New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1926, Page 1

i E News of the World By Associated Press e ————————— '“"0’) pmmr" dogy * “3 .(Juqr] ume ) "..\lpouuo FEBRUARY 5, 1926, ~THIRTY-TWO PAGES ' BRITAIN HERALD (= e — EIGHT DEAD; TEN AT HOSPITAL.: AID FOR WIDOWS AND CHILDREN SENATE DECLINES RELIEF MEASURES 10 ASK COOLIDGE 10 TAKE ACTION By Vote of 48 to 28 Refuses to Consider Senator Copelands Goal Resolntion | BINGHAM, OF CONN., ONE | OF THOSE VOTING “N0” All Other New England Senators | | Also Turn Deaf FEar to New Yorker's Appeal in Which He | Calls Attention to Snowbound and | More or Tess Tuelless (flndl(hm: in This District. ! Washington, Feb. § ) — By & ote of 48 to 28, {he senate refused | today to comsider the Copeland | resolution requesting ‘oolidge to intervene in the an- | iracite suspension, i Twenty democrats, seven repub. | icans and the one farmer-lahor | wtor, voted to take up the reso-| lution while nine democrats and 39 | republicans vot 1 in the negative. s First Action The senate's action wae the to be taken in congress’in respect to the coal controversy, and the! vote was forced by opponents of | President Coolidge's non-interven- | tion policy after many previous at- empts for a showdown had been Jefeated in both sene house. | der the resolu presented | ator Clope demacrat New York, the president would | ave been requested to eall rey o th niners and 8 0 econference. Appeal 1s Ignored Befor moving to take up # or Copeland appeal: i to the senators from New Fng- ind to stand with him, because helr states were snowhound now, and in need of fuel. But all the New England senafors present oted against the motion. The roll call follows: For consideration of the re:olu- on Republican — Brookhart, Couz- s Frazier, Howell, lafolle Norrls and Nye Democrats — Blease, Broussard, (Continued on Page Nine) ! roasure PITTSBURGH BISHOP FOR MODIFICATION Rt. Rev. Alexander Mann Doesn’t Think Dry Law | (Can Be Enforced ; Pittsburgh, Feb, 5 (P—The Right RRev, Alexander Mann, bishop of the Pittsburgh diocese of the Protestant piscopal church believes that pro- ibition cannot be enforced avors modification of the Volst ace to permit light wines and pure Bishop Mann gave his views on | prohibition question today in ommenting on the advocacy of beer and light wines by the Church Temperance society of the Episcopal hurch. Explaining h nd in favor of modification of the prohibition lay iishop Mann said he believed such tion “would put a stop to the dis tribution of a good deal of bad a hol by bootleggers,” “Personally 1 did not belicve in cighteenth amendment.” he said, nd 1 think the Volstead act is 1 law. Prohibition ¢ enfor T sented by many persous, good ar bad, who feel it is & serious in- tringement of personal liberty. “The fact that every bootlegger ould vote for continuance of the Volstead law is proof that it is not a good law. Understand me pl 1 do not believe in breaking any 1 i in keeping the law it is passed, but 1 do believe bad laws should modifed But as long as the law remains in torce it should be kept. I think 0uld be modified and light wir und beer permitied for public con- umption.” not p w is T New York, Feb. 5 #P—The Right | Yiev. William T. Manning, Protestunt opal bishop of New Y took nd In the cc rey today and (Coutinued on Page Nine.) of Commerce, in response to repo cinb; IFrank H. th president, and Leon treasurer, of the Coek, Boy | sentative Fred O. T €. Loomis and Joseph R. Andrews. cumstances could t of the employes of ing in target practice wouhd. This explanation | be \ knowledge only of the tres was shot. He said FOR FAMILIES OF DISASTER VICTIMS C. of C. and Civic Clubs Take Steps to Aid Surviving Widows and Children OVER $1,000 GONTRIBUTED AT NOON MEETING TODAY Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions Clubs, Red Cross, N. & J. and Boy Scout Representatives Gather at Buorritt Hotel to Devise Plans for Succor- ing Those Whose Source of In- come Has Been Shut Off. More than $1,000 was turned in GENERAL VIEW OF NORTH & JUDD CATASTROPHE such as would require a permit. Inspector Hennessy to the committees of prominent | citizens organized to provide relief for the victims of the North & Judd | disaster at a meeting held the | Burritt hotel at noon today. T )w‘ meeting was called by the Chamber '3 ms | that some of the familics of vic are in dire need. S R weeting were Judge W. C. Hungerford, pres- ident of the Chamber of Commerce, presiding: Ralph L. Gould, cre; tary of the Chamber of Comtier Judge B. F. Gaftney, chairman of | e Chamber of Commerce civic committee; Representative Bdward | W. Pape, representing the Klwanis ident of | heldor Rotary elub; ;W mu 0, executive; Williarn H. Alderson of the ,v.nu, fist church., Harry G. Hancock president. of the Lions club; Sher- | d H. Raymond hange club; Chamber of Comme BoL Raeus clut - Aiveator! merce: Ahraham Buol, past T ent of the Chamber of Commerce: | M. Wightman, vice-president of | the North & Judd Mfg. Co.; Repre- ckliffe: John past presidents of the Chamber of (Continued on Page 27) BERLIN CONSTABLE 15 SHOT AT BRICK YARD Ventres in° Hospital With Bullet Wound in ! His Leg ffering from a bullet wound in y part of the leg, whic \ be learned, is believ een accidental, Constab Orville Ventres of the Berlin police department is undergoing treatmer at the New Britain General hospital Ventres was shot last night as 1 was on duty at the Stiles & Reynolds yards, as night watchman information regardiy cldent to the shooting Ithoug ed at his home today hstantiated. No informa any sort cou be secured at t wrd clals expressing of par culars of the affair and advising t ntres be asked how the affai yossible to in ned. Tt was imy ap terview Mr. Ventres a hospital this afternoon. Dr. William F. Flanagan of N Brituin is caring for Constable Ven that the wound is not serious, al d this afternoon hough he could not say when fhe officer will be discharged from the hospital. Prosec Charl Lewis of flin said this atternoon that he s not familiar with the ecircum the shooting, having fact that Ven hat a thor- stigation Ventres has been cmployed as #pecial watchman at the Stiles & ynolds plant INKING CHAPNAN PHLO KLSH EXPIRES SURVIVOR THIS = '. WITH P. 0. ROBBERY AFTER LONG ILINESS Pojice Think His Frignds Com- President of Globe Clth- mitfed Pawtucket Crime Missing” Man Wor Till Ready to Drop Lo()king for Himself DISASTER STORY | ‘Elliott Singleton Describes Pic- fure as Rool Fell Down WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS Hurled To Ground By Falling Bricks workers were “Judd’s building yes ing Hoxm Here for and having litt) ine «“"?‘,’llll};;f 710 GET DEFENSE MONEY | rector of the Chamber of Com- h, president and tr ough to ask one of t ¢ was being sought. + Prisoner Who Was Link in and a merchant for 40 years, Arrcst of Chapman at Muncie And Beams, He Managed to Crawl i estianeri ot alentened up | lingering illness of about two years Island Stealing, his clty at the Suffering From Shock, with his father, Ignatz Kapalir Not until then was the discov- e man for whom vestizgators in zes and a look of fear still in his , Elliot Singletor Monday morning are told a Herald porter this afternoon {ter the store be i3 e o o crime was perpetrated by pal death yestorday store in Southingto: crash at the do T look Ilike city and took ‘I was at work ment with his brot ed restlessly In his bed riend who was with me tarted vvmmm: nd began to -}n Secrecy Surrounds Probe to run toward the Later Charles died and his share of years of his lif: , but the bricks a Known to Inspectors My only thought was Harmony Lod o[ ider n)\nu the fugitives can be Snowdrif s Hamper Fire l)c .nl'nenl in Park City for New Britain and vicinity: g clowdiness with vis- ing temperature 1 possible fracture. ‘(Factory Completes Check-up of All Men — Pres. Holmes Contradicts Report Roof Was Of Recent Construction—No Criminal Neg- ligence, Medical Examiner Says—Accident Will Not Affect Schedule At Plant. INVESTIGATORS DECLARE ROOF WAS ALTERED WITHOUT CITY PERMISSION The North & Judd factory roof which collapsed yesterday | burying more than a score of workmen, eight of whom were killed was altered extensively without a building permit allow- ing the building department no opportunity for inspection, it became known this afternoon when Mayor A. M. Paonessa and an investigating committee of city officials began their probe into lt;hvkclduw‘of the disaster. uitding Inspector E. J. Hennessy and Deputy Insi r Arthur N. Rutherford, both of whom took parlpm this l:l(}‘.;‘e(:‘- visit to the factory, inspected the part which Vice- President Sullivan said was altered, and said the work was said he recalled the issuance of no permit to the company and an fr vestigation of the office files at City hall showed no record of one issued. Skylights extending nearly the full length of the I)ulldmg were removed and gypsom block substituted. Gypsom block is a cnmposllmn resembling hollow concrete slabs. The inspec- tors said it is heavier than glass but not heavy as concrete, A city ordinance prohibits the construction. repair or al- teration of any building or structure withount first obtaining a permit and provides a penalty for violation, s The state department of factory inspection was called into | the case this afternoon by City Building Inspector Edward J, Hennes A personal visit from Coroner Calhoun was o\pcdul this | afternoon and he was e\chtod later in the day to join with Mayor Paonessa and others in the probe. With the death list in the North & Judd factory disaster “u~'< rday definitely fixed at eight persons, the toll of injuries fat 11, and with every employe of the concern now accounted | for, Mayor A. M. Paonessa today instituted a formal investiga- tion of the accident. The executive summoned Building Inspectors E. J, Hen- v and Arthur N. Rutherford, City E ngineer Joseph 1. Williams and Fire Chief William J. Noble to assist him in find- ing the cause of collapse and determining whether or not there was negligence. Meanwhile President F. M. Holmes of the North & Judd Co. has arrived in the city and is personally directing the task of removing wreckage and laying plans for the early resump- tion of normal factory activities, Employes of the company delegated to conduet a check-up to determine the whereabouts of every man known to have been in the annealing department at the time of collapse worked through the afternoon and night cmnplomm their task early this morning when they found Ignatz Kapalinski, the only unaccounted for person, still working out 24 hours of uninter- mplfld labor. hey spread the news to crews who were endeavoring to hu(\w the body of Kapalinski and the work of rescue was stopped, taking on an aspect of colorless rance labor. Martin Kamish of Newington, who was reported missing, was not near the scene of the catastrophe. Because of the storm yesterday, he remained at his home. | - e Elliot Singleton, 7 Yale street, in William Vuson or Vinson, 386 Elm : ski, 25 K Rutherford And Sonncy Hurt stroet r y Bu K et Arthur v S 1i vs N T ¥ Fir re ( M. T. S o were Inju . both reported to be in good Walter Fores, 483 Main street, un —_— Injured : (Continued on Page 29)