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New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Rev. John L. Davis De- flyers Witty Speech on Tendencies of Age at T. of H. Banquet.

In these days of short skirts it is no age for a blind man, according to the Rev. Dr. John l.. Davis of Grace M. F. church, New York, formerly of New Britain, who ad- dressed 250 members and friends of Phoenix Temple of Honor last eve ming, after a smoke barrage almost broke up the session. It was the 50th anniversary of Phoenix Temple and was observed with a banquet in the dining rooms of the South Congregational church.
 The banquet was over and George H. Hamlin, chief templar and toast master. had concluded his talk MT. Hamlin gave brief synopsis of the history and ideals of the organiza- tion, when there was a flash and a bang. Everyone was blinded for q second and a heavy smoke cloud screened the room. Andrew Johnson and Otto Schmidt of the Johnson X Peterson photo studio had taken a flash light picture. The smoke did not clear away and after a reasona- ble wait, MT. Hamlin announced that it was impossible for the singers and speakers to continue and the guests would have to adjourn to an- other meeting place.
 The meeting was finished in the
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
KLANSMEN WILL NOT
 HOLD PARADE TODAY
Officials of Order Deny Intention to Defy Law
 in PIainfieid

Plainficld Sept. 25 LP-The Ku KluX Klan will not hold a parade here today in defiance of the law, Fred C. Congdon andsother heads of the order said today.
 The town of Plainfield which had refused permit for the parade se- cured a temporary injunction to pre- vent the Klansmen parading. There were rumors that the parade would be held as originally planned for to- day, but the leaders declared that neither the parade nor the conven- tion would be held today.
 Judge John R. Booth of the superior court issued the order re- straining the Klan for holding the parade under penalty of $200.
 When Henry J. Bessett, first se- loctman, heard that the parade would probably be held despite the injunction, he took steps to halt the parade with force. He said that con- stables and deputy sheriffs would be on hand today.
 The klansmen say they intend to carry the matter to the courts.
 The permit was refused, town of- fcials say, because "of the ill will the parade would create" and be- cause "of the resulting tie up of traffic." along the route which the parade would take.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
IMPRISONED IN HOUSE AS IT LOOPS THE LOOP
Plainville Man Has Thrill. ling Experience in
 Florida ,
Special to the Herald.)

fIalhFllle, Sept. 25--Imprisoned ,r mouse that was caught In the Flor lua hurricane, blown down ana .uliieu over three times after which the roof fell on him, Thomas IL CaIlerty Of Plainville, owner of . 'es'"urant in Hialeah, Florida had a miraculous escape from da,th ne IS confined at a club in Nov, Fort' Florida, where he is reoe,v;r. s, req ',nent Tor lame back and sev- er"l bruises on the body.
 AS soon as he was able to writ. @'ter a week Of confinement he sent a letter by air mail to Mrs. wiuian, A. cassidy of Elizabeth court pIain Nliie' telling her of his escana sr, or conditions in Florida. He did nnt mention whether or not there vera tuner people in the house with hin, put said that there must be severo, uead In Hialeah, which is 12 miIes rom Miami Beach. He sail the +on.r iS wiped out and that everything |, level for miles around.
 me race track which renrsse,t.s
 04S III money invested was le'eied by tho hurricane and tba peach was ruined. He said his bpsi- ness which he has been building m during his four years in Florida. was wiped out in minute and that olI ne has to represent his efforts and sacrlhces was a bit of land.
 Everybody is discouraged and a. soon as they are able to get any ac- commodatlon they are heading for the north. he wrote. Some ray of sunshine is cast into the gloomy outlook when the people realize they are alive. He said he is happy that he was spared from eternity and is looking on the future with 8 great deal of optimism.
 Mir, Caferty was well known resident of Plainville until about four years ago when he went to Florida and opened the lunch room. It Is expected that when he recovers from his injuries he will come to Plainville on a visit.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25

this year, the same two will battle it out tomorrow in a 36 hole medal play for the final match of the tour nament.
 In the championship division of the tournament, F. E. Baldwin de- feated Louie Jones in the second round ? up and one to play. He then met w. J. Sweeney yesterday in the semi-finals and lost up and 1 to play. In the other semi-final match, c. w. Manning defeated C.. w. Davis 4 up and 3 to play for the honor of going into the finals against Sweeney for the second sue cessive year.
 Those who watched the final play in the club championship yes terday, will remember the stirring fight put up by both golfers with Manning coming in as the winner, giving him the second leg on the directors cup. He is favored by many to take the honors and the cup again this year, though Bill Sweeney does not lack q large fol- lowing.
 In the second sixteen, second round play, E. N. Smith defeated F. H. Shield up and i 10 play while in the semi-final play Smith lost to c. F. Mitchell up and 6 to play.
 In the beaten eight contest, first round, o. E. Swift defeated David R. Manning 1 up and in the second round. Swift lost to c. W. Parker in a well-played match, 1 up.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Two More Fatalities
 In AirpIane Crash

Pensacola, Fla. Sept. IS P>-Lieu- tenant Edwin Johnson, |. S. A, at tached 10 the aerial photographic staff at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, and Ted" Muldon, repre- sentative of Pensacola Chamber of Commerce. were killed instantly here yesterday when Johnson's plane crashed into wireless tower at Pensacola naval air station and plunged into the yard of the com mandant's residence.
 Lieutenant Johnson belonged to the TWenty-second United States aviation squadron. His home was in Montgomery.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
American Woman First to Visit
 Franz Josef Land in Arctic, is
 Back After Thrilling Exploits
Corpse of Murdered
 Victim to Be Shown
 To Impress Jurymen

Tulsa, Okla, Sept. 25 OP- Charging that juries are becom- ing too soft hearted. and too prone to overlook the fact that a man has been killed, County Attorney Byron Kirkpatrick an- nounces that at the next murder trial here the corpse of the vic tim would be brought to the court room as q silent wit ness"
 The defendant during the trial is surrounded by friends and members of his family" Kirkpatrick said. "Juries are becoming soft-heartcd, they for get the victim. Any reference to the dead man is promptly ob- jected to by the defense counsel on the ground that it is prejudi- cial. This time, however, am going 10 produce the dead man himself"
 The first try-out of Kirkpat- rick's plan will come next month, he said, when Mrs. w. J. White, negro woman, is put on trial for the staying of her hus- band. The negro woman charg- ed her husband was attempting to separate me from my reli- gion."
 Kirkpatrick said that he ex- pected 10 meet with considerable opposition.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Heretofore Unknown Pygmy Tribe
 Found in Wilds of Java Jmgles
Dutch New Guinea Scientific Expedition Reports This Newly Discovered Race to Be Quiet,
 Intelligent and Friendly

Calf, one of the leaders of the expedition, described the bushmen as unusually friendly.
 Also" he said, contrasting with the loud yelling and menacing atti- tude of other natives below, the Pygmies of the mountains talked in under tone or whisper and seemed afraid of being too obtrusive. They were not timid, but quite intelligent and always cool and collected.
 The first thing they did was to give us all a present The presents consisted of their small bows and arrows, rattan arm bracelets, orna- nents, bananas, betel nuts.
 Their whole material culture was entirely different from that of the Papuans. They raise tobacco, sweet potatoes, bananas and pigs. They brought us a pig, and all gath cred around to make a ceremony of killing it.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25

Waltevreden, Java, Sept. 25CP- In dense mountain jungles never be- fore successfully penetrated by white men, the Dutch New Guinea expedition of American and Dutch scientists has discovered an entirely new group of Pygmies. Details of the discovery were received here today from the Associated Press correspondent accompanying the ex- petition. The dispatch was carried by a Bushman runner.
 Entering a country in which previous eXpenditions had been decimated through fever and hard ships, the scientists, after four months of travel, came upon the strange small people, living a quiet and secluded life. Hemmed in by rugged jungle covered mountains and cut off from the rest of the Papuan tribes.
 Matthew W. Stirling Of Berkeley,
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
HILLS PRINCIPALS
 IN DIVORCE SUITS
Son of Pioneer R. R. Man and Wife Both File
 Complaints

St. Paul, Minn.. Sept. 25 R- Walter J. Hill. St. Paul millionaire and son of the late James J. Hill. pioneer railroad builder of the northwest, and his wife, Pauline &. Hill, are plaintiffs in divorce actions filed almost simultaneously in wide ly separated cities.
 Each charges cruelty and in addi- tion, Mrs. Hill in her complaint fl- cd here yesterday alleges that her husband has been unfaithful. MT. Hlll's action was filed at Butte, Mon tana.
 Mrs. Hill requests a hearing De- tober l6 and asks s5,0O0 monthly as temporary and permanent alimony. She declared her husband has an annual income of $250,OO0 and owns property worth S5,000,OO0. She asks that he be enjoined from disposing of any of his property.
 The Hills were married in New York city December II, 1922, and during most of the time since. Mrs. ''li4 NiltAl StN. lltl HuSbdnu mas treat ed her in q cruel and inhuman man. her.
 Specific instances of alleged indis- cretlons on the part of MT. Hill in Now York St. Paul and Lakota, N. D., are cited in the complaint. A chorus girl and a woman known as Blanche R" both of New York, are named in Mrs. Hill's petition, which also alleges indiscretions with an unnamed woman at Hill's hunting lodge at Lakota.
 While aboard Mir. Hills yacht two years ago, the complaint declares, Hill attacked his wife, knocking her down. She also said that while they were at q hotel in Los Angeles she was so severely beaten that she was confined her bed for four days.
 Mir. Hill is 41 years old and Mrs. Hill is 45. Mir. Hill has a son by a former marriage and Mrs. Hill has a daugher and son by former mar riage.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
FEARS OF FAMINE, DISEASE AND RIOTS PASS, FLORIDA
 SPEEDING RECONSTRUCTION
NORTH, MIDWEST IN
 GRIP OF JACK FROST
Nintry Blasts Still Swirl Crop Losses Total
 13 Million

Chicago, Sept. 24 CT-The north
 and middle west shivered today in the swirl of wintry blasts sweepins in broad southcastcrly fan from ! snow capped wheat fields on the 1 western Canadian prairies. To the south the cold wave moved down the lover Ohio valley and into Texas panhandle, while the winds that halted wheat harvesting in AL l perta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan with a six inch snow fall coursed along the St. Lawrence toward the seaboard.
 The unreasonable temperatures sent the mercury scurrying down ward to unprecedented September levels and brought we'll below freez- ing weather to many northwestern points.
 In the American northwest tbe wave assumed proportions unparal- Ieled in the meteorological records and threatened extensive damage to apple and other crops in Washing ton and Oregon.
 From that area a blighting chill crept over fields of corn and stand Ing small grain in the central west adding to the millions of dollars damage from recently heavy rains. In western plain fields not reached by snow flurries. killing frosts were spread.
 Damage to unharvested crops was estimated at $l3,0OO,O0O.
 Farmers in Illinois and Iowa were spurred to activity in sodden fields by warnings to recover see corn rom their crop. While Kansas's corn was reported generally beyond the danger point there was grave fear to the eastward that the cold an frost would, in many instances, complete the damage begun by rec ord September rainfall.
 A record low temperature of 20 above was reported from Yakima. Wash, and Baker, Oregon, while the eastern end of the wave had sent the mercury to 47 degrees at Chicago early today. Snow flurries were reported in northern Illinois. Iowa and Minnesota.
 The coldest reported spot In the country was Helena, Montana, six degrees above zero. Ankle deep snow was reported in parts Of the Dakotas, with temperatures drop- ping as much as forty degrees in a 1 few hours.
 Slowly rising temperatures were forecast over much of the middle | west today.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
MANNING ID MAKE BID
 FOR LAST LEG ON CUP
Thrilling 36 Hole Match Scheduled for Shuttle
 Meadow

There is a possibility that the cup emblematic of the Shuttle Meadow clug' golf championship may be in the permanent possession of one of it's members if Clarence w. Man ming beats ". J. Sweeney in the final play Of the club championship tour nament tomorrow. Manning has won two legs on the cup already and after coming through in the semi finals yesterday, will meet Sweeney tomorrow for the finals. The cup must be won three years and as Manning has won it twice, it leaves only victory tomorrow for him to own the trophy.
 Last year it was the same two golfers who met in the finals and as the tournament worked out again
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
PAOKESSA DECLINES
 10 RUN FOR CONGRESS
Ex-Mayor Decides Not to Seek Democratic
 Nomination

EN Mayor A. M Paonessa an- nounced today he will not seek the democratic nomination for congress- men in the first district.
 A boom to place Paonessa in the field against Congressman E. Hart Fem was started last week at the democratic state convention in New Haven, and the former mayor has had candidacy under consideration since that time. That he could have the nomination was practically as- sured, friends who have canvassed the district said today.
 The mayor explained his business interests here and at Easthampton, where he conducts a hotel make 1t inadvisahle for him to run this year.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
HALL FORMALLY NAMED
 BY (. Q. p. FOR SENATOR
Agrees To Accept Denomination and Is Put On Ticket By Town
 Committee

At a special meeting of the re- publican town committee yesterday afternoon, Edward F. Hall was nom mated for state senator from this district, Judge B. w. AllinC who had peeh selected at primary last month having declined to run since he is also his party's candidate for encouragement.
 Senator Hall was a member of the last general assembly. He had ex- pressed a desire to retire from poi- tical life upon completion of this term, but a vacancy having been created by placement of Judge All ing on the state ticket, he agreed to be a candidate again.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Phi Beta Kappa Memorial
 Hall Will Be Dedicated

Williamsburg, Va, Sept, 25CP)- The new $120.OO0 Phi Beta Kappa Memorial hall at William and Mary college will be dedicated November 27 and will seat the entire student body. One wing of the Memorial hall is a replica of the famous apollo room of the old Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg in which Phi Beta Kappa was founded short ly before the Revolutionary war.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Mayor of Miami Pre- diets Resort Will Be 5 a m e Comfortable Vacation City This Winter, Making Rec ord for Comeback.
Adjustment Bu- reau Established at Scene - Railways Co., operate in Giving Sur
 yivors Tickets to Homes.

Miami, Fla, Sept. 25 UP,-Rehab. ilitation took renewed impetus through Floridas hurricane stricken area today, week after the devas- tating storm. with fears of famine. pestilence and riots allayed.
 An optimistic spirit prevailed. stores and business houses have opened to dispose of depleted stocks and partially ruined merchandise.
 Epidemic Threat Passed.
 Threats of typhoid has passed with Improvement in sanitation and a bet ter water supply in most of the strick en cities. Throughout yesterday, steady streams of persons were inoc- ulated with anti-typhoid serums and public health officials are making a thorough inspection of all food.
 At Hollywood. Miami and other cities in the path of the gale crews or men are clearing away the tangl- cd mass Of wreckage, decaying vega table matter and decomposed hodie.
 emu swamp reptiles.
 Refugees Depart.
 At Fort Lauderdale. city official. nave given over full control of ths sanitary work to the Red Cross While at Moorehaven, remaining flood water made absolute sanita- ton impossible. The last refugee, from Moorehaven left the devastated city yesterday.
 A clash yesterday at Miami be- tween sailors and several Neeroer. Tn which several shots were fired resulted In the wounding Of one Blue Jacket and three Negroes. The incl. dent prompted authorities to exert vigilance in patrolling every section.
 Mayor F. c. Romfh. of Miami in an official statement today called at- tention to the accomplishments o, '1'0 0i'S since the catastrophe.
 Mayors Statements.
 Tn the six days that have passed since the storm the city has com. pack with speed that is absolutely amazing" he declared. "No ona "ho has not been in the ground, thecKihs up the progress can realize the tremendous recovery that united courage, infatigable citzenship ha. made.
 l want to give positive assuranc. mat our friends will find Miami thi, winter the same enjoyable, hosnit- iu'e' comfortable vacation city. hiaml will make a worlds record come back"
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Democrats Organize
 For County Convention

Councilman Thomas B. Fay will head the New Britain delegation to the democratic county convention in Hartford, next Thursday afternoon, at which George Gabb will be nom mated for sheriff, to oppose Edward w. Dewey, nominee of the rcpubli can party. James w. Manning will be chairman. stephen Roper secretary, and Frank Zapatka a member of the rules committee.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
CHRISTIANITY BARES
 I7 YEAR OLD MURDER
Converted Eskimo Con- fesses He Killed Con-
 panion of Peary

New York, Sept. 25 R-Prof Ross Marvin of Cornell university was believed for r years 10 have been drowned on the Peary cxpedi- tion to the North Pole, but a copy rightcd dispatch to the New York Times discloses today that he was murdered by an Eskimo.
 The dispatch is from George Palmer Putnam, New York publish CT, who arrived at Sydney, x. S, last night on the schooner Morrisey which has just returned from an ex- petition to Greenland.
 Kudlooktoo. he slayer, made g voluntary confession after being converted to Christianity Mir. Put nam says.
 Marvin. Kudlooktoo and an Is limo named Inukitsoq, but called Harrigan by white companions, set out from the steamer Roosevelt as Pcary's third supporting party when he started for the pole. They left Peary at latitude S6 degrees SS minutes to return to the ship.
 They were three or four days from their farthest north. He went ahead with Marvin to search for the best out trail. Harrigan remained with the dogs. The paths of Harrigan and Kudlooktoo then by chance crossed, and Marvin became infuri- ated when he came up. He felt that Harrigan should have followed him, so he ordered Harrigan away from the party.
 Kudlooktoo resolved then to kill 10 protect his friend from starva- ton. He prctcndcd he saw seal and picked up a rifle, according to his story, which Harrigan confirmed. A moment later from over an icy crag there came a report, and kud- looktoo returned 10 the sled. and said he had killed Marvin.
 "I have done this 10 save your life" he said to Harrigan. What has happened is not our fault. It will be hard for the white men to and if you tell, they will kill us or take us to the white mems country"
 So they made up the story of the drowning, and it was accepted. But kept their silence until Kudlooktoo was baptized last summer.
 In Mir. Putnam's opinion 1t Is i'm probable that any action will ever De taken against the Esliimos, even f it should be legally possible. The scene of the murder was in mo mans land" owned by no nation. Under a subsequent treaty with the .'nited States Denmark has taken it lNor.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
GREAT AMERICAN
 POLITICAL DRAMA
 ABOUT ID RESUME
Dress RehearSalS Throughout Country With Politicians
 Reeiting Their Lines
EACH SIDE DENIES WHAT
 OPPONENTS SAY IS FACT

Sole Issue, Say Republicans, l
 Faith in Coolidge and Approya
 of His Prosperity Administration
 Democrats Insist There Is N
 Prosperity-Control of Senate |
 at Stake in November Elections
 Washington, Sept. 25 ED - Th' great American drama of polite! was in dress rehearsal throughou the country today with both majol parties reciting their lines for the production which will reach it. last act in the November congres sional elections.
 With control Of the 10th con, Fress at stake, the heavy artillery of both sides has laid down pre- iminary barrages in preparation for the autumn battle of the bal lots.
 "The Sole Issue"
 The "sole issue" of the present campaign, as interpreted by Sena- tor Lawrence c. Phipps, Colorado, chairman of the republican sena- torial committee, in his latest statement is whether the people approve of President Coolidge and the abundant prosperity he was wrought by sound and economical administration" while Senator Peter G. Gerry, Rhode Island, chairman Of the democratic sena- torial committee, declared that the republicans are talking about a wonderful prosperity that does not exist, and are whistling to keep up their courage
 Control of Senate
 The senate in the roth congress, according to Senator Gerry, is cer- tain to be democratic, but Senator Phipps declared that he had no doubt that the people approve of President Coolidge" and will vote ito sustain him during the next two years by the reelection of 9 Republican majority in both the senate and house."
 Industrial Depression
 Agriculture and the textile indus- try are in severe Impressions, Sena- tor Gerry continued, "and we may expect soup kitchens next winter if the unemployment continues" but Senator Phipps asserted that the democratic leaders were proposing that the people turn to the party that gave them low tariff and hard times from 1893 to 1897, from 1913 to 1914 and from 1918 to 1921.
 Nothing except "a general discon- tent throughout the country" should lead voters to change their "allegi- ance to President Coolidge and a republican majority in congress-" Senator Phipps said, while Senator Gerry declared that flor some unex- plained reason prosperity has not come," despite "a super-republican tariff bill, unhampered by any theory of economics, which has given the all he asks for and a little bit more."
 Taxation Also An Issue Meanwhile Representative Will R.
 (Continued on page 1D.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
South Africans, 5000 Miles
 Away, Listened to Fight

London, Sept. 25 Pl-Nine thous- and miles away from Philadelphia, huge crowd Thursday night listen- ed to details of the fight between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey, sent by radio from the General Electric company's experimental sta- tion in New York. says a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Johannes burg.
 The dispatch adds that the Star also received q radio report from the ringside in Philadelphia but 1t was marred by atmospheric conditions.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Fog Caps Chimneys;
 Bremen Called Out

The weight of the foggy at1-os- phere enyeloping the city this morning prevented smoke from chimneys from taking it's natural upward course, and the fire de- partment received two calls as a result.
 At 7:36 this morning. the re- port came in that d building at S25 Church street was filled with smoke and it was thought there was a fire. Later a similar call came from the Stanley Building. The tiremen could do nothing, the situation being entirely in the hands of Dame Nature, who finally detailed Old Sol to clear the atmosphere.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
STARTS FOR CANADA

Tondson. Sept. 25 P)-Viscount Willingdon, who succeeds Baron Byng of Nimy as governor general of Canada, left for Southampton today. accompanied by Viscountess Wilmington, to board the Empress of Scotland.