New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1927, Page 1

back rd a bout ruck paid ngo- ork. 1 ex- firet the ort's News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ot cauaqu L 0% . NRITAIN HERALD | Weck Fndlng verage Daily Circulation For 14,136 ug. 27th . NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1927.—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS Lie Destroys Work Of Plea for Mercy CORBIN LOGKS BY New York, Sept. 2 (UP)—"My mother is blind and I'm the breadwinner,” Willlam Scanlon pleaded in court when he w ranged on charges of having struck a policeman after being rested for Jostling in the sub- s ar- Shipment Rushed to Denver, Golo,, by Fast Transportation | ARRIVE ‘4'1'1”’ magistrate was abcut to niene s atG G | the sentence to ten days. | || still Scanlon was not satisfied Service Inaugurated Yesterday Tak- || so the judee investigated. | After reserving ntence he en Advantage of By P. & F. Cor- || found hat Scanlon had no blind, dependent mother. nlon got four months. bin To Send Products To Custom- | ers in Far West, The first shipment of goods from press was sent by the P. & F. Cor- bin division of the American Hard- ware corporation to De Col, s ml e TEACHER’S CONTRACT = consisted of locks for a hardware concern in the Colorado city The new service of express ship- as opened yesterday ana the |First Case Under New local firm took advadtage of it to| : send a rush order through to the Ruling of School Tritch Hardware Co. of Denver. The packag: taken to Brainard Department Field, Hartford, from which place & the plane left for the west - The rate on shipping is quoted| The first cancellation of a con- at about $3 a pound from here to| !ract of a school teacher because of D The package tweighed a |the anti-marriage policy of the tri than five pounds and was |SCh00l department was made today valued at about $12. It is expected | When Bernard C. P that the goods will arrive at Denver Miss Mollie L ght and that they will be deliy- | teacher, was told by s T s ring | Holmes that she could not nall pa have been oBITadIS o b local firm and t flooli 2y s service will make it pos d recently sible to send shipments e up 03 10 50 pounds by plane. It is under- nd 7 ice will be regu- L 1 LRt E s were hests|August 14 in New London. Her yand is a medical student i on Long THO MORE VACANCIES ONREPUBLICAN BOARD - erative gh school ted in the 1 the N ol from graduated in 1926 d been teaching for a we Holmes today Britain State Normal which she was Sengle Resigns and Han-{’ : ! e e son’s Retirement Is e ek ,,\7,,\ h pCC(Cd R Hl')r h gh — Miss Helén Powell, who, for the .~ | Past year, had been teaching B- rney Robert L. Black Rock avenue, Sengle of 57 i i st 3 the third warq |lIsh In Boston, has b en enga m publican tow: fieach dhe same sUblegt o it e n 1 legal hdviser of the aats |than Hale Junior High school. Harr, : ser of 4% Muir of Brattleboro, Vt., a teach pol department, has resigned | o 11 *Barre, Vb during the past | g lons to enter private | voo " in tenoh seience fn the ongo ‘est Ha 1 chairman of the town com- d today. Mr. Judd |y nounced that Fred Hanson, the fourth ward representative of | yfics Muriel Broph the committee, has rejoin the | Malvina Eichstaedt orce and has moved | ractor at the W His resignation from | Aiss Jeanette Zi ittee 1s - expected | place of Miss Dorothy T | physical director at tne n a n,em-‘ ne time and | ite rhn fact that his daily duties | in the state police office carried | of him from the city most of the time he maintained a residence here and | was active in campaign Mr. Hanson has been the chair- man of the fourth 1 since Hollis J. Foster resigned last spring in the | midst of & protest against the al- leged action of the administration in not giving the ward more considera- tion. With the acceptance of Mr. Han- | son's resignation the committee will have lost three members since the beginning of the fiscal year. No| successors have been mentioned tor the third and fourth ward positions. Thomas J. Meskill has been name to succeed Assistant Prosecuting At- torney Willlam M. Greenstein who resigned in May, MAIL MAN SHOCKED Gets Electrical “Kick” riford, W s Lillian Chr tensen of Judd, o8 athryn E. Sheehan of 117 Bassett treet as the girls' physical director. as physical di- shington school 4 k will take S McCall as ime school A . kindergarten teacher at the Northend school, has gned. For the present the places Miss Johnson, Miss Christensen nd Mrs. Mollie Nair Peck, resignation S rec ed tod: be taken by substitute teachers. will 'ESSEX LAD KILLS SELF AFTER LONG SICKNESS of Shot Discharges Both Barrels Gun Into His Head—Corpse Discovered By Brother. x, Sept. 2 Loth barrels of a shot own head ea ay, Joseph Ur- dan, 33, who lived with his mot lon a farm on the Westbrook road, | killed himself. He had been in ill health for some time. His body, sprawled near the barn was discovered by a brother, Frank. Part of the face had been torn Mail | aw gun at his From ie discharge of the gun had not | attracted attention as Urdan had | becn in the habit of rising early to Box Charged From Current Dur- ing Raln. I shoot black birds which had been Hartford, Conn., Sept. 2.—Christo- | helping themselves to grain. pher Johnson, Jetter carrier at the Dr. Fred ck D. Bradeen, medi- | Hartford post office, was thrown into trect as a result of a shock re- | “a suicide.” ed from an electrically charged | He did not divulge the contents lotter box at 10 o'clock last night of a note found in Urdan's pocket. during a heavy downpour of rain. | an is survived by his mother, When he attempted to insert his|a slster, and two brothers, Frank in the lock on the mail box | and Rudoiph Urdan of Meriden, cal examiner, pronounced the death there was an immediate shower of e an hnse t a “kick” i oo i ot e sieecr | WAVES GREETINGS Electricians and the postal men ad- vanced the theory that the rain, sceping through the ground, had e in contact somewhere with es- “juice,” whic carried to the box through the iron stand- T/OME WRECKED Coolige Recognizes Friend as Lind- Flies Overhead and burgh Drops Message Rapid City, S. D., Sept. 2 (P— President Coolidge waved a greeting to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh when the latter ew hi§ “Spirit of St. Louis” over Rapid City today, en | Gangsters Blamed For Explosion in | oute 10 Cheyenne, Wyo,, from ’ierre. Home of President of Pennsyl-| Circling over the local high school building where ths president’s Assotiation. | executive off] are maintained, the Pl Ty transatlantic flyer was spied by the 5 ?‘j‘""f‘m Pa., Sept. 2 (UF :,"‘ president, who chanced to be outside charge of dynamite believed to have | oo froes % B DS becn set off by an underworld gang vania Police Chiefs’ Lindbergh reached here at 10:50 | early today completely wrecked thel, 1y “ang was greeted by the blow- home of Daniel T. McKelvie, presi-|jns of whistles and a large crowd dent of the Pennsylvania Palice |\ho gathered in the streets to see Chiefs' association, here. | "We." He dropped an autographed Police estimated that at least 60 | message to Rapid City and circled sticks of dynamite had been placed | president Coolidge's executive of- under the front porch of the home. | The entire lower floor of the house fices before making his way off to- ward the north t in the direction was demolished and rooms in the|of Deadwood and Lead. 5, upper section of the house were —— damaged heavi BRADSTRI REPORT McKelvie and his wife were sleep- ing in a front room near the porch but escaped uninjured. The two|cl children of the family, Robert, 14, and James, 8, were rescued from the building as was Mary McKelvie, who lived with the family. New York, S 2 (P—Brad- s weekly compilation of bank ings shows an aggregate of $9,- 9,000 an increase of 6.3 per cent over last year. Outside of New York there was a decrease of 1.5 per cent. d to | South Main street will succeed Miss succeeds Miss whose (P—Discharging | ‘TWO MEN HURT IN - NEWINGTON CRASH Motorcycle Operator and Com- | panion Go to Hartford Hospltal | RUN INTO AUTOMOBILE | Leo Demareis Fractures Thigh and Paul Gagne Breaks Leg in Acci- dent This Afternoon on Highway | Near Kicley's Garage. | Leo Den oth of 2 jare in 1 ing a cr: eye reis and Paul G S Center street, Merid Hartford hospital follow sh between their motor- iall touring car owned ¥ C. B. Ritley of Capi irtford, about 50 ya arage on ‘nouh Kieley jerlin-Hartford tur ‘(M'l’” k this afternoon ley and his wife were rid- rds Berlin when the gar ike they ay Mr. Ri turn in and get som As hé did, he noticed the the motorcyele proceed at a rapid rate of speed Hartford. They had another car and Mr. I What they were goin s him 5o he stopped in 1 The motoreycle crashed he nto the left front of the Hartfor car. The front wheel, fork and andle bars were telescoped and the two men were whirled to t he engine on the wheel wa radiator of t! was stove in and the s broken thought his Hartford CLUB SEEKS T0 STOP -w DEMPSEY-TUNNEY GO | Coliseum Says ex-Cham- | pion Failed to Fight | Harry Wills | e Ch ept. 2 (P—A petiti for an ction to stop posed Dempsey-Tur heavy championship fight here Sept. 1s filed today by attorneys for Cleme o Colist psey’s contract president of ¢ um club, which on to fig Wil Summonses were turned over to | bailiffs for service and notices were | to be served today on six defend- to he served were: George al n of the mayor's com- mittee and nominal promoter of the psey bout; Floyd Fitz- South com sioners; the state athletic comm sion and Demps he petition alleges tha | failed to carry out a contract dated September 29, 19 to fight Harry ! Wills. The Coliseum club of which B. E. nts is president, contends there contract between, Dempsey, ind Fitzsimmons e iles, Mich, and th: ot was transferred to the | scum elub on March 6, 1926. It is further alleged that up to July 19, 1926, Dempsey re nted that he would fulfill the Coliscum contract, but on that date, he repu- diated it and since has refused to | comply with its terms. } Cbicago, Sept. 2 (#—The report given prominence in some quarters that Gene 'l ey is not a popular world's heavyweight champion got . rous ial here today when like a conquering hero he swept into one of Chicago's greatest demonstra- tions. | Thousands of ch men and children ¢ road station and t blocks about it w! lin on the Twe ed 1.0(” his train lator, N. Y., to complete tioning for his ret | Jack Dempsey here | ™A brass band wheoped up things which needed no whaoping and a ad of marines lent an air of v, hastily 11st, to the station t this con- Coli- ring men, wo- vded the rail- » streets for unney came Century limit- camp at Specu- his condi- n pt. 22. receptior Turney" est as he le | from a special and care-free as he shouted greetings to | recognized. | “I am not going to | Sept. 22, Tunney said | thanked Chicago for its reception “In fact T am opposed to fighting. 1 am going to engage in a boxing }rom smile beamed its broad- his of twenty i, He scemed happy waved and friends he ing fight here after he YOUNG MAN I ROCUTED New Haven, Sept. 2 (A—While | working on the motor of a trolley car in the James strect barns of the Connecticut company today, Louis | Marsh, 24, an electrician came into contact with a live part of the mo- tor and was electrocuted. Marsh | had just completed installation of an armature when his head hit a [live wire. Fellow workmen took | him to the New Haven hospital, hut he was dead when that institution was reached. 'R AND SON HURT Mass, Sept. 2 (P— William F. Seale, 43, and Arthur W., his son, 14, both of Oxford, are in a hospital here as the result of an automobile in which they were rid- ing being struck by a train at a crossing in Oxford this morning. just - Dempsey | d into | 1 match with | nake, Angered, Spits Poison in Man’s Face Broken Bow, Neb. (Br— thaniel wyn, Neb., is suffering toda ts of a poison sp a venomous spreading a FOG BLOGKS WAY T0 FRENCH PLAN Plane Hops for America But Is Turned Back t in the doorway of a cor the exit. He down showed fight and s If to a heig feet and em || onous fuid. 12-Ton-Weight of Plane Necessi- tates Low Flying in Rolling Clouds i | i of Mist—Tongue of EDDIE STINSON URGES FLIERS TO TAKE EARF iTe!h of T',\in;T to Make Paul Redfern Carry Flying Mate Flames Al- most Causes Explosion at Hop-off. P—Fog. iven t into thi of ¢ built ilong a compa g they im amount conviction li man- ted trans- overalls tailure of A uted 1o his nk as much of the they do of the well-deservec at would come with succe | o very men who are good 56t drops | enough attempt such trips ar Ornicorars ithe very men tha tion today R o | cannot afford to ce, Han=tt ‘It is unquestionably time for asi- \ S ators who have the good of flyi rror n suddenly the little heart to proceed with every | mechanic leaped forward wrested | sible caution in their preparations | iis cap from his head and rubbed it xecution of ventures of admit- rzetically over the fusel gr the fire hir ours at the con- me," the corre- o ne without rest are s Giv rom the simply hand gr consider h tefully but the humble hero replied, “It is velopment in trans-oceanic fIVINg of no impor {demand gine caution.” = Stinson has been flying for more |y, o e RS, HORAGE DODGE | zrana total of more than ) W | hours in the air and today almost dail GAME WARDEN SHOT | Westfield, Me., s flying WEDS ARMY OFFICER Hurried to Honolulu Two Months Ago in Mourning Game Warden Kill- ed By Deer Hunters This Mo ing—Begged Them Not to Shoot. ; t. 2 (P—Lee | warden, was led at Westfield Presque Isle, Me., { Parker, a game 1d instantly A —Hawaii to- sctting for a ro- | near here, this morning by one of VL | two men in an automebile whom he orced wife of Horace [ e e e n of the wealthy Detroit and L Benjamin tion with suspecte tivities, Parker, E. Hodson, ning of the arm 100n. rried here yes by L. warden 1notl NEW TAKEOFF TOI\WORRO\[’SIt ‘CAPT HAMILTON AND “FLYING PRINCESS” British Aviators More i | med approached a car ning Harry | Under the ritial of the Methodist | Woods and G Id Gray and their | ! 1 h at home of | wives, all of this place, Woods lev- | l¥enneth Harlan, motion picture : lelled a rifle at him. | “For God's sake don't shoot.” nning is attached fo the coast |cried Parker but the gun was di ' ort Roger, near Hono- | | charged and the warden fell with This is his second riage i bullet through his head | Hodson at once covered the ot 1« e X tha lers and forced them to drive to th Dodge obtained her final de e on | jail here where women wer cree o st May afte S ; v il |leased on their promise to appear made cular race from Faroalalnes ann theniehak when wanted to Honolulu by airplane, steamer | \n> oni ine throwing the Hodson declarcd that a search of [and automobile in an attempt 1o ef- |05 ot orho the car revealed three guns, and reconeiliation. Mr. and Mrs FeCbh s nal iakent to number of jack lights used to trail returned to San Francisco, inghu, where more pirates help- deers, now in closed season she going to Los Angeles and he to o loot, the ship. Parker was 40 years old and the | Detroit | compradore and hi staft with father of four children | After the divorce Mrs. Dodge | 100 Chinese passengers were car- | |1ived in Los Angeles until ahout two | ried off as prisone s months ago, when she made a hur- e d trip to Honoluln. This took | NIGHT CLUB BURNED | HIGH TIDE | liately after the death| paim Beach, I pt. 2 (P—The | enant C. L. Williams, | Mont Martre, Palm Beach night club | (Sept. 3—Daylight Time) || army aviator who perished when his [burned to the ground early today. New London 2:15 a.m. ne dived into the during a |entailing a loss estimated by the | | New Haven i well ionstration for Lieu- | owners at approximately §100,000. | | | i tenants Lester Maitland and Al- | Origin of the fire has not been de: % | bert Hegenberger, first aviators to | termined o fly from the mainland. Rumors —— | | were cirenlated to the effect that SENT TO JAIL THE WEATHER | | Mrs. Dodge had heen engaged to| Hartford, Sept. 2.—Gilbert Sher- —_— | | Lient. Williams, but these were de- man, 24, of Marblehead, Mass., New Britain and vicinity: | |night by their friends. pleaded guilty to passing worthle Generally fair tonight and | | The engagement rumors persisted |checks for small amounts at twe | saturday; slightly warmer | {when Mrs. Dodge disembarked here |Hartford banks when he was | saturday. .| | wearing mourning. raigned in police court yesterday. | 1| S e coa i) # | surprise The marriage was described as a|He was sentenced to CANADIAN ATLANTIC FLI Pride of Detroit’s World Flight Log 1ay)—Hopped le on 1, after old- days, rope on ers of pre ich, Belgrade, Beigrad. 00 miles. ayed o Constan- at Constan- IN BOOST ASSOCIATION Business Men and Property Owners Organize For Improvement of Their District. Daspite the un able weather vhich greeted the mecting of the Broad Street L ss Men's and | Property Owners' association I last evening in the R o ballroom, and me out 50 prope ed to hear the aims of the new y owners es and the xpla purpos- organ- on 1o chair was occup| Nor 4 Sol pointed out the fon of Bro property t the rapid growth of ti It was voted to hold ing of the tion on 4 by Frank need for y evening, September Rialto ballroom at wh 1 more than 100 at section of the city Pirates Seize and Loot Ship With anhsh Flag |- Py Hong Kong. firates s 1 for ten days aud Goed §50 aid copia APT. COURTNEY I]FF | England, His First Hop Across Ocean s Whale for Plyi jump of his proposed transatlantic | night | can | | first nouth, n Courtr the air at vy took oclock p. Courtney was accompanied by F d R. F. Little nd two Gel who will be dropp Around the Calshot |atrdrome, when the fying boat de- | parted, it was unde mysterious Canadian who is ru ed to have paid £l mately § 0) for over the Atlantic, will be taken aboard at Plymouth. L 750 ga the “Whale” rose from the water without incident, although on four previous attempts it had failed to leave the surface, Courtney, who er husband good-bye a dozen| times in the last six was one of the small group of spectators at | the take-off. n Courtney to the Azc is itinerary two d. Plymouth the fir ing at the rwatter air station here, he to make an early departure for America by way of the KIRK MENACED Downer a g his crew, l Plymouth. stop. After hopes celves Threat of Death Before 2 (P—W ap man Lake Fo Dolice said Chica Sept. onaire s er R acturer | home with armed guar FOR ATLANTIC TRIP! ed with | allons of fuel besides the men, | has bidden | | Millionaire Soap Manufacturer Re- | Saturday Unless He Pays $10,000. | FLYING PRINCESS APPARENTLY DEAD; 'ROUND WORLD FLIERS NEAR BAGDAD; GHTS HALTED ‘ Than 30 Hours Over- due at St. Johns— Brock and Schlee De- layed More Than Day. London - to - London and Windsor - to - Windsor Planes Forced Down in and Quebec — Hope to Resume Jour- Maine neys Today. pt. 2 —P—Nega ps and wireless ¢ convinced official cir- les that tragedy has befallen Prin- ss Lowenstein-Wertheim, and her Col. Minchin and Cap- lton in their England-to- ane, the St. Raphael that ed the shores the The opinion prevails an continent, m Upavon, England stations, ting to broad- rmation in the hope that the fell into the ocean and were escued by a vessel unequipped with less. The Belle Isle station re- @ morning ar with light north no information on Governm however are col or infc | wi v»mu 50 far. English Public Anxious | Londqon, Sept. 2.—P—As the L \\\Y hout definite news ic plane St. Ra- deepened for two aviators, Captain amilton and Minchin, and their princess . It the plane alighted at sea, what- ver hope © 15 based on the v boat which the St. Raphael i ken for grant- sink quickly. Tt i . however that this boat could not be expected to float long if the sea was rough. Nevertheless - experience was recalled of Harry Hawker, the British aviator, who {was rescued in mid-ocean by a steamer in May 1919 while on a antic flight from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to TIreland. It was felt by some that the St. Raphael |crew might have been picked up in {a similar manner if they were forc- ed down. The fate of the missing plane was a foremost topic in the morning newspapers, which displayed numer- ous despatches from the west de- ibing weather conditions, search- ingement and the prospect of cue if the plane was forced down | at sea. All these were scanned avidly by anxious Londoners. Rescued Man Hopeful Sept. 2.—(A—Emphasiz- : felt was the slight hope survival of the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim and her two ions in the monoplane St Lieutenant-Commander who was with cer when his palne drop- 1into the Atlantic in May of 1919, aid: “We owed our lives that through a mom | the clouc | neath | down clo: to the fact entary break in we saw a steamer be- and were able to come to fu.” Off ¥For Bagdad Constantinople, Turkey, Sept. 2 (P—The American round-the-world I plane, Pride of Detroit, hopped off at 5:20 o'clock this morning. atrn William Brock and Schlee, hoped to reach { her The Edw dad abou |1 1,075 miles from Con- |stantinople, by 4:30 in the after- | noon. | The Pride of Detroit was held here more than a day by regulations | early today, following receipt of a |TeaUiring consent of the general staff of death befors Saturday |2t Angora for the flight over the less $10,000 is paid to the nists ssion was received ° demanding the money | I suppose a crazy ma | the Herald “but T am ta tio established tmy r a personal bod entally, 1 don't mind t I am carrying a have night guard ve emplo: guard. Inc admitting pistol. | PRIEST DROPS DEAD Worcester, Mass., Sept. 2 P—Rev. John M. Kenney, 63, pastor of St. chureh, dropped dead th 1 rectory. He had been in ex- | morning while walking near the cellent health. Death was attribut- ed to heart failure. FIVE DIE IN WRECK Tours, ance, Sept. 2 (P—A Paris-Bordeaux express train was | derailed and wrecked near here at | midnight. Five persons wers killed ‘flnd it was f d further victims {were benealh the eaviages {late last nd this morning, like a bird freed from bondage. the |plane darted from the Yeshilkeuy urdrome, soared over the gray ts of Stamboul and soon was but an orange splash in the mist over the Golden Horn. | she faced a adificult crossing of mountains of Asia Minor and the desert regions of Aleppo, Syria. Weather reports being favorable, {however, the Americans hoped to reach Bagdag, Irak, before dark. They were to make a detour of 136 miles around the Black sea coast to comply with a Turkish stipula- tion that they keep away from the naval base at Ismid. As they left, they were bidden farewell by Turkish commander of the airdrome, who won their grati- tude by his courtesy and continued efforts to release their delayed plane in the face of governmental red tape. Brock and Schlee were so happy to be off that they jokingly referred to their delay as evidence of the famed Oriental hospitality, whose code is never to let the guest go even when he wants to. minare the (Continued on Page 36)