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New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
.S0UTH|NGTON TAX
 INCREASED 1 MILL
Rate for Year Will Be 21 1,2,
 Town Meeting Votes
Especial to the lIerald)

Southington, March 20 - An in- crease of one mill in the tax rate making the rate PIE mills this year, was voted at a special town meeting in the town hall last night. The increase was deemed necessary to meet appropriations of $272,- 609.91 made at a previous meeting.
 First Selectman Charles w. Camp in explaining the items that went to make up the extra mill requireme ent, stated that there5had been d $9,00O decrease in the towns grand list this year due to the fact that the inventories in the factories were lower. The sum of s4,200H had been paid out as result of the settle Police Commissioner Christopher Zilly and Constable Graham Thomp- son. A suit was impending but a settlement was agreed upon with the town agreeing to pay the dam ages. A new fire truck for Mill dale cost $500 while grading at the Holcomb school cost $2,000.
 These items will not be brought up again in the coming year, ac- cording to the selectman and it is very probable, unless there arc un- toresecn occurrences that the tax will be lowered next year.
 It was voted to allow the tax col lector to take ono per cent. on all of the property taxes and five per cent on personal taxes collected. A motion was made to vote the col lector salary of S2,6O0 q year which would be paid $50 weekly Judge Thomas Welch explained that if this motion was passed, it would not affect the present collector.
 On the items in the call for the meeting which would change exist ing laws to have bicnhial elections instead of yearly and semi-annua1 payment of taxes instead of annual ly and tho establishment of board of finance, a motion by Judge Welch to appoint a committee consisting of the three selectmen, Chairman Harold Rogers of the republican town committee and four others tc De selected by those already named was carried This committee will investigate the three propositions and will report back at the neX meeting in September.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20

cd his brother George Shepard. Tor onto, Canada requesting him to fur nish security covering the bond and also sought to raise the amount through a surety company.
 Frankly, Major Shepard sketch'd his friendship which later developed into affection, for Miss Brandon, at Brooks field, Tex. and admitted he became engaged to Miss Brandon eight months after the death of his wife.
 Why, yes, I'm engaged to her." he said. There's no reason 10 deny it. Everyone at the hospital knew it." He also admitted he re- ceived a telegram from Miss Bran- don. in which she mentioned her affection and the receipt from him of three packages.
 Denies Wife's Staying
 Major Shepard. in an interview denied emphatically any connection with his wife's death and said she was the victim of tragic habit of which he had tried to cure her He added that he did not care fc discuss the tragic habit" but ls reported to have written her broth CT. Curtis McCoskey in Los Angeles that Mrs. Shepard was drinking herself to death.' Mrs. Shcparc died after an illness of o5 days.
 Meanwhile, Miss Brandon denied to newspopcrmen at Brooks Ficl. that she sent the telegram receive here. and refused to make a state mcnt.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
PROXY VENGEANCE
 MAY CAUSE DEATH
Mysterious Tip Leads to Shoot
 ing Of SomerVille 'Legger

Boston, March 20 UP)-Victim Patalano, 31, of Somerville, lay in a critical condition at City hospital today.
 While surgeons sought to save his life, police were trying to es- tablish the identity Of q telephone iipster. the source of false informa- ton that caused a policeman tc shoot Patalano just over the heart.
 An unidentified ngIn called Hyde Park police by telephone last night, reporting the registration number Of an automobile which. the inform ant said. would pass through Hyde Park with Il load of liquor. The informant emphasized that the men in the car were desperate charac ters."
 The car in question was sighted at about 7:Sn r. m, and police stopped it after I mile chase. As ratalano and his brother, Peter, 30. alighted from the machine, Patrol man Henry J. Williams thought he saw one of the men reaching for gun, and fired, the bullet striking | Raymond in the breast. Police Arrested Peter on an illegal | transportation charge after claim ing to have found six gallons of al- i cohol in the car.
 1 Says He Never Carried Gun "I didn't have a chance" Ray | mond told police before lapsing into unconsciousnes at the hospital. "I never carried a gun in my life. l just stepped out of the car to talk with the policemen who stopped us and the next thing I knew one of them shot me-
 Investigation disclosed that this was the second attempt by the un- identified informant within 48 hours to bring the Patalano brothers into difficulties with police.
 X man, believed to have been tho T same ono who telophoned Hyde Park authorities last night, report cd 10 Everett police Tuesday eve ming that the Patalano autom obile had figured in the kidnapping of a young woman. It developed that ! there had been no such abduction.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
WARNER GIVES UP
 SEAT IN COUNCIL
Third Warder Surprises Asso-
 ciates With Resignation

W. s. Warner. councilman from the third ward since 1925. surprised the entire council last night by sub his written resignation, giv- ing no reason for retirement.
 The fact that Warner did not re- spond to the roll call was the sub ject of discuss:sl about the con- mon council chamber in view of the third warder's almost perfect attend anee record. Reading of the resigna- ton came about half an hour later. After pause, Alderman Judd, with a puzzled look on his face arose and said:
 Well, I guess I had better move that the resignation be accepted"
 The third ward leader and other Siends of Warner said the resigna- ton was q complete surprise to them.
 Relations between Councilman Warner and former Alderman Don aid l.. Bartlett, one of the candidates
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
WHOLESALE PRICES
 INDICATE DECLINE
Bureau Of Labor Reports on
 Index for February

Washington, March 20 tUP)-Oc- cline of wholesale commodity prices in February to less than one per cent above the lowest postwar level was reported by the labor depart ncnt.
 The bureau of labor statistics weighted index, with average prices in 1926 as 1000, stood at 9e.l in February. it was said as compared with 91.4 in January 1922, the low est postwar level.
 This means that the dollar is non worth 10S.6 cents as compared with 1926, it was pointed out. Economists believe these figures indicate pro- ducers are being forced to reduce prices to maintain the flow of busi- ness and clear their stocks.
 The greatest price decline of the month was noted in farm products. which dropped an average of three per cent. Decided decreases were reported in tfF prices of grains, cot loll, eSSS. Hay, Iedl tOpdCCO, "HllC potatoes and wool.
 The decrease ih the price of foods as a whole, the bureau reported was about 1 3-4 per cent. Meats drop- ped one per cent and decreases were noted also in the price of rye, wheat flour, coffee, sugar and dried fruits.
 A decrease of one and a half per cent was reported in retail prices, between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15. Food prices were reported as decreasing in 4S of the 5l cities surveyed by the bureau.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
ARUTE CONTRACTS
 TOTAL S350,00O
'L0Cal Road Builders Get Three Jobs in Massachusetts

In competition with hundreds of other concerns that submitted bids on highway construction both in Connecticut and Massachusetts, the Arute Brothers Construction Co. of this city had been successful in se- curing contracts for work that will aggregate approximately $350,0o0, Frank Arute, a member of the con corn, announced today.
 The most important contract calls for the building of five and one half miles of macadam road be- tween Hanover anp Pembrook, Mass, at a cost of approximately s270,000. Work on the project will be started next Monday.
 Operations were begun by the firm last Monday in building a bridge over a railroad crossing at Plainteld. This contract will total approximately $40,000.
 The third contract is the building of a ono mile stretch of road near Franklin, Mass, at a cost of about $40,000, This is q continuation of q highway which was built last year by ike Arutc Brothers and came ir under a separate bid.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
Bargain Airline Rates Lure Women Passengers

New York. March 70 P, - A bargain price. it appears, will always get the ladies.
 Before recent cut in prices the percentage of women using one of the transcontincntal air lines was only 16 per cent. With. the cut in prices. however, this ratio jumped to 20 per cent and is increasing from day to day.
 A survey made by the wom- ems department of Curtiss- Wright corporation of all the prominent airlines Of the coun- try shows that 25 per cent of air passengers in this country arc women, and one of the lines Miami to Havana-is as high as 43 per cent
 That the ratio is not higher IS because aitplanc lines arc mostly used by business men, intent on getting from one place to an- other in q hurry, airline offices believe. Where there are a large number of, tourists, pleasure bent, as on the Miami-Havana run, the women arc in almost equal ratio with the men.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
Mayor Urges Council to Observe Economy at Last Meeting of His
 Administration; Praised By Nair
COURT WILL PASS
 ON PRIMARY FIGHT
Alabama Judges to Decide if
 Henin May Be Candidate

Montgomery, Ala, March 20 Rr The state supreme court today con- sidered case designed to determine whether United States Senator J. Thomas Heflin and others may par ticipate as candidates in the demo- cratic primary or be forced 10 run as independents in the general clcc- ton.
 Arguments were completed yes- terday in the appeal of suit brought by Horace Wilkinson, Bir- mingham attorney, to test the de- cision of the state democratic exc cutiye committee barring as candi- dates from the party primary "bolters' of the 1923 presidential ticket.
 Wilkinsons contentious that the party primary would be unconstitu- tional because of the committed s establishment of separate qualifica- tions for voters were overruled in the Jefferson county circuit court. The committee invited all demo- crats, regardless of their stand in the 1928 presidential campaign, to take part as voters in tho coming primary.
 The court action also affects the status of Hugh Locke of Birming ham, who has announced for gov ernor despite that he stumped the state in 1928 for Herbert Hoover Six are entered ill the primary gu- bernatorial race while John IT. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, and Frederick l. Thompson, Mobile publisher, are seeking the sena- torial nomination for Hef1in's seat
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
Little Relation Between Student Drinking and Home Surroundings
 Seen In Yale News Drinking Poll
Differ From Parents in Practice - Professor Fisher Claims Results Indicate a Temperance Triumph.

New Haven, March 20 Up) - Further tabu1ation of~resultS in the Yale Daily News drinking poll show cd today that 64.J per cent Of taa 1874 students who admitte drini inc in college come from homes W here drinking occurs.
 Of the drinkers, 1906 said their elders at home drank and G6S said they did not.
 Complete statistics seemed to in- dcate slight connection between home cnvironmental conditions and college drinking. Of the S52 stu dents classcd as frequent drinkers, only SS6 or 45S said their elders drank frequently. Two hundred and sixteen, 25.4 per cent, said they drank occasionally. A total of 256 non drinking stu dents-one third of that classitica- tion--come from homes where drinking occurs.
 Professor Irving Fisher noted l Yale economist and dry. amazed an audience at SaChem hall last night | by interpreting the news statistics as | indicating prevalence of temper anCe.
 "In the good old pre- prohibition | days man who drank only once q month and claimed to be q drinkcr would be laughed att said Fisher. 1 He said life insurance companies classed as a light thinker a man who used two glasses of beer or one of whiskey daily.
 50 for insurance purposes the 1000 men, who have replied 10 the Yale guestionpaire to the effect they did not drink moro often tlan once a month would be reckoned as being virtually total abstainers." Fisher asserted.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
SURGEON ID SEEK
 RELEASE 0N BAIL
Court Sets Bond at S25,M-
 Engagement Admitted

Denver, Colo, March 20 P- Cheerful and admitting his engage ment to Miss Grace Brandon, Brooks ,Feld. Tex, stenographer, Major Charles A. Shepard, United States army surgeon, today hoped for inn mediate, release on $25,000 bond from the Denver county jail. where he has been held since Monday. charged with the fetal poisoning Of his wife.
 Yesterday he admitted his affoc- ton for the young woman, for whose love federal officers assert he killed his wife last June at Fort Riley. Kas. He continued to deny his guilt, however. and said he would fight immediate return to I>-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
NAUGATUCK MAN KILLED

Bridgeport, March 2O.-UP)- Ronald Lengycl, Naugatuck, died at Bridgeport hospital last night of in- Jurics received Sunday when q motorcycle on which he was riding skiddsd into an automobile. Nalson French, driver of the motorcycle, was still in the hospital today, re- covering from decorations and bruises.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
FOURTH SUICIDE IN FAMILY

Washington, March 20.-UP)-- Louis Goebcl, 20, whose body was found yesterday suspended from a rope in his home. is the fourth mcm- ber of the Goebel family to take his own life within six years. His father brother and an uncle also committed suicide, police reported.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
COACH'S FATHER DEAD

San Clementc, Cal, March 20 tP, Captain William II. Warner S9, father of Glenn 'Pop" Warner Stanford university football coach, died here yesterday. Services will be held here Friday and the body will be sent to Springville, N. Y, for burial.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
SEVERAL LOST IN FIRE

Teheran, Persia, March 20.-tP- Several lives were lost and many persons injured in a fire reported from Banbarjaz on the Caspian sea in which 594 houses were destroyed. F'igures as to the exact number of casualties varied.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
BANK RATE REDICED

Oslo, Norway. March oO.--(Pt- The National Bank of Norway re- duced it's discount rate from five per cent to four and onc-half per cent today.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20
Court Sets Figure

Federal Judge J. Foster Symcs, late yesterday declared the charge against the medical officer bailabl
 and set the amount of the bond lt S2j.0gO. Major Shepard, throug! his attorney, immediately telegraph,
New Britain herald., 1930-03-20

inspector was present and should have seen that the work was done properly.
 r'lan Board Requests Denied
 A request of the city plan com mission that an unexpended balance of $S9S.12 be allowed to remain in the commissions fund was rejected after Alderman w. H. Judd brought out that the charter requires all bal ances to revert to the general fund at the close of each year.
 A second suggestion, that of pro- viding sloO for tho clerk of the commission. was turned down when Councilman Frank l.. Conlon's mo- ton to table indefinitely was carried. The fund, it was explained, is for a stenographer employed in another department who has been doing the work of the commission without compensation.
New Britain herald., 1930-06-30

Phillipa asked herself complacently,
 She was preparing to go back to her own desk, when she noticed that sne had worn her eraser down con- siderably between cleaning it and using it.
 She sat down again at the desk and opened a top drawer of it. from which she took a new eraser. It was not a kind that she liked; that was why she'd gone for her own, but it would have been a damaging oversight to provide no evidence that the substitution of names had been made at Alan's desk where Natalie had sat alone so long,
 Satisfied, now, Phillipa went to type furiously on some neglected statements. She left Grenadines letter in a drawer of Alan's desk.
 They were not 10 buy the stock she wanted until the following morning. Phillipa felt she had an- l other point upon which to congratu- late herself Had Bernadine fol- | lowed the usual procedure and di- rected Alan 10 buy when the stock was a certain figure, it would haze been difficult to substitute another and pick one that was unsafe.
 But, with definite time set for the buying, it was easy for Phil lipa 10 carry out her plot. Should Alan not come in the next day be fore ten o'clock she would see that
New Britain herald., 1930-06-30

been 90 easy, hut .-
 "Cotfee2a she asked as Alan placed his knife and fork on hls pIar@.
 "Blaek. p.a7sc." he answered,
 She aro1cnt the dessert. bakers -harra-.e ruSSe, without asking if a- cared fo~ ir. and was rather thankful ea Ieft ii untouched. She Knew Natalie had spoiled him with 4alrcros.s took ry and she did not wan. any comparison that might reflect 10 her dt=advantage made 7--+uacn them a- this lime. The steak. oyar1one. had been bal enough as t was
 T must Ira-n .n cook" Fhlllpa .ai4 to herself, as she had sad many times. Sho had expected 10 s~-o.rt.~ m dTFuIlty with the art had indeed looked forward with .7-c- anrclpgfIon to the opporIu- my for yyag with Natalie. Bu+- s.rrrtslnz 10 her. many of her practice noats had been sadly dis anpoincing
 Her coffee wasn't so had though sna coarrar8Eale# herself as she watched Alan dr.aa cup after cup O. l.
 H. appeared n ha in no hurry 10 20. She made him comfortable anl ss- closz br quiet. abstracte3-> cracking nuts R1r her mlnd was not so qraec as tar dalntuv groomed acsv Sne surrrputiouslr glanced a. her watch now and then, as the rrra-a= orept on. and Alan sclrre l only to IfEnc a fresh clgaret CT flick raa ssaes from an old ona. several oe them burned up 10 his fingers, forgotten. before he fla1s he flags away
 Fh!usna was 0Egrafi%ely holding her breath aa7jnsr tune. Where 7oatd Alan spend tha ntShto A rt4 ro-aL OF would ha go hon1. H. ml=r, ba done nth Nata4s sz he had said hut If h. went nome Pa,iftp7 flerce5y hop"c ha would slav away
 t- last. 1han Alan was rsa2s -o go. ard had not mentioned h. 5~srioat.7- ~ne delayed him wrF one r~er-x- OF another. She dts not want 10 ask him directly ah@r' ha ~as going. ru- she vas aooI n d7 so. vn.n 1e turned abrupt. .tu the tel g1o0a.
New Britain herald., 1930-06-30

the order was executed. She pre- ferred Alan to handle the letter and have no doubt of it's genuineness before it's instructions were car ried out; then he could attach 10 blame to her for failing to detect the tampering. But it would be even more certain to go through if he did not know about it. For moment Phlllipa changed her mind and wished that she could carry out the order immediately.
 Well, it didn't matter, one way or the other. Bernadine would be loaded with some worthless stock, and Alan would be wild. Phi'lipa hoped he wouldn't remember how often and how vehemently she had vowed to keep him away from Nat allie. But 1t was rot likely that ho would suspect her when every suspicion would point toward Nat allie.
 She left the office early, to go di- rectly home, on the chance that Alan might call. She felt well pleased with herself
 (TO BE CONTINUED
New Britain herald., 1930-06-30
Conductor to Observe
 35th Year of Service

Starting work for the Connecticut company only two years after it had discarded horse-drawn cars, Michael Igoe, 175 Main street, will observe his 35th anniversary of his first day as a conductor with the company tomorrow. He is now on the Hartford run.
 Last year his brother John was pensioned by the company after he had served 42 years as an operator of horse cars and trolleys.
 Mir. Igoe has seen the rise and fall of numerous lines. When he started working for the company there were only a few lines in the city. Then they increased for a period but recently a decline set in and many of the lines are being dis continued for buses.
New Britain herald., 1930-06-30

to mention Alan's name, mindful Of the girls in the outer office.
 She did not want them to know - if it could be avoided-that she kept the fact of Natalie's presence there from him.
 He told her that he would not return to the office again that day, and she was so thankful to have hIm stay away that she did not even ask when she would see him.
 He thought it was sweet of her 10 let him alone, and hung up the receiver with a feeling of grati- tude toward her for not insisting he come to her apartment for din- rer,
 After that Phtlipa was ableao apply herself to her neglected work with sufficient diligence to get enough of it done so that she could soon turn her thoughts again to the winning of the man she wanted for her husband,
 Natalie had gone. Phillipa had smiled triumphantly over her de parture. Plainly the waiting had been too great a strain to be long e. endured. She went out walk ing as though she barely restrained i herself from running, Her steps were jerkv: her eyes set straight ahead Of her. her hands gripping ! her handbag hard enough to numb them
 ] PhilIipa smiled hut she knew that if Natalie and Alan met and he told her what he had been 10 offended and angry 10 tell her the Gay before that Bernadine Lamont vas in need of his sympathy be- cause Of her poor health and finan- cal difhcultias-thcrc would be an immediate reconciliation bet~es sn them,
 She had seen penitence in Nata- lies eyes. knew that she was ready 10 plead with Alan to forgive her She remembered that Alan had said he had not told Natalie thu truth because he had made up h.: mind that she was incapable o. believing It. Let him once finc out that she would welcome it
 I've got 10 keep them apart Philhpa exclaimed. almost alou1 But how? How?
New Britain herald., 1930-06-30
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mined - If determined at all 10 have a definite break with Natalie.
 She had worked her suspicious up to the point of believing that he was even now on his way 70 meet Natalie, perhaps to make ID their quarrel when Natalie walked into the office
New Britain herald., 1930-06-30
fEAPTFP EEXET

F1lHpa always took Alans ir- coming --laphona calls. She vas thankful no7. when the operator had sw1tchsd tne call 10 her desk. that Natalie vas ln his private of- s.ra and could n0t hear what sh~ sad Even so s-e Has careful no.