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New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
Pocotopaug Tragedies
 Held to Be Needless

Middletown. Conn. Sept. 3.-The lives of Miss Olive Cullen of Middle town and Ernest l.. Nordgren of Cromwell, drowned in Lake Poco- tapaug August 12. were needlessly sacrificed to want of protecting measures for such emergencies, Coroner l.. 4. Smith says in his find ing handed down today. The coroner does not hold anyone responsible for the deaths but he emphasizes that fact that there were no life preserv- CTS or ropes on hand and that the only boat available was virtually use less.
 Nordgren was drowned In the death grip of the girl whom the man had attempted to rescue after she had gone under.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03

liquor were fined s100 and costs each.
 The board Of education has de- cided to furnish free transportation for school children who live farther than a mile from the schools on either the Bridgeport or New Haven highways. The schools are required by law, to furnish transportation to students who live more than a mile and half away. The decrease in distance was decided upon because of the increased danger to pedes- trians on the main highways espe- cially the Milford-New Haven turn pike.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
ONE DEAD, ANOTHER DYING, AFTER AUTO
 CRASHES INTO CAR
Union City Man Killed in Acci- dent on Naugatuck Highway
 -Machine Hits Trolley
KNOXVILLE YOUTH IS
 ALSO ACCIDENT VICTIM

John Anderson, 19, Suffering From
 Fractured Skull, Dies Before He
 Could Be Taken to HospitaI-His
 Car Had Skidded Into Pole On
 Way to Pennington Early This
 Morning.
 Waterbury, Sept tp) - Charles Gerber, 2l, of Spring street, Union City, died at 3:20 o'clock this morn ing at St. Marys hospital from in juries received last night when the car in which he was riding left the Naugatuck highway 200 yards north of Platts Mills road. plunged over bank. and crashed head on into q Connecticut company trolley car.
 John Pokesas, 27, of Millville, Gerber's companion, suffering from a fractured skull and other injuries, was very low at o'clock this morn ing, and hospital authorities doubt ed that he would live throughout the day.
 Both men were found after the accident unconscious and hanging over the side of the machine. the rods supporting the windshield and top having been flattened down al- most to the tops of the seats. IL is believed that their skulls were frac- tured by these rods.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
JniOnyille Tragedy

automobile crushed against a tele- phone pole. John Anderson, 10, son of Mark Anderson Of Unionyille, was found unconscious in the road by Michael Hatigan, motorman on the Hartford -Unionville trolley line, as to Unionville about 7:30 this morn ing. The injured youth was placed aboard the car put died before nedi- cal aid could be obtained.
 Anderson was on his way to work in Pennington. His car is believed to have skidded against the pole but no eye witnesses of the accident have been found.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
FIRST DEFENSE SPEEDERS ON MILFORD
 PIKE WILL BE LET OFF WITH WARNING

Milford, Sept. 3 P-Chief of Po- lice Maher of Milford has been or dered to warn and not arrest on first offense, automobile operators miles an hour on the Milford turn pike.
 The orders were given today after Judge Robert C. Stoddard in town court had nolled with a warning several cases of out-of-state motor ists who had been arrested for speed ing when travelling between 47 and 53 miles an hour.
 Several operators who had been driving while under the influence of
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
Man Blamed for Not
 Calling in Physician

Los Angeles, Sept. Pt-F'rcd w. Braddock was found guilty of man slaughter here yesterday because he failed to call physician for Mrs. Allie Drake of Huntington Beach who lay dying in his home as the result of prolonged liquor party.
 Prosecution was based upon q rarely used provision of the man. slaughter statute. providing that if an incompetent person died in Il competent persons care, the com petent person may be found guilty of negligent homicide or manslaugh- ter.
 Braddock will be sentenced Mon day to one to ten years in San Quen- tim
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
Only One Of 700 Ships Report Sighting Plane Over North
 Atlantic Ocean Highway
MAY HAVE GONE WAY
 OF NUNGESSER-
English and Canadian Public Enter tain Only Despair For Missing Aviators - Practically All Liners With Wireless Equipment Flash Negative Reports - Gasoline Sup- ply Exhausted Friday Night.

London, Sept. 3 (UP)-The air ministry felt reasonably sure today that the monoplane Saint Raphael. carrying the Princess Anne Lowen- steln- Wertheim, Captain Leslie Ham llton and Colonel r. F. Minchin. had reached mid-Atlantic on it's flight to America, but 1t held little hope for the safety of the iiers.
 Of tho 500 to TOO ships on the north Atlantic shipping route when the saint Raphael headed out to sea over the coast of Ireland, only one. the Danish steamer Josi; h Macy, has reported to the ministry sighting a plane. All other vessels, including number of British vessels, have reported negatively.
 The Josiah Macy reported last night by wireless that on Wednes- day at 9:44 ?. m., an airplane pass ed overhead. The ships position at the time was latitude 53.15 north, longitude 2946 weston the great circle route about goo miles off the coast of Ireland.
 1le tllllt ana position indicated that the plane, if it was the Saint Raphael. had averaged between so and S5 miles an hour since leaving Ireland. At that rate it should have reached the coast of Newfoundland about mid-forenoon on Thursday.
 There was little hope that the Saint Raphael reached America and the general belief was that Britain's s air pioneers, including the daring 6S year old princess. had gone the way of Nungesser and Coli, the FrenChmen.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
Byrd's Plane Seized by
 Customs Authorities

Ottawa, Ont, Sept 2 tCP)- Canadian customs officers have seiz- ed the big monoplane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd flew to Toronto recently. with French air minister Boganowski as a passenger, the Canadian department Of nation al revenue announced today.
 The seizure was made at Toronto because of failure to make proper customs entries.
 Ii was indicated the matter would be dropped, however, and the plane released as soon as explanations are made.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
RAISE MILK PRICES

Boston, Sept. UP)-An increase of one-half cent in the wholesale price of milk, effective tomorrow. has been announced by the sales committee of the New England Milk Producers association. It was in dicated this might result in an in- crease of the retail price from Is to 1 5 + cents quart.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03

Ottawa, Ont, Sept 3 (UP)-Hav- ing abandoned hope for the safety of her husband or former husband
 whom she had cable she would meet at the flying field at Ottawa, Mrs. Leslie Hamilton planned to be- gin her homeward journey today with her mission unfulflled.
 She denied today stories circulat- cd that she and Captain Leslie Ham, ilton, pilot of the monoplane Saint Raphael believed last at sea, had been estranged. Nevertheless, the belief persistd that the purpose of her journey from Europe to Ameri- ca was to effect a reconciliation.
 Mrs. Hamilton sailed from Cher bourg few weeks ago. She remain ed at the Ambassador hotel in New to her husbands projected flight from Upayon. England. Wednesday morning. Then she came by train to Ottawa and her plan was 10 greet Captain Hamilton as he stepped from the plane at Lindbergh field after completing the first westward flight over the Atlantic, in history.
 Opposed to Flight The arrangement, it was under stood, was caused by her opposition 10 her husbands projected flight over the Atlantic or some other Hazardous flight. She left England and went to France.
 The reunion in Ottawa was not to ! have been a surprise. She said that before the flight began she had cabled Captain Hamilton that she would be waiting for him ill the Canadian capital She sent the cable from New York
 Mrs. Hamilton refused to discuss her affairs other than 10 deny re- ports that she and the missing ayia-
 tor had been estranged.
 When Mrs. Hamilton arrived here tli week she assumed the name of Mrs. B. Gower. which name she re- taincd until Canadian air officials persuaded her to disclose her real identity.
 As hours passed into days with no
 word of the Saint Raphael, Mrs. Hamilton finally reached the con- Clusion Of the general opinion here that the Saint Raphael never reach ed America and that the fliers were lost.
 The Canadian government con- | tinued it's search for the missing plane and aviators and it was ad- mitted there was a possibility that the Saint Raphael might have land ed in tha interior. But the possi- bilty was remote.
 The tragic outcome of the Saint ! Raphaels flight has convinced Canadians that transatlantic flights should not be made in land planes.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
But Governments Chief Fore caster Admits It Has Been
 Unusually Cool
REAL CAUSE HAS NEVER
 BEEN FULLY EXPLAINED
Need Not Go Back to 1Sf6 to Find Year When Similar Summer Con- ditions Existed-Crops Have Not Suffered This Season, He Pointed Out-Frcak Weather Always May Be Found.

Out-Frcak Weather Always May
 Be Found.
 Washington, Sept. (UP)-Dr. Charles r. Marvin, chief of the United States weather bureau, today came back at those meteorologists who contend this is "summerless year, charging them with "distort- ing the facts,
 People are easily deceived by these weather prophets he de- clared in an interview with the United Press. It is a shame to ing the facts.
 Dr. Marvin admitted the weather this summer has been unusual in some localities,' and little cool" generally. But people who took to their blankets on occasion will have 10 go to their favorite local weather prognosticators or others to learn the reason. Marvin said frankly that he can not explain it.
 Coolest On Record
 This August. he said. probably was the coolest on record in the capital. well-known for it's steaming sum- mers. According 10 reports from many other localities, they have had similar experiences.
 "Thc weather is behaving in a pc culiar way" he said. Tt always has. The temperature this summer has been q little cool. But on the whole crops haven't suffered"
 The year without a summer?
 Dr. Marvin laughed
 T don't have 10 go back as far as 1916 to show one more strange" he said. T can go back ten years and find one"
 The year 1916 is the legendary year without summer"
 pr. Marvin regards that as 8 myth.
 'Weather reports in 1S1s were very few he explained. There were two places in New England that were cold. But We always have had freak spots in any year, and I doubt if crops generally suffered very much.
 Causes Not Known
 We are not able to specify any
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New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
TO FLY TO ROME

Sac Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 3 UP)- Rcynaldo GoncalveZ and Ruiz Ra- bcllo today announced completion of plans for flight from Rome to Rio De Janeiro in a Savoia hydro plane.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
AMERICAN PLIERS
 START OFF AGAIN Brock and Sehlee Hope to Reach
 Persia Today MUST SHOW MORE SPEED Round World Record StilI Stands and Unless These Ayiators Make Better Time They Will Fail to Break It.
MUST SHOW MORE SPEED
WORLD FLIGHT LOG
3y .he Associated Press,

Sept. 3-(Eighth Day)-Took off from Bagdad, Irak, on 4S5- mile flight to Bunder Abbas. Persia, after having flown 5O25 miles, more than one-ffth cir conference of globe. Holders of present record. 2S 1-2 days, traverscd Russia on eighth day. Aug, 7-2S-Harbor Grace, N. F.
 10 Croydon, England, 2350
 miles.
 Aug. 29-Croydon to Munich, Germany. 600 miles.
 Jugoslavia, 800 miles.
 JugoslaVia. 50 0miles. Aug. 31-Belgrade to Constan-
 tinople. 500 miles. Sept. 1-Delayed by Turkish au-
 thorities.
 Sept. 2-Constantinople to Bag
 dad. 1915 miles.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
THE BIG PARADE" BARRED

San Jose. Costa Rica, Sept. 8 (UP) The government has prohibited exhibition of the film, "The Big Pa ade," on the ground that 1t is offen- sive to Germans.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03

Among the eleven who have sue ceeded in swimming across the Eng lish channel, there are two women. They both accomplished the feat last summer. Miss Gertrude Ederle of New York city, swan from Cape Gris Neg to Dover in IA hours, 3l minutes, on August $. and Mrs. Bennington Corson (Amelia Cade) swana. the same course three weeks later in 15 hours, 32 minutes.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
TWINS, l3, FAIL
 ID SWIM CHANNEL
New York Girls Abandon At- tempt After Four Hours in Water
PHYLLIS HALTED BY CRAMP
Bcrnice Persuaded To Go Aboard Tug By Mother After Sister Is Stricken-Both Make Good Time. Second Attempt Possible.

Cape GrisNez, France, Sept. tP) The 13 year old New York twins, Phyllis and Bernice Zittenfeld, who started from here at 11:43 o'clock this morning in an attempt to swim the English Channel, had 10 aban- don the effort after swimming more than four hours. One of them left the water at 4:07 a. m. and the other at 4:30.
 Phyllis was the first to be taken out of the water She was forced to quit because of a cramp in the left leg.
 Bernice. who was going we'll at the time. continued to progress steadily but her mother urged her 10 abandon the attempt after her sister had been taken aboard a tug. She did so.
 AS dawn approached, the wind in creased and the sea, which had been calm began to rough up. By seven o'clock the water was so choppy and the wind so cold that Miss Lorna Marriott of England, who swims under the name Jane Oar win" also abandoned her attempt, which she began at 11:50 o'clock last night.
 By the time she left the water. the Zittenfeld twins were snug in their beds
 Amid the plaudits of an admiring throng of summer visitors and the swimming colony. the New York twins struck out at 11:43 o'clock last night from this noted Jumping off" place of channel swimmers. After long patient preparations through weeks of bad weather un- der the skilled guidance of the vet eran trainer Tom Burgess, the girls were pronounced in the best of con- dition, weather conditions were about as good as they are likely to be at this season, the wind was east and the sea was smooth and warm, so their mentor decided the time was now or never.
 Both the Alsace and La Morinie. the tugs that have accompanied so many channel swimming aspirants. were chartered so that if one sister had to leave the water, the other could continue. Miss Marriot. who came over in a motorboat, started sevei minutes later at 1850. When they disa ppeared into the morning mist at 3 a. m, the three were swimming within half mile of each other. The New York girls were then five miles out headed in the direction of the Varne lightshlp, while the British woman headed for Dover, a little behind and to the right of them.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03
ROYAL WINDSOR AGAIN
 READY TO START OFF
Bad Weather However, May Prevent Sir John
 Carling From Leaving

St. Johns, Que. Sept. 3 LP-C. A. CDuke") Schiller and Phil Wood, pilot and navigator of the Royal Windsor, left the National hotel here at s o'clock this morning, for St. Gregoire where their Stinson- Detroiter plane was ready to take the air in nonstop flight to Wind sor, England. The weather here was ideal for flying.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03

Caribou, Maine, Sept. 3 Rl- Weather conditions were unfavor- able for resumption today of the flight from London, Ont, to London England, of the monoplane Sir John Carllng, the first leg of whose flight to Harhor Grace, N. F.. was interrupted Thursday night when the plane landed near Washburn,
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03

St. Gregoire, Quebec, Sept. 3 LP- A soggy field as the result of a heavy rain last night prevented the hop off at daybreak of the mono plane Royal Windsor, en route from Windsor. Ontario, to Windsor, Eng land. The plane was forced to land here Thursday night on account of trouble with it's tail skid.
 Indications were that the plane, which is piloted by Duke" Schiller and Phil Wood, would be able 10 hop off between nine and ten a. m., eastern standard time.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-03

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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-07-02
COLORED AUTO OWNERS

Washington.-The automobile fatal
ity table recently computed by the De-
partment Of Commerce shows that
fatalities for 1927 continue greatly in
excess Of those for 1926. During the
81 weeks ending May Fl, 1927, in II
representative cities throughout the
country, there were 6,938 deaths direct
ly due to traffic accidents. For the 81
weeks ending May p, 1926, the num-
Der was 6,348. This is at the rate Of
2l.9 deaths per 100000 population this
year, as compared with 20.4 per lO0.-
OOO last year. It appears that every
where in the United States the toll
taken by the automobile is becoming
greater every week, despite the fact
that various societies and organizations
are working for greater safety on)the
highways. 1t has been estimated that
5SS'OOO automomiles are owned by col
ored persons.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-07-02
JUDGE JAYNE OF DETROIT DE
LINERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS
AT N.A.A.C.P. MEET

Indianapolis, Ind.-Delivering the
keynote address last night at the open
ing mass meeting in Caleb Mills Hall,
of the National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People, now in
eighteenth annual conference here,
Judge Ira W. Jayne Of the Wayne
County Circuit Court, Detroit, and a
member of the Associations Board Of
Directors, voiced his hope in the Ne
gro's struggle for equal opportunity in
America.
Il am not yet ready to believe that
the majority Of my fellow men that is
my white fellow men, have had their
sense Of justice eater away by the
canker Of race prejudice" declared
fudge Jayne. Il believe that in the
hearts and minds Of multitude OF
your fellow white citizens similarly
situated, alike in everything but color,
there is an abiding sense Of justice
which may be successfully aroused
THE soil has been we'll prepared.
They listen to your artists because OF
the beauty Of the sound. They read
your authors for the feel of their words.
The time has come to submit to them
the proposition of Justice in the abb
stract. We have successfully taken
our case to the courts of law. Let us
now take it to the courts Of public
opinion. We must get our appeal into
the white pulpit and the white press.
Why not over the radio into the white
home? 1t is a task of magnitude. 1t
does appear discouraging. | know
when tht fiery Henry Ward Beecher
carried his message to his cowardly
contemporaries his listeners sought to
enforce his silence But the masses
Of our fellow white men can be told
that as for them race prejudice is a
weapon in the hands Of the enemy Its
sole purpose is their own injury. I
believe our cause is just; so just that
all must listen"
In the course Of his address Judge
Jayne referred to the denial of the bal
lot to Negroes in the south and said:
Northern white men have at last
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-07-02
URBAN LEAGUE REPORTS ON
INDUSTRY FOR MAY

Bulletin No. Is of the Industrial De
partment of the National Urban
League summarizes employment cor
ditions as follows:
While reports from New Jersey,
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Mary
land, Virginia, Oregon, Michigan, In
diana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
Arkansas, Texas, Massachusetts, and
New York showed little change in the
employment status OF Negro wage
earners-a situation not unlike others
experienced throughout the country
some little advance was reported for
both Negro women and men. The
notable improvements were reported
from Cleveland, Plainheld and Boston
The continuous rainfall interfered with
the usual outdoor spring activities, but
did not prevent the employment oil
many men in parts Of the middle west
which had experienced a long period OF
unemployment.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-07-02

awakened to the fact that they are also
the victims of southern minority.
usurpation of the Congressional repre-
sentation, when, as in some states in
the north it takes six times as many
voters to send a representative to Con-
gress or to a convention as it does in
some states in the south. The time
has come to use the resentment of
these populous states to our utmost ad-
vantage. 1t is not beyond the realm OF
imagination to foresee the southern
boss promising and furnishing fair 10
cal government in return for the ap-
pearance at the polls Of his colored
brother whom he has so long sought
to keep away"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-07-02

Senator Charles S. Deneen, in whose
section OF the city David B. Hawley
had been valuable citizen, and the
business men Of every nationality
joined in giving the highest recon-
mendation. Postmaster Arthur Q.
Lueder had before him Hawley's rec
ord which was untarnished. His fdel-
ity to the service from the men under
whom he had worked gave the Post
master the strongest cue to okey the
appointment of Hawley. Postmaster
Lueder has no easy task in endeavor-
ing to please the various groups within
the party. Therefore it is compliment
tary to him to have unhesitatingly re
quested the department at Washington
to confirm the appointment of David
B. Hawley as assistant superintendent
Of the Armour station.
The position left vacant by Hawley's
advancement was filled by the transfer
of Mr. Theodore E. Jones from the
Quincy street station to the main Of
fee. Mr. Jones has been in the service
since 1902. The advancement OF Mr.
Jones made possible the promotion Of
Mr.. Musco g. Buckner, who has been
in the service since January %, 1907.
The public at large extends its full con-
graduation to Senator Deneen, Con-
gresham Madden and Postmaster
Lueder for these promotions. It is not
to be overlooked also that the Phalanx
Club, an organization of postal EN-
ployes, has endeavored to keep in
unison the worth and character of the
men best fitted to give the highest
marks Of merit to the departments and
the race
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-07-02

group in 1926 were deaths of Negro
children, although only three per cent
of the children under IL years of age
are Negroes.
The marked declines in the tuber-
culosis mortality in the last II years
have been in the age periods 0 to II,
and 20 to 90. The lowered mortality
in the first few years Of life is due to
a very marked decrease in the number
Of deaths from forms Of tuberculosis
other than pulmonary. The declines
in the rates after 20 years Of age are
due to reductions in the death rates
from pulmonary tuberculosis.
so far as we can learn from the
records, they show lower death rates
in the months since the establishment
of the ordinance which limits Chicago S
milk supply to that milk coming only
from tested herds than in the CORE
sounding months Of the immediate pre-
ceding years This is evidenced by the
average rates for the nine months
period and for FIVE of the months taken
separately" says Dr.. Bundesen.
THE largest number of deaths from
tuberculosis among children come in
the month of April. This seems to
argue for the greater need for care
during the winter months" concludes
the Commissioner.