New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 1

ews of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 COMMITTEE NEARS END OF LENGTHY TEAPOT INQUIRY | ———— Gets 30 Days in Jail For Whipping His Son Dallas, Tex., March 20 (U1") A. B. Staggs, a former constabic was sentenced to 30 days in juil hecause he whipped his 9-year-old son for 30 minutes \\)II! a razor strap. Witnesses tostified aggs ad ministered the whipping after th boy had failed to cook somc heans ordered by his father. The night after Stagg whipped his son, four men carried the father to the river bottoms her bhound him, placed a sack over his head, and flogged him with a bull whip, Estate of Pres. Handing Is Now Within Focus of Senate's Investigation ‘ PLAN T0 RESUME THE e TESTINONY TONORROW, SEC, WILBUR WiLL of Continental Ronds Will Re | vortaie Eaeen- | o Apviye gt Boston Navy Yard tive's Fctate — Meriden Men llr| Found in Posses m—Was sinclair’; Testify Tomg Secrotary, EXAMINATION UNDER WAY Navy to Go Over Craft Thoroughly— Washington, March 20 (LP)- vielation of the rrupt practices -u | Ay have been shown in two repub- n campaign contributions uneov- the Chicago Teapot Dome Senator Walsh of Men tadiy Instrument Find With Wihich \ said Licut, h Messaged World—No monnesd he planned further stigation of the £4.000 contrihu- fion of the Corn Products Company | nd the $2,000 contribution of the Congress Hotel Corporation to aseer- if coutions are warranted. | ment Written Word. | Boston, Curtis 1, March 20 (P Wilkinr of the otary navy depart v af pro notitied Rear Adnural P Andrews, cotmmandant of the Ro Assails Tmvestigation, ton navy yard, today that he would O March e in Boston carly this afternoon and (e *lwonld inspret the submarine inow in drydock at tie yard, rion | Arrhves at 2 1. M Dl The sncretary expected Harding | (ho yard abont » The board of estigation {vesterday made a preliminary s vey of the submarine and suy viged the, removal of the eight hod 18 not previously recovered afio the sinking of the S.4 by the coust guard destroyer Paulding off | incetown on December 17, b minute examination of the 1to day. They started with the torpedo compartment where yesterday lay [ the bodies of six men who alon the crew of 40 survived the disast tor many ho nd communicatod with the fleat ' The first step was removal of all mnitions from the com nent consisted of cight torpedors, rifles nine detonators, four jmel ammunition shells, 15 hoxes o small ammunition and one machin: sun, S ing's ne s assailed Gl Wy N Sehaitner, exscutor of the m tal "It Nye's s for a man in it furore Ut fies e cstigating, United Press. M s sl to hink the sal pot Done ing poor nalicy oy y 4 rumor wit Sclaitner told {4t the sand with niry i e zan March 19 (# the latc its With President focus, the mittes ion of ul is near- ovipaniment of cruptions the Washinzton. the estate of Harding now Senate Teap long and ramifying the now cancelled oil their subsequent connections ing its end to the ac vielent politival loor of Conzress Orf Day Today was another off- inguivy, but it will get n temorrow aftcr of subcommittes Chicago. Meanw hile luoked for fc ment yesterday hy Senate publican, North Dakota, cha the Teapot Diome comumittee, t ore winding up its searching in- | into the disposition of the L ty Bond profits of the continental ling the committer within Do col o inyestig: resen on Mhese jay for the under way three days Find Flashlight igation in first discoverics t flashlight hanging with a watch ticd had stopped o e clock on the wall of compartment had stopped at B | Members of the board expressed One of is tha the bulk! o it. The ity further reac owing the nowas 1 door, annonne: wateh (Continued on Page | FIRE BREAKS OUT IN SING SING FACTORY Gates Opened to Allow Town Department— None Escaped Ossining. N. Y. March » IYire broke out in the matiress fac- tory at Sing Sing prison today and when the inmate fire department vas unable to check the flames th prison gates were openvd to admit ihe entire Ossining fire departmen An hour after the first started it was said to be under control but was still burning and great clouds of smoke rose ahove the prison vails, So far as could be learned at that time none of the prisoners had tak- en advantage of the confusion and the opened gates to attempt an es- cape. Sixty off-duty guards we called back and the entire foree of 135 guards patrolled the walls and yards to prevent any outbrealk among the prisoners. Two hundred prison: outside the walls when discovered were taken the prison and Auiry cotpan on ST. FRANCIS DAM MAY HAVE BEEN DYNAMITED (Continued Page 17) Los Angeles Express Says Keyes Has Information to That Effect l.os Angeles, March 20 (#-—Th: Erening Express today says that Los Angeles city authorities are carrying on their investigation of the St JFrancis dam disaster on the theory that the collapse of the big buttress vas caused by dynamite, Evidence pointing to the act is declared to be in the District Attorney Asa Kc The following statciments are list- 1 in support of the claim that th ath dealing deluge in the Santa lara river valley, was the work of I omb setters: I—Investigators arc their posscssion i« piaper found at the liept seerst until drawn a alleged hands of said sheet dam toduy on rouzh chart to have of not site and which of St rs working the fire back was insid. is dam, their he notat said to he mdwriting that contined in ms on the written in the sketehed chs iy ound at the e of recent dyna- nitings along the city aqueduct A short lenzth of newly frayed . of th strand, heinp and as that used by aqueduct dyn niters in Owens valley to lower their | square and is inside 1he s into several seetions of the On the first foor is the v terway found at a spot | shop and the second floor phere the dynamite could have been (1o the many re of s o cred the ¥t Francis dam | zreat quantitics of ticking, hair and crvoir, felt Being storcd there. Most of th Coincident with the discovery of |75 prisoners who work in the laild sleged evidenees it was learned were out at time, The had been ordered placed fire depariment of alont tevery xulnerable £pot in the city’s ' zuards and trostecs responded tie ¢ supply artery. A (he firsl alarm bt oon srmed petrol Was dispatelio] that thes with o guard that section of the limited equipment fuuct traver Owens valle with the situation icularly 1he re It was then decided to ask The alleged and the Ossining department 8 it learns put before a sponded. The prison es oroner's jury the city city’s | swung wide and engines, hook an ificial inquest is held over some of [ladders and chemic wagons » hodies of e nearly 300 Xunown | streamed onto ounds with wl in the district sirens shrieking J with i over mati st water [1he fames The fire dhortly der control bt it iy, It would Which might \ 000, The nine chart ame The firc prrsons ¢ e discovered at neon side warden's office tha from th was the prison who ephoned the 1 dense smokhe factory. The building i« a md brick building was rising e wooil all fwo story ahont prisa prisor was * is deve matire into ing the mate s wats it men could cam heavily evident their A not cope Y. var- rvoi the Lapr cvidenee, will he when Firemen sy factory turned armied heory that used the to In connection < and on vnamitin liave of reat concre t both cnds. it was reeal B cral p ported having flashes of light on the may strueture it FRON 1 ms wer was Advel continged to burn belicved Iy it wa ared u Lt s n great iy over neisg ehie Lout the hese flsh pr by the as aters hiol uong hort o cunyon the dam collapsed T e unted cumption that the to suppl tim a Ao ligh power Tines et et it J ity NE VT D pm; .H 6" J NEW BKun.‘., l'] "‘B’S AUTAIN HERALD ONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1928.—TWENTY PAGES CAUCUSES HELDIN Elevator Drops Five Stories ROUTINE FASHION In Hartford Plant, Seriously Inlurmg Two Women in Fall | ‘Republicans Elect State Conven- | tion Delegates Quickly 'MADISON VOTERS QUIET' {Those ‘\[angarel La Belle Has Leg Amputated and Helen Cyr Los Left Foot After Cable Snaps on Car—Carrier Filled With 16 People When Acci- dent Occurred. Mricken 1'vom List Do Not Attemipt To Go To Pools— Brain- ard Has No Opposition, Wi Lasily by Two 0 One. New Haven March 20 ) publican ¢ in towns here- aliouts {or wention delegi- March 20 (&) with Hartford filled tiona ineident. In Pond was passed off with it | Ansonia Chfford A town chairman in stories at of lsiell whe has | phone I'ay n twelve years, | | Arbor street at 6:3 tor employ hos the plant of the Gray Telo place heen the 1 Station Company on to again stand fing seven and May Not Survive Mirgaret ta Belle, Orange street is the injur Her right tated above the ankl doubtful if she will rec Cyr, 24, of 198 Hawiltoa er left foot amputate dition is reported a our other injred iecovering 3 mine women, twe af or clection Ma Madison Yen Speaks geriolisly % D pendent names were e tricke the repubh list i Hemnpt to vot. Dowd, s ihing auestion: n ntly ens Gro some of t moderator 4 an not as to 1) the tof the ind W M, pendents to vote b Arthr in the ed to Lif vot long the fige on heing al told the independent S niines had bes I possible their 1 storim o 0 i woni ! from attemptod nder Mod rt could Tuave uo arrest Chittenden formally nd donts 2 Wet - TORRINGTON MAN 1§ HELD AS BOOTLEGGER Yight State l’ollcc Troop- " ers Raid Huge Distillery in Goshen The town com ballot for state convention went through without ol nilfor re that 1.t st Governor Bramay om s apposition ¢ ontest did not wortion. Mr. others pious resnlts 1 ithe to | “n the wi armenions o delegites 1 Will nam to 1 conven Representatives of the New ment league w in ciach cancns and i some instances an Cffort 10 question alns their attitude orcement ¢ amendiient. Each de ceive a card leugue members caneuses urg 1 arty s for wion whici ington. M- - John “eterson of Torrington charged with anufacturing liguor, who Jvested y in a state raid on a big distillery on the Frank Colonese farm in Gosiion is in Litc field jail @awaiting arraignment hefore the conrt of common pleas 1his after noon, Coloncse for whom a warrant charging violation of 1he iiquor law as heen issucd, has not hee s not on the farm mads riid. distilling a n o removed stor N Torr ch 20 th as to tonard 180 sl strict the will ¢ ure at t At the republican 11 definitely enforcement of M endorsed of John Q. n cong viee pre esterda over the sizn of who were T tavor of striet ISth amendm Several n the n found when th wa A candidacy itive for the ards the suz Tilson. s in this d t sidency. Most | T yied resolutions Major Louis M. ')} e wa ite polic ur tru us have to the an to k1 trict of th 150 ) rm polics await i sccretary of 1he court. The distillin ittee ocated in a big building used as 4 cow harn. On the floor were four 500 zallon vats, a steam pressure caquipped with an oil lectrie generating pl Ind floer were several and 1,000 gallon vats, all filled pacity. On the third floo 1y a loft, were immen vats. From.the distiliery | farm house, some 130 yards dist 1an wires over which warning coulid ibe sent to the workers in the event of the approach of officcrs Eight state policemen led Lieugnant Brandt of the l'u\la(‘k‘ conducted iy on the n death of ictions f plant formerly zround stor Clarenee wal G. Willard state central con made a delegate to the tion from the same Tohn B. Tower, harmony:. Tn Shelton Speaker John W. was reelected chairman of 1he committee, MAKES PLEA NOT GUILTY he a city conven Mayor ward ward indicative Hill town to < form cooliyz o 1 an Dr. Guilf le Elcets Trial hy Court —First Under New Law Requir- ing Three dudges. Hartford ol charged Clare here last pleaded 2 . Waldo Marvin in superior court. - NO GARDINER HEARING AT MARCH COURT TERM, April 15 as the date for the opening Counsel I'()r Pri of the trial. Dr. Guilfoyle's case will | " 5 be the first in the under the iders Seeking Habeas Corpus Writ vew Jaw providing for trial by three March 20 () Guilfoyle, with the mn Gaudet of January not guilty i Dy veterinarian der of Mrs, w Haven this morning fore Judge 1. K judges rather than by a judge and ury. Dr. Guiltoyle a appeared in court apparently fully rocovered from the injury reccived when he w tirough the head the night of the murder. According to the charg nst him, the doctor, after shoot- ing Mrs. Gandet in the hallway of his apartinent at 691 Maple avenu following a dinner party at his home, turncd the gun upon himsell. This morning is the first time he has been removed from the hospitil sinee the shooting two months age He was scemingly unperturbed in tie court room and was able about unassisted, into Having lear oy K. Ga Court trial < shot erior vitninal libel an impossibility, “asale, he nt is prac cally or Gorard ¢ ay that rdiner’s corpus procecd torney's office le 1 wperior ¢ iddl Apr diner insists on @ his counsel ot through hahea The state indicated to At- I term the way move to has orney | . until to walk trial Following 1he plea nded to jail without | quest of State’s Attor- Wis sister,, Miss Mary Philadelphin. and Mrs wi prosent cannot be accommodite carlicn June Attorn:y Ca nte the e was rem bl at ney Al Guilfoyl. Guil e il s looking v of his conrt room case towards for court thie 100 Judg: of s sround that € iemally, Indications Gardiner will e obliz Six Muscle Shoals Bills el s e Are Ordered Tabled Today oioiy ia Wachington, Mareh 20 (P e money. ouse mlitary committee vo 1 1o day to lablc the six Muscle Shoals| Botg] Dies Attempting Leap From Eiffel Tower Lalls s el i has been considerin and hezin tomorrow with the draft measur Paris, March s —The hal loon jumper Votal in testing a ne parachute uniped feet 1o hi l'opc l'iu eems ‘0 death today from the plat- Age Without Changing rorn o the il Tower Mireh 20 Pop: Pins | Tests had been mads wdicnes to Major | previously with AT Botal jumped 10 open. He die in att ip from the polying 5 corpis on s detained il that un in It wer in for a writ heean Ailh 1 | hond come tars Mz ol 4 commnittes ond suce sandbags but the paracint 15 th ond person | mpti parachute ssfully when failed | 1ot rant. 1y W Mrs, Warner Smith o and Mrs daughter of Gov- New Yori Crnor to a it tower WiIsHES B 1 lohn Gillis today I Py Nt ¢ HADNT Mar Wit Ken Now a0 e hed en. Conn % o rown | | adn't THE WEATHER tiil ' nd New Reit and viciniy Vair tonight and Wednesda Bt much change in temper- atre touday Gl in it heen slig thillitte James O’k The twa m w hem land ACCUSES POLICEMAN OF TELLING UNTRUTH Babhula A teip early e it O'keefe Alcohol in Brother Jo I)cnics dohn vh led on Chief W. ¢ John O Kee Babula poiice department int Hons « unicite i oot h duty ol Sunday Litter viien According Hart, e g aleohol which we nt W i 10t take Lonse il Iephone W. M he serg L O R e o street It will Police comes b on veral 1 wis done they far nen o dr h te The at 43 ed th permission to own it he chureh o car and he t it his sto policeman car d the vas not “rf ons or ol ore Hart iceman et 1ext n the O Keefo an or i told Ch fine and showt dn't ) 1 ‘ tatenient trip 1o the policeman Sergeant while John Leviathan Thought to il by W ather Iy [ nut f th housc Cape callod o a car Mair e, the st ke later ut had old the church Wi used it does not know, Lut n the t lie Mace | at al the with someone by 1 ula (N rela Tio M polic a f < him the s Har a Questio e ou tive to oth denicd or an have who of t Home m to show Chir sabuli rect e NEW OFFENSIVE IS WAKING HEADWAY " Heavy Losses Inllicted on Nic- aragua Rel)els hy Marines §. FLYER INJURED Aviators Direct Deadly - have Bon and ne U for the suffered Whitney wown to Yuvone ddus Le tor of Bombing bt and i ack On Sandino Forces and Are Said o Have killed Over 200 Rehels, Managua torbaupy—a n neople torces of Gene which ady is said to cd more losses on ti han any engagement sinc was' 1 ay today States marine fi ted a deadly bhon on the cgion of k1 Sanding forces as Mu Chipote, T Kknow i north umper lifted and mor 1al casnaltivs than 11 last July when e marine fl Only In A\ir for vet liad @ part in the ne at th they Muren re will not plain e said to he ru triet, 1 hom wns said fiyer i communics ounded wi om in: mes pl Picres in the foo Sandino concentrated country mining massed thers when cruising marine pl 1ead, was \mm_ at day mn up wers of the pt over bombers The Sandinist and o target for can apen sp big Ameri bombing Showing planes, Th iy o wa Load after 1 ad of th sive bombs was droppe nks who could inf y fi struck, according to re ports coming to Managua The rebels fought back with their and although they hit the bombing planes, could make no do- pression in the steady bombing at- The i ing high expl 1on answer only Many dircet hifs wer with fe concerni orning to th 25 oot} 15 Main Hart of and declared n of : bombers made ks yesterday. Sandiniy the police- - sight- open o sup- him 6 im it the of bombs. their base for on their enti They returned anothior load and a urned ade tiree replen- Shing visits to the base before call- ing the attack closed for the day. One ain raiding squal After Hart com- he I with Detec- cCue who was 4 e had told five dircet Sandinistas, No Estimate Made reful estimate of the ¢ - indinistas could be made a4 thet iore severe than on any st July, when 300 were I'he bombers planned to zain today and it was said 10 warine ground forces were Policeniin | up to aid in the offensive. from a lunch = Marine officers here were silent as and bring 1o the reason for the new offensive I It was said recently, in connection \ith announcement that 1,000 addi nal marines ing sent hers m United t thr ampaign nst Sundine would ve to end in May as then the rainy gins, & bt aoal 4 s in the ranks of E Na with cd that as wi hie 8 it losses werr attack sinee Killed Was s Pline commit ack that s story rushing a hon W n and whe former aske 1o drive ula Mid not pernmission to policeman he time, accord- \ther or not Babula said someonc had ime he left it it, for it ieft it my brothers lol, he was hesides me.” t today d policeman up alcohol. Chiet to Po- latter’s ported house and having told reet were the May Be Effective wagua, March 20 (UP) today I President Dia it put the oy ion lav which the United States considers of cat value, into operation un- drere was def M d mig elact saw 6 bk jer a presidential law recently caraguan congre United the law had Nicaraguan would offici wen 1 icat their fortheoming they g0 ned Spok t the the esidential d effective cetion law Ty ght hecome forn vone else that Babula had taken him there, Mean- not locate moa wars he Tiquor rom oco to. Nieara Have Made a Record 1o an.r\\ orlh Chips mm to B(nah s Fund | nit Loviathan, a i o1 Haro! in A by s Harry March a s e hun her er 1 frof The cro P 1 Cunningham, i ship e oose v Bora 1% i hitio i ey tes m ihoa 10 =i ciim toda a ing of th Cherbourg to ssinz time of minutes was pers ta be the Com- o) saud th cruiser 4 linpr. on i Aviator Killed When Plane ('rashes Post he tonio, Tex. Marci P Willia who i congratu when sterday e Tow today on o P—An fam = Housto ngwort fund heing . of 1daho, to nelair for the made to James W. Packard of Auto Fame Dies at Cleveland Cleveland, March 20 () Warren Packard. plonecr obile industry and ident of the Packard of Detroi here Pl He heen ns v 192 ) ey rcom e o I pany ho i eheck forla two bombing plane reported mak- | (rancoline pread Average Daily Circulation For saren 15,102 PRICE THREE CENTS WITNESS TESTIFIES HE PAID $45 GRAFT - TOGET CITY WORK Friburg Says He Gave Sposato, Public Works Dept. Foreman, Money Tor “Man Higber Up” TOLD 830 WAS USUAL FEE FOR GETTING TRUCK J0B Nair firings Out That Dirt From South e S S i Obhject to War Trophy In W |Ho“ Bmok l’all\ Appe Weld today the Ar place the arrived 1n SPOSATO T0 LOSE CITY FOREMANSHIP Public Works Board Meeeting to Be Held Tomorrow WELD AND CROWE CONFER Al Main Street Was Used 1o il In Lowland at Rear of Chareh and Stones Were Given to Privage Citizen for Cellars Under Houses in Belvidere, AL rim e f more than 300 urg last might nd had been made E ©k. 10 be pawd Alleged nes 0 i fi worl Pugineer Beported 1o Have Said Poreman's Work is 1nsatis factory Regardless of Hi- c-ton truck and that and 820, al the cction With Grafg ~d ove Warner liearing “t Sposato had is not for him but oroup” declared: ° man ‘higher up. 1N is 1St this man.” Alderman on the in- ter the facts, o I d that |incl i . 1. had been I made alderman, whe is fre of S50 2 wick ning it would be un- fair fo hoth to query them on a mat- r that result in lawsuits E h:l |u|m ation Months Ago Aftory Na informed the come- nittee riburg had given him s 1nfc moseveral months ago had received it in con- attorney. However, brought the fact out It free to air it. He sato whether Friburg could think of statement months ion was in con- to could give no the statemont having told the commit- the went at Spo- e asked where not only told is located and the Dosato’s tenement minute deseription interior, “mystery wit- sublotsky for the +testified he ap- work last Jan- that he had v March he received b Main street job was to be started and he was ad- to condition his truck for In April he was again called Sposato who intormed him, he that many truckers were look- work and were willing to to get a truck en nd was then made on amount, he said, of Fri- with Mayor Weld wuneed a spes Do tor for norrow o'clock to cons md other 1 The inve o eman on ity that h Sporato s m ¢ ird on Har Commitesloney Crowe docl action against Sposato or and it other city cn the full hourd that the speci d for the purp under conference Engineer was bron IS unsatis {hat irrespective at last night's me of thr evidence Sposato will he Crowe did aring and he w testimony offer: the office of ti was intim, charge this morni Philip A it out 11 son he ving suc s ted fiomplation transpired | ow much S posi o’ rk | hefere invest Spos I of what rctory as indics ison for ting or is fou Friburg Hschar attend to’s honi vas He not s of the h 1S N0t aware where the honse he came to hoard no time in the floor on which al i nublic He this i morning. lost in com yor and ¢ Mayor Weld publication with Crowe the entire matter the hoard for REPUBLIGAN RALLIES WILL BEGIN ON APRIL? ay on wit the 1 urg was n ting promiscd a concerni other th to say | past two w for talk | i elare orming vord that the to Sposito for ion. Sou vised £30 ?Hn for Party Leaders ~ B¢ Embarrassed by swie FARN BILL CLAUSE Cieoo APPROVED INHOUSE 11 from the liean mayoral nomin: to th discom 1, is town committee to esponse didacy of Donald 1. Burtlatt publicly u I miti's action zive Bartlett a ¢l organization into 1epirants are advantages helieved « Reported Smith's (Continucd on I'age Thrce) Iraw ion is worl ort of the G since it is not possibie for Agricultural Committee Passes Equalization Fee Principle 13-8 the can- "0 - caualization MeNary-H pproved today committee six demo- of the fee, 1 two on drman Ha wou By a fre which tal e of plained and, support cans ar hers demo- in oppo: tom rro o ural loar vert farm or unuble o this way would he he cqual n appre of whie ward memi Fran} E ) o ward. 1 Coolidge Message ! hn' Funding of Debls I upon | s Mareh 20 UPh— Presi third te 1 ina gy to con T ‘ ' [ ' of 1 Ty 1 hod legislation @inth w I 2 of Austrisg week on at least as later «n crediters of Thin woul! an Interna nous ot cesstul e for i country ring s Lurop Marchegan hal Man o on Acorn ned flaat it missioner o Prosper