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New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
YON ELM LEADS CHAMP
 BY ONE AT TIE TURN
Bobby Jones Fails in Sec eral Crisises in Morn
 ing Play

Short Hills, \. J.. Sept. IS LPp-- George Von Elm of Los Angeles led Bobby Jones, up, at the end of the first nine holes in their final round match for the national anna teur golf championship at Baltu3- rol today.
 In the throng the mother of the defending champion, Mrs. Robert T. Jones of Atlanta, stood near the starting point to follow the play of her son for the first time in a na- tional title final. Mrs. George Von Elm, wife of the challenger, also was q spectator.
 Jones won the first hole with birdie four to Von Elm's five.
 They got away long straight drives, 220 yards down the fairway. Their seconds requested brassies, and both lined into trouble. Von Elm was in trap, in front of the green, while Jones, with a book, landed in the rough. Von Elm's recovery was short of the pin by 25 feet, while the champion clipped up to within four feet and sank his putt while Von Elm was taking two. Jones was 1 up.
 Fon Elm squared the match by winning the second hole in par four the the champions five.
 Both were down the center with their powerful tee shots, Bobby's ball dropping ten yards in front of the far western player. Bobby's full mashie approach was short, while Von Elm was hole high, 50 feet to the right of the flag, and on the green. The champion ran his ap- proach put to within four feet of the cup and then proceeded to miss his second putt for a four, while Von Elm was down in the regulation two.
 They halved the third hole in par fours.
 Perfect drives flew from both tees at the third, but the Atlantan dropped his balli 20 yards beyond the pellet of Won Elm. Their sec onds struck the green within 20
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New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
BABY DYING, MOTHER
 IS WOUNDED BY SHOT
Kentucky Farmers Mis- take Auto Party for
 Watermelon Thieves

Louisville. Ky, Sept, IS CP)-A seven months old baby is said to bv dying by hospital authorities today, her mothers arm is torn by g load of buckshot and two men are suffer- ing slight wounds as the result of q gun attack last night by two farm CTS, who mistool an automobile party for watermelon thieves.
 The party stopped on road be- side the farm of Oscar and Morgan Swann when trouble with headlights developed. The farmers opened fire with shotguns.
 One of the charges struck Mrs. F., E. Carey, a member of the party, and part Of a load entered her baby's head. at the base of tho brain. Rex Nicholson and John Page suffered slight wounds, while Mrs. Page, another occupant of the ma chine, was unhurt.
 The Swann brothers were arrested on a charge of malicious shooting.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Worcester Trench Digger
 Is SmOthered in Caye-In

Worcester, Mass. Sept IS R>-- Ono man was killed and two others narrowly escaped death as the re- suit of cave-in of the walls of a trench in which they were working at tho South Works of the Ameri- can Steel and Wire Company here yesterday. The dead man is Ern- est Laperrierc, 25. The names of the two men who escaped were not learned by officials of the plant,
 The trio was working in the bot tom of a 12-foot trench at the works when high pressure water main burst flooding the trench and trapping Laperriere. The other two scrambled out in time. After working 12 hours, three gangs of men were able to free the body of the dead man, which was uncovered in standing position in the bottom of the trench.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Alleged Fraud FOrfeits
 $500 Bail in Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Sept. IS tPt-A bond of $500 was forfeited in city court today when the man describing him self as Walter J. Fisher, Sa, Of Mon- roe, Michigan. claiming to be con- nected with the Fisher Body com pany, a subsidiary of the General Motors corporation of Flint, Michi- gan. failed to appear in court on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Tho sum of s1o0 which Fisher" obtained from II. O. King, Bassick company executive, and which was found on his person when the man was arrested in Stamford Wednesday. was ordered returned to King.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
SOUTHERN WATERS
 DASHED BY GALES
Weather Bureau Warns Of Storm
 Of Hurricane Proportions
FOLLOWS PATH OF OTHER
All Along Florida Coast Shipping is in Danger - Norwegian Vessel Battles Storm Which Takes Toll of One Life.

Miami, Fla, Sept. IS LR)-With a barometric drop expected in a few hours, Miami and Miami beach are fortified against tropical storm of hurricane proportions that was re- ported sweeping out of the Cari- blcan Sea with its center Nassau in the Bahama Islands.
 Local weather bureau officials said the storm apparently was fol- lowing the path of the July hurri- cane, which took a toll of many lives and huge property damage in Florida and the Bahamas.
 Boat men had removed all small craft from the bay and adjacent docks and early tonight the cause way between Miami and Miami beach was covered with spray as waves dashed high against it. At Miami beach, the Atlantic was send ing waves 20 feet above ordinary high water lines. and 8 miles all hour wind was blowing.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
BLIMP REACHES DETROIT
Army Dirigiblc RS-t at Ford Air port, Being Held Up Because of Heavy Fog and Mist.

Detroit, Sept. IS P,-The army dirigible RS-1 arrived over the Ford airport here at $40 this morning Awaiting the. lifting of a heavy fog the blimp's crew planned to tie up at the airport mast, proceeding later to Selfridge Field, near Mount Clemens. The fog was so heavy when the bllmp arrived that it could not be sighted from the ground. The radio station at the airport was in com munication with the ship through out the night. Heavy fog most of the way was reported.
 The dirigible was safely moored to the Ford airport mast at 7;30 a. m. She will remain there until carly afternoon and then proceed 10 field, to participate in the aerial circus being given by the army first pursuit group to raise funds for army relief work.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
DAMAGE IS MOUNTING INTO MILLIONS IN FLOODS THAT
 SURGE OVER THE MID- WEST
CAPITOL THEATER IS
 COMPLETELY CHANGED
Beautifully Designed and Attractively Decorated
 - Opens Tonight

Described as the pearl of Connec- ticut motion picture theaters. a rare gem of theatrical beauty of construc- tion and decoration set in the center of a hustling industrial community. the Capitol theater will throw open it's doors at 7:30 o'clock this evening following a shutdown of several months during which time work ori- ginally announced as alterations" but which actually has resulted in complete reconstruction, has been carried out.
 From cellar to dome. from pros cenium arch to movie booth at the back of the balcony, it will be an en- tirely new playhouse that greets New Britain theater-goers. And it is the peer of all New England movie houses since there is but one other theater in the country that is even similar in design, and that is the Theater Gild in New York.
 The decorations as carried out In the Capitol follow in general those of the beautiful Davazou palace in Venice. They are Florentine in de- sign and of the 18th century period, with heavy carpcting, shaded lights and furnishings in complete har- mony.
 Approaching the theater. a nouce- able thing in the new electric sign with the flashing red border. There are G5S lamps of 15 watts power in this alone. while 430 of from 15 to 90 watt capacity flash in the marquc One is immediately struck by the changes in the lobby. Gone are the stairs leading to the offices above, gone too is the box office. which is replaced by an attractive booth near the front of the lobby and likewise gone are the very offices above: All these have been removed to permit the construction of a high vaulted dome-like canopy. decorated in old green, red and gold designs sur mounting series of placques which top the walls of old yellow. The tile flooring has been replaced by one of polished terrazzi. Three sets of doors, the entrance proper being through French doors, break the monotony of the long lobby and a new system of heat radiation also has been installed. This assures
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New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Danger to Shipping

Havana, Sept. IS LP) - Grave danger to shipping exists along the Florida coast, the national observa- tory announces, from the hurricane which is at present centered north of Nuevitas, Cuba.
 There were brisk winds and heavy rains along the north coast of Cuba yesterday and today. The storms course is west-northwest, the ob- servatOry announcement said, and its center has an estimated wind velocity of 100 miles an hour.
 The United States cruisers Tren- ton, Richmond, Marblchead and De- rroit and the destroyer kittery of the Atlantic fleet. which put into Guantanamo bay today were re- ported to have encountered high winds and heavy seas.
 One sailor Killed
 St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Sept. IS P}-The Norwegian steamer han na Skogland, bound from the Azores Islands for the Panama Canal, put in here yesterday with five members of her crew seriously injured as q result of passing through q storm Tuesday night. One sailor died after reaching here.
 Encounter Violent Winds
 New York, Sept. IS Pl-Niolence of the hurricane now centered east of Cape Hatteras was attcsted to by officers of two ships which arrived in port yesterday from the storm area.
 The munamar shipped water on all decks while passing through the center of the hurricane area We'd nesday, and it's speed was reduced 10 eight knots. The Carillo, fruit ship from Central America, was in the hurricane from Monday until its speed being reduced to four knots. Captain J. W. Close said it was the longest hurricane he over had encountered in l5 years at sea. Neither of the ships were damaged. nor was any passenger hurt.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
OPEN SAFETY PIN IN
 LITTLE GIRLS THROAT
Doctors Watching Closely Condition of PIain-
 vilIe Child
Special to the Herald)

Plalnville. Sept. 1S-Two-year-o Vivian Cambridge of South Austin street is lying in Il bed at New Britain General hospital in q seri- GUS condition as the result of swal- lowing an open safety-pin while playing on the floor at the home of her parents. Mir. and Mrs Kenneth Cambridge of this town last night.
 Dr. George r. Cook was called bv the parents and hurried the child 10 the hospital where an X-ray photograph was taken. Desperate efforts on the part of the doctor 10 get to the pin failed when it was just inches out of the way. The child is under observation during which several N-ray photographs will be taken 10 determine the journey of the pin. If rupture results an operation will be neces- sary Dr. Cook declared this morn ing.
 The doctor Is still holding out hopes that fate will take a hand and avoid an operation.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
OFF FOR FREEDOM OF
 SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
Oregon Couple, Four Chil- dren and Friend Start
 Perilous Journey

Portland, Ore, Sept. IS GT - In a search for peace and quiet, and in an attempt to free themselves from "the eternal grind of Ameri- cas- civilization" Paul Handloss, his wife and their four children in the company of another Portland CT, Leroy Rappe, 17, were dropping down the Columbia river to the sea today in their 40-foot sailboat Pearl H. bound for Tahiti, in the South seas. They left Portland yes terday with two months provisions aboard.
 In a haven of the southern Pa ciflc Handloss says he will continue his studies of art and literature begun in Germany. There we can settle down." he said, there we can think. I can study once more my art and literature and once more I can be a free man.
 The little craft has one sail and no motor. With that one sail Hand loss will pilot his vessel along the Oregon coast and in a few days expects to turn in at San Fran cisco for his last goodbye to Amer ica. From then on, he says, only fate can guide their destiny.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
PRICES NOT FIXED
Admission to Army Game at Chicago Will Be Determined By Auction Sale of 800 Boxes.

Chicago, Sept. Is tPl-The price of 4o,00 seats to be placed on sale for the Army Navy football game here November 27 will be determin- ed by returns from public auction of 800 boxes. each of which is ex- pected to bring about S2,O00.
 The auction will be held within two weeks, it was announced by the South Park board. which controls Soldiers Field. scene of the coming fray. It was indicated that most of the choice seats, other than in the boXies. would cost at least s1o but the commissioners hoped to be able to offer some for S5.
 The tremendous cost of bringing the cadets and midshipmen to Chica- go was given as the reason for the high admission. After the boxes are anctioned, the other seats will be put on the market,
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
CIVIL WAR VET AT 80 NOW WANTS
 TO PAY PENALTY FOR THEFT IN '6l
Nebraskan Asks Court to Let Him Plead Guilty to Square Accounts Before It is Too Late
 Forget It, Says Judge

Nebraska City, Neb., Sept. IS P(- Conscience stricken because he had stolen chickens during the Civil war and desiring to Square accounts be- fore 1t is too late,' Tim Crook, so year old war veteran who lives in the Hill county near Mincrsvile, Neb., went before District Judge Begley here and asked to be allowed to plead guilty"
 Judge Begley, however, just smiled and told him to forget about 1t.
 You see when I was in Company A of the Tenth Kansas Infantry" the grizzled veteran said, I've didn't
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Mrs. Marshall Comfortable Following an Operation

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. IS Rt- Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall. widow Of the former vice. president who un- derwent an operation here was re- ported resting comfortably today.
 Dr. O. G. Pfaff. attending sur eeon, said the operation was one of some seriousness"
 Mrs. Marshall arrived here Wed nesday to visit friends after sum mer spent at the home of Mrs. Thomas Walsh at Bar Harbor. Maine. She was enroute to Stock dale, Arizona, where she has been living with her mother since ths death of her husband.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Talley Slightly
 Injured in Train Wreck

Harvard. Ark, Sept. IS P>- Marion Talley, grand opera star was slightly shaken up early today when the fast Frisco passenger train num- Der S06, known as the Memphian, running between Memphis and St. Louis, ran into an open switch here.
 The fireman and engineer were injured severely. The engine crashed into a box car and was turned around by the impact. No cars left the tracks.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18

get to eat but every once in a while and q stray shoat or chicken was our meal. I guess I shot and stole as the next one. They say that all i5 fair in love and war, and we were fighting lots and eating little, and maybe it was all right but l ain't felt right about 1t ever since When this bread and water sentence bus mess at Tekamah came up, I de- cided that If they was going to be that rough on poor fellows, violating the liquor laws, in other parts of the state, that maybe had done wrong"
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Geddes Has Clear Field
 For Sheriff in N. Haven

New Haven. Sept. IS P-There is little likelihood, 1t was said here that the candidacy Of Colonel James s. Geddes. republican ticket will be opposed. The district county con- vontion will he held in republican hall here next Wednesday morning and plans are. it was said, to re- nominate Gnddes.
 The date for the primaries for election of delegates to the repre- sentative and justice of the peace set They customarily are held in October.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Whole Towns Inundat- ed, Railroad Tracks Swept Away And Crops Are Ruined In Many Places In Ru- ral Communities.
School Girl Swirled to Watery Grave When Bridge Collapses at Hull, Ia.-In Some Places Vol unteers Struggle to Stem Rising Tides of Rivers.

Chicago. Sept. IS LF-The middl. west mounted guard today over its grain field treasury. further men, aced by floods swollen with new rain.
 Along the surging courst of the Skunk river through southeastern Iowa bundles of green corn stalks were pressed into service at places on the levees, sacrificed to save higher fields of the bumper crop as yet untouched by the waters.
 Patrols manned the embrank- ments. wheer the corn was weighted down with sand bags, on the lookout for first signs of such a gap through which water flowed to submerge 5000 acres south of Burlington. three to four feet deep.
 City Is Inundated
 Across the Illinois line. men who have labored ceaselessly since We'd nesday patrolled a thin wall of sand bags standing between Beardstown and the Illinois river, swelled by torrent from the tributary Sanga- mon. Much of the city of 1000 is under water and workers said a break in the dike would probably make futile efforts to restrain the stream.
 Residents of both the Skunk and Illinois valleys scanned clearing skies, however, and it was thought that the streams. having carried off much of a record breaking Septem- Der rainfall, had passed crest stage.
 Northwestern Iowa bore the brunt of the latest deluge in the mid west the length and breadth of which has been swept four times within two weeks by torrential rains.
 Girl Washed Away
 The most recent flood fatality was reported from Hull after storm over the section late yesterday. An II year old girl in a group of home ward bound school children was washed away with small bridge. Her companions were rescued by an unidentified man.
 Hawarden was swept by flood wa ters when the rainstorm swelled Dry Creek to overflowing. Occu- pants of homes along the stream were rescued by boats. The busi- ness section was inundated and ths town lost electric light and power when waters flooded the utilities plant.
 Fields throughout the area were laid waste and railroads suffered damages. Miles of track were washed out and freight train was derailed last night near Hospers when it ran into stretch of wash ed out track.
 Damage Reaches Millions
 Only general estimates, which run well into the millions. are available on the extent of damage to the mid vests crops from two weeks down. pour.
 Corn is suffering from both actual damage from wind and rain and re- tarded development. Much small grain standing in fields has been marked off the books.
 At Jacksonville it was estimated that the storms have cost thres neighboring Illinois counties more than $2,000,000.
 There was promise of brief relief today in fair and warmer weather forecasts over most of the midwest, but more rain and dropping temper atures were generally predicted for the weekend.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Grand Army Men Have Ten Years
 More of Activity, Leader Ayers
This is Commandern- Chief Inmans Reply to Reports That This Encampment is to Be Last-Looks For Parade in 1910 Though Vets Are Dying At Rate of 17500 a Year.

Des Moines. Iowa, Sept. IS LP- The men of the Grand Army of the Republic have another decade of vigorous activity ahead of them"
 This was the reply of Commander in-Chief John B. Inman, Springfield. Illinois. to reports that the national encampment of Civil War veterans, which opens here Monday, would be the last. Mr. Inman denied there was any likelihood of the annual meet ings being discontinued because of the thinning ranks.
 Five thousand veterans will at tend this year, the commander pre- dcted, while the number of auXil-
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
0rniston's Mother Begs Her Son
 To Tell Truth in McPherson Case
Salvation Army Meeting
 Said to Hamper Traffic

Lynn, Mass, Sept. 18 R - Meetings of the Salvation Army held on public highways consti- ute an obstruction to traffic and no city or town in the con- monwealth has the right to per init use of the highways for purposes other than traffic, ex- cept for transmission of educa- tion. knowledge and the like. This opinion was given today by Judge Ralph W. Reeve in find ing Commander Amos Strick- land of the Lynn corps guilty Of obstructlng traffic.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18

iary organizations who will be here will augment the visitors to around 50,000. Although the survivors of the war of '65 are dying at the rate of 17500 a year, Mir. Inman be- lieves the annual parade in 1940 will be "an impressive sight"
 Even when the annual encamp- ment is composed altogether of cen tonarians," he said, they will form more than a corporal's guard"
 Detroit, Denver, Toronto, Grand Rapids, Philadelphia, Dayton, Seat tie and Portland. Oregon have ex- tended the Grand Army an invita- tion for 1927.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
Standard OH Co. MayAbandon
 Stanley St. Plant and Erect
 H50OOO Station ct Clayton
District Officials Reported to Be Dissatisfied With
 Treatment Accorded Corporation By City

Officials of the Standard oil Co., have under consideration abandon ment of their local plant on Stan ley street and construction of a new branch at Clayton, near the New Britain town line.
 This information came from the Hartford district office of the com pany today. For several weeks re- ports have been current that the company planned this change and district officials today made no eff fort 10 conceal the fact that the Clayton proposition is being given earnest consideration.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18

A local branch has been maintain ed for many years. While no ex- planation of the motives prompting the change has been offered, it is the belief in municipal circles that dis satisfaction with tax conditions here played an important part The com pany has had little success in ob- taining permit for the placement of filling stations here, the most recent instance having been at the board of adjustment meeting Wednesday night.
 The proposed Clayton plant is said to involve an expenditure of $780, 900.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
WIFE SPOKESMAN IN
 BRENNAN'S CAMP AIGN
Will Take Stump Through State of Illinois in His
 Interests

Chicago Sept. IS (P)-The radio cannot compete with the old fash toned appeal from the political platform, Mrs. George F. Brennan believes; therefore she is going to stump the state for her husband, the democratic nominee for senator, who is in d hospital with an injured knoc.
 Mr. Brennan, whose main cam
 ,,ign onslaught has been against the Nolstead act, is recuperating from an operation following a fall at Nokomis. Illinois, in the early days of his drive for votes. Since then he has been radio casting his political messages from a hospital cot. The candidates condition was described today by physicians as fav- crable.
 Mrs. Brennan, who declared she became q politician by marriage, be- !ieved that the time had come for ncr to help out, and she made ar ranScments to join a flying squadron of speakers to be sent from the Brennan headquarters the last five weeks Of the campaign. Her first speech will be at Quincy, Illinois. September 2S, with Mayor Dever of Chicago, and Thomas F. Donovan, chairman of the democratic state committee.
 Frank l.. Smith, Mir. Brcnnan's republican opponent, who has made no pronouncement yet on the wet and dry issue, is holding conference here with Cook county leaders. The county republican convention has been set for September "A, and at that time the tribute says, an anti Nolstead plank will be inserted In the county platform.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18
OBSERVES 5Gth BIRTHDAY

George Steele of Greenwood street was given a surprise party last eve ming in honor of his 18th birthday. The home was decorated in pleasing colors and supper was served to the guests Mir. Steele received many presents from friends and relatives.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-18

Berlin, Sept. IS P>-The Geneva correspondent of the Wolff bureau, the semi official Ness agency, inter- preting the statements issued by Foreign Minister Briand and Dr. Stresemann after their conference, expresses the opinion that emphasis must be laid on their unanimity that a general solution of all outstand- ing problems was arrived at. Dr. Stresemann, the correspondent ob- serves, always has maintained that the goal could not be reached by solving the problems individually,
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