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Second Section NEW BRITAIN HERALD Pa,2s 13 to 22 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930. Western Penal Institutions Plan Extensive Building Program For Improvement of Crowded Prisons NEWINGTON CRASH | SETS AUTO AFIRE Bloomiield Man Held for Drunk- ¢n Driving—0ther Items Jerald) 28—Constable arrested Arthur W. of Rockwell avenue, Bloomficld, Saturday at 6:30 p. m, A on the charge of driving a motor extensive building programs 10 Tre- | vehicle while under the influence of | lieve crowded prison conditio | tiquor. California has spent or will spend | 1,innehan $1,445,000 on prison buildings and | 5yenye, going south at an alleged improvements during a two Year | pigh rate of speed and in attempting period in 1929-1931. | to make the corner to go to New The \budget of that state for the| prjtain he apolied his brakes and next 10 years gives San Quentin|giq 59 feet, crashed in an embant prison $1,870,000 and Folsom Pris-| meng and turned the car over on it on $1,155,000. > | right side. The car caught fire but There are nearly 5,000 conviets n | 3,5 griver was only slightly injured | Quentin, largest penal colon¥ In | oy pig right hand. Immediat the world. At Iolsom prison where |, or {he crash Linnchan disappes 13 were Killed in a mutiny in 1927, | i the inmates number approximately | 1,400. Convicts at the Colorado state penitentiary at Cannon City, scene of a revolt last October in which 13 died, arc at-work on a mew §$113.- 000 cell house and & new $85,000 central prison building. A new cell block costing $150,000 | San Quentin, the World’s Largest Convict Colony, to Get Nearly $2,000,000 for Buildings — Some; Admit Fire Menace. | The following is the third and last ©of a serics of stories on prison con- ditions throughout the United States. (Special to the | | | Newington, April | Arthur Oles | Linnehen Denver, Colo.,, April 28 (UP)— Three western states are engaged in was driving on Willard | r- | A passing antoist tried to quench | the firc with a small hand ex- tinguisher without success, and Co. | [No. 1 of the fire department re | sponded to a call, extinguishing the | biaze by means of the booster tanis. | Constable Olesen drained the gaso- line tank of gas so as to avoid an| 3 e explosion. The car was a total i=belnpbulatshalyominestatelll o im BN T 1ok dontainine Blles | prison at Rawlins. The prison was | trech: A& Bote contiining ructed for 275 inmates and now | - ' construg 2 | Linnehan was arrested at a con- houses | & distance away from the s oY | siderable Jias ullding Yroranm | accident and denied at first that he lad been implicated in the crasi With the New Mexico state prison filled to capacity with 500 inmates, | L] the warden will recommend a gen- | Put his injured hand gave him aws t> the officers. He was locked up in the New Britain police station ani | | later released under bonds of $200 | for his appearance in court here Another Faces Same Charg state prison is amply large )0 convicts. The fire hazard | is considered negligible. All cells can | | Another Waces Bame Charge mptied ates. 3 LERZOZODANSLY {aand D e tlary at | lle strect, New Britain, was arrest- Salem, built for 400, holds 500 con- | 1 by onstanlel I:'»‘“"‘r‘s“'{ H“”’""“fl': victs. Some of them arc housed n | 25 5 lvhv:_;o"ar l-mw’“”“j “f."TOI\h:‘» L:mno v barracks and corridors. under the influence of liquor. He | e gblll ies o ba wnlocked wop | o0 SF AL R aralely-iBulliings are! voofed withi( N8 Sh 1= SVIGHTCAE SIEIASEI0K Toed | properly control his car, it is said. While all the buildings at San | Yiro Dept, Notes Quentin and Folsom are not of fire- | co 0,000 BPRE FOUER - proof construction, the men are 9t L ment will hold its regular meeti locked in any structures regarded a5 | opjgnt at § o'clock in its quarters possible fire hazards. Both Prisons | ;¢ (1o Center fire house. las follows: |ara | complete lists of guests follows: Mr fand M Cedric Powers, Mr. and| | Mrs. George Wuchert, Mr. and Ms. | | Lrwin, Mr. and Mrs. Harry | Webster, Mr. and Mrs. James Simp- | son, Mrs. Ozro Crawford, Mrs. John | Walsh, M Mary Shontz, Mrs. Wil- liam Turner, Mrs. Harry Ginsberg, | Mrs. Kenneth Kron, Mrs. John Ball, | Emma haal, Mrs. A. Larson, . kens, M John Stad- Mrs. B. J. Walker, Mrs. Il ier | Wilcox, Mrs. Ired Ensworth, Miss Ethlyn Brown, Mr: W. Ritter, | Mrs. A. F. Schada Mrs. Nellie Hum- | | ason, Miss Grace Stowell, Miss Grace Coholan, Mrs. A. §. Grant, Mrs, Florence Petrus, Mrs. A. H. Petts, |Mrs. Frank Johnston, Miss Jennic Rock, Miss Alice Rock. Miss Laura Berlin, Misses Edith, Ellen and ¥ {ther Lindquist. e Husband Eager to Get To Work in Death Crash Topsham, Me., April 28 (UP) Lawrence Nadcau's cagerne: to get to work on time cost the life of his wife Elsic, today. The young woman was killed almost instantly when the road- ster in which she and her hu band were riding overturned on a sharp curve on the Augusta road. The couple had been visiting relatives in Bangor. Nadeau, who escaped injury, told police that at the time of the ident he was driving about 45 or 50 miles an hour so he would not be late for work in Portland. — of 1 nchester. Mem Bourne post acted cup as an at- re- for lis Miss Marjorie Cormack, member | of Jane A. Delano post of Hartford and a former chief ycoman in the silver loving oftered | 3 hoste. ) tendance prize at the meeting of the | _Anthony Voloski, commander of Kiltonic post of Southington, was hell, | PO Litchell, brlsay dean Ateholl oo o iotiis0) memberat LR AU LAk Mrs. Fred Ensworth, Miss Tuth| @88 o8 BA0 Tt Lok Ensworth, Mrs. V. L. lddy, M L EECon i anchester is sccond with 13, T | preliminary housing conditions for | membershipidrivesendsion April 30 verfonnaires itrom | Conmnecticutiin and the unit in Hartford county | 0" yrun ety | which accepts the largest number of | = | United States navy. She was clected Hartford County association held n | o C6 G BOFC 8L B0 FREI o S an ey e T 70. Bristol reported 186 member: Db e e | The next meeting of the district | Woman County Adjutant | the American Legion in Connecticut |a woman veteran of the World war | WIN l P has been selected to act as a 19( ihe Hartford county district Brings Attendance Prize Home + : |to the post yesterday at the monthly From Wetherstield MEGting |meetingoat Siotrict Seiventen mot ot | Wethersfield to fill tha | caused by the resignation Eddy-Glover Unit, No. 6, Ameri{ Lorsch of South M can Legion Auxiliary, captured the | bers of Russell K, Wethersfield vesterday afternoon. | " ! ) Sixteen local members were present | Mit{ee to Teplace William J. 0'Neil Mot A 11 Petls i | ot Bamiford who resigned 3 | A total of 79 de s attended Fred Hoffman, Miss Mae Hoftman, | & 108, ' of 58 delegutes atlended Mrs. William Turner, Misses Mar- |2 (8 FERAS MeE A% T s jorie and Virginia Turner, Mrs. How- EAsRin 2ddy-G of ain leading with - E Plainville 6S. Southington 150 and s ”,""’l‘"\'; ‘\\7"“0‘ ‘“'; A Berin The total membership in gchadsiand Misaiyora, Beha = the district was given as 2,918, P,,":.],'I“’:“:}'\',il b ;‘x:?\ poried | Harry C. Jackson of this city, the month of April with 23 thus chairman of the statc Boston con- | Manchester is second with 15 FIELTOn couminittes qeportel o (Le awarded an | i) he held in Bristol on May 18. emblem lamp by the Hartford|mhis meeting day has been advanced County association and a personal | |.ceanse of (he { prize award from the department|gunday falls on the regular monthly | membership chairman, Mrs. Lillian | v oo oS Yerrington of Hartford. = Bddy-Glover unit will entertain members of its post on May 15, at | which time the annual past presi- dents' night will be observed, with Mrs. A. I Schade, senior past pre ARPLANES LEAVE will be conducted on the same eve- | ning by the unit chaplain. Mrs. Louise Spender will be chief hostc with the following committee: M William Callahan, Mrs. Theresa Holmgren, Mrs. Daisy Proctor, Miss Load of Furs fo Teller have ample water and well trained [~ Gompany No. 1 was called out to fire departments. a grass fire on Cedar street yester-| Minna Richter, Mrs. O. T Bertini| At the Canon City penitentiary. [gay at 2 p. m. A pile of dry wood | Mrs. Harold Bertini, Mrs. Anna new fire cquipment has been Pur-|ywas purned and a garage was cn-|Tyler. Other past presidents who chased since the riot t October. | gangered. |have been invited to occupy the Fire brigades have been organized Admitted to Hospital | chairs are Mrs. 0. F. Bertini. Mrs. among cmployes. New water mains | AMrs. Harry Goodale of Cedar|Cedric Powers, Miss Grace Stowell are being laid to connect all parts | street is a patient at the New Brit- |and Mrs. Howard Mitchell. of the penitentiary with the munici- | ain' General hospital. | Go1d Star Mothors in {he ity will pal supply. Attend South Windso be fittingly remembered on Mother's The new cell house, the first pro- | About people from the New-|day with arrangements in the hands vided by the legislature in more |ington Congregational church at-|of Mrs. Harry Ginsberg. chairman; than a quarter of a century, is to be | tended the organ dedication and re- | Mrs, W. K. Hitchcock and M Ber- of fireproof construction. It Will |cital at the First Congregational|nard Bischton) male possible segregation of harden- | church in South Windsor last cve-| ~An May 2 from 2 to 5, Mrs. A. H ed criminals from the younger in-|ning, | Petts will entertain the sewing elub mates. The number of inmates at| The rccital was given Miss | at her home on Stewart street. All Cannon City has increased from 543 ic E. Dresser, organist of the|members arp invited to be present. to 1,124 in the past 10 years, prison | Center church, Hartford. Rev. H.| plag codes arc to be given to records show. |S. Martin, pastor of the South|every Boy and Girl Scout in the city Recommendations for sweeping | Windsor church was formerly a|i; obhservance of Memorial Day reforms in laws governing the insti- | pastor in Newington. | 5 tution will be made to the Colorado | To Attend Annual Mecting legislature mext January in the re-| The annual meeting of Council of | port of a special committee which | Congregational Women of Connee- | investigated the bloody October re- | ticut will be held in the South Con- bellion. | sregational church, Hartford, to- City Widows’ Aid Bill [t e S e N thoa®- | Easter. Seventcen mental cases re- For Quarter Is $2,501 | churches. Delegates from the New. |ceived ~boxes of candy, gum and This city's share of the cost of |ington Ladies’ Aid society are M providing financial assistance to | Chichester and Mrs. Nellie Eddy. widows for the quarter ending March | The mecting is open fo the public 31, was $2,501.78, according Lo a bill |and any who wish to attend may do received today from the state do- | SO partment for widows aid. The total cxpended in this city in the threr months’ period i of which the state pays two-thirds and tho city onc-third About 40 widows are being it i aa program Hoste ed under this plan. Allowances are | g0 (FHE T BIORTAM. - FF regulated according to family condi- | oy el ot "R T e tions, those having the smallest in- | ™ oo Lpatechs OHG (ac o come receiving the largest grants. |yave heen given by the club on May | Iiach case is investigated Mis , has been postponed indefinitely. Cora M, Beale, agent of the state de- Garden Club Meeting | partment. The Newington Garden club will meet Thursday afternoon at the Seryice b will be included. Easter Gifts Sent to Hozpital Mrs. Howard Mitchell has report- od that 40 World war veterans, Nev | Britain men in hospitals throughout | cal cases reccived a $1.00 bill each The boxes were packed under Mrs Michell's supervision hy Mrs. A. H. Petts, Mrs. Leroy Iinsminger. Mrs, George Kinkade and Mrs. Irank Chasc. On Wednesday party will be the Hotel Lddy as Girls' Club to Meet Newington Girls' club I'riday cvening in the parish T:30 o'clock. Al mem- requested to he present to for the annual mother 1' The, mect house ber. will : A card parlors of W chairman. An in- evening held in the Erwin with al arc Nrs, hi- Hauerwas Commander home of Mr Cedar strect. | Troops both registered and forming | | cigaretts, and the remaining medi- | ol nvestigate. | Motorship Nanuk, North Cape, April 2§ (P—Carrying valuable cargo of fu |the United States and held on this | iicebound ship here since November, two airplanes piloted Joc Cros- son and 8. C. Itobbins were ready to leave here today on a 600-mile flight over the Arctic coast to Tel- ler, Alzska Crosson and terday from | Siberia, a destined for | Robbins arrived ye Alaska after an oy night stop at the isolated lagoon to|M:onial to tha American Arbit |the ecast of here where they picked | up one of the plancs, Tt had been | |left there in a damaged condition {more than two months {the search for Carl Ben Earl Borlend. Repairs had been made on the landing gear of the plane and it was flown here by | Robbins. | Pilot Gladyshev, Rus: | yesterday left the S S ropol, icebound two miles from | here. with the last two members of | the Moscow scientific expedition of more than 20 members who were | marooned on that vessel during the | winter. They were to fly to St. rence Bay, thence to Viadivosto overland to Moscow. Other of the tion left winter by plane and do; iclson and n aviator, viet ship Stav- kand members expe during the You « Jusines Ad. n inere by vour dressmak- sing a Herald ¢ sifi i Of Military Society Capt. A. L. Hauerwas of Water- bury, formerly a resident of this city, was clected commander of the T . George W. Rowe on | LOAN ; S A R 1 'wo Mission Workers Escape From Bandits | ( Connecticut Commandery Naval and Military order at the annual ban- quet and clection held recently in the Hartford City club. Teiping, Chain, April 28 (B—( A. Bridgman, Canadian missionary, | | and a Chinese native pastor who was captured with him by bandits | The commander, by virtue of his office, will act as delegate to the na- tional convention which will be held in Philadelphia in the latter part of August. April 15 and held for ransom, have | nd are now cn route for apparently little the for their expericnces. The bandits asked $200,000 ran som _for the liberty of the two. 2ridgman is from Winona, Okla. worsc USE H=TALD CLASSIFIED ADS WHEN YOU SAY “QUIET MAY?” you have said all there is to be told about an Automatic Oil Burner. = Clean, quiet, and dependable. Your friend has a “QUIET MAY” why not you? Basy Terms Can Be Arranged. Ericson & Johnson 31 DWIGHT STREET | Plumbing, Heating, Sheet Metal Woik | L O A N S HOUSEKEEPERS ON YOUR OWN SIGNATURES In emergencies when ready cash is needed in a hurry you will find the MUTUAL SYSTEM ready to serve you promptly and with privacy. No questions asked of friends or relatives. 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As a result the figures, when published, will not give a true picture of New Brit- ain’s population. If your name has not been recorded, call The Herald -- Telephone 926 Ask for the Census Editor. Give your name and ad- dress and the information will be forwarded to the Direc- tor of the Census for the Hartford District. | pla suest E. G. |the board of | York Haven and Martford ctors of the United States Cham- | chairman of of the New Buckland dirccto her of Commerce in Washington Wednesday evening. . Others from New [attending the Chamber of | Commercs meeting this week and | who will be present at the national | | nber banquet Thursday night | I Major Johnston will be Judge | Mrs, W. C. Hungerford, Presi- | and Mrs. ardon C. Ricke Alph H. Benson, E. J. Porter and faxwell § iritain who are 1 S. Fledged Fascists April 28 (UP)—The It overnment called into its for thousands of young Italians launched five new fighting b and {dent i ships Lome, jan with great ceremony yesterday. The keel of a new liner, the designed to compete with the Ger- man liners Buropa and Bremen, 50 was laid down at Genow in the sight of 30,000 persons Installed at N. B. H. S A telephone switehboard has been installed in the 1 oificc of th local Senior High school to facili- tate the recciving of telephone calls throughout the Luilding. Since the new building built it bec | increasingly difficult to receive of the distance the ers had to travel to the office and the resultant loss of time. Th itchb will be in oper- ation whenever school is in session, | | but no toll calls will be allowed to Humbert and Crown Princess Marie hrousivieanlgiahencycigtig Jose launched the cruiser Zara at|main linc leading into the school is TEEa ey {he | cOnnected with Principal Louis P. government and citizens Slade’s office, the switchboard is not The princess brok i a prow as ain The armies were inereased by the fourth annual Fascist levy, which inducted into the Balillas—corres- ponding to the Boy Scouts in Ameri- ca™TItalian youths aged to promoted 1o the Avanguardisti the clder Balillas; and made 1S year old members of the Avanguardisti full fledzed members of ist party At the same time Crown Prince was because | Woman in Auto Is Cut g As Boy Throws Stone A 4 year old boy threw an automobilc | Princess Giovanni ter of King Victor tened the cruiser Trieste, while Trinc 1 daughter of Genoa, christened Salle Bande N cldest d Emanuel, chr Fiume ned M Ade- Duke of Hiovanni near Naples, and orina Corinna Thoan Di Revel, of the grand cdmiral christened the Alberto da Giussano, near Genoa. The Giovanni Sulle tande Nerc and the Alberto da ships. 1 stone at it passed his home on John sirect yesterday and smash cd a window. The Mrs smith of Wethe avenue, on the hands and face, medical treatment Sullivan spoke to the boy's fatner about it and the latter agreed settle for the damage to the the expense of the treatment the the ass cut ticld necessitating Officer William Greek Seaman Leaves On Atlantic Voyage ¥Fla. April 2§ (P—Nich- | ol: ngonopous, Greek sewman who sccks to sail his 16 foot boat ective | "Ulysses” to Athens, Greeee, was out ndent Theat. | ON the Atlantic today. Gongopopous’ al Managers of New York and the | UiP sponsored by the Greek- atists’ Guild of the Authors |#Merican Order of Ahepa. .cague of Amecrica given as a testi-| He carried with tion | and water sufficient ssociation at the Hotel Astor in New | months, although he tomorrow night. Mr. Astor, [complete his voyage D. Rooscvelt, George | time. Walter Damrosch arc| The a committee of 160. | through Theatrical Banquet | Frank H. Johnston, the City Coal & Wood Co. the of Vineent Astor banquet of the Actor's Bquity Major of presi- will e guest J him to provisions last four expects to in a shorter | and of of h hamas course miemby the E | sermuda, | through the 1it of Gibr: to Pir: se his | port for Athens. tar, cus, Major Johnston will have Healthy bodies must have good food Efficient motors need good oil Good Clothes should be DESCO Dry Cleaned! 904 is the number __@_____ 266 ARCH ST. 38 WEST MAIN | thickens Protoplasm Forms Protective Film When Disturbed, Scientist - Informs Philadelphia Gathering I plasm is not a muystery forever ius Te"Sj:olmvlf:' R 3 k Cave men once lived in tite American Philosophical | puilippine Isiands, it was disclosed by Prof. . B. Dixon, of Harvard. Society Cave Men Once, Lived in Philippines — Harvard Professor He said the discovery was made by Prof. H. Otley Beyer, of the Univef- sity of of the Philippines, who la- cated about “a hundred sites” whese stone age men once lived and cor* ted thousands of their tools and rinkets. The Finds Remains. men of 10,000 to 50,008 at least may not h icked for plenty of human com Tor over o great part of the carth archeolozists digging up evidence of their widespread habitds tion cave Philadelphia, April 28 o #—r the living substar prim that mystery at th Philosophical Society Discovery th which wed reported s, lost part American turday. of S mechanism , as if.in- independent life, by Prof. L. V. Heilbrun o the Univer of Pennsylvaniu This mechanis the ability disturbed o form films z making them from calcium the body. It a sort of primitive power 1o self profection “Tor a long tir Heilbrunn, has that t sential and process of livii up the properties of mate found in all living things, a mater which ean under th microscope and which is called pro toplasm. Both from the standpoing of intercst and of human welfar it is important that study th properties of nrotoplasm.” Dr. Heilbrunn said he found first that it is “extraordinarily sensitive,” so much ro that when disturbed it rather quickly, so as to three or four times s read- ily. To explain this thickening h said “evidence is growing” that 1t comes from the protoplasm forming tilms about itself. Used Rays in Test cach bit of protopla behind the walls of the distarbance in home were obtained by roys, eclectric currents stimulants. “It seems,” 1s though on 1 charactc 1hs Georze Grant MacCurdy of told of stonc age implement$ found over hundreds of ' miles on both banks of the uppes Nile A stone hand ¢ was dug up in Mesopotamin similar to thod? teund in England and France. Hz2 said that other stone relics, ranging from w housand yea to ap= parently nearly million, have ag- Il red in China, Italy, Czechoslovae kia. Siberia, Germany, Palestine and Iraq ” mak s0 activ Yale, recently wh bout itselr, the in i said en Trof reali: 1 « me rics of he Lila Jimerson to Leave = Buffalo Hospital Cot N April 28 (UP) = 1 has spent her last dayg doctors wif* in be examined Bufialo, Lila Jimer: in R : City hospital, old Indian, convicte®t 2 of guilty to second in connection with the Killing of Mrs. Clothilde Mar= chand on March 6, will be transs ferred to the Lrie county jail, the¥ thought that Lila's expressef® to change her plea and stang trial cgain will influence Clarence Darrow to take over her defenser The noted criminal defense attornef arrives here tomorrow to confek with T t W. MclIntyre, attornew for Nancy Bowen, charged with beZ he actual murderer of Mrg Marchand, and will give his final Jecision then as to whether he witk defend her or not. =X DOG TEARS MAN P nounced today The 35 year on her own pl degree murder floy It i desi As fely cell, m lives its own | this tiny ultra-violet and other id Prof. Heinlbrunn, of the most SCN- tistics of the living property of immia- a film about itseif d. And it is this property, which may n first to differentiat livinz i from the non-living, is also r sible for much the activity protoplasm. ing ne liztely -_— TROUSERS Yurewiteh of Eim Hille on. was passing through a= vard at 105 Broad strect yesterday: forenoon while on his rounds cols lceting for milk, when a dog owned- ¢ Alex Karwaski jumped at hir forming it is trn ha henever apparently injurc that John the Ne <pon- of of “Perhaps in a sense we hat the living substance can say owes its | icer Delbert Veley, who received the complaint, found that the dog $ on a chain and there were two | signs in the yard warning trespassers from its injuries. But whether this | to beware of the animal. 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