New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 1

FINAL EDITION Wuo) ‘pIojire 2q ‘1APY APugTT MTIS R33N0 'I\Tfi W BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg July 24th . 12,870 ESTABLISHED 1870 EW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926.—SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS FORD PLANT DEVELOPS AIR FLIVVER THAT WEIGHS BUT | (F SEN. CUMMINS 350 POUNDS Propelled by Three Cylinder Air Cooled Motor — Has Wing Spread of 22 Feet and Is 15 Feet Long Machine Can Land at Thirty Miles an Hour— No Plans for Mass Pro- duction dered. re Yet Con- Detroit, producing an 14,000,000 mobiles, Henry e front Mich., and July 31 (P—After distributing of his famous au- Ford come to ith an “air flivver.” Rumors of experiments with baby airplane, were co terday when the famous industrial- ist, on the occasion of his 63rd birthday, gave a suc 1 demon- stration of the tiny a t of hig 1 y demonstration, Ford off Is careful to point out, does not t he 1d 2 of th com- ny into = tion more = are the pro- s etill in the experimental s Designed by Otto Kappen, German engineer employed in Iord experimental labratories, le plane is powered by a thr r air cooled motor. The pilot | about midway of the wing, which is placed along the top of the tusilage. It has a wing spread of feet 5 feet long and weigl It is planned to replace the motor with a three-cylinder en- will bring the weight 0 pounc » and wing metal with fabric cover- motor turning over at 1,- iinute gives a top miles an hour lands at 30 miles an hou lling speed of a little n hour. who wi ation famous tt gine which lown to The tion is of ing. Th speed of 1 1essed yes- Fred-, German | 's demonst A rick Von Krupp, justrialist. Another event c brated on irthday was car number 14,0 chine came off the assembly v days ago. only little mor t Ford broke s with production_of car | That was June |} the t 00 It was than number 10 £, 1924 In s ,000 more htly less than ave 6 months 4 been added. CRINE CRUSADER NflW 13 ON J0B IN CANTON Joseph R. Roach Takes| Over Task as Aid to | Police Chief cars } Canton, OF R. Roach, tI n Terre Haute, Indiana, and gunmen to the penitentiary for mixing crime with politics, today be- gan his operations in Canton as ad- visory counsel to Acting Chief of | Police Earl W. Hexame | Those who see the darkest side of | the situation in Canton believe | Roach, a Chicago attorney, has a job similar importance before him here. “harges of political protection to commercialized vice and illicit traf- ficking in liquor and narcotics have been bandied about freely since Don | R. Mellett, publisher of the Canton | Daily N was shotdown at his garage door July 16. Mellett himself frequently made such charges editorially and person- ally he aided in putting some of | *hose involved behind bars. Mayor S. M. Swarts indicated his | intention to give Roach wide latitude in the murder and “its contributim® | io, July 31 (P—Joseph who sent 147! public officials | | his the | Roach prepared to begin today, investigators into 1urder mystery headed by Detective Ora Slater, awaited returns from their broadcast yesterday of picture: \and information concerning Patrick Eugene ¢ McDermott, “leveland, wanted for questioning in the ins quiry. # A mysterjous informer, affer tip- ping off the investigators to McDer- mott was a man with®knowledge of the plot to murder Mellett, Is held in jall near Canton for protection.$coik to date to the bos The informer fears for his life, de- claring that he had been offered a | role in the murder, refused it and had been threatened with death if he ever “squealed.” The Investiga- tors belleve that even though Me- Dermott may not have taken part in the shooting he can tell who did and who were the * gher-ups" seeking Mellett's removal. LEAPS TO HER DEATH ‘ Miami, Fla., July 31 (#—A young | unidentified woman h"sverl from the 19th floor of the Everglades hotel | here last night and was dashed to death on the pavement A lace] handke ief on hich was embroid- | ered the initials “B. R. G." only clue to her identity. i | alFletc med yes- | in the| construe- | | existed in the | the led, | rector while DOES 85 MILES TORTURES HIS ENEMY WITH WHIP AND FIRE mented, Also Slices Off Bits of Skin St. Paul, Minn., July |tured by fire, flayed and whipped by a man believed to be demented, ward Horrigan, 29, a city fireman, is in a serious condition at a pital today. Horrigan was rescued by police who found him bound to & |chair and handcuffed in |nouse. Walter a room H. Fletcher, ader 37, the was in W for investigation. | Fletcher said he had been wrong |ea by Horrigan and for some time had been secking revenge. Last nigl |he sent Kleinsmith for Horrigan and the fireman went with the youth tc room. cre Horrig and bound to smith stood by {beat Horrig Istrips of skin |followed with Burning matche skin of the victim. The fireman fainted vived by cold water poure y tcher. ter decided to call o H; ta er’ N W a chair. with a r s overpowered As Klein e Fletc cut t but wa d o | er tographer {photographe 1 | ADULTS IN THS CITY ;Ouls 39,720 of Residents | Have Attained Age of 21 Years of persons living w Britain who have majority is comy ires compiled in pulations ranging 'd 100,000 {in the city of attained tl atively low, fi 'Ilhs with pe ween 70,000 Long Bes o3 show. ds the ca Hamtr Detroit Sritair percent voting in citi 0,000 pop: | Itry with trail High percentage is attribu ion of ates. Detailed fignres for youths from Wichita, Kas. Peoria, IIL. Allentown, P: nuomm N 3. (Can!lnued on Page Three) '$16,000 SHORTAGE FOUND 1N FALL RIVER ACCOUNTS Mayor of City 3ut Declines to Name Embezzler. Mass »r Edmund D. Talbot rmed a report that funda sarly (his mayor ..m,nm-w the f %, Weignt of Froviaen a special study of th M con city at $16,000 year the total George o m make books. tiscrepancy, the mayor d in 1918 when t G amount increas- , until on April first 0 short. audit sh the total i then restoration had to bring the total defalca n to $16,000. The mayor declined to make lic the > of the employe although it was said unoff that he is now dead. Consider excitement w ated in the y when the mayor and city licitor > in conference with N. Waddell of accounts and It w vid was not complete unlikely that would be disclosed. were expected to report of their rd of alder been tion pub- we Theodore division of examiner, the audit was considered furt shortage The accountants make a detailed the state chief that men .on Mo |Five Men Buried When New Tunnel Caves In Denver, Colo., July 31 (P—Five hen t night were buried under 100 tons of loose rock in the west ern side of the Moffat railroad tun | nel being bored Whder James peak | through the Continental divide of the Rocky mountains west of here. Little hope was entertained for their recovery alive. A sixth victim extricated from the mass of k was not expected to live. The accident occurred two miles bers gave way, trapping the men. St. Paul Man, Believed Dc-i 31 (A—Tor- | Admits Deflacations | Di- it | any | DEATH ENDS LIFE Prominent Towa Republican Dies on Eve of Retirement WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPEY| His Demise Leaves Senator Norris of Nebraska in Line for Chair- man of the U. S, Senate Judiciary REPORTERS THINK MRS. HALL IS HOME atching Her Home Despite Report She Is at Shore Judge Allows Freedom on close Nature of New Evidence Committee. Des tor Moines, Albert a factor and party vesterday July 31 (B —| Cummins of Des | in Towa politics a leader in the since 1908, dled on eve of his lic life after 18 n late y , the veteran whe' had reached his 76th iled to rally and suffered < noon. 1 sven Years Senator Cumrfiins had been alth intermitten for rs but pec: @dly as it generally was believed he had fu recovered from past {ll- His first serious sickness came midst of his campaign for ection in 192 when friends d him to wi v because of 1ysical He refused, a d s in I ves con to wce 1908 Writing Autobiography Only hours bef fatal work on had ing € announc his final mber of s o m cong would expired nd he then would hav political carcer as he was ated | by W. Brookhart the nomination in ne primary. S tor Cummins won rec- ion in Towa po as a lead- er of the “progressive element but in later he was W and sometimes criticized for his impor- tant part in obtaining such nationzl 5 the and . His tgrm xt March, | o en Smith first s act of 1920, in in 1916, Mr. ed a i he once ref ial nomination. liciary Chairman cent session of co nan of tl linquishing ation and ins approac ation and on tion the § ¥ vision over a wide proposals. wator Norris of his o e consoli head of ad sup rmanship miil will Hon. Johr a successor, e exp rch. ma pest int d nam until xt M lative dee who ion of 1 I mmins’ Senator est had long problems and Influenc His influc Tarift tariff on on jesue aching, as he viewed it sponsored the “JTow 1 politics his party. theor accu b Avat by th ould the differenge dutsion £t homie an A dramatic touch w ator Cumming’ final words to an Towa audien ¥hen forced duties in Washington to himself with only one mpaign speech. He thousands of voters of the radlo through a remote | hookup. Pioneer Insurgent Elected to the senate in lea” in it adopted based upon tariff e sk re Tt that the meas- cost itely bro & given Sen ., by his content primary dressed by control st ied on Page Two) []RTEGA WEEPS DURING | CLOSING OF OFFICES Mexican Attorney General Affected by Drastic Orders | | Mexico City, July ney Geperal Ortega was deeply moved and openly wept during the closing of the bitices of thq arch- Phishopric at- the cathedral here. ator Or persor tended the of the under 31 (P—Attor- nd Episcopat s orde supervised which was done Simultane the were ously throughout government ager preparing to close all| offices and structures ex- ctual places of worship, giving | vernment control over all| storehouses of church vaduables. | Archbishop Mora Del Rio was not | nt personally when the arch-| bishopric offices were sealed. Rishop | Maximo Ruiz y Florez, the arch- bishop's secretary, was in charge| when Senor Ortega and his staff ar- rived. Monsignor Ruiz formally pro- | tested. Senot Orlega, however al-| ough showing great emotion pro- ceeded firmly in executing his own order. Aftérwards the attorney gen- eral 2 Monsignor Ruiz if he had anything further to say. T could say many thing: re- [plied the prelate, “but it would be| | useless. Under the circumstances, | public ts or atholic cept | the | pre | was the | in the tunnel when the roofing tim- | What could be accomplished by any/| | words of ours? | rests | cutor adde !to be | procured Linking Her With Murder. Somerville, N. Mrs. Edward W $15,000 bail dering he nor Mills, as far One idow X, heeler July 31 ) — Hall, free in on charge of mur- husband M ad vanished ear public is concer: was that the we to New York lat slipping out o ho Her on his return road station that she rain for New York. repo: that J. to re- hour sojourn ron in cys and planne resort. Trunks Taken ken from Brunsw report went 2 ack door o ort hau from had | noth to went ore the the om station station, who knows ion. into hom Hall, pass through Reporter lows of M. Mrs, sai seen her the win- Bail H Moderate sterday Mr: ind assured, county jai Court ning his Point ome into a court, ruled k she w rrested W nt mass of n to liberty ter Asked here tice a Gumr Pleasant sumn on bail Te was entitled 1 d is larceny aimed th Holds Evldence torney gestion n had nof of her sald he Ny evidence did not want to cit il or take the re consenting it was not to er op- for to 1tomobil ograph low Brunsw S0Wn ed ome ed a lawn her ion on on her wa jall door. A policems rowds around reporters y to her e rnor Mo new inv -old mu ppointed to son se for Will Present Evidence Prosecutor Bergen said last the eviden inst Mr be laid before the new jury which will be sworn third Tuesday In September. The Inves brought no shabbily dressed young by Captain Lamb of tI lice to be “unimportant w were brought from New wick and questioned. The pros | tor announced more ¢ e contemplated at present “Some fairly important evidence was gather today,” the prose- but there is ing said about i William Phillips material witness, 1z the $5,000 he was held. Hall h will in the ng ounceme you men, said noth ed as a had not ich from Ken- An m purporting to com th G. Ormi former mple radio operator and anr ing that he has forwarde a sworn tatement explaining reports that he ted for 10 days at Carmel-by-the- , accompapied by a woman, was ved hére today from Chicago. Minnie Kennedy, mother of emple McPherson announce Mrs. Aimee HIGH TIDES Aug. 1 (Standard Time) New Haven 5.02 am. 5.36 p.m. | New London 3.06 a.m 3.40 p.m. | * I | | THE WEATH Hartford, July 31—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy tonight. Sunday prob- ably generally fair with not | much change in temperature *. * BONDS FIXED AT $15,000 Ball | When Prosecutor Does Not Dis- | | | baseball game at Christopher Tues- 1 EPISCOPALCHURCH DISTURBANCES MARK MOKS CTHOES ™y np ' BN O Unges Protestants to Pray lor| Persecuted in Mexico SEES WAR ON CHRISTIANITY | = | CAUSES UEATH OF MAN MEXICAN MUDDLE TEpitome of Me: Elm (‘it} Residcm. Dies Before Operation, From Pneumonia Catholic Archbishop of Samin;;n Sends Message of ruml—\lmmm Archbishop Assaulted By Crazed | Woman In Church. | n religious tur- P) — This ng Ch catfon of the Episcop: plea for all tates to pray New York, Jul the arch, | enforcing the reaffirmed a ro- o 3 lations ion provic n in Mexico. ; ship of property ls rch property reverts to the instruction in schools, nd monasteries is forbid- It is {llegal for clergy or religious | perfodicals to criticize the ment. govern- vistlan ¢ Here Are Effects Mexican episcopate ordered as a protest disconti: nce of all serv- in which 25,000 priests func- beginning toda Some 10,000,000 Catholles will be nable to hear mass or receive pen- communion except Dapti which be given by lay: of Faith 31 ices P11 s rating 0O'B; was Hlont room ) told Dr. ired tee Ru he forget to rer tio in Mexico Ci against the - s thr food. told of the ed to have lay some 12,000 but the gov conduct ship, ent ordered that committees named Ecclesiastical es, So he we property, was closed un- Feonomie boycott has been or- dered by organized Cathollc lay- ses will be limited to CATHOLICS MAY OFFER PRAYERS FOR MEXICO. Be e Troops alled out at various places to m n order, Government's Attitude Church and state must be separ- . 4 and Action Expected to Taken by Local Churches Priest Attacked 31 (P—WI ildren les regards it as “a July between “light ty Attitnde tening relig- reh denfes it d in politics. hority in Rome says Po es not desire to Impose an al interdict In Mexico unless it ahsolutely necessary. The Pontiff sted the Church’s Persecution ious fre eddle t church i world to pray tomorrow for n co-religionists. reh, national organ an churchman asks all Protestants in the United States to pray with Catholies for “the per- ed ch fn Mexico. RBishop George Miller, ishop of the Methodist ireh in Mexico, says there is no religious persecutfon in that coun- ! Mexico was forced to use dra “the Rom; Cath Texico have refused law of the land ntly meddled in L W resident Episcopal | o you, hypoc 0BJ ECT Jui TIMERS Efficiency Experts With Stopwatches tic means becaus olic priests in to comply with the 1 have persiste politics.” ROUNDS OUT 100 YEARS Staten Island Man Has Four Chil- Irritate Men and Leominster Mill- hands Strike. Takes Over Property Mexican goverr © of the property Le ploy ominster, Mass., day y ob- dren, Ten Grandchildren, And 12 stand- es in Great-grandchildren. New Achilles, Islar TS, York, July 31 (® of West Brighton, S has rounded out an even 100 four children, ten d twelve great- enjoys a good t out, but president aim was vernme acqu children, hildr pipe full [younger m More |a birty |vesterday. |became a citi ry more th h to own prope | red a urch | 1,000 friends attended tion in his honor me from Germany in 1850, cast b first vote for Buch and voted wice for Lincoln, hobbles are automobile rides and the movies. He was a founder of the North Shore ‘[\ eteran Firemen's assoclat ‘L\l’u nd roperty confiscated overnment ownership. nstitution of 1 ation that all chur ctory, t said th ut 1 nds and 1 M until with stop- aid the work to the e men admigted, nor do the t, the ! claim to title’to chure hough at various times d past six years much C property been nment, no efforts until today for rally to enforce the on this poin The government's conte that it loans to worshippers c buildings, grounds, properties, the title vears been vested in the government cither the government nor cl adquarters here wpproaching exact knowle value of Catholie proper out the republic. In con: ten years' revolution a reconstruction per been no complete ch belongings taken. Or | son why the government der inventory from every Catholic when they J§§ve their churc! iday is said to be the hope tr [ will obtain a satisfactory est |of the value of church property Mexico. \ v AGED PARENTS SUE CHILDREN IN EFFORT TO GAIN SUPPORT Mr. and Mrs. Winters 11‘01t\ -One Lnder Aueqt In Virginia Dope Raids Norfolk, Va July 31 (A—The and most extensive series of raids pd had person: today one of the raiding had some diver been | tion s, Jewels and othe to which for has constitution Bring Action Ida Stedman, Winters, Peter dhes Against vreh o | largest Dossess James ige s t any narcotic Norfolk jail ever conduc placed 41 after in in Winters, s had Vir and caused so much cor the 1 five persons at basebail arrestec fa league park Win pport rs have game in had to, be halted. The garded thorlties, for whom each on One hundred suspicion, called as \ T e |New Lava Flow Starts Down Mount Vesuvius Naples, Italy, July 31 P—Two Inew currents of lava have been started down the southeastern flank of Mourt Vesvius by the present eruption, which has continugd for a week. Tourists, reassured by vo- canologists' statements that there is no danger, are flock’ g to the scene to witness the spectacle. nds an | DProgress i priest| Prough s ainst s 1o- it heir children, Ida Stedm: Wint his n, James | Mr. 41 defendants, s old offende many re- by the au- t Winters and Peter rs, ir. s Winters is 78 74 dlaim wife be in bail was set charges of others, at $10,000 fllegal sale. arrested of they ome poor and | estimated that Catholic several It is unofficially jewels in Mexican hurches alone . are worth mselve ing forced to depend on charit i tnesses. y have asked for support from “Hv«" children and allege that this has | been refused. They by (Continued on Page Nine) by Baseball Illinois Woman Dies Duquoin, 111, July 31 A — | Marioff Winkham, 21, of Christo-| | pher, TIL, dled ip a hospital here | yesterday as a result of being hit {on the head by a pitched ball in a k for adequate intenance of Hit | ma the payment to them of a certain h week. G which is returnable in the sum eac Joseph Woods f{ssued the writ, superior court the first Taesday of Septem- Winkle in local banks and ber. Constable Fred has attached money day. also real estate of the defendants. [/ by | a lof in¢luded -seven druggists, | were released, but may be | [ ' Shooting | | | or other sacra- imillion or more C: m and matrl- jout Mexico today were without bene~ they be taken | |ot the church must eschew | pe |crowds which hag-cla ithful through- |t | | |among |various sections of the capital, |ag |regulations. FIRST DAY OF THOLIC CHURCH; 10,000,000 WORSHIPPERS AFFECTED Affrays Be- tween Police and Crowds Occur—Fire Hose Turned on Mal- contents to Disperse Them — 10 Persons Wounded Attorney General Stoned By Angry Mob—Papal Envoy Ordered Out of Country — Feeling Run- ning High. Mexico City, va') 31 (A — Ten tholies through- 16t of clergy. The putting Into effect of the gov- ernment's new religious regulations was ineugurated with the stoning of officlals, shooting affrays between police and crowds about churches by the land the turning of fire hose on mal- |contents to |offict disperse them as the s began last night their work aking control of treasures and other property inside the annexes of Catholic churches in the capital. A total of ten persons were wounded in a half dozen disorders. Attorney General Stoned Attorney General Ortega was among the officials stoned as they were closing the annexes of St Catherine’s church, once reputed the wealthiest churches of but which has lost the bulk s wealth. The disturbances Mexico, took in re- sulting in the calling out of the po- lice and firemen to disperse the hed with the guarding churehes, Boycott Effective The priests had becn ordered by he episcopate to withdraw from churches today as a protest inst the government's religious Simultaneous with place police the | 15 | | | | | | | | |enforce the ith regard to religion, which have {strategic points. {ordered to maintain |ernment before the much as a | | City {is an American citizen. their departure there went into ef- |lect the economic bovcott of the Na- tional League for Defense ligious liberty, in which are requested to cease spending money on anything except on ab- ‘»(\lulx’: neceseities, the object being to bring about an economic crisls which will influence the government to modify its religious attitude. The government has not given the slightest indlcation that it intends to do otherwise than to make the new law operative. Officials and agents reiterated today that it was the intention of President Calles and the government officlals strictly to constitutional clauses of Re- Catholics ually been a dead letter for years. Troops At Strategic Points With a view to preventing or put- ting down any disturbances, the gov- ernment has dispatched troops to They have been a state of con- stant readiness for any eventuality One of the last acts of the gov- new law went into effect was to order the expul- sion from the country of Minsignor Tito Crespi, who has been in charge of the apostolic legation in Mexico since th expulsion of Monsig- the papal nuncio, who Morsignor Crespl was told to leave Mexico within 24 hours, but through the intervention of the Italian legation, the time was extended to 48 hours. Will Leave Tonight The prelate, however, will not take adv ge of this extension, and will leave tonight for Linden, N. J., to visit relatives prior to proceeding to |Rome. The government considered his presence in Mexico “inconven- lr\nt," He denies that he has taken any part in the present religious confliet, sa he had been abso- Jy neutral in all Mexican reli- glous affairs. Monsignor C nor Caruana, spi is the fourth papal three representative in th years to be required b ment ve Mexico. past the gover pal | Nuncio Filippl was exyelled in 1922, e and during the same year hi cessor, Monsignor Clmino, was 1 by the Vatican at the Mexican sue- ra- | government's request. | fusion that | | { Monsignor Crespi became «harg d’affaires at the papal legation when Monsignor Caruana deported this year. The authorities sa disturbance, the trou was more to overwrought nerves anything else. They. expressey be- lief that the situation will pass | without serious trouble, but never- theless they have taken every mill- tary and police precaution. Chiet of Police Cruce has instructed his men to take vigorous action against persons attempting to disturb publie order. The department of war says it is prepared promptly and effec- tively to suppress “once for all time" any efforts at disturbance anywhere in the Republic. One Woman Wounded The wounded in the fighting last night include one woman, two .men, who are suffering from bullet was hat i every due han (Continued on Page 11)