New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 1

» News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Robinson Resolution, Before Upper House Tomorrow, Would in No Way Be Binding on Administration. Frazier Presents Measure Which Would Request President Not to Inter- vene Across Border Dur- ing Summer Recess. BORAH HEARTILY APPROVES ACTION Washington, Jan. 21 (P—The Robinson resolution suggesting arbi- tration of the oil dispute with Me co was approved today by the senate foreign relations committee, 13 to 3. The resolution merely would ex- press the opinion of the senate and uld in no way be binding on the ministration. No Definite Step Taken. Secretary Kellogg had disclosed hat he is studying the possibilities wt arbitration and President Calles of Mexico has accepted in principle that method of adjusting the pres ent difficulties, ficlal step to set the arbitration ma- hinery in motion has yet been taken. Approval of the resolution was voted after the committee at a long session made some changes. in phrascology. Action by the senate rolably will be sought tomorrow. Opposes Intervention. While the committee was meeting, two more resolutions ~dealing With the administration’s Latin-American policy were referred to it from the senate floor. One by Senator Frazier, | orth Dakota, would re- quest President Coolidge mot to in-| tervene in Mexico during the sum- mer recess of congress. but to call a ial session if he thought action ssary. The other, by Senator Norris, republican, Nebraska, would provide for a committee investiga- tion of published reports that the tate department had sought to ead propaganda damaging to endly relations between the United tes and Mexico. Changes Explained The changes made by the com- mittes in the arbitration resolution wera described by its author, Sena- tor Robinson, of Arkansas, the dem- ocratic leader, as designed to make ‘lear that any agreement to arbi- ‘rato would “contemplate the pro- jection of the rights of American as pending arbitration; the ap- plication of the principles of inter- national law, and arrangements for {he carrying out of the award when made. McLean Votes “No.” Senator Reed, Missouri, a demo- crat and Senators McLean and Edge republicans, voted against a favor- able report on the resolution. Those supporting it were Senators Borah, Moses, Lenroot, Willis, Pepper, Cap- per and Glllett, republicans; Swan- son, Pittman, Robinson of Arkansa Walsh of Montana; and Harrison, democrats, and Shipstead, farmer labor, Minnesota. Nicaragua Not Discussed cally all of the committee’s . s given over to consider- ation of the requestion and the question of making public Secretary Kelloge's revised statement on the Nicaraguan situation was not reach- d. It will be taken up next week. Borah Approves ' Washington, Jan. 21 (UP)—Sena- tor Borah lssued the following state- ment on the Robinson resolution: “I think the resolution fully ex- presses our desire to settle the mat- ter ' by arbitration. It therefore meets with my hearty approval. I have been an advocate of arbitration in this matter from the very begin- ning. The only thing involved is property. If we can't arbitrate that question, there is no question to talk longer about arbitration.” The resolution was changed by the committee to read as follows: “Resolved, that while by virtue of sovercignty, the duty devolves upon this government to protect the lives and property of its nationals in for- cign countries, which duty is not to neglected or disregarded, it is \evertheless sound policy, consistent vith the honor and best interest of United States and promotive of | international peace and good will to «ubmit to an arbitral tribunal, which hall apply the principles of inter- ational law, the controversies with Mexico relating to the alleged con- tion or impairment of the prop- of American nationals and cor- Jorations in Mexico; the arbitration groement to provide for protection of all American property pending the final outcome of the ar- bitration. “That in good will and friendli- ¢s& offorts should be made and per- isted in fo cffect arrangements hich will commit the two govern jnents to the policy of ablding by sxecuting awards that may be made In consequence of such ar- rangements to arbitrats.” ¢ but no definite of-| rights | NEW BRITAIN HERALD ~auwo) ‘PIOJHEH “Wlag APV csieiqr] ANS WINNUD ~ ARBITRATION OF MEXICAN DISPUTE APPROVED BY FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE OF SENATE, VOTE 13-3 Prince of Wales Now Buys an Electrically Operated Hobby Horse B London, Jan. 21 (UP)—The Prince of. Wales has purchased an electric hobby horse and has the beast tethered in one of the rooms of St. James' palace, which is his London home. Wales® stable now is as good as that of President Coolidge and just as safe. When weather conditions or soclal engagements prevent the prince from getting into the open to hunt the fox behind the hounds at Melton Mawbray, he joggles his liver to his own satisfaction aboard “Sparks”, which may or may not be the name of the new mount. Due to. the steed’s construction and pacific disposition, it was regarded as morally certain that he will not fall off. JOHN MAYO, NOTED BANDIT, IS CAUGHT iDaring Oklahoma Escaped Convict Taken Without Shot Being Fired Tulsa, Okla., Jan. 21 (P—John Mayo, daring bandit who escaped from jail here early last was captured mear Tulsa morning. Mayo held up the jailer and*a companion when he broke out and terrorized the. guests in a Tulsa hotel. He was armed with several revolvers and a machine | gun which were taken from the jail. Mayo was key witness in the Hale- | Ramsey Osage Indian murder trial |in Oklahoma last year. The capture was effected with- out & shot being fired in an old cabin in the sage hills which | Sherift Sanford and six deputies sur- rounded. Sheriff Sanford knocked at the door, entered the house and found Mayo with a revolver in one hand and his trousers and an automatic pistol in the other hand. The sherift covered him with his gun, however, his gun immediately. said. “No trouble. Jealousy of his wife was believed to have prompted Mayo's break for liberty just as a parole was almost within his grasp. Leaving the jail, Mayo took a taxicab to a hotel search of his wife and 11-year-old son. As he broke into their room, he | shouted, “Where is he?” | Finding only his wife and son, he {rushed into an adjoining room, |awakened W. C. Holt, a garage em- | ploye, and threatened to kill him. Holt was unarmed, however, and Mayo ordered him to leave town in | three hours or he would shoot him. | Holt fied. Mayo had been brought to Tul {after the trial at Oklahoma City of W. K. Hale, wealthy cattleman, and | |John Ramsey, cowboy-farmer, who | were convicted in federal court and | sentenced to lif | Indian. Mayo testifica at the trial that Hale asked him to blow up t! louse of W. E. Smith of TFairfax. Smith's home later was blown up, but Mayo denied implication. Application had been made for a pardon for Mayo and it was under- stood this was to be signed by Pres- |ident Coolidge next week. Sunday, | this | and Mayo dropped | 'All right, Bob, you've got me,” he | HALF MILLION IN GHAPLIN'S POCKET Film Comedian Beat Federal |Signals, Flashing at Night, ORDERED BACK T0 HIS PEKING POST Cable Message From Rellogg | While on Way Back Home | PLANS PERFECTED FOR | PROTECTING AMERICANS Would | Men to Bank by 15 Minutes | BIG AMOUNT IS DOUBTED Didn't Have That Much on Deposit, | Reccivers Declare—rs. Chaplain | ‘ Thus Prevented From (‘o|lccun'~‘ | Atimony. | New York, Jan. 21 (—Although | | Charlie Chaplin's depesits in New | | York banks, estimated at $1,500,000 were securely tied up by government liens today, the comedian had on hand $500,000 in cash which he suc- | ceeded in withdrawing before the |arrival of federal agents, the New | | York American says in a copyright- lea story. | The money was withdrawn from |the Bowery and East River Na-| | tional bank at Broadway and Forty- | First street just 15 minutes before the federal men arrived with the,| | 1fen yesterday morning, the new | paper states. The money was paid |on the presentation of personal | check of the comedian without ques- | tion and the representatives left the | tank.* | Govt. May File Complaint The American says that a repre- sentative of the internal revenue de- | partment indicated later that some | action might be taken against the | bank, on the ground that the of- ficials knew of the impending lien. | President Gianinni of the Bowery | and East River National bank, how- ever, denied the institution had been informed of the proposed lien. He |added that even though they had known of it they would have be compelled to honor the comedian's check. The liens are based upon alleged lunpaid income tax assessments agajnst Chaplin, | r. Chaplin announced yesterday | from the home of his attorney, Na- | than Burkan, where he is recovering | from a collapse that he was going | to the coast to fight his wife's suit | for divorce, but did not say when he | planned to leave. He issued a statement he thanked “the thousanda of friends | and well wishers for their thought- tn which | | Min |been intercepted, the adv lits spread to Foochow Ihad called ‘Warn Nationals to Hasten to American Compound—U. S. Des- | troyer Parroll Goes From Shang- 1 hal to Foochow—Situation Grows | More Serlous Every Day. i Washington, Jan. 21 (P—American | :r MacMurray, en route home | for conferences with Secretary Kol-‘ |logg, has been intercepted by cable- gram and ordered back to Peking as a result of the increasing serious- ne of anti foreign demonstrations and rioting in China. Mr. MacMurray left Peking Jan. with his wife and two children. cretary Kellogg cabled to him at | Tokio and points in Korea, but it! was not announced whe he had | es merely | saying he had received his new in- structions. Situation Grows Worse It was emphasized at the state de- partment that the general increase in the anti-foreign movement and | and Amoy within the last day or two, had | prompted Mr. Kellogg to order Mac- | Murray back to his post, notwith- | standing the secretary’'s desire to talk jover the situation in person with the | department’s recognized authority on Chinese and other far ecastern condi- |tion No immediate condition at Peking for the change in plan, | it was said, the department not as | t having advised of the fears felt | by diplomats there that the trouble | |might spread to the capital itself. Arranges Signals H Action of the American charge, | Fetdinand Mayer, at Peking in ar- ranging a code of day or nig nals by means of which | residents there can be warned quicl ly and concentrated in the lezation mpound under protection of th tharine guard, ‘sbably was in line'| with a decision of the dplomati corps that steps were necessary as . precaution against outbreaks in Pek- | ing, it was suggested at the depart- ment. i | The compourd, it was said, would | (Continued on Page 11) L AS HE DESCRIBES FATAL SHOOTING That Chipps Phoned Him He Was Coming to Kill Him HAD BEEN WARNED AND | WANTED 70 GET AWAY| Dramatic Testimony in Fort Worth | Murder Trial Is Halted While De-‘ fendant Recovers CompoSure—| Said That He Had Been Previous- | Iy Warned Lumberman Was Go-| ing To Kill Him That Day. Courtroom, Austin, Texas, Jan. 21| (UP)—Graphically and with his| volce broken by intermittent sobs, | the Rev, J. Frank Norris—termed | the “Texas Tornado’—today told a ! jury how he shot and Killed D. E Chipps, wealthy lumberman, in the| study of Norris' million-dollar Bap- tist church at Fort Worth last sum- | mer. | Chipps had threatened to kill him | for alleged attacks on several friends of the lumberman, Norri aid, and had called at the church| to threaten the pastor's life. ““T'll kill you!' the pastor said | the lumberman shouted. “Then I! saw him coming. I reached in the| | drawer of my desk and grabbed a| Gourt tol.” | “What did you do then?" his| attorney asked In an almost fnaudible tone, the pastor, who is known for his pow erful voice when preaching, replied: “I shot him." i The pastor was visibly agitated as he told the dramatic story of the | killing. Once he started crying| aloud and the questioning ceased until he regained his composure. Had Been Warned The minister said he had been | rned by Fred Holland, a police- man, that Chipps had made threats | against Norris' life for the pastor's editorial attacks in his church paper, on city officials of Fort Worth. Chipps called Norris on the tele- | phone and said: “I'm coming over to | kill you, you —— ——" the pastor | testificd, | That 'vas a few minutes beigse | Chipps was killed by Norris in ‘the | latter’s clurch stud. The pastor was asked concerning the afternoon he killed Chipps Norris started to speak, (un"nlcdi (Continued on Page 30) | herself of literary tastes | condition of the paper has been giv-| |events that transpired in the study|en out. {a friendly one and that its business NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927. THIRTY-TWO PAGES U. S MINISTER IS CLERGYMAN WEEPS Average Daily Cireulation For Week Ending Jan, 15th ... 14,280 PRICE THREE CENTS BANK SWINDLER ARRESTED HERE FOR THEFT OF $5,000 IN NEWPORT NEWS; TRAPPED BY BANKER'S SUSPICIONS Alleged Swindler Under Arrest Here OLD NEWSPAPER IN RECEIVERS’ HANDS New Haven Union in Financial Difficulties i WAS FOUNDED 1IN 1872 Famous Elm City Democratic Pub- lication Was Organized By Late Alexander Troup, Once Democra- | tic Committecman. ARTHUR AARONSON New Haven, Conn., Jan. 21 (P—| The New Haven Union, founded in| 1572 by Alexander Troup, once tic national committeeman from Connecticut, was placed in the hands of James E. Wheeler and Charles G. Norris, as receivers this fternoon, | Arthur B. O'Keefe represented | the Union company. A bond of| $25,000 was furnished by the re- ceivers. | The order was issued by Superior Justice Ells. | Ve Semierase rooee | CRIPPLED CHILD PLEA The New Haven Union has always been a democratic paper In its poli- | tical complexion. As the older! Troup became a national figure dur- Hungerford Thinks Ned_ ing lis years of service on the na- tional committee through his close s Overdid It, Fines friendship with the late William | leys O i Jennings Bryan, the paper, itself,| Them $300 also became known far and near. | After Mr. Troup died the cuficre| fal and business management was| wrieir plea about the crippled taken over by the other members of | chilg would naturaly appeal to onc's the family, Philip Troup, who had | gympiatnies, but { believe it was graduated from Yale Law school be-' gveraono'syudge W, C. Hungerford ing the editorial writer, and his|gq 1y police court this morning as brother, Alexander, the business|jioinnoced a fine of $200 and costs manager. Mrs. Troup, the widow, it I, ekl JGh. ot Oniet also for ) lice of Greenwich, and $100 many years had much to do With| oo onces on e wite 4 D e o e Baper . 20d| Nedley, each of whom pleaded guilty B e B D T iees, ma | to two counts o liquor law violation plonguys; oo by et family pa.|in their home, 44 Wellington street, s pec il § i per trom the viewpoint of its issue,| o7 aTraigned in police court Aot No statement as to the financial| 985 morning. | Continuing, Judge Hungerford said he belicves the Nedleys en- zave up all business connections|838¢d In the liquor business on an ani Philip Troup took charge but|°Xtensive scale and realized large ntly Soveral othors aselate) stm. |Profits. The pleaded guilty and had It is understood the receivership is| O defense cxcept the story of their efforts to ralse sufficient money through the sale of liquor, to pay Recently, Alexander Troup | affairs may be adjusted and decision | Mrs. Hazel | made as to the future. | for an operation on their son, who with two guards locked in his cell, | in | imprisonment for | the murder of Henry Roan, Osage | tul letters and loyal support. Mrs. Chaplin Gets Nothing Los Angeles, Jan. 21 (A—Lita Grey Chaplin tugged In vain at the | purse strings of her screen star hus- |band today in an effort to collect $14,000 temporary alimony and at- torney's fees while the greater part of the Chaplin fortune to be uncov- ered since her divorce petition was filed turned up on the other side of the continent. The scenc of activity shifted to w York last night when it became | known that the government had filed income tax liens against Chap- lin for more than $1,550,000 and when it was reported that Chaplin had succeeded In withdrawing half a million dollars from a New York bank a few minutes before federal authorities tied up his accounts. Balked At Every Turn So far Mrs. Chaplin, who alleged her husband had a fortune of $16,- 000,000, has been balked at every turn to collect alimony. Although | Superior Judge Walter P. Guerin ! (Continued on Page 30) to Chilly She Says in Pressing Testifying against her husband, who was charged with non support, | Mrs. Joséph Blancatto told Judge Hungerford in police court this morning that her infant's death about five weeks ago was caused by la cold contracted because of lack !of heat and proper nourishment, and that her husband did not come home even when the little one was dead. | When he left her with thrée chil- | dren early one morning, she thought he was going out to seek employ- ment, but several days passed and |she heard rothing of him. There no coal in the cellar and no food in the house and she and the |children were suffering terribly, she said. | Finan her husband came home for an article of clothing and did not |inquire about the children or even look at the infant, who had just been taken ill. He stayed only a lit- tle while and she had not seen him again until she faced him in court this morning, his counsel, Attorney Thomas F. McDonough, having turned him over to the police ye terday afternoon. Her father, pity- ing her, took her into his home at | 46 Glibert street, she said, on learn- ,ing that she was unable to pay rent and feed herself and the | maining children, whose ages are two years and four months, and one Mother La);s ‘Deatlz of Infani Stoeckel WouldA i:.x:;t Feersr 7f6r CarLParked on Public Streets | i s . ; 'Suggests Towns and Cities [Harvard Student Asks )| Might Charge for Autos || For Job, Afraid He Is Left in Same Spot Long | Going to Flunk Exams e Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 21 (UP)—Harvard's mid-year ex- } ams—grim spectre to the aver- || age freshman—caused one first- || vear man, Francis T. Hodges of Indianapolis, to take extraordi- || nary precautions. Hodges, who is 19 years old, Time. Hartford, Jan. 21.—A plan under { which towns and cities might tax the parking of automobiles in umri | busiest streets is broached by Motor || applicd to Police Chiet MeBride | | | Vehicle Commissioner Stoeckel in!| of Cambridge for a job. i {the January bulletin of the state “I think I'm going to flunk || | motor vehicle department. He say the exams”, he confided, “and if || [that “a car parked all day in a!| I do I want to become a motor- || | busy city street ought to pay road | cycle officer.” irent to the city” and that the maln Chief McBride advised him to | olhject to be gained is “not the col- | 1 to his studies, lection of revenue but to get rid of | as many parked cars as possible.” | i s1c o common sense and vison vave | WHITE MAN IS SUED BY = | NEGRESS, ASKING $25,000 almost invariably “laughed long and | heartily” whenever the idea has| |been mentioned by the commis- | sioner, he says that he has faith in| is lame. The Nedleys were arrested follow- ing a raid on their home by Officers Stadler, Cosgrove and Collins last Saturday night. Mrs. Nedley as- sumed the responsibility of owner- ship of 42 quarts of alleged liquor which were seized, and she was noti- fled to be in court Manday morning. The next day her husband was also arrested and when the casq | up for disposition he made of the crippled child and his wife declined to make a statement. The were not represented by counsel. CLERGYMAN DROPS 3,700 A, W. STANLEY DIES AT BROOKLYN HOME Rose High in Commercial World From Humble Beginning Albert Walter 69 years old, who became a member of the | Stanley, | Consolidated Stock Exchange ot New } MEMBERS OF H]S FLOGK York and a high officlal in several of the largest commercial houses in | New York after a humble beginning , Tennessee Church-Goers Had Re- as a stenographer with North & Judd Mfg. Co., of this city, died early | this morning at his home, 15 Clark | nd Theater-Liolug, street, Brooklyn, N. Y., after an ill- | of several wecks. fused to Give Up Dancing Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 21 (Fh— ‘What should a pastor do with those members of his congregation, it any. who refuse to sign the church covenant and continue their danc- ing, card pla 2 and theater going? The problem fof months vexed Dr. James B. Leavell, pastor of the First Baptist church of Houston, Texas, nes He was born in this city, June 21, 1857, the son of the late Walter H. Stanley, and Mrs. M. J. Stanley, who now lives at the old homestead, 71 Pearl street. In his youth he at-' tended Prof. Camp's school and on his graduation he entered Williston came | he plea | and finally he arrived at a solution. | Home Without Food the plan which might be considered | by the.legislature as the basis of a| law to help solve the parking prob- | Lexington, Mass, Woman Claim: Academy. His first position was that of sten- ographer for North & Judd, but after He expelled them. Dr. Leavell dropped 3.700 mem- two re- | {Husband” Stayed Away Even While Babe Was Dead, | Non-Support Charge year and five months, respecti The New Britain Welfare Asscocia- ition and the charity department of [the city have been helping her, she | said, the expense of burying the in- ant having been paid by the city. Fearcd Her Father Would Shoot. Blancatto, who gave |25 and his occupation a barber, | niea that his wife and children were | without | He was out of work, he said, and {went to New York hoping to earn a :H\mg, His mother gave fuel to his ife while he was absent, he said. |He admitted, under cross-examina- |tion by Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods, that he had not communi- cated with his wife or the probatio: officer during his absence. The rea- son he did not go home when his in- fant wa dead was that his wife's | father had threatened to kill him on | sight, he said. He was afraid to go | home, he said. Attorney McDonough told the i court he felt the best solution of the case would be to impose a substan- [tial jail sentence on Blancatto and suspend execution in order that he may obtain employment and dis- charge his family duties. The little family has been disrupted several times and the fault appears to lie (Continued on Page 21) his age as | coal and food when he left. | He Promised to Marry Her | lem. The parking problem, he| . | points out, has so many complica- | tions in connection with the trans- action of general business that “it| has scemed to be a superhuman | proposition to do anything about it,” | | but ho outlined his suggestion “with the hope for constructive criticism | and that the idea may arouse enough |interest so that the long-time parked car may he recognlzed as a nuisance and a menace.” Parked Cars Trafiic Hazard His discussion of the subject in he bulletin proceeds on the promise | that parked cars today constitute greatest single classified traffic | rd. The more the strects and | nighways are cleared of parked c {the safer will they be for all v land an additional incentive ough be given to motorists to their cars off the streets when they intend to stop for prolonged periods The idea can be sustained, he sa on the ground that a parked car occupies road space. Every tax im- Blt Haso't. Cambridge, Mz A negress sccks §2 balm from a white man .here. Miss Daisy J. Turner of Lexing- ton, describing herself “a_sin- gle colored woman in a hood of white folks” has brought suit for that amount against Jo- seph V. Boinay, white, also of Lex ington, charging hreach of promis Boinay promised to marry her, | she claims, but has failed to carry | out his agreement. The defendant has entered a general denial. | In a second s Miss Turner | asks $1,500, charging that Boin: on several occasions, publicly. falsely and maliclously ‘accused her | of stealing articles from his home. | | She further seeks $10,000 on| charges that Boinay attacked her | charactersand reputhtion. | | Boinay's wife, Ellen Roberts | posed on motor vehicles proceeds, | Boinay, prominent woman insur- he explains, on the t ¢ of wear ance broker and former member and ‘tear on the roads even ”,,v:of the state board of underwriters, | basis takes into accou through , died in 1923 factors involved in the and | | tear proposition, the space | y occupied. Would Pave Way In Assembly | = The plan without detail is that| a general enabling act be passed | under which cities and towns could determine (a) the limit of parking |time, (b) the various streets and (UP) art as neighbo wear road | THE WE New Britaln and vicinity: Unsettled, probably rain to- night and Saturday; some- what warmer Saturday. | | (Continued on Page 21) * |a time he resigned to accept a place bers of his congregation from the church roll, he told the Southern Baptist Sunday school conference. Now, he said, the ining 1,600 re “doing better work and mak- £ more progress than did the 5. 300 members.” A few excluded persons sought an nction in the courts to restrain him from such conduct, the pastor remarked, adding that the court in- formed the petitioners that “a Bap tist church is an autonomous body and is capable of administering such discipline as it may feel Dr. Leavell, explained didn’t expel th s hecause they played cards, danced. and at- tended theaters, but because they would not sign the church covenant. He added that the eovenant, among other things, “would have obligated them to attend services of the \church. forego worldly amusements read their bibles and pray for one another.” P T v mother, Mrs. M. J. Stanley, who bm]lel. McArdle, ‘\o‘eq i Radio Announcer, Dies will observe her 02d birthday an- | niversary in April; his wife, Mrs. Boston, Jan. 21 (UP)—Clyde Annie Stanley of Brooklyn, whom | (Smiler) McArdle, known to thous- he married In 1857; a sister, Miss|ands of radio fans as announcer at Isabelle Stanle three brothers, | station WNAC (Boston), died in a Robert H. Stan of Montclair, | hospital here today after a week’s Mortimer D. Stanley of | illness. Short Beach and Walter P. Stanley | In the fight to save McArdle's life, of New York city, and several | Fireman Bernard V. Gilhooly of nieces and nephews. Somerville, a friend of the announc- Relatives in this city are await- |er, had twice submitted to blood Ing word from New York which |transfusion operations. Saturday will Inform them of the funeral |night McArdle underwent an opera- arrangements, |tion for ulcers of the stomach. with a tourist organization, the Thomas Cook & Sons company of New York and London. He made several trips abroad with this com- pany. He then entered the New York office of Peck & Co., and prior to a retirement a year ago he w ociated with the TFoster Works of Brooklyn, N. Y. Tn his younger a skillful cornet member of the an accomplished received instructions from the late Mrs. Mary Tves Steele of Hartford who was then known as the lead- ing finstructor in the state, Of late years he was very active in the Plymouth church where he served on several of its committees and was offered the position of dea- con on several occasions. Recently he broadeast a serm tor when the latter found hi voice was too weak for the radio. Surviving him are his aged city band. He was planist, having Arthur Aaronson, Pos- ing as Buyer of Rub- ber Factory-Site, Ad- mits Larceny in Vir- ginia. |J. C. Loomis Lays Snare for Fugitive’s Capture by Appearing Credulous But' Checking Up on Story. FINANCIER-SLEUTH BAGS HIS QUARRY Introduced yesterday at the meetw ing of the New Britain Rotary club as “B. Sachs of San Francisco,” an alleged swindler of many aliases is today being held by the police awalting extradition to Newport News, Va., as the result of Presi= dent John C. Loomis of the Coma mercial Trust Co., turning detective, The prisoner's correct name is Arthur Aaronson, according to his lawyer, Attorney Morris D. Saxe, al- though- the police continue to refer to him at “Sachs.” “Sachs,” came to New Britain Tuesday. He registered at the Bure ritt hotel but not having any bage gage in his possession excited sus. | piclon. After being located in the hotel he went to the Davidson & Leven= thal department store where he ine troduced himself to Samuel Davide son and A. J. Leventhal as Benja- min Sachs, of the Pioneer Rubber Mills, Inc., of San Francisco. He stated that he was a member of the firm, his father and brother being joint owners of the company. Mr. Leventhal is acquainted in San Francisco and the fact that the man mentioned the names of a number of prominent families there, indi- | cated that at least he knew the city, | He said he was looking for a face tory site here. He was taken in tow by Mr, Da- | vidson who introduced him to President Willlam E. Atwood of the New Britain Trust Co., and Presi- dent Loomis of the Commercial Trust Co. Inspects “Factory Sites.” Explaining to Mr. Loomis that he | was looking for a plot of ground | comprising about four acres, wpon which he wanted to build a factory to cover ane acre, he was shown about the city. Property owned by the Shurberg Co..on Franklin street, | property owned by the Towers | Brick Co., and several other sites in | the city, which might be available for factory purposes were shown by | Mr. Loomis to the “visitor.” All the time, the banker his suspicions aroused by the fact that Sachs car- | ried no business card, was having the man investigated. Telephoning to Mr. Davidson to |ask what he knew about “Sachs”, Mr. Loomis was told “absolutely, nothing.” The Ploneer Rubber Mills, Tnc., was checked up and shown to be a million dollar firm. The banker Wednesday sent night letter to the rubber firm ask- ing for information about “Sachs.” He was advised by a telegram rea | ceived yesterday to have the lattep held as a crook who was wanted in | Newport News, Va., for swindling & bank. | Gives Banker Toy Balloons | Mr. Loomis notified the police de« | partment and Sergeant Patrick Ju {O'Mara and Detective Thomas J. | Feeney were sent to arrest “Sachs”. The policemen went to the- Burritt | hotel to await their ma | In the meantime, “Sachs”, un- suspicious that the local police were looking for him, returned to the Commercial Trust Co., and present< |ed Mr. Loomis with a handful of toy rubber balloons, which he said were samples of the product of the | firm he represented, asking Mr. Loomis to take them home to the family with his compliments, | Leaving the bank he returned to the hotel, but entered by way of Eddy Bros. & Co., where he asked quotations on several stocks, then | walked into the hotel lobby where he was apprehended. Guest at Rotary Luncheon Shortly before noon yesterday “Sachs” telephoned Mr. Loomis in- viting the banker to be his guest for luncheon. He was informed that it was Rotary Day and was invited to be the banker's guest at the Rotary luncheon. He accepted the invita- tion and was publically introduced ,during the luncheon as “B. Sachs, from San Francisco.” The intro- | duction was acknowledged with a graceful bow by the guest and the | customary applause from the club | members. [ Making every effort to allay sus- picion that the man was suspected | for anything, except that which he |represented himself, Mr. Loomis {also introduced him to the New | Britain club where he was extended the courtesies of the club, in order to make him believe his story was being accepted here. When arrested he simulated an attitude of offended dignity and in- | (Continued on Page 21) »