New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1929, Page 1

FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 DEMOCRATIC PARTY FACTIONS T0 HAVE TEST OF STRENGTH Town Commitiee Decides to, Have All Terms Expire Affer Primary Late This Month CONTROL IN BALANCE AS SHOWDOWN IMPENDS Younger and Older Elements Ques- | tion Wisdom of Each Other's Pol- | icles and Decide to Allow Rank | and File to Determine Which Shall ; Sit in Authority—Dispute Dates | Back to Campaign Last Fall. E | Meeting for the first time in sev- eral months, the democratic town eommittee last night voted to con-| Bengtson Will Fight Miner H. S. Frat Bill REPRESENTATIVE BENGTSON Representative Thure Bengtson of this city today announced that he was opposed to the Miner bill pre- sidor the terms of all members us sented to the general assembly un- | expiring after the primary of March | 27, allowing members of the party ! to selcct an entire new committee if | they so desire | This, it has been explained, is in the nature “triendly show- down” fo determine whether local democracy is satisfied with the pres- ent control or whether it prefers to have management of internal af- fairs shifted to some other group. of a | der the terms of which high school fraternities and sororities would be abolished. “What right has the state to med- dle in such a cuestion?” Represen- tative Bengtson asked. “I am abso- lutely opposed to it and I will speak | against it at the hearing on March 21 before the committee on educa- tion."” i oz WILL OPPOSE BAN Many who last night voted to de- clare their committee places vacant, have been on the governing board of the democratic party for many years are representative of the bloc 1 as the “older democrats’ who organized and led the ac- 's of the Smith-Robinson club presidential election comprise vounger democrats”” and if there is to he a clash for committee control, it will come with the line sharply dividing these two groups. Although the factions have long to as “younger” or | s, it is pointed out, is mors a matter of control rather | than of alignment, since there are | to be equal numbers of the | voung men and women contented ON H. §. SOCIETIES School Board Objects to Bill Be- Tore General Assembly OPPOSES MEREDITH'S STAND | President King to Investigate Meac- ure Aimed Against Fraternities and Sororitics Sponsored by Rep- NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1920.—EIGHTEEN PAGES FALL OF TORREON | IS PREDICTED AS CALLES (LOSES IN Federal “Force Said to Be 30,000 Strong Creeps Up on Rebels ESCOBAR IS DECLARED PREPARED FOR RETREAT Government Advised Alr Scouts Ob- serve Evidence of Intent by In-| surgents to Give Way—Durango Taken by Loyal Army After Bloodless Eatry—Reports From | West Coast are Contradictory. ; | | | | | { | | i I | By tho Assoclated Prem. The long impending battle of Tor- |reon grew closer today as strong |federal armies crept in steadily up- jon the rebels in an ever tightening {circle. Strong federal columns were re- ported within 30 miles of the jnsur- |gent stronghold this morning, while | |General Calles himself was reported | in the city of Durango, having taken | |1t after a bloodless entry. i | ‘The rebels who had held Durango | | were reported as fleeing northward {along a spur line {hanging in the air, facing a long | |overland trek on foot and horseback | to reach the next railroad point. The federal army closing in on | Torreon is estimated as high as 30,- 000, while General Escobar, the reb- el chieftain, is stated to have only 5,000 men. | The only line of retreat appar-, !ently left him is northward to Chi- |huahua. Signs of Retreat While rebel quarters state defi- {nitely that Escobar will hold Torre- | |on and even has been advancing to ormed the government that air| scouts had noted apparent prepara- tions for a retreat. | The insurgents claimed that the |railroad junction of Canitas was oc- | cupied by revolutionists. Yesterday, | however, an Associated Press staff {thorities by meet the federals, General Calles in- | Frank Kowalskl, 1 WHERE SOUTHERN CYCLONE KILLED NINE TS Photo shows wreckage, left by twister at Six Mile, near Pi The tornado precceded heavy rains and floods in the south, kens, S. C., in which nine persons lost their lives. (Picture by telephoto from Atlanta.) NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Marcr s 15,526 PRICE THREE CENTS ALABAMA RIVER SIX MILES WIDE AND 54 FEET DEEP MEASLES EPIDEMIC STARTS Asks Fi~-{ Help vy T 4 ~ pAoi Hdag GOV. BIBB GRAVES, ALABAMA by Wallingford Police ARREST CLEARS MYSTERY Local Alleged Another Also Hcld For Part In Burning of Abandoncd Building. Man, Is told to Bronislaw The story Kai Two Weeks Henry old, of to this city to become ent of construction of th Benk building in 1906, died at home this morning at cwinan Bodwell, following an 1llness of two weeks, Mas He was born in Boxford, March 2, 1534, the olde Leonard W. and Abby received his early son vea 3 Stanley strect who came superinte National 1:45 o'clock, | Bodwell. lucation in £ TS OCDITAD PATIENT . W. BODWELL DIES SESSION EXPECTED HELD AFTER FIRE' AT THE AGE OF 75 T0 END BY MAY | Karaszewicz Taken Into Custody National Bank Building Both Honses of General As- Superintendent Ill for sembly Slow Up During Week ... EARLY SPEED VANISHE nd- his | | Tegislature Elapses—old O;i Pension Among Them. State Capitol, Hartford, | (P—Slackening of March 16 vity and speed FAMILY SHOT BY CRAZED ENGINEER Fitchburg Man Kills His | Daughter, Wounds Wife, Commits Suicide Fitchburg, M Charles H. ott, 39, an electrical engineer, early today shot and killed |his 9-vear-old daughter, Elizabeth, 2 land after probably fatally wounding | Few Controversial Measures Remain | as Two-Thirds of Time Allotted to Age his son, Richard, 6, and less serious- ly injuring his wife, committed sui- cide in their home on the outskirts of this city. Another son, Charles H. Jr.. escaped and gave the alarm. The tragedy occurred a few hours after the family had retired for the ight. Scott entered his wife's room, March 16 P—! Aviator Reports Frantic | Rescue Efforts at Geneva, Where Water is 20 Feet Deep in Streets - Says “Situa- tion is Very Bad.” Twelve Are Known to Have Perished in Flood and Death List May Prove Enormous—Graphic Re- port of Victims’ Plight | Given by Correspondent. Madison Park, Ala.. March 16 (P—The Alabama river was a solid expanse of water extend- ing over a territory six miles | wide here today. The stream Wwas reported at a depth of 54.2 feet, 19.2 feet above flood stage. The water was said to be high- . er by several inches than in the 1919 flood which caused serious property loss in this section. Madison Park is a suburb about six miles north of Montgom- ery. Montgomery, Ala., March 16 (P —A radiogram received from | an observation plane fiying over Geneva at 8 a. m. today said the pilot observed persons work- ing frantically in boats, and | that the “situation looks very | bad.” | Big Creek, Ala, March Measles has broken out refugee children in the i flood camp here. Authori 16 (P— among Pea river ies have R A | 1 e | correspondent with the federal army |, revolver in hand. One bullet struck !taken prompt steps to suppress the 23, of 855 Broad street, early the o . 2 long held control, and older men S ’ | filed a dispatch from that place, giv- o & Westport, Mass., and before he was ' the¢ general assembly, which Wa8 | her, lodging behind an ear. Another | disease by injectio an in and women who repose greater con- | General disapproval of billling no indication that the rebels 04y morning, of having sustuined Derh : : : Yolnieclons or tanil-tori 2 5 L ol had learmed the ouas | noticeable this week, gave assur- |yt "o8 8 b vl e : pata fdence in the political operations of now pending before the state legis- | were anywhere near it. igijm:r‘m),m:’l‘:l:‘:ft\:rlkm‘gh‘(m e o i varnea e joa {ance that the aim of the tWo ma- |gleaping with her h:‘g’[‘;)’fl"‘“ been m"m“»lm"‘:;;;r::i l;hv‘_m:.erus,\» the Smith-Robinsen club group. laturc for the abolition of high| Reports from the west coast ¢on- [yomopile’ and lighting a match | He studied architecture and “n.fl‘mril\‘ l"?ders Senator Peasley of Runs for Help Dr. T. G. Gill and Dr. A. H. No Chalrman Elected Ischool fraternities und sororitics was (Uict 8harply. The insurgents report- ;roveq to be cntively fwisd whei | cmployed by leading architocts in | Clospire and Mr. Johnson of Man-| are geott, although stunned, rose |Graham of the state department of “The town committee i now with- | g ol ot e o1 unt, Stantey . | €4 that Mazatlan was virtually sur-'icutenant Richard P. Barry of the Doston. IFor many years ho was in g ’_*‘i‘]fr; to adjourn the 1929 sesson 4,4 grappled with her husband and |health arrive” vesterday with medi- out a chairman or a vice challMan. | yoimoy and members of the school [FOUnded. The government, on the | wallingford police called at local |ty office of Peabody & Stearns of | 'y Ma¥ 1 may be reailzed. manager to rouse Charles, 11, who cal supplies. Drl Gill imemdiately John E. R. Keevers who was at the | oo iiee a¢ the monthly mecting|Other hand, stated that the rebels |police headquarters last evening and Loston, Secking a practical man | 10 POth houses tle business trans wus glceping in another room with | set off for the scattered refugee head of the committce when Mayor |00 t8 o0 o0 ™ hoinite action | Bave retreated as far north as San |was taken to the hospiial by with a thorough technical know!. 2cted as compared with that done|pichard, The older boy managed to | camps along Big Creek in a canoe Vaoncssa made his successful flgh""afi held up pending a conference | N . in previous weeks was littl and oo to a neighbor, but Richard was t0 administer to those already to return to office, and whO ¥aS |yl preident P F, Kig and| Blas, a railroad junction in northern |geant T. J. Feeney for an intervicw ¢ P motions to table were more readily | ynaple to escape 4 bullet from him | Stricken. chairman for two years prior to that | p " " p T i ot o g [ rebels for almost a week, again was| Karaszewicz, who may recover | Sinaloa, Culiacan, occupied by the |with Karaszewicz, accepted than before. Speed, the fathers pevoivs time, resigned after the fall election | g0 “* ("o oo |claimed in the federal rank: from his burns, admitted to the keynote p early in the session | The crazed man then descended to and Attorney D. L. Dunn, vice chair- | ® 0008 B HCOE 0% embers of| A train bombing took place at ths |ficers that he and Frank Ko with Friday business days added 10| ¢he gitchen of the house where he man also left office. ~Last nlght's yno gohool hoard spoke of making, Small town of Obregon in Guana- |4, of 57 Sexton streef, w. ! (Continued on Page 12, S help. has more or less vanished and | joagcq |24 x nag A loaded & double-barrelled shotgun meeting was called by Lawrence Py o0 "hoie feelings in letters to]Juato, but no damage was caused. Wallingford Thursday ni n its place complacent ease anq apparently discharged the (f:g- Mangan, secretary, a =~ was p"'s'd‘!nwprcscmume Waldo L. Miner, with the policies of those who have | resentative Miner. public schools of Boxtord and yes- the tace, It engaged him as superin- set- vorked for charge of ny parts of the coun- 1dings erected un- 1 Kellogg Mark Hopkins' resi- it Great Barrington, Mass.; Alloghany court house at Pitts- g and the public library at concern from S House Minority Leader Tobin of aterbury opined that because so ich of the general assembly's business has already been done only two Frida sions remain 1 Senator Peasley who with Mr. John- |son controls such matters declared he idea is not at all unlikely.” He was optimi about. the pros of concluding by May 1 Many Bills I With about > th he ntinued on Page 15) ied on Page posed Of two-thirds the tin between the opening the session ar | the expected closing da { | gone a higher percentage of WEATHER | New Britain and vicinity erally fair and cooler to- Sunday fair. (Continued on Page 12) inued on Page 15) | Question Mark Pilot Hopes (Continued on Page 15) | 11 Tampico, Mexico, March 16 (P—Advices to the newspaper El Mundo said Capt. Ira C. Eaker, who is on a dawn-to- dusk flight from Brownsville to Panama, landed at Minatitlan in southern Mexico, on his sec- ond scheduled stop at 9:30 a. m. (10:30 a. m. eastern stan- dard time). (GO 1 I\ Og E\}A“S 6/0/1_2,_ ENING OF HOLY CROSS CHURCY "Jfi}n%o, APPIOXMATELY 5,000 NOW ATTBNDING \T'S S8AVICRS —> m DOVE OF PEACE AT TUES DEMOCTATIC TOWN. as, March 16 (P —Captain Ira C. Eaker, famed pilot | of the record breaking endurance plane, Question Mark, took off at 4:08 o'clock this morning on a daw to dusk flight to France field, Colon Panama. Flying the model of Brownsville, T 3 Washington, March 16 UP)—Secre- quarterly tary Adams, of the navy, intends to | make some disposition of the case | of Rear Admiral Thomas P. Ma- gruder, who has been “awaiting or- accrued mon stock preferred stock cared for. At a mee ctors of t first American, P-12 pur- Y tested, Captain hoped reach Colon by 7 o'clock tonight © piane is capa- ble of a speed of 188 The schedule calls speed of 135 ing five stops for refu . rst stops were to be at Tam- 1 Minatitlan, Mexico, to ;m MAN TAPATKA WAS A L(TT] L 0, CHAITMAN M. SANKAN 08 Forz You/ pefamste: 02 DEPaaTmENT g <" LACK OF 3t FAY AWD WBAQnESS sent to 9 ship. Other e Guatem Guatem Nic agua and D> Captain Eak mail. includin of from the American governr to officials of the four countries on his route | Captain Eaker wore carried ltters ; Iter they had received from Mr. Min. | City, who is now en route to Bul- (home, where he was To chairman. This decision was | or” (e lyttor waid Dr. Meredith fuv- |garia to take up the post of Ameri. Kurasauicz’s wife and i orcd barring these organizations.|can minister there. L el ol B recently and had been worried about | business troubles Investigators|Succeeds Late Julian Hol- found 21 loaded revolver shells scat- | ) ley as Firm’s Vice huilan key city, was expected to be, Sergeant Fer In his letter to the school board | under way by nightfall ity Mr. Miner said he had a bill before| Three federal generals last iight |about buying |adding a requ.st that members of lgrationas mbcnetae: aridivias ik - mediately elected vice president and Nearer to Death - to Make Goal Before treasurer to succesd Julian R. Hol- { | i fl i | ’ [ Nightfall v e o moee o ADAMS TO DISPOSE ||~ THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS : who have attended Marshal Foch in | . . ‘ “F MAfiRUI]ER BAS[‘ er & number of years ago and his promotion has been rapid. He was elected secretar and treasurer a weakening, His two 1nonths iliness has slowly sapped his strength, they added. One employment mana; and later as office manager. he directors also voted, at ves- *not as sirong as it was.” Th nine doctors issued the fol- lowing bulletin as to the Marshal's B |tober, 1827, The secretary has not and S po. he th “‘,ln’v":,:”’,l,, o The Palnt | indicated, however, what this de- e was extremely tired this | Cision will be or when it wHl be an- j‘.‘j"';"”’ iEsalofore e ',;'O'u’l‘:,f"e“"‘e""é.in which he criticized the navy's T N il morning. | €“heral organization. In this article Stk et " land others later, he charged that the on the maintenance of navy yards : 1though | ;14 naval stations along the Atlantic @ prominent yachtsman in Priv- | ;5,60 anq that there were too many ate life, do=s not feel that a | yacht for the e of the naval | Karaszewicz is under : Mr. King felt that circumstances egice: doud FEET which do not appear evident poRRital E it ey NINE I]“GT“RS MEET tered about the upper rooms. | EAKER HOPS OFF ON shisps i the legislature which, 1f passcd.|were within 30 miles of the city|tion at 328 South would bar fraternities from all high | ¢rom the east, while to the south and ; Wallingford, and puttin ey, who died on February 15, Har- ry Law was elected secretary to his illness met for consultation at hi. bedside this morning. They said at ! few years ago and had held that po- avy Secretary Will Act | sition until his elevation to the vice of them said that the Marshal had Soon on Admiral i undergone neither a great setback terday’s me divi- dend of $1.75 a share on the pre- condition. “We are unanimously agreed that 5 o 7 inter. | mounced. morning. He failed to take any inter- | Admiral Magruder Incurred the > e & | navy was over-organized; that it New Navy Secretary | failed to demobilize as it should have Bans Personal Yacht navy yards, stations and bases. t Reaction' to Macgruder's charges T s secretary is a “justifiable ex- CONBIN AVENKE WILL SOON flying s and carried a pense. Among those on the train was Ar- Was burned by flames arising has come. SER IR e e WII.SUN PR"M"TEI] ed over by Thomas J. Smith, secre- |\ DERERCRINE | LD Al | : Battle Due Tonight thorities are continuin prompted the education commission- | ’ | | | | (Spectal to the a » ‘ N MA Bristo], March 16.—At a meeting Sohiools (nithelstule /ety mata hie nnd) Karasz 1 of the board of directors of the Bris. succeed Mr. Wilson. the conclusion of their conference presidency yesterd nor shown any permanent improve- Awaiting Orders rred stock and an additional divie the previous treatment is to be con- | ders” since he was relicved as com est in things about him. | displeasure of Secretary Wilbur in !after the World War; that it had too Washington. March 16 (P— s | came quickly. Secretary Wilbur dis- | . i Q8 TRANSFORMED INTO |en sandwiches and Issuiug an order for the dis- { ; : {2 five gallon can of gasolin | 4 by 1 {thur Schoenfeld, former counsclor of | & e sturned with help. tary. Pending the outcome oOf the | ,yioniion 1o the fact that in a let- 3 Softand Riohara wess :ukcn! BY BRIST“[ BRASS to the Burbank hospital. Police said | Promuien thoienneat Mexico City, March 16 (P'—Bat- | yestigation. = o & |southwest forces of Genera! Calles charge of it. French War Hero, With heara that New Brit had its | o e Mr. Wilson entered the employ of that though the Marshal was “in no Mr. Law has also been connected ment during the last three weeks. on the same issue to il oneiasiy i) mandant of the fourth naval district In addition to the doctors who | £ SFleattre 8l Recretary WHDUE many officers on duty In Washing- Francis Adams, the new 1 puted his claims of lack of naval | ] A FING STATS HIGHWAY— |orange Jjuice for lunch wosul of the yacht, Sylph for sl 0se income tax payments re- flected the prosperi'y of the se {the American embassy in Mexico ki was arrested at K prima 1t has been decided to elect | Scott had not been in good health | |tle for possession of Torreon, Coa-| Kowalski Miner Appeals For Suj |troubles with these organizations, (Continucaton Pane Aibee v o eTe Weakening Heart, Is the brass corporation as a bookkeep- tmmediate peril” he gradually was with the firm a number of years as His heart, however, it was said, was They found his temperature to he‘by Former Secretary Wilbur in Oc- have aided in the treament of the | ebiebel Todle T WEUTE of CE0 !'ton; that too much money was spent of the navy, although | economy. President Coolidge said he J /) I e St h a S ot asked muny years at the of the secretary of the navy, he said it would not be replaced. The Sylph was built in 1898, put into commission al service on the Poto- mac river and Chesapeake Bay. Secretary Adams was amateur skipper of the yacht “‘Resolute” which won the international yacht races in 1920. did not agree with Magruder's con- {clusion that the navy was over-of- | ficered. It was contended that Ad- | miral Magruder had violated naval |rules in not submitting his articles to the navy department before pub- | lication, and there was talk of pun- | ishment on this score. i Borah Backs Magruder Not all of the comment was ad- verse. Senator Borah of Idaho, de- clared he “would like to have Ma- (Continued on Page 12) from luck in his attem “Weather and my 460 horspoewer motor will decide the he said. “T have great faith in the mo- tor and hope for favorable weath- er.” The distante bet and Colon is 1.9 Captain Eaker Colon on a retur Sunday, reaching result,” een Brownsv miles. plans to leave flicht at 5 a. m Brownsville at (Continued on Page 15) v market. > usual the long lines whic hrough the tax offices as New Yorkers rushed to get under the wire and avoid penalties for late ling was remarked by customs ouse attaches. When the offices nidnight a check fo; and no cents” and checks run ning into six figurcs had been poured into the buge bine. umber of girls closed at “no doilar