New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1927, Page 2

NAVAL EXPERTY IN ALL NIGHT DEBATE Thos Far Have Not Solved Cruiser Problems Geneva, Switzerland, July 12 (P— | “We are in a bunker: Nothing but a niblick can save us,” was the golt- ing metaphor employed today by a Japanese member of the committee which has been charged with going over the new British proposals for cruiser limitation now before the three power naval conference This committee worked well into the night trying to approach the problem from some new angle, but finally separated agreeing to have| another try today. While finding a number of conciliatory gestions in the British proposals, the Ameri cans doubt whether they will really be efficacious in the direction of ef- fective limitation if they only extend to 1931, as su 4. Such a plan, the Americans believe, entails the possibility that the off" | after 1931 for a rer cruiser construction. The British plan embodies accept- | mnce of the American maximum to tal of 400,000 tons for cruisers, pro- vided the Unit States and Great Britain could agree to limit the number of 10,000 ton cruisers 1o about ten. The British hold that if only a small part of the tonnage were used for larger cruisers, it would be possible for Great Britain | to have enough left for the fleet of emall cruisers which she contends is pecessary, be flung nature of the empire The Japanese are chary of the preise that 400,000 tons would be the total figure for each of the two five-five-pow the Japa fraction to considerably more than d in these da: when stringent economy is the watchword at Tokyo. At any rate the tension th vailed over the week-end had « peared to a large extent and all “three camps were displaying an earnest good will to arrive at some satisfactory solution as speedily possible. Just what will be the American attitude if the British insist on lim- iting, to ten the number of 10,000 ton cruisers has not been divulged but it is generally believed the Americans cannot casily agree to been made clear all e representatives of the United States that their country re- quires a considerable flect of the ‘larger cruisers because of the long distances to be covered without naval bases both on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of the PBritish admiralty, reiterated last night that Great Britain had 1no thought of contesting parity with the United States, but he did say that the defense of parity was a different cuestion. In his opinion restriction sug use of the far si p- of the number of 10,000 ton cruisers | not only would facilitate the draft- ing of a treaty, but would do much to diminish the danger of war. He added earnestly: “And I sincerely hope there will never be another.” The naval experts met until early morning trying to figure out the re- placement effects of the British plan. The atmosphere of the conference to God eontinued less tense, but apparently | a solution of the cruiser deadlock has not yet been discovered. “We are more hopeful than we have been for some time,” said one of the younger attaches of one dele- gation today, as he emerged from a meeting of the junior members’ con- ference which is trying to find whether any possible solution of the problem can be found by approach- ! ing it from every conceivable angle, jrrespective of anything which has gone on in the past. Torrington-Litchfield " Road Blocked by Crash Torrington, Conn., July 12 (A— Traffic on the state road between Torrington and Litchfield was blocked today as the result of an accident which occurred early this | morning when a truck driven by | Anthony Battistoni of Litchfield , shed into the side of the iron Lridge at the foot of Lit cld Hill, ' moving the bridgeé six inches off its foundations, and wrecking the gir- dera. The front end of the truck | vwas demolished. Battistoni was hurled out but was practically un- injured. Before striking the bridge ihe truck ripred up some 30 feet | of the heavy gvard rail at the road- eide. W. L. Morgan Lodge, K. P., Will Install Officers Officers of Washi Morgan lodge, Knights of Pythias, will be in- stalied at ths regular m this vening at 8 o'clo .fes will be in ¢ Deputy George J. Ca from Pythian lodge Ofticers are as Chancellor, Theodore Johnson; Chancellor Cemmander, Thomas I Orchar, chancellor, Helm: master of wor master at arms, L prelate, Arthur B. Herrick guard, Edwin B. Carison; guard, Henry Parsons Delegates elected 1o the lodge conv re Past Cl lor and Keeper of Records Arthur F. Hoyes, Past CF Roland Ripple; al W. Put and W follows: vice fon ineel- WELD AS CAR THIEVES Stamford, Conn., vi1 Frank Corri of 4 nue, Waterl vaudeville act of 192 Baldw were held here York police ¢ of an automobile they had for the pond with the number gine. Examined TN Lo Henry F. Reddell Optometrist Glasses would bring | pre- | NOW YOU ASK ONE MISSING WORDS Here's another new variation to the question and answer game. Blank spaces are left in the sen- ' tences below, in order that you may fill in what you think are the cor- | rect missing words. 1—The centaur is a monster in the form of a from head to waist, with the body and legs ot was couns:i in the evolution , Tenn. am” is the name given to countries and people in wWhich religion is predominant. was “first in and first in the his countrymen.” 5—Joseph founded the Mormon church, which now has its headquarters in 3 6—The capital of Australla recently moved from rence for John trial at the {—George , first in ot was to | §—The first famous American dictionary was complled by Webster, and Webster was a patriot, lawyer and orator. 9—The presidential yacht named the 10—Commander Zachary — lost his life in the wreck of the airship in 1925, Drunken Driver Fined | And Also Is Jailed Meriden, Conn., July 12 (P—Mi- jchael Donlin, aged 62 of 4 Warren | !street, Woodmont, was fined $100 and costs and sent to jail for five | days by Judge T. P. Dunne in police | {court today. He was fined $25 on an additional count of driving without a license. Despite a strong plea by Attorney John Henry Sheehan of New Havep, for a suspension of the jail sentence |Judge Dunne ruled that the usual penalty of a period of & days then jail must stand. Donlin was arrested Saturday aft- ernoon by Motoreycle Officer Thom- as Tighe. A witness testified that the Wood- mont man had forced his car off the {road and he informed the officer of ixhn apparent condition of the driv- ALARM IN CANTON Shanghai, July 12 (A—Alarm has been caused in Canton, according to messages received here, over re- | ports that Tang Seng Chi, Hankow general, is planning an invasion of Canton from Changsha. There is no evidence of the movement as yet. Cholera is reported to be breaking | | college. W. C. A. Next Fall Miss Amalie Traut of 1085 West of Mr. and Main street, daughter Mrs. George W. Traut, will become the new secretary of the Girl Re- {serves at the Y. W. C. A. next fall. She will succeed Miss Frances Litte who plans to become the bride of A. E. Ewing of Cleveland, O. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927, NAMED SECRETARY OF filfllflSflWES‘i {Miss Trant fo Take Office at Y. | Miss Traut is a graduate of Wel- MISS AMALIE TRAUT jlesley of the class of 1927, active in athletics and dramatics and She was president of the Connecticut club and is a member of the Alpha Kappa Chi society. She was This summer she is counselor at Miss Elizabeth who was camp Aya-Po, a summer camp for girls near Hartford. Rogers, president of the board of directors of the local Y. W. C. A, |is a director of the camp. Mr. Ewing, to whom Miss Littell will be married is a son of the late {Rev. Charles E. Ewing, buried in New Haven yesterday fol- lowing his death in an automobile aceldent. Z EDEL AGQUITTED ONMURDER GOUNT BY JUDGE' ORDER Past | | inner outer | grand | 18 out at Canton. MARRIED IN MORGUE Wheeling, W. Va., July 12 (UP) | —In payment of a bet, Michacl { Phillips and Miss Catherine Bosser, | hoth of Canten, Ohio, today were | married in the chapel at the city | morgue. Phillips said they would make a honeymoon in the east. SPECIAL SNOW- FLAKE Rolls 2 Dz. 25¢ Buy Your Foodstuffs Here in the Morning. (Contined from First Page) {Johnny had glven him $30. He next saw him at 8 o'clock the following I night in the hotel lobby with Edel and he recalled that when Johnny stopped to speak with him Edel called “Hurry up Johnny we'll be late.” The pair went out together. He never saw Johnny again he testi- their home in Newcastle, Pa., a{terffled. Later in the week he met Edel |triano outside Meriden and he stat- |and asked him what had become of | BIG WEDNESDAY MORNING SALE HERE THE MOHICAN MARKET Johnny. “I wish I knew,” he quoted Edel as saying. He was not cross jexamined. Bergeant Walter Kurcon, et th: Meriden police department was the last state witness called to the stand. His testimony was with regard to the conversation between sergeant Michael Carroll also of the Meriden police department and Fred el on Thursday, December 23 at police headquarters. Had Date With Girls | Edel, according to Kurcon, told [Scrgeanl Carroll that he and Johnny had a date with two girls to take them to an inn in Middletown and that as the girls were coming from New Britain, they went to Milldale to meet them. The girls were not on the car, according to Edel, and so lie and Johnny returned to Meriden | | where he left Johnny at a cigar store talking with & stranger. | HEdel weat to the lunch room and rever saw Johnny alive again. | Following his testimony, the state | | rested its case at 10:30 a. m. The !jury then retired and Peter Frenchi, | counsel for Edel iaunched a mo- | | tion for a discharge under Chapter | 276 of the public acts of 1921, sec- tien 1, which directs that the .court may Instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty where a reca- |d sonable doubt exists. State's Att | Benjamin Winner was immediately | on his reet with an objection. The motion, he said, was out of order inasmuch as a defense exhibit had already been introduced and there- fcre the defense could not ask for a discharge with their case already started. Trenchi quoted procedure lin the lower courts and then went | {on with his reasons. The judge declared a brief recess to consider the motion and upon his return signified that the de-| | fense must either proceed or rest bis case before such a motion would be in order. Trenchi then called L. Porter of West Haven, employed at Dudley's Inn, to the stand. He testified that he was working on the | night of December 19 and was liv- ing in Meriden at that time and and reached Cheshire at 10:30 and proceeded from there to Milldale to | Meriden. He was then released from the stasl but was recalled by the court who asked several ques: tions regarding the number of pas. sengers on the car and what seat he ocupled. His memory was not very | clear on any of the questions. 1 Edel Not On Car Asked by Trenchi whether or not Edel was on the car on which he rode home, Porter answered that he | was not. The second state witness present- | ed by the defense was Frederick E. | Hudson, assistant cashier of the Second National bank of this city. Trenchi told the court that he had | asked Hudson to make certain re- | garding the number of twenty dol- lars *‘gold backs" liable to be found with twenty dollar bills and then asked the witness if he had made such a test. 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CABBAGE head 10¢ 2 for 15 3 Ibs 2 qts. OR WAX BEANS 1b 12: FINEST PINK SAIMON ... 2 cans 27c blooded murder for a incredible story,” Trenchi declared, sponsibility of turning the mind.” thought were the missing links in have easily been supplied had the state been so inclined,” az said, and ! that Medical Examiner said, “and if the { why did of the murdered man, ho mentioned, | asking “why was not aftempt made ot time and | T o¢ fngerprints from that shirt? | that he had taken the 10:10 trolley | i1t 440, would have been easy. An- other thin was started on Christmas day. The defense then rested its case at 10:05. a. m. After the jury had beea dismissed, Trenchi proceeded to address the court for the second tims on a mo- tion for discharge. Defense Arguments He sketched the case of the state against Edel and said that-accord- ing to the state, Edel planned to slay Johnny for the purpose of rob- bery and for that reason took him to Dudley's inn, then up a lonely road, where he shot him and then after dragging or carrying the body for several hundred feet, left it in a clump of bushes. The crime, he said, was one which was shocking in its gruesomeness and that it was re- volting if committed by a stranger whereas the jury would be asked to believe that Edel, a friend of Mas- triano, had committed the cold- few paltry dollars. “The mind refuses to Lelieve this nd so with the state rests the re- He then pointed out what he the chain which the state had en- jeavored to forge about Edel. “There are two or three things missing from this case which could things the fact Joslin of Hamden had declared that simply from the measurements e could tell at it was Mastriano’s tody that had lain in the gully. There were foot prints there,” he entire measure- body were outlined state take the measurements of those footprints which would have been just as easy, and then compare them With Edel’ The shirt that was covered with | vited among other of the not the ments blood and rammed down the fl)ruoli presents itself here. All the witnesses asked thus far have | testified that there were no signs of the body having been dragged to the | spot where it was found, so if it was | not dragged it must have been car- ried and the man that carried it mnust have been covered with blood isasmuch as Dr. Joslin testified here | plying to Trenchi's statements, said wound and yet the witnesses that say they saw Edel on the trolley did not notice anything unusual about his dress.” “If it were Edel that committed this crime, how could he entice John- ny up that dark road, kill him, drag the body to where it was found and still get back in time for the next car? “Where, too, is the gun with which Edel killed Mastriano, it he did, kill him? A bullet was found in Johnny but no gun ever was found and this despite the fact that entrance to Edel's room at the hotel was easy and if he had hidden the gun, surely it would have been found. “The only motive for this murder as given by the state is robbery and rem. iber that this date between Edel and Johnny was made before Johnry had won at the card game so how could Tdel possibly have made the date with that motive in mind. “‘Edel was counter man you heard witnesses testify. Couldn't he have drawn a little ahead. forgotten to put the slips in the box and the| money in the cash drawer. Isn't it possible that he could have come in- to the possession of the $40 or $50 he had in that raanner.” - Trenchi then went on to ask how | the state could expect any one to be- live that Edel was clever and plan- ning one rinute and so foolish the next minute as to let every one in thelr circle of acquaintances know that he and Johnny were going out together. “Didn’t he call Johnny as he stood there with his father and tell him to “hurry up or we'll be late” and didn’t he know that if anything hap- pened to JohuLny, he would be the first person that would be held, pos- sibly charged with the crime?” Tren- chi asked. He repeated that the state failed to bring Edel any nearer than five miles to the crime. Special State Attorney Healey, re- that he knew there were many gaps n the stote's esid .ce but that the tate was proceeding along the line | of circum~‘nccs rather than fact and | that he considered the chain of ecir- cumstances sirong enough to go t the jury for a second degree or even a first degree verdict. CITY COURT JUDGMENTS Judgments have been rendered by | Judge Henry P. Roche of court, as follows: the city | that the blood pressure would cause | it to shoot out, rush forth from the | pluintift to -recover : Women’s Night Gowns of White and Colored Voile and Fine Muslins 89 C each Women's Cotton Step-Ins 89C a pair White and Colored Materials Good Range of Styles B\ Tomorrow A Leading Ceorgettes Regular 98c to $2.98 values MATERIALS Crepe de Chines Printed Crepes Joseph Barry and others gainst A. Maynard, for the damages of $228.90, Robert F. Coates appeared for the plaintiff; New Britain Lum- ber Company against John L. Vin- ing, for the plaintiff to recéver dam- ages of $480.63, Kirkham, Cooper, Hungerford & Camp for the plain- tiff; Paul Symolon against Mrs. A. B. Tavaras, for the plaintiff to re- cover damages ot $150, M. S. Gordon for the plaintift. The Elihu Bur- ritt Hotel Corporation against Dr. L. E. Dary, judgment for the plain- tiff to recover damages of $52.28, Donald Gaffney for the plaintiff. Rises From Office Boy To President in 35 Yrs. New York, July 12 (A—From of- fice boy to vice-president in 35 years is the record of James W. Bancker who today assumed the latter posi- tion with the Western Electric com- pany. Mr. Bancker was elected a direc- tor and vice-president in charge of purchasing and traffic at a meeting] of the board of directors yesterday.| He livea in Summit.'N. J., and Tre- cently had been comptroller of manufacture and president of the Manufactyrers' Junction Railway] company. Charles G. 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