New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 W BRITAIN HERALD \9\ Week Ending Sept. 25th Average Daily Circulation For 13,528 0D ““NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, SE EPTEMBER 29, l‘l"fl.—Ii,l(;H'l EEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS DOYLE OBJECTS TO GIVING $2,500 FROM CHARITY DEPT. FOR HEALTH BOARD RELIEF COLLETT, CUNMINGS BOTH ARE WINNERS Wmeus Golf Champion Downs Special Appropriation Is M. RO‘JdSUD, 0Play ceded for Sick Persons 1o SR Vtam‘lflle WALL LOSES ONE [P 1 From Hii Dept Her BDattle With Miss Cummings Opposes Transfer of Fund to be Used in Treatment of Tuber-« culosis Patients. Settled On Home Green—Royalty | | Eliminated When Princes Lobko- Proposed transfer of $2,500 from | the charity department to the health | board for work among tul i patients does not meet the of Charity Superintendent Doyle. Dr. T. . Reeks, superintendent, and C. W." Upson, president of the Tuberculosi society, the have recommended it to Mavyor Weld, declaring at a recent cunfer- ence that Mr, Doyle does nui object wicz Ts Vanquished. rculosis | Haverford, Pa., P— Cefending her title as golt |over the Merion links, scored an easy opt approval John L. lenna Collett, women's national amplon, tormer health |yictory in today Wilmir her s against Mrs on, Del,, Ruth Batchelder Loses Another decisive victory fell to the G. H. Stetson of Phil- |adelphia, who eliminated Ruth |Batchelder of Boston, 6 and 5. Con- |trasting with her play of yesterd |Miss ¥ r putted poorly toda hile her sccond shots on nearly ery hole were underplayed. iss Wilson Wins Virginia Wilson of Chicago was the third player to pass } round test successfully, the mid-western star scoring over Knapp of New York, 4 and 3. Princess Vanquished Ity was refir of the day when Princes Anita wicz, a F rode Island conten- der, went down befo ter driv- ond round Nor! 8 up and § to play. match n Rood of s Relief | sponsor transfer and | | clubs of Mrs to the transfer. The charity superin- ly to this declaration today is that he has no objection to | a transfer of the entire tuberculosis | reliet fund from the charity board, but will strenuously oppose taking a part. Today's declaration, which is the first made by Superintendent Doyl indicates widely divergent opinior in municipal circles on the proposed shifting of accounts, Doyle Says Dept. Needs Money | As outlined to the mayor, the public health workers prop nse $2,500 in furnishing hospitalizz tion and home treatments to ms ng and approaching on t suffering from tuberculosis who a sht D. Goss of Short Hills, too proud to pauperize themselves |N. J., 5 and 4. and appear in the municipal records | Won On Tast Hole as having received aid from the c citing baftle between Fdith Supt. Doyle explained today his d of s and Berni partment had $4,500 at the begin- |Wall of Oshkosh, Wis, came to the ning of the year to spend for ho: ome green for decision, Miss Cum- pitalization. This fund is now reduc- [mings winning by one up. ed to $2,300, nearly half the amount Miss Collett’s Match being spent in the first months | Miss Collett got v to a for institutional care alone. There is |start by winning the first lole no fund for home treatments or for | par to Mrs. Rood's fiv, providing cots, awnings, slecping [added another h at porches, ete. such as the public in spite of three putts as the Wilr health officlals planned, and if the 'ington woman strayed into traps all charity department is to lose $2,500 the way up the fairway, while to be devoted to these purposes, (the fifth the champion dropped additional funds must come from foot putt for a birdle four, some other source to pay for hos- [coming three up. pital treatments now being given | The titlehold city patients, he states. | Mrs. Rood's erra Names of Patients Not Printed | win the seventh The argument that persons too holding a birdie proud to accept city aid will be The cards spared the embarrassment of having |Par, out ... 4 6 their names appear on the pauper |Miss C out list is unsound, Doyle declared to- | 436 4N day, meanwhile producing recent | Mrs. out munlcipal records ta show that the | 56485674 names of these patients are no long- | Miss Collett played the 12 er printed. Supt. Doyle was respon- |of the contest in two strokes under sible for this change. |women’s par, winning two of the The tuberculosis relief fund has |last three holes with birdies after had an interesting political history, |having been five up at the turn. For several years the health depart-| She was long and straight from ment received §2,500 annually for |every tee, while her putting wad this work. When the health work |uniformly —good throughout the inereased in scope to such an extent |match. that the budgets were subjected to| The homeward cards more than the usual scrutiny by the | FPar. in 4 board of finance and taxation, this| Collett, in, 354 fund was transferred to the charity | Rood, in, 565. department. At this juncture two | groups of tuberculosls patients came | into existence, onme of which was | known as health department pa- tients whose names did not appear, and the other as charity department patients whose names and the amounts expended for each, appear- ed in the municipal record. When Mr. Deyle became charity | superintendent he argued before the | finance board on the injustice of | Youth —“Very Nervous printing any names unless all were About Case” Lawyer used. He advanced the argument that the patients were all suffering | T ells Judge n Rosa- lie Roy: mate flying in for She o the fou a be- then profited by c approaching to and ninth, almost two at the latter 46 46443 Rood, 4—19 holes (Continued on y\'\go 14). HAGEARTY FINED $150 from the same ailment, were being | treated in the samo institutions in | the same manner, and the funds| were coming from the taxpayers His stand was approved by the finance board and no names have |C been printed since that time. this morning on the charge of hav- The investigation bureau of the |ing liquor with intent to sell. He charity department has been brought | Pleaded guilty and was represented into play and as a result some state by Judge W. I. Mangan. and out-of-town cases which were | Detective Sergeant Ellinger te being supported by the city have fied that as he and Sergeant O'Mara been returned to their proper clas- |and Officer Stadler were riding in sification, thereby effecting a saving | the police scrvice car erday of money. forenoon on Arch street they saw a Supt. Doyle said today that he is | truck load of beer Ofticer | willing to have tuberculosis reliet \(.\rn :r noticed it and they followed work taken from his department | They found it in the rear of 110 and returned to the health depart- Bmvlmvll avenue, partly in a garage | ment, but he declared he is at a loss | beneath a dance hall and partly out 1o know where the line of demarca- |in the open. Some of the beer was tion between health department and |in the garage and the rest was on | charity patients comes or what ele- |the truck and was being moved ments should be considered in mak- | about by Hagedity. The sergeant ing the record. If the city assume one-halt the tuberculosis work fund for relief measures an equal amount must be added in the budget to meet bills for hospitaliza- tion, he warned. Frank Hagearty, Prospect. st e s by Judge Alling in police court ves unloading the truck. having the beer said, There loading or Hagearty admitted for sale, the sergeant were about 60 cases | Judge Mangan said the defense '\would admit that the beer contain- ] ed an alcoholic content in excess of | that permitted by law. He said Bearse, Slayer of Own Mother, Sent to Asylum | Hagearty has not been arrested be- | Sept. 29 (®— | fore and is very nervous about the Richard C. Bea who murdered case. He has assured Judge Mangan his mother, Mrs. Etta S. Bearse, di-|that he will not violate the liquor vorced wife of County Treasurer|law again. Fred A. Bearse, and dismembered| Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ter body, early in August, and who .Greenstein said the charge on which was sent to the Dridgewater State|the arrest was made was that of hospital after an examination by|transporting by means of a motor alientists a week after the murder, | vehicle but in view of the inability was brought to superior court m‘myiof the officers to swear they had having been gecretly indicted by the|seen Hagearty driving the truck grand jury now in session. Be-|While the beer was in it, the charge cause this action supersedes that of | was changed. The officers believed the district court Bearse was ur.‘Hagbarl) had driven the truck but raigned today, pleaded not guilty|they could not swear to it, as they through counsel and was again ex-| had only a passing glimpse as he amined by a board of alienists. passed them. Springfield, Mass,, or second | vyouthtul | d in the fourth | e part of | on | IN BIG BEER SEIZURE ti- | is to | could not tell whether Hagearty was | | been told by Officer A. E. TEAP[]T DOME LAND {U. S. Court Condemns Frand in Sharp Opinion | Trial Is Termed One of Falsehood, Deceit, Bad Falth and Corruption volved. WILL FILE APPEAL Washington, Sept Attorneys for Harry I, oil magnate, said 1 today that they would appeal to the | supreme court of appeals at st. | Louis holding the Teapot Dome | naval oil reserve lease was ob- tained in fraudulent manner. The move, they said, would be for a writ of certorari, | Until a complete | court's decision and studied, the 9 copy was of the recei Mo., contros . Louis, Teapot Dome steamed into vie ment today hold tory in a long career of cedure, Whole Deal Ts Tainted Declaring “the entire transaction is tafnted with favoritism, collusion nd corruption, defeating the p 1d lawful functions of the govern- " the United States cuit court of appeals here late yesterday ordered cancelled the lease of na- val oil reserve lands in Wyoming, {held by the Mammoth Oil company The decision was based the rsy with th the court pro- s clair, from Al Fall, m Reyersed which reversed and decision of Judge T, edy in district court at Wryo., in June, 1923, | ther instructs the lower cou |join the Mammoth company trespassing on gover to ask the company for an accour ing of all oil and petroleum ducts taken from the reserve the tenure of the Iease. The opinion consists of a 65 page | document. Saying that “a trail of ccit, falsehood, subterfuge, bad | faith 1 corruption, the transactions incldent to ax the making of this Ic i the I v opinion takes up in de- ail the steps Ieading to the setting |aside of the Wyoming land for oil reserve, and the nected with its leasing Sinelair. nded a e Ken during 1 sur- by Tall to | use Others Absolved Absolving other government offi- cials of blame in the transactions, the opinion sets out: !t has been tho theary government that fopme retary Fall received from Hergg T. Sinclair, organizer and owner:of the Mam- moth company, a pecuniary_ consid- eration wWhich influenced him to grant the company a lease for Tea- | pot Dome.” | “That Seceretary matter, dominated of the all, as to v Denby, Admiral Robinson and other govern- | ment officlals, and virtuslly control- (Continued on Page 16) REGAINED BY GOVT, (VERLICT 1§ SWEEPING‘ —Rights of Public At Targe In- | " | the fur- | to en-| from | nds and | | pro- runs through | naval | transctions con- | its | CGENT A MILE BUS TAXTS CONTESTED Krguments on October-28 IAW IS CALLED UNFAIR Its Constitutionality s Threg U. §. Judges Will Hear| Assailed by | Interstate Bus Corporation— | Blodgett and Stoeckel Also are | on motor te business jupon by a cons! {up of three will be pz onal court made the Unit e on Oct itting her Charles H. | circuit | . Ed- | be presi 5 ut | district a York | | judge to be na Third Constitutional Court A Dill of complaint against Con- | \ecticut ponsible stat public Inter- corporation on July 1 ng that an immediate in- | issued against the :\M‘ | offictals prohibiting them from en- hat | i of ct and also asking t clared void “\HV section tiution of the Tn | concerning commeree | flict with \”\r‘ consti subjects the as 1‘ con and 14th am on on ifice of the country to arrest H|"'(\l | due process of 1a | The bill is brought J‘ iam H. Blodgett, t | against Wil- X commissioner cticut, Ernest | treasurer - of the state, | Frederick M. Salmon, comptroller of | | the state, and Robhins B. Stocckel, | | of tha state of Conn Rogers, | commissioner of motor vehic is will be the third special con- | stitutional court to be held in Con necticut such a one having twice | been invoked last year on the con- | stitutionality of the Ia he last | general assembly la a tax on| moving picture films | Law Called Unfair | A matter of § i through operation by Bus corporation of tween Connecticut poi assachusetts and | of complaint ean Satne 000 s involv the the and it “works ships upon the compai over th ate line aw in question | tory"” entitle on the public is . n excise by providing public highways service motor busses. It w signed by the gove June 24, 1925. Part 2 of | provides for a tax mile on miles of 1 the busses ot rmor on Chapt 5 cent a a by of one 1WAy covere Commissioner fs mo tionad in the bill of complaint grounds that he « nded wrate markers for public vehicles doing interstate tr those required by busses o wholly within the state. It is also st plaint against ckel that he ref Stoeckel n on m p- affic from | borders of od in the com- Com il a 1o issue (Continued on Page 14) Hullabaloo Comes to Peaceful End When Coo-| hind Main St. Block. m., to 1:15 p. m. department, From 10:30 a. today, the polic more particularly Captain Kelly and | Officer Dolan, was in the throes of {great excitement and worry, due to| the reported loss of the ten months’ old daughter of Mrs. Tillie Dul of {410 Elm street, the baby having been | |left in her carriage in front of Wool- | worth's store on Main street, by her | and | | | |street, only to be missing when Mr: 4 |Olson came out a few minutes late | Mrs. Olson notified Officer Dolan, | who started an investigation at one |Mrs., Dul, who is employed by Lan- |ders, Frary and Clark in the B. & |K. branch on Ellis street, was sum- moned and other relatives were noti- | |fled. The search was on. Officer Dolan went all over the city to var- jous addresses where it was thought the child might have been taken, but not the slightest trace could be uncovered. The police learned that the in- fant's father is in the navy and he never seen hjs baby. Immediately credence was given to the ,theory that he had come into town and had |the child pointed out to him and, be- ing overcome by paternal affection, had carried her off without notifying anyone, At 1:15 o'clock, when the mystery | was at its height, Captain Kelly heaved a great sigh of relief when he received a telephone call from Sergeant John J. King, who had Atwater that the child, still securely bundled | in its carriage, had been found in the rear of Grant's store, distance from where Mrs. Olson had left her. Sergeant O'Mara and Offi- cer McCabe were sent out in the | (Continued on Page 14) ing Child Is Found Be-| 4 |dian to a position grandmother, Mrs. Olson of 410 Elm | a short | Police, Ma, Grandma, Relatlves In Frantic Hunt For “Lost” Baby INDIAN HERO REWARDED ‘(oolmgo Orders Postal Appointmens Without Examination For Dis- tinguished War Veteran. Washington, Sept |appointment of a full (P —The In 29 blooded the in postal service, “without regard to th {service rules,” has beer | by President Coolid appointee’s record | War. He is Thomas |Arikara tribe, who dian State Normal Training s at Santee, Neb., for six ye enlisted in a North Dakota comy and was cited man times ery overseas, especlally for | operations during which he captur ed single-handed many German sen |tinels who were taken back ‘Amo*k‘xu headquarters for ques-| | tioning. Rhode Is. Man at 86 Is Willing to Seek Office | Central Falls, R. I, Sept. 20 (A .; Former Judge Ambrose Choquet, | who two days ago observed his Wh‘ | birthday, today expressed willix ness to become the republican didate for senator in the gener: sembly. The republican city vention will be held tomorrow he has no_opponent as yet. Mr. Croquet retired several years | |ago from the judgeship of tha elov- | enth Rhode Island district court. H conducts a considerable law prac- | tice, civil | authorized | ge becaus the of the | in World Rogers, of tended the the In hool He r brav y scouting con ind | e e THE WEATHER ‘ | | New Britain and vieinity: | | | | Mostly cloudy tonight and | | Thursday; not much change | | | | | in temperature. | F e % (Senator W |to have jeered | [up. Where Mine Blast Trap;, % Men JURY IN DAUGHERTY CASE EXCUSED WHILE DEFENSE ~ LAWYERS ASK DISMISSAL relatives of entombed n ronwood, Michigan, where thr and 43 others trapped far below t of killed last mine at Friday Doctors and Ambulance Await As Rescuers Near Entombed Mmers Hope Revived That Men " CODLIDGE. GOVE, 15 ISSUE OF CAMPAIGN o one cives 1 iflis Says Demo- Tt St e rats Seek to Belittle Adminis Gives Hope Live. on its r T mai good W i G servica | € “erippling Presid towards the full fledge mocr > senior OF b Abov other t- io se sident. ( now by ti ind text whatever - furt 192 big vo ic presen demo- splayed blood & e res css in inary to is on battle ly o ing ral b give by ats fac en assail and ry act ¢ oothe ttle pla in ator ‘Willis said belittle in up. live ers ued phys o lid re for to and cod and workingmen create th i 1 impression candidates for se are conservative to indust way, he and 'l‘"y'y; Des Molnes High School Boy, ped From Squad, 1 to mal and a fata of Then Disappears. striking of administration Coolidge."” tor Willis democratic party hopelessly and irrovo ted to ¢ o the Nations,” 1t lidat tional ¢ Ohio on the the t, Des Mot 1 Ocl 20 (B—George school pu- to land football sophon d g for stat n: democrati of his p declare ¥ ticl 10 ty record m the (Continued on Page 16) {2 YEAR OLD STABBER Boy In Stamford Held For Slashing Two Playmates Who Taunted Him, Will T 'y Swi im From \m(hnd to l. cla_nd Stamford, Sept year old Italian tion by local police two other boys with a pocket knife yest of bad fechng over to pen of the stabber Peter Durant, aged wound extending his right Pherson, aged in his back. be fatally injured Durant and Mcl the other oulder M ep gash | Kintyre, feved to|a L land s only with the tides Dereham will more miles to get acros Dercham swam the hours, 56 minutes and won of 1,000 pounds offered 'an English newspaper for the first him with | British born subject to better Ger- his pocket | trude Ederle's time of 14 hours, 31 | minytes, lown John swim from ot land, to en Sec arm an tw Tre- \hout lad be- 1 from school r girls rather and to have|1 “beat him | 1 prob at have to cover many cause he walked to an with his sister and oth than with his fellows, said they were going to channel izo So when they t sticks, it is said, knife, aten 5 s SOUTHWEST IS T BY HEAVY STORMY ‘VGI'?I (ruz banxaged by Hurri- but | |y led Drop- | Batters Mentor | but | that | in | Mexico recely a|here, by | cane—Floods in Arizona il HOURS (F RAINFALL Hundreds of Tourists Are Marooned | and Railroads are No Toss of Life in Mexico or TU.! S. is Reported THREE LIVES LOST 20 (P lost in the Ve rexas, Sept. ere dollars. g in Vera loss a 1 Vera Cruz it by heavy great Radil- today Ari- | ppled communica- ollo a 60-hour rain- | hich caused heavy damage and marooned hundreds of No loss of life has been re- Der Sept. 29 (B officials to so A to repair ing tourists. P Southern are out lestruc- | the Northern and the Southern Pacific of commission today due to tion o and otl o Four In Me Bridges Down. ari railroad en Agua Northern are down 2 in ilding icson a t z Tiv wall of water Villages Are Flooded. international ny i to leave homes when ollapsed under the ince Reports from other dis- Northern Sonora reveal that valleys on the Agua ona, Frontleras and rivers are flooded line in Hurricane at Vera Cruz. 29 (P hurri- cane swept in upon Vera Cruz yes- terday Gulf of Me 0, aving in its trail much damage in | city adjacent towns and vil- lages. rom the G region the storm made its v nd into the rior consider rom t in was H al the here here were unroofed, s in the harbor were imer San Juan was pa wr 1 and heavy No fatalitics have been re- t one time the wind reach- of 125 miles an hour. 1 for several hou i vice e city was owing to a fear that people g in the water in the streets ctrocuted by fallen sev- sunk, fal the por elocity - storm 1 of wed for the s destroyed when the waterfront Boca Del Lilo, near Vera Cruz, el was in the direct path of the orn ck Vera Cruz, rdoba numer- | | unroofed by the storm ther: Al and t rom the gulf ertain sections of of from 2 to § fec e was e water from 9.—(— The | listur ported yester- 1 hu ico has apparently srthwestward, the u announced today no indications, how- that this distusbance slight or of moder- moved weatl re added, ore than storm, at Vera C territory yesterday, ot ported by the bureau to- It was described, however, ¢ considorable Intonsity, ge Wires Are Down 29 (P with pt. Telegra mmunication was practically paralyzed y by tropical hurricane |ported from Vera Cruz. The Western Union had but the re other tion The Postal from Laredo, Texas, in opera. Telegraph Mexican capital. A message d at the Postal offic follows: “Vera Cruz report on account serfous storm no com munication with Mexico City. |fic for Mexico Ci and traffic cir. (Continued on Page Fourteen), Washed Out— | nson, Fairbanks | Y| dueed were | ble damage | s invaded | tor- | filled the y | for dred miles north of | 5| which | uz | as Mexico | to-| two The |wires, one from New York and the |the Chicago Tribune in Paris. company |was out of communication with the Traf- Court WI“ Convene Again Tomorrow Morning When Judge Will Make Known His Decision in Matter. Arguments Being Made in Private But Heated Words Heard Outside Indicates That Session Is Spirited One. | | | | | | New York, 29 | jury in Sept. the Daughert (M — The -Miller con- trial 10:30 spiracy dismigsed o'clock morning to allow defe to con ue to p ments on dismissal motions before Judge Mack in chambers | When a recess taken for “‘mnv*h it wa learned that the ar- | guments ould be continued dur- |ing the afternoon. It was under- { stood that the judge had made no rulings on the motions before him tonay | The - discussions | private in Judge Mack's chambers in the Woolworth building. Heated Arguments Attorneys upon comlng out of the judge's chambers in the Wool- { worth building, told newspapermen ‘HHY heated argument was still be- ing made on the first defense mo- tion, that to strike out the testl- mony of Richard Merton, German 3m.~m| magnate, concerning conver- ations ho had in 1921 with George Williams, ~assistant to Alfen Property Custodian Thomas W. | Miller. Defense | to this Merton's was today until tomorrow e attorneys sent their argu- was were held in attornevs have objected conversation, relating to claim, cntered in the alien property custodian's office at that time, for release of $7,000,000 impounded assets of the Amert Metal. company. the ground t it would admissible only [ if Willlams had been ghown to be a co-conspirator in a plan to re. lease the assets fllegally. No evi. dence to this end has been intro- by the government, they maintain. Other Motions Planned After the judge's decision on the Merton-Williams conversetion, the | defense planned to make similar | motions concerning talks Merton testified he had with two other government officials, Guy D. Goff | and Adnah R. Johnson, concerning | his claim, | The last motions to be made by | the defense were admittedly to be | ror dismissal of the whole trial on | the ground that no evidence had | been introduced connecting the de- | fendants with any fradulent action. Miller and Harry M. Daugherty attorney general of the Harding | cabinet, are charged with conspir- ing to defraud the government of [ their best services in permitting | approval of the Merton claims. | They are not charged with ge- | cepting bribes, but evidence has been offered by the government tending to indicate that they re- cefved the bulk of a $441.000 fee given by Merton to the late John T. King, republican leader, to put the claims through the defendant's offices. During the trial defense counsel have objected to this line | of evidence on the ground that it | was introduced to prove bribery, although that is not the erime with which the defendants are charged | Judge Mack ruled, however, that | bribery might be shown as the in- ducement to conspiracy. Continued argument on this point was ex- pected to be made by the defense at today's closed hearing in cham- bers. E ce: of on be rly this afternoon a brief re. was taken in the hearing in the judge's chambers and some of the attending attorneys came out into the hall where newspapermen were waiting for word of progress. William S, Rand, chief counsel Miller, said that up to that ;vlmn all discussion had been con- | cerning the Merton-Willlams con- versation motion. He sald this mo- | tion had been made by Max D. Steuer, chief attorney for Daugh- erty, and that he (Rand) had not as yet made any motions. Rand said that after the spec motions relative to the admisstbil- |ity of conversations had been dis- | posed of, first Steuer and then he |would make formal motion | dismissal of the case against their clients, Bacon-Folsom W eddmg In Paris September 23 Robert Bradley Bacon of this and Miss Mary Folsom of Ina.anap- ~|olis were married in Paris, France, on Thursday, September 23. Mr. Bacon, who is the son of Mr. {and Mrs. William S. Bacon, is a |graduate of Princet: University, ‘26, and at present is connected with Mrs. Bacon s the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edson F. Folsom of In- dlanapolls and a graduate of Vassar, from o s BYNG STARTS FOR HOME. Quebec, Que., Sept. 29 (A—Baron Byng, retiring governor general of Canada, with Lady Byng, sailed to- day for England, ending his five- year term. In accordance with cus- tom Baron Byng will pass his suc- gessor, Lord Willingdon, st seay