New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1930, Page 3

CRASHES INTO GAR THEN DRIVES AWAY Operator, Believed From Win- sted, Hunted by Police An automobile believed to be own- ed by a Winsted resident crashed | info a standing car owned by Vito Giannini of Robbins avenue, New- ington, on Myrtle street near the ho- tel Beloin about 11 o'clock Saturday night, forcing it ahead about 30 feet and damaging the rear part. The of- fending driver got out and exaruined “Ms car, then drove away without | speaking to Giannini, according to the latter's complaint to Officer An- | thony Pechout. A fender was damaged and the| windshield smashed on the Winsted car, and Giannini noticed that a passenger was bleeding from the head. The case was under investiza- tion by the detective bureau today. PICNIC RECEIPTS SWELL FUND FOR WAR VETERANS Committee Realzes 3500 on Social | Conducted At Truszkowski Grove Saturday More than 500 persons a(tnndc.l a picnic Saturday evening at Tru kowski's grove on Farmington av- enue, and increased by $500 the fund raised for the relief of Polish vet-| erans of the world war. The picnic was conducted by church and civic organizations as one of a series of socials by whicn it is hoped to aid materlally in rms-\ ,ing the $10,000 relief fund | This is the second month of the drive and the grand total of the| fund is approximately $1,200. The| committee in charge of the drive is| looking forth to another successful | month. | Those who have made donations | during the past week are K. Wag- J. Wo,tusik, A. Morn, U. Mar- ek, S. Oleszkiewicz, J. Burzanek, R. L. Birnbarm, J. 0.° Olejasz, B Chieppin, P. Nozareno, N. Duran | and A. Pola. A meeting of the committee com- posed of presidents and represen- tatives of Polish church and nation- al societies will be held tonight at, 5 o'clock at the post's clubrooms on Broad stdeet to start plans for other socials. C_lt;' Items A son. born to Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph Kowalewski of 72 Clinton street, at New Britain General hos- pital yesterday, died this morning. The Vylious Lithuanian chorus will have a rehearsal tonight at the Lithuanian hall on Park stree Officer Thomas C. Dolan was de- tailed to go to a Main street store today and learned that a former employe was seen about the place giving rise to a suspicion that he s ‘“spotting” prices for another store where he is now employed. The “suspect” explained, however, hat he had made a purchase there 2¢ter looking over some of the stock. The police are investigating a re- Port by Harry Bronstein of 44 Ham. llton street that a radiator cap was stolen off his automobile while it was parked on Main street thia MoMing. Arthur Kallberg of et reported to the police today that a bullet crashed through a Wifdow in his home either July 4 or 5 Mrs.! Gloria Gonsalves of 147 Bedver street reported to the police oday that $2 was taken out of her home, a door having been left open, and two weeks ago she missea $4. abella Circle, Natignal Daugh- ters of Isabella, will meet tonight at 3 o'clock in Judd's hall on Main treet. 29 Francis City’s Senior Citizen | Is Host to Relatives | Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Davidson and | family of York, Pa., and Mrs. Miles Stirewalt of Indianapolis, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Cone and Mr. and Mrs, Fred Parker of Stratford. spent the week-end with Andrew Turnbull of 11 Wallace street Mr. Turnbull, who is grandfather of the women present is New Britain's oldest resi- dent and observed his 95th birthday anniversary a few Gays ago. M. Mary McDonough of Indianapolisl also was a week-end guest at the Turnbull home. — s \IARRIA(‘F INTENTIONS Applications for marriage licenses have been filed by the following: William Festa of 196 Burritt street and Catherine M. Bazzoni of Tast street; Carroll V. Thunstrom of | 199 Jubilee street and Evelyn A. Kieffer of 39 Greenwopd street; Wladyslaw Taniewski of 351 Burritt street and Stanistava Konewicz of | 23 Lyman street; John A. Andrews of 23 West street and Susie I. Tim- ko of Kensington; Domonick Del Buono of Southington and Rose L. Vinel of 262 Oak street WATERBURY DRIVERS HELD | Michael Barberi and Joseph Ana- dore, both of Waterbury, were ar- | rested this afternoon, the former by Officer George Moffitt on charges of | S e Burritt and -Myrtle streets and driv- ing without a license, and the lat- | by Officer Eugene Kieffer on the charge of passing a boulevard stop sign at Beaver and Washington | streets, John Dunn Dies After Gall Stone Operation | New Haven, July 7 (#—John E. | Dunn, member John E. Dunn &| ons, state managers for the Union | Central Life Insurance Co. of Cin-| cinnati, 0., died yesterday in St Itaphael's hospital after an opera- | tion for gall stones. He was 64 cars old. Mr. Dunn was born in Manchester, \nn., and worked as a reporter on Hartford newspaper before enter- i insurance work. He has lived New Haven for the last 30 years. 1 ROBERT HALLORAN Harold 1. Koplowitz\son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Koplowitz of 30 Trinity street, son of James Halioran of 1693 Stanley street, are among 61 success- ful candidates for admission to the | practice of law in th | be given the attorney’ }hwn tomorrow. and Robert Halloran, | tate who will | s oath at New |gert F. Nfi‘w BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1930. Will Take Oath As Members of Bar | | from the roof. church said the damage was“small. The chief tobacco growing areas near Hartford seemed caped the worst of | Farmington, road near Hartford-Farmington town line, was destroyed after the bolt hit it. Mar- owner of the house, | was at the beach with his family. | The loss is estimated at $10,000. The | |lightning struck the west sidg of the | and filled cisterns to house and the building was almost | Sunday completely destroyed before the ar- of firemen. of st church on Campfield avenue was hit which dislodged The pastor [tin McCann, rival The tower by a flash the hail, bons, was | ford. HAROLD I. KOPLOWITZ The -oath will be administered by a judge of the superior court at o o'clock in.the marning. A short talk to the young lawyers will conclude the ceremeny of admission | Other New Britain men to be! sworn in are Charles R. Covert, Al- Politis, Max Reicher and Samuel Googel. ST[]RM FLAILS CITY "+ TURNING HIGHWAYS INTO SMALL RIVERS - (Continued From First Page) R | of power from the dynamos is pro- tected by fuses, as well as all trans- formers all over the city, no storm would do a momentary loss oflight or power to homes and factories, it is said. Last night lights were out in various sections of the city for less than a balf minute, or until th switches could be throw plant operators Trolley Schedule Dislocated The trolley system was thrown off schedule until the last cars had been put to bed in the car barns, ani the motormen had shed their rain roaked glothing. At one time, for perhaps ten minutes, not one trolloy car moved, so severe was the flool. The power was not shut off, nor was it even interrupted, but the m men took no chances. The from the overflowing sewers pre. vented some of the trolleys from moving except at a snail's pace until nearly 30 minutes after the storm had ended Cellars Are Flooded It may be many days before the full extent of the damage from the storm to owners of business hous:s will be known. The damage will perhaps run into thousands of dol- lars Water from the storm sewe backing up and choking the sew holes, spread into the streets, over the curbs and into cellars, Almost every street except on the hills suf- fered. and scores of stores, this morning, contained worried and per- means that ! plexed propristors. In many cellars where boxes of Roods were stored, the boxes floated around in the water du ng the night and wore found soaked this morning. Broad street, East street, North street, South Main street anl Stanley street are only a few of ghe streets where storckeepers suffered much annoyance and some financiul Icss Near Pulaski ritt and Broad streets flow of water tore gravel and sod. and made a ditch about one to two feet wide and two to three feet feet deep Literally hundreds of driveways, mostly dirt or gravel, were gwashed out, leaving gulleys from one to two fcet deep and from two to three fest ide. Many streets contained ti gravel, etc.,, washed from the drive- ways. monument at Bur- the terrific up the stones, S. N. E. Tel. C lucky. That should have just about every line, but it didn't subscribers played in time." This was the statement, summed up. of the wire chief of the South- ern New Ingland Telephone Co., who awoke today with visions of hearing about all telephones knock- ed out, all cable“lines burned out and all New Britain at a business standstill. Only 8§ stations were af- fected in New Britain, on 34 lines, and 25 stations on 13 lines in Plain- “We were storm crippled and our luck that | ville The worst damage was at Maple Hill, where the area cable was blown out and 38 pairs of wires out of the 200 in the cable made useless for the day. This damage will be repair- ed before tonight, but today 3§ families went without telephone service in Maple Hill A terminal box blew out on Pole 30 on Woodford avenue, but the repairs will be finished by“This aft- ernoon. Nobody Took a Ride A new “ferry boat” service was inaugurated during the height of the storm, but nobody took a ride, and the ferry was discontinued be- cause of lack of popularity. A large mortar box at Main and Commer- cial streets was not moored to a dock, so when the flood of water came through Main street, the hox floated off towards points south. Six firemen, in rubber boots; coats and hats, bravely set forth to cap- ture the “ferry boat.” They "launch- ed it” on the sidewalk, and the flood went merrily on its way. There were five red lanterns g:cod argund the excavation near tBe mortar box, and when the box started to play “ferry boat,” the lan- terns got into the game, and went bobbing along with the current. They, too, -were captured by the firemen. Deen Enough for Swimming In some portions of Main street the muddy water was almost deep enough for swimming. Near the South church, the water was at least 15 to 18 inches deep at the | | low ore than cause | | shooting | blocked on Bro: | 246 Burritt | the water was Park appeared around Central Park, 0 deep that Centrs like a lonesome isle Almost anyone except the works department emploves would have enjoyed seeing a miniature B that shot through a manhole front of Fire Chief William J. \nMn s home on Harrison street ater poured down the southern <I’)pn of Walnut Hill park and turned the hollow between the Hart street hills into a lake, then swept down the Vance street slope, leaving only a strip- of pavement a few inches wide above its surface. Be- Monroe street this torrent emptied into Willow brook, where public no further 3 City Enginzer Philip A. Merian stated today streets had been so badly filled with mud from the overflowing sewers-that it might be several days before they were back to normal. The cost of cleaning up may run into more than $2,000, and may give employment to many laborers who of work. Outside of the City In Berlin and Plainville the storm seemed less severe than in this city. Plainville regorted litt lamage last night. Bertin reporte {he underpass flooded and the sta highway department had men sta- tioned there to detour traffic. highway department up the highway where hes of trees were found reported considerable are out state today ned many br; Newington tree damage. The electric signals on the New Haven road, between New Haven \d Hartford, were knocked out for more than an hour. At the Elm Hill crossing automobiles and trains were stalled for a short time, the crossin ng completely submerged. At 11 ock last night trains were mov- g over the crossing, but highway ffic was still troubled, according to Constable Raymond V. Halleran Police Get Storm Reports Reports of damage by the storm poured into police headquarte about two hours last night and as fast as they were received they were transmitted to the public works de- partment for attention. Among them were the following: Sewer blocked at 45 Dwigh nd another at 29 Mitchell street; manhole washed away at Broad ar streets; water pipe broken a 20 feet Belgen and Goodwin streets; sewers 1 street; limb of tree Chestnut street between Stanley and Fairview streets trec down at Wilson and East Main streets; hole in the road at 199 Bur- street; washout at 1 and 13 ancig stree washout bt and Commonwealth Corbin Acre road Supernumerary litis reported that a dropped a foot for a d feet on Lincoln street, and in front avenue there was a w one to four feet deep 1 street down on Officer Daniel sewer ditet ance of 10 street Hart of 718 Corbin ashout from and 490 feet ow Complaints received hy the board of public works department up to o'clock this morning were as follos 236 Burritt street, washouts. 25 258 Burritt street, washout in yar shout in & 374 Broad street, washout in chicks 1o 5 Broad nashouts street, w den garden, 25 reet, fence, garden Sefton drive, washout drive, washout. Main street, Leo tuilding, flooded cellar. 25 Laf: ette perishable goods spoil LasSalle street, opposite Sexton street driveway washed out. 417 East street, corner pleasant street, cella flooded. Sefton treet, Flower Beds Intact There were many rumors about the city today that the flawer gar- dens in Walnut Hill park were wash- ed out. While the storm tore tons of soll loose from the construction | job at the West Main street entrance to the memorial, no damage was done in the flower beds. Gutters were washed in the side of the ter- race at many places and most of the walks were washed out. The main/driveways did not suffer to any extent, with the exception of deep gulleys washed in the ditches along- side Observers of the storm clouds say Britain was actually struck by two storms at once. A bank of clouds coming from the west seem- ed to pass under another large bank, | much higher in the air and blowing height of the storm, and near Main| and Myrtle streets, the depth was two feet at one time. In the center, east in what apparently was another air current, when the deluge broke n all its fury. The home of Solomon Shurberg at 45 Columbia street and a tree in the rear of the residence of Charles E. Jones at 562 Stanley street were struck by lightning. Slight damage was done in each case Lightning Sets House Afire Hartford, July 7—A house and the tower of St. Augustine's Catho- lic church were struck by lightning shortly after 7:30 o'clock last night. The house, & one-story cottage on | Augustine of th to have es- | the storm and | which wrought havoc last August when it cut the crop to rib- confined to West House Struck Coventry, by Emil by lightning a nd here burned last ning. The family saved the furniture. July 7—A house owned Huebner was struc Trees Suffer Farmington, July 7—In the most > thunder storm of the season 15 telephones were put out of com- mission and branches knocked from numerous trees in this town. on tow England Bolts Rain Boston, trical storms, July 7 heavy wind and hail, property damage in (P—Severe elec- accompanied by rain, did extensiv eastern an southern New England last night. score of buildings were ning in eastern Mas: five fires being set at nteen cows and a pair of horses in a barn fire at setts, were suffocat Concord £ 1ck by Herbert T fered N I Ordway ed struci chu lightnipas the home of | 13.3 in Newton Cen- 12.9 $6,000 damage. NS EI T $45 and § Wilton Velvets 9x12 \WILTON VELVET $40 and $45 WILTON VELVET I 36x63 WILTON VELVET 27x54 WILTON $24.75 WOOL $22.50 WOOL 14.75 \\'mWL a $7.50 WOOL $4.95 27 . WOOL and FIBRE RUGS $22.50 FIBRE £25.00 VELVET Wool ax12 and FIBRE F £-3x10-6 and FIBRE 6x9 d FIBRE 36 inch d FIBRE inch Fibre Rugs 10-6 RUGS ax12 FIBRE RUGS $195 8- WILTON RUGS £195 8-2x10-6 IMPORTED WILTON RUGS $175 8-10x11 the West i@l LA slate Hart- Malden. Four 8-3x10- cottages were blown down by the heavy wind at Marblehead and trees on the estate of Governor Allen were uprooted The heavy and street rain in many flooded cellars communities overflowing. traffic everely tied | power was dozen buildings in and near Providence, R. 1., were damaged by .| lightning bolts and downtown streets e | were flooded. Fifty persons were drivan from a trolley in panic when a bolt struck a waiting station. The barn of Samuel B. Allen in Scituate was destroyed with $8,000 loss, on up. All electrical WELL BABY CONFERENCES ile for the Well Baby conducted by the Visit- for the week The sched conference ing Nurse iation will follows Tuesday—Northend school, FEllis sistant — Mrs, arses in attenf Ramsey, Mrs. street, Volunteer k| Baw Schupack. Nt dance—Mrs. Lena Hattie Recknagel Wednesda corner North and eve- hu Burritt school, Clatk streets,vol- Miss Florence Bent tendance = Mrs. Anna R key. Thursd school Volunteer Harold Tayntor, Nurses in att Anna Ramsey, Fric unteer a Nurses in Ramsey school. Vol- Mrs. E. M. Hayden dance Mrs. Anna 2lizabeth Ta e d ant Miss k 1 COTTON FUTURES STEADY York, July 7 (#—Cotton fu- steady: 2 to 7 points 47; Oct. 13 Dec, Jar 241 contracts Dec. 13.13 15 3.34; May Y EEARRES highways was | shut off at Camp Devens, | [°7/n€ from a Concert Violinist Held for Murder In Suicide Pact With German Girl Signed By Both signed eyl wound in the head, Roderick Meakle, 2% ist and son of Paterson, N. 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