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New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
SWEENEY CLIPS RECORD
 FOR SHUTTLE MEADOW
Goes Around IS Hole Course in co, Establishing New Mark for
 Amateurs

W. J. Sweeney, playing golf at the Shuttle Meadow club links yes- terday established a new course record for amateurs here. He made 60 in his trip over the Is holes.
 The results of matches so far played in the first sixteen for the Presidents cup at Shuttle Meadow are as follows. Handicaps were all lowed, George Rogers won by de- fault from A. G. Kimball; R. S. Howe won from E. w. Davis, 2 up; w. T. Morrissey won from R. D.. Ferguson, up and to go; c. E.; Mitchell won from P. r. McDon- ough, and 6; A. B. Porter was one up over A. w. Burke after 20 holes of play; A. c. Sweetser won from w. T. Coholan, z and 6; L. S. Jones won from E. N. Humphry, 3 and 2; r. s. Chamberlain won from Ho- ward Humphrey, l up.
 Two matches in the second round of the first sixteen have resulted in win for Dr. Morrissey over Mr. Mitchell, 1 up and Mir. Chamberlain over Mir. Jones, up. The rest of the matches remain to be played.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
PREDICT CUTS IN
 BROAD ST. CLAIMS
Three Members of Council Con-
 mittee Call Them EyOrbitant
SAY LOSS WAS PADDED"
Visit District Affected by Recent Flood and Declare Merchants Have Exaggerated Damage to Stock,

Declaring the amounts asked by Broad street merchants to reim- purse them for damages resulting from sewerage defects in that To- cality are exorbitant and entirely out of proportion to the damage done, Councilmen John A. Larson, Samuel Sablotsky and Lucian Ma cora favor slashing the amounts if there is to be any payment at all.
 The three" e"councilmen are sub committee of the claims committee appointed to make a personal in- vestigation of the claims since the amounts asked aggregate close to S1,000.
 Yesterday they visited the Broad street district and compared the damage done with the amounts asked. At an informal meeting fol- lowing the visit they were found to be in agreement that the claims were "padded' and in some in stances the amount asked, if grant ed. would allow a substantial profit, one of the members said today.
 As an instance they point to the fact that S65 damage is claimed for radio set which originally cost $50 and for which S25 is offered in its present condition. This would per init a so per cent profit.
 Other items contained in the claim were found to be proportion ately higher than the cost price, the councilmen claim.
 At a meeting of the full commit | tee scheduled for some night next week, the three councilmen will re- port their findings with a recom- mendation that, in the. event it is found there is liability on the part of the city, the claims be cut ap- proXimately in half.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
Overpower and Disarm Guards, Locking Of- ficials In Cells - Some Escape in Stolen Cars While Others Flee On Foot
Several Heavily Armed and Listed as Danger Ous Criminals - Posses Quickly Take Their Trail.

Ionia, Mich, Aug. 2S P-Twenty- i've convicts from the Michigan state reformatory here were at large today, many of them armed, as the result of a sensational break in which they virtually took possession of the institution.
 The plot, which prison official be- lieved had been in the process of formation for several weeks, culmi- mated early today in a well organ ized attack, in which the escaped prisoners, all housed in one of the institutions dormitories, fell on the guards there, overpowering and dis arming them. They made their way into a rotunda leading off from the dormitory, rushed the guards there and likewise overpowered them.
 Officials Locked in Cells.
 They then charged the admins tration office where additional guards and officials were seized. The prison authorities were then march ed back into the cells formerly occu- pied by the prisoners and locked there.
 About four hundred men were confined at the reformatory, but the escaping prisoners made no attempt to release any others than those in their own dormitory. Inmates of the institution are all young men, rang ing in age from IS to 30 years, and most of them are first offenders. Only two life prisoners were con- fined at the institution.
 General Alarm Given.
 A general alarm was sent out and posses were. formed at half dozen cities to assist authorities in appre- hending the men.
 The alarm soon spread and resi- dents of the district were thrown into a near panic when reports that the armed desperadies were at large were received.
 About eight of the men fled from the institution in two automobiles which they seized. The others were reported to have fled afoot into the country. Several hours after the es- cape reports were received that some of the men were seen heading to- ward Lansing. Posses were reported formed at half a dozen towns to head off the convicts and serious trouble Is feared.
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
Halifax Steamer
 Lost, Crew Is Saved

Halifax, N. S., Aug. 2S P)-The steamer Mitak, locally owned, has been lost at sea, but all aboard saw ed. Mrs. T. F. Kirk, wife of the ships master has telegram from her husband saying: Ship lost. All on board safe and well. Going to England"
 The message was wirelessed from the liner Cojnish Cizy, Via New York. The Mitak, 113 tons net, was built at Sorel. Que, in 1917.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
VIVIAN DUNCAN MAY
 NEVER DANCE AGAIN
Star of "Topsy and Eva Badly Injured in
 Auto Wreck

Oxnard, Calif., Aug. 2S LP-Phy- sicians were trying today to LOOK into the future far enough to tell whether Vivian Duncan, dimunitive stage star, will ever again be able 10 go through her dancing steps that have entranced audiences on both coasts.
 Vivian who plays a leading role in '"Topsy and Eva" was injured in an automobile accident near here Thursday night. She was in St. Johns hospital here today with a seyen-inch laceration on the thigh and a scalp wound, five inches long. Her worst injury, however, is a cut on her knee which caused the sym oval fluid to escape from the knee cap' This, physicians fear may pre- vent her from dancing again. None of the injuries is expected to result in disagreement.
 Vernon Richard, member of the sctress's stage company. also IS in the hospital He suffered a badly injured hand and cut near the right ear.
 Miss Duncan and Rickard were motoring from San Francisco where they had gone to bid good-by to yivian's sister, Rosetta, who depart ed for New York on business trip when their car was struck by an- other machine containing two un- identified men. They fled after the accident, abandoned their car. The accident occurred at Fl Rio, two miles from here.
 The Duncan sisters recently com pleted a stage engagement at Los Angeles and soon were to start work on a film production of their play. With Vivian confined to her bed, here. and Rosetta en route to New York, this is said to be the first time the famous sisters have been separated.
 The Duncan sisters started their rropsy and Eva" in San Francisco and then moved on to Chicago and New York.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
High Price of Beer in Germany Hurts Popularity

Berlin, Aug. 2S R-Germany. once known as a nation of beer and coffee drinkers, is turning to cocoa and cho olate.
 The high price of stein of suds, the government reports, has cut the annual beer consumption from 102 liters for ever. man, woman and child to 75 liters. Coffee consump- tion has been cut in half, the aver age cost per pound being about one dollar.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
New Jersey Twins Observe
 S9th Birthday Together

Hendham, N J, Aug. 28-Tho Misses Eliza B. and Maria Louise Taylor, believed 10 be the oldest twins in the United Gates. celebrat- ed their eighty-ninth birthday here yesterday at their home, Willowdean. An informal party was attended by friends and relatives.
 The twins who are the daughters of MT. and Mrs. Robert Taylor, were born at the home of their grand father. William J;l. Dean. in New York in 1887. Miss Maria Louise Taylor is the author of several novels.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
COM. RODGERS DIES
 IN AIRPLANE FALL
His Mechanic, With Broken
 Back, Cannot Survive
TRAGEDY AT PHILADELPHIA
Plane in Which Hero of Hawaii Flight Met Death Crashed About 100 Feet, Landing in Four Feet of Water on Shore.

Philadelphia, Aug. 2S R}-Com- mander John Rodgers, former as- sistant chief of the bureau of aero- nautics and hero of the attempted nonstop flight from San Francisco to Hawaii, has made his last flight. The former naval fiier, a descend ant of a long line of naval officers, plunged to his death late yester- day afternoon when his plane struck an air pocket, sde-slipped and dropped into the Delaware river. a short distance from the navy yard field where he was about to land.
 Mechanic Will Die
 His mechanic, Samuel Schultz, of Philadelphia, lies in the naval hos pital with a broken back and se- were lacerations, and physicians fear that he will not recover.
 Eye witnesses differ in their ac- counts of the accident, but most of them declared that Commander Rodgers plane fell probably less than 100 feet into the shallow Wa ters of the river.
 Lands in Shallow Water
 Rodgers was piloting a land plane and was en route here from Washington to attend a conference with other naval officers and to inspect a partly finished new type of airplane in which he contem- plated making a 3.O00-mile flight. He had circled the landing field once and was descending to make a landing when the machine was seen to shoot downward. It dropped nose first into about four feet of water and about 100 feet from shore.
 Officers, sailors and marines plunged into the water and rushed to the rescue. Shultz had succeeded in ,oosening the straps that held him him to his seat and was work ing to release Rogers when help reached them. The heads of the two flyers were just above water.
 Rodgers Pinned In
 Easy boys" Rodgers said as his rescuers tried to lift him free of the wreckage. "I'm caught somewhere; go easy" The engine of the plane lay partly on the commanders chest and one leg was caught in the wreckage. It was not until after th1 craft had been further torn apart that he could be released.
 First examinations revealed 8 broken leg and many cuts and bruises and it was announced that he had not been fatally hurt. On the operating table, however, sur geons found that the heavy engine had crushed his chest on the left side and that many ribs had been
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
Fonck and His Backers Reported
 To Be On Verge Of Open Rupture
Engineer Resigns.


 Lieut.. c. o. Neville, who was with the Byrd polar expedition, has al- ready resigned as flight engineer be- cause of the squabbles, says the World. He is said to have disagreed with Fonck over whether American or French lubricating oil should be used in the 425 horsepower engines of the huge Sikorsky plane.
 Berry Causes Rift.
 Differences between Captain Fonck and the flights packers are also said to have arisen because of their an nouncement that Captain Homer Berry would accompany Captain Fonck and Lieut.. Allan P. Snody. Lieut. Col. Harold E. Hartney, vice. president and general manager of the Argonauts, Inc, the backing company, says If the plane goes, Berry goes" But w. A. Barry, vice president and general manager of the Slkorsky Manufacturing com pany. builders of the plane, says it never has been decided that a third man should go.
 New French Entry.
 Meantime, news from Paris is that the French government has cabled an official entry to compete for the S25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteg for the first nonstop trans- atlantic flight. Captain Arrachart was named as pilot, and Captain Colli as navigator. The plane will be three scatter, with a single APO horsepower engine similar to the three powerful motors on the sigour- sky plane.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
RODGERS FUNERAL PLANS
Services Will Be Held Monday Burial at Arlington With Full Naval HonorS.

Washington, Aug. 2S P-Com- mander John Rodgers will be buried in Arlington National cemetery here next Tuesday with naval honors.
 The body will be sent from Phila- delphia to the home of the flier's parents at Havre de Grace, Md, to- day and funeral services will be held there Monday. After the fu- neral it will be brought to Arlington and placed in a receiving vault, to remain until the interment Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
 The army and navy will be repre- sented at the burial by the ranking officials who are in the city. Secre- tary Wilbur, however, is on the west coast and will not be able to at tend.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
O'BRIEN HITS BACK
 AT LEWICKrs CLAIM
Denies He Refused to Work to Relieve Broad
 Street Difficulty

Answering criticism of a claimant for damages resulting from sewer back-up that Supt. Michael O'Brien refused to work on Saturday or Sum- day to relieve the difficulty, O'Brien today declared he had two shifts of men in service Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning from o'clock. and again on Monday night until the rain made 1t dangerous for them to remain longer in the trenches
 Part of the work he said, was done under the supervision Of Com- missioner John Moore of the board of public works and when the cause of stoppage was found City Engineer Joseph D. Williams was present and supervising.
 O'Briens statement today sheds new light on the Broad street sew craze difficulty. Heretofore it had been thought the trouble was in the storm water system and relief meas ures have been entirely in that di- rection. 0'Brien's investigation shows the sanitary sewerage plant caused the difficulty.
 He denied having told Stanley Lewicki, one of the claimants. that he would not work on Sunday for anyone and didn't care if the houses on Broad street floated off, state- ments made by Bewicki before the claims committee. His only conver- sation with Lewicki, he said, was request that the claimant consider the task before the sewer depart ment since two trenches te feet deep must be dug.
 The stoppage was caused by an engineers stake being caught cross- wise in the 10 inch sewer pipe. o'Brien reported today.
 Records in the office of the city engineer show o'Brien and two shifts of men were on duty on Broad street during the hours menr toned by the sewer superintendent.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
MISS EDERLE PLEASED
Immediately Sends Message of Con-
 graduation to Mrs. Corson as Soon as She Hears of Her Victory.

New York, Aug. 2S P>-Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English channel, thinks it's just great" that another American wom- an has accomplished the feat.
 Although in secIusion today in her Amsterdam avenue home, with a police guard outside to prevent the crowds which still gathered, from disturbing her after the eXertions of her welcome home yesterday, Trudy sent out d message to newspaper men when a police sergeant carried in 8 message from them telling of Mrs. Corson's victory.
 T think it's just great" the mes sage read. T tender my heartiest congratulations"
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
Dagmar Godowski
 Granted Divorce

White Plains, N. Y. Aug. 2S 'P>- Dagmar Godowski, motion picture actress, was granted an annulment of her marriage to Frank Mayo. screen actor, by Supreme Court Justice Taylor yesterday. Testi- mony brought out that Mayo. who did not defend the action. was not divorced from his first wife, Joyce Hill. at the time he and Miss Go- dowski were married at Tia Juana, Mexico, October 2, 1921. Miss Go- dowski said she and Mayo lived together a year and half.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
Today's Victor Over Tur- bulent Waters Is Mother of Two Children-Has Swan Around Manhat- tan Island, Also From Albany to New York.
OFFICIAL TIME Mrs. Corson's official time for swimming the channel was 16 hours and 2S minutes.

Dover, Eng, Aug. 2s LP - Mrs Bennington Corson of New York, the mother of two children and we'll known as long distance swimmer. today swan the English channel.
 Man Has To Quit
 Mrs. Corsons victory was the more impressive inasmuch as Frank Perks, English swimmer. who start ed with her last night and swan most of the way in her trail, was forced to quit when a mile and half from the English coast after being in the water more than four teen hours.
 Second Woman to Succeed
 She was the second woman to ac- compiish this brilliant feat in the stormy history of channel swim ming.
 Gertrude Ederle, who returned to her home in New York yesterday, conquered the grim stretch of water on August 6. being the first woman ever to swim the channel, and set ting up the record of 14 hours and 31 minutes.
 Betters Mems Records
 Except for record time by Miss Ederle, Mrs. Corson broke the re- cords Of the previous five men chan nel swimmers, her time being about 15 hours. The best time made by man channel swimmer was by Se- bastian Tiraboschi, the Argentine Italian swimmer, who crossed the channel in 1923 in 16 hours and 23 minutes.
 Mrs. Corson landed from Cape Gris-Nez on Dover Beach near Shakespeare Cliff, the same spot where Tiraboschi finished on his swim of 1923.
 A big crowd on the beach greeted the successful American swimmer whose triumph won universal admir- ation.
 Mrs. Corson started shortly before midnight and finished about three o'clock this afternoon.
 Wanted to Beat Record
 Mrs. Corson took to the water while crowds in New York were feting Gertrude Ederle for her prowess in swimming the channel
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
SCALDS PROVE FATAL

East Hampton, Conn.,, Aug. 2S tPl Thomas Hopkins, 42, who has been in Q critical condition at Mid .dlesex hospital since he was scalded at work last Wednesday died late last night. Hopkins was employed lat the Summit Thread company and fell into vat containing boiling wa ter. His body was severely scalded from the waist down. A widow and two children survive.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
REMINGTON ENDORSES KADHAM'S CANDIDACY Proponents of New Town Committee Win at
 Caucus

About 100 voters turned out last night for the Newington republican caucus at the grange hall to ey- press their choice for delegates to the state congressional, county. sen- atorial, and probate conventions and 10 select new town committee.
 Mrs. E. B. Proudman, vice chair man of the republican town commit tee, opened the meeting. MT. Proud man was made moderator and Charles Emmons clerk of the meet ing. The call was read and dele gates were elected to the conyen- tons. Mrs. Proudman and George w. Hanbury were elected delegates to the state convention. Miss Mary c. Welles and George E. Churchill Will represent the town at the con- gressional convention. Elmer W Tape. Richard H. Erwin, and Raw mond Halloran were nominated as delegates to the county convention and Mir. Pape and Mr. Erwin were elected. Four persons were nomina- ted to represent the town at the senatorial convention: Harold c. Lucas, Harold I. Dyer, Mrs. E. A. Elliott and Clinton S. Barrows. Mir Lucas and MT. Dyer were elected. F. A. Elliott and Samuel Walters were nominated and elected to be dele gates to the probate convention.
 Theodore c. Wallen then pre- sented a resolution as follows:
 Resolved: In consideration of his unselfish public service as chair man of the state board of finance vital factor in the development of the sound financial policy of the state of Connecticut, his interest in and familiarity with every phase of state government. the confidence re- posed in him by his excellency, Gov John T. Trumbull, as exempliffed by assignment to important state work, the high ideal of public service gov erning his discharge of every public duty that he has been called upon to render, his unwavering loyalty to the republican party and his sterling character, truly representative of his native state, 1t Is the sense of this caucus that Hon. John NJ. Wadhams of Torrington be nominated for Acknowledgements in the repub- lican state convention at Hartford Sept. 15."
 
 Mir. Wallen, who is a personal friend of Mr. Wadhams, suggested that those present go on record as favoring the resolution. It was unanimously adopted.
 Miss Frances Brinley made a mo- ton to the effect that no person be reelected as a member of the town committee who had already served more than four years. Miss Brinley explained that she felt that there should be new blood in the town committee. MT. Wallen, however, objected, saying that since all but two members had served two terms, an inexperienced committee could not carry on the work and be well organized before an important cam paign would be under way. There fore it would be a dangerous thing. The motion, however, was passed, 46 to 30.
 A new town committee was then elected. Miss Airline Root and Theo- dore C. Wallen were named from the the Maple Hill district. The Elm Hill district will be represented by Charles Luce and Mrs. V. L. Eddy. For the Center, Mrs. E. A. Elliott, Mrs. Elizabeth Walters, George Le- wis and Harold G. Lucas were nom- mated. Mrs. Walters and MT. Lu-
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
JUMPS TO HER DEATH

New Haven. Aug. 27 P}-Mrs, Sophia Whitney. so, an inmate at a private home for the aged here, jumped from a second-story window last night and died from injuries later.' Medical Examiner Marvin M, Scarborough expressed the opinion that the woman was suffering from
 q mental disorder following sickness.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-28
PIainviIle Traffic Officer Will Explain in Court Second Raid on Palace of Sweets.
Special to the Heiald.)

Plainville, Aug 2S Sixteen cases of alleged beer were found yesterday afternoon when the con- fectionery store conducted by David Kaufman, local traffic officer was raided. For some time the authori- tie have been suspicious of the place which is located at the corner of Whiting and Broad streets, and a warrant was made out by Grand Juror S. S. Gwillim authorizing the search. Deputy Sheriff E. w. Fur
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04

home and abroad. 1t had been neces-
sary for the Mexican government to
deport two official emissaries Of the
terminated pope, one of whom had
wilfuily deceived the immigration Of
ffcers as to his purpose in entering
Mexico. The imperiallst pressure
from the United States developed into
a steady continuous offensive, and the
imperialists had manifested their de-
termination to make use of the church
to weaken the Mexican revolution for
its own ends. Following the deporta-
ton of the lying priest, Caruana, the
Eucharistic Congress at Chicago had
taken place. In which the alliance OF
Rome, Wall Street and Mexican reac-
ton had been sealed.
That alliance is full OF foreboding
for Mexico. Gales will have no less
trouble in applying the anti-clerical
articles of the constitution than he
had in trying to apply article Gland
from the same sources. The religious
issue furnishes a moral justification
which United States imperialism can
not overlook, particularly when It Of
fers the services OF mighty religio-
political organization In Mexico itself.
Baffed and checked in successive
phases Of It's offensive against Mexico,
Wall Street now takes UP the banner
OF religious liberation" Catholic,
protestant and Jew unite for catholi-
cism and oil. The newspapers in this
country are playing up the issue for
dear life. Public praying for Mexico"
is being conducted In churches of all