New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1924, Page 1

ews of the World By Assocmted Press ESTABLISHED 1870 MURDER VICTIM DEBATED LI " Methods in Crime ! Chicago, June 4.—Robert Franks, Franks Sorry Tor Parents of Loebl- Kidnaped ' and s schoolboy on Emd pro]d Bl]t Wi" Force dictments against two minors on two Prosecution WOULD BE WILLING T0 SPRING TRAP, HE SAYS | against capital punishment. His team | While upheld the negative victoriously against a team including his brother, %, in a school debite on “Resolve | that capital punishment is justific “Would it not better serve the com munity,” he asked, “to put weak and mentally depraved erominals in insti tutions, where, removed from society they would no be men Punishment should never vindictive,” IMPRESSIVE SERVICES FOR JAMES M. CURTIN longer a be ref Prosecutor Announces That Youths Have Signed No Written Confession, Case is Absolute and Many Witnesses Will Testify to it— Corroboration Also is Tacking v No Detail. Funeral of Late Banker and Business Man Held Today Chicago, June 4.-—Nathan Leopold, , and Itichard Loeb, millionaires’ ons, admitted kidnapers and slayers | of Robert Franks schoolboy son of wealthy Jacob Franks, have signed no confessions of guilt, it became known today, and the state, which has asked 10 grand jury for murder indictments L rely on testimiony of witnesses vho heard their statements, Double guards have been placed to vateh the county jail cells of the pair y and night until they are tried. Iearful that either attempt 1o irry out previously expressed suicide all food taken to them is vigidly and jail employes have been | oy prevent smuggling 1o g Mary's new any means for golf destruc- i precautions weve taken after of jail officials with eys when the grand juny its first day's inquiry yes- iends f the sts, hundrads of personal fr admirers, r and business inte New Britain e Daly Council, K As reverently howed, late James M, Cur- from Mg h this mon g and rred netery ces, Gregorian was sung- by Jeremiah Curtin, of West H: cousin the decensgd banker business mar \ssisting p Itev Walter Lyddy, deacon, Rev, Raymao attorney, 1. Clabby, sub-deacon and Rev, Wal the indict- ster of coremonies. Leopold and |1 senfor | s would be choir, wan ur member jury | vears charge [titul 1 sur As ind city's finane nd members of P. 0. E. antl tood with remains of *ne wers presentatives o mu the tin ry’s in lans St inspec aition em of ion, The 1 eonfercnce 1te's atto completed terday. Robert 1 said he would nents against Locb that every available led to testify before witness went and borne int to church scr mass ven, a of ind st were Crowe, sta urry und witne the grand | the a score re not the Mr, Curtin a than two hn J. Crean was in Mrs, M Crean s “Beau- | nd on Hi and hymns were | the n|H|v\\i|' Mrs That the defense will be made by Crean, soprano: Mrs, Connelly, e most brilliant attorneys in the "‘lw Fred DeRousicrs James untry is considered certain by proses [J. Donahue, baritone cutors because of the reputed $15,000- | In the sanctuary, 100 represented by the parents of the i nths, Al the thess Hughes, of which or Organist mor score loven befor yesterday more than in to be heard Best Lawyers in Conntry n by quartet John bosides the mass, ware 1he orld won't declared detectives, s the nearly complete case gotten together, Upon the tn mation given solely by Leopold and | we 1 unearthed much corroborative evidence involving them o permit them 1o escape, T am certain they will reccive the death penalty.” Millions Available Iittelson, former corpors wnid friend of the father “There'll be He forced ns @ in the w however' money ve Michael boys, chief o most “ver too 1Loeh wve samuel A aon counscl @ of the slain boy, lions 1o fight mi! cution would he tons,” said the | m pros¢ A confes ceutor Crowe nothing,"” It might ecasis | judge, 1t 18 witnesses to the ineriminating | he te places most | confident 1 in be able to get ments to 1h pudiate guilty ston e said 2 e Pro Iy be ruled out b, the slatements liance, ! manner res that the trial their to the ! wiill state vent they r youths iy in the ¢ fesstons and plead not AAMES ML CURTIN Tracy Knew Both of possible nd Loeb in the shooting ' follow Freeman Lowis Tracy, uni-| Winters, past body with a Rev. Patiick of head, was found seph's « 1; Rev, Edward V is, )1 campus has develop- Andrew’s chureh; Jev , that bullet kiling him fite a J 5. Fay, pastor of the Church pistol belonging 1o Leopold. Friends Rev Tracy have said he both Paul's Inve ohn . s chureh; ol Leopold ng cle t fall of St. Mary ity wiose Daly, pustor ©t Gr wehe B th o knew ouths. Alt th er, victim s " ih & chure a mutilation op and ithorities are ough Charle taxie st ide as his assailants, ¢ <keptical until an investigation, under y. has completed Unofficial being made to the leath seversl months ago of Melvin Wolfe, pronounced a suicide by the wolice after his body was found in ake Michigar Woife lived in the ame neighborhood as Franks, Leo- yold and Loeb. Pather is Bitter The slain boy’'s father was the first to appear before the grand Unionvi Eimwoc James rd, Su ey Dani been T uiry also is HEADED FOR HADES What nitnesas s < Saye (Continued on Fe This ¥ Billy Sunday y. of JALESKI RALLIES BUT IS LAST IN MARBLE TOURNEY Wins Page World After Reading of VPranks Murder—Feeling Better 1 i evange hospital Chicago 1ake, 1 ing, in co kidnapping perdition “The des i speed Mr Memphis Rochester TICKEY BADLY INJURED Bridgeport Athlete, Catcher on Scren. New Britain Champion Ome Game at Atlantic City for National Title th marble Alexander Zaleski, winner of ferald-Junior Achievement tournament for the championship of he city, is still having rather hard sledding at Atlantic City, where he Is niaying the national marbie hampionships With one . more lay of “league” play 1o g6 the ecity hampion has won only ene game out f six, placing the city at the bettom ¢ the League standing. Vesterday's play resulted “in out of thres games plaged. The | befora he had lost three The standings of the plavers in the league made up of shopters from eight cities in this section is as follows Wa- terbury and Springfield tied for first with 4 games won and 1 lost apiece; Hartford and New Waven tied for second piace with 3 won and-2 Jost apiece; Boston, Lawrence, Worcester and New Britain. Only a miracle will a the elifatnation the players in one ton Club, Wit on Wead With Ball— Operation Necessary Binghamt ward Tick New ¥ fered Zale when hit ¢ rday. A ow into standings are ragues whose » her day of leagus piay. after an the pr been successiul. | of war. H. K, SMITH ATTAGKS LODGE AND PEPPER ‘Doubts Their Sincerity in Offer- ing World Comt Substitutes PREDICTS ANOTHER WAR Hartford Man Explains to Central Association of Congregational Churches Why United States Should Nign Treaty for World Peace, Speaking on the world court at the mi-annual mecting of the ation of Congregational chur the First chury Herbert Knox Smtih ford criticized Senator lLodge of Maussachuscits and Senator Pepper of PPennsylvanis their opposition to the participation by the United States in the world court treat) Dy lling on this point, Mr. Smitl sald of Hart little about the by )l" r t= de- you is to of ve very 1o say proposed ne plans amm-m-u Senator Lodge and Senator and others, except this, lln cient and worn out method of feating indirectly a proposition do not dare to attack directly, suggest some attractive change form, which change, however, know will not be accepted by other partics. And that is just what is being done by the men who are op posing small partisan and personig motives to this tremendous demand of humanity for eliminating war from its future, They taking enor- nous risks in thus playing with their | little political toys in the path of the coming storm Mr, Smith United States principle that place of war tween nations v lmost cortain jon—more terrible than than likely to western eivilizs A resume lows w are 58 1he the the also said that, unie openly Supports law shall the last r another gre within atrocious. the wtion.” Mr take ort e war is next gen structive st and m downfall and ore be of of Smith's talk fol T PUrposc e of World Court World Court s war I ry dis The to sbstitute law for pute decided by it reduces the chanes This court Lins been in actual peration for three years and four fifthe of the civilized nations of the world are parties to the treaty. Its udges selected from the most | intornational jurists of the world, In cluding American, No natlon can be brought before thin conrt with out ite own und the only [power behind the decroes is the pow or of public opinion, It is as yet im possible to give siuch a court the pow- er 1o exercise foree ch judge must be elected hy twa filrst, by the council of !h': gue of nations, which is permanent.- | Iy composed of the ropresentatives of England, France, Haly and Japan. The United Sta will have an equal vote if it enters the treaty N also by the assembly of the of the representa nations entering the likewise the United an equal vote, This difficulty which had raiged by the larger na o feared that a combination peoples might override the tions in the selection of the judges. Kxeept the right to give advisory opinions to the league of na % 18 the only connection that court has with the league and ction is purely incifental ations accompanying ax that the treaty ‘Shal) Vo any leg part of the United § the by the covenant connection that one of the consent thers ondly cague, composed tives of all the treaty—-and hore tes would hay ites the old uys been iy W tions, of small w tions, t the th One of t the treaty not 1 ke lation on the to the P sumptio Uniteq the leag resery to invol 8 inder ates Ou of wit Ameri ¢ council and an mbly for the judgoes, Predicts Another War 1 ates, by support the pi esort between n such substituti her great war is in the next gen ious, destructive and more downfan And em mere fact that beings don’t prevent the t 900,000,000 | in were can wo e in other in the asse ®ha join ing t principle of war the tions is broug "Imost cortain atroc than the t than likely to be the of phasiz the n civilization that the et me ma humar + war want war. Thers otk won't people in t last "o ior the war proph wanted & world the ra o Adeliberately The rest of us didn’t want tremendous preventing it clond arose, no Mmachin war atto of 30,000 16 1 that had no way of and place Page Ten) Vagrant Claims He Is lrm'mcv Cornell Teacher ine 4. —William ome as New and naming his ocen rmer experimenter and ture s at Cornell day sen- jail. Ma. being a Initaring A ten ce in the Ma ounty charged with He was arrested Wampsville sehon! vagrant near the house Parker Conductor of State R. & S. Masons At the annual stats convention of foyal and Seleet Masons i today Arthur H. Parker was elected conductor, REPORT SOKIA OCCUPH June 4.—The Sam ossis today declares vesterday occupied | Sokia, sear Smyrna. | | two |store to complete the raidq you' | perienced ;and his mechanieian, Lite p. SINGLE-HANDED RAID But Feeney Gets Two of Gang And Reinforcements Go Back For Others. Battling with four men who attack- ed him when he entered the store at 122 Lafayette street to conduct a raid single handed, Policeman Thomas Feeney was forced out of the which was then locked and his re entrance obstructed by the men whe attacked him and who continued the tussle after reaching the sidewalk The policeman succeeded in holding two of the men until the arrival of {h police patrol and Stanley Mikowski and Henry Mikowski were placed un der afrest on charges of frequenting ult and resistance. Feeney had his clothes and sh torn in the scuffle and suffered from a cut on the face, received when struck by one of the men After the Mikowskis were lodged in at the police station, Feeney, accom panied by Sergeant \ichae! J. Flynn and Policeman William 8. Strolls and William P. Hayes, returned to the and make other store rt an effort to apprehend the assallants of Feeney, AVIATORS FROM U, S, A. NOW ARE AT SHANGHAI Two Planes Arrive, But Lieut. Smith Delays With Faulty Engine 1wo sShanghal, June 4. round-the-world aerial expedition, pursued by the ill-luck whick robbed it of its flagship, the Seattle, together with the commander and his mechani Major YVrederick L. Martin ar Sergeant Alva Harvey, again divided today and once again it the flagplane which was the laggard Major Martin experienced consider difficulty at several stages of the trip north from California, culminat ing in the wreck of his plane against a mountain in Alaska lLast Monday the plane “Chicago, which succeaded the Seattle, ex engine trouble going fromn Cushimoto to Kagoshima, Japan, which resulted in a fore landing. ctory engine—a new on imigaura—was unable the machine from Kagoshima I'he American was wie able The other two planes went on withe out it. The expectation hors i that the Chicago, with Lieutenant Lowell N Smith, now commander of the flight, Licutenant Les- Arnold, will make the 500.mile jump across the China Sea to this port | tomorrow If the weather permits, and the engine ean be reduced to a more tractable condition by t time, Arrival of the two planes here at 3:05 o'clock this afternoon, nnder {1 | pllotage of Lientenants Leigh Wade 'lnul Erie Nelson, with Sergeant A, M, den and Lieutenant John Harring- ton as mechaniclans was dramatie Great throngs, ranging from coolies to igh functionaries, greeted the visitors as they swooped down off Black Point near the mouth of the Whangpoo river, on which this city is located Chinese Americ fmmi 1 up the stream e ans Hately p thout six miles 1 ¢ The o'clock ¢ me ashore planes arrived vering the 500 Kagoshima in sever utes, including a brief shima bay $300 AND YEAR BEHIND BARS FOR RUM RUNNER Man two at 8:04 miles nd stop i from 36 min Kago Aartford Sentenced—Perual of Southington Also Gets Year in Jail Clf 1, Hart tr ik n A whiskey 1 gir s arraigned today court, 1r plied to counts prit nsporting in his by superior questions automobile State’'s Attor rey criminal by Mr iquor was sup Hartford and sen Tudge reply to by i was fined $:00 for o year by orn m He al, 1 a in Southington and has victed three times of viola- tion of the appe be irth him to Frank Per former been e iquor laws, ared fore the offe Ige as a fe tenced one Jarr alins ( e and David Jo it terrorized the northeast section of Hartford tast February and March by burglaries were presented ter Banks was sen prison from Johnson formatory a series of today f tenced t state to fith oF was s the state re at TO SECOND NOMINATION June 4 cadena Mrs Canf will rl,, it of five delegates seconding President Coolidgs national cont who the at addresses ention werk, Of &eick E. Cannon hers will inelnd of Vermant, and of New Jer THE WEATHER Hartford. June { —Forecast for New Britain and vicimity: Generally fair tonight and Thuredas : not much change in temperature PRISON TERMS FOR 3 BANK EMPLOYED 'Snelgrove, Domijan and Smith Are Sentenced {0 Welhersfield GET THREE T0 FIVE YEARS State's Attorney Alcorm and Lawyoer McDonough Denounce Stock Brol ers and Blame Them for Prisoncres’ Now Behind Bars Windsor, Vincent It Courf, discount clerk, the ti en th om confesse sday ployes ¢ Commercial pany ho ing 000 of the fu means of forged to not les: five ye tween $60,- 1s of y notos, need s thar than ster VICTOR DOMIJAN after guilty The men talk to session day afternoon in superfor court had ontered pleas in the afternoon were given opportunity their families er the court and then wera taken to the Wethers- fleld prison to start ir terms. Prisoners Pale and Haggard The appe three a8 the woere ca Arthur 1% 1lls of Wate to the charges of forgery marked contrast to their while about ir duties at Always pll thelr work peared in court haggard Tl and did pressed by the of carlior to the men before Judge rbury to plead was in appearance he bank in ap and calm ime pting Al- the his and Attor MeDonough, in el nergetie at oy oty greatly X Hugh M case on not seem the 8 s corn was procec Attorney presentin s, whila motion for s when his EDWIN 1 SN motio noor the words o missions tectio VINCENT 1 sV was ample ymmission t of which approsi Continued on Third INEW BRITAIN HERALD| NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1924, —SIXTEEN PAGES. 'BEAT UP POLIGEMAN IN tmental wine treasurer of the organization for use | \vemge Daily Circulation W 10,526 PRICE THREE CENTS DAUGHERTY REFUSES TO TAKE STAND BUT GLAIMS INNOGENCE Issues Statement Declaring Mem- bers of Committee Have Tried {0 Blacken Him BROOKHART INDIGNANT AND WILL MAKE REPLY Declares Investigators Have Proved Criminal M 8 Daugherty's Aousehold And Have . 0. B. B. DECLARES T00 MUCH WINE IS IN USE starts Movement to Curtail Alleged Excess Permitted for Sacra- mental Purposes June 4 B'nai B The T rith hus abuse 120 pendent Order war azainst pri act \dwl: zatiol an ohibition P“'nw” 1at the al- “1daqq “JApy r year for x..an.muuu ) faith was ss of juirements, Kraus, presid yunced org 'llun u N Mr port said, an effort to regulate t city by the district \sult A enty 1sserted Salt K rom 1 privilege and lodge reduetion per cent in tha of order r ramental wines sey ESH AIR DAYS S00N T0 BE HERE Herald Again Asks for Con- tributions for Children of City Conspimacy In Uncovered $75,000 Former Atty. Gen, Did Not Have When He Took Office, Former Attorney General Daugh- erty today notified the senate com- mittee which has had his officlal come duct under investigation for nearly four months, that he would neither testify as & witness nor be represented further by counsel in its proceedings. The committes had asked the for- | mer attorney general to take the wit- ness stand on Friday, as the last wit ness hefore a preliminary report fs submitted to the senate. No formal |subpoena had been issued for him, however, and committee members have indicated that they would take no steps to compel his lppvnrlnco Denies Any it Paul Howland, attorney for Mr, augherty, read the committee a ement by his clfent, declaring that “certain members of the committee” ad made a desperate attempt to acken" his reputation and denying that he had “profited in any illegal, corrupt or unethical way" from his tenure of office, Mr. Daugherty's statement also de. clared the federal court in Obio, in the litigatlon between the committes and M. 8 Daugheriy, had held the | committee to be engaged In an “fI. legal proceeding.” He therefore gave notice that his lawyers would with- draw, Despife the fact that the weather is | par’ and that minds of few New Britainites have turned to summertime and its atti- tude vacation pleasures the Herald has decided that it will make its an- appeal to the people of the city funds with which to maintain the Air camp in Burlington this While it is, most decidedly, not | and uncomfortable (becanse of | heat) the city yet, have every reason to belfeve that it will be, that warm and muggy days g when tiie more affluent residents may be to go to the mountains- and the seashore and when the needy ones will be exposed to real suffering In the swelter of city atreets, (on- 1ently the Iresh Air eamp dues- tion arises and its need becomes evi- nt. Readers of the Herald, inclined toward helping others are again going to ke urged to send in to the Fresh Alr Editor of Herald what con- tributions they may feel themselves able to make All of the money thus recefved turned over to the considerably “bhelow val year hot the in wi e com- able the Brookhart To Reply Chairman Brookhart declared the | statement was a “reflection” on the {committ s and said that he intended to reply before letting matters go far. ther. “We have proved the existepre of a criminal conspiracy in M. 8 Daugh erty’s household,” Senator Rrookhart sald. "We have proved that the tax returns of Mr. Daugherty when he his | took office showed he had ne money, but that before he left office he had £75,000 on deposit in his brother's bank.” The will be (Continued on Page Twelve.) TEN MILLION FORDS Ford Motor Number 10,000,000 Was Completed at Detroit Plant Morning—Leaves Plant Today. Detroit, June 4 ber 10,000,000 completed Motor millionth leave the an officlal Ford metor num- at the Ford | this morning and the ten model “T" Ford car will assembly line this afternoon anonuncement says. irman added that under the circumstances he would ask the com- mittee to proceed with its plan of making a partial repnrl, and then ad- ourn “for some time.” 1t is a part pleted October 1, 1008, and it was ate Tate in the sum. mer. seven years later when motor number ) was produced. The last mil- hairman Brookhart alss r cars, the company announces, S NS0 _refurien wq |10 the Indictment of Senator Wheeler, turned opt compl in 1321the committee prosecutor, as & g days, ] ‘frameup” and said Mr. Daugherty had sought to attack others instead of defending himselt. Senator Moses, republican, New Tampshire, said he wanted to express ‘some dissent” from the chalrman and Mr. Howland with George ®. Chamberialn, his associate, then left the committee room. Blames Daugherty 1,000, lion we workl WALSH FOR CHAIRMAN Montana Senator Likely To Be Choice of Democrats At Their Coming N tional Convention, Daugherty’s Statement Washington, June 4.— Former At torney General Daugherty’s statement 0 the senate Daugherty committes follows “T beg to acknowledge through my ounsel your verbal suggestion of the 318t ult, that 1 appear before rour commitiee on Friday, June 6th. This Is the first intimation I have had from B your committer that 1 was to be ae .m..' corded the privilega of a hearing, and, avet comme 'ip to thie time, of course, have had no opportunity calling witnesses on behalf of the de. ed on ington, June 4 g indi apparent democratic ay that Senator ’ Montana, probably 1 as permanent chair party’s national convention York temocrati ade i the Was les here te om- s J. Walsh of ould be solecte Sepator d virtvally ‘b senato the ny bebalf o on Exonerates Motoreyclists After Fatal Col Haven, June 4.—Cor ding fited completely s Austin Chapman of Bridge Jay Y. Becker of Springflel (Continu Page 11) HOLD EX-INSURANGE MAN ON BOOTLEGGING CHARGE lity for the death Mrs. Ellen whe died automo May Bridgeport, tision Derby Man in Custody of West Haven the two men here Police After Raid st Savin Rock Unidentified Man Dying t Haven, Je \Hcl Being Hit by Train [//as v N. Y., June 4.-—An uni- b tified m " scrap of note oy g 3 sai yearing the words - Mass,, agent et une § ~Following his bonds for a fu- charge of trans- Pasquale H. Mar. ave been a former whoss home is at 18 Derby was rearrested e Detby po Ae- mation from the Derby aniel O'Neil and & Derby officers visited Mar. sca’s home in Derby today and seized 1 quantity of alcohol, several bott of liquor and two stills found in oper- er with a quantity of labels and other ma- West Haven palice ar- sca last night With three Reach street restaurant Savin Rock, after they had stopped a arge car in front of the place which was found to contain several cases of Scotch whiskey. A search of the cellay had disclosed in a sub-celar more cases of whiskey. several cans of ale ohol and a still. The cases were day continued until June 10 in the West Haven court a Were nemran 35 to b as one Fourth lice. Hospita is inter " a passi g trair is he rope 1 for his re ation toget) sloring matter The Mar a TWO CONTESTS SETTLED June §.-At ate contest today riale the closing th Gal- Thomas 1 1at negro, Both of Washington, D, « olegate largs from the District of Columbig ere at yationa 1 Ve ommittee ur seat William T Jones, the MILLERAND SEES PAINLEVE Parie, June 4.—Presides summoned Faul Painleve, former pre- mier and newly-elected president of the chamber of deputies, to the Elysee re- t Millerand YALE POLO CAPTAIN Haven, June {—Henry Per. rine Baldwin, class of 1925, of Cleves w cabi- land has been reslscted captaif binet of the Yaie poio team for the ensulag | year, New today for a consultation in ormation of a ne od going Raymond Poincar 16 the O headed by the out