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‘I’ ~ V - ' ' -.' J.'iS '■' ' *■ « • ; V 1 NET PRESS RUN AVERAGE DAIEY ClRCUIiATlON THE WEATHER OF THE EVENING HERALD Foreeaet bj C. S. Weather Bareu, for the iiioDth of April, 1927 New H area 4,984 Fair tonight and Spnday. VOL. XLI., NO. 186. OasBlfled AdTertlsing on Page 10. MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1927. PRICE THREE CENTS (:onn. <s>- 10 DAYS’ BATTLE HALL’S ILLNESS A\TTH DEATH ENDS HERE ARE THE PRIZE BABIES! Roanoke, Va., May 7.—Wal­ FEW HITCHES Levee Defenders ter L. Boothe’s remarkable fight for life with a pair of collapsed AGAIN DELAYS lungs, ended this morning. The DURING TERM eighteen-year-old youth, who had been kept alive since April CHINESE TRIAL 21 by the unflagging efforts of Are Driven From his friends in pumping his arms OF ^ E M B L Y up and down to produce artifi­ cial respiration, died at Jeffer­ son hospital shortly after six Juryman Better But Will Not o ’clock. Posts By Floods Majority • % of Suggestions Be Ready to Go On Until M adefy Governor Were Army Engineers Give Up Monday— Defense Said to TEAM CAPTAINS Carried Out— Review of HALE’S BABY SHOW Three Days’ Fight to Keep Prepare Exceptions. GET TERRITORY Work Done. DRAWS BIG CROWD Back River— Oyerflow (Special to The Herald) I, X. S. Staff Correspondent Hartford, May 7.— Again it was FOR BIG DRIVE1 Hartford, Conn., May 7.— Execu­ Miss Barbara Coleman Takes StiD Rising — Railroad found necessary to adjourn the tive and Legislative branches of trial of Chiiig Lung and Loo Hoo the state’s government functioned To Go to People With De­ in harmony during the four First Prize as Thirty En- Tracks Two Feet Unier, Wing, charged with the murder of ( the Oak street laandryman on Oak months and more that the General street on March 24. because ot the tailed Explanation of Need Assembly, which ended its biennial trants Pass Judges. Water. continued illness of Judyman Wil­ session yesterday, sat in considera­ lis Hall, the second man selected tion of the state’s business. Twelve Of $50,000 to Keep Hos­ of the major recommendations for the jury. Hale’s baby parade yesterday af­ Baton Rouge, La„ May 7.— Levee Mr. Hall was ill on Wednesday of made by Governor Trumbull in his ternoon was the magnet that drew defenders were driven from their this week, causing the postpone­ inaugural message and in a second pital Going. special communicatidn were adopt­ ground along the west bank of the ment until Thursday morning and not only the thirty or more en­ ed, three others received at least trants, but nearly all the other ba­ Mississippi today a few miles above again h€ was unable to appear in partial consideration, and live court on Friday, making the neces­ bies In town with their mothers, Torras, La., where army engineers I At a gathering of team captains more were rejected or neglected. sity of a further continuation of the Among the suggestions rejected grandmothers, little brothers and ha-ye been directing an intensive I and many of the team members, to­ case. It was expected that both the were only three which might be sisters and all the other relatives. fight for three days to hold In chfeck state and defense would close their gether with the executive oflScers, j termed major matters. These were Although the parade was not sched­ the ever swelling crest of the na* arguments by this afternoon and j the drive for funds for the Man- creation of a state,advertising com­ uled to begin until three o’clock, tion’s most devastating flood. the case would go to the jury. • I Chester Memorial hospital got un-1 mission, annual sessions of the babies In all sorts of perambulators Behind the Torras levee stretch­ Higli Temperature Legislature, and appointment rath­ es a potentional new channel to the der way last night in the Parish j and go-carts, propelled in most It was learned that last night er than election of the attorney- cases by their mofiiers, began to ar­ sea through half a dozen parishes Mr. Hall was running a high tem­ House of St. Mary’s Episcopal j general. The suggestion, that an rive early In the afternoon. By south of the Red river 'still com­ perature and being a man of over church. A light lunch was served I annual balance sheet for the state 2:30 the sidewalk in front of the paratively untouched by the blight­ .sixty-five years, it was decided that and afterward each team captain j be struck off was passed over but big department store was impassa­ ing waters. A break here would he would remain in bed this morn­ -was provided with a complete set of ; it is assumed that the -new control ble, and within the store every van­ open a new spillway through the ing. The trial opened at 9 o’clock, cards and receipts for the drive and | A real old fashioned circus parade couldn’t have brought out a bigger crowd of mothi^s^a°nd thefr and finance department will adopt Atchafalaya valley to the gulf car­ the measure to itself when it gets tage point— staircases, offices, bal­ daylight saving time this morning, with folders of general instructions dies than did the big baby parade at the J. W. Hale Comp“auy department slt^e here n e n e rd a f affemo^^^^^^ conies and baby shop was niied rying off sufllcient water, in "the, functioning. opinion of army engineers, to but there was no appearapee of the for the team members. Territories Abo-ve aie pictuied the p n ^ winners. On the right is the winner of the first baby prize Barbara Coleman with spectators, ea’ger to get a good Indefinite recommendations by “ break the back of the flood.” It jury and Judge Jennings waited in wei'e also assigned. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman, of 188 Lydall street. Number 13 proved to be lucky for Bar-^ , view of the parade, which was a Speaking for the drive, F. A. bara. Her mother is standing directly behind her carriage. The center carriage holds Miss Marion G the governor concerning education, would drive tens of thousands from his room until he could get a re­ agriculture, and welfare programs fitting close to “ Baby Week.” Verplanck, secretary of the hospital | Larder, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Arthur Larder of 13 Lilac street. Marion n p t u r e f t n secn d bab^ Had to be Inside their homes in Pointe Coupe, West port from the doctors- Dr. Pierson were treated indefinitely. Baton Rouge, Iberville, St. Martin board, said that the hospital was | 'Tlie management consented to had attended Mr. Hall during Fri­ not as yet large enough to stand on j H a^ ’ Tl^ m H nfeH owlo'7hnrefT\^ between two girls to the rear of the car­ Revision of the tax on produc­ and Assumption parishes, and ad*l day and this morning on hearing lo 1 ■ “ fellow to the left looks embarrassed among these handsome girls. He w-on a nrize he- ers of motion pictures was recom­ have the parade within the store its own incomes— in fact no hospi­ carnage ^vas the prettiest in the parade! He is Walter Haneisen, son of Mr. Tnd Mrs hundreds of square miles to Louisi­ that the man’s condition was not Haneisen, of 2 Rogers Place. Otto mended but the Legislature pre­ only because of repeated requests ana s 3,400 square mile inland sea. tal is unless provided with funds | of the mothers. The day proved so favorable the judge asked Dr. either from endowments or contri­ ferred to repeal the tax., altogether New Havoc. Kingsbury to also see him. He re­ and substitute a ta.: on profits of warm that the parade would, have As the waters washed over the butions. In the eight years that been far more successful and com­ ceived the report at 10:35 and Manchester has had Its ho.spltal it exhibitors or theater owners. The top of the crumbling levees above court was again opened. has .received only one large endow­ WHALE SEVERS governor wanted a commission ap­ fortable for all concerned If It had Torras, new havoc rolled down YALE THE FAVORITE been held outdoors, but many of The judge announced that both ment, the Disher Fund, which, pro­ PACIFIC CABLE EVIDENCE ALL IN pointed to look after the state’s in­ from the flooded northeastern par­ doctors had conferred on the case vides a net Income of ?6,000 a year terests in the matter of diverting the mothers refused to parade, out­ ishes to three tulnerable spots In and that they were of the opinion to the hospital. ' This year the es­ Massachusetts’ waters from ' the side. -the Bayou Des Glalses levees in the that Mr. Hall was better, but it was timated running expenses of the IN TONIGHT’ S RACE Twenty Ton Monster Found Connecticut river: but the Legisla­ The J. W. Hale Company has Red river district. IN SNYDER CASE held baby parades before but none considered best that he remain, ill hospital will reach $104,000. Wrapped Up in Wire by Sail­ ture turned the matter over to the In the extreme northeastern attorney-general. on quite such an extensive scale. bed for at least twenty-four hours The Sum Needed. ors. quarter of the state the Arkansas Foremost among matters sug­ Though. It drew ta the store thous­ after his temperature had returned There would be a deficit of $49,- overflow is still rising in More­ gested by the governor and adopted ands of people, business was neces­ to its no'mal standing.
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