New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1929, Page 1

i e R AR News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 15’495 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THUR SDAY, MARCH 17, 1929. —TWENTY PAGES March 2nd .. PRICE THREE CENTS COLONEL STEW ARD OUSTED AS STOCKHOLDERS GATHER FOR MOMENTOUS OIL FIGHT Police and Firemen Guard Entrances to Community Hall, Scene of Gigantic Bat- tle for Control of Bil- lion Dollar Company. Newspapermen Buy Stock | in Order to Get in and Cover Meeting — Sup- porters of Both Rocke-| feller and Stewart At- tend in Heavy Numbers. Whiting, Ind., March 7 (AP)—Colonel Robert W. Stewart, was deposed as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil company of Indiana today at the an- nual stockholders meet- ing climaxing the bitter proxy battle between him- self and John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., who instituted the proceedings to oust Stewart. Whiting, Ind., March 7.—P—The | elimax to the gigantic struggle for the leadership of the billion dollar Standard Oil company of Indiana drew hundreds of stockholders to- day to this little city on Chicago's ontskirts, Hours before the time set for the annual meeting, which will decide | whether John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is successful in his demand for the resignation of Col. Robert W. Stewart from the chairmanship of the board of directors, guards were on duty and ushers lined up at the community house, the finish line in the nationwide contest for stock- | holders votes. Policemen stood at every entrance to subject all comers to preliminary | examination and firemen were sta-[ . (Continued on Page 11) MIDWEST IS SWEPT WILLIAM D. MITCHELL. MITCHELL EXPECTS REAL ENFORCEMENT (Attorney General Predicts De- partment Has Work Cat Out \PLANS NO HASTY MOYES | f’lluovu Cabinet Member Would Rather Shoot Wild Life With Movie Camera Than With Gun— Also Likes Golf Course. Washington, March 7 ® — A |slender, smiling, dapper man with {a& youthful face, who would rather (shoot wild life with a motion pic- i‘ture camera than a rifle, empha- |sized today that the national pro- |hibition law will be enforced. dress should be platform erough for the department of justice,” Wil- {llam D. Mitchell, the new attorney {general said. Then he smiled over in office and added: “I have not had | {time to work out any scheme for | handling the prohibition question.” | _Wiry and sparkling of eye, Mr. { Mitchell has the look of a man who | | would much prefer to be tramping 'a pack trail in his hunting clothes than to be sitting at a desk in the {nation's capital dressed immaculate- |ly. “President Hoover's inaugural ad- | the problems of the first 24 houn‘ MONTEREY, SCENE OF MEXICAN- CONFLICT 7IST CONGRESS TO - MEETONAPRIL 15 Hoover calls Extra Session on| Farm Rehel and Tarili \LIMITED CIIANGES URGED Farmer, tion Necessary. Washington, March 7 P—An ex- | dent Hoover, islation for agricultural relief and for “limited changes of the tariff.” The proclamation says that these matters cannot in justice “to our facturers be postponed.” issued by the new chief executi reads: Text of Proclamation “By the president of the United States of America, a proclamation: “Whereas public interests require that the congress of the United States should be convened in extra session at 13.0'tdeck noon on the 15th day of April, 1929, to receive such communication as may be made by the executive: “And whereas legislation to ef- President Declares in Justice to Our Our Labor and Our | Manufacturers Makes Speedy Ac- | | | tra session of the 71st congress for | April 15, was called today by Presi- | Bpecifically the call proposes leg- | farmers, our labor and our manu- | The proclamation, the first to be | fect further agricultural relief and | |legislation for limited changes of ! |farmers, our labor and our mnnu-‘ |facturers be postponed:; | “Now, therefore, 1, Herbert | Hoover, president of the United | States of America, do hereby pro- |claim and declare that an extraor- | dinary occasion requires the con- — (i comats) HIGEINS' ABSENT l | | ATTY. WILLIAM E. CURTIN ATTY. . E. CURTIN Councilman From Third Ward Announcement was made today Attorney William E. a candidate for councilman {the third ward at the republic: primaries. Councilman D, L. Bal lett, whose term will be a candidate for alderms: and Councilman W. {not be a candidate for renomir ‘Believed to Have Fled Rather Than Face Prison Term No Trace Found to Real Estate Dealer Who Disappeared Yester- day Just Before Trial For Extor- ton Was Scheduled to Ope John J. Higgins of 32 Cedar street, who absented himself from superior court at Hartford yesterday, has not |been heard from since, so far as could be It is believed that he left for parts unknown carly yesterday morning. POLICE ASKED T0 WATCH| learned in this city today. ! ;Blll ABOLISHING REVOLUTION COLLAPSES IN RN ?N“,fif,‘l?s'f[ SOUTH MEXICO: VERA CRUZ Peck and Clark, T, Lone SUpporter AGAIN TAKEN BY F EDERM.S of Measure, Engage in ——————— ’Rebels in North Move s Toward Juarez; Gen- ‘SENATE VOTES DOWN eral Aguirre Reported CITY JUDGE MEASURE in Flight By Sea After Proros Terrific Battle; Mon- terey Retaken, | | | ! Governor 1o to Permit For Town and Is Defeated— Them Nor urts s Abuscs Exist Under Borquez, Third Insurgent Leader, Consolidates His Position in Sonora; Gov- | roner System But Holds | a 15 Inadvisable. Capitol, Hartford, March 7| & e house today 1ejected the | & g the officer of coroner ernment Confident of IL ", transferring its powers and | * £ aties 1o the siate police commis Early Squelching of Out- Isioner after Epaphroditus Peck. ! o ot Bristol, member of the judi- | burst at All Points. ciary committee, and Representa- |tive Clark, of Haddam, introducer| GEN. JSEUS M. AGUIRRE. {and only supporter of the bill, had El Paso, Texas, March 7 () jengaged in a mild tiff on the floor. | In the senate the bill authorizing the governor to nominate judges of city. town and borough courts, as he does now the judges of New Haven courts was voted down. Mr. Peck gave an extended ex- | planation of the unfavorable report | of the judiciary on the coroner's | bill. He explained it was a matter of personal regret that there must be an wdve report on a bill {sponsored by the house chairman of | —Under command of General Ignacio Flores, 200 federal sol- diers left Juarez at o'clock this morning to proceed against a detachment of 4G0 revolution- ists believed to be advancing against the city. The orces were re- ported as being 25 miles from the border city. Contact be- tween the oprosing forces was expected within a few hours. Major Frederico Alberts, spokes- EDEL MURDER CASE. 15 GIVEN T0 JURY Judge Nott Explains One of Four? Verdlcts Is Possible | | the appropriations committee, “to man for General M. J. Limon, |whom the state is deeply indebted told newspaper men a pitched for his vices.” T ws To G OSE battle was imminent, Ko “Are Concoded RIAL DRA L Ax' Unsoonemad seport that There are serious abuses under Mayor Gallo had been executed the coroner system, said Mr. Peck, by & firing squad later gained Doure Futorios Jurors Bivst Wogror | | Ly d crdents ae but the committee belizved that the TO RUN FOR COUNCIL |Will Be Candidate for Curtin of 1 |the tarift cannot in justice to our | West Main street that he would be from expires in April, | 8. Warner will difficulties now between cvrwin{ state’s attorneys and the state police'| would be increased if the measure | were pasied and the coroner went | cut of existence. rather than face the possibility of a state's prison sentence which was to be imposed upon him for extortion. What his plans are for the future 1 ing Robbery. i | are known only to himself. Sy hts very hatute s palica ofmle Yesterday afternoon, the 1ocal PO~ cor ix not jmpartial” Mr. Peck de.| New York, March 7 UP—The case lice received . telepBons message | iarved, “He has 5 fendency to side- |of Wrederick W. Endel, charged from County Detective Edward ). (rack all evidence of ‘nnocence of | : Sk ® el with the murder of Mrs. Emeline O. | Hickey, requesting that Higgins be the accu There has been a storm s taken into custody if located, It 1s un- derstood that State's Attorney Hugh at. | Harrington, actress, was given to the of the proposed ‘Jury in general sessions court short- of protest from all the state’s torneys. Passage (\,(| Alcorn, on l¢ :;rnmlg o‘ Higgins' Lill \v.omlq ffect the r|l<|1\‘15 oi (h‘;‘ly before noon today. {disappearance, ordered this course. state police and some at least, of 5 which came as & surprise in view |the stale’s attorneys. Some statws| JUdge‘Charles C. Nott, Jr., in g of the customary procedure of look- |attorneys feel the bill would handi- | eral sessions court, had previously ing to the bondsman to su cap them ¥ {delivered his charge to the jury. the principal. No extraordinary of. | Mr. Clark rose and replied: “I'm Opposing counsel made their sum- by forts were being put forth today by | = : . 4 mations yesterday as the defense of- the local police to locate Higgins. | (Continued on Page 18) e no" il the general feeling being that he e [es ERLonY. was undoubtedly many | The death of Mrs. Harrington was an rt |ties questioned Edel, a waiter by oc- | cupation. A year and a half ago he | was acquitted in New Haven, Conn., |of murdering John Mastriano, Jr., of | Meriden, Conn., and questioned in ADMTS DRING C4p |~ PECORDED AT YALE an Murder Can Be Found If It Is | Believed Actress Was Slain Dur- | the third killing in which authori- | By tho Associated Press, Complete breakdown of the revo- lutionary movement in Vera Cruz and other parts of southern Mexico was reported today, while the rebels in the north continued their drive toward Juarez where a hand- ful of federal troops was awaiting them. General Jesus Aguirre, comman- der of the rebel forces in Vera ‘Cruz. was belleved to have taken flight by sea after a terrific battle yesterday which ended when the |consular corps secured an armistice to avoid further bloodshed. The important strategic railway center of Monterey also was lost to the rebels, General Bscobar evacu- ating the city after a severe defeat by 10,000 federal troops. General Escobar later was driven |out of Saltillo and today was re- treating to Torreon along the wes! ern border of Coahuila. Of the three chief revolutionary tion, 80 there will be two vacanc in the ward rcpresentation. The third ward always sends a solid re- ! connection with the killing of Fred !|caders, two have been definitely re- Dudley, also of Meriden, ~|ported defeated while the third, Discovery of a blood-stained | (renoral I Has Ample Confidence /gress of the United States to con- But confidence In himself and his|vene in extra session at the Capite) BY COLD AND SNOW THAT K"_lfl] SK[]MARS Dlitulbance in Pacific Mercury in Chicago Drops | 40 Degrees Inside of 12 Hours Chicago, March 7 (A—Destructive west winds spread snow and cold over the midwest last night causing personal injuries, property damage and possibly loss of life. Fire added its menace to the oth- er elements at work. At Tomahawk, Wis. the wind whipped a fire through the business section, causing a loss of $500,000. 8ix persons were injured in Chi- cago and three others, who set out on Lake Michigan yesterday in & small fishing boat, were believed lost in the gale, The cold wave came just when the midwest was enjoying its balm- iest weather. In Chicago the season’s high temperature of 58 had been re- corded before the gale sent the mer- cury down 40 degrees in 12 hours. Similar drops were reported in many other ecities, The wind, which reached a velo- city of 45 miles an hour, broke win- dows, trees, chimneys and signs in Milwaukee and Chicago. Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota reported a heavy snowfall that hampered traf- fie. Floods in Nebraska Tce gorges and overflowing rivers caused much damage in Nebraska and Illinois. A dike broke in the Pappio creek near Omaha last night, flooding a large area to a depth of four feet and forcing several fam- Alies to abandon their homes. The Blue river was backing up be- hind an ice pack at Beatrice, Neb., and one suburb had already been cut off by flood waters early today. Backwater was making the city wells (Continued on Page 5.) Pedestrian Is Frozen To Death on His Feet Toronto, Ont., March 7 (M— Indian trappers returning from the headwaters of the Attawa- piska river in northern Ontario told of finding the frozen body of a white man standing bolt upright on snowshoes. The Indians said the body stood with one foot slightly ad- vanced us If about to take a step. It had been frozen solidly and the snowshoes were firmly anchored in the slush ice. There was nothing on the clothing or among thre effects in a prospector’s pack to identi- fy the body, the Indians said. The body cannot be recovered { the plane. | willingness to devote his best to his | ‘wnrk 13 his outstanding character- istic. Although he has not had time to declde on how best to handle \prohlblflon. he did not hesitate to ‘miy that if he found the work of (Continued on Fage 5) FORM AVIATION CLUB AND WILL BUY PLANE {Group of 17 Will Seek Use of Governor’s Field The Hardware City Aero club, an | organization of 17 young men, was | formed at & meeting in the Chamber of Commerce office last night. Ac- cording to present plans the club intends to save enough money so that by July it will be able to pur- chase an airplane. At that time the | members will be given an oppor- | tunity to pilot the plane. The members initiation fee is $10 and each member will be required to contribute $3 a week until July when approximately $1,600 will have been collected for the purchase of Later it is expected that that the members will ask permis- slon to use Governor John H. Trum- bull's flying field in Plainville. ‘Willlam A. Hill, son of Mrs. Mary in the city of Washington on the (Continued on Page 18) TRIAL OF GARDINER SET FOR NEXT WEEK {Pleads Not Guilty Charge of Criminal Libel to Pleading nhot guilty to the charge of criminal libel. Henry E. Gardiner of this city elected a trial by jury | in superior court yesterday after-| noon. The trial was set down for | next Tuesday. Attorney B. Gerard (Casale is Gardiner's counsel. Gardiner was bound over to su- when he demanded a $25,000 libel and slander tion brought by Chief W. C. Hart against Gardiner and Peter J. Pajewski, had not been heard in the civil side of superior court. ‘The criminal libel charge was the outgrowth of Gardiner's action in releasing for publication in a Bridge- port Sunday newspaper, communica- tions to the federal prohibition en- Hill of 69 Walnut street, is president of the club, Bruno Gwiazda of Cor- bin avenue is secretary and Joseph | Evens is treasurer. i Whole Community New City, N. Y. March 7 (®#— Flags on public bulldings here were | at half mast today as residents| mourned the passing of Michael | Whalen the town toper, who spent 27 of his 54 years in jail. ‘Whalen, at one time a prosperous contractor, was regarded with af- fection by the community despite a weakness for liquor which once a year, for 27 consecutive years, brought him a year's jall sentence. Just as regularly as he was re- | leased Whalen would start on a drinking bout which would bring him to the jail door, begging admit- tince. Taken 11! several days ago while until summer. |om & brief spell of freedom he was reported information charging Chief Hart and members of his family and | local sergeants and a with being bootleggers. policeman Sincerely Mourns as Town Drunk Goes to His Grave sent to Good Samaritan hospital His only request was that he be allowed to die ‘n the jall he called “home.” 1In this he was disappoint- ed, as he died yesterday at the hos- pital. County officlals immediately rais- ed among themsclves $1,000 for his funeral, and ordered that the court- house be closed toady while he is being buried. Each Christmas for many years Whalen was given a spe- cial Christmas party by the Rock- land county officials, who regarded him as somewhat of a hero since some years ago he saved the jail from destruction by discovering a fire in the bullding and arousing the keeper. forcement authorities, in which he | publican delegation to the council. s born in New | father was the late James M. Cur- first president of the Commer- perior court several months ago by |the office of Mangan & Judge M. D. Saxe in police court trial by jury | He spent about a month in Hartford |in the Leonard building on county jail in default of bonds, and Strect. his case was held over in superior | court because of the fact that the | | tin, cial Trust company and for a num- city's most His mother, b |ber of years one of the {before her marriage, Attorney Curtin w Britain December 1895, prominent merchant with whom he makes his home, Miss Mary Dunlay. Joseph M. Halloran, was mayor of New terms, is his brother-in-l After graduating from W and later was in the employ of t National City Bank of New York Britain for two w Br hammer and some personal articles of Mrs. Harrington in a hotel room Ocean Also Reported His i T i From Three Points Edel had occupied in New Haven Rostacki Held Under e started a police search that result- T «d in his location in St. Paul, Minn $1,000 Bond for New- New Haven, March 7 (UPj—An Wwhere he had been arrested last i Fi carthquake of marked intensity, | AL lngton Falallt" which lasted ne.rly two hours, was (Continued on Page 18) was g orded during the night on the| GEereee e i A. Andrew Rostacki, 22 year old, of Yale university seismograph, F. C. 9 ho Necwington, the driver of the auto- Herpich of the Peabody museum an- mobile which fatally injured John U. | nounced today. S s of Church street, Newing- | The quake occurred about 3.300 1t- ton, Tuesday evening when Skomars miles from New Haven in a wester- BODYGUARD IS SLAIN {ain High school in 1914, Attorney and his sister were walking hom |y direction, Herpich said, and was |Curtin entered Georgetown univer- on New Britain road in Newington S Fonratlie s T oa T sity at Washington, D. C., graduat- was arrested on a bench warrant about six months. It lasted from ey ing with the degree of Ph. D. in und will appear for trial at the .45 to 10:44 h “ ” 7! G e | §:45 ):44 p. mv, he said. - |1918. He was in the United States farch term of superior court next | /e Wiors thie aohssval se Fatty” Walsh Is Victim consular service in Santos, Brazil. to answer charges of crim- | eurrs S e b of Shooting Affray at in inal negligence, set at $1,000. His bond has been f an and the quake probably |dia s ! not cause damage, it was said. C G Santos, returning to the United rthony Roulard, 32 years old, of ‘oral Gables {Eoie o fradn e vfwm Yale 39 Curiin street, this city, who was Noted in Germany Law nchool in 1926, In June, 1926, | \ith him at the time of the acci- i , 8 e e acd Hambury, . March 7 (P | new York, e Siie he was admitted to the Connecticut dent, was allowed 10 go but whether imbury, Germeny, March 7 (7| New York, March 7 (P—Pollc bar and shortly thereafter enter Ringros A few months ago he and Attorn William A. Hagearty opened offic ed were informed today that the man le will be held as a material wit istered last night at the observa- | jiieg n o shootiey affcay at the S smaty which ‘1‘“ 1'.1- ';l'f'1‘\‘ bY tory here. The center of the dis- | jtiami Bittmore Hotel fn Coral ©¥ | County Detective Edward Hicke i g turbance was thought to be in the ) 3 R e e irbance w Gables, Fla. was Thomas (Fatiy) ncrthern part of the Pacific ocean e T Walsh, former bodyguard of Arnold Mo fodsn by poonstable Taymond V. |Scismographs at Koenigsstuhl and pornsicin, i alleran both men had been at the | iuaancst recorded the same shocks. | gy, 2 Attorney Curtin is active in the | home of Roulard in New Britain [L0 oPest recorded the same sho TPt “a;l?oudst&;-ei::te:” Lious' club and is also a member had | Beani drinkine home >iide AR stein ‘was killed but was released . They were said to have been St Z Py o e Sop S el e : (Continued on Page 18) N0 (et inte ot atoeihe o D B g Mescn ) gambler’s employ two months be Dying Baby’s Father In Path of Big Storm 78 — The ‘Washington, March d T Rothstein . howe ef that because he decid was “'too cheap. police expressed the t = Violet earthquake disturbances were saw . oted on the instruments of the ob- rvatory here at 1:45 a. were driving. and his s d umbrella. The o0- er walking under omars was h mars = m. today. be the Released From Jail inz the umbrelia with his ri oo e st Mo alan iling veg a0 afferinein ot Hartford, March 7 (P—An infant. #nd he had the left hand in his at of the Aleutian Rothstein was shot in the Park reported dying in an east side tene- pocket. Indicating that he must Dot ra‘(v Ttal e de N ment, moved Judge Bonee to call a have been Kkilled instantly eft AN A Al 16 tHoss Nakwhics special session of the police court !and was still in his pocket s ARt s e late last night in order to effect the the body was found gvpt, March 7 (B—The wa noned to the hotel room of [immediate relcase of the childs| Skomars left leg was broke observatory recorded & se- George McManus, another gambler father, Salvatore Messina, who was (hree places, and his back i v serving a 20 day jail sentence for al- broken, AtTdE a e apl 2 Tegell cviplition) o tho Mquerl dawa{/_ o¢ 08 =20 st the drivers r was about 7,000 miles away (Continued on Page Nine) Messina, who had scrved two days Cited and while he was of the sentence, was released to go What his next move would be his to the bedside of his little daughter. €OT nion urged him to move on. i B Y Moscow Professor Declares Dead North Aflal‘ltlc states take Roulard to his home time it was driven by Andrew tacki's younger brother, John they came to the scene th May Now Be Brought Back to Llfe weather burcau today issued the it was another acci O i e h 7 (UP)—Revival| Prof. Kullabko supported And- e Ruo IR Novb e B stori LD el "4 problem that has reisv's assertion in an interview e ok e nee for centuries—was with the United Pres said that, e by Professor The- | provided the heart, lungs and other T it b s i hon |intact, it should be possible n the bee will be atte west or the dead bo P o o L it i G G B e i il o e e tlet ‘iu,\‘\‘.r‘;“ 1t .‘\:;”-L'\ "1“(“ l\ T :‘!,!Xl Andreiev said, “and it only remains |ture tonight on the subject before a i el e to devglop the technique for sur-|group of Interested scientists, told In il ¥ and he will be arraigned in New. |Econs to apply practically the result n\dmul the stery of the most success- | ington court on that charge Satur. |0f our experime | ful revival of a human heart in hi | day nignt. Prof. Andreiev and Prof. Alexan-|recollection. The incident took ew Trltain and vicinity: | | Skomars’ funcral services will be der Kuliabko, a pioneer who has de- |place several years ago. he said. Generally fair and decldedly | | held Friday afternoon at 2 o'cleck (voted 20 years to r search to the: A (:orps-f V:'as stretched .:‘unh. Friday, fair [al Erwin Memorial chapel. R Dr. [subject, last year claime to hu\niopnrmnu{ table, And o‘\. surround- snd coatinued cold. | Abel A. Ahlquist, pastor of the First brought to life an individual whojed by a tense yroup of assistants, ]Lulhr‘ran church, will officiate. Bur- |had been dcad and in the morguel m——— i * 1al will be in Fairview cemetery, |here for 29 hours. (Continued on Page &) | lorquez. in Sonora, was still consolidating his position and plan- ning a southward movement against government forces in Sinaloa. Citics Recaptured Cities which the government hus recovered are Monterey, Cordova. Saltillo, Orizaba and Jalapa, whil: Vera Cruz had virtually been recap- tured, still needing some consolida- (Continued on Page 20) NEW BRITAIN-GRIDLEY MACHINE COMBINATION Stockholders Will Vote Tomorrow on Amal- gamation Stockholders of the New Brita hine Co., will meet tomerrow arternoon at 2 o'clock to vote on @ recommendation of their directors that the New Britain-Gridley Ma- ne Co. of Hartford be organized and operated as a subsidiary of th. local concern. Of the proposed 100,000 shares of the New Britain-Gridley company. §0,000 would be controlled by the New Britain Machine Co., the lat- | ter transferring to the propesed new subsidiary $1,124,385.05 in assets, Par for the new stock would be $100. To protect the interests of pre- ferred stockholders, it is agreed to deposit the stock owned by the Now Britain Machine Co. with the *hoenix Bank and Trust Co. of Hart ford, as security to guarantee th¢ execution of all agreements now ex. isting between the company and to preferred stockholders, adopt the directors’ recou dation, it 1s necessary to obtain the favorable vote of two-thirds of the common stock. Acceptance will ot increase the tax liability of the ompany, officials advise, The local plant, under the pro- posed change, will continue to harn ile the manufacture and sale of screw products, hardware and shop furniture, remaining an operating plant to that extent, and becoming a holding company insofar as msa chine manufacture and machine too! output and ssles are concerned. The Gridley Co. has been in ex- istance two years, specializing it single and multiple spindle chuvek ing machines. G. O. Gridley, head )¢ the Hartford division. is the de signer of a popular miake of auto matic screw machine which hears his name. ) M ch