New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1928, Page 1

FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 WOMAN DISPLACES Fire Routs 50 Residents of Block on East Main St.as They Sleep; WASCULINE SOLON Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers Takes Over Hospitalization Bill CHAIRMAN LUCE DEFEATED| This Is First Time Woman Member of Congress Has Been Placed in Charge of Major Piece of Legls- | lation, Washing! March 21 A woman has heen put in charge of major piece of legislution in the house for th first time owing to disagr t between two Ma chusetts republicans over certain ‘eatures i 1 wr hospitalization The the veterans al committee, culminated feat of Chuirman Lucs tentions, Under the tative Edith Nourse \lassachusetis, the ranking on the sub-committ: r the measure. Dispute Develops dispute n .ssion and crstood to have | srown out ire of Mrs | gers and other members to make cific recommendations in the tb-commiittee report to govern the «xpenditure ropr Luce, also a Massichusetts republi- can, advocated a lump snm appro- riation be i ren W ns bill. controversy, wi arose in Kb de- his con- in th in rules, | Repre- s o repub- | 1 N | The s x o to be spent the dir 1ns' bureau led with Mrs, » chairman, leading to his defeat 4 the adoption of the plan to ify certuin hospitals which they sire esprelally huilt, No legal Obligation While the inclusion of thess pitals in the committee report | would place no lega obligution ! pon the veterans' bureau, it was | it that specific reference to them S apart of the committee plan ould morally bind the director in be expenditure of the more than 000,000 appropriation. here has been a strenuous fight tor new hospitals to be located in he Kentucky and the southern New England districts, Both Mrs. Rogers and Mr. have deelined to discuss the r. CITY GONTROL BGARD FAVORED BY PAONESSA' the discre- the v democrats to overrule in ion or of | Various Rogers | o hos- | hos- | | | Luce | mat- | | | Democratic Candidate Ap- proves Body to Pass on Budget | The idea of the hoard of control | to act as a check on city expendi- t finds favor with former Mayor A. M. Paoncssa, he states in a letter mailed today to Martin J. Kelly of | Gilbert street, spokesman for a zroup of taxpayers who are foster- ing the movement. Kelly addressed letters to Pa- and to Councilman Donald L. Bartlett, who is to be Paonessa's rival at the polls next month, out- lining his plan and asking for an ‘xpression of opinion from each candidate. | Paones “Dear si | “I have given considerable study to the suggestion advanced in your | letter that & board of control be set up in the city of New Rritain to | serve as an additional check upon expenditures, “Perhaps you will recall cently publicly expressed myself as favoring inauguration of some board to take the place of the city | meeting board which was abolished | several years ago. 1f so, you will | ize that your views and mine co- incide in a great measur “It strikes me that some such body as the one you have suggested might | very well fill the need. T notice it ~mbraces many of the features of | the old city meeting board, creating | contest for membership; making | generous allowance in the way of | quorumi, the number heing suffi- ciently small to insure prompt ac. tion on all measures including those which might not create the public interest which would result in the attendance of the full membership. “I believe the common council | would be very willing to give its sanction to the creating of an offi- cial body which would work with the council in the appropriation of | money- vears roll by and ity grows, the duties of the council are hecoming more numerous and 1 feel the wisdom of delegating specl- flc duties to certain other sub- divisions of the government will be apparent to the common council. Of course nothing along this line can be accomplished until the next scs- sion of the legislature, Should it be the wish of the people of New Brit- ain that I serve them as their mayor for the next two years, I should be pleascd 1o meet you and again go into this matter during the period of charter revision. “Respectfully. “A Trout Season Does Not | Open Until April 15th Hartford, March P—Supt. John W. Titcomb of the state board | of fisheries and game, is calling at- | (ention of trout to the fact that the scason this year opens on April 15 and not on the first of the month as in previous years. The last legislature changed the open season to corporate with that of the state of Massachusetts. | . | | a's letter to Kelly follows that T/ | i | \ M. PAONESSA." | | liberty bonds. she |10 check | made thelr way through the upper |other articles of the | | N TreaqU AT Me@t Hintg 'Policemen Run Through‘, Smith Out of Contest Halls and Alarm Occu- pants — Women Badly | Frightened by Smoke— Loss Estimated at $5,000, | The oceupants of nine total of approxima were forced to flee 1 man building at Eust Main | tre o'clock this morning. | smoke from a fire in the cel- | filled the halls and stairways and | poured out of windows and doors in rming volume. The blaze gave| e department a stubborn fight 14 in the cellar with the | of on> outbreak into the | . store, which wi m of water from a| ordered laid by First | Depu . 1%, Barnes, who had | unticipated that & stairway from the | cellar to the storc might offer an | the flames. It - mated that the damage to the build- | ing a ents will be between $4,- ements, ! persons. from the RKud-| as b xerption ¢ Hard by i met lin iwenue for tor of a malt » in the building, com- 1 to the police and fire de- partment officials r the that and some ch was on Ch Barnes about ) o'clock and insinuated that the 1en or policemen were respon: for the loss, according to Chief | Barnes, who told him he did not t lieve his suspicions. Tulin sald the money a bank bag under the er when he closed *he store last night. Chief Barnes found | a %1 bill and sev © cents, also | a $3 bill cut in two in the hardware store, Lut s other money in the premises. Officer William Politis discove smoke pouring from and while Officer M. J ed the alarm from Box 42 at the corner of Muain and Main streets at 2:50 o'clock, Officer Politis and Theodore Fortin of 534 West Main street ran through the halls and awakened the slecping occu- pants. It was not necessary to carry | nyone out, but some of the women were badly frightened, especially as the smoke was increasing in density a8 they approached the ground floor. | Mrs. Mary Mettey, police matron for 2 gumber of years, was among those | who were forced to fles' and she nge ¢ mi irts, w no ed the building Moore sound- | brought several éther women to the police station for shelter until it was safe to return home. In the opinion of Chief Barnes, the fire was caused by the boiler in the cellar of the hardware store, as the blaze was fiercest direetly above i It was fortunate that the smoke at- tracted the attention of Officer Poli- | tis, for the firemen were barely able the flames hefore they | part of the building and into the tenements. There was considerable damage to the hardware store where the flames spread for a distance of about fifteen feet hefore being over- come. The recall was sounded at 4 o'clock, SCORNED BY LADY LOVE, YOUTH CUTS HER CLOTHES Brunnelle Fined $50 For Destroying | Wardrobe of Girl Who Turned Him Down (Speclal to the Herald) Bristol, March 24—Because the | girl he loved preferred another man's company, Arthur Brunnelle of 121 Prospect street, entered the girl's |apartment last evening and destroy- ed practically her enti by slashing garments, wardrohe shocs and wearing apparel with a knife. Brunnelle's arrest fol- lowed when the girl complained to the police. In the city court today a fine of ! $50 and costs was imposed on Brun- ielle, who was charged with wuliful |injury to the property of another. He pleaded guilty, SINCLAIR ORDERS HIS RECORDS KEPT SECRET His Cashier Tells Teapot Committee Employer Refuses to Tet Them Be Seen Washingion, March 24 (®—Henry | . Sinclair has gives orders that the | records of his private security hold- | s are not 1o he revealed to the e Teapot Dome comimittee. The committee was so informed today by Harold Kenwell, cashier of the Sinclair Conolidation Oil com- pany, who explained that was why he had not brought the record with | him in response to a subpoena. “I asked Mr. Sinclair for that | srmission and it was refused,” Ken- id. “You know those are Mr. Sinclair's personal property and | 1 cannot remove it without hi con- | sent.” “ The committee wanted to examine | the records to see if he held now | any Continental Trading company | | , | se: March 24 (UP)— The steam trawler “Sca Gul s on its way to the George's Banks to- day after being delayed by a mutiny of four of its crew The men, said to have been dis- satisfied with their wages, quit the vessel here yesterday. They were replaced. q The “Sea Guil” is owned “w the Portland Trawling Company. | A Y. Y4 w00 projashi S ¥ Ig. | (and his decision to*withdras {grateful for th {primary than some of his opponents ‘TWO BADLY HURT IN after an automobile | Milford turnpike this morning. | moned Coroner Eli Mix of New Ha- | ! ven, {from a fractured skull and internal | was In recess today. Sydaq WY “;“;a\nlo.) NEW BRITAIN, CO} Firemen _S_tole 961 For Party Nomination written letters to two HENRY A. SMITH ! who nal campuign for nomination for that he had | awn from the race in the in- 1| of party harmony. Mr. Smith he first candidate in the field was regarded s an independent as the republican party leaders did 1ot look with favor on his aspira- | tions: He had a conference with me of the leaders last evening result- | and Mr. Smith today said that he support already « He believed he would more votes the corded him have polled at anticipated. TURNPIKE ACCIDENT fotorist on Milford Road ' Find Men in Wreckage of Car Milford, March 24 (UP)—Two| | motorists were reported in a critteal | condition at Milford hospital today accident on the | The victims, Charles F. Robinson. 43, and Louis Hofmeister, 29, both of West Haven, were found unco: scious in the wreckage of their au- tomobile by & passerby, Willlam T. Hart of Stratford. The car had apparently left the road and ecrashed into a telephone pole as the men drove toward New Haven. Police immediately began an in-| vestigation of the accident and sun Robinson was reported suffering Hofmeister and injurie injuries bruises, has multiple internal cuts and | JURY RECESSE Angeles, March 24 (UP)-— jury of nine men, at- | | tempting to fix the responsibility for | the breaking of St. Francis dam, has been | ook {ment on the charges {tors Brookhart day asking for senatorial inve It | | BRITAIN HERALD P NECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH FILM CAMPAIGN IS Sleep Walker Leaves Home, Goes to Nearby Park Night Marked CHARGED T0 HAYS Movie Extibitor Claims Movie — e KIDVAPERS FEARED v caance For orwers [N MISSOURI TOWN Pectares Thae oer s Nojo Gioned “The Bear” Threat- ens Columbia Child LDREN GUARDED Method similar to That Have no Chance to Become Popu- lar Idols by Means of Be Flashed on Picture Screens, todianapotis, staren ¢ @ — AL CHILDREN Charging that Will H. Hars, head of the Motion Picture Thea Producers’ association office to spread pro half of the presidential of Secretary Hoover, F. J. Reme busah, of Indianapolls, secr-tary of the Unaftiliated Independent Motion Picture Exhibitors of Ameri has nators usk- ing a senatorial vestigation of the motion picture industry, Senator Brookhart of Iow has introduced a resolution in senate calling for the investiy, of “block-booking” of films, Senator Watson of Indlana, man of the interstate e mmittee, were the recipien the letters. Says Hays Uses Scroen Mr. Rembusch charged tha is using the screen to pathy for Hoover to of other candidates. “We now fi said Rembusch n his letter to Senator Brookhart more boldly every day our sereer being surreptitiously used for poli- tical purposes. Last year the reels under Hays control had sual aniount of showings President Coolidge. A few months £o Mr. Hoover was brought out and 15,000,000 people are having a at Mr. Hoover. It is nefther practical nor are we allowed to cut out films. Sces Ramifications Now we can easily see wher the ramification exists, Mr, Ha boosting Hoover. Mr. Hoov: the Coolidge cabinet and partment of justice to which have complained for fiv about this growing monapoly fuses to move in behalf of the small theater owner. “What chance has either Sena- | tors Watson, Willis, Walsh or Gov- ernor Smith to become the idol of the movie fans when the screens o: merica are under the cdhitrol Pot Caar Hays? “Those who have the best inter- ests of the motion picture at heart. feel that the screen should alwavs be free from financial and political control. “Certainiy Senator you are right in saying t picture industry ne investigation.” Mr. Hays today declined to com- of F. J. Rem- | busch of Indfanapolis that he is us- | t0ld police t ing his office to turn movie pictu L gl oy to propaganda faverable to the duct the presidential candidacy of Seoretary | Chased the Hoover, tion of the in the Carl case Rembusch, seeretary of the unaf- aAnd Cassidy cas are not dissimila filiated independent motion Ul Lahisl iy b xhibitors of Ameri wrote sible that a woman might have se and Watso note to Dr. Buescher demanding gave no reason, how- ind police also young mar 10 have childre Used by Hickman—Youn Not ¥ Sters i School iidacy Now mitted to Leave Classrooms Alon Columb; ‘This ci Missourt, tter sigr Nany ways re by William F l.os Angeles Mo. a, Mrel he o4 Uniy aUp)- rsity ot Ay W over a “The Bear,” which in mhled those sent out lward Hic over i tos 1 of who the tion and el nded Marilyn laughter i Link Letter With Man Police connected uan who bad twice accosted an- other little girl and who had becn 1 after attempting to kidnap g boy. police also learned today that accosted Hays e sym lusior; e the letter with arou outs Ly by to deliv note a 'r was who g r school t ed B The girl presen acher and wi 155, She t father h: not his 10t The oalson.” d the not » the Aismissed from and found her the note and cen forged. wely Watched Orders given that no Hild be permitted to leave a school ding under any pretext, This or- hen it was recalled th lward Hickman r of little Marion Parker b lling her from school on the eor Ler fath had been notor car ac- { cident. he ither been a I are being given | protection. The other two children involved i were Helen Carl, 11, the daughter of motor car n, and Don Cas- v, 11. similar (o Hickman Plan | Police said that a man attempted | to get the Carl girl out of school by ding notes to her teacher atly similar to t Hickman he signature of the girl's r was for: A dark haired was said have accosted the little girl twice ' A group university students news ar o icker i si nawme had Children have been is In tentior - ured in a children costed three who have threatened iul police or sales) 1 osys Brookhart e motion Is a scnatorial man to o ame time cmipting to al students The descrip- man picture Sena- yestor- tion of the moving picture industry. — Pkapt up a s !who was sup the other two SIX PIREMEN INJURED Chicago, March 24 (U'P)—Six fire- fmen injured seriously whe | | four-story apartm. building *‘Ilup,\ul here to o accost New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled tonight and day, probably shower: er tonight; somewhat colder Sunday. wer col- 1, 1922 —EIGHTEEN r, Dayton, Ohio, PAGER and Is Drowned; | by Bris__t__pl Tragedy- Body of John B. Pratt, 77, Clad Only in Night At-/ tire, Found in Rockwell m Lagoon Early Today— On Democratic Ticket Gave Two Sons in War, 100 | } Bristol, Marc uged 77, ot drowr Rock vas four Joseph Daniel MeGi A went e « sion was tie Mr. body James Pra derstood he abit When night He Kinot found shirt and slippers. Lorn in St ROBERT JOHNSON BB’ JOHNSON T0 RUN S IN 4TH AS DEMOCRAT 2 A Former Republican Club | Officer in Race for Council H. to Rosina to B resided X Wallace New Departu < ago. wa 188 two ¥ hin New Odiilo Al of his Bedford, Wilfred Rristol William, tonio Pr duughte Mrs, Wi s. Harold Blukesle Bernier of Bristol . Prior of Plainville, children and two great-grande dren. A son member of | Company D, at s prey an nother Arthur, member of an airplane squadron, died of influenze Joseph, was killea e t surpriscs son, a ut campaign came today Robert Johnson of 339 Chest- t, formerly an officer of the Fourth Ward Republican club, later 1ppointed whe str Mr Indepe Funer compl an assistant superin- ndent of under the republicans and more recently a sreman in the city employ. an- tnounced that he would run for | vouncilman in the fourth ward on the democratic tieket. Johnson has had his name taken arrangements have heen FALL T0 TESTIFY Will Be Interviewed on March 29 at | no; fhe state capitol is not a registered democrat fs ible to run in the Jeffersoniay imary Ly reasou of the fact that classed voters His Home in El Paso—To Tell of : Teapot Dome: is now among the “in- pendent those who are 4 with neither party. He is planning to make an active can- s of th district and has ex- ssed idence that the ward will go democratic, C 1. Torello is a candidate for t manic nomination and Jo Poterson 511 Church *et will run for councilinan. Pet- son, of the younger residents made a strong run last of clection by a small votes. With changed the district he has ex- optimistic attitude to- ibilities of next . former s vior, will tell his pot Dome lease on Thursda 2% at his home in El Paso. Justice Jennings Bailey the listrict supreme court tod wited a motion of Harry 1. Sinclair for t taking of a deposition from Fall, who is 100 ill to attend the trial hert Sinclair on April 4. pr of <t one ward iling year, numl conditions pre W Going Up With Prices W York March P bullish carnival continu in full swing on the New York stock ex- with the price of mem- 1g another $10,000 to a w high record at $350,000. Gen cral Motors retained the culative spot light by quickly advancing $3.50 a share other new peak Early advance d from 1 T h's election, A to contest n primaries with Alderm the repub- slate head: Gustave Johnson o fourth ward was completed to. fay with the announcement William O. Willametz will be a ca for the nomination for coun- for Other members of the slate lidat n at in to Larson, ca r alderma John A 1tion and for Molander, running ! | THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS councilmanic Alder mself, j nation | | i | nomination. n Johnson's slate includes 1« candidate for renon 1d Walter Nelson an Be Alpert, candidates for nomina- a ard | I | READING FROM LEFT R RiGHT:® CHAIRMAN TOWERS OF FrORTans) orcies SETTHE WRLL RADWR gougfl) OP Pul ATR —— - PAONES 34 AMD' SeeL il Soomy CAMPAIGN— o 2 w:u.(:;:,%cns! THE W L0 1S GOt CONDUCT ANOTA! é‘ o‘;o P = Fhee TRIS TO o WINVER — Wi \For BEST 3 T LErsGos - tion Wi He uncilmen. lametz live resided ind has g 1 foreman at th nd I issociated New B Haver 1 Jubil s in v wide acquaint plant of t ‘ U1 \THERE ARE 30 OF Tue \TOHNSONS \[A2 THIS €Ity & ~ W& &5 S5 Yoo 'r~ = - that mana ‘o becom tory h ith in Dairy Now MURDERERS HUNTED { Philadelphia Police Seek Three Hold- up Min Who Killed Man and | Wounded Young Woman. | lelphia March [Ld was on here today in t to capture the three men who night shot and killed Max Har- issistant manager of the Cross theater, and seriously wounded old girl in an attemptad A an “THINGS CERTAIALY HAVE CuAn GeD SINCE THE OLD DAvs, B \MVY Bovy,” % son Koy old-up. ores of 1 deserip of arrests were made, prisoners tallied tion of the rohbers giv but with by wounded girl, Martha Ye was leaving the theater with her mother when the gunmen drove up {in an automobile and open: fire | Harrison, who was taking the night's receipts of rout to a nearby bank Harrison dropped with a bul- |let through heart ud dicd a | few minutes later. The girl was shot twice through the and in leg. Her condition today was re- por s eritical. Goorge ik, policeman assign led to Harrison to a bank, [ crouched behind a pillar in front of l-m theater and opened fire on the {robbers who abandoned their effort [to steal Lag containing the {money, leapcd into their motor car {and sped away. Clark expressed the bellef that he had wounded one of the men, 2700 the face DEMO(RATIC i gl MEMBE 5 OF| common CoUNCIL. THANK MAYOF| WELD FO@ HIS PROVERBIAL- FAILAES f + republican list and although | Average Daily Circulation Feor Maren 170n. 15,102 March 17th . PRICE THREE CENTS MIAMI POLICE CHIEF AND SIX OF FORCE ARE HELD AY ON MURDER CHARGE | 'Grand Jury Makes Vi- triolic Denunciation of . “Brutal, Inhuman and Astonishing” Conduct of Law Enforcement. More Disclosures Coming, It Is Hinted, When Panel Re- convenes on April 10. Even Nensational March 24 city's police depurt and the with siv o of Lis subordinate in e stockade today i murder, while ringt tire vitriolic denv tman toun conduct of law entore Miami ns Coming airs thronghe Sensati me More A nnouncing 1 sensatios tha will veme April o grawd inc cated ther develop ments to come, declaring ther o it ock the publie conscience wor other crimes disclosed will sh for which which indictments have net Leen returne 1 billt been ¢ to fix individ responsi Polic uspende for mu L. Wood. Thes to the police calony at the county stocka which already |consigted of Lfeutenant M. A. Tib- bits, Detectives John Claudell and Tom Nasworth, and Patrolmen Nelson Ward and R. L. Glisson. All indictments were coneerned with deaths of persons with whom those |indicted had contact in gA oMew! | capacity. ‘. Reinforcements Orderf8 Guy C. Reeve, head of t¥e dutec {tive department, was last ni, made acting chief. and H. I, Ar. fuold was named director of public fety, Arnold's first act was to order reinforcement of patrols in the negro districts, where resent- ment against recent police activi- |ties is sald to be high. The grand jury report on its po lice department investigation, whicl is called incomplete, said in part Lack of Morale “In the taking of testimony |garding the department. it been further disclosed t this (previously referred to) ck of morale in the police force has con tributed in no small degrec to the amazing growth of ful prac tices in ved by them, a ha n quiry was Leslic Qui indieted y Detee- rs were as e has the territory nd while our efforts directed primarily te an regarding the handling human bein have been d to much information tuvoly and connecting b the police ment ami's underworld, W 1y convinesd in o! we sub ing some 1 open vio of san fame are pern inguestionable law enforcen: Police methods of oners drew report and urors (pronoi nt oflicers.” baudii a f wils damn Death ¢ Qui, i the and Nazworth, ause their behin of al t ho ih gro bell His deat) half years on charges of attemy 1 improper liaison ghter of a hotel guest and an r patron whom the voung lady not know. When Kier's body oc oth lid (Continued on Page 1 BONDS FIXED AT $25.000 Stephen Hoppe, Arraigned in Har(- ford Court, Must Stand Trial On Burglary Charges. Hartford, March 24 ®-—In polic, court today Stephen Hoppe, alins George Bersig, allexed jail fug tive, was bound over to the superior court under bonds of ] on trips from the jail anl return Hoppe was closely guarded by a po- lice detail. An unsuccesstul at tempt at reduction of the bond was made by Hoppe's attorney who waived examination, Hoppe has nearly recoy bullet wound wiich resulted | from his attempted emcape from a ! Hartford policeman February 20. Hoppe is charged with having burglar tools in his possession. He is suspected of lreaking into u Nor- wich theater the night of February 12 and he is wanted in Vermont and Maine for breaking jail. Quincy, Mass.. authorities are - | vestigating his suspected connection with the killing of & policeman in ) that town. d from