New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1924, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN HERAL@ |05 NTY PAGES. Averaze Daily Circulation Week » ',mlmx 10 574 May 24th . PRICE THREE CENTS News ot the World By Associated Press MAY —TWE NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, 192 METHODISTS LIFT FOUR FIRES TAKE 35 KNOWN KILLED AND DEATH LIST AMUSEMENT BANS TOLLOFFOURLVES GROWS IN TORNAZO THAT SWEEPS ACROSS SEVERAL SOUTHERN STATES ESTABLISHED 1870 SUSPECT IS ARRESTED IN FRANKS CASE BUT CLAIMS HE HAS A PERFECT ALIBI buing, Games of Cance and Pyromaninc Suspected in Fatal ‘ Blazes in Harlem Prisoner"l; K;lown As [;IV": [;LUBS JUIN George Johnson But Hi¢ Right Name Is Adolph Papritz— Owns a Gray Auto. Says He l\no“s olhmg of Murder and Was Boy's Motoring With Young Woman on Day of Crime. Arrest of a man the name received Chicago, May 27.- Lnown as George Johnson— signed to the ransom letter by Jacob Franks demanding $10,000 for the return of his son, Robert, 13 driving a Gray automobile, was the development in the investigation | v of the kidnaping and death of the boy. The prisoner make of automobile the private school attended by young Franks at the time he started home from school. The prisoner lives in the Myde Park district where the Franks family lives Prisoner Not Suprrised The prisoner known as Johnson, al- his name is Adolph Papritz, jot surprised by his ar- was driving the same though said he was 1| rest, “1 expected it Gray car is being taken in,” he said, He sald he knew nothing about the Franks case, and that he was about to leave for fowa. On the afternoon of the kidnaping, last Wediesc said he was motoring with a woman. New Clues U A typewriter roller, paper and a small diagram scratched on a piece of paper were the only new clues unearthed after hours of search | today by detectives investigating the ! slaying. The typewriter part, found in & thrash pile near the home of a man questioned in connection with the case may belong 1o the portable typewriter on which was written the ransom de- mand and instructions for its delivery and signed “George Johnson," ac- cording to a police theory. The articles were slightly burned, indicating an at- tempt to destroy them. Dig For Boy's thes The scarch for clues caused detece tives to spend half the night in digging for the slain boy's clothes in the vi- einity of the place where the body was found and at a spol where two women were seen clearing a space alongside a darkened car on the night | averybody with a young earthed a piece of as one seen near | | | | | IN NOON MEETING Lynn W, Meekins Tells How New Business Can Be Gained {18 AT PIRST LUNGHEON Chamber of Commerce And Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis Clubs Unite in Opening Program of Noonday Gath- erings—Design Prizes Awarded. A hundred and seventy-eight resent- ng the Chamher of Commerce, the Kiwanis clubs of Burritt ness and professional men, rv Itotary, Lions and the city, assembled at the hotel today for the first of a series of pmonthly luncheons to he held by the |the chamber the | closed recently, | ber of Commeree | Meeking, lager of tha burean of commerce and {was rendered iwould be held on the last combined civic clubs. The meeting was opened by William K, Golthwaite, the A solo by Lions club. Miss “Alice Sullivan president of wccompanied by John J. Crean, Mr, Golthwaite turned the mecting over to President h 1. Andrews of the Chamber of Commerce, who announced that similar , meetings Tuesday of month now on, at which time speakers national promin- ence would be present to talk on civie matters, Principal L. P. Slade of the senior ligh school, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, officially welcomed into members who were signed up during the drive which Mr, Slade adapted his talk from the statement hy Louis Pasteur, who defined democracy as “That form of government which leaves every citizen free to do his best or the public welfare.” Steve Robb, chairman of the Cham committee which four months ago staried a contest in the schools for designs for a Chamber insignia, presented prizes to the fol. lowing Senior High school, first prise, John Marfyak, $10 in gold. Two Senior High school girls tied for second prize and Edith Bergstrom and Alice Feine. man were awarded $5 in gold each In the Junior High schos!, Haro 4 Gates was awarded $10 in gold and Everett Anderson §5. The principal speaker was Lynn W, New England district man Jos from of every new srmerly the department of commerce representative in China. Mr, Meekins address was as follows “A few days.ago a prominent Chi- of the boy's disappearance, Little im- portance was attached by the police | to & torn pillow slip and a scrawled reading "I will get you yet G. which a party of motorists said found in a middle near the awamp culvert. An order was given for the police to begin excavating a sewer today in the vieinity of the home of Mott Kire Mitehell an instructor in the private school attended by the boy, who is held for questioning with Walter Wil- son, another instructor. An application for a writ of habeas corpus for their release is set for hearing this after- 3 Search for a Gray automobile, in which a school mate of the boy said he believed the Franks boy was spirit- ed away, was redotubled, after an aged nese iniporter called at house in Boston with a troduction from the American trade commissioner in 8hanghai. He want- od to buy materials required by largest publishing houss in the far cast and articles needed to stock a new department store. Nearly five hundred manufacturers throughout New England were notified of this opporiunity fo participate in profit able business in one of the world's Ietter (Continued on Tourth Page.) ANNA MARIA ERICSON DIES IN NINETY-FOURTH YEAR | Hereafter Ministers Will busi- | the custome- of in-| | Theaters L Approved List CONSUENCE A5 A GUDE SIX KLugD 1Y nwari STATE Not Stand in Pulpit With Club, But With Shepherd’s Crook, Dr. Elliott Says ~—Minority Report Opposed. Metho- Springfield, May 27.--The dist ban upon amusements, cxcept those “which cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus,” was lifted {by a five to one vote of the Methodist | Episcopal general conference here today. A minority report forbidding theater attendince on Sundays and specifying dancing and immoral the- ater perfgrmances was tabled by 460 votes to 205, was no debate. Dr. George Elliott of Detroit presented the majority report of a standing com- mittee on the state of the church and W. M. Short of Fort Worth, Texas spoke for the minority report. The adoption of the former removed re strictions against dancing, ganmes chance and all theater attendance, ‘e the church’s inception. Are Going Forward, “We not heating a We are going forward,” Dr. said. “Teligion must appeal conscience, and it 1s the conscience men that must be trusted, This new aw goes back to Wesley and Paul and Jesus Christ, and goes forward 10 a time when law shall be no more because written in the hearts of men Preachers will not stand in their pul pits now with a policeman’s club but with the shepherd’s crook in their hands, They will go along on a new program for the savings of souls.” “Sunday theaters are working great hardship on the church Mr. Short raid, “Dancing is one of the great causes of divorce. People will say that the Methodist church has retreated if the minority report is not adopted.” Elect Dr. Diffendorfer. Rev. Ralph E. Diffendorfer, educa- tional secretary of the committee conservation and advance, was elect- od corresponding secretary of the board of foreign missions. He was associate secretary for home missions in the centenary. movement and directed a survey of religious condi tions in this country. He was gradu- ated from Ohie Wesleyan university n 1802 wnd Drew Theological seminary in 1907 Rev. Dr, David D. Forsyth of Phila delphia was reselected corresponding secretary of the board of home mis sions and church extension. He was tha anly nominee Commander Evangeline head of the Halvation Army comed by the conference today in course of A visit 1o this city described the evangelical mission the army ROBBED OF $15,000 * Cambridge Bank Messenger Held Up There of in force sin retreat, Elliott the are to of on from Booth was wel- the She of and Relieved of Bag of Money— Bandits Flee in Motor Car, May 27.—Four Hume, a mes Trust com- and robbed Mass,, Herbert Guaranty today Cambridge, men held up senger for the pany of this city, him of $15,000 Hume was on his way in a closed automobile to the National Shawnut bank in Boston. On the West Boston bridge a limousine containing the four men crowded his car against the curb and forced to stop. Two of the men jumped 1 one pointed a him out Four Persons are Burned to Death When Windsormen's Hotel is Gutted —Cigarette May Have Caused (an of Disinfectant to Explode New York, May 2% two children, a man and a woman, Four pereons, all negroes,‘were burned to death in four early Harlem today. All the s were believed to heen started by a_pyeomanioc, Between 60 and 70 carried or assisted to safety and firemen and two others a mother and her infant baby, received probable fatal injuries when the woman jumped from a sccond story window in flec the flames. Fires All Near Together All the fires were started in a radius of a few blocks and within a few min- utes of each other. Intwo of the tene- ment houses, lodging 80 families, fire men found kerosene-soaked rags and 1\ mattress under hallway staircases. Within an hour a of deputy marshals assisted by the police started a city widescarch for the pyromaniac Thrilling Rescues firemen had difficulty ues, In onc morning fires in have persons were by police ing score in effect tenement The a number of r the flames burned so quickly and fiercely that tenants aere unable to descend the fire escapes until firemen had hung a curtain of water the ladders and the firc Three of the victims were a father and his two small daughters, burned to death ‘on the fifth floor of a west 134th street temement, The woman who lived in a house on t) same street two blocks away not identified, between a h was Newark Hotel Burns Newark, N. J., May At least 6 persons were burned to death in a fire in Mills hotel on Halsey street today and it is feared the number e considerably ingreased Three bodies™ were while the flames raging more were found the top floor More than 100 roomers occupied the building last night, the number having been miuch larger than customary due to (he presence of a circus in the city, and Fire Chief Moorse said he fosred at least 15 porsons had been burned, Many Persons Trapped hotel, & men's rooming house may ing out T'wo brought were on , 1% located In the center of the automo broke out trapping bile tire district, ¥T'he siddenly in the third many of the inmat The fire spread quickly to the entir third and fourth floors and enveloped swveral auto tire shops on the strect floor One man was rescied from a dow by firemen, A policeman who was ihe first on the reported three fire loor enveloped fire floor, win one secing cape flames. The hotel stricture Police ha can which is said the s ported that a up stairs with of xcene to a o8- me only n com 1o be is a four-story frame @ in their jon a tiy to have figured in » of the it being re man in the hotel going a can of disinfectant and smoking a cigarette, threw can the length of the stgirs when disinfectant Ignited Firemen Have Hard Fight A ous after the fire sta men had it confined to the one 1] . ing. nds 100 fect on Hal Willlams street hour the flames threat« ining buildings. which apparently poured Poss blaze sey street and sixty o) During that ened Dense smoke numerous adjo Cummings Declares Ac- cused Had Perfect Alibi and in Name of Justice His Release Is Necessary, Brid that it geport, May 27, — Declaring is just as important for a state’s attorney 1o use the great pow- ers of his office to protect the iny cent as it s to the guilty State's Attorney Cummings analyzing what he says “upon its face at least, secmed a well nigl perfect case” concludes Harold . Isracl did not murder Hubert I, Dahme on the evening of Febru- ary 4, and with the approval of Judg: l.. I Waldo Marvin, a nolle was en- tered in the in the superior court here to Israc] matically degrec tence court carrying conviet Homer today a that Rev. case anto- of first was hy this action freed from a charge murder, He is sefving a sen of 90 days imposed in the city Norwalk on the charge of concealed weapons, which expire June No Crit Cummings Judge from Dahme was shot tail of will 5 m of Police presentation Marvin moment in the minutest There is no criticism of the epartment, office court Nir, of the the Father de po- to cover nts the lic city state coroner's or holding Tsr The in fact says that the igations and actions prior to the time the court in and proper Mr. Cumming based on two g First, that Israel ¢ fect his than scene of the it second, t after tive cor Killed R fired from for = attorney sa invest reached case superior were every respect logical AL in the case ral grounds Dlished a per murder at was committed and ballistie expressed the posi pullet Dahme was 0lver found alibi at e for the that nee the at six engineers, experiments, fetion that which Father the re possession not in Israel's W her rested in Norwn Makes discussion mmings part is that ellie Traftor nt the Wwas ar Eaperiment furnished we In his N« strongest Miss N restaur by in a e a itress told Miss coroner that shooting Trafton and the the restau the shooting vl in the Mr sonally m ing in th sons k polic passed minutes and waved at as whe window Cumming: the experime her deciares that he per Ing per under th ognized was not the i B8 says t at it for s« dow and obsery 1o him pass by as ailed flon says she it conditions such at time Miss Isracl, W ible 10 be ce Morcover estigation have person 1o have w pre Tre rec says th rtain Mr. ( pos of ntity ummi hat in dt unusual pived at Miss Her 1t My, (4 worthle idenc state's would no brer e other Trafton ‘oven a stimony ling by is absolutely AR 10 experts, that mort sta iteelf mmings the e they Tsracl's res to the contrary, the it wonld in spite idene leclares in other S ATTORNEY FREES ON CHARGE Or MUPP™ eetient ISRAFL MA s CALALD ALENANDER ZALESKE The wearing arble chan g0 m He wil champion young his medal « ip pletured mblemautic N man ship o ntic € n the Afl it metehes. alove of 1 Iny ZALESK! 15 CHAMP OF NARBLE PLAYERS Year Finals 13 Old Boy in Contest Walout Hill Park thumb i eliminate tour signati wend the championghip lisp Wit at marble [ Atla tim he ituin rific Storm Spreads Destruction Through I Alabama cht QClpp. Li¥ J An Lovisisna—Fars- Homes Are Demol Razed—Two Year Old Bahy Away Near Ellament, Ala, Tov ns Blown Atlanta, series of o7 { 27, — A sweeping Ga,, May tornadoes through Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana last night and early today took a known toll of 35 lives and injured upwards of 70 persons, according to advices reaching here today. Property damage was heavy, i In Mississippi the known dead totalled 17, with 50 persons in- jured. At Collins two persons arve believed to have lost their lives and 12 were injured when most the busin district | was wiped out. The storm also | struek Johnson Station, Vickse |burg, Greenville and Bay Springs, causing death and in- jury to several families. Other communities reporting deaths include Swain plantation | near Greenville, where three ne- groes were killed and a dozen others injured, and Waynesboro, |where several negroes were | killed, [ In Alabama ten persons were reported dead and 15 injurved at the Owens Mining community car Empire City., Three fam- ilies were reported annihilated in the little mining community, Reports from Athens place the number of dead at seven in the Fllamont neighborhood, In Louisiana one man struck lightning thought to be fatally injured, May T At | . the ol ) ast 17 toll of rough Mississippt Orlenns, mateh in southeastern rm's path er erippled wires owing casualities Kight Killed and Hed and twelve Cook and seve Kiitea conyilloe twolve ife 10 Killed at Emipire, A, 1., May pistol at the messenger while the other opened the door of Hume's car and seized the bag containing the money The two then reentered the limous sine, which turnd around and head. ed back toward Cambridge, Alibi Ie Perfect Rut the concluding poi fact that watchman near the scene of the find- fng of the boy told coroner’s investi- gators of sceing such a car on two oc- at night and again on the of the boy's disappearance wo men in the car visited the Cul. where the body was found, he ree automobiles answering the f the car have been | T'wo are held .and one to its owner afler he g bed clothing and mat- strect on four sides rionsly hindered street floor ¥ Alibi. He 1 the Emupire 1 from tresses filled the of the block and Howard Street Woman Had Lived in New Britain For 23 Years— ter »e view is the f the yerfect rid fumes 10 the firemen, Tir Was Native of Sweden shops added 1} — dangers, NARROW FSCAPEL At May T —Mr. (Continued on I'age Seventeen) : e ewionani WL 60 10 LAW AGAINST GROVE-BROAD ST. BLOCK Bowd W William Anna Maria Fricson, 83 died 'y early this morning at the home of her daugiter, Mra, A 1. Johnson, of 19 Howard She came to this {country from Sweden 65 years ago, | living In Branford for 42 3 and in New Britain for the past 23 years, sides Mrs. Johnson, she leaves an- other daughter, Mrs, Beda Anderson two mons, Carl K. and J. George of Bridgeport. The funeral will be held Thureday afternoon, private in the home at 2 o'cloch a service in the Erwin Mortuary chap- el at 2:30 o'ciock. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Effect 0f thc 0n Animals Is Learned By Unique Experiments ;== - - oo vt i vears, anticipate HAVY Ware, Mass Mrs. George H Ith aven haniel 1 Wheeler also the Massac) lege nar noon when the te rid ription © and r up returned jed guestioners. | Have Many “Tipe” | Investigators who have been with “fips,” yesterday ¢hed apartment buildings in an nlire block after it was reported a man answering the hypothetical de- ccription of “Johnson” had tried to { a room. His manner apeared 1o fit the type for which a pair of spec- tacles, found near the boy's body had |~ - been preseribed. ‘ Itewards was information leading to the arrest and conviction of the «layers had been increased to $15,000 by the addition of $5.,000 of- by the Chicage Tribune, aug menting the $5000 offer of the Chicago Herald and Examiner and $5,000 of- fared by Jacob rrlnkm 'Mh-r of the street rounded ars, h a f New 1 & of usctis T aral aped Am} was struck g ol v on this which for a by the at the machine excaped ath ewnmped car in they were to orst Property Owners Object 10 Erection o Petition > 1 v 1 CONYICT ATTACKS WOMEN trustecs’ m nd Main services : of Building—sa followed by on ¢ t train ” y 3 street 1 was Was crossing Ignored. wrecked but the sccupants injury A M or A. M protest agai building line and Condemned Murderer. After Being Paonesen t Hold Them the In Grove e a Tries To Raptized, ALCORN WANTS MILLS CASE BROUGHT BACK Will Ak Federal Judge to Retuwn It to Superior Court Sroad stroets. and when in Hic Cell A Hostages today, tered would institute J b deot the erection o business bloc on ' - - kKO8 ' gom, serion hat corner. the before va way re conneii might adapted ordinance, the biild- is five feel in For the past e» months 'Waltz Lulls Tiger to Sleep But Jazz Angers Him—Lions Two Men Who Assaulted 82 | Year Old W oman to Hll‘l‘ At Saxophone But Bears Get Peevish— ows (Glee eusly by fifts proposed cha has been E. Wrig had bapt Mrs. Wright struck Mise in 18 city jesions and i, ported tast Wadnesday Under the ing at 1) stead of ten fret “Laugh” Baboons Enjoy Syncopation—Elephant At Trombone Solos, Macon, Ga., May —Wade Joh st P gt atls #on and Jarrett Benford, of Milledge ille were sentenced to be hanged on June today for assaulting at 52 year 614 woman on the might of May | 18, They were tried and found guilty | at & special session of the court yes- | terday at Bray. ‘w e Tt come nearest to langhing whe they INJURIES PROVE FATAL |tisten 1o a ophonc: and Baboons New Haven, May 27.—Julins Gassi, |are almost human in Uheir Seakness of Shelton, 13, died at a hospital dur- |for psychologists and students ing last night from injuriés received sthern California #n an automobile smashup on the and colleges have deduce Derby turnpike Saturday. 7The iad scientists invaded a motion pic- with an orchestra and nte to and wit M and in the I Jate yesterday. buildings on the fifteen one of the in the Delta new & point red nred serioueis Just ¥ Aetivered Superintende the that 41 the posed op- was The commitiee that visited ot & asserted onnere mayor this morr of the 12 g immediate RS and (hey built position give ty of brought inte Los Angeles, Cal, May 27 a waltz puts a tiger to sleep; lions ~Playing side the following results in operty were ohserve Jazz numisr The Baboc up on hananas ighborhood are o d a7 ! the death to B erfered ey J — {ar " Tually 1 tition of clerk council S Ward June 20 crsity tavaces of Storm A ¥y 27 —Eight per- number seriously struck the seven miles never Virow jazz, from = vers The ture z00 here eral ® i- trum m * Syrings communits ored ensemb ot the of a drom orchestra THE WEATHER Rartford. May 27 —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled showery weather tn. wight and Wednesday: Nitle ¢hange in temperature with A companion was on the road NO EMITION FRIDAY #nd was picked vp by William Shee. |carricd han. There was a Mowout of a tire obtain nd Sheehsn iost control of the ma- certain jehine which hit & pole. AV thege or ted to produce in upants were hurt. The police AM not While professors ar hink €h n was crimina respon- notes, a8d 90 he was not heid N nUmerons ex accurate data or trpes of me perime e Yictor Cook ¢ Wis family their home east of s Aemolished during & the reaction Frida might tiouns 2 a stude. the Herald b o «ic be ex. oratio idaye ¢ papsr e nimais te tonk ngs w ran gamul from luilables to jazz tempests. In- two hour perform- ance. i the musicians through the = hole . ed on Page Beventesn)