New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 I W BRITAIN HERALD TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927. —.TWENTY PAGES. HOPE FOR LIVES OF TWO CEAN FLIERS WANES AS NEW BRITAIN, HREE-DAY SIEGE OF STORMS AND TORNADOES IN WEST TAKES TOLL OF OVER 200 DEAD, HUNDREDS HURT Property Losses Run High Into Millions— Heart of Poplar Bluff, When May Have to Be Taken to Hospital and Be Unable to | Mo. Devastated Appear In Court Monday When She and Gray Are i 300 Square Blocks Scheduled to Be Sentenced to Death. Are Razed. Arkansas, Texas and - "nois Also Suffer Enor- mous Damage — Red Cross Again Called Upon to Give Aid. By the Assoclated Press. ‘Casualty lists in siege of tornadoes and storms in western states today showed 230 known dead and more than $60 in- jured, many severly. Reports by states: Missouri x Arkansas a three Kansas S 40 iy = - 3 35 Wyoming 3 lowa Louisiana 3 — several persons were unaccount- for in Arkans: The three aths in Wyoming occurred in & blizzard, while a woman was drown- ed near Sioux City, Towa. Poplar Blufls Ruined. Poplar Bluff, Mo, May 10 (P— The heart of Poplar Bluff lay in ruins today after a devastating tor- nado late yesterday had tal at least sixty dead and nearly three hundred injurcd. With virtually every building in the downtown district cither demol- ished or partially wrecked, the city counted its loss in millions of dol- The twisting wind cut a path seven blocks wida and 43 blocks long. aifecting an ar: of approxi- mately 300 square blocks. Stealing upon the city bank of glowering clouds, the tor- rado was preceded by pelting Dail wh covered the stre with ice. A rour from the southeast warned ‘tizons that a storm was upon hem, and when, after three min- utes, the tornado had swept through the cily, the populace rushed panic tricken into 1t rects, Rain Quenches Vires. Fire broke out in the ruins but was ,quenched by torrential which followed the tornado. Hurried rescue efforis brought the injured into seve aid station: Sixty-five of the more seriously injured were taken basement of the First Christian church, where they were treated, many of them undergoing maj operations. A schoolhous: “sium sery a al for proximately 00 those minor injuries. Meanwhile the dead to the two under! tablishments was bhegun, belind a h hosp! of ap- as aking es- and by nightfall the morgues had received | mors than forty dead. Men worked to - through the stree clogged with bricks, clear whict timbers were and (Continued on Page 10) STIRRING WESLEYAN Booze at Dances May Cause Their Discontinu- ance—Two Expelled Middlstown, May 10 () — In a effort to prevent a repetition of ¢ ditions here over the week-end when many students were said to have heen using liquors, the administra- tion committce of Wesleyan univer- sity has recommended discontinuance of the senior dances for this year and also for next, unless the college senate can propose “effective regu- lations for use during the dances and afterwards.” “The recommendations to the fac- ulty were announced by President James L. McConaughy at chapel to- day. They will be in the next few days. Many of the college fraternfties | held their spring partics last Friday | The following morning there | night. was considerable evidence of drink- ing in the way of empty bottles and grouch the faculty. Two students and a former student were injured in an automobile accident, but police de- clared that there were no indications of intoxication among the three no signs of liquor. President Conaughy said today that one dent had been dismissed from lege and that anothe nOW aw: would not be permitted to return because of “drinking incidents” over the week-end. The administration committee in its recommendations did not wish a curb on soclal activities, but felt drastlc measures to curb drinking 'should be taken to preserve the good name of the institution. Me- stu- na toll | Al temporary first | to the | with | tha work of bringing | paths | cted upon with- | y students it was reported to ' and | col- | 'Mrs. Snyder Collapses In Cell After Hearing Verdict of Guilt fInsanity May Be | Mrs. Snyder’s Refuge Long Island City, N. Y., May 10 (UP) s a result of the seizures, resembling epilepsy, which Mrs. Snyder has suffered since the jury brought in its verdict there appeared a new possibility that her execution might be delayed or even that she might be sent to an asylum rather than to the electric chair. The law will not permit exe- cution of an insane person and should the seizures she has un- dergone prove to be epilepsy it is possible that she might be adjudged insane. Should she recover at any time, however, the death penalty would then be executed. LINE TO MIDDLETOWN FINDS GOING ROUGH Opposition Freely Express- ed at Hearing in Berlin Today | i ] | | | The proposed Middletown, Berlin and New Britain bus line suffered at a hearing held this morning at the town hall in Berlin, where prominent residents of the » communities concerned spoke gainst the nced of U proposed line, stating that they fearcd trenchment of service on the N, H. & H, R. cut Co. bus line tevially affect service . and the Connecti- which would ma- to the three of the public utili- commission, who presided at hearing. in summening up th im stated to Attorney Phillip Dickenson, who represented the two petitioners, William J. Coggin and Fred C. Hall, that he would review the case but as his dccision was wsed on the fundamental principles of public convenience and efficiency, he believed he would find it b to recommend the franchise. Among those who testified agair the proposed line we ials of the N. Y. N. H. & R. R, who showe ed figures declaring that they were operating on an efficient hedule and that any bus line would be su- perfluous in that it would_run par- allel to already establish®d routes and would ne a reduction in train schedules if put through. Of- Is of the Connecticut company showed figures and maps regarding conditions trom Berlin to New Br ain and from Middletown to W field and claim that an extra bus line wounld interfere with their franchises and would be inefficient. C. ¥. Chase of Berlin Cons {tion Co. called the proposed unnecessary, adding that he had den on the railroad line for years and had found it John T. Hart, also of the Berlin Construction Co., corroborated Mr. Chat remarks with an endors ment of the present railroad service. J. F. Atwater, manager of tran portation for the American Hard- ware Corp., opposed the proposed line as unn ary and feared re- trenchment by railroad interests if the franchise was granted. W. ears of the Middletown Chamber ot Commerce protested against the proposed move as he claimed he would rather sce any extended ser ice fostered by the Connecticut C or the New England Transportation Co. He added, however, that he ‘elt there was room for improve- ment by the railroad in its service. Thomas Hoops, chairman of the transportation committee of the Middletown Chamber of Commerce endorsed Mr. Spears’ remarks. Two Kast Berlinites, G. H. Pol- lard and Archie Walsh, claimed that the present system of transporta was adequate to East Berlin needs. P. J. Gaffney and Secretar R. H. Benson of the New Britain Chamber of Commerce appeared against the move, stating that the New Britwin Chamber had voted against the granting of the franchise at last night's meeting of the trans- | portation committee. enson's case T, Higs ns, was further ents had not filed any schedules, | routes or rates. He hinted, in sum- | terests were the main against the granting of the land that some of the witnesses | might be under the intluence of r:nll-‘ | roaa capitat. i | Doris Kenyon and Milton Sill Are Proud Parents (UP)—Doris % | | New York, May 10 Kenyon, screen star. a son here Sunday. nounced today by First pictures. She is the wife of Milton Sills reen player, who left here for the | Pacific coast Sunday when his wife was reported to bs “out of dan- | ger. was an- National project | birth to| | HAS SECOND COLLAPSE | New York, May 10 (P—Mus. | Ruth Snyder, the steely blonde of the Suyder-Gray murder trial, suffered a second collapse in her cell today New York, May 10 (® — M Ruth Snyder, Queens Village house- | wite, who with her corset salesman paramour, Henry Judd Gray, is to be sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of her hus- band, today was in a state of col- lapse in her cell, he iron nerve that through the three weeks' or- 1 of the trial and which did not even fail her yesterday when si heard the jury verdict of of murder in the first cracked only when she reached her cell in the county jail. Mrs. Snyder Collapses collapsed. and after at d over her for unsuc ful effort to restore consciousness o call scnt to St. John's hospital phyicians responded and found unconscious, her jaws tightly and her fists elenched. Cons ness was restored an degree, She :nd- 1s wo her ciou after hot but she then was reported in a sc- | rious nervous condition. Dr. Di Rosa, one of the hospital physicians, (Continued on Page HUNDREDS BATTLING 20) < MISSISSIPPI FLODDS White Capped Billows Ripping Away at River Levee: New Orleans, La., May 10 (£ White of the Mis- sissippi river cut deeply into leve capped billows ong a 50 mile front north of Ba- ton Rouge yesterday and last night and todaj hundreds of laborers were sand-bagging the weakened | spots. Along the Bayou Des Glaises levee, W e danger h ntered several days, 500 citizens fight- ing the flood. As the ituation grew more critical, Als, engineer, in rescue fleet with its chez, Miss., announc that boats in his area excet those «d for transportation of food pplies, would be concentrated section, Throughout the lower vi sion was increasing and were more vigilant. w was considered out of Thousands of persons in hotw New Orleans River were still men: ) In addition to the u Dos Gluises, seepage ng damage at Morcauvill | Waves were reported to be splash- ing over the top of a dyke there. The crest of the Red river passed Alexandria and a ion |was noted, Herbert commerce, war, Orleans bankers discussed rehabilitation of the flood ited sections of Louisia day. They said that plans ing formulated for a to furnish funds farmers. being Arkan there hourly of Nat- all need- and cha patro Orleans it the valley and Old however, B: caus| w v of secre- Hoover, sec Dwight L. Davis, and a group of New plans are ssippi and Plans for the population of the southern Iou- isiana parishes in the path of a {Nlood through the Bayou Des Glaises e been completed by authoritics in preparation for a lev break that region. th new demands on their re- sources caused by tornadoes in Ar- lan almost at the door of floo relief operations in that stats American Re Cross officials in | Memphis await Lonisiana. d | While expericnced disaster work- | ed by the fact that his cli- | ers were drawn for tornado relic [trom refugee centers in the older flooded area of Arkansas, concen- {tration of reliet forces continucd lalong the levee route of ther of Waters” between Baton | Rouge and New Orl Red Cross chapte isiana parishes were ordered to | prepare for disasiers. West Baton | Rouge, Iberville, Assumption, Ta | Fourche, Ascension, St. John the | Baptist, St. Charles and the parishes in the danger Chicago, May Midget” Fisher, Wisconsin lumber- jack, threw Lou Talager, former middleweight champion (two straight falls last night, both i with a crotch and half Nelson, supported | guilty halz | said her symptoms re- | Major John C.| ol in evacuation of the in developments in | the | in nine Lou- | Jefferson | wrestler, | CONNECTICUT, SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THON.B.H.3. fiIRLS" \Helen Paskus and Evelyn C.! Goodale Win Awards GIVEN BY COLLEGE CLUB! ] |Selections Announced At Annual | Business Meeting of Organization | At Which Miss Gladys Day Is| | i Chosen President For 1927-28. | New York. May 10 (P—The Bel- | lanca monoplane, Columbia will not hop off tomorrow in its _proposed | flight from New York to Paris. An- The College club of New Britain at its annual jawarded two scholarships to Nuw I | Britain High school graduates, as nouncement that the start of the follows: $230 to Miss Helen Paskus, | trans-Atlantic ilight, tentatively set !daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. | for 1 a. m. eastern standard time, | Paskus of 475 Stanley street, and|will be d . was made by Lloyd | 250 to Miss TEvelyn (. Goodale, W. Bertaud, co-pilot with Clarence ter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin 1. Chamberlin, after a conference Goodale of Robbi with weather bureau officials. wington, Rdhor The steamship Olympia, in mid- meeting yesterday, B« ir schol- 'No Trace of Nungesser Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending May 7th 14,208 PRICE THREE CENTS ANOTHER 24 HOURS PASS Chamberlin and Bertaud Will Not Hop Off On Ocean Flight Tomorrow and Coli in More Than 62 Hours—France Asks U. S. to Aid in Search -Many Believe Aviators Either Are Safe on ocean, reported a storm area, noted since Sunday, continuing with low visibility, “wind and rain squalls The storm, Bertaud suggested, might explain the failure of ns Nun- gesser and Coli to reach New York. The Columbia has been prepared for the long air vovage 4 Bertaud and Chamberlin announc readiness to start when the leaves an opening. Indignant at False Sentiment is Evident. C. 8. UNOFFICIALLY VOICES A PROTES Paris, May 10 (®—The French ENGINE HITS TRUGH; - THO BADLY INJURED ‘Boy in Critical Condition Following Accident in Plainville | | | | | . (Spe fal to the Herald) May 10—Ernest Brow a critical condition at New hospital with in- P ned late yesterday after- | noon when a truck in which he was | L ied with a switch engine railroad crossing lead- local storage tanks of the Oil Co. John Gr the truck, is also a patient pital but his injuries a The manner in which t occurred is unknown, cither Brown nor Green having idea as to what happened. The crash oceurred about cen, driving by young Brown's Brown of Shuttle >, New Britain] > tracks by the rail- A Bristol switcher Britain struck the irled it down an embank- ts composed largely of . boy was thrown out unior College club last year and S5t shars bEA A ehals S o on his face, terribly mangling his to enter Sn 3 flesh, LyLD Dr. 1 raised through | and ' wal bridge driver of HELEN PASKUS at the h nd n hip, character 5 mous choice re the una the clul Miss Paskus has been vice-pr nt of the Junior college club 1150 a member of the > is active in the erve department of the ¥ W T Last sunimer s ed Camp Magua in Poland, Ma 5 Beacon clu! ar: 5:30 Anton as a delegate the Y. W. C. 4 ter Mt. Holyoke Miss Goodale was tr Vow J tmemt p! the Since awarded year. the friends at hélarship a feared fractu ver wa comple sveral times slumped to th h o as practics id ripped off. The two w 1shed to the hospital, where Green psed into a semi-conscious condl E : n trom which he did not recover | 3 . % il this morning, when he was re- | ¥ ] ed much improved s skull : " o e sas not bro a X-ray photo | % : vowed, but he had had a slight con- { e ssion. The hoy's entire body is K lacerated and there I8 a possibility ribs. His condition at 0 s still eritical. switcher in rge | Conductor R. E. Callaghan, E: . Morton, and lio attend the o ground. ace and out and voung w ly torn | | . pproach, but the trac ¢ * 1 1 it is thought aceusto! to driving for trains it !Green was ) came.” + a prelimi fractured skull. he injury had occ » did not react 1 scovered this to b ix is not belirved bla for Gr EVELYN C. GOODALE as his > from Lovities owing to the pair, they inything the responsi and entertainment. The scholar must be d in a college eligible to any Britain high recipients’ ha in their taini ¥ £ ) recomm Their wo p as it 1 ca condition of th e hoen o wot honors, is z n highly school JURY IS COMPLETED Canton, Ohi May 10 (UP)-— staft. only high mates spe for the own 1s ot swo b nual bu the fat picnic was held in George W, of Mrs. Miss Gladys Day An- former Can with murder of Don R. Mellett, ih) r. Selection of the thir- or alternate juror, was then ub, presided. (Continued on Page 16) evidence-taking heg CHIEF NOBLE RECOMMENDS FIRE HOUSE IN WEST END New Pumper In No. 3 Station and Funds For Manning Department Properly Favored In His Annual Report. as last funds were Recommendations establish- | it of a new fire station in the »stern section of the city, purchase [of a pumper to be placed in No. 3 | station house and grant of sufficient unds to properly man the fire de- partment are major recommenda- | tions in the annual report of Chief | William J. Noble which will be read to the fire board tonight. These projects have heen sugs cd by Chief Noble in the past |are heartily endorsed by the | tional Roard of Fire Underwriters as |aids to reducing the insurance rat- vin‘.“i in New Britain. The chief is {very anxious to have all three posals approved. for S Seri ear, however, provided in the vew budget to allow proper ma ning of three companics previously on the underminned 1f a new pumper is purchased it will P ed in the northern section of the city to insure equal service on both sides of t Iroad tr o cause cks. New Britain and Showers tonight and probab- Iy Wednesday — moming: warmer tonight: cooler Wed- nesday. pro- Several companies are now operat- ing with one man short of their proper quota. The condition is not e TR e foreign office was semi-officially consulted a representative of the Ameri v today re- garding the feeling manifested toward Americans and circula- tion of rumors that misleading American ather reports misled the French transatlantic fliers, A representative of the French government said the authorities would intervene to stop the cir- ation of such rumors. THOMOTHERS ANHILS * FOR SAFETY OF SONS Mrs. Nungesser Hopeful But Mrs. Coli Is Discouraged by an emba D —— Clark Named Steward, Grand Chapter, R. A. May 10 (UP)—Two mothers waited anxiously today for Jal't6” the Herall) news of the French trans-Atlantic liers, The mot said she was r nfident her son ¢ 10—Bliss W. Clark was appointed and Chapte of Conneeticut, makes M r of R *h Americ S0, here. Th only state offic Br 1 i we are without news for sion (S . ; Clark the & b Arch Masonry in New Mr. ¢ m e days, will still lieve in It 11 1 to leave, Al Al L past “hapter, R s motlh en he was going nare her as as possible, but she sed he would be hack much a member said he prom 2 M., and is committee of Nathan Molay of a of has been Hale chapter. He ident of the High Priesthood of Connecticut, Horace W. I was elected a gr DEFACE H. 5. DODRWAY WITH CLASS NUMERALS Principal Slade Expresses Indignation at Act of Vandalism : 1y $U—Dher saint's day. advisory organizer rder of the chairman o! and one of the chapter Britain. W. Christ h an ancois Coli's mother was less . confident, according to dispateh from Shies patch from M George g with anxies m p He him gious, . returns understa h 1y often in the 1g for I said war, my He ors saved »w Britain is very reli- nd trustee. the time is loj Every mother will a. from Newfoundland to New Y sobbed and was u rther questions. Consuelo Hatmaker, an who was separ r by a divorce a on his mot “How far is it 2 ble American from time wit some calle tod. ailed by » his departurs, me a goo ncheon M. fir vars N B asserted group of whom is thoriti on ahut- vocational wvalk in of th otk itain | 31, L will be aley at the New v school COUNTERFEIT BILL: PASSED Legally Worth $3 Raised last evening when uals, the identity of not known by the school a painted the nu ments in front of the and on the si the entranc of Currency e ire to $20 and Spent in West Main i} Pri ning he appeared class at its regular mon meeting and told men rs that t on was more ths @ nk and if h s certain that it in the but news of cipal Lol Street Meat Market. raised” bill to this as th senior boyish Ni est Main m too w passed t school B Market at 5 - discoy isten was to give suspicion on 7 won't t 1o build of have he at the class by with building a the taxpaye ‘Why shou vou ildings Husband, Missing 19 Yrs,, Arrested for Bigamy May 10 (P—Claiming seen his first wife hole was not in symp. s S UG S ¢ 4 did not know what i e ¢ ! cotr . B you now inced t was cor charge was granted a continuance © $1,000 boml until tomorrow > Ralph Beers in city court to permit him to pr defense to the charge against him. Foley marricd a second time ahont seven vears ago and has been living with ccond wife at the lafayette street addre Foley's 1 by whom he had four children, states that she has trying to locate him for eight years. COLBY WA Paris, M Colby, former on a s wh blocks will probably have to be ved 1 effort to remove paint for it was found that it had sunk in about an cighth of an in Mr. Sla said this is the fir: time this action occurred since 1924 when individuals entered the build- ing, painted “24" on floors in th crior troyed files which ined ic records. The paint used on that occasion was blue while the paint used last ni i s red principal felt that it have been conmnitted who itly left school the act by boys and | Bainb: age have disgruntled, He has author institute roceeding: will be filed as soon as certain for- malities are fulfilled Mr. Colby has taken ment in the Avenue Niel, ing a residence in compliance with the French law. Mrs. Colby, who b fore her marriage in 1395 was M thalie Sedgwick of Stockbridge, i Mass,, 1s now in New York. WOMAN HEADS JURY Newton, N. J. May 10 (UP)— ¥or the first time in the history of rsey, 4 woman was selected man of a murder jury when Mrs, Ethel De Pue was chosen as the first furor in the trial of k. Van Sickle for the murder of Ed- ward Raser, which started today. an apart- I hope he | parc his | been | American secretary of | king a divorce in Paris. | zed i attorneys to | ind a petition | tablish- | Land or Have Been Picked up at Sea—Parisians Reports—Anti-American | The bleak stretches of the stormy |Atlantic are being combed today for the missing aviators, Captaing Nun. |gesser and Coll, now 19 hours overe due at New York on their flight from | Paris, | Sixty-two hours had passed at 2 P. m., today since the “White Bird" |lifted her wings from the flying fleld at Le Bourge: and not one authen- tic word of the plane's whereabouts has come from any source. | Steamships are searching the seas as they cross between the continents —the liners Westphalia, Cameronia and George Washington reporting by wireless that they were keeplng a |lookout for the Frenchmen, { The United States government has sent out two big naval tugs—the | Wandank and Mohave—to scour the waters that lie between Boston and Cape Sable, one of the legs of the course to New York, Heavy fog biinded the lookouts. ‘ Scour English Channel. French destroyers, sub-chasers |and scaplanes cruised about the | English channel in the belief that | the. fliers might have been forced | down in that waterway. Off the coast of Ireland ships on &ueir courses hunted for the missing airmen. Days May Elapse. Days may elapse before any defls nite information comes of the avia- tors. It forced down off the Grand Panks and picked up ~y fishermen three weeks or more may pass he. fore the news of their rescue fs ree ceived, Paris is in gloom over the darke ening news that no word has coms of the French war aces. Asks Ald of U. S, M 10 (A—The vy asked the Wash ington government today to lend its *id to the search for the missing French fliers, Captaing Charles Nunw gesser and Francois Coli. The stata department assured the embassy that every effort would he made 10 the missing men, and tha { French request for cooperation in the scarch was immediately coni- municated to the navy and war de- partments in order that navy and coast guard craft might be advised to be on the lookout for tre missing aviators. ton, “rench bast ‘Where To Look. Naval and coast guard officials, pondering over plans for a widea spread search, are faced with an un« usual problem in rescue work be- se there was no authentic infor mation as to where the French ace was last seen. In most instances where an avia= 1 been forced down during an 1s flight there had at least been definite reports showing where he ghted, but in tha Nungesser search there was no elus on which those who would direct 1_3w search could put absowute depen- dence. Dragnet Search. somplete, dragnet search by na< 1 ships would call for vessels sta« 1 five miles apart. To cover a h across the Atlantic 200 miles » would require 40 ships, and would work only in daylight liours because the Nungesser plane would be virtupally impossible to lo- in the darknes Is pointed out today that might have descended > 10 American shores, and even on the American continent at some isolated point. Again, it may be wrer European coast or even © middle of the Atlantic ocear:. search, officials said, would he lom quest, its succoss depen:~ entirely on chance. (Continued on Page 17) Newington Woman Held On Insurance Charges ford Conn,, May 10 (#— ged with violation of the war risk insurance law, Mrs. Marie P, swington, was present. fore United States Commis~ sioner Frederic J Corbett this mor g. € pleaded not guilty, waived examination, and was bound over to the next term of the United States district court. It is contended by the govern- ment that she ceased to be entitled to government aid, in the way of war risk insurance, on February 24, 24, but since that date continued to receive payments and to apply them to her own use. Four Generations Are | Present at Anniversary Thompsonville, May 10 (P—Four generations were present today at the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard Pease, who were mar- ried here May 10, 1877. They have two daughters, both married, four grandchildren and two great-grand- children, g Mr. Pease was born on the Pease | homestead, which has been in the | family nearly 200 years, 73 years {2go. Mrs. Pease. a native of | Springfield, Mass., is 70 years old.