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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
fIRE|MEy PERFORM
HEROIC DUTIES
SaI. Sc,1ddiR From Crash
ine to Street

New York. Sept. ~ H-Thou-
sands Of office workers. hidden be-
meath umbrellas hurried past the
4s-stsry transportation building.
Broadway and Barclay street this
morning, 50 intent on reaching their
desks after battling wind and rain
that they missed one of those exhi-
bitiens Of daring courage for which
the city's f1remen are famous.
From the 37th door of the giant
skyscraper a scaifold. blown loose ty
the gale. was swinging back and
forth. threatening with each blow to
shatter itself against the wall and
shower its timbers to the sidewalk.
Two building employees tried to haul
1t into an office. but the job was too
much for them. Somebody sent for
Hook and Ladder Number 10.
Whirling up In an elevator. three
firemen peeled off their coats.
climbed onto the window ledge and
stepped upon the dizzily swaying
platform. With their weight to
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
ASSESSORS READY
TO RECEIVE LISTS
Board Will Hold Annual Ses.
sion Beginning October |

Owners of taxable property may
visit the office of the board of as
SCISSORS at City hall q October 1 and
each week day thereafter up to and
including October Is, from $50 a
m. to p. m. and October 6, 10 and
Is from 1880 to $40 p. m. to file
such lists as are required by law.
Under special act affecting only
this city real estate lists and auto
mobiles need not be reported. AL
though their holdings are tax-ex-
empt, complete lists of properties
must be reported by scientific, edu-
cational. literary, historical. charita-
BILE. agricultural or horticultural in
stitutions and organizations and by
cemetery associations, the assessors
advise.
Among the items which are re-
portable are: Domestic animals
horses. sheep. swine. cattle poultry,
etc: carriages. bicycles. jewelry ex-
ceeding $25 in value: household
furniture in excess of $500 In value !;
libraries worth more than 5000;
musical instruments valued at more
than $25: farming tools in excess
OF 5000 in value, and mechanics
tools with the same exemption;
bonds and mortgages: individuals
and partnerships excess of credits
over debts.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
WA1EROVER AUTO
RUNNING BOARDS
Difficult I,sk F,es naldi Re-
lief Workers


Miami Florida. Sept. -. ~ W =
Obstacles facing relief parties pen.
etrating the hurricane stricken sec,
ton along the southeastern portion
Of Lake Okeechobce were told here
by W. H. Combs. ST.. Of Combs I'm
dertaking company which u operat'
ing six ambulances. He expressed
the belief that the death list tn thai
area would not exceed 100 II i
mounted that high. ..-,.
30 Injured
Twenty persons seriously injured
were evacuated from Belleglade t.
west Palm Beach and Fort Lau-
derdale hospitals. by his ambulances
Mr.. Combs said. and part Of the
time cars we're plouxhing through
water above the running boards.
One hundred injured In that area
were suffering from exposure and
must be evacuated to hospitals
quickly if the death tolls is to be
kept down, Combs said. adding that
1t was extremely difficult to esti-
mate the dead, ~ bodies Of those
drowned would remain submerged
for two days at least and some may
be pinned beneath water covered
wreckage.
CaskctS Made
Rough wooden Jackets were being
manufactured hastily in West Palm
Beach and sent inland to bury the
dead.
Combs also told. of seeing refu-
gees huddled closely together In q
school house at Pahokee, wher.
women and children have been IN
wet clothing for three days.
Combs said the threat of pneu.
monia hung over many OF the sur
vivors unless they were removed ia
more habitable places and equipped
with dry clothing. Trucks have
been pressed into service to supple.
ment the nine ambulances working
in the lake region,
Belleglade, Pahdkee and South
Bay are in dire straits.
Combs reports were supplement.
ed by George r. Brewer, member
of a relief party from here who re.
turned today. He said forty persons
were unaccounted for at Belleglade
and at South Bay an undetermined
number of men, women and chill
dren were isolated in q hotel with
out food, and at one place on the
Miami canal, ;: people were anoa1
on barge in similar condition.
Water at Belleglade had faller
from six feet deep to is inches.
J. w. Ives Of Ives Dairy. Miami
and 80 other white and negro resi-.
dents of little Kraemer Island. sew.
en- miles southwest of Pahoke were
saved Monday morning after float
ing in Lake Okeechobee on a house
top all night.
Everything on the Island was de-
molished in the storm during which
more than nine feet of water spread
over the entire Island. Ives said
that he and Mr.. and Mrs. Hooker
their five year old daughter and I
Mr.. Mcleod. and IS negroes floated
on the roof for more than five miles
When the roof drifted to the south
shore of the lake they succeeded In
getting on land.
Fares Better
Big Kraemer Island Jared better.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
WORKERS PARTY SEEKING
PLACE ON VOTING MACHINES
Files Petition With City Clerk To
Have Names Listed on
Election Day

A petition was filed with City
Clerk Alfred l.. Thompson today in
behalf of the Workers Party of
America, to have the names of can
didates on that ticket included on
the voting machines here. Although
only SO signatures are required, So
names are affixed to the petition.
the names of James Smith of 81
West street. and Mike Ryan of 1913
Daily avenue, added as Nos. 81
and So.
Candidates listed for state Of
fees are: William Mackenzie Of
Stamford. governor: r. 8. King.
New Haven. lieutenant governor;
konrad Laske. Springdale, United
States senator; Gertrude Duell New
Haven. secretary Of state: Edward
Mrasko. Bridgeport. treasurer: John
CONDOS. Bridgeport. comptroller.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
200 Bodies Buried
After the Hurricane

West Palm Beach. Fla. Sept 10
(P>-Howard Selby. chairman Of two
Palm Beach county Red Cross or
ganiza ton, told a conference of re-
lief workers today that to date
bodies of 200 persons. victims of the
hurricane. had been buried in local
cemeteries.
The bodies. half of them of white
persons, came from the region
about Lake Okeechobee. MIR. Selby
said.
Conditions in the stricken area
are growing worse every minute,
Mr.. Selby said. About 5000 persons
in the lake REGION are in desperate
need of clothing, food and medical
aid
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19

Aeld. n. C. Lightfoet claims to have
signed up $4,000 Missouri demo-
Gratis in his democratic Hoover clubs.
Thus are party lines badly tangled.
Although the democrats are work
ing hard to make farm relief the
issue outstate, they are making no
extravagant claims as to the situa-
ton there. They are claiming St.
Louis by a majority even greater
than the $4,000 which the city gave
to Senator Jim" Reed when he
ran the last time in 1922. They
quote 10000 or $4,000 as the prob
able democratic majority in Kansas
City. and count these margins am
pie to overturn any majority Hoover
may have elsewhere.
Claims state for Hoover
The republicans, with an equal
show of confidence. claim the state
for Hoover by 5000 upward. They
say that much of an edge is indi-
Gated by canvass OF counties out
side St. Louis, and they predict that
the best Smith now can hope to do
in st. Louis is to wipe out the nor
NAL republican majority there.
Local and state issues are SO bad
ly intertwined in Missouri as to fur
Their handicap political forecastes.
Both parties have nominated men
for governor who have criticized the
prohibition laws. Both have nomi-
mated drys for senator. The repub-
llcans have a batch of charges OF
primary frauds on their doorstep,
and the democrats are trying to
heal unusually severe wounds which
they inflicted on one another in
that same primary fight. The demo-
cratic senatorial nominee, Charles
M. hay, an outsta nding Anti Saloon
Lacquer. was attacked most bitterly
during the primary by Senator Reed
Now the senator, retiring voluntarily
from office. says he will support the
ticket. although he already is on
record as having said in the primary
campaign that if Hay were nomi
mated. campaign speech for Hay
in Missouri would be a campaign
speech against Smith.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
NOSES RAps COY. Smith

SAYS uOSetWU1 - s1Jsss0 eSsss s>ss>
Against the Middle" in Farm Ro-
lief Issue.
New York. Sept. ~ N-Senator
George H. Moses OF New Hampshire,
eastern advisory chairman Of the
Hoover campaign, said today that
Governor Smith was playing both
ends against the middle" on the
question OF farm relief.
The democratic nominee, asserted
the senator in commenting on the
Governors Omaha speech. was try
ing to get both the proponents and
the opponents OF the equalization
fee to vote for him.
THE plouEhboy Of the eastern
world" said Senator Noses "goei
west in a million dollar special train
to carry relief to the harassed farm.
ers of that section. His remedy con-
sists In a plea to give him = chance,
His nromise consists In a pledge to
appoint . commission to tell him
wnat to do. Both his plea and hii
promise will prove ineffective"
Nobody knows who. would bt
on the commission. Whit would be
its recommendation and when II
reported 1t would still have congress
to deal with.
mo doubt II sufficient pressure
il brought to bear on the governor
while he is in the west he will de-
clare for the equalization fee. Gov
ernor Smith wants to be president
and he doesn't care how he geti
there. II he declares for the equali-
zation fee 1t will simplify matters fol
me here in the east"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
Alfonso Drops in
On King Christian

Copenhagen, Sept. - N-Ktns
Alfonso of Spain dropped In for 4
friendly call today on King Chris
tian of Denmark at the Skaw. ar
Skagen Cape. lie disembark. d
from the Spanish cruiser Principe
Alfonso which was taking him from
Sweden to Scotland.
Crown Prince Frederick and
Prince knud assisted their father in
Frederick driving the motor IN
which the two sovereigns proceeded
to Kiltgaarden. After brief stay
there Alfonso rejoined the cruiser
which sailed for Scotland.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19
Seattle Aviator Is
Reported As Safe

George H. Storck, Seattle aviator
who started from England several
days ago on a solo flight around
the world. arrived last night after
being posted as missing for more
than two days
He had taken off in his 80 horse
power plane on Sunday noon from
Sartrouville, near Paris. At : p. IN.
last night he brought his baby sea-
plane down on a little pond in near
by Mariguane.
Where he had been in the mean
time was not learned.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19

steady it, comrades in the olkies drew
the heavy planks tndeorA
On the street. far below. the Nm.
brella stream eddied. uptown, dsvn.
town. A few Of the black mush-
rooms stopped at the are truck while
they wondered where the fire was
and then moved on. But nobody
cast q glance upward.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19

his father. Howard Seymour Peck.
two weeks ago.
Mr.. Peck is graduate of the
Bristol schools. Phillips Exeter
Academy and Yale college, Since
his graduation from Yale in 1929 ne
has been connected with the agency
department of the Travellers Insur-
ance company Of Hartford. At the
time of his fathers death he was
located in Charlotte. N. C.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-09-19

No president has been chosen in
the United States since tho Civil war
whose campaign was not sufficiently
financed to take care of current
expenses"
Evening star., 1928-06-20

come. l nau 10
rush h ON e to
protect my own
interest. I am
a bout to lose
my favorite-son
standing. I just
had a talk with
Andy. He Is a
fine. m o d e S t
young kid. He
promised to run
out to California
and see me some
time.
I see W h ere
Gov. Ritchie of
Maryland with
drew. There Is
your real, legiti-
mate Vice Presi-
dent. If the Y
Evening star., 1928-06-20
CULVER|SBOOMED
AS REALTOR HEAD
Californian Mentioned as
Nominating Committee Be-
gins Preparing Slate.
By the Associated Press.

by lne ASSOClhteQ Press.
LOUISVILLE. KY. June 20.--Harry
Culver, founder of Culver City, Calf,
was mentioned prominently today as
the probable successor of Henry G.
zander, Chicago. as president of the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards now in annual convention here.
The nominating committee of the as
sociation met today to begin work on
slate of officers while some two thou
sand real estate men from all sections
of the country went into series of di-
visional and group meetings.
Mr.. Culver. now director Of the as
sociation. Is past president of both the
California Real Estate Association and
the Los Angeles Realty Board.
Real estate bonds, the appraisal of
real estate. farm problems, and meth
ods Of selling and transferring real
estate were among the subjects dis
cussed at the divisional meetings.
Miss Geneve A. Shaffer of San Fran
cisco, one of the speakers of the day,
was unable to be present. and her adj
dress was read. 1t pointed out that the
successful real estate salesman must
train IAN car for prospects" just as the
newswriter must develop "a nose for
news"
Sorting out" the farmers-getting
the right farmer on the right piece of
land--was pictured as the real job of
the real estate men dealing in farm
lands, by John A. Willoughby. who
spoke to members of the farm land
section. Put the farmer where he will
be satisfied: where his social and re-
ligious life will be pleasing. Remember
that when farmer buys land he buys it
to live on. and to make a living out
of Give him a place where he can
make a home and raise his family.
Evening star., 1928-06-20
.SENATORSASK DATA.
ON CIVIL SERVICE.
Summary of Apportionment
Laws to Be Studied After
Committee Hearing.

The Senate civil service committee,
which has been holding hearings dur
ing the past week on appointments and
dismissals in the civil service since the
war, held an executive session today at
which it requested the Civil Service
Commission to prepare summary of
all the laws and executive orders relat-
ing to apportionment of civil service
Jobs among the States, preferential
rights of ex-Service men and the laws
relating to removal from the service.
The committee will make study of
these laws after the hearings have been
concluded.
Following the executive conference
with members of the Civil Service Com
mission, the committee resumed its
hearings with Miss Mary E. Henaughan.
who began her testimony yesterday. still
on the stand. Miss Henaughan was in
the Government service for a number of
years She testified yesterday that she
had been let out of the service during a
reduction in force.
Her chief contention was that en-
ployes from the States are not given
their full rights under the apportion-
from States which do not have their
full quota of persons in the Government
service in Washington should not be let
out during reductions in force while
Maryland. Virginia and the District of
Columbia have more than their quota
1t has been explained that the ap-
portionment law applies to appoint
mentS and not TO dismiSSals and that
conditions beyond the control of the
Civil Service Commission have brought
about the inequality in apportionment.
During the hearing today, Senator
Brookhart, Republican. of Iowa said the
committee had been informed that since
the war there has been net reduction
of $4,000 in the number of employees
in Washington and pointed out that
this was quite a large change in per-
sonnel. He also called attention to the
statement of the Civil Service Commits
sion that most of the District of CO.
iumbia people in the service in excess
OF the quota are in law Salaried posi-
tions. which residents of distant States
would not come all the way to WASH
ington TO fill He also said the commits
sion would assert that in the higher
Salaried positions the apportionment Is
fairly well distributed among the States.
Senator Brookhart asked Herbert
Morgan of the commission about
statement that as many as half of the
$4,000 excess District residents in the
service were former citizens from
States.
Mr., Morgan said it was impossible to
say how many, but that great many
of those in the service from Washing
ton, at some time came from one of the
States.
Miss Henaughan inquired about the
enforcement of the law which provided
that only two members of q family
may be in the Government service. Mr..
Morgan replied that the commission
keep close watch on that law.
Evening star., 1928-06-20
WOMAN Is FOUND DEAD.

Miss Flora Raymond. IA years old.
was found dead in her apartment in the
Roland, Maryland avenue and Second
street northeast, about ais o'clock last
night by Mrs. Adelaide Johnson of $50
Maryland avenue northeast
Miss Raymond. native OF New York,
had been a resident of the city the past
40 years and had been in the Govern
ment service for 38 years. retiring from
the Interior Department two years ago.
She was a member of the Theosophical
Society and attended Universalist
Church nr Joseph d. Rogers, acting
coroner gave certificate OF death from
natural causes and relatives of Mrs.
Raymond residing in New York we're
advised of her death.
Evening star., 1928-06-20
UNMASkED TEXANS
LYNCH COLORED MAN
Victim Taken From Hospital Was
Accused of Shooting Houston
City Detective.
By the Associated Press,

oS NHF ASSNClAbed fTeSS,
HOUSTON, Tex, June 20.-The body
OF Robert Powell. 24-year-old colored
man who was abducted from the JEFF
ferSon Davis Hospital here early this
morning by an unmasked band of eight
men. was found hanging from bridge
eight miles from Houston at $50 am
Powell, charged with Staying A. w.
Davis, city detective, was taken from
the colored ward of the hospital shortly
before ; o'clock this morning. Deputy
Sheriff S Y. @. Brizenbine. who was
guarding the prisoner. said three of the
men covered him with pistols. disarmed
him and, after placing a rope around
the prisoners neck. carried him from
the building. Hospital attendants said
the men fed in two automobiles.
With the finding of the body, an
nouncement came from Austin that
Gov. Dan Moody had ordered three
State rangers, headed by Capt. Frank
Hamer, TO come to Houston TO assist in
an investigation, Two rangers. already
here for duty at the Democratic ma
tional convention. are assisting the dis
trict attorney in his inquiry.
All available police and sheriff's Of
ficers have been called out to guard
roads leading out of the city in an
effort 10 apprehend the kidnapers.
Evening star., 1928-06-20

Continued from First Page)
trip here from Baltimore when the
light revealed the horse standing in the
middle of the trestle.
Too Close to Stop.
They were then so close to the animal
that Oster could only apply the brakes
The next that he knew was when he
came to about $50 feet from the wreck
He does not know how he got there,
he says. since the window Of the car
was closed and he was not cut, He is
however, painfully bruised about the
body.
Most Of the occupants Of the train
were doing and were aware of the
crash only when the cars started sway
ing and then overturned. The two cars
are of a new type and are considered
as one car by the railroad officials be-
cause they have one truck in the middle
that serves both cars. The force of
the collision tore the two sections apart
turning one over to one side and the
other in the opposite direction.
Following the crash most of the pas
sengers succeeded in crawling to the
tracks. where they sat and waited until
Gales and F. NJ. Sallada. motorman
who was riding 10 his home here. went
for assistance In the meantime Oster,
despite his injuries. went down the
track to flag down any train that might
come upon the wreck.
Oster, Karbownlzek. Dutton and Chill
lari were all taken to Casualty Hos
pital and the colored patients to Emer-
gency Hospital. Frisby was treated on
the scene and went to his family pfy-
sician today. Cuts. bruises and shock
constitute the injuries to the others.
Railroad authorities stated today
their service had been unhampered by
the wreck, despite the fact that several
hundred feet of track are torn up. The
train that crashed was the last of the
night, This morning they ran trains
from their station here, transferring
passengers TO other trains on the other
side of the wreck. AT 10 O'Clock, how
ever. one of the tracks was restored
and trains from both directions were
running over it,
Evening star., 1928-06-20
PLAN OUTING TOMORROW.
Letter Carriers to Have Post Office
Officials as Guests.

Post Office officials will be among the
guests OF honor of the local letter car
riers at their annual excursion tomor-
row at Chesapeake Beach. The guests
will leave District Line at 2 pm,
aboard the private car San Juan.
Luncheon will be provided en- route and
a sea food dinner will be served at
the Casino at pm. Mail deliveries
have been arranged so that virtually
every carrier will be enabled to spend
at least a part of the day at the resort.
The guests invited include Postmaster
w. M Mooney. Assistant Postmaster
w. H. Haycock. Superintendent of Mails
C, E. Schooley, Superintendent of
Money Order p. B. Otterback. Postal
Cashier F. c. Burrows, Fred Sillers. j.
Fl. Muirhead. E. A. Heilig. George l..
TAFT, John r. Tullis. H NJ Bradley.
r. S. Smith. E, ]. Gaynor. president of
the National Association of Letter Car
riers: Clearance r. Stinson. assistant
secretary of the National Association:
Charles Long. H. G. Tegeler. H. Robert
Tiffany, w. w. Day, George E, Winkel-
man. NJ. K Eppiey and W. j. Hamacher.
The outing committee is composed of
A. E. Hamacher, chairman; Thomas L.
Baker. w, E. Berckman. George T. Ellis,
A. M. Friedrichs, r, L. Miley, and ]. P.
Miller.
Evening star., 1928-06-20
SAYS MAN WOULD FAIL
AT WOMAN'S BANK JOB
Utica. N. Y, Manager Tells In
stitute of Needs for Department
Management.
Br the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA. June 20.--A good
looking young man would not do at all
as The manager of woman's depart
ment of bank. in the opinion of Ida
Miller Henry. manager of the woman's
department of Utica. NJ Y, bank. who
addressed the convention of the Ameri-
can Institute of Banking today.
Il do not know any real herman
that would do the work" the sneaker
said
1T is not a Job for man in any
sense of the word. The manager of such
a department must be wonan's wo-
man. She must know how every de-
partment of her bank functions and
why. She must be patient and courte-
Gus and a good mixer