New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 1

N News of the World By Associated Press FIRE DESTROYS QUEBEC ORPHANAGE; 31 BODIES REGOVERED; a0 LITTLE ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS ggfi?fifgmg”gfif} BORAH, HEFLIN, LAFOLLETTE AND NORRIS NAMED wistages 0F Ny AS SENATORS HEARST DESCRIBED AS DESIGNATED CHILDREN BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED sirsswae s REGIPIENTS OF $1,213,000 MEXICAN SLUSH FUND “;’.:‘;“‘Tofl“‘;“,f‘;:;;j ALL MEXICO HAILS FronBleGiiGvs | INDBERGH TODAY CITES ATTENPT 10 WRONG Life in Attempt to! Rescue Babies — Tiny America’s.Intrepid Flier Calls Upon President Calles Too Many Admirals and Poorly Lo- Corpses Fill Morg“e_ and Ambassador Morrow—Dashes Through En- Naval Committee and Re- —— peats Previous Critcism THREE 0F MYSTERIOUS QUART ET HEARST DESCRIBED ]-‘,m Three Deny | Charges- Second, However, Admits He Received Money for Lectures on Mexico— HIM BEFORE THE PUBLIC, cated Yards He Thinks—Says He mbas 2 (el : Nebraskan Too Il to thusiastic Throngs to See His Beloved Plane. [gifnons ) dses foriOmcer sy Noe ! Testify, But Friend | Belng Signed To Keport of Board es| u riendas ) i | Being Signed " 5 Nun Saves Sacred Host as| Mexico City, Dec. 15 P—Cheered | Aztec calendar stone., (RS - P Y; | When Officer Might Personally 4 2 Iby crowds that gathered in the| erywhere that he went Lind- | il ona Defend Him. Chapel Burns—Bereaved streets everywhere that he passed, | bergh was greeted joyfully by Mexi-| Hold Different Views, | “olonel Charles A. Lindbergh this | co's citizens into whoso hearts he | i - ! st Relatives Cryi ver | morning paid an official call upon | has completely won his way. ashington, Dec. 15 (P—Rear| ) ying Y | President Calles who again felicitat- A crowd of several hundred per- { Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, who Publisher Declares He Pro- Wreck Are Pitiful Sight ! cd him upon his brilliant fiight from | sons had gathered outside the EALes |was yemoved from command of the | | : tiful Sig | Washington to Mexico City. of the American embassy when | pyiicuciniia navy yard as a result | cured Documents Indi- _All Canada Mourns| Completely rested after a 12-hour | Lindbergh and Ambassador Morrow ¥ : | sleep and looking fit and fine, Lind- | left it for the forelgn office. Disaster. | bergh made a series of official visits Viva, Shout Crowcs E L | with American Ambassador Dwight| “Viva!" the crowd shouted | W. Morrow and then went out to the 15 (P— eir lives in a fi ny or- loved Spirit of St. Louis with which | his hand. > which | he gained such game. | Along the route to the foreign | v] ce whet he ots o Hosplco St. Charles| , AMODS the places which flce where the streets were still % and Mexican co\or\ 1r0m yester ne bodies lay today in the 11 police, firemen and vol- | ter place inspecting the famou inteers sea 1 the ruins ov vlw- madly on-l bodies. ‘_\ e M ‘ | News of Lindbergh's arrival wire being care ALIEN'STS DEGLARE the foreign office spread thro t) i treets and within a few minu early estimates American flier responded with | ¥ | the Valbuena air fleld to see his be- his usual quick smile and wave of | Pefore the house na and the National museum, the lat- | triumphal procession, the pnp'll\no“ the corridors of the building . e s naha it the American flier, < [0t his recent controversy with the! navy department ove ana |1ion of that branch of the national ldctense, given a hearing today al committ nd he again pointed out numerous EEN T NE DRI Its which he felt existed. 3 rectly From Mexican il and Submitted 1 Them to Both President of- be P ; 2| First the adwiral thought there Coolidge and American here late last night. | foreign office, Chapultepec palace s lf‘ulll(\n 0[ navy yards. e vhn\.;h!‘ Embassy Before Publi- here were Of Keeping Awake 33 ) 15 (A—Whe was treated in the matter of assign- | t e . Lindbergh started his 27-hour T % aent to duty, i e ! g grind to Mexi © had only Washing 5 ) While the ashington, Dec. 15 (#) Four ites N diea int e ~'Victorious Chinese Break | » v as was the Repub]icans Retain Full United Stat ors—Borah, Het- made his similar {lin, La Iollette and Norris—were to take off on Control of Upper House |namea toa: the miysterlous t from New York Post as going on, published throu With Communist Regime out the coun = t that the navy had request 4 . = R . ~ i quartet recently described anony- *was improbable | | Lindbergh smiled and nodded n |10 o' cubmit a detailed reorganiza Seen in Move to ]! «:‘i e in Election mously in the Hearst newspapers as dcad, the total de list would ing | Gl dopiMonic Has No Detailed Plan : oy Sou s s {1 1000 Mexican government slush fund, 1 r more than ceused Man’ Also Facmg cntered the foreign office where a “Present immediately cuch full i, Dee. 15 (P—The nation- reyealedgiotg (ngan fancadilc Washington, Dec. 15 (P—S8enator | Immediately their names were 16 In Dormitory | Contempt Charges, Ge formal reception was h fnthe | qotailed plan for reor of | alist government today handed tne || OO0 ;"_'l_‘w,q’:\‘“fpf“;‘ ot o | | Moses, republican, New Hampshire, disclosed Borah, Heflin and La Fol- Sixteen of the dead were found in | N Set:B I’( :flno‘r:l ’l;g:ofirin l;\nxstfir{ P“"r:-;m 1|the navy and the navy department | Sovict consul gencral ngnat || mgig hing for muking long | |today was elected president projlctte appeared before the special ¢ ruins of one of the dormitories, New Set-Bac] QI BIDErAROTE the SIVIEIEIL anSvouln oy, the telegram | ; o = g = , 4 |senate committee investigating the | B f1o 2 5 | y s passports. He was requested to tempore of the senate - th in most cascs having been due | office greeted him warmly. ad, he said. ) ol 0% SnzE Brich 1o hyx wvere child ion. Seventeen of them ! | Refuses Champagne cn and the other & Court Room, Cincinnati, Dec. 16| ‘When champagne was served, woman. (UP)—The three alienists appoint- |OT¢i8n office officials proposed The sta nuns of the Good cd by Judge Chester R. Shook to in. | '0ASt to good relations between Shepherd, who conducted the insti- tution, and 371 71 children were in bed | George Remus, today reported that | l-ndbersh, ju when the five, believed to have Start- | they believed him sane on October | COUFteously lifted the glass to in the bascment, broko out i &g the day he shgt and killed hiy|!iPS and went through the gestur: ) on the second floor. The | \ife Tmogene, ipping without drinking any of was discovered by Sister Bt.! pooo”gocense has been that of | Wine: who noticed smoke in the | and ronsed the SICepiNE|op the alienists who have been in u and other occupants of the | (p, court room most of the trial was Most of the children |, ¢ na40 public, pending rulings on quickly marched from the | oroug objections by counsel. iilding to safety and clothing| “ng gooner hagd the alienists’ find- | W formally expressed the delight of | Mex indbergh had made the flight Mexico honored to have him as loaned by crowds which gather- | ng been revealed than it was|" tional guest. i to protect the refugee: a“(amed the state was secking with. | lindbergh then expressed r 1 1o other institu-1 3 oy or a juror. preciation for the cordial recept tions and private homes The judge permitted him to re- §iven him by the Mexican peo A passerby who noticed smoke [ € “TCEC P While driving from the foreign trom windows of the build-| T BEPEC o rautman, | fice to the national palace Amt ned in a genecral alarm and )gmwr and farmer who occupies seat | S2dor Morrow suggesttd that as t and volunteers direct= | & 0C00 &0 A s ve ohorted to | had about five minutes to spare th (Continued on Page 22) calendar stone. Col. Lindbe pr ejudice toward the defense. | EE A YL M HRES A petition presented by Remus for | 1€red and the party went to la “témporary. restraining order | Museum. Ambassador Morrow act quire into the sanity or Insanity of | Uhited States and Mexico. Colonel as he did In Paris, | negative one transitory insanity. The full report _Acting Foreign Minister Fstra an government that Col. | ity and said that Mexico ! | have made o statement that tne MISht drop into the Nationat | | prosccution thought tended to show It useumtoNeee Rihe Mistoring Setecy charges and denied that they had received money. from such a source by strict party di- | or had been approached by anyone vision, that for Moses being 42 to Who might have been interested in 39, for Thayer 43 to 41, and Barry Such an offer. 12 to 40, | Friends Defend Norrls S Senator Norris is ill at his home, . friends on the committee esota, voted with the republi-| ey icd the charge also in his be- cans, as did the group of indepen- |half and moved to get a statement dents from the wester ates whose rom him. demands upon the party leaders| Senator Boi took no coffee with ht to Paris and this nerally epted gleep chas was again left out of his for the trip through fog a to Mexico, The story was wate G e A nationalist territory within a the | plan ready for immediate a | tion.” he added. the [lon that whoev am knew the party division, 42 to The votes we orts were list vice minister of for i goes his A high officer in the > of | partment gave to the pross the | ment in effect that 1 had appl the navy for comm ada | Charleston, 8. C., navy ¥ the | naval forces in Lurope, and th | ner-labor, | . who is chairman imert el ehradl ol e tic ially cut down || forced considera of their legis- [of the foreign relations committee, to | He gave that fHa i broke | his amount of ep until lation program had been favorably 'was named in documents submitted ps why T had laid strictures upon nding hed the point where he was | jreccived. William Randolph Hearst, as al to keep active ¥ e Charleston yard and criticized : thout other || ‘The only real fight over organiza- |having been destined to recefve €L | hie smoll Buropean command wgencies including the Ry stat refreshment than food for more [ |tion was on Barry, who came in for |$500,000. Heflin was to have re- ap. | was not true. ) the volunteer flect. than 24 hours at a stretch. attack by Senator Reed, democrat,|ceived $350,000, according to the on| I did, in reports of fitness, which , in issuing the i oquost | e | chairman of the special campaign documents, Follette $15,000 and ;fln are confidential, give a preference is to leave nationalist ————— |funds committee. Reed's attack Was | Norris, presumably, the remainder of. | for such dutic ipression 1 000 fund cained from press reports orig |ing in Washington so0 article in the Saturda as published, was that some h ofticial or high officlais in the navy | were attempting to place 1 in a false position before the public by misrcpresentation and misstatew as- hey hey based on Barry \ll"(l\\! ion to take |of the $1,125, i instructions from that committe S FURMER P"STMASTER folestiine il ot Talie hvece W All four senators have been active t N son senatorial election in Penn: in Mexican affairs and at one time in its official mandate vania after a resolution to continue |°F 8nother each of them had dis- the life of the committee had failed | 28Tecd With the Mexican policles of Nunking government has ~ in the filibuster at the end of the|!h¢ Coolidge administration. rmed that the Soviet con- last session. The American pay-off man for \1 commercial ¢ The democrats had nominated J. the slush fund was said in the rgh the ) seen i g R e R merion o tone T. F. Higgins Fatally Hurt |s. poveil, o Montana, for sergeant doctments to have been ~Dudicy | against the prosecutors at his mur. |48 Bulde for the American airman. ., “qoorotary of the navy.” as headquarters for Red WhentSmice by |at arms but Barry was elected by a| el Malone, & New York lawyer, |der trial was dismisscd today by | The ambassador showed Lind-| Ty ooiior iy discussing ofher ac- L and as asylums for com en Struck by | margin of two votes. Molone ale took the iinemstany : Al . 5 : Magrud scussin or 1 and as ¢ com & : ship- |2nd denied connection wi TAKE Iu“ YflUN[i ‘Ju,}ge Stanley Struble in cummcvrh rgh the great curiously (‘arVnd‘nd“bs of the navy said that he had xposure of these facts \ '. b.l ’ After the roll call, Senator Ship. 5 3 e n with any pleas court. | stone by which the Astecs reckoned {1t o8 O 0 F (ot an officer'a | thus far has been withheld in view Automobile | stead explained his vote for the re- |Suc "pro,\wr;‘.l‘" : : o and promise < g o LT s lic e carst Believes Au Judge Struble limited the argu- | {iMe and promised thalghey ‘:):’;:1“ {name being signed to the report of [of the formal relations existing be- nil hr;rivdl\)1"”<h'i‘lm‘- I-u‘:m:\\\: e wm’)"“fl‘m&w M qt f Helmsm | mvnt to 15 minutes and after Remus e | a naval board when that offi e \\‘mn China and l:vx 1 (Special to tha Herald) Barry by the campaign funds com- t0 the committee by Mr. Hearst any ories o had recited instances of alleged in- i sonally might hold entirely g On Dee. 11 in Canton a ol, Dec. 15—Thomas F. Hig-| b with 'Nmidmmn of defense witnesses, the 1hen the party rushed around the | took place, culminating b s &~ |mittce and therefore he felt obligat- | ith © comment that althougi: Told as City (:azes ON | court said it had no jurisdiction and | SOTCT to the national palace to sce | gqmiral Magruder was not sworn, | forcible occupation of the « SE 2Ll iRt S g et e pote on Bl ; fol e e B e d Sight |that all such petitions should be | ITesident Calles {although an_efrort w \de by | communists who cut off comn . former postmaster, was fatal- | L want it understood, however” | Md come from the o cial filen o Sad Sig brought before the trial indge, The Military gnards at the na-lpepresentative MeClintic, democr 1, plundered, massac VA InfFed atta Ty oislook laad Wighwneyead Sithatsanyyolticer o iha | BE LS SR SRICEE R and were e Chester R. Shook. Judge Shook al- | tional palace entrance snapped 10 }qkianoma, to administer the oath. jand murd roughout the cify e i O e te docs not obey the senate I authentic did not believe any ready has rofused o taho cognizancs | Aitention as the party drove up and yreclintic claimed that durir TS Avas S ey v ® | stand ready to vote for his dis- of the money had been paid over. rontoll Dieco B 16—(F—Thesfire llese o sea s cn it o Colonel Lindbergh returned the | Teapot Dome scandal “Admiral using il R i at n e ¥ an aviomo- charge. I believe Mr. Barry from, After Borah, Heflin and La Fol- the Hospice Saint Charles near | salute. < s s a base to direct oper s Valley, 17, of | what seen said here, made a’lette had entered thelr denfals and Qu as the third ‘“-“Jlfi"(gr 1 Cincinnatt, Ohlo, Dec. 15.—A con- N e R i (Continued. on Page 10) “It is feared that similar c - 109 this city. He |mistake. We all ma mistakes 'asked for prosecution of those re- ke numerous young lives in Cana- Mexico City, Dec. 1 = und . | viction for contempt of the court in he number of will take place elesw! so and since no charges ' sponsible for the charges, Senator I 1 ay A 18 to the Bristol hospital. heEnle T am da this year, i | which he has been on trial for mur. | Pounded enthusiasm prevailed toda ! s no longer can Lo tol: s e St e el 4 s S mire 10 Th otner | shER e hus buen on e for mur- gver’ o Tone Eaie's et in'tor ALLEGED BLACKMAILER e o hevarorat (i récosnitionlfiviors he wied avorlly Beforel 11 B fta Elve imianethor] chancs (Continued on Pags 18) Lot HiB e A at the | ples today of George Remus gl adecyen Monntaina Mbuthe Jietiesot) THOUGHT TO BE INSANE \iforded the union of socialist Sovict . of a tractured skull and internal | _ Senator Moses was ¢ ‘1 d over Laurier Theater, Montreal, Ja I slew Siharelnine veels ago | o caumas vepublics is terminated.” nator Pittman. o T AT Cr e v ol T ) B O ETERCl Gl L el : : ; e | Remus himsel? paved the way for fire at A La Flonge, completed the last stage of his flight | Koblov KLy, Soviet consy gins was retur 2 i a | ; ! eral to comment on : a visit to his ! i 1, it e RIS Ao i G Judge | from Bolling field Washington. | y:vans Terational While Confined fn | rionalist order, merely stat it 5. Crossi Streer, | Halsey, of Virginia, confidential ad- e I | Shook down upon him YesterdaY | over g region unknown to him, HUE L i s T ees to dsntoriatic wentars: | B Other fires in Canada this year|When he demanded that the jury be | mountainous and sparsely settled. Cell—May Be Deported (o e e R e St f s = | Sl e excluded 50 he might argue a polnt | Tho trip was made In 27 hours and f of law, | Veering from it. he renewed his | sneeringat upon Prosecutor | “amirazo,” a real hug —express | Charles P. Taff, and his 3 his joy and the joy of the people *These three movices. the airman's successful terminat at Taft, Walter K. Sibbald of the flight after being lost in 10 minutes. President les i So Jidly did the flames spread that despite every effort by the nuns, firemen, pricsts and citizen: ittle ecould be done to rescue the youngsters, many of whom were 60 | - by sleep that they could | hurle ov 1y a full Friends Rallv to Sa\c | eymour Tax ( ollector S . covmmmir, Conns e, 15 e Principal Slade Hints Dia- Tiarry O. La lo recently re- 28 {ax collector Tollowing fhe mond Game May Be £ the approa the | i3 said to have extorted 367 = s o ¢ ‘ of $7.458.77 in Dis . realized what was go- | and Carl . Dassler. heavy fog off Tampico. Not con-|Dis arrest lastweck Of I Geors < accounts today deposited with iscontinued | : i | “This son of the chief justice” Re- |tent with merely shaking hands, the ; Plackmail, is il her homs¢ g 1 no drive Sevmour Trust Company the 2 on ievs fearlessly entered the { mus had cried at Taft from the out- president threw hoth 1s around | Will be unable to appear in court {0 Anxious Admirers Send Thousands companion whose name W imount of the shorfage together with g burning building and returned with | set of the trial November 14. the flier’s shoulders and pa Bl tatle AL B0 Sh B e of Telephone Inquiries Through Bl ong terost on same. As a resnlt of t Siuce the administration of th nildren, still halt asleep. Many chil- | ou drank pints and pints of |affectionately i at least, it was lenrned today, anthoritics got in teley it is reported that no | ior High school 1s 1 with e jumped from windows and the | Whiskey, you hypocrite,” twice had “Viva' and “Bravo” ans, Svhoss;hearting Was 1o/ Sk Herald Switchboard nunication with Coroner Sar inst him will be take blem of paying the school’s shar e O nesed.— younger |been hurled at Bassler, Sibbald | The tensiou of that long wait on | been held today, is be ieved 0 be in- : ilerman at ; Mr. Lang as assi carrying costs of Willow Broo with them | soamed not to have been singled out | the sun-baked Valbuena flying ficld jsane. Mrs i expectant st In the Washi ed the r ing good the money | park s constructed for the e e opatel st S — mother, is st from the - Mexico City flight of Col. Chy bodies were all laid on (Continued on Page 12) ‘ (Continued on r'wn 10) 1 frantic mothers were ther mnual 2 who signed ot ford-New britain Hig! baseball, one of the fects of fright, according to Lindbersh which was suc W. FFox, who is attendin 1plished> yesterday — ran n hundreds to try to identify them. Only two children had been fdenti- ied up to cight a. m Many stories of heroism were told reported to hav en children making re- up and down a ladder. ew children and nuns into life nets. fire which presumably start- rolm the explosion of a furnace itral flue creat- ‘ carrying the fire roughout the old building. Rescue work was stopped when the walls | psed. i A The new section of the institution | desire an American she ik and has | s of fire-proof construction and | written to Santa Claus, in care of the 8 pract 1lly undamaged. 19 Year Old Girl Asks Santa Claus to Bring Her Bold American Shei Kensington Miss Writes to Mayor, Saying She Dissatisfied With Arabian Type. i | | formerly had an one because the one T had wa bashful. I want one that |afraid to go out alone in the da mayor's office, asking that one be | Many loving ki: A 19-year old Kensington girl who you do T want you to bring me a abian sheik,” | hice American sheik, nat an Arabian too not rinking hea I to his ar Stanley, executors out of my heart, | drinking heavily ‘o v s sports will prob- On recommendation of P'rose high as on the occasion of I e e ncipal Louise 1 ing Attorney Woods flight from New York to I Thomas F. McDonon eral thousand inquiries representing Fvans, od at the Herald offi ably bo droppe Slade indic: s Frlendiy Suit Brought to Court e e o ) Loard of park commission had rel: k | e o dared B a r information regarding Line 5 tive to extra compensation over th bt Jod5| safd. there |k rress and there was gen- F St l w “ l t t t paid by the High school for the e R e ion when the news wie | or dtanley W INTErpretatiGn o " . wii's at tre inte | ot Yeeping Bvans in a coll at polien Y late n the afternoon that est on the loan might be' paid was | Readeuarters, avhere he has been |he had reached his destination. correct, Principal Slads said, but a Is !since last saturday, and Judge € A5fsoon as itiwas lolicially Al s not set by the nounced that Lindbe v . . . . . > ~f : 3 definite amount w ety i New Britain Trust Co. and Alix W. Stanley Bring .o noara rep the “Spirit of Louis” to the 5 -di iSDOSA joint meeting whe ground, local admirers wasted no Action Rega'dmg Disposal of Income From was first announced. i Sh AR £ Res|dua,~_‘- Estate. J The board representatives prom- o s T ised the school would pay as much ettt Thith (Sny anni as it could of the carrying costs un- | Teports that a nmumber of con.| Suit has been instituted by the served for the decision of the su-|til the park hoard received an ap- tulatory messages had been sent | New Britain Tr nd Alix W. | preme court by the consent of ull| propriation from the board of to the flying ace i the finance and taxation which would 2id he should be t county jail pending trial next Tt day. According to {he police, has been acting strangely for the past few days, having the appear- ance of a mentally deranged person. k. |He admitted that he had been entatives at the proposition s Co. under the will of | The New Britain Trust Co. and i | i s 1 Katherine A, Stanley, for instruc-| 7 - ; % ray back a loan taken from the New Firemen found in the hall a tall | furnished her. As a compromise, | signed d it is believed that his sudden |, - e | NS Sl Alix W. Stanley as executors, are| Rritain Trust Co. by public spirited Christmgs tree de ted and ready | she appears willing to accept any | S ees inability to obtain alcoholic stimu- T ltions in disposing of the income 1 by Miss . Lacavie. | cititzens under the name of the New ) Iy ted for the pieasure of the | single man who happens to read the | Age 19 years dded to the confinement and | | THE WEATHER | ltrom the residuary es i the T st company and Alix W.|Britain Athletic Association, Ine. hildren duri was 1o have | letter, a postseript appended to it “P. S If you are a single fellow tion of the serious trouble in | above esta ) Stanley, as trustees, are represented| Before it was learned that the been a happy Christn season. admits, \m.«w me at my home Christma . [which he is enmeshed may have Britain and vicinity: he resi ry estate is divided be-| by Mortimer H. Camp and Miss|hoard of finance and taxation wouldl Dense clonds of rmoke hampered | Her letter signed with her own ‘11 s means the one that reads this | contributed to his condition. asing cloudiness, fol- | noa legatee who takes absolute- | Margaret W. Perkins, and the vari-|appropriate the money for the pay- the rescuer d _to grope in | name follow. jnote.” It was Jearned today that T by rain or snow tq nd ust fund for the benefit| ous heirs and legatees are repre-|ment of the loan, the achool board £ €5 for the youngsters in their | “Dear Santa: | On the back of the dainty envelope [ may be deported from the Uni | might and Priday; not quite of certain life tenants. | sented by John H. Kirkham; Rob- | special committee agrecd to pay its . In one scction of a dormitory | “If you come through the town of [which contains the missive is a re- | States as it is understood that he is s0 cold tonight. | The supreme court of Connecticut |inso, Robinson and Cole; Earl Bark- | share of the bleacher costa oy found the bodics of sixteen ifl"rlln T wish you would come to ! quest that it be printed in the New inot a citizen. He claims to have | | has never passed on this precise|er of Branford and Hewitt, Sheldon i 1 i my house on Swamp Load; now if | Britain Herald. served in the Dritish army — %, question, and the matter is being re- | and Guubart of New Haven. (Continued on Page 12.)