New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 13,1 13 Aug.21st ... PRICE THREE CENTS P e e A Dr. Eliot and Sheik Compared, as Far as Public Is Concerned New York, Aug. 25 (P—Ru- dolph « Valentino is recelving more newspaper space than Dr. Eliot. nancial returns from their works also offer a basis of comparison or popular ap- peal, in 18 years sales of Dr. Eliot's five foot shelf of books have totalled $20,827,188. Pre- sumably much more t has been paid at box offices by Valentino fans. -In 10 years he earned $2,500,000, represent- ing salary and part of the profits of produce Some 128,0¢ 000 people viewed one picture alone. BODY WILL LIE IN | STATE THROUGH SUN. | | THREE MOTORISTS HILLED WHEN CAR RUNS OFF BRIDGE| | Machine Drops Fifty Fest Onto| Railroad Tracks at White } River Junction, Vt. FOUR MEET DEATH IN CRASH NEAR BRIDGEPORT Another Is At Point of Death and Two Others in Critical Condition Following Collision of Auto and Tree Which Occurred in Fog in alentino’s Manager Ex- tends Time Public May View Remains Town of Nichols Last Night. River Junction, Vt. Aug. hree persons were killed | d a fourth seriously injured early today when an automobile plunged | through a bridse and fell fifty feet | to the Central Vermont railroad ks in Hartland, near here. All were believed to have come from Springfield, Mass. One of the dead was identified as | Thomas G. Mason, sales manager of the Pease Company, Inc. His ad- | dress was giv s 79 North Main | t, Springfield, Mass. Anothe vietim was Miss Bertha Lucia, Terrace s also of Springfield. The third person killed was a youn woman about 20 years old. The ole to ident her. believed to the the dead man, was taken T H., New York, ng inte hich ands have shown | Valentino led his man. | Ullman, to extend to. whis uncoun 1s: in Rudol lay t tor's time body ght Sunday policemen were v endless line g them at in will he seemir mourners, and h of §0 per 1 he gold room of t | where the body rej no disorder. Tentative plans set for Monday | Following the proceed n e et, for the were announced a , Wh h will Broadway from funeral parlors at G6th street, automobiles will form a cortege ing ~ theatric people and iends of the s star. The pro- | cession discovered the car and | White River Junction po« o removed the bodies and wrecked automobile from the tracks juct before the arrival of a passenger train. Heavy fog that obscured the road y morning was be- ad a share in caus wreck. The automobil operated and apparentl Thomas Mason, appea at 35 or 40 road from bl brother o to the hospital in Hanov unconscious. Passerby Discovers Tragedy y: vident was believed to haye at about 3:30 a, m. the N 1 en go to ch at West 49th st | high requiem mass will at 11 a. m | Great numbers of flowers arrived [at the funeral parlors. Tt boi | the names of » actor’s friend among whom were Mr. and Mr: Irving Berlin, Morris Gest, theatrical | producer; Lola Pie: for part | ner of Valentino in his early dan ! Samuel Goldwyn, moy Marilyn Miller and and f A the d to ¥ z the owned, driven by to have been travelling les an hour on the to White river. Bighteen m White river the road ! he left just be- cs the bridge over th d tracks. Apparently seeing turn too late, the driver of the his ma o that it ough t the middle picture m Joseph M. Norma Ta Bearing a es f x. Wi i swerve re it n armful of gladiolas, a an, Is “lough, who nired V ushered 16 sited her offer- tino, | bier ing. LIEUT, BETTIS FOUND WITH WRECKED PLANE "‘I*‘lier, Lost Since Monday, Suffers Broken Leg in Fall irned e Nea dan Iy Hit By Train plunged down, engine sheer drop of abont 50 truck driver reached the a short time after the believe. prevented striking scene only lent, th his timely passenger tr wrecked m The tion of three r by ef arrival in fr n blished identifica- | four persons in | found on their ion of the second | ot be made, how- cver, until Harry Mason regained conscious: s or unti information as received from Springfield, they of th police rl killed could (P— army lefonte, Pa., nant Cyrus ace, missing e Monday, s broug: to the enter County hospital here today with a broken | leg. Whether the ()— | other serious injury rned until after amination is made.® Beca condition, Lieutenant Bettis w permitted to talk when brou, A réport from Lewiston said the army flier was found on the north side of Jack mountain, five mil | from that town. A plane was seen Ito fall by a farmer's wife and a made of the south side mountain yesterday without Late; ording to a re- |port from Lewiston, two young | farmers found the wrecked plane Four Conn. Men Dead |on then orth side on a flat arca of Bridgep: Conn., Aug. (A— [ ground Four men are dead, another is at| pjeytenant Bettis with two other the point of death and two othel left th ntennt are in a critical condition as the re-|grounds in Philadelphia on Monday sult of a head-on collision in 'Nichols | for Seifridge fleld in Michigan to ht of a closed automobile | prepare for the air races in Phila- {delphia next month. The other bY | fliers” were Lieutenants John J. Wil- na|jigmg and Luther S. Smith. They dense fog, between 10 and 10:15 jgonp09 at Middletown, Pa., near o'clock he failed to make a short | g, righurg, and later took turn at the foot of the hill 1eading | cjoveland. Near Lewlston the avia- nto Nichols center, Three of the four men in the rear |, ¢ernoon and that was the last seen seat of the machine were almost in- | ¢ Tjeutenant Betis until he was stantly killed and the fourth died |¢iv 4" The other army officers within an hour. reached Selfridge fleld safely, The dead are Pursult planes were sent out yes- Paul Mentari, John Narko® Tony |4srday from Sel-ridge fleld and from 10 Leonard Mainiere. injured are: George Babey, 18, Aug. K. Bettis si said | aviator suffered any could not be rough ex of his not Identified In Springficld Springfield, Mass., Aug. omas Mason, killed in an auto- ck at Hartland, Vt.,, and Harry, injured in the same accident, came to this city| from Albany Y., several months | ago. Thomas was sales manager of | T mobile w his brother . B. C. Oll Burner company. i The police here are seeking to rn something of the women w !10\\_‘ with the Masons. i 1y sesqui-c last with a 5 The automobile was driven Willlam Fekar, 19, of this city. (Continued on Page 15.) oft for | |tors ran into a thick fog Monday ! IS YET UNSOLVED Stomach Filled With Drugs STUDENT DENIES MURDER - — “LOVE PILL’ DEATH | \ | Ratopsy Shows Dead Girl's Stamford Republican Committee Members Are Brought into Court Ten of Them Accused of Contempt Following Political Advertisement Criticizing Administration of Cases —Friction Outgrowth of Judgeship Contest. the coming primarfes, n town comn e were ¢ Says He Simply Gave Girl Medicines | Ju to Cheer Her Up and Revive Her | show cause why —Refuses However, to What Drugs He Did Prescribe. Cleveland, Aug. Disclose (P) — The | derog: | ecuting Attorn y should not be tempt of . court. d the pub wspaper yesterday of t alleged to be Stamford city arged with co t action follo in the local paid several on the ved much | mania of her youthful sweetheart | for administering medicines is se by authorities as the only plau: reason for the death Sunday of pret- ty Dorothy Kirk, 21 year old stenographer, who it is believed died as result of overdoses of potions given her by Emil. Balanescu, 21, her suitor. This theory has gained weight as the questioning of the youth has delved further into the nge re tions of the pal examina- tion of the girls oner A. P. Hammond ist Har Stomach Full of Drugs Balanescu accordihig to police, admitted prescribing medic he girl, but is adamant fusal to disclose what they numerous were the pills and othe medicines taken by the girl that hemists working under Dr. Knapp ve pronounced the girl's stomach veritable store house of drug It might prove impossible fo iso- late the med n the gir or to one d seen elarned no poi- 1 n his re- were. So a So sons wer might b death to meration of me Examination of the gir failing, authorities have bee to ch for further information concerning her strange illness by questioning the youth. No Murderous Intent Between sobs he has told of his to help the girl, who he says he loted. He had no intentions, he says, according to police, of = Miss Kirk ill, much less of causing T death. of tt said, r up Others to rey peared pa But t of th The madic giv cessary to att iscrimin conglo- es, it wa: d. s stomach an desire aking medicines, to cheer Some preseribed and wan. has given ng ac redic adi 1 knowledge of youth was gained in Paris, where he lived with his parents until a fe g0, in drug stor in Am d been employed, schools hei He has admitted, according to police, having given the girl medicines which, although not poisonous of themselve would produce il taken in large quantities. Some of those isolated in the girl's stomach seldom taken un y @ physician. expect to detain him until lysis of the chemicals found girl's vital organs and in ‘the boy's home is completed Isadore Moidel, Warren, Ohio, torney retained yesterday to rer the boy, said last night that W othing criminal in t that he would de- of Balanescu to- nistere years 4 e n which he and in medical Jess if there girl's d mand the day. DROWNED IN HIS AUTO it in. | Baltftmore Man Loses Life But Com- panion FEscapes When Machine Plunges Into Harbor. 2 ird the Aug. (P —Rict 30, was drowned at s automobile when d into the harbor at the foot of Fell et early today. His companion, William H. Rea, 28, freed himself from the machine and mbered ashore. He was placed under arrest after being treated for minor injuries at a hospital., Police declare’. that shortly before the plunge one of the occupants of the car shot at two policemen who cried. to them: “Turn on your lighta” Rea, however, denied the shooting charge. Baltimor C. McClear wheel of car plu JURY IS DISCHARC Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 2 jury in the case of W. K John Ramseycha, charged with slaying H. Roan, an Osage In dian, was discharged this mornir by Federal Judge John H. Cottera. after reporting it could not agree |on a verdic case went to the | jury 1ast Fri ternoon. | (P—The . Hale and the hospital authorities to be Alechnowitz, 17, and r, 19, the latter two suffering from fractured skulls. Cor- oner John J. Phelan will go to Nichols this afternoon to view the scene and will open an inquest to- morrow. 2 Few de’ails of the accident were All the victims were dress- | | | learned, ed in working clothes and none car- ried identification. The group hired the machine early last night from a local automobile renting company. The crash demolished the machine and the sound of fmpact was heard Dby a constable a half mile away. The men were extricated from the wreck- after a half hour's work and Flames Flare Up on Main‘ St., Near Church, Fur-| nishing Thrill to Spec-| tators. Guiter at éfis Station rAblaze As Match Hits Oil Drippings hot to allow to venture too cloge. The blaze was caused when some- one threw a lighted match in the gutter in front of the Center church, where several bus lines have their stations. The accumulation of ofl, mixed with gasoline from leaking tanks, proved to be food for the anyone was sig Committe inst Judge Samu been on the ber —Frank 3 Mernsteir to deny any knowl- ertisement until they paper. No disposi of their cases seven were to app You afternoo Only Mernst vere ted morr ey tion was ma other Jude before his k of ich, represe with co and Moore counsel this mbers of publican regular re for prose by so b comr ich is opposing cans in the com- faction which for the warrants members of the were made out atitions ht the into cou Mr. Spel ncoln” o was ment in which ‘showed some of reco court,” which is an issue REJECT PRIVATE LOAN FOR AR MEMORIAL at Meeting, Against Prin- 1 of Idea CHIEF LANDRIGAN OF WERIEN POLIGE DS Ball Game Between Silver City and New Britain Postponed Committee, Declare: Jam: the M died this m ospital, wher o prostrate Meriden nids departme Hartford undergone 1 ions in the ks, the He lay, He morning Monday. ster it of 1 during th gain about § o'clock th ath came about Landrigan attended the st convention about d complained on He orn in Gr nd to Meriden 0. W in ¥ advanced to ch his home fered improv 1 e work 1d ¢ 10 W came H Mass Mis He hree e . and anyway robably chairm John 2 m, prom -servic associa- Landri- between non-ir a member of ment to be made appropriates fur The exis responsible of such a plan at ering. The fun, man necessits ancg of gan's de riden an here Ain police this a £ William 1 police department learn of the N I have known Chiet twenty years or more {found him a sterling, est man d 1" Chie |very much his untime my personal sympathy and thy of the entire departni out to his family. The cit den has lost a capable off the Landrigan family has severe loss. I feel of my best friend; was grieved to den chief's death Landrigan for nd upright committe be provid Dyson his yea today 1air- ways said hon- a JUMP T0 SAFETY Woonsocket city Hart Women Barely FEscape Death As Train Hits Auto On Grade Crossing. Woons: Miss Yolande mother, Mrs, certain dea when they leaped mobile, stalled on crossing of the New Hav an in: befor to bits by the Worcs ' Except for r suffered from The car disabled the switching m et, R. I Pr Adeline by h ir from Torrington Man Loses His Life This Morning When Caught Un- der Sand Bank Cave-In. on, Conn., Aug gistrali, this, cave-in of a sand south end of the M: ether with ano! laborer, was in a trench when a cav buried him up to his and other worker get a shovel to extrica but # when he returned that a second cave-in ha land M body pletely sand Police responded to emergency calls and together with volunteers worked frantically to liberate the entombed man. The rescue squad dug to a depth of three f fore it came upon the body, still in a standing position. | Magistrali was dead when taken | from the trench. l To | Joseph aliv morr i bank city. e cross ck to the car trying' to start tender Patrick McGov flag the train but w trali found curred com- zistrali's ered with d firemen CHICOF TAX RATE UP | Chicopee, Mass., Aug. [t} I sessors today ar nced a tax ate increase of fifty tt current vear, placing the even $30. T an in w * THF WEATHER | il A3 I Heavy Cannonading Still Heard Near Greek Border Sofia, Hungary, Aug. |Heavy canonading which begar Hartford, Aug. 25.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday; not much change [ \ | when the gates were partly lowered. | PAY DEMANDS ARE 0 BE ARBITRATED Agreement Signed by Conduc-| fors, Brakemen and Switchmen | FIRST CASE T0 COME UP Provisions Made Today Affect Those o COUNT OF AUTO THEF North of the Ohio River — Others TW0 SUICIDES OVER NIGHT: MAN HANGS SELF T0 AUTO, GAS IS FATAL T0 ANOTHER DANIELS MUST ANSWER Quarrel With Sweet- T heart Thought Motive e For Self Destruction’ _|“Flash” to Be Turned Over 0 f Carl Anderson, To Raleigh, N. C, | Buell Street Police { ke .. Albert Heinze, Church St., in Il Health, Goes to His Glass Blowing Shop to Take Own Life. | | | | Railroads Fast of Are Pending, on omobile or, taleight, North by W is alleged i today at fon. It is not arge of a A blasted Wate love affair 15 said by on, medical exe e driven Carl Ander- treet to suiclde by the garage in the last evening, and m which Al- Church street ed for 20 years is said by Dr. to have prompted his sucide aling illumin cas in his s blowing facto; 50 Dwight eet this morning, he suicdes curred w en hodrs of each other, & to Dr. Lyon's cal- in motion. The Anderson’s body was sick moves, man- | found ahout 7:30 last night, and the iscovery of Hein rash act was from | made about 7 o'clock this morning, ad | Dr. Lyon believes, after an examina. tlon of Heinze's remains that death occurred about six hours before the body was found. in o swir r it n a charge fluence 1 charge ided later. When | court yesterday 1 tomor- Estranged From Sweetheart Members of Anderson's told Dr. Lyon, he states, that the young man had been keeping com- Pany with a young woman for the ! few years, and recently they ecame estranged and Andenson ap- peared to be brooding over the afe fair. About four weeks ago he be- ) {reatments for a nervous con- thought to have been in- by the development in his air. i family ;i Daniels le g ew Britain it was understood by es that he was head- his home being below th and Dixon line. It is befieved is wan theft of a roadster belongi T. L. Holdint, a resident of a suburb of Ralei 1t Meriden po- he will be ern city as soon his transporta- some time ago, an i his acqu ed sout Masc a native o tice 25 (P—Jiddu al Hindu the- claimed by his followers to e world medium for the “Voice Godhead,” d in America lay confiden would re- in the ris a new civilization country. ring ¥ man would of suit such as any 1 New ed, was Besant, young wear, the ORALK CLERKS ARE - LD ON THEFT CONT t on of his the pier, and he was mship Ma iens while immigra- their | the o ste; i | tion authorities went throu question 1 to give his views of d Cha ston, sual routine ion i Taxing Commis Em- ployes Short in Their Accounts 1 based appine rti declir about the o is br rred inquiries to phlet which 1 d to person- | mes- | but | pam- | in the He is of | and ou s than 100 | small st 3s. He wore = His rushed sleek missfon's ofi nd it was u either raigne eted. rling is said shoes. oing audit oon T g win | forena w. of oclety, were the newspapermen to h ion ! ating to bar round urti ar I deny every ared up in t than a year ag of “It is all untrue it of it. All this was Madrid court more is is the work 1 people.” nitted to | “New 1st week he | Word once during admitted | explained that he offered to make |occidental rather r to the |tume because h Paul | fnsane.” Mrs. Besant remained sis side I the interview. Hie e was re- | Dann, | Messiah™* used a slang | the interview. He | preferred to wear than native cos- “might be dubbed by the other | bail of | is said taking funds but restitution and turned counsel for the com R. Connery, a number of artic Dann’s mother, who is a widow, —_ offered a deed of her house as a Carpender, Stevens Plea hond anc s understpod she of- ve 2 o bond and 1t 18 underetood it tnat | Will Be Argued Tomorrow Morristown, N. J., P not only to have ov to years. He was well about 7 o'clock, when he went to the i1 hour later, his brother, Thure An- | confrouted by the horrifying sight of about the radiator cap of the auto- |called by his son, Thomas Cabelus, Licutenant Samuel Bamforth, who ound Anderson beyond human aid, ght in the | D°fOTe leaving the house to go to n excitementi —~ Heinze Inhales Through Tube floor. His brother, Oscar Heinze, back from his dark they carried the body into o| Officers James M 1 to a call 8 o'clock. General a Water Lyon the factory in the opinlon of Dr. | of age, had been in poor health but n, |he left his home, and about 1 of Sweden, 21, 1898, had lived n s ¢ kn and his death came ompled Jas ck not only to his family but F bis many acquaintan He was NEW MESSIAH GIVES *bout the house last evening until wrage, saying he had work to do his car. His family did not no- anything unusur! about his de. meanor, and when, about half an Interviewed on Arrival— |derson, came to call and asked for : : him, he vas directed to the garage. Says Happiness Is Only Brother Finds Dead Body . 3 g8 ntering the gara e, T v in Spiritual o hainiiying SeaTlE e his brother's lifeless body on the floor, one end of a piece of old underclothing tied tightly about his nec, and the other end fastened mobile a few feet away, Life was extinet. About T:45 o'clock, Policeman Peter Cabelus, who lives nearby, was and on responding, was told by Henry Juengst, a neighbor of Ane derson, that the body had been found. Officer Cabelus notified I | detailed Officers Thomas J. Feeney ind Alfred Tanguay to investigate. Lyon was also notified. Dp, Nathan B. Jaffe answered a call but According to Anderson’s family, he had left the employ of the G. B. Prentice Mfg. Co., where he was In the office, on Monday, and shortly be found only [(1° Sarage last evening he talked AR \\\vrh!io" the telephone relative to resum- | ing his position. s 1 About 7 o'clock this morning, Heinze's body was found in the R. F. Heinze Co s blowing factory, with a gas tube beside him on the who was associated with him in the factory, made the discovery on ar- Was | Tival for the day's work. He sume moned employes of Carlson & Tor- “"wkf‘rfr;‘ “)':‘“‘“' the yard, hoping to effect resuscita- ho . American | 107, but rigor mortis had set in and only | it Was apparent that life was extinet. 3 be and C Job respon: at o'clock and Detective Sar- geant W. P. McCue was at the face tor 8 T New Britain hospital ular was also there. Dr. said Hei evidently had placed the gas tube in his mouth soon fter midnight. The odor of gas in nd from the body was strong and is no question that suicide was committed Ice Cream Come Last Food Heinze, who was about 4§ vears had refused to adopt the usual | means of overcoming his diabetic | condition, according acquain- | tances. Last evening about 7 o'clock o'clock he bought an ice cream cone’ in a store on Dwight street. So far as could be learncd today he was not seen alive Iater, and it s house in temperature iy deficit which might be agains ¥ : e ‘ preme Court Justice Parker to- |flames and the result was a merry | PR , a be satisfied. brought to this ing bus. Three of the men were eblieved to have been killed almost instantly and the fourth died upon arrival at the hospital, Partial identiication of the vie- tims was made by Louis Pekar, 17, brother of the operator of the car who knew the companions of his brother by nickname only, but fur- the | A rare phenomenon greeted eyes of Main streeters early this afternoon when section of the thoroughfare suddenly burst into flame and continued to blaze merri- | ly for some time. A large crmni} gathered at the corner of Church a nished information :~bout them which established their identity, ahd Main streets to watch the con- | flagration, although the fire was t0o | |little blaze. Fortunately there were no bus: at the station when the fire started. Had there been, doubtless one or more would have gone up in smoke. The dangerous condition has been disposed of for the time being and it is probable that when the road becomes covered again some other citizen will cast a lighted match into the gutter. ; | Greco-Bulgarian 4 * | |terday about two p. the | untis frontier near village of Aivatovo, continued 7:30 o'clock last night. All communications across the Bulgarian borders have been inter- | rupted for several days and little in- | formation has filtered across with| reference to reports that the garri-| son at Saloniki had been attacked and that a civil war had broken out, ‘ HIGR TIDE: | ' Aug. 26 (Standard Time) New Haven a.m. 12,55 p.m. ‘ New Loudon 11.20 a.m. 11.45 p.m. * | | | * foiih s e SR son might | 0 1 Dann who is 27 #nd recelved a|day said he would be at Somerville lary of $26 a week, s said by|tomorrow to hear the application iends to have 26 suits of clothes|for admission to ball of Henry and also to have been engaged to a|Carpender and Willie Stevens, held Norwalk young woman to whom he|for the murder of the'Rev. Edward had made many very fne presents,(W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills cluding rings and a plano. At-|Justice Parker returned home torney Connery is sald to be gath-|from Northeast Harbor, Me., where he was vacationing, at request of (Continued on Page 15.), defense counsel. thought he roturned to the factory and inhaled the gas, which is used in the blowing of glass. : The attention of the police was attracted to the flattened condition ot Helnze's nose, and Dr, Lyon ex- plained that this was probably the result of his death struggle as the gas slowly overcame' him. (Continued On Page 13) P