New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1927, Page 1

FiicAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 NINE PERSONS ARE KILLED WHEN TERRIFIC EXPLOSION WRECKS BLOCK IN CHICAGO Victims AIlWere Mem- MISS RIVER F[flfll] {THREE DAYS' SUFFERING bers of Two Famlhes—s Fire Follows Terrific| Blast and Bodies Are!Sueam in Some Places Now 0/ 2> Badly Bumed \ | Police Think Bursting Still | May Have Caused D aster, Though Bomb and | Gas Theories Are Inv 16 (A two fa killed early today when a terrific on virtually rolished a block April ors of ex- s with dwellings in the west side, followed the explosion, s which had not been deter- mined, and the nine bodics remov- “d from the ruins were burncd most bevond recognition. Identi ti de by relatives ims e ken Fire h q to ajy norg | 1 Three Theorles Held | Three theories held po- | and f explosion | w by gas or| authorities | ¢ reh | g who was still by by a bursting still, with ielined to accept th s made for crstood to have nlt vicinity. he onened miss belisved to be e | Barncit Levin, 45, proprictor of a| tailor shop. His wife, e Albert Lev 1 Levin kovsky ¥g00ds stor His Anna el vin, a son, 1% pr s Sikovsky, ~hes seliey 1 uced To A sion rred in aila stro H 1t inity | West was Vi 118 ar in Tarrison tha Loop. veled explosion two f r of ulty rom spre res but fi cking progress of the At first it was heliev homb might have heen tou it later nvestigation convin wthori that this view pro! was erroncous and they began stigations to determine i 1 been operated on the pre Routed From Beds Firemen | venting the nt :d from t explosion. Some reported ser hect of flame shoot upward doomed structures shortly af Dlast, Cries of the trapped, ne from the burning buildings Police believed that the victims were caught asleep by the explosion and never had a chance to escape. | Debris was thrown for half s Bock in every di hun- dreds of windows t build- were shattered. remen working on the ca they never had seen anything like omplete destruction by the FARMER A SUICIDE e the W the Westerly Man, Formerly of Gris- woid, Conn., Puts Shotgun to b Mouth and Pulls the Trigger, L. April 16 (P— Tervy, a farmer well ton of Rhode Is- | rn Connecticut | W today. About a shotgun his ho Placing the Westerly, lenry David own in this & land and in kiled himself early four o'clock he took ent to the rear of 1o Burden Pond road. rrel of the gun in his mouth he be 1 apparently 1 the weapon ‘hy |in reaching down and pulling the trig- | W or with one hand. When found a |1 hort time later by his brother- E 1 Cottrell, who lived 1o farm, part of his head had been shot He apparently died in- | stant Mr. Terry who came 1 Griswold, Conn., about 31 was 68 years old. He had been in poor health for a number of yer Several times he had threatened to ke his brother-in-law said. He leaves a wife. R. op n n- ¥ way. re from 1, ar Drives Bakery Truck At 45 Miles an Hour Daniel Augustine, aged 20, of 62 Walcott street, New Haven, drove automobile truck aown South n strect hill at the rate of 45 miles an hour about 9 o’clock this morning, according to Motorcyele Officer Alfred who a vested him on the charge of reck- less driving. T man said he had been deliver 1 in this city and was on his way home. He was released on a bond for his ap- Pearance in police court Monday morning. 54 1 {RAINFALL New Orleans and Other lippt riv Mississippi's triby after |1y rising in esidents rema | Heor fer we | Miss., depth of mor lthousands of acres in [in that vicinity. top of the new the levee and within tealled as rebuilt late last river tion of replica of Girl Stands on Guard | EW BRITAIN HERAL ‘1"0 s1mqr] ANS ‘mnxTAIN, CONNECTICUT, END THEIR SIEGE, Southwestern Religious Sect Purge Selves of Sin Chief Penitente WORST IN HISTORY| v v treme Pain Reenacts the Cru Others Inflict Fix-| Upon Thelr Own Santa Te, V The ceremon 16 & penitentes, torture and 15 Miles Wide IS CONTINUING on ope d after a tro: d south lers Cities Southern Part of River Now Are | | climax Teeling Tull Effects of Overflow- , April 16 men, racruited ailable source, ¥ in the greatest ® — trom sonthern Tilinois to the flood menace g proportions today. Con throughout almost all and in the headlands of the From ans, antic tin of the alley i ceaso from the mov sect s tl purgated to water rapid- 2 only a few ined in their homes nd those in upper floors, ve- i of the p tion i his ext Methods of Tortu miost common me I torture is the ~d rope of sopa weed or t the end of which is mad welus e with himself shoulder, m 1 heavy cross fask hich often proportions, U lar ctween th WILLIAM G. McADOO hen th wch threatened At Hickm onsidered by erous than the riv head waters flush me stwar. On t ape G o pre ood gineers mor. t any other 4 ows the we iles. which his is th ight of ¢ the dikes, turn for a distance. Missonri side of dean and other paring for any no immedi s in levees 10 And 15 Mile o Mississippi, normally and one half miles wide, »st. point, spread s 10 10, 12 and 15 mes wide ne places the no bul-| where it was reported t irks to hold the . the river ixion of la cported to he 5 miles - SFICHEPREY PAHAI]E | WILL BE BIG EVENT Orders kes on ase im- | Voo . gas Blades on is used to| rding the cere- | laimed to rts of the rit et v Alcalde, N, Mich Speculanon t night San Francisco Likewise Political Gets guards ro walk lay to prev nt dynan Arena By Making our: Active Bid Lor Republican tional Conyel Washington, fuel for discussion of t dential campaign h Issued Today ] R e politici Ly ¢/ Ceremonial in New el ofatra o Haven Wednesday William M. tional com v the mov cisco to get nest year's republ ational convention. McAdoo and Re The two demoer: wagging and James since P ortion n sup v of o prese ntial d De utler, it ch by San F for three lives lost. New Orleans Affected g worse sout ichez and h ey April for Seicheprey 102nd infantry n > issued today, rd ts who have Wiliiam G Liced of Orleans and Memp! achment of the risir 108t More than 24 hours of al column of formation w | Adoo fed authoritativel S on a ro Reed had Ma t i have could rict Ne families fro northern outs! of roed 15th | Adoo w the ade b icers of eserves, ts of | v tion of the | ed the Orleans a b broken 1vou §t. John 1+ rounding re i division organized of fis e first squardon of cava b ing on ti turning b} inve politicians were Mr. his states throt President Cool 1 scetion will be larg s tions. L : ) : he column will be reviewed by I¢ Trambull, Mayor Townr \o mayors and selectmen us places which had men in the I and who are his guests, and | various other officers and men who ar tou ol of had been sus- of 10w seep in ! stops he Levee is Brok ardeau, pril issippi river ey uth of Charleston ppi county, hroke and water luting station I be in the Center church on the | porade will start and it will be over 1 two mil w administration. MeAdoo Visits 1 During his stay in the e 1 | McAdoo has visited a but declined to discnss y in approach in the 16 (A early to- imundating | a6 the lowl | mpaign. His g PARILY SERVED IN BED /5 11 tary of the \doo was on Aga tment iring oing to q the em- A heavy wind, lapping ever y constructed inkment, washed out a breach in fow minutes| Time Started Day He Left New sth had been | York—Still In Hospital, But | east Prohibition A v statement d ppears to cessary expense in touring nd south to determine whe er he will become a candidate | president in 1825, Al that Mr. MeAdoo audienee of 1t not ha peals of MeAdoo for ague clp in 1624 Varlous Bits of Gossip from this a number of Washington volunteered along many repor am m one that McAdoo propo. iminate himscli; another that was feeling ont sentiment; still other that he proposed to throw support opposition { Al Smith of New York i would announce his ca lastly that he their course, Mr. McAdoo, how mude no public announcemer Has Not Mct Reed s is known ho d during his no indicat p 100 yards in It pencd. Four hundred men that had been | orking to hold this stretch to safety and no effort made to repair the break. The break occurred at a point ar Wolfe Island, where forces had | en concentrated for the past weck Slightly Improved. will | Greenville, & €., April 18 Jagee The condition of Tarl Carroll, York theatrical producer who info a coma while en ronte t lanta penitentiary to begin a ser an effort to hold the levee, which © for perjury growing out of his year. Wolfe bath v, continued to im- ‘ross the prove today. His physici lalternating betw jousness and coma, cognized relatives wh | Mrs. Carroll, who became il with bronehitis upon her arrival here to [he with her husband, was said to be ccovering rapidly. John Pinkley, a deputy who has Carroll fn custod told that some question had ariscn as to when the producer's sentence | of a year and a day would Dbegin. | d that the committment papoers | cified that his term began April the day he left New York for tlanta, loor and is almost directly o 5 Al from Hickman, Ky. ons in d that he periods of con- nd at t were at his QUAKE RE York, Aprii p carthquake 100 miles from hero v m. today on the ph at Fordham Univer The seismograph gave no indica the direction of the shaken ¢a, but the record was almost a that produced by the Thursday. TERED 16 (UP) A approximately recorded ismo- in t tidac: at marshal | So far met Mr. 1 and there ar While Pals Steal Dolls s th Three small girls were appre- hended by Ser: nt Patr O'M terday for the theft of two lMHG and a number of toy dishes, at the home of Julia 1 of 3ooth street. One of the gigls watched outside while the others went in throngh a window and took the articles, according to the rgeant. The matter was turned over to Miss Ruth Bristoll, woman probation officer. 1 A (Continued on Page 18.) BOSTON BOOK TEST CASE e Boston, April 16 (- book suppression war took a ne turn with the arrival here today of Ar-! thar Garfield Hays, New York torney for Boni and Liveright. pub-| lishers of Theodore Direiser's Ameri- | can Tragedy and the announcement he would institute a test case to de termine police rights to ban the vol- ume, he THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Increasing clondiness tonight: Sunday unsettled and warm- er, probably showers. * | | il Nl | | | e wl numier would let things ta SATURDAY, F [ESH T[]RT”RERS Democrats Keeping Followers Guessing RIVA[ CANDIDATES 21 VISIT WASHINGTON “ McAdoo and Reed Cansing Im. APRIL 16, GIRL GANGSTERS PRESENT PROBLEM jChicago Report Shows Fair Sex | Ying With Bogs (206 ORGANIZED ~ GANGS ‘A\('w)nhm; To Playground Official's | Statement, These Young Misse: Are Hoodoos of Thele Neighbor- homls. 1927. —TWE Dixon and Arnold, Airmen, Burned Chicago, April 16 (UP)— & boys in organizing n Chicago, ual report of C. I tendent of playg in in this city. zed group ess viclous than rparts b they ily obje e Boys ~n.m Improvement are called r cent of the pproached throu and incorporated in the und prog ption of report shows, all of th en approache partially Directo: structed to summon J ious who ave of a are foun vears favorably to o 1o object of tl; s in eliminati: | been largely EASTER PARADE 10 BF WONDERFUL PAGEANT - BUTLER ADDS MORE FUEL \u Na- rest » 1928 presi i 1e n nve r ire A Mis- al he M- to ow- over had made Mr, of piih- i inst | th t her- to ongs d tolto the Island of Maui a he| an his | to Governor I meer, he and ke ver, not here, | at a = New Ym’k Strollers Wi Represent About $10,- 000,000 in Clothes | e New York, wenue, trad York's annual is losing bor, Par competition April 16 (UP)—Fiit} il scene of N or fashion par and with bidding homes in which med to live because there never s n face at any of hun windows, has given way ughtare of modern office huild True, Park avenue is lined with t structures, too, but t part- ment buildings and percentage of the w With r sy forec for tomorrow 200,000 strollers will and Tifth between the hours of a. m., and 3. p. m. With $50 estimate of the amount exp cach person for new finer rade will represent $10.000,000. Tho boardwalk also will be crowded, seekers from five in the festivitie Another parade of qua quality is that annuaily lancey street, on the Side. As to tashion pred conflie: The keynote ho a pallette of colors women and the custon coat .nd “topp. Iressed men, MRS, DODGE DODGES | Millionaire’s Wife Poes Not Sce Pur- more tl pear on Par low d by low no doubt wil wnior ary suing Husband tn Honolulu— Reconcilation Impossiblie. Honolulu, Horace April 16 (UP)—Mrs Dodge was ready to sail ba ‘rancisco today leaving her aire husband, a whom filed it for divorce, to |continue his mysterious journey about Hawaii, Mrs. Dodge re from Ifilo. Her 1 yesterday Lusband lad g tter making his spectacular dash here from Cali- {fornia in reported pursuit of his es- tranged wife and the two did not| There ciliation, hegging 16 hy affairs, At the same time s had reserved passage the liner President Madison for San Francisco today, CAL Los Ango il 16 (P —1, zeles and n coast i night experienced a somewhat pro- [onger but slight earthquake, parently with no more damage |a fow diss anged pic! on W { The shock which occurred at 6:4S {p. m. centered in the coast district | near Snata Monica where it gave 'houses a vigorous shaking. is no chance of | Mrs. Dodge declared atter to be excused from any intervies about her maritil | a recon- | announced board sailing | she s A ‘Flaming Machine Glides to Earth at Toledo, Ohio — Today's tion t York next I’oll(om.m Slain; New ad to was found in his head i It this her she had lived with him as his for Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending l 4’292 April 9th NTY PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS AMERICAN BLUEJACKET IS WOUNDED WHEN CHINESE FIRE ON DESTROYER; FIGHTING IS REPORTED IN CANTON | | | | Wireless Dispatch From Wuwu Says Cantcnese Have Occupied For- eign Properties De- | spite Protests as Bombs in Their Plane Explode While at Altitude of 5,000 Feet Dixen Objected to Flight on Good Friday :British Woman .\!issionary Held by Bandits—Five Powers Plan to Repeat Demands for Satisfaction. New srowds 1 " to the wings as | over the profes Arnold accompanic Anshuntu, belicved tof heen cap- official Yuananta, whila traveling | Manshuntu it N to reach the | !fl the coast. | ¥ h.hllnz in Canton ] April 16 UP— Fighta c throughout Canton, out 109 radicals were reported in a MACDONALDS TOURIG VETERAN OF KLONDIAE INTO NEW ENGLAND DIES OF HEART ATTACK were is said to have occurred conservative forces sarming orders Destination Noted British Visitors Is Not Given Out of Daniel J. Hayes, 56, Tuok;_ Part in 1898 Gold Rush s by ment. iarters from which it strikers wers raided and officiale emises were ar rifles wore s | | | other: ed on the A number Utm New £ to his at Mul York, Salli men gl Aprit 18 (P ten, ory o 5T, ad wits vo- physieia t Dr. Thomas at : hurry the | ca to pr resulting from the r brid the The vie 1 to be he wed had oops v calle e farei Donald, r of ids spreading 1o 3 dividing the concessiong nat ngland t 8 art attack 1s old, a blacksi in this city| : of the bridges wam avily guarded the ttion st Iroom h W h rnoon wh W at Demands repris five powers in to theie W a colo s a bl ne Chea, ster, whica tisfactory., expegted to ho ra or six days. It is und make it absolute r the United and Italy are liviy r nationa nd that iy | stood it w three hrothers, Hartford, Jar wre Mas Ma 1yes of e Mrs BOMBING IN GLEVELAND Pashionable Twenty Room Mansion is Shattered By Terrific Evplosiony Today. April 18 (P explosion early toduy ble twenty 2 of Mr. and sod datie No one A i myse M or water mansi Wortht Helen Tee Film and Vol- | lies Star, Takes Burglar Whom She ives helleve, wae a window directly boa Iroom 1 by Mrs, Pinds in Her Room Hollywood, Cal i RS g thrown arg 1D L0 ind has s will ¢ wo been physicians n nose > MacDonal o Washin is prosident of the florists, weory Pottoe s that the bombe Lis house for that of e else. A number of valuable paintings were ruined. acm‘ces 0\\n Life to | Avoid Running Down Dog Milwaukee, Wis., April 16 P—Te tghtened save the lite of a small dog, Rudolph A 4, sacrificed his own life, AS Andritsch was riding his motore cycle last night the dog, a watee [spaniel, trottet out from the curh into his path, and Andritsch swerved [ nis ine sharply The motorcycle slid onto its side and wiih the rider slewed for 60 fect aloug the pavement. With & {velp the dog disappeared. Andritsch was picked up uncona scious and rushed to & hospitaly :Where he died of a fractured skully al guard home has been to protect marauder who has | coul appearance t learned today t, Miss Worthing was a man whom gh her bedroom. oken and a fro 1 out by the blow the intruder paid 1o the house but was by the mak Pot m a York Woman Arrested w York, April 16 (UP) itting she had pos trolman Martin put in his week, it Monday nig down red in was br i | ers mistook : bullet wound Struck by hed room to Mrs. Christing Conlon was ar- s a material w 3 ody was found by a police- nian who heard Mrs, Co cream- ; that her brother had shot him- L told deteetives Gatley was | brother and had supperied Het anmplete R('D()l“’d nd her baly fikied iy Born to Chilean Mother m when G n«rlx. told pol | Santiago, Chile, April 16 (P— Question Rirt five girls to a Chilean med that Mr mother is reported from the vi- 1 to his son and sho admitted | cinity of Osorno. None of wlhen the father ntuplets lived more than in the police station rs The mother, Angelina, Alvar- ado, is 22 years old. discov ne |inoc lay, it ke visit away atley Kille father, poli © n was not re- | on | | 18 everal months.