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New Britain herald., 1928-12-31

preninsnt womsn's Relief corps worker. diss.
 August 3-EaAwood . Foran. long time provision marchants. rs- tire from budness. Heat forces fac tory closings: ons man overcome. s-Dr. L. H. Frost appointed sur geon of fire department. Town talks over Charles H. Norton park. s- Trumbull Electric Co. team clinches Industrial baseball league title. Mrs. Sarah Morgan installed as chief com. panion of Washington -Trumbull cir cle. Companions of the Forest. l0- Connecticut Horticultural society meets at home of W. H. Carpenter, l3-Town. meeting accepts unit foot values proposed by revaluation com mittee. 1<-Chief E. P. Prior elected vice president of Connecticut Fire mons association. 15-Charles H. Norton. Henry A. Castle. John B. Minor appointed first board of park commissioners. Town finishes fiscal year within budget. ls-Rev. J. Roy Wiikerson of North Branford called to become pastor of Congregational church. 1S-John E. Lamb reelected president of Plainville Graded School Alumni association. 1s-F. w. Hilt- brand. Spanish war veteran, dies suddenly in Unionvifie. Tani's shoe shop gutted by fire. 2.-Louis Tenan badly hurt when thrown from rail- road electric work car. Harry o. Rex succeeds H. s. Washburn as chair man of water purchase committee. 24-Miss Lucy Sullivan engaged as ful'-time school nurse: one-session plan adopted for High and Junior High schools. Helen Castiola, 5. crit ically injured when hit by auto. c5- Mundy Derazio declared champion batter of Industrial league with av- craze of .522. 2s-13 children return to New York after healthful vaca- ton here.
 September Edwin H. Hills Mfg Co.,. closes after existence of more than 50 years: Frederick J. Russell terminates 50 years of service with company. 5-13:6 children set new mark for first days school attend ance. 6-Drafting of zoning code an- nounced. 7-Gov. John H. Trumbull renominated. l0-James Simpson re- nominated for first selectman by re- publican caucus: E. w. Furrey left off list of constables. w. H. Loomis heads democratic ticket. 11-Brock- Barnes post, American Legion. votes to buy Kunne homestead as perma- nent home. l2-Resignation of Mrs. Frank Usher as Nursing association president announced: 1929 budget of t1sb.526.ss approved by board of fi- nance. 16-Colonial Filling station held up: two men arrested. 1S-New Britain driver critically hurt when he falls asleep and car crashes tree. Rev. P. J. Cleveland resigns as pas tor of Advent Christian church. 1s- Bristol hospital ambulance hits auto hurrying to aid injured local woman. c6-$2o0 in jewelry and money stol- en as Frank Silvernail home is rob- bed. :e-Mrs. Calvin Coolidge gues. of governor and wife. cS-Castle Stores incorporated by .. J. Castle and Leon riley with s5o,ooo capital. isation. Sn-Gunther F. Richter, Spaniah War veteran, burned to death while asleep in his home.
 October l-Light baiioting as
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also have his office open for the same purpose tomorrow from 2 g. m. to 12 noon and from 2 to { p. m.
 Mir. Wilson has been advised by the fish and game commissioner that holders of 1928 licenses who find it inconvenient to come to the office and obtain their new licenses in per- son may send their old licenses in by other persons and have them re- newed. The license. Mr. Wilson em- phasized. must be sent to him before he can renew 1t. Persons who did not hold 1928 licenses must swear to their applications. so it is advis- able to call in person. but blanks may be sent out and sworn to, and then sent back.
 Holiday Closing
 The stores and barber shops will be open until 10 o'clock tonight and will be closed tomorrow in obser- vance of New Years Day. The fac tories will also be shut down for the day. as will the Plainville Trust Co. The Christmas vacation of the pub- lie schools will terminate Wednes- day morning. when classes will be resumed.
 Sunday School Officers
 The annual election of officers of the Baptist Sunday school was held yesterday. the following being chosen:
 Superintendent. Frank E. Hart; H'~' ~''' "-interdents, Wallace Bunnell and Floyd Sullman; treas 4, ,.us E.ouSon: secretary, Miss Catherine Lineburner: superin- tendent of home department. Mrs. J. G. Ward: organist and treasurer of home department, Mrs. J. II. Mitch- ell: superintendent of cradle roll, Mrs. Alfred Thomson; assistant su- perintendent of cradle roll, Mrs. Floyd Stillman; assistant organists, Miss Bertha Stewart, Erling Seder- gren and Miss Dorothy Thomson: secretary of home department, Mrs. Charles Hunnell; librarians, Floyd Stillman. Chester Hart and Howard Mitchell.
 PostofIiCe Hours
 The Plainville postoffice will ob-
New Britain herald., 1928-12-31
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER s1 1s2s

moves crossing tendsrs- 37-Wood- row Broxkowsh burned when tar barrel explodes. Pennsylvania couple hurt when truck rams auto. 2s- Plainville Trust Co. mails tls.l00 in Christmas club cheeks. Governor and Mrs. John H. Trumbull married 25 years: engagement of Miss Florence Trumbutl to John Coolidge. son of president, announced. 29-Two hurt, three arrested in New Britain road auto mix-up. 3o-smallpox epidemic in Unionville cause exclusion of un- vaccinated school children. Plainville News suspends publication.
 December 3-Horace L. Carter, Spanish War veteran, dies. Walter Gerke elected president of high school athletic association. 10-Red Cross roll call nets ssls. 11-H. l.. Newell elected worshipful master of Frederick lodge, A F. & A. M.: George A. Case retires after el years as secretary. 12-Town meeting votes $95,000 for addition to Linden street school. Plainville Engineering and Supply Co. closed on tax war rant. 13-Chamber of Commerce names committees on town court and traffic lights. Miss Florence Trum- bull denies signing movie contract. 14-Henry Bannel and Daniel Emory made foremen of fire department 16--Rev. Lincoln E. Frye of Yales- vile elected rector of Church of our Savior. 1S-Rev. Thomas Rooney. Plainville native. completes 25 years as priest. Warner bowls 199. three less than worlds duckpin record. 10 Henry Trumbull reelected vice president of National Association of ! Manufacturers and member of na- tional conference on tariff adjust . ment. 21-Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co. gives Christmas bonus to all em- ployes. 25-Home of Tony Santucci on Whiting street badly damaged by morning fire. 26-Gangs of boy thieves rounded out and warned to behave. High school broken into and safe rifled. 27-William T. Towner of Middletown selected as architect for school addition. cs-Acquisition of land for state game preserve an- nounced.
 2S-Edward Lackey elected chan cellor commander of Pythian lodge, k. of P.
 31-Parking restrictions enforced. | Barker Finally RcleAsed
 Edward B. Barker. 50. of 185l Boulevard. West Hartford, was to. tally exonerated Saturday afternoon of any criminal negligence in con- nection with the death of Robert F. Lydon of Milford. Mass. on October g. Grand Juror Charles F. Conlon entered a nolle in the case and this was accepted by Justice NJ. O. Ry- der.
 Bankers automobile struck Lydon on Pennington avenue during a se- we're night storm and knocked him down. A second machine, believed to have be- operated by Joseph Per oskey of West Irvington, N. J.. then ran over the prostrate man. who died of the injuries inflicted. Barker stopped and, failing to halt the other man, took Lydon to the New Britain General hospital.
 Prosecutc- Conlon. in recommend ing nolle. said that the accident was due more to the storm than to any negligence on Bankers part and
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that the West Hartford man had done everything he could do in see- ing that Lydon was properly taken care of. He is also fully insured. the prosecutor said. while his reputation in West Hartford. where he is a civil engineer employed by the town. is of the best. He therefore felt justified in exonerating the unfortunate driver.
 Disappears, Found by Radio
 Missing for 2a hours while visit ing in Bridgeport. Mrs. William Onion. 50, of %S North Washington street. was discovered in Stratford yesterday afternoon after a notice of her disappearance had been broad cast by radio from Station WICC, Bridgeport. Mrs. Onion was visiting Mrs. Fred Holt of 27 Pierpont street. Bridgeport. and was last seen in the center of that city on Saturday afternoon. when she had some s2o with her. When she failed to appear at the Holt home, there was fear for her safety. and a de- scription of her was sent out over the radio.
 Yesterday afternoon a Stratford policeman found & woman wander ing about the streets in a dazed con- dition. He recognized her. from the radioed description. as Mrs. Onion. and had her taken back to the Holt i residence. She was seven miles from where last seen and had probably wandered a great deal farther than that distance. She was suffering from exposure and could not tell how she came to be lost.
 Mir. Onion went to Bridgeport Sat- | urday night to assist in the search. Appeal For Chairs l The Social Welfare League today issued an appeal for secondhand or. dinary chairs, which it needs for a family under its protection. Chairs may be left at either 55 or Iii Whit ing street and will be greatly ap- preciated.
 I.ackey Heads Pythians i Edward Lackey was elected chan cellor commander of Pythian lodge, No. 1T. K. of F.. at the annual meet
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nAINVlIE NEWS
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 elected president Of Industrial league. it-school department sn. sages Aliss Barbara Beach as music supervisor and Thomas J. Caulfield as High school athletic coach. ls- Boy Scout board of review orsantsed. 17-Local woman contracts small. pox at Bristol hospital. 2o-John Hughes. {. suffers fractured skull when hit by auto on New Britain road. 1t-Public utilities commission denies states petition to eliminate East street grade crossing. W. 4. Bailey appointed paid assessor. D. Three-year-old son of Alfred Petro- lina gored by COW. First field day of public schools held. 3l-Peter Ge- blowski attempts suicide with raxor
 Juno l-Harry o. Rex sues town. alleging over-assessment of proper ty. l-Angela Cianci. ,. asphyxiated by gasoline fumes from automobile. 6-Robert E. White purchases Hig- gins tract on Linden street. s-Aiss Ruth Gerard reentaged as play supervisor. s-Frederick Richards e ensa ged as principal of Linden street school to succeed Harry c. Brown. resigned. 7-Beatrice Easton. Charles Mills win high school pub lie speaking contest. s-Tiny deer n center. tries to break into factory. J1-Mrs. Mary Ann Fuller, 7s, dies while attending church in New Brit ain. lS-S. J. Castle secures local limited Cigar store franchise. ls- Plainville H. 6. graduates its first cEaa. Edmund A. Tolli receives Phillips H. Lord cup for best sports- manship in claas. c0-FrederiLk BUl- len. Jr.. and Dorothy Tredennick e. ceive American Legion medals for excellence in primary grades. a. Four injured as car skids into fenc: near "Blind Mans corner" Thieves steal jewelry worth several hundred dollars from R. W. McCrum home. 3o-Dr. J. N. Bull rounds out 50 years as physician in Plainville.
 July 1-First Daily Vacation Bi- Ole school opens. $-tialnV1lle nas wild Fourth" despite elaborate pre- cautions. 5-Earl Spencer caught red-handed in theft at Peck Spring Co. Charles H. and Elizabeth H. Norton present 60 acres to town for public park. 6-Town display tabled. Six injured in triple crash on West Main street. e-Jacob Borstein jail ed for receiving stolen goods. Mario Morante. 1<. drowned in Thompson's . brook: four others near death in res- cue attempts. 1l-John ChadwinskI. :. killed by hlt-and-run driver. on Woodford avenue. 1S-Earl Holland injured when trolley hits new auto he is delivering to customer. 1s- Three-iegged duck born in Jamea Hedderman's poultry yard. 2o-Daily Vacation Bible school graduates ~ 3t-Rev. Leonard 0. Melville. rector of Church of our Saviour. killed in automobile accident near Concord. ". H.. on 31th birthday anniversary. 1s-Town meeting accepts Charlss H. Norton park" and 70 names t. SS s-Mrs. L. B. warren. 70, nationally |.
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James simpson and republican tick

James simpson and republican tick ct again carry Plainville: F. P. Prior returns to board of selectmen. Mir. and Mrs- w. c. Kramer married $ years. Theodore Fanion reelected commander of Brock k-Barnes post, American Legion. 2-Republican caucus here nominates Fuller F. Barnes of Bristol for state senator. 3-Charles R. Sherman elected chairman of board of assessors. 4- Railroad asks removal of crossing tenders from West Main street and Broad streets. 5-State and local authorities confiscate HOO bottles of beer in three raids resulting from Richter death. S-Joseph T. Nc Carthy reelected chairman of school committee. 9-Mrs. Theodore Fan ion reelected president of American Legion ladies' auxiliary. 10-Robert B. White named by republicans for assemblyman. 11-B. J. Wadsworth appointed traffic officer. Ten motor- ists fined in check-up of defective lights. 1.-Frank Drzewicki jailed for liquor sales. Arnold Burkhardt of Southington killed when crushed between two automobiles at town line. ls-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ny berg married e5 years. 15-Town meeting approves parking restric- tions, adopts budget, appoints o. I. Cooley to building commission. Dem- ocrats nominate C. O. Cutting for assemblyman. 17-Auto and garage of Patsy Chambrello destroyed by fire. Fire commission reappointed. c3-Red Cross collects s293 for Flor ida relief. Robert E. Lydon of Mill ford. Mass. fatally injured when struck by two automobiles on Farm ington avenue. 24-Trumbuli Elec- tric and Standard Steel factories agree to share cost of Woodford avenue paving with town. 25-- Teachers club elects Douglas Mac Donald president. 2S-Rev. Dr. A D. kendrick. Baptist church pastor received call to Olivet Baptist church. Hartford. 29-Property own- CTS oppose West Main street widen. ing, which is dropped. 31-James Paul resigns as constable. Constab ble George Schubert reappointed night officer.
 November 3-Plainville Trust Co doubles equalization to s1oo,oo0. Public utilities commission allows withdrawal of railroad crossing tend CTS. 6-Town casts record vote Of 2.0l0 or s1 per cent; gives big ma jority to Herbert Hoover and all re- publican candidates. Robert 5 White reelected assemblyman. J. H Trumbull reelected governor but runs 51 behind ticket in PlainvilIe Mrs. Alfred Hepworth s4 years old 7-Howard s. Smith elected Parent Teacher association president. & State takes over Sunset Rock as state park. 13-High school football team !disbanded for failure to practice, 1 Clash between local authorities and state police over slow action al latter in Lydon case. 1S-Leslie At water hero and he and Leroy Futile are fearfully burned by lantern ex. plosion on Bradley mountain. w. A. Hyde, 67. dies. 2o-Charles H. Cur tis elected master of Plainville Grange for fourth term. 21-Steven Sasek awarded $6,0O0 for loss Of eye in auto smash. 23-Railroad re-
New Britain herald., 1928-03-30
Latvian Bicyclist Is
 On His HOmeWard Lap

Mexico City, March 30 UP)-E. Manuel kotuisky after pedalling his way through 50 countries on the same bicycle, is now ell route to the United States from Mexico. kotui- sky. a Russian, is making trip around the world and, as may be supposed, will, when he finishes, write a hood to be called: Around the World on a Bicycle
 Leaving Riga. the capital or Lithuania. June 14,f 1925, kotulsky visited, he says, the following coun- tries: Latvia, Poland. Danzig. Ger many, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Yugo Slavla, Greece, Turkey, Egypt the Sudan. India, including Bombay and Calcut- tn, Siam. Indo-C China, French 1ndo- China, Korea, China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bra gill, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colum- hia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Fl Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.
 He has three more countries to visit. the United States. Spain and Portugal. Kotuisky before he me came a round-the-w world cyclist was a journalist in Riga.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-30
WOMAN CHAMPION
 REALLY WAS MAN
Death Claims Frances Anderson,
 Billiard Star

Sapula, Okla, March 80 GPt- Frances Anderson of Los Angeles. at one time heralded as the world S champion woman billiard player, ' in death has disclosed the secret that she" in reality was man.
 Frances Anderson ended "her" life today In a hotel room here by slash Ing both wrists. throat, head and breast with safety razor blades. Let tcrs, yellowed by age. were found in .the stockings on the body to indicate death was by suicide. @ The man was declared to have been known for more than 50 years in his profession as a woman bll- llardst.
 My parents died many years ago, read one unsigned letter taken from the stocking. Do what you want with my body. but don't let the world know my secret" The mis- sive was undated but apparently was years old.
 Newspaper clippings told of his travels as a billiard player and eX- hibitions given ln many cities. He was about 60 years cid.
 In newspaper interviews. Ander- son frequently gave advice to wives on means of keeping their husbands interest. He recommended installa- tion of billiard tables in homes so husbands and wives might play the game together.
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Tilden Is Making No
 Predictions in Mexico

Mexico City, March 80 UP)- Captain William T. Tilden of the American Davis cup team is making no prophecies about what the United States will do this year because France has two of the greatest ten his players in the world.
 United States was beaten last year because the French were far better he said. We played the best game possible. Rene Lacoste, day in and day out, is the best play CT in the world But when Henri Cochet is at his best, he is the best player the world has ever seen.
 The team composed Of Tilden, Johnny Hennessey. Junior Coen, Arnold Jones arrived here yesterday. Winner Allison, the other member, will arrive later. probably today. Tilden said all were in good shape and would start practice tomorrow.
 Fifty representatives of the Mex ican Lawn Tennis Association met the team at the station and there was vigorous applause as they stepped from the train.
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NEW SWEDISH FERRIES

Stockholm, March 30 (UP)- Sweden is soon to be linked to the Baltic states by means of two steam ferries capable of carrying passen- ger and freight trains directly from the Swedish railroads 10 those of Es- tonia and Latvia. The Swedish starting point of the new line will be at Nynaeshamn, near Stockholm, and the Baltic terminals will be To- cated at Reval and Libau. The fer ries will be built in Sweden. An other proposed train ferry route un- der discussion runs between Gothen- burg and England.
 The advance estimates show that the profits accruing from the present commercial intercourse will be suffl- cient to defray the costs of this un- dertaking. but 1t is hoped that the new traffic facilities will do much to increase the trade between Sweden and the Baltic states and also be- tween Russian and western Europe.
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and towns. Wires have been heightened and increased in num- ber so that every block of Main street may be linked close to Wall street.
 The price of memberships Tn the stock exchange has scared to SS15,- 900. increasing to some S412,500. 900 the yaiue--on paper at loast-of seats held by HOO purchasers, most of whom paid less than s250. 900. some brokers believe the price will rise to $500, GOO within a few months if the present market activity con- tinuos.
 From 1910 to 1919 the top price tor seats was sl00.000. From l9a4 1 until the end of 1927 the peak was s250, ,000. The recent purchaser of q seat for S335,000 paid exactly S3S0, ,000 more than did his grand father back in 1S71 N 1871 seats sold for $2.750
New Britain herald., 1928-03-30
Negro Shoots Wife and
 Then Takes Own Life

New London. Conn.,. March 30 UP)-Worry over marital difficult ties was thought today to have caused Nels McGregor. 32-year-old New York negro, 10 kill his wife on q street here last night and then take his own life with the same re- Nolver.
 Bystanders said the negro stopped the woman as though to talk. drew 8 revolver and fired three shots into her body at close range, then fired two bullets into his own body. Neither lived more than a few minutes.
 Police said McGregor had sought their aid in forcing his wife to live with him. He told them that al- though he had given her a home and and they had a 9year- boy. she had left him.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-30
Fire and Storms Prevent
 Some Radio Experiments

New York, March 30 P-A fire and two severe storms last night forced the National Broadcasting company to twice reroute a coast to-coast fookup Of 55 radio broad casting stations. and finally cut off all stations south of Cincinnati,
 The fire. in a telephone exchange in Columbus, O.. forced rerouting of the two transcontnental lines a quarter of an hour before the pro- gram opened. In the middle of the broadeasting, sleet from storm in Ohio 50 burdened the wires that second re-routing was necessary in the midst of a speech.
 Half an hour after this program ended. every telephone wire going into or out of Beaver Dam, Ohio. vas either put out of service or so grounded as to distort speech unti! t was not understandable, and as the storm grew worse all stations In the chain south of Cincinnati were cut off.
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local hospital.
 Yesterday she gave the dog 10 Miss Trumbull, who had greatly ad- mired it. and last night when the Connecticut governors daughter drove off for Hartford. in her sport roadster, she took Blackberry with her.
 One member of the Coolidge Goodhue household here felt no sor- row at the elbows departure. "Reans," the Boston terrier of Mrs. Goodhue. had been plainly jealous of the affections bestowed on Black berry" and only recovered from pronounced sulk when the White House animal departed.