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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAU), WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER S, 1928.
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GIRLS MAY BECOME
ENGLISH NOBILITY
by Marchioness Huntly
Chicago, Dec. 5 OP The door of
English nobility has opened for two
little Chicago girls, Marjorie and
Isabella Neuser, whose adoption by
the Marchioness Huntley of Orton
Hall, Peterborough, England, will
make them heirs to an estate of
several millions.
the obelisk there are today more of
these monuments outside Egypt
than in it. The practice of denuding
Egypt of her obelisks began during
the sixth century B. C, when Ashur
banipal, the Assyrian, removed a
pair to Nineveh. At present Egypt
has four at Karnak, and also the
Mataria and Luxor obelisks. Rome
has twelve of various sizes. Con
stantinople has two and England,
America and France each have one.
The largest of these is in the piazza
of St. John Lateran. at Koine. The
material used in the obelisks is a
pink granite from the quarries of
Aswan, anciently Syene.
"Obelisks have always exercised
a fascination for the student of
Egyptology. Archaeologists have
yet to discover how the ancient
Kgyptfans, ignorant of modern
niL'ths of transport, moved these
Until yesterday Marjorie and Isa- j huge t.ecks of granite hundreds of
belle, who are eight and ten years
old, led the lives of thousands of
other Chicago Girls minus wealth
and social position. Their father,
Floyd C. Muser, an advertising
salesman, had died in February.
For ten months they had lived with
their step-mother, Mrs. Louise
Meuser.
Leave for Society
Today they left for the glamour
of English society life because their
great aunt, the Marchioness, ex
pressed a desire to adopt them. In
her youth she had been a Chicagoan,
and the girls had heard their father
tell of his aunt who had married a
marquis.
Arthur Campbell. Jr., a son of the
Marchioness by her first marriage,
came to Chicago to arrange adop
tion proceedings. I'robate Judge
Henry Horner signed the necessary
papers yesterday after the girls'
step-mother had agreed to surren
der them.
The Marchioness inherited a large
estate from her second husband,
James MacDonald, Cincinnati. Her
present husband, the Marquis is SI
years old and holds 11 other titles
besides his marquisate.
Accompanied by Mr. Campbell,
whose father, an English barrister,
was the Marchioness' first husband,
the jirls will go as wards of the
Chicago court to Petersborough,
there to be adopted by the Marchioness,
miles and then set them up m the
midst of existing buildings."
16 CITIES NAME
THEIRLEADERS
Massachusetts Elections Bring
Forth Interesting Results
OBELISK LOCATED
IN CENTRAL PARK
New York Monument Known as
- Cleopatra's Needle
Washington, D. C. Dec. 5. About
,500 years ago Tbothmes III, King
of Egypt, reared himself a tall
obelisk at the Temple of Hellopolis,
six miles from present-day Cairo.
New Yorkers interested In decipher
ing the cuneiform script covering
the obelisk need not travel to Egypt
for that purpose. Thotmes' royal
monument, for almost forty years,
has raised its head m Central Park,
New York City.
A companion obelisk also looks
on another world than that of
ancient Egypt from the Thames
Embankment in London. It Is the
second obelisk of the pair created
in Hellopolis to commemorate the
glory of the god, Amen-Ra.
Called Cleopatra's Needles
"The title of Cleopatra's Needle
is claimed for both the New York
and London obelisks," says a bulle
tin from the Washington, D. C.
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society. "During the life
time ef Cleopatra the two oblisks
were moved from Hellopolis to Alex
andria. It is affirmed that this re
moval was by Cleopatra's decree, but
that tha troublous times during the
latter years of her reign prevented
their being raised. While they were
lying on the Alexandrian sands, the
name, Cleopatra's Needles, was said
to have been given them. History
does not record valid evidences of
Cleopatra's interest In needles of
stone or other material. It was
during the reign of Augustus Caesar
that the obelisks were finally
mounted.
A Transportation Problem
The New York obelisk, more
than tl feet high, was presented to
the United States by the Egyptian
. government. Its removal to New
York presented a novel problem
because of Its excessive weight.
Tha obelisk was lowered to a
wooden caisson in which It was
floated to the dock and was placed
in the steamship which carried It
to America by opening a port In
her bow. On arrival it was trans
ported by rail to Central Park
where towers and trunnions were
used In raising it The London
obelisk was removed from Egypt in
1S80. It had been presented to
Hjng George IV by Mohammed All
in 1819, but no effort was made to
remove it for many years. Finally,
it was encased in a steel cylinder
and shipped to England in the
obelisk ship, Cleopatra.
Enrope Has Most Obelisks
"Although Egypt Is the home of i
Boston, Dec. 5. (P) Highlights
of 16 municipal elections in Massa-
: chusctts yesterday included Mayor
Charles S. Ashley's decisive victory
at New Bedford for his 24th term,
the sweeping rout of Mayor Andrew
J. (Bossy) Gillis' foes in Newbury
port's councilmanic contest. the
I overthrow of Mayor Kohert A. Bake- j
man of Prabody and the swamping i
of Holyoke's only woman aspirant
for the mayoralty. j
I In 10 cities mayors were elected,
j five named lesser officers, while one,
I Lowell, held a primary. Seven
' mayors were reelected. New Bedford
returned Mayor Ashley by 14,827
votes to 10,431 for Charles F.
Archambaulf, his nearest opponent
in a five cornered race. The out
come was regarded as a vindication
of Ashley's handling of the recent
textile disturbances in that city. !
At Newburyport, Gillis, recently ;
released from a 60 day term at the
Essex county jail for illegal opera
tion of his gasoline station conduct
ed a whirlwind campaign for his
slate of six councilmen with the re
sult that all were elected. Assured of
nine adherents out of 12 members
in the next council, "Bossy's" sup
porters announced that the first bus
iness before the new city governing
body would ba the" repeal of the ob
noxious zoning ordinance which was
largely responsible for his legal dif
ficulties.
.Holyoke returned Mayor F. G.
Burnham and in doing so snowed
under Alderman Elizabeth Towne,
the city's first woman candidate for
the office,. She received only 478
votes while Burnham got 13,119
and former Mayor John F. Cronin,
8,607. I
Great Tpset
Peabody witnessed one of the
greatest upsets in its history. Mayor
Robert A. Bakeman, a Congregation
al minister, was defeated by Coun
cillor J. Leo Sullivan. The latter's
majority was the largest ever given a
mayoralty candidate in that. city.
Bakeman, who aroused considerable
criticism last year when he granted a
permit for a protest meeting on the
eve of the execution of Sacco and
Vanzetti, received only 2,741 votes
while Suyivan polled 4,023. Of the
eight mayors who sought reelection,
Bakeman was the only one to be de
feated. I
DAPPER DAN DIES
FOLLOWING BOMB
Did Not Think He Had Any
Enemies
St. Paul, Minn., Dec 5 Ufl The
"smiling peacemaker" of the St.
Paul underworld, the "Dapper Dan
ny" Hogan, who said he didn't have
an enemy In the world, lay last
night and watched surgeons ampu
tate his right leg, shattered by a
bomb.
And then he died.
Earlier in the day Hogan, restau
rant proprietor, who long has been
known as a mediator in gang dis
putes, stepped on the starter of his
automobile. A dynamite bomb had
been placed under the floor board
of the car, and the touch on the
starter button exploded It.
"I didn't know I had an enemy
in the world," he said at the hos
pital. "I don't know who did it, or
jmuch what happened. I touched the
starter, and that's all I remember."
Leg Shattered
Hogan's right leg was shattered
and he suffered other injuries. Ac
cepting the physician's advice
against an anesthetic. Hogan re- I
mained conscious while the leg was :
being amputated. A dozen friends I
offered their blood for transfusion. I
but Hogan died before such an I
operation could be performed.
Hogan was 48 years old and mar
ried.
Mutterings of revenge from gang
sters in reprisal for some real or
fancied wrong at the hands of
"Dapper Danny" reached police to
day as they sought clues.
"Big time" gunmen were believed
to have planted the dynamite in
Hogan's car. Police think that New
York gunmen were involved. De
scriptions of two men seen near the
Hogan home early yesterday were
in the hands of detectives, who also
had fragments of the bomb as
slender clues.
Gamblers or liquor dealers, po
lice said, were probably back of the
slaying.
JURY MS URGE
JOB TOCOMPLETE
Just Find Out About Gambling
in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Dec. 5 W With the
story of organized gambling as it
was alleged to have flourished here
under police protection in past years
revealed in detail by two of its vic
tims, both convicts, the special grand
jury investigating bootlegging,
gambling and police corruption, to
day was under instructions from the
court to ascertain how many gamb
ling houses had been operating with
police protection this year, who
conducted the establishments and to
whom money had been paid for pro
tection. The witnesses who told the story
before Judge Edwin O. Lewis in
open court were Dr. Thomas "Eng
lish Tommy" Gilchrist, narcotic
peddler and gambler, and Charles F.
Toomey, defaulting bank official who
Forrest V. Smith, president of the I is serving a 10-year prison sentence
chamber of commerce, was elected ! for embezzling S342.OO0 from the Fl
mayor of Haverhill over Alderman j delity Trust Company, the bulk of
Parkman B. Flanders, a socialist, by which he said he had lost in Phila-
a vote of 8,032 to 5,007. The election delphia gambling houses. Gilchrist
had been paid.
Tha witness alio testified that he
had "heard that former Director of
Public 8afety George W. Elliott was
a "partner", of a notorious gambler
and bootlegger and declared that
gambling "could not have operated
as it did during Elliott's administra
tion unless Elliott had been in on
it"
Mayer and Elliott, in statements
today, vigorously denied the accusa
tions, Elliott asserting that Gilchrist
was taking "this means of revenge"
because he had been convicted and
sent to jail during Elliott's adminis
tration. Is lie
I Mayer characterised the state
ment that he had been associated
with Gilchrist as a "blasphemous
lie," and declared that Gilchrist's
testimony was the "vaporings of a.
disordered imagination."
Edward Cook, another republican
ward leader, and Richard Kaelker,
a politician of influence, were named
by both Gilchrist and Toomey as
proprietors of gambling establish
ments, where Toomey said he lost
most of the embezzled funds. Others
mentioned by the witnesses as hav
ing been connected with gambling
houses included Charles Schwartz,
Joseph Fletcher, Joseph McGoldrick,
Joseph Keller and Moe Weinbeck.
Most of the testimony relaiAl to
things alleged to have occurred prior
to 1926, and District Attorney Mon
aghan said much of it would be
bared by the statute of limitations.
He pointed out, however, that Gil
christ's testimony had left an open
ing lot the prosecution of Kaelker
and Weinbeck, whose place the wit
ness said he had visited less than
two years ago.
Express Companies
Said to Be Merging
New York, Dec. 6 M The New
York Herald Tribune said today that
plans have been completed to unite
the express companies of the United
States into a giant combination of
securities corporations with a poten
tial capital of more than $200,000,
000. This capital would be available for
Investment under direction of a
number of outstanding financiers
who are directors of the Adams Ex
press company, the American Ex
press company and the American
Railway Express company and
would exceed the capital of any ex
isting Investment trusts. They would
manage the large cash fund under
control of the express companies.
The plan would bo put into oper
ation when the railroad have taken
over the railway express business as
they are now planning to do after
contracts with the American Railway
Express company expire March 1,
1929.
RAIDS TETTERS';
IS SENTTO JAIL
Greenwich Man Gets Tear lor
IMJnnnnniw"
Bridgeport, Dec t (Joseph
Hegeman, 19, of Greenwich, who
conducted several profitable raids
upon "Fetter's Paradise" in Green
wich was sentenced to a year in jail
by Judge Arthur F. Ella in criminal
superior court yesterday when lie
entered a plea of guilty to three
counts of robbery with violence.
His wife, Agnes, also aged 19 and
against whom the tame charges have
been lodged, entered a plea of not
guilty and will be tried at a later
date. .
In presenting the ease to the court
Assistant State's Attorney Leorln W.
Willis declared that "it was a serious
case as has come before the court
in a long time."
Tha Hegemans who have been
married but four months hit upon
the plan of making nocturnal raid?
upon spooners in the section of
Greenwich that had been named
"Petter's Paradise." At the point ot
a gun Hegeman would force occu
pants of parked autos to turn theli
moneys over to him, while his wlft
stayed In their small car with the
engine running to assist in a speedy
departure.
Joseph Tripp. 1 8. and Albert Den
nett, 19, both of Wilmington, Del
were given suspended jail sentence
of one year each and placed on
probation when they entered pies
of guilty to theft of an automobile.
George Goodwin. 29, Bridgeport,
was sentenced to six months in Jali
when he pleaded guilty to theft of
brass piping from the former factory
site In this city that was being dis
mantled. Harry Allen. t. of 42! East Main
street, was sentenced to Jail for nine
months when he pleaded guilty to a
charge of burglary.
Albert Thorpe. 18 and James B
Caplock, 16, both of New Britain,
were returned to the Cheshire refor
matory when they entered pleas of
guilty to theft of an automobile.
READ HERAIiD CLASSIFIED ADS
was nonpartisan, as were all other
mayoralty contests except in Pitts
field where Jay P. Barnes, democrat,
was reelected over Samuel G. Cole,
Republican, Barnes polled 7,169 to
Cole's 5,555. For the first time in
four years, the democrats will con
trol all branches of the city govern
ment At Fitchburg, Dr. Joseph N.
Carriere, former secretary of the
state dental board, won in a
cornered contest. He defeated
rick F. Shea, his nearest opponent,
5,549 to 3,272. It was Fitchburg's last
annual election. The biennial plan
will govern future terms.
Reeleetions included those of
Mayor Albert H. Stone of Gardner
over 'James A. Timpany by a ma
jority of 561 votes, Mayor Thomas J. i
McGrath, Quincy, over Charles A.
Ross. 13.145 to 9.O07. Mayor Fred
E. Briggs, Attleboro, unopposed, and
Mayor Henry H. Parsons of Glouces
ter over Col. John E. Parker by a
majority of 64 votes. Parsons, who
wll start his eighth term, received
3.755 to 3.691 for Parker. It was
Parsons' fifth consecutive victory.
Is serving a trlree-year term.
Names Max Mayer
Gilchrist named Max Mayer, mer
cantile appraiser and republican or
ganization ward leader, as one of
his nine partners in a gambling
house which he. said had netted its
operators $902,000 in four years. In
addition, he declared that he had
paid Mayer $1,000 a month "for the
privilege of running the place and
four i because he was leader of the ward
rat- ; he asserted that he had paid $200 a
day for police protection and named
several officials to whom the money
Nabbed for Carrying
Concealed Weapons
Providence, R. I., Dec. 5 W) Ev
erett Simoneau, 20, alias Edward
Paige of Bridgewater, Mass., ar
raigned before Clerk John Pierce in
the second district court Wlckford,
last night, on a charge of carrying
a concealed weapon, pleaded not
guilty and was held without bail for
hearing at Wlckford tomorrow.
Simoneau was picked up in River
Point early yesterday morning by a
truck driver whose name the state
police withheld. He was on his way
to Connecticut The driver learning
ithat Simoneau had a revolver, re
frtirhtpne.d. and stopped In East
Greenwich to telephone state police
at Wlckford.
A trooper met the truck between
East Greenwich and Wlckford and
placed Simoneau under arrest.
THOMAS F. ALLEN
Bangor, Me., Dec. 5 Thomas
F. Allen, well known salmon fisher
man and superintendent of the Tov
ique Salmon club at Andover, N. B.,
for 39 years, died at his home here
last night. He was 74 years old.
He was for many years a state rail
road detective and a member of the
Bangor police department.
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