New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1928, Page 1

R News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 SOUTH CHURCH FIRE L0SS | IS ESTIMATED AT $150,000; 5w MAMMOTH ORGAN IN RUINS Interior of Structure Swept by Flames, Call- | ing Out All Firemen| on General Alarm Sweepings i‘alling Down | Register Onto Furnace Pipe Thought to llavex Caused Blaze. Two men were fnjured and dam- | TWO ARE SLAIN IN ATTEMPT OF CRAZY age estimated at approximnately $150,000 was done when an earty morning fire yesterday destroyed the Philip Corbin memorial organ and gutted the main auditorium of the South Congregational church. The fire was caused by sweepings on an overheated furnace pipe under- neath the organ according to offi- cials of the fire department. The blaze was discovered shortly after 7 o'clock by William E. Chap- | man, superintendent of the building, and a resident of Arch street whose name was not ascertained. been smoldering for some time and | blew up through the organ loft with a roar which resembled an explo- sion, sending a cloud of black smoke through the roof. An alarm was turned in from box 7 in front of the church which called out En- gine companies 1, 3 and 6 and truck companies 1 and 2. Fire Chief ‘William J. Noble and Deputy Chiefs Kugene F. Barnes and Michael T. Bouney responded with the first alarm. . Chief Souney, who arrived first, immediately ordered a general alarm calling out engine companies 4 and 7, and ordering Engine Co. No. 6 the only other company, into headquarters to cover the business section of the city. The first alarm ‘was sent in at 7:15 o'clock and was followed by general alarm at 7:17. Flames Flare Up Suddenly Prior to the burst of flame through the organ, there was no sign of a fire according to Mr. Chapman. TP latter had beel; RiQg 7 the church from o'clock pr{wlrln ffr mf ‘mory service. He had just gone through the auditorfum and was returning |today. through the hallway when he heard the roar. Rushing to the front of the building he found the structure filled with smoke. The organ loft which was four stories high, starting from a motor l It had | Presidential Possibility Lost; Born in Ireland Brooklyn, Feb. 13 (UP)— James Finley, 48, arrested for the eighth time for intoxication, pleaded for another chance, Magistrate Rayfiel thought it o “Well,” he said, coln's birthday. drink again you, llke Lincoln, may become president of the United States." said Finle) “Don’t be modeat,” admonished the court, “It isn’t modesty, your honor,” Finley returned. *I was born in Ireland.” Sentence was suspended. “this is Lin- If you never * INWATES 70 FLEE 'Pive Patiens at Mass. State Hospital for Insane at Bridge- water Attack Attendanfs FINALLY FRUSTRATED AFTER PIERCE FIGHT | Two Other Attendants Injured in Attempted Break Which Occurred Early This Morning—One of As- sallants Had Been Inmate at Hos- pital For Score of Years—One Victim Strangled. : Bridgeport, Mass., Feb, 13 (P)—A | night supervisor and a night watch- man were clubb: anfl strangled to eath ;when {live bt .t ot tal Tor the fnsane here made & break for liberty early | Two other night watchmen {were injured. . The dead are Wilfred Gerrior, night watchman and George E. Am- law, night supervisor. Gerrior was 44 years old and resided in Middle- boro. He is survived by a widow s mager ot STEWART FIGHTIN W BRITAIN G 16TH OPERATION ON HOOVER CONES 0UT T0 REMAIN SILENT WORLD WAR MARINE| AS A CANDIDATE (Ol Man's Lawyer Files Lengthy. Joseoh Feingold of This City Secretary of Commercs Allows Goes to Brooklyn Hospital Brigl Delending Stand | TTERED IN DRIVE room in the basement and ending in (ang four children. He had been 'WANTS WRIT PERMANENT HIP SHA HERAL . —— ~NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1928 —SIXTEEN PAGES Ruins of Magnificent O rgan at South Church SABLOTSKY T0 ASK COUNCIL INOUIRY OF PUBLIC WORKS Resolntion to Be Presented Asfi Result of Dismissal of Street ! Dept. Superintendent DIRECTS MAYOR T0 NAME | COMMITTEE FOR HEARINGS Would Investigate “Methods of Em- ploying Help, and Teams and Disposing of New Engaging Trucks and Old Material”—Officials to be Required to Attend and Give De- sired Information. A probe of reported abuses in the | department of public works will be requested by Councilman Samuel Sablotsky at Wednesday's meeting of the common and the councilman will ask that Thomas F. | Kearney, who was dismissed a: street supcrintendent, be requested | council, ~—Photo by Johnson & Peterson Name in Ohio Primaries _ ;AGGEDES T0 HIS FRIENDS Man, Hammer, Thumb! Police, Court, $2 Fine Manchester, Conn., Feb. 13 (P —Alonzo Foreman had an oppor- tuity to pick up a little extra money by lathing a house but un- fortunately for Alonzo, his temper spoiled the job and cost him $2 as well. He had just about started to work when he struck his finger with the hammer. He made the usual remarks concerning ham- mers and things in general and some one living near the house notified the police, Foreman was accordingly charged with working on Sunday and with making loud and needless noise and today was tined in town court. DEFINITE BRIBERY CHARGES ARE TOLD Prosecution Tells Jury of Claims in Jackson Case $10,000 SUM MENTIONED State Says that Indiana Governor Personally Offcred Former Gover- nor McCray $10,000 for Political Patronage. Indianapolis, Feb. 13 (®—The jury in the trial of Governor E. Jackson was told here today by the prosecu- tion in its opening statement that it would prove that the defcndant per- sonally offered to put $10,000 in Governor Warren T. McCray's desk in December, 1923, if McCray would name James E. McDonald as Marion county prosecutor. Emsley W. Johnson, special assist- ant prosecutor, in outlining the state’s case, told of the alleged ef- forts to get McCray to accept money in return for McDonald's appoint- ment and of failure to bring it about. He sald the prosecution Week Enading Feb, 11th ... 14,968 PRICE THREE CENTS NO WORD RECEIVED OF LINDBERGH'S - WHEREABOUTS; LEFT GUBA AT 2:26 0'CLOCK THIS MORNING FOR ST. LOUIS Flying Through Rain, Fog and Winds, Lone | Eagle Has Not Been | Visible From Ground | Since Leaving Havana. | Aviators, Somewhat Wor- | ried, Believe Him Above | Clouds—Raar of a Plane | Heard in Florida and | Alabama, By the Ao 4 Flying through fog and rain along his route from Havana to St. Louix Col. Charles A. Lindk was in” {visible to watchers from the groun jafter ho left the Cuban cupital 2:26 o'clock this morning. Up to 2:45 o'clock this afternoo eastern standard time, no definite (word of his sighting had com: through. The opinion prevailed in aviation circles that he was fi |very high to avoid the fog and and that the first news of him would |come with his arrival at St. Louis, which was scheduled for 2 o'clock. | central time. Sarasota, Florids, reported that {an airplane had been heard over the town, flythg northward, at 6:50 a. m., and some observers thought it might have been the flying colonel. Starts For Home Lindbergh took off from Havana today for St. Louis on the last long leg of his good will tour afnong the | southern republics. At 10:25 eastern standard time | this morning, elght hours after his { takeoff, he should have been ovedr Jackson, Mississippi, it he followed ! the Florida coast line, or about half ;way between Jackson and Little { Rock, Ark,, if he changed his plans land flew straight across the gulf {trom Key West to New Orleans, La. | Thie is tiguring on a speed of ap- proximately 100 miles an“hour. All coastal towns reported fog and |low visibility and fliers saw in this Ithe reason for Lindbergh's progress ut would prove that Jackson, who was 1Ot being visible from the ground. then ‘secretary of state, visited Gov. They agreed that to cacape the fog crnor McCray in the executive office |1 Would unquestionably have flown d declared in substance: Words to Governor “Governor, you must do what we {much higher ghan is his custom and | suggested that if from the height he |attained he saw that the fog was & blind attic under the roof, im- mediately became a furnace-like mass of flames, which swept through the entire structure, crossed the pul- pit in front, doing considerable damage to the pulpit furniture and burning several of the pews. Wooden organ pipes, kiln dried before they (Continued on Page 3.) EARL OF OXFORD SAID T0 BE GRAVELY IHL Husband of Margot As-| quith and War Premier ‘Has Acute Pharyngitis London, Feb. 13 M—The Earl of Oxford and Asquith who is gravely 11l at his home at Sutton Curtney, was unconscious this afternoon and his family has been summoned. London, Feb, 13 (® — The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, former lib- eral leader and British premier in the early days of the war, is very fll. A medical bulletin issued today said that the earl, who took to his bed last week, had developed an acute attack of pharyngitis and that today there were signs of ‘bronchitis. ‘The earl, who is the husband ot Margot Asquith, is 756 years old. Herbert Henry Asquith, who was born in Yorkshire in 1852, has long | been one of the most prominent figures in British political life, be»l ing a member of the cabinet as far back as 1892, chancellor of the exchequer, 1905 to 1908, prime min- ister and first lord of the treasury from 1908 to 1916 and secretary of state for war during the first two years of the world war. He was succeeded as premier by David Liloyd George at the head of a coa- lition government in 1916. The earl, with Lioyd George, was one of the lenders of the liberal party for many years, but in re- cent years had given up his leader- ship because of poor health. Heand Lloyd George also differed sharply on the policies to be followed by the liberal party. The Countess of Oxford is the former Margot Tennant who widely known as the writer of an autoblography. Senate Judiciary Puts 0. K. On Burrows’ Name Washingt®h, Feb. 13 (UP)—The senate judiciary committee today approved the nomination of Warren B. Burrows to be U. K. district attor- ney in the newly created district of Connecticut, and Charles J. Riley of Mimsouri to be U. &, district attorney 8 the Canal Zone. {employed at the state farm for eight {vears, Amlaw, who was 61, resided |at the farm where he had been em- | ployed for 20 years. | The injured are John C. Harring- {ton and Michael T. Mullen, both Inight watchmen, who were beaten {up and bound with towels by the in- \sane men when they encountered them in a corridor. Thelr injuries |are not serious, however. No Eye-Witnesses Handicapped by the absence of | eye-witnesses and by the reluctance jor the inability of the inmates con- |cerned to give a coherent story of what occurred, officials of the hos- pital were obliged to resort largely |to conjecture in order to plece to- |gether the story of what had hap- | pened. As far as can be ascertained, the attempteg flight was begun between !2 and 2:30 o'clock this morning. |cording to Buperintendent Henry A. |Strann, an inmate, James Melton |dor. He was armed with a club im- | provised from the leg of a heavy joak bed. Melton is believed first to {have encountered Garrior, to have beaten him on the head with the |Contends Senate is Without Power Veteran of Service in Bell ‘Wood to Arrest Him for Refusing | With “Devil Dogs” Has Never | Answer Questions by Ol Commit-| Fully Recovered From Injurics Sustained in Service, tee Members, | | ‘Washington, I'eb. 13 (®—Counsel | for Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Oil company of Indiana today submitted to the District of Columbia supreme court, a T4 page 1918 in the flerce fighting in Belleau Wood, while a member of the 8ixth U. 8. Marines of the Second Division, has forced Joseph Feingold of 38 A shattered hip recelved in June| | Pledged to “Carry Forward the Prin- | { ciples of the Rcpublican Party” | | and Objectives of | Policles, ‘Washington, Feb. 13 (#)—Herbert Coolidge’s Hoover is out in the open as a can- | didate for president, pledged to “carry forward the principles of the republican party ‘and the great ob- COUNCILMAN SABLOTSKY. to attend the hearings it they are | Iheld, to prove or retract allegations | made by him in a published state- | {ment. Councilman Sablotsky will intro- duce a resolution asking that Mayor Weld appoint a committee of the council to conduct the investigation tell you. You cannot afford to deny | NUSEINS the coast he might well us. We are powerful in Indiana.| Step out in another room. I'll put | 410,000 in a drawer in your desk | and when you come back you will | find $10,000 and never know where | it came from." The jury was obtained at mid- | been under way since last Wednes: l ay. Recess until 2 o'clock was | aken following the etatc's opening | __ cment, Clyde H. Jones, of de-,“omgn and Child Die fense counsel, planned to take an| (Continued on Page 13.) ucceeded in climbing through the ! ransom of his room into a corri- | brief in support of Stewart's effort to make permanent a writ of habeas corpus freeing him from arrest by the senate for refusing to answer questions asked by the oil commit- tee. Brief Is Submitted | The brief, submitted by Jesse At- kins a Washington attorneys, con- |tended the senate is without power |8ometime between those hours, ac- ito arrest Stewart when he was at i {that time before a senate committec | and under subpoena. Atkins argued that the power of the scnate was no greater than that of a court and |contended that in court if retusal to |answer was ill founded the only al- {lowable procedure was to order the | witness to answer the questions and then punish him if he refused. 1cluh and then to have strangled him | with a piece of cord. Then, it is |thought he lay in wait for Amlaw, | who in the course of his duty would |pass through the corridor for |round of the ward. He evidently took Amlaw by surprise and dis- posed of him in the same manner. Take Keys Melton then seized Amlaw's ke: land released four other inmates. They were Peter Snow, Warren Hegan, Charles A. Miles and John Williams, the last named a negro. The five men began making their | way through the maze of corridors to the front of the building. It was necessary in the course of the jour- ney to choose the keys to many un- familiar locks. While engaged in finding their way to the front of the | building the inmates encountered the watchmen, Harrington and Mul- len, and bound them hand and foot | with towels they had taken from a |1avatory. They locked the watchmen |in the lavatory and threatened to | kil them if they made an outcry. Finally they reached the door of an office in the front of the build- ing which was the only obstaclé’ be- tween them and liberty. As they fumbled with the keys to find one which would fit the lock they were seen by another watchman, Edward Brought. | Brough made no attempt to inter- {cept the men but dashed to the nearest telephone from which he sounded an alarm in the main guard froom, calling ten guards to the scene. i Approach Men in Rear When the inmates heard the ap- proach of the guards through the office, they inserted a key in the lock which prevented the guards from unlocking the door from the (Continucd on Page 11) 'DRIVER NAPS AT WHEEL, AU OBS INTO DITCH Horace Lovell, Wife and Daughter Injured When Machine Over- Turns in Plainville | (Special to the Werald) Plainville, Feb. 13—Extreme fa- | tigue overcame Horace Lovell ' of | Westwood park, Plainville, as he was | riving along the Farmington-Plain- | ville highway about 3 o'clock yester- | day morning and as he fell asleep | |at the wheel his automobile left the | Iroad and turned over in the ditch | near the Farmington Coffee house. Lovell was taken to the New Brit- ain General hospital, where it was | found that his skull was fractured. | He also received a bad scalp wound | His daughter, Jane, 12, was cut o {the head, while Mrs. Lovell, the third occupants of the machine, es- caped injury. | The three were imprisoned in the |overturned automobile and had to be pulled out from the bent frame- |work and shattered glass. They | were attended by Dr. George F. Cook of this town and then Mr. Lovell was taken to the hospital. | Mrs. band had been up late the night be- |fore. On Saturday night they went to East Hartford, from where they were returning when the accident occurred. | Mr. Lovells condition today was |said to be “fair* He is employed |by the Fuller Brush Co. of Hari- ford. Lovell stated that her hus-| [} Brooklawn strect, & native of this city, to enter a government hospital to undergo his 18th operation. This time, will be in the Brooklyn Naval hos- | Ieingold, son of Mrs. Bessic Fein- | old of Lafayette strect, was in the famous brigade that stopped the mighty advance of the German arm- ies on Paris in the spring of 1918, | The marines met the drive on the Pa Metz road just a few miles south of Chateau-Thierry. Not only was the drive stopped, but the ma rines immediately launched coun | attacke 1o recover lost ground anad | straighten out lines, | The two towns of Torcy and Bouresches were the objectives if b ines when they entered Bel- l1ean Wood now callcd the Bois de la Brigade des Marines in their hon- or and it was during the savage | fighting in the dense copses there that the local mon received the wound that was all but mortal. He was taken safely out of the | (Continued on Page 13) 'KNIGHTS OF BOLESLAUS TAKE FIGHT TO COURT Societies at Odds On Legal Use of ame Martiord, Feb. 13 U#—Represen- tative of two socicties in New Bri | ain, each claiming the name o! | Knights of Boleslaus the Great, | came to Hartford today to have Judge L. P. Waldo Marvin of the | superior court hear an application for a temporary injunction to re- ing the pame, collecting funds or in- | terfering with the bank account in | the People’s S8avings Bank of New Britain, out the hearing was post- poncd until ‘ch for a final hearing and determination to which group saall have the and the funds. A society of the name wae organ- ized a number of years ago in the sacred Heart of Jeseus church in (Continued on Luge id) the local World War veteran ' strain one of the societies from us- jectives of ~ President Coolidge’s policies.” Accedes to Friends Acceding to the wishes of a grow- ing group of supporters, the com- merce secretary has authorized them |to enter his name as a candidate in the forthcoming Ohio primaries. He thus begins his campajgn fully aware that it means a fight with the forces of Senator Willis of Ohio, an- other announced candidate, whose friends are determined to give him his home state’s 51 delegates to the Kansas City convention. The scnator, who recently ac- cepted the challenge of Hoover's foreshadowed candidacy with the statement that it would be no “powder-pufi” fight, said last night that he was ready for the contest and “perfectly confident of the re- sult.” Hoover announced himself in a letter to Thad H. Brown, chairman | of the Ohio Hoover for president | committee, who conferred here Sat- urday with the cabinet member. | “I Do So” | “I have received, through you and | others,” Hoover's letter said, ‘“re- quests from very many republicans of Ohio that T permit my name to be entered in the presidential primaries | of that ‘state. I do so.” | The secretary will retain his cab- |inet post and he indicated that he will not be able to make a personal |campaign before the primaries. | “My conviction that 1 should not | strive for the nomination.” he said, | “and my obligations as secretary of |lengthy Investigation it was found | commerce preclude me from making |that such was the case, but it was |any personal campaign. I must rely | claimed that the work amounted to | wholly upon my friends in Ohfo to about $12. Sablotsky was not s |conduct 1t and to conduct it in a falf feq with the outcome and he manner and with steadfast regard clared today the statement made by 'for republican success in the state Kearney would seem to substantiate and the nation. It is my special de- iy claim that the work donc with- sire that expenditure of money shall {5yt council authorization was much be strictly limited and rigidly ac- |0 Co e | [ocnntsier L o | Sablotsky's Resolution i Macayat | The resolution Sabiotsky proposed Senator Willls followed the Hoover | T "e80 AR s statement with one of his own de- |12 have imtroduced ir | claring he was personally in no fear | 715 15 IOV iyt o] Ipoint a_ committee to inquire into | /the methods of emplosing help, eg- | |gaging trucks and teams, disposing | of new and old materials and goods. | in the department of pubiic works that the eommittee he given access | to the books, papers and records in all branches of the department: and that it be the sense of the council changing to rain; rising tem- |that city officials and employes who perature. {arc asked to attend the hearings | of this committee, are expected to * du s0.” and that the committec be given ac- cess to the books and records of the ! department. He incorporated in his resolution a paragraph setting forth that it is the wish of the | councit that such of the officials and employes as are summonecd to the hearings, attend when called. This will be done, he expluins, to avoid attempt on the part of persons con- cerned to ignore the investigation and refuse to attend. i Kearney Refused Hearing Sablotsky's move is predicated up- on happenings following the dis charge of Kearncy. The deposed street superintendent has asked | bas been refused a hearing to sub- stantlate claimes that ma taken from South Main street used in the construction of driv la ation operated by Reginald J. chairman of the Loard. Kearney has also charged that a city truck was allowed to etand dle and a truck owned by J. Willie Mills was engaged, need- lessly adding to the payroll of the department. It is also charged in the | Kearney statement that wood hlocks were taken from the city storeyard to “Towers brickyard. This is the sccond tuted by Councilman during this fiscal at the public wo; had previously city did unauthor at the Towers filling station. After { probe insti- Sablotsky year, both aimed cs department. He claimed that the 1 paving work the (Continued On Page Five) ”“*T | THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Increasing clondiness tonight ;. Tuesday smow, probably | R jior hour for his statement to the jury ter which D. C. Stephenson, for- mer grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and now a life convict, was ready for call as the prosecution's first witness. Fear of Jackson's power, along with that of George V. Coffin, Mar- ion county republican chairman and Ribert W. Lyons, Richmond attor- ney and former financial agent of the Ku Klux Klan and other inter- ested in McDonald’s appointment, kept MeCray's lips sealed during the vears that followed, Johnson de- clared. He said the state would prove that the scheme was connived in Jackson's office in the state house; that he put the matter to Governor McCray twice after Fred Robinson, then state purchasing 1gent, had been solicited Cray's friend to present the alleged proposition State Witness Johnson said state witnesses will show that Jackson told Governor McCray that ment as Marion county (Indianapo- lis) prosccutor meant ten thousand votes to the republican party. John- son added that the state would show | that Jackson rcpresented to McCray | that Coffin was a great political #enius and that Lyons was a power- ful officer in the Ku Klux Klan and that both were in position to help v, who at the time was facing of embezzlement. on then told of Stephenson’s appearance in the alleged conspira- cyv. He said Jackson informed Ste- phenson that the plan had failed and that the former Klan leader sought to bring about McDonald's \ppointmert. Stephenson sought an troduction to James Noel, Mec- ‘ray’s attorney, lawyer to put the matter before his ciient. Noel, according to Johnson, said he would tell him about it. Coffin and Robert 1. Marsh, an Indianapolis attorney, were indicted with Jackson but have been granted separate trials. New Britain Man Fined $50 in Hartford Court Hartford, Feb. 13 (UP)—Charles Bertrand, 57, of New Britain, was fined $50 in court here today, fol- lowing his arraignment on a charge of selling lottery tickets. Rertrand was arrested Saturday on a drunkenness charge. Lottery tickets in his possession led to inves. tigation of his alleged activities in this city. Police said that Bertrand had heen selling lottery tickets here the past two ontha as Mc- | McDonald's appoint- | and he asked the ! When Freight Hits ‘ Auto (Special to 1he Heraldy Bristol, Feb. 13—Two persons ar. |dead and four are in the Dristol | hospital as & result or an acciden at the grads crossing on | street, Forestville, at & when the automobile in | were riding was cither ! sideswiped by westhound cxtra 3211 Mrs. Charles | aged 25, of 43 Reilly str | ward, her two and one- | #on, who were in the rear seat of th: {sedan, were instantly kil Betty DPistey, aged 21, driver of the car Mrs. George Pistey, 60, all of Bridge- port, and Mrs. Frank Bossack, 55, of | Stamford, mother of the dead wo- ‘man, were all removed to the Bristol hoepital in O'Brien's ambulance. At the hospital this morning, it was stated by Mrs. Simpson, superinten- dent, that none were on the danger |list, although an X-ray was to Lo taken of a cut in Mrs. Bossack's scalp to determine whether or not there is a fracture. Miss Betty Pistey was | suftering mostly from shock, while | Charles Pistey had two teeth brok- !en off. The bodies of the two Vic- tims were removed to Bridgeport thia morning by George Pistey, | father-in-law of the dead woman, | who is an undertaker in that city. ' Officer Victor Chabot was the firat | person to reach the scene following | the accident. The car after being | struck by the freight, burst into | flames and the policeman turned in i@ box alarm, to which both Welch | Fire company and 8quad A respond- ed. The flames were promptly ex- tingnished and the work of remov- ing the dead and injured started immediately. It was necessary for fireman to cut a hole in the roof of the car so that the occupants could be extricated. Both Mrs. Plstey and | her young son were dead when re- |moved froin the debris. Rev. Father | Shelley, acting pastor of Bt. Mat- thew's church, was called and ad- ministered . the last rites of the Catholic church to the dead woman. | The real cause of the accident | could not be ascertained this morn- | ing. because of the upset condition of the driver of the automobile. En- gineer C. J. Fogarty, of East Hart- ! ford, who was driving the engine, ,in his report to the office of the | superintendent of the “New FHaven™ [ (Continued va Page A if year old