New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW ENGLANDERS MEET T0 DISCUSS MUTUAL PROBLEMS Delegates From Six North- castern States Attend Hartford Convention JOINT JURISDICTION OF UTILITIES OFFERED Would Have States Affected Control Power Ratcs—Connecticut's State Forester Declares That Forestry Presents One of New England’s Most Difficult Items—Various Speakers Make Addresses. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 18.—(@— More than a thousand New Eng- landers with a single thought—the development and prosperity of their native land—were gathered here to- day to discuss matters vital to the six northeastern states. From village and from big clty they came for the second annual New England conference. Not the frugal, non-progressive folk so often pictured are these New Englanders Wwho are here to see that their states do not lose the leadership in many | lines which they have held for years, but successful business men, pros- perous manufacturers, prominent professional men and well-to-do farmers, Talk Things Over The morning was spent today in zetting acquainted. The delegatc and the guests “talked things over” in the lobby of the Hotel Bond, headquarters of the conference. Shortly before noon the New Eng- land council, the executive body of | the conference, met in executive sossion. The council, composed of twelve men from each state, was the out- rowth of the first conference held last year in Worcester, Mass. That | ference was stimulated by the t committeo of eighteen, ap- vointed by the six New England ~overnues to devise means for the | 1 opment of comprehensive views of problems common to the section. The plan which made the organization a permanent one wa cd to last yvear's conference ! )y the joint committee. During the year a research com- | uittee of the council has conducted study of the merchandising of ts and has into agriculture, industry in the s 2 committee’s report was ate as he ar- | acles in the thway of progress of New Eng- nd industries and glves m for overcoming these retarding fac- Guests at Luncheon tes were guests of the Hartford chamber of commerce at a luncheon today. Following this the first session of the conference was to be held in the auditorlum of the Broad street high school. At t time the president of the counc John 8. Lawrence of Boston, was to give his add riving yesterday nformal reception Connecticut council, committee, and the committee. The 1 Mrs. John L. Tr governor. The lobby and the mezzanine floor of the Bond have been given over o the conference. Information and registration booths occupy t zanine floor and other booths an large exhibit of posters and pu erial boosting New Ei py the lobby. In the ere 1s also an exhibit of the Con- recticut omological so Public Utilitie A plan whereby the public uti ties commissions of adjoining stat in New England may have joint urisdiction over rates on power smitted across state lines was reported to the conference by the pwer committee of the New Eng- land council. This plan, which was presente for the commitiee by Chairman k 0. Goss, president of the pufacturing company of W bury has been declared the most constructive plan yet brou, ward anywhere in the United for meeting the situation ¢ of the extension of long power nission. the Connecticut entertainment atter is headed by wbull, wife of the Plans i ates | sing out | distance | tr cement which it is proposed New | Lngland power companies will make part of their future contracts for | the interstate sale of power in New | nd. This agreement provide t in case of complaint on the part | of either company party to a con- tract for the interstate sale of pow er, either party may request that | representatives of the public untili- | of the respective in consideration of complained ties commissions states sit jointly the interstate rate agalnst, and that the companies | shall accept such rate as may be fixed joimtly by the two state com- wissions. In the cases of companies having 1 a single e sale of contract for the inlm—‘w power an additional | c¢lause of the proposed voluntary agreement is suggested. This addi- tional paragraph provides that if an interstate rate shall appear to a| commission of any state to be a fac- | # tor in another rate case before the | commission, it may ask the commis- | sion of the of tate to join with it | An considerin ods | 7 | boarder in the home, {suspects wer {to call | sell EW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 MARIE LEAVES LOUISV]LLE FOR NEW YORK TONIGHT; TO TAKE FIRST STEAMER HOME Illness of Her Husband Causes Royal Visitor| to Cut Short Her Visit in This Country and Hasten Back to Bu- charest. {| Condition Reported Causing No Anxiety In Rumanian Capital Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 3’9 43 ov. 13th .... 1 926.—TWENTY PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS TO0K BIG CHANGE T0 ARREST DRIVER Hartford Shenfis Glamber Onto Mail Truck After Man Matter Under Investigation in Hart- ford—Armed Marines Not There Awaiting Train. Hartford, Nov. |1ess of the order lssued to United | | Louisville, K:~., Nov. 18 (A—Queen [Marle will go direct to New York, when she leaves Louisville tonight, {and will sail for kome on the lavailable steamer, | Queen Marie’s Train En Route to | Louisville, Ky, Nov. 18 (A—Queen Marie will abandon her tour at Detroit on Saturday because of log . : - King Ferdi e will arrive norning and lexpects to on November 24 on the Berengaria. Marie authorized this ement early to Sum- oning Colonel John H. Carroll in | j charge of the train said the news from Bucharest was discour- ing. The Rumanian queen spends | Bucharest, Rumania, Nov. 13 () 'qdnfr in Louisvilla auqd t:m:r:jv' —XKing Ferdinand’s condition causes |in Cincinnatl and then goes to De- no anxiety, Premier Averescu told |troit, parliament last evening, but as his | | malady is of long standing, the cure | is necessarily slow. (Ferdinand’s ailment has been de- signed as sigmoiditis or inflamma- tion of the large intestine.) . NINE IMPRISONED ON CHARGES OF LYNCHING |Georgians Get Terms | Ranging From Four Years to Life she KING FERDINAND Official Statement authorized the announce- 1is morning soon after the | train lett Indianapolis where she| forecast the sudden ending of th tour in an address in which she said | Indianapolis would perkaps be the | |last American city she would see| bject to drastic change. The new | | schedule calls for visits to Louisville | today, Cincinnati tomorrow and De- roit for one day instead of two on aturday. Immediately after she| turned to her train at Indianapolis | Marie summoned Colonel John H. | Carroll in charge of the train. Wants To Go Home “I want to go home,” she said. There were tears in her eyes as she | |explained that new cable advices | |had come from Bucharest concern-| |ing the health of her husband and that the news was not good. The exact nature of the message | was not disclosed. J. E. ELANDER DIES OF | Douglas, Ga, Nov, 18 (P—Nine | members of a mob that removed | Dave Wright, a white man, from the county jail last Augus 27 and |lynched him, have pleaded gn. v to ‘munh-r and drawn sentences of frow. l years to life imprisonment. T in less than 90 days, th lcourts have all but closed & case that revolved around the only | recorded Iynching in Georgia in 1926 and imposed a line sentence for par- AUOMOBILE INJURIES o S . |first time in the state's history. \{ amp St. Man Hit on Major Brown, a white man, and | Church St. by Woman brother-in-law of the woman for Driver | Whose death Wright was held, plead- | {ed guilty to murder yesterday when oly four jurors had been selected in {a trial called for 13 men suspected |02 being members of the mob. Ro- {bert Bullard, one of the defendants turned state’s evidence and was kept V: from court., hundred persons were | crowded into a little court room when Judge H D. Reed was ask ed to permit c 1 for defense and prosecution to confer. Immediately a plea of guilty was entered for Brown and before spectators reacted | to the uncement, Judge Reed ad sente man to lite im- | prisonment. as of g ed for eight oth the court imposed sen from 4 to 20 years. Archie Tenner, Geor Willie Arnold, Joe Hutto, Alma Histor, Adams, Brown admittedly was 1 the mob. His sister-in-la phia Rollins, was slain kitchen of her home early in while preparing dinner. Injuries received when he struck by an automobile driven by {Miss Edith Johnson of 417 :Lnllzy\ et, on Elm street, near Chestnut, | | shortly before 7 a. m., November 10, | used the death of Sven John Elan- \ der, aged 66, of 88 Camp street, J.lI | was ot New Britain Gene hospital shortly |before 11 o'clock this morning. Mr. Elander's condition was Confii\lr‘rul‘ serious at the time he was taken to | the hospital and a v days ago it | ame critical. Yesterday and last night he was apparent that he would not live. Dr. E. T. Fromen attended him at | ¥ n were arrang- nts and | es varying born in Sweden, |and upon coming to this country, took up his residence in Portland, | Conn. He left Portland and came to | .w Britain and had resided here | for 30 years du od he | | employed at New Britain | Machine Co. He a member of Hm First Lutheran church and of ner lodge, O. of V. urviving him are a brother-in- lay, John B. Larson, two neph Emil and Leonard Larson, a niece, Mrs. Christine Adamowt Berlin. he funeral arrangements, charge ot Ericksen & Carlson, incomplete at the pres Dr. n J. Pur lical examiner, viewed the rema and declared death due to traumatic pneumonia caused by the f) six ribs. Although Mr. Elander also | received lacerations alout | these injuries were minor and no part in his death. The medical examiner has already reported the death to the police, who 1ve not yet taken any action. BIG SESQUI DEFICIT and C] the in August | soon afterward when It was learned {that he and Mrs. Rollins had quar- reled, supposedly over the manu- | facture of whiskey. At midnight on August 27 a mask- {ed band called at the outer office of the jail, overpowered the sheriff and moved his keys. Before an alarm ould he given Wright was dragged com his cell. The sheriff's wife ripped the mask from one of the men as the party sped away In an automobile. Later,Wright s body was found at roadside, some distance from the , riddled with bullets. Efforts to apprehend the mob we begun immediately and Brown w s relation to Mrs One by one | in are | Jo Rollins w; a county gr ments namir Three men have not been apprehended. Three others, who refused to enter pleas, are held in jail. hey are Jack tinger, John Strickland and Tilden Smith, Court was adjourned today subject Will Show Loss of More Than Five Million Dollars. Philadelphia, Nov. 18 () — T | sesquicentennial international expo- | fon, which will close at the end of o month, will have a deficit of be- tween $35,000,000 and $5,250,000. This announcement was made to- day by Mayor Kendrick, who added | that $5,000,000 originally intended | | for subw construction, would be | by a vote of two thirds of the stock- |used to pay the exposition's deficit. holders at a mecting here today. | Authority to transfer the money has Further authorization was given to |been granted by a vote of the people. the plant and stock to the| The mayor blamed the weather assau manufacturing company. | which resulted in poor attendance as |one of the outstanding reasons for the financial failure of the sesqui. | He said that if the anticipated at- tendance of 15,000,000 had materal- ized, another story might have been told. LIQUIDATION APPROVED Boston, Nov. 18.—(P—Liquida- tion in whole or in part of the! Tremont and Suffolf mills, a cotton manufacturing corporation capital- ized for $2,000,000 was authorized RED CROSS ROLL CALL FUND The Red Cross annual roll call ‘ fund today is as follows: Quota $6,000. Yesterday's total Received today ALL RESOLUTIONS SIGNED All resolutions adopted by the ‘common council last night were .$1015.10 163.00 Total to date $1178.00 (Continued on Page 18.) signed by the mayor and there will |be no vetoes at the next meeting. American | the serious turn in the condition | | laying of t failed and this morning it | | mission | tre | eral, | date for | county spent $500, | Connolly of Waterbu Centennlal, Which Closes This Month ‘ States Marines to keep all unauthor- ized persons away from mail trucks and to “shoot first and’ make inquiry deputy sherif: ay atternoon Mariner from a mail union station, hand- prought him to t county bu Tt he was ater reieased and returned to | truck the matter is undergoing ti strict 1 regulations relative to the de- he mails Didn’t Go to Camp Mariner, who has been a member onnecticut Guard failed to go to camp mmer, was fined $75 and the fine mained unpaid. The incident led to he issuance of an order for his ar- rest, and three officers served it, ap- proaching Mariner on the truck. Mariner told the officials they had no business on the mail truck. He is then said to have reached as if for revolver an the deputies bered to the driver's seat, snap- afterwards,” th late y | George H. V. truck t the at cuffed him, removed ugh post re- e truck an\l nty building. d to return to ceeded Authority ward W. Dewey had conference this morning with P master Harry K. Taylor, and the matter was also discussed with As- sistant United States Attorney George H. Cohen. It was pointed out hat the office ad exceeded their authority in removing Mariner from the truck, the proper procedure to have been to have apprehended the man at his home. Took Big Chance The rea “d dogs” 3 signed to guard the mails to om the Hartford post office | unlon station, were not present the truck was because the mact was backed up to the loadin orm at the depot await val of the mail t | deputies were in pl unknown to the marinc men today declared the {a big cha in arrestin | when they did. 'MORRIS SPENT §4,290 IN UNSUCGESSFUL CAMPAIGN McCarthy, a on the As clothes and federal ers took g the drive re Defeated for Attorney General, Files Expenses At $552.53. Hartford, Charles G. date fo the sccretary of state hat election expenscs amounted to 0 and included ems: Fred . Holt, treasurer of democratic state o 1 com- $4,000; John Murphy, rer of the democratic town committee of Newtown $200. Ir addition the report hast em o $50 for “traveling expen own automol at ten cents a mi rederick M. cratic candidate for pent $ U. Nov. 1 tic car his $4,- following Conn., Mo th McCarth: attorney Rollin Tyler, of Haddam andidate r United $1,887, includ g a Cumrl ution of $1,5 to th democratic state cent committe Homer 8. Cummings contributed to his campaign. Dr. Arthur ¥. O'Leary democratic candidate man in the fifth dist 3832, Games Geddes sherif 35 a0 candi- Haven Miles F. demo- in the republic in N and cratic candidate for she me county spent $1,04 The receipts of the | town committee of Bri $27,679.90 and there is ¢ | hand ot $3,110.53. .Reports Indicate Bllllsh Strike Is Not Settled Tondon, Nov. 18.—(F)— e miners’ secretary, anno day that the vote th against acceptance the ment's strik ttlement by a large majority. All the large districts wer ptance by considerabl | he sald, except in Yorks there was a very small m favor of acceptance. The members of the mine exe- cutives me: this afternoon to consider the sitnation, were gloomy and perplexed. The delegs ence which W that the miners ac will mect tomorrow to solve the di publican ced to- of men was ept the terms in an endeavor * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Rain late tonight and Friday somewbat warmer tonight and colder Friday night. % EXCEED THER AUTHORITY, ,At Momen as Empty Truck Was | 18.—(P— Heed- | A. J. Cook, | te confer- | k recommended | COUNCIL SESSION ENDS IN UPROAR Judd Declares Meeting Ad- | journed, Stts OIf Sablotsky RAILROADING” CHARGED. Sixth Ward Councilman Claims Re- publicans Affronted His Constitu- ents By Gagging Him On Criticism | of Corporation CounseL. | Last night's common councll meet- | ing ended in a furore of excitement | blotsky | lliam H. Judd ethods and with | the house | fon after | adjourned without | ablotsky the privileg an effort to squelch Sablo out his annou common council, the council cut o business, | contained | dis- | new printed sed. Nair Leads Al Adjournment Move id L. Nair of the t ward m notion to ad- journ. Councilman Sablotsky had en the floor earlier in the meet- | ent on the Kirkham case | 1s ruled out of order. When | siness on the table had been blotsky again chair. An ot his arose a [ instant tion for | de to ad-| 1d called out. | sist on Other se and en- | banged the | or a vote. A solid | was recorded and | 1ocratic side of house, | ing it was dumb- | suddenness of the d no vote. d lost no time in im to which he had e part of th had held throughout. It time anyone other than 1 had been in the chair t ma; s ahout to happen. ter protest but Judd gavel and called the e leaving t ascended reeting an was the fir: or was at s of Chair- in inarily app: ar i s :'\n"]\l t r}\h‘! t office yor. He ins as a rvm sentative of a g of voters who had seen im to offic s refuss (Continued on Page Nine) 'HUSBAND 96, WIFE 9, AT 73TH ANNIVERSARY One Surviving Bridesmaid of Wedding, 92, Present Today Columbla, Ga., Nov, red 0. Blackmar, formerly Mary ifth wedding in their home. In the rec fty-on Wding gu Bla for longevity., Yirst of all select so * he said, *dc tion to your new a 1 cd all medicines rec: him and eventually he the curatives,” Mr. Blackmar's parents to nbus from i 1831, One ancestor, ¥ West ott, was one of the Ive members of the orig church in this cou 42 0LD GRAVES MOVED New Fairficld And Sherman Ceme- members of the fa John Blac ts were present. mar gave his ncestors, an fArst al Baptist tery to Become Reservoir — One 1 Grave Was 139 Years Old. nbury, Nov. 13 (P)— moving 412 bodies from ¢ New Fai Sherman, where an immense lake i to be created in connectior Rocky Flver hydro-electric pla the Connecticut Light and 1 company, is nearing comple | Many of the bodies have the cemeteries a ce One grave, which w that of Ichabod Beach was old. The body of was disinterred was buried |ago. | A force of 150 men is present in the removal of the in the cemeteries and the ing % [of timber from the vast territory to | be occupted by the basin of the lake. | The Connecticut Jight and Power |company has acceded to request {from this city that the lake, which |will extend into the town of Dan-| {bury, be named Lake Danbury, and it Is expected here that the body of Iwater, which will be the largest in Connecticut, will be so designated. four old and ion hodies cle | only knows w | complained of to the police. ley investigated and re- | ported that the men finally agreed to MRS. GIBSON POINTS TO MRS. HALL, WILLIE AND STEVENS AS PERSONS SHE RECOGNIZED AT MURDER SCENE MRS, JANE GIBSON KRS GIBSON HERDINE “INCHARLOTTE'S EYES, Thrilled as “Pig Woman” Points Finger at Mrs. Hall BY CHARLOTTE MILLS (Copyright 1926, Famoits Features Syndicate, Inc.) Somerville, Mrs. Gibson Risking her 1 tice. There this world who would do that. N. J., Nov. 18.—Poor How br: s, for truth and jus- not many people in Her are willin on the today may n that she to app will but she NaDDY. has ¢ fact t Woman,” he is a crude it s in spite o to oic fl v can any on afte ot th great s risk one's 1 has nothing to gain r way. I am 3 would not want to ling hadow death with a truth her does not of fense will have a hard t ateract the story which fa ed lips. 1 her will count ting that M con- for much. ibson r has has had ks of 1 unhappi e run through her wl has her victorious for woma > testimon Mrs eaches Gib- the ne of Now the de will not yet fully plan of action es in th have mapp court opens flowers on he sleepin Dear mother, acefully- g there s » this fuss and all this s se she loved too w Grim poverty against wealth, A sick voice he thunder o - lying s of an ord before the and then 1 court room Mrs. C stand’ two brothers ot mother and Dr. In this moment I f ness ot the ¢ . 1 the tense drar 2d with ad son. She faces the in such a low apher Willi intensely strong voices. the ary son s Nirs 1 of nogr ard, interested. r L hand over his ear so not a word. Mrs, ps her cold m Mrs. cent, why bson? God ng on in her miss woman yes on the Gibson. 1f does she not of iron, Refuse to Pay Fare for Taxi Ride From Capital Four men who were driven from Hartford in a taxicab this for and refused to pay their fare when they arrived at 160 High street, were Officer: Lyon and Ve pay for the ride VPR I on | | Tells of Hearing Fight Over Letters, Then Shots and Screams—Denies Trying to Fake Testimony—Un- able to Recall Time and Place of Own Marriage— i Despite Identification, Accused Widow Remains I Unmoved, As Do Other Two Defendants. Courthouse, Somervi Nov. 18 (A — “I told th me God a Jane G being pl: coming ordeal. Stevens' “Double” Present r Henry Stevens sat Dr. John Anderson, Henry Stevens' double, who, nderstood the defense will contend was scen by Mrs. Mary Demarest in New Brunswick on the er the killing. not Dr. Anderson's first nee in the case. Four years ilyzed the soil at the foot b apple tree and declared irder must have been @ spot where the d. brought in at 11:20, on began shaking her her pillow as a physiclan cted her, while a nurse arose and help court room > Hall-Mills s court room timony noon 228, e audience will be s are available,”™ mmanded. . Gibson “The state produces the witness on and asks to have her Prosecutor Simpson an- A Bible was carried to her e covers drawn back so that ht touch it. “I'o you solemnly swear,” began court attendant, and Mrs. Gib- I do,” very feebly. son,” the court crier an< canor R. Mills wei Comes in Ambulance woman rmer, The th 12 dou he court in mony edge witness of ght to nce from a | and b n T sitting at and a physi- was bro amt 1 rsey hosr th a of her bed ston,” Simpson corrected. “Where were you on the night of tembe s 5 § s e mber 14, impson ask. stronger direct minutes, | clear] 1. Her stantially same < previous! Starts Her Story Mrs. Gibson told how she had been robbed of corn and when she heard her dog barking the night of Sep- oer 14, 22 she went outside house. then heard a wagon stop in the 1 o. her corn field, 1 suspecting it being the the thieves, she saddled ny, and went to fola in the mean= | ‘At hom she replied. story the scribed how she remained ty feet behind the wagon d it in the direction of Saw Mrs. HJI", She Said Mrs, Gibson in a tired volce told of having seen Mrs. Hall and Willie Steve at the road near the scene of the killing. Her head began rock- ing back and forth on the pillow and tendants stood up and began take ing her pulse. “I saw a white woman and a col- ored man,” she testified. “She didn't on. n was Mrs, Hall and I ed the man was Saw Other Men Too anot told er ma of se ward Willie Stev The defendants gazed on the speaker and heard her feeble replies little show of emotion. you came down the lane, hear anything?” asked Henry the stat ot to say in her t pen man was fenry Ca but not cousins. | v WA on vou Apson. I heard voices,” replied the spot where the mu ard. Mrs. Ha it later w . Hall ws whicl vas held up to ma tion. Willie S as Mrs. or women's voices?* s voices and wom- . They seemed to be arer all the time." they came nearer could Ptk they were say- Heard Letters Mentioned cre saying something letters.” what did you hear?” wrd a man say—'You let me I heard a holler. Next ight and saw some- in the hands of one Mrs. Gib At this point the to illustra ness began @ her story. saw two en 1 “Did you identify those faces s face that of Identifies Henry Stevens it was Henry Stevens other face that ot Wil« Stevens 1 vou hear anything?” e light went out and I heard g heavy fell and I There were two The one began to ' While the other ‘My, oh my,’ so ter- cry: ‘Oh, was scr ribly loud Heard Many Screams, “I ran for the mule after the first _shot. Then there was scream after seream. “T just got to my mule when bang bang, T heard three shots. d over a stump and the and T ran for home. Vhen I put the mule in the barn T got my foot wet and discovered I had my moccasin. “I went int the house and sat down. Then I thought I was fool- ish to run away and I went back to hunt for my moccasin, the moon was out bright. 1 walked around the stump where my mule was tied and a screech owl began hooting. | T jumped up and listened and then moved slowly through the bushes. Identifies Mrs. Hall. Henry aming phers Busy ss was accom court was trans- to the bed, f the jury. detail room an 5 ferred from t mnun directly The defenda way w of th , sitting a fe re ir d in ev trans Willie Steve bored by the neck first to one other to ta The bed was that the patie On it lay a woman who was ap-| | Ap; v | “I saw a woman with while hale She did not open her eyes and re- |bending down fixing something and sponded to some word from the | crying, the same woman I saw early nurse with a feeble nod. in the evening. It was Mrs. Halk The upper halt of the bed was| The defense objected when Simp- raised so that Mrs. Gibson would be almost in a sitting position. It was ns, who had appeared long wait, craned his side and then to it all in, wheeled around so would face the the (Continued on Page 1