New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1928, Page 1

. NSE7 Axouqr] a\nsm NEW BRITAIN CONN E'S PLANE, COLUMBIA, STANDS POISED FOR FLIGHT BUT GOAL IS SURROUNDED IN DEEPEST MYSTERY Publicity A!fl't Says SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS, ASKED TO RESIGN, REFUSES NEW BRITAINNUN HOME FROM CHINA Sister St. Phillippe Visiting Trip Will Be to Ha- vana But Craft Equipped With Fueli for 4,000 Miles. Pilot Stuitz, Levine Him-| Kearney Demands Board | of Public Works Dismiss i Him or Grant Him Hear- | ing on Charges. self and Mabel Boll,‘ “Queen of Diamonds,” Are Scheduled to Make | Jaunt. Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Feb. 4 »! —The transatlantic monoplane Co- iumbia was read; for flight at dawn today but during the forenoon Charles A. Levine postponed the ! takeoff, presumably for a mnon-stop flight to Havana ulthough enough | gasoline was aboard for a trip to| Europe. At mid-afternoon Levine announc- | ed that he would not hop off with Miss Mabel Boll, “queen of dia-| as passenger, and Filmer | Stultz as pilot, until between noon und one o'clock this afternoon. No reason for the delay was given. Levine said that when he ready to leave he would make was defi- tion. The weather that flying conditio; Havena but bad for an ecean flight, | As Levine was known to be in close touch with the bureau this was tak- burcau announced | en as another indication that Ha- | vana would be his destination. John Carisl, Levine's re five at the field, and the mechanics insisted that the Aight was to Ha- | Thomas Kearncy, superintendent |of streeta for the past three years. has been asked to tender his resig- | nation and has refused to do &0, | calling on the board of public| | works either to discharge him sum- | |marily or preter any charges which | against him. The request that he quit was made of the street superintendent by En- gineer Philip A. Merian who has | | taken over the duties of city en- gineer pendipg the formal transfer of Enginecr Joscph D) Willlams to ! the water department, Kearney says he is standing on his ,rights to be faced with charges be- tore being dropped and has refused | ! pointblank to quit until such time as he is brougnt before the board. Mayor Weld and attaches of the public works departmentcould not | may stand | verify rumors of difficulties between | the board and the superintendent | in ignorance of any official action. Superintendent Kearney came lo[ Father on Orange Street 'WAS MISS EMILY ALLAR Hong Kong, Where Work Among |in front of “old man Park: Natives is Being and substantiatc Stationed at Kowloon, District of !0 tage Carried Out by Band of Nine. Back from the Sister St fore entering the Emily Allard of 14 Orange street, i | ing, aiv resting at her home tour of the country in the interests ©f 01 man Parker himself. China, |of the foreign missions, and is plan- | |ning to return to her work in Heart, were good to|the board of public works from & |which private contracting company in Mer- | Britain girl. Graduate of New Britain H. S. liden, during the administration of | A. M. Paonessa as mayor. He su-| perintended the first large perma- nent paving job attempted by the city in the Myrtle street job. He also di- | rvected the South Main street work | Sister St. Phill cal member of the Order |Lady of the Angels, whose novitiate | Lennoxville, Quebec. graduated from St. y |school in 1916 and four years later esenta- | without outside contractors, putting |ig pr 1 vana but it was pointed out thut the 'and has had general supervision over | L ceivoq 1, 460 gallons of gasoline would ‘nough to carry the plane 4,000 miles or more. It is 1,400 miles to Havana. Moscow Flight Planned Moscow, Feb. 4 (®—The air drome authorities here have received a request by cable from Charles A levine, American transatiantic filer, asking them to aid him in his plans far & non-stop New York to Mos- cow flight this summer. The Soviet fliers are greatly inter- csted In the project and replied since entering the city's employ. For | |several days past he has been fn | charge of the work of snow removal. | Chairman Reginald Towers of the board could not be located this |morning for detalls of the change in s department, and City Engineer {Joseph D.' Willlams was in Burling- ton. Kearney's associates in street | { work are the authority for the stat !ment that either Ralph Battey or| John P. Maguire, both employed as | foremen, are being | probable successors. Tt ployed in local offices for three years iShortly afterward, the defense rest- be mll outside work of the department | ain High Phillippe, who be- convent was Miss here after a | the | Orient within a few months. Traveling with Sis nite announcement of his destina- [today and the mayor claimed to be ‘i_g Sister Theresa who is s I China, with the band of nine nuns | includes ter St. Phillippe of the Sacred ationed at Kowloon, the former New e is the only lo- of Our She wus Mar diploma_at New Brit- hool. After being em- she answered the call of religion and {enrolled in the prder at Lennoxville, The missionary order of nuns was organized elght despite its short period of existence to identjfy years ago, and has extended its work far into the |interior of China, being responsible | for the conversion | Cathohe church of many refugees. to the Roman The local nun left the shores of mentioned as | the United States last February, was said | went directly to Kowloon. Kowloon and through the Russian Trading organ-|Rattey will probably be the board’s|is a district of Hong Kong which is ization, promising all possible tech- nical aid. They notified Levine, liowever, that he must first address an officlal request to the Soviet gov- «rnment and obtain a permit. Alh* permission has been obtained the fliers will commence local prepara- tions for the fiigh? ‘GURED’ BY OPERATION BUT JUDGE ISN'T SURE York ‘ So Former New Criminal Is Sentenced " Just the Same New York, Feb. 4 (A-—Pronounc- ed by physicians as cured of crim- Inal tendencies by surgical opera- | tions, Edward D. Lyle, 24, was nev- ertheless under sentence to an In- determinate term' in the city reform. | atory today further medicul treatment. County Judge Tiernan, of St George, Staten TIsland, in imposing sentence, said he was not convinc- ed that the “cure’ vlete. Lyle was arrested in March, 1927 for stealing an automobile at the point of a gun. Arraigned on a ~Marge of grand larceny Dr. William | B. Pritchard, an allenist recommend- ed an operation on Lyle for sinus trouble. Lyle was released on $5,000 bail and an operation performed on his nose. removed and four teeth tracted. He had been allowed to plead guilty to petit larceny after phys ciany had testified that they belie cd the medical and surgical treat- ment had cured him of his criminal tendencies. The district attorney concurred in this view and said he| would accept a su.spomlnd se n(bm‘c Judge Tiernan, ho felt that it would ha d.mg»uoug xo allow Lyle to remain at large and sentenced him to the City Reforma- | tory for an indeterminate period. The judge said he was doing this because he believed further hospital treatment was necessary and not be- for were ex. cause he belleved a prison sentence | | would impress or help him. . through | Bernard F. Gaftney, has brought suit | for $1,000 dll“IMK(N against A, L. Rothschild of Hartford, for the ul- leged non-payment of w note. As the result of an automobile cident on Clark stre on September last, John Kairchild, through alph C. Coppeto, has brought suit for $100 dam, uinst monia. The plaintiff's car was en by his Lrother, Robert. Ruit for $500 damages has been brought by Rackliffe Bros, Co., Inc ter Si- driv through Edward A. Mag, against the ! Kirhv Manufacturing Co. of Middle- n. had been com- | Tonsils and adenokds were | _ |ought to know that I cannot stand cholce. 'REFUSES T0 GET COAL, 'WIEEIS BADLY BEATEN {Punched ! Around by Hair by | Angry Husband Because she |coal from the cellar, Mrs. |siven a severe beating by her hus- | Land yesterday, according to her story in police court today, which was not denied by Wabnig. Crying | {and sobbing, she showed Judge M. |D. Saxe a discoloration under her | eye, and told of being dragged about | | the house by the hair when her hus- | band, in a fit of anger, flew at her| as he has done many other times. A | | small daughter of the couple sat in | the courtroom and wept at sight of | | her mother's tears, Wabnig, who is 31 years of age, | pleaded guilty to the charge of as- | sault, admitting that he slapped his' | wife's face and punched her in the ve because she “nagged” him after {he had warned her repeatedly that [he could not tolerate a wife's scold- | {ing. She complained that the fires! in the house were not burning and | he told her she or their duughtor‘ I should have brought up at les |4 hod of coal instead of wai !'him to attend to it on his rn(urn‘ from work in a local tactory. She “talked back” and he beat her. “She ! Leing nagged,” he said. | (Continued on Page 13.) 'HABEAS CORPUS WRIT ' GRANTED T0 STEWART Court Orders That Reason | Be Shown Why He Is Held in Custody | Washington, Feb. 8 (P-—-A writ of abeas corpus was granted today to | L Robert W ewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of In- diana, who is facing punishment by (the senate for failure to answer | questions of the ol committee The writ rdered that Stewart, who is held in custody by a senate | sergeant-at-arms, be produced forth- with by the court on the grounds that he was being held illegall i Rtewart was releascd on the writ of habeas corpus grantcd by Justice ! Bafley. in the supreme court of the District of Columbia. {under lease to England for a period of 99 years, On the island are gar- risoned 10,000 English, Scotch and East Indian soldiers for the protec- tion of the lease, Because of the proximity of the peninsula, Kowloon, to the city of Kong Kong, protec- (Continued on Page 13.) and Dnggedw CITY GETS $750 CASH BOND It will be unnecessary for the city to go into court to collect the $750 {bond posted for the appearance of [mitted and that he knew it | |Charles Grabowski of street in police cour !J. Danberg of the city would not bring up |courts has received the cash from Joseph |the bondsman. | Wabnig, of 111 Columbia atrect, was ski is said to be out of the city 54 Concord as Clerk E and police Grabow- and Meanwhile, the charge of transporting liquor mains unsatistied, ECTICUT, SATURDAY, mission flelds of | Parochial HICKMAN PLANNED NOW SEEKING BODY -~ SCENE IN COURT ON SUMMER ESTATE ‘Prosecutor Has Letter Revealing Smith Girl Thought Seen m Sltyers Imenuon DETAILS ARE DISCLOSED POND IS BEING SEARCHED Stissive, Alleged Written to Another ndianapolis Submarine Light Fx- mate in Jail. Tells of Plan to. Pert Transfers His Investigations Stage Laughing, Screamiing, Div-| From Smith College Campus Pond to Family Residence Grounds, Northampton, Mass., Feb. 4 (@ — An underwater search for the body kman with which he has serib- | 0f Frances St. John Smith, who dis mm his numerous confessions and | appeared from Smith college Janu- dashed off mental tests for alienists Ary 13, was temporarily transferred today provided the prosecution with |today from Paradise Pond on the a new weapon in its attempt to rip ) college campus here, to the Smith {the foundation from under the slay- | family summer home, ‘The Ledge er's insanity defense. | at South Amherst. The latest work of the nrl&oners) Will Light Up Depths 1‘~m;‘1 a suvboa(‘?l) secret letter 10| There Gilbert C. Wels, Indianapolis mn; er county jall prisoner, was In- | submarine light expert, planned to |troduced yesterday in the =~ state's| bring his apparatus into play to scan crops cxamination of the defense's|the depths of a small pool on the “:”"Xl;;‘s"(fi‘l:‘:—l’r A. B, Bkoog Df'ramny estate. Miss Smith was re- 1t Qlscloed Fickmante btantion | EESL], SRSl MG Boinity et hep o laughing. sereaming, div. | PATERt’S home at Amberst shortly : + IV-Tarter her disappearance here, but ing act” in the courtroom, B(’rhslpfl |the report was never verified. ::L Weis, who boasts that he has re- covered 30 bodies of drowned per- { sons out of a total of 31 cuses where his services had been enlisted, worked his underwater searchlight | for hours last night and well into the morning but without result., Partly Explored One side fo Paradise Pond from the college boathouse to the dam, a | distance of 150 yards, was explored land then the party went up stream in Mill river which flows into the {pond to a favorite swimming hole called “The Button Ball. At that point a big pine tree has Act in Courtroom. Los Angeles, Feb. 4 (#) — The A(t\u. pencil of William Edward father of little Marian Parker, slayer's school girl victim. | “All these depositions aren't {enough to prove me insane,” said the letter, written after the present san- ity trial was well under way, “I've got to throw a fit in court and I in- {tend to throw a laughing, scream- ng act before the prosecution | finishes their case—maybe in front Would Bewilder Jury “Then, to bewilder the jury, for2 the case is ended, I'll get and ask the judge if I can some- thing without my attorney butting' in, Then I'll get up and give all that iff about me wanting to do good living. x X X x ““For God's sake tear this thing | ypich 22 depth of 20 foot !up, because it would ruin me if it| i : i o | radius of 30. [BeouE lened “william |, Later today the searchers will re- | masiara wibknes cin e ',l-(‘; turn to Paradises Pond from which jSman, i | Smith college employes will have Weita iesty vEs (Hu e attadneg aa S S8 GER SORENOR TEE SRS a postscripts “You know and 1\ know that I'm not insane, however.” | V&% Confronted by that letter, UL‘ Skoog, who had declared Hickman |$¢$PB V. Daley ‘““da‘f"f“r LHDmAs J. insane, conceded that the letter ‘ammond, legul adviser here to the might be either sane or msnm‘.‘:‘;‘:':‘:.:f));:: ‘r‘nl:.:H‘!: -L;::]‘p;::‘r:f» believed it would be found close to the surface and probably directly be- up |dents and others and the water is | comparatively deep. Weis surveyed has a ed and rebuttal. | The prosecution’s first witness, a | Under the ice. handwriting expert, took the stand _ Works Through lce he lotter, Hickman's| Weis did his work last night | coundel {ntéPrupted with the declar- ! through holes one yard square ation thit the defense was ready to | Whish had been cut in the fce. The stipulate that the letter had been | submersible submarine light written by Hickman to Dale Bud- own invention. The apparatus con- long, a fellow inmate of the jails |Sists of three sections of nickel- The state's witness, Dr. Cecil Rey- plated tubing bolted together and nolds, then testified as the first of With a large bell shaped projector seven alienists contradicting the 'at the bottom. In this projector are opinion of defcnse experts that Hick- | four lights, five lenses and seven re- man was unaware of wrong doing | flectors. The light thrown on the when he Killed Marian Parger. bottom comes from two storage bat- Hickman's dominant characteris- | teries and is of 3,600 candlepower. tic is callousness, testified Dr. Rey- | —_— nolds. “And callousness long has | (Continued on Page 16) been recognized as a hall mark’ n(( e {the criminal. | TWO KILLED BY G. “He presents no signs of insanity | Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb, 4 from tho medical standpoint and | Frederick Winters, 50, teven less from a medical-legal | Marion, 48, were found dead in bed standpoint. It is abundantly clear |at their home today, the victims of that he knew the nature and quality | gas fumes. of his act at the time it was com- | * AN g = * |wrong and was in no sense di: THE WEATHER ) {oriented.” | ‘ The fact that Hickman possessed | | | a “sardonic sense of humor,” was | Cloudy, followed by rain to- | | cited by Dr. Reynolds as proof that | night or Sunday. Colder Sun- l | * the prosecution began its| (UP)~— New Britain and vicinity: he was not suffering from dementia | | day. Fresh to strong south- - | west winds. (Continued on Page 16) been a favorite rendezvous for stu- ! it thoroughly through his apparatus’ The latter told State Detective Jo- | is his! and his wife | FEBRUARY 4, 1928 —EIGHTEEN PAGES CHAMBERLIN =z JRITAIN HERALD PRICE THREE CENTS AND WILLIAMS ESGAPE INJURY BUT PLANE IS WRECKED IN S et e Digpera - CRACH WHILE TRYING FOR REB"RD Lindbergh Plans to Observe His ‘Two Fliers Were At- 26th Blrthdav With Long Flight temc:mhnl Take-off at Today’s Hop Takes Him From San Juan, Porto Rico, to Santo Domingo, 250 Miles Away. §p— hopped Dominican (9:57 a. m. Sun Juan, Porto Rico, Col, Charles A. Lindbergh off for Santo Domingo, Republic, at 10:57 a. m. eastern standard time). The distance to Santo is 250 miles, Domingo Porto Rico, Feb. 4 (® Lindbergh in his twenty-sixth birthday today had before him a flight of miles in the Spirit of St. Louis which carried him to Paris and world fame in his twen vear. The mechanical half of *W has had an existence of about a year, of which 449 hours have been in the air., At the journey’s end la Domingo, where the white discovered that for which they | ventured westward across an charted sea—gold Welcome Is Ready Across the Mona passage the capi tal of the Dominican republic w: ready to welcome the Lone Eagle. A new adventurer, an amba good will, was coming to a people whose ancestors had seen Balboa leave for the discovery of the Pa- cifie, Contez sail for Cuba and | the conquest of Mexico and many another conqueror who made his | reputation by the sword, enter and | leave port. Before he d Lindbergh was San Juan, Colonel Charles A celebration of Santo men first haed un- set parted from San Juan trusted with a message from the people of Porto Rico to the people of the United States,” making a plea for freedom. The Porto Rican legislature gave it to Lindbergh at a spccial session when they bestowed upon him a medal of honor. The amba dor of thanked the legislature for its cor- dial welcome, but made no yeferen to the mess: He addressed them stead on commercial av ing that it was easy to link the land of Porto Rico with the United States by air a was not far off. The first part of the legislature’s message was in tribute to the ex- ploits of th flyer and said he was truly a messenger of progress and good will of the American continent good w HI ge. 1to the old world, answering the mes. | sage of Columbus who ofce set foot upon the soil of Porto Rico. “The message of Porto Rico' it continued, “to your people is—Grant us the freedom that you enjoy, for which you struggled, which you wor ship, which we deserve and whict {you promised us. We ask a right te 'a place in the sun of this land of ours, brightened by the stars of yonr glorious flag. Is Given Present At a dinner given by the !of commerce. Lindb chamber &h received a | | (Continued on Page Three) THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS . . . : by Knight r + New Vo'V (w‘ s BOBBY-wHaT \ wilk YOu BE WHER YOU GROW {upToceA / 2Giowe. AM/" ASWORYT 7 NEWWGTOA cemsrmu H WHEW 10 MAIN Bre i NEW BTUITAN WAS (TS ElGuTd A:l‘NuAI. ATO i Dhihwi 3¢ CLIFF g ——> ador Of | d that such an event, , Va., in an HUTUALINSURANCE. Eedemvr” v Bt FOR SCHOOLS 0., Contimuous Flight Mark. Kirkham Says Education Board Now His Autboity Runway Believed Too Short for Heavily Load- UPHOLDS ~ DAY'S POLICY ed Craft—Transatlantic Aviator at Controls at Cites Court " Time, Counsel Against Expresses Belief School Commit- Corporation Opinions Projects But Richmond, Va., I 4 third attempt o1 berlin and Roger . #—The ce D. Cham- Williams to set a world's record for continuous flight failed today when their plane fell 40 feet immediately after it had taken off at Byrd field. Nelther of the | the plane was badly damaged. Fall 40 Feet Their Martin-Bellanc lclimbed the 40 feet affer Ithe end of the runway and suddenly swerved to the right and dropped. The right wing crashed to the ground and the heavily laden ma- chine rolled about 200 yards into a |ditch in the roughest part of the tee Has Necessary Power. i Clare According 1o a decision of Cor- poration Counsel John H. Kirkham filed today the school board's finance committee which had been acting on | {a proposition sponsored by Commit- teeman William H. Day relative to| insurance with a mutual company was acting legally. This opinion re- fates the statement made recently | by a committes of underwriters that | [the action was contrary to law. | | Judge Kirkham has found that there were several supreme court decisions which made insurance with | !a mutual company illegal, but there were more decisions which made the procedure legal and he has voiced his opinion that the school board will be acting legally If it decided | fliers was hurt but plane had rising at Officlals expressed the belief that {ihs reah iminn 3ucite o sl | ; 5 | | (C "Il‘_‘f““d on Page 13.) ing too short for the plane, which |carried 460 gallons of gasoline. Chamberlin at Coutrols Chamberlin was at the controls when the big monoplane shot down the planked runway at 7 o'clock. It BRANF“R" I“sm“;’r!nmered speed rapidly and cleared {the ground just before reaching the { Al end of the runway, the tail skid (Continued on Page 13) e A, 5 Reaches High Position’ After 21 Years of Application Announcement was made today by | oficials of the Connecticut Light | and Power Co., that John P. Hannon | of 143 Maple street, assistant man-| Party of Nine, With Guns, of the New Britain district ® 5 has been promoted to manager of | to Track Down the Branford district. The promo- tion takes cffect Monday. Mr. Han-| Animal non's successor has not yet been| announced. ] Mr, Hannon's rise in the employ | of the corporation is one of !hP stories of men who have achleved (Speclal to the Herald) Bristol, Feb. 4 — This city, which | has become noted during the last |two years for its wildcat and bear hunts by George H. Quinion, Harlan B. Norton and Councilman Homer H. Judd, is again in the limelight through the decision of a number of | residents to hold a wild bull hunt to- morrow. The pursuit will be staged on the farm of 8. B. Newell on Bur- lington avenue, Nine men, under the direction of {Charles White, Newell's son-in-law, will trek through the woods and brush on the farm in an effort to capture the bull. which has been roaming at will for the pust year and {which has becomu wild. % White appeared at police head- quarters today and applied for a | permit for huntsmen to carry arms {and ammunition. An effort will be made to capture the bull without harming the animal, but if it charg: lon the party guns will be used in self defense. The animal was year ago and since then has forgot Iten the etiquette und manners ef civilization. 1t is said to be as wild as it it never had a home. Several successful stages in their profession | efforts to capture it have been made, |by their own industry and tflorts.:hut without success. RESIDENCE 15 BOMBED bility which now is recognized of- cially, by cducating himself in night school while working days. Ohio City Executive Slight- ly Injured by Flying Glass turned loose & JOHN P. HANNON e e of New Britain, he left |schoot upon his graduation from | Junior High &chool and entered the | «mploy of the Connecticut Light and Power Co. 'S ago a meter ler. He started in this capacity in | During this | W Britain in 1907 period he rose to the position of fore- man of the meter department, which he held for four of the seven year he was Jocated here. In 1914 he was | transferred to Norwalk in the same capacity While in Norwalk he took a night course in industrial lectriclty and industrial physics at Pratt Institute what police termed an attempt to in Brooklyn, traveling from Nor- assassinate him. The mayor was walk to Brooklyn three nights a ' slightly injured by flying glass. The week. He graduated in these | explosion rocked houses in the courses within two years and in 191% ' neighborhood and broke a window was transferred to Waterbury in | half a mile away. charge of the general test depart-| Two suspects wore ment. In 1921 he returned .to New Mayor Gordon recently recetved ritain as a cadet engineer. Later 5 pumber of threatening lotters. lowing the resignation of E. B. Put. |2 the bombers attempted to de- he served as acting manager SToY the house by firc ax well a8 until the arrival of B. H. Mc- | ¥ith a large bomb. The mayor rec plone call just a few moments before the blast. He also received calls after the blast and was usked by the callers: “How do you like 1t 4 P —The Roy Gordon Youngstown, O., ¥ residence of Mayor |of Campbell, a suburb of Youngs- town, was bombed early today im arrested. change in position n S8i- Tates his resignation as secretary of |the Kiwanis club, which now is in (hx hands of President E. W. Pape. | \ months ago Mr. Hannon was | {marricd to Hazel H. Harris of this Gordon is serving his sccond-terim |eitv. - Mr. and Mrs. Hannon will as mayor. He won last Novembee tiove 1o Braniord in the near future. after @ bitter mayoralty contests