New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press 7~ Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg 15 103 Sept. 20th ESTABLISHED 1870 NIGHT FIRE ROUTS NEWINGTON FAMILY IN SLEEPING GARB Trank Zapatka, Trapped Second Floo Room, Injured When Forced to Jump INVALID MOTHER SAVED, (UIETED BY NEIGHBORS ¥lome of Jacob Zapatka on Kit Lane | Destroyed by Flames Early This | Morning With Loss of $4,000— | : ¥amily of Eight Lose All Clothes and Personal Effec -Excited Boys Delay Giving Alarm. (Special to the Herald) Newington, Sept. 23 patka, his invalid wife, and their six children were barly able to escape in their nightclothes when' fire de- stroyed their home on Kit L.-Mel early this morning and son, | Frank, was trapped on the second floor and sustained an injured leg | in making % forced jump to the ground. The fire was first noticed at about | 4: 10 o'clock by Jacob Zapatka, Jr., and his brother, Frank. The boys stated that the fire apparently had started in the upper hallway from defective electric wiring and had made much headway before the discovery. They shouted and arous- ed the other.gembers of the fam- ily, which consists of the father and mother, five sons and , one daughter. Al barely escaped in their night- cloth Fran Jacob Za- | one . whose hedroom sccond floor found that escape wr cut off from the stair b climbed through a window onto the roof of a porch.and jumped to the ground, straining his left leg. Excited Boys Delay Alarm The family having no telephone and the boys being excited they drove their cars to the center to the home of Charles Andrews, & is on the | cutors who questioned him repeat- CRATER CORPSE distance of about 3 miles, to give the alarm. Meanwhile, however, | TFire Chief John Walsh, doing po- | lice ¢ at the Circle, was arouseu by the ng of dogs, and going out to investigafe, he saw the up- per part of Zapatka's house 1n flames. He went to the home of Mr. Blim, from where the alarm was sent in. All these delays gave the fire a headway of more than 30 minutes, and when Fire Co. 1 and % arrived the entire upper floors wWere com- pletely in flames. It was necessary to lay 1,000 feet of hose and two streams of water were played upon the blaze, been {1l | weeks, became ! it required the aid to hold her in She was taken to the | relatives at Wilson's sta- constraint. home of tion. The house was built by Mr. Za- patka threeyears ago at a cost of $7,000. It was an eight-room structure and modern throughout. All the clothing belonging to the entire family was destroyed. The property was covered. by $ 000 in e and the furniture $4.- loss is about was formerly em- | the Corbin Screw Corp. tain but has been out of | for the past eight in New B: employment weeks. “‘SUIGIDE’ NOTE MAY BE HOAX, WIFE SAYS Doubts Angerson Really Diewned *Hir New Haven, Sept. 23 (£ —Some ‘doubt was expressed today by police that Frank G. Anderson had ended his life as he threatened to do in a suicide note found last night in his nbandoned ‘car in Fort Hale park on the shore of Long Island sound. The note, addressed to his wife, read: = Dear Ethel:— “I can't stand it when you get this note bottom of the sound. 1 never cared when everyone was against me, but when you disbelieved me, it took the | ‘guts’ out of me. Give my love to the children, with all the love I have, “FRANK.” jearch of the water front, sound and moats of the park failed to reveal any trace of the man. Today police said Mrs. Ander- son told them her husband had dis- appeared ‘“‘several times before” un- der somewhat similar circumstances. Anderson had been unemployed since last Christmas except for tem- porary jobs. A few hourS before the finding of 1he suicide note, Mrs. Anderson had | sworn out a warrant against her husband charging non-support. She said they had quarrelled recently. Police also said Anderspn had been questioned Sunday in connec- tion with the theft of articles from a car parked in Fast Rock park. The search for the missing man ‘was to be continued today by a po- dice patrol bo::t off Fort Hale park. any more and I'll be at the | An all night | shaven; | being contended the Fire | that navigation laws are domestic to NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930. —.TWENTY-TWO PRICE THREE CENTS ——— Ex-Convict Confesses Slaying of South Bend Girl In Vacant Barn; Closely Guarded Against Mob ! George Sherman Myers, 40, Attacked 8 Year Old Mar- veriné Appel, Then Strangled Her—Later Moves Body to Place Where It Was Found by Motorist—Death Penalty Looms. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 23 (@ — George Sherman Myers, 40 year old ex-convict, was held under close guard at Michigan City, Ind., plson today for the kidnaping and slaying August 27, of eight year old Marver- ine Appel. - Authorities here sald that Myers made two complete confessions of the assault and slaying, one to prose- denly broken down and dictated lhe confessions. blocks away, Myers admitted often passing the Appel residence, officers . girl. He stopped to talk to her on and lured her to the barn where she was strangled with a plece of wire, because, his confession said, he fear- 2d exposure if she left the barn alive. Decides to Move Body He decided the next day, accord- ing to his confesslon, that he would be safer if the body were discovered at once so he returned to the barn. Then, according to” his admissions, he carried the body down an alley and left it where the first passing motorist would discover it. Myers was arrested by Constable Basil Surup, who after all clues failed, learned that Marverine re- cently had made the acquaintance cdly tollowing his arrest last Satur- day, and another to 8heriff Thomas A. Goodrick. If convicted, Myers will face the death penalty. Rushed to State Prison Because of fear of mob violence, the authorities issued denials of the confessions when word of Myers’ ad- missions first got abroad. Then Myers was rushed by automobile to the state prison, with shotgun squads preceding and following his car, as a precaution to insure his safety. Later it was learned that Myers had been trapped in conflicting state- ments and officers said he had sud- (Continued on Page Three) KILLS WIFE, THEN COMMITS SUIGIDE Wealthy Chicago Man and Wom- an Found in Apartment WORRIED ‘BY INVESTMENTS | Von Patten Threatened to Lnd Life, RUMORED FOUND Body Recovered From Bay An- swers Description, Police Say SUMMON ATTORNEY CRAIN Man Removed to Staten Tsland Morgue Has Mutilated Right In- Friend Says—Credlt Mamager for | dex Finger Same As Missing Magistrate—Other Liknesses. New York, Sept. 23 (® — A body answering the description of Su- preme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater in numerous details, includ- ing a mutilated right index finger, was recovered from the upper bay | . !then Committed suicide. teday and taken to a Staten Island | ppe podies of Van Patten and his morgue. Justice Crater has been | A e Moei6 | wife were found by a friend in the The body answered descrlption of | lusurious Van Patten apastment on missing jurist in height and weight | Stewart avenue, a fashionable dis and seemed to be that of a man of | trict. 4 about the judge's age. District At- Worried by Investments torney Thomas C. T. Crain, who has| R. C. Frederick, who lives below been conducting a grand jury in-:the Van Patten apartment, said the vestigation of the disappearance, credit manager had been worrying was immediately notified. over unprofitable investments and Descrintion of Body several times had threatened sui- The full description of the tody,|cide. N as given out by the police of Toten-| Frederick said he last saw the ville, Staten Island, was: Van Pattens at 9 o’clock last night “About 45 years old, {and they appeared in good spirits. eleven inches in height, 175 pounds; | He found the bodies today when he brown hair and brbwn eyes; clean | went to the apartment {o investigate brown shirt, ~white | why the Van Pattens did not appea cotton underwear and brown socks; | He found the bodics ina bed. ) black no teeth.” Van Patten had been shot Police headquarters in New York, | abdomen. Van Patten had shot him- however, said the body had a full set of teeth. Justice Crater had false teeth. Search for the missing jurist has been pushed vigorously by police and county authorities since his absence became publicly known about & Meat Packing Concern Apparent- 1y in Good Spirits. Chicago, Sept. 23 (UP)—Aldrich Van Patten, wealthy credit manager for Armour & Company, shot his wife, Maude, to death today and five feet cheelk pistol which still was in his hand. Two notes were found, one ad- dressed to Frederick, the other in a plain envelope. Neither was opened pending the arrival of the coroner. With Company 12 Years C. H. Wade, assistant credit man- ager for Armour & Company, said ked for the firm (Continued on Page Two) he ];nn»\ g L a s looked vmm\ as | one of our outstanding men,” Wade said. Van Patten was 47 years old and his wite' 45® Officials at Armour & Company said they understood Mrs. Van Patten had been an invalid for several years. Previous to going with Armour & Company, Van Patten was assistant credit manager of the Chicago ter- ritory for Morris & Company. NEWINGTON GOMPANY GITED AS DELINGUENT Watcer Co. Late in Filing Report—Subject to $175 Fine SLILUR Canadian Government’s Protest on Principle, Since Craft Was Freed i VESSELi 23 (P—An ex- notes between va govern- close the 1 seizure of Washington, Sept. chenge of diplomatic the Washinzton and Ota ments ha mozt recent adian shores by a coast guard vessel. | The Canadian government protest- ed recently against the seizure on June 5, of the Canadian motorship Fire Light, within the 12-mile limit embraced by the liquor smuggling treaty between the United States and Canada but outside the territorial waters limit of three miles. The vessel was scized by the coast guard as a menace to navigation, it Light was | running without lights. The conten tion of thesOttawa government ywas | Hartford, Sept. 28 (A—Four pub- lic utility companies in Connecticut were delinquent in filing reports ith the public utilities commission of the state and have been certified as such by the commission to the at- torney general. The companies are required by law to furnish. annual reports to the utilities commission on or before March 31 and failing to do so are subject to a fine of $25 for each day of delinquency. The’ Litchfleld Electric Light & Power company was reported as 10 days delinquent, the Ridgefield Elec- tric company 10 days, the Newing- ton Water company, seven days, and the Simsbury Water company 15 days. he United States and cannot be en forced under the terms of a treaty prmldm;; for scarch and seizure for liqdor smuggling. The pretest was against the prin- ciple of the action and not against the action itself, since the vessel was subsequently released. ~ Demiocrats Make Plans * For Women’s Meeting Women affiliated with the demo- cratic party have been called to a mass meeting, to take place Friday ight at the party's headquarters in | The Newington Water Co., he Erwin hotel on Main street un- [ mon with the other districts of der the leadership of Mrs. Nellie R.|Newington and other towns sur- | McCrann, member of the state cen- | rounding Hartford, w taken over tral (‘ommntye by the metropolitan district on July This is the first general meeting |first. of the democratic women in prepa- ration for the November election. Each of the several delegations sent to the convention this year has had several women as members, but no meetings have been held exclusively for the women of th eparty. HOOVER NAMES KINCHELOE Washington, Sept. 23 (P—Ap- pointment of Representative Kinche- loe. democrat, Kentucky, to the fed- eral*customs court was announced today by President Hoover, ‘Walking from his own home four | sald, making the acquaintance of the | the night of August 27, officers said, | self in the mouth with a .32 calibet | and in | N ST o e in com- | OSCAR A. VALE SCHOLARSHIP FOR OSCAR STEEGE STEEGE. Yale Club Award GRADUATE OF N. B. H. §. | Enters New Haven University for Four Year Course—Chosen Be- Good Character. Oscar A. Steege, son of Rev. A. C. \Thf‘odorfl \tngr‘ pastor of St. Mat- ‘Ahc\\ s Evangelical Lutheran Chux(h\ been awarded | !and Mrs. Stecge, h Ithe annual schelarship for a course lat Yale by the New Britain Yale| | club. He matriculated yesterday and | | will take a four year general college | course, Steege will be 18 years old next{ December, He was graduated from New Britain High school last June after an enviable record for high marks in his studies. He was treas- urer of his class. ‘When Steege was employed in the | mailing department of the Herald| |a few vears ago, he developed a de- | sire to enter the ficld of journal- lism, This inclination urvived |and he will study the end in view of | entering nc aper work after he [completes his Yale course. The New Britain Yale club, for several years, has awarced scholar- ships to « New Britain High school graduates who have shown by appli- cation to their studies that they have ambition to enter higher fields of learning. Sound character is a requisite, also. Steege satisfied the | scholarship committee of the club that he was qualified for the ap- pcintment ; Martin Ste s brother turned o L unive {New York f post course. ity in duate Lxtra Year For Azaro Valentine C. Hart, chairman of the Yale club scholarshi committee, said today that the club had voted to’ extend the scholarship awarded to Joseph Azaro four years ago. Azaro entered Yale art school, the course in which is for five years. SECTION HANDS KILLED IN BROOKFIELD ACCIDENT *h Delay Yoo Long Before Getting Out of Specding Train’s Path on Construction Job. Brookfield, Mass., Sept. 23 (UP)— Two section hands were Killed in- stantly here today when struck by a Boston-bound passenger train of Minister’s Son Wins New Britain | cause of High School Record a-ndl (“Sctotarship winner_) Bobby Jones Plays Steady Golf In First Nine of Von Elm Is Temporary Leader |Great Atlantan Shoots Rirdie, But Drops Stroke to Par Later to Be All Even—Voigt Also Qualifies, While Jimmy Johns Recovery to Merion Cricket club, Ardmore, Pa., Sept. (P —Bobby Jones, keeping up his nsational golfing pace was out in "36, even par, for {his second qualitying round and still in front of the pack today in the Lnamonax amateur championship. His lotal for 27 holes was 105, Merion Cricket Club, Ardmore Pa, Sept. 23 (P —Playing what he |has announced as his amateur tour- {nament ewan song, George Von |Elm of Los Angeles, former cham- | | pion, shot a brilliant 70, even par, |today to assume the lead in the bat- Itle for the qualifying medal of the’| national amateur golf champion- _|ship. He had a 36-hole two-day to- tal of 143, one stroke short of the | record. \on Elm's score took the pace- tting role away from George T. Dunlm. Princeton star, who had set the early pace with 71-76—147. It was posted as Bobby Jon |first day's leader with 69, teed off | for his sccond round and a bid to| add the qualifying medal honors to 13 | ! rgentine Envoy Contest Today; ton Stages Brilliant Stay in Race. his big t A lar way when Bobby s for 1930. the first fair- and Emery Strat- ten started their second round | match. Spectators stretched along |the line to tee to green. Bobby hit ja long tee shot and pitched 30 feet from the pin. Two putts gave him an casy par four. He hit another long drive at the sccond and then sent a brassie to a | trap at the left of the green. He | cccaped easily from the sand and from 15 feet was down in two putts for a par five. Holes Shot for Birdie Jones uscd a No. 2 iron from the tee at the 195 yard third and was 30 feet from the cup. He holed | tina nuel Malbran, above, the down-hill putt for a birdie two en named ambassador to and went under par by a stroke for | the United States. He will join the | the 3 holes. Washington diplomatic colony soon. At the long fourth, | Bobby drove toea dcep tcok a spoon and f i1 the sand hit a grea from the Recipient of one of the first offi- cial appointments of the new rev- olutionary government in Argen- 5 vards, | trap. He rom a good lie | e ALROAD DFFCERS " STAGE DEATH DIEL green (Continued on Page Two) (GERMANS PLANTED DANGEROUS GERMY Bonynge Claims Secret Agents ' Tnested Country Mixed Claims Commissioner Says | Evidence Not Only Shows Arson and Sabotage, But Deliberate At- tempt to Infect Public. The Hague, Netherlands, Sept\23 | M—Robert Bonynge, commissioner for the United States inm men-American mixed claims tribunal | here today charged that German | agents in the United States before entry into the Kurope: gaged not only in arson and similar crimes but in the spread- ing of disease germs imperilling hu- man life. Claims Commissioner Bonynge, making a forceful concluding argu- ment in the. special tribunal, de- clared that the German government agents had deadly disease bacilla f¢ distribution among horses port News Answers German Witnesses The commissioner, pressing Amer- ican claims for damages resulting lleged acts of the alien oper- spent the forcnoon rebutti | contentions of German witnesses. | Bonynge developed refutation of the defense that Captain Winsch was not engaged in sabotage work dur- ing the time he was in Balt' more. He produced exactly contrary evi- dence from a negro named Felton. Felton’s evidence, Bonynge de- clared, was that he had been en- gaged with other negroes by Winsch, first to distribute circulars to in- duce stevedores to strike and then to set fire to supplics destined using tubes filled with acid, d furthermore to spread d among horses and mules mu-‘mt for shipment to Europe at the barkation depots of Norfolk, New- (Continued on Page Three) Berlin-Wallingford ; Road Opened Today the Boston & Albany railroad. The victims were: Maurice Kenney Angelo Sanella was not inymediatel | Kgn /ul Sancl a group of G0 men er work here. Accor to fellow la- horers, the victims were struck when they delayed too long before m-\ tempting to get out of the path of | the train. + The bodies were the train and taken station, from which they were re- layed to Worcester City hospital, where they were pronounced dead. 48, of Boston. | whose address | ertained. placed aboard to Worcester | highway from Berlin, Traffic on the new den town line, and Wallingford, was opened tiddy when work was com- pleted o a bridge which held up use of the route for several weeks. The bridge spans Broad street. The new concrete roadway malkes | it possible to proceed from Berlin to Wallingford without encountering the traffic in the center of Meriden, and it also eliminates the turn at “Dead Man’s Curve” at Yalesville. About midway along the route, an intersection with the Meriden-Mid- dletown road is reached. * | HIGH TIDE—SEPTEMBER 24 Time) a.m.,10:49 p.m. (Standard THE W New Britain and v ity Fair tonight and Wednesday not much change in temper- New York, Sept. old school girl, Thursday, 28 (A—A 15-year- | last | Fis by mies] since was sought police to- day while they held a taurant employe in connection with her disappearance. They also sought a man and his wife named by the negro as the couple with whom he left the girl the dap she disappeared. Eugene 8. Hill, 30, and without marked negro features, told police he was a neighbor of the girl, esa Gallant. She lived with her par- ents, John and Agnes Gallant, Who* negro re Ther- | Negro Held In New York Girl's On Last Thursday| Disappearance P came her from Fall more than a year ago. Hill said he had known the girl {about a month morning he met her on her school and took her in his car the apartment of a man and his wife named Anderson. There he left her he said. Inquiry showed the Ander- sons had left their apartment the next day. Hill said he came here from North Carolina. Police learned he had not reported at the restaurant where he | was employed since the day the girl lwas missed. River, Mass, fo SAYS ANTHRAX FOSTERED the Ger- | o ; o mules at New York city and New for | em- trunk line | near the Meri- | and last Thursday |7 wiy 10 | Westem Maryland President BANDITS IN E[]URT inav i §1,000 BONDS SET, ™" " UL HOGGHT DN BALTIHORE, Rbortive Attempt fo Rob Lasalle| Sgeet Store Owner= "o ¢ Dudley D. | | | | and Byers Succumbs CHASED IN CITY TRUCK ed—Differences Between Traced to Recent Litization. 3 ‘ Baltimore, Sept. (P—Maxwell Police Recover Bullets and l’iw(nl ‘( Byers, president of the Western Maryland railroad, was shot killed amd Dudley W. Gray, vice president of the road, was seriously Which Stickup Men Buried Be- | fore Being Captured After Pursult Through North End. company's offices in the § 0il building today. Police who were ha ed said the two locked themsely oom- |the president and Netupski of {out” over some differ . this city, were ar- | Police Break Bog ned in police court teday on the [ The first patrolman on the scene charge of attempted robbery. Sin- |called by office employes who heard kiewicz pleaded guilty and Netupski |the shots, said he was forced to not guilty but Judge Stanley J. Tra- |break down the door to gain en- | ceski ordered a plea of not guilty | trance to the office of Mr. Byers. entefed for both. On Netupski's| The fatal shooting was discovered request, the cases were continued [by occupants of neighboring offices until tomorrow in bonds of $1000 |in the building who ‘entered after cach. hearing several pistol shots. Mr. Netupski told the court he wanted |Byers and Mr. Gray both were on |to retain Attorney Thomas F. Mec- |the floor, the former dead and the i Donough, to which Judge Traceski | latter unconscious. replied twyer McDonough knows | Gray was rushed to a hospital and this court opens at $:30 e're | placed immediately on an of Inot going to wait for him.” cth- |table in an effort to save his life er Attorney McDonough ha ready | A pistol was found on the floor | been retained or not was not clear, | beside Gray with five shells explod- but Netupski said something 1n a|ed. Police said all doors |low voice about having an appoint- |executive's office were found loc ment today in his office. At the hospital physicians said G Attempt to Hold Up Store hadgpeen shot once in the back and The capture of the pair is re- [once through the chest. Byefs' body #arded by the police as one of the |bore three bullet wounds, police most fortunate “breaks” from a po- |said. {lice standpoint to occur in this city in a‘ong time. The young bandi | total stranger to Nicholas Malectz, proprietor of a small store at 91 L. salle strect, walked into the place and asked for two bottles of sodu. As he turned to wait on - iewic alleged to have poked .an automatic pistol into his back an.d ordered him to put up his hands. In the meantime Netupski is alleged m’ {have opened the cash register, in | | | | Caught after a spectacular chase GG from Lasalle street to the rear of | Lafayette and Myrtle streets <hml'y |1y betor 3 o'clock yesterday after- | 2, 18, of in the there of it office ‘shot nd W Gray 61 Years Mr. Grz 61 year: Baltimore in 1914, he became connec road. Previously, railroad ca ol old, on after d with the rail- he had started his the Baltimore yut c to ing p lic, schools in his nativ (Continued on I EXPECT 500 GUESTS AT PRIEST'S DINNER- Fr. Three) (Continued on Page Two) ZUTA MURDER GUN TRACED T0 STANTON Ballistics Testimonial to Rev. Bojrowski at Sacred Heart Hall Expens Say | Weapon Gwner by More Gangster 7 pected than 500 guests ex- to attend the testimonial are dinner and reception in honor of | Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski, pastor of the Bacred Heart church, who will leave on a trip to South America and Europe October &, Chicago, Sept. 23 (P—A gun used in the slaying of Jack Zuta, gang- ster, was traced by ballistics experts today'by Danny Stanton, one of Chi- | cago’s 26 “public encmies.” | Zuta, known as one of gangland’s | ster minds, was shot down as he fed nickels to a slot machine in a |SCVeral monti.s tesort near Delafie!d, Wis.. August 1. | cred Hear The discovery of the ballistics ex- | tire city, will petts, working dircctly mnder Act- |affairs in the ing Police Commissicner AleSek, | St Elizabeth's thea | would, it accepted, cause police to |orchestra, under direction of abandon their original theory that | Professor Zigmunt Prayja Zuta was killed by members of the | will furnish music for the occasion. Moran-Aiello gang of which he was | professor Franciszek Jagielski, of a leader. “Dapper” Danny Stanton | Hartford. former organist at the is generally aligned with the Al |gacred Heart church, will accom- Ca_?gne faction, el pany the solofsts on the piano. Nl W RS f;n"m” Tlorence Kowalezvk, Alexan- AL 38 call-| qor Brrozowy and Stanislaus Rad- | hall on Gold street. The event, r only by the Sa- but by the rish the kowski, bre revolver: i ziewicz | Sixteen s The committer for the | reception are: Rentz; viee president |slawa Duch; secrefaries, Tadens Wlodkowski and Joseph —Gworek, and treasurer, Paulin Nurezyk. The executive committee consists of Mr. Nurczyk, Stanley Arszylowicz and Rev. Alexands Kowalezyk. ad- midistrator of the Sacred Heart church. Joseph Dumin is chairman of the decorating committee. gs were taken from nd put under the bal- | experts’ microscopes. Yes- 1y the experts reported that one of the slugs had been fired from a 38 calibre pistol that had belonged o “Dapper” Danny. Stanton. at one time a gang leader in his own right, is at liberty under bond pending the hearing of vagrancy charges. He was the first “public enemy"” to be picked up in the police drive against the “enemies.” kinz prepara- farewell dinner: and President. Alexander Mrs. Wlady- tions l ) ¥ Seriously Wound- | Men | and | wounded in a pistol battle in the | rating into the | tomorrow | evening at 7:30 at the Sacred Heart QUIGLEY INVITED “T0 EXPLAIN FUND IDEA T0 TEACHERS Council Holds Meeting and otes fo- Ask Mayor to Speak PROPOSITION NOT CLEAR IN INSTRUCTORS’ MINDS Launching of Project Prior to End | of Vacation Season Makes it Dif- ficult for School Faculties to Un- derstand Purpbse of 2 Per Oent Wage Contribution, Explanation Given, Mayor Georg will be finvited to addr |ers and other school department ‘cmp]ows and explain to them the ‘Y\Q\d of the two per cent contribu- lwn of their salaries to the Christ- | mas fund for needy during the win- | ter months, in accordance with a vote taken at a meeting of the teachers cowncil yesterday - after- | noon, An invitation was sent the mayor today by Secretary Caroline F. Stearns, acting under the instriction o the council. The members felt that Mayor Quigley would be best qualified to explain the details of |the plan. After the teachers have heard him speak the council will I'ol:! a meeting at which it will vote \on acceptance or rejection of the project. The time for the meeting | has not been set, the members feel- ing t he mayor should be given |an opportunity to choose a date cenvenient to himself. School Fund Would Be $5,400 According to President Harry Wessels of the council, many of the | teachers were still on their summer | vacations when the matter of eon- ‘lrlh\mon of two per cent of salarfed tv employes for September, Octo- ber and November to a fund for aid or the families of unemployed dur- ing the winter came up. The fund from the school department alone would amount to $5,400. Mr. Wessels believes that the best to get the information to the ers would be.to hear of the plan from the mayor, him- self. According to the connciligres! dent the only other way the teach- could get their information om the back files of the news- | papers. No Canvass of Teachers | No attempt would be made to 6b- tain the sentiment of the 500 teach- ers, Mr. Wessels said. Any action taken or any discussion held will take place at the council meeting, the countil decided. Following are the members of the teachers' council: School Supt. 8. H. Holmes and Elementary School Supervisor M Campbell, ex- officio members; Senior High school, pal Louis P. Slade, Edith A Newell S. Ames, Amy C. Ione D. Proctor, Jesse D. allee, David B. Swift, Bertha K. allon, Ernest F. Upham and Mil- | drea G. Weld; Central Junior High school, Principal William C. French, Anna M. Geissler, Walter E. Haley, Caroline F. Stearns; Nathan Hale Junior High school, Principal Harry ‘Wessels, Dorothy Shapleigh, Deris Rideout; Junior High school shops, James H. Ginns, Ethel T. Little- hales, Ruth M. Tupper and Arthur *. Groth, v Mary Hugh; Vincent ley Guilford hington A. Tormay Smalley school, Principal and J. Irene Me- school, Principal and Margaret Quinn; Flihu Burritt, Principal Raymond 1. Searle and Catherine M. Egai Chamberlain school, Principal Ed- | ward E. Weeks and Rose Himberg; ‘1 mcom school, Elsie M. Miles and rgaret Middlemass; Roosevelt school Principal Edward E. Weeks land Grace Burns; Levi O. Smith school, Principal Mary C. Gorman [ana Eisic P. Gamerdinger; Bartlett school, Rileen Griffin; Northend school, Mabel Steele; Rockwell school, Mae C. Pz sracl Put- nam ool, Alice Z ‘Walnut J1ill school, Helen O'Brien; Benja- min Franklin school, Adele Bassett There will also be and Mary sentative of spgcial teachers and directors. NEW BRITAIN BANK BUYS CITY'S NOTES First Large Issue Ever Purchased by Local Institution | Street fund serial notes in the amount of $105,000 were sold to- day to the Savings Bank of New Britain, at par with accrued inter- est to the date of delivery. The sale, consummated at a spe- cial meeting of the board of finance and taxation this noon, was the dirst issue of serial notes ever pur- chased by a local institution and | was also the largest amount ever disposed of locally The notes, bearing interest at | four per cent, will be repaid in ":u“ounl.‘- of $21,000 a year over a period of five years, the last pay~ | ment being on July 1, 1935, Chairman William H. Judd pre- sided at today’s meeting. Comple- tion of the deal was a fulfillment of his prediction that the securities could he placed on the market at four per cent.