New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1926, Page 1

i s of the World Associated Press —— LISHED 1870 (ER HELPED HIMSELF BECAUSE OF GILPATRIC That Knowing His SARGENT PASSING ‘f:,:'BX‘l‘(‘,sfil‘;‘g BUCK T0 DONOVAN INSENATE PROBE Decided To Fol- Suit, Unknown| Ty "PrOJIw R LT TR R LTSI L RYTRETTIT Jortiar Says His Assistant Had Charge [ of Mluminum Co. Prosecn- tigators However,|ion and flg Trusted Him eel Certain Cashier Did Know and Countenanced His Subordinate’s Thefts WALSH SAYS TRADE COM. HELD UP ALL EVIDENCE { Attorney Intimation Seems That Bach Shielded Other General Denies This and Also Denles that President Cool- | idge Has Called OF Investigation —Declares He is Undertaking to | .,“;,, e 5 Hia “,t,,‘;‘;',\_ ol See that AN the Laws Are Ad-| imself to funds of the First ; ministered. 1 Al Bank of Putnam afler he had| oo o et \\whf iscovercd that Cashier G lhxml| e Sargent as | Glipatric, his superior in the bank ‘\‘ witness, the senate judic 1 lter. Baker has a umittee began today inquiry into e e e ‘ he failure of the department of Jus- \tes Attorney George M. Cohen |fi7€ to bring contempt proceedings | the Aluminum Company of in which Secretary Mellon | nd investizators who ar | Americ NEW BRITAIN HERALD M@ 1apy Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Jan, 2nd ... 12,522 8, 1926.~THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS L T ‘PALABE THEATER THREATENED WITH ~ DESTRUCTION BY SPECTACULAR FIRE GANA[]IAN TRAWLER NEW HAVEN FIRE Two Alarms Sounded, -+ SHHZED BY GUARDS | ~L0SS RUNS HIGH Calling Out All Ap- paratus In City To Rccused of Violation of U. S. Blaze at Adaskin Furniture Co.- | Plomhmon Laws Damage Nearly $200,000 Flght Mormng Blaze. 1TAKEN 0 NEW LONDON FIREMEN ~ ESCAPE DEATH ) IEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JANUARY l‘our Firemen Hurt, None Seriously — Billows of Smoke Envelop Vicinity |Coast Guard Officlals Admit Find- Six Have Close Call When RO'J’ ___l.‘il.e Held in ‘\ttic ing No Liquor on Board, But In- | Collapses—Fire Probably Burning | 2 $ | sist Big Supply Was Brought 0| Some Time Before Alarm Was % x| | J Fire played a return engage- Shore i Lined A 10 Al ment at the Palace theater this NowhT sre | New Haven, Jan. 8 (P—Tire Morning at 9:09 o'clock, after 3| lyestora steam |starting on the fourth toor o tho |an absence of 23 years, when e 4 \rown strect annex of the Adaskin | ghe old playhouse was damaged « she Furniture Co. this morning worked il Jout s way dewnward ane fighe ad 0 the extent of $90,000 by Il r ar- [before checked did damage estimate water, fire and smoke, accord- X 000. | ing to an estimate bv Chiefl Headquarters | William J. Noble, of the fire rities and |ed at between $180, | Was 0l 1. 0. 0. AbdeEasail ety | department. John S, Contaras, | R 1 s e brick one bullt for the | one of the owners of the thea» ! < s} | k\’:{;r l:f t‘;:dfl“;j‘*’:: | ter said this afternoon that he e T V‘m‘m umn“fi", 7o) uild not helieve the loss was as 231 steaming out of the vears ago, when it was bought by |Much as that estimate, but no li- the Adaskin company upon its|that the damage was probably - merger here with the Bowditch Fur- | covered by insurance. The fire ion of niture Co. Interiorly the bullding | 1 d d h . ring Wed- |was of old-time construction with | 8150 damaged the Sweeney Dosse i ouded a cargo of very heavy floor beams and strong | lock south of the theater, f former ¥ | s of liquor | timbers. | Four firemen were injured CounLE falthe; Lorl is a large stockholde | Roof Falls In 1t cashier of the Putnam bank, | 'S 2 1arg kho e | while fighting the fire, They SR Besides Mr, Sargent, Assistant | six firemen working In the top | gya. Blames Tt On Gilpatric Attorney General Donovan 4 ohibitlon 'gor had a narrow escape from se- | A Faker las freely admi Chafrman Vernon . Van Fleet, ate police | rioug injt n a part of the roof | LIEUTENANT THOMAS ts, but maintaing took none | fecretury Otis B. Johnson and Chief | ficers were ordercd this morning [feil in upon them. In the ~h<u\"‘HI‘\LHk Y, Fire D N . 2l ; : | 8 ¢ i ept. No, e funds of the k er : Examiner Millard Hudson of the| N 1 ks o TIVEr | of burning and charre ni fragments been I the bank ade commission were call- | to locate some of the |of timbers | Cut of the hand which qu and had been prom ed as witnesses in the inquiry which | fquor alleged to have been landed. |men from being crushed, ! keep him from work for a few St nealalant o i ed to cover a wide range at- | Const Guard Claim 1dded assistanca of smaller beams | days. explanation is that ¢ the justice department | gh t er carrfed N6 ywhich served as props against the s y Gilpatric was a defaulter, he|and the trade commission, | o | falling heavier roof timbers, hort. | - CAPTAIN WILLIAM POR- onceived the fde of getting some | Whliieads Tetior a1 t N {ly after, the floor buckled at a place | TER, Fire House No. 2. Nail in the money for himselt with tho{ - HEEH ] the conet |\<ere these same firemen had been | foot, hought that he never would be| 1€ set. AL Ll 3 ft Jeft Y standing. The men, from Engine tepected, but that when the final| democrat, Montana, read fopre "'*% N th & cargo of 1,600 | Company No. 2, were Captatn James HARP?,Y TIMM, * Hook and Teon Gahed wouldibelier "11"'-{" 1M1 ”\' “h"(l) ‘-?‘ or =il L} L scs of Scotch whiskey and 246 kegs |G, Shaw, George P. Greene, Francis | Ladder Company No. 1, Slid on jaker s reatiehs % el j others. | I NN T A ons of the consent o be the the cratf, whieh!ll © o0 ) iave that the fire naa | PANY No. 1, Severe,cut of little . oes - Among other thing s's Mor as her home port, |, i e batec il ic's investm 2 i Sl nns 7| 2 " 'heen burning for some time before | finger, stat-ments the e e Onvrase RTOSS 1ONMARE 116 glarm was turned in at 6:40, be-| A second alarm was turned in erabic g [darect et : nod . |cause the roof hegan to break short- | which called out all the fire fighting o1 Letters from agents of the com- £ 14 under 4 | Tt : Ll e T to nakitors ahatEing v after the hose was taken into the |apparatus, The Liaze was first dii- losures Il RSB G IR O BHOSOER M £ . y ~ aming uproars. | covered a short while after 9 o'cloci ) did Pl "',, ”,{ 'IM.‘uyll«:'mn““:»“'('f,f,!l 18225,000 Included in Bill John H. Diehl Accused of ;‘WH‘EH Bg[}?flfl Hti‘{] ; Vor a short time after apparatus [by Ci an George Cooley, (et that his subord T Sl S : . ¢ A A } | 8- arrived flames of fire shot out of |who will be in the city of y in th g ibE Qs ns e sioned he Presented in Both Violating Pilot Rules— d od he necessary re- winjows and through the roof and |Britatn's employ 50 ears mes untenar (he inquiry began on January 3 Houses | !N ERi US GFFENS[: Bl S pamitied 10 1he great clouds of smoke enveloped the | July. M, Cooley and Policemau hink He Knew Much ir fficer Dreyer B bat = | Joseph Kennedy were walking dowit ‘ T': P o e Third Officer A s e (Continued on Page £0.) | Main street when Cooley saw smoke pLle : : e What did the investigators do?" e : o |p it of the roof of the theus res will reveal that F g O G . Also Summoned to Ap- taken to Provi- e e 1 ineial tranactions of his| My dnformation s they i S Charee Wethersfield Court Puts ”ALMN TflWN R[][;KED ety who in turn calle the i d ) 1t was ene of the | nersons who purchase B . e e{Ein w | partmen e ; % posi. | Aluminum company; that they put fund i Bonds at $15,000—Young +| Company No. 1, commanded iy : \cconntants to work to determine Te- o ’ Chief William J. Noble, quickly ar i j | that they went to the offices of th Britain j‘”“ L I Dichl, who y ey Butland, Lic sl O i owed by other companies, Heavy it s \z‘m“ At i ]m‘, make @ Lon ‘”l””r'””, A e ste \ip City b SR parttord, Jan., 8 (P—Thor 1. oJhn Worthen, '.Y‘A‘uv‘s % ‘km 1;;@',]:“?; ‘: :"‘,v'“l;‘-"m‘:'g‘ "m,“‘[“ vie | theck, In other words they sought | I GIEsts ol collided with and sank th ) 22 2 ! S u 5, tinged (i ominous yei- i R 8| re e ) ie b > 4 = AL Mass.,, an allege wit thews. t 1 ¢ a (« on I ) ive progr need H" ie build s tho Uni 1 itch q g nn o( the fourth story window b ing construction throughout the | (Fial todi Lo II ”r o | was today arraigned before Jus SES e (d“ts Injured in Sle“a 1 laz ally seeping from the com.: fdent that 1 | the se by tor Bert Fernald ' (o piock Teland wit g {YOUnE glrls, said to be t t | } With no hesitation and lightnin e of Maine, chairm. € the senate |y jof women whom e was b e SO Brr ey { efticiency, Chief Noble took received for adm L E l E ATE on public buildin e e b ] | [ ¢ enrcain i rge of his m. ho hoisted lad- “irs of the Howe-Morot schoo while the similar measure U : S The case w 1 until | ‘“H,‘ houses were | €S On all sides o bullding an i et i 000 G | presented to the house of represen- : mo; Monday \‘_‘ T or | 5 e 9 T | were fighting the within thre ing a portion of Gil tatives was introduced by ( s- 3 A : e Pl Alauric Mandato was b . o B 0 minutes after they arrived on thw it the bank during - SR N B e man Richard N. Elliott of Indian: r olice MK \New orKer ; scene, Chief Noble ordered the tro aele ettty | One Y ould Lumt Licenses | i L o¢ the corresponding com. | O the steamship City of Columbus Bonds Killed | - o aodny. The lloy wires clipped in tront of {1 4 oy S (s k 1. | Of the Ocean Steamship company wto appeared without villed Four, T her er popu into the open eate o that the §0-foo! apial 1 it Baker to purc ich & A T % nittec in the house. The two spor it . ppear v 1 our, il Sl ater, &0 that the S0-foot aeri: L e maintain the staton | to Two Years—Other sors of the public buildings bill are | The ¢ S were pre 1 as a professed to o ] % R LUACRY adder could be holsted on a level ) suddenly assum i S ares O o T o re tr estigation of the col- 1 the of the char Took Own Life ularly the | with the fourth v A e no | Increases Govt, Power [nrsine for i conduc the Toston | t him, of not guilty }*m a. | Bob Smith ehier, L Uil e b i Hoard of Ins g the days He was S Bt EeTing, f‘":" ""‘r‘v"“: | the first f imb upon o I measure will be in the near | inmed followi New Y y 8 ! al adder and e hose whi Washington, Jan. 8 (®—The | Policem , chauits s . ury mining dis-|water poured into the smoking build- question of radio control shifted | When 11 b Za I ree ¢ P pers . WEre ling, The smoke clouds were becon - from the house to the scnate today | L 4 | 1 Mo w s t h ing thicker every minute, but Smith % 5 ‘ op | COMES & 1 Britain pr | when the scnate interstaie commerce | COMCS & M, i e . stuck it out until the chlef ordered long | committee egan consideration of | W51 B0 AMONE o alTolmant. tov | chi 1en it could be seen that e of the accour H'w“'“ e building. Tarce ycars ago, Secr ¢ 1s state Kii T 3 il iliond(in Pulsaw o ne ""“””fi‘]" e s of the |Gencral Work outlined a program of . i Sl Police Lelleved K Killed Afloa il thelmovers ipital lrmvz:h'l to light of Gbmmerce nOhTIBtE onstruction in 14 8 Inciid g Univ. of Chicago Professor in el 5 n ook his ow ned Gilpatric had us i Nebraska, | New Bri ove y Z29 Dii years CIShH e - ) Liberty bonds and c Howell, republican, Nebraska: | pubite buildings were urgently Declares Shorthand Was rtion O 1 ¢ <titution through pure 3 P cnerally conceded SR ot LU A t n ¢ ¢ “”u ’y on - ‘M.ir‘ to stion fthe I y' “"\ ol (r.{} th -‘.\‘]vr.yf.yfix:u]n*\,.nw will he fol- Practiced in h(llpllll(‘b a ST : il. Mr. Soule hopes | people of the ) R whantl ill is passed, as —— ] v L All five of their 1 s o 0 4 1 1g of th - Bl iy pro ranted Individuals, |1 ) Chiizago, N yan.is \ T Building Thought Doomed e | steph wis, solicitor of t ¢ o ara. | laul had a stenogray i o ST AT 3 - 1 that § ; od s it 0 hoof t londs e of contracts | ) ““"_"! s 1o 1 extensiv ] ! n and 1 suicide, | poison Liquor and Fifth, Blinded, S rights in their f the ether. d vk » } ! Buker got the bondg from |UiRhts in 5% 6 it t, with the assist of 1} 0 T 5 dewosit hox at the baok | N f”m“'\um'af tini e )wrn‘nr nt, where post oft : G s o JLYEar0 IS . Baker Was Authoritative e circumstances surrounding the e S el \nii Tampa Papers Continue ) nt sale by Charles Erbstein to hahan Audience R'i770“ S AR To Print Smallpox News fbherty agazine | < ! ] : e ‘ Valentino in Movies b. in w1 e sachu 1 : P v‘: d at $50,000. 3ergamo, Ttaly, Jan., 8 (P—Ru- | Wxyrhync "‘ i ) s 1 B X ¥ stealing of ( Davis admitted that despite nh ¢ Yalntinoisg S fiimsalonatour s “,;\JW\\, z : d s | Gilpatele from the bank are e fact that other applications were haire” | " off gutlici s ‘."i o sy L ke 3 smoke than ) by those | & Chics or rgamo moti ciple of a n W \ in this vicinity R ha . alings with the bank at |vicini rbstein station was re- cate BHL sl A R 3 brought ced on' Whe | merce t policy being that |arouse B | ple realiz- and down t It was rec 1 today by severai! granted primarily to i | — SV of vaecinntibns Thela e camp. A ay fato 1) W Baker sistant cashier for a | e et \mlandm lmm Brazil '1owa cnita. Gone since tast rovra- ith depa reported a four | dend the third floor. siderable time took a dominant ‘u dividua ; S b (T —Rrazil s of 33 cases with no new ones | in the s are comb- | fringe of the balcony ¢ titude in handling bank affairs| He asserted that the transaction 0T A dom 2 N Lima Shve 1 ary, at Uncles Home—Held Her 2 1 led sur- | bitten by flar which enever Gilpatric was in the baak |involved no increase in the m r | lini t were JEUHaE p i o e i me a matter of course, it is |of broadcasting stations in i- | fered with, et Prisoner, She Asserts, n ¢ Y5t I bank business Ghpairio ‘mg» viclnity. With passage of the | en o h Trade Board S i er to Baker when a cus- | new radio measure, he \-’ 1I h Bndgonmt B.\h\ Bumod el z . Y Syt Rejects New Pr np(m!\ . ad business to transact, an |department’s policy would be 1 : t i o dite e y London. Jan. § GP1—A Mane T as objected 1o by others |stations in Chicago and vicinity, hia 7\“ gl S ' sl Sl hie board of trade has written | | i while firemen were When Gllpatric was not in the [where congestion now exis g = 2 2 to Manchester rejecting the pro- | onski, 42 roof trying to pick ik Baker did business as the ns S nator Ho '.” soug yy to s ! ! "‘“ ied R T el % : forwaed by & numbet of e the roof with axes. Presently, three nt cashier and did nol appear | W' 10 UL # "m A s o erib caug fire 1 = | . nen that the British gov- 10 BELOW ZERO men came to the front window. T e pationui Tomoted munvigmstisr s ! : S RIE el SR G > should buy cotton eloth to S Lake, N. Y., Jan. § (P— | and leaned out g *or breath in : iSa gt D s B Bl il 1'% baby to for New Britain and vieinity v of £10.000,000 and attack Adirondack reglon again is in |the swirling smoke that enveloped :“" 8 QU A . g 3 R e clondiness follow- ous Dunlavy's An an market for the pur- grip » of & cold & p. The ther- |them. Other firemen rushed into the A oy Sy wl by o late tonight or S ' g the Lancashire cot- ‘mometer registered ten degrees be. | theater, and before 15 minutes was ot : S v ! ing W N satwislay; SOmCRhal warmes Thio i t Dunlavy ad- |ton trade understood that Lon- low zero today, and the indications | over, the ehief came out of the e ,.\v been revealed by ing g match whic d and s [ Saturday. | mitted the girl's accusations. He is |don financiers were prepared to sup- | weer that the day will be one of the | ; oA he o 1 Ve S I port the scheme. coldest of the winter, (Continued on Page 29) 2