New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ‘auo) ‘paoyyrey “ydaq ‘Japy ArexqT 93¥1g JRI3OUUOY NIy W BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For 13,469 Week Ending Sept. 18th . ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1926. THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS HONOR FROM ROME FOR FR. BOJNOWSKI Kwarded Degree by Pontifical Rcademy Tiberine WORKS HERE RECOGNIZED Pastor of Sacred Heart Church Is One of 52 Selected, Among Others Being Marconi, Padercwski and Madame Curle. Recognition of Rev. nowskl’s labors fn the advancement of t ith and f trom t at cation has céme Academy Tit form of an honorary today. came known Father Bojnowskl, who is pastor hurch, Italian of the Sacred Heart ch been advised of the has just acad- REV. LUCYAN BOJNOWSKI emy's award which was by unani- mous vote of the faculty. Suggestion that the award be made to tha local pastor was offer- ed by Mons. Mazareno Patrizi, who visited New Br prior to the war 4 spent several days inspecting s varlous agencies of th Heart parish set up during e pas- torate of Father Bojnowski The New Britain priest is one of | tha first class to whom honorary degrees wero awarded. It was pl he awards to 100, eds of t and proposed ned to limit when th candidates were investigated and compared wit dard estab- lished, it was to glve on composer and 3 dame Curie, who discovered radium. The degree Is written in Latin on a scroll and bear: Michele Peccl, p: cal Af‘::'lfm}' ESTATE OF A. LIPPKE The estate of Albert J. Lippke of this city is valued at $5,002, ac- cording to an inventory filed today in the probate court by Appraisers Hegbert V. Camp and William C Dunn. The estate consists of prop- erty on Greenwood street valued at and prog in Meriden at $700. Deposits in the Britain Trust amount to $52 company E. C. CONNOLLY'S CAR STOLEN TUp to this afternoon, the police had not been nqtified of the recov- | ery of the automobile of Probation | Officer E. C. Connolly, which stolen on South High street, the First Baptist church last n Mr. Connolly reported about 9:25 theft 5 o'clock. Sacred | BECKETT MAKES BRILLIANT . PLEA IN ASKING NEW TRlAL Judge Nickerson Dismisses Petition, Ruling Writ of Habeas Corpus is Wrong Way to Go About Action —Pleading Lifer Says He Was Insane When He Admitted Taft Murder. Hartford, Sept. 24 (P—Luman C. the news that he had pleaded to Beck of New Britaln, state's!second degree murder and by con- trast the horror of ths gallows for pelaonyliier oamebinloptharey | first degree murder was narrated to court today before Judge Leonard kerson, and without aid of n Beckett sald that at the a for a o prison he has been trea «\wm Tod, de trusty” ing at the prison. v, he and dering river in attorney" es bookkeep- ng at t read a long statement | At a board of pardons session, time to time interpolated | Beckett said, it had b claimed ments. that while in the Vermont prison he had planned escape by murder- was splendidly phrased a gth from therities | Beckett was brou |a ‘writ of habeas conclusion of his argument Nickerson said that a ion was the wrong tempting to secure a n iled that Bec te prison by s¢ ing a guard. At his request, he said, the Con to the Vermor ter exonerated Beckett of charge. wrote s lat- such ht into court on t the Judge thod of at- | was not seeking re trial, He (but he was asking a ne 1 cause of his being ins: sald that the Killing of to be a first degree n the murderer should to the gallows. He court could not look up r th one c: the sta )0 his plea reference Hartford county awaiting | himself and to the state, saying that his treatment there [ At the start “out-Chapmanized” anything of rney Hug which he had ever heard. F | answer to ing the fa land trial imprisonm completely isolated and other pris- rs were not permitted to tly in front of his cell A captain of state police called up! him, he said, and pictured the pleas- ure of one of Beckett's relatives at and his iire Beckett was re prison, RELIG OF ST. THERESE DUNN BOUND OVER N T0 BE APPLIED HERE LIQUOR LAW CHARGE - Novena at Sacred Heart Judge Expresses Impa- | Church Will Open tience, Holds Him for | September 30 Superior Court i | Aol e i T o Although he denied ownsrship or . management of a room in the rear rese, most recently canonlzed .., ; mast Main street, where & saint in the Catholic church, h d of policemen seized a aiding squ [been received at the Sacred Heart|pitcher of alleged liquor and some |church and will be appited durlng [beer Monday night, and arrested im as proprictor, Ex-Councilm norning and evening services of a James Dunn, aged 3 of Winte street, was bound over to the I cember term of superior court vena to open September 30. ¢ is a piece of bone from by he body of “The Little Flower,” as | juqze B. W. Alling in police cour the saint Is affectionately called bY |inis morning, the judge say the persons of the Catholic faith, This {)sca] court appears to be ble to is the only relic of St. Therese in |, .quade Dunn to get out of the w Britain and one of the few in '|iiior business. He ordered a bond America. of $1,000 but after court lowered it Father Bojnowski, pastor of the |¢; sz00. Attorney David L. Dunn Sacred Heart chu Will open the | poprage d Du novena with a 8 o'clock in | e Sergeant George linger testified th the room which Officer Da who patrols the beat, reported as ing frequented by men of ®|habits. L turday n morn ptember es will be held on each of the | days at the same hour and diction will be held in the ev nings at 7:30 o'clock T t Dunn mai d Doty, drinking er- will be exposed only ing the linger and Officer John C. hours of se e r watched place, fami Therese was born in France in | pie iy on e e S73, one of a family of nine chil-j,yone g o Monday night, the n. At the age of 15 years she | gi.ers with Officer Thomas J. entered the Order of Mt. Carmel, be- coming a Carmelite nun. Two of her sisters chose the same life, also be- coming Carmelite nuns. Although automobiles through the y et and after peer- al at the door. hid behind w Dunn co from Summer str |ing about, give a s her life in religion was comparative- | " yypon the door was opened to ad- ly brief, spanning a period of but| ..'"p 11" Qficers Feeney and | eight years, it was marked with such | g, 1 the latter selzed piety that she attracted the atten- Dunn disap- tion of her superiors. After R AlEctorelthe or Friday in 1896 d and, the | ports of miracles through her inter- |y " 4" 084 5 ey which fitted d at her grave were heard. |y, 150k on a door leading from i 1 G rs these reports |y, y5om to a closet. In the closet w in numbers untl they became |, s0 numerous that the machinery of was found, the sergeant the sergeant to beer d. Dunn ca asked Daugherty’s Brother Admits That Former Atty. General Destroyed Papers Govt. Says Proved Bribes Testimony is Courthouse, Ohio, W Graft Money Deposited to His Credit. 24 (M — Testi- New York, Sept. mony that Harry M. Daughert attorney general in the Harding cabinet, turned ledger sheets that the government ajleges would | show that part of an alleged bribe was deposited to his credit in the Midland National ton Courthoure, today th the Daugherty conspiracy case, by Mal §. erty, brother of Daugherty. Brother TIs Called 8. Daugherty was called to st his brother, Harry in the Daugherty- y trial. Attorney Emory R. Lkner called the former attor- eneral’s brother as the first witr in today's session of the trial of Daugherty and Miller for alleged ¢ racy to defraud the ted States of their best services. The government charg that Daugherty and Miller received ap- proximately $200,000 of a $441,- as a “commission” for 00 of Washing- vas ban Ohibo, given the Mal testify aga M. Da Miller conspir: United States ghert ¥ seized alien Daugherty Miller was fodian and property cus- attorney- [y That Accused Bumed Certain Ledger Sheets in Midland National Bank At Washington Dunn reached the door he signalled | police | Miller | Daugh- | sdefendant | | canonization was set in motion. Rl s At I was declared a saint in 1925 it oy Dyt Foveatthatiall the T |ser t's testimony be stricken out ‘on the ground that the witness aid |not know of his own knowledge that ‘Dunn was the owner, therefore he | |could not refer to nt admitted that the reason he believed Dunn to be [nn owner was that Offi%er Doty sald so. The sergeant knows better an to give testimony based on hearsay, the lawyer contended. | pa admitted the sergeant's testimony. Ofticer Stadler testified that when le that the 4 by Attorney knocked on the did not, but Asked to someonse hich Might Have Shown|were about |Dunn it Dunn had winor. the officer said he | gave a signal with his hands. | v he knew Dunn re that general at the time of the alleged ‘:‘,f’:‘plo‘n ey officer ro- ‘. aud in 1921 plied that a friend of Dunn had | Mal 8 Daugherty was visibly|Plied T8 R T Gnto the vard nervous as he was sworn. Buckner |Sool (1% @ 0T O ised that the | immediately began questioning him | £ 0% U aeq Dunn {abont the disappearance of records | T I TN Tohow case, a of the Midland National bank of |\ ol 4afie and soveral chairs and | Washington Courthouse, O h he is president. he records, the gover were destroyed by Harry M. Daugherty to prevent the ment from trading to his $150,000 of the $441,000 commis sion | Officer Feeney went in first and warded off two interferers while Officer Stadler scized the pitcher. When Dunn came in later and was placed under arrest by Sergeant El- linger, he applied unprintable names |to all the officers, the witr id Officer Feeney sald Elza White, a tables. leges, The $441,000 was paid by Rich- |prother-in-law of Dunn, scized him ard Merton, German metal mag-|and another man also tr nate, to John T. King, late repub- | fere with the raid, but he kept them lican national committeeman from |off long enough for Officer Stadler Conneeticut Ito grab the pitcher. Dunn, on ar- The government has shown that |riving at the door while the officers | King and Daugherty were friendly |were watching from their hiding and that King introduced Merton | place, knocked on' the door, Officer to Miller and Daugherty. | Feeney said. He was then questioned about three ledger sheets for his own ac- count, that of his brother and one (Continued on Page 30.) for Jesse W.Smith, confidential ad- TAFT STARTS HOME visor to Harry M. Daugherty, who| Murray Bay, Que., Sept. 24 (A— committed suicide in 1923 Chief Justice Willlam Howard ft, Mal Daugherty had been sub- [of the United States, loft today by — | special train for Washington, He (Continued on Page Nine) | haa spent the summer here. Beckett told Judge Nickerson he | im in that ca-| | Judge Alling denied the motion and | i — ‘ Everybody Must Eat 3 Apples a Day to Use Up Whole ('lop in U. S. \SIX GARS WRECKED INFREAK SMASHUP Two Persons in Hospital and Two to Be Arrested {CRASH NEAR TORRINGTON, | | o e v RS, MPPHERSON S | FURTHER ACCUSED Man Admits Receiving 840 to o Kid in Mamufacturing Evidence pples a day dome the depa Pipes Protruding from Darkened | Truck, [ Torrington, persons a cars are dam warran to b lssued for the arrest of two drivers as the result of a mixup of motor vehicles on the Torrington- Thon 24 —A—Two al here, six ston road last night ST A Y by e HONAN ALSO 1S ARRESTED state police depar was com- pletely wrecked | Woman's Jaw Broken Mrs, Daniels, 20, of Chicago, Being The inju 4 are Mrs. agec Held in San Franclsco as Mys- terious *“Miss X" in Kidnapning been fra 29, of 6 ho has face injur be arrested on a truck without Hoax Confession. Admits Affidavit | Brockway ca | car and collided wit which d t rm:'nn and beer ate, arriving ay h hospital follo t | Cop's Car is Wrecked investis | Paid $150, He Says | 7o warn o irivers who might e be coming up the valle off onliatalos 1 is car with s attor b of the stalled A few minutes later, Joseph Bentz of Torrington, accor fed n Los An 1 prominc mpt to by his wife, came along and ram- | ture false ex 16 cleax th med the officer's car, jamming it | ¢ th, An: with terfific force against the r ; end of the truck and the protr pipes. The p ashed the wind- | shield a e through the bacl end of the ca ing wheel as th er had would have been ¢ ¥ i Legion Officer Tnvolved wen & detective was also to discover car in Grimme ca not been asce Fell ey Through n Plans This M thr RNIFE SLIPS, € Yolanda Orr ge, of Berlin, n a knife s slipped and cut a in her right hand. 1 o the home of o, 8 ¥ was in taken H. Griswold were taken in ured s paring ing a long kn girl wa S suppose e but that she s F WORKER HURT RELIE Fort Pierce, Fl —(P— Henry M. Baker, director of Red Cross rellef operations in Florida Both Melosh and Mrs. Daniels de- ed th was injured in an automoblle wreck they were led on in the today on the b ay between Fort Pierce and Okeechobee, ‘Man Hit By Auto On West Main St. Is Reported On Point of Death ‘ ged Hlts Second While He Dennis McKnerne, 56, Runs in Front of Car| Rushes First to Hospital | i (Continued on Page 20) ; Boston, Sept. 24 (A — An aut 5 5 TTnkel. | mobile driven by Lonis Garasclo | Driven by Max Unkel- 7°"30, today struck James . | Flynn of South Boston. Garaselo | | bach, Architect. | placed him in his car and raced [for the hospital buton the way struck car old Miah Crowley. {s McNerney, aged Garaselo delivered two patients at hospital where it was fo was struck by an automot itect Max J. Unkelbach Miah had a fractured skull ock avenue, on West Main | Flynn abrasions and contu: l e near the corner of Grove i Hill, about 9 o'clock this morning e e i Dy Sician Fmd< Man's Appendix on Left 1dc ain General hospital. he had not gained co L An interesting phenomenon it was feared his skull is ed.| from the medical viewpolnt Mr. Unkelbach, in a st 101 was discovered this morning Officer Joseph Kennedy, w YeS-1 at New Britain General hospi- tig the accident, said he was e Matthew . Iriving east on West Main strect at iswold of Berlin operated on about 20 miles an hour when Me-{ yjova” Bliorkin of 5 Nerncy ran into the roady from vemoaye Bis aoaend the north sidewalk and struck the | ,pinavion 1t wa o left front door of the automobile, | pigorkin's appe ARt denting it. Mr. U Ibaclf tried 10| cat0q on the left side of the avoldistriking him pulling In 101 apdomen instead of in its curb on the .mm side of the : bt 1l place on the right side street and in so do he steered 1 Physicians his car against an electric light pole, | ¢" ¢io™ o A apping it off and ATTLT I i b car. state that ca currence is not common dislocated McNerney was thrown heavily to| aonendix belng a freak of na- the pavement and was apparently| .o PR liteless, He bled from the head and | ¢ the s Sevniide bit seemed to be usly hurt when| vard tn Berlin, the hospital ambulance arrived. The police were also notified, and Mr. | g A, % | Unkelbach went to the police station and made his report of the aceident. | | TH WEATHER | He was not held. \ Bt | McNerney s well known locally. | | New Britain and vicinity— | He has been living in Westficld but | | Unsettled, probably showers | for a number of years he lived i tonight and Friday. this city. His brother, Matthew Me- | | | Nerney, lives at 325 Main street, | * | Towa Farmers, | west territor GOLD WAVE GOMING INFROM THE WEST Stow and Freezing Weather Re- ported in Some Sections | MANI TOBA HAS BLIZZARD Warned of Towering Temperatures, Drop Everything in Effort to Harvest Corn Seed Crops —Near Zero Weather, But Six Above Zezo keted most of vil snow began m., today. The last night was cool from the of talling temperature v was marked with rain and northern Rocky ain region. Juur Inches of Snow of British Co- ie p n heav SNow Wa kane yester as reported in the Pac skies with frost tures was th sion slated to register the upper sixties or no h ower scventies today, the predic- tion called for generally clear s Blizzard in Canada Manitoba, Sept. 24 (P es are ex- a, is In many Warvesting Corn Seed fn mid- THOUSANDS OF HURRICANE ~ REFUGEES LEAVE FLORIDA; ~ CONSCRIPT MEN FOR WORK LOGMIS HOT ON TRAIL Women and Children ; Taken from Holly- OF TAX DELINGUENTS e Scefld ]i"rlt:secutor Woods| Are Drafted to Clear and Asks for Dodgers’ [ A . way Tangled Arrest : - 1 Wreckage. the | Henlth Officials Guard Against Epidemic—Loss Now Estimated at 165 Million Dollars— Expect to Find 200 More Bodies at Moorehaven, om warrants are | he privi- but | " 24 (A—Flore cken lower east ent its efforts to pre« ease and removal of the shelter and care, day bared thetr s to the anti-typhold needle; tores of incoming serums were exhavsted as fast as received. AI\[} ma[]l] HISAPPEAR |Reports here were that airplanes I wi lh thousands of units of anti« Iimball Burges: teta and typhold &serums were ) gess Said to |speeding from northern points, and Be Short in Branch ‘f at a coast guard destroyer was rushing to Miami fi Charl Accounts s I Mol nal supply, an aire 000 units of serum was |forced down near Marietta, Ga., but the supply will come today, Refugees Leaving ila thou: ds of refugees were leaving for their former homes in the north and for northern Flor ida cities, where food, clothing and shelter aw them. Several thous« all Burges er of il Wednesday New Britain | berated Roo is mis , according to r superiors have ination of the office iere is a shortage of | Meanw With the possibility | 2nd sed through Jacksonville eckup will reveal an |Yesterday, whils other ‘cities north 4 m Beach sheltered ters are in Wa y for t local of and children are being rom Hollywood, whers the t e hurricane was 1t. All men have been conscript- for the work of clearing away the led wreckage. eral ood supplies received b American Legion posts distributed through the wood and Fort Lauder- \\A .3 nd ten per cent of lding and roofing materials re- ceived during the last few days is | being re whose owners are the work. Still Aunt Bodles Cross units, public health e details and other relief worke ers went about thelr tasks of burys dead and relieving the ine large forces of city workers ed their search fer bodies in ss of wreckage of bulldings tland marine debris | Adaditional surveys of the 60 mile |coastal areas between West Palm | Beach and Miami and of the Lake Okeechobeo region, where the hurri- rved for repair of homes unable to finance g for Bu at he was zess to- ot in and man in of the gess un- As Red C serv nds 1 ised | cane spent its showed 349 3 |known dead, 1,100 {njured and & N 24 (AM—Henry, Moorehaven, overwhelmned by |F. E len was nominated flood waters when Lake Okeechobee for senator from the 12th senatorial burst its dik uffered the greats | istrict by the republicans at a con- | est death toll, with 110 Miami and vention he His name was the immediate nity came next placed Lieut convention by ldwin Brainard, Officer of Argonauts Inc. Says He Quit Becanse He Didn’t Have (Continued on Page 29) oo @ol Faith In Capt. Fonck’s Ability all other d t class 1 was cold bear n or sht m apossible o gatk sced Snow in Minnesota Salesmen Are Limited in lhon- Tax Deductions s pt. 24 (AT have to ngton, ol smen e dis- t I u n in on the returns what they r income spent while The board of tax appeals today refused to permit David ebliet of New York to deduct $190 for tips, $45 for buses and taxles, 5 for $400 for entertaining ample carrle $26 for valets. railroad fare baggage s were held to constitute permissible deductions, and | | Col. Hartney's Affidavit to This Effect is Made Public— Officials of TIll-Fated Flight Reported Under | Suhpoena to Appear Before Grand Jury Investigat- ing Crash. ola, N. Y., Sept. 24 (P Edwar The to attempt fiight was “to feo- an life and property.*” Hartney said his asso- ed to consider the plan, do so “would af- elations between a2’ He said he it Captain Fonck mand he would 1s t at to d in ¢ a ship o as vice president and gen- istrl of the Argonauts, Mr. H lid had heard th » information 1t he mi would ca iously an- Am onel could no reasons cited by Col- eving Fonck ne to Franca for be to cha P 1 opinlon that there was no|safely e of rchearsal 11 negligence in the conduc flights, poor pilotage and irre- The affidavit was turned over by T might also say that in my strict attorney to Judge Walter ' the afidavit says, “he R. Jones who this afternoon W p. tent to a ship cond an inquest into s nd load deaths of the two men killed in the | e % ted out that a written une atal flight. Mr. Edwards sald he | derst an regarding Captain 1 no information of published re- | Homer Derry had been abrogated ports that a grand jury investigation | by Fonck; that there was no team- of the flight would be made. work in the crew and that he The aflidavit recites that on Sep- | scemed to be working to one end [ tember 6, Colonel Hartney told A.|only — namely that he would get C. Dickihson and John B. Jameson [all the prize money and all the that in his opinion the personnel|publicity and had this uppermost of the flight should be reorganized | in his mind rather than a desire by the elimination of Captain | Fonck as he belleved that for him (Continued on Page Nine)