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New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
EIGHT FIREMEN HELD
 ON CHARGE OF ARSON
Glen Cove Men Alleged to Have Set BlaZes in
 County

Glen Cove, N. Y, Sept. 10 N1- Eight volunteer members of the fire department of Glen Cove today were charged with second and third de- gree arson in connection with a series of mysterious fires in the county going back to 1924. They were held without bail for acton of the Nassau county grand jury.
 The men. all prominently known in Glen Cove, and the charges against each are: Second degree ar son: Edward Baker, Harry Francis, Thomas Moore, Adam Stern and Lawrence Kreyer; second and third degree arson: Raymon Sprague and Fred Boxey; third degree arson, Norman Lang.
 They are charged specifically with criminal action in the fire which on July 14, 1925, destroyed the house at Glen Cove owned by the late John T. Pratt of New York and occupied at thetime by Henry Folger, head of the Standard Oil Go. of New York.
 Reading of the complaint was waived by attorneys for the eight men at the hearing here before City Judge William J. Cocks. Police off, cers, however. said the men had con- fessed to setting the fire which de- stroyed the Pratt home.
 The fires in connection with which the men were investigated date back to 1924, the last one being in February of this year. They include the bathing pavilion at the city beach, Fraternity Inn, the residences of E. Bartel Hall Norvin Lindheim, the Tappan House, the Pollitt House and the Moskow House.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
HUSTLING BOOTBLACK
 CARRIED BY FRIENDS
Joey Vetri Convinced This World Is Nice
 Place

New Britain cops aren't so bad after all-at least that's what little Joey Netri, better known as Joey the shoe shine boy, thinks.
 Little Joey is 10 years old. He goes to the Smalley school and dur ing the summer he helped to feed his nine brothers and sisters by earn ing money as a bootblack. When bus to s2 a day Joey's principal place of business was at the office of Put nam &c Co., Here he won the friend ship of all his customers by his pc lite manners and his ambition 10 earn money.
 However, Joey did not look for ward to school enthusiastically Po- liceman Peter Skierkowski, who was known to Joey as Peter. the cop" was one of Joey's best customers and friends. He found out why such an energetic boy as Joey who was not afraid to work did not want to go to school. It was not that Joey did not wont 10 learn, It was because Joey did not have nice new clothes. So Pete, the cop" acted. He bought Joey new suit shirt, a necktie and a cap.
 Joey told John Sani, manager of the Palace Barber Shop. what Pete. the cop, did for him. So Sani, not to be outdone, gave Joey a free hair cut in which to start the school year Off right.
 Then Joey has another friend. Jo- seph Fallone of the National Cash Register Go. This friend bought Joey and a new pair of Sneakers"
 So at least one bootblack started the school year off with a smile on his face.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10

Brooklyn, N. Y Sept, 10 UP)- A four-ycar- old boy, Kidnapped from his home in New Haven, Conn, last April, returned today from Danzis as a conquering hero to be met by an hystcrical mothcr--and then he did not recognize her.
 The lad. Jan Capp. Jr.. who came in on the liner Estonia, ran scream- ing from his mothers arms to the protection of the nurse whom ne had grown to love on an 11-day voyage across the Atlantic.
 Let me stay with her, let me stay with her" Jan cried, while his mother broke down completely, screaming:
 My God, my boy, my boy-he doesn't know me"
 Mixup on Board Ship
 The mother, Mary Capp, longing to sec the child who was abducted from their home and taken to Dan- zig by a former boarder, previously had become hysterical due to a miX-up on board ship when she could not find the boy.
 Jan's parents and the lawyer who secured his return were to have met the Estonia when it docked here at 9:30. But traffic delayed them. Meanwhile the nurse took the boy down to the ships hospital. The mother came aboard-and no Jan was to be found.
 Give me my baby, give me my
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Convicted Murderer Takes Poison
 To Avoid Execution September 27

Adams killed three people in a mad frenzy after he quarrelled with his wife. He went to the home of his wife's parents June 16, 1927, to find his wife, who had left him. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Whalin, 45. refused to tell him where her daughter was and he shot and killed her. He then went to the home of a friend of his wife, Miss Zella Sin clair, A, forced her into a taxicab and attempted to make her tell where his wife was. She refused and he shot her, inficting a fatal wound from which she later died.
 Kills One Detective
 Adams then went into hiding Three detectives went to his room to arrest him and as Detective Fran cis De Armond stepped inside, Adams fired. killing him. The other two subdued him and removed him to jail. A mob gathered and Sheriff Alfred Owen spirited him away, keeping him in some woCIs south Of Springfield until feeling against Adams died down.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Janek Felled By Blow On Head After He Punches Patrolnan Cofey in Jaw Re- covers Consciousness Hours Later.
Officer Almost Knocked Out by Blow, Dodges Second and Yields Club Effectively in Self De- fense - Victim Taken From Cell to Hospital at 1 a. m. Today.

Chester Janek, IS, of 241 Broad
 street, was knocked flat by a police
 mans night stick last night and was
 unconscious for several hours aft
 erwards. lie was rendered uncon-
 scious by Patrolman Stephen CoffAy
 after he had struck the policeman
 on the jaw and was trying to put
 covering at New Britain General
 hospital to which institution he was
 taken at 4 o'clock this morning when he failed to recover conscious ness at police headquarters. A continuance until Thursday was or dered in Janek's case when it was called in police court today, the
 charges being drunkenness. breach
 of the peace and resistance.
 According to OfficerE Coffeys re-
 port, he and Officer Charles Weare
 were at the corner of Booth and
 Broad streets about 10:45 o'clock
 last night and had occasion 10 speak to four young men who were making unnecessary noise. Later. Janek was seen staggering north on Booth street and when he was in
 front of 94 Booth street, the four young men crossed the street to- wards him but the officers ordered them to stay away from him.
 They went south on Booth street and Janek continued in the oppo- 4 site direction, Officer Coffey follow ing him and calling him to wait.
 Janek, according to the officer. | turned around and called him vile
 names, and when the officer, upon
 catching up to him. asked him wha: | he had said, Janck wheeled about
 and let fly fist which caught the
 officer unprepared.
 Dazed for few seconds, the off cer shook off the effects of the | punch in time to see Janek prepar- i ing 10 land another blow. Grabbing
 him, the officer tried to pin his arms
 ari prevent him from striking again
 but Janek kept swinging and the officer il. self defense, struck him on the head with his nightstick l The force of the blow krocSed Jan- 1 elk to the sidewalk. He struck on his head and was unable to get up. Officer Coffey notified police head quarters and the patrol was sent out, but when Janel did not regain consciousness at o'clock this morning, Sergeant M. J. Flynn call "d Dr. <. J. Savard. who had him removed 10 the hospital. Acting Ser geant George Collins and Officer | Sotfey later located the four young | men who Mere on the street when ! the affair occurred. They are: An l thony Babula of Booth and Broad i streets; Frank Partyka Of 54 Booth l street; John Novick of 78 Booth 1 street; Henry barwikow ski of S2 | Booth street
 | At the hospital today, it was re- | ported that Janek did not appear to ! be seriously injured and would prob- 1 ably be able 10 leave shortly.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10

scnce of education, that hard brain sweat oyer principles, ideas and fundamentals without which think ing is incompetent I suggested that one of the causes lay in the fact that the larger proportion of our young people leave school without having had a single man teacher. That fact, so far as our growing OOyS are concerned, is catastrophe.
 Once Only Held
 A generation ago teaching was about the only outlet for the ambi- tious and superior woman. even al- though many of these were stronger in character than in intellectual ira -irg%. But today dozens ot economically and socially more at tractive jobs are open to the young woman of bralnS, energy and self reliance. The more intelligent class of girls who want to teach will insist on going to college. More and more, therefore. our normal schools have to be recruited from girls whose cultural background is limit cd and who. intellectually, can neither pass the entrance eXamina-
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New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Lad of 4, Stolen Last April, Back
 From Europe, Shuns Mother atDock

baby" Mrs. Cap shricked. You fool me again." she screamed, You take all my money. you tell me my boy is coming back. Now you fool me again. III kill myself, I'll kill somebody"
 Nurse Appears With Boy
 Then the nurse appeared in the companionway, pulling Jane along by the hand.
 Don't you want to sec you; mother?'
 "Nein, nein," Jan believed.
 The nurse, however, retreated dip lomatically, and the boy, still un- happy, was bundled off to a waiting automobile in which the lawyer, Thomas R. FTitzsimmons of New Ha- ven, had planned to drive them home. But Mrs. Capp was afraid Of an accident. They took train.
 Crowd Receives Lad
 Jan was received at the pier by as many officials as might be wait ing to expedite the arrival of a dis tinguished visitor. Special immigra- ion and customs were on hand 10 arrange hls papers without delay. A squad of photographers were therr to snap his picture.
 During the voyage too, Jan had been the hero of the Baltic-Ameri can liner. He had the run of the ship, from Capt Arthom Rasmus- sens own rooms to the galley. The nurse, Stefania WerchowodN, de- voted most of her time to caring fo.' nim.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10

Springfield, Mo. Sept. 10 tP-Ad- hitting that he deserved to die for the murder of three people, Newell "Dobbs" Adams, under sentence to be hanged Sept. 27, was dead today. He swallowed poison tablets which he had kept hidden in his cell in the Greene county jail for nearly a year.
 Deserved to Die
 His dying words to Sheriff Marcel Hendrix and his wife, Mrs. Meada Adams were: T did not deserve to hang but I guess I do deserve to die" He retained consciousness to the end.
 Adams called Sheriff Hendrix to his cell = and thanked him for the treatment that had been accorded him. The officer had just left Adams when he was summoned by a jailor who told him Adams had collapsed. The slayer had boasted to other prisoners he would not hang. His suicide came less than a week after Governor Caulfeld had refused 10 intervene in the sentence of death.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Bomb Explodes Near
 Tug in East River

New York. Sept. 10 Rl-A bomb, dropped today by an unidentified person from the Manhattan bridge into East river, exploded within 10 feet of the United States tug Ruko 137, and sent a shower of water over it's decks. None of the crew of 80 was injured and the tug was un- damaged.
 The incident was reported 10 Rear Admiral Louis de Steigeur at the Brooklyn navy yard. Marine police and detectives of the bomb squad are Investigating. No frag- ments of the bomb were found.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Bremen Plane Will
 Start This Afternoon

New York. Sept. 10 P}-Captail Zeigenbein, of the North German liner Bremen. today wirclessed the ships offices here that the mail plane she carries would be cata- Island this afternoon.
 This superCcdcs an earlier mes sage to the Charlestown, Mass. navy yard that fog would prevent the planes talleoff. The plane took off from the Bremen yesterday, but was forced back by fog.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Fire Engine Too Big
 For Town Fire House

Chicago, Sept. 10 P}-Nothing much had happened in Hege- wisch since it sent Battling Nel- son forth to sock the light weights on the chin. But yestcr- day Hegewisch got a new fire en- zine.
 Hegewisch was all ready ter the engine; mad fire house walt ing, and everything. Too late it was discovered the fire engine was too big for the fire house.
 Some people think politiCi"~ have an easy life, h''' problem like this;
 simple The Hegewis
 ties now must figure .-i2' get a too big engine n"N ,oo small house.
 However, as someone pointed out, that's their problem.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Rocky Pass Named
 For Graf Commander

San Diego, Cal, Sept. 10 P>-A depression in the coast range of mountains east of here. through h which the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin flew on it's trip from Los Angeles to Lakehurst, today bore the name of Eckener Pass, in hon or of the commander of the globe girdling airship.
 An army plane carrying Major Carl Spatz, army aviator, and Cap tain Won Arnauld De La Pericr. master of the German cruiser En- den, flew above the pass yesterday and dropped a parachute to which the American and German flags had been attached. This was the cera- mony of dedication.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
YOUTH SOUGHT FOR NAUGATUCK ATTACK Edward Johnson Wounded Brother Resented
 Love Affair

Naugatucll, Sept. 10 LP,-Edward Johnson. IS, of Andrew avenue, was shot five times through both legs by Carlo Canaperi, IS, on An drew Fountain. as he was leaving for work shortly before ' o'clock this morning. Canaperi jumped in 10 Johnson's automobile after the shooting and made good his escape
 Police of the state are engaged in searching for Canaperi, who was last seen near Allerton Farms.
 Johnson was treated at the office of local doctor and then taken to the Waterbury hospital where his condition is not believed to be seri- ous.
 Police say that Canaperi shot Johnson after he argued with John son about Johnson keeping company with his sister.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
ONE CANDIDATE LEFT
 FOR DR, PULLEN'S POST
Lewiston, Me-, Physician to Be Interviewed
 Next Week

With but one more personal inter view assured, members of the board of health meeting today agreed that the problem of selecting a suitable successor to pr. Richard w. pullen at the salary provided, is a baffling one.
 Out of 55 applicants, only six were selected for personal interviews. Others professed to have no interest in the post unless it paid 5000 a year or more while still others were eliminated because Of advanced age or lack of experience.
 Yesterday it was announced that three physicians stood foremost in consideration, but today's meeting indicated a lack of interest by one and disclosed that the second cannot be located at the address he gave. Dr. Dumont, health officer at Lewis
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
Bridgeport Flier Sets
 World Altitude Record

Bridgeport, Sept. 10 P}-A world altitude record in an airplane pow cred with an OX-5 type motor was acknowledged today when Milton Hamon, manager of the airport here, received word from the Ma tional Aeronautical association that his flight on August A, was recog
 nized. Hamon piloted his plane to height of 19,593 feet over this city.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
10 Lose Lives as Boat
 EXDlOdes Near NOrsky

Kharoslav, L. s. S. R., Sept. 10 P}-Ten members of the crew of the Soviet oil tanker Medveditza with their families, numbering { was believed. 30 persons, lost their lives today at Norsky, ten miles exploded
 Nine members of another tanker, Grom, which was standing nearby, were gravely injured and sent to hospitals. Two government com- missions will investigate.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
EDUCATORS MARRIED

New Bedford, Mass. Sept. 10 GP The marriage of Miss Blanche Townsend, professor of French language and literature at Bates college and Arthur F. Gilbert, prin- cipai of Parker street school here, which took place in Paris. was an- nounced here today, The ceremony took place at the municipal office of the Sixth Arrondissement on August $. Parisian friends of the bride were witnesses.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
PLANE FLIES 368
 MILES PER HOUR
English Aviator Travels Faster
 Than Any Other Human
BEATS ALL WORLD MARKS
Orlebar Streaks Down Straight
 Course 2S.S1 Miles Faster Than Schneider Cup Winner Last Satur-

Calshot, Eng, Sept. 10 Pl--Driv- ing a blue and silver seaplane that shot through space like a comet A. II. OrIebar, squadron leader and captain of the British Schneider cur team, today sped over a marked course of three kilomcters here to break all worlds speed records. He reached a rate of 36S.S miles an hour in one run of the course and averaged 355.S25 for four successive trials. IL is this latter figure which constitutes the official record.
 Clocked by new timing device more than three hours after the actual flight, Orlebar's average for four consecutive dashes over the course on Southampton water was 355.S miles an hour or 23.31 mile: an hour better than the new world < record established Saturday by fly ing officer l.. K. Atcherley, in the Schneider cup race.
 Also Beats Saturday Mark
 Flight Lieutenant G. H. Stain. forth, who preceded Orlebar with a Gloster- Napier six, also bettered Atcherley's record with a mark ot 336.3 miles an hour.
 Swifter than any human being l ,1 ri ish ace Orlebar yet failed to attain the maximum speed which he might have made had the visibility beer better He believed he could make about 375 miles an hour under fav- orable conditions.
 Stainforth was also hampered by poor visibility His machine was frequently lost to sight in the haze as he streaked along the course after flattening out from a swift dive.
 The official announcement of the British airmen's achievements was made late in the afternoon, after a long session by timers and mathe- maticians.
 Orlebar flew the super-marinc Rolls Royle S-6 with which Flying Officer H. R. D. Waghorn won the Schneider cup race for England on Saturday with a Maru, of 32S.6S miles an hour.
 Four dashes were made in one continuous flight. If more than four were made by the pilot. the best speeds for four consecutive runs, two in each direction, were tc be taken.
 The pilot passed the starting anG Finishing lines i'll a horizontal flight for 600 yards before crossing tho starting line and during his passage over the course his altitude was moi to exceed a height of 500 feet. Else, where his height was not to exceed 1900 feet.
 The record which Stainforth anc Orlebar broke today was set by Flying Officer R. l.. R. Atcherley with a mark of 33249 miles an hour in two laps of Saturdays Schneider cup races. Atcherley was disquali. fled from the Schneider cup race but his individual lap record was al. lowed to stand by the officers.
 Broke Existing Record
 In winning the Schneider cup fol England Waghorn broke the
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New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
NEW HAVEN ROAD
 TRAIN OFF TRACK
Two Hurt as Cars Jump Rails
 Near WiIIimantiC Today
NEITHER BADLY INJURED
No. 46 Engine Runs into sand Bank, While Cars Narrowly Miss Station
 Split Switch Blamed for De-

W lilc cars NdfFOWlN hiSS StatlOH
 Split Switch Blamed for De-
 railment.
 WilHmantic, Sept. 10 tP}-spIit- ting a switch on a siding is believed 10 have been the cause of the de railment of New Haven road pas Sengor train 46 today, bound from New Haven to Boston. The train. consisting of a baggage car. three coaches and one Pullman, was due in Willimantic at 10:O5 and while proceeding through the yard block where a s]lion crGv had been working, the engine suddenly lurch ed as it passed over the sidine switch.
 The engine le the rails, break ing the coupling. The baggage car and coaches took an opposite direc- tion and headed for the station platform, 2So feet away, where they came to a stop within six feet ot the station platform.
 Two Persons Hurt
 Two persons were injured. one a passenger and the other a baggage master They were Miss Grace AveriII of 126 Capitol avenue, Hart ford, and Preston F. Cobb, who were suffering minor injuries
 Two theories were reported as possible causes for the deraiment One was that a section crew had left hand car on the main line and the engine struck it, causing it to open a switch. The other was that after passing one switch on the siding the passenger engine split a second one, with the engine heal ing toward the siding and the cars following the main line a short dis tancc before derailing.
 The train, known as the Highland express, was in charge of P. l.. Jewell, conductor, of Hartford, and F. G. Wilson of New Haven, en- gineer. There were G4 passengers in the coaches and Pullman at the time of the accident,
 The locomotive after it left the rails, went a distance of almost 200 feet, coming to stop in huge pile of sand and hurying nearly all the front of it None of the passenger cars or baggage cars topplcd over, but remained standing a few feet away from the rails.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
PROF. ROBERT F. ROGERS

Written for the United PressD
 The United Press has asked me to amplify my remark in speech made Sunday at the business confer cnce held at Babson park, Wellesley Mass. There is need of amplifica- ton, for I was trying to condense into 30 minutes my notion of the thinking characteristics of our moro political, social, ethical, and reli- gious.
 Many Have No Men Teachers
 l came to the conclusion that they were enormously interested in the immediate practical applications Of education, but not at all in the es-
New Britain herald., 1929-09-10
YOUTH KNOCKED SENSELESS BY POL|CEMAN'S STICK IN
 ROW AT BROAD AND BOOTH
LEAGUE CONSIDERS
 BR|AND'S PROPOSAL
Enthusiasm Grows for CoDfed-
 eratiOn Of Europe Project
VAST RESULTS PREDICTED

Are Taking Part in Move Of Great
 Historic Significance Optimism
 Increases.
 Geneva. Sept 10 Pl-League Of Nations circles spcculatod today on the form which Aristide Briand's United States of Europe" would take.
 Several factors in the speculation were particularly noticeable:
 First, growing enthusiasm for the project. second disinclination to foster political union; and third, increasing belief it's function should be solely economic.
 Big Significance Seen
 The success which crowned NJ Trands launching of the ship of European confodcracy has caused an immense impression and today some of the 2S national delegations in vited to the French promicr's lunch con yesterday were beginning Ia think they had got aboard a big thing historically.
 II was felt. generally, years might be required to get the confederation into practical working order, but original skepticism that such could eyer eventuate was disappearing rapidly.
 No details of the French premicr's project have been worked out as yet but in the next year they will b. given much consideration and wher the representatives of the govern. ment meet again in 1880 during the eleventh assembly of thc League of Nations the plans should be rathe; far advanced.
 Frontier Question NcNcs
 Rest opinion today was that such a confederation would begin its work by emphasizing the necessity ot frequent meetings Of the European states to tackle and solve past econo mic problems caused by division 9 the continent into 30 customs tariff ! frontiers.
 Probably the most delicate poin at stake is the achievement of Eu ropean economic unity without any state losing any sense of nation& sovereignty.
 Europe means business sait one European statesman today. w, are headed for economic ruin unles: we get together"