New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press N 0 40 NEW BRITAIN, E KILLED IN B AR CONNECICUT. THURSDAY, JANUARY EW BRITAIN HERALD 2 o, . —SIXTEEN PAGES Average Daily = Cireulation Week Ending 10’026 Dec. 29th PRICE THREE CENTS = EXPLOSION AT PEKIN, ILL.. MAY ASK MAGNETIC HEALER T0 CLOSE HARTFORD SCHOOL Slayer of White Now Is Seeking To Get Freedom Grand Jury Said to Have Evidence Against Insti-! tute of Therapeutics— More Doctors Quizzed Today Hartford, Jan. 3. — The medical | probe grand jury today resumed its investigutions into the individual qualifications of pructicing physicians in this state with 15 doctors seated outside the entrance to the jury room at the country building waiting to be summoned within, The first witness Irva M. George of 368 Chapel street, | New Haven, She in the jury room for nearly an hour and had with her a sachel filled with documents, She was graduated from the Kansas City college of medicine amd sur and was licensed to practice in Cone necticut on certification by the exam- , ining bourd of the Counccticut celee- tic medical association in 1922, the same r that Dr, James A. Christian of Fairficld received his liconse 1o practice today was Dr, was ractised in ¥ Dr, George w resident ¢ Albany, Miss., when she was ed from the Kansas City took the Connceticnt After passing the exuminati applied for a lice which granted, and she established a tice in New Havén, The second ¥, Long of Terryyille, subpoenued to appear on Wednesday, Dr. Long is € City grad- uate, and was Neensed to practice in 1920, 1 ihations she s was prac had witness was taiph who also a K May Close Schoul It is persistentiy Rev, George Cogswell who third witness of the day asked to close the Hartf of therapeutics, of which he as the result of information the ‘grand jury. "The clergymay ordained in the spiritnalist miofstry and i= advertised as o magnetic heal MABEL NORMAND 15 10 UNDERGO AN OPERATION in Shooting Scandal, sar- thut Was will be b institut i he reported R -] < THAW'S FIGHY TO GET FREE TO BE OPPOSED Own Mother's Lawyer Makes This Announce- ment Toda) irnishe fering From Appendicitis, Former counsel for mother ol 1 today that haw released hospital would Philadeiphla, Jan L auige da Mrs. Mary Coplay Th Harry Thaw attempt to | the Pennsylivania menta) 1 Doctors Say Wy Gordon Mabel Nor whose chauffeur, Horace Greer, shot and wounded Courtland 8. Dines, New Year's night, will be operated on for upper dieitls in a couple of days, her physi- clans sald today. She Is In a hospl hera in a highly nervous condition, Dines, wealthy oil operator, passed a satistactory night in the pital. Physicians say that his chances for recovery were good LOST IN THE SOUND Who lLos An indicat mand, film les, Jan, 3 dtar, I any e from for on and nerons diseases opposed New York, da Confirmation of reports that Harry Thaw wonld week his treedom from u Philadel phia asy charges of having whipped Gump, Jr Kansas City York hotel in 1917 toduy awed by announce that Gump wouid $650 eivi } f conrt 1ot Frederick N¢ same hos i w to set- suit indi- erim agr Aumage and the ment against 1 cations that he {inal eharge lapse “hortly fte New York wd cor Three Soldicrs, Vscaped From Bart n. represent - J0lomew Fisher's Island Guard House, Adritt lawyer firmed reports that 1itute Penn- e have | sane, he went inte Frank I, Walsh, rep- g Gump whose father is Coyne a ing Tha in Row Boat, in the sylva procecdi to his elie conference v Ne have n ton, Jan. Unless they naged to land on some island or the Connecticut shore, three soldiers from Fort H. G. Wright are | resenting you undopubtedly in a precarious position 8 Wealthy somew here in Long Isiand Sound | novncement in & rowboat settlement ther At this time of year, ;..,-m-...,m“:v-h«- sald that his client was marr the Sound is not the best place two months ago and now was liv inable for a rowhoat journcy. in California Col. E. G. Abernethy, comma the fort, reporied to the box that Privates King, Chase and Potter who were in the guard house made|from Bartholomew their escape and put to sea. in a row boat. He asked that a watch be kept for them in or about this port but up o torenonn o tmeof e 2| FIND AMPLE PROOF THAT DIXMUDE HAD EXPLOSION King is dessribed as being five by t on manufacturer. T an- was made | civil suit y Walsh L 3 one he imag- der at - 9:45| New York, Jan | Bun today states that New York s obtained New T'he h (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) eight inches in height, weight about | 160 pounds; Chase, light complexion five feet eleven inches, weight 1 and Potter dark complexion and weight about 170, Los Angel;esr and~ Other Places Feel Earthquake Los Angeles, Jan. 3.—8hght earth- shocks were fell in Los Angeles last night. Distinet shocks also were re- ported in Whittier, twelve miles cast of here and in other nearby cities, including Pasadena The tremors were slight and of about fifteen sec- Sult of an explosion onds duration. No damage was re-| One the gasoline tanks porte | picked up near Capo-®an Mareo, only A few miles from the spot where the body of the Dixmude's commander, | Licutenant Du Plessis e Gremadan | was brought to the surface by fisher- {men. The upper part of the'tank was | blackened by fire | Several pieces of the rubberized {ecloth used in the balloon envelopes were also found, lcaving practically no doubl that the Dismude fell in that vicinity with all on beard. Gasoline Tank, Wackened Vire, and Bits of Burned Ruabberized Cloth Taken from Sea kage (ro Iixmudc coast of Sicily has been disc the be ministry o i« advised, 11 that us ring out the ors great airship fell ir the sea taking fire a the to or as after of was GAME WARDEN MISSING Utlea. N. Y., Jan. 3 Fear that Game Warden Evan E. Jones has met with aceident or violence while searchirg for hunters alleged to have been shooting pheasants out of season in the wooded ravines south of this ety was expressed today. He has been missing since Sunday when he | wapt ‘<tn the woods. 'SENATE DEADLOCK | " YETT0 BE BROKEN Convening of Congress Given Over to Flow of Oratory \ON PROHIBITION AND COAL' Senator Lodge Announces He Will Tackle Russian Situation Monday— Mayfield Flection Probe it Started —Argument on League Heard, a Jan. 3.—Congress re- convened y after the holiday re-| cess and made another voluminous contributions to the archieves of con- gressional oratory. With the Senate still unable to break its deadlock over an interstate commeree chairman and the house waiting on work in its committees, most of the day at both ends of the capitol was given over to speech- making. Prohibition and the coal held the spotlight in the house, two southern Democrats, Upshaw of Georgia, and Blanton of Texas, r newing their demands for investig tion of liquor drinking in official Washington and with representative Treadway, republican Massachusetts, asking for relief from high anthra- cite conl prices, Hear Many Speeches, The Senate listened to speeches on many subjects, including the pere: topic of the Leaguc of Nation heard an announcement by Lodge that he would deliver dress Monday which probably precipitate a field day of debate Russia, | A resolution formally authorizing the proposed inquiry into the Mayfield clection contest in Texas was adopted | in the Senate, which aleo voted fo ask the shipping board why two na- thonal orgunizations in this country recently o decided to send dele- ! gutions to Kurope on forcign instead 'of American ships, After it had its #ll of oratory, the honse fded to journ over until Monday, a proceeding which led to a protest from Democratie Leader Gar- rett and from Representative How- ard, Democrat, Nebraska, who told his colleagues he had been elected to j..m,.—.v,.s 14 months ago “to do some- Washington, situation with an ad- will on ’ POSSIBLY POISONED MILK Reports What Murder Members Waterbury May Be Vamily Vot T By Patal Dose, Waterbury, Jan. 3. = A puzzling was ighit to light in this this morning when it was r ported, to the that for the past two mornings milk left outside the home of the family of Filameno lzzo, at 89 Beaver street, contained a sub stance which is believed to mer enry. Chemists were today analyzing the to ascertaln its exact natur Samples were taken to the city's laboratories for analysis and samples have been sent 1o the statc board of health laboratories. Enemies 'of the 1zz6 famlly are suspected Ly the police i mystery city poli substance |other ' ROBBERS STEAL JEWELRY | Fashionable New York Home ©n- | tered and looted of Gems Worth | $LO00—Owners Held By Pistols, New York, Jan Two masked robbers today invaded the apartment occupied David Palter, a stock broker, in west 70th street apartment house and escaped with $4,000 worth of jewelry taken from Mrs, P room The robbery, committed ir fonable section of the west resi | dence district, was one of the most | daring In months. The palr entered when the door was opened by a maild who answered the be She faced two res under by a fas) ers. Ordered death direc. pain of the not to she stepped backward tion of the gazed upon twe wearing tas ind black masks and W8 wife W feath ¥ thes scream at were sl bed men, both tan felt hate stock broker with in young rainconts The ¢ threatened made a sound Boys, 1 and 2, Locked in Bedroom, Burned to Death Liberty. N. Y, Jan. 2. Locked in a bedroom while their mother shopping. Leonard, 4 years old, Wiiliam, 2 Mr. and Mrs Arthur Townsend, were burned to death in a fire of undetermined ori- gin wae and sons of REPORTS $7.000 ROBBERY. Vest New York, N. J.. Jan. 3—Po- lice today were investigating a report by William Aretsky, jewsler, that two men held him up in his store and robbed Wim of $7.000 in jewelry and i money late last night. Child Dies From Grief Over Death Of Baby Sister Grief stricken over the death of her two year old sister, Vir- ginia, on Thursday of last week, Gertrude Lynch, age 5 years, who had mourned the loss of her sister and who told friends last week that she wanted to go to heaven with lier sister, was today claimed by death. Gertrude and her little sister were inseparable companions and were always seen by residents of the neigh- borhood in which they lived to be playing together and in the thrangs of happiness while with each other. Gertrude was the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Edward C. Lynch of 74 Black Rock aven- ue, and besides her parents leaves an older sister. I'uneral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock and in- terment will be in 8t. Mary's cemetery, MAIL TRAIN DERAILED AT BRIDGEPORT TODAY LINKS MENTALILLS T0 FACTORY INJURY Judge Upholds Chandler’s Find- ings in Compensation Case FARNIR C0. APPEALo:: , Wrestler Claimed Brooding Over A N cident and Its Results Caused Ab- And Court erration and Hysteria Agrees With This View. Judge William M. Maltbie in su- perior court has sustained the origin- al award of Compensation Commis- sioner George B, Chandler in the case of F. Ivan Benjamin vs. Fafnir Bear- ing Co., adjudging no error in the {findings and award of the commis- isioner. Benjamin was represented by Attorney S, Waskowitz Benjamin suffered an injury while at work in the Fafnir factory in Oc- tober, 1922 He alleges that tiirough brooding over the injury he contract o | #d mental disease and suffers hys- — |teria. The respondent denied casual | connection between the injury sus- |tained in the factory and the mental | condition and after several hearings the case went to superior court on (appeal. | Judge Maltbie's memorandum on | the case follows: | The only question in this case, as I see it, is whether or not the con- Two Clerks Injured and|ciuion of the commicioner that the Third Has Clothes Rip- ped from Body Bridgeport, Jan. 8 29, westbound on the N, Y. N. H. & railroad, was derailed here tod Some of fhe crew are reported Jured. The aceident oceurred at 4:15 a, Two mail clerks, Walter H. Grey Hyde Park, Mass, and M. L. Mott Watertown, N. Y. riding on the th mall car the train were torn up and went through the flc of the car, striking both, Their Jjuries are not believed to be serio The guard rall also pushed throw, Into the fourth car. T, H. Houde Wollaston, Mass,, mail clerk, had clothes torn off by the rafl, but caped injury, The train, eomposcd r8 had aboard about and third cars Rallroad men say the primarily sed by the a brake beam, of four m 5 clerks. 1 were deral accident dropping second A was maM tr deral feet west due o according New Haven, from Boston, about one thousand Bridgeport early today, falling of a brake bram information given out at offices of the N.Y official report the accident up il formation given car on which the was deralled and this cansed of the truck of the next of the track bed was torn the train vwas stopped and t N. H. & H. rallroad here had not been made 30 o'clock here was Rome " end o floor two One of a mall car Injuring sligh clerks who were at wo was hurt elbow and th the side. Both were sent a hospital ention. The ed cars were replaced track pairs made at ten o'cloe) BIG FIRE IN HALIFAX Wa mail for and on Union And Paris Hotels street of Nova Scotian By Plames ~Fire Paris street Paris Halifax, J this aft pt the Water started in ¢ per story apparatus arr St wind t Soon both n noon swe and tels on The entire t was in 1 and fann«d by spread to t vuildings fire were blazi flercely TORNADO HITS TOWN Causeyville, Miss, Hi by Windstorm and Numeron Are Made Homeless Meridian Miss, Jan four mi At es south night 1 dol struck Canseyville Meridian shortly after m juring several heats damage families are homeiess, g properts * THE WEATHER Hartford. Jan. 3.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Rain. pos<ibly changing to snow as temperature Jowers tonight. Friday fair and colder. fresh south shifting to stromg west- erly winde. ~Madl train No. injurea when a length of steel guard rail was was the that the beam had dropped derall- guard rail went through the the | derall- | Port Razed Union ho- blaze flames bhefore the Union Terrific ¥V amiljes Numerous |claimant’s present condition of men- |tal derangement is the result of the injury he sustained It is true the reasons of appeal assign error in the commissioner’s denial of various para- graphs of a motion to correct his find- ing and award, but no testimony is before me which would enable me to overturn his conciusions, The Injury was suffered somethae in or prior to October, 1922, and a voluntary agreement for compensa- tion was made and approved by the commissioner. In January, 1923, th reggondent sought to cease its mehts of compensation on the ground |that the eclaimant’s incapacity had terminated, but the commissioner de- nied the application. The present ap- peal is from the denial by the com- missioner of another application by the respondent to be permitted to cease compensation based upon the same ground. The injury was a dis- location and strain of the ligaments of the right arm. He was treated, in particular, by Dr. Paul P, Swett and hig associate, Dr, Sidney H. McPhers son, eminent orthopedic surgeons. On March 19, 1923, the clatmant recefv ed his final treatment at the former's Lands; Dr. Swett then found that he had a full range of motion in his shoulder, but there was some restric tion in both voluntary and motion, although there appeared to be no physical impairment of an orthopedic nature; that he se ». a in-| m, of of ird or in- us. gh of his o8- ail he led of ain led of 10 med to An of n- (Continued on Page Thirtecn) SWALLOWS MORPHINE ar, up 1 he ty rk | Hospital Owner, Recently Divorced, Suspected of Attempting Suicide to | re- Wadsworth, formerly proprictor of the is at the New gradually the of to Miss Laura | Mrs. Laura Demos, Court street hospital Britain General entering a «tate result of having taken a large morphine in what was b have been an attempt to commit sui cide shortly after 1 o'clock this after Dr. C. M. Cooley was immedi ately called and ordered he to the New Britain He stated this afternoon condition reached gradually tose and might become From what ascert wtre hospital comatose ter dose ieved noon remoral er. eneral hospital that was not had wh he her but, he entering a he expressed fe worse p said " state ng information that cou sheriffs Court hospital placing ments on 1L when Miss Wadsw thought ™ he morphine to 1 lfe. &he was first n by at the insti o call Cooley 1 Britain police mes Me Cabe and Axel Carlson the scene patrol feared that woman Leing move they however emoyed the hospita was further attended by Her condition is serious be were on wh turn Policeman J who n sent 10 in the as it wae resist When had been 1o of the te the hospita in- ehe ing arrived to she whe Dr Cooley FIND THIRD SHRINY Aseoriated Press Egypt, second * By The Luxor. doors of the khamun's tomb were morning, a third br and gilded shrine was disclosed. This shrine which was also opened by the excavators is inscribed with hirogiy phics and on the doors are depicted the figures of & horse-headed man |and the cow-headed Hather Egyptian goddess of love. brine in Tuten \pened jantly-colored ) | | passive | MAY NOT RECOVER, this Of 100 or More Injured, Score Reported Dying —Disaster Occurs When Starch Plant of Corn Products Co. Blows Up—Flames Follow Blast And Victims Cannot Be Reached— g , Many Badly Mangled. Yo 1.1 "’Jl‘_) "‘/’i' s ; Mg 3, Jan. 3.—Between 25 to 40 persons were killeu « sured, according to estimates, in an explosion and fire in the s... 'h buildings of the Corn Products Refining com- pany here early today. At 10 a. m., seven bodies, six of them identified, had been recovered. ! Two Buildings In Ruins At that hour two buildings of the big plant were in ruins, building No. 33, the starch powder house, where the blast oc- curred being reduced to a mass of smouldering debris, apd build- ing No. 27, the starch house, still blazing, its walls standing but giving off heat so intense that no efforts could be made to search for bodies. BRISTOL YOUTH DIES AFTER COASTING CRAS Breaks a Blood Vessel in| Head in Collision With Double Ripper 250 Were At Work The plant employed about 800 men and it is estimated that 250 were at work In the starch house when the explosion occurred at 3:35 o'clock. | They were members of the night shift | which went on at 11 o'clock. Among | the victims were about 25 workers due to go on 4 o'clock. The cause of the blast has not been determined, but it is believed caused by the dust explasion. The explosion was so terrific that several box cars alongside the plant were shattered or blown off the tracks, The force wrecked the starch- ing department, table and, retabie houses and the kiln house, causing more than $500,000 damages. 9 Entombed Probably Dead Nine men were entombed in two of the telescoped box cars shattered by (Special to The Herald) Bristol, Jan. 3.—Joseph Porowski, 17 year old son of Mr. and Mrs, Felix | Porowski of 57 Chestnut street, died last night at his home of a broken blood vessel in his head, the result of a coasting acident on the Chestnut |the explosion. Their eries had coased street hill near his home earifer in the | this forenoon und persons working |evening. The boy had been sliding frantically to clear away the debris, on the hill and on the fatal descent, | Were of the opinion that the men {asked a four year old youngster to | nad perished. ride on his back on his sled. The ar sero cold is frecsing the water youngster acepted and the two started | O¥¢r the bulldings and steam arising down a decline, between theb uildings envelopes the Midway on the hill the sled crashed | WOrkmen in almost total darkness at into a double ripper, being pulled up | 1MeS the hill. Porowski began to bleed and went to his home, where Dr. | Ralph A. Richardson was called to |attend him. Although fatally injured, |the boy walked home and was con- sclous to the end, although remark- ing that his head felt “very funny. The physiclan saw at once that the injuries were serious and every medi. eal means was employed to prolong life but to no avail, Besides his parents, the dead boy leaves several brothers and sisters. | g, He had been employed at the Clay- | ton Brothers factory for some time, The funeral arrangements are in- complete {8 YEARS IN PRISON Rentucky Pamily Sang in Face of Death. Trapepd In the third floor of the burning Pekin plant, Frank Liteht- welss, 26, Peroria, sang to his fellow workers for nearly an hour to calm [ them, and when the last retreat was eut off, jumped from the blazing building. Nine men working in five cars about 30 feet from building 33 were missing 1 were believed to have been killed as the cars were de- stroped by the explosion The Associated Press, See Victims In Debris Peoria, M., Jan, “Between 28 and 35 persons are believed to have been killed and more than 100 others injured in a terrific dust explosion early today at the starch plant of the Corn Products Co. at Pekin, 111 Fire broke out after the explosion. Rescuers could see the bodies of ap- proximately between and 35 vie« tims Iying in the ruins but the fames prevented attempts to reach the bodies 1t was estimated it would be eral hours before the ruins could be penetrated and the bodies removed Many Badly Mangled Eighty i many them bad y mangled n from the wree o'clock and taken to Pekin and Peoria and Afty men wera t the time | Son of Prominent Sentemeed Yor Criminal Assault Upon Young i Ten.. Jan. 3.—Renfro 1bery0f a well known | Fulton, Ky., M charged with eriminally assaulting Miss Helen Maroney was found guilty by a jury today and sentenced to eighteen years | n prison The court appointed a committee of lawyers to investigate what part a | Fulton attorney may have had in an alleged attempt to settla the case by a money payment to the girl's mother PRINCESS IS ARRESTED Dresden, Tucker, 27, me nred of had by been removed g 8 hospitals hundred Two working ir plant a of the explos AL 9 estimates of high had re ead running as the dead kept as thirty been fde rose from reme & which conid ba seen and i red many bodies will Olga Koslowsky of Russia Accused of . Harding, Rumler The identi Harms, Lee w George Schmidt Hooper, William Vogelsang wore Reported Dying . ' more injured, ore of them prob night The we- burned Stealing Jewelry From Home of Her Hostess in Denmark The Kussia 1ghte adimir Koslowsks e with Copenhage Ja Princess Olgn Ko of the ed or lat is under arged stealing Thiy """ ALMOST 108 YEARS OLD Norwalk Woman Who Died ewels valued kroner a country he ag arrest she was The ed a great e 4 Today Her bolsheviki 1 very p father Wonld Have Reached That Mark On Fehruary was or 2 his proy result th and M Sane hed her February re 10day follow Mrs. Sanford Jost rosident of the tanght res “HERALD" PAYS FINES Midded b Jave vd one Were State was born in Redding vears has She was active passed the cemtury which she frac- Who nford e past four score Owners in ment in Thic Paper Tuesday Are renling here after she Reimbursed Full Penalty fa + hip disabled her and for the hias been confimed morning vears she and who « to a stater Tuesday ca NATIONAL BASK cALlX Washington, Jan. 3—The comp- the treasury today issued a ! natioral business on ortun 14" s paper was in ament ma reimbur troller of all for the condition of banks at Monday, December 31. their fines with an agre | “Herald” yesterday