New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1930, Page 5

Governor Trumbull Urges- -Care | In Guarding Against Fire Hazard | And May Even Close All Woods Utmost Precaution Neces-| sary to Prevent Disas-| trous Blazes From De-| stroying Timber — All| New England Fights} Serious Forest Flames. \ Hartford, May 7 (UP)—Devas- tating forest fircs which have razed huge areas of beautiful Connecticut forest land today prompted Gover- nor John H. Trumbull to urge ut- most precaution against renewal of the fire hazard. The governor said in a proclam tlon that “in the event that the pres- ent menace is not abated within a few days, I will feel it my du ssue more stringent emer; ulations.” Already state fire wardens have forbidden all open fire permits it is within the power of the gove nor to end the fishing season pe emptorily 300 Foresters Busy A force of about 500 foresters, Boy Scouts and volunteers still battle today against flames which have la waste to thousands of acres of stanc ing timber along the intersection of the Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut state lines—a district famous for the picturesque beauty of its thickly-wooded Forest fires which h ast a pall of smoke across central Connecticut during the last week have been sub- dued, according to fire fignters in East Hampton and Colchester, where e greatest damage was done Village Belleved Safe Westerly, R. I, May After a 16 hour ba some 1200 men, including Island State college students parti- | cipated, state police reported today that a forest firo which threatened | to wipe out e of Canon- chet appeared under control More and brust blaze line into Connecticut Devastation wrought by the latest conflagration increased 1o approxi- mately 55,000 acres the total Rhode Island area swept by fires within the past week. A reduced army of 20 men were still battling the ently controlled firc county early today. Governor No man §. Case ad pers directed the battle’ to save lage of Canonchet, eight miles north of here, said that if the fire broke out afresh today it probably would be necessary to call out the militia because most of the volunteers were exhausted. Wall of Flame Stopped A fast-spreading wall of f which was sweeping irresisia ward the two m dwellings in Canonc atterpoon was stopped le vil n 10,000 acres of timber land was blackened t which over the the spr state or 30 weary appa in the wh and also 1 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930. county where a serious fire threaten- | ed Tuckerton Hazard More Serious New York fire wardens and volun- teers still were fighting forest and brush fires in a score of places and conservation department officials | said the fire hazard was now more cdge of the tiny town after hope of |S¢F10US than at any time this year. saving the community had been vir- | tually abandoned State police pointed out that an|as an emergency measure in the bat- adverse switch in the wind might at|tle against hundreds of fires blazing any moment lead to a new fire men- ' in woodland areas. The state conser- el | vation commissioner also ruled that every able-bodied man who ap- proaches the scene of a forest fire Boston, - May 7 (P—The twood-|be compelled to join the fire fight- lands of New England today were|ing force under pain of arrest and dotted with forest and brush fires|& fine and toll of their damage mounted| €0 e iR S ot Meilas | teers who have been fighting a blaze Massachusetts will close her|On Mount Riga since Sunday said woods to trout fishermen at mid- | the blaze was under control in their night tonight and all able bodied | territory but was still burning across men_ going 1o the sconcs of fires | e New York and Massachusetis wi Ve ere fig] he sov- | State lines Tl heiotiereq lodEht hem i ok More Help Called warned last that stringent | WhIl® ""‘”“" e menace does not fire fighters who have been Massachusetts authorities ordered New England Hard Hit ticut firemen and volun- in control replace Eagle was power Bonny Village Me threatened b has swept over more th ation at onchet. nesr Florris)l, rorest which several fire which hours threatened the summer home | of Booth Tarkington, novelist, near Kennebunkport, Me., was extingu ed by fire departme nearby communities. ed through more than two miles or scrub pine before it was halted The vill ; Eagle, near Hollis, Me. ved with a $2.- 18.5ihe 00,000 power plant there after square miles of flames, which had burned over 15 Commissioner of Tare o B A. L. Bazeley of Massachu- | mile of the pl s said last night that at least 1 in the state, with fire for n 15 square timber in two prepared to leave everal hundred miles of slash and s. Townspeople omes and men fought the kb The tri-state fire 3 was s > burning Truck Blamed zes serious in Uxbridge, Bi Harrisburg. Pa Reading, Hingham, Hollis- | bootlegger's truck v Shrewsbury, Middleboro and | to the woods and burne Bri ter. today for starting a forest fire near A blaze ch endangered the Frackville, & hanna County. tate of Booth Tarkington and 40 Several hundred acres were burned summer residences at Kenneb before the fire was brought under port, Me, was checked last control. State police said they a Fires in southern Rhode Island were |rested a man as the driver of ti ported exti truck on ct of transperting liquor and of starting a fore His name was not revealed night uished or under BE8 : control early toda cite Menace Still Present New York, May 7 () — Despite the three ttle waged by thous- Man Convicted on Law Passed Against Scolds May 7 (UP) — C on scold unde dred years ol awaited today a decision on motion of his attor| for a new trial Counsel for Rizzo, who was accus- ed of language. that the 1 ¢ to ay ands, forest still bu througho were Pitt d as a com es and Red irned their attention to supplying food and for families fire swept areas, Estima of the destitute from 5 to 100 families Governor Morgan F. Larson di- rected Adjutant General Frederick Gilkyson to turn over to the fire warden's department tents, co other equipment from d stores vary | Women with t 00 person: pertained to men and overruled a motion for directed acquittal. Brewed Beer Because Of Ignorance of Law May 7 (UP)—Wh the rest of the United Stat temporary | embroiled in debate on proh the Na- | Adolf Braun of Darien con a Girt r r that the Gua Gil been quarter tional Guard barracks Governor Larson also ordered nfinished dormitories at sbon home for ded be made able A few scattered showers aided n Ocean county, but there dgeport 1e at in the e admitted here today 1 had qu almost eve 1 recalled h the feeble firemen an offic 400°F. was no rain yesterday in Monmouth the trout fishing season closed today | i | striving to check a blaze near Can- S ——— Paintings From Airplane Exhibited in New York New York, May 7 (#—An ar- tist who plants her ease! in the cockpit of an airplane brought her canvases to New York today for exhibition. She is Ilah Marian Kibbey of Kansas City, Mo., and exe of the Ferargil galleries her paintings from an will be shown May 12 e them to be the first of their sort. “My first air flight from Kan- sas City to Tulsa and St. Louis wed me the possibilities of ex- pressing an entirely new perspec- said impressions of a perspective ting not of minute local ob- b the vastness of earth paintings are in oil, color and pastels, tenced ) in jail in 1927 for “Have excuse? Judge Christopher 1. Avery “T didr there was = against ed Braun he the United since 1 you had = SUIT FOR $10,000 BEGUN BY WOMAN Claims $he Was Injured When Bus Started Suddenly Alieging that Bruno W. Gwiazda and operator of the Corbin avenue bus line, sf onner rted a bus while she was alighting and threw her out h such force as to inflict serious Elizabeth E. has suit injuries, Adams r $10.000 against hir y Donald Gaffney issued which is returnable i Tu brought Attorn the writ perior Tine the court the first Constabls F. 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