-ih- f A : . ' * . 2 U - -•4.V f ' • • ■ ;■' « ■ - •■ ■'* '■ ■ -if ■0 - I E«X)T PRBSS RUn THE i WEATHER. C AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION .___ / OF THE EVENING HERALD for the month of Aagusti 1926. Fair and ^gh tly cw ler tonight* 4,836 a t t r Wedneoday cloady. 7 , ' •|l| VOL. XUV., NO. 300. OlasaMed AdrerClalng on Page 0 MANCHESTER, CONN., TU E SD A Y; SEPTEBIBER 21,4926. ' (T W E L V E PRICE THREE CENTS ■tr FONCK FUGHT ENDS WETHERSHELD GUARD WAS IN NO WORD FROM i IN QUICK DISASTER CONViaS’ PLOT RED CROSS ON FIRST Two of Crew Die as Huge D AY GETS 2748,848. For |1,500 Bribe Smnggled Washington, Sept. 21.— ^The Plane Collapses in the nation has responded generous­ LOVE MATCH FOR ly to President Coolidge’s ap­ Hacksaws to Two Long AHORNEY WAS PRINCESS ASTRID MIAMI BEGINS Take-off and Bums; peal for funds for relief of Flor­ ida hurricane sufferers, the Red Term Men— Admits His MONEY LOSSES INCREASE, Cross announced today. Within Belgian King and Queen An 24 hours, the Red Cross, in TURNED DOWN TO REBUILD; NO Fonck, Curtin Escape But nounce Troth of Son Just charge of relief work, has re­ Guilt Upon Arrest. “as Ordinary Parents.” ceived donations totaling ?743,- Clavier, Radio Man, and 343.93. ON S m DEAL FOODjCARCriY REACH STAGGERING SUMS -a> Brussels, Sept. 21.— King Hartford, Sept. 21.— Discovered and Queen Albert of Belgium, Islamoff, the Mechanician, aiding two convicts in an attempt setting a new precedent in -❖ 1 50,000 ‘SAFE” WIRES to escape from the state prison at royal procedure, today receiv­ Dulles Tells Court He Was Death List for City, Miami SENT FROM MLAAD. Wethersfield for which he had ac­ ed newspaper correspondents, Now Believed Lives Lost Lose Their Lives. SELECTMEN c u r and, making no effort to con­ cepted a bribe of $1,500, Earle Jacksonville, Sept. 21.— Told Claim of Merton ceal their great happiness, an­ Beach and Hollywood Set Davis, 23, a guard at the prison, nounced the engagements of Florida is telegraphing the WiU Not Far Exceed 500 world this message: Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Sept. 21. TOWN EXPENSES was arrested at the prison Prince Leopold and Princess Astrld of Sweden. “ Safe at Miami. Am writ­ — Captain Rene Fonck’a proposed yesterday afternoon. Unable to Would Not Be Passed by at Above 200; Key West in Florida But Storm Tke King and Queen both ing.” non-stop flight to Paris ended In furnish bonds of $3,500, he was beamed with joy as they The Western Union Tele­ grim tragedy early today when the INNEOUDGET brought to Hartford county jail Government. stressed the fact that the Says "AH WeD.” graph office here has been Effect on Gulf Coast Is giant Sikorsky biplane In which where he now is. marriage Is a "love match.” working its full staff overtime Edward Slattery, a "lifer,” and Princess Astrid who will the flight was to have been made Miami, Sept. 21. fVIa courier to for two . days relaying such Lawrence H. Ferrone, serving a New York, Sept. 21.— John F. one day be queen of the Bel­ messages from Miami. No wires . Unknown; Middle West burst Into flames at the hop-off, 30-year sentence as an habitual gians, was warmly praised by Palm Beach)— Today found Miami Suggest Alternate to Pro­ Dulles, former attorney for Rich­ go Into . Miami, but the mes­ causing two fatalities. criminal, had been furnished with both the King and Queen as beginning actual reconstruction sages are brought to West three hack saw blades by Davis ard Merton, German financl^er, tes­ "a cultured girl of great sim­ with martial law lifted. Now Threatened With Captain Fonck and his co-pHot, Palm Beach or to Jacksonville / tified today at the'trial of Harry plicity,” who will "adapt her­ Lieutenant Lawrence W. Curtin, posed Expenditures; Plan and partly sawod through bars of Restoration of water and elec­ by courier, then wired out. their cells when the plot was dis­ M. Daugherty, former attorney self to the national life of tric light service began with the Traffic department employes U. S. N.. escaped with their lives Belgium.*’ * Great Electrical Disturb­ covered. general and Thomas W. Miller for­ rescinding of martial rule by Col. estimated that 50,000 "safe” but Charles Clavier, wireless opera­ to Cut Highway Oiling, The King and Queen sum­ Slattery previously, escaped In V. H. Collins of Plant City, Mon­ messages have been sent in two "I mer alien property custodian, moned the newspaper , corre­ tor, and Jack Islamoff, mechanic, 1919, but was caught at Meriden. day night and construction work­ days, and they expect as many ance as Barometer Falls. charged with conspiracy in con­ spondents and fairly.: bubbled were fatally burned In the fuselage. Parks, Police Budgets. Admits Watching. ers were busily engaged erecting more. ' Before Justice Howard P. Dun­ nection with the return of $7,- forth their glad news "just as and repairing dwellings before Leaders Little IRiurt 000,000 In war claims, that the two ordinary parents,” and ham, of Wethersfield, Davis admit­ daylight this morning. Chicago, Cept. 21.^-Storm warn­ Fonck and Curtin, sitting at the ted he had watched while the con­ late John T. King, Connecticut pol­ not as a king and queen. JRescue parties kept up a search controls In the nose of the plane, When the annual town meeting victs sawed at their cell bars on itician, superseded him as the rep­ “ These two young people for bodies through the debris. It ings for the entire midwest wer0 were saved when the ship, falling is held here on October 4 the voters resentative of Merton In matters have met frequently in the broadcast from the United States two different nights, telling them is believed an accurate casualty PALM BEACHES A to clear the ground after scooting a will be asked to make appropria­ when other guards approached. having to do with the claim for the past months and have decided list cannot be obtained for several Weather Bureau here today as mile along the runway, fell into a seized alien property. entirely independently to tions to the town’s estimated ex­ Ferrone is reported as having days. More than 200 are reported violent wind and electrical distur­ deep gulley. They crawled out and continually been making attempts Dulles told of a trip hq made to unite their destinies. The dead In Miami, Miami Bench and penditures in' 1927. The action bances svrept eastward out o f the suffered only a few minor abrasions. to escape from the prison. Both Washington to see goven ^ en t of­ union is one of Inclination,’’ Hollywood. CENTER OF BELIEF taken that night will govern the tax Clavier and Islamoff, however, convicts are known as "tough char­ ficials to learn the attitudq of the said the King. Food Enough Dakotas. rate which will not be laid until the "They will mqke a charm were trapped In the burning plane. acters.” government regarding the claim of Expressions of sympathy and , The barometers in the storm area The dapper French captain, hero following March. In an effort to the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs ing couple,” said the Queen educate the voters and taxpayers Davis will be presented before happily. offers of aid were received from have fallen- half an inch in the last of countless exploits in the world the September term of the crim­ des Metaux. It was this com­ that they should turn out at this When correspondents ask­ all parts of the country. Medical Receiving Many Refugees 12 hours and now are at a lower war, leaped Into the plane shortly inal superior court which opens pany’s property that Merton came supplies and foodstuffs were pour­ after six o’clock. As he went down appropriation meeting the Board of to the United States In 1921 to ed the date of the marriage, point than that reached in Florida Selectmen last night planned two here this afternoon. Hugh M. A l­ the Queen replied: "Just as ing in at such a rate that civil au­ the field In a cloud of dust, follow­ see if he could have It returned. and Working Hard in Aid during the hunicane, the weather different budgets. corn, state's attorney, will prose­ soon as possible.” thorities asked that the outside ed by spectators In automobiles, cute. Merton was succassful. world be assured that the only aid bureau stated. the great plane, heavily loaded with Although the dissatisfaction said The witness testified he was "The wedding will be In to be manifested by many taxpay­ Brussels, because Prince Leo­ needed by Greater Miami was mon­ of Luckless Cities. more than two thousand gallons of told the government would not ey to aid the destitute in rebuUd- gasoline, disappeared over the ers regarding the town’s, expenses pass a claim such as was being pold is the heir, to the Florida digging herself out o f the throne,” the Queen added. 1- X their homes. crown of a little hill, desj^ndlng was greatly discredited by the re- MRS. WATKINS DIES made by the Societe Suisse. ruins, surveying her wounds, and- nomination of the entire Board of The Queen confided that The food supply Is ample for- Into a twenty-foot gully. Merton testified on the sjand about sixty days and more can be West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept, 21. burying her dead— the gulf coast, Selectmen at the recent Primary last week that he "retained” King Prince Leopold and Princess An Instant later, there was a' Astrid first met last June in obtained on short notice, authori- — The Palm Beaches today are hard hit and still staggering, un­ the board intends to give the tax­ end paid him $441,000 for putting puff and an explosion, and a sheet AS RESUj^OF FALL Sweden and that the court­ iiies said.