New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 uuo)) ‘PIo; ydag APV e s1qr] 9FE1S JNIYIINBY A\ WRA/ DOZEN BUILDINGS WRECKED BY MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION WHICH ROCKS BALDWIN, N.Y. Mother and Child Burn- ed to Death in Restau- rant Fire and Five In- jured Persons Are Taken to Hospital. Police Think That Bomb Set Off in “Shoemakers’ War” May Have Caused Fatal Blast. Baldwin, N. Y., Dec. 23 (P—A terrific explosion of undetermined origin today demolished 12 one- story buildings on Pipe Line Boule- vard pear the Long Island Rallroad station, caused the death of & mother and her Baby and injured a number of persons. The police are investigating two | neories as to the cause. The first | and most generally believed was | that gas from an escaping main | caught fire and the second that a still in a cellar blew up. Windows Are Shattered Windows in business ulllm"i‘ over a wide area were shattered and | the countryside for several milcs | around was rocked. The buildings | caught fire and help from Freeport | and other surrounding towns were summoned. The fires were extin- guished without further spread. Two Burned to Death Mrs. Semuel Acarbi, wife shoemaker, and her baby burned to death. They lived in t rear of a store. The shoemaker | was geverely burned and cut by | flying glass. | A pedestrian was several feet by the A number of person hed houses were als to the Nassau hurled in the | force of the s in the injured | Cou: a blast demol and taken hospital. The buildings destroyed comprised what was known as Pearsall Row near the heart of the business sec- tion All Should Recover Five injured were taken to Nas- sau County hospital at Mineol They were Gus Helsenberg, Selva- | dore Acarbi and Emil Morse, who | were near the scene of the explo- sion, and Carl Crowley and Emil | Morse, policemen who were injured | In & rescue work. ° All arg likely to recover, hospital | authorities said. | Threatening Letter Later the police said they thought | explosion might have been | caused by a bomb set off in “shoemakers’ war. Last week, District wards of Samuel Aca shop In the Tavern, cefved a letter threatening to blow up the hotel if the cobbler did nes stop a house to houss canvas for | trade, The distri the a Attorney Ed- learned, | ker with a attorney said that he had taken steps to get tho threat- ening letter,” which he said Acarbi had turned over to postal authori- ties and that every effort would be 1o to find the sender and discover | if the explosion was the fulfillment | of his threat. | 40 WIVES REFUSE T0 LIBERATE HUSBANDS: | the | controvers: I sier Cleveland pitcher) I that there | Funny | game. | Innocence of { that he never bet on a COBB SAYS HE BET ONBUTTWO GAMES And Lost Fach Time—Empha- tically Denies Allegations W00D ISSUES STATEMENT Yales’ Coach Protests Innocence of Any Wrong-Doing In Statement in New Haven—Ty Gives Newspaper | An Interview. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. Atlanta Journal in a interview today with Ty ward bound to spend Christmas with his family in Augusta, Ga., quotes him as categorically «denying charges involving him in baseball’s latest scandal and remarking “I am not done with Dutch Leonard.” Denying generally that he ever fixed or connived at fixing any ball | game, the Journal says Cobb spec fically stated that he had no know! edge of the game betweensDetroit | | and Cleveland Sept. 25, 1919, being | fixed and added “I do not believe )V_ was fixed.” Regarding betting on games, Cobb is quoted as ng he placed wagers | on only two games in which an American League These were 23 (P—The copyrighted Cobb home- he first two games of world series 50 on the fi second and the So did Ty. Regret. 1919 game in Journal g I am guiity of just one thing which I r —1 fulfilled a promise to this man Leonard to tind out from Wood (Joe Wood, for- atter on the His Chict Referring to the how Leonard the game.” Cobb said he wrote to Leonard and that his lette guarded terms so 2s not to indicate was any beiting proposi- | but I did t try to ame or intend same much bet. money ion involy bet on that to bet on it. “You know,” the Journal contin- ues quoting Cobb, “I didn't recall any details of that game until 1 the box score in Chicago yesterday thing a Speaker got three hits and I gat one. I didw't help my avers ny, that » 5+ % \Well, we won 1t Cleveland Th Second. Cobb pointed out that on the day the game was played Cleveland was safely in second place and Detroit was fighting for third place, “here wag Boland, a good man to pitch for Detroit,” he said, “naturaily, Cleve- land would not be expected to break any necks to win that game. I should say that Detroit was a pretty fair bet th p “So far as 1 ed, “Judge Land this Leonard bus told him about it July or Aug * Cobb continu- rd about ness from me. I ast summer, in I've been to Chi- cago four times in the hope that Leonard would appear. The last time we had the hearing anyway now,” first he Denial. D Wood New Haven, Conn., “fixed"” ball were the claigis * Joe Wood, Yale been game in his life, today of “Smoky baseball coach who hus | nected by Baseball Commi Only 14 Chicago Wome Accept Judge’s Offer to Free Non-Supporters Chicago, Dee. 23.——A woman | can play Santa Claus as well as a | man Mrs. Mary Alban, 23, maintain- | ed when she declined the offer of | her erring husband, now serving a | iall sentence for non-support, as a Christmas present. '[ “This 4s a revelation to me,” said | Municipal Judge Francis Borell, | when forty three other wives, whose | husbands are members of the “all- | mony club” in the house of correc- | n, likewise turned down the Christmas release proffer, through | which the court expected many reconciliations, | Only ten of the fifty four wives summoned to the court of domestic relations yesterday to hear the re lease offer, accepted, and some of | these were not more than lukewarm | to the idea: “I had hoped that after their husbands had been removed to the| Bridewell for a period, and thelr vives had a few peaceful moments in quiet contemplation that we could effcet a reconciliation at the time when peace and good will are sup- | posed to prevail,” the judge contin- ued. He expressed/ the hope, however, that those who accepted his offer would “profit happily by it.” Mrs. Alban, who appeared with her twenty month old baby in her arms, said her husband never had supported her, and when a court at- tendant suggested that the baby would have no Santa Claus, she re- plied with Tl be his Santa | Claus.” She insisted she did not want | her husband back. Most of the “alimony club” meng- | bers are in for six months, | N | professional baseh | game payed betwe | real estate | mons | ceded the payment of M. Landis with the latest scandal in e had bet on the Detroit and 1919, Wood said that Cleveland on Sept. by Hu- bert “Dutch” Leonard. Wood's Statement. Wood said before going to Burn- said Winslow, ch ball committee of the Yale Athletic Assoclation. “I am absolutely inno- | cent of wrong-doing and never b on a ‘fixed’ game in my life. What I had to say about the ‘baseball (Connnued on Page Seven) BROWNING SUED AGAIN |This Time Newspaper Iicporter De- Mands $250,000 for Aleged Def. amation of Character. Dec. 23 (A — Rdward New York New York, W. Browning, wealthy man and defendant in sult filed by Mrs. h Browning, and | a $500,000 damage suit filed by & | once-adopted daughter, Mary Louise Spas, has been served with a sum- and complaint in another this time for $250,000 dam- a scparation Frances (“P ) suit, | ages. The plaintift is Arthur Lee Med- ford, reporter * for a tabloid, who wallcges that his' repu- tation was damaged when ing is said to have told other re- porters for publication that Med- jford had taken possession of Mary a high s0 com- the Louise Spas, put her in powered automobile and mitted, the rcporter charges, crime of kidnapping. The incident, it is explained, pre- $300 to Mary Louise Spas for the “story of her life” with Browning. lub was involved. | of 1919 between | | White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. | | Cobb said he bet [ and $100 | White Sox lost both. quotes | the | had been | 1d gone west before | . 23 (P— any wroung-doing and | Will Play but | | there was no agreement as to which | | team should win as charged an of the base- | New York | drown- | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, ONE AUTOMOBILE TO EVERY INDICTMENTS ARE FORMALLY UPHE[I]} Fall and Sinclir Mt Stand\ Trial, Court Rules {CASE 70 BEGIN ON FEB. 2 No Further Appeals to be Taken and Each of Accused Takes Stand To- day and Enters Plea of Not Guilty | Washington, Dec. 23.—(P—Harry | F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall must stand trial for conspiracy in con- | pot Dome naval oil reserve, Justice Jennings Bailey ruled in the District of Columbla supreme court today in refusing to quash the indictment against them. Immediately after the ruling, the wo defendants were arraigned and pleaded not guilty, and February 2 | was set as the date for trial. Ignores Defense Claim Justice Dailey, in refusing to uash the indictment, ignored the plea that the government had wrongfully singled the two men out for unusual prosecution through the lappointment, at the request of the | Senate, of special counsel to conduct | the case. Before Justice Balley made his | ruling, defense counsel announced | that there would be no further ap- I peal and that # their ready to proceed to trial with the case which had its ince i famous senate ofl investigation of Fall last week was acquitted with . Doheny in a comspiracy igating the leasing of the Calif.,, naval oil resc s formalitics furnished th first occaslon for the appearance for trial of S Trial Date Selected There was only a reaching a decision on a trial date. Owen J. Roberts, who, with former | Senator Atlee Pomerene, of Ohio, | charse of the | sovernment, suggested that ruary 1 be designated. Martin J. L | tleton, counsel for Sinclair, suggest- ed a later date, but after brief dis- sions Justice Bailey set February 2 for the beginning. A formal. opinion by Justice Bailey, submitted in the record but not read in court, said that the ac tion of the pi speeial prosecutors at th as in ; | stitute a violation of the due proces- scs of law. “I see no reason why congr 1ot provide for the employme specigl counsel and the control by them of particular cases.” The op ion said. "The defendants have r been deprived of their rights to be indicted by a grand jury 4 impanclled before | trial” Among the witnes tion is seeking to are two oil men whose continued residence ahroad since the genate oil inquiry has led to unusual legal steps, including passage of a spe- cial act of congr designed to confiseate their property in this country unless they return to t tity. They are Harry M. Blackmer, of Denver, and James E Tuisa, both former officials of the Continental Trading company, or-| ganized in Canada in November, According to the most recen ring into co a (Continued on Pa EDDIE GOLLINS GOES BACK TO ATHLETICS ge 15) Second Base for Mackmen Next Season Philadelphia, Dec. 23 (P—Eddic | Collins, former manager of the Chi- cago White Sox, today returned to |the Philadelphia Athletics baseman. | Announcement that Collins | signed a contract to play with ctics was made by Connie M fnanager, who today observe | 64th birthda; ary or other conditions were made public. | Collins comes b delphia club after a years, having been sold to the Chi- | cago club in Decemb 1914, for| {850,000, when Mack famous $100,000 infield. | Collins returns torthe first played with in the' major ter refusing offers to minor league clubs. old and entered the A in 1906, under the | van,” coming direet | from Columbia University. club leagues manage KISSING, THEN SHOOTING Affectionate Game at Purly in Uu- cinnati Ends With Two Men | Taken to Hospital. | Cincinnati, Dee. 23 (P — An al- leged kissing game at a party last | night resulted in a shooting. Arthur l\\m( 37, and Rex Fowler, 3§, were in a hospifal today seriously {wounded while Miss Leona Wade, | |33, sister of Wade, was held as a | | witness. Police said she admitted |she is the common law wife of | Fowler. The quarrel ensued, she | | said, when her brother objected to ! ! Fowler engaging in a kissing game | I with anotlgr woman, [nection with the leasing of the Tea- | slight delay in | t in appointing | it | O'Neil of . BROTHER THOUGHT DEAD broke up his he | | the reunion, RITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week E!\dmg Dec. 18th . 14,015 DECEMBER 23, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS 25 PEOPLE IN COUNTRY IS SHOWN BY SURVEY OF CARS “Passc.nger and Commercial Vehicles in Use Total 22,- 243, a Gain of 2,254,000 Over Year Ago—New | York Leads With 1,818,765 and Nevada With Only 23,933 Has Fewest—Season of Great Prosperit) 10 New York, Dec. 23 () — Motor [vehicles in use in the United Inow exceed 22 million, or onme to levery five persons, it is shown by annual registration figures today in {the magazine, Motor. Passenger and commercial cars ltotal 22,342,457, a gain over 1925 jof 54,000 or 11.2 per cent. While the gain is 2.7 per cent less than the gain of 1 over 1924, this is due to the fact that an unprecedentedly large number of vehicles were taken out of service, the magazine says. | Sales Largest Recorded | Sales in the United States In the {past 12 mou.ths were the largest on record but the percentage of regis- [tration increase was the smallest lever recorded, the figures showed. |This was to be expected, the mag- | ne declares, ce the incre [total in service correspondingly d creases the rate of gair Commercial vehicles now number 2,876,751, a gain over the preceding yvear of 421,68 or 17.1 per cent. Passenger automobiles number 10,- 1,676, an increase of 1,831,793, or previous year. its leadership , 2 gain of 193,000. about halt as many s as all the rest of the 1 aside fro » the United States. California Ranks Second wlifornia is still New York's clos- rival with 1,614,479, Ohio is| 4 with Pennsylvan with 1 l'llncw 1,370,000 4,869, and over the retains wi 5, 483,054; an and comers in e million vada re lowest Dela lowest with 44,35 Wyoming was third from bot- with 50,000, Prosperity Was Ge tration by more any ware was next while eneral lely | ling ative about HIGHWAY DEPT. GRAFT - CASE NOT PR[ISEGUTH] Facts Doubtless as \lleged But Not Criminal, Inglis Reports clients were | SEARCHING FOR THIEF, ARRESTED AS BURGLAR rve, | Marauder’s Novel Explan- ation Fails to Impress Court Judge in | proceedings for the | a bureau ome of Leon street about 3: X county has decided that departm hway departm of graft es G. Morri for nor, has ¢ and is to_prosecu- | charges demo- dur- not etective zer by court morning Mangan found probab use on the 2 LE charge of attempted burglary and bound Ryan over'to the March term of suparior courtin $1.000 onds. i R GG R B {deniad any intention of wr ing Le admitted he had g0 into the hou: He ¢ to N p. m. day in named Alle: rding ived from in police W. = in wing n R today Judsg: for court from tion ong do- s L Booth of t ar vho to in anot t he looke her but ¢ on but the pped home irges re- 10 high- ion with ch Zov opened locked, and two minut H ing waste and department i nst too m the state republic room cen no mo he had He denied b bureau, - He ! aurants mple ive istratior vas at by d in had n front - employe insiste ing acquainted layout he did not k street is but w jan and woman. minal record in W protested that he was co |though innocer The po! of the aliases after co with the W Mr. Lieg his home. here North | At th ow W scharged 11d following municat Gets Renrle‘ eas He Is Starting for Scaffold Iton, Ont., C, who was to dawn today, s gift o just as the raffold | preparations for the exccution, arrive the jury poenaed and Barty 11 to his ch received that a stay 12 had been nte: had Mrs. him a over > been telephont was > more of was about At t he Liegey said. tyan on the witness st very desirous of explain ence in the bedroom. Juc gan and Prosecuting Attorn warned him of his rights plied that he wanted to ta 1 mad nan had ub- ) J: n n when word until Jan- th far slaying Cook on 10, IS WAR APHASIA VICTIH | Athol Man Learns His Kin EMPEROR HAS § Tokyo, Dc. 23 (A condition of Emp who 1is eritically i1l at his Hayama villa, vorse, is indicated in sued shortly before afternoon by the ment. The bulletin perature as 101.6, piration 3 Is In Yoshi pneumonia | iz slightly t etin {s- o'clock this tem= Tes- Government Hospital in a Washington (A—Posi- . r veteran government loss of fev- Athol, tive identification of a under treatment in psycopathic hospital memory as his brother, cd to have been dead, is the cheer- ul message which Jos. Modelsky ot this town has received through the medium of the American Red Cross. The brother, Frank Modelsky. a patient in U. S. Veterans’ h 94, in the state of Washingto ed as Frank Martin, the name de which he enlisted in the He ot been heard from by his brother of an uncle, Stanley Model- sky, also of Athol, but once in 15 years. Acting on Dee. 2 hous gives his a puls for long be s Doctor (.n es ( wn Blood To Patient in Hospital « Dr. David W today underwent a blood transfusion he beneflt of one of at the New Drit hospital. When ne on ca suit- son was not found who are the blood neede After some searching which met with failu Dr. W olved {1 om by releasing the blood from his own arm kowitz his p 1 t information recelved om welfare workers at the hosy tal, James Seisson active in local | Red Cross work succeeded in locat-| s ing the brother and uncle here. The| | war veteran's mind, responding to| | years of expert treatment by gov-| | ernment allenists cleared sufticient| | to have him remember he once liv- ed in Athol and had relatives there, The latter have written him and may travel across the continent for| | * - * ATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight; Friday increas- ing cloudiness, probably fol- lowed by rain in the after- noon or at night; slowly ris- ing temperature. | | | , , | ‘ 4 A bur) . Inglis of 1 | tio | that CITY MUST SPEND $1,000,000 FOR PROPER DISPOSAL OF ITS SEWAGE AS RESULT OF STREAM P LLUTION ONE MAN WISSING WDERHOTT GLAINS Mavor Wed Receivs 'IN SCHOOL BLAZE HE WAS FRAMED UP \Possibly Burned to Death in Den jes Mellett Murder and Says Needed lmpmements He Warned Publisher LOSS MAY REACH MILLION, ACGUSES STATE WITNESS 1y Court, Girls Destroyed — Fireman Trnp-! ped by Flames But Greenwich Fire Exclusive School Finally Rescued From Open Window. Dec. 25 (P — Greenw recent an exclusive was des! the loss b ers at between $5 000, ploye on a neig fouhd after d he was the blaze. burn |out fu Wi the I root fell royed eing e l ren a window. a school by ear fire A man named Linga boring estate, ire and lost his life the had man Injured v atin trapped by | for girls ly Court, | ited by the own- 0,000 and $1,000,- here, | 1 | Is | | | te: lett, . an em counld it | ml Green- a section of e 100 girl stude: had gone to their hom the north the ch through made up tached tc al pl While near the building ed for $500,000. and Cause Not Known h o for ant. chim ers do not furnace caused t e fire tic hou al hold when 500,000 and came abi (e their Cos 1 ¥ y uro I fire 1gs at the fire he blaze the nd spre of m o ey, the sch belicve an o e blaze. irm Cob me and th or s h op destroyed i MAmR”WE[n ISSUES " CHRISTHAS MESSAGE Greets sc! hool city F ellow Urges Fidelity The m “With hand, of Chri greetir beg mue living commy ow ominant to ens of our with city civic pric serve then be will pleasure to extend to Britain, ple of N a merry, bright and happy it is Hi ryor' t and ffa de up n Wi 1 in New strivi help brin or ew mer| to earne: prir zh Tdeals as we of in s always where ernal ghest ty, the type. have y all ¢ irs o on our o comi more aciple: ys continue Britaiu. ng to carry of the city, Christmas w Ye: “GARDNER C. W¥ 4 “Mayor.” en fro; sehool Ve could An hool W to not om | on near started on the roo ool ow Y lett." narge I occasions, | was forced to reprimand McDermott | spec for his retorts to McClintock. he refused to reveal the name h whom he hile in Cle at he :Dermott For | Sensational Canton, Courthouse, 23 (A—Patrick E: ifying today murdering Don Canton publisher, denfed of age di says He Yermott out his cross-e Man Who Hid Him. Santon, 1gene MeDermott, in crime in oor. Was am aminati the state s, as the probable mott said it was he t by telephone bush for him Dhio, Murder Trial Reaches Spectacular Climax When Accused Refuses To Name is trial R. a and pointed star slayer. ) who warn- that three Framed was defiant throu on by Prose MecClintock and shouted be asked t of court, erred and McDermott ised to declare the name, declar- “I'm no Judge en f ¥ m ai but th W eland, ned. On two in W. Diehl d he had hid the prose- e ruling was itedi Accuses Kascholk July olk w!y said he ‘hired to sing kn ediigr, said McDerm ett’s home He d ing land 1 McDermott, court op Citizens, L ehile h him, M Kascholk 1 € nong ou n mut triendship In pre- nal has ar- the citiz- f us I ever-growing € hope Arr to be ob- Wwe on pproy ould reri a still greater | of is of the my wishes and ar, iD, on 0ok Me later e | from be hat an- have 1 | my; Th - | time for | C1 a|state L McDermott il him.” McDermott eveland, dented ouis M he was in the of “R. in cod rred a4 h = to cam it was Kas- im to go to hunt a e to Canton \lone and was join-| ott > to warn g his ¢ b he,sen m. Rudner lants, Ben o-def d ever bed eal murder he re 1 m w him t t To Cleveland d he went to Cleve- and gave he was th of pered nd Admits Kn wit 1 a afraid b fictitious name he wol er told He for whom d ansy reply De o owing h b on July s was conceal- and by Dan to h\~ coun- examination 1sactions utor Mc( were b v a court rul- s 0b- Kaschoik knows Steve ormer, tn Massille on this occ mies \lt\(lu,: l{vulmr td Md and a Knew dermott His voic to d tim mpte dermott nd e trip Kaschol Says "l 2 Me to giv voice 13 not and told 1 a gun at was in Canton d soon after the murdes wer id )V\:l“l but saw was time to maint not Gave rted hi first e the to t n answered and there, Mellett age e wa testified any ti bey no ‘Warning it ts warn him of time e warning a sald so he called to stay away use ing to he me did while not and that he was in 10:30 on the night Was Liquor Agent defendant sold wh to have o is hidden Ben Nadel, the McDermott | for two months after the murder. (Continued on Page ven) When | of af$1 | 000 be held in con- | pleted, is commended by Sanford H. had|be ¥ou, to Meb (K caliod s turers nm! e had | tOWD Tespectively. some | Yget | he | admitted he one| Meriden liquor for alleged by Report on Industrial Waste, Outlining Local and State Officials and Factory Representa- tive Suggest Three Soe lutions to Problem. pose o report 50,60 with trickiing $1 ] money \\u\lu] be ma2 1940 ed to be of th e recomm tanks, $100,000; he city's de or a surve n to lay now being come Wadh or the s n assisted the local committes i of William H, ?lhu lmu\lhl committee, chosen George [T ps Dritain mdnufoesce {o water commis- sidn to comide: problems of pole lution submit thé following report, “The committee met With the state 1, reprefentatives. of n manufacturers and ng the spring. At ers of the com- problem as set ative act and plan oposed - by them. ms, director and sanitary en- on, describ- s 2s found by them r the New Britain ris nd the streams passing It was brought out was located on of the south fork r brook and of the Matta. tt river entering Connecti- cut river at Hartford and Middle- In order to im- on these streams for natural uses, Britain or to more early date, trial wastes. Tt t the worst polluted nnecticut river was asylum at ldletown, > the ylum stream ball, ;n iam R. er for th ondit posal plant through the cf prov: s afe ew Tly trea prop completely a few miles. 160.000 Population Tn 19 tallk (Continued on Page 14) - ‘FLASH DANIELS PgPs INTO LIMELIGHT AGAIN Reappears in West Harte tord, Disappears With W Employer’s Cash hunt with th part, as tion that he 1 Collins gave fels, not “MeGee" while in W but when the money w Daniels failed to repor tion was made with th his identit known. | Daniels nown to the pos { ltee, having ed a mild sensa- tion by posing as a youth of means while traveling about the south. He is alleged to have obtained gasoline jand oil and charged the expenses to a local trucking firm. Following | bis arrest he escaped from the police station and since | then has evaded the police, despite the fact that reports have been re- cefved from time to time that he was in Milford, New Haven and other places in that section of the state. for Daniels has t employt knowir He was ord, and investiga- result that 1S s