New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1930, Page 2

2 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930. QUIGLEY DISPERSES | DISSENTING GROUP IN RELIEF DISPUTE knows no estimate nished to endeavored to hav made T cil, but this dissenting votes the resolutions w On motion committee of three thorized to consider for municipal cars Wants Crosstown Roadway ( pleted The Camp Real Esta titioned the council for the department of public complete the crosstown plant ed at the Farmington avenue en Commonwealth avenue. wa o Co an ord wor % Lecturer Flays States l"or (‘ra~pm" Methods ® LROP REPORT ADDS T R0 JUGHT GLOOM nvyY Shifted 6 (UB)—The | Merely Aug Burden Ty S | PossIBLE It was a big * ToPiTcH A COMPLETE. 9-INNING GAME WITHONLY [BELIEVE IT OR NOT Droot of anything depicted by (Reg. (On request, eent with stamped, dressed envelops, Mr. Ripley will rnrnnh U. & Pat Off) BY RIPLEY him). Jes Gover ot wiingmm HAS WORN A RED CARNATION “Tor BoAT " | 3TiMeS IN Tnme ISAG THe END OF FA EXPLANATION OF YESTERDAY'S Kotg Teareres & réona Ine. Great Bt righis reserizds S CA IN HIS BUTTON HOLE FoR 66 YEARS. %\.\‘ws LETTER WAS RECEIVED T~ PROMPT T IN NEWPORT, R 1 RTOON Mme. l)" Pompadour Lost $1,500,000 in One Evening—Madame de Pompadour, who, from omest a ASUY rose to be the virtual dictator of 1 of 100,000,000 f1 nes, according to an official estimate. France under Louis XV, cost Her in- > and her domination of French public life was one continuous scandal ble hatred of the punple and culminated in the French revolution. emarkable Base Stealer—While playing for Siverd was first to bat, passed to first, stole second, third ) she lost seven million livres took place at Choisy in 1749. ter, N. Y. . only z DTS This is verified by the records of (about 21,500,000) x days later. while playing at Canandaigua, N. Y., to Bernis and the El Toro Baseball club he the El Toro club. TOMORROW—The Yodeling Prodigy of harvested in fourths vield would result Hope d issour; p bordering ssippi rivers to the gulf. i, for rain from Potomac humans an ap- ive for ed in lands. ow Left and of the grains Ohio, now the Ohlo and | | Government forecasters held out| that | some hope for local showers, but said seriously hurt. in AT however, * grain fair quan- e feed Tells of Kentucky Troubles ampso e pres he tele- ill make gcarce for succeeding years neisco cattle re- were mac nued a pronov drought Some Crops Have Chance crops still Oklahoma drought weather a car were Heat Shifts 1o East icago, August 6 (& wave e east today | of the mid-cont 1t the s who had s degree temy rainfall however, itself to bring any real br drought. The corn crop, already dama an alarming degree, still was in a | precarious state where a few more of real heat would mean the of millions of bushels soil badly parched in most sections. was in no condition to withstand another siege of sun and wind The real heat news of yesterday came from the east where Washing- ton reported a maximum tempera- ture of 102 .degrees, Philadelphia 98 and New York 92. Restricted water diets and forest fires emphasized the seriousness 6f the situation in Maryland. Hope for Local Showers most cases, not er the temperature would not change ear future. Continu- s the general forecast rise in temperature expected upper Great Lakes region Central Ohio cooled off with the help of several there was no g showers h ral rain precipitation helped crops the most weeks with the ter a total pre- vesteday of .12 inch \ Tilinois still was suffering. from heat and Scores of wells in Duquoin for been forced to con- howers fell vesterday npour south te the the nd th ts of eeks and breaking th wave of the year. parts of western cas while two inch rainfall ities the precipitation ¢red not enough to he 1o the suffering crops ths' drought was brok- i when good in scattered sections of cattered showers were re- ported in Missouri and a light rain- Oklahoma City. Drought cond somewhat in eastern Iowa by scat- tered showers with precipitation |ranging up to 2.45 inches at City. The rainfall, however, -gligible the south and time in howers fell southern K reported a and Kans most fall at was the worst condition. lowa ires for the most part fully 10 degrees below those >f previous several days, Nebraska Records Drop cbraska thermometers register- a similar drop with maximum ngs under 100 degrees for ths first time several days. There ere a few showers in and west portions of the state but none of any consequence in th: ern section where the corn crop has been cut already ccording to federal crop statistian. Wisconsin and Minnesota boasted peratures of 70 and lower with few showers. are in pera s the rea in 0 ONE HELD T0 BLAME FOR KVISTROM'S DEATH Coroner Makes Finding in Fatal Durham Accident Involving New Britain Motorcyclist Middletown, Aug. 6 (M——Yn a find- ing issued today Coronér L. A. $mith finds no one responsible for |the death of Hilmer E. Kvistrom, New Britain motorcyclist, who was fatally injured in Durham Jpne Kvistrom with a group Of other cyclists. was en route to a hill climb in Guilford when he crashed fntq an automobile driven by George A. Stevens of Wallingford. Three or | four other machines pileds into the wreckage and several riders were of Dayton and | in those | over ions were relieved | Mason | west | parts of the state where the crops | the soutn | 33 per cent| SOLDIERS WELL FED AT MILITARY CAMP (Continued From First Page) vate Fred Nay of Maine who killed in an automebile accident four miles from camp Monday night. Major Gen. Morris Payne was in charge of the gathering. He said it was the largest gathering of generals since the World war. There were eight in attendance. On Sick List There are several New Britain guardsmen on the sick list. In com- pany H. Sergeant Salvafore Balfore is bothered with infections in an arm. Private Fuskill |treated for injuries suffered when a {herse ran away from him Supday. ing jin quarteys where he is suffering {from a slight illness. Hovnetion | Krikorian is suffering from blisters |on his feet and Rosario Didato is | suffering from a slight illness. | In First Battalion Headquarters }rompan) two are in quarters today |but theit illness is slight. They are .| Victor LeCroux and Henry Pereau, | privates. Private Arthur Nyborg's |toot is swollen from blisters and he | cannot get his shoe on. Headquarters Activities In headquarters company the 26 men aré divided three wayvs. A communication. being instructed by | Setgeant Rudolph Kobs in the sy [tem of hooking up telephones. Ser {geant Cornelius Wells is in charge | |of the intelligence group. and Cor- poral John Cook 1s n charge of the rookies. LePoint is Baseball Hero Sergeant Leon G. LePoint, manager of Company H team, was the hero lin his team the New Britain Headquarters iine lin a game plaved beside the barracks. With his team on the short end of a 13 to 11 score | |he stepped up to the plate in the last inning, caught the ball on the nose and sent it over the o er's |head for a home run. There were |three on base and his clout gave his {team tour runs and a victory. | The game was an up and affair for each team but end it ed as if Lieut bovs were goinz to win receiving the cohgra fellow guardsmen and he his laurels modestly Others who plaved well were Ser- geant Eddie Kilduff, who scored four runs and who made\ some sensa- tion: atches in the outfield, and the te tain, Jimmy Howe. The following players clatm they were the stars in the victory: Wiehn, p: LePoint, ¢; T. Kilduff. 1b; Cas- sile. 2b: Howe W 3 RBerg, If: E. Kilduff, cf; Borcell, rf. Writies Letter Under Difficulties Sergeant Joseph Burkarth of Com- pany T proved himself a determined person when letter in barracks last night. He de- cided he was going to o a letter 5 o'clock, five mimutes before taps when the lights go out He had hardly started when Frst Sergeant Thomas Kilduff of Com- pany H signaled First Sergeant My- ron Y. Rancor of Company I and the | place was thrown in darkness. Immediately Joe took ,Rancor's t and rigeed up Rancor'’s flash- light in coal le and he started to write again. The light slipped. fell to the fioor and was | picked up in several pieces. This did not discourage Burkart who climbed out on the barracks roof set up the typewriter, and wrote the etter with light furnished by street mps. Connecticut Regimental Réview The 169th regimental review, the first regimental parade of the pres ent encampment, took place day. Battallons of the regiment een holdi but this t rst in which the entire regime was together and marched as a 1 Three New Britain and two Bris- |tol companies are included in the regiment. The 169th infantry sents troops, from the northern sec- tion of the State. The southern sec- tion is represented by the 102d in- | fantry New Britain Officers Complimented | First Lieut. Willlam H. Jackson nd Sergeant Major William A. Allan, hoth of First Headquarters com- pany, were highly complimented by regulay army officers on the excel- lent manner in which they conduct- ed the guard mount drill today. For five years this combination has been working together and every vear they have been given praise for their achievements. | Company D went on guard for the 24 hour stretch. Thef officer of the day was First Lieut. A. B. Watson and the commander of the guard | was Second Lieut. J. T. Williams. Division Review Sunday The greatest event of the present encampment, the division review in which every physically able soldier e down Jackson's LePoint is ons of h is aking Arbour. and at 10 roosty A vester- have £ reviews nt and every officer in camp will march | will be held Sund visitors' day. New Britain will be especially hon- ored on that day when Company I, 169th Infantry, will put on the guard mount. It will then be obliged to go on guard duty for the rest of the day. Members of the company | will be able to stay with friends un- til the middle of the afternoon when the guard mount begins. Recalls Gaudette's Death « War! Wa on his lips Corporal George Gaudette | of Company B, of New B#tain, pass- ed on to his reward within a few hours of the signing of the armistice in 1918 A man who was near Corporal Gaudette in 1918, who was in the same squad and who loved him is in Camp Devens training with Com- {pany H, 169th Infantry, C. N. G. He is Sergeant Joseph Todzia who, dur- pany E. It is Sergeant Todz that Corporal Gaudette was Killed delivering a message but while taking his squad “oyer the top.” He sald Corporal Gaudette died in the arms of Corporal Harold Thompson of New Britain and as lie was about to go west he uttered the “War" thre times. A shell burst near him and when one of the soldiers remarked that they had a close call he said: "I | nope the next shell gets me.” Corporal Gaudette’s mother, Fan- ny Gaudette, was recently presented with the D. 8. C. by Major General |l was | is still being | Private Andrew M. Beltrame is stay- | group works on telephone and radio | 15 to 13 victory over | on the diamond | toward the | he wanted to write a | repre- | ‘War! With these words | ing the war, was a private in com- | 's contention | not | words | Mysterious Illness Has Utica Doctors Puzzled Utica, N. Y., Aug. 6 (P—Au- ||| thorities today were investigating the death of two children and the iliness of three others in the some ||| tamily, two of whom are in a ser- |||ious condition. Physicians are ||| puzzled as to the cause of the at- tacks, diagnosed as inflammation of the intestines. A cousin of these children becoming ill, brought -the total to six. The dead are: Rosemary, 6 and {[| Lawrence, 1, children of Joseph Hand. One died Saturday and the other Sunday. Today Edward and Frank Hand were in a serious condition. Clarence R. Edwards, in New Britain. Second Death in Maine Ranks A second death in the ranks of the Maine national guards in Camp Devens occurred in the Fort Banks hospital, Winthrop, Mass. at 10:10 a'clock last night when Private Al- bert Bell, of Battery B, 152d Field | | Artillery, Caribou, Maine, died fo lowing an acute appendicitis attack | on Monday night. Private Frederick | N. Nay of Maine was killed almost an automobile accident. Privat® Bell was stricken on the train en rqute to camp, according to the infdrmation received from {Maine military officials. Late in the | afternoon after the soldiers had finished the Saturday evening mess he showed signs of being worse but he did not go to the hospital until | the next morning. He was one of | the youngest members in his com- | pany. Private John Cooke of Battery A. Presque Isle, Maine, is at Fort Banks hospital where he is beinz retired, i treated for injuries received whes a | horse kicked him. His injuries were in his stomach. | Private Moxie | Carbeau of the camp suply detachment of Portland |2 s at Fort Banks hospital suf- eived in mo- accident in Lowell on the way to camp. His foot | was caught between the motorcycle | and the car and after stitches were | applied, an infection developed and at the hospital. Private Carbeau was rafused per- mission to take his motorcycle to camp by the Maine infant pany so he transferred to detachment where the of the motorc PROSIISCUOUS USE OF RIFLES FLAYED use cle. INPRATT SHOOTING (Continued From First Page) and flashed a beam on the the witness sail the bow approaching craft, Faulkenham stated he saw no aboard the Gloucester boat. He s no ensign and assumed that other craft was a rum carrier Handly had Pratt flashed his light upon the other\vessel when a shot | was fired, itly from a rifle, the mediate! this was followed by hine gun fire. Pratt dropped in bow of the boat and Faulken who was at the wheel, testi- he threw himself beneath the ham ed t phe till Pratt Says He's Hit hit! cried out, [T mihi c : to the witness, just as tw aloft by th Pratt es were sent Gloucester boat. Faulkenham said he did not dare his head until he had piloted fis motor surf boat a safe distance the firing craft For some time after the shooting, ness said, he Db e T by rum runners. Another witness was Boatswain's Mate Ernest Schwartz, in charge ot Plum Island station to which Pratt was attached 1ais been slain lated to him | Iy after the attack. Ch Machinists Mate Hugh D | Olmstcad of Waltham and Fireman | Clifford Hudder of Gloucester, said to have comprised the crew of the Gloucester boat that fired the fatal i0ts, were present at today's hear- which was held in a small room the local coast guard station Besides Commander Sands, chairman, the board of inquiry udes Lieutenants N. M. Nelsor W. W. Scott. | in- and Special Board Called | salisbury Beach, Mass., Aug. 6 (P) —A special board of coast guard officers sits today on the coast guard's tragedy of tragedies to de- termine just what was what last onday night, when Chiet in's Mate Louis A. Pratt of Kit- tery, Me., was killed by a burst machine gun fire. Pratt, out of the Plum Island sta- tion with Surfman Cleo Falkingham in search of a burning motorboat, as fired upon and Kkilled by fellow | guardsmen-out on rum patrol. The | station surfboat in which the search |for the burning boat was being | made was ridled just above the | waterline. - Pratt was hit as he | huddled in the bow to escape the | tusillade of bullets and was left to be brought ashore by his mate as the Gloucester rum chaser turned apout to continue her patrol | “Phe air here is charged with nerv- ous tension as the trial starts and | the special board, made up of men vsed to tragedies, has been self-ad- | | | he had to undergo special treatment | the supply | he was allowed | according to | was convinced | He merely re- | | cited details of the shooting as re- | by Faulkenham short- | the | Boat- | r'hm; were reported safe _———fi mittedly shocked by this latest tragedy that outshines all the rest. The hearings will be held in_the Plum Island station, where Pratt served. Falkingham to Testify Today Falkingham will tell his superiors a story of mistaken iden- tity, of being fired upon without warning, and of being left drifting without any further investigation. Chief Machinist'’s Mate Hugh Olm- stead and Fireman Clifford Hudder, said to be the crew of the Glouce: ter surf boat, will tell their ver- sion, which differs as concerns the “being fired upon without warn- ing.” | Pratt’s boat, white and lettered “U. 8. C. G., Plum Island Station, was brought ashore by Falkingham. Commander S.®R. Sands of the first Coast Guard district, Lieutenant N. M. Nelson and Lieutenant W. W. cott. have been appointed by Cap- tain William M. Munter of the eas ern division to sit on the case. Captain Munter satd that he wae determined to get at the bottom of the matter and has adopted an atti- {tude of full publicity to the affair. “It is a very regrettable affair, |he said in a telephone conversation [to headquarters at Washington, “and hurts the name of th ice.” SHERMAN'S MARCH WILL BE RECALLED (Continued From First Page) regiment today Dr. Mulligan said, “Soon after enlisting the glamor of army life wore off and some of the men became homesick but they ad- | justed themselves to conditions and grumbling ceased. Soon after tha second battle of Bull Run we wera {ordered to Washington and in sev- eral days were encamped on East Capitol hill. Then came orders to proceed to Frederick, Md., and re- port to General McClellan. It was lon our way to Frederick that we uffered our first casualty. A man named Timothy Devine fell from the cars and was run over and killed. ‘It was at Key's Gap that we had our first skirmish with the enemy, | ancountering rebe 1 we promptly defeated 2 our first battle into our tory. The campaign of us taking part the 5 Chancellorsville— thirteen days and ights of horror. Two months later at Gettysburg. Following this there was on encounter at Tracy | City where Captain Andrew Upson of Southington was killed. “After a number of other battles we took part in the famous ‘march to the sea’ under General Sherman |and then after a few more minor engagements found our fighting days were over. We wera reviewed Iy the president and finally returmn- ed to New Haven amid the ringing of bells and firing of canon.” Among the men of the regiment who made names for themselves ~were a number from this locality including Quarter-master Sergeant {Charles H. Clark and Capt. Samuel Woodruff, both of Southington: Capt. Sanford E. Chafee of Windsor, and Captw §. Strickland Stevens of Hartford. # The business meeting of the Vol- unteers’ association will be held at 11 o'clock followed by a dinner at noon. W. §. Alexander and several other speakers will deliver address- CAPE COD SWEPT BY BRUSH FIRES: COTTAGES BURNED (Continued From First Page) oak timber land on Sgndy pond James Besse of Wartham. gunnery stand and cottage on Big Saddy Louis Stewart, Newton Center, cote tage, White Island pond William Eldridge, Buzzard's Bay, cottage, Big Sandy pond Ward brothers, Plymouth, saw mill. Fred Cobb, cottage on Big Sandy pond. Bog Owners work frantically Owners of cranberry bogs worked frantically through the night to save | their crops. L. B. Barker of Ply- mouth flooded his 100 square acres during the night, but feared that the heat of the sun today might “steam | up™ and largely destroy the crop. Several other bogs were similarly endangered Two pieces of fire apparatus and on~ automobile were lost in the Maze. The apparatus belonged to | the Sagamore and Bourne depart- | ments while the auto was owned by the state public works department | Two encampments of Boy Scouts |on Elbow pond. one group from Quincy and another from Brockton, weré reported to have been forced but all of the we were | from camp hurriendly ’ Demented Veteran Kills Wife and Son in Home MinneapoMs, Aug. 6 (P)—Charles 8. Hall today klilled his wife and five year old son with an ax and then wandered back to the veterans' hos- pital at Fort Snelling, where he had been a mental patient. Coroner Seashore returned a ver- dice of \mllrderand said {indications were that the intense heat of last week may have affected Hall's nfentality, Mary Jane, a Haughter, heard her father flee and called neighbors after, she had found her mother and brother dead. -Pie That Will Make Every:)ne’s Mouth Water | FRISBIE’S il BLUEBERRY PIES Made of Fresh Berrie$, the Biggest and Juiciest Ones, in_the Most Delicious Crust | Get One Today | At Your Grocer At Your Restaurant