New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NO DEFINITE REPORTS FROM W BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927. —SIXTEEN PAGES Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg May Tth . 14,208 PRICE THREE CENTS PARIS TO NEW YORK FLIERS OPPOSING LAWYERS SCORE BUTH MURDER PRINGIPALS rs. Snyder Branded| s “Poisonous Ser- pent” and Gray Pic-| tured as “A Most Des- picable Creature.” | | I | Court Room Laughs When Woman Bursts Into- Tears — District A(lor- ney Speaks This After- noon. au May 9 completed at the Snyder murder trial today. They four hour: William Millard ry for Gray, never struck Albert Sn_\tlu‘ at all and that only luck saved him from being Killed by Mrs. Snyder. He asked for 1 manslaughter verdict. Wallace in his plea to the jury branded Gray as a most despicable man, brains of the murder plot and the actual mur- | derer, picturing his cient, Mrs, der, as the more or less innocent vic. ‘im of Gray's nefarious plans. The defendants then retired and adjonrnment was taken for one hour | when the summation of the district | attorney s scheduled to start. The case probably will go to the jury late | today. Gray's Arguments I'frst. Court opened at 10 o'clock. | Motions by defense to a mistrial were denied. Justice Scudder ruled | that the summation for Gray should be delivered first, as counsel for Mrs. Ruth Snyder had led in ‘he opening statements, It had previously been | (Continued on Page 183.) | MRS, GRAY SAYS SHE CANNOT CONPREHEND Staggered by Tragedy— Only Solace Is Husband’s Confession ens County Court House, N. Y., (P)—Defense summations were lasted almost | «\\Idr- ssing th Newark, N, J. 9 (P —Nrs. Henry Judd Gray \‘hcw husband is now on trial in Long Island City for the murder of Albert Snyder. in an interview today with the Newark does, | Barber, | Pherson TERRIFIC STORMS TAKE HEAVY TOLL | Blizzards, Tomadom and Tor- rential Downpour in West 50 PERSONS KNOWN DEAD| Kansas Is Hardest Hit When Twister | Sweeps Over Large District — Guardmen Mobilize For Relief | | Work in Stricken Areas. | | Kansas City, May 9 (®—Torna- blizzards torrential rains and | hail storms in the western states | Saturday night and ye! Killed | at least 16 persons. Injured scores ! and left hundreds homeless. | Kansas was hardest hit when & | twister started near the Oklahoma | erday border in the central section of the | Captain Charles Nungesser accompanied by Captain Francois Coli, wa: state late Saturday night and swept | dirplane as this radio-transmitted photograph was taken. four counties, leaving eleven known | biplane ready to wave France a gay farewell and set out acros {the Le Bourget field, a few miles from P‘\lla, to sail out into the mists until the last instant before the take-off is shown in the foreground. radioed to New York. dead. Two women and two children were killed in a tornado near Eldon, in South Central Missouri last night. Meager reports indicated the storm | also struck clean, seven miles north of Eldon, causing heavy property | damage. Winds, Rains and Hail High winds, rain and hail storms extended from blizzard swept north- orn Rocky. Mountains states to the Dakotas, Nebraska and Iowa. A woman drowned in a ditch ncar Sioux City, Jowa, while high winds | damaged buildings in southeastern South Dakota, northern Nebraska | and Towa. The disturbance reached its climax near North Platte, Neb., where a tornado razed bufldings, | but no one was known to have been killed or seriously injured. } The Kansas tornado raced through | Kingman, Reno and Me- counties late Saturday night. Rains of cloudburst propor- tmns followed the wind. Upwards | lof 800 buildings were reported de- | niolished in this area. The Kansas Twister The Kansas twister apparently jumped long distances and after sweeping a section along the Okla- homa-Kansas border, it rushed northeast, cutting a path four blocks | wide through the eastern section of | Hutchinson. Although compara- | tively little damage resulted to the central section of the city. The loss in the factory district was estimated at nearly $1,000,000. Korty persons were removed to hospitals, many suifering from serious injurics. Ap- proximately 1,000 were left home- Evening News, declared she was re- | ! lieved by her husband's confession on | the witness stand and said: *Judd ! has purged his soul; that gives me v great solace.” “Oh, this is all a nightmare,” she sighed as she sought to hold back | more of the tears that have swelled | her cheeks, “But Judd's straight- | forward and manly confession show- | ~d that he is repentant, and proved | him to be the may in whom I had implicit faith. His insistence upon | tellin the truth revealed his true | character and convinced me that his | trait of profound sympathy with | cverybody ensnared him in the | clutches of the wretch of a woman | vesponsible for his downfall. “This Snyder woman has said Judd was the only one who sympathized | with her, It was like Judd. E Lody received his kindly thoughts and consideration. He simply could | not help sharing the troubles of others with whom he was acquaint- | Mrs. Gray said she has done every- thing she could for her husband. She is financing his defense. | “I couldn’t sit in at his trial,” she | protested. “I wasn't capable of it | physically or mentall “I have done everything possible a financial way for Judd. 1t will | n a tremendous sacrifice to me, | ince the disclosure of this awful | tragedy, life to me has been almost w complete blank. Tt is hard enough for me to believe it is true. 1 can- not comprehend it. * | n letters to me he has insisted that T alone received his true love. | I must believe that, for my whole ! lite was devoted to make his home | all that a wife could. What little consolation I have had in the dark | weeks that have intervened since this blow, has come from the assur- ance of my friends and Judd's that | our home afforded everything that is | worth-while in this life, | udd Gray had religion. The truthfulness of that was evidenced by what he did on the witness stand.” | Mrs. Gray has succeeded so far | in concealing from their daughter, Jane, 10, the facts about her father. Mention of Jane's name intensified Mrs, € ¥'s grief, “He was 0 wrapped up In Jane," she wept. “She will have to know in n I (Coutinued on Page Five) | ofticia National guardsmen were mobil- ized and supervised rellef and sal- vage work. The Red Cross reported the situation well in hand and city said no outside aid would be needed. (Contm\ud on Page 14) 250,000 MORE ARE IN DANGER FROM FLOODS | Bursting Levees Threaten- ing More Districts in Louisiana { New Orleans, La., #—The “Sugar Bowl” of Central Loulsiana was threatened with inundation today as | the flood waters of the Mississippi | river surging from six dike crevasses in the northeastern part of the state | p!l d up again the Bayou Des Glaises | |levee secking an outlet to the sea. | A funnel-shaped stream covering thousgnds of square miles of the delta of northeast Louisiana poured |its strength into the backwater that already subjected the Bayou Des Glaises levee to an enormous pres- sure. Foderal and state engineers |feared that the dike could not hold. Hundreds of men were working on the threatened levee. Engineers concentrated their forces at weak spots, while a rescue flect consi ing of many types of vessels was belng mobilized to meet any emer- seney. | ),000 Persons Threatened “Sugar Bowl" wherein the sugar cane is grown, is thickly populated. It is estimated that 250,000 persons might be driven from their homes by a crevasse at ayou Des Glaises. Four million acres would be subject to overflow. Unless the dikes break, the waters | will be diverted through Old river back into the Mississippi, adding to the alveady record breaking flood dome: (Contluued on Page Two) courts might ‘ot the ,towns START OF FLIGHT TRANSMITTED BY RADIO TO AMERICA INCONFIRMED DISPATCHES TELL OF SIGHTING PLANE Service, Par the Atlantic. is Bureau. get, France, for New York by Nungesser is shown climbing in the cockpit of his “White Bird” A moment later the plane went roaring down One of the French soldie: The picture was hurried to London by airplane and then From there NEA Service rushed it to tarting from Le Bour; Transmitted by Radio s who guarded the plane e Herald. IN AUTO FA FATALITYI {Judge Discharges Driver Held for Plainville Man's Death W, V. BAKER, 7, 1S VICTIN {Fdgar Smith of Meriden Found Not Guilty of Negligence in Connection With Sideswiping Accident Near | Midway Gas Station. “Oh, Vernon street, he my God" shouted William | Baker, aged 27, of Bank Plainville, an insta before | was hurled from the rear seat {of an automobile driven by John | |Guiden of 92 West Main street, Plainville, when it collided with an- | other automobile driven by FEdgar| Smith, aged 37, of Hanover street, Meriden, shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning on Plain- | ville road, in front of the Midway gasoline filling station and store, The | crash followed the cry, Guiden's car | continuing a distance of 130 feet be fore coming to a stop, and Smith's| car being brought to a stop 47 feet | from the point of collision. Baker | was found about 50 feet from the! point of collision, about in the cen- ter of the highwa and at jo'clock he died at New Britain leral hospital of shock and hemor- rhage caused by a rupture of the| ll\'rr police court this =muh faced the charge ligence and after a long hearing | he was discharged by Judge W. C.| Hungerford, who said that while the | fatality was regrettable, there was, evidence of negligence of a crim- inal nature. ‘Whatever the t‘x\'\ll hold in the matter is morning, | of crimina (Continued on Page 1_1) 'MRS. THELMA TIBBETTS WEDS 17 YEAR OLD BOY | Maine Woman, Divorcee and Mother, Succeeds in Getting Married At Last Waterville, M: May 9 (UP)— Mrs. Thelma Tibbetts, divorced mother of a five-year-old child, W on her sccond honeymoon today with th htly-older brother of the 14 -old boy she could not " 9 he 17, of justice and Elmer Fuzzcll, n, were married by a peace at Clinton, near here, | after one of the most lectic court- ships this state has ever seen. weeks ago, M tried to rry Elmer's brother, Willie. Canaan town of- ficlals refused to sanction the mar- | riuge on the ground that Willie wa 100 young. Shortly after, Mr: love with Elmer him on a 200-mile trip to Ports- mouth, N. H. Authoritics in that city, mistaking Elmer for Willie, re- - sue a license. On their return home, the couple applied for licenses in their respective home 1d the licenses were granted Tibbetts | younger Several Tibbetts fell in 1d accompanied For Valor nd Coli ar: atter in the pictured above, sert. the New York, M Charles 1} gesser is one aviators. down 34 balloons. and has score enemy pla He was \\um\l undergone more than of surgical operations. His ! marine 'NO CRIMINAL ACT DaringAAviators Both Noted During World War luminum. He in Francois Coli in the French prior to the war, pain in the in he first two years of nd at his own request red to aviation in 19 frozen ‘apt; 1rs rose f v 5 be- cause for (Continue on Arch Street Mother Gets Radio Greeting | From Son in Panama “Moths vou and Day groetings wdmother. Love “ROI m yesteoday Zone, [ The forez through the Colo Sola, m € air Canal to Washington, < wired from the Capitol to New Britain. cnt by Robert Hattings, petty ofticer in the navy, to his mother, Mrs. Bessie Haiting 87 Arch street, this . tings 1s & ther the U. & S 0-8 and stationed Coco Sol canal zone, for (he years, (el national 1t THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday; not h change in temperature. coseel ki d Sl i | says | world 'BYRD STARTS SA%U‘{DAY IF NU wESbER FAILS New York Post Reports that Cham- ey Will ly as His Co-Pilot York, Evening w May New Post after- noon that it has learned that Com- wnder Richard the mo ca' for Paris next it Nungesser and Coli ful in their eft i B Claren, endurance place the injured Floyd Uyrd's co-pilot. The York says th Byrd will take oplane, tturday re unsucces: with LAYS E IN COURT Wallingford, May 9 (® — A hen laid an egg in court today. The court ed decision as to ownership. The case on trial was that of Joseph Puccl charged with theft of two Lens, The hens were evidence. reser BUILDING TUMBLES, 100 ARE TRAPPED Ghioago Department Slore Structure Gollapses FOUR FLOORS CRASH IN Police and Firemen Tearing Away Wreckage in Effort to Rescuc Those Imprisoned in Debris of Block. . was Ma; shoppers (PN and Chicago, 9 persons, employ were believed killed tod building store injured four story Department trappe or when the of on the west s dropped in a ba and many fl All four floors i- ly wreeked mass, ieved caught en and po ions L n tearing a the in an effort to reach per- sons imprisoned A number of ambulances rushed tot ne, and extra call for addi- were iss One woran was taken to a hos- ors believed & were impris- «ml a spec many emplove, o top MeGinnis, reported thrown fourth—by s badly i Rumbling is Heard cht at first an from the co! rumblin came seen four-story They ran down the street. of person ic with fea o Rirls rman, entrance. he said, no one was om the ruins. of gas soon permeated neighborhood but firemen who ad expected a possible blaze found no fire danger and began working their way into the w Muny were lieved to have been od or od, but after an hour at the ruins neither dead cd were found and the au- then accepted Goldblatt's 1l had escaped. n on e at first trapped and thoritics belief that GAS E. J. Rond ice toc soline in quar ON ROBBED 1 teported to that the n street ion was entered and 32 s and half dollars taken, besides four flashlights, 10 packages of cigarettes and several flashlight batteries. A transom was forced to igain entrane the PARIS JOYOUS AT | EARLY DISPATCHES 'Accept Reports That Nungesser i ~ Has Succeeded WELGOME PLANS INU S Aviators, Many Foremost American Public Officials and Diplomats Waiting to Greet Bold Frenchmen On Arrival at New York, May nee wins! ew mi when giving the Paris, 9 (P—"They've done " was the whisper became aimost hout, he dispatches were re- ceived report that Captain Nungesser's transatlantic plane | toundland. had been sighted over New- did not hesitate gin their ceiebration the Atlanti for the fir: to be- y, for with wported sately crossed time by an airplane from t to we without a stop, |the rest of the flight was cousid- | ered relatively unimportant. On the Bourse the shouting of orders for stocks turned into a great cheer. Livery one seemed to <l that it was a national triumph. Those who heard the news passed it along to the crowds in the str knots of people discussed it ex- tedly and joytully. report that Captain Nunges- had been sighted off Newfound- land was displayed on a big electric sign in the Place De L'Opera and attracted such a huge crowd that traific in the vicinity had to be s pended and the traftic policemen in themselves joined tne celebration. | Parisiar Ready For Welcome New York, May 9 (P—The hand of welcome was ready to be extend- ¢d from the land, the sea and the sky to the French fliers, Captains Ch and Francois Coli. Although given but a short no- tice that the arrival of the intrepid was imminent, the New s official reception committee; smost American airmen, and rench diplomatic, aviation shipping officials prepared them honor. Grover Whalen, members of to do chairman Mayor Walker' e planned to be ready to fly down the bay this aft- crnoon to meet the airmen, and a squadron of 30 planes planned to circle the harbor vessels. rough official information of where the fiyers might land was lacking, it was presumed they would and wel- PINEDO Fl]RGEI] Il[]WN ON SHORE AT NORWALK Plans to Continue Flight as Soon as Fog Lifts Norwalk, Conn., May 9 (B Pincdo, Boston early was omi- Ttal- to- Francesco de who Phil, the for Iphia, forced lown by oped Lo shortly lamaged at W heavy fog that envel- land sound off Darien ore noon. His plane, un- was towed into the har- or lson's Point, three mi o 1shore, he would flight as soon as the and had been his companions on tlight down the coas he =aid. He is stopping at the home of S. B. Van Niel Wilson Point Cove The descent of the seaplane was seen by Daniel Toomey, a dock builder and channel worker, who towed the plane to the cove with his power boat The progress of the flight of the huge flying boat had been observed all along the co from Boston. Many persons believed that the plane was that of Captain Nungesser. The fi ing of De police by De Pinedo continue his fog lifted. Rain Pinedo was given Darien Mrs. Chester P. Tokencke Beuch, Darien. She ob- served the plane flying low just off shore. Suddenly motor ceased and then Mrs. saw the plane, appear in the fog. police, but they iof any assistance. losing altitude, dis- and | report of the forced land- | Bates of | the sound of the! Bates | She called the | were unable to, be | New York Times Man Sydney, N. S, Wires Nungesser Was Sighted Off Cape Race This Mormng Othel Reliable Sources However, Deny Equally Any Information as to Whereabouts of Aviators Today. y the Assocl: New York, wenty-five o'clock came and with it there wasg no definite word of the whereabouts of 5 ns Nungesser and Coli flying from Paris to this clfy. hours had passed since the plane had hopped off from the flying field at Le Bourget. Two earlier reports that “White Bird™ was sighted over New Foundland had been confirmed. One of reports was not credited. A rain storm and fog mantled ew York and Bos- nd visibility was low. radio and s panies were still w tion up to two o'clock hensions > expressed though opes were generally maintained |that the aviators would be able to conclude a successful flight, even though their gasoline supply was thought to be mear exhaustion. It forced down at e plane without its landing gear could keep afloat for 24 hours. 4 Press May * 9 ® — Two this afternoon iip come out informae Grave appre- sea The Nungesser plane “White Bird" was sighted off Cape Race, New Foundland, at 10 o'clock this morn- ing was the succint word received today by the New York Times from its correspondent at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Should the reports prove ace curate and the daring aviators, C: n Nungesser and Coli, success- fully pursue the remaining thousand miles of their course over the misty Atlantic, they should reach their goal of the Paris to New Y. flight about § o'clock tonight (eastern daylight time). (Continued on Page 12) CIRCUS ACROBAT DIES AT NEWINGTON HOME F. A. Holden Appeared Before Public for 32 Years Frederick Appleton Holden, 46 years old, one of the countr; fore« most acrobats and tumblers for the cars, di at his home in ton this morning at 1:20 after a short illness. Born in Haverstraw, New York, he came to this city at an early age. He met LeRoy Bacon, who was later ined to be his partner in a tour of the country, in the old Turner hall and the two practiced tumbling til their work won them the rec tion of carnivals and an engage- ment for road work. ¥ s the pair held a place as two of the foremost tumblers in the world. They were engaged for 1l the leading vaudeville circuits and circuses. For many years they were headliners in B & Bailev's circ Mr. Bacon, who in P. & Co! many times they um s now hin' risked experic an craploye recalled the death but e they were not injured seriously. IFor the past four or five years, he said, they were doing work for clubs and fairs about the state and were scheduled to again put on their act on May 6. They took their middle names ¢d under the name of Le- Roy and Appleton and on other ac casions they were known as Bacon and Eggs. Mr. Holden® took the comedy part in the acts. Of late years Mr. Holden had been working for the Arrow Electric Co., of Hartford, where he was a ma- | chinist. He also an expert ac- | countant | t Thursday he was stricken | with an attack of double pneumonfa, | Fraternally he was assoclated with the Red Men and the P. O, §. of A. | of this city. He leaves his wife, two daughters, Misses Bertha and Mils dred. and a son, Robert Holden, of Newington. | Funeral services will be held Wed- nesday atternoon at 2 o'clock at Frwin chapel. Interment will be im | Fairview cemetery,