New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press JSTABLISHED 1870 Chapme= ", % id Alcorn Knew He qu‘.‘.::‘i‘y“""ur He Would Not Have Brought Him Back, Is Claim Rep. Durant, Fighting Wheeler Bill Dead Because a Few For Right of Women 1y vers Want Drink Without Fear i Juries, 2 z:a,::: :;ne u;,: of Being Arrested, Bassette Says Made That State- |Defeated On False, Trumped-up Issues, Declares Secre- : ment tary of Civic Safety League ;r The Wheeler bill for a more strict Lowel' HO“SG Of Legisla_ enforcement of the prohibition act was defeated on false, trumped-.up ture However Declines {ssues, and mainly because there are | ’ a few lawyers who want to buy an of the New Britain Civic Safety League, to Pass Woman Jury |rested, secretary Buell, Bassetto oc®Msional drink without being ar-| The civic league seeretary, in reply to a question, sald the league was confident the law would be passed by the general assembly, because the |league regards it as a very proper and just law without any “scare- crows.” Although legislators who opposed the statute did not give this Bill, Which Is Lost 115 |saia this afternoon when asked how |as their reason, the fact that somie his league has received the xegnsxa-Jlawycrs wish to purchase liquor to 60. ture's action, without being arrested contributed Criticizes Alling. pn the main to Its defeat, Bassettc Secretary Bassette attacked partic- |declared. ularly the statements attribued to | Expects Success Eventually. Representative B, W. Alling of this| The Wheeler bill or some similar city, that public sentiment must first | statute will eventually make its way be had. The question of public| Onto the statute books of the state sentiment does not enter into law | ©f Connecticut, Mr, Bassette predict- | 'rvhr‘ll..nl;glhltil‘;ou;;:e;? ix:mlx;::l \:r:; T n o s 0 P Imgm.‘ ed. The Civic Safety League backed G0 against. (LCEEI Lthh UL BRGED L ::;nlo’:l’;n;:lelicm:.:«:'?rm;ldd X "'.s"- Action was preeeded by debate of |tAKen care of when the constitution- [t it i dlstrlflge b':{‘fr‘ *‘L!I‘d some length in which most of the |2 amendment was passed. When | v y 3 women members took part, nearly |PUblic sentiment and the consllluflnn\ko T?Iced“’m““{ 'el:“y' SNonRngaC ik At of the United States confllct there | KOOWIedsement, the secretary The defense of the judiclary com- |$hould be no need for further dis- plusimc:‘(ml;imf‘d S e wittee when the argument was car- |CUSsion, 13 the opinion of Mr. Bas- zhlrlv St ”l TeEulatons ried to it by the women members, |¢tte. for the asue? nv"a-t ““‘fi !w oll'wl»:d. who said that Mr. Bell of Sallsbury | Injection of the argument that| ®p 1€ CREBIVE approval | had “dared” them to speak in favor |Chief Justico Wheeler's position fs| /¢ " Iovier DL s been the of the bill, was that women as a |One that calls for the interpretation |y SOPCCrR O nths, Th baf'i;)- whole did not want jury service, |Of 1aWs rather than thelr making, | yoi®0 13 Teqh Mowtis dhe body Al o st Wwas also criticlzed by Mr. Bassette | jro f°0 0D crested T the sup-| House Chairman. Alling in closing |Who sald Jurlsts have at all times | prunicatod with Uniien Storns o the debate as chairman said that |backed certain needed laws but neve: trict Attorney Coher who. ha o o !- only those who wanted jury service [before has this argument been ad- | jgeq hig cov:nr;.(xox: l‘unrl?sbzr :lns- were the women “who had organiz- (vanced and he falls to see justifica- | or sales boards, are under Mxné 2. He said he spoke “for the un- [tion In this case, league’s ban, and the local organiz organized women.” He also said| Need of “Bracing Up” Here, tion 13 endeavoring o have Chicage | that since election last November no | “There i3 great need for a ‘brac- V companles producing salesboards ogr | one had asked him to support the |ing up’ in the local situation,” Mr, | dered to discontinue lheir manufas g ury bill but many had asked him to | Bassette stated, lifive! 2 &5 oppose it. i The committee's stand on the bill was explained by Mr. Averlll who e 2 SEOOND BURGLARY |SLATENOW GHOSEN State Capitol, Hartford, April 23. —The house of representatives this afternoon accepted an adverse report on the bill to give women electors | ‘1|:)1r-st duly to the state. motion of the previous ques. | 1 on to clora aenate was made by \Records i Skelly Case Exam-| Democrats to Support Present i Women aro ompesea | 6 Previously by Intruders | Offials if Dispute Arises The bill was reported by Mr. johnson of the judiclary committee Yoo who said that a majority of the com- it feit that women aia not want (CHIEF LECTURES SLEUTH CAUCUSES NEXT MONDAY| ury service and “therefore we will | not Inflfct it upon them.” ! Mrs. Hooker of Hartford said that |Hart Criticlzes McCue For Faflure 1 woman's vlewpoint was needed on iurles, and she spoke in behalf of | 10 IReport Burglary—Workman P ‘;L“:;l“'m h;:mfiffa s::e :’f;r;"fllvd :hfl; Denies He Left Marks On Window spoke in answer to Mr. Bell's dare| Sill and Lawn. | hat there would not be two women in the house who would dare to| That the burglary of the home of Deak for the bill” Edward F. Lane on Winthrop street ChwmpionsiWomenslCanse Sunday morning, thought to have | Mrs, Alsop of Avon, sald she |Deen dolue by pals of Chapman, dared” to speak for the bill asking |NOW under sentence of death for the ; r it that women might have “100 |#hooting of Patrolman James Skelly, i‘lm::r“"\‘d \'I'm,l;;:;f; “'P\;‘Tfp <8 rer cent cltizenship.” She said most Va3 the second attempt to tamper | ywiiiiz 4 YU 4o Tas ealled the re. | men do not want jury duty. She |With the records in Mr. Lane's desk, | publican caucus and wil preside, | cxplained exomptions provided for %08 learned this morming by The |\ yiio"a1dermar W e in the bill. |Herald in & further investigation of | W1 @ ‘£lderman John R Maerz, Mrs. Nevius of New Fairfield saiq |th® Sunday morning bre SRt e o e dovundll he reason there had been no OWO_. The first burglarly occurred while | (=% 867 G4t "“‘; "1*"; l“-""“”l\_‘:-. sition at the hearing was| “becauae [T 8N Mrs. Lane wera patients fn | fyo0 Con 18 HES WEERe K8 pres el e im : he New Britain General hospital, | !4 : ; o W,,:im A ;';‘“;;":‘1"; |where Mr. Lane is pathologist. As| The repncann il eslsen ALt tfal had ‘convinced her that women | W33 the case on the second entrance | MeN Judd as president pro tem. and Nould not serve on jurles. She said |POhiNE was taken. s o e epoTta of e i I {Lane reside 1s on the first floor of S omIetasald tday,dndseidon ave & hetter chance with & male | thre¢ family house. One night |H. Kirkham would be nominated as icy, [8ho favoredequall rights but |7 /11o Mr. and Mrs Lens, wers at| COPOmEOE counsel, Joseph G didinot iwantito takeTaill Hightaimen | the IosRitAltenantainessd lzom ot | HIDSCS BB AdEeteel ceted A NprCES ad, Bhe praised|the committes for |1 S |08 about on the firat floor. In | SELUE. Autorney and Willlam —Af © report. \e=tlgal(mn drm m\)\cz]d ;y e fact |I,\,.f 4:;!12:3;4“1:;”‘;()\1 ul”l’y: the nomince for - n several windows ha been opened on | € s sec $ Mo 2::' (:;'p"“::‘"‘fr;:"” Mrs, | the first floor and there were indi- | Democrats Overwhelmed Crawford of Westport. Miss ercen o |C2tioNS Of intruders. Nothing was| It 15 not expected that te GranbyrMisa weport, Mise Green of | missing and no report was made to | democrats will nominate a candidats Kinkham's Friends Confident He| Will Be Renominated as Corpora- tion Counsel—Alderman John- son Reported Opposed to Woods. The republican and democratic | members of the common council will caucus next Monday evening at City | { hall, the former in the hearing| )} the police. Later when Mr. Lane |for president pro tem. although a ford, Mrs. Fenniman < | g f Mrs. Fonninan of Naugatuck, |yent nome he found! evidenice that | nominalion wasimads lust vesr. Be: Irs. Townshend of New Haven, Mrs : while hundreds of volunteers gtru gled seventecn days to free him. Away over on her beam ends lay the Raifuku Maru, just the moment before she took the final plunge beneath the tumultuously racing waves. Remarkable photo shows almost the very last moment before the steamer disappeared. the rigging of the Homeric was taken by C. P. Ray Jr. BODY OF FLOYD COLLINS IS WHFELER RESUNES AT LAST TAKEN FROM CAVE, STAND IN DEFENSE \Friends File By to Identify Remains, Which Are Then ACGIlsed Senator Explains Eu- Taken to Undertaking Parlors—Funeral | to Be Held Later | | By Tlie Associated Press. Cave City, Ky, April 23 and Cave has ylelded its prisoner and today the body of Floyd Collins, taken from the bottom of the shaft after resting there overnight, lies in a Cave City undertaking parolr. Burfal will be oh a hill overlooking Crystal Cave, a cavern which the explorer discovered several years ago. A limestone and sandstone rock, welghing between 75 and 100 pounds which pinned Collins' left leg as he | was crawling from the depths of a newly discovered pit, was removed last night by miners employed by the victim's brother, The body was freed for the first time since last January 30 when the falling roc caught Collins and held him fa; The miners, fter removing the | rock, brought the body through the new lateral off the 70 foot level of the shaft and left it there over night untll equipment could he arranged for hoisting the dead explorer to the . ,—, Blizzard Is Raging In Montana, 14 Inch Snowfall in Butte T, Sutte, Mont., April 23.—Butte was under a 14-inch blanket snow today, with torm, which started con- tinuing. It ws e of the heaviest snowfalls on record here, Traffic in the city has been par tially fnterrupt Other pa of the state reported heavy rains, which turned to snow at som points. Hot in Chicago 0. \prn 23.—Summ ure 're enjoyed Chicago (r\h\ \\'\r'v the mercury rose to 81 at 11 a. m. The high- est since 1915, when it was on April 2 e — Tiyan'of Rl gefelalMr! Woorora bt for s o i oen theloansiptise 9% heroyerwhelming renubll | Hig T agt Wish Was Thdt tents of his desk, but everything was | can majority no effort will be made left there, altthough records were [to put across a disturbed. At that time jewelry |offices to be filled. Should a con- owned by Mrs. Lane was not!test develop in republican ranks foubhiea: that would bring two nominations The theory that the hurglars who | before the council, the democrats broke into the house on two occa- | would vote with the XKirkham- sions were pals of Chapman's, was lieved. g e S __ {ridiculed last evening by Chief of | Democratic 4 :'I;»r"wi:“;;‘.r!vv ,‘:\1;‘ '?vm‘:\“:"t ::n)!:“,\" {Police Willlam C. Hart. It was re- | cii could not say today whether the i : g M | ported to the police department that | selection of a constable would come the marks on the window sill and | before their caucus, but it is likely pill{was, madai by Repressntative the footprints outside were made by t the nomination will be dis- ! {men who installc cussed info Sonstab Averill of Branford for the commit- | gaturday. This s ey bl i Tarmington, Miss Cheney of Man chester, Mr. Durant of Guilford, Mrs. lewis of Stratford and Mrs. Vinton f Mansfield h spoke for the bill. Representative Durant said that a . member of the Chapman jury had been quoted as saying, after the | rial: e for the legal members of the coun- The chief argument against the the screens o tement is denied . Dougherty and James T. Farroll ro. | tee. by one of the men, who says there | . jvoq the same number of \uv‘.lsrw‘ e - were no marks there when the job > s s S he last election and since there State’s Attorney Asks was completed. r were six candidates | ) ; aving higher Nosi 7s ‘I, | The window was closed shortly . SEAnE : A Closing Villa Club before midnight Saturday night | Lore% only one office was vacant. Bridgeport .»\lml | State's At-|when Mr. Lane returned home from | ciher can quallfy and at the end ctrney William H. Comley, Jr., act- |the hospital and at 3 o'clock in the | Of 30 days the.office wlll be declared ing in behalf of the U 8. govern- | morning it was found wide open. |Yacant. ~ The democratic council ment filed formal application In su- | Chiet “Calls Down” Detective members will then submit a nomina- perfor court today asking that the | It is reported that Chiet Hart first tlon. Constable Dougherty is un- Vilia club of Fairfield be closed for |gained knowledge of the one year under padlock as “a com- [when it read of it in last night's |ise of four council members at mon nuisance” and place where (Herald. According to rumor in po- | they will support him. One coun- liquor is sold, purchased and drunk. {hm\ circles, he had Detective Ser- |cll member Is said to be an out derstood to have received the prom- awoke Laudies L victed of mur and we sound sleep in I this morning the guillotine whi Extending the us glass of rum, not be to execute knife fell at 5:45 o'clock genera He Did Not Want to Die ;”‘,.” Paris, April 2 -An executioner ikar, an Ars g two Portt ding thr cigarette and warder ask mned man: “What is yc The Arab replied: “I Two Pianos, Half Dozen People, Go by \uplanc Washington, April 2 s were landed today by an A « Ky airpla br from New Y plane was piloted by Igor 8 Ky A hearing on the request injunc- |geant Willlam P. McCue “on the |and-out Farrell man while the other | its designer ¥ tion will be held May 10. |carpet” within a few minutes and |three who make up the democratic | bro > a W = inquired why he had not been in- | eight-man representation are non- | musi them KILL SOFIA BOMBER |tormed of the affair. Loud volces [committal. o to a con « By The Amoclated Press |coming from his office Softa, April 23.—The revolutionist |an indication that the ¢ Tehountouloff, sone of the principal | detective sergeant had u lively e terrorists under Ninkoff, the com- sion. No entry of the t munist leader in the recent cathe- been made on the “blotte as taken as Drive Against Woods Reported ief and L Alderman J. Gustav Johnson of th had | engineering a drive again at po- | nomination of Prosecuting t the re- torney dral bomb outr: , who was shot |lice headquarters. Woods. He is said to h mad and killed by the police Monday, met | Policeman Had Left Territory the statement that he will go to any death today in much the same man-| The burglary indicates carefu ngths to prevent the re-election ner as his chief. Discovered by the | preparation. In addition to the |of Woods and is aiso said to have police, be refused to surrender and - was shot down. | (Cdntinved on Page 15) | (Continued on Page 15) 19 fourth ward is reported to be |#—0 — THE WEATHER For New Britain and vicini- ty: Gencerally fafr and cooler tonight and Friday. surface, rope, fastencd nor Smith today bi additional positi tion for Today they attached a Look to a ralsed it by means of a hand hoist. Wrapped in cloth, the body reached | the top of the shaft while several score curlous visitors watched. After | being placed on a stretcher, an im- | provised sack was removed from the head and W. H. Miner in charge of | By The Assoclated Pr tha recovery worlk, asked the specta- tors fo walk past and view the vic- tim, “Pass by and look at the hody id. “T don't want ; to go away and say we brought up a chunk wrapped in rags." One of the miners asked that th R B.Y offered a prayer. A hearse from Cave C J. S. Smith, roup kneel while the then was lifted Inside and taken to town, seven miles away, where Is was cm- balmed and arrangements mad have It 1 in state y days be- fore burial services are held, to GOV, SHITH VETOES SALARY RAISE BILL ‘Sa,\'s State Cannot Afford to Increase Teachers’ Pay Aibany, N, Y. I intended to br ase in t York city schoc ases of sala es throughou ernor rop of salary the county off G nothing more ¢ t a c which has oht X r by i, | 1 does ne 10 M ay $800 Fine and 60 Days il on Wet Charee B A . 5 J \\‘ ) mm »," s Pros 1 A\ \ is AURY KOT YET COMPLETE ination. [ Ten Talesmen Had Been Chaliengea | Others on Liner Divided ‘ Up Untll Noon and But Two Had | {p Opinions — Catholic Photo, showing tragic view through ropean Trip in 1923 ‘DENIES MEETING HAYES. about the body and Hn(h Sides Governing Questions By 'elock. Text of Messages HACOn Witnesses — Defendant Tells of New York Dinner, ler resumed the witness sts und in his trial here to- | o day to complete nection with Gordon ¢ tana oil operator department 1r the ’ believed. Her probable defense, hint- 1 of Bowling Green, | jacked to the scene and the body || clations would Tells of Dinner Oppose Unification in Average Dally Circulation For St 12,165 SAYS CAPTAIN DID ALL HE COULD AT SCENE OF WRECK WCR GRLWELPS B Sy Do Vi ATHOTHERS Loy, e Were Lokt To Die—Brands Tale of Breaks Down When Her Parem Men Seen Struggling Caresses Her in Gourt ln Water As Imag- Been Chosen to Hear the Yivi- Priest Gave General Ab~ x dence, solution to Drowning ¢ Haven, April 23 hing | | aside & deputy sherift who was| Sailors. guarding Olympla Macri, on trial for | first degree murder, the girl's! mother a few minutes after court| Bridgeport, April 23. — Clinton recessed for luncheon today, em- y, Mrs., Seele Mrf:e braced her daughter and tried to| Willam B. Leigh, Miss Caroline R. Leigh and Mrs. R. E. Ryan, pas- sengers on the White Star liner verything | Homeric, which went to the rescue | of the Japancse freighter Raifuku It was the first emotional demon- | Maru, arrlved at their home here stration the 20 year old defendant today. They are all agreed that has made in the two days of the Captain John Roberts of the during which time only two | Homerio did everything that eouid | of the necessary 12 men for a trial | be done for the stricken freighter. jury have been seelcted. Mrs. Macri Tells Graphic Story who with several of her other chil-| Mr. Seeley, himself a yachtsman, dren has been in the courtroom since | realizing just what Captain Roberts 1l began, told her daughter that | had to contend with in the situation “didn’t need to worry about the | Tyesday told a graphic story of the outcome.” It was at her mother's| ginking of the Raifuku Maru, “We W , that the girl first broke down | had three lifeboats on the davits and wept silently. !'and over the side as we came upto Second Juror Chosen | the Japanese freighter, but had we The second talesman selected for | attempted to launch them they un- the jury was Frank J. Beach, 60 year| qoubtedly would have been smashed old farmer of Milford and father of | 1o pieces against our side, four children, one near the age of | «If the freighter could only have Olympia. He was accepted by both | kept afloat a couple of hours we the prosecution and defense at 12:40 | woyld undoubtedly have been able | to rescue those members of the Ten talesmen had been challenged | crew who were on her bridge. We by the defense, six by the state and | wers pumping oil on the water in 22 excused by the court up until|gn aitempt to calm the waves to luncheon recess today. Judge C. L. | permit a life boat to live in that sea, Avery cautloned both accepted jury- | | but the freighter went down before men against visiting the scene of | ine gale subsided. e or reading ahout the case Saw Men in Water 6 newspapers until the actual “people who say they saw men hearing of the trial began. | swimming around in that sea after Long Trial Likely the boat went down, were imagining Miss Macrl, who yesterday sald | jjnes. There was not a soul in ‘1" was sorry she shot John Ba sight. There was not even wreck- no for whose death she was indlcted | 556, Everything was carried to the for first degree murder, faces a trial | ottom in the auction as the craft ordeal of at least {wo weeks, it 48| noonqered, We didn't even sce & body floating around after the dis- aster. As Captain Roberts himself 0 | gaid after the freighter disappeared: talesmen, will be a plea of self de-| wiyg no use attempting to launch fense. | a boat now. There's nothing to Each talesman was asked In turn| o' mpat was the situation exact= “would you hold against the girl any | ;o " "Betore our oil could make a made by her father that | ., that cne of our lifeboats could stay Clympia's sudden tears, with socthing phrases that * would come out all right. WOrd the ¢ ed by the questio sel, Attorney Jos put hy her coun- ph Koletsky, might D in as evidenc have lived in the Japanese boat had “Would you be prejudiced agalnst | gono. the zirl because she gave birth t0 & | ° iy was very cold at the time we child out of wedlo She Cries All Night interview arrived alongside the freighter. The Japanese crew had gone upon the before court |y igze and exposed there as they said | wore fn that bitter gale they were She | \ndoubtedly benumbed. When they ack out-| wore plunged into the water they ey were carried under the surface and CERIAIDBINIDIOTES not a single one of them reappear- In opened t that she had was again d fit she wore y W me made to one of the ed.” thor the city, gid Given Absolution t know the city when she New York, April 28.—The 38 Jap- got ded in a wistful tone: | ;o6 scamen of the Raifuku Maru s 1 get out.” absolution from like playing or er Homeric by the Rev. James J. Talbot, rector of Patrick's Cathedral in ry strests arriv- ler Tals of with a group of priests stood on 4 in the sleet ers on the Ho: Jast night, told how T s 1 been afraid one man, v het was 1 p. m. in Chicafo—Detroft . S = Reports This the Warmest April 23 in 50 Yecars. 1 divie ¢ s the first ace 108 ANGELES RETURNING 5 1 since 1837, A divie id in May, A ¢ and a $2 a share in