New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1929, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation For rae 15,410 HOOVER RESTS ON HIS FINAL DAY AS PRIVATE CITIZEN AS ALL WASHINGTON | TEEMS WITH INAUGURAL EXCITEMENT muom] NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 HFYIGAN PLANE ON JUGOSLAY OFFICIAL FLIGHT TO GAPITALAND CITZEN SLAIN Pacheco and McMillan Hop O [Killer of Zooa Bey's Assassin On Non-Stop Trip Shoots Two at Skoplje DUE 70 ARRIYE SUNDAY THREE SOLDIERS WOUNDED NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Unofficial Attempt to Achieve Re- sult of Which Carranza Lost His Life—Machine 1Ts Dead Ace. Mexico City, March 2 (P—Joa- quin Gonzalez Pacheco and C. F. McMillin took oft from Valbuens fying fleld at 6:47 o'clock this morning (7:47 a. m,, E. 8. T.) on & non-stop flight from Mexico City to Washington. The two airmen hoped to reach Bolling field, Washington, early Sunday morning. The distance was estimated at 2,300 miles. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is now the only man whoe has flown without & stop be- tween the two capitals. Follow Carranza’s Trail Their flight represented an at. tempt to do what Captain Emilio Carranza failed in last summer, he having been forced down in North (arolina just, short of Washington. Thele plane, a Stinson menoplane, is named for Captain Carranza. In the event of success in their venture it was belleved the two aviators would take off shortly at Mount Holly, N. J., where Captain Carranza crashed and was killed on his attempted return, and try to make a non-stop return flight to Mexico City. g Pacheco 18 & wealthy young Mex- ican air enthusiast. McMillin, the pilot. has been flying for 15 years of which six were spent in the United States army. He was in the air mail service for four months and has done both army and navy test work. The two filers in June of last year failed in an attempt to make a non- stop flight from Windsor, Ontario. 1o Mexico City when their plane was forced down at Tampico by lack of fuel. Pacheco claims a Mexican altitude record of 20.140 feet. The trip s entirely unofficlal, = previous arrangement for the, two ‘o earry the greetings of President Portes Gil to Herbert Hoover, to be conveyed prior to the latter's in- nuguration, having been cancelled. Black and Gold Machine The two fllers were making their 200od will' flight in a black and gold ronoplane named “Captaln Car- They 4id not carry®letters from esident Portes Gil to President- +leet Hoover, but did carry two caled letters of greetings from Dwight W. Morrow, the American mbassador, to Mr. Hoover and Sec- tary of State Kellogg. McMillin, who was piloting, made perfect takeoff despite his heavy sad of 510 gallons of gasoline. This a8 believed to be the heaviest load of gas ever carried up by a plane om Mexico City, which presents a Named for (Continued on Page 12) CAR DROPS 15 FEET INTO BED OF RIVER Elmwood Official Has Close Call in Forest- ville Mishap (Bpecial to the Herald) Bristol, March 2 — Deputy Sher- ff Charles E. Lord of New Britain avenue, Elmwood, had a narrow cape from death shortly after 9:00 v'clock this inorning when the auto vhich he was operating skidded on the fcy pavement on Rroad street, i“orestville, and crashed backwards thpough an iron fence, dropping inte the bed of the Pequabuck river 5 feet below the road. The car landed on its four wheels nd, aside from a bent fender, a troken front s and a dent in the vasoline tank, was not damaged. Mr. f.ord was shaken up but uninjured. The machine was removed from the river bed under its own power +ith the assistance of a wrecker trom the C. & 8. garage. After tem- porary repairs had been made, Mr. t.ord resumed his return trip to Hartford., Jones Bill Signed by President Coolidge Washington, March 2 UP—Presi- “=nt Coolidge today signed the Joncs Lill Increasing penalties for prohi- bitlon law viosation to a maximum of five years’ imprisonment and $10,000 fine. Jersey High School Rum Parties Probed ridgeton, N. J.. March 2, P Stories of rum partiey in hid- den nooks of the Bridgeton high school building and of drinking by students between and after classes were under investigation today through the alleged dis- covery of whiskey and gin flasks in several of the stu- dents’ locker rooma. 4 The bottles were said to have been found in both the boys’ and the girls’ locker rooms Three found in the girls' room were empty, but some of those in the boys’ rooms were partly filled. The discovery led to the ex- puision from the school and the holding by a . magistrate of Morris Cohen, 17-year-old stu- dent, on charges of atrocious assault and battery. Vuciturna, Liberated Recently and Expelled from Csechoslovpkia as Insane, Goes on New Rampage with Gun. Skoplje, Jugoslavia, March 3 UP— Zia Vuciturna, who shot and killed Alciblades Bebe, the assassin of Zena Bey, in Prague last November, today killed inspector Savitcheteh of the Jugoslav ministry of the in- terior and another citien in a clash here. 8 Vuciturna, who had been a ser- vant of Zena Bey's brother, also wounded three Serbian soldiers se- riously. He had been liberated only a few days ago and expelled from Cgzechoslovakia on the ground of in- sanity. Bey Shot in Court Zena Bey, Albanian minister at Prague and a brother-in-law of King Zogu of Albania, was assas- sinated on the night of October 14. 1927, by Bebe, an Albanian student. Bebe was held for trial by the Czechoslovakian authorities and his case opened in Prague on Novem- ber 30, 1928, The 24 year old assassin was in the midst of a dramatic recital from the witness stand of how and why he killed Zena Bey when Vucitumna fired six bullets at him. Bebe was killed. A newspaper reporter and the court Interpreter were wounded. “I have avenged my maste brother in true Albanian fashion!" the slayer shouted as he was seized by officers. Since then Vuciturna had been held in Prague. LANONT NAMED T0 COMMERCE POST Chicago Engineer Selected as Final Hoover Cabinet Member W , March 2 (P—Robert P. Lamont, Chicago engineer, has been chosen secretary of commerce in the Hoover cabinet. The selection of Mr. Lamont com- pletes the president-elect’s cabinet. Lamont was born in Detroit, Dec 1, 1867, His home is at Lake For- est, TIL, An officer of several business con- cerns, Lamont served in the World War as chief of the procurement di- vision of the ordnance department. OBREGON'S PARTY 1§ WRECKED BY RIVALRY Saenz Faction, Seeking Mantle of Slain Leader, Bolts Convention Queretaro, Mexico, March 2 (P— Dreams of General Alvaro Obregon for a united party of Mexican revo- lutionists were shattered today by the rivairies of those who sought his mantle for their own shouiders. While adherents of Pascual Ortiz Rublo continued the convention of the national revelutionary party, be- gun only yesterday, supporters of Aaron Saenz, governor of Nuevo Leon, had withdrawn and threatened a “rump” convention of their own. ‘The split, was without violence, There was fear, however, that the animosities expressed in the break might lead to serious clashes. Withdrawal of the Saenz delegates from the convention came near the conclusion of registration of the del- egates when it appeared certain Or- tiz Rublo, former minister to Brazil, would have & small majority on the floor, perhaps sufficient to give him the party’s nomination for president subject to the November elections. Saens Quits Party Saenz, a minister in the cabinet of former President Calles, saw that some of those whose support he had counted upon were in the opposite camp. In a speech he charged he had been discriminated against and (Continued on Page 12) Runaway Train Hits Caboose, Killing Two Pottaville, Pa., March 2 UP—A runaway train of 35 heavily loaded cars crashed into a caboose con- taining three men, kiMing two and injuring the third at the 8t. Clair yards of the Philadelphia and Read- ing Coal company early today. eph Hartmon of Schuylkill Haven eph Hartman of S8chuykill Eaven died instantly as the cars demolish- ed the stationary caboose in which they, with John Howells of Port Carbon, were awaiting orders. The cars were standing cn ‘the graded tracks when for an unde. termined cause, they started to move. Unnoticed the trai;. gathered momentum until, with a terrific crash, it splintered the caboose in its path and twisted the engine to which it was coupled. ‘Wreckage was piled fifty feet high and it was only with difficulty that the dead and the injured man were extricated. Massachusetts governors and Pconsylvania avenue All six governors from the New England states will take part in the Hoover inaugural parade Monday. n W ington, up which the procession will pass, are shown above. WY ngton, March 2 (P—T \":“)‘.\ N Quu Senator Curtis and his sister Mrs, House for the capitol. oath of offics as vice president a Taft and then delivers his inaugu 2:30 o'clock—Parade forma Curtis and Mrs. Gann and the reviewing stand and Mr. and M House. Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Gan at the Mayflower hotel. will begin. 40-FOOT SING SING The DEMAND PAYNENT FOR FLOOD DAWAGE Belvidere Claims Referred to Gorporation Counsel's Olfice FIGURES 10 BE CHECKED | Collapse of 42 Inch Sewer Inlet Blamed by Property Owners for Heavy Loss During Deluge on February 7. Flu Now Veritable Scourge in Belgium Brussels, March 2 (®—Influ- enza deaths are steadily increas- ing in Belgium and in places the disease has become a scourge. At Mons undertakers and clergymen have been unable to keep pace with the epidemic. Funerals have had to be post- poned from three to five days because of their great number. A special gang of men has worked night ana day digging graves in ground frozen a yard deep. Throughout the mining dis- trict physiclans are overworked. Priests have had to ask for re- inforcements from the convents to insure religious funerals. There have been cases of en- A band of indignant property owners on Commonwealth uenue“ and vicinity, headed by Alderman ! John F. Maerz of the sixth ward | swarmed the hearing room in city | hall last night and set forth their| {claims for compensation for damage done to their homes and grounds on February 7 when a flood resulted from the caving in of the inlet to the 42-inch sewer at Carlton street and Commonweaith avenue. C. J. Hickey of 471 Common- wealth avenue told City Engineer P. A. Merian that the property own- ers pay taxes so that conditions es- sential to comfort and safety will be maintained and they have the right to expect that the city officials will attend to their duties properly. | He contended that the repairs that were made after the flood were nothing more than “locking the |barn door after the horse was| (Continued on Page Nine a {wreag: Taxes tire families dying within three days. JAIL SENTENCE FOR ONE DRINK OF CIDER Louis Siering, in Crash, Must Also Pay $100 Fine Denying that he was under the influence of lignor when his auto mobile smashed into a new sedan which parked in front of A. G. Hawker's automohile salesroom at 52 Elm street at 7:45 o'clock last 7. Feeney. (Continued on Page 15) c n JURY IN ART LIBEL TUNNEL 15 EXPOSED Undergroond Means of Escape leyfiu_q!or Use END FIVE FEET FROM WALL Chief Keeper Finds Entrance to Se- cret Passage at End of Comduit in Vegetable Cellar — Convict Builders Sought. Ossining, March 2 (M—An elabo- rate plot to escape from Bing 8ing prison has been frustrated by the discovery of a 40-foot tunnel under the prison yard, completed to with- N 2 P—U | New York, March 2 (P—Unable |, g o seet of tne outer wail. to decide whether the patnting “La | \"cine"of convicts filled up the | Belle Ferronniere” owned by Mrs. |carefully constructed underground |Andree Hahn was the work of passage and Kkeepers today sought 'Leonardo da Vincl, or a copy, a su- (10 learn the identity of its buliders. ¥ tunnel, which was four feet prems court jury that had been de- m:::e e oiar bating the question for 14 Rours Keepe; Johe Bheehy. W chngs of |and 17 minutes reported a disagree- | ey ment at 5:30 o'clock this morning the P"““l"‘ the absence of Warden and was released. Lewis E. Lawes. Mrs. Hahn sued Sir Joseph Du- Sheehy entered the vegetable cel- veen, British art expert, for $500,. |1ar under the mess hall on a tour 000, contending he committed 'Of inspection yesterday. He noticed nder of title when in 1920 he said [the lock broken on the barred door her painting was not a genuine Da |Which closes the end of a steam- Vinci. This statement, she alleged, 'Pipe conduit leading to the heating prevented sale of the painting to th lant. At the dead end of the con Kansas City Art institute for $250,- |duit he found the entrance to the 000, secret tunnel running at right an- James Bowdoin, foreman, sald the gles toward the south wall. jury's ballots stood nine to three in Warden Knows [eaders favor of the defendant during the| Although none of the prisoners argument. questioned would admit know.edge Justice Black. in his charge, point- [of the tunnel, Warden Lawes who ed out it was essential for the jury was at Elmira visiting his mother. . ACTION DISAGREES Mrs. Habn's $500,000 Suit Against Sir Joseph Daveen Fails OUT FOR NEARLY 15 HOURS Trial Lasting Pull Month Ends With Jurors 9 to 3 in Favor of Defend- ant—Woman Held Her Picture Was Real Da Vincl. | ? | \ | | (Continued on Page 16) (Continued on Page 16) THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS WE WONDER IF Misy EUNICE LYMAN TEACHER OF Vice PRESIDEAT CuaTSs WitL RECALL TUB ‘LITTLE RED SCHOOL~— AS SHE LISTEAS TO INAUGURATION AT WASUINGTOR TO SYOP. R R A ) AT TOWN MESTING —= wao Lfib'fl- Hoover Inauguration Program 2 o'clock—Mr. and Mrs. Hoover. return up Pennsylvania avenue to the White House, Coolldge go to Union station to entrain for Northampton, Mass. he following is the calendar of ke place on March 4 when Herbert Hoover is inaugurated Jf the United States and Charles Curtis vice president. ) .1 o'clock—Hoover and Curtis arrive ut the White House, 11:30—Preeident and Mrs. Coolidge, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Edward H. Gann leave the White 12 o'clock—The senate is convened and Senator Curtis takes nd delivers his inaugural address. 1 o'clock—Mr. Hoover is inducted into office by Chief Justice ral addreas. Mr. Curtis and Mra Gann Mr. and Mrs. at the Peace monument in front of the Capitol plaza and starts up Pennsylvania avenue. 3 o'clock—or shortly thereafter—Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Mr. presidential party mount the re. viewing stand in front of the White House to review the parade. & o'clock—or shortly thereafter—last units of parade pass the rs. Hoover return to the White n g0 to the vice presidential suite 8 o'clock—Firewcrks display on the monument grounds, which Mr. Hoover will watch from the White House. 9 o'clock—Charity bal! at the Washington auditorium begine. Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Gann will attend. Other receptions and balls [1 NATIONS READY TO RENOUNCE WAR France, Belgim, Poland and Japan Yet to Ratily NONUMENT 10 KELLOGG When These Four Countries Act Compact Becomes Effectivo—Ad- herance of Others Now s Compli- ment to Secretary. Washington, March 3 UP—Eleven nations today had arranged to take their final step toward putting into effect the Kellogg pact for the re- nunciation of war. Their adherence at this time was planned as a compliment to Frauk B. Kellogg. the United States secre- ltary of state. Kellogg is given credit {for doing more than any other man toward bringing into existence a treaty which declares that the signatory nations “condemn recourse to war for the solution of interna- tional controversies and renounce it 48 an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.” All the 15 original nations who signed the treaty in August, 1928, save Belgium, France, Japan and Poland, were represented in the groups which had informed the state department of its intention to pre. sent documents evidencing in local form that their countries have ac- cepted and agree to abide by the terms of the treaty. Some of these documents were elaborately drawn, signed and sealed with vari-colored ribbons and some of them were bound in leather and suitably en- closed in handsome cases, the Brit- ish instrument reposing in one of chased silver. Sir Esme Howard Leads Sir Esme Howard, dean of the diplomatic corps and the British ambassador, headed the delegation and the lot of presenting the ratifi- cation of Creat Britain and northern Ireland. Australia. New Zealand, South Africa and India, fell to him. Vincent Massie, minister of Canada, (had his country's ratification; Wil- |liam J. B. Macauley, charge d'af-| (Continued on Page 12) | PROPERTY OWNERS FORM ASSOCUTION Will Study City Affairs and Work for Low | Taxes A property owners’ protective as-| sociation has been formed with An-| thony Ulinski, a building contractor, | t, and Stanley Uchalik #s |secretary, and its second meeting {will be held Monday night at the | on club house. | | The organization will keep in con- ! ltact with city affairs, particularly| the rise and fall of taxes, and will| work for city improvements but at the same time endeavor to keep |taxes down, orgi nizers say. Al- |though its present membership is |made up chiefly of fifth ward resi- dents, all taxpay-rs are eligible to membership. The assoclation has taken the name of The Citizens of |New Britain Property Owners' clud. * * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Rain or snow this afternoon and early tonight; Sunday fair and somewhat warmer; raim Sunday night and Mon- day. |Coo|idge Rushed Dur- ing Last Hours at Na- tion’s Helm, With Desk Piled High as He Awaits Sunset on His Administration. 1 Dawes Finds His Closing Days as Vice Presidend Nearly as Hectic as Firs Ones—Curtis Stays Withl Colleagues in Senate ta End Washington, March 3 (M = ‘The weather bureau predicted today that it probably will be raining Monday morning, the day of Herbert Hoover's ia- suguration. BY BYRON PRICE, (Amociated Press Staff Writer) | Washington, March 2 (P9 Assembling in the historic precinctd of a capital city transformed by glad preparations, the legions of American citizenry mustered Mfi to salute proudly a new president the republic. As the arriving throngs swelle@ by thousands, filling street and avee nue with their colorful acclaim, n@ doubt remained that Herbert Hoove er's inauguration on Monday would rank among the most brilliant peace-time fetes of American his- tory, mirroring in gay pageant and solemn ceremony the might and contentment of a great people. His cabinet complete, and his ine augural address ready for delivery, the president-elect himself had foe the moment one of the quietest roles of all in the tumult. of last prepara- tions. After trying weeks, he found an opoprtunity for a season of rest with bis family in the red brick house on 8 street from which he goes 48 hours hence for the respon- sibilities of the White House. Coolidge Busy to Last Meantime, at the executive offices a mile away, undisturbed by the bustle about him, President Coolidge summoned his energies to a full (Continued on Page 16) REPARATIONS PARLEY GOES ON CAUTIOUSLY Experts in No Rush ta Leave General for - Specific Ground 7 2 Paris, March 2 (A—The reparas tions experts meeting here to detere mine how much Germany will pag for allied World War losses are & no hurry to leave the realm of the general for the specific. There is a general impressios among them that the longer the committes! Kesps'. thgather ofiinoll unpleasant friction, cr flat demande and equally flat refusals, the betteg are chances for ultimate agreements It is partly because of this thaf when the committee meets in plene ary session Monday for the firsf time in a week it probably will ade journ so that the experts can g® back to the valuable sub-committe@ work and informal conversations. In these tha aim is for the present to avoid rather thon to tackle any fundamental ques‘ion. As one of he experts remarhed, they are ust mulling around All cole lateral subjects are being gone into, &nd even their conjectural and hypothetical possibilities earnestly considered. Thus the way is be consideration of problems, na n. many is to pay years the i but discussicr Langths of tme av 18 paved for the great specitle ow niuch Gere 4 over how many < may be spread. pavments and heing religlously ded now. Urowd of Standing Pride in reputat strengthened determination of has the ions (Cor ued on Page Community Saved From Gas by Scout Malden, Mas: March 2 (P— Julian Edelson, year old Boy Scout, performed his “daily good deed” in a wholesale man- ner early today. When youug Ldcion detect- ed the odor of - 1pine gas he became instantly on the alert, summoned the pr and fire departments and aronsed more than 25 of his neighbors, as- sisting several of ther» to the street. Seven persons were so sever- ly affected by the gas that they were removed to the Maldem hospital in an ambulanc:. They were the members of the famfi- ly of Samuel Korfesky, which includes his 70 year old meth- er.