New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 - NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, APRIL 2§, 1930 —’1WEN" L o0 Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 15’809 X o TROLLEY OFFICIALS | EXPECT T0 GIVE UP 2 MORE CAR LINES Fast Main and Chestnut Street Service May Be Abandoned Soon CITY LEARNS OF MOVE, 10 DELAY PAVING WORK| Plainville and Hartford Llectric | Service Alone Will Survive if Con- templated Plans Go Through— | Francis Street Route Through | North Street Scheduled to Be Next on Program for Change. Jast Main Abandonment of the strect and the Chestnut street trol- ley lines is in prospect and until definite decision is reached, repair of the highway through which the first of these two lines passes Wil | be held up, City Engincer Philip A. | Merian said today. Although rather widely separated, | these two lines operate jointly in the scnse that the cars and crews | o from the terminal of one line to | the terminal of the other to voln»‘ plete one trip, «rossing routes at the center. The ¥ ancis street line is now m! process of abandonment. When re- | pair of North strect beging, ths | ks will be removed and buses | substituted with the consent of the| public utilitics commission. The | Arch strect line was given up sev- | ral years ago, and on the Berlia| and the Farmington avenue lines| trolleys operate only during the period of peak loads. The company’ representatives, in - discussion with New Britain officials, have madec it plain that eventually none but the| Hartford and Plainville systems arc likely to be kept in permanent op cration. | Buses to Be Substituted { As has been the ca whereve trolleys have been removed, buses will be substituted on the I t Main strect and the Chestnut street lines it the trolleys arc taken off. t Main street is sorely in neei of repair, Ingincer Merian said to- day, the condition which has long| been far from favorable having been | aggravated by excavations made nece:sary by the construction subwa A complete pnm.man pavement job is planned, but work | is being delayed because of the ex- pected action of the Connecticut Co. | Installation of additional subway duets will also be postponed unt.l 1t is learned whether the tracks, which | L be removed for this job, are to| Permanent pavement Jaid South Main strect several years ag is showing signs of wear in the vi- cinity of Sand Bank hill, and patch- ing will probably be nccessary, cording to the city engincer. H way patching work will begin this| weelk, | on LIQUOR PURCHASER CASES REACH GOURT - Test Action Argued Today | Before Nation’s High- | est Tribunal i Washington, April 2§ government brought {o the court today its contention that t purchaser of illicit liquor is ,,u\ll of violating the prohibition law, The question came hefore highest tribunal in two form one the government those who order liquor leggers knowing that it legally transporicd to o are guilty of conspiracy the prohibition law. Tn the government ecxpresses —somc doubt as to whether the purchaser who obtains liquor from a hootlegger without ordering its illegal trans- portation is equally gnilty with the hootlegger. It was prepared to urge however, that the court hold him suilty, The conspi (®)—Th suprem the ‘ n contends {hat from boot must be il- ach them to violate ihe othe i case was brought the government from Philadel phia, where Alfred E. Norris, a New York banker, was charged with vio- lating the prohibition law when he |* placed orders with Joel D. Kerpe: of Philadelphia, for the shipment of | bootleg liquor. The federal district court at Phil- adelphia convicted Norris of con- spiracy to violate the prohibition law |1 Lut the circuit court of versed the ruling, transportation a to effect delivi the purcha hy appeals re- |4 holding that such may be necessa v does mot subject [T er and seller to an indict- ment for conspiracy to transport. Al- though declaring Norris guilty of conspiracy the district court rounced that the mere purchase Jiquor was not an offense as did (ke |t circuit court of appeals. 4 Attorney General Mitchell in his | Drief in the Norris case. which fur- | nished an outline for today's oral |+, argument declared that “whether or not, the national prohibition act malkes the act of purchase a erime in itself, it manifestly does not in- vest the purchaser with any special immunity from the consequences of doing those things which beyond question are made criminal. T mere fact that one is a pur sives Tim mno license to violate the Jaw with impunity” Iy James 1. Farrar was indicted at |t « an- T | [t i [i he |1 (Continued on Page Two), i Disappears From Home] | S+ e———r |are believed to have left N [ parents went out, his father about| g | e ot |lieved that he had gone to do th | either | leaving his home to board the 7 a.| morning. his way to the trade EEXPLI]SIUN COSTS BoY Six ()lhcu Held for Steal street, his | of his right hand sight of his left eye. another jured. and Ser & Oak and 11 years, for theft of c of 100, Roman Lekston's care ain Gene af | o | police said today did not occur in connection with a | ing tained from witnesses. haser | o | would use them fo outdo other boys STERN MEASURES ADOPTED T0 HALT | - CONVICT DEFIANCE {National Guards and Police Re- | serves Summoned fo Quell ‘ Reign of Violence WARDEN REMOVES RING LEADERS T0 DUNGEONS i Prisoners Tear Down Cell Doors and Are Rumored to Be Digging Un- | derground Passage to Freedom— | Heavly Armed Officers Ready for | FREDERICE SACKETT Trouble if Break Is Attempted— No Breakfast, Unless Men Obey. TW0 BOYS MISSING, BELIEVED TOGETHER Fl‘edefick Sflcke[t, TlllS Gm,’ flfld Guardsmen to aid in overcoming the | | prisoners. Burton Adams, Bristol, Gone % RO G (i ABSENT SlNGE SATURDAY |: warden ordered 150 policemen into | Parents of New Britain Lad Prepar- | Columbus, ® — A de-| termined effort to bring unruly Ohio penitentiary convicts under discipline | was made today by W April 28 . Thomas, who called in Columbus the prison yard carly today and at s later hour announced that the ])ns-‘ oners in the idle house would not | cat “until we have mopped up on | them.” | After a night of disorder in the | idle louse, during which prisoners | ripped down cell doors because they red to be locked in as were the 320 men who met death a week by fire and smoke, the prison popu- lation awoke today to face the fir: effort to end the convicts' campaign Madison | °F "|\IA\|\c resistance” against the | wardenship of Thom: Officers Heavily Armed Police who went into the prison been missing from their | ¥ard were armed with pistols, riot | Saturday morning ang | ¢1UPS and tear hewmbe D e : 4% buildings bristle machine guns yeles in quest of ad- | o¢ 4o National Guard Tt was expected that after the ord crly prisoners, nomcd in dormitoric had been fed, cffort would be made by the ies to enter the ; > house and overcome the g 9 o'clock “and his mother a little | | = GIG thofmutl later, but when Mr. Sackett returned | U Lo hore ::y;»h}m.; \Ln\n;r‘ redericl had | provent any break. When o roport N | was made that some of the idlc wished to do, and h ~ | house men had cut a hole in the roof “|and had ropes for a mi When he did not return for dinpier | o' 100 ookor or supper, his parents believed the 61l bloel¥ e e was staying at a friend’s home, but when they telephoned to this | place at 9 o'clock Saturday night | they were informed that he had not | been there Rrother Searches in Vain TFearing that Frederick might have \ met with an accident while cyeling, | his older hrother, Rohert, sct out in | an automobile and scoured the roads | about the city in an effort o locate | hoy He found police were | a_description | departments | ing to Go to California—Policc of Two States Asked to Help in| Scarch. Police from ford today eri street, 16, who have Springficld fo Stam- were searching for 17, of 61 and Burton Ired- Sackett, this city, Adams, of 47 Putnam strect, Bristol, omes since i together on bic enture. The local youth, wnho is the son | of Mr. and Mrs, Louis Sackett, was | at home Saturday morning when his means were faken (0 1 errand father b 1 escape, mounted on Other g (Continued on Page o | DIVORCEE MARRIED or bicycle the local broadeast to other Former Wife of Francois Church Honeymooning in Rome | nothing, notified of th so and routh Yesterday communic your morning the Sackelts | ed with the parents of | s who was one of Fred-| t fricnds, the two boys| Ttome State Trade school to- | NS A Mhm The father, Emory Adams, | L.rancois —Church, e e e o s e TR i Toncymoon ing, too, and had not been seen since | H(‘I‘.f‘ “”,h her now hushand, ‘Bimer mith, former {hird officer of {he teamship Leviathan whom, it is now | revealed, she recently married at | April 28 () — Church, The former divorced from | son of Llihu mmmvw the m. train for {his city on Saturday He was believed to B2 on | hool but did After a visit in Rome, Mr. :"m\lll will tour Iurope ar which she brought from Francisco. Only I Decemby it was reported here that tho former | Mr Church, who got a divorce in no on November 25. on grounds of non support, would mect here | former husband in Rome and would again marry him. and | in a TWO FINGERS AND FYF The former Agnes time telephone girl Hoboken, N. J., Januar Francois Church of family. She is a niece of Stetson of Brooklyn, ney Both she Rige one- rried in . to soda ing 2.300 Fuse Caps at Quarry he baking the late Albert a patent attor- Ldward Bryzgicl, held a dynamite 9, of and her hushand we at the time of their wedding n his hand Saturday afternoon near | Mrs, Church obtained a divorce in home and when it cxploded it| Reno on November 25, 1929, and she blew oft the {humb and index finger | received a draft for §10,000 before and destroyed the | her departure as the first payment His brother and | of a $50,000 settlement made on her | less painfully in- | for getting a divoree to satisfy the Church family. s she left eno, friends she was planning to nieet al police department, accompanicd | mer husband in Rome, intending o by Deputy She 1. W. Furrey and | marry him again. Mrs. Church's le- “onstable Royce of Plainville yester- | gal advisers in New Yorlk, while say- day searched the woods near White | ing they would not be surprised if ifter arrestir New Britain | she remarried Church, declared they boys whose ages ranged between 10| had never had any intimation from 00 fuse | her that such was her intention. L CASES OF COMMUNISTS SCHEDULED WEDNESDAY road. The caps, which come in boxes | re 21 fuse oy were Detective Sc nt P..J. O'M it M. J. I'lynn of the lo- there her lr) were found. he injured boy, who is under Dr. ew Brit- | hospital, was not impli- | ted in the theft and did not realize | Four Charged With Unlaw ful Assem- | he was in danger when he took | 3 | a lighted fuse in his hand. The local| Plage Ask Continuance When that the accident | Brought to Court | lis and Jerome, \\';I!(N“ they ob-|and Stanley Scrogi, alleged commun- st sympathizers who were .’\rroktorll The boys who were arrested will | Saturday forenoon on the charge of »e in Plainville court next Saturday, | violating the city ordinance pertain- he quarry company property being|ing to unlawful assemblage on the n that town. They admiticd, accord- | street, pleaded not guilty in police ng to the police, that after stealing | court today and their cases were con- | he caps they amused themselves by | tinued until Wednesday at their own xplodi them with heavy rocks!| request. ind it was their plan to keep the| . Bonds of £500 were posted for the emainder hidden in the woods un- | release of cach of the quartet and il Independence Day. when they | the same bonds were ordered in the continnance. They were not repre- | sented by counsel. ‘ ‘gang” meeting or initiation. to statements which accord-| Andrew F n noise making. T0 SHIP'S OFFICER- | others | etors o | Berlin town line, Soldiers Guard Ohio Penitentiary ) ul\L of national disturbances auar Mayor Qulg}ey Expected to Name His New Commissions Tomorrow Mayor Qui announcemer the municipal bo organiza 1"or the devoting General hosy boards to sponsibiliti his slate wa most ready f Da his Dr. Joscph H. gley is s tion of ards and st fow ¢ time at with of t s said or planni tomor the sital to the hare to make row eetin of 1l cominissions. many s hie has been New Britain formation of him the zovernment today publication. Potis, one to he Through of his phy- arden Preston | A Ting of steel, n xChlllC guns, rifis smen and police, surrounded tho Ohio peni | pnlle reserves and Ohio National ‘Lemmn today as troops were hurriedly among’ DH\OHL[\ | tore down cell doors and refused to obey guards. la break for liberty w Las 1 15 planned reached prison officials today. This photo shows the troops on duty. tics mu ar il fice W i wil cha April 26th .. PRICE THREE CENTS LAHONA POLIE ' BELIEVE VICTIMY FRIENDS INNOCENT Wike and Seeley Held Neverthe- Jess in Probe of Strange M- der Myst lery in M in Muskogee OTHER SUSPECTS SOUGHT AS POLICE HUNT SLAYER Smiths in West With Other Litchtield | County Men Seeking to Clear Up Mortgage Tangle of Defunct New Milford Concern — Murdered in | Hotel Room By Two Young Men, | Compantons Tell Police, Muskogee, Okla., April 28 (#) — two automobile nawlyn.':‘ companions of David and Geo Smith, both of Connecticut, “l\o were mysteriously shot and killed in a hotel here Saturday night, we: | still heing detained by police today, | Sheriff Ired Hamilton said he hr~1 licved them innocent of the crime. John L. Wike, Sharon, Conn., and P. Gi. Seeley, Washington, Conn., the other members of the Smith party, asserted the men were killed by iwo | | unmasked robbers who entered a ho- tel room. George Smith whose W ornwall, Conn., of the defunct New Milford Security company and was in Oklahoma | | cheeking up on mortgages on west- Connecticut farms sold here. David $mith lived in Sharon. Search for Suspects With the apparent failure of police to conneet Wike and Seeley with the crime, a scarch for other suspeets was started. At Springficld, Mo., where the Connecticut party spent ‘riday night, police were reported checking activities of a group of five men who stayed in the same hotel | ms do not run out Wednesday (28 that in which the eastern group | L ho affected by projected | had quarters, The five men register- cd from Chicago, and said they were cn route to Shamrock, Tex. Although 1d shotguns, in the hands called to quell further night rebellious convicts report that home was in was sceretary | ern d long time the mayor has cation with many of who 20 on boards and others who appointed to other city of- friend in poli- been in com- tho 1 be Ihe terms of office of re of con ioners will expire dnesd night. It is cxpeeted commission members whot carly a the POLISH ORPHANAGE MAN IS ARRESTED WILL BE ENLARGED Addition Costing $40,000 Will Frank Jakubiak Alleged fo Have Be Constructed at Once GROUND IS BROKEN Will Structure High and ent Main sions of 15 Ground is -story orphanag the cost of The buildit north of thc cated August contract has Brzu by Immaculatc 1 thre poration which control alvcady tion, and he Be Located Building North of Three Stories Pres- With Dimen- 18 Ieet, beir addition on which 1g Will he prosent 12580 the an has the wor addi measur will ag Founded From a Polish orpha one of the la kind in the Lucyan Sacred hous: od § ment phana need e Boj Hea 15 for and ¢ . In at was story W about teach 75 me in the orph ontint INNb flN BERUN RuA" Dll\Cl‘(labhefl Into Traffic ments nere ministc ion of ljoin ca will by Ir. ry mod nage 1 roken structur been e Chilc ceclos h of today for to the Polish rritt. street, $40,000, ted to the dedi- | al | he t 1o Andrew Iren of Mary iastical cor- the institu- under- ger have outside A sun porch the threc Bojnowski the start, grown to v institutions of its country. nowski, rt the ased o meet this neg building Wit mity mbers. In pastor churel following yea ere some 1904, Rev. of the rented a . borrow- or . the ommodations d cted a three on Gold of sister 5 whom onp now has of parochial school while T to the 1ed on 1 needs of the FOUND DRY BY POLICE ‘ Man Taken From Nutmeg | Fined $200—01d Colony Case Continued Mer rence, it 4 A L one the costs in the morning on quor. George er raid on the den police held. The case 30, proprict 113 North with the same The raids State thre on the polic (Continuc alleged pre al to pril 2 of the Nutmeg charge Mar; oprictor, 1inst George of the Colony offense, | until tomorrow men in d on L' Heral ¢ was fined § Meriden police cour of selling li-|field ay anoth- | Bronx, lacer: sted in a |conscious; ntino. arr place by state Saturday night, 0ld Colony ro: N I'red 8. Lau- ged propri- Inn near the 0 and | this | and Meri- was not Morgan, | Inn. | d, charged as continued ted in the TODAY NO POISON, DOCTOR SAYS Me says ) I fin Bri ded Mo noon akness we o1 85 taly con is al der quor to I bout by ver the ma od the Dr. I hev lati mMMmmww you | other |men |aut |ing collided | Arnold, stre | tak 189 era | con T den Two other men who spent the| night in the Springficld hotel, said | to have been overheard discussing “pulling a job” also were sought. Wike told officers the robbers en- tered the hotel room occupied by the Smith brothe and himself, and one of the men drew a revolver. The brothers, he said, grappled with the intruders shot. Police said no shots rd by anyone elsc| " in the hotel Sold De“flm]\ed‘ M%m] | Shaving in Bathroom ! Secley said he was shaving in the bathroom of a connccting room dur- | ing the holdup. When officers reach- | od the scene one side of his face was hily haved and the other side s covered with dry Jather. I'he facts brought out in the INLIGUOR DEATH dical Examiner, After Autopsy, | no- (Cortinued on Pa ccial to the 1f MOB SEIZES FLORIDA Organic Weaknesses Were *rimarily Responsible for Plain- ille Woman's Death, John tain medical cxaminer, that the ith of Mrs. Anna Valls, 40, of untain View last IFriday after- s due primarily to organic ither than fo poison- P Jakubiak f w Britain, iternoon in ise. Jakubiak Authorities Believe Gang Lynched Man Held in Bombing } liquos Lyman street, en into custody th nection with the alleged to have sold denatured | ohol to a Mountain View resi- 1t who used it in making the li- which The is said to I sold the woman’s husband. dilation of the heart brought drinking liquor while in a physical condition caused death of Mrs. Lalls, in the tion of Dr. Purncy, who perform- autopsy Saturday afternoon at Britain General Tospital. Purncy said that Tie found the nan’s nd vital or- in a condition and cvi- v ihe stomach to hold on following. He 5 Tampa, Fla., April 25 (®) — John | Hodaz 40, & native of Hungary, sus-| pected of hombing a Plant Clty resi- denc aken from a deputy sheriff last night by a mob of masked men, who were helieved by authorities, to have lynched him, Deputy Sheriff Tobe Robinson said | wrrested Hodaz in a rooming | here and was taking him to Ila., for safe keeping when nd overpowered by the | of Plant City. Sheriff] Joughin dispatched 12 deputics 1d bloodhounds to search for mem- Lers of the mob and to learn what disposition had been made of Hodaz. No word had been received from the party carly today, but the sheriff id the s every indication that Hodaz had been lynched. binson said Hodaz was when he was taken mob and that its members f shots into the ground near his car | auickly. He said the mob surprised | him and pressed zuns against his hody hefore he could resist v poor esti- | he hou! Bartow d an o weak liquor was too much for with heart di- hat hc (Continued on Two) ry hand- by the fired four (Continued on Page Two) REPORT HILLS SLATED | FOR STOREYARD BERTH April (®—One | was killed and an- | young woman and {wo young | were injured today when thc omobile in which they were rid- with tr Dblinker il at Nagle avenuc Lroad- Blinker—Two Men Are Injured York, ng woman Slated to Take Charge of Harvard Street Supply Station Under flic New Administration. and ; When reorganization of the board | of public works has becn accom- | mm.d and Trnest Humphrey | | becomes chairman, Tke T. Hills will | be placed in charge of the city| storeyard on Harvard street, suc-{ ceeding Raymond D). Boyle, who has held the job for the past year, those close to the new administration say. OF (S Er former member of the fire | Saratoga avenue, Yonkers "“.-“41(]‘1«!‘!?\1(‘\)!, 19 employed at the tions of the scalp and possible | paragon Inn. He is a veteran of c of the left ankle, and Vin- | o Spanish-American war and is| t Jorden S1L Bruce avenuc, | aetive in the work of G. Ham-| cers, lacerations of the face mond post. He was one of the sixth | autonmobile, operated by ward orkers for Mayor Quigley in ling south the primary fight and on clection the day. Dr. George W. vears city physi of the board of public reported to he ~ted for from that posi == [ e old he dead girl Miss TImontc years Yonkers. The Jewish Memorial Lucy Muller, ne and 261 reet, tions of the head, Frank Stroungsteel, ct, en to M hospital, Delaw- the un- of he Jor- on oc- proce ¥ when acciden Dunr an by for several appointment welfare, is retirement (fler being th stioned locked up at dsworth (Continucd ou Page Two) | Western |donned black or |4 | taken, | thing else,” i L e DAMAGED IN VANDERBILT YACHT BADLY EAST RIVER; CREW UNHURT IN BLAST S e S Man Greeley Advised To Go West Is Buried Chicago, April 28 (®—Seventy- five years ago William Verity in New York, being told he had only a few months to live, asked Horace Greeley, cditor of the New York Tribune, for advice. Greeley gave him his famous advice: “Go west, young man. Verity did, and lived to be years old. He was one of Chi- cago's pioneer husiness men. His funeral was today. —_— LUNA GASTS SHADE OVER FACE OF SUN ‘Shadow of Moon Forces Sol Into‘ Eclipse This Afternoon PHENOMENON SEEN HERE| ronomers Photograph Heavenly Show at Ob- | servatories and Irom Extraordinary Plans Made. rting at 3:10 o’clock, time, the scheduled to go into an ecclipse with the result that necks ware skyward and cyes squinted daylight today, sun was in an attempt to observe the occurrence. A number of amateur astronomical en- thusiasts utilized smoked glass in watching the heavens while athe blue glasses. By o'clock the eclipse will be at ifs height and from then on until 5 o'clock will wane in magnitude til its completion. Tarly in the morning some appri hension was felt that cloudy weather would interfere with she display but later the sun appeared with its ual brilliance and all fears were layed. taken by New Britain re the eclipse is the number phone calls received by throughout the day asking the time of the event. u us- dents of tele- exact In New Britain the eclipse will not | be total but only a little more than | half total. asts Wide Shadow ncisco, April 28 () — The moon, passing in front of the sun, today will cast a shadow wide on the earth, and scientis with the aid of radio, telescope, air- planc and spectroscope, were carec- fully prepared for an attempt 1o record the event for posterity. The path of totality will about 300 miles at sca and astward just north of San I (Continued on P: sweep ancis- Two) BOY BURGLAR FLITS AFTER BEING CAUGHT Smashes Dial on Safe Office of Boys’ Club Here in Caught shared by rector of Superinten the Boy at East Joseph venue, red-handed in the offic William ¥ Squire, di Junior Achicvement and cnt Dwight Skinmer o club, in the club buildi Main and Center streets, Digutis, 181 He ge Of an oppor- {unity to run away this forenoon, but was later arrested on Main street by Detective Scrgeant George C. El- linger on the charge of burglar The youth was in the office when Mr. Squire walked in, and readily admitted that he had gained en- trance through a window. sked to empty his pockets, he turned several bars of candy it is said, from the “Please don’t ask he pleaded Squire and the latter, ¢ ing to Superintender mitted Digutis to go into another room on his promise that he would | make no attempt to escape. An cxamination of the office dis- ‘losed that the desks of Mr. Squire and Mr. Skinner had been pried open | and approximately cents, a stop watch and a while the safe was found badl damaged, The dial was smashed a; though it had been struck several | heayy blows with an instrument and it was impossible to open it on ac- count, of the effect on the mechan- ism. Secking out Digutis, Mr. Squire 1d Mr. Skinner were surprised to find that he had fled, apparently through a window in the gymnasium. The police were notified tive Sergeant P. J. O'Mara was dc- tailed to investigate. He notificd the detective bureau that Digutis (Continued on Page Two) rtford case in th me any- with club. s Skinner, per- 35 | THE WEATHER | New Britain and vicinity: Partly cloudy and continued cool tonight; Tuesday cloudy. Planes — craned | | An indication of the interest | in | the Herald | a half mile | .| windows were start | out | which were | few other articles taken, | and Detec- | Terrific Explosion Breaks Windows Many Blocks From Scene — Part of Deck Blown Into Air and Craft Set on Fire. Believe Gasoline Tank in $500,000 Vessel Ignited— Sailors, at Lunch When Catastrophe Occurs, Manage to Escape—Hos- pital Patients Alarmed. New York cral Cornelius { the Winchester, April (UP)—Gen- Vanderbilt's yacht, was badly damaged Prepare to| by a violent expiosion as it rode at {anchor in the East river some 400 New York Yacht club's pier during the noon hour today. Eighteen men of crew were aboard eating lunch when the ex- | plosion o All were able to save and | feet off the the irred. themselve: none was in- ime!, The blast tore a hole in the deck, blew off part of the upper structure ed away the deck awnings. s shot up through the hole and car Ilam ‘m the deck, fire 2dding to the dam- age. | Blame Gasoline Tank | 1t was believed that the explo- | sion originated in a gasoline tank in { the hold. General Vanderbilt himself was | not on the yacht at the time. The | Winchester had arrived in New York harbor last week from New- port and was anchored off the yacht club, among the vachts of ‘other socially prominent persons. There was no warning that any- thing was wrong and the first known of the accident was when the east side in the vicinity of 26th street shaken by a violent shock, Watchers saw timbers and burning embers hurled high in the a from the Vanderbilt craft. | Windows 20 blocks away ere shaken. Bellevue hospital, with its hun- dreds of patients, was within a few balocks of the yacht club docks. 1ts rattied and the pa- tients became excited. Some could the cxplosion from windows of their rooms. Nurses went through |the wards informing patients what had happened. | Smoke and was flames were issuing | from the yacht immediately after | the explosion but in a few minutes the tug- Helen Moran approached | followed Dby a fire boat. Ten minutes | 1ater the fire was brought under con- |trol but two hours after the explo- | sion none could hoard the yacht, due to the heat of the decks and the | dangerous condition of the hull. Tugs Rush to Aid | About 2 p. m. two tugs went alongside and put lines on the yacht, PO towing it to some orable spot for cxamination. Un- «n such examination is made the ex- act extent of the damage cannot be determined. The yacht was one of the finest afloat. Tt was built in 1916 at Bath, Maine, for P. W. Rousse and during | the war served as an auxiliary ves- | sel in the navy. After the war it | passed to the ownership of Vincent Astor, then to Russell Alger of De- | troit and two months ago was pur- chased by Vanderbilt. | The boat was noted for its speed. its luxurious appointments and its | unusual construction, the hull hav- |ing been built on torpedo lines. It | carried normally a crew of 22 and | was 225 feet lon ASK COUNGIL TO BAN CURB SHINE PARLORS |Church Street Merchants | Protest Against Side- | walk Bootblacks | Mr. | ter telephon- | Nearly a dozen types of business establishments are represented 4n a | protest and sent to Acting Mayor David L. Nair today asking an ordi- | nance to rule boy bootblacks off | Church street. The merchants complain that-the | bovs annoy customers and interfer with their business by insistent solicitation for patrons of their “am- [ bulant” trade. The acting mayor will present the petition to the com- mon council at the May meeting, and it will be referred to the ordi- nance committee for a public hear- ing, unless the council votes to table the petition, the fate met by a simi- | 1ar document last year. | The protest reads as follows: “We, the undersigned, being mer- | chants of Church street, New Brit- | ain, desire to bring to your knowl- | edge the fact that a large number of | boys gather in front of our places of | business every Saturday, annoying | our customers and passersby in gen- eral of soliciting with insistence ‘to ——% | have their shoes shined, ™ o