘ERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930 ALLEGES HUGE FEE | MADE BY COMPANY Dickerman Claims 105 Per Cent Profit Was Derived Washington, April 14 (P—The as- sertion that the Electric Bond & made a 105 per cent profit on supervision fe¢s assessed holding companies under its supervision was made before the federal trade commission today by Judson D. Dickerman, commissionar accountant Mr. Dickerman also testified be- forc the commission that the com- | pany last year furnished power anl light in 26 states and that its hold- ing companies had a gross income of $292,356,901. Dickerman | Share company in 192 testified that the | Eiectric Bond & Share fn 1927 re- ceived $9,373,172 in fees for super- vision, engineering, construction and tinancing. Those services actually cost only §4,568, giving the company profit of 105.4 per cent, the witne: said. Records for a complete anal | et the fees have been withheld oy | the company, the accountant said. The federal trade commission has court action pending in an effort 1o force the Tlectric Bond to turn over ite records to commission accoun:- ants Dickerman was the first witness az the commission resumed its in- vestigation of public utilities financ- | ing- | He saia | the Tlectric Bond & Share in 1929 sold 10,364,371,000 Kilowatt hours of power and light, or 10.6 per cent of the total in the United States, The company he testified, ownel 100 per cent of the stock in the Two Rector Street Company, of New York. the Phoenix Utility Com- pany and the Texas Construction Company. |the stand in rebuttal after the dc}MIT[;HE“‘ S YS fense rested its case. It was believed | would go to the jury| PRISONS GROWDED Further Campaign on Enforce- NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE HAS BALANCE OF $1,262 Treasurer Chamberlain Files Annual Report Showing Year's Receipts to Be $56,693.51 Receipts of the New Britain In- stitute last year totaled $56,693.51 of which all but a balance of $1.- 262.49 was expended, according to the annual report of Treasurer I% S. Chamberlain, filed today. Reccipts included: City appropria- 00; interest and dividends, Woodruff fund income, income from D. Miller fund, ; income from E. H. Casc fund, $799.7§; income from W. H. Hart fund, $600; income from James I. Shepard fund, $470.45; rent from Business & Professional Women's club, $226.66; fines, $1.- 686; gift to purchasc book, $5; gift, $54. The largest item was for salaries, totaling $27,226.53, with the purchase of books, $15,- 2.48 making up for most of the remaining outlay. City Items of expenditure The spring meeting of the New England Conference Lutheran Bro- therhood will be held at St. John's German Lutheran church in this city on May 1 Church delegat from New Brital Hartford, Mer den, New Haven, Dridgeport anid Naugatuck will’ participate. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott of 36% Allen street will leave tomorrow for a two wecks' visit in Vermont. The New Britain Institute library will be closed all day Good Friday. A onc-half interest in the Auto Metal Body Co., located in the rear of 164 Arch street, has been sold by Jorma Nurmi to George L. McCor- mick. The police were notified today of the return of the operator's license of Isidore Gessinger of 44 Stewart street, and suspension of the licenses of John Rogusky of 60 Thorniley street and Arthur Kohn of 208 Last Main street. Rev. William H. Alderson will speak on “Amazing News” at a sun- se Easter service at 5 a, m. at Goodwin Park Sunday morning. The meeting is under the auspices of the Inter-Church Older Boys' council of Hartford. Gordon Arr;tcd Today On Check Fraud Charge | ment Will “Lead to Trouble” Washington, April 16 UP—Attor- | ney General Mitchell has told the | senate judiciary committee that, be- | {cause of prison congestion, “further | | stimulating activities of prosccution | under any law, will get us into dif- | ficulties.” Detailing law énforcement condi- | tions to the committee, he réported that federal prisoners had increased by 6.277 in the last nine months, Mr. Mitehell gave this testimony at | {an executive session of the commit- tee called to consider a resolution | for an inquiry regarding prohibition. | | The testimony was made public | |today. and in it the attorney gen- eral declared himself opposed to the | senate investigation on the ground [that it would paralyze enforcement lactivities during the inquiry. | Of the increase in federal prison | population during the last nine| months, Mr. Mitchell réported that 1.811 of the 1,999 new prisoners were prohibition vielators. e named the Dyer auto theft act and the Mann act as the other principal cause of incréased prison condition. Bachmann Plan Heard Washington, April 16 (PreThe Bachmann plan for relieving court | congestion by appointing eighteen | additional federal judges, was taken | up today by tie house judiciary committee as a substitute for the | proporals of the Wickersham law | | enforcement commission. | The program was drafted after several months consideration had brought a disagreement on the com- mission’s recommendation that court relief be accomplished by permit- ting United States commissioners to | hold juryless trials of minor offend- |ers. There have been intimations | |that it meets the approval of both | the wets and drys. | | For each judic a separate Dill and Chairman G | mittes was hopeful that of them would be approved, means of relieving congestion wher it is particularly acute. Represen hmann, republican, We:t | | Virginia. made a study of the ques- | |tion at Graham's request The committec also planned to | | reconsider the Stobbs bill to modity | by defining minor of- xing their maximum six months in jail and | 1 district | been affected, preparcd s 18500 fine. In Arrest of Couple Herbert Parsell, . and his wife, Mary, of 9 Monroe street, ple ed not guilty to the charg of the and assaulting Rollin Parsell, 1 and their cases continued in police court today un- til April 26 on request of Attorney DPavid L. Nair. Officer L. E. Harper made the! arrest last night, Rollin Parsell be. ing the son of Herbert by a former marriage. Father and son are said to have engaged in a fight and the latter” tep-mother is alleged to have taken her husband's part. The young man sustained bruises to his knuckles and a discoloration of the eye and his father's eye was swollen from the blows they rained on cach other, Rollin, who is a State Trade school student, has had | trouble at home since his father re- married and last night's fight was 1ation of their difference | | | HYGIENE SOCIETY TO M Laven, April Society for ) hold its 22nd ar {ing in Hartford on May 14, | A, Winslow, ide ut ental Tly- nal meet- Dr. C. E pr announced today. & Dr. 1 YVan Norman Emery of 1t of psychis and 1 t Yale will s onal cong of mental hy- the a . tal hy o on the ne, | William J. Noble, | tain William H. as a | |§ i | I§ Joseph Gordon, 31, of 102 Pros- pect street, was arrested today by Sergeant T. J. I'eeney of the detec- tive bureau on a warrant charging him with issuing a fraudulent check. He was released in $500 bonds for |arraignment in police court tomor- row, 1t is alleged that Gordon, who fs u the bakery business, puschased a $206.50 from the Liberty Baking Co. of North street and tendered a check in payment on Tebruary 28, when he had no funds in the bank on which the check was drawng It is faid he was ziven a chance to make the cheek good, but failed to do so. Deput A\'E (llfivctlhsgl‘i;y Heads Benefit Group Second Deputy Chief Michael T. | Souncy of the fire department was clected president of the Yiremen's Death Benefit Fund at the organi- zation meeting last night, and oth- er offices were filled as follow Captain James Crowe, vice presi- dent; James Moore, secretary; Chief treasurcr: Cap- Porter, Peter Nuss and Willlam Shaw, trustee THORN CAUSES DEATH Middletown. April 16 (P—A rose | bush thorn which pricked the little finger of Katherine E. Osborne, 4 of Durham produced infection which cost her life at Middlesex hospital last night. The finger was amputated, but poisoning had spread beyond that member. Mrs. Osborne leaves her husband, Walter, a farmer, and a son and daughter. STRAUSS-ROTH STORE 357 MAIN ST., NEAR COMMERCIAL Specials for Thursday and Friday HADDOCK FLOUNDERS FRESH HERRING Fresh Cut Fillet of Haddock 16<ib. (GRAF ZEPPELIN CIRCLES OVER SPANISH CITY TODAY Giant Dirigible Checred By Huge Crowds on Housetops—Goes on To Cadiz Seville, Spain, April 16 (P—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, carrying 20 passengers on a cruise from Fried- richshafen to Seville and return, circled repeatedly over this city to- day amidst the cheers of cnthusias- tic crowds. After circling Seville several times the Graf headed toward Cadlz but was to return to Seville again. It was not definitely decided whether the Zeppelin should land or, after cruising over the region, hcad back to Germany. The roof tops throughout the city were dotted with spectators, many of whom climbed the famous Moor- ish tower of. Gihalda, the highest in Spain, adjourning the cathedral. A mooring mast on which army air forces had worked all night was not completed, and it was deci t5 land the Zeppelin, if she stopped, hy means of a force of men holding her down with ropes. SHALLPOX VAGCINE 1§ SHIPPED BY AIRPLANE Amcrican Red Cross Rushes Drugs for 50,000 to Central America in Response to Appeal New York, April 16 (UP)—A con- ignment of 179 pounds of smallps ceine—sufficient to vaccinate 000 persons—is speeding towards a entral American country by air to- day as a result of urgent appeals to the American Red Cros: The shipment started over the Eastern Air Transport Line last night from Phalidelphia, bound di- rect for Miami, Fla, where it will be picked up by a Pan-American majl plane and shipped to the Cen- tral American port. i The mercy mission started yester-| day when the Central American gov-| ernment reported to the National Tted Cross at Washington that thers was urgent need for vaccine for 50.- 000 persons. The Bastern Air Trans- port assigned a special plane to car- ry the shipment to Florida. 12,000 HOMELESS IN FIRE Philippine Island Colony Shaken By Eaplosion—Dwellings and Factory Burned. lloilo, P. T. April 16 (UP)— Tywelve thousand persons were home- 16s5 today after fire, followed by a | series of dynamite cxplosions, de- Z 5 We are prepared to leave in your home a 1930 Triple Screen Grid, | Stromberg-Carison PARE {¢ with yoor present radio soih azy atber receiver you rts agree that Bo humen Ty 10se fos even 246 MAIN ST. . E——— S, INC. | CODFISH to Boil | SLICED BLUEFISH . i 12%c ™ Just Received RIVER SHAD 24c " HALIBUT, SALMON, SWORDFISH | SMELTS No.1 Ih 29¢ Come and See Our Selection of All Best Standard Brands of SMOKED HAMS to Be Sold at Posi- tively the Lowest Prices in the City. SMOKED SHOULDER: 17¢ 1h Sliced 27 Eggs Fresh dz.zg £ Bacon clb Leg or Rump VEAL 22c¢ h stroved dwellings and other buildings at Sagay, on Negroes Island. Advices reaching here said many were killed, but pending a check-up of the casualties no confirmation was avajlable. The flames, starting in the plant of the Insular Lumber company, an American firm, spread rapidly through the town and soon was be- yond control. Machinery, lumber stocks, laborers’ quarters and per- sonal belongings of the inhabitants were lost. Panic was caused when the blaze reached the dynamite stores. A preliminary estimate of damago, made while the firc was still raging, was $2,500,000. HURLED THROUGH WINDOW Mesxico City, April 16 (P—A mes- sage demanding that the Brazillan ambassador to Mexico intervene on behalf of communists imprisoned in Brazil was hurled through the win- dow of the Brazillan embassy today. The message was attached to a stone and inasmuch as‘the ambas- sador is mnow in Rio Janeiro, the charge d'affaires received it ani immediately asked police protection against further attempts of this kind. Brown Asserts Hoover Wants Air Mail Raise ‘Washington, April 16 (#—Post- master General Brown disclosed be- fore the house rules committee to. day that President Hoover had urged him to increase the air mail postage rate from 5 cents an ounce “ever since I have been in office.” Appearing before the committee in support of special legislative sta- tus for the Watres bill to change the basis of payment to air mail lines from poundage to milcage, the post master general said that “immediate- ly after the bill is passed, I intend to raise the air mail rate.” The present rate of 5 cents ounce for first class air mail, he said after the committee meeting, probably would be increased to 7 or 8 cents. an RADICAL PREFERS JAIL Waterbury, April 16 (UP)—DMrs. John Borgnis of Naugatuck wanis her husband home but apparently John, serving threc months in coun- ty Jjail for his part in the “Red Thursday” demonstration here last month, is willing to remain in jail. Mrs. Borgnis instigated an appeal from her husband’s conviction in common pleas court. Borgnis, from his comfortable jail cell, notified authorities he wished the appeal withdrawn. * A CLEAR-WEAVE THUNDERBOLT ANNOUNCING A BRAND NEW NUMBER—A MASTER STROKE IN STYLISH QUALITY HOSIERY—AT A LOW PRICE THAT IS INCOMPARABLE! Doesn't it seem almost unbelievable that from now on you can buy these? STRICTLY FIRST QUALITY FULL FASHIONED FINE GAUGE SERVICE or Pure SEMI-CHIFFON Silk STOCKINGS Unsurpassed—Even at $1.50 Each P?;il' Guaranteed—Unconditionally How Is It Possible? Only Because of Greater Efficiency in Mass Production! Each Pair You Buy Represents An Actual Saving of 62 Cents A FEW OTHER CLEAR-WEAVE VALUES Service or Chiffon STOCKINGS $1.03 ALL FIRST QUALITY! Picot Top TXtra Sheer CHIFFONS $1.35 Pointed tiecl Service $1.27 Heavy Square or TOCKINGS Extra Heavy Service or Dxquisitely Sheer CHIFFONS $1.49 Also 2 Points Our Underwear Values are the Best in the City