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1 A A A A THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927. Imlay, a real estate man of many years ago and who these heirs are. no one knows, he said. No taxes have been paid on the land for 70 years. Mr.

Clark urged that the alley be accepted as a public way, and said that the street board was within its rights in making it city property. The gas company has offered to pay for paving and lighting the alley, The board requested the engineering department for A layout. Superintendent Peck has been authorized to order a new snow loader at a cost of $3,300, if the item is approved by the common council Monday night. Mr. Peck reported that the dividend to the street, department from the Hartford Electric Light Company for the month of October amounted to $4,267.96.

This dividend represents the difference in the cost of coal to that figured in the contract. Auto Club To Put Mileage Markings On Highway Signs Members Unable to Explain Why Measure Wasn't Taken Up Before The Automobile Club of Hartford at a meeting of the board of governors at the Hotel Heublein Friday night voted to place mileage markings on all its direction signs in eastern Connecticut. This movement was made in order place Connecticut in line with the majority of the States of the union in this respect. Major Louis M. Stanley, vice- president the club, presided at the meeting.

The resolution WAS introduced by Alfred W. Jacobs and passed unanimously. In introducing the resolution, Mr. Jacobs pointed out that the lack of mileage indications have been a "source of annoyance to motorists of Hartford and to outside tourists." The question was then raised as to why such a step had not been taken in the past. After much discussion no answer could be found.

A delegation was siso appointed to attend the meeting of the executive committee of the A. A. at the Hotel Statler in Boston, December 2. The "All New England Motor Tourist Development Program" which will be launched by the A. A.

at this meeting endorsed by the unanimous vote of the board of governors. The delegation is composed the following officers and governors of the A. A. A. Club of Hartford: Colonel Howard P.

Dunham, Major Louis H. Stanley, Frank E. Bel, George M. Hewes, Arthur Fifoot, Eldridge M. Beecher, (of New Britain) F.

B. Fountain of Middletown, Dr. Alvin A. Hunt, and Major C. D.

Perkins. Brazilian Arbiter Denies Accusation Of Hearst Papers Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. Publication of the claim of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers thaw Don Rodrigo Octavio, neutral Brazilian member of the mixed claims commission, was paid $100.000 by the Mexican Government, ostensibly to influence his vote, caused a sensation in Brazil today. Don Rodrigo denied the accusations as absolutely false. "The story is sheer fantasy," he said.

The charge received wide attention since Octavio is prominent in public life and is now federal attorney general. (The charge, published in Hearst papers in the United States, was accompan.ed by photostatic copies of alleged authentic documents purporting to show that Octavio received 8100,000 for "services to Mexico" seven months before the claims mission voted two absolve the mixed, Mexican Government of for the killing of 16 an American mining party at Santa -Isabel.) Marriage Here Ends Fenton Love Tangle Miss Helen Hanson, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hanson of 28 lin Street, East Hartford, and George Fenton, 24, obtained a marriage license 88 the Municipal Building Friday morning and were said to have been married at once. Fenton, while awaiting trial of his petition for divorce from his first wife, involved Miss Hanson and her two sisters a love tangle which last Fri-day resulted in the three being arrested.

The sisters were Anna, 18, and Mrs. Ella Lewis, 20, the latter of Manchester. Wagner Convicted Of Slaying Trooper Buffalo, N. Nov. 25 -(AP.) Leroy Wagner, 23-years-old farm hand, was convicted of murder, first degree, by a jury in superior court tonight for the murder on September 8 of Trooper Robert Roy, who went to arrest Wagner on a trivial charge.

The verdict was returned after the jury had been out five hours and 15 minutes, less than three hours of which was devoted to consideration of the evidence. The defense will appeal the verdict. The death penalty will be Imposed on Monday a afternoon. 'Big Navy' Speech At Paris Draws Wilbur's Attention speech Washington, by Captain Nov. Richard 25 D.

(AP.) White, The -naval attache at Paris, advocating a larger American Navy, has come under the scrutiny of the Navy Department. Secretary Wilbur said today that he had read report: of the speech but that he did not care to make any comment at this time. He added. however, that later he probably would have something to say. Woman's Relief Corps Will Hold Sale Today Robert C.

Tyler Women's Relief Corps, No. 6, will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in G. A. R. Hall, 926 Main Street.

A public food sale will be held In the afternoon from 2 until 8 o'clock, under the supervision of Mrs. Leola Davis, department patriotic Instructor of the Women's Relief Corps of Connecticut. Thanksgiving Burglaries, Two burgalries were committed Thanksgiving Day, the police were notifled Friday, Men's haberdashery valued at more than $100 was stolen from the store of Max J. Salad at 596 Park Street, and a pair of shoes was stolen from a shoe shop at 276 Garden Street, conducted by Salvatore Ucello. Taylor Modeen UNDERTAKERS 233 Washington Street Atheist Held For Annoying Dr.

Straton Magistrate Doubts That Ungodly Literature Was Sent With Any Innocent Purpose New York, Nov. -Doubting that any man could be sincere In an effort to shake the religious convictions of Rev. John Roach Straton, magistrate today ordered Charles Lee Smith held in 8500 bail for annoying the pastor with ungodly literature. The defendant, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, said repeatedly that his object in sending the various publications, pamphlets and letters to the fundamentalist pastor of Calvary Baptist Church was to convert him to Atheism. But Magistrate Gottlieb said, "I do not believe that they were sent with any Innocent purpose, I believe that Dr.

Straton 19 a firm unalterable belever in Christianity and that any attempt to move him in that belief 1s like trying to move the Rock of Gibraltar," The magistrate said the question not one of theology but one of whether the penal code had been violated, and found it his duty to send the case to special sessions, where three judges will determine the case. Pastor Called "Humbug." The pastor was silent throughout the proceeding. He had testified at a prev.ous hearing. Sitting on the edge of a front seat in the courtroom he clutched a little, black leather-bound volume as he heard himself assailed by Leonard Snitkin, counsel Smith, AS 8 "Humbug." and a "Mountebank." Smith said the action had its Genesis more than a year ago, when Dr. Straton was advertising Uldine Utley, 14-yearsold Evangelist, as possessed of divine power.

He wanted see profiteering in religion stopped, the witness said. The pastor particularly objected to a publication called "Sex," and while Mr. Snitkin' pointed out that it WAS not banned by the postal authorities, the magistrate said it might still be paricularly offensive to Dr. Straton. Explaining that the "Truth Seeker," Atheist publication, sent to Dr.

tioned it and it policy to Straton because his name, was mensend linen publication to all persons whose names appeared in its columns, Mr. Snitkin said it might thus even be sent to Magistrate Gottlieb. "No, thanks," replied the court. "I have no desire to read the stuff." Mr. Snitkin objected to the word "stuff," but the magistrate refused to recant, Colorado Governor Working on Plans To End Coal Strike Denver, Nov.

-Governor W. H. Adams is working on several pians designed to end the I. W. strike that started in the Colorado coal fields six weeks ago, but said today was not ready to announce what headway he making in h's cfforts to end the controversy.

In the meantime two of the largest coal operators in the State frowned on the suggestion that they meet with the strikers to try to arrange a settlement, The Colorado Fuel Iron Company takes the position that there no strike and that its miners who are not working, are idle because of intimidation. Officials of the National Fuel Company said would meet their men direct it they had any grievances and that 4 a general conference such as nad been discussed would "lead in a circle and get nowhere." Officials of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, owners of the Columbine mine where five strikers were killed by state police Monday, are reported AS willing to agree to any plan suggested by the Governor. Philippine Independence Urged by Senate Head Philadelphia, Nov. 25. for the Philippine Is ands was urged tonight by members of the Philippine Senate and others before the American Academy of Political Science.

Immediate and absolute independence was sald by Manuel L. of the Philippine Senate, to be necessary the performances of the United States were to harmonize with its commitments. Senator Sergio Osmena, of the Island's Legislature, told the meeting that American and P.lipino relations were of 8 temporary character and sooner or later they would have to cease. Pointing out that America had promised to free the F.lipinos, Senator Quezon asserted that when this was done "the era of imperialism will have come to an end, for al nations of the world would be compelled to follow her humanitarian example." The strateg or commercial importance of the Philippines, Senator Quezon said, "instead of being a source of danger to her. is on the contrary what makes for her safety.

Mutual Jealousies among the powers will be her very protection against any 118- tion attempting to conquer her." Mrs. Snyder Becomes More Optimistic Ossining, Nov. Reacting from the depression that overcame her when the was informed of the court of appeals ruling that she must die in the week of January 9, Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder today showed a revived interest in plans for a renewed effort to save her life. "Say, I wonder what the lawyers for Gray are prison attaches quoted the blonde widow of Albert Snyder as inquiring today.

It was the first time in weeks she had mentioned her former lover, Henry Judd Gray, with whom she was convicted last summer of the murder of her husband on March 20 last in their Queens Village home. "My spirit has been poor and I have been in pretty bad shape," keepers said Mrs. Snyder declared, "but I'm ready to fight for my rights now." Mrs Snyder, who said she had spent $13,000 on her legal defense, Intimated today that she might add another lawyer to her staff. French railways, which showed unusually high receipts early this year, had a drop during the late tourist season. Is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria.

It kills the germs, Record of Fires Friday, Nov. 25, 1927 4:21 p. alarm. Soot in oil burner in basement at 226 Park Street catches fire. No damage.

Co. 8. 7:20 p. Still alarm. False alarm for 43 Charlotte Street.

Co. 7. 9:00 p. alarm. Tree on fire in vacant lot on Bulkeley Avenue, Co.

11. 9:26 p. alarm. Rubbish h. fire in rear of 28 Townley Street.

Co. 5. 11:54 p. Still alarm. Smoke from from oil burner in basement at 220 Park Street.

Co. 8. Duffys Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Their Wedding West Preston St. Couple Receive Many Gifts From Friends Mr. and Mrs.

James F. Duffy of 326 West Preston Street celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage Thursday with their family at home. They received many presents, including a purse of gold from members of the family, flowers from the Hartford Master Plumber's Association, to which Mr. Duffy has belonged for years, and letters of congratulation from the and Connecticut Master Pationels: Associations. Mr.

Duffy was a member of the first board that was formed to license plumbers. He was also a city health commissioner from 1910 to 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Duffy were married in St.

Patrick's Church in Hartford Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1877, by Very Rev. James Hughes, who has since died. They had 12 children, eight of whom are living, and have nine grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. James Duffy was born in Hartford July 4, 1851, children of James and Katherine Duffy. He atA tended the local public schools and on February 7, 1870, started as plumber's apprentice.

with George Robinson. On August 3, 1883, he started in ness as 8 master plumber and continued until 1921, when he retired. He is, a past president of the local association and was secretary of the cation for 20 years. Mrs. Duffy, was Sophia McBride, was born in Donegal, Ireland, January 6, 1854.

She came to America shortly after the Civil War and first settled in Farmington, coming to Hartford in 1868. Due to Mrs. Duffy's Illness the celebration Thursday was a quiet one. Mr. Duffy 1s a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the Hartford Council of the Knights of Columbus.

Mr. and Mrs. Duffy sent four tons to the World War, three of them serving overseas and two of them receiving wounds. William served as a sergeant with the 102d Infantry, 26th Division. Joseph served with the Canadian Black Watch Regiment and Robert was with the 303d Machine Gun Battalion.

Edward was with the quartermaster corps at Camp Lewis. Another son, James, served the Spanish -American War. New Haven Study Of Airport Here Urged by Pollet Haven, Nov. -(Special.) New. which, if would retain its present standing as a city, should be repreesnted on the air map of the country with a good airport, was advised to study the problems which Hartford faced in the establishment of its airport and the manner in which the problems were solved.

advice was given by Benjamin A. Pollet, Hartford manager of the Colonial Air Transport, in an address before the Yale Aeronautical Society and the New Haven Chamber of Commerce aviation committee at a meeting at the Mason Laboratories at Yale. Mr. Pollet discussed the requisites of airport equipment and the relative advantages of municipal and private fields, suggesting that corcumstances in New Haven might make it advisable to have a privately owned field there. He did not discuss the relation his to the proposed New Haven company was to be utilized by some port airport except.

to say that any fine airexpanding company. Gas Station Owner Killed Changing Tire; Auto Driver Escapes Norwalk, Nov. --Struck by hit and run driver, while he WAS a bending over to change a tire, Clifford Comstock, 55, of Westport Avenue, was killed instantly at 8:30 o'clock tonight almost directly in front of the gasoline station of which he is the Witnesses state that Comatock was hurled feet through the a.r by the speeding car. Police started 8 search for the driver who did not stop. New Haven Road Shows Gross Income Increase New Haven, Nov.

of the New Although gross York, New Haven and Hartford railroad decreased $637,200 during October, grOsS income showed an Increase of $55,559.46 over October, 1926, according to the monthly financial report of the road, issued tonight A decrease of $287,259 in freight revenue was laid to less coal transportation. Passenger revenue decreased $163,069. For the 10 months ending October 31, the road's gross income was 641,351.85 which exceeded by 85, the gross income for the same period last year. Non-operating income for the ten-month period this year was $4,773,593.57 a gain of $581,523.20 over the same period in 1926. The increase in net income for the month was $218,448.26.

The net income was $1,661,499.97. The ten-month perlod shows a net income of 846.75, a gain of $485,317.14. Operating revenues and expenses with the exception of maintenance way, structures, traffic and several miscellaneous items, declined during October. England now has 2,500,000 radio recelving sets. EDUCATIONAL THE HARTFORD SCHOOL OF MUSIC VIOLONCELLO-VOICEPIANO-VIOLIN Theory and kindred subjects In Class or Private Lessons 834 Asylum Ave.

2-3854 Killed (Welker Studio, Middletown) CLIFFORD JOHNSON. Forbes Completes Two- Years Term In Federal Prison Former Director of Veterans Bureau Will Go Back to Engineering Leavenworth, Nov. -With freedom only a few hours away Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former director of the United States Veterans Bureau, put prison cares behind him tonight and looked (forward to rebuilding a career as a civil engineer. Midnight was the hour for the 1 release of Colonel Forbes, who was sentenced to the Federal prison here for term of two years and fined $10,000 his conviction in Chicago in upon 1925 on charges of defrauding the Government in awarding contracts for veterans hospitals.

with an allowance of 144 days for good Completing his term on October 27. behavior, Forbes took an oath that he WAS unable to pay the fine and began serving the 30 additional days required in such cases. He applied for a parole several times but was denied clemency. In a fight to beat back from his penitentiary experience, the 49-yearsold former Government official revealed that he intended to go back to his old profession as an engineer after visiting his 93-years-old mother Plymouth, and making a trip" to Washington. Sees Russia As Theories Victim (Continued from Page 1.) catastrophe.

And finally the mad day dawned, with the princess in the heart of the debacle. She told of whole regiments, throwing down their arms and pledging support to the rebellion. The long montra that had followed the assassination of Rasputin by a desperate group of young men, were now succeeded by a wave of fear and apprehension. The government, she said, were more concerned with the probable results of the impending Soc.alistic experiment than with the withdrawal of the Russian fighting forces from their side the conflict. There was much talk but little understanding in these days, she said.

With the abdication of the Czar ani subsequent slaughter of the royal family, Russia which for years had been handicapped elther through foreign invasion or Internal autocracy, was given sudden freedom. The provisional government, torn between duty to the Allies and its own pressing home problems, proved hesitant, she continued. The Allies showed an amazing lack of understanding at this critical juncture, the princess said and the Inevitable occurred when the provisional government fell and the Bolshev.sts swept into power on the crest of the peasant desire for land. "Land Hunger" a Problem. This "land hunger" which has been the great source of peasant unrest all down through Russian history, was the immediate problem that faced the country after the revolution, she sald.

Describing the home life of the average peasant, the princess impressed her hearers with the frightful poverty that was the lot of the Russian farming class. Alexander 11, she said, had abolished serfdom but he had died before he could endow the serfs with the land for which they hungered. This hunger still remained and coupled with an intense desire for better schools was a driving motive in bringing about the revolution. "It was a difficult task to keep one's head during the wild days of the revolution," the princess went on. "Picture for she cried, "this great rebellion writing in flaming letupon a dark, dark background, 8 message of hope.

And going she said, is not hard to imagine the subsequent wave of disillusionment that came over the country after the first eager flush of early 1917." New Theorles Arose. "Russia found that new theories came on the heels of the revolution to replace the old autocratic doctrines," the Princess continued. The peasants, in particular, she said, soon found that matters had not changed for the better. At that time, peasants were the only producers, she said. The factories were run (or kept idle) in the hands of committees which the Soviet Government had appointed.

In congaquence, the peasants found themselves working 17 days out of each month for the benefit of the Government, she pointed out. "But now, one can see many benefits that have come to the people of Russia," the princess went on. "The peasants are much more intelligent and their new mental condition is seen in the way they discuss the problems of the day. They are seeing more clearly; there is less fog in their thoughts," she said. One evil still remains most promi- Fallen Arches Call and see the remarkable results local people are setting in severest cases of Rheumatism, Arthritis, Varicose Veins, Paralssis and Foot Troubles through Orthomee Treatment, a scientifle painless treatment withont medicine.

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Other Institutes at Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, New Haven, Portland, Fitchburg and oth cities. in Newington Train-Auto MRS. EDWARD LOCKWOOD. nent in Russian Government, the princess stated. This is the practice of the "open ballot," which calls for a show of hands to indicate opposition to a project or a candidate.

"It is this method of voting," she said, "which makes it possible for a handful of communists to rule Russian. Not until the people are allowed to vote in secret, will Russian Government accurately reflect the wishes of her people and so meet their needs." The most sane policy which Russia can pursue," the princess thinks, is a continual "evolution of the revolution." "I mean by this," explained, "an evolution toward prosperity." In conclusion Princess Kropotkin stated that Russia needs, not more soclalistic doctrine, but "more American machinery," There is a great desire among peasants to mold themselves after the example of America, she said and a corresponding distrust and dislike of things English. "I fully believe." she said, "that Russia is near the fulfillment of her dreams and that it will not be long until she has caught up with those tragically lost centuries of civilization, now happily behind her, Edison Sees and Hears Himself In Talking Movie West Orange, N. Nov. The wizard of West Orange tonight saw and heard himself as others see and hear him.

Thomas A. Edison, attending the first showing of a talking movie of recent radio interview, sat back in his chair, watching and listening, as the film flashed his likeness on the screen and aS a radio loud speaker changed into words and sentences the tiny lines impressed on the celluloid by his voice. The picture was the work of the General Electrical Company, which showed it to the inventor in his laboratory. Only members of the Edison household and a few friends were present. Hope For Five Miners Entombed in Arizona Superior, Nov.

ray of hope for five miners missing in the fire swept recesses of the Magma Copper Company workings here was voiced tonight with the report of rescue crews that the air was clearing and the heat diminishing in the mine. Although veteran miners felt certain that the five could have withstood the fumes from the blaze which swept up shaft No. 2 yesterday and claimed at least two lives, William Koerner, general manager of the company, declared he believed there was some hope for the men. Floating Theater Sinks Off Virginia Norfolk, Nov. only a few inches of her deck house visible above water, the James Adams floating theater is sunk in 16 feet of water near Thimble Shcals, in Chesapeake Bay.

The craft probably will prove a total loss, coast guard officials said. The show was in tow of the tug W. H. Hoodless, which had brought her 86 far as Thimble Shoals from Philadelphia, when she sprang a leak today, Coolidge Pastor Is Candidate. Washington, Nov.

Coolidge's pastor, Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, and Rev. Wil dam S. Shaclette, possessor of the Congressional Medal of Honor, are among the latest candidates to be put forward for the post of Chaplain of the Senate, made vacant by the death recently of the Rev. J.

J. Muir. Other candidates from several other denominations of St. include Patrick's Rev. Catholic Francis Church here.

Admiral Bullard's Successor. Washington, Nov. chairmanship of the Federal Radio Commission left vacant by the death of Rear Admiral Bullard, retired, probably will go to one of the present commissioners rather than to the appointee of Pres'dent Coolidge to succeed Mr. Admiral Bullard will be buried tomorrow afternoon in Arlington Cemetery with full military honors after services at Epiphany Episcopal Church. His death was due to heart trouble.

Favors Federal Control. Washington, Nov. (AP.) tion of a Federal department of education and relief, the head of which would have a place in the cabinet, still is favored by President, Coolidge. His position, it was White House today, has not been changed then from that which he took several messages to Congress and especially in an address which he made on July 4, 1924. Real Chestnut Automatically Screened Coal North End Coal Co.

85-97 Russell Street Phone 2-0783 H. I. Sack. Crash EDWARD LOCKWOOD. Auto Arrests Are Praised In Letters (Continued from Page 1.) Massachusetts campaign for enforcement of the motor vehicle laws of State, similar to the one being chant ried on now in Connecticut.

Commissioner Hurley estimated that per cent of the operators arrested in the Connecticui campaign were residents of this State, and pointed out that the "foreign" drivers included many from States other than Massachusetts. Holyoke Man Caused Agitation. Massachusetts became Interested in the Connecticut campaign through the arrest William A. Sill, 219 Suffolk Street, Holyoke, in Berlin, for driving without tail light. He at once replaced the defective bulb with a spare one which he carried, but nevertheless was ordered to appear in court and warned that if he failed to appear his Massachusetts license would be suspended.

Mr. Sill complained to the secretary of the Holyoke Automobile Club, who, in turn, placed the matter before Registrar Goodwin. The registrar expressed surprise that such drastic measures should be used against out-of-State motorists, and is quoted as having said that if Connecticut continued its campaign, Massachusetts would be forced to inaugurate one of the same nature. Sill will probably be tried before Judge George Griswold in the Berlin town court Tuesday night. Approved Headlights, The motor vehicle department issued yesterday a revised list of headlight devices approved for use in this State.

The approved headlight deicesv Amco Headlamp; Bausch Lomb; Bausch Lomb Star, Benzer Type Brown Universal (reflector) includes Brown; Conaphore Type (clear or noviol-amber colored;) Deglarescope; Depress Beam Headlamp; DB (Dodge Bros. 8 5-8 in. only;) Dillon Type Elite Headlamp (now called Type 20); Flat-Lite Standard (reflector;) Flintex; Ford Glolite Headiamp Guide Ray Type A (Headlamp); Holophane No T.it; Hudson (8 1-8 inch only); Johnson. Lee Knight; Liberty; Liberty Type Lincoln Projector; Macbeth Type McKeelite. Miro-Tilt, (Headlamp, Wills St.

Grant, Maxwell, Oldsmobile, Overland, Claire); Monogram (Chalmers, Durant, Rickenbacker, R. V. Knight, Stearns, Stutz, Velle, Willys-Knight; Osgood 23; Parabeam Headlamp Parab-O-Lite Type FW; Patterson (includes Patterson Lenz); Ryan-Lite Headlamp (includes small size Smith; Spreadlight; Standard; Tilt Beam Headlamp: Tilt Ray Headlamp (includes La Salle and Beam Headlamp (Monogram). Headlamp; Twin Pontiac). ties Twollte Approved Test.

Headlamps must be properly equipped, focused and aimed at all times. The method approved by the department to secure the proper focus and aim of lamps is as follows: Place the car on a level space, preferably a floor, facing a wall or screen, the car lamp being 25 feet distant from the wall. Mark a horizontal line on the wall which line shall be the same height from the ground as the centers of the lamps on the car. Call this line the "lamp level line." With lights on and both lenses installed, cover one lamp to shut off the light and move the screw or device in the other lamp, which regulates the posttion of the bulb, until the narrowest horizontal beam of light on the wall is obtained. Then perform the same operation with the other lamp.

Having thus focused the lamps, tilt or bend each lamp until the top of the beam is no higher than the lamp level line on the wall, being sure that the car is fully loaded at the time. The wall will then be illuminated below and up to the lamp level line, which 1s the result desired. If the light spreads on the wall above the lamp level line it proves that the lamps are not properly aimed and focused. Canaan-Millerton Bus Line Changes Owners Winsted, Nov. The New England Transportation Company has completed arrangements to take over the bus line which runs from Canaan to Millerton, N.

Y. Mr. HugIns, of Canaan, has operated this line for several years. The sale takes effect December 1. Passenger train service between Canaan and Millerton will probably be eliminated.

140 Miles an Hour Now Air Mail Speed Air mail to and from Hartford on the Boston to New York route operated by the Colonial Air Transport, is now traveling through the air at the rate of 140 miles an hour in the three new Pitcairn Mailwing planes which have been placed in service. The best speed of any of the plane types formerly usd on the route was 105 miles an hour. The Fairchild planes, which were used on the New England mail route before the Pitcairns, are now being held in reserve, one at each end of the route. The Pitcairn planes are single-seaters, powered with Wright Whirlwind motors, and more nearly resemble the military pursuit planes than any other type of airplane in commercial use. The type was especially developed for use on the mail routes.

Town Moves For Crossing Safety (Continued from Page 1.) the crossing, it struck the automobile According to Mr. Rudd the moving freight train was still blocking the crossing when the pa passenger train moved onto it, and thee freight train caboose did not clear crossing until after the passenger train had struck the automobile. One circumstance, inexplicable so far, is how not only Mr. Johnson, but the other occupants of automobile remained oblivious to the blazing headlight of the passenger locomotive, marking the train bearing down on them on a practically straight stretch of track. Classified as Dangerous.

The crossing is classified as by the public utilities commission, this being the one of three categories in which most dangerous grade crossings of the State are placed. All grade crossings are "bad," it was explained by Public Utilities Commissioner C. C. Elwell, but the combination of heavy vehicular traffic and four main line railroad tracks at Newington resulted in this particular classification there. Gates Ordered in 1883.

Records on file in the public ulitities commission office show the first order concerning this crossing was issued by the railroad commission, predecessor of the public utilities commission, in 1883, when the railroad was directed to provide "gates at the crossings at the depot," and to close them at such times between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. as the tracks were used by passing trains.

The last notation concerning the crossing is a letter from the railroad, notifying the commission that the road had voluntarily increased the hours of gate tender service from 6:30 a. m. to 8 p. m. to from 6:30 a.

m. to 10:30 p. m. The commission records note "view all directions" fairly good at the crossing. The crossing elimination has never been the subject of a hearing by the public utilities commission, it was said yesterday It is located on a state aid road and for this reason is not likely to be included in the highway department's elimination program for some time to come, as all these projects undertaken so far have been on trunk line roads.

Survivors Badly Injured. The Hartford Hospital reported last night that Grace Lockwood, who was brought to the hospital with a fractured hip and cuts and bruises abrit the head. remains in a serious cond tion. Hospital authorities say tha while she is badly hurt, she has a chance of recovery. Lester Lockwood is at St.

Francis Hospital with a fractured skull, 8 fractured arm and severe bruises about the body. According to hospital autaorities he Is critically injured but ne, too, has a chance of recovery. During the afternoon he occasionally regained consciousness and talked rationally tor a few moments. Johnsons Ready to Move. At the Johnson home on Maple Hill in Newington.

Mrs. Johnson sat Friday the new house which her husband, who was a carpenter, had recently built amidst her funiture which was all packed and ready to be a into for the family on Atwood Street Newington. Her husband's brother from Middletown and sister from Springfield were with Mrs. Johnson during the day. Mr.

Johnson leaves besides his wife and two daughters, Anita, 9, and Luctile, 7, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johnson of Middletown, a brother, Frank Johnson, two sisters, Mrs. Sylvester Gaffney of Cromwell and Mrs. John DiBenedetta of Springfield.

Funeral Monday. His funeral will be held at his home on Walnut Street, Maple Hill, Monday morning at 8:30, with a high mass at the Church John the Evangelist in New Britain. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, New Britain. Mr.

Lockwood leaves besides his two children who are in hospitals, a brother, Henry Lockwood of Manchester, 8 half brother. Wililam Hack of Easton and a half sister, Mrs. Mary Slate of Manchester. Mrs. Lockwood leaves her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. James Roberts of Manchester, two brothers, Roy of Manchester and Frederick Roberts of East Hartford. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood will be at the funeral home of Farley and Molloy, 129 Capitol Avenue, where they were taken after the accident, until 2:30 this afternoon.

The funerals wi'l be at the Mark Holmes funeral home, North Manchester, Sunday afternoon at 2:30. There will be a military funeral for Mr. Lockwood, who served overseas 18 months during the World War and was a former member of the Connecticut National Guard. Est. GB 1871 It's none too early to think about Christmas and act on those thoughts.

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Three men, one of whom had asserted, after an encounter with the chief, "No cop can take crack at me and get away with it," were found loitering outside O'Connor's home. School children later said they saw the men hide a bundle beneath the flooring of a portable school building, near O'Connor's residence. The bundie contained three pistols loaded with "dum dum" bullets. Detective Chief Guarded. Since the recent outbreak of a gangster feud here the detective chief had had a guard of two detectives to and from his home, and these men, with O'Connor, picked up the three suspects who declined to talk.

O'Connor, at the outset of the bootlegging and gambling flare-up, advised his men to "shoot it out" with the racketeers, afterwards complimenting an officer who shot a beer solicitor. Several days ago, one of the first men caught in O'Connor'9 dragnet pulled a pistol out of his pocket as he was being searched in the chief's office. O'Connor disarmed him. William Clifford, one of the trio arrested today, last month engaged in a pistol duel with detectives who had gone to arrest him in a hotel. At that time he threatened O'Connor and other detectives, who, he said, mistreated him.

"You've got your pals with you now," Clifford is said to have told O'Connor, "but some time you won't have them and I'll get you for this." Release 48 Suspects. Forty-eight of the suspects the detective chief rounded up this week today assured a municipal judge they were hard-working citizens and obtained their release. "Pete" Genna, the last of the six Genna brothers, bootleggers, was among those released. All of "Pete's brothers either were killed by rival bootleggers, or left the city escape such a fate. Two bombings and the murder of A.

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