New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1928, Page 26

- HISTORY WRITER Saith Colloge Educator Dis in Washngton Accident ‘Washington, Jan. P—John Spencer Basseft, of Northampton, Mass., widely known as an educator and writer, was killed here today by & street car. He had written historical subj to southern aff in Tarboro, N. 1867, Mr. Bassett wis fOr many years a teacher of history at Trinity college now Duke University, Durham, N. C. Since 1906 he has been profs sor of history at Smith Northampton. =1 ext thos: He September ensively on pertaining was born college, Washington, Jan. 27 (UP)—A man about 69 years old walked from behind one street car into the path of another here today. At emerg- ency hospital he regained consclous- ness long enough to “I am John §. Bassctt, professor of history at Smith college, North- | I have no friends Then he died. An inquest will be held tomorrow. Northampton, Mass., Jan —Smith college authorities stated this afternoon they had received ne direct word from Washington re- garding the accidental death of Pro- fessor John §. Bassett, widely known historian. Bassct was a native of Tarboro, N. C. He was educated at Trinity college, North Carolina, and Johns Hopkins. He was professor of his- tory at Trinity from 1883 te 1906 and had been a member of the Smith faculty for the past 21 years. He had written several historical books. Bassett was 60 years old HIGH SEAS HAMPER U. 8. S. Falcon's New Air Cooling Apparatus For Divers Is Not Given Actual Ttests Today. Provincetown, Mass., Jan. 27 (P— The high seas today prevented offi- cers of the submarine S-4 salvage fleet from submitting the U. S. 8. I'alcon’s new air cooling apparatus to practical tests. The apparatus, in- stalled when the diving ship put into the Boston navy yard early this week, functioned perfectly when tested with a diver's helmet yester- day but the salvage officers were eager to put it to the supreme test while a diver was submerged. The cooling apparatus, as explain- ed by Commander Willlam Ownes of 10, (UP) | STUDI INSHITH HYSTERY (Continued from First Page) that we will hear from her.” The girl's uncle, James H. Smith, Jr., attacked the theory that the | girl was being held for rvevenge. “There ia no truth in the report that | the family has been in touch direct- jly or by mail with any organized {gang or anything resembling a gang,” he asserted. ‘ Detective Stokes Enters The entry of Detective Stokes into the case was in line with General Foote's announced policy of bring- ing every possible facility of the | state to the aid of the investigation. | Stokes {5 the man who solved the | celebrated Tyngsboro suit case mur- |der in 1923. | Another entrant on the scene was | Dr. Lydiard H. Horton of Boston, & psychoanalyst, whose services were |engaged by Major Stanley Wash. Iburn. spokesman for the girl's fam- lily in New York. | "Dr. Horton has been asked to | piece together the mental state of |the missing girl at the time she |dropped from sight. In the absence |of other clues, Washburn described {the plan as “our only hope.” | Anothe False Scent ! A clue which assumed briet im- | portance came from Olive Hill, Ky., [where a youth and a girl, hikers, {were beld when authorities noticed | the girl’s likeness to that of the Smith college freshman. After first declining to tell her name, the girl admitted she was Martha Mitchell. She said her father was Henry M. Mitchell, a Long Is- land, N. Y., broker, but investigation in New York city later revealed that a man of the same name, employed as a houseman in a New York city hotel, had told fellow employes that his daughter, Martha, had left home several months ago with a young Alsatian. 1 The youth held at Olive Hill gave | his name as Fred Fuchs and said he had recently arrived in this country from Alsace-Lorraine. 1t weather conditions permit, state police will resume their search of the Connecticut river today. Lieu- tenant James P. Mahoney and a de- tail of nine men worked three hours yesterday until forced by floating ice cakes to desist. An airplane which ‘was to have flown over the river had to remain on land because of high wind. Psychologist Active Now New York, Jan. 27 (UP)—A sclen- isons bureau because the tific inquiry into the “intimate past” | cester, Mass. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, bureau, he went to the St. Jeha Smith home here and talked with Frances' grandaunt, Mra. Anss W. Gramm. The miasing girl's parents, who may be questioned by Dr. Hor- ton later, are at Northampton aiding in the search. “By looking inte Miss St John Smith's intimate pest," Dr. Horton told the United Press, “it may bé possible to determine her probable conduct. Penetrates Motives “The new peychology permits penetration of human motives and the piecing together of the fabric of purpose.” The meaning of purpose or pur- posive in a psychological sense is not the same as its ordinary mean- ing, Dr. Horton explained. As he used the term, he said, it applied to the development of a conflict of emotions which in turn led to fatigue, “The conflict is solved,” he sald, “by some positive action.” As suicide is not considered a positive action, Dr. Horton eliminat- ed that from the realm of consider- | ations in the S8mith case. Suicide,” he sald, ‘may be a| positive gesture but never a positive action. Persons fatigued by a con- flict of emotions do not desire death.” Suicide Not Belicved Major Washburn told Dr. Horton that the possibility of suicide had been eliminated by the missing per- elements for that gesture were not indicated ; in Miss Smith’s conduct before her; disappearance. Dr. Horton said he was approach- ling the investigation by much the same tactics as are employed by a hunter of game. “The hunter does not go out look- ing anywhere for a mountain goat,” he said. “The hunter knows that his quarry likes grass and will come to grass so he lies in wait at a place where the mountain goat is likely to come in search of food. “That is my plan preciscly. By learning of the girl's emotions 1 will be able to tell where she would &0 in cvent she were a free agent. OQur assumption, of course, is that she was a free agent and went wherever her inclinations pointed.” INMATE ESCAPES AFTER HE CAPTURED RUNAWAY And That is How Bernard O'Hars Got Away From Statc Hospital for Insane at Worcester, | Hartford, Jan. 27 (®—Bernard A. O'Hara, 42, escaped from the Wor- state hospital because of Frances St. John Smith with a another inmate at the institution view to determining where she may | failed to get away, O'Hara told Hart- have gone after disappearing two|ford police today. weeks ago from Smith college at' (O’Hara joined with an attendant Northampton, Mass., was started to- | in chasing the fleeing man, who was day by Dr. Lydiard Horton, & bio- | finally caught by O'Hara, who trned | logical psychologist. {him over to the attendant. Dr. Horton came here from Bos- | ton to confer with relatives and | got the other fellow that he forgot | the Bosfon-navy yard, prevents ex- cessive moisture from collecting and . freezing in the diver's airlines. This is accomplished by first cooling the air to separate the moisture, which is removed, and then heating the air which is pumped down to the sub- merged diver at-a temperature above the freezing point, friends of the missing girl in the hope that what he calls ‘‘purposive psychology" may point the way to her hiding place. The Boston psychologist was call- ed into the case by Maj. Stanley Washburn of the Missing Persons bureau. After & conference with Washburn and John H. Ayres at the WITH REASON One Year of constant value giving has placed Kolodney sales far above those of the average hardware store. JOHNSON’S WAX liquid or paste (per pound) ..... 49c Cocoa Door Mats ................. T9c Single Burner iectric HOT § 1 49 R. F. D. MAIL BOX $149 CANVAS GLOVES While they last, per pair .. 10c 15-Volt Heavy Duty “B” BATTERIES ..... KOLEDNEY B HARDWARE COMPANY 220 MAIN ST. TEL. 909 |about me and I walked away,” said |O'Hara. The incident occurred | Wednesday night, he declared, and { verification of his disappearance was | obtained here from the authorities in Massachusetts this afternoon. | O'Hara will eventually be returned 110 the Worcester institution. | his way to Springfield and yesterday employment | here, but the officials at this Tlace :suupectod that he might be the “phantom stabber” and O'Hara was turned over to the local police. | FIRE ENDANGERS LAWRENCE Fire of undetermined origin men- aced a section of this city’s business district today and caused $30,000 damage to the Lawrence Industrial school. The nearby:American House and other business property was threat- |ened, but the flames were confined to the building in which the fire started, There was no one in the school at the time of the fire. Upon lcaving Worcester, he made | he arrived in Hartford. He secured | at the Open Heirth! Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 27 (UP)—| DPLONAS FOR 84 ATH. S, EXEROISES (Continued from First Page) Stipek, Ida Sofle Swanson, Elizabeth Imogene Tallard, Edna Tresky, Frances Helen Troop, Lols Estella Wakefield, Clifford Lewis Bell, Martin Pat- rick Bergan, Ugo Jossph Bertoline, Warren Coe Brainerd, Merton Jeme Clark, Julius J. Diner, Walter Ger- ald Drogue, Norman Maxwell Earl, John Louis Erickson, William Thomas Fay, Andrew Natal Ferraris, Kenneth Judson Frost, Burton Ap- sley Griffith, William Haswell, Aug- ust John Helisler, Alden Creighton Hewett, Byron Heary Jacoby, Peter Paul Kelly, Hollls Whipple Kincald, Paul Carl Koether, Joseph A. Kos- zalka, Stanley F. Kulesik, Joseph Theodore Larson, Loren Carl Larson, Guy L. Maddooks, Virgil Daniel Ma- guire, Gerald Edward McCourt, Hey- wood Solberg Mansergh, Hyman Harold Meltzer, Paul Joseph Mor- tellfti, Thomas Langdon Newman, Charles Ralph Newton, G. Victor Pauloz, Walter John Putala, Morse Richtmyer, Jr. Benjamin Isracl Schlafer, Earle Vining Scott, James Henry BScully, Frederick Martin Senf, Walter Ignatius Stachelek, 8id- ney Emil Steinberg, Bernard Tran- chida, Francis Eager Traver, Gordon Ernest Ventres, Milton Welinsky, Al- den Edward Woodruft, Frederick August Zehrer, Program of Exercises The program will be as follows: Processional: ‘War March of the Priests™ o teseseees. Mendelssohn Senior High School Orchestra Invocation: Rev. W. H. Alderson ‘The Two Grenadiers” ,... Schumann-Leighter | cierssassesassess Lemare-Page Senior High School Orchestra saxophone Solo: “Spring Song” . . Mendelssohn Benjamin Israel Schlafe Mid Year Class of 1928 Overture: “The Four Ages of Man". +.... Lachner Senior High 8chool Orchestra Presentation of Diplomasa: Patrick F. King, President of the School Committee “Star Spangled Banner” Class of 1928, Orcnestra and Audience, Recessional. MAPLE HILL NEWS The Maple Hill Bridge club will ' tliis city but now of East Haven, un-| meet next Tuesday afternoon, Jan- of Mrs. Willlam Fitzell on Robbins | avenue. “The attendant was %0 tickled t0 | o Miss Frances Sorrow, student at | Pratt institute, spent last week-end | with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. | J. Borrow of Sequin street. | D. L. Haines of Springficld has | been & guest of Mr. and Mrs, Robert 1. Haines of Theodore street. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur “White of Golf street will leave the first week in February on a trip to Florida. | The condition of Mrs. Kinsley, { who has been {ll the past four weeks |shows little improvement, Mrs. R. B. 8kinner entertained lat bridge for New Britain friends ion Tuesday at her home on Thomp- son street. The prizes went to Mrs. John W. Lockett and Miss Arline | Root. A meeting of the Woman's club Arthur White of Golf was given by Mrs. Clarence Bennett of New Britain. Mrs. White was as- sisted by Mrs. Arthur Grant and | Mrs. L. B. Banford, Merely Margy, An Awfully Sweet Girl ! YoutL GET USED ! 70 LONG HAIR, SIR. REMEMBER {You oPRoSED | THE HON."BOR" I|N 1 Te || BEGINNING! YOU DONT HAVING POLLY AND HER PALS_ PIGTAILS THE PRESENT DAY CHICKENS 1S SPROUTING! Polish-American Association Chooses K. Majewics Prosident—Organiza- tion in Good Financial Condition. At the regular meeting of the Po- lish-American Business Men's Asso- clation held last night at the Fal- cons' hall, Broad street, the follow- ing officers were chosen: President, K. Majewicz; vice-president, B, A. Graybowskl; secretary, Charles Jed- siniak, financial secretary, A. Barwi- ]kowm: treasurer, Leon Gorski; ser- geant-at-arms, A. Zieziulewics, A. | Cleatynski and A. Ziesiulewics were elected auditors, and a press and 80- | way geeking to avold injury to his [ made his way from the crowded com- | client from adverse effects of other | courtroom. cial committee was chosen, posed of B. A, Grzybowski, Leon Tomikowski and Valerian Ciessynski. It was decided that the new offi- cers shall revise the constitution. | The financial status of the organiza. tion was rted as good by the auditor e program for this year is varied and extensive and will comprise many soclal at the meeting. 600 AT P. AND T. MEETING Smalley School Association Hears In- teresting Address By Dewey Van Cott, Art Director. The attendance at last night's meeting of the 8malley School Par- ents and Teachers' Association was nearly 600, and one of the most en- joyable programs of the school year was presented. Dewey Van Cott, art director in the public schools, was {the speaker. He was introduced by ‘Walter G. Kosswig, president of the association. Saxophone duets by Benjamin | Meltzer and Martin Chester, dances by Ethel Kosswig and a violin solo by Howard Lavine were features of | the program which included playlets, {“The Road to Health,” and ‘Look- ing Back in 1927." Members of the 6-2 classes also provided part | of the program. i b Ib. W. Girls Entertain Wallace-Barnes Club A mecting of the Stanley Works Girls' club was held last evening at |$t. Mary's church pariors, with the iclub entertaining members of the Wallace-Barnes Girls' bowling team |and the girls orchestra from that | plant. After dinner, vocal selections I\mre given and & card party was im-ld. :George B. Pickup Loses activties, | About 50 business men were pmentJ 1928, HKNAN JORORS WAY BE SELECTED BEFRENGATEALL (Continued from First Page) peremptory challenge, however. At the opening of court today the state had used one of its 20 peremp- tory challenges. The defense had used none. Walsh indicated clearly that he murder trials where insanity pleas saved slayers from the death penal. ty, such as the Loeb-Leopold trial and the George Remus case. “Do you believe an insanity plea is used only as & asubterfuge and sham to escape the penalty for crime?” was one question he asked each prospective juror. oted Persous at Trial Judge James H. Teller, former supreme court judge of Colorado, and secretary of the territory of Colorado in 1883, came into the court room early. He took a set beside C. N. Herreid of Aberdeen, 8. D., former governor of South Dakota, and the two con- versed. Alfred Hickman, brother of the slayer, was another early arrival. He took a seat near the wall. The brother seemed anxlous to |avoid the stares of the crowd. Walsh entered the court room with more assurance than he dis- played yesterday. The young lawyer took his seat at the defense table and began dis- cussing plans for the day with his assistant, Richard Cantillon, District Attorney Asa Keyes was immersed in a pile of documents 'belote him. He paused in the read- ing of the documents from time to time to discuss a pojnt with Forest |Murray, his assistant. Mrs, Edith I Kreyser; & young imatron who carried a small pack- juge that looked as if it contained |glasses or home made Jelly, was icalled to be examined for the 12th place in the jury box. She appeared unconscious of the responsibility that might be placed upon her and responded promptly {to the questions put to her, Death Penalty She was questioned at length on Iher views regarding capital punish- {ment, | 8he said she “thought” she might {be able to vote for the death pen- ialty if the evidence warranted such |a verdict. Her answer made it Leg From Blood Poison |probable that the state would chal- was held Wednesday with Mrs. | street. .An ' by publie referendum whether it can |Mary Wheeler, who had been posi- instructive talk on current events |80 to the movies on Sunday, The {tive that she had never formed an George B. Pickup, formerly of {derwent an operation yesterday for {uary 31 at 2:15 @'clock at the home 'the amputation of a leg, just above the knee. An infection which | started tn Mr. Pickup's foot resulted |in blood-poison necessitating ampu- | tation, B. U. CLUB TO HAVE DANCE Members of the Boston University club of Hartford county, of which there is a large number in this city, { will attend a formal dance of the club, Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in the Burritt Hotel. Many of the !alumni of this institution, living out- |side of Hartford and New Britain, will be present. GRASS FIRE CAUSES ALARM A grass fire on South street, on | property of the New Britain Ma. ! chine Co. assumed such proportions i {ment was called by an alarm from | Box 219 at 11:30 o'clock. The re- | call sounded at 11:63 o'clock. There | was no damage. “ SUNDAY MOVIES | Canandaigua, N. Y., Jan. 27 P— This community is deciding today {polls will open at poon and close at 9 tonight. A committee of pastors of the several churches Las organ ized the opposition. MND MY MY BROTHER WHO IS IN this forenoon that the fire depart- | |lenge her. Judge J. J. Trabucco ‘broke into the questioning again with a de- mand -that the defense limit the scope of questions put to the pro- spective jurors by not tonching fir- revelant matters, Walsh resumed his questioning | quietly, 2 Mrs. Kreyser, it appeared, had {taken little interest in the case and never had expressed an opinion an {to Hickman's guilt or innocence. fhe was not a radio fan, nor had she heard the affair discussed from the pulpit. Walsh Answered Walsh drew an admonition from the court when he attempted to «auestion Mrs. Kreyser regarding the newspapers she read. Without losing his composure, |Walsh continued to question her and again'drew a warning from the court, At the second iInterruption, Walsh turned quickly to the judge and insisted his question was important. He won the point and went on with the examination. ‘The defense exercised its first per- emptory challenge by excusing Mrs. i | opinion in the case. Eleven persons, seven men and four women, were able to withstand this barrage of questioning and ho!d Q rors produced both tragic and hu- morous momenta. / a Frederick Plerce, father of five children and a grandfather, who. re- sides near the spot where the muti- lated body of Marion Parker was tossed back to her father for $1,500 ransom, said he had no right to sit as a juror. Pierce was excused for cause when he admitted from the box that he was prejudiced. “I believe this boy was sane, but T could not ait in the jury bex and be instrumental in sending him to his death,” Plerce declared, as he | Lester Blummer, a diminutive and 'nery member of the panel was con- siderably perturbed when defense Attorney Walsh insisted upon ad- dreesing him as *“Mr. Bloomers” and other misnomers and called the youthful attorney’'s attention to the error, The, courtroom found relief for its pent up emotions in the state- ments of Mrs. Mary Wheeler and Newton C. Miller. Mra. Wheeler had discussed the affair with her husband but was never guided by his opinion, while Miller, a retired farmer of 70, held a like opinion of his wife’s ideas on the subject of Hickman's guilt, Most of the jurors werc men and women long past the prime of life' and for the most part had retired from active participation in business affairs, The first day's session brought forth numerous over-rulings for the defense by Judge Trabucco. Appears Disconsolate Hickman was still disconsolate this morning. That same feeling that | “I will hang” seemed to influence| him and he took little interest as he prepared his tollet for going to court, | He sat through most of yester- day's session glum and staring straight ahead The various ques- tions asked of the jurors scemed to interest him very little. His whole attitude was that he wished to get this trial out of the way as quickly as possible, Facts Developed Among other things the trial de- veloped these facts, according to the answers of the jurors: There were certain people in southern California during the time Hickman was at large who read very little of the case. There were others who never formed an opinion as to Hickman's gullt or innocence nor his mental condition at the time of the crime. There are people who never read newspaper editorials and husbands and wives who think little of the others opinions. In some familles, it appeared from the statement of prospective jurors, there was very little discus. sion of California’s most atrocious murder. These facts were disclosed by ‘Walsh as he read from a long list of questions that encompassed the| following: i 1—Have you formed or express- done to Hickman? 2—Have you formed an opinion as to whether he is sane or insane? 3—Have you read about the case in the newspapers and did what you read influence you to reach a conclusion about the case? 4—Do you think Hickman should be hanged, regardless of whether he is insane or of sound mental atate? 5—Do you think he is pleading in- sanity as a “smoke screen,” to save himself from the gallows? 6—Were you in the defendant's place, would you be willing to be tried by a juror in the same frame of mind as you are in now? IN ONE CASKET Gettysburg, Pa, Jan. 27 (UP)~ The bodies of Mrs. A. B, C. Williams and her three children, burned to death when the explosion of an ofl lamp set fire to their farm home, were buried in a single casket here ‘mdly. ITH THE SHADES uestioning of the tentative ju- : «d an opinion as to what should be — ' vears a prominent medical fleld of this occupy his mewly finf |mate bome. . 33 medical men of this city. Mid-year clamses begin next Mon- day. Moody's Secretaridl School— ,advt. | Alexander Bollerer of 30 Com- mercial street reported to the policc that a tire and horn were stolen ofi his truck. Johnston's clean coal is good coal. City Coal & Wood Co. Tel. 217 ~Adv Frank Delaney, son of Mry. Aana E. Delaney of 63 Bassett street, and a student at the Harvard Law achool, was operated on for appendieitis at the New Britain General "hospital this morning. He will be forced to remain from his studies for about three weeks. ‘While working at the Senior High school this morning, Fred Roloff of 0 Church’ street, assistant janitor, fell off a step ladder and aprained his ankle. e was taken " to his home by William Bollman, head janitor. He is reported to be rest- ing comfortably, A store at 244 North atreet, and a tenement at 218 North street, have been leased by Morris Cohn to 8am Blumenthal for one year, The rental is $100 a month. A number of prominent Polish business and profeasional men of New Britain will be guests at a smoker of the Pollsh-American Re- publican club of Rockville SBaturday evenin, THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Alphabetically A Rty Raterence O LINE RATES for CONSECUTIVE INSERTIONS Yearly Order Rates Upom Application Count § words to & line, 14 lines o sn fnch. Minimum Space 3 lines. Minimum Book Charge, 38 cents Closing time 1 P. M. daily; 10 A, Saturday. i " Telephone 925, rate. Notify the Herald at once i yous ad ia incorrect, Not responsible for re after the Srst tnsertion. Ask for ez time Burial Lots, Monuments NEW BRITAIN MONUMENTAL WORKS 123 Oak 8t Monuments of all sises und deacriptions, Carving end letter cutting our specialty. 5 Torists 3 GOSTON FEIRNB—Very reasouable prices. 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