New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1928, Page 1

NaL ED $850,000,000 DEAL MAY BE SWUNG BY IMMIGRANT'S SON MAKING A HUGE INSTITUTION A. P. Giannini, Head of BRISTOL GRAND LIST ankofltaly, Now At 1S OVER 52 MILLION tempting to Merge New York Banks. official Total, Including All| Corrected Items, Given | Guiding Genius of Great Out as $52,224,556 Combine Was Dock ‘ Worker in San Francisco | Not Many Years Ago. | (8pecial to the Herald), Bristol, Feb, 25—Bristol's net grand list, following corrections and | | deductions made following the four | | meetings of the board of relief, to- |tals $52,224,556, these figures being York, Feb. 25 (UP) — A officially released this morning. The banker, the son of an Itallan im-|srand list, as completed originally R ficial long |bY the board of assessors was $52, BUEED A 5 425,284, Additions totaling $3.750 identified with the nation’s tmnu-‘“em B oiar non A bk AL portation system; a Ppoor MAN|iory exemptions for soldiers, sail- | raised to riches by the movies, and | 5 00 PO a young and little-known exccutive |gie I in the motor car industry figured in Wall strect reports today as the dominant pe involving almost New a railroad blind amounted to\ The actual reductions |made by the board of relief totaled | $14,525 and reductions made be- and errors @ billion and @ [ymounted to $35,809. half dollars. | Fifty-two property owners ap- Leading the procession was A. P.ipeared before the reliet board and Giannini, who emerged from finan-|of this number but eight had their clal obscurity to preside over the |)ists reduced as follows: Marion Cur-. | half-billion dollar Bane-ltaly —cor- |tigs house, $3,000; Daniel Garner, | poration. et ux, $500; Emma Lane, house, $1.- | Apparently only final agreement (00; Nellie J. O'Connell, house, 'l-} is awaited before announcement ‘3\174'10 O'Connell and Murphy, lot, $7,- made that a new bank has been 500: Vito and Adeline Redavid. | formed to rank next to the M-‘housc $1,000; Michael Penda, house, tional City and Chase Natlonal |§5,0; William Schilke, garage, $25; banks in point of resources. total, $14,525. | For weeks, perhaps months, Gi-| The following changes were made | annini has been negotiating With |hocause iof errors or duplications by | interests controlling the Manufac- |the assessors: turers Trust company and the|Fannie E. Allen, lot Tinanclal and Industrial Securities | Augusta Oswald, duplicate lot corporation. The large Bank of |Winifred Barnfield, lot s America is included in the deal. |Vernon Blaschke, duplicate When and if the merger is com-| list on auto pleted the new institution will have |Frank Bossi, house total resources of approximately | Edward Bruce, car sold $850,000,000, its formation will |Clinton G. Bunnell, car sold. come as a climax to the career of |I'red N. Burpee, auto . Giannini, who not so many years Robert Callahan, auto ugo was working on the docks of |Carl Carlson, no jewelry . San Francisco. Although Giannini ‘f‘unml Sea Food, off trade . is the directing genius of the pro- | Paul N. Cheney, house spective consolidation the new Mn C. Chid: car . head of the Bank of America prob- I. Kelth Creasey, car ably will be Edward C. Delafield. ‘hrlon_fl Curtls, automabile Another leading figure in merger | Ired W. Deweitt, car ... news and report is L. F. Loree, who | Edward T. Flanagan, car . long haa been striving to ereate a Dorcas M. Fletcher, duplicate fith eastern rnilroad trunk line | LSt OB €T ..o combining such roads as the W: Hfi*l:n Gm:tmfiut e bl I‘;a‘:;l;onlxhlgh and Delaware and petn T Ot e o A Peter Kadala, et ux, house .. ‘ 5 Walter A. Kallstrom, no car proposal was the action of W. I \yijjam A, Kimball, car listed Dickson, who controls 100,000 " B G shares of Wabash common stock. ' snno Costic, lots Dickson {saued 2 call for proxics t0 Suunley Leglensky he voted at a Miy meeting. He did | g not indicate whether he would 0p- Ggcar A. Larson, car .. pose & merger but said he wanted Dayvid Libby, car ... to be certain the minority was rep- Henry Moeller, no car . resented on the board of directors. Meyer Marks, off house | 200 250 500 | 500 | 56 the 907 s 1300 duplicate | 121 150 50 | 110 500 (Continued on Page 12.) (Continued on Page 13) Boy Looking Forward to Reumon WIth Father, Learns He is Dead | that ithe cunvas [the ithrough a similar piege discovered | 1ll"hzl ended. |ference he maintained NEW BRI'h.IN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, S. ATURDAY Hinkler, Missing Over 24 Hours, Appears Today Sydney, Australia, Feb. 25 @ —Bert Hinkler, who flew with clocklike regularity more than 11,000 miles from England to Fort Darwin, arrived at Camoo- weal, Queensland, today after be- ing missing for more than 24 hours. Hinkler started from Port Dar- win yesterday morning on a 900 mile flight to Cloncurry. En route he was forced down by a dust storm. He made a good landing at Camooweal and his machine was working well, Hinkler intends to continue his flight to Cloncurry early tomor- row. TINY THREAD ALL THAT SWAYS JURY Insignificant Bit of Evidence Convicts Doctor \WOMEN'S EYES ATTRACTED| Eight of Fair Sex Serving on Panel Noticed What to Many Might Have Been Insiguificant Bit of Evidence in Trial. 25 Los Angeles, Feb. 25 M — A {strand of yellow thread woven into two pleces of canvas in such a way it attracted the eye of eight women jurors, helped to convict Dr !Charles M. McMillan of the “sack murder” of his employer, M Amelia Appleby, wealthy widow. The jury yesterday found former guilty of first degree recommended life which is mandatory. The Yellow Thread The yellow found wrapped wenlthy widow's body, the murder and anl in the slain woman's automobile in her garage. 8ix of the eight women on the jury agreed that the yellow thread had been one of the strong- |est links in the chain of circum- stances upon which they convicted McMillan, “It was the same thread sewn in both pieces,” they said after the “It satisfled us that the woman was killed in her own home. and that Dr. McMillan did the killing.” “It didn't surprise me much,” the | convicted man stammered, in com- menting on the verdict. He was grave with the same stoical indif-| throughout his trial, in which he admitted forging the “Appleby will!’ the evidence of the doctor's murder ‘motive. Rody Found December 26 © Mrs. December 26, last, just off a road- way 20 miles from her Los Angeles home. A bruised forehead indicated to the state that she had been struck unconscious before being trussed up and roadside brush. The county autopsy surgeon testified the wealthy widow of a Chicago inventor had died of exposure. Although the convicted man was Colorado, Texas, physician | imprisonment. | thread ran through | about | which | bequeathed to him the entire estate | of his victim. The state declared the | {forged will w: Appleby’s body was found | dumped in the | At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Stanley Works | this afternoon at 2 o'clock a reso- lution will be adopted, according to Secretary Ernest W. Christ, author- izing the company to dispose of the branch factory at Bridgewater, doned several months ago-and the departments absorbed by the Amer- fcan Tube and Stamping Co. at Bridgeport, which is also owned by the Stanley Works. The adoption of the resolution will be a formality as | be no prospective purchaser. The financial statement company, prepared by of the Treasurer Mass. The plant was virtually aban- | a matter of record. There is said to | 7,‘P $4,113,862.03. Net year 1927 after deducting taxes amounted to $1,466,942.45. Dividends of $265.527 on the pre- ferred stock and $1,040,000 on the |common stock were paid during 19217, The financial statement follows: Assets {Cash, notes and accounts recelvable, including ac- counts recetvable from af- filiated plants .85, In: 8 loss ruer\u voss | Investments leas reserves .. . csf. 116.80 847 it (Continued on Page 12) AUSTRIA AND ITALY ON VERGE OF BREAK Italian Mi Be Recalled From Vienna Vienna, Austria, Feb. 25—®— | Giacinto Auriti, Italtan minister to Austria, 18 leaving for Rome tonight to confer with Premier Mussolini ! respecting Austria’s continued com- | plaint's regarding Italian treatment | of Germans in the Tyrol. | His departure already has given |rise to rumors of an impending break in relations between Italy and | Austria. The Tyrolese deputies here insist | Austria cannot recede from the firm i stand already taken by Chancellor Seipel relative to “Italian aggres- sion." | Rome, Feb, 25.—(R)—Although of- | ficial confirmation is lacking, Popolo Di Roma today says the recall of Ttalian Minister Auriti from Vienna | appears imminent.” | The paper is inclined to attribute 'the recent discussions in the | Austrian parliament protesting the | treatment of German residents in {the Tyrolese province annexed to Italy to Internal party politics. Chancellor Seipel of Austrfa, it - says, “knows perfectly well ‘he | natural Ttallan frontlers are in- violable, that mnobody can touch | them. No force throughout the eart can modify them and knows cqually well Ttaly's treatment of German speaking populations is as equable, | just and humane ae could be desir- | ed. There are only a few scoundr who strain themselves to keep ali fantastic irredentism. x x x But he knows another thing full well, the government of Mussolini will never { permit in any case disturbance of the peace and tranquillity of the | Italian people. x x x “Muesolini is a man to make him- self understood even by |say they don’t unde | IL Messaggero Is that Ttaly will not tolerate any “in- terference” with her internal poliey. The paper remarks that Chancellor | Seipel passes ae the restorer of Austria but reminds him restoration from the ruin menacing and Italian.” ter Likely to s that | 'BLAZING GAS STATION REVEALS HUMAN TORCH Neighbors Break in, Find Farmington Man in Flames | | When people in the neighborhood | "of the gasoline filling station of Thon E. Riley of larmington, broke into the station noon after they heard an e and saw the station on fire, |found Mr. Riley inside with clothes in flames. Although he w: hurried fo St. Francis' hospital, in | Hartford, he died this morning at 3:45 o'clock from the effects of the Imnm they P. Swanston, a plumber rington, hurried to the scene of ent with some of his help and when he arrived he foudd the doors and windows barred. Resi- {dents of Iarmington discount a sui- cide theory because in the community where such an act | could not be accounted for. He lived alone and there is no way of find- ing out definitely just what happen- ed. | Riley a d at the a hurried trip in the automobile of Mr. Swanston at 3:45 o'clock in the lafternoon. He leaves no near rela- tives, but there are several cousins in this city, | The funeral will probably be held at St. Patrick's church, Farmington, t a time to be announced later by . M. Curtin & Co., undertakers, In- erment will be in Plainville, Levine and Stultz Leave For Boston by Air Route Curtiss Field, N. Y., F 25 (Pr— arles A. Levine and Wilner Stultz | took off in the transatlantic mono- plane Columbia at 10 o'clock this morning for Boston, where they were to mect city and state officials. | They said they planned to return to- | {morrow and, if weather conditions were propitious, would then take off flight record back. to America. equally positive | | | THE WEATHER i | ! vew Britain and vicinity: Unsettled, probably snow to- * | | | Louls Young, shows surplus after all | deductions on December 31, 1927, of | earnings for the ! federal | his | in| ot his standing | hospital after | Y 25, 1928.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Stanley Works Will Vote to Sell Its Plants at Bridgewater, Mass., at Annual Meeting This Afternoon |Stockholders to Adopt Resolution as Formality and as Matter of Record—No Prospective Purchaser, Is Report — Net Earnings $1,466,942. “Don’t Count Me Out Yet,” Says Dempsey Los Angeles, Feb. 25 (UP)— “Don’t count me out yet, I may decide to try a comeback,” Jack Dempsiey, one-time heavyweight champion of the world, said to- day. “Just now it would seem best for me to retire,” he said, “but I'm not sure about it and prob- ably won't be for several months. I'm going to do a little work to see how 1 react to it. “Rickard has it about right. The way I feel now I won't box i] any more but I'a decided to re- tire last year when 1 changed my {| mind and ended up fighting Gene Tunney in Chicago.” GONVICT BUCHLEY | Weston, Mass., Youth Is Facing Life Term in Prison KILLED HIS SWEETHEART Jury in Cambridge Trial Reaches Verdict demned After Six Hours—Con- Man Hears Verdict Calmly, Feb. 25 faced Joseph | today unless attor- 23 year old Weston Cambridge, Mass., Jdfe imprisonment uwer Buckley |neys for the erday after- [youth should succeed in overturning plosion | the verdict of a Middlesex criminal court jury which late last found him guilty of murder in sec- jond degree for the killing former sweetheart, 19 year |Grace E. Mills of Waltham. The sentence of life in prison was | mandatory upon Judge Hugo Du- buque, who has presided at the trial. he jury reached its verdict after isix hours of deliberation. was calm as he heard his fate in the | deserted court room in contrast to [the closing scene of the trial when, ' taking advantage of his right to ad- | | dress the jury, he made a dramatic I protestation of innocence. | Dentes Killing Her | I loved Grace and I love | now.” Buckley told the jury. {above will be my judge, {xill ner.” Miss Mills was shot and killed while on an automobile ride with the youth on November 15, last. Buckley attempted 1 did not was not believed he ceuld recover. At the trial, which lasted nine day the state produced statements al- leged to have becn made by Buck- ley while in the Waltham hospital ed that he and the girl had entcred fired one shot into her own body and that he killed her at her own quest to end her sufferings. Defense Denfes Charge - The defense claimed these state- iments had been garbled and tamper- |ed with and that the second shot those V\hn in an attempt to bring the duration |actually was fired by accident while | Buckley was trying to wrest the re- | |volver from the girl's hand. |defense further contended shooting was while the The in Worcester prosceution sought tc <how that it had occurred in Mid- | dlesex. Had it found that the |occurred in Woreester county, the | | IN SECOND DEGREE of nis old Buckley her “God sulcide at the ! same time and for several days it |jrucnito of in which he was said to have declaf- | a suicide pact because of obstacles to their marriage and that Miss Mills re- | that the county killng Week Feb, 18th . Daily u 15,025 PRICE THREE CENTS PLANE, OPERATED WITHOUT - GAS OR OTHER FUEL, HAS BEEN PUT THROUGH TESTS CHAMBERLAIN PROBES ‘CHARGES BY GARDINER Police Board Head De- clares “Evidence” Is Not Convincing Gardincr, relative to his charges that Chief Hart has, been inefficient in stamping out liquor traffic in this city, Chairman Rodman W. Cham- berlain of the police board, told a Herald reporter at noon today that Gardiner had produced no specific évidence to support his accusations but had dealt in generalities, Chief Hart and Poliee Commis- sioner Michael W. Bannan we | present at the conference which was held at police headquarters. Leonard was also in attendance al- though the reason for his presence !is not known. The conference was still in progress when this paper | went to pres: | Chairman Chamberlain announced sterday that he would conduct a | “personal investigation” into the | ! charges made by. Gardiner, who has | ben the nemesis of the police de- partment and who has frequently claimed that the department was inefficient. night | School Teacher Sues for Waterbury, Feb. 25.—Miss Marie Dunleavy, a New Haven school teacher, today brought suit for $50,- | 000 against the United Motors Com- pany, Inc., with headquarters in this city. She was injured on the Mil- ford turnpike in Orange on the night tof April 9 1 when the car she was riding in with John J. Laden of New Haven collided with one of the defendant’s trucks which was arked, The complaint alleges there no lights on the truck. » has lost the sight of the right ve, the complaint save, and 18 in danger of losing the sight of the left one. Her face is also sald to be permanently disfigured. | LOSES SIGHT New York, Feb. 24 (UP)—Joseph Mt. Vernon- lost his sight while reading a paper on an clevated train. An eye speclalist ex- amined the victim and told him he was neurotic. “You feared you were (going blind and you did.” sald the sclentist. After he had heard the diagnosis Fuchito’s vision was re- stored. POST 1S CURE New York, Feb. 24 (UP)—The only cure for wife-beaters is the whipping post. Magistrate Gresser said, regrefting that he could not sentence Lee Youdivich, 39, to such punishment. After conferring with Henry W. | © | Detroit, Mich., Ira | $50,000 for Auto Injury | Col. I.mdberglu and Major Lanrhier in Sucmful Ex eri- ments With Electro- | Magnetic Motor. | 'Details of Power Plant Secret But Magnetism as | Applied to Rotary Mo- | tion of Earth Is Report- ed Utilized. | Feb, 25 P — The Detroit Free Press said today that an airplane motor wmaxnenm;lly gasoline or 'other fuel, has been tested success- fully by Colonel Charles A, Lind- \her(h: and Major Thomas G. Lan. | phier, flight commander at Belfridge field, operated electro- without Test is Successful | The motor. which might revolu. tionize the entire scheme of automo- \"‘H power, was the invention of “mer J. Hendershot, of Pittshurgh, {the article said. Col. Lindbergh, Major Lanphier and D. Barr Peat, of Pittsburgh, business manager of | the inventor, conducted a test of the motor yesterday at Selfridge fleld, ‘and the Free Press reported it was |“successful in every respect.” | No direct authoritics for news of |the invention was given other than |that it emanated from onec of the |tour men—Col. Lindbergh, Major {Lanphier and Peat. The first two, {reached early today, refused to com- iment. Reporters were unable to find the inventor and his agent. Electrical Magnetism The Guggenheim Foundation for promotion of aeronautics, the article said, has arranged for an immediate |demonstration of the motor, which |18 said to be based upon the principie of electrical magnetism, as applied to the rotary motjon of the earth, {The newspaper account continued: “The model of the motor has been guarded with the greatest care since (it was brought to Belfridge fleld by |Hendershot and Peat. Late yester- day it was taken to an experim©°ntal hangar where the famous trans- atlantic fifer aided in a teyout that exceeded even the hopes of the in- |ventor. Only For Planes “So far as experiments have heen made, the power is only opplied to |uge in airplanes. Later developments |are planned to extend thc scope of (Continued on Page Nine) Wallingford Man Chokes to Death Eating Doughnut in New Haven put on the witness stand in his own | her after the fall of the Hapshurg | Empire would have been impossible | without Italy’s generosity. night and Sunday Not so cold Sunday. moring. | [jury would have had to return an (Continued on Page Rejoicing at Prospect of Seeing Parent, is Greeted With Sad News as He Leaves Ship After Long Journey From Poland. |Victim of Unusual Accident is Stricken on Street, and Dies While Being Rushed to Hospital in Nearby City in Ambulance. Haven, Feb. 25 UP—G. L. his friend stop, clutch his throat ani ot Simpson avenue, Wall. |began to cough violent The SRS : coughing increased and Yal's face was rushed to the Nev Ha- | %0 neoited, He managed to ven hospital in the police ambulance force out the words to Marshall. last night where he was pronounced red, I'm chokin and the friend (Continued on Page 13) J 12) When Anthony Kida, age 17 of | Britain Todlasie, Poland, landed yesterday | in New York after a journcy ncroxsl the Atlantie ocean, he learned for the first time that his father, Frank Kida, of this city was dead. General claimed him, | I New | | vale i ford, o, ' | THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS robbing him of his| cherished dream of a happy reunion i\\’ilh the boy. Anthony, being on his way, had no knowledge of this until {he was met and told in Nepv York by Khnight The boy had never scen his father who left Poland when his son was only nine months old. After work- ing here for years as o baker, saved enough money to send for his son and Fate however, ruled other wise. He was stricken ill with pneumonia just as his son was about to depart from he | planned a happy reunion. | | by relatives. He will make hs home | with his uncle, Wiladislaw Kwasin- isk! of 40 City avenue. GOLD MOVEMENT, New York, Feb. 25 (P—Gold ship- ments to Beunos Alres today includ- ed $4,000,000 by Louis Dreyfus & | Co., and $250,000 by the American “GreeTwas /" | THE. | iTren P \ ad by choking. | Yale was walking along Orange et here in*the company of Fred W. Marshall also of Wallingford. The pair were munching on some home-made doughnuts and were on their way to take a trolley car back to their na- wn, it was said. which they | began to pound him on the back and !resort to other strenuous methods in an attempt to dislodge the dough piece of pastry which had stuck in ‘(he man's throat. Passersby were aftracted to the spot and attempted to give Yale aid The man was losing strength rae pidly and finully lapsed into uncon. sclousness as the breath was exclud- s | hey had arrived in front of 137 MAN FOM ‘flx’mp:a- street when Marshall Grear OPENy SPaces Wik TRY TO (Asso WLDCAT () BrISTOL— Poland. After a few days in New | Exchange Irving Trust Co. Annuity Cut in Half If Widow of Thomas Hardy Marries Again saw | ed from his lungs. Slayer of Cheshire Guard Caught In Florida After 4 Year Search Philip Rausch, Wanted for Murder of Albert Hoag, Alleged by Jacksonville Police to Have Confessed to Crime. \\\Wfl CiTy Wi LiNk PRescAN ACADEMIC VocaTionAL AIGH ScHooL oLoGs 2l | | Will of Famous English Writer Disposes of An Estate Valued at $445,000—Left No Children—Wife 40 Years Younger. C(TY OFPIC/ALS TO ATTEND PRC3e COF Bomp OF PURLIC | = i London, Feb. 25 UM—The will of Thomas Hardy, writer, as published in the Daily Mail today, provides hat it his widow should re-marry he annuity granted her shall be ut in Nalf. The will disposing of an estate of 91,000 (about $445,000) bequeaths o the widow, Mrs. Florence Emily ugdale Hardy. the novelist's house- hold and personal possessions and an Dorchester. Hardy signed the will on August 1922 when he was more than $0 | years old. He had no children. In granting his widow free use of | Max Gate, he provided, however, | that after her death the house and grounds were to be held in trust “for the firstychild of mine who shall at- tain the age of 21 years.” There be- | ing nosissue, the widow was em- | 1 New Haven. Feb. 25—Philip few minutes. With the assistance of ‘fikusvr: w h;'x"g‘m[ 'w«"nh w"rh‘d llm‘*; Welch, Rausch picked out a suit ecember 1923 for the murder of | . " > . Albert Hoag, a guard at the Chesn. | Which fitted him, leaving his other ire reformatory and who is mnow 'suit in the store and walked out. Not many, minutes later, Welch understood to be held in Jackson- | ville, Fla.. was in this city and reported to the Detective bureau by instructed by chatted with a New Haven detective |, . % 4 who knew him, a few hours after | ‘c.PPOR® and was who was then un MAAY Are F’N!D Forv DEFECTIVE AUTO LIGHTS ! WONDER weu—flexr’ NE/ the crime. |Henry J. Donnelly nnuity of £600 ($3.000.) Mrs. Hardy., in whose riter died at the age of §7 on anuary 11. was forty years his anfor. Having achieved some suc- as a writer of children stories, e abandoned her earecr when she arricd the novelist in 1914 after e death of his first wife. The will also provides idow 1s to have all of the royal | powered to arrange the disposal of the estate. Among the instructions to Hardy's literary executors fs the authoriza- tion that they shall “remove from my library such volumes, if any, as they may deem desirable to remove on the grounds of expediency and lispose of them as they think f1t.* The will requested that a complete «dition of Hardy’s pocma, the work arms the that the en and other proceeds from Hardy's of his latter days, be published “at ritings for her life time and the | a reasonable price =0 as to be within » of Hardy's home, Max Gate. | the reach of poorer readers.” COMMISSIONER STOECKEL WOULD REMOVE *“UNSAFE CARS' FR. Rausch left Cheshire wearing the captain of dgtectives to plek clothes which he had stripped from Philip Rausch for murder if Hoag's body, and upon arriving here should happen fo sec him. eatered a Temple street second hand | Welch told the captain of Laving clothing store and asked to be met Rausch in the Temple street shown some suits, store and the captain immediately While he assigned every avallable detective to tective Scrgeant Fdward Welch who the case. The city was thoroughly was making the rounds of the sec- |scoured but the culprit had already ond hand clothing stores on his or- fled and nothing further was heard tour of duty and who had not 'from him until last night when the as yet been notified of the crime, state police at Hartford were notf- walked in. Welch knew Rausch but fied that the man was being held did not know that he was supposed | Florida. to be confined to the reformatory | and stopped to talk with him for a | he ing fitted, De- (Continu<d on Page 12.)