New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 APART; 14 DIE | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, \ Made from For Madden Killing, And Land, Drill Holes In Cells To Get Away. CHAPMAN SAFE IN ANOTHER SECTION Hartford, Sept. 3 (P—Michael J McDonnell ,a lifer and one of the Madden murderers ,and Frank Land of New London, escaped from the state prison at Wethersfield some- time during the night by cutting holes through the tops of their cells. They then made their way through ventilators to the roof and dropped to the ground. The two prisoners occupled cells on opposite sides of the top tier. Each had bored a hole in the top of his cell with a small drill. The holes had been covered with paper when the men were not drilling. The cells are of a pale yellow color, and the guards had not noticed that the paper had been stuck over the opening. When the men crawled through the holes into the passage ahove the topmost tier of cells they reached a ventilator shaft and pulled themselves up through it to the roof. Following along the roof they reach- el the edge and dropped to the ground by means of an improvised rope. It is not known where they sceured the cloth and other material for the rope or how they knpt.llw drills from sight. Prison authorities are investigating this phase of the ’m‘f':ir. as well as trying to determine the more accurately the hour at which the escape took place. TLand whose alias was Harry John- son, began on June 2, 1 a sen- fence of from eight to ten years for a previous escape from the institu- tion in 1919, He is 29 years old, y weighs 152 pounds and s five feet 4 1-2 fnches in height. He has blue blond hair and a light com- jon. He is single. McDonnell is 45 years old, welghs pounds, is five feet 4 1-4 inches y halr and blue tall and has gr: yes. He is married. g with the use of small drilling ) instruments both McDonnell and J4nd eut triangular holes through he sheet steel celling of their cells and made thelr way into a small spice way which runs between the ceiling of one tier and the floor of the cells on the tier above. Work- Ing thelr way through this space to the ventilators the prisoners then got out to the roof. Improvised ropes of bits of cloth and other materials were made by which they let them- scl.cs down to the ground. ~Where | tlie two men got Instruments to arill through the solid steel which is three-sixteenths of an inch thick, or where they sccured the pleces of cloth for the improvised ropes the prison officials do not know. They have notified all police departments throughout the east. First FEscapade The first sensational escapade in which McDonnell participated after ’ heing sent to the state prison in L 1019 was on July 29, when Paul Dianshire, 21 years old ex-convict, b into the prison and left a jeaded revolver gn McDonald's wofk beneh to assist him in a previously planned jail delivery. Two weeks { before that time Danshire completed a three years term at the prison for purglary In North Haven. During lis time at the prison he became in- 5 7(1‘ ate with McDonnell when the laiter saved h B tempted to ¢ { Danshire ap) mmit suicide. arently lost heart and went back after the revolver. When “ he was going toward the prison wall over which he had climbed by ues of a ladder and rope, he was captured by the guards. He was N «recommitted to the prison for Meorm of four years, expiring January 1926. 'The priosn authorities do not. hewever, think he is implicated in MeDonnell's escape this time, Shortly after he prison McDennell openly boasted thst he would some day try not onlv to escape himself, but to de By Pair of Inmates McDonnell, Lifer, Held |FRENCH COMMISSION life after he had at-| Successfal Prison Break Wethersfield ON' DEBT SELEGTED Caillaux and Delegation Will Sail for U. S. September 16 Parls, Bept. 3 (A—The French cabinet today named the debt com- mission which is to go to Washing- .‘?;; lu:\durblhs leadership of Finance Minister C g i co'x‘“f;tll:fu);,ou:ha commission 8 senators, four deputies and two bankers. The com- missioners are: Senators Berenger, Chapsal, Dausset and Dupuy; Depu- ties Auriol, Lamoreaux, Bokanowski and De Chambrun; the banker, Si- mon (Maurice Simon is controller of the French treasury), and the fi- nance ministry expert, Andre Mo- reau-Neret, The cabinet approved M. Call- laux's proposed “gentleman's, offer" to America and adopted his and For- cign Minister Briand's recommenda- tion as to the personnel of the com- mission, The party which will sall with M. Caillaux on the liner Paris, leaving for New York Sept. 16, includes the outstanding financial authorities in parliament and one of the ablest banking experts in France in M. 8i- mon. Paul Dupuy, of the senatorial sec- tion of the commission, I8 the owner of the Petit Parisien, the most wide- ly circulated newspaper in France. His wife was formerly Helen Brown, an American girl. i Senator Marquis Marcel De Cham- brun, in going to America with the debt commission, will be, 8o to speak, going some. Although of I'rench descent, he is American by adoption, as congress has conferred Ameriean citizenship on him along with his brothers and other descend- ants of the Marquis De Lafayette, Marquis De Chambrun lived in Washingtor. in his youth. His brothers, Jacques, who is a general in the French army, commanding a district in Morocco, and Charles, who is French minister to Athens, were both born in Washington. Marquis De Chambrun and his next younger brother hoth were mar- ried in the United States. The mar- quis was a member of the Joffre- | Viviani mission to the United States when the first war loans were made to France. He is a member of the group of left republicans in the sen- ate, A F. 0 L. WILL CONSIDER ORGANIZING LABOR BANK This is One of Projects for Discussion at Convention Here Next Weck. New Haven, Sept. 8 (P—Confirma- | tlon waa given by President Patrick eration of Labor today of a forecast of the business to be done at the an- nual convention which will epen in| nomic changes which have come in | Tu the past year and also because of | the recent eession of the general as- | | sembly. | The "SHENANDOAH AT MAST The dirigible ZR-2, which was bought in England for the United States, met with disaster over the Humber river August 24, 1921, her frame buckling. Over 40 per- sons, including 16 Americans, lost their lives in her de- struction. The giant army dirigible Roma, bought by the U nited States from Italy, crashed to earth in flames near the Hampton Roads army base on February 21, 1922, and 3 men lost their lives. The British dirigible R-34, which made the trans- Atlantic journey in July 1919, was wrecked at her base by a strong wind on January July 21, 1919—Loss of ten lives when an airship fell in flames into the Illinois Trust and Savings bank at Chicago. July 16, 1919—British airship NS-11 fell into the North sea with a loss of 12 lives after being struck by lightning. June 20, 1914—Airship Vienna, killing 9. September 9, 1913—Zeppelin 1-1 destroyed off Heli- goland with loss of 15 lives. October 17, 1913—Zeppelin 1-2 exploded over Johan- nisthal airdrome, killing 28. July 2, 1912—The balloon Akvron, groomed for a trans-Atlantic voyage, exploded at Atlantic Besides the Zeppelins I~1 and 1.-2, Count Zeppelin lost four other great peace-time dirigibles in accidents—the Zeppelins 8 and 6 and the Deutschlands 1 and 2. EVERAL DIRIGIBLES MEET WITH DISASTER Several dirigibles being used or experimented with by various powers with a view to airship development in the post-war period have met with disaster. The principal cases follow: The French dirigible Dismude fell into the Mediter- ranean December 21, 1923, after having presumably been struck by lightning, and the officers and crew, numbering 52 men, were all lost. | 29, 1921, No lives were lost. Other airship accidents included in aerial history are: | and airplane collided at City, killing 5. A Domijan, | | sannen! [URK INTIMIDATION DENIED BY ENGLAND [ 1 O'Meara of the Connecticut Fed- | Disclaim Effort to Sway League in Mosul rkey. Turkish minister, (Continued on Page Seven) foreign 'REMUS, LEAVING ATLANTA, 'REPEATS FORMER TESTIMONY went to the | |Bootlegger States That Re- ™ | {iivor all of his pals to freedom Tand Has Tried Befo Frank Land, from New London committed to the oprison on September 11, ltheft and attempted escape ail, escaped from the Wethe prison on the night of December %8, 1219, with three other prisoners #Jie in some way secured a hack sa i and, using chewing gum to deaden county, state eeldl He went to the other men's wells and helped pry the lock bars v dise eatved three bars in his| pudiation of Assertions | i Regarding Payments to gerve a year's sentence declared ju Under Duress. | before he boarded the train here | Cincinnatl, Sept § (P~ George F. Remus, Cincinnati bootleg- er, arrived here today from the Atlanta penitentlary and was | taken at once to Davton, Ohio. rve a sentence of one year nitentiary and set out for his xt legal battle at Dayton, Ohio The Cincinnatl beotlegger, en route to Dayton in custody of offi cers who have court orders to placo | Jess Smith Was Made their prisoner in the Dayton jail .7(; 1917, for| vesterday that his testimony before the senate, Daugherty committee. |, = oo | was true and repudiation of this testimony false and made H mus had told the renatorial inquiry into el that his subsequent was under duress. Re- against Harry M rges | Dangherty that he had pald huge for maintaining a nulsance at a BLOOD CLOT FATAL TOE R STETTINIS Trust Co., terms at the Dies Barly Today [ firm of J. P. Morgan & C., died at | elonged in prison. | his nome in Locust Valley early | [today. He had been fn il health | 1024 | for several years. In 1923 he under- | N Snelgrove | went an operation for the removal g |of an abdominal abscrss, and in teller, | February of this year he was under bank's funds | treatment again at a fund hospital for stomach trouble Blood Clot on Brain Fatal Mr. Stettinius was taken ill again |a few weeks ago hut It was not be lieved at first that a serious nature it b dition was eritical The cause of death, which oc chrred at 3 a. m., was announced a embolism, a blood clot on the brair a8 the | The offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. were closed today. except for the transaction of urgent n stock snt to state st year. iliness was of | sterday, hov Y ame known that his con- mplicated Mrs. routine | e was born in St Louls In 156 Purchasing Agent for Allies W Mr. Stettinius, through his opera- San {tions as purchasing agent of th naval plane finitely. (Continued on Page Seven.) | — COM, ZACHARY LANSDOW Victor Domijan, and Edwin R. Snelgove, former employes of the Commercial who have been prison for embezzling funds the bank, were granted parole start- !ing this morning at 10 o'clock by the | Member 0[ J. P' Morgan & Go_ {hoard of parole at the prison yes- | torday afternoon. As the offi the prison and the were assi: speculations. prison on A CORRECTION ough an error in handling the POSTRONE FLIGHT Washington, Sept ur today ordered the proposed Francisco-Hawaii flight PB-1 OAH, | NCLUDING CAPTAIN (THREE BANK EMPLOYES Smith {tion of the count the three serving Wethersfield state | from Average Daily Circulation N Week Ending 12’052 Aug. 20th . 'BREAKS Big Airship Strikes Line Squall Near Caldwell, 0. ~Three Pieces, Falling 3,000 Feet Spread Over Area of 12 Miles—Dead Found in Control Cabin —Army Colonel, Saved, Tells Story of Ac- cident and Lauds Heroism of Crew By The Associated Press Ca]'d\voll, Ohio, Sept. 3.—The giant dirigible Shenandoah is no more. It went down in three pieces here early today and killed its commander, Lisutenant Commander Zachary Lang- do\\'r]g and at )oast 12 of the officers and men, making up her crew. : The airship struck a line squall—a variety of storm most feared by airmen—shortly after b o'clock this morning near this Noble county village, while traveling at an altitude of 8,000 feet en route from Lakehurst, N. J., to the west. : There was no explosion. The big ship simply met winds of a force which it was unable to comba't. After encountering the storm at the high altitude the ship headed heavenwards ;v an altitude of about 5,000 feet when it suddenly came down again and broke into three eces. One piece 450 feet or more in length, fell in a field about a mile and one half from Ava. The control compartment in which the commander and navigating crew were riding, fell 50 feet away and the third section, 150 feet long, drifted through the air like a free ballon for 12 miles, landing near Sharon, Noble county. Most of the dead were found in the tangled wreckage of the control cabin, where a full crew was on duty attempting to ride out the buffeting winds which resu i destruction of the giant of the air. ; et LANSDOWNE'S MOTHER NAVY DEPARTMENT I3 NEAR COLLAPSE | RUSHES RELIEF PLANS i s Instead of News of Tri-|Shenandoah First Rigid:::‘\:"“\:rluuu hospitals of the com- umph She Hears of Ship to Be Lost by This Death of Son Branch of Service | Ambulances and other convey- ances which carried physiclans and others to the scene, immediately following the accident, were trans- porting the dead and injured to nearby towns. Those who met death in the unsuccessful fight against the Herolsm Evident The story of the disaster is one of | herolsm of the crew, pioneers, in the {Interest of the development of light- er than air transpo . 3.—Mrs. | Washington, Sept. 38 W»—From“nm by Colonel p(‘,r‘:;lm;ia]l} “\:be;l Elizabeth Lansdowne, mother of |fragments of information brought in | Army observer aboard the fil-fated Commander Zachary Lansdowne, |{rom many sources the navy depart- | ghip N had anticipated greeting her famous | ment sadly sought today to plece out | *'We were travellng west at an al- son, commander of the fll-fated | the story of a tragedy whose full |titude of about 3,000 feet when Wwh Shenandoah, from the yard of her |[import cannot yet be asessed encountered a su;rm " Colonel Hall home on Third street, this city, as | Coming immediately behind the |eaid In describing the accident. B she did last summer when the giant | disappearance in mid-Pacific of the |changing our course a dozen or mnry [ship was steered out of its course |naval plane P.N.-9 No. 1 In her at- | times, we dodged it, only to Qn’. to pass over Greenville, {tempt to fly to Hawail, the loss of |counter the lne squall which sent Mrs. Lansdown is rccorded as be- | the Shenandoah cast a shadow of |us to an altitude of 5,500 feet before Ing near collapse, a day of expect- | uncertainty over the hopes of those |we realized what had happened, ed joy having been turned into one |naval ofticers who have endeavored | “We opened the valyeg to ik out of deepest sorrow. ‘Neigbhors and [to build up on practical lines the | gass and lowered the ship and were townsfolk called to uage the (service of naval aviation, |drawing away from the storm at & grief which has befallen the aged | The Shenandoah was the only fifty mile per hour rate when the 'y dirigible in the possession {storm enveloped us and broke into e United States government. |three pieces. I exclaimed to Com- She was built upon lines of safety mander Lansdowne: ‘Everyone beat ccepted as entirely modern and had |It.” When the crash came I was on been a rock of solid reliance upon |the ladder leading from the control New York, Sept. 3 (P)—Command- | which & ic: o S Zaclinig Lansnowne i chares ot i“h“ h alr officers had built up their | cabin to the rcx‘l: ];Dr:lmll nf] l(\\\; !:;lr. all, T clutched a |expectations of developing compre- | As T started the Shenandoah, is understood to | hensively -than-a d R Il e Sy y | hensively the lighter-than-air model |girder to which I hung suspended, Greenville, Ohio, Sept. Captain Lansdowne visited her with his family last November. elgrove and .;“m e e O “T tn\‘ naval aircraft. The most sanguine | finally swinging my body ovar it and Smith Freed From Wethersfield e o ot e nirahip atter |Of the dirigible enthusiasts conced-, crawling forty of fifty feet back Into T o trin o return o |cd today that her loss would greatly | the ship.” Rt auts fon et o [handicap them in asking congress| When he reached the ship proper, Lo er 1o waid to hawe Togked for. |fOF further appropriations for crat | Colonel Hall said that he found I Vet with mneat Hixahre o tha it ‘of;hnl type. other members of the ship preparing o e Shemoan fo the mid-sec. | Since the crulser Los Angeles can- |to open the valves in order to brink ot be used for military purposes,|about a descent. Herr he found S Sl the navy has left only one lighter- |Lleutenant Roland G. Mayer, load- than-air ship—a non-rigld blimp |ing officer, and Lieutenant J, B, GAS AGMN TAKES DROP now laid up at Lakehurst, N. J. | Anderson, Acrologist. The later, The Shenandoah was the first|Colonel Hall sald, had made his way [rigld airship to be lost by the navy. | to the rear on the catwalk, All thres | Standard Towers Price Half Cent a |The Z. R.-2, which broke in two over | descended safely. |Hull, England, on Aug. 24, 1921, v o Gallon and Independent COmpa- | ity the loss of 44 lives, still was in N‘er‘:nfl":&"(‘hf?""m ah |the possession of the British, Who |4ionno was in no way attributed te ials of hoard The arrest of the trio on May 28, | 1224 created a sensation. Domijan | ant treas- | urers of the bank and Smith was | They were alleged | \ have taken about $60,000 of the a serles of forged notes to cover losses they suffered T were | 3 of mass of figures on in- faxes, it was stated in last eve- ng's Herald that Mrs, Kate & highest Elisha Cooper proves to pay |a record-breaking flight tax- Secretary of the in- nies Quickly Follow Suit. | {any defect in the ship. Meteorologl- |constructed her, and had not been Jew York, Sep —The Stand- |accepted by Unlted States when i e New York, Sept. 3.)-—The Stand- |accepted by the United States | cal advices, warning the navigators | | {ard Oil Company of New Jersey to- ‘s!w was los | 4 veil releases with the utmost secre- ¥ LGt 3 | of the storm, would have saved the New Britain next Tuesday, and Question s s T L oS Socta | iay loweréujtiie pricelot gatoling ono)| | The) Bcrandonh wes bullt more ligyin “ha sald; Since thers weré. b | among which items looming large is| [ from i am. 2 | half cent a gallon throughout its ter. falong the lines of the German Zep- | metoorological stations in the vieinte {he matter of a labor bank in the| f o D e ot e a o pitory.TheRs ed etion which is the |pelin, but the bumps and Severe . (nose advices were not available. state. | Geneva, Sept. 3 (M—A Turkish w RL IG\)ES B ER $15 catlioat 3 Rl ‘“ ‘(‘\"3 Was | fi¢(h since Aug. 1, brings the tank |cddies encountered in the Storm |~ xpihe time of the crash, Hall said ~ earliest possible under the com = o o Tarse 51-2 |early toda eotec v als i e 2 This Is the project on which 1ead- | varbal attack on Great Britain, al- T i i e IS ER s | wagoniprican ] New Jersey to 15 1-2 |carly today subjected her also 10| our of the six engines which prope ers of organized labor n the state| . oo itlanes and | e ; (i ar °- | cents a gallon and fo 16 1-2 cents stresses which must have developed |od the air monster, were going full have been at work for two years, and | '°6\"E tha : planes | Reported to Have Handled Largest [i1f Y308 S0l W h three months | in other states along the eastern sea- [some hitherto unsuspected Inherent | speed, The craft simply met air curs a report on the advance made, and | Warships have been engaged 1nl i g ‘ i “]r‘gw pehavior The original | poard served by the company. defect. | rents which she could not survive, fhe preliminaries to the organization | demonstrations against Turkish ter-| Purchasing Transactions in s aeioncn imposed was § (H:'S yoars | Competing companies, including Every effort was made here to| Golonel Hall voleed high praise for | o such an institution are expected |rytory, marked the opening of dis-| tory as Agent of England and | of pardons, this was vn' ; h . Do the Gulf Refining Co. and the Sin ;msh relief to the shipwrecked crew. | the navy crew of the dirigible. Even I to bo forthcoming at the convention. | 00w nocut question today | smiaibetlate cut in half, & clalr Refining Co., later met the| - o | immediately after the erash, he said, | President O'Meara is at work on| " i ¥ 7|88 Erance! Betore UL'S. Enterod (War s 1= o, 2105 BARILES SR _A0- | Standard) Ol Companyajreduotions, (Continued on Page 12) the crew’s behavior was remarkable. a report which he says will be of un- | before the council of the league of | e Srilisnsagthagtme Salb | — e e - = | Each man took the situation quietly, usual interest to organized labor in [nations, which s to declde \vhfllh-‘r; New York, § 3 (P—Edward R, | Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn spoke in | | deporting himself as if he were on & L ata hesnuse at the many eco- | Mosul shall go to Great Britatn or |gcttinius, o partner in the banking | Ipra'f, of fhe _men, saving | EMPTY TANKS MAY SAVE [ frea balloon and attempting to bring hey were not the type \ha(l | the craft to the ground in the best { manner possible MlSSlNG PLANE P N 9 N 1 Tn all there were eight men whe " . 0. | made the perilous ride in the portion [of the ship on which Colonel Hall | found himself. Tt drifted for the bet. ter part of a half hour and covered a distance of ten miles or more be. fore coming to earth Guard Wreck Intense excitement prevailed in on some abandoned fsland point |All Night Search for Air | The navy withdrew from further ship Down on T]‘ip to attempts to make a non-stop flight to Honolulu from San Francisco | Honolulu Is Unavailing. here | the mining community where the abandoning the projected ghip fell. In an almost unbelievable when announcement was made k] take-off of the huge PB No. 1. which |ghort time news of the disaster had vesterday | Ban Francisco, Sept. 3 (F—Search | Vs scheduled to start for Honolulu |spread over the entire countryside the missing naval seaplane 'oday. and roads were black with automs- PN-9 No. 1 and crew which disap-| ©One hundred and fifty drums of [biles carrying doctors, undertakers, peared fn m Tuesday aft. Easoline were landed at Lahaina, the |officials and the curious to the ernoon after riding along on the island base from which the air points where the various portions of nigh hope of reaching Honolulu on | forces were under orders to con- the ship fell continued | duct the search to the area in which | Fach portion of the ship was today after overnight reports to |the big seaplane disappesred wrecked by the impact with the ground and early arriving souvenir hunters were making off with bits of the bag, splinters of wood and other naval headquarters from searching | surface and aircraft broug routine messages of the continuing Empty gasoline tanks, which prob- ably caused the plane crew to de pair of reaching Honolulu, became only | portions of the mechanism. A vel- ¥ “:(;"Ml el their Havel "'fl"d‘:“f “n“‘: g ‘:““ |unteer guard finally was ‘thrown e ot o Fl" sl b dali iy lw”:;‘ st bk " hat |2round the debris and a request |tear tha nissing plane and its |timated by the plane bullder that | Gioq'to Golumbus for fitty men and crew of four men might not be buovancy of the empty gasoline three officers for guard duty. | tound, naval officers today had ex- . : float | At Relle Valley, where the bodiss tanks would be sufficient to Hhoe men broke into the stor and sectred a bolt of colth over the wall. Three of the 4mong them Land, were captu ¥)ieriden the following day fourth man is now serving in sachueette, where he was cought, (Continued on Page 13) 00! | su i ;” farm here during his Nlegal | o0 % E0] Hanor operations red in | == pe The| Atlanta Ga. Sept. § Mas- | Remus, often before the public eye | later | bacause of his connection with antt- | i liguor litigation in many cowrts, re- | fo reived more publicity as he bade farewell to the Atlanta Federal return for which he (P—George | liquor transactions ms of money to Jess Smith, friend the former attorney general, in| f (Remus) ex- | | wholesale | | cted protection in his Hartford, Sept “The repudiation as made by me| | ¢or New Britat reference to the testimony be- | | e the Wheeler committee as to | (Continued on Page 14) [ T Pt i ki 1 ki 4 (plored the ficld of conjecture In sur- [10,855 pounds on the water. the ot the dead were being assembled ' |mising what happened after the |weight of the plane without fuel. |ynder direction of Lieutenant Com- THE WEATHER | HIGH TIDE | [plane was forced down by lack of | The missing PN-9 No. 1 was In |mander Charles R. Rosendahl grist g 1 = l {tuel {the alr about 23 hours when it prevailed, Villagers the quiet rou- 3 —Forecast | Sept. 4 (Standard Time) ! The most favorable theory ad- idr-wrrq out of sight. {tine of their existence interrupted. m snd vicinity: | At New London. 10:09 a. m.; | [vanced was that the plane had made | The skill of Commander John |stood about almost unable to com. Showers and slightly warmer | |1 10:35 p. m. At New Haven, | |a successful landing in the = ocean | Rodgers. in charge of the PN-9 No. |prehend the catastropha. Soon after tonight; Friday gencrally fair | 11:58 a. m |1ess than 300 miles off the Hawalian |1 caused navy officials here to re- |word of the disaster reached hers, 111 I |tout. at 1:45 Tuesday, drifted out |main hopeful that the missing com- —_— * | ® # |of the search area, and was beached {mander and crew were still altves (Continued on Page-12.Y H 1l