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i,‘ ‘ THE WEATHER?“ FAIR - COLDER = -| \| ~fTosme srock ovorarions ngNTy.¢w¢ ~- GLENS FALLS, N. Y., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1927 Teller Is Forced to Open ' Vault tor Thugs; $80,000 - Removed 'from Institution *: reighters Crash Off Bay State CONVICT HAS Ninety Lives Saved When V BRIEF VISIT | Damaged Ship Is Beached | AT WESTPORT | HOW CLENS FALLS - GREETS NEW YEAR TONIGHT - Watch night service at First Baptistchurch. - New Year's Eve party at The Queensbury. B Motion pictures and vaudeville at Rialto theatre; motion pictures at Empire, State' and Park thea» tres. Wachine Falls to Earth in _ 'Test Flight at Marseilles _ in France; Find Lost Ship . PARIS, Dec. 31.--Five persons were killed ear Marignane today when a hydroplane, owned \CHICAGO Dec. 31.--Six bandits staged a daring daylight, robbery of the Ravenswood National bank here today. 'They held the'vtelluuéni his family prisoners in their home throughout the night until the time= C0 / % locked released the vault at 7:30 this morning. 'They then forced the | > { teller to 'open the sife and escaped with $80,000 in cash and negotiable securities. } © - 'The teller, George Anderson, was accosted in front of his honie by -by Orders of Commander VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., Dec. of ninety officers and men were endangered in a midnight collision in a heavy fog off Hedge «. x. La T. '1 1; k i ; ; camshin + : + suNpaAY & tee adhere fica I \ . by. La 1 ecoere mail lines crashed dunn a test a ,_ | Fence Lightship be_twecn the coal-}_aden steamghlp Norfolk, Philadelphia || - a R AY _ the'six bandits, who forced him into the living room.* 'There they pro- © - Aiet 2 ke ' - g Leaps Through Window of Train | and Portland, Maine, and the freight steamship Lake Inglenook, travel- rau‘ipmfi‘cffsf ervices in T“ Sens || duced sawed off shotguns and held prisofi¢r his parents, Mtr. and Mrs. Hight. rao q; I k . \*S\. ing light from Boston to New York. Algot Anderson. At 7:25 4. m: they took Andeison to the, bank 'and . Motion pictures at Empire, State, But Is Later Captured by | Motion pictures at Empire, Sheriff Orr --- Robbed Track- walker of Few Dollars smae pull k peas |- hole room bullthead reaching down below the waterline, Captain P. L. Brooks 'of the Philadelphia steamship ran the Norfolk for two miles, from the lightship to a shoal in the center of the harbor here. . + The Lake Inglenook, with a deep hole in her bow but high out of the water, proceeded to New York. Both steamships carry forty-five officers and men. No injuries were reported by either ship today, Men- Women Imprisoned in | Wrecked Pullman Cars at _The pléne had. hopped off at Marseilles for Algiers and was traveling at an altittide of 1,200 MoNDAY _. | The Times will not be published, Business and editorial offices will be open Monday'evening as usual. Westmount Sanatorium will be open from 1 to 4 p. m., for public inspection. > « Holiday hours at the post office. No deliveries by city or rural car- riers or through general delivery window, Complete city collection at 6 p. m. Common Council meets at 11 a, m. New council organizes at noon, Open house at Y. M. C. A., af- ternoon and evening. High school alumni dance at The Queensbury, Basketball, St. Alphonsus' hall, form? thin} to opgn the. vault. The menfled invan‘kautomp'biivc; NAVY 00 R E ELEVATED TRAINS IN |- (NA V , CRASH; PASSENGER IS F OR DELAY IN REPORTED AS CRUSHED CHICAGO, Dec. 31. - About forty passengers were severaly Parents of Submarine's Com- mander Appeal for Haste in NORTH TRURO, Mass., Dec. 81.1- United States Shipping: Board steam» ship Natirar ran ashore during the dense fog today close to the Pamet river coast guard station here. Distress calls. brought the coast- guardsmen and coastguard cutter Mohave to the rescue. ' The Natirar rested éasy and was in no danger of breaking up, the | coastguardsmen. said. Slhq carried about 45 officers and men. 'feet, when something went wrong and the ma- - chine shot downward. It carried two pilots, two mechanicians and a radio operator. , ~ First reports from the scene indicated that the plane was the property of the Aero-Naval Trans- . port company and was making a regulat trans- Mediterranean flight with passengers, but this was corrected later. 'AUTHOR-LECTURER IS WESTPORT, N. Y., Dec. 31-Slip- ping handcuffs from - his wrists, Thomas Brennan, one of fifty con- victs who were being« transferred from Sing Sing to Clinton prison at Dannemora early today, jumped from the window of a speeding D. & H. train near,here. He was captured a short time later by Sheriff Charles | SV, Ort, of Essex county, assisted by state police: After jumping from the train, Brennan, according to Sheriff - Om, held up a D. & H. track-walker, but got only a few dollars, The convicts. shaken up and gne man was res ported probably fatally wounded. here today when two elevated trains crashed into each other. . ', One passenger, riding on the rear platform of the train ahead, was reported crushed wher the express train, coming up from the rear, struck the other train. As flames and sparks from the oo 2‘ LONDON, Dec. 31 - After a diligent search by automobiles > p rep 're: - 2 . St. Michaels of Amsterdam vs. S. «0. _s , - ' _ DEAD IN ROCHESTER| and airplanes, the Bagdad to were in charge of six guards. Bren o . e c . Bringin n a Pue H 2s rahul 18, i - Cairo \ atrplane, | which was, lost | DCL mo reached taisvlace C h ica g 0; T, ains C01 l lde Motion pictures in all Glens Falls || f & pg Sunken Craf‘tvtokSur Coashess - . screamed «___ i R * t + 6 r wee ' e b 5 ' in the desert, was found today 2 \ I 00 _ \|| theatres, ace---Fog Filampers Wor and only prompt work by ellovat- 20> 'They notified Sheriff Orr, who had -the man in custody within a few hours. OSSINING, N. Y., Dec. $1 - Of- ficials at the Sing Sing prison here. today said they had received a tele- gram stating that one of - several sixty miles from Rutba, accord- ing to a Central News dispatch from Cairo. According to a wireless re- ceived yesterday from the pilot, the huge airplane was forced to descend by heavy headwinds and ed guards averted a panic. conFERENCE HED IN > © N° YORK ' MURDER CASE NEW YORK, Dec. Har- Dairymen's play, Monty's Bridge school, 8 p. m. TRAGICNOTES ., ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 3.-Dr. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, author, lectursr fmd one time Episcopalian - clergyman, First of Modérns died to- day at his home here aged 78. - '. Dr. Crapsey's views of theology '. WASHINGTON, Dec. $1-Appeal- -{ ing for a quick raising of the ill- fated submarine S-4, parents of Roy, K. Jones, commander of the craft, declared in a letter received here today that Secretary of the Navy CHICAGO, Dec. 31.---Ten crews of men worked feverishly to cut through the steel walls of three telescoped pullman coaches on the \Hum | mer\ crack Chicago & Alton railroad train to liberate eight or more men and women imprisoned following a terrific crash with train No. 78 of the hae 1 SNOWSLIDE SMOTHERS {_- UNIVERSITY STUDENTS preackHing of a series of sermons in which he expressed his disbelief in . teachings of the book of common prayer. He was convicted and dis- charged from his pastorgte in 1906. - His eloquence and magnetic per- honzflfiy won a large and wealthy congregation for St. Andrews' church before his dismissal in 1906. « sav o TOKYO, Dec. 31 students he Students were spending. their agys at the Rass, which is in the Jabat Alps. - - bodies have already been re- covergd‘ ' 8 \ '' br, Waseda University were killed to-\ y When skiing at Harinolki Pass,- y were smothered by a snowslide. LEADING FEATURES | C_ or Day's NEWS IN | .. GLENS FALLS TIMES o, p . Page hy Glens Falls Fire Causes SEE NEW YEAR . IN HONDURAS {Will Resume Good Will Flight to San Salvador Monday --- Is Guest of Honor at Receptions at Belize BELIZE, BRITISH HONDURAS, Dec. $1-Jubilant residents of this dAittile pait of the British Empire tucked away in Central Amer-Mafia- day prepared to celebrate a double | holiday, - Only a day away, as the clock goes, il was the New Year-something to be + ushered in with, fitting enthusiasm, | and in their amidst was that person- 'able ambassador of good will from the Umited States, Col. Charles Lind- bergh-a young man to be showered with. honors befitting a distinguished 'was to have been the legzder of .the Sing officials did not give any de- tails or reveal 'the name of the prisoner. FRUSTRATE PLOT TO FORM NEW REPUBLIC STRASBOURG, Dec. $1.-PFrustra- tion of a plot to set up a free repub- Ho in Alsace Lorraine, by civil war if necessary, was Claimed by police today with the arrest of several al- leged autonomists. ' Police said documents found in the homes of those atrested proved the existence of the plot, a A warrant was issued for the ar- rest of Doctor Rees, a former Prus- sian captain, who, it was claimed, revolutionary shock troops. WALKER IS SUED FOR |___ DAMAGES BY QUINTET FREEHOLD, N, J., Dec. 31-Bd- ward \Mickey\ Walker, world's mid- dleweight champion, is defendant in a $102,500 damage sulit here. Last September 25, near Red Bank, N. J., an automobile driven by Walk- \That guy's trying to butt in. He never worked with us, We never | heard of him.\ In these words Willliam Edward Hickman, confessed kidnaper and killer of Marion Parker, today brand- ed as a \hoax\ the purported confes- sion of James Ellsworth, held in De- troit, Mich., that he was a bandit accomplice of Hickman and Elby Hunt. Hickman's stitement came while he was being questioned on the De‘ troit confession by Frank Dewar, county jailer. At the same time Dewar disclosed the contents of an anonymous letter which he'said had just been received fron Detroit, addressed to Hickman. This letter read as follows: \Willlam - Edward | Hickman:i-If you would have met me when I told you, you wouldn't have got into this | mess. Some day I may see you, if I they don't catth me and I'ma not go- '| ing to let them do that.\ , WILL MAKE EFFORT . TO SAVE CONDEMNED | CORNING, N. Y., Dec. 81.-An at- 'tempt to save Wilmot Leroy Wage ner, 28-year-old Canadea farmhand, known. pending a checkup. 'of a rescue worker and murmered: know how many-are dead.\ St. 'and passenger between trains collided. Noise of the crash,. figmes as the engine brought thousands to the scene., ed, fought through the debris. SNOW-ZERO WEATHER passengers on the flyer were known to have been injured and taken to a | hospital in police ambulances. The extent of their jujuries is not yef How many persons were injured on the other train, also an express and eastbound, was unknown by officials One survivor, who oravfled through a jagged hole torn in the steel sides of the car staggered into the arms | \It's a living hell in there. I don' \The first train, No. 78, & fast mail Louis and Chicago, was due here at 6:45 s. m, It had been delayed by the storm and was directly in the path of the flying \Hammer\ which was seeking to make up lost time when the two piercing screams of women and - children ' crushed by the massive girders, and exploded, Acetylene torches were rushed to the rescue workers, who, spurréd on. by cries of agony of those imprison ONBRTHDAYS Mrs. Snyder Pens Letters to Be Come # epe t liouse at Sing Sing, is to be 'year old daughter, Lorraine, after Mrs. Snyder and Henry | Judd Gray die in the electric chair on January 12 for the sashweight mur- der of Albert Snyder, Lorraine will receive a missive from her mother- letters of counsel and cheer and -comfort. The words Mrs. Snyder has put dowh on paper for Lorraine under most - poignant circumstances. will warn the little girl of the pitfalls of life. The letters will reach Lorrfine through her grandmother, Mrs. Jog- 'ephine Brown, with whom the child will live t_ Mrs. Snyder apparently is prepared {to die. 'The plonds, blue-oyed occu- 'pant of a cell in , \murderer's © row\ Given Lorraine Snyder: on Each Natal Day for Years to NEW YORK, Dec. 31-A - tragic series of letters, written in the death Auth Brown Snyder's hprit‘age to her nine Each birthday for years to come ; Harmington came here vaolintarily v d rom Wilkes Barre, Pa, where *he assailed by the parents of Comm-‘n- 'was appeariig wit® a stock computwfl Get Jores. |_ © x- Polite were seeking a taxi driver We were first advised of the dis-] tnown to have driven Mis. Harring- aster by the press and not until four| ton frequently, Polite said that rob- hours after we had wired Flle-dépm‘t- bery had\ been established as the ment aid ’we hear a word from then\ | probable motive. | Mrs. Efarrington, thg Jones' wrote. - | who was a vaudeville gotrésg, was Mirs. Jones and I kept the «vigil! robbed.of four diamond rings and A- | for six days, waltifg for some wold} guy coat. - of encouragement from Washington, : only to be rewarded with a statement from the secretary that 'the - §-4 would probably not be raised beforé spring.\ \We both feet that the navy de- partment has crucified our dear boy and his comrades and the cruel in- | difference which they have shown towird these poor boys who died in: the service of their country is in-| human and without a précedent.\ 'The parents endorsed a demand by McClintic that the submarine he raised without delay \if it takes every ship in the navy to 46 it.\ McClintic asserted that the letter showed that it was at first the in- tention of the nayy department to. delay raising the ship until spring, PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Dec. 31] -Dense fog today hampered opera- tions on the hulk of submarine §-4, the fog delaying the salvage fleet In getting into position, - ' 'The navy department was bitterly, won him 'n distinct place in the lit- * a shortage of gasoline. risoners being - transported | from | SAME railroad. Wilbur had told thn that the sub | rington, actor, conferred with ( * érature of modeitnism and his writ- {The four gccupants of the flew to the prisin- at Dfinnemm, N. ~ - Both trains crashed in a freight iA h C I\ mgrnze ‘fwoulcl prgbably not | bef tives~euti~ly today in an efgftlgefiifb- f . Ing= aroused wide discussion and in- plane were safe Y., Had jumped from the train and|§AYS ELLSWORTH TALE yard hore when engineers failed to | . [« . ' Whe before spring. them solve the murder of his former © terest, He was born in Fairmont, - + escaped at a point about 40 miles r 'er | observe block signals due to the in-| \ & The letter written by Mr and| wife, Mrs. Emma Hartington, The. . Oflp. : - ® : o s south of Plattsburgh. OF CRIMES IS FALSE t drivic - - SWA. Mrg, John M. Jones, of actor believes that a taxi driver kill- <4 'His ministry here extended for . M + The train left here last night and erase riving snow which cast a Oklzhoma, was Addressed to ReD.l ed Mrs, Harrington, whose. body Was f ~~ Awenty-seven years, ending when he IV *A % the reported escape occurred early; - white curtain before them. : McClintic (D) of Oklahoma;} a mem- | discovered. eight. days after she was | was fried for heresy following the 1 a UA - -| this morning, The telegram to Sing! LOS ANGELES, Calif, Dec. 3i- Twenty-five, and probably more Kati: the House Naval Affairs com- killed' in her apartment here. : o ||. € lo chose a route never be- | p, ided | j bile.\ I 'o' - pere e eer brn 2 [filféuuldo by any other visitor - of 331190 Oéligieedpg‘xiistoismfimfiie agflfgiofifi” convicted murderer of State Trooper: > a wi a wat has made over to Lorraine what jew- First work planned by the divers: iith Appointed » || these parts: 'I who were injured, now seek damage\ Robert Roy, from the electric chair GRIP S. MlDDLE WEST elry and bonds she owns . . .. and | was to attempt to open the engine} ie Count 1... ...... 2 With all businigss suspended, of- | mrs, Mary Gafiné asks $75,000 \awnjsfthr‘ough the exhumation of State has written those letters. __ room hatch, It is in this compait- 1 9 Morehouse arid “Ed“ Ii flciats and . private subjects wore ages; her husbéndl‘John szae‘ks $10_\Troopev Arnold Rasniugsen's body- - Fudd Gray, the condemned ~wo- mont that the first bodied are ex- . Glacken Form Part» ready to crowd whatever time the | gop; 'his cousin, Joseph Garino wanig| will be made by Defense Attormey CHICAGO, Dec, $1 - Driving | man's lover has resigned himself to | pected to be fount. Salvage worker 225} Practice of Law 2 young aviator decides to spend here | 5g 600%, Mrs Frances Viscusi, $10,000 Thomas Rogers, he announced today, | needle-like snow . and zero weather) his fate, too. He has made nis last | recalle@ that when the - engine-roohi. , \ ¢ (A V‘JV'QH’DMW\ 5 E with receptions,. parades and excur» f an’d 1121. Ixifsbafid Alfonso 3’5 000\ 't Rogers today was to have an in- gripped | the centive middlewest to- | will . . » 'hatch of the' S-61 pff. Block Island. 104 Supreme Cotrt . 2 || gong to places of interest. j » $5909) with Wagner, now in the | day, the forerunner of the coldest | . Mrs. Snyder's last thoughts are | was opened several | bodigs | wel Cod k iby Dr. W. L; Mun- Although Col. Lindbergh was at Sing Sing death house, He expects | wave of tho season, whichis sweep, | probably of, her daughter. It is re« | clustered near 'the hatch.. Thoss foun 14 £ do doe ol bud ene en 5 ip first expected to hop off today for ATHLETE FINED I to «obtain an affidavit from Wagnet l ing eastward and southward from the | called that practically the only emo- | in thlegriginwcpmp tment of the f ' ties Sold 'l San - Salvador, ~ acrogs . . Central |. . PROVIDENCE, R. L., Pec, 31.-Roy | that will give grounds, for, granting , Canadian Northwest and the snow- ] tion shexjdisplayed during her gen- pwill 'be,\ Hit re sulfgce 1 DA Amerfed, it was indicated 'that he | Randall,\ quarterback of the famous | the exhitmation order to fettle doubt |.eovered slopes of the, Rockies. . . ../ sational triat was when | Lormaine mediately 'b r gece ob would ,n{'bba.b1y defer his flight until ' Brown university Iron Man *éleven | as to how KRasmussep was slain.. Death, seorés of 'automobile acot- | was-put -on the witness: stand. : Thenc| c, 00%. the 'defendunt's eyes,: deseribed by | .; ny wilters 4s \frosty filled witt] - tears é“d“5h\3”r1°§it§g¥¢r‘ perfect poise. |- litle dents, extremé.\ exposure;. suffering,, \train wrecks and surface car tieups,: Ainipériled | Aake | shipping; wrecked, telegraph and telephone lines and no- Rogers will base his appeal on the ground that Wagner did\ not ; kill Rasmussen and shot Roy in: self,de- \fense. Evidence was introduced: by,; the prosecution to ghow that Wagnet . shot Roy, as 'hg.came.upstaitf to dap-< (ture him,. tL 1&nd captain of the 1927 team, was. fine $200 in the Sixth District court 'Here foday after admitting sufficient evidence to convict on a chargo of, . C 4 to 5 14 | drunken difiving. He was also fined relief in/ sight for several days was | see . $10 on a chaige of possegsing lquor, tthe picture from Northern Wisconsin. write Wae Randall appealed. ' \[to Texas and from Montana to 'Ohig fopds 6f visdo * % 4 . Al v4 a d daa a din bb ee +# oreign Events 1 Mondé&y: © « 600 . ||! The young flyer retived last night 9 latter being entertained at the vartous - I| gbcia1 clubs and {Attending a special I| performance, at Nords Pal- {ree theatre, where a, large Audience -- - cheered fi eiferously. ° ~ Now:. there 1g I Aine. | AJ <a a t ys venti jpl L . £2 {% - > w puna 2 gin l C G c. cnl AIRE ina friars manus Wh ventiter alby ond disc M8 Loa t 0s
