New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1927, Page 6

ABOUT RESIGNATION Visits Coolidge Today—Talks About His Vacation Rapid City, S. D, July 7 (m-—’ Jar.es Ii. Sheffield, ambassador to Mexico, came to the summer White | House early today to visit President | Coolidge. He declii d to speak on | repeatcd rumors tlLat he intended to |y resign, but he looked forward with pleasure to a prospective trip to Europe. The ambassador of any change in icy toward Mexico, but he re speak about conditions surro the oil and land controversy be tween the United States and the re public to the south until he had consulted President Coolidge. “Maybe late all have thing to say,” red. Declining to be drawn into discussions the amba was looking forward to a few visit with the president and then 1o a few weeks' trip in Europe. He | and Mrs. Shefiicld hope to sail July | 23 on the Ferengaria. | “Until 1 have seen the president, he declared, I cannot disc th Mexican situation. I have given no interviews since 1 stepped upoa | Amcrican soil. | “I intend to pursue that policy | until after my - isit | The ambassador hoped that | Sheffield might accompany him | here but he felt the long journey | vould not have been beneficial. “We are both looking forward to our trip across the Atlantic,” he said. “It is going to be a real pleas- | ire trip and a rest. We hope to tour Scotland and England and then find . quie. place somewhere for a fev weeks of “cc'usion.” To inquiries with respect to tuture plans, Mr. Sheffield to commient except to say that not he who had started the rumor | that he migh leave his post. | “I am so t 1 am so sor and have nothi perhaps later w all” He wore a light topcoat and some | one offered him another 1o help keep | out the chill, but he said he was | feeling fine and was sure he would | be comfortable. The ambassador | appeared in good I g | President Coolic been look- | ing forward to Mr. Shefficld’s visit | and has been interested to learn first | hand how the recent agreement be- | tween this government and Mexico | against confis “tion of American property has been working out. Last April in a speech in New | York the president disclosed that the Mexican ambassador in Washington | had given him a promise that his | government would guard agains | W no likelihood | American pol- some- any a he d| more. you up | to tell you, but will be to dis- | cuss i New advantages used to T confiscation of American property | NT |and would protect American lives. | ‘iand Mr. Coolidge cxp essed optimism over the probability that differences between the two nations would be settled amicably. ROMANCE OF “3 AND 10” Son of Kresge Company Official to Take “.ittle Store Clerk As His Bride. New York, July 7 P—A romance that started over the music counter of a five and ten cent store will make Miss Ethel Brent of Springfield, clerk, the bride of Chester wlor, son of David C. Lawlor, gen- eral superintendent of the s. <resge chain, i was disclosed today The couple met while Lawlor was attending Y. M. C. A. college at field. They first met at the id, and I just kept on around to the music counter.” Lawlor is nd his bride-to-be is will be married by Mayor Martenn on August 11 at where Lawlor wlor is learning his and is now work- the Kresge ing in t | store at Fire Ravages Yards of Boston and Maine Road Boston, July 7.—(UP)—Fire rag- ing through the Boston and Maine railroad yards near the North sta- tion, late erday, destroyed three building: wooden coaches and a freight car, and held up traffic for over an hour. Da ge was estimated by Boston and Maine officials at upwards of $60,000, Four alarms were sounded in Boston and two in Cambridge before the flames were finally sub- dued. wo fireboats assisted in g the fire. Thousands of commuters to the North Shore were delayed for ours because of fire which blocked a dozen tracks during a rush period. FARMER-AVIATOR HURT Virginian's Desire to Fly Has Al- most Cost Him His Life. Norfolk, Va. July preference for flying rather than the more common activities of a farmer almost ¢ L. Fisher, 55, of Almena, Kansas, his life vester- when his plane crashed near Creighton, N sher was pulled from the wreckage a few minutes later verely hurt. He explained that he became faint while high in the air| and had tried to land. AVIATOR HURT Beloit, Wis., July 7 @ — A broken leg and minor injuries were suffered by Jack Manning of Rock- | ford, Tll, when his biplane crashed near the Beloit city limits yester- day. The plane crashed height of 500 feet when trouble developed. engine g | forcing me into | three others were from a | NEW WORAN TELLS OF BRUTAL FLOGEING Sunday School Supt. Implicated in Ga. Victim's Charges July T—P—A crowded courtroom was strangely silent yesterday while Mrs. Ansley Bowers, a dressmaker, told in a low intense voice of the terror and suf- fering which she torced to face when twelve hooded and robed men took her from her bed early on the morning of June 12 and flogged her until she tainted from pain. The testimony of Mrs. Bowers was offcred in the trial of W. G. Acree, principal of the Stephens County high school and superintendent of a Baptist Sunday school, who is chaged with assault with attempt to murder. Mrs. Bowers declared she recog- nized Acree as one of her assailants, declaring it was he who held her head between his knees while others applied the lash to her bare back. Visited at 2 A, M. “They came for me in three auto- mobiles about 2 o'clock in the Toccoa, Ga., ,morning,” the witness testified. *I awoke as the first stopped. Showing tlashlights and pistols, the men came in, breaking through screen doors at the front and back of the house. They entered my bedroom and gave me time to slip on a kimono, stockings and shoes before an automobile. My boy was taken in another machine. “I sat between two men, while! in the car. | They drove about the country and during that time the only words spoken were when I | asked where my boy was and they | told me he was in another car. | “When we got out I wanted to know why they had come for me— . what I had done.” “Without replying the men took a seat cushion from one of the auto- | mobiles and Acree forced me across | {it, holding my head between his | 7 (P — His| S8 knees.” Had Four Whippings i “l had four whippings. They questioned me about how I got my | support and who furnished the money for my clothes. | “I told them Mr. Bowers allow- | ed me so much for my son (she and her husband have been separated | for two years) and that I sewed. “They whipped me twice again and wanted to know if 1 would leave town. Then they looked at my wounds and said it wasn't enough, | that they wouldn't show after three | days. | “Then one of the men told me| ‘It we have to do this again we're | going to burn a K in your back. One man said ‘Let’s do it right now she don't talk like we want her to and I got the iron right here. They | i {-"5%‘(‘5 # In the Spotlight of highest public favor more than ever Riding is like flying never associated with this price-!{eld. single out the Greater Essex Super-Slx with spotlight brilliancy, marking it farther than ever above all comparison. And public acceptance, intensified by knowledge that the most popular Essex of history was withdrawn to make way for it, has swept the country in a nation-wide buying fervor that quickly outran the greatest of all Essex production schedules. All that the previous Essex stood for—speed, reliability and a flying—is here in THE HONEY 200 East Main Street riding ease that was like greater and more enjoyable — BRITA told me I hud to make my boy go to work. He had been out of school only a couple of weeks. “They wanted to know why I didn’t go to church.” “Who said that?” Solicitor Gen- eral Robert McMillan heading the prosecution, asked. “Mr. Acree,” the witness replied. Mrs. Bowers said that aftet she had fallen exhausted on the step of one of the automobiles, her fifteen year old son Lloyd, who had fought to save his mother from the attack, was selzed and whipped with the same strap with which she had been beaten. The two were then left to make their way home, Lloyd man- aged to go for assistance and a near- by farmer took the pair into his home. Testimony of physicians and nurses preceded that of Mras. Bow- @ They asserted she was terribly bruised from “the waistline to back of the knee and there were blood clots under the skin.” She was in the hospital twelve days. Lloyd Bow- ers was the state’s chief witness to- day. Kills Daughter, Attacks Wife and Tries Suicide Chicago, July 7 (UP)—A jealous rage engendered when he found his wife away from home and suspected 'her of being with another m.n, po- lice belicved today, caused Willlam | Goeschell to stab his three-year-old daughter to death, t{tack his wife with a knife and attempt suicide. Goeschell cut his own throat and probably will die. Mrs. Goeschell whom he also stabbed in the throat, | may live. LEAVES SUICIDE NOTE Penn. Man Believed to Have Jump- ed to Death from Bridge. Lewiston, Pa., July 7 (#—A note attached to clothing found on the bridge that spans the Juniata river at Moveytown yesterday reads: “Please mnotify Mrs. Margaret Gardner, 1980 Gillison avenue, Rockland, Maine, that I have de- cided to end my worldly misfor- tunes by drowning. I cannot keep on living this life any longer. Tell her to take care of the kiddies and put them in some institution.” The note was signed, Robert Gardner. No one has been found who saw the person who placed the clothes on the bridge and no body has been recovered. KILLED BY AUTO Mass. Man Struck by Sedan— Driver Is Held for Manslaughter. Lowell, Mass, July 7 (P—Frank Stankiewicz, aged 64, of West Bil- lerica, was instantly killed in that town late last night when he was struck by a sedan operated by Horace E. Whitten, of West Som- erville. Stankiewicz was walking along a dark section of the Boston road when the machine suddenly came upon him from the rear. 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