New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1928, Page 1

f [mom] NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 HOOVER BEGINS T0 HOLD CONFERENGES Abandons Plan fo Spend Quiet Week-End at Home VISITS WITH GOYV. YOUNG 'Will Meet Hiram Johnson for a Con- ference Soon — After Acceptance Spoech Hoover Plans to Go On Fishing Trip. Stanford University, Cal,, July 21 UP—Abandoning his original plans for a quiet week-end at his home here, Herbert Hoover today began a series of political conferences which will be continued intermit- tently until the time of his notifica~ tion on August 11. Gov. C. C. Young of California was the first of those from whom the republican presidential nominec sought information as to the political situation on the Pacific coast. The governor was invited to luncheon and for a discussion after- wards in Mr. Hoover's study. During the early days of next week Mr. Hoover will confer with Scnator Hiram Johnson and leaders from other Pacific coast states. Mr. Hoover will spend Sunday quictly at home, but will attend church services, probably in the beautiful chapel at Stanford univer- sity. Between times, the nominee will work on his acceptance address, al- most all of which already is in the first draft stage, After the speech is ready for the printer, the republican standard bearer will lay aside the cares of the campaign and take to the hills, at some point in his home state, for several days of rest and fishing. Rested By Trip While he has benefited by the trip across the continent, which end- ed yesterday morning, the commerce secretary has had many months of hard work and feels both the desire and need for a brief vacation hefore the strenuous days that are ahead of him after the notification cere- monies. Those who saw the nominee today said he secmed happy to be back home once more on the campus of the university where he made his way through school. Save for the years during the war when his re- lef work kept him in Europe, Mr. Hoover has lived on the campus since 1909, Small Structure His first home there was a rather small frame structure, rented. Then he purchased a larger home, but this | did not quite suit Mrs. Hoover, who designed the present structure, which embodies her ideas of a thor- oughly sunlit home. The building, a Spanish type stucco, covers a large area, and is set in the middle of a beautiful garden on a gently sloping hillside. The second floor there is a spa- | clous entrance hall, and beyond a (Continued on Page 11) MRS. DAVIS PREPARES FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY| Receives Friends Today at | Home on Parkmore Street Mrs. Adeline 8. Davis arose earlier than usual this morning and with the enthusiasm and agility of one many years younger, busied herself with preparations for her 90th birth- day, which occurs tomorrow. This afternoon at the home of Benator and Mrs. Edward F. Hall of 23 Parkmore street, friends will be received to pay their compliments to one of the city's oldest residents and perhaps the only person in New Britain today who remembers Elihu Burritt as a New Britainite. Mrs. Davis has made her home with the Halls for many years, Mrs. Hall be- ing her daughtcr. Indicative of the remarkable physical condition of Mrs. Davis 18 an incident related by Senator Hall. It was during the community chest drive, and a neighborhood canvasser called at the Hall home with pledge cards. Senator Hall reached into his pocket, took out and adjust his eye- glasses, then signed his pledge, but Mrs. Davis merely picked up a pen | and with steady hand and without | the aid of eye-glasses, affixed her signature to the card. In many other respects, Mrs. Davis' appear- ance and faculties belie her age. Several weeks ago she was re- ceived into San Mateo Swamp, Mili- tary Order of Lizards, which is com- posed of members of the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary, of which she is a long-time member. She is believed to be the oldest member of this organization any- where. Although her son-in-law is one of the outstanding figures in local and state political circles, Mrs. Davis does not take more than a passing interest in politics. Her observa- tions on the present generation are those of tolcrance, and while habits and attire have changed greatly since she was of the flapper age, she regards them as natural changes coming with the passing of time. Mrs. Davis has lived through four wars—that of 1848 in which the United States and Mexico were in combat, the Civil War, the war of 1898 and the World War.+ Pathos has been written into her life by warfare, a son, Samuel C. Davis, FAMOUS SPOTTED HYENA | OF WASHINGTON IS DEAD, Animal in Zoo There Self-Imposed Exile in Darkness for Dozen Years Washington, July 21 (®—The old spotted hyena at the Washington z00, which had an insane fear of the light and the open, has found perpetual darkness. He is dead and a self-imposed sentence of years within the walls of a box like den has ended. The animal was brought to the z00 about 12 years ago. A large, open outdoor pen had been built for him and in one corner was a walled hovel. The hyena was released and he made a bolt for the den. He never came out so far as the attend- ants knew, save on one or two occa- sions when he was dragged forth by force. Then he struggled like a thing gone mad. Even at night when the normal hyena roves in search of food, the captive stayed within his prison. forts were made to starve him out by placing the only food scrved him in a corner of the pen farthest from the house—but the food went un- |touched. It was thought that he | would soon die from lack of exer- {cise but he lived years longer than | the average hyena in captivity. He was about 25 years old when he dled. DEMOCRATS FINISH CAMPAIGN PLANS Under Two Committees ESTABLISH HEADQUARTERS Locate Regional Offices in Salt Lake | City and St. Louis Which are Un- der the Direction of New York Headquarters, New York, July 21.—(®—A gen- | eral staff, composed of an exccutive and an advisory committee, has heen named by John K. Raskob, demo- cratic national chairman, to conduct | the presidential campaign of Gov- ernor Aifred E. Smith. Both committees will operate from the national headquarters to be established here in the General Motors building. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island will head the ad- visory committee, which is compos- ed of Mys. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Representative Pa r Corning of N York; ator I'at Harrison of Mississippi; National Committee- man J. ¥ K rer of Montana; Representative William Oldfield of Arkaneas; Jouett Shouse of Kan- sas; Benator Millard E. Tydings of Perry is Named The executive committee in addi- witz, nklin D. Roosevelt George R. Van Namee, Mr. Kaskob also announced that two regional headquarters, o Louis, and the other at City. would be established Harry B. Hawes will be in ¢ the midwest office and F Johnson of Rock Springs, Wyo., in charge of the one in Utah, The executive committee as now announced probably will not be en- larged but several additional mem- bers of the advisory committee are to be selected. There will be a mem- br from the states which include Ohio, Indiana and Tllinois, another from Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas and a thi=d from the Paci- and fic coast, with probably others representing other sections of the country, Plan Strategy The advisory committee is to plan the strategy of the campaign. it was eald, leaving to the executive com- mittee the carrying out of the plans. Mr. Raskob, in a press conference shortly before leaving for Maryland for the week-end, said he believed the thinking people of the country should try to work out some scheme “for the restoration of temperate life in America.” He eald he had no definite plan and that it was not the work of the national committee in this campaign to evolve one. He refused to comment on the dry conference held this weck at Ashe- ville by southern “dry democrats, at which he and Governor Smith were severely criticized. Smith Keeping Quiuet Albany, N. Y., July 21 (®—Gov- ernor Smith is keeping his own counsel about what he will say in his acceptance speech and he has passed the word that the puublic should not take seriously any un- official forecasts of his address. A date for the official notification of the democratic presidential nomi- nee has not yet been fixed, although it 1s expected to be after the middle of August. Thus far Governor 8mith has only been working over in his mind what (Continued on Page 14) Two Amefi;fi;lrls Are Reported Being Attacked Hankow, China, July 21 (UP)— Reports reached here today that two American girls, 8 and 10 had been attacked at Yu Chinese policeman. ‘The girls were said to be daugh- ters of a Seventh Day Adventist having given up his life in the Span- {sh-American war, and a grandson, . (Continued on Page 11), 1nissionary. L. P. Lockhart, consul general at Hankow, has asked Yu Ling author- ities for details preparatory to pro- testing officially, o Raskob Names General Stall (OF PROMINENT ~ FAMILY Maryland and Mr. Raskob, ex-officio. | | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928 —SIXTEEN PAGES ELLEN TERRY DIES ATAGE OF 80 YEARS Had Been Acclaimed World's Greatest Actress | Her Stage Carcer Was One of Un- | Marked by | marred Drilliance, } Creation of Numerous and Diffi- | cult Roles—Twice Married, | Small Hythe, Kent, England, July | 1 (A —Dame Ellen Terry, British actress beloved by playgoers the | world over, died this morning in the; little oaken farmhouse tucked away | in the vales of Kent where she had quietly spent the last vears of her | lifo peacefully surrounded by rela- | tives. | Dics Peacefull Her death came at §:56 a. m. after an uncomfortable night during which she sank slowly to the end. When dawn appeared the doctor an- nounced the patient was consider- ably weaker. °d away peace- fully surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Her death marked | the final period of her hopeless| struggle against a combination heart | attack and cerchral hemorrhage, from which she had been sinking slowly since Tuesd Message For America | ago with the end ap-| aching, she gave the Associated | this mess: for Ame my love to America, and tell | dear friends there that T am in my quict English countryside. When one 1s 80, one has dreams of d gone by and often in my dreams I live again the many happy times I, spent in Americ My heart is warm | with the memorics of my friends ross the sea.” | he whole world which loves such | he pas my thinking of them as I rest here Mears and Collyer Take Off On Final Lap Across Continent In Record Dash Around the World Hop From Victoria, B. C., to Seattle, Wash., and Enter Home Stretch In Race Against Time to New York —Have Been Gone From Gotham Just 23 Days. Victoria, B. C., July 21 (#—John The two travelers. who are en- Henry Mears and D. B. Collyer, | d¢avoring to better the record for . . the circling of the globe, now held Hopped oft from shel Vistorla, Al |y oty tan Walls. st £8 dsam lett port for Seattle at 3:37 a. m. today, | New York June o entering the home stretch of their| Five hours were saved dash around the world from York to New York. | plane beside the Olympic The famous globe-circlers have | ocean liner was 100 1 been gone from New York for 23 |trip across the Atlunt days and it nothing happens they| July 6th saw the men should establish a new record for | They arrived in Moscow the n elapsed time around the earth, day. After a stop at Mukden, Man- They landed with their plane from | churia, they arrived in Tokio, Japan the Empress of Russia late last|July 11 and caught the Empress of night. They had.come from Japan.| Russia the next day. U.S. Wins From Italy In Final Interzone Davis Cup Match as Tilden Row Continues Unabated FIRST CHURCH GETS | ). 1. PEASE BEQUEST Receives $3,000 Through Will of Former Postmaster New | racers when they i Lott and Hennessey Win purgo and Gaslini Straight Sets — Collom May Nominate Tilden for Play in Defiance of Committee. * The sum of $3,000 has been willed to the First Eeclesiastical society by the late Julius H. [Pease, former ! postmaster, according to his last will | and testament filed today in probate | court, Roland Garros Stadium, Auteuil, France, July 21 (P—America today defeated Italy in the interzone final of Davis Cup play and there by won the right to play the French holders of the cup here beginning nest Fri- consummate art as that with which | Ellen Terry ehormed and thrilled | lovers of the drama for more than | half a century was plunged into | mourning by the news that the final | curtain had been rung down on her great car . Was 80 Last February There had been fears for time that she whose life was the | stage, would not much longer su vive the definite withdrawal from it | which her age compelled. She cele barted her S0th birthday last Feb- vuary. She was prevented by illness W that time from replying as she had pianued, to the message broad- cast in her honor over the radio by | sir Johnston Lorbes-Robertson, She recovered from the illness quite quickly, however, and except for feebleness and infirmities inci- | dent to and some degree of re- ion in mental activities, she had | ared as well as could be !)»1 ed until her seizure on July 17. | To the last, Dame Ellen had fol- lowed (he aifairs of the stage with the greatest interest. She played her last Shakespearean part as Por- tia in the trial scene from “The Merchant of Venice” in 1921, | Her Last Stage Part | Her last s part, a non-speak- ing role, was that of the ghost of a| kindly mother in Walter De La| Ma “Crossings” when she was 77, after she had gone more or less into retivement in the country of which she was passionately fond. Her summers were spent quietly at her charming cottage in Kent. In (Continued on Page 10) THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS | some | place, s, |Pistol Finally Works The will further dirccts that $1,- ! gay in the challenge round for the 000 each be given to his mephews | rophy, and nicces, Herbert H., Morris H., | oh Harold M. and Willlam W. Pease, | 1h® American victory, without the and Dorothy Frisbe and Bertha M. |ScT¥ices of Bill Tilden, was scored Pennett, To his sister, Martha F. |11 Straight sets and straight matches Bennett, ho willed 55,006, while ona: | The American doubles team of A e S, George Lot and John Hennessey at 17 Park < jointly by him and his) Won the deciding match today by er, William W., and defeating the Italians, Baron Hum- is willed to the fatter | Pert de Morpurgo and Placido Gas- lini, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2. America won the first two singles matches in impres- | ive ®iwle yesterday. held brother and Mary E. Pease two. A third interest in a bungalow | |at Madison goes to his sister, Mary B while all the rest of his | real and personal, is to be| Just as did Francls T. Hunter and | divided equally between his brother, | Hennessey in defeating the same | William W., and his sister, Mary E.|[two Italian piayers in the singles Pease, who are also named exe- |the day before, the Americans today cutors. The will is dated December | played as though inspired by th 1923. |loss of their captain, Bill Tilden, {Who was declared ineligible for play on the eve of this important contest and was forced to be content to look on from the stands The rapidity and decisiveness With which the American's steam- And Man Is Shot Dead | Philadelphia, July 21.(P—Stand- ing on the step of a church, Joseph Green, Jr, 21, said, “Well, I'm £0-| rollered the formidable Italian team Ing now.” pointed a pistol at his|yujjt around the veteran De Morpur- head and pulled the trigger twice. | gy far exceeded the highest hope It clicked but did not explode. |o¢ american supporters s ‘With Til- A group of friends a few feet|q. "o oy R o 7 away laughed and chided him, tell- | i St the, Tiatians had been heay. £ 2 do lop ogling, {chance to battle the French for the “Well. 80 long” he said, and| pulled the trigger a third time. This| ey time the pistol worked and he died in a hospital early today. His Tilden May Play friends told police his act was Paris, July 2t (P—Samuel H caused b | Collom, president of the United unrequited lov: ates Lawn Tennis association, has * reserved the right to nominate Bill Tilden for the Davis Cup challenge | round despite the ineligibility ruling ~ i * (Continued on Page 13) OUR BOYS CAM ?—-‘r Doubles From De Mor- | in AMERICAN LAWYERS SOUNDLY REBUK™ ‘French Judge Names Ma.uus,, Loeb and Conner in Inquiry | I"ROLE 1S REPREAENSIBLE Declares That American Lawyers Have Been “Knowingl Impos- ing Upon French Intentional Guilt, Justice—Deny Paris, July 21 (P—The nanes of three prominent American | neys today were brought into | 'court trial of the seven I'rench “avoues” or office lawyers who prepared American divorce cases | With alleged fraudulent documents, | American divores lawyers in general were blamed by the court for their conduct. Presiding Judge Wattine mention- ed by name Dudley Field Malone, | Charles G. Loeh, the attorney for | | Bainbridge Colby whose divorce wa {refused, and Benjamin H. Conner, | president of the American Chamber jof Commerce of Paris. | The judge said of American di- vorce lawyers in reviewing the scan- |dal, “their role has been reprehen- sible, they knowingly imposed upon rench justice.” 1 | Deny Intentional Guilt | Seven of the French office law- vers defended themselves with vary- | ing success, most of them denying| intentional guilt and declaring that | attor- the they had assumed all the papers were cor In some cases, partic- ularly the one of M. Legrande, the prosecution’s allegitions were con- troverted and Legrande | convinced the dispu pro The judge, however, cited a num- ber of cases in which the same lease used in several divorces to es- | tablish residence and other cases where the lease was all right but | the divorce applicant remained but | a short time, failing to establish | genuine I'rench residence. American attorneys whose cases ttacked but against whom there was no legal action were loath to comment. Dudley Ficld Mallone, however, said: “Undoubtedly therc have been irrcgularities in specding {up certain cases here, hut American lewyers have aided the investiga- tion in every way and have becn thanked by the authorities for their cooperation.” {" Thegothers preferred not to com- ment, leaving it for the Irench avoues to present the defense in court, apparently court that most of his d documents were entirely o | : | W Judge's Statement | Judge Wattine, opening the cas cmphasized the high position in the | public eye of several of the Ameri- | can attorneys, Conner and Loeb as U Qs | Gisposed income « Annzcbnilydrefifl.h sy 14,637 OZEN PERSONS ARE HURT GOES THROUGH DRAWBRIDGE ROLING ON ESTATE Motorman Sed OFHATEA, STANLEY Heve Run By Bloc abldhob Signal, Breaks Win- Court of Errors Files Decisionit dow and Swims to Friendly Suit Surface. | D FIRST FINDING OF ITS KIND' {Accident Happens Between Broad Channel and Hammel on Jamaica Bay —All Passengers Escape Serious Injury, Alix W, stanley Gets One-Quarter of Undisposed Tncome During Settle- meat and Heirs of Walter H. | | Stanley Recefve Remainder, [ court of errars of | nded down its de brought by th Co. and Alix W.| New York, July 21 (P—A dozen et v:*:;n‘;:‘!}“f‘f persons were injured today when the 1jon of the will, thercby deciding for | ISt tWo cars of a Long Island elec- the first time in this state an im- | tric train plunged through an open porta point in the settlement of drawbridge over an arm of Jamalca esta Bay between Broad Channel | Hammel, a i un Trus and lie suit was an amicable suit, the main question nvolved being a ques tion of administration, rather than | of construction of the will and re- lated 1o the disposition of the un- arned by the estate Guring the period of settlement. The |OPd car was balanced on the edge urt holds that the income aceru- (0f the bridge superstructure. g during the lement of the es- | Swims to Surface | tate should be divides one-half o it o Te il Dt | The motorman, Carl Miller, who s for the iife beneficiaries and the oth- | 8COrding to reports to the railroad er or undisposed of one-half should office ran by a block signal, smash- be added to the residue of the estate |ed a window and swam to the sur- t0*he divided cqually between Alix face, W. Stanley and the trustees for the | The bridge had been opened for life beneficiaries, the Jamaica Bay tug Dynamic, Miss Stanley gave one-half of the whose crew rescued the motorman The first car, the smoker, which contained 24 passengers, was three |quarters submerged, while the sec- Ine of her estate to her nephew, and several of the passengers. Alix W. Stanley, and the income of | Eight ambulances from the four one-half to the children of her Queens hospitals were dispatched to brotlier, Walter H. Stanley, the prin- | the scene with police and fire re- cipal to be divided among them upon | 5eTVeS from every station in the borough. The injured were taken the death of Isabel Stanley, to the Far Rockaway hospital. The disposition of the undisposed of income during the settiement of | Conductor Rescued the estate in such a case had never | Harry A. Fischer, of Queens Vil- been determined by a Connecticut |lage. the conductor in charge of the decision and the practice throughout | train, was rescued. [ Connecticut has been widely diver-| Firemen cut away part of the roof - & of the submerged car and reported & SRR oF 1lie. Hpelk every passenger had escaped. Resuli of the doclslon M MOk sRora o ML Bivire dlic Sere officers of the American Chamber jas used by the testatrix and of commerce, and mentioned Conner | disposition “1occiving the premier and cab- |ture. inet ministers.” | Attorneys for the trustees and the When it came time for he prose- |various heirs of Walter H. Stanley cutor to speak, the latter said: “The and the trustce of his estate were: matter of American divorces will re- |Kirkham, Cooper, Hungerford & main as a sign of the moncy age. 1 Camp, Lucius I. Robinson and {regret that men of the bar lent Barker. Attorneys for 4 Stanley were George D, vatrous, Harrison Hewitt and Fred- erick W. Beach of New Haven, the of the household furni- (Continued on Page 11) " 1 ™ New Britain and vicinity: o i i o || THREAT IN' MEXICO warmer Sunday; moderate | shifting wind: | * * Punishment of “Psycholog- ical Authors” of Assas- sination Urged cit Mexico July 21 (P—Agra- {rian leaders today were demanding the punishment of those whom they termed the “psychological authors” of the assassination of General Al- varo ( on. Otherwise, they as- serted, there would be a revolution. Fifteen hundred members of the | Agrarian p: v and the union of {revolutionary parties paraded the |streets of the capital jand demanded that late last night Luis Morones, i ter of labor and other labor leaders holding minor offices fn |the Calles administration be dis- {misscd. These labor leaders had sposed Obregon in his ction. demonstration was led by in Manrique and Antonio ISoto v Ga | The : Agrarian leaders. s waved a Mexican draped with crepe and called justice, They did not demand punishment of Jose De Leon Toral, Obregon's assassinator, but | of the “psychological authors of the AL SM(TH CLUB Wit OPEN DRIVE SOON - € A T | murder, whose fiery speeches led a youthful religious fanatic to {kill the president-elect.” Manrigue and Soto y Gama ad- {dressed the crowd and openly blamed Morones for the assassina- |tion. They declared the peasants |would back President Calles as long as he meted out punishment to those guilty, otherwise they |would take the field. | “The situation is as grave as {when Madero was assassinated, The country is on the brink of {civil war,” Soto y Gama said. | “Peasants throughout the republic lare only waiting. If justice is de- |nied they will resort to arms. The {only means to avoid war is the res- ignation of Morones and the elimi- |nation of labor leaders from the government.” The demonstration was sult of a confrence called |Union of Revolutionary ~Parties. This group intends to launch a movement for the nomination of Manrique as provisional president next December when Calles’ term expires. the re- by the MAYO[ PAONESSA HAS A PUNCH 14 EACH HANDD, give Alix W. Stanley one-quarte et R e rl"t;posmg for _photographs on IFar settiement of the cstate and the noies | ROCKaway Beach hurried to the of Waiter H. Stanley three-fourths, |yone and- aesited an;tlle " rsaous Other questions decided in the| " 'pidiiiot attorney ' Newton of case involved the meaning and effect | uoang ordeced an immediate inves- of the words “children” and “issue” | e/t | The accident occurred on one of (the several long trestles connecting | Long Island and the south side { ocean beach resorts and over which | thousands pass daily. The trestles | pass from island to island over Jamaica Bay. Every policeman at the Rockaway | Beach police headquarters was des- patched to the scene and a woman | Placed in charge of the station to | answer the télephone. ARRAIGNS COUPLE AS HEARTLESS, INHUMAN /Man and Woman Flayed for Not Saving Drown- ing Boy | Middietown, Conn., July 31 (UP) | —In returning a finding on accident- al death today in the case of Cyril |James Grace of New Britain, Cor- joner Lowdes A. Smith severely re- buked an unknown man and wom- |an who refused aid to the drown- ling boy. Grace was drowned at East Hampton July 9. | “Effort was made to locate per- |sons who were reported to have Ibeen in a rowboat and refused to | make any effort to render assistance, {Af any could have been rendered.” Smith’s finding said. “Had their | names or whereabouts been known, they would have been given an op- portunity to explain their apparently | heartless, inhuman action, but their identity is unknown.” | A woman in the rowboat was re- ported to have said to her male com- panion, “Let someone else save him." { 4. D. Kershaw of 210 Peard street Springfield, ., told the Herald |the day after the drowning that he | was a witness to what the coroner | today des as the “heartless, in- { human action” of the couple in the |boat who refused to go to the aid 10( Grace and Vincent O'Brien of 256 Hart street, this city, who attempted to save Grace. The man and woman were in a boat mot far distant from the spot | where the two boys were drowning. {Even after O’'Bricn had given up the attempt to rescue his compan- fon and was exhausted from his long | struggle, the couple refused to help {him to reach land. Kershaw said that the woman remarked, when re- | buked, that she didn’t want to drown 1and that the man explained that he | was not familiar with handling oaes. But when the crowd on shore hurled | uncomplimentary remarks at the couple, the man proved that he was a skillful oarsman, propelling the boat away from the threatening throng in a manner which indicated that he was at home in a boat. Grace was the son of James B. Grace, superintendent of mails at the New Britain post effics, Whese home is at 281 Maple strest. e was 17 gears o€, = ~