New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 TWO CHILDREN DEATH IN BRIDGEPORT AS MOTHER, FRANTIC, WATCHES, Boy of 4 and 18 Months Old Infant Lose Lives in Fire Which De-| stroys House in Out- | skirts of City. Parent, After Building Fire in Kitchen Stove, Had Gone to Neighbor’s to Borrow Some Milk for | Baby. Bridgeport, Feb. 28 (A — Two children burned to death in fire which destroyed a four room age on Hillcrest avenue on the city today. were skirts of the 4, and an infant of hs, the children of Mr.and hn Manduch. Solid Wall of Flames fire, of unknown out about 7 o'clock during Mrs. Manduch’s absence at the| ome of a neighbor where she had » for milk, ving the children in the house. Glancing ather | o, she saw it in flames and but a solid wall of| preventec l her from enter-| estrained her forci- | 1t into the oke from throwing he tus reached the scene greate app with t to soft, muddy tion the roads leading 1se. The heavy al times in the mud. house was bevond the firemen arrived but their s resulted in recovering one the charred little bodies, i W children in the| family, but three of them ken to a farm in Nichols ¥ afternoon by their and left there for a visit. Sad Home-Coming ving cond of Manduch t father returned home short- | 9 o'clock to find that the had been burned to s hysterical, recovered by the fire- ir arrival was Parts of the Mary, were ldren and h body after the boy the infant, th n soon it of of she had got- 7 o'clock, had ildren and dressed started a fire in When Mary . she decided bor's home and did not have any While she was away ed, the alarm being Hamah Kimble, who way to work, and hy old boy almost simul- believed that the i\ ted kitchen hen the boy attempted to shove 15 paper in the stove as he had srved his mother doing. Burned to Death J., Feb, wyer, b4, was in her home here Willlam A, Saw ith his wife and Miss Mu school teacher, were res- three Auftered from smoke ap was slightly to death Her son, Four Die in Fire » Q Feb. 28 (A) — Four night lost their lives which royed their T ord Mines. The vic- were children of Mr. and Mrs. and ranged in age from to seven months. Th followed explosion of g wit which the father wi a fire in the kitchen stove. mother W attending mass. children last n a fire home at i Roy years laze Saved by a Dream Detroit, Feb. 28 (®) — Dreaming someone had stolen his toy from tr d of his here, Merris Couzens, § vears old, awakened early yester- v and ran down stairs to inve The ,action probably saved hat wagon home for as he reached the low- | or floor he discovered the house in He called to neighbors for but before aid arrived, his Couzens, and three 15 months, J vears, trapped wer Rose Meryl Jot rear o burned to death > is bel an Saves 'Child, the e, overheated stove. Loses Life S (A — Over- carried her old grand- escape, M was in lower east halt year ard a fire 48, s by .m! ghte armella ad early pt tenement smo Sgroy. yes W on the her while the 10's face the fumes was child d tightly hand covered P it frc lina Leo. to m he was re ten- blaz tene several in the story men fire inued on Page Three) They | origin. | difficulty | to the| machines stuck | saving 28 | ieved to have been | BURNED 10 COPY OF MISSIN LETTER OBTAINED {La Guardia Springs Surprise in Gooper Impeachment Case ADVICE T0 DRY AGENTS According to Text of Missive, Pro- hibition Director Was Advised to | Have Own Agents Run Rum to Get Evidence. Washington, Feb. 25 UP—A certi- | fied copy of a letter dated November 17, 1926, purporting to have been sent by Federal Judge Frank Coop- |er of New York to R. Q. Merrick, & | prohibition agent, in which was out- lined a plan to entrap bootleggers, | was read today befors the house | judiciary committee investigating im- | | peachment charges against the | Standard, Doheny and Sinclair In- | | tional =¥ BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927. —SIXTEEN PAGES CALLES RESPONDS T0 SENATOR BORAH Declares 380 Companies Have Gomplied With New Laws 22 OTHERS HAVE RERUSED terests Included in Latter—Bor- ah’s Direct Action Criticized by | Some Senators as “Shocking.” Washington, Feb. 28 (#—Presi- dent Calles, of Mexico, in a com- munication sent directly to Chair- man Borah of the semate foreign relations committee, has informed | the senator that 330 companles; have complied with the Mexican | petroleum law. The communication, which was | in reply to one sent by Senator| Borah, who is hostile to the ad- ministration’s policies in Latin America, was made public wdny by Mr. Borah. 22 Companies Refuse Dated January 24, it listed 22 | companie which had refused to| comply with the law. Among these | Calles listed the Standard of In-| diana, Doheny and Bridge, Mexi- can Sinclair, Standard Atlantie, Mexican Crude, American Interna- | and Mexican Gulf, and Caupchinas and Mexican Crude. | | | | Original Disappears. | The copy was sworn to as a dupli- | cate of the original letter by Leo A.| Regan, of the Buffalo prohibition office. The original has di | | ed. After advising Merrick that it had | | been impossible to get the * ll\ul‘ minds” of the bootlegging, game in northern New York, the letter |that some unusual procedure mum‘ be adopt I “It you have a couple of trust-| y, keen and resourceful young | men in your service,” the letter | “you could get a number of the el | fellows, if they go about it in the | | right w: 1 | Offers Suggestions. “There are several thin do to get into t! n of the bootlegging activities. They | ould come to Albany and by hang- | ing around the Hampton hotel, or| the Schlitz hotel, they could get in| | touch with local people who want | | somebody to go to the north country |to get the ale and beer, ete, and| | bring it to Albany, and t Albany | people would tell th to g0 | in Clinton county to g"' the s | “I have no do e local people wouldincovide could go to Clinton where these local people and get in touch with th tors of these places and maks t y and come away, Should Be Arrested. “3 hey could be arrested it would not hurt anything, perhaps would make it better reir fu- ture activities “They could also go burg and vicinity county proprie- eir for rectly to and hang (Continued on Third Page) ROUGH RIDE IN AUTO IS HALTED BY TREE |Car Hits Pole, Jumps Curb and Continues 190 Feet Pulling his car too far to t trying to avoid a collision coming towards aged 22, of ity, unwitting] elephone pole burban Filling § treet, just north of Hartford about 6:50 last night ing the pole, for about 190 {curbstone and coming to a stop against a tr But for the tree, the Icar might have turned completely lover and killed Kata g s cou .ukarz Kata, aged 8 Curtis treet, who was ep and did not | {awaken until the crash threw him to | the floor of the car. | | Robert Hames of Kensington was about to close the filling station when the accident occurred and he and passing motorists rescued Kata and his cou om the wreckage. Reporting details to S ant | Michael F Hames said a car ¥ street from an yway on the west side of street, and another car was south on Stanley street ‘hen Kata's r came along in the opposite di- rection. The car going south pulled to the left to avoid the car leaving | alleyway, consequently Kata ! ohliged to pull to the right to avoid | bein struck Apparen judged the distance between ti traveled way and the telephone pole Licutenant Bamforth de sant Flynn and Officers ch and Brophy to the |receiving word of the acciden egant Flynn sent Kata cousin to the hospi Brophy and ' that Albert Kata fracture and an i while his cousin suffered bruises about the head. The latter was able | {to leave after his injuries were dressed, but the former will '«nwvrl hospital for several days at least. The police did net learn the iden- | tity of the drivers of the other c It w eported of th that K he Know front ion on ed on oing over the ynn, s backing into th going was | & ury to the ¢ treatment 18 T ent bt the scene had U it. He t happene Genie not 5 | embrz end you ond them || | sibili | som | driver of the automobile Naming them the more impo a*t’ of the companies which have ac- cepted the law, Preside Calles | aid the 330 compa ch ha complied have solicited on the whole 643 petroleum concessions on lands with claims previous to | [May 1, 1927 | 26, 000 Acres Embraced “These s embrace e acres,” cablegram lands claims prior to May 1917, the 22 companies possess who did not comply with the petroleum law a to extent of 1,661,000 | aquently the lands which have not complied with the petroleum law represent approxi- mately six per cent of the total land which c.mmu ex- ay 1, 1917 by mail fuller and more formation. 1 am pleased at the interest which you are tak- ing in this matt and God grant th data suobmitt to you may be of use.” The message was signed “Affec- | {tionately Yours.” | Borah's Letter 1 Senator Dorah's anuary 22, said: agreeable may T be advise he exact facts relative to oil | accepting the pe- law, how many have ac and how many a the W on detailed 1 3 message, &ent have not (Continued or Page 13.) HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER CONFESSES T0 POLICE. Miami Beach Man Admits Killing Former New York Financier Miami, Colbur) tate dealer, —George Fla., Feb. 28 (P ch real es a Miami B today cont police announc death of Milthorne Wool mer 2 York financier, run down and killed by an automo- | the night of Jan. 29 | Colburn was arrested in Orlando, | Pla, Saturday. Three men whos names were withheid, have been ar- sted on suspi of having at- tempted to blackmall him. | The body of Mr. Woolsey was found in a vacant lot the morning d it apparent- therha an au- oW ed there tomobile Colburn told police t Mr. Woo said he was midn blinded by into his fac ling but spee saw what he be omaobile b smpted holdt er on, he stopped body of Mr. Wools the bumper, he sald Seized with fear, he said, he drove to his apartment, telling only his mother of the accident ed him to inform the he said he was afraid to do so. Police say they obtained first clue to identity lling of | was accidental. He Iriving home shortly n his vision was a newspaper that blew | He felt his car strike | ted on when he | 4 nother red an at- ome blocks farth- his car and the y dropped from of rom the of the three men held on sust aving ted obt: from Colburn as the price attem to Another Brand” Ts Advice Given by Judge To New Britain Man Hartford, John Clark, 28, of 60 Main street, New Britain, alleged to have ged two strangers in L fist fight here Sunday on their refusal to him a match, was fined and costs when arraigned police court this morning oiti muel Weinsteln de- ared Clark had continued his struggle after his arrival and 8 (UP) — 520 in | tor William ‘Honomm Arthur R. | the linvol 250,000 Gals. of Gasoline and Oil To Be Stored in East End of City If Building Dept. Issues Permits City Officials Consult Ordinances in Search of Author- ity to Bar Concentration of Inflammable Fluids The area bounded by Stanley, East | Main, Harvard and Dwight streets, will be the place of storage of nearly | several gasoline storage tanks serv- a quarter of a million gallons of in- flammable oils and gasoline if per- mits applied for today are issued by!\removed, the Texas Oil company has | Of $2)000,000 water Bond Issue the building department. Already there are tanks comalnv‘ll\o 12,000 gallon oil tanks, if per-| inz 60,000 gallons of fuel ofl on the Berson Brothers properties in Har- {vard street. | Wood Co.; two 12,000 gallon oil tanks on East Main street, and the Stanley Svea The United Coal and| seeks permission to place | Co., wishes to install two 20,000 gal- lon tanks at Stanley and Dwight streets. In the same district are ing commercial and industrial needs. At a spot on Fast street not far a plot of land on which it will place mitted. A hurried examination of the city ordinances does not disclose any restrictions covering the storage of inflammable materials in avoidance Io! conflagration risks. Contractor in City Hall Row With Acting Elec. Inspector \ 'ratschko Said to Ha\e Aimed Blow at Cowles— Prosecutor Says Both' Are Deserving of Censure Joseph contractor, Wratschko, an electrical was reported to Prosecu M. Greenstein as hav- commited a breach of the peace in the offices of the building depa ment this afternoon after brought a loud altercati ing Blectrical Tnspector C. Cowles to an end by making a vi lent g of his at the actin inspector. who had removed glasses at the suggestion o . contractor was not struck. He made no effort to strike back and the matter ended there as Wratsehko was concerned. he went to the office of the prosecutor | t once and lodged a complalint, | | which was turned over to the po- lice for investigation. No arrest is expected ‘o r»sul! from the incident. Prosecutor Greenstein was not turnished with sufficient evidence to fssue a war- > said, and he was convinced 3 matter was a “private dis- between Cowles and Wrat: hich, he said, both parties deserved to be censured. The case will be formally brought before the building commissioners when they meet tonight. The al- leged offense is not one of those for ch revocation of Wratschko's li- cense may be brought about. Such a course was to have been attempted s afternoon until this fact was ascertained. Cowles has been acting inspector for the past we second ac* of nes attended his violence that has brief ure. Several (Continued on Page 13.) “ GOULD IS EXONERATED IN COMMITTEE REPORT Recommendatlon Is That Senate Drop Charges Against Maine Man W gton, Feb. 25.—(M— The right of Senator Gould, rflvnl).v‘fln. Maine, to a in the Senate, was pheld today in the report of the enate elections sub-committe that investizgated charges against him. The sub-committee members re- comn od that the charges, which revolved about the payment of $100,000 to a Canadian official, be gatton nator de at nator Walsh who based his hat the Se: $100,- Flemming, ck, in connection act for a railroad witness stand denied ed. leclared the Gould’ tions the instance of &« democrat, Montal demands on charg tor Gould had turned over 000 to former Premier Gould on the that any fraud was invo The report toda sub-committee is ment in the case in the following: undertaking by the Gould and his to build the railroad, in the beginning, free from suspicion of dishon fraud. “B—The here fa- quired into had in fact no relation selection of 14 as primary, of election to the elaction Maine in 1926 —The tran more than 14 election. “D—TIt affir Honor \r"-'xr l\ a man of good cha a long life in which he has active- ly engaged in important enter- prises, he has borne the reputation as a man of character and in- nate ction occurred prior to | tegrity, “The premises considered, your committee recommends that fur- ther action in the instance case be not taken and that the right of the Honorable Arthur R. Gould, to a t in the senate be contirmed.” sub committee declined to rule on the claim of Gould's coun- sel that the senate had no rig exclude a member for an act cor mitted prior to election committee helieves that every ing the exclusion of a sen elect or the expulsion of a m of the e alleged to have been or to h ion, riust depend upon the pe- culiar fact nces of the particular he report said. “The gens your committes unnecessary to giv the power of the to the question here Discussing payment of the $100.- 000 by the railroad company of wh enator ( 14 is president, the report said th- company had ad- vanced in the work to the point where it position to be held up.” It was pointed that ator Gould denied making the payment al conclusion to which s come m it an opinion upon senate with respect raised.” s i WIFE FINDS BODY OF LONG LOST HUSBAND Scott, Who Disappeared 24 i Years Ago, a Suicide in | | New Orleans | Chicago, Feb. 28 P—A 24 year old | mystery of the disappearanc ward Burke Scott, up with the Kate Condon Scott of a body Orleans vault as husband. nder the name of William mmitted suicide in New September leaving an 000 which went of Ed- has been cleared in a that of her Orleans last estate valued at $1 ve of his associates in estate business. Mr ly a well known opera singer, tered proof of her marriage ott for her widow’s share of the estate, whict er Louisiana law is 0 per cent. Mrs. Scott, two prominent Chicago attorneys, was Kate Con- don of Bloomington, 1ll, and made her way from a choir singer to a debut with the Castle Square Opera pany in St. Louis in 1303. Later the same year she met Scott, who was the advance agent for a thea- trical company, and they were mar- ried at New Haven, Conn., May 16, 1903. In November of 1903, while he was on a tour of tue middle west, ott disappeared. Mrs. Scott said investigation showed that he had been short in his accounts. Mrs. Scott continued on the un; sister of stage several years, retiring after singing | war. | When Victor killed himself, a wo- | for overseas so.diers during the man relative of Scott's reading of some of the peculiarities of t Orlean the con vere the same m cated with Mrs. Scott. went to the Louisiana city tigate. Mrs. Scott said Victor was a family name. Her husband, she re- lated, was born in Paris, Ky., a son of Marie Prescott, well known akesperean act 50 years ago, and Edward Burk He adopted the name of Scott for his stage career. His mother was a daughter of J William Victor. Mrs. Scott has decided to leave body In its vault in Anthony's cemetery. t Victor and § Mrs. § to inv t (P—Edward e of his ¢ a quarter of a ntury ago, was manager for rles B. Dillingham of “The Office Boy,” in whi rank Daniels was being starred on Broadway. The first news Mr. Dillingham had of Scott since his mysterious disap- pearance, he said today, Mrs. Kate Condon Scott that she had fou the body of her husban: appearance nearly DRIVEN TO SUICIDE St. Louis, IFeb. 28 (® — Ange because bhis daught insisted playing the piano, Emil Chaxel, 73, a widower, went to the basement of his home last night and hanged Lim- self from a rafter. THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: and this is the | Mrs. | n, and communi- | ige was when | wrote him | red | on | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 4 520 Feb. 26th PRICE THREE CENTS DOHENY MUST GIVE UP ALL NAVAL OIL LEASES AND GONTRAGTS THAT WERE AWARDED HIM BY SEC. FALL City Will Ask State’s Approval !‘Nor Will He Receive | | 1 pe Back the Money He Spent in Attempting to Carry These Into Effect, Supreme Court Rules Unanimously. Anticipates Raising Sh“t"TmES []EATH BY fiAS Zil:filii‘;f?“;aifi,f:s BUT POLIGE INTERFERE With Eye to Futare. | |Father Turns on Jets, | Drives Family From House Tribunal Will Next Take Up Similar Proceedings Involving Rights of Sin« clair to Teapot Dome. Authority to issue water bonds to |the amount of $2,000,000 will b {sought at the current session of th legislature by the local water boar: and although the bonds will very |likely remain unsold for a year or| {more it is expected they will even \auy be used to finance elevation Shuttle Meadow dam. Abse! t sufficient storage ity is one of the most serious prob. {lems of ,the water departmen | Pumping stations at Forestville ar | prolific sources of water supply |other points ure a heav water during all except ex dry seasons, but there are not suffi- nt accommodations for storing the | " supply for use in time of drought. it he pumpl ation at Forestville | U‘ e is not dependent upon ordinary flov g ing conditions since it can be oper- | ated at all s drawing from ur derground sources, and by its the reservoir could be pt at safe high point, were the dam raised. | persons fa ater de- | partment Consu! 5 at the home in an intox- | Saturday evening, | his own admission in John Nadeau, con. z ording to s m oK ey | _ Washington, Feb. 28 (P—Edw: of 58 Beaver street, pulled | 1, Doheny must give up the naav: ned| oil loases and contracts awarded driving his wife and | Rim when Albert B. Fall was secre the house. He then| ¥ Of the interior, J 2 ° %] Nor will he receive back the imself | money he spent in attempting to nd chil-| carry the agreements into effect. r's mother's| In an opinion amounting to a Lafayetts street. Mrs. | complete victory for the government ill by the gas and | the supreme court held today that Savard was called to attend | the agreements not only were taint- ed by fraud, but that the Fall leas- | ing policy under which they were made was illegal. It was under this same policy that the Teapot Dome lease was given to Harry F. Sinclair, although the suit to cancel that lease was not directly involved in today’s finding. The opinion of the court was an- nounced by Justice Butler and there was no dissent. It completely affirmed findings of the court of appeals, holding that the Doheny leases and contracts are invalid and that Doheny is entitled to no com- | pensation. Congress His Only Hope This finding covered not only | Doheny’s lease for development of the Elk Hills oil res in Califor~ turned | nia, but his contract for construc- ome under | R of oil storage facilities at Pearl Nadeau had | Harbor, Hawall. Sincs these ag ments were tainted by fraud, s the opinion, a claim for comp tion could have no standing in tia courts and only recourse Doheny 1";‘"5!1,\5(“‘“"‘: Nad| would have would be to secu - {sage of a specfal act of ¢ ous from the| Be et ! A o | In its finding of fraud : | cited not only the s riord told Nadeau he | ine negotiations were conducted and ¢ bad conditlon 10 tye fact that there was no compe to recall the detalls of|tiye bidding, but alluded to the now experience, v | tamillar story of how Doheny sent all $100,000 in a little black him $5 with the [satchel. Recently Doheny and Fall posed a sus-| were acquitted here on a criminal 0 days, im-|charge of conspiracy based on pas- will be re-|sage of the $100,000, but the highest s | court said today that the evidenca | that conspiracy and fraud existed | was clear and unmistakable. | This finding will have no effect on ENGLAND WILLING TO | st o s two men which were concluded by | the acquittal. | Justice Butler declared that after |the issuance of President Harding's | executive order transferring the | naval oil lands from the navy to the {interior department, Fall “dominate ed” the negotiations that eventuat- |ed in the contracts and leases “From the inception no matter of 31, on | dren wen the Police about § [ rick J. | lungm ¥ who had been n()»‘ d at Hazen | er Allan lays great stress upon the impo of storage. He recommended stor |age accommodations of five or six | billion gallons, three of four times |the present amount. Until this dif- | ference is tz up, in part at le he fears tributaries cannot be d veloped to their maxi n and flood | |waters will continue to be lost in {great amounts. .le was convinced that Shuttle Meado ‘vnt dam wo g lage for its immediate sour ! pointed to the need for a larger re: jervoir to fully De t from t 'W'Ngvllle and Burlington areas. | Discussing the Shuttle Meadow {matter he declared himself confident that reservoir cou developed to | provide storag lines from the points o to the reservoir 50 feet a deliy 000,000 gallons possible, ver street. t O'Mara arrived, he| rre with | harges of drunken- ed guilty arge and add this was not time he liquor, d that he rapped on t ree times and was no obliged to force there unable of r da made by E rs ago. The work m for considerably loss, by reservoir of the to make the w would be consi point. Hazen job at § ing the dam, buildir tunnel and control works, a dike the upper end. clearing and clear of additional area to be overflowed. At 2 meeting of board of and taxation, Acting C Joseph I, Lamb emphasized the r for cons he dam-raising pro- | ject at an early date. The water department has insuftic leeway in its bonding author gin this t and if the does not approve at th sa fore operation BUTLER IN COMMAND Noted ye cost of ncludes r new ou Sends Favorable Reply to Naval Arms Limitation Proposal (Continued on Page 13) 23 (P—Great - e TIOKET SCALPERS WIN S SUPRENE GOURT TRIAL rtment to- | Coolidge’s “*New York Law Fixing | Price of Re-Sale De- L R | clared Unconstitutional & of warcraftin| t ident tion to at the Briti eir best to further the su Proposc with the Marine Corps Commander Ordered To China To Assume a Charge of U. Forces There, Washington, Feb, | part of the New York state law | Which prohibits licensed brokers thaf somo project | trom charging more than 50 cents h h‘idbo\e theater prices on the re-sale £ tickets was declared unconstitu- tional today by the supreme court. | Justice Sutherland, delivering the | opinion, said that theaters were not in the class of public institutions | whose interests warrant such pro- tion. York law price fixing by | betore the court fixing by a legisl, | sustained. It it would be difficuit price fixing by law mig! decision was involving Tyson 28 (A —That ered to China today to > force of more than tic water o will pro- d by the first st eral Butler will be ied l»\ a staif consistin C note ('\.\!- Lieuten: will uni fourth which and will detachme other i New, empt at to come that such price ould not ba said, it where ared was t al a legislature ersation a Sl limitation were, given no o s | Perfect Bridge Hand Twice on Same Deal Mass. ™ wperial & Fild ticket offic: led fi Brar and ction of | necessi tood supplies are and together with nditior requirements | countries invited to par- \‘ ‘ : feal of | ticipato in the conyersation must be | Gtonfather Saves Girl From Being Deported sty's government are| New Haven, I%eb. 25.—(P—The e prot court divi Holmes Springfield (UP)- kno the epared to consider to| the principles adopted | granting of a petition to her step- Washington can be carried fur-| father, K. H. Mahakian of West her, either as regards the ratio "1“ aven by Secretary of Labor James classes of ships between|j pavis has saved from deporta- various powers or in other im-| tion Rubina Gurdgian, 15-year-old s. They therefore -lwv‘“ Armenian girl who is being held at witation of the government of | gl Island. Mahakian put up $165 United States of America and|necessary for treatment for the will do their t to further the suc- | girl who is suffering from trach- monds, slam, Merriam to conced biddin of th that his uniform coat had been torn from his back. tested to which Generally fair tonight. Tues. day unscttled, probably fol- lowed by snow. not much change in temperature. himself, and that he testified he pro- | tested over his business associates paying anything. The report was prepared by ator George, democrat, Georgla, & of the sub mmittee. Clark pro- innocence of the a Judge Schatz replied, nother brand. Twel and costs hearts The the ca one heart and his wife and one spade. participants insis rds were shuftled and then cut before the held 12 twice deal. |e proposed conversation. They would, however, observe 'that the relationship of such a con- | versation to the proceedings of the preparatory commission at Geneva would require careful adjustment.” oma, highly contagious eye diseass of the Orient. The girl arrived at Ellis Island & few days ago from Palestine. She has been separated from her mother for 11 years.