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

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD O Average Daily Circulation For Week Fndmg ct. 23rd 13,732 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1926. —SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS SENTRY KILLS SOLDIER AT SENATE PROBE 10 FORT WRIGHT AS HE TRIES TAE IN OREGON'S a1, LITICAL FUNDS Scope Extended— » S[ATH} T[] RET]RE Washington Investiation Gels Under Way Toda Aimed at Legs, Went yi By Asied to Step Oi A High. Examining Committees INDIANA ACCUSATIONS Fleeing Man Struck in Hip, GOMPROWSE WITH WELD BRANDED AS POPPYCOCK Shot Glancing Upwards | —Major Pendieton Mak- ing Investigation. Victim Was Deserter BARRY r Being Held for Trial and Guard’s Bullet,| Myers Denles Ieague of Nations Bullding Commission to Hold Special Assn. Is Trylng to Defeat Watson Meeting Thursday Night in Effort and Robinson — List of Cam- To Meet Request of Mayor for palgn Expenses Filed Today Change. Shows Brennan of Chicago Spent cial meet 40,891.97. ing commission alled ird attem for th City, Mo., Oct the AL Kansa Dubre Is 1jamin \iting ng on 1t plumbing Investization of Oregon ordered Reed, senate ign was tod ion Alvin vas 1L ry I of ind g committees s now examinir uted, be tor James Missouri, con: will on ¢ n of the sgestion to el 100 Yards one place yers of ANge | funds commitiee, ¢ request for the came from George Putnam, and publisher of t gon) Capital-Jour aint by | Reed immediately telegraphed Works | ators MeNary, republican, Or W. | and democrat, Utah, to duct inquiry as soon as one now the Washington b'd(l" ch gro the board e ssed editor (Ore- nator Salem al, Sc lves nge, We as ally op which was su so1 d to gested by b3 gon, in gress into campaign. Mr. Putnam for an investig: of Fredsric senatorial candidate, posed by Bert J. Hane OP-land Senator Stanfleld, ther | who was defeated in the prim are g e it on good ml‘hm.g telegram read, Griflith of the Port- compan; aid the gonlan $35,000 for op- on to Stanfield, of which $25,- was sent from headquarters in Philadelphia, and only a senate i vestigation can establish the facts. No report was made to the statr of this contribution.” Washington Inquiry Seattle, Wash,, Oct. 25 (A — United States Senator Wesley Jones, of Washington, republic candid for re-elec eral others prominent Deserted in Calif, etitors in the ff the exam- | 2 compe tion of tr gn the republic who is ¥, democrat, | republican, specifically L 9€9" | ning boards. i Steiner, coast guard , E rmay Curtin will or ctri- op- the oft Insp ve me city not ted comm to have through employe am'’s I'ranklin K. land Electric Portland O ros 000 competitors. 1 ay's mec indic: in e ting. ed amina- ssion S m also rt - | desire tions commi o from Fo v hou 1 fc Pt er and member of is onc of the electrical examiners and William R. Fenn, a | umbing contractor, is one of the mbing examiners. Joseph Barry and O. A. Peterson, the former cx-commissioner 1 member the elec board, and the latt ctor and member board, will be asked | councils in this their °$ under the | gummoned appear compromise. 1t is planned, al h to ask charges on with palgn expenditures, charges were pre- ed Saturday by A. Scott Bullitt. tor Jones' dem ic oppo- at the close of Bullitt's testi- that a total of $27,026.94 has pent fn connection with his own campaign.. The investigation being conducted by Tnited States Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore- | RO precipitated by charges by Samuel R. Sumner, republican state chairman. that Mr. Bullitt spent $100,000 in his campaign, and that his father-in-law, C. D, Stimson of Seattle, had expressed tention of spending $200,000 | additional in Mr. Bullitt's hehalf necessary. nator i armed det , who lodged him an er of rical ins INTEND NO GOERCION OF FACTORY WORKERS anley Works and Rule Shop Approve In- dependent Voting state to gation instruc- to counter school to|travagance in e commit- | ator Jones' ca The counter his scheme, the st le e Sen- as members of St Plumt aminations November plication with before who wish t ex- a. in- NEW COINAGE ORDERED IN BELGIAN CURRENGY Belga for Foreign Trading —Franc Stabilized at 174.31 to Pound Senz nent, mony been Inspector at date, P. the republi- are to con- James M. of the Stan- livision of the of the Stanley 4 in how they 1o day Patrick but | In the first of a series of \ noond es that ur ick, super ind Ley Works, told this noon th Works is nof vote a was a c t 1 1 £ workers in- introduced elphia lawyer, uy Me! BN ry was asked to Hicks, erinten- the state Anti-Saloon and Mrs. Jackson Silbaugh er for the state W. C. T. | U. These two organizations, Mr. | | Bullitt charged, have been active in Senator Jones' campaign. Sev- republican party leaders have been summoned. ivate ¢ 1d him forc um, league, an orga Brussels, at 174.31 Bel Oct, an franc will be stabilize to the pound sterling, it e was officially announced today. The and said: “T want every | franc will remain legal currency for e as 1| domestic v but a new gold unit e ed the and equal approxi- and as the work- ely T francs for ot rling, will be issued (v tn n transactions, He At B zation of the currency Sl from tomorrovw, F s 2 new $00,000,000 stabilization iDL campalen negotiated in London will be Higganum for e genr loan, it is learned, told at 7 per cent amortization. rm of 30 years. Nine suppc by man who befor ring a at Hi employes small f election day man in my his employ W mmand Belga, | Charges Are Denied s City, Oc B — Testi- | before the senate campaign committee that the league of non-partisan association trving to aftect the senatorial | in Indiana s “poppy- | | Kan will | mony tfective when he loan plac fons | was cam cock tanley Works o same as the B i Atiorney Conway experie 1s an employe of a tory and his nocturnal that eventually won him a » Philadelphia bar. He democratic rule 1igns will bear plus one per 1t is for a Joseph Myers, jr, declared today at the resumption of the ate inquiry into that cam- | | paign | have agreed to| Myers represented that associa- | the Federal Re- | tion in Indiana during the first six United Statcs, the | months of the evar and Clyde A, 1d, the Bank of | Walb, chairman of the Indlana re. Reic mb' (of Ger-| pypican state, committee, testified o aunansbanksiinapan, jfiyge fe i B G e o Pth s e | Sweden, iy istrie. and Hun- | 5ropaganda® put out by the asso. | ciation was designed to defeat Sen- | ators Watson and Robinson, repub- | Means, because of thelr against the world court Chairman Walb also came in for an attack by Senator Reed, demo- crat, Missouri, chairman of the committee, in a statement made by the Missourian hefore he reopened the hearing at the fedeyal building. plaining that his 'salary was $3,000 a year, with $50 a month for | expenses, Myers testified that the pamphlets he distributed and which Walb produced at Chicago went monthly to non-voters, college and hikh school students. “Was that campalgn carried only in Indiana or all over union” Chairman Ree dasked. “All over the union.”” Myers said, | complication to international tr adding that the lcague of nations On tho other hand, the cholee of | non-partisnn assoclation was the ono bilization rate of approxima ""l aded ) former Supreme Court o the pound met With | Justics Crarte. “Do you know anything about an $8.000,000 fund for world peace al |leged to h been subscribed by millionaires enator Reed asked. “I Know nothing of any such| fund,” Myers replied Walb previously had told Senator Reed that he had heard such a fund was subscribed at a New York meet- of his 14 e t re nee of to tt thous wor ir days of he sald, without r curled imneys and 1920 wh ends of men v no lon factory ¢ upward factory n the banks will place ) in credits at the disposi- Dank of Bélgium to as- out the immediate o direct the bank’s connection with composed of the nors and two by a regency f nine ]V“.’sfini world's commerce, surest road ndition is to fail to vote a to return to W warned form sent con employment and 1 served only througl nt admin that will enable o return to that | tion of the for sist in carryir stabilizatio vote s that of 1. tives blican vice gove assisted yosed n the and fina luction of surpris it to func- the new currency it had been last minute that was contemplated. camo from fl- | and commercial circles, the g expressed that the of the Delga would add | wages ind il at that it will con- 1. He asked f he new ly to- thought Cor on nancial the opinion b considc ion cd tl Youse, woyld not ¢ gt and of the pr preed th hold call the her ask 1t the together Lawyer head of each house- the members of A | and find out wt v | e ” they ing to vote and why. He MILLS RESUME TODAY urged his listeners to and think [ opeco “Conn.. Oct. 25 (P—The politics from now until election Ballouville cotton mills, which has and t1 ht re en idle, started this | can rtial force of oper- | Henry uipruent changes | rati , with those man, will Pineville and Attawaugan, form- and Teve erly the property of tha Blackstone | 12:40 o'clock. | company, will employ 500 hands. ) family ve n to vote a straig hav at s been made thi ¢ Rule noon at n at th tomorrow (Continued on Page 13), Structures of Modern Type erford structure construction to four, the er of o housing the street, {a permit to place Vine William H mit street. apartments a ber 8. ty the | near here late last night, a | to | Chiet of Police R. J. Martin, SUBTERRANEAN CRACKS EMPTYING RESERVOIR New York's $160,000,000 Ashokan Supply Being Virtually Exhausted. Yor York eit hrysler Sales Gorp. Loses Fight (0 Place Insurance on Cars It Sells ATOTHER DECISION IS FAVORABLE T0 PRESIDENT flush Upholds ¥ The voir is e Supreme Court Chief Executive to Remove Post- masters or Other Executive Ap- pointees Without Having to Ob- hug ible, BUYS ARE TIED 70 TREES AND LASHED or New Haven Man, 59, Jailed for His G‘uelty REFUSED (10 TELL WHY tain Consent of the Senate Mem- da hers, deferred pa plan 14 on the e id panies - of the Youngsters, of Age, Five and Lured From Seven Their Year Homes With to theix Promises of Candy, Then on proy within Beaten. New, en by their r, two boys one fiv ek morning and t inject > validity of cir o cou dent is Upheld f the pr to remov Louis Sul and was hurri from po: of the bruises on their he In any to cha P sid, My has rs as post proved n which the legisla the government h 1 of constitu highest cou the question boy B stat six t %es of general “COWBOY Great Charles boy art home T was due to ARTIST” , Mont., ( DIES , in the act autho appointmen (l{()l\l R APPEATL Wa ton, Oct P11 ard Croker, ader of Tammany nied a supreme time | were of their overturn father's est Only 130 Prfse.lt at Raz’lzes ~ Held So Far i in LocalfiCqmpa?gn $600,000 VALUE GF NEW APARTRIENTS removed nted, wering this quest Hal unsucec the essful settlement Republican and Democratic Spellbinders Fail to At- tract Voters—Leaders to Pep Up Drive. Are Gaining in Popularity ran epublican mocrat voters of the city and the campaign house od ector Apartment mits to be i office of Insp will increas num s of this type in cou building committees of both par moaning the fact that th imported vertised attrac to but 130 vote republicans Postmaster General me s the peakers attracted : idience §2. The democrats, with Ro andidate for th ressman P. Derby, had an a 43. With practically the entire 17,000 rs yet to be reache West Main Issues of the campaign, Allen will receive a per- | parties will redoubls thel ts Walnut | build up inter and four room | Patrick (onwa cing built. lawyer, will addr, o held this we tomorrow of wi Assistant ett and as involved erein units inves to to appro: of local of in U. , and n of ¥. 0 rtment Goorge x-C structure Ratner 21 on to receive and str for 21 Twy on eck TO FIGHT IN HARTFORD ]hmm 1, O 5 () — M r George Mullizan of th ieut A. C. today s signed Harry P d Pat McCar -round bout in the Mond n, democ gressman, tic nominec for wijl speak Fr unior High tform with him will be candidates for ths gener mbly. night and he annc 0ol rsson ¢ of B Ha ning, al as rmory eve 25 CONVICTS ESCAPE Houston, Tex., Oct. 25 (A, five white conviets cscaped Blue Ridge pris f rding night THE WEATHER Twen- | | New Britain and vicinity: ; Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight. reports reccived here by ‘11 Per<0n= Injuled as | Gale Capsizes Hudson F relqhter' . Two Killed When Boiler Explodes Brady of Peekskill Wrecked, Man and Woman Killed and Nine Other Persons Narrowly scape G. As t tween Peckskill WITNESS T0 TELL OF ~ FORMER. SOLDIER 1§ FLORIDA DEVASTATION ~ FOUND DEAD IN BED at John J. Coffey Served in France During World War Dr. Tippey Speaker Meeting of Red John J. Coffey, 3§ the his pter of a veteran lept Place, y¢ have compl while h apter which is to home, 38 Cottage 8. he bad be went to h| arouse hin ke the fo! His brothers with whom tel Burri n planning a hunt room at 4:30 o'clock to shocked to dis- cover him the victim of an aflment which d been troubling him for the past yer linner Thn remuing were examined by heldon edical Examiner John J. Purney meet- “ho proclaimed death due to heart clection disease. He gave Frank B. Duffey, undertaker, permission to prepare the body for burial Mr. Coffey was a native of this city and with the exception of the years he spent in the service, he lived Lere all his life. When his her, John J. Coffey, veteran po- man and dog warden retired from his position, John Jr., took ¢ duties. He was a lather by rade, He was a member of Com % N. G, and saw service outfit at the .\T-\l 1 border in the mer of 19 At entr al Coun- of the United States into the world | hrist in America, war and the mobilization of the Con- and guests of | nectlcut National Guard, he was dis- devastated sec- charged from service for a slight dis. Tippey was for abillty. He was later drafted for m- service and sent to Camp Upton, L. pas- |1, where due to the fact that he had Metho- | previous military training and York cqulpped with uniform, he rem §0th only 10 days. He was sent to France and vithout delay, 8 assigned to he infantry the I'ourth division, gular army. He immediately and joined his division at Here the United States army w still carrying on the battle of C Pm teau Thierry and the local man was detailed with his platoon into action in the open country of the bloodiest war and while charging a machine gun nest with 16 others of his out- fit, a bullet passed through his right wrist and he was invalided back to Base Hospital No. 7 at Tours. retu 1 to this country as a casual and was discharged from service at Camp Upton March 18, 1919, viving him are his parents, Mr. Mrs. J. Coffey; three Lawrence, and Mrs. Rose al re of t e annu rts of nd werr vork 1 be printed form, a copy After the is innual e chapter and the eth Bye, who is con- ell of her an within the months, Mis. a 1ua fa Univer 1 ined in ny E of with that M oeial Tippey, the sit to the ida. D g the hurricar Red estigate ¢ ately followir ted by ral Cou 1 nd vestigation he s going into all wat Re talking with went to the front 1es to visit nditior some cities and ross relief ministers, doc- s. in pent ns, zements of the °h of the pub- l Cross itself. Red Cross are > welcomed tion is made John 1 h, nd four sisters, Mrs. Fred e directors of e: Paul K N the local chapter Rogers, Rev. L. H. Robinson, George 5 4 . Earl Kisse Mrs. W. T. Wells, Rev. E. Lamb, BE. W. Irvi S. H. Holmes, F. G and W. F. Brooks. tephen Gunterman, Mrs. H rd Smith and M » Coffey, all of this city. Military honors will mark his fun- eral will be in charge of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at o'clock tomorrow morning at the Church of St. John vangelist rial will ‘s ceme- LOFWE, MAN WHO BEAT UNION, NEARLY BROKE nowskl . Spea Platt, >eter Crona be Coupe and Bus Collide Fail River, Mass, Oct. 25 (& rsons were ured today ously, when a mo!m e, skidded, turne and crashed Into a ven passengers hurt to the Union hospit was said that Mrs. Jo Fall River, was 'n a condition from a probabie Famous Danbury Hatter ey R Still Hopes to Recoup jured but one, His Business of New Bedford, we 4 James bault re re; s of Fall River. 1 mostly to cuts, inj la — 4 from Fall River for Y owe, t Oct he ha 25 (P—D1 of Da Conn,, who becama famous twenty years ago when he fought in the courts labor unions who boycotted goods Because he would not The bus bo rich Doston, was proceedin 8 1st outside of Fal ceident occurred ver of tha coupe in sh, escaped unin lemolished a part of the house of Joseph C. Ferreir: whose wife and four children bare- | day ly escaped Injur | “Old Man Loewe,” as he is known _| to his fellow townspeople, is 74 years | 01d, nearly blind, and broke. His | 1ast battle is to keep from creditors his factory, now bare, but which used to employ 350 men, and his home. Both are heavily mortgaged. When Mr. Loewe staged his finsh fight with the unions more than 20 | years ago he won a $240,000 verdict | against the Hatters' Union and the American Federation of Labor, which was upheld by the United States supreme court. bury merset, en t ward Wi ed In the cr: ed. The bus his New ., the York World says to- PLAN DOUBLE WEDDING Marriage licenses have been is- sued to Charles Judt, 5 Arch street, and Miss Cilli Roushitz of 118 Kensington avenue, and to Joseph Poglitsch of 1104 Stanley street and Miss Theresa Judt of 68 Shuttle Meadow avenue, and are planning to be married tly in a double wedding cere- Mr. Judt and Miss Judt are brother and sister. £ of § (Continued on Page 13) g trip | |1y look He was in one | He | 9:00 | o his shops, 1s waging his last | He collected | RESIDENT AGENTS' EASTERN STATES SWEPT BY HEAVY INSURING RIGHTS GALES, HOUSES UNROOFED, WINDOWS UPHELD BY COURT BROKEN AND SHIPPING PARALYZED Plttsfleld Mass., Suf- fers Much Damage- Wires Blown Down in New London-Sound Steamers Keep Within Mile Wind Rips Through New York, While New Jersey Also Feels Force of Hurri- cane-Like Storm. hurricane re to- build , chim- and much to property d So o one was injured by the four ide. The were roofs Vm n off houses, 1 other outbuildings wreek and trecs of much value up- rooted. The wind over a stroteh o miles long ar erty loss may « 1 use co ess windows storm was most serious at 9 .. m., but there was a recurrence at 11 o’ clock that did heavy damage The barometer was down to 2§ at e helght of the storm, which was accompanied by 1in, Much Water Falls w Haven, Oct. P—1f the old saying of the farmers that the does not freeze in the fall until the wallsand brooks are full Is of any value for forecasts winter ma just around the corner, for Connecticut's streams were over- flowing today after last night's very heavy storm. The weather bureau here said that inches of rain fell last night, which was a heavy autumnal shower and as considerable moisture had fallen in the past fortnight which had not run off or dried up & drought the coming winter is hard- d for. The wind blew up to 36 miles an hour during the night, stripping trees of their leaves and giving the countryside a fallish aspect such as usually is seen in November. How- ever the storm brought in a high temperature, for thermometers here were in the seventies early today. Biz Blow At New London ew London, Conn., Oct. 25 (P— This city was without lights dur- ing most of the night as a result of a terrific gale which racked this city yesterday and last night. Tele- phone and light wires were down in many places, and in several sections, floods were reported where catch basins, clogged with leaves and other storm debris failed to hold the water. The harbor was crowded with shipping which sought shelter last night from the storm. Among the vessels which put in here were the Colonial liners, Georgia and Lex- ington, plying with passengers and freight between w York and Providence. They wera able to eon- tinue their trips this morning. Steamers Held Up Providence, R. I, Oct The steamers Concord and Tenn of this port left their moorings last night on their regular New York trips but dared not venture beyond the confines of Narragansett bay in the face of the raging storm which brought coastwise shipping to a standstill. The skippers of both ves- sels dropped “the hook” at Saun- derstown and rode there In satety t h the night and returned to Providence this morning where all passengers were put ashore. The steamer Lexington which left New York last night, was forced into New London harbor by the stift southeasterly gale. She will arrive here this afternoon Gale In New York New York. Oct. 25 (P—A five- minute wind “twister” with a veloc- ity. of miles an hour, blew through the heart of the city today leaving a trail of shattered windows, On the northwest corner of 42nd strget and Fifth avenue, large win- lows on three floors were blown in by the wind, pedestrians ran in all directions to escape shower of glass which fell to t alk: At the same time windows were smashed by the strong wind in the offices of the Transit Commission at Damage in New Jersey Newark, N. J, Oct. the third time in as many months northern and central New Jersey today were swept by winds which at Paterson reached the proportions of a small tornado, High winds wera reported at As- bury Park, where telephone poles were snapped off, trees uprooted and transmission lines broken. The Paterson storm was conflned to the Main street business district, where window panes were broken and awnings were torn off. Several big trees were laid low. One man was slightly injured. In Hackensack a (Continued on Page 13), large political