New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1928, Page 1

[meom] NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 MISSISSIPPI MOB LYNCHES NEGROES AFTER BATTERING APART HEAV Hanging Follows Fight Between Garage Owners and Colored Men in Which Chief of Police Was Slight- ly Hurt. Taken From Cells After Timbers Smash Jail, One Was Dragged Through Streets With Rope— Hanged on Outskirts of City. Brookhaven, Miss., June 30 (P}— Quiet and a little bit apprehensive, Brookhaven carried on as usual to- day with no traces of the violent ex- citement that rocked the town last night when two negroes were iynched by a mob. | Early this morning the mutilated bodies of the victims were swaying from huge live oak trees beyond the city limits. Even the most curious | hesitated to visit the spot after mid. night. Other negroes who migh their have cut them down were in homes with doors locked. Follows Fight The lynching resulted from a fight early in the day between the negroes, two brothers, and two white ude and Cabby Byrne, au- rvice station proprietors. Claude suffered a broken hip, his brother, Cabby, received a sealp | wound from a pistol shot while the ehief of police, Walter Smith, was slightly hurt. The negroes fled but were captured and jailed after one had been shot three times by of- ficers. Gather On Corners With dusk, small bands of men gathered on downtowp corners and (Continued on Page 12) CAUGHT IN BRISTOL ON ROBBERY CHARGE Alleged Highwaymen Held on Tip Furnished by Victim (Special to tho Herald) Bristol, June 30—The guick eye and keen ear of John Haskell, a night employe of the New Departure Co. of this city, proved the undoing of Raymond B. Oliver, aged 35, and Frank D. Lovely, alias Frank Rich- ard, alias Charles Richard, aged 24, when he was held up at the point of a revolver on Terryville avenue | about 3 o'clock this morning. Hask- ell claimed to recognize Oliver's voice and also to have recognized the revolver as one stolen from the U. 8. recruiting office here. Haskell was returning from work when he was stopped by two mask* ed men, one of whom pointed a re- volver at him and ordered him to turn over his week’s pay, amounting to $26. He gave up the money and then notified the police department. The victim of the robbery said that he knew Oliver and recognized his voice. He also said he was ac- quainted with 1“e Bristol recruiting officer and recognized the revolver as one which was stolen from the recruiting office some time ago. Detective Sergeant Danfel McGil- Heuddy and Patrolmen William Thompson, Thomas McCarthy, Tim- othy Lambert and Edward O'Con- nor arrested Oliver and Lovely at thelr boarding house at 22 Alder street. Both men denied their guilt and sald they had been in bed ail night. Their clothing was™ found damp as though from dew aad a sum of money which the police claim was the missing $26 was found hidden under a bathtub. The gun was not recovered. The men are brothers-in-law and according to the police, have rece ords. Lovely was arrested in Brock- ton, Mass., in 1919 for larceny and was scntenced to a correction home. Tn 1924 in the same city he was ar- rested for theft of an automobile and robbery with arms and was giv- en 18 month in jall. Last month he was arrested for assault and battery on his mother-in-law. Oliver was arrested in Bristol in 1924 for car- rying deadly weapons and served time in jall in default of $100 fine. He is a former sailor and has been secn in the clty frequently in his nniform. He also has been in the army. Police think they are linked up with several other robberies which have occurred in the city re- cently The men were arralgned in police court this morning and were placed under $1.000 bail for a further hear. ing Monday. In the meantime the police will continue their Investiga- tlons. Both pleaded not gullty and were locked up in default of bail. Richards is further charged with obtaining goods under false pre- tenses, by nurchasing a sult of clothes valued at $£41 from a local {1y Y JAIL DOORS STORMS KILL SIX PEOPLE IN S0UTH Damage in Tennessee and Ken- | tucky Will Reach Millions Twenty-three Houses Go Down in Swirling Mass of Water and Wind | in Alexandria, Tenn.,—Communi- cations Crippled. P— Ten- Nashville, Tenn., June 0 Scattered reports from Middie nessee and Kentucky today showed that at least six persons had been killed and millions of dollars dam- age caused by torrential rains and windstorms that swept the states yesterday. The breaking of Cookeville's mu- 1 power dum on the Falling| r river sent a huge wall of | water down t narrow valley to Caney Fork river, already but did not caus ward the above tlood s ny deaths as could be ermined. In the same general area, the small daughter and wife of a er, were drowned when s ercel washed away their hon they slept. In Buffalo valley the two voung daughters of another two | Smith ROADS ARE IMPASSABLE NEW BRITAIN, FOREIGN PRESS 15 NOT INTERESTED Only Two English Papers Com- ment on S Smith SAY HE IS PIED PlPER Ircland Thrilled, France Not Inter- ested While Germany Praises Ability of Governor Alfred E. Smith as Leader. London, June 30 (A—Only two morning papers commented today on the nomination of Gov. Alfred E. This was perhaps due to the fact that Herbert C. Hoover was so well known here through his war work that his nomination attracted more editorial notice, The Times said the democratic party had chosen “a man whose power of attracting retaining followers is comparable to that of | the Piper of Hamelin” Neverthe- less the paper thought that this tas! of winning the v number of votes in the electoral college would not be cusy. Compare the Two In comparing the two candidates, he paper said: “Hoover's spacial strength re- vealed in seven years in high of- fice, lies in improving the productive wity of the country by confer- | de- | \\.m ' experien s concentrated as Hoguer has been varied has ne iperior guide to the possibili- | ties inherent in wise and humane |dministration of public bhusiness. { | farmer also were drowned whil John §. Lewis, Nashville deputy sheriff, was electrocuted when he stepped on a power wire that had fallen in a puddle. Three women | in scattered sections were reported seriously injured with a score or| more slightly hurt. Homes Destroyes At Alexandria, Tenn, 23 resi- dences were destroyed and other buildings damaged In both Kentucky and Tennessee roads were practically impassabic with telegraph and telephone lines badly erippled. washed out, bridges ci , frees up- rooted, and in many pluces, rail- road tracks undermined but, bec: tion, of the difficulty of communic it was impossible to obtain an ac- curate estimate of damage Child Lost At Louisville, Ky., one child was drowned in a flooded eellar; at Lex- cords more than a contury ruined when water flooded asement of the administration building of the University of Ken- in the mountain county of a lundslide carried away th th Louisville ington, the L supplicd liv pipe with natur 1 points on the Kentuc ky and Cumb land rivers came reports of amazing- apid rises in both streams, 0 serious flood danuge wis ex- pected at Louisville but it was feo ed the Ohio river would overrun its banks between there and Peducalil NORTH DAKOTA VOTERS FAVOR PROHIBITION Repudiate Attempt to Repeal State's Dry Laws By 5,000 Majority Fargo, N. D, June 30 (P—North Dakota voters have repudiated an attempt to repeal the state's prohi- bition law. Returns today from primary clection showed that they turned down a proposal to wipe out the dry cause of the state constitu- tion. The margin was comparatively small—around 5,000 votes—but it was big enough to insure no change in the statute which has been on the books since 1889, The prohibition clause forbids the manufacture and s of intoxi- cating liquors within the borders of North Dakota. Attempts had been made to modify it, but without suc- o even in the days when most of the rest of the country was legally Last spring a petition was filed with the secretary of state by a group of anti-prohibitionists, calling for a referendum on the question of repealing the law. A spirited cam- paign was made in its behalf. Less than 400 of the state’s 2,192 precincts remained unreported early today, and even the leaders in the repeal movement saw no chance to upset the dry margin. Financial Help Promised In Case of Threat of War Geneva, June 30 (P—Financial help for the non-aggressive nation in event of war or the threat of war is provided for in a project before the League of Nations committee on arbitration and security. The echeme also provides that & country threatcning to start an ag- gressive war shall be warned that if actual aggression develops, the vie- tim will be furnished with the fi- nanctal means for defense. If the plan should become opera- tive, 1t would affect signatories of the proposed Kellogg treaty to out- law war, because violations of the pact wouid fall under the ban of the league, A speclal convention open to non-memhcrs of the league, business place. under the name of Frank Lovely, far which he has patd only $5. \ like the United States, is provided for if approved by the league coun- eil. Wednesday's | many | | term, s and agreed economies, by the wlmmnum- of waste and by the de- clopment of foreign markets. Smith combines a great record of pro- slation with outstanding nd an instinet for the due limits of government action.” The Chronicle The Daily Chronicle said ‘Whether Hoover or Smith s elected the United States will have a strong executive and ruler. Both men are forceful and have nany abilities and' unblemished ree- side or¢ emarking on the Smith being « |out a democr: possibility of cted president with- nmajority in cone- consequent situation similar to Woodrow Wilson's second the paper thought that this might unfortunate reperenus- sions on the course of the foreign policy of the United States The puper, however, “Apart from that slight risk, forcigners may view the prospeet with unusual con- fidence. Tn either case a president fully worthy of the leading place which the United States holds seems ie sai I gas and from various | CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, —SIXTEEN PAGES Average Daily Circulation For Week Endiu June 23rd . 14,848 PRICE THREE CENTS Seek Globe Record By Plane and Boat [JEMOCRATS ARE ON THEIR WAY HOME A and “Jog” to Tak of Party ,f;;jr SEN ROBINSON ACCLAIMED | | | | \\Ill Never hnow How Many Vo for Him as Bands Drowned Out Chairman in Hall. Ho ¢ | adding T | to the 8 ticket |on their way home, leaving the [ tinies of the party in the hands of Smith and “Joe” Robinson he convention has {come to a close ear « | with deing things by } When these | nominate candidat U measures. d out to nom- Luge HIc they w inated with a IHHHN\ It nas so pr choi was hursd ain on the | vice-president yestorday atternoon. (ll‘ to Lead | Senator Jose Robinson of Ar kansas was (vll' with a great le ywhen the vice-presidentinl nominag | tion came up tfor consideration | his friends said it with votes | e credited with more than at the close of the roll Senator A. W. Barkicy of {tucky and Mrs. Nellie Taylos former governor of Wyoming, changed the votes of their trom their own the Arkansas sen, onld work their | torm, the enthusiastic d¢ ing for Robinson were finally closed ti minority 1 r had 000 of the 1,180 votes. Probably he never will know lLow many voted for him, for state chair- men were still shouting for recosni until Ken- Ross, stutes 1t of soon as they plat- tes yell- on the senate than 1,- ccount to t tor more | NEA New York Bureau All set for the start of their attempt at a globe-circling record, John Henry Mears, left, and Captain C. B. D. Collyer are shown | ol e i n e e {above in the cabin of the plane which will carry them on part of Einolloers o Noxine Goullls have | their trip. Collyer, the pilot, is holding Tail Wind, their mascot. | «aia that the nomination in Below is their monoplane, City of New York, which will bc?vlw bag" for Senator Robinson. He shipped by boat to Europe. must have had a suggestion that he The deleg: DANELS SAYS SHITH ICE CONDITONS ADD |+~ WAS VERYILLTIMED TOPERILS OF TALINS - was remaining away from the convention hall alternates and vis- 1 home with the Sidewnlks of New 0ld ¢ for he kept his modesty intact by he &t Sho Gsed ringing in | 3 : | their cars. Some of them mever | Declares (-m’ernm Wire Fog Prevents Afrmen |again may hear of the decling of Ol - ™ 5 Gray ) and possibly they will to Convention in Hous- l From Agpvroachin~ | |not be sorrv. Al the six hands fur- “pT » | e ¢ . % |iiching music for the convention ton “Unnecessary Stranded Crew seemed to have a yearning for pres | |senting in tragic notes the sad fate | [of the old er: ¢ mare. | | malcigh, N. €., June 30 ®—Jo-| Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, June 30} Campaign Song | I sephus Daniels, former sccrctary of (P—lce conditions about the en-| *“The Sidewalks of New York' » the navy, in a dispatch to the Ia- compment of the survivors of the |expected o earry on as a campa | Parin pane B e AL |1¢lEh Nows and Observer lust night, | Italia were grting worse today and {song for the demoerats. Just hehind | ered 1 '\_“” s o o | characterized the telegram of Gove adding to their peril. Fog prevent- the two favori was another folk 1 Smith and Senator Joseph | grnor gmith of New York accepting|oed alrmen from approac hing them [song. “I've Deen Working on the | . Robinson picked a bad time to bej] democratic presidential nomina- | hut hopes were held t better | Railroad,” and every hand at the | nominated from the standpoint of | ¥ 'y and ill-timed”” | conditions would soon prevail as the [convention played “Dixis many | publicity in the French newspapers. As good feeling and unity pre- | woather wis improvi |times every day. The visitors prob- ® nomination of Smith was t00 | vujjeq the statement said, “the| The wind and currents drove the |ably will relish some Jazz pleces for the morning papers yes wle of discord was thrown into marooncd men nine miles o the [when they zet home. Certainly the |terday., And with the ticket com- |ihe peaceful convention by the un-|cast and today they were nearly |passing of the activities of the gray | 1 today the space of the mOrn- | wise Jotter from Gov. Smith, Time | nine miles north of N nd [ mare will be tuned out by those who {ing papers is devoted to Premies | wus needed for healing wounds, In- | and cast of Cape 1 Smith. fought the battle of Houston for Al | Poincare’s new leaso on life until|gieqq before disappointment of | A small Swedish flying boat set |Smith and Joe Robinson, October and the arrest of NEW Jthose who doubted the wisdom of [out from Hinlopen strait in - an| Just hefore the adjournment of blueheard who courted hundreds of | his nomination could be lessened the jattempt to reach the castaways but |the convention sine dic messag women souic of whom are missing. il | — was read from Governor Smith, ac papers commented on what (Continued on (Continued on Page 12) cepting the nomination and giving rded as the ,unexpected s 1 e his views on pending questions, in- yness of the democratic platform. g 14 = # [cluding prohibition. The New York There was less interest in €mith be- THE WEATH governor reiterated his previously ause he Is not so well known to \ New Britain and vicinity: | foxpressed opinions on the question Paris as Herbert Hoo | ettled, probably showers | [of national prohibition and told the It was the governor's smile that .| 1] this afternoon and carly to- | [men and women who nominated him caught the French eye and the pic- o 11 night; cooler tomight, Sun- | ifor the presidency of his conviction g 1 day partly cloudy. | ey (Continucd on Page 14) * ' * (Continued on Page 14) [ THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS . . . . . by Knight & S A YoukGsTerZ / TWENTY Four T LUsTY NATIONALITIES ) QEPRESENTED Ew WOLY CA0SS' LN OVR SCHOOLS NEWING TON uzzurau HELD & uuu.o NEW / ol \Mgl‘“N 3 S engaenct FoLK TS e PROHIBITION FORCES FACE " to tell them what he plans to do IlI o NEQ l)(. "‘L[ St lARATIllN (a. a, namplon Ot .. England Zone | Atlantic City, N. J., June 30. | — Dominic Cartelli of New | Britain, Conn., today won the | sectional ~ championship for | New Lngland in the national | “Imarble championship contests | here. He will play in the semi- finals on Monday. SMITH T0 TALK T0 AMERICAN PEOPLE Will Tl Weat Hell Do il Blected ; WILL NOT KNOGK HOOVER. No “anned” Speeches in Campaign and No One Will Tell Smith What o Say—His Own Boss—Wires | 0 i In. BY W. W. Associated Press Staff Writer, Albany, N. Y., June 30 (#—*"Con- | structive statesmanship” will be the watchword | campaign for the presidency. CHAPLIN of Governor Smith’s | “I don't know when the cam- baign is going 1o begin or what ter- ritory it will cove the governor | said, “but 1 do know that 1 will talk | to the American prople just as I've talked to the people of my own state in past campaigns.” And the way he has talked to New Yorkers, his intimates add s | e is elected; to give languuge a picture | to hielp them, and not to *“run down “m other fellow” so that Smith | may seem desirable by comparison. No Canned Speeches | “What he will do when he starts mpaigning,” one man close to the [Kovernor in past political _battles | said, just to lay before the peo- | ple how T thinks he can act so as 1o make the 1 A. a little better place to live in There will be no *“canned speech- es," this man d, and there will be | nobody telling the governor what to He will figure out for himself exactly what he believes he can ac- | comphsh if he is elected and he will | state his case in his own lauguage for the approval of the voters, It was learned today that the gov- ernor did not actually write any of the planks in the democratic plat- form but that he did talk to the people who did write them and they were conversant with his principles as stated in public addresses as gov- ernor. them in plain of hiow he hopes To Go to New York Tomorrow the governor will go to New York city and in the next few | days il meet national committee- men for discussion of the campaign. He will attend the annual Fourth of July meeting at Tammany Hall and address a meeting of “new voters” from the steps of the city hall He returns to Albany next Thurs- day and plans to attend the annual Boy Ecout outing at Bear Mountain. He hopes to be able to take a short vacation before starting active | cam paigning. Rainy weather postponed until to- night a public parade and demon- stration for the governor, but it could not kecp him from being thoroughly Kissed by three stenog- raphers. Wires Pour In When telegrams of congratulation on his nomination flowed in so fast that the telegraph companics gave up putting cach one in an envelope and sent them up to the executive mansion in batches of 100, three stenograpliers from the capi- tol were called in to sort them out and take answers to them. As they entered the governor's home they met him in the hall and throwing their arms about his neck kissed him resoundingly. “And plus that”” the governor said in relating the incident, “they gave me a big bunch of roses.” The governor was amazed at the number of telegrams that poured in on lhim and considerably per- turbed that because of their num- ber he would be unabl knowledge each one pes “In all my political career,” he said, “I have always answered every telegram of congratulations with a signed letter.” “I ave always felt this way about it. You can't send a telegram for less than a quarter and some of those from Houston and other places must have cost a couple of doliars. Well, if anybody is glad enough to you win to spend money to tell you so they must mean it. I'd like to thank every one of them, but it would take me months to do noth- ing but send letters to them. So please tell them in the papers that I appreciate their kind thoughts.” The governor said today that he was very lonely for his wife and children, who have been at the con- vention in Texas, and was looking forward eagerly to seeing them again when the special train on which they are travelling reaches Albany tomorrow. | FIRST REAL TEST DUE T0 OF GOV. SMITH N. Y. Governor Has Forced the Issue Re- gardless of Whatever Stand Is Taken by Secretary Herbert Hoover. |Lines Sharply Drawn in Battle Which May Be- come Most Critical Po- litical Question in Coun- try’s History Since Slav- ery. Houston, June forces which broug! 30 (UP)—Dry bout federal prohibition are now facing their real crisis. After a test of more ars, the Volstead act, drafted by the late Wayne B. Wheeler, head of the Anti-Saloon league, is about to be placed in judgment. That is what the candidacy of Gov. Alfred E. Smith means in view of his declaration to the democratic national convention that he feels it his duty as the leader of the party to point the way to a different solution of the liquor problem. Sharply Drawn The issue is sharply drawn and may perhaps become the most criti- cal political question since slavery for it goes down to the most fund: than eight | mental beliefs of the average man. The conflict s between those who believe it is every man's right to decide whether he shall drink in- toxicating liguor or not and those who believe liquor is bad and the federal government should under- take to deny it to all. It is between those who believe in permitting the indlvidual to discipline himself and those who believe the government should do It because some are too week to be trusted by their own responsibility, Pledge Enforcement. The democrats have adopted a platform pledging strict law en- forcement and avoiding all reference to the modification issue. The re- publicans have done the same thing. So there is nothing partisan in point- ing out that hoth of these planks are platitudes hecause every office- holder takes a pledge to enforce the lawe, A president or any other officla who refused to enforce the laws would be subject to impeachment. The issue is whether the law should stand or be changed. Smith has declared it should be changed. Hoover, the republican candidate, has not declared himself but the ag- gressive fight which Smith apparent- ly intends to make on the modifica- tion issue probably will force Hoov- er to take a definite stand. Most politicians believe the republican party will take the dry side. Forces Issue Regardless of the stand Hoover takes, Smith has forced the issue. Either way Hoover goes on modifi- cation or if he never defines hig po- sition, the drys will be facing their first real test since prohibition. Un- til now no presidential candidate has come out frankly for modification. Smith has put the questign up to the country and there will be no escaping it in the election. The backbone of the fight necessarily will fall to the Anti-Saloon league, the organization which wrote the 1Sth amendment and the Volstead act into the law of the land. The league goes into it deprived of the expert services of the late Wayne B. Wheel- er who bore the burden of the original battle. Many affiliated dry organizations and church socleties will pool their forces. Technically nothing can be done toward modifications unless a con- gress favorable fo modification is elected. Congress has been three- quarters dry for several years. A president can only recommend laws. He also can veto them but with a two-thirds majority in congress such bills can be passed over his head. Override Veto As congress stands today & wet president vetoing enforcement legis- lation could be easily overridden. However, most real causes are bound up in personalities and Smith is such a dramatic figure now and he is so definitely identified as the champion of the modificationists, that his victory or defeat will have a tremendous psychological effect— and psychological eflects have very real consequences in politics. A victory for Smith would encourags modification sentiment which would be later repealed in congress and bis defeat likewise womld make the cause of the wets seem hopelss. Moat drys concede that Smith is the strongest figure the wets have, If they cannot win with 8mith they can not win with anybody. If the drys beat Smith they need not fear for the safety of the prohibition laws for the present at any rate, This is why the candidacy of Gev, Smith brings the prohibitionists face to face with their most eerious crisis, STORES CLOSE AT 6 P. M. New Britain stores affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce l will closs at § e'clock p. m. $o- dap.