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New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
ACTRESS PLUNGES IA
 FLOURS TO HER DEATH
Pauline Armitage, Late With Naughty Cinder-
 ella," Is Suicide

New York. Feb. 16 LP-Pauline Armitage, an actress, who has been in ill health, loapcd from the four tcenth floor of her room in the Shcl- ion hotel on Lexington avenue today and was instantly killed.
 Miss Armitage. clad only in 8 pink night dress, landed on the forty-Ninth street side of the build ing in front of the servants en- trance.
 The manager and police, at first unable to identify the body located the room by the screams of Valerie Brandt, Miss Armitage's maid. while they were in the corridors. The maid. who had served Miss Armi- tage four years, had stayed with her at the hotel for the last month be- cause of Miss Armitage's illness.
 She told the policy that when she went to answer the telephone, she heard Miss Armitage move, and. turning, saw her leap from the win dow before she could reach her.
 Miss Armitage had appeared earlier in this season with Irene Bordoni in Naughty Cinderella. |" She appeared last season in three Broadway productions, Badges, '" Cobra and Lawful Larceny"
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
$335,000 PAID TODAY
 IN REALTY TRANSFERS
Adjoining Properties on Main Street Change
 Hands

Real estate transactions involving payments of sSS5,00o were recorded today at the office Of the town clerk when warranty deeds were filed to record the transfer of property al the corner Of Court and Main street from the Rogers Realty Co. to Du- gald McMillan and transfer of the Rogers block from McMilan 10 Ar thur T. Jones of the firm of Fitch Jones.
 A payment of $l95,0o0 was indi. cated by revenue stamps affixed to the warranty deed in the first named deal, and a transaction of S140,o00 was indicated in the second trans action. The sale price of the Rog- CTS block was reported to have been approximately S175.000,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
200 MILLION IN
 CLAIMS EXPECTED
Families Of S-5! Victims Already
 File S1,SO0,0OO Demands
TIME EXTENSION GIVEN
Claims Against Ocean Steamship Company, Owners of City of Rome. May Be Presented Up To Eebru- ary 24.

New York, Feb. IG lPp-The fami- lies of the officers and men who went down on the submarine S-5I off Block Island last summer, have filed claims with the government to- taling Sl,SoO,0oo w. C. Parkin, spc- cial claims commissioner announced today Claims not yet filed are eX- pected 10 raise the total to $@0Q,- 000,000, he said.
 The Ocean Steamship company. owner Of the City of Rome, which rammed the sdhmarIEe, was nameC l defendant. The company has en- lered plea in the federal distriC ,ourt handling the clalms settlement that it's liability as owners be lim- ited.
 Until the admiralty court decides the question of the companys lia- hility. the governments suit for s. GOO, LOO damages, Which has been filed against it. will be held in abey- ance, Mir. parllin said.
 Meanwhile the time for filing claims has been extended to Febru- ary 24.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
Night Clubs N New Fork Places Where Sucker" Loses Cash And
 Ham And Eggs Cost s Per Plate
Police Commissioner Declares War On Objectionable Resorts Where Motto Seems to Be "Never Turn Him Loose While He Has Dime" - Menu Card Without Price Listed Given Women to Choose From.

New York, Feb. is UPl-How the night clubs Of New York live. and who lives in them. was revealed to- day as q result of Police Commits sioner McLaughlin's drive to close certain objectionable classes of them.
 The question, what is a night club" as applied 10 the objection able kind, has been largely secret .of those intimate with much spend ing money. This class CT amusement places has been described as the native heath of the sap" and the stamping ground Of the wise guy"
 Closing Up Many
 The commissioner has sought 10 enforce fire hazard regulations 10 close some Of them.
 They have responded by stripping down" their equipment and making it mobile. Mosl of the smaller clubs of this kind can now pack up and scoot around the corner and up two
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
HARTFORD FIREMAN
 STRICKEN ON DUTY
Captain O'Connor of Squad A Dies on Way to
 Hospital

Hartford. Feb. l6 p)-Captain Joseph x O'Conuor Of Squad A, Of the Hartford fire department strIck- rn hy a heart attack, while directing opcrat ion staopmarc
 operations al a comparatively small hlaze in a building at 6S Market street at o'clock. this afternoon died while being taken to St. Fran CiS' hospital,
 l. was at first thought Captain O'Connor had been overcome by smoke, but other members of the fire fighting force who were present say that there was very little smoke. Ii is thought, however. that what little smoke there was, accompanied by the exhaustion of combating the blaze was probably q contributory cause in bringing on the heart at tack.
 He has been a member of the fire department Tor fourteen years.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
CANCER GERM FOUND,
 SCIENTIST DECLARES
German Doctor Also Re- ported That He Has
 Isolated Bacillus

Berlin, Feb. 16 Ps-piscoyery and isolation of the cancer bacillus is claimed by Dr. Joset Schumacher.
 Addressing the Mcrobiological so- cicty. Dr. Schumacher said that the bacillus was extremely large and shaped like the letter S, with nodules at the ends.
 It was visible under miscropc magnitying only sixty times. he said, and was found in such enormous numbers as to constitute ten per cent of the mass of the entire can ccrous area.
 Dr. Schumacher said the difficulty had been in finding a color colu- ton to make the bacillus visible. He believe cancer 10 be an iufcc- tious disease, bacilli being found in the cartilaginous tissues and the walls of the arterias and veins of healthy persons.
 The bacillus is killed, he said, by the lympathic secretions, and Il" be lievcs cure can be found not so much by treating aftected areas as by stimulating the lympathic glands to greater secretion.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
Norwich Man Arrested
 For Not Providing Heat

Norwich. Feb. 16 P.-Dr. x. E. Lewis, owner of the building Of which the Strand theater is a part, was before the city court today charged with violation Of the stat .utes in "wilfully failing 10 furnish heat at q temperature equal to 6S degrees Fahrenheit" as required by the lease. Judge Libby found Dr. Lewis guilty on the evidence offer ed and fined him S25 and costs.
 An appeal was taken. Abraham Davidson, lessee of the theater, brought the complaint
 This was the first prosecution here under the 1921 statutes as applied to a lildirt' us~1efUr pub lie purI yses.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
House Naval Committee Is Yir. tually Agreed on Five Year
 Building Program
THIS IS TWO-FIFTHS OF
 WHAT MOFFETT ADVISED
Final Decision By Committee To- morrow-Icntatiyc Program Calls For Expenditure Of 20 Million For Five 1ears-Two DirisibIcs Thrice Size of Wrecked Shenandoah.

Washington, Feb. IS Pg-The house naval committee has virtually agreed upon i've year building program for the naval air service 10 cost sl00. 100000.
 This amount is about tro-ffths of that recommended by Rear Admiral Moffett, naval air chief, as necessary 70 provide an adequate air service for any emergency.
 Final decision on the program is expected by the Committee tomor- TOW, and if adopted, bill 10 author- iGe this expenditure probably will be introduced in the next day or so by Chairman Butler.
 In its present form, the program would authorize an annual expendi- ture of s20. .h00,0 900 for tivo years.
 Provision of Planes
 This would provide:
 Two dirigibles, each three times the size of the wrecked Shenandoah.
 One thousand new planes at the end of the five-year period.
 An appropriation, the amount as yet undetermined, for the navy to contract with the aircraft develop- ment corporation. backed by Ford interests, for an all-metal dirigible.
 Representative Vinson of Georgia, ranking democrat on the committee, said today that members were prac- tically united Tn their views and that bill to carry out a building pro- gram already had been drafted.
 What Moffett Wanted
 Admiral Moffet had urged ap- proSimately two hundred and fifty milD l dollars to be spent in five years, but the committee reduced this by one hundred fifty million dollars by emitting provision for new airplane carrier of the Lexirg- ton-Saragota. type, and by reducing hy about two hundred and fifty the number Of new planes to be built, It also effected reduction by with holding any recommendation for planes for the eight scout cruisers authorized by the last congress. The committee bill in it's present form does not provide for all addi- tional assistant secretary of the navy to handle aviation, as recom- lnended by the presidents air board, Considerable opposition against this proposal has developed in the con- mittee, a number of members feel ing that there is no need for anoth- CT civilian officer in the naval es- tablishment.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
QUIGLEY MAY FIGHT FOR NOMINATION AS MAYOR AT PRIMARY
Decision Will Be Determined on Selection Of State Central
 Committeeman
FIRST TO ANNOUNCE HE
 HAS ASPIRATIONS TO RUN

Developments In Local ind State
 Politics Within Next Few Days
 Expected To Bring Definite state
 mcnt-Sits Tight After Revealing
 Intentions And Declines To Con-
 ment Further On situation.
 George A. Quigley three times mayor of the city, and leader of the anti-machine element of the repub- lican party in New Britain, today authorized a statement that he may seek the republican nomination for mayor this spring.
 Quigley's announcement followed seevral weeks Of speculation on the part of followers of politics, during which the former mayors candidacy vas the subject Of frequent mention.
 Developments Of the next few days will determine whether Quigley will announce his candidacy, he said to- day. He declined to amplify his statement, but replied affirmatively when asked if the developments con cerned were both local and state.
 This is taken 10 mean that the Sc lection of state central committee man for this district may play an important part in the former may or's decision. Whoever is named as committeeman for New Britain will step into the position occupied by the late Judge George w. Klett and assume dictatorship over New Brit ain republican policies. Quigley's persistent fight over an extended period of years against the Rora- back and machine" wing of the re- publican party will probably be re- newed if the committeeman is not acceptable to Quigley and his follow probably be in the form of a demand for the mayoralty nomination.
 Quigley is the first republican to publicly announce he is considering candidacy.
 The prospective candidate first en- tered politics in 1904 when he was elected q councilman from the sec ond ward. He served until October r, 1906, when he resigned. In 1912 and 1913 he was an alderman and in 1914 successfully sought election as mayor. For three terms he held the highest executive office in the muni- clpal government. Tn 1919 he en- gagged in q bitter primary fight with Alderman Orson F. Curtis and lost the mayoralty nomination, Curtis was then elected mayor. At the con clusion of the Curtis administration the primary fight was renewed this time Quigl"y being the winner de- cisively. Mayor A. NJ. Paonessa de- feated Qugley at the polls. Quigley has openly fought the republican or ganization forces from that time.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
WARNING TO DEALERS
 ON SHORT WEIGHT COAL
Owners or Two Out Of ii Yards Caught sending Out Less Than
 Bills Called For.

Two of the II coal yards from which loads consigned to homes were re-weighed by Carl A. Carlson, sealer of weights and measures, last month, were found to have an amount less than that billed against the customer, while four had the exact amount and five had pound age in excess Of that billed.
 Warnings are issued to coal com panies whose loads show up less than the amount billed and in cases where there is a repetition, prosecu- ton is resorted 10, although such cases have been few.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
Archbi hop Cienlak Now
 Crie.eally III in PaSSaic

Passaic, N. J.. Feb. 16 LT9-Arch- bishop John Cieplak is critically i'll of pneumonia at Holy Rosary rec tory, Passaic.
 The archbishop vas forced 10 postpone sailing for Europe on the liner Paris Saturday. He has been in America several months visiting Polish Catholic parishes.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16

New York Feb. lG P,--Forty stories above Broadway New York tiremen today wagcd a sEccossful and spectacular battle against fire in the s30,00o,000 Equitable huIld- ing, one of the largest office struc- lures in the worlda Most of the damage, estimated at S6o,oon. was on the S4th and S5th floor offices Of Daniel Guggonheim and the American Smeitjns and Refining company.
 starts in Basement
 The blaze started in the basement of the skyscrapor, which is located in the heart ot the financial district near Wall street, and leaped a
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
$. AMANDUS OD|N,
 MERCHANT,
Second Executive Of Globe
 Clothing House Passes Away
IN THIS CITY SINCE 1882
Had Been Associated With Clothing store For 35 Years and Was Vice President and Secretary of Com pany-I1 Over Year.

\. Amandus Odiu, GS years old. Nlg"-prcsidrnt and secretary Of tne Globe Clothing House and q mer- chant in this city for $5 years. died this morning at 7:50 o'clock at his home, 2SS kcusingtou avenue. Death cane Just II days after that of his fellow officer in the corpora. ton, philo Kalsh.
 Alr, Odin had been enjoying good health until the Christmas of 1924 when he became q victim Of a heart attack which confined him to hls nome for about three months Since that time his health had been seri- ous handicap. but despite this he managed to give g great deal Of time 10 his business. Last Christmas he was again taken sick and was not able to be about for three weeks. Since then he had been in failing health
 He was stricken with a serious heart attack Saturday and his con- dition was very critical Hope was held out that h. would recover
 Mir. Odin was born in Zothult, Sweden. July 70, 1SG2, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Amandus Odin. In 1882 he immigrated to this country and came to this city to take up his residence. For five years he was in the employ of r. X r. Corbin, and then accepted q position ill the Globe Clothing House which was then small store in the place where B. (. Porter Sons company is now located. His em ployer. Ber- man kalish, the original owner of the store, died and his share of the business passed into the hands Of the late Philo kalish, who, when the store was incorporated in 1909, was elected president and treasurer of the concern. At that time Mr. Odin bought stock in the growing busi- ness and he was made its vice. presi- dent and secretary.
 He was very well read and was posted in the events of the day. He, with My. kalish, were keen business men and their honesty and willing ness to cooperate with their GUS toners made them money. Out of respect to his memory the Globe Clothing House will be closed the day of the funeral.
 His wife, Hannah Odin, two daughters, Mrs E. R. Holmes of Colchester and Miss Ethel Odin, a student at the New Britain High school and three sons, Clifford A. Odin, who was associated with his father in the store, Harold A. Odin, and John W, Odin, a student in his second year at Brown university, Providence. survive him.
 He also leaves five brothers in Sweden, Louis Odin, Alfred Odin, Oscar Odin, Joseph Odin and Nal colm Odin.
 His affiliations fraternally were with the Andre ,odge, l. Q. o. r. and St. Elmo lodge, Knights of Pythias. Funeral arrangements in charge of B. C. Porter Sons are in- complete.
 A clans" in the will or he late Hhilo kalish under which Mir Odin received a S5oo bequest, reads as 'oloWs:
 T give and beQueath to S. Aman- lns odin Of said New Britain, the sum Of $5oo, absolutely. if he is as sociated with me in the business Of ! the Globe Clothing House. Inc, at the time Of my deCease."
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
Helen Wills Defeated 6-3, S-6 But Gives French Wizard Greatest Battle of Her Career. With Re- suit in Doubt Until Last Point.
Questionable Ruling
 Upsets American Girl

Cannes, France, Feb. 16 CF9 -- Miss Helen Wills quest for world supremacy in tennis has failed -, but failed gloriously.
 The twenty-year-o old American champion went down today before the racquet wizardry of Suzanne Lenglen, hailed by many as the greatest woman tennis player who ever stepped on a court.
 Helen Fights Gamely
 Suffering from q gash in the knee, which she sustained in fall yesterday, Helen fought the re- doubtablo Suzanne as she has never been fought since her me- morable default to Mora Mallory after the loss of a set at Forest Hills in 1921.
 The score Of today's match. the final in the Carlton tournament, was G-3, S-6. It was played before Il crowd that packed the stands, with hundreds clamoring at the gates, unable to gain admittance. Some had stood in line all night 10 be sure of witnessing tho clash of the champions.
 Point Score Of Games
 The point score or the first set:
 Mile. Longlen - . 1 4 4 , -31-6.
 Miss Wills - c 1 , c C. 241S -~-1 9-2.
 The point score Of the second set:
 Mile. Lcnglen - D = 4 5 { 1 3 $ 5-52-S.
 Miss Wills -- 3 1l72 {
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New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
BERGDOLL STILL IN JAIL

Mosbach, Baden, Feb. l6 Pl- Grover Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft cvader, has been ordered held un- der arrest, having failed to disprove charges of immortality.
 After a hearing yesterday the ex- amining judge said he was satisfied that al least one allegation. involv- ing g girl. would be proved.
 The attorney general Of Baden is investigating other serious charges involving girls under 14 and boys.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
One Man Killed in Train
 Wreck Near WilkeSbarre

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 16 lN -- One man is known to he dead and another perhaps fatally injured as result Of the wreCking today Of No. 19, fast Lehigh Valley passenger train plying between New York and Buffalo, at Newport crossing, ten miles from here.
 The engine and six Of the ten cars of the train were reported to have plunged over an embankment as they came down the steep grade. The man killed was William Gra- ham of EaSton, Pa.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
Fire Does Heavy Damage
 To NOrwalk Building

Norwalk, Conn.,. Feb. 16 tPl-Fire in the building Of Leon Golden in Washington street, today did dam- age laced at s1G,000. The blaze started on the second floor and went into the third floor. The stock in the store of Irving Byclas was dam .aEcd to the extent of s4,000. Liz gcits Drug Store had s4,00o dam age and the building itself suffered 10 the extent of sS,000. The origin of the fire could not be determined.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
HELD FOR ARSON

Norwich. Feb. 16 LPl-John valas, e6, was arrested by County De- tcCtive William F. Lewis today, charged with participation in the attempt to sci fire 10 the Olympia candy kitchen, % Crown street, or February 6.
 Iese Costules. the owner, has been bounde over to the higher court on a charge Of arson.
 Valas was released until tomor- row under a sS,000 bond.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
SUES LANDLORD FOR S5,OOO
 AS AFTERMATH OF FALL
Woman Tenant of Main street Block BrinGs Action Against
 Henry Nurans
Henry Morans has been name,

Henry Morans has been named Ie'cnianf in a sui for S5,o0n brought ivy Netic Newton, tenant in building at $71 Main strc,t own"l ny Morms, the plaintiff a- .'gine tbat the landlords failure to provide light in railways Of the building resulted in serious injury 70 her,
 The plaintiff claims she warned thod eiendant of the danger, but no lights were installed. On De c"mber = she fell from the third 70 the second story and was iu- Jur'd,
 Attorney David l.. Dunn is coun- sol for the plaintiff, Constable James W, Manning served the pa- pers of suit.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
NEW YORK STATE COPS
 ACCUSED AS HIJACKERS
ASscmblymnn Boyle at Albany Says Troopers Also Do HiiaCking
 Work

Albany. \. Y. Feb. Is tPl- Charges that state troopers on Long Island are aiding the bootleggcrs when they are not actually engaged In hijacking were made on tho floor of the assembly today by Assembly, man John Boyle, Jrn republican, ot Suffolk.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16

shaft containing steam pipes and ''cctric cables to the eleventh. six ''onth, 'wcnty-tourth and thirty fourth floors, skipping those that interNehyd,
 spectacular Rescue
 Four engineers and repairmen were trapped in thp pcnt house, a thre"-Story sup,rs'ructure on the roof, chiefly containing elevator ma chinerY, and were found by flremen on narrow ledge, 43 stories above street leyoh nearly 400 feet up. The only ladder available was a short one, which was placed on the
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New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
Pond Shows Imnrovcmcnt

Torring on, Feb. 10 Rl-Improye- ment was reported this forenoon In the condition of Raymond W. Pond, former Yale football star, who has been a typhoid fever patient al his home for several weeks.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16

blocks to new location. while the
 Nothing Very Chubby
 Tucked away here and there be- meath the bright folds of the roar in forties," there is nothing club by" about these colorful little places. They are cabarets, pure and simple. police are still en route to the old stand.
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NicuStStNL. hldsS't r tD' l V VT E~ Fire swept through w. c. Brown & Co.'S department store, in the heart of the city, today and threat ened nearby buildings. Every avail able piece of apparatus in the city was called out and, with the fire still beyond control, pumping en- zine was summoned from Rockpopt.
 A preliminary estimate placed the loss in the Brown block. a wooden building ranging in different sec tions from two and one-half 10 three stories, at between S40,000 and $50.00o. The cause of the fire Is not known.
 The fire was discovered just as the store vas opened for the day. Apparently starting in the paper stock room just below the music and radio store, the flames had swept through the entire basement when the firemen arrived. The fire spread upward at the back and through partitions and in an hour enveloped ihe building,
 Bremen fought to save a two and one-half story wooden building ad- joining the store on the east and the brick post office and custom house on the west. Directly in the rear, facing on another street, two other buildings, both of brick con- struction, were threatened, They were the three-story structure hous- ing the North Shore Trust Co. and the American Express Co, and a three-story building given over 10 stores and halls.
 The fire was not completely un- der control at noon.
 Half 9 dozen t1remen were over come by the heavy smoke. They were revived and apparently were not seriously affected.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
New York Bremen Fight Flames
 40 Stories Above Street When
 Fire Rages In Equitable Bldg.

Loss Estimated At S6O,OOO--Four Men Rescued From Narrow Ledge l3 Floors Above Street With Short Ladder Resting On Tall Fireman's Shoulders Five Chop Way Out of Elevator Stalled Below 18th Landing
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
THE WEATHER

Hartford. Feb. t6-IorCCaSt for New Britain and vicinity: Fair and somewhat colder to- pight, Wednesday fair with
 slowly rising temperature
New Britain herald., 1926-02-16
SUZANNE STILL SUPREME AS
 SHE VANQUlSHES AMERICAN
ELEVEN BUILDINGS IN
 KEW GARDENS BURNED
Long Island Has Bad Fire Flames Also Sweep
 Gloucester Center

New York, Feb. Is LPp-Fire which started from an unknown cause, swept through the principal business block at Kew Gardens. Long Island, along Queens boule- yard and Union turnpike, today. destroying Il one-story brick build ings with an estimated loss of $10O.- 900.
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