New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 12

| SERIOUS FIRE LOSY -~ INSTATE BUILDING New Pennsylvania givaia Bt jonal | Structure Damaged & Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 3 (P—Tire | in the new state educational build- ing now under construction early to day burned out much of the in- terior of the auditorium section. | Benson E. Taylor, secretary of prop- | erty and supplies, today estimated the damage at between $500,000 and $1,000,000. | Unable to enter the section where the fire was raging, Chief M. W. Tawney directed firemen from 16 | companies to prevent the flames from spreading to other wings of | the six-story building. | The building was being erected at a cost of more than $4,000,000 and was to house the state department of public instruction, the state 1li- brary and the state department of welfare. The painters were at work in the auditprium recently and the great room#was almost filled with scaf- folding. The interfor of this build- ing, including costly marble and | valuable murals, was a total loss. Offices Also Wrecked The two tiers of offices above the | auditorium were also wrecked. The | remainder of the building was dam- aged only by smoke and water. ¥ Five firemen were injured, none seriously, fighting the fire. Three hundred men were thrown | out of work temporarily. A report that vagrants had start- ed the fire in revenge for being thrown out of the building yester day was denied by state police. Burial Ground Lawsuit | Papers Filed on Official | Hartford, Oct. 3 (P—Assistant At- ‘ torney General H. Roger Jones to- day accepted service of papers in the | million dollar damage action of | Edyth B. Gray and others of Gro- ton against the city and town of Norwich, the Masonic Temple Cor- poration of Norwich, the state of Connecticut, and the attorney gen- eral of Connecticut. The action i made returnable to the superior courf, for New London county on | the first Tuesday in November. | % The action is brought for the pur- ®oso-of obtaining a court order for | $he return of the “Royal burial ground,” mnow located within the flimits of the city of Norwich, to- gether with a right of way to the Yantic river. Little Attention Paid To King’s Statement | Athens, Greece, Oct. 3 (A—For-| mer King George's statement in England yesterday that he expected to be invited to return to his throne | created very little stir here and was | not given any particular prominence in the Grecian press. Republican organs commented moderately to the effect that the former-king is deceiving himseif and allowing himself to be influenced by flattery of a small entourage. Even | Kathimerini, chief royalist organ, | considers George's statement inop- portune. Y.M.C.A. MEMBERSHIP Reduced During October Men $10 - Boys $5 Join Now and Save Wrestling, Fencing, Boxing Swimming, Handball, | Tumbling | Clever Swindler Sought For $50,000 “Big Deal” Bridgeport, Oct. 3 (UP)—Local police were cooperating with New York authorities today to trace two nfederates of George Failotical, charged with swindling George White, hotel manager, of Easton, out of $50,000. Fattotical, who, police say, has at least six aliases and has been ar- rested 14 times, is being held in {New York on the swindling charge. | Police say he met White in Easton and interested him in a “big deal” to be consummated in Bridgeport. White motored here, provided the necessary $50,000 and received what |supposedly was a certified check for $300,000. The check proved worthless. Mrs. Mimre Passes Test For Transport License Hartford, Oct. /3.—(UP)—Mrs. Mary L. Moore, manager of the In- terstate Airways, Inc., here, today was Connecticut’'s only woman transport pilot. She filled the federal require- ments for the highest commercial flying rating in a flight yesterday, climaxing more than 200 hours of solo flying, necessary under com- merce department regulations. Mrs. Moore started flying in August 1929, with her husband as instructor. When Moore was Kkilled in an accident at Brainard field last June, she took over her husband's position as manager of the Airways company Plane Clashes at Fair, Crushes Boy Spectator Attica, 0., Oct. 3 (B —An airplane | which crashed from a height of 25 [to 50 feet in attempting to take oft the Aftica fair grounds yester- day killed a boy spectator and se- | riously injured another. The boys, Franklin Croxton, 11, and Lloyd M. Kauffman, jr. 12, were standing by the rail of the race track when Howard Burras. | the pilot of the plane, lost control as his motor sputtered. Croxton was killed instantly. Kaufman probgbly will recover. ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE Miss May Moston of Chestnut | street, entertained at a surprise party nd bridge in hongr of her sister, | Miss Ida Moston, last evening. Prizes | were awarded to Miss Amna Mol- chan and Miss Irene Heckman. From Factory to Consumers HATS of Fashion Our smart models and good values appeal to every woman because women have come to know that our Hats always present with author- ity the best hats of modes of the season. All latest models Felt Hats in Ladies’, Matrons’ and $1 25 . Children’s for Transparent Velvet Berets Velvets and Combinations Millinery Shop, Inc. 417 MAIN STREET Sage-Allen & Co, artford INC. Hartford ipecials From the Middy Blouses ly reduced to 7 for school and Wide range of s lars of same. Reversible Jute Rugs 600 From Czech come th atter jute. 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Circulator Heaters $93.95w Kitchen Ranges $43.00 w Large Cities Safer for Motorists, Expert Says Pittsburgh, Oct. 3. P—The small town mptorist, frightened by the rushing traffic of the big cities, may cast aside his fears, for statistics presented at the National Safety Congress today prove that there is less danger per automobile in the large city. Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Rening- er, of Allentown, Pa., former presi- dent of the National Safety Council and principal speaker today at the Safety congress, blamed the increase of driving dangers in the and town to lack of study safety problem on “Community Safe brought out that the same thing was true of | fire and police protection Colonel ~ Renthger advised the | small city, especially 1in_the cast | where there are many factories, to take advantage of service and wor- en's clubs for an organization and borrow the safety expert of the lo- cal factory. RUSSIA SEEKS WHEAT London, Oct. 3 (UP)—Soviet Russia has opened negotiations for purchase of 100,000 tons of wheat at Liverpool and another 50,000 tens at London, it was learned to- day in American trade circles. The action puzzled American and British traders, who speculated on whether the Soviet had sold short recently, thus depressing prices. It was krown the heavy exports from Russig would be halted by necessity within the next month or so and that Russia might have to import wheat, but the present; negotiations for purchases were , unexpected in view of heavy sales abroad by the |{ Soviet. 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