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New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
GANGSTER IS KILLED
Chicagoan Blown to Pieces By Ex- plosiyeS He Is Believed to Have Had Himself.

Chicago. Oct, 23 (P-The prema- ture detonation of an explosive in the doorway of a west side store early today killed Three Pete" Kosinski. 29, liquor gangster. and buried his torn body beneath the debris of the shop front.
 The police think Kosinslli was on a safeblowing mission. to obtain de- fenso funds for Joe Salts, clique chieftain awaiting trial for murder. kosinski was captured recently In the Wisconsin woods with Saltis but was released. He was the leader of the Salts gang while Salts was in jail.
 The door of the grocery is directly opposite a large factory and detec- tives decided the explosion was not of the usual black powder bomb but of nitro -glycerine. A flivver patrol had passed shortly before Kosinski is believed to have accidentally set off quantity of soup" in lodging within the shelter of the doorway.
 Kosinsli had a long record of crime in Chicago.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
?. E. BEYER DIES AFTER
 LONG RESIDENCE HERE
Maple Street Man, 84, Lived in This City For 46 Years-Veteran Employe
 At r. & r. Corbin Plant

Paul Eugene Beyer. 64 years of age, a resident of this city for about 46 years. died last night at 10:40 o'clock at his home. 329 Maple street. He had been in poor health for some time, but his illness was serious for only four weeks. His death was caused by a complica- ton of diseases.
 MT. Beyer was born in Germany and came to this country when he was IS years of age. He was em- plcyed by P. & F. Corbin for about 40 years. He was a member of Eintracht lodge, o. D. H. &, and of the Corbin Mutual Benefit associ- ation.
 Surviving him are his wife: a son. Paul J. Beyer; five daughters, Mrs. Phillip Calmback. Mrs. Hollis liar low of West Hartford. Mrs. Jesse Norton. Mrs. Harry Engdahl and Miss Myrtle K Beyer and five grandchildren.
 The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at o'clock from his late home, Rev. Dr. George w. c. Hill, pastor of the South Congregational church, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
SENSATIONAL CHARGES
Claim Made That DiStillcry Outfit Was Made in One of Texas Prisons And Output Sold.

Austin. Texas. Oct. .23 LP>-Sensa- tional charges involving conduct of Texas state prisons under the admin istration of Governor Miriam A. Fer guson were made by witnesses who testified yesterday before the legisla- tive committee investigating Texas state departments.
 Colonel II. Walter Sayles charman of the state prison commission, charged that when s. c. Cranberry was manager of the prison farm at Eastland a life termer manufactured whiskey with Granberry's approval. The convict told him the liquor was sold and half the money went to Cranberry, testified Sayles.
 Cranberry was appointed a mem bcr of the state prison commission by Governor Ferguson but the sen- ate failed to confirm him at the re- cent session Of the legislature.
 Warden N. L. Speer of the state penitentiary at Huntsville testified that c. A. Putney with bad record and sentenced for life for murder, gave O'Rourke sS.ooO to get par don. Putney still is in prison. the warden added.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
LIQUOR CR Rta''e.1 '''t, 'Dt,kUCKTON
 MAN KILLS HIS DAUGHTERS
Three Motherless Little Girls Brutaly Beaten to Death
 With An Axe-Fourth Child Escapes

Brockton. Mass, Oct. 23 Pl-A crazed father battered to death with an axe three Of his daughters as they slept in a cheerless little third-story apartment here this morning.
 James Stoddard, S6-year old la borer with a long police record for intoXicaion arrests. who recently was charged with failing to sup port the children, slew the girls, Mildred, z, Edna, Il and Florence, IS.
 Marion, fourth daughter, who was in bed with Edna, awoke as her father struck her sister and grap- pied with him. Breaking from his grasp she fled to the street, where a pedestrian gave the alarm that brought police.
 A squad of officers found Stod- dard, axe in hand, apparently about to leave the house. T just killed my three kids and I want to get the other one," he told them as they disarmed him.
 Stoddard declared he had been drinking for two weeks prior 10 last Sunday when he had decided to quit. A Authorization that a former
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Tetrazzini, Famous Opera
 Singer. Is Married Again

Florence, Italy, Oct. 23 Pl-Mme. Louisa Tetrazzini. famous operatic singer, was married today to Pietro Vernati. 20 years her junior and the tenant of her home in Rome, where she met him.
 Amadero Bassi. tenor, was witness for the bride, and Col. Bombasset Frascani for the bridegroom. The ceremony was performed by Alder man Sebregdoni in the presence of a large assemblage. A grand nephew of the bride and a nephew of the bridegroom acted as train-bearers.
 Tetrazzini is 52. Her first husband was J. G. Bazelli.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
DRINKING IN HOTEL
 ROOMS IS INCREASING
Owner Thinks There Is Gain of 85 Per Cent Since Prohibi-
 ton Was Enacted.

Madison, Wis, Oct. 2S P) - Drinking in hotel rooms of Amer ica "has increased 95 per cent since adoption of prohibition" in the opinion of Richard R. Lane, owner of hotels in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport, who is attending a convention of the Northwest Hotel association.
 "The maids know - they carry out the bottles. Extra bellboys are required to carry the cracked ice, and hotel room furniture tells the story.
 Only one feature of prohibition has benefited hotel men," MT. Lane observed. Tt has boomed the sale of ginger ale. but guests wreck furniture opening the ginger ale bottles on it.
 And yet we are criticized for placing bottle openers in rooms.
 As far as l can sec. prohibition is a failure and it certainly is cost ing Us lots of money"
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
QUEEN CALLS IN
 NEW YORK DOCTOR
Has Hard Cold But Con- ditiOn Is Not
 Serious

New York, Oct. 23 P)-A physl- elan was called to the royal suite at the Ambassador Hotel today to at tend Queen Marie, of Rumania, whose cold was considerably az gravated by series of speaking en- agreements yesterday.
 Her lady waiting had an nounced earlier that the queens cold was slightly improved but later Dr. Albert B. Duel, was summoned. He was accompanied by Ti!eston Wells, the Rumanjan consul general.
 Her condition was said not to be serious and the doctors visit did not disarrange the days schedule Of either the prince or princess. Prince Nicholas left the hotel in his road . ster to visit the Brooklyn navy yard.
 A delegation of girl scouts, headed by Miss Renalda Killer, holding the rank of golden eagle. escorted the Princess Ilcana to the Capitol theater for a reception.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
AnsOnia Woman Dies of
 Burns From Explosion

Ansonia, Conn. Oct. 23 Cp-Mrs Martha Olende. aged 30, wife of John Olcnde of Canal street, who was horribly burned when a can of kerosene which she was holding over a kitchen stove exploded yes terday morning while she was in the act of lighting a fire died last night at the Griffin hospital to which in stitution she was rushed immediate ly after the mishap.
 Ministrations of the doctors at the hospital proved of no avail, the woman having fingered In great agony for nearly 14 hours. Besides her husband Mrs. Olende is survived by three small children.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Expert to be Brought in To Look Over Several Structures, One in Business Zone.
Main Street Business Block, Affected by Snow Last Winter, Again Under Suspicion.

Several buildings, one a centrally located structure of considerable size, are on the verge Of condem- nation and the building commission has empowered Inspector A. N. Rutherford to employ the services of a structural engineer to work with him on investigations prepara- tory to this move.
 The building commission has de- termined that no dangerous struc- lures will be allowed to sand and has issued orders to the staff to be- gin an inspection of all buildings in the city as soon as there is an appreCiable let-up in the work of their office. Inspector Rutherford agrees with the commissioners that this idea Is highly desirable, he told members of the board last night.
 Although no mention was made of the buildings under suspicion, 1t is known that one is located on Main street, and was the subject of a series of examinations last win ter when heavy snows contributed 10 the collapse of North S Juce.s foundry and threatened other roofs. At that time the proprietor was ordered to clear his roof and when this was done line was placed. A perceptible sag was recorded, which afterward sprang back into shape.
 The services of an engineer will also be had when the office re- ceives an application for a permit where new types of construction are planned, or where the inspec- tor is in doubt as to the strength of carrying" beams, stresses, etc,
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Girl Outwits Ardent Wooer Who
 Insisted on Her Eloping; Takes
 His Auto, Leauing Him Stranded
Sends Him Into New Haven Drug Store on Fools Er
 rand While She Steps On the Gas and Dashes Home

Frightened at the insistence of her tlance, Adolph Mankus of 360 Bruritt street, that they be married at once, according to her story to the police, Miss Margaret Zeigler of S09 Maple street, feigned weak ness and tricked him into leaving the automobile in which they were riding in New Haven last night, to go to a drug store for a restora- tive, and. taking the drivers wheel, she hastened back to New Britain.
 Desk Sergeant Matthias Rival received a telephone call from the New Haven police that the car had been stolen and a young woman was thought to be driving it. A short time later, he received word
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER INDUSTRY HIT Ripley of Harvard De- mands Probe of Entire
 Utilities Field

Boston, Oct. 2S (F - Professor William z. Ripley of Harvard whose recent broadsidcs against certain corporate practices have twice reused the financial con- munity Of the country, has fired another salvo -. this time a de- mand for a federal investigation of the public utilities field.
 In an article in the November issue Of the Atlantic monthly, Porf. Ripley follows his criticism Of the abuse of non-voting stock and the obscurity of financial re- ports of large corporations with a plea for more light" on the whole subject of utilities. Particular reference is made to the electric light and power industry and it's trend toward amalgamation and financial reorganization.
 Holding companies in the indus- try are arraigncd on a charge of overdevelopment which, Prof Rip ley finds, is provocative of unwar- ranted concentration of power and affords a temptation to "prestidigi- tation. double -shuffling. hornswog- gling and skullduggery."
 The writer says the petite for new capital and the freedom from banking connections and chaperon- age in the electric light industry have opened the door on occasion to practices falling far below the level of trusteeship."
 Turning to the details of finan- cial reorganization he points out "a peculiar menace lies in the ap- peal, often under guise of a plea for simplifcation of an involved corporate structure, for the little holder of bonds of a local operat- ing enterprise 10 give them up in return for shares of the newly ere ated finance corporation.
 For obviously by such exchange the uninitiated investor may have shifted his position from that of a preferred 10 that of junior claimant upon earnings.
 "Thc almost irresistible impulse to pad income accounts is one of the evils of permitting capitaliza- tion of these interstate public en- terprises to go on without let or hindrance. The purpose. of course, is to lay a foundation for further public sale of securities. Custom arily, since the common shares rep resent no value, 1t makes little diff ference how many there are. Every effort, therefore, is directed toward making strong showing of earn ings in order to warrant as large an issue as possible"
 In summing up he concluded, We are irresistibly tending to one of two goals. Either greater unanimity of state legislation or suppression of state incorporation for interstate business by direct as- sumption of federal authority"
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23

from New Haven that Miss Zcigler was at the wheel.
 About 2:30 this morning, Ser geant Rival detailed Sergeant Michael Flynn to go to the young woman's house, and finding her at home, the sergeant brought her to the police station where she told her story. Mankus, she said, insist ed on an elopement and she tried to humor him by promising to marry him Sunday. He would not listen to the compromise, she said, so she felt obliged to think quickly and outwit him.
 Unless Mankus insists on prosecu- ticn. no charge will be placed against the young woman, the New Haven police told Sergeant Rival.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Dragged Through Dust,
 SmOthered to Death

Franklin, N. C., Oct. 23 Rl-A new case of death-suffocation from highway dust-was entered today upon vital statistics records here.
 Harley Sorrelle, S5, was driving an OK team when he fell from the wagon. He held 10 the lines and was dragged short distance in the road. His mouth and nose became filled with dust and the coroner re- ported that he smothered to death.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Buried in Casket Picked
 Out Thirty Years Ago

Norristown, Pa, Oct. 23 P-In a caslet he selected fifteen years ago while in health and with funeral arranged according to plans he made at the same time, Ira Saylor, for 30 years a teller in the First Ma tlonal bank of Conshohocken. was buried yesterday in the lot he had chosen in Montgomery county.
 Even the flowers that surrounded the bier had been ordered 15 years ago by Saylor.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Bishop of London in :.
 Plea for Cooperation

New Haven, Oct. 23 P)-Football Is not so good a game 10 watch ss rugby, In the opinion of Right Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington-1ngram, lord bishop Of London, himself for mcr rugby player and still a golfer and tennis player, who visited at Yale University Thursday.
 The lord bishop sees as another drawback in American college sports that man can rarely continue play ing them after he leaves college. while he said he played rugby for forty years after leaving Oxford.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
ANOTHER REASON GIRLS
 SHOULDN'T CROSS KNEES
Michigan Physician Says That This Posture Tends Toward Curva-
 ture of Spine.

Washington, Oct. 23 P>-Another reason why girls shouldn't cross their knees has been found by Dr. Beatrice N. Phillips, of Kalamazoo, Mich.
 The habit. If practiced continually, invites curviture of the spine, she told the closing session of the Mid dle Atlantic States Osteopathic asso- citation convention here.
 Another girlish practice she char acterized as "pernicious" is that of sitting upon one foot" because this also tends to throw the spine out of balance.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Bermuda Hit Too

Halifax, N. S, Oct. 23 Pl-Dam- age 10 buildings, including some of the larger hotels in Bermuda, was done today by the West Indian hur- ricane. This information was con- tained in a despatch received last night at the local office of the Der muda Cable company. No loss Of life was reported.
 Advices from Bermuda this morn ing said the storm was approaching. The win WIS blowing at G5 miles an hour and .croasing. Shortly after noon the local cable station was cut off from communication wit the island and it was not until last night that the wireless was working again.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
kirkham Would Bar Out
 Streets With Dead Ends

Corporation Counsel John H. Kirkham favors an amendment to the charter to provide that no streets be accepted by the city ex- cepting through vote of the common council. His amendment Is aimed at dead-end streets which are not ac- cepted In Hartford, Newington or several other sitieA
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Doctor to Be in Court
 On Speeding Charge

Chief W, c. Hart Of the police de- partment said today that Dr. Da- vid P. Waskowitz of 79 Lincoln street will be in police court Mon day morning on the charge of speed ing. According to Motorcycle Po- liceman w. S, Strolls Dr. Waskowitz drove at the rate of 47 miles an hour on West Main street yester- day afternoon.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
VICTORIA AT ROME

Rome. Oct. 2S OP Queen vic- toria of Sweden has arrived here to complete her recuperation from a recent illness. The queen came from Baden Baden, Germany. where she went some time ago to take the cure.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
ISLE OF PINES IS
 RAYAGED BY STORM
SS Persons Killed, Including Y
 Americans
BERMUDA ALSO DAMAGED
Dispatches of Dam~ge Suffered By By Many Buildings, Including Some of the Larger Hotels of the Islands.

Havana, Oct. 23 LP-The pictur. esque and salubrious little Isle oi Pines paid a heavy toll in deaths injured and material damage when the Caribbean hurricane passed over it Wednesday morning on it's way tc the island of Cuba to spread further death and devastation.
 tz Americans Killed
 Reports received from the isle say that 3S persons were killed. among them r Americans, that more than 200 persons were injured and that the property and other losses will amount to $50,000.000.
 Three Americans, who came out of the Isle of Pines on the steamer Cristobal Colon and landed at Bat abano, on the south side of the is- land of Cuba brought with them 52 gravely injured persons. They said that various villages in the island which lies in the Caribbean some 50 miles south of Cuba were se- verely damaged by the storm, some of them completely destroyed. There were fatalities in Ncuva Corona Santa Fe, and San Francisco. An entire American negro family of seven amed Davis, was killed.
 Crops All Ruined
 Many weathy white Americans have homes in the isle, which is of an area of about 900 square miles, with mountains, extensive plains and many streams. Citrus fruits, veget- able, pineapples and other products are grown in the isle. It is report ed that all the fruit crops have been ruined. Boats with physicians, sup plies of food and medicines are be- ing sent to the isle from Batabano.
 Cuban Losses
 Today reports from various parts of Cuba visited by the hurricane served only to add to the material damage. The number of fatalities estimated was still under 1000. It had been impossible to calculate the number of injured. While there are no definite figures as to actual losses, estimates are that in the Is land of Cuba they amount 10 S1O0,- OO0,00 and on the Isle of Pines s50,0oo.000.
 The bodies Of only 25 persons have been found in the municipality Of Batabano. Early reports placed the death list there at 800. A gen. aral checkup in the port of Havana reveals a possible loss in the waters there Of the lives of 157 persons. Twenty-Five bodies have been re- covered, but the crews of 46 fishing boats, aggregating approximately S4, are missing and incoming Ves- sells report having seen forty-eight bodies floating in the sea. The loss of life in other sections of the city is variously estimated at between GO and 100.
 Throughout the provinces of Ha vana and Matanzas. and in some sections of Pinar Del Rio, the sugar and tobacco crops arc reported to have suffered extensive damage. Sugar mills in particular suffered heavily.
 In Havana street car service has been resumed and q limited amount of water is available to all sections of the city. Only the interurban lines remain out of commission.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
Damage to Crops

New York, Oct. 2S tP!-The sugar and tobacco crops of Cuba suffered severely in the recent hurricane on the island, according to private cable reports received here today.
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New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
MANY ARE KILLED BY QUAKE IN ARMENIA
City of Leninakan Badly Damaged-No Ameri-
 cans Victims

Leninakan, Armenia, Oct. 23 Pl- Many persons were killed and scores injured and the whole population was thrown into panic by an earth quake which shook all Of Armenia late last night.
 Many houses collapsed, telegraph wires were wrecked, trees uprooted and cattle killed.
 There was no loss of life among the large personnel of the American Near East Relief or the 5000 Ar menian orphans under their care. This was due to the sturdy construc- ton of the old stone zcarst military barracks in which they were housed and the splendid discipline maintain cd by the Americans among the chil- dren.
 Believing that Mt. Ararat, only Y short distance away. was in erup- ton, the inhabitants rushed from their homes in panic. They were
 N'''T'e'i M ny lIlt EtIltI lCdIl uOC- tors and nurses attached 10 the Near East Relief who preserved admirable order throughout the town.
 NeN York. Oct. 23 (P-Hundreds or persons were killed, thousands injured and other thousands made homeless by the earthquake which shook Armenia last last night. said a cablegram 10 the Near East Re lief today from Erivan. All of the 40 American workers of Near East relief are safe. the message said.
 Buildings of the Near East at Leninakan were damaged. Children in the organizations orphanages and workers are sleeping in tents. Doc tors and nurses aided in caring for the injured.
 The cablegram requested an ap- propriation to meet the emergency. The Near Eas' relief centered its Armenian activities at Leninakan, where it has been taking care of thousands of orphans.
New Britain herald., 1926-10-23
BROWN TO ENGAGE YALE AT NEW HAVEN
Both Teams Have Had Successful Season
 So Far

New Haven Oct. 2S Rt-Ths Brown Bear was matched against the Yale Bulldog here today.
 While bruins courage was re- spected by the bulldogs adherents, blue supporters were certain that the Yale team would pass with ease one more milestone on its way to the championship Of eastern football.
 Both the bear and the bulldog have had a successful season to date. Brown has won four games and Yale three. The Providence eleven has yielded 14 points and the Ellis seven.
 The bruins. 40 all told, were to arrive at noon today. Two veteran linesmen, Paul Hodges and Dick Gurney, are out of their lineup, having been called home by illness in their families.
 The Els starting line up does not include two players who have ig- ured prominently in games this year. They are Larry Noble, brilliant half- back. and Dwight Fishwick. star right end. Noble has not fully recov- cred from injuries received in tho Dartmouth game last week. Fish, wick was injured in scrimmase yes- terday.
 Lee Mallory. Of Memphis. Tenn, brother of Bill Mallory, Yale cap- tain in 1928, was in Fishwcik's place on the first eleven in signal drill yesterday, while the cleats of Rip" Ordway, Doc" McGunigle and Earl Goodwine. in turn, dug in in Nobles position.
 Fully 15,oOO boys and girls will bs guests of the university at todays game. The annual presentation of the Wiffenpoofs Pep Dispensers, will be a feature of the program, and . Brown band will make an appear ance in the bowl for the first time.
 The tentative lineup follows:
The Washington times., 1926-01-15
Y OS 7 DEFENDS
CRIME NEWS

The place for crime news is on
the first page of the newspapers,
Casper S. Yost, of the st. Louis
Globe. Democrat, president of the
American Society Of Newspaper
Editors. told the editors assembled
at the annual meeting of the SO
ciety that opened at the New VIII
lard Hotel today.
IL not only do not believe that
the publication of crime news has
had, or is having any material in
fluence on promoting crime, but
/ believe that the publication OF
crime news Is one of the most i'm
portant duties Of a newspaper as
q responsible agency of public in
formation" he declared.
Belongs on First Page
The first page is where it be-
longs
In speaking of the proposal to
enforce the standard Of ethics OF
The organization Mr.. Yost said that
such enforcement would not be
feasible because Of differences of
opinion that might arise.
He suggested that certain rules
for handling news be drawn up for
the guidance of the editors and that
an effort be made to introduce these
sentiments in the journalism schools
and to keep them before the editors.
William Hard to Speak
Lacking authority to enforce the
canons the journalism here repre-.
scented can but express the hope
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