New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 LR sl S e \ N L) o) ‘paojrauy “1daq 1apy u"‘“’] fNvg nay IDIVERS RECOVER TWO B RETT] IIDJ NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 19 —FEIGHTEEN PAGES ‘BRITAIN HERALD ODIES Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending l 2’270 Sept. 26th .. —————————— PRICE THREE CENTS FROM WRECK OF SUNKEN S-51 | CHANGE IN COURSE * MIGHT HAVE SAVED GIANT SHENANDOAH Lient. Anderson Describes for Firs{ Time How Giant Cralt Was Handled HUNG SUSPENDED FROM GIRDER AS SHIP FELL , Finally Hauled Back to Safety by Oompanion—Today’s Witness Re- | lates Orders Given by Command- er Lansdowne in Crisls and De- clares that Previous to Collapse None of the Officers Felt Any Great Alarm. MRSE. LANSDOWNE WILL TESTIF I INQUIRY Lakehurst, N. J., Sept. 29 () —Mrs. Margaret Ross Luns- downe, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne, captain of the Shenandoah., accepted to day the invitation of the naval court of inquiry to appear and make a statement, Mrs, Lansdowne's telegram to the court sugeested no date for her appearance other than that it be made at the test poss ble time. 1t may be that will not be heard here but in Washington if it finally is de- cided to transfer the ingniry to she that city. Mrs. Lansdowne is now in Washingicen Lakehurat, N Sept. 20 (®) — Even when the airship Shenandoah " Began on her first rapid ascent be- fore she was wrecked those in charge of the craft felt no concern for her safety and thought she would weather fhe condition us she had similar situations on flights, Lieutenant Joseph B. An- derson, acrologist on hoard, declar- ed today before the naval court of “Thquiry previous Saw No Danger Storm clouds were in the of- fing with storms some distarce be- hind and to one side of the ship, Lleutenant Anderson said, but so certain wer was nothing dangerous ahead the ve 1 was turned back to her after she ad been turned to the southward when the clouds first were noticed. Even later [l there was discussion of a char of cours but neither Commander Zachary, Lansdowne, the captain. that course nor Lieutenant Anderson could see any immediate danger* and the! course was held. hortly after the ascent began.' Lieutenant Anderson continued, *we reulized that we were in stronger currents than we had thought for they were unable to eheck the rise by tors and clevators. eans of the mo- TLansdowne’s Orders Commander Lansdowne immedi- ately sent Anderson into the ship from the control car with orders foe the officers to stand Y he auto- (tic valves. After _explaining the ship's situation to these officers, Anderson returned to the control to find that the Shenandoah [s1ill was rising from one to two nd then was up between 1 5,000 feet. ““At this time,” continued Ander- son, who was telling for the first time his story of the wreck. “Cap- downe, after a hasty con- with several of the oficers ear the officers that there | SECOND APPEAL ON TONING ORDINANGE Allen $t. Property Ovmer Wonld Build Thre Family House ADJUSTMENT BOARD MEETS Willlam E. Attwood Expected to Be Flected Chairman Today—Com- missfon May FEngage Clerk to | Handle Many Detafls. A second appeal from the restric- | tlons of zoning was filed today with the building department, Prospero Trancoline, acting for Mrs. Carmela Francolino, requesting that the area ng between Stanley and Steward eots, on Allen street, be changed from the two to the three-family I honee clase. ! Last week H. T. Peterson asked that Haley streat be changed from a two to a three-family zone, As |was the case In the Haley street | . ; | maiter, Francolino claims thers are | now three-family houses close to his | wite's building lot and she fs de- prived of a property right in being [ restricted to a dwelling of emaller | | size. { Board of Adjustment Meets | The board of adujstment, the {court of appeal before which re- | | quests for changes must come, will hold its organization meeting afternoon at 4 o'clock at the office of Mayor A. M. Paoncssa. The | | Peterson and Franeolino cases will not come up at this session, how- , as the purpose of the gather- |ing is merely to clect officers and | discuss the powers and duties of the | commission. Willlam E. | the New Brit Attwood, president of ain Trust Co., s ex- ipected to be the unantmous choice {for chairman of the board. ther matter not contemplated {the appropriation of funds this | | vear but which will probably be | | taken care of this afternoon, will he | the selection of a clerk of th | misston. There is considerable | clerical work' connected with the | preparation of an appeal for hear- ing and with the sessions of the | board. Members of the board do not feel disposed to ask one of their | f=llow commissioners to handle this |detail. 1t is expected that a clerk | will be engaged on the same footing {as the clerk of the board of com. | pensation and assessment, whose | tutles are “imilar to those {o be ex- | i pected of the prospective new city | | employe. | Same Lot in Different Zones Tn addition to provisions of the | zoning map which allow the An- | in com- | | con- | struetion of three-family houses in | Talrview cemetery and two family | | houses in St Mary's, the erection of | | single family dwellings in Hill park, and in Doerr's pond, the building of stores In Central park, | facories In parts of St. Mary's and | the Fairview cemeter two fafilly {houses in the Hartford reservoir, | i ete., it has been found that a build- ing lot may be In a zone without | the owner being privileged to bufld | ,the type of house allowed in that zone, | (Continued on Wourth Page) | %T\m Men Scalded to Death‘l In Penn. Capital Explosion Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 29 (A—Two {men were reported killed this noon |in an explosion in the State Caplitol | building. | The explosion is believed to have {resulted from bursting of a steam- Iplpe in a boiler room. The base r | ment was filled with steam and pow. | |er lines were ent, plunging it into darkness and delaying efforts of res- s, The bodles of the two men, both MITCHELL SCORES "fl&ing to Raise Sunken Subfnarine this |! Walnut | ¢} ARMY, NAVY DEPTS. | INAERIA!. PROBE Calls Air Service nadequate to Meet Emergency--Equip- ment Deplorable PREPARES NINE PAPERS SETTING PORTH HIS VIEWS Fight Are Constructive and One De- structive-~Ts Given Permission To Testify As He Sevs Fit—Asserts Present Fxpenditures, Redirected, Would Give America Good Alr Force, . : ’ QL g The Chittenden is shown alongside the submarine $-50, The arrow the lifebuoy which is anchored directly over the wrecked submarine. BANK MESSENGER IS SLAIN IN CAMBRIDGE Companion Wounded — Bandits Get $10,266 Pay- roll This Morning Washington, Sept, 20 (A—Colonel William Mitchell, who preclpitated the aireraft row, today poured an- other avalanche of criticism on the heads of those charged with admin- istering the nation's alr services. Testifying hefore the president's air board he assailed the army gen- ral staff, declared it incompetent to iraft air policies, and placed upon its officers the blame for what he eseribed as an improvished and inadequate air defense. ‘The colonel also dropped verbal hombs on the navy, charging its ranking officials with looking upon aviation as a subordinate adjunct of defense. He advocated pushing the fleet to sea to fight “where it be- longs." To the click of cameras and flsh- ing of photographic apparatus, the former assistant chiet of the army air service began his testimony, first asking that he be sworn. had spread before him a large map of Mg Ross, b Cambridge Edward C. was shot to death and a companion 20 (P — nk messenger, was wounded by three masked rob- bers who leld up {he pair here to- payroll of $10,- and fled with a the world and two aldes carrving | ,ce voluminous documentary exhibits, 3 The board declined to place him Ihe messenger, accompanicd by under oath and assured him his tes- | Rufus Johnson of Newton, was | timony would be given credence. Had Nine Papers Col. Mitchell had nine papers he desired to read, all “instructive,” ex- pt one which was “destructive,” d which he said he would not read if the hoard objected. In America the development aire| been “slow and ine driving the payroll sent from 1t Central Trust company to the Ward Baking company w &wept up In a lu the bank represe from their delivery car across the sidewalk company oflice, the to the robbers 1 of hs 4 them, fir seven or ¢ 1t he safd. e e “No surface vessel can e hey came. Ro org as aircraft are in existence. | 1he 1 A t grazed Jolm | son’s head, Seizing the tin hox containin payroll, the th car and drov. direction of They can put out of commission any val surface vessel more effective- and economically than any other unit.” the > men ran to their away oral The Destructive Paper. I the administr: and navy air services nformed him X ion \ diver is shown going over the side of the lighter John C. ‘hittenden to go to the bottom and examine the wreck of the 51. At his side may be scen air and life lines leading to an- " | other diver alveady on the hottom. The bow of the submarine | can e seen at the extreme left. or chusetts Johnsc Only soutt her cight papers dis coast defense; sea craft; the air force personnel; eivil and commercial avi- one witr plan to remedy defects in the Amer-| a vague description and ced the ican alr organization. ages of the robbers at vetween 20| HIT BY SPEEDING TUTO r et enemles, Colonel and 25 years. All wore r- | { Mitchell said, “we must look across| chiefs over their faces. The police | i | the Atlantic and Pacific,” adding| investigation tended to indicate | D, J. Matarese Struck and Police- | Alleged Worcester Bandit Pafe Ar- that although there was no reason|that the bandits had opened fire | B | to expect hostile relations with the | without preliminary warr | man Standing Nearby s Like- | rainged On Secret between them points to | IN BONDS OF $T0.000 Remains of John Gibson, Engineman, And William Teschemacher, Seaman, On Way To Newport As Airplanes And Deep Sea Divers Make Desperate Efforts To Locate Comrades—Twin Brother of One Victim Also Probably Dead In Undersea Crafi. On Board U, §. S, Camden, Off Block Island, Sept. 29 (By Wireless to The Associated Press)—A bugler called attention and blew taps today as the blanket wrapped bodies of two vic- times of the S-51 which went down last week were lifted ten- derly over the sides of the U, S. S, Camden, flight ship of the rescue fleet which is working to recover the 33 men who sank with their ship. Two Bodies Are Recovered The first body brought aboard was that of John L. Gibson, 25, of Portland, Ore., and the second of William C. Tesche- macher, 19, of Bangor, Pa., a twin whose brother is also among the missing. Both the hodies were in good condition, the lack of air in the sunken submarine and intense cold of depth at 128 feet preventing decomposition, The bodies of the two victims were started for Newport on the U. 8. S, Mahan, one of the light mine layers that came out last night to search for bodies. No Trace is Found Boston, Sept. 29 (AP)—In a search over 40 square miles of water in the vicinity of the sunken submarine S-51, navy avia- tors have discovered no bodies floating, a radio dispatch to the Boston navy yard said today. Filled With Wreckage U. S. Submarine Base, New London, Sept. 29 (AP)—The forward end of the battery room of the S-51, sunk Friday night in a collision with the steamship City of Rome, is filled with wreckage, divers reported to the commander of the sub- imarine base today. | The divers were unable to pass through the door of the and Joseph F. Lamb Vice-Pres- ident—Plans for Opening. | —_— BY l NA l B don, Conn., Sept. 29 (P—In the air CITY NATIONAL BAN | vietims of the S-51 which went | ateamer City of Rome 14 miles off Paul K. Rogers was elected pres. | O 25. englneman. 1st class. and New Britain, at a meeting of the | ¢*med operations this morning the banking concern, Francls C.| Scour S2a for Bodles eral weeks ago. { submarine, the hum of seaplane {the middle of December at 424 Maln | surrounding waters in an effort to completed. 1 the three survivors who were pleked ter part of this week. Departments| mogay it was s search for bodies |forelsn exchange. { the crew could be alive was held control room which was open because of the interference of i Over and Under Sea | and under the sea men worked fo- Paul K. Rogers Chosen President i down last Friday night when she | Block Tsalnd. The first body re- 1dent and Joseph I, Lamb vice-pres. | V33 found in the battery room of e totaliase diet. i after being forced hy strong tides Kelly, formerly of New York City,| While these men prowled, heavy Announcement was made today | motors could be heard overhead as street in the Begley block. Altera- | find bodles of three men believed The personnel of the institution 18| up by a City of Rome lifeboat, |of the concern will include commer- | raxt night it was a search for men. | out by officers at the naval statto,, HYLAN WILL RETIRE their heavy cumbersome suits with the ship's structure. WO OFFIGERS ELECTED ! U. 8 Submarine Base, New Ton ! day In the search for the bodles of | was rammed by the Savannah line i covered was that of John L. Gib- ident of the City National Bank of !‘hn ship by deep sca divers who This completes the organization of | 185t TigNt to stop thelr work. , having been sclected as cashier sev- i footed, through the bowels of the t business will be started nbml?‘nn\'ul aviators flew low over the Itions to the bullding are now being | to have been washed overboard wit) expected to be completed in the lat- | Coffins Are Ordercd clal, savings, Christmas club and ! yyyi hope that any of the 33 i | although none would publicly ad {mit that they belleved all their | | shipmates were dead. Even when word was recelved that 20 cofins Mayor of New York Formally and | had heen ordered from the Cheléen i ror | PAYAL hospltal to the Newport sta ARG BT i o S e e e S | Flanigan, executive officer of thr base, stressed the point that a part Mayor On Independent Ticket. English, it must be considered in| Today's holdup was . : SRR ; s Jicldiipgvg H wise Bowled Over | Indictment drafting defense plans. a long series fn Ca { | U. S. Citles In Peril. last two years, N Arrlving at the scene of a serl W T Declaring Great Britain's force of | ona of these on automoblle accident on Colony 1,000 airplanes could be landed in|when he was robbed ~ |John F. F % leliminated the possibi New York, Sept. 29 (®—Mayor | n today made a matter of formal record his intention to re- tire to private life at the end of his present term, and thus practically y of an inde- pendent ticket in the November mayoralty election, In a letter today to Henry Fru- of the work of the divers was to make sure that all possible alr was being pumped into any compart- ments that might hold survivors, One Diver Inside The divers, sald a message, re- celved at the hase, were working | separately. One of them was inside |scalded to death, weve found in the on watch, ordered the maneuver- | ing valves opened. With gas being | exhausted through maneuvering and automatic valves, the captain hegan | taking steps for the descent which | boiler room. COLIECTOR AT BOSTON | Washington, Sept. 20 (A—W. W. | Lufkin was reappointed today as | collector of customs at Boston. | (Continued on Fourth Page.) } Insane Woman Caught in Woods After_ Night Pursuit by Posse Plainville Wife Dashe: Past Watchers and Flees Into Brush — Committed to Asylum Today. | | Britain General hospital Sunday and | was said to be suffering from a ner- vous disease. She became 8o erratic and talked so much of killing her. self that the hospital authorities felt they could not assume the responsi- bility of keeping her there. She was still believed to be sane, 80 she was removed to her home early yester- day morning. She grew rapidly worse and last| night. after her continued suicidal| talk, ghe evaded those watching her | and fled into the woods. A posse was quickly formed among the neighbors, but it required a long and frenzied search through the country before she was discovered and recaptured A temporaty commitment to the state hospital wae obtained this morning to prevent a repetition of last night's escap: Mrs Tr:rrr'o was taken to the New (Special to the Herald.) Piainville, Sept. 29—After repeat- ed threats and attempts to commit ui . Mrs. Damantia Torrero, wife of Luigi Torrero of South Washing- ton street, escaped from her home ast night and was recaptured only fter a prolonged search through the ng party of neigh ors. She was temporarily committed | 0 the state hospital for the insane it Middietown today. 5 Nova Scotia in from eight to 10 days, | roil which he was deli In Meri night, Ray- he sald American cities could then be | Central Trust compar : mond Boyle Muln | stroet ed in about three hours. | liott Addressing Machine Co. 011 converted his sedan into an am- Dirgiblealish paliopicstoing Ay were: bulance and took D. J. Matarese, planes, he asserted, can be built that |~ Fehryary 15, 1924, $10.000 from <8 ; will fiy from Europe to the United { pranch bank of Cambridge Trust » had been injured, to the Meri- i States and return. | company. len hospltal s p Sl For the Atlantic, he said, we need | arac o7 104, 15,000 from Guar Matar a wid knaymirenti{ife i HEaes (i e B ot e an army to protect the land, & Navy | anty Trust comw Sxfalalandthotol oo St ey e e e May 14, 1925 0 from Kirst |1 ar the scene of an inconse- i were $70,000 (Continued on Page 13.) National Bank 3oston mes- | quential motor accident ey sengers, his partner, Harry Israel, e S T | July 10, 1925, more than $20 forcd sl ury, when a sp e =N itrom &/larmored i car American knocked him to the stroet un- SAYS BIG MEN DID NOT BACK AVIATION MEET HERE The aviation meet held in this city Saturd and Sunday was a success in every way as far as fiying was concerned, but was not 50 big a success financially cause too many people got in who didn't pay, and because it was not backed up by the big men of the town, according to former Mayor George A. Quigley, in a report to the Lions' club today The former mavor stated that there were not more than 20 of the prominent men of the present at any time during the entire two days. “The meet has done one thing, however," 3 sald. ""We are going to have an aviation field in New Britain.” He added that it ought to be difficult to raise enough money in this city to provide a field. He said he had done fiying Sunday for the first time, and that while he had not gone through any stunts as did a news. paperman present at the meeting, he was sold on flying and intend- ed to buy a plane of his own in the near future, and become a fifer himself, e e et city some Trust company of Bost In falling he bowled over Recently an ararn it Thomas J. Tighe who made for the police to &er 1lso euffered slight injury. Boyle armored car to guard ch happ .along fust after the payroll deivlery. At poiice head-| Matarese accident and assisted in quarters it was sald that today was g the injured man to the hos- had been dead 11 nig i =t | THE WEATHER { |t Hartford, Sept. 20.—Forecast . for New Britain apd vicinity | ridgewo Fair tonight: Wednesday In T | creased Cloudiness early toda | { |burn until * # ' jured. one of the reguia delivery pit | and aceordingly a guard Matarese has gerlous cuts and | been assigned ruises and X-ray pictures will b e today to determine & i @ broken bones Aged Couple Killed by e, broken {bone Fumes of Escaping Gas ite and brufses as a resnlt of Bridgeport, Sept. 28 (P — Abraham uble mishap Heaton 92 and wife, Sar | AR ‘ 81, were found dead at th il i | R e Half of Town Razed | 5 i ,‘ A | e "l hm]}: was 11:» to iur sl Awaiting Fire Dept. | which escape rom an open jot g > e > bodies were found by Mrs, John | SOlon, Me., Sept. 20 (P —Half of . who has been tak t town was destroyed early today of the couple. Tt 2 when fire driven by a hi 1 side of the main street, en buildings. equipment be Lack- s and & few nts pow the flames until fire ived from Madison, Nor- ¢ and Skowhegan, 15 miles first was under control WES expec to noon. No one was in-| ¥ he indict- > charging charg- two counts 1 ts of larceny and 1 v YRMER PREMIER DIES s, Sept. 29 (M-—Leon Bour- minent French statesman emler {s dead, ma any Zoning Map on Display At Herald Office s in possession of ¢ the of city's zon- e muniel- through lines, rost and impor- present or pros- property owner and the map has been on display at the ed of the Herald where It be viewed by the pu time during business hours the S-51 working forward. The haus, chairman of the five cent fare [ other was on the outside of the fayor Hylan said he “must de- | same part of the ahip cline after this time to be a candl-| The message also sald that air |date for mayor in any movement." | Recalling his elght years in office, Mr. Hylan declared ha felt “the peo- ple have benefited and the demo- itic party has gained in public eam.” “But 1 recognize,” he sald, that without the cooperation of a united party, progress would be im- peded, public improvements would lag and the whole body of our citi- zenr would not- be adequately served, also {Accidental Death Finding In Two Auto Fatalities Bridgeport, Sept, 29 (A—Coroner John J. Phelan today made findings of accidental death in the cases of [Willlam Putrimer of Maspeth, L. L. land F. W. A. Roethke of New York, killed in automobile accls |dents. Roethke met death Septem- |ber 21 when thrown from a ear in Stamford and Putrimer on Septem- ber & when the car In which he was a pasenger collided With a tree in Fairfield. MACRI TRIAL OCTOBER 20 . | Torrington, Sept. 29 (M —The Olympla Macri murder trial at Litch- field probably will not begin until about Octeber 20, according to Litch- fleld county court officlals. The Oc- | tober terms open October €, but the | regular docket of Litchfield county cases s to bs taken up first. planes had arrived to assist the two destroyers that last night used their searchlizhts to pierce the darkness of the waters around Block Island as they searched for the hodies that eventually would come to the sur. face, The report that coffine were heing sent to Newport indicated that the hospital there would he the to which the recovered bodies would be sent. Officers here were without definite information on thi | score. but sald Newport probahly would be the more logical place as it was nearer the ecens of the wreck than New London, Second Body Found The body of Willlam T. Tesche macher, seaman, first class, of Ban gor. Pa. was the second to be found on the S-51 by divers today. Teschemacher was a twin, His brother also was aboard and belleved to have been lost. Frederick was thought to have been at the helm when the submarine was struck and one of those washed overboard. The Loys were 19 years old. Willams® body was taken aboard the Camden and it was reported In the message from Rear Admira) Christy that all bodfes would be taken to the naval hospital at New- port instead of brought to New Lon. don The message 414 not state what pofnt (Continued on Page 18) *