New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Advt, De t., Hartfond,pc Connectient State Libra ey Y, NEW BRITAIN HERALD BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1922—TWENTY PAGES Average Daily Circulation Fer Week Ending l 4’900 April 7th ... PRICE THREE CENTS JUNKERS MONOPLANE BREMEN PRESUMABLY HALF WAY OVER LANTIC WATERS FROM ERIN COUNCIL WILL NAME |GAVANAUGH READY PRESIDENT PROTEM | 70 TAKE CITY POST Nair Wil Be Candidate if Judd | [nsists He Was Elected to Ofiice Decides fo Retire of Town Clerk IAPATKA FOR DENOCRATS WANTS 10 BE GIVEN OATH dohn C. Loomis Being Mentioned for Rejected Candidate De res He Will Chaivman of Beard of Vinance and | Attend Inauguration l.\rl\'in(‘b? Taxation il Paoncssa |u~|m~c~"; Tuesday Prepared To Be Sw Senator Hail, | In As City oficial. Atderman Frank Zapatka of the| T. Clay Cavanaugh announced | fifth ward will be a candidate for the [this afternoon that he will present | office of president pro tem of the |himsclt at the inaugural | next Tuesday for the purpos ommon council when the demoerats | e | S democ ing sworn in as town an of- | T Ceth o R b e fice 1o which he considers himself | \u\vluns for offices which are filled fyooany slected, | ORI Cavanaugh offcred a petition ef The position is now filled by Alder- candidacy for the office of town William H. il ¥ ird | clerk to a member of the democr: |tic town committee 10 minutes ve fore the time limit for fiing such | | petitions expired on the night of March It was refused on the round that the chairman of the | committee only can accept petitions | |of candidacy. It was afterwards| [found that the petition as prepared | by Cavanaugh did not carry the| name under which he was made a | |voter, and that he is not a member | |0 fthe democratic party. In spite | 1of the fact that his name was not | {on the printed ballot used in the democratic primary, Cavanaugh re- ceived one vote for town clerk, the Ivote being written on the paper bal- {lot. On the same ballot a vote was given for the office of tax collector te a man who was not a candidate | Ifor the office. At the election Tues- | |day he received two votes in the| |sixth ward. Cavanaugh today issued the fol-' |lowing statement: “T consider T was | Hawrully elected city elerk in Tues | !lay’s election and shall present my- | self for investment into office on | Tuesday nest, April 17th, 1928, | | man Judd of the ALDERMAN FRANK ZAPATKA ward, but in view of the fact that e e IEGIE 10 HAVE 18TH from this district theee is reported 1o | | e a strong likelihood that he will not David L. Nair of the first wa will he the seleciions of the republicans, 1e of the e ared day. | h ) H 1 s atso sl 1t N il 1o | Republican Club Commit- | only in tie event that Judd does not, | g % 2 S e R dope ot | tee Wants Resolution in Party Platform but that of the latter is to | didate he will have Nair's support Alderman Nair is one of vet- cran members of the connmon coun- il and is chairman of the ordinance g 3 s = 5 committoe, one of the most impor- | NEW Work, Apiil 12 (RL—Che na- Uie wul-dilsions of tho. covrgil. | (OR8] ST TN chmmiiee ol A committed to repeal of the cigh- teenth amendment. The committee in executive scs- sion vesterday adopted a resolution |calling for incorporation in the par- | [ty platform of a plank advocating repeal of the amendment. The res- | olution will he submitted to the full imembership of the club next Tues- |day night. If it is adopted, its spon- | sors hope fo have it presented to [the national convention by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The viva voce vote on tfie meas- fure, it was reported, was so over- | whelmingly in favor that ne divi- | {sion was called for. Congressman | | Benjamin 1. Fairchild, chairman of }the committee, said that some op- position was voiced hefore the vote ! [ was taken but that the general sen- |timent was for adoption. | He predicted that the club also | would adont the resolution hy . |1arge majority, but oppenents of the | | measure looked for a strong opposi- | tion vote. Some dry members of the jclub said today that the meeting of [the committee was a coup by the| wets. About a score of the forty or zoning | more members attended, they point- law, building, clectrical and plumb- ' ed out, declaring that the resolution ing codes were put into e 'r {never would have been adopted by | public hearings. His cor 50 [the full committee. to be the ALDE N DAVID L. NAIR During his chairmanship the nittec Sunday sports or- | The opposition was understood to first ward alderman [ have been led by Richard W, I.«'I‘\-‘ is a member of fhe committee ap- | rence, incoming president of the | pointed to investigate activities in | club, who is head of the Hoover the department of public works and | forees in New York lie has served on many of the im- | William M. Calder. former sens porfant commitiecs appointed during (tor and retiring president of the the past 11 administrations club, offered a substitute vesolntion Alderman Zapatha is hopeful of [nrging that the question of continm- having the solid support of the dem- |ing the eighteenth amendment he crats, vhich em 10 votes. He lcyhmittad to the states, tmt his was A180 100ks (0T £0ME SUPPOrt AONE | o jomed the republican mewbers, To bring | T Pouglas Robinsen istant | About his 1201ion 45 MAYer Pro tem. | ceeretary of the navy, approved the | it will be necessary for him to turn | measyre in a letter to the commit- | Gver sin republican votes. | | The night of canens has nol been ' 17) (Continued on Page tved by (he two partios but the | daresude el mectings Wil take place on the | (@ peane e emions ke cvening, the two groups col- ton April 12 P—The M | ts publie utilitics commission jaborating in fixing the list of stand- ing commitices. Loomis May ced Hal it voluntary action by the The possibility of dent John | Cambridge Electrie Light company *. Loomis of the Commwercial Trust |in complying with the commission’s ‘0. being named chafrman of the [order reducing power rafes, which hoard of finance and ion n the [a federal decision yesterday umkvs: S effective, Henry G. Wells, a mem- | (Continued on 16) {ber of the commission, said today | concerned GERMAN-IRISH ,f‘fREn:gx‘D1k1? _ ’_ | The Junkers monoplane Bremen, now on fligh@ across Atlantic, ing in preparation for the flight when this picture was taken FLIERS IN THIS PLANE Kimball diti NEWFOU Bremen f Gale (—M Iy to Ma New Yor was receiving its last overhaul- ators in SECRECY SHROUDED ATTEMPT ON LIFE TEAPOT DOME DEAL' OF ITALIAN KING Govt. Witnesses Declare lnlor-fiVictor Emmaouel ~ Narrowly mation Was Not Given Ont Escapes Death by Bomb CASE IS MOVING SLOWLY WAS AT FAIR IN MILAN sons and About ¥ Tojured. lutcly Declined 1o Give tut Ins"” rty Others Are formation on lcasing Plans. Washington, April 12 (# — The which the charges cloaked the leasing of Tea- pot Dome to Marry I. Sinclair oc- cupied the prosccution today in the ! Milan, Ttaly. April 12 (P Vietor Emmanuel narrowly « death at the hands of morning when a powcrful homb ploded in the 7 Guilio Cesare. On Way to Fair King secreey government sassing conspiracy trial of the wealthy oil The king was on his way to in- operator. with numerous Witnesses augurate the Milan fair, but owing ng heard in guick succession. to a slight delay did not reach the Despite the maintenance of the rapidity which has marked the tal ing of testimony, however, the ac- | tual case progresscd slowly due to the duplication of testimony of many of the witnesses going over the same ground. This primarily the failure of Albert B. Fall to follow a compctitive bidding policy in handling Teapot Dome and subsequent reticence on his part as to the fact that Sinclair’s proposal | the spot where the explosion until 10 minutes later., Fourteen persons Killed most of them blown to picces, and about 40 injured. The internal ma- chine composed of a tube filled with high explosives and controlled by a timeclock had been concealed inside the base of a lamp post. The mech- anism of the clock was imperfect as it doubtless had bheen set to ea eaplosion the moment 1he occurred had been accepted. king was passing. The ronte had Facts Kept Secret been published in the papers, Operators of compelitor compan- | Great Havoe at Scene lies who had sought a leok-in for Terrific havoc was wrought anid leases of the Teapot Dome territory there was a scene of terror and testified concerning personal and confusion when the sovercign ap- | telegraphic interchanges with Fall | peared accompanicd by his suite and and his office. Senator Kendrick of e (Continued on 16) (Continued on Page HIISR Held Prisoner in> T ‘ I 6 W Driver Freed After Hour's Work By Rescue Squad With Hack Saws Chief Hart and Others Cut Through Thick Steering SITTING DEAD IN GHAIR Returns From Minstrel Show, Faces Tragedy in Home Post to Liberate Waterbu Stanley and Allen S When members of the Nelson family returned home at about 11 o'clock last night after attending a fts Out Lives of Fourteen Per- Thrilling Experience Unhurt. FAVORABLE WINDS FAGE HEROIC MEN 1 S B, Two Germans and One Irishman Making Gallant 1 | Attempt to Conquer Where All Others Have ~ Failed—Left Baldonnel at 12:38 A. M. Today —Should Be in Newfoundland at 11 o’Clock Tonight—Going 1} Miles a Minute. e Reports Wintry Con- ons on This Side ‘ NDLAND ~ MENACE .. . ....... | Three dauntless airmen following a trail on which all their able 10 Strike Southeast | Predecessors, five men and two women, died, were presumably .| more than half way across the ocean this afternoon on the latest To- 1 attempt to traverse the western air lane of the North Atlantic, fust Check Drift Careful- | NEVer yet spanned by an airplane. ! Start At 12:38 E. S. T. Miles an Hour Reand. The Junkers monoplane Bremen, with its crew of two Ger- ko Aprl 12 (P The three | mans and one Irishman, took off from Baldonnel airdrome near the Biremen have picked | Dublin at 12:38 eastern standard time this morning and when at Baldonnel aivdrome, Dublin. '« time of favoranle winds for their | it was last seen over the western coast of Ireland it had main- = transatlantic flig but will find | tained a speed of 90 miles an hour. [ wintry weather still prevailing, Dr. | Mid-Ocean At Noon fames M. Kimball of the United | If this speed, the most economical for the German ship, was | Srates weather burcan, who has ad- - continued over the ocean, the Bremen would have been at just vised all ef the ocean flicrs - from ! about mid-ocean at 12:38 this afternoon, 12 hours after the | it Wind Assiatance | Weather over the first leg of the ocean route was reported They will have considerable wind > & et e _— e e said, i contrast to| 10 be excellent, with less favorable conditions ahead off the : . . generally prevailing contrary | grand banks. Prices Careen Upwards $1 fo ey o el The | Dite Now: ¥ark-Tostrbow cat menace of the flight will be The fliers, Baron Ehrenfried Von Huenefeld, sponsor, and | $10 a Share \haiontlonn sesk of Henoundlaod | (oot Hermann - Kosklianid Ool, Jatmes Fitzmaurice, pilots, hoped Setala Ly vzing and where there are proba- | 10 fly over Newfoundland some time around midnight and OF BLOCKS ARE SOLD bly Jow clouds | reach Mitchel field about noon tomorrow, but it was recognized HU An additional ebstacie mear the | that adverse winds might delay the arrival several hours. ! ond of the flight will be the dis- | —— turbance which passed up the coast 5 i - Swollen Stream of Orders Pours in from Delaware breakwater and had | l n ‘_\.,,"‘:\'d"'x"“l‘l"‘{f"ff;,"_B';a'::‘n‘F{; peached Cape Cod this morning. At | e R 5 Early Today, Forcing Many 1ssues that gate it would be in the yiei pirations of (we nations. £OP tranBm: 10 New High Becords — General () S0 | Motors Rises Again, it Danic of Sable Island today. i Efl[flfl m Fl‘l[iHijonopmnc Bremen sped westward w o e (ran] | today on what was hoped to be the om 45 o 60 miles an hour m(om-‘, first spanning of the Atlantic from A southes | atlantic flying honors, the silver grey reported velocity ranging | g 0 . . A : | feast to west by airplane. Essaying Ngw Yark, April \?\11 it ,)""l'y",ll‘;”,"':“;‘\' I: ;'?u\x‘l“;: the same feat seven aviators have o witnessed anothor n ewfoundland today, . Kimba H 9 lost their lives since last May. oo e e o o s e ot o G0, JgS Fitomaurice I Hand- 1o tete v sinee i S nge today over the K Banks. Light to 1* Perron i L b SeBHL 0 . . v struck spectators watch- Gred only the. markes from ihe | irom that mres. Tempmramrenreed | 00D, Dashing Fignm |0 e "R ke e poured onto ik o1 rom that arca nperaturcs gen- | speeding along the runway but fail- sound of ni vally ranged around freczing. Hali- N ling to rise at first. After running prices § v share and sen i had slect this morning. which 900 yarda tho plane took the aifey SRS s to high records. | indicated low clouds with resultant HUMAN[ZES EXPEDITION 88 & 'mi, (12338 eastern Stanfacd 3locks of shares were poor visibility time). The fig o 300 rediie 1 it o dozen Vessel is Out = | 4 B Might,jof “momio’ 300N block vom 1o Dre Kimball was informed by a | Known Throughout as cvite” (Continucd on Page Two) 000 shar [ States ice patrol vessel : | " : o i was about miles south of Plying Ace is Commandant of T folors : WA A surfice temperature of | Ve State Air Force—Is But 30 Nfl e G degrecs af the 10 Banks this | yeare O, kg norning eowind was from the | 154, .8 northeast with a velocity of 28 miles. Baldonnel Airdrome, lrish Iree | e 1 wa maly \l. i | state. Apei M e B Thi: Wined " Kiimbal Sl first app I T T Ddeney 1o carry the | €0me, dashing figure of Colonel | A only ST b VNS 10 The southof Cape Racee, X, | James Pitmaurice. 30 year old [If Bremen Succeeds in L Spalon] 1% particularly it the fiers missed | tommandant of {he Irish Free - iy L caleulations on wind dniet. 1 S air force, has humanized e | Eastward Flight Tt Will . i~ « Nt b thus more of a hindranee Bremen flving expedition which on | i 1 89 hiure : making their fiest | March 26 slipped away seeretly Be First WS ST EY sid rom Berlin | i Americ -1 u ' ! o . Fitzmaurice, who is known all | ’ Conditions Wcal over Ireland as “Fitz' had 1o New York. April 12 ) — If the | (Contimued on Page 16) 5 ; Zo STrRiiak B =, H v Grace, N 1. April (M in at 6 with Baron Von Huenc- | Gierman plane Bremen succeeds in ldeal weather conditions prevailed | fold’s attempts to keep all informa- | its Mgt across the Atlantic it will his Ning in this section of New- (tion about the Bremen and the the first to complete the perilous ruc rec age 1 the German Junkers | flight plans from the public. As | ward passage. , plan nen started its 1 west- | soon as Free State officials granted hree other planes, carrying five e Aflantic him leave of absence, however, the | Hen and two women vanished into rly WIICH - was | glignt heeame an Irish national | the north Atlantic haze attempting rday had ended and to- ot the westward flight and never were ry Man Pinned in Cab at treets — Victim of TAX REVENUE IN 1928 MOUNTS 70 52,936,961 s no wind. The sky was heard of again. hroughout their stay in Trel s oaas 18 and German fliers, parti o menT s e s Con D0 B R o i g i P 0l L aicbel ah o m:l«}u Charles Nungesscr and ’ ing to themselves and the Free MOF Francis Coli, attempting flight 1 airport was safe for ust suthorities were seriously em. | ['0M Paris to New York. Took eff - 23 ) e of thein | MAY S1927 in the White Bird. wrrassed by the desire of their 3 . ¢ 16) Princess . Lowenstein < Wertheim, zuests to have full ru of Baldon- Captain sion of all Leslie Hamilton and Fred- erick 1% Minchin, attempting & flight from Upavon, England, to Oftawa, Ont, 100k off Aug. S, 1927 in the St Laphacl. nel field to the cxcl The invits Fitzmaurice fo ter Arthar Spind- to Germany f Huenefeld's | iiecome co-pilot Waiter R. G. Hinchliffe : ; T questioning Baron Von s Honorabie Eista Mool o i For wiare than half an hour this direction o I i onorable Elsie Mackay how at the Statc Trade school, they o e e Fd Farding weather condi- | tompting a flight from Croydon air- (Io”“d JOI"“ Nelson a'l AL [ TOYDAN S, i \ i Wat I hrought ahont i ang e nature of Englund, to New York or disease vietim tin a chair at of 1014 South Main street, Wator- [ (FOUERD 220U - Liefore leaving Treland | 1y 1. took off March 13, 1928 h 5 e t Lihe car, as the ot 2199 . ; +. took off March 13, 192 his h()|x|n"d Stanley stret- He was |,y was pinned tizhtly in the cab | g he iy e Incy 21,925 Over appealed fo the Trish | in the Endesvor years old. : s o = ; ! - i ; : 4 b . 2 ; 3 h of a ton truck by the stecring heing obliged to act quickly to avord 1927 Renor : wiblic 1o deselop airmindednessand | Three planes, all manned by Amer- 1\]1’1’” isumn "' Mrs. ]er>on and | ool which was janimed against } collision between his trick and the ot R(I)flll(‘d b.‘ avasp the country’s opportunities as jcans, 1ide castward flight to children an to make prepara- |y 00y when the truck struck a | g v to the v . enter of oce air rout f the | Burope from 1) try and (w . - ifal A1 his body whe ok K@ | stopped car, he swung to th Loomis 4 center of ocoan air routes of 1} wwope from this country and {wo :;:n ’(or].n nlllh' of entertainment at [ . on the northeast corner of Al | hoping to go around the car 0omi future. He cited what Lindbergh | British and two American flyers <how r\‘:f: ;L;::mlv“«“" Tqfl \T-m' W,' {lcn and Stanley strects, and Chicf W. | was unablc (o do howey —_— had done for America and pointed | ere the north Atlantic from New- i w";“ . :Lwli:-' l';‘""];"_ 'I‘:N' e Hart of the police department, i e front of hix truck crashed T R to Lindbergh as the greatest figure | foundlind to Ircland and England. | Where he planned to stay for & aujet | Fireman William Shaw and other | the roc with zreat force. 1o ; : or than in 3927, Collec. M the aviation world. to whom all| Three plancs wire lost in the ate evening. According 'vi) l'r“ J‘olm | willing rescucrs worked frantically | hauling 1wo tons of merchandise at Bernadotte Loomis roported in a | #iTmen looked fo 1 the seicnce | tempt % . = : i with a hack saw and finally ent | the tinm e AT ffice g | ON 10 new attainments. In his final The successful flights: nalid] d(r,':i,‘, ,r:.m(.:‘.:n"hn'm::m;,', through the thick post of the steer-1 signals Distross to Passerby s o et Ty e | lntoment o said [ Captain Joln Alcock and Licut. miiEt M'h”"“ iito M»"‘ 'a“d Ling apparatus and released Lemicuy Nobody stopy 1o 1 h ¥ i Pl o oy Ave hever noIn Ameriea, | Arthur W Brown, from Newfound- the heart attack came as he slept, | "¥ removing the wheel. Despite his [ or not his truck hid been damazod, gl g i ngainst $2.612.055.53 but T am looking forward to an | 1And 10 Ireland, starting June 14, i e R out 35 |UXDPeTience he did not appear 10 nor did anyone on the 1 ans o American welcome to a Saorstat| 1% SSm IR Beeden AbolL T S e - conectned about hin, for b i i : b i blor] « | Colonel Charles AL Lindbergh in years ago he came to this country | M\e suficred gy ¥ ! n 1o " air corps man ¥Friday affernoon. ¢ N and for 1he first 12 years he lived | "09¥ Was aching and his nerves wore byt peiploss tor sevoral minntes i " $ Had Waited Long S el T, | e in Middletown. He worked at the |® “dge on account of the uncom- | fore he was able {0 aitiact attention s i | 4 tong ®ait for Tavorablc wenther | tarting May 1227, Stanley Works for 24 years and on | (0Mable position he was compelled | A call was cent fo Co. Noo 700 the sogag 1y had ended for the Germans, who Chamberlln ang Match 26. ot next. year would h to maintain for =0 long 4 ime. For | fire departinent, which i« a few hun - o) Lt irrived hete in sceret on Marehs 24, | Uharles A, Levine, in the Columbia e SR ntimeat yal BoUld e & ¢ (@Al 00| grad il Ay fe So%n. B M e i B r.. | from New York to Germany, start- boen admitted to the Twenty.Eive | MNately the truck did no dred foet away by ‘ B Te $2,926, ¢ leaving Templehofer airdrome. | M7 Fet YOI Your clieh of the oorpsstion for had a blaze made is Way 1010 af 43 Franes dteeet. who told o o Tases. (Berdin, that, mornlne almant amher. | 75, JU0e 4 1027 3 Peitornilly: o b . | the cab, Lemiaux would undoubted-| firemen Lemicus had atir 1 1959 re 823037070 ’ Commander Kiciard B, Ryrd and G AN AREoMatea A alded they arrived at Baldonner | -+ 00 in- {lis Amietick With the Tegner lodge, Order of || have been roasted to death with- [ attention by waving, Several of TR ) PR S e il our companions in ths N Vasa and the Stanley Works Mutual }’mn being able to lift a finger 1o | yotorists had passed despite Lom ol $11.00 T Bl bl ‘-”‘:‘n v\: u]“\‘n.m to France, starting Aid society. He was also a member | 10Ip himself i = RO ‘ Fo of 106 miles an hour. | * \wifiam &, Brock ) of the First Lutheran church Hits Tree Avoiding Other Car | (Continned on Pz 16) ( it ; William =, Brock and Edward F. ” b ) o They wanted to continue on 1he | <ehjee in the Pride of Detroit from Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. | Shortly after 8 o'clock Lemicux, inc 4 Mol Of | ext duy, ‘Bt poot seuther set dn ] Harsor Gracy cwioundland, te Charlotte Nelson: a son. Arthur Nel- | according to his story 1o """"“'"' * — = L) RS S08.088.0, nicly ds ’]" - and also some dissension arose | | {:“-M e August 27, 192 son: two daughte Mrs. Arthur . was driving north on Stanley ! $04.67 more than the corresponding which resiled 1 The o o setipte ke e ; . q 5 . ; s csulted o substitution e three uns: s npt Windisch and Miss Ethel Nelson. | Street in the truck. which is owned | | THE WEATHER month of last year. Iems of pay-|>hich rosuied in the iy |l :\ "llhlr' g ;:;::lart‘te;l: 1 both of this city: two sister, Mrs. Al- | by the Tiyrolly Transportation Co. of | | | foliowed by those of | © a Arthur | Lioyd D. aud, J I 4y g st Wakermiryi |1 New) i Spindler. who flew from Berlin as | i'hilip I'ayne in Old Glory, attempt- fred Hiller of Bridgeport and an- | #1° South Main street, Waterbury, | w co-pliot | flight from Old Orchard, Me. other in Sweden: and five grand- and as he approached Allen stroct Mostly clo o ke o e ght | 3 children he saw a car, headed west on Al- | ally much A Dramatic Moment 100k off Sept. 6. 1 1 arrangements, in charge t. come to a stop in the | | change in temperature, g Ther was a dramatiec moment Captain Terry Tully an Liewt. son & Carlson C'o., are in- | center of the point of intersection to | _ 1 | y 1 ) « ‘age 16 complete | allow another car to pass in a south- | % ——— - A * | (Continted on Page 16) (Continued on FPage 16)