New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 1

News of ‘the World By Associated Press ESTARBLISHED 1870 MEXICAN REBELS ON MOVE TOWARD ANERICAN BORDER Portes 6il Declares Their Extre- dition as Bandits Will Be Sought il They Cross LOOT TAKEN FROM BANKS IS NEARLY TWO MILLION robar Leaves E: to Jimenez, 35 Miles Away—Gov- lerumont Believes Revolution Is Near End—Calles Whips Forces Into Shape For Drive—Valenzuela Confers With Northern Leaders. (By Assoclated Press) The main body of the rebel army was a nearer the American border today having retired fromn Escalon 35 miles northward to dimenez. The government interpreted this niovement by General Escobar, in-| surgent commander in chief, as an- other sign of rebel disintegration declaring that the revolt was as §ood as over. 1 rgent quann rs, however, as- rted that Escobar’s retirement was purely strategical and intimated he would draw the federals further and | further away from their base and finally meet them in a decisive bat- | ¢ in the difficult northern country ierul Calles continued methodical preparations to crush the rebels. He has arrived at Tor- reon and today preparing his army of 30,000 for a further north- n advance. The rebel forces, described as numbering about 25,000 continued concentrating at Jimenez. tebel troops also were reported continuing a southerly march along the west coast drawing closer to the seaport of Mazatlan in Sinaloa. The government charged the rebels with looting banks of mil- lions of pesos with the intention of flecing to the United States with the loot In such event their extradi- tion may be asked, not as pomical lcaders, but as “ordinary criminals.” Calles Preparcs for Parsuit Mexico City, March 20 W—Gem eral Plutarco Elfas Calles ' reorgan- ized Wi forces at Torreon today pre- paratory to a drive northward to Purge Chihuahua of the rebel forces of General Jose Gonzalo Escobar. The federal generalissimo arrived | at 6 p. m. Tuesday from the state of Durango and immediately began step yreparations for relentless pursuit of | Escobar in a campalgn which he previously had said would be one of “extermination. At Chapultepec Castle President Portis Gil asserted this pursuit of the revolting generals would not be against them as rebels and political offenders but ag bank bandits and large scale loote alon and Moves | his | . The entire revo- | NEW BRITAIN HERALD CARLSON T0 BE MET BY MANY CANDIDATES {0dd Fellows 1o Greet Grand Mastcr From Here With Big Class. o As a tribute to Aaron Carlson cf { this city, who tonight pays his last | official visit to the Jocal lodges of the I 0. O. F., as grand master for |the state of Connecticut, Gerstaeck- |er, Phoenix, Lexington and Andree | AARON CARLSON |lodges will initiate a class of | members in his presence. | Grand Master Carlson will be accompanied by the entire staff of state officers, and present indica- Itions are that more than 500 Odd Fellows will be in the meeting Lall ‘on Arch street to greet them. For several weeks, members of the four lodges have conducted a iquiet membership campaign in preparation for tonight’s meeting. he class of candidates is the larg- | est ever received into the Odd Fel- lows heére, and the meeting is the {first at which four lodges have been in joint session. | Mr. Carlson completes his term of |office in May. at which time the slale convention will be held in this city 80 O, PLANT BUAZE HILLS %, BURNS 5 \Fire Follows Explosion at Mar- ous Hook. P, Dmtlllery EIGHT TANKS IN. FLAMES | Still Filled With Crude Ol About to Go Through “Cracking” Process Up—Fircmen Blows Use Gas Masks. Marcus Hook, Pa., March 20 UP— Two men were burned to death and NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929.—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES TOLL MAY REACH 17 Fast 'l‘nins Crash Head-on On Canadian National Road VICTINS WERE SLEEPING Vancouver-Round and Toroato- Bound Fllers llu'dvq Near Dro- court—Three Emergency Trains Quickly Rushed Toward Scene. Parry Sound, Ont., March 20 P —The death list in the head-on col- Canadian National Drocourt early ‘oday s es- timated at 17. Passengers on the sleeping cars of number 3 bound west for Winnipeg, returned to Parry Bound this afternoon and gave more definite word of the disaster. The crash, which occurred at 3:58 according to reports received here, was between the Vancouver-bound rallways near two of the fastest passenger lram- in the service. One of the cars {s reported have caught fire and grave were held for its occupants. ‘Three emergency trains, doctors and nurses, started from received. EX-CONVICT AND WIFE SLAIN BY GANGSTERS' After Door Is Broken Down New York, March 20 (P—Several | gangaters battered their way into | the armor plated home of Sam Sac- | co in Astoria today and killed him and the wife he had married second degree murder. Apparently 8acce had known he was walking in the lhndow n( death, for he had sheathed th of his apartment with heavy p(ecex of iron and had equipped it with strong bolts. But.the gangsters smashed the | door down while 8acco and his wife | Bacco died with his gun in his hand. His wife was killed as she lay in bed. . In 1917 Bagco's brother, Joseph, was killed. A man named De Lucca was arrested and questioned but finally released. But Bacco would | not accept the decision of the forces | of law and order that De Lucca was | innocent. De Lucca was killed and 8acco, athough he escaped the chair, lision between trains 3 and 4 on the | to! fears | bearing | lase) summer after completing a term for | Post-Dispatch. while on the ground. and the Toronto-bound *Nationals™ |~— Toronto, Sudbury and Parry Sound | as soon as word of the wreck was| Mutdered in Cold Blood! REPRESENTATIVE TILSON TILSON WILLNOT GO | TO PHILIPPINE POST | Generalship of ! Islands | Washington, March 20 (UP)—| | Representative Tilson, of Connecti- | cut, republican lecader of the house, | |denied at the White House today LEFT TO RIGHT:—BER) New York, March 20 (#—TLarry Gould, expedition missing since last Thursday in the Rockefeller according to a radio dispatch from Little America copyrighted by the New York Times and the St. Louis | POISON REACHES | manifest |after she worked in the RAILROAD COLLISION|BYRD LOCATES MISSING EXPEDITION MEMBERS | BALCHEN, HAROLD JUNE, Bernt Balchen and Harold I. Ju mountains Commander Byrd, who flew to their rescue, reported that their plane had been destroyed by severe winds AND LARRY GOULD. ne, the three members of the Byrd of Antarctica, have been found, FOR NEW VICTIM Another Waterbury Woman Succambing to Deadly Radmm ' CONDITION I GRITIGAL, Autopsy Performed on Body of Mrs. | | l Mildred Cardow Reveals Bone | | Structure in Her Skull Had Been Eaten Away. | ! Waterbury, March 20 (UP)—Lit-| tle hope is held for the recovery of | Mrs. Marjory Barrett Dumschott, former clock dial painter, now suf- | fering in the advanced stages of ra- dium poisoning similar to that which took the life of Mrs. Mildred Cardow early yesterday. Dr. Frederick G. Graves, who s n. ting Mrs. Dumschott, said today that while no immediate crisis is ex- | pected, Mrs. Dumschott is in & criti- | cal condition. | As in the case of Mrs. Cardow, the | disintegrating effect of the radium | were atlll in bed and ' opened fire.| NOt Interested in Governor tiat haa enterea Mrs. Dumschott's em while she painted luminous als on watches and clocks did not | itself until several years Waterbury | a Clock company. | Mrs. Dumschott is believed to be the only person now suffering from the eftects of radium here. | William Cardow, mechanic, hus- | band of yesterday's victim, hopes | her death will not have been in vain, | I || Principal in Hex Case lution was characterized a8 nothing i1 o others seriously burred early more than a wholesale depredatory | attempt by its leaders who had in- |f0day In a fire at the Sun Oll Co. tended from the first to get what plnnt here, after an explosion in an loot they could and then escape inlo ol distillery. the United Htates. Scores of workers and firemen On this basis, the president 8aid, | yoro purned. They were treated on every effort would be made 0 5e- | (po woene by physicians summonded b {from nearby towns. | The dead: James McAabee,, Jr., 25 of Marcus (Continued on Page 10.) gree murder. | generalship of the Philippines. With good behavior allowance h:i It is understood President Hoover completed his time last summer and | R i e <o shortly after regaining his free. 128 been considering Tilson for the dom he marMed and took the POSt, but it is mot known whether apartment in Astoria. |it has been aetually offered to the He was tipped off apparently, ‘Connecncu! congressman. that though his debt to the people| Tilson feels his position in the was paid there was still something | house offers the best oppori s ity for owing to the underworld for the service to the administration, especi- was given 20 ycars for second de- |that he is considering the governor | RODMAN WANANAKER LEAVES $36,000,000 Bulk of Property Repre- sented by Investments in Stores Norristown, Pa., March 20 (UP) ~—A fortune of $56,914,200, exclusive of the vast real estate holdings, was revealed by inventory of the estate of the late Rodman Wanamaker, patron of arts and heir of John Wanamaker, founder of the depart- ment store corporation. The inventory was filed yesterday register of wills office herm in th 1t represented the largest estate the history of Montgomery and one of the largest in the history of the state. The largest item of the $56,000 00 fortune was represented by 000 shares of common stock in the Wanamaker ~ Stores corporation emounting to $48,243,831.23. Th= corporation owns stores in New mn York and Philadelphia, and’branch- | es in London, is, Tokio and Shanghai. Sixty separate life insurance poli- cies at different times against Wanamaker's life by 44 companies in the United States, Canada and South America amounted to $6,000,- 000. Besides the common stock hold- {ngs in the store corporation and the | surrender value of insurance, other noldings include: Personal and household effects, $1,071,243.98, including $451,164.95 for the Washington Square home, New York city: $149,641.96 for indenhurst, Jenkintown, Pa., $33.- 808.10 for Melrose, adjoining the Walnut street home of the late John Wanamaker, Philadelphia. $1,428,576 representing 7.722 shares formerly owned by the estate in the Philadelphia Record Publish- | ing company. $29.562 representing 500 shares of Curtiss Aeroplane Motor 87,699 representing 123 shares of Real Estate Land Title and Trust company. county | com- | | Hook, a still operator. He was mar- ried and the father of five children. | His body was found on a “catwalk,” |or platform over the still, an hour jafter the fire started. Joseph C. Bennett, 35, Linwood, | Pa., a fireman for the company, who died in Chester hospital from burns (Continued on Page 21.) 'TOBIN REAPPEARS, Charge Agrees to Trial. James F. Tobin of street, who left the city last week rather than face trial in Farming- ton town court on the charge of vi- olation of the liquor law at “Black Kittens,” his roadhouse near | the Farmington-Plainville line, ve- | turned last night snd will be in Farmington court tonight, Judge W. F. Mangan, counsel for Tobin, received advance information of his intention of returning. and after conferring with him, Judge Mangan communicated with County Detective Edward J. Hickey and in- formed him of the development. De. tective Hickey and this morning the latter posted $1,000 bonds tor his appearance in court. Tobin has been named defendant in lawsuits since his arrest a f-w weeks ago and it is understood he owes considerable money to local residents. It is understood that he | has been in DBoston, Mass, since leaving New Britain, and he made the return trip by train. During the past few days, there have been ru- mors abroad that he was in Ne Britain, but they were false. Detec- tive Hickey received information Monday that Tobin had returned, and the local police sought him at the New Britain-Albany hockey game at the Stanley Arena and els where, Judge Mangan sald today that he had advised Tobin not to make any statement for publigation. “He has come back and will be in court to- night to face the charges. There in nothing further to be said about the xnmtter." Judge Managan said. | WILL FACE COURT: i | New Britain Man Wanted On Liquor | 190 Curtis the |y default in his action to collect | interviewed Tobin. | death of De Lucca. merely remembered some old threat. | bullets could not penetrate it and strengthening the locks to withstand {assault. And he kept his gun handy, | knowing that a man with the curse (Continued on Page 21.) {CAYANAUGH TO CLAIN NEW BRITAIN IN DEFAULT | Says He Was Elected Town Clerk and Has Received No Salary. T. Clay Cavanaugh will attend the short calendar session of | and ask that the city be considered salary as town clerk of the city of New Britail | claims he has been elected, and that him, Cavanaugh, acting as his own law- ver, was given permission to amend his complaint more than a month ago. Judge William F. Mangan, counsel for five members of the democratic town committee who are also being sued by Cavanaugh, filed an answer, but Judge John H. Kirk- ham, the city's corporation counsel, did not. It is this fatlure that the plaintiff bases his claim for defau't on, he explained today. If successful Friday, he will return to superior court one year from now and ask that judgment be given him for a like amount, representing the salary for the second year of the town clerk’s term. The plaintiff claims he was {l- legally prevented from placing his name on the printed ballot for the democratic primary. At the primary he cast a vote for himself for town clerk, and for another democrat for tax collector. There belng no other | votes, he considered himself to be the nominee of the party, and it happened that there were more votes jcast for the demogratic ticket than for the republican. The fact that his name did not appear on the ballot does not weaken his case, he claim pointing to his argument that he w: regularly nominated candidate of his party. At any rate he took all possible | precautions, lining his door so that | of the underworld on him may need | court in Hartford Friday morning. | a position to which he | | Judgment of $3,300 be awarded to | session, he said, after a conference with the president. Mr. Hoover ap- parently agreed with him. | Col. William Donovan is also con- sidered definitely out of the P'hilip- pine picture following a luncheon | with the president yesterday. He resuming private law practice ‘\nw York and wa«mng(on |FAMILY ESCAPES DEATH m‘ WHEN HOUSE IS BOMBED iflume of Insurgent Mine Leader in Bridgeport, Ohio, Wrecked— 1 | i | Three Slightly Hurt. #aid this morning. With the per- | | niission of Cardow and Mrs. Grace | { Williams, the woman's mother, | |doctors performed an autopsy upon | the radium victim's body yesterday afternoon. It was said to have been the first time such an autopsy had been performed and it was believed valuable data regarding treatment of the poisoning, which now is re- |garded incurable, may result from Much of the bone structure, par- | {ticularly in the skull, was found to have been eaten aw . RAGING DANUBE TAKES THOUSANDS OF HOMES : Artlller) men and Engin- eers Blowing Up Huge Ice Packs Bratisiava, Czechoslovakia, March 120 (A—Thousands of families along March the family 0 P— of Bridgeport, Ohio, | Five members of superior | James Kunik, insurgent mine 16ader (1o and other belongings in the southcastern Ohio coal ficlds, escaped death last night when bomb wrecked their home at Brook- side, near here. Mrs. Kunik, asleep tn a back room | of the home, with her twin daugh- ters, Betty and Betsy, six, was in- jured when struck by a piece of fur- niture. Another daughter, Henrietta, 17, | asleep in a front room directly above the point whene the bomb exploded escaped serious injury. August, 12, was also suffering from shock. Kunik attracted statewide atten- tion a vear ago when he broke away from the United Mine Workers' union, of which he was an active member, and led an insurgent group ! that provosed to return to work for $5 a day. He was mine, Martin's Ierry, plosion om-urrnd working at the Florencs when the ex- 100 'l'o 1 Shot Captures | Lincolnshire Handlcap | Lincoln, Eng. R. W. 100 to 1 shot in the betting, won | the great Lincolnshire handicap here today by a short head from | W. Barnett's Athford, which was 33 to 1 iIn the betting. Lord Beaverbrook's Miscou, a 100 to 8 shot, was third by a length and a hailf. The Lincolnshire was the first big race of the year and was over a strajght mile stretch. Elton carried 100 pounds, Ath- ford 102, and Miscou 96 pounds. |ing huge ice barriers arou | startled | the the right bank of the Danube were | suddenly bereft of their homes, cat- | today by he worst flood since 1872. The great river. which is choked | with millions of tons of thawing ice, 18 rising steadily and threatening further disaster. A Church bells tolled along its 1,800 mile length warningriparian dwellers to flee for their lives. Augmented by thousands of moun- n streams, lakes and other tribu- aries, the swollen waters of the Danube were rushing past towns and villages along the banks throw- 1 Bratis- va and ot towns completely olating Czech engineers 40-foot howitzers er artillerymen and | after failing to demoiish ice barriers with mortars and high explosives, bored large holes in the masses of ice and inserted large projectiles which they exploded by electricity. The terrific detonations of the shelis the populations with re- vived memories of the World War. The blinding glare of army searchlights on this historic palace lof Archduke Friedrich, pe 4 in hills near Bratisava, gave an ecrie ghostlike aspect to the darken- | slovak (Continued on Page 10.) S THE WEATHER | | New Britain and vicinity: ! | Generally fair tonight and Thursday; colder tonight. i icar to a nearby field, Or maybe he lally during the forthcoming special |the examination jiEeuind ‘Pl‘a MISS VERNA DELP STATE TOLL ROAD | WITCHCRAFT BLAMED | FOR GIRL'S MURDER “Hexer” Notes Clothing of Pennsyl- vania Victim March the Allentown, Pa., 20 UP—| | Developments in have led the authorities to believe that the pretty 21 year old girl was slain at a gun club near Catasaqua, Pa., and was then taken in a motor where it was | Saturday. Police said the investigation had been hampered because residents of | the community who might throw | light on the mystery surroundmg the girl's death had kept silent for fear that a “hex doctor” would cast |a spell upon them. They felt cer- tain, however, they said. that Miss Delp had been taken to the gun club | grounds last Friday in an automo- | bile and efforts were being made to- day to learn the identity driver of the car. The authorities have been una to learn what transpired at the gun club Friday and they attribute the (Continued on Page 21.) THREE MONTHS, FIRST JONES LAW PENALTY |Judge 2 in Liquor Cases on Bench New York, March 20 (A—E Dovgall, a wartime lieutenant of in- fantry, was given three months in the ral House of D:tention to- day in the first sentence in this dis- trict under the Jones law, makes violations of the Volstead Found in ! ation of “the New England Express “"5 TWO WOMEN CLAIN Noted for Leniency Tv\o womer today were claiming to | whicn ©ld daughter in Turlock, Calif., Average Daily Circulation For Maren 10 15,530 PRICE THREE CENTS DEATH TAKES MARSHAL FOCH, LEADER OF ALLIED COHORTS INHISTORY'S GREATEST VAR |Generalissimo of Forces | Opposed to Central " Powers Expires After | Fight Against Illness | and Years at Age of | 7. Faces End With Grim Courage Determined to Carry On—Gen. Per- shing Among Last to Pay His Respects to Idol of France and Associates Paris, March Ferdinand Foch, slmo who led the | victory in th {his home to 20 P famous gencralis- allied Murshal armies to died at after a lengthy world war, {ness. He wus 77 years old. He died at p. m, m., eastern standard time). Although it had long bee ent that the great gene fighting his “last campaign, ,warrior heart would not give in and day after day he fought off the in- evitable end with grim courage, but 'a coalition of heart trouble, kidney discase and a lung infection were |too great at his age. Allhough the marshal had many days during his iliness, he was nol Dermx!(ed to see visitors. Among |those who called upon him was |General John J. Pershing, comman- |der-in-chief of the American expe- |ditionary force. General Pershing paid his respects to Madame Foch, ut in accordance with the strict rule of the doctors, was not per- |mitted to see his former comrade {in arms. 5:5 MARSHAL FOCH BILL WITHDRAWN Sponsors o[ Elevated Highway » Heart Collapses On February 26, the Associatd May Offer Measure Again LOWER HOBSE REJECTS IT| on re \lcuure Would Have Given l‘rlua & matter of days—a v\eek parhap~ |or ten days. But the marshal with Corporation Right of Eminent indomitable will held off death eves Domain to Bulld New York to \OPEer than his doctors tlhought | possible. Boston Speedway. It was the sudden collapse of his | heart after several days of improve- State Capitol, Hartford, March 20 ment that brought death to the in- |(?—A bill which proposed incorpor- |trepid warrior. | The foremost fighter of the great ¥ war displayed in illness that same Highway Co." with capital stock of grit he had displayed as the come $85,000,000 was rejected in the |inander in chief who led the allied house of representatives today on an Aarmies to victory in the World War. Throughout it all, from January 14, unfavorable report of the joint com- mittee on incorporations. The bill would have given authori- investigation |ty for the corporation to have con- of the death of Verna Octavia Delp Structed an elevated toll highway from the Massachusetts state line to the New York state line in Greenwich and the corpora- tion would have been given right of eminent domain. This bill was op- posed in committee stage by many bridge | | when he first became gravely ill un- |tll the end he showed courage, un- failing equanimity and even good {humor. The end came just as his doctors reached the marshal's house this evening. He had been conscious the entire afternoon and had been found in improved condition at 10 lo'clock this morning when the first visit ot the day was ma “Foremost Strategist ".' War” “The foremost strategist of the (Continued interests including the Connecllcuti Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Thornhill, of Brookfield | House, chairman of incorporations | A Sl TR SABLOTSKY m RUN "I AGAIN FOR COUNCIL highway bill, declared the vetmon- ers, headed by the law firm of Sh Sixth Warder Decides He ill Seek Office From Voters (Continued on Pa.ge 10.) FOOTE FOR Husmni Pilot Married Ag.in Be" « Cou nan Samuel Sazeiotsky of fore Divorce Became | ;:he sixth ward, whose second termn 2 expires next month, today announc- Effective ed that he will electors his district a March 20 (P — come before wark, N. J., C whose experience in ¢ lincludes periods of (‘llnm’* alderman d cha e the wife of Pilot Lou Foot, sole e plane crash Sunday | in which 14 were killed. A telegram from Turlock. Calif., inquiring about the condition of Foote, who was severcly injured in the crash identified the sender as| the wife of the pilot. The woman known here as Mrs. Focte said at her hotel that Foote had a divorced wife and seevn year “ and that her own marriage to Foote took act a felony punishable by a maxium Place in that state. of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine The sentence was imposed by Federal Judge Frank Coleman, noted for his leniency in liquor cases before the Jones law was signed by w |the president. Dougall, one of three men indict- ed yesterday. pleaded guilty to selling four drinks of liquor in Sil- s inn. Before T accept this plea,” said | Judge Coleman, “I want to be sure there is no misunderstanding as to | girl, | what the court will do. {hear what 1 am going to say I shail | weeping for him," After you give you leave to withdraw your | tory decree of divorce here last sum- | At the hospital Foote was said to have a chance for recovery uty buildin, ning mate, inspector 0 years ag party had effort tor swin democratic sixth, Sablotsky ar Turlock, Cal.. March 20 (P—Mrs. Lola Foote, Turlock aviatrix and divorced wife of Lou KFoote, pilot of the plane which crashed Sunday | with a loss of 14 lives at Newark, J.. said she would take their five | vear old daughter to the injured flier's bedside if he requests it. “I would not go back alone, but ! if it were his wish to see his baby w when Fay r eral months ago to en | ing department One of Sablotsky's outstanding acts as a menber of the comm council was his prosecution of the the only decent thing for me |investigation into public works de- to do would be to comply. T am not | partment activities last year which she said | resulted in disclosure which caused Mrs. Foote obtained an interlocu- | Gardner C. Weld, at that time mayor to demand the resignation of the “T have been extremely lenient In mer, naming Mrs. Regina Rommel, | chairman of that board. seemed to me to be the line with the moral sense of our (Continued on Page 21.) Uhc past in liquor cases because it as co-respondent proper | Foote and Mrs, | thing to dc and it scemed to be in | She alleged that| In the several campaigns which Rommel, who also | have come since Councilman Sablot- lived in Turlock. left here together | sky's entrance into active politics, he for Arizona last July. The divorce has been one of the mainstays of the decree has not been made final, she | (campaign speaking organization in said. |the democratic party.