New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 GALLOWS PREPARED FOR TWO CHINESE; PETITIONS DENIED Death Sentence Will Be Carried Ont After Midnight by Gourt Order STATE'S ATTORNEY MAKES ELOQUENT PLEA FOR LAW Sto Hoo Wing and Chin Lung Will | Pay With Lives for Murder of Countryman at Manchester on March 21 When Tong Warfare Broke Out in Country—And In- vaded Connecticut. State Prison, Wethersfield, Nov. 7! (A—The board of pardons today denied the petition of Sto Hoo Wing and Chin Lu death sentence court deeree will be midnight tonight. e Chi were killing Ong Ging Hem, at Manches- ter when Tong warfare broke out fn the country on March 24 last. Found Guilty May 18 The Chinese were found guilty nd sentenced on May 18, they ap- pealed but the supreme court of er vors found no error their case and their last resort was to the board of pardons which met today. The men were originally sentenged 1o hang a week John H. Trumbull granted prieve which will expire tonight. In behalf of the condemned men, Homer & Cummings, former demo- cratic national committeem plea, said the evidence against these men “was not 1o hang a dove.” Chinese Worker Pleads Mrs. Clara Ricker, Chinese work er, of Newark, N. ked for com- mutation of hecause it would promote efforts to about peace between Tongs. State's Attorney Hugh H. Alcorn id the issue was a question of “su- premacy of our law over that of the invisible Chinese government which decrees death and appoints z2gents to carry it ov Cites Tong Influence Alcorn said the resources of ongs put behind this case appalling it made known. RUNS INTO COP' HOME ORIVING WHILE DRONK which under imposed after the convicted of in a4 re- midnight nee M, the rival would b Motor b‘hakes Structure on Glen Street—Two Gihers Arrested The charge iniluence of in driving while un Lquor was proven police court today, ise was continued. a 49, of 1541 Cor- 108¢ car struck street twice with force shake the build lenicd that he was under the of liquor despite the testi- rnumerary Officer An- ut, who lives in the utenant Samuel Bam- on duty polict when Sergeant T, teliing Judge § hour Wolt h his plank bed. remen nest door and & like an intoxic: in two cases while a third « Prank Wolf, ag bin avenue, v at 49 Glen to X nee sou, icer Pechout s about to retire at night when he heard the doubl crash and going out he saw Wolf at the wheel of his car, with the re 11 left tire flat and the fender doubled |ilar position with the Bri that | Co. ainst it. He observed as unfit to operate a car. replied 'no” with great em- to questions by Prosecuting Woods, denying that Wolf phast ‘ttorn oom necar Glen street. He said he A been sted without Judge Saxe fined him $100 and costs and imposed a suspended jail sen- | ence of 15 days. Alfred Anderson, Linden strect, was fined $100 and sentenced to Jjail for exccution of the . Motorcycle Offic: W testified that he made about 4 o'clock in the of Oct. 29, on West about in front of the W. A. Kinne residence. Complaint had ' been made that an intoxicated m(»- torist was endangering the s other motorists, and the mm.. Ohs 1 that’ Anderson was to have charge of a ¢ In car were two jugs of cider, Anderson testified that he had been in the country and drank some cider but he considered himself able 1o drive. One motorist became Ty heea Anderson did not allow 10 pa immediately, but there were no untoward incidents along the road, he said Alfred Ladnig. ag -t G arl 1 Sunday morning on Main street, Ji north of the railroad crossing, on charges of operating an antomobile while under influence of ligor and without a license. He (Continued on Page 15) P. the ter- noon street, the 23, of Hecon 1 o'clock | g for commutation of | unfit | him | 44 about | | | | | | | | | i NEW BRITAIN HERALD o) ‘PO edag APV 1 %3RS JNILIUUO) Where Flood Water Came Nearest New Britain street on the Middletown road. flood waters reached as closs to New Britain as East Berlin, —Photo by He about 4 o’clock ye: The Few people realize that NEW BRITAJN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1927.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Nov. 5th .... 14,349 PRICE THREE CENTS THOUSANDS HOMELESS AS RIVER FLOODS STREETS IN HARTFORD AND VALLEY CITIES; SNOW STORMS, STARVATION AND DISEASE MENACE NEW ENGLAND iCapitaI Bears Brunt of | Water's Wrath-Low- er East Side Becomes Sea of Angry Water-| Connecticut Men Travel 500 Miles Through New England Flood Areas | Associated Press (orrespondent and Herald Man Sur- Many Lose Life’s Sav- I vey Western Massachusetts, Detour Floods, and Are | First To Come Through Mohawk Trail Since Storm ings. Connecticut River Drop- ping Ahout Three-Quar- ters of an Inch Per Hour —Middletown Presents Scene of Desolation — Power Off. The above photo shows the bridge over the Mattabesett River just below Last Berlin Approaches to it had been flooded to such a depth that a | car could not go through the water last evening. Picture was taken at terday afternoon, several hours before the crest of the flood in the Connecticut River. Mattabesett was swollen by back-water from the Connecticut. Hartford, Nov. 7 (P—With the swollen waters of the Connecticut MAYOR WADE DIES | Heroic Measures Taken to Save ago but Governor | who | in bring | | noon at 1 ATBRISTOL HOME| Life of Child Terribly Burned { Chiel Execntive of NEIgIIIIOI'IIIg;Skin Grafting and Blood Transfusions Resorted To At City Expires Unexpectedly HEART DISEASE IS PATAL i Seacoia nderwent the third operation | a series of four which are being | Period of Unconscic Night Followed By This Morning and Afternoon. (Special to the F 3ristol, Nov, Wade died une o'clock, heart attack which evening but from parently rallied until & { about noon today. | ter 11901, signing on August elections for e testified that he | last | | he | I had been imbibing while in a club-| M. Bes reason. | ‘snmll town of 11,000 persons’ to its | aged 48, of 155 pr and | 000. 15 | his ideas jail sentence | Main | A Mayor W tified with pu affe and began to take an the city's affairs more of a century democrat in politics her of the Jeffe first elected to warden of the He served thro hli public irst Mayor of To Mr. Wade belor tion of having been c mayor of the city of clection to that off come on October took the o He served a two-year time, having been James Cray who, u of his two-year by Joscph Dutton, 1915 to 1921, In 1921 n was noi oifice and had from the time of his'b on the first Monc to the reclected at the 1 without oppostion. A Wade was t, m o oftice way, to a gr party campaigns Lived in City Born in [ ty, Georgia, ¥ 1me to Bristol 4 a made his hon r many years he dent of the facturing Co., and lat s a about seve: Mr. retring Fraternally, member of I M.; 1d Compounce ides his wif ons, Walter F. W nd John de. During public Wade saw T Ay his sristol He always was p for the city, although he his watchword (Continued betterment of striet ot Ma xpectedly this after- he ch b le had long bee borongh present time. Departure r o0k g Wade anklin lodge, A. Stephen Terry lodge, Tribe of “efliciency ousness T Improvement Relapse This Terald) vor John I following & suffered last had ap- gain stricken n iden- irs in Bristol active part in than a quar- He was mem- was ofti a of Bristol in ugh 1904, re- of that year. City the distine- ted the firs tol, h Hospital for Hillcrest Burned o terribly his life was despaired of, Fdward Ziegler to- performed to assist the youngster in ‘Ill\ courageous battle against death. Two of his brothers have ificed portions of their skin to aid in the !struggle of the boy, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Ziegler of 53 Hillcrest avenue. A member of the local fire department has given « pint of his blood, and a eccond fireman will make & similar contri- bution next week. Eddie was purned the night of September 20, when he crawled out ot bed and under it and commenced to play with a box of matches. On of these ignited his nightelothes, and before his terrified parents could answer his agonized shricks, Id- dic had rcecived decp burns over such a large portion of his little body that it was considered doubt- ful that he could survive. en weeks | BURNS SAYS SINEIAIII AIDE HIRED SLEUTES having | nd he me day at t ded by who served Mr. Wade nd elected to s mayor cing of Janu He election Mr., city 1thou Bristol mayor did with Mr. ver cince. | was_ superinten- Manu- sim- tol Brass n years ago. was a . and 1. 0. 0. I. O. R. ves two de of this city {the same grand jury Mr. ow from a srogressive in and ever sponsored things ! Glascock, adopted | hie v adhered to age 14) orn in | was | mu- | having primary of the | and | Agency Admi(s Being Em- ployed to Shadow Jury on October 19 W J. 1 clair officlal zton, Nov. 7 (P—Will irns today confirmed that a Sin- had retained to sladow the F nd then countered of jury tampering on fof the prosceution itself. e actual approval to a juror ‘m:\n the Burns opera‘ives had dis- covered, 1 the delective agency head, was made by a government in | vestigator. Burns did not go into {details, but he said he had filed sworn complaint with Jus dons, the trial judg: Names Mason Day It was Henry Mason Day, of Sinclair's confidential agents, said Burns, who retained the scrvices the Burns Detective Agency to sha- |dow the jurors—a proceeding which he defended as perfectly proper so {long as the jurors themselves were not approached. Day, who is vice president of th inclair Ixploration company, ul dy has refused to testi his de- inclair h y before into whosc pnsfmn Burns and his son, W. | Sherman Burns, were summoncd to- ’da) for questioning. the in jurors, Norman was, conversation five after the Fall-Sinclair trial th a man who was driving ered in the name of H. 1 on P-Ago u) {that ono of y: |starte a car regist 44‘mn inu PASTOR OF NEW POLISH PARISH HERE APPOINTED TODAY BY BISHOP NILAN! ‘Rev. Stephen Bartkowski| of Rockville, Will Head ot inding a piaco of worship to serve Trinity Church. Rev ville has been des John J. Nilan, diocese, to be pastor Trinity congregation now in proc of formation here. Father Bartkowskl tephen Bartkowski of Rock- ! dence gnates hishop of d by Rt. Rev. Hartford the Holy 58 | of was expected | formc\l with the bishop's sanction. One of the first t to be undel | taken by the new pastor will be that the congregation until such time a church 1s erected on the Farming- ton avenue plot recently turned over |to the diocese as a church site. | He i3 expected to establish a res in New Rritain at once and will probably be present during the remaining nights of the bazaar now | being conducted for a parish fund. Father Bartkowski 18 a middle- |aged clergyman. He held a pastor- ate in Sufficld before being tran The affidavits filed by Burns with | sent estimated population of 29,- | Justice Siddons were said to show | Avenue Boy, Aged 3. Despite the small chance {for his recovery, Dr. Donnelly took charge of he lay at the New hospital and began an upl to save him weeks ago brother Donald submitted knife gave portions of to his stricken brother. syth, a fireman at Engi 12, volun ily gave blood last and grafting of skin was other of Eddie's brot John a comr {at No. gine hoi to underzo . blood behalf of the burned Ind, operation will be performed week die, ¢ annive cntrance into on hravely the to Leo a pint week, today who has pus ry onl to h s condi- | he to r¢ rf:z LI ly fair, ML EIIEFI ¢ AVEiD lunting trip to lich they obs foun main highy, Chey felt pericnees, bringing hac What he saw of the mont did not impr of Parker & Darker serions until he reachel the of Hartford. Mr It members of his family, ret ed from visit stock, Vt. “We had some ers were swollen ony so very bad until v Hartford,” he said today. I vepaid for ti s Lut or. has a to heavy rains ar fe said he know flood ¢ pt newspape v about the read in the Practically the made by Leon turned Saturday nig hill, Ma where Sprague who is i1l with in the Haverhill hospita Although forced to report o w from visited |1ong detours because of main h under 1d the worst 1s when he he he got to has nd | Sprague jtihe flood ‘}l artford. i frequel nll) _|large | never saw tr lin Hartford 1a viaduct on the Springfic the White church in T and from there on ac into Hartford traffic W Although to T wwled . e | WEATHER { | New Britain and Vicinit Paie Tonight ar Colder. Generally here this afternoon to meet leaders | ferred to his prescnt church, St. Jo- | | of the congregation wl hich is being seph's, in Rockville. of hope Stephen hoy Britain Gener his skin No. of his more an- House from usion in and this his third is carry- at vicinity vith just Wood- 1 the but I didn’t sec b into it what he had Hi driven other Hartford s the bridge along Between river receding at the of about three quarters of an hour from the ed at 11 o'clock last night, the salient fea- tures of the flood situation in and near Hartford today were these h an at from 81, Nearly 000,000 to homies Isolated in Hartford, with the town concent ing all its resources on et for those made homeless. Water in most streets in the meadow tion was up to the second floor level, and there were many thrilling rescues by firemen and others of those se im- porated by the rapidly rising waters. | Hartford's lower east from the south meado interscetion Windsor avenue, with the first floor level about 500 buildings, of which most are tene- ment houses in which many families | live; cella flooded throughout much larger arca, as Park backs up. Highways in Hartford and Middlesex counties were hit for |two to three miles on either side of the river. Many roads are closed to traftic. side flooded of Windsor street and water over of - Train Sery | Rallros ervice on e Stopped here closed; line discontinued, t any trains run- in Windsor two sections of loss to to es- 000; organ.zes crews to floode Hartford. Charles I, nace i arns of he Portland Uth and e river had gone down Nov. 7 (D where it had R Haven, of the north, ith and @ south but sucely sy g the drivir rushing monster. 1letown tory of the both in vise, Hawtf horne the brunt of in this state. With the water level up nearly 30 feet above nor Hartford and t Hartford j ed reary picture of waste and oiation. Hundreds of abandoned I i to have the river's rage d on Pag: YIFE OF SIFCLAIR'S AIDE ASKS DIVORCE Henry (Conti Mrs, Mason Day Institutes Proceedings Against Husband in Paris Courts—Expects Decrce Parls, Nov. T (P—Mrs. Mason Day has instituted proceedings against her husband. It was learned at the palace of justice It is expected that she will anted a dec within the next few days Henry divor Henry M dent of the company and nection with | spiracy « son c-prosi- loration his activities in con- the Fall-Sinclair con- , are now under inv | tigation in Washington. He is al- leged to have bhe ‘contact man' between Harry I, Sinclair and 1 ns de tives, o ed of shadow- |ing jurors in the trial. 1 Mrs. Day, who was Elizabeth De | | Selding, is well known as a mezzo i Isopr\mo having sung in both New ‘ \ he was a mem- Yer of Lord Kitchener's recruiting York and Europe. \staff, early in tie World war, river train | Towns lald waste, merged or complete and the most h conditions in through western Mass Con ticut valley a New York state today. Add to this | snow in the higher ranges of the Berkshires and long detours around flooded arcas, and one has a picture of travel to be undertaken only by the intrepid driver and the who st of necess Journey forth Such were the conditions revealed 500 mile -end trip from to Albany, N. Y., return- of Pittsfield, North Ad- Monaw il, and the Conneeticut valley completed last night by fwo Connecticut men, one L telegraph editor of the Herald. Their advice to anybody else think ing of making the same trip is Don't do it The log of such record of wash-outs bridges, and letours, To start Reynolds bridge the one who would hazard the voy age must tak er route. Th faken in th ance led from Hartford to Wir Norfolk, and Canaan One ean go to ‘anaan without difficulty. Turning washed away, lous motoring the traveler setts, the parts of one we rbury, the a journey Is a landslides, un- spring-breaking om Waterbury, still closed and one s.north to the ! highways sub- north from that town across the Mass. line on the road to Great Barring- ton and Pittsficld, one begins to experience the joys of November motoring. Across the line and a few miiles south of Sheffield a small brook has become a lake of vast di- mensions, Saturday the water cov- ered the road for a distance nearly a halt mile to a depth of five feet, and was still rising. The railroad track parelleling the road is about a foot and a half above w ter, and one bumps over the tles and through the mud in one-way traf- fic into Sheffield. Sheflield Road Closed. The road from Sheffield to Great Barrington is closed in like fashion. A mile north of Sheffield one turns off over a dirt road South Egremont, whence a state highway leads to Great Barrington. One should bear right at the first fork, If one bears left, one becomes lost in the Berkshires, possibly in a snow storm, and perchance, will emerge in either Hillsdale or Chat- ham. In this case it was Hillsdale, and the trip led on uninterrupted to Hudson, N. Y. The Hudson-at-Athens makes its ‘I\\'{ trip at about 6:30 o'clock., If (Continued on Page 1) | HOPE TO OBTAIN J, 00y NAMES FOR RED CRASS Quota of New Britain Chapter Raised for Flood Relief vers, this t diately insic tors of the ter of th 1 meeting this mor me nt ta finad N tric f 1 an imn, r memberst Nes 1ip: The ccip started Friday s decided the Nov to hold a mec tomorrow nig mb workers launched ' SIX DIE BY ViQ INJURED It Miss Mar Lasky, 17, In FIRE EREAKS OUT IN VERMONT FLOOD AREA Ludlow Buildings Leveled; | Many Cambridge Houses | in Flames | (By Wire- the sociated Pre b husetts Institute of Technolo- v Tlood Ra ion). — Fire which ke out here early toda hreater for a time to carry out @ work of destruction left undone the rising waters. Fanned by a h wind the fire swept through a ilding on river frent and K L red about the town. The fi s finally were put under control with water pumped 1 the river. from lio idents had.retired early last an effert to obtain the first leep they had since the flood Thursday. At hed through the ing householders of 110 be a general con- wooden ont, t rema A bakery in the building of flames and the gale flying embers for A coating of snow upon the owcver, saved the houses. ned for two hours be- s working pumps suc- extinguishing it. The r supply had been put iission by the flood and nly means of building adjoining the llow thelr There was none purposes. Most of the without heat beyond that provided by kitchen stoves. Electric nt has been restored to most of but the streets were still through the night. The story of a great lands Cavendish where eight houses were overwhelmed was told here tod: The residents of the houses fled to foety efore their homes were t away and are now being cared by the Red Cross and the Salva- Al tod from springs ny oth s are dark ide at tion __ (Continued on ]".lgr o “ICE—“O@R BADLY { STATE OVER WEEK-END| stantly Killed When Auto Wheel Collapses—BLir's. Hindon Steps Into Path of Machine—Body of Woman Found in L. L. Sound N son w Haven, three by violence Nov. 7 (®h—8ix per- of them, lost their lives and four other persons were hadly injured over the end in Connecticut. One woman and a voung girl were killed in a bilé accidents while the third male, unidentified was found in the waters of Long Island sound. Two men were killed in automobile ac- cidents and a third took his own life when his wife descrted him, The four injured persons, all men, received their hurts in automo- | bile accidents. The most serious accident report- |ed was in Fatrfield where Miss Mary Lasky, 17, of Cedar road, Greenfield | Hill, was almost instantly kilied and week- omo- | Joseph Sodowski, 19; Peter Filo 1 and Mrs. Peter Filo, badly injured. The Filos live in Bridgeport; Sodow- v in Fairfield. 10 accident occurred when a tront wheel on the car in which the [ quartet was riding, collapsed and overturned the machine. Filo and Sodowsky are in St. Vincent's hos- | pital, Bridgeport, where their in- Juries said to be very serious. |" Mrs. Henry Hindon was killed in Voluntown by a car driven by An- drew Gauthier. Gauthier told the | police that as he was driving along |the Voluntown road, Mrs. Hindon stepped: from behind a parked car (Continued on Page 15.) { Many | leading to ned standing, | drinking ' Death Toll Mounts to 150—Blizzards and Dropping Tempera- tures Add to Suffering ~Drinking Water Be- lieved Polluted. Sections Cut Off by Washouts and Land- slides Face Famine— Aviators Flying Over Stricken Sections Give Vivid Accounts of Ruin. By the Assoclated Press. New England, with a death list of at least 150, was digging itselt out today from the wreckage left by the floods of the last few days. The water was receding except Connecticut, Snow and freezing weather caused considerable suffering in many sec- tons. There was & food shortage in some Vermont communities and ef- forts were being made to relieve this With supplies sent by airplane. A plane landed food and medical sup- ies in Montpelier, Try to Prevent Discase Much attention was devoted today to the prevention of disease in the flooded areas. Basements were being cleared of mud and water-soaked rubbish, residents werc warned to boil their drinking water and premises were being disinfecte Rallrad service had been ro- stored on some lines in west iy assachusetts and southern o central New Hampshire but was st badly disrupted because of the scores | of bridges swept away aud the in numerable washouts and landslide A number of important highway {in southern New Hampshire whi | were under water for a time wer | pussable again today. Miills Are Closed In Lowell and some other pl: sonie of the mills were shut dow because of the high water had flooded their pow | In the meantime the work of re lief went on unceasingly while frou { Vermont, scene of the most sever: loss of life, came fresh reports of victims that threatened to boost the present death list considerably, Dead in Bolton The little town of Bolton led ail | Vermont places with 32 fatalities in it and its immediate vicinity, i Waterbury had 21, while Barre ‘next with seven known dead and a ‘reported possibility that that figure might reach 3 Duxbury and North DuXbury were {said to have lost 12 persons each but reports from these were un- authenticated. Despite the magnitude of the , however, Vemont and its sis- tes were making valiant ef- forts to retrieve their losses without outside aid. All troops from Fort Ethan Allen near Burlington, Vi, were ordered withdrawn by Major General Pres- ton Brown commanding the first corps area who flew 1o the former city to take personal charge of the situation and the relief measures directed by President Coolidge. Previously soldiers had been df rected sent to Montpelier to cooper- ate with authorities there. | Army Base At Concord { An army base has been established at Concord, N. H., and from there two airplanes succeeded in reaching Montpelicr with typhoid fever se- | rum, medicine and yeast. | A flock of arm 4 privately commissioned planes circled cease- {lessly over both Vermont and New Hampshire yesterday and brought back the first definite pictures of what happened to many places tofor mentioned only in connection with death lists. The aviators told of panorama of barns, hou an occassional ly picked up by {and set down in jof wrecked bridg railroad trac of desolate farn On the face of plete information which overtook —residents of the Winooski valley where $6 persons are known to have perished ft was feared that a complete check of the debris littered river course would Ireveal turther bodies. | A report early today from the r« mote Lamoille river valley, the {to come from there. told of mevin deaths and it was believed in Bur lington that there would be many more, In a region where planes are not an every day commonplace, the in- habitants found little time for sky gazing. Occasionally there would a wave of a hand, the aviators sai and then the group would returt wearily to the task of rehabilii: tion. Everywhere rellet agencles, ti Red Cross, army officers, the Salvi- in whiclt r plants. an unending inundated . automobiles and even grotesqu swirling water en surroundings and uprooted burst dams and the admittedly incom- of the disaster (Continued on Page 15.)