New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NTYY ‘uuo)) ‘piojiIeH “ydaq ‘JAPY ‘ATeaqy] 9)¥)S IRI1IIUUO) ¥V BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 13’469 ESTABLISHED 1870 it NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Sept. 18th —ee } PRICE THREE CENTS CLAIM TOTALLING TWO AND HALF MILLIONS PAID DAY BEFORE DEMAND WAS MADE | Daugherty-Miller De- To Show That Con- tested German Pay-| ment Did Not Break Speed Record. Witness Testifies Palmer Rushed Through One Even More Rapidly and Buckner’s Own Partner Got Hours. Payment in (P—Striki > Daugherty- 1 today offered the Soci Miller consp proof that th Edna Earl n prop am I , coun- who is tedian's sel for man gov > it at it was paid I Attorney General A. Mitchell the day b This, ain b on of not made in the claim regi Exploring deeper into the ment’s alleged “speed record showed through 1 ; u Root, Jr., Federal Attorney govern- ' Rand that got payment 100 for Baroness Lil- nberg, wife of the day 1 was im for $105 lian Sp the German after it duri s of Ger- Sternberg n Hotel, wive aroness Gr: property to Ame man citizens. living at the on, at the was paid. Caroline alien prop $ Miller gave champagne dinner i 1ton i 1 2 nor- procedure, M was to send the first. W ad slgned and r rdiner aimant a the claimant said, cle (Comlmwl on Pnge 15.) POST OFFIGE ABLAZE INNEWINGTON CENTER | W. Chamberlain, Mail Carried From Build- ing — Frightened Woman Swoons (Spectal to the Herald.) Newington Center, Seg fire which started about 10 o'cloc this morning, did considerable dar age to the post office building Newington Cen could not control call was sent to New Br No one seemed to kno e started but it is thought that a de- | fective chimney was the caus Mrs. Alfred Hanbury the fire. She was walking along ain street past the building when she noticed smoke issuing from the chimney in large volumes. She went into the store, which is also in the building, and warned Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Rosenblatt, owners, who waiting on customers, unsuspi- cious of a fire. Upon inve it was found that Mrs. Rudolph Who lives on the second floor, had faint- cd when she discovered the fire and had been unable to give a ¥ Becs e has a weak was brought to the Har tal to be cared for, in case s suffered a shock, The local firemen were Immedi- ately called and although they work- ed hard, they could not control the conflagration. Licutenant Hart: in charge of Company 5, New Brit- ain, responded to a call for help. Britain firemen arrived about 10:25 o'clock and with their help, the local firemen had the blaze well under control by 11 o'clock.. It is estimated that the damage done will reach $4000, most of which is covered by insurance. No mail was lost. It was taken across the t to the Keeney manufacturing company soon after the fire start- ed. Water did conslderable damage to the stock in the store and to the apartment on the second floor. The at a| ain for use s The New stree discovered | LL’nder Surgeon’s Knife || fense Offers Evidence 24 | | tigation, | serving | ariver, | den store is open for business as usual. | Workmen will start immediately to put on a new roof and repair other | damaged parts of the bullding, [ in: Manila, Sept. neral Leon derwent 1 Wood pital, forme vhere the oper , Dpro; ced his condition POLIGE BOARD HAS MEETING INSECRET Press Not Asked to Attend “Star Chamber” Session NONE OF PUBLIC'S AFFAIRS as Pajewski Admits “Some Matters' Were Says Some Business Before Com- mission Shouid Come Up Privately ing their actions in a thick bers of the commissioners f Hart's office a 0 o'clock myst m fon to award the cc al lights in the city to th > Co. on o mee ting w wer adm doors press. H thoug? the the y procedure of ca rs in was not follow > and the er con 5 rk were e that the re wait- outside. None of Public’'s Busine: After a conference between Ch man Pajewski and Commissioner the reporters we 1 outside the police station ar Chamberlain acting as spokes- made a statement to the that there were - R, call Mr. man, fect nected with departmen the board feels it should ately. He said the public is itled to know, through the j the hoard does, and he point that everything cs in the mayor's offi public. Pressed for statement t are of such made a atters ti not im- (Continucd on page 14). 'LUMAN BECKETT 1 NOT BROUGHT BEFORE GOURT, ‘Warden Has Until Friday to Exe- cute Convict's Writ of Habeas Corpus. () — Luman , who is th the mur- taxicab as not brought court ho here rden in response to the war- 11 a. m Hartford, Beckett of a life t Weth Char in 1017, into the count today by the ws a habeas corpu has until a rett tt in h! Sep! Ne s ek ntence in eld for s E. Taft prison der of writ riday at rn. s application for the of habeas corpus and for a court order that the murder ez | be reopened and that it he is found he be given a (."\l, al- prior to his pleading guilty 1921 to second degree murder he had been pronounced e by a committce of alienists | made a report to the court he was insane, and that his sentence is void and fllegal. Whether or not Beckett will be brought into court by the warden Friday depends upon the return he makes. | Judge Nickerson was occupled | this forenoon with the habeas cor- pus case of Frank E. Capewell, who seeks release from the Hart- ford retreat on the ground that he is not insane, t t in | who that Discussed — Chamberlain oncerning N ate [o'clock | | what happened after Johnson enter- Coolidge’s Ambition As Boy Was To Become Country Storckeeper; Discourages. Politics As Career NEW BRITAIN MAN - DESCRIBES STORM Wells Writes Home From Sara- sota, in Hurricane's Path President, in Interview, Says Parents Can Mould| Child’s Life—Pays Tribute to Own Father, Mother, | —— Step-Mother and Grandmother — Thinks Family GARAGE REFUGE FOR 1 Life the Backbone of Country and Favors Marriage if Young Men and Young Women Want Greatest ‘fessases Assuring Relatives of Safe- Happiness and Success—Adyvises College Education| 7 Recelved From Ravished Dis- | trict—Oscar Paulson, Tocated At | | l Miami Beach, Not Heard From. slept Georg Mrs. Geori who is in bu the | L ormall estions Wi nd of his fellow cit which they would like it they could. The notes of proved to be such an | velation of hief exe led upon nt in this single llow himself to be q merican people rrific | sec large Jart of We old it 13 not be it 22 (P — Governor | tes gove for its return to private 1 g here Toanre t over on the other T'll try to go PRESIDENT COOLIDGE r rocking hes of all sum sat on s por been heard by more is secreta e b after its brief b s about to go back ngs; I sat on the floot. Py 3 (Continned on Page 13) MOVIE THRILLER IS HALL SEES FLAW IN RE-ENACTED IN COURT ~ TAX EXEMPTION LAW Mis. Hargreaves Vivid Account of Fight at Home Gives Declared Failure After | Two Years’ Work by | s Trumbull Board s f,b | A assault that would do credit to of the story of an alleged new the talent The statute ptions lacks definit opinion of Se nd Linder, ess i a scenario of t! ward I , in which author of Hall the vil- Appra ght and a room, kno floor heroine all about both es today at the assembly, of themsel the phone to and alarm through ¢ of the ments next session of the general all and Lir s central | nd came back road in part police, the ing the arrival of the a of the ed in police court by Mrs. Ha ith s out of t tion by a co! 1 Governor Tru ho slept in s Johnson, storm was Newington. Judge apparently that the recital, while thrilling pping, resembled some of serials in that jt was inded on fact, for he suspende ment on Johnson after h itement of the accused man mony of witnesses. } rturd Johnson at- | Mrs. Hargreaves at her the foot of Beldon street, ording to her story, chokin r to the floor, strikin head with the | r, throwing her to the | ng her down, while g the chance g for; I'm going to | of you.” Her body and’ discolored, result of the t as she Elm Hill, Al- ¢ he committee 1 in a statu nator Hall der's view that broad rs are given adwell's 1 pla re all 2 all dov > east c roof, n boa in )senc ions of ther Indi Saraso Sh Last \cked at m opie Safe 300 B ive r of couch and D! he muttered, ve been waitir ell ou 1 s will be m | ble, they believe Y many or; heretofore have upon to do so. exemptions the increased. or Hall today expressed h s favorable ad int n of the He would he s ich fcipalit said, atin could longer, a her ENFIELD OFFICIAL IS SENT T0 PRISON Hamilton Gets 1 to 3 Ycars: —1 to 6 Years for | Negress Slayer 22 (P—Cla collector of eld, and for the e and sewer dis- trict, on his plea of guilty of th embe ement in exc o of town funds, was sentenced to the state prison at W for not less than one, nor three years, Tho court adopted dation of Assistant torney R. L. Gideon which was ceptible to Attorney Harry Bromage of Enfleld, counsel for 1 she may have telephone operator h screams of “police, police,” ersed with mufiled comn selt don't c pret regr Imitted he: lenied she swore “bu ons of what little a city contribute to their work X exemption. O ing benevolent work by the voluntary bers are also sort of assistance, he said. DIES AT AGE OF &4 Comfort Day Sweet of Osgood Ave., at n th | serate Johns her own def Hartford, Sept. Hamilton, former 1 the town of Ej hompsonville fi attempting 1o bite she admitted that in | she kicked him, con 15 obliged to use cvery | ht him off as h ‘ ouch and knelt on | | | me vay sh he lthrmv her on the her, with his fingers clo: but firmly on her throat strength rapidly leaving h ed Hull of Kensington and Nels | said they | went down Belden street about 9 Sat ¢ night to meet Mr. Johnson before going to a party on Oak strect, where was scheduled to,render accor [tions. Johnson is one prietors of a coal yard Cremo Brewery. A man named Eng- {strom was in Mrs. Hargreaves' house |and called *come on in bo nd {give us some music,” whereas Mrs. Hargreaves came out and shouted that everyone but Jo! 0N Was wi | come. ccording to Johnson, she swore when she mentioned his name. Hull and Swanson said Mrs. Har- greaves came out of the house and | advanced towards Johnson, trying to scratch his face, and when he push- 1,000 today m e than the recom- At- [y Native of Canterbury, Was Resi- | 1, & dent of Winsted Tor 43 Years. Comfort Day Sweat 00d avenue, died late last his accused. home. He was born in Canterbur: Con and was 84 years of st November. He was a resident of | New Britain for three years and be- INHERITS $102,000 ted ror ial ehne | Rochester Man, Metal Worker, Su¢ He leaves hsi wif Beech Sweet. He was member of the I 0. O. F., in Win- sted; a member of the Middlesex lodg F. & A. M., and a mem of the Masonic Veterans’ association. The funeral will be held Friday | afternoon at 1 from his | home. Rev. William Ross, pastor of : the First Baptist church, will offi- od her away she threatened to call | oo " (ER S ST B e the police. Johnson followed her into |y 14”1+ “tha Forest V chapel in the house, calling to her not to tele- | Winsted and burial will be in Forest phone the police. Hull and Swanson | Ratary. did not see what took place in the i house, as they left at once, and Eng- strom was not called to testify, al- though he was the only witness to of 5 Os night at at the old x\:iv F\\‘"r j: denly Comes into Fortune Left by Friend of his Mother. Rochester, N. John Debrine, 27, was planning for the viewpoint of a today had enlarged the scope of his lans to include the use of $1 - Deprine has been notified that | | the late Mrs. Norma Goodwin, of Mass, mother of a hood friend, bequeathed him her | fortune, consisting of stock in the | Endicott-Johnson and Victrola com- | nies and real estate. Mrs. Good- | win was a neighbor of the Debrine | family in Rochester years ago, and | her son served in the navy with | voung Debrine during the great war, dying in 1922, Debrine plans to | study engincering, l Y., Sept. 22.—(P— | who two days ago the future from metal worker, View ¢ ‘ THE WEATHER | New Britain and vicinity— ed the house. | Cloudy, probably showers to- Johnson testified that he went to| | night and Thursday; cooler | Thursday. (Contlpued on Page 12), * thersfield | © | to RELIEF WORKERS RESTORING ORDER FROM CHAOS IN STORM SWEPT ZONES; FINAL COUNT MAY SHOW 400 KILLED Srmmsle Indians, Takng Note Of Misni Area Hardes Signs, Prepared and Escaped Storm ’ Hn;g;“;gi;g; Df:: That Swept Many Whites To Death age But no Loss of Fled to Everglades Fastnetsei Several Days Ago When Llfe_Mamal Law in They Noted Sawgrass Blooming — Other Unique Moorehaven. News Bits From Florida Disaster Areas Where| Negro Boy Saved 20 Lives and Millionaire Gave Dispatches From Bahamas S\o\r\l:‘(m :]tgeelt:f Cash Personally to Destitute Per-/ Show Little Damage at But Heavy Losses on Island of Bi« mini and Andros—Movie Troup Saved. dian lore, the verglades storm, when or s of the efore the storn corre- Lauder- ed by a iron ne-swept com« , A'h list of upe spike | wards of -X\L persons, 4,000 or more He | n] property damage whith will amm.n' to $50,000,000 or morey 1 their efforts entirely today, | a degree of order whflch | would ]«:‘Xfll’ an accurate account= ing of the havoc w: ght by the o | disaster, from | n Millionaire Aids Poor Pants But No Belts worker Miami Area Worst bills| The Miax hardest hit of {itute | all, was going about the work of re- | habilitation, caring for the injured | and secking out the dead in systema- |tic manner. The American Red Cross and other reliet agencies were |on hand full force, with troops on guard and martial law declared in many places. None But Workers The injured in Hollywood, Miam{ {suburb, have been ordered removed |to points north of the city and per- sons unable to aid in the relief and rehabilitation work have been in< structed by military authorities to vacuate the city, according to ine ummon brought to West Palm each last night by Dr. Willlam R. Redden, national director of the American Red Cross medical serve ice. ns on t Dies for do; His floati Dog ng down the water, a Se- nto the flood cue. Man and Indians All (Continued on Page 16) FLORIDA DEATH LIST lNVl]UJ!Mi Bl BOUT ~ OFFICIALLY CHECHED | Another Injunclion Suit N:lmc.»: of Injured Persons | Filed Today—Dempsey Also Published by to Weigh in at 1 p. m. Associated Press D th seri« |ously injured at 1,400. He found 0 patients in Miami hospitals and 1 that the total injured > was 3,500, of whom 1,000 suf- fered serious hurts, About 500 of these had fractured kulls. He also sald the Al list of deaths in Miami had The |been placed at 135. al Mobile and Pensacola ola and Mobile, struck by the hurricane just before it passed {inland and dissipated, made known to the world that there was no loss of life in either cit Mobile again was connected with outside world by a telegraph wire but Pensacola still was prace |tically cut off early today. Oven aky wire and through a wire- dispatch to The Assoclated ess it was learned that Pensacola mi Beach; came through a 120-mile blow but 1. with considerable property damage. Several ships went ashore. Looters Fired Upon. home of Harvey S. Firestone, nufacturer, was the scene of |a pitched Dbattle hare last night, | when looters attempted to carry away a large amount of furnishing. » jackets on guard duty in the , and after seve changed, the The house was not bade ’\'. d in the hurricane. Martial Law Ordered. At Moorchaven, an agricultural on the western bank of Lake marital law went into effect e and an effort was g mad < up the death alroady known to be around Approximately 70 bodies had been recovered up to last night and |1t was said that 40 others had been |located and would be recovered to- 1y. Estimates still put the deaths e at 150 or more. Death Lists Checked. In several places surveys have ht down the original death some persons previously reporte ad having been found alive. Fort Lauderdale the death list own to 11 last night, but at 0od it is expected that the tow | tal will be around 70. Miaml Beach, it was revealed, had a list of 23 known dead. | The property loss at Coral Gables was conservatively estimated at $1,e Two Building Okeelant, an Everglades village, s wrecked, only the post office 1 one store building remaining. The first hospital train came out of the storm district last night, car- rying 46 patients and 113 refugees to West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce. Sept officia to morticians at made, checked a Associated Press; Miami, Penss 3., Cocoanut Grove ot ton, Ohio. | c Hialcah, n proce n to postpone in By was East Hial Mrs, Josephine, Miami fary G 26, Leroy, Ralph, A. D. Mrs. negro. | 17, Hiale | city 40, | Okeechobee, D. inued on Page Ps 35 ARPLANES LOST DURING HURRICANE . Pensacola Naval Station Badly Wrecked by Storm s court, Tt actfon will he applic is | tion | probabl ard will wel at Dempsey his fight Atl tor of 1 \ Tunney noon In the presen of the P« ylv fons ney o > o'clo A —Thirty: acola navy storm that more than was sent an Assoclated He sald that loss of life but h §2,- e airplanes at the station we Remain. isolated 24 a to weigh agrec a to Mobile today t Press representative, here } been no that property loss would rea 000,000 The | each to modate the crowd of who would part of the fig Here are the figures of the title bou Principals (Jack) D champion of James challer decision. newspaperme present to this iminaries. facts and Dempsey-Tunney airplanes, which cost $45,000 had been taken into a bayou| ape the storm but felt its full | force and are practically a total| |1oss. Loss to the naval station it- self was heavy The San Carlos hotel was | damaged except for windows blow. St Bahamas Storm Swept au, Bahamas, Sept. 21 (P— (Delayed)—The hurricane which | swept the Bahamas Friday night was not|of equal severity but less duration han the July storm. Less damage |out and the depot, first reported as|was done here, but the Andros and having been carried away, was not| Bimini Islands suffered severely, | damaged except in a minor way. | with hundreds of small houses leva (Tex) | The whart front at the foot of|elled, the most serious reports Palafox and Baylin streets was car-|come from Long (Yuma) Island, 9:30 |ried away. Three hundred feet of|where there are said to have been the L. & N. toll dock was carried|some fatalities. away but the St. Louls & San Fran-| No loss of life has been reported (Continued On Page 12) 4 Willlam mpsey Harrison heavyweight | world 1919 ph (Gene) Tun- in 10 round match | since Jo: B and n a Pr Ricka Time and place and 9:45 p. m, time, tomorrow moter — George I Between eastern daylig night, at the mu- (Continued on Page 14) (Continued on Page 15.)