New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 REBEL RETREAT 1§ HALTED BY BURNED RAILROAD BRIDGE Eight Troop Trains Fleeing From Jimenez Held Up North of City SOLDIERS DESPERATELY TRY T0 MAKE REPAIRS feven More Trestles Destroyed Headed for Path of Insurgents Kafety of Chilmahua—Almazan | Reforms His Troops and Plans to “Exterminate”’ Rebel Forces—Gil Describles Victory. Naco, Sonora, Mexico, April 3 (Pr—Accompanied by a sudden troop movement in a wide semi- circle apparently converging to- ward this federal stronghold, two rebel bombing planes &wooped over Naco this morn- ing, dropped eight bombs and roared back to their base. Seven of the missiles exploded with no apparent damage. No casualties were reported. The eighth bomb was a dud Mexico City, April 3, (P—Precip- rebel retreat from Jimenez after two days bloody fighting there was halted this morning at a burned railway bridge north of the city. Eight trains, which left Jimensz late yesterday under cover the licavicst fighting of the revolt, stalled as soldiers desperately air the bridge suf- them to pass over itate troops were attempted fo re ficiently to enab Peyond, however, and between the trains and the temporary safety Chibuahua city, there were seven er burned bridges, and it was be- lieved the rehel retreat, at least so far as the rail lines were concerned, lad halted. Resort to high- 1s expected to prove slow and and permitting compara- tively easy pursuit by federal troops under General Almazan, “This officer, whose two day attack on Jimenez culminated late yester- day in almost complete rebel with- drawal from the little town and the 1most decisive victory of the revolt, veformed his troops during last night and this morning expected to follow and “exterminate” the rebel army, | which has been led personally by the wovement's commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar. It was Lelieved a small rebel rear guard 101t at Jimenez had abandoned the town during the night, premitting 18 complete occupation by federals. | Gil Claims Victory i At Chapultepec castle, residence of | president, Portes Gil, it was an- nounced “The bloody battle which has been fought during two days at Jimenez | Letween tie tederal army command | ¢d by General Almazan and the main body of the northern rebels has resulted in the most brilliant and definite victory the national armies obtained in the present cam- been re was an exultant note in the | ¢ announcement which followed nt of dispatches from the front | detailing the day's operations, and a (Continued on lnsfl Four) ADVISER OF WILSON GOES UNDER KNIFE| Colonel House Chats With His Surgeons as Tumor Is Removed April 3 (®—Colonel | , adviser of Presi- resting comfort- today a private hospital after undergoing an operation for | the removal of a tumor on his blad- r. His condition was described as very good. The operation, performed at the Harbor Sanitarium, was done with the aid of spinal anaesthesia and| t'olonel House talked to the sur- geons while the tumor was being re- moved. “How are things going?” he asked at intervals during the oper- tion, which lasted an hour and 45 minutes. He was not blindfolded nd was able to watch the operation to some extent. Shortly before the end of the ope the cffect of New York, Vdward M. ably Irish Girl Gets In By Decree of Davis Pittsburgh, April 3 (P —Sec- rotary of Labor James J. Davis instructed ofticials of the tment of bor to admit to the United States an Irish im- wrant girl who was reported have lost - her passport in Iuting the Statue of Liberty upon her arrival at New York. Secretary Davis ordered that the girl Mary Callaghan of wenstown, Treland, be ad- mutted temporarily without a ¥ if department officials found the report authentic. The secretary learned of the frmigrant’s plight from a news- paper story. The girl's passport and a small sum of money were to fallen into the sport waid have ain, as he NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1929.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Youths Hurt Two in Auto Crash Kept on Hospital Critical List CHARLES SMITH Charles Smith, 18, of 71 Lincoln street, the most seriously injured of three young men who were in an automobile when it crashed against a | telegraph pole at 1113 Stanley street shortly after 1 o'clock morning, became semi-conscious this | forenoon after having been uncon- | scious from the time of the accident, but his condition and fears for his recovery are enter- tained, Because of his condition, it has been impossible to obtain full vesterday | remains critical | JAMES J. RANE | size X-ray pictures and consequent- |1y the attending physicians cannot state definitely whether or not his skull was fractured, but it is be- | lieved there is a fracture as he has the symptoms of such an injury. James J. Kane, 22, of 313 Com- monweaith avenue, also remains in |a critical condition, ‘but is believed to have a slightly better chance for | recovery than Smith. He has a frac- (Continued on Page Three) MARRY IN BERLIN ON LOCAL LIGENSE Ashley-McKindy Wedding Cere- mony at Shuttle Meadow Club COUPLE NOW ON HONEYMOON Merchant and School Teacher Use Certificate Issued in This City But Unwittingly Go Through Nup- tial Ceremony in Another Town. That a scheduled society wedding in which Stanton F. Ashley, mer- chant and city official, and Miss Elva | McKirdy, a school teacher, were the | principals yesterday afternoon at the shuttle Meadow club house could mnot have been performed | legally, was the frank admission to- day of Rev. Dr. G. W. (. Hill, pastor of South (‘ongregational church Dr. Hill conducted the ceremoni of the wedding yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock amid a large gathering of friends of the couple. The main hall, in which the assemblage stood, was decorated in greens and cut flowers, and Miss McKirdy had a maid of honor and four bridesmaids. A college room mate attended Mr. Ashley and four associates were ushers. Friends remained after the cercmony for a reception Club House in Berlin The minister + s greatly surprised today to learn that the country club | house is located in the town of Ber- lin, and not in the city of New Brit- | had supposed. The state statutes require that a certificate be secured from the town clerk where the marriage is to be performed and | fixes & penalty to be imposed on any | clergyman who violates the terms | of the act. Will Be Married Here Informed of the unusual situation at noon today, Dr. Hill expressed his regrets at the he would call the young couple to- gether for marriage. (Continued on Page 12) 'BRODKLINE HEIRESS LOST THREE MONTHS {Rosamond Morse Vanished i in January, Nationwide Hunt Is Futile April 3 # — Rosamond year old daughter of a Ithy Brooklinc family, has been teriously abeent from her home since January 4 and despite a na- tion-wide search by police and pri- vate detectives there has been no report of her whereabouts, it becam= known here toda Letters from fricnds abroad have | indicated the girl had planned since 'ast November 1o run aw but the discovery of an expired pas t :n to mean that for some re undetermined she had been forced | to abandon a plan to go to Kurop Detoctives who have sought some ¢ of her on stecamers leaving for | sun ports have becn unsuccess- ful in uncarthing any clues. According to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Morse, Jr., the girl jeft home some time after the fam- ily had retired for the night, taking | 5 filled with summer cloth- nad been a student at an | exclusive school here and had stud- ied in Paris for two years, STRAWBERRIES PLENTIFUL Chicago. April 3 (®—Millions quarts of strawberries are now in sight. A report today from the government bureau of agricultural of economics says the six early-produc- | ing states were cxpected to total waived to the deck of the when she from the water tatus Baltie. 71.427,000 quarts this =eason. com- pared with 62,665.000 quarts a year | ago. occurrence and said | i CURTIS PROTESTS Yice President Asks Stimson fo Reverse Kellogg Ruling HOSTESS RANK IS ISSUE State Department is Requested to Establish Status of Mrs. Gann Above Wives of Diplomats at Official Dinners. Washington, April 3 (®—Vice President Curtis has asked Secretary | Stimson of the state department to {reverse the ruling of former Secre- (m_v Kellogg that his hostess, dward a {should rank below the wives of am- official srett Gann sister, bassadors and ministers at | dinners. In a statement today deciared that he is “not Kellogg's conclusions and tested to Mr. Stimson.” The new y of somewhat of a dilemma, the ition. The vice president, however, |is determined to undo what he con- | siders a slight to his sister. Full Recognition Denied On March 19 the vice president notificd the department that Mrs. Gann was his official hostess and {asked for her full recognition as such. The day before Kellogg left office, a week later, the | replicd that Mrs. Gann would take | her position at official dinners in rank below th: wives of the ambas. sadors and ministers instead of a | the head of the list as is usually the ! place of the | dent. Curtis said today he had | Sccretary of State Stimson of my dissatisfaction with the action of former Secretary Kellogg and have asked for a reversal of it.” He said Kellogg acted upon the question Mr. Curtis hound by has pro- secre state, in has taken (Continued on ntinued on Page MADISON CONTRACTOR 16.) Another Man Mentioned as | Friend of Slain Weather ' Man’s Wife April 3 B — | character—that of a Hartford con. | tractor whose home is in Madison— |was introduced into the Harry {Emerson Adams murder case this | morning. | Before Mrs. G. W. Adams left her Stoncham, Mass, home last Wed- nesday, she intimated to the polic: that the contractor was onc of the several men with whom her daugh- ter-in-law, Mrs. Olive Storey Adams, | was on exceedingly friendly terms. {This was after the Hartford me- ’hotologml'« wife had revealed that Adams and Dorothy Collins, stat. | :luxhwu) department employe, had {been conducting a love affair for two ycars prior to his death, Detective Sergeants Charles § | Daley and Joln D. McSweegan are ;in Madison today questioning the {contractor to obtain a statemen: | from him relative to his fricndship ['with Mrs. Adams. The contractor, whose identits has not heen revealed by the police is the second man whose name has been linked with that of Mrs. Adams. | The first, Charles Roas. formerly of {60 Main street. is definitely known to have left the city after quitting his job last Thursday. He is wanted I by the police for questioning. Mra. Adams has been in jail since she confessed to causing her hus band’s death by chloroform. SLIGHT T0 SISTER Mrs. | Curtis protest under considera- | sccretary | wife of the vice presi- | “notified | ENTERS ADAMS CASE SECRETARY HYDE FOR PASSAGE OF WNARY HEASURE Head of Agriculture Department Proposes Broad Farm Reliel Program REVISION OF TARIFF IS PART OF SCHEME Senate Committee |s Advised Adop: tion of Bill at Special Session i “Clear Mandate of Country”— Would Have Federal Board Cre- ate Substitute for Equalization Fee, Washington, April 3 (P—Secretary Hyde told the senate agriculture committee today that the immediate need for assisting agriculture is to pass the McNary bill at the special session. Mr. Hyde proposed a broad relief program including governmental us- sistance in marketing, revision of tariff on agricultural products and development of inland waterways. This, he said, would require a periol of years and could not all be car- ried out in the special session. Asked by Chairman McNary if the bill he introduced last fall which did not contain the contro- verted McNary-Haugen equalization fee provision would meet the imme- |diate requirements, Secretary Hyde replied that passage of a bill similar in Intent to this measure appeared to be the clear mandate of the country. Urges Federal Farm Board A strong federal board, he said, |was necessary, with authority to loan money to stabilization agenci«s to take up seasonal surpluses and feed them on the market slowly to maintain a more constant price level. The secretary was questioned closely by Senator Norris, republi- can, Nebraska, as to what he would suggest to take the place of the (Continued on Page 15) FATHER AND CHILDREN ARE BURNED TO DEATH Their Lives by Leap From Window 1 Mother and Daughter Save | FRENCH FUNERAL SHIP FOR France’s new fast cruiser, Tourville, was de (o the United States following funeral services in HOUSE TURNS DOWN TUBERCULOSIS BLL Rejects Plan fo Enlarge State Board and Add Woman Through 30 Bills in Short Meeting —Compensation Measure Up for Hearing This Afternoon. State Capitol, April 3 UP—With two controversial subjects awaiting committees meeting this afternoon | bly held comparatively short sessions today, though tney had transactea besides dealing with unfavorably and favorably reported measures. The judiclary committee was scheduled to hear four bills relating |to workmen's compensation and the roads, rivers and bridges commit- tee, in closed session, was to con- sider the proposed substitute for the dirt roads measure, the tentative de- tails of this support being abolition of the auto property tax, the in- crease of the gasoline tax from two to four cents and the apportionment of the increased receipts to towns s0 as to make up for the loss of the auto tax. Bills acted upon in both bodies, sdversely or favorably, covered vari- ous phases of life. After a mild battle, the house re- jected the bill providing a woman to be on the state tuberculosis com- (Conhnuod on l"n‘? 12) Rechester, N. Y. Aprib 3 (Pr—A father, and two of his children, girl of 15 and a four-year-old woy. were burned to dcath today in a fire that destroyed their new home | at Chila Station, near here. The mother and a 12-ycar-old daughter cscaped a similar fate by jumping from a sccond story win- dow. Doth are in St. Mary's hospi- | tal, suffering from shock and burus | that may prove fatal, authoritics | said Fugene 39, Leonard, ather. The dead |Lavina, 15, and Eugene, Jr. four The mother is Mrs, Jennie Leonard, and the daughter with her in he hospital is Cleta, 12. Leonard was in tne barn when the fire, the cause of which was un- determined, broke out. He rushed to the house to find the first floor ablaze. Mrs. Leonard and jumped before they could be per- suaded to use a ladder which a neighbor had erected Degpite warnings that rescue was impossible, Leonard dashed up the ladder and entered a second story window. He did not appear again Death and misfortune have fol- lowed the Leonard family for the last year. In January another | daughter, Delta, five, died of influ- |enza. Leonard’s mother, Mrs. Carrie |Leonard. 65. attended the funeral |and caught a cold which turned into pneumonia, from which she |week later. Her husband. Charl |68, died suddenly in Alton. N. |less than a year ago. The home. which was burned to the ground, was built by Leonard in spare time over the course of a year, and represented v's ntire fortune. was children the her daughter | . the ticd a | AUDITOR AND WOMAN DEAD IN MOTOR CAR| Police Believe Columbus/ Man Killed Stenographer and Himself are | | April 3 P—FE of the Gwynn Columbus, Ohio, A. Welsh, auditor Milling Compauny here, and Eleanor Porter, stenographer in the com- pany’s offices, were shot to death to- day in an automobile near New Al- bany, east of here. ties believe Welsh shot the girl and then turned the gun on himself. Franklin County Coroner John Murphy. who began an investigation, «aid indications were the shooting occurred at an early hour today. The automobile was stopped in the middle of the road and there were two bullet holes in the windows of the car. Miss Porter was shot through the head. Welsh was also secretary treasurer of the Business Men's Advertising Service here. Welsh was married and was er of two children, a son 18 a daughter 16, and TROOPS OUT IN STRIKE Raleigh, N. C. ernor Gardner today Gastonia company Guardsmen mobilized for dut connection with the Lorain cot mills sirike and authorized the call- | ing out of the Charlotte comparny. ordered the of n | Cop Thought Dog Mad Because Tail In a letter to the hoard of police | | commissioners, John I'ritz of Relden street makes claim tor $13 {and a hearing, because of the action {of Ofticer Anthony Ustach and | Supernumerary Officer Charles Lese- viclus in killing his dog on the night of March 17. The officers went to on conmplaint of Mrs and found the dog near the door leading from a seranda, but they were unable to tell whether it was mad or ill. They roused it by a hower of cold water and Officer Ustach clubbed it and ordered Offi- cer Lesevicing to shoot it. he claims. The hoard of health was notified and Thomas Fay buried the animal. Fritz did not know it was his dog until he read an account of the in- cident in the Herald. and then he communicated with Fay, who des- cribed the animal and Fritz was sat- isfied that it was his Irish setter, | 27 Day strect Donato Marro Was Down, Shot It; Owner Asks $150 first prize at the Hartford dog show in February. He claims dog was licensed and wore a collar. which Iay turned over to him on orders of the health department. Mecting Officer Ustach on his Iritz questioned him and learned that the dog had been club- bed and shot. The he helieved the dog was mad and when Fritz asked him why he had come to that conclusion. the officer, according to Fritz said the animal's tail was down, which indicated mad- New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thursday: warmer. gentle winds, becom- ng southwest. | which, he states in his letter, won BOTH SESSIONS ARE BRIEF | Lower Branch of Assembly Wlde-' mission, the membership to be in- County authori- | C.. April 3 (®—Gov- | National | that the officer told him | | | Babin. both branches of the general assem- ! much business, the house itself hav- | | ing acted on a calendar of 30 bills, FRIENDS TO BANQUET JUDGE S. J. TRAGESKI Testimonial Dinner -night at Shuttle Meadow Club Judge Stanley J. Traceski will be the guest at a dinner tonight, giv- en by a circle of friends in the form of a testimony on the occasion { of his recent appointment to the po- {lice and city court bench. About 50 | triends including many from out of {town are expected to attend the | banquet, which will be held at the IShu!t!e Meadow Country club, The judge's | B. J. Monkiewicz will act as toast- master and addresses will be given {by those closely associated with |nim. A musical program will be furnished during the dinner, which will be followed by a card party. 'MRS. SABIN DECLARES WAR ON PROHIBITION 'Former Republican Com- mittee Woman to Work for Dry Law Repeal collcague, | New York, Aprii 3 (®—>Mis. Charles H. Sabin, whose resignation from the republican national com- mittee a few weeks ago caused wide comment since it was generally known that she was not in harmony with the party's present leadership on the subject of pro ition, an- nounced today she | signed in order that she |fora that might work hange in the dry law. Federal prohibition, she said at a luncheon given in her honor at the Women's National Republican club, has resulted in niore violation of and contempt for law, both by priv- ate individuals and public officials than anything eise in our national life feel it has created the great- est organized criminal class that ever existed this or any other | country.” she added. Mrs. Sabin said that what she had written in her letter of resignation— that she thought it was time some jother woman Yad a chance at the Job—was true. but that she had an- other and “more impelling reason.” She insists On Change "hat reason ” she said, “is that T | want to devote my untrammellcl | efforts toward working for a cha in the prohibition law. “The argument that the deplorable situatio | prohibition has hrought conditions for some makes no ap peal to me. To tell they must or must not do in their strictly personal conduct as long as public safety i not affected is a function which government should not attempt. 1t is the age-old «f- fort of the fanatic. which has behind every invasion of persanal liberty in the past.” Mrs. Sabin seried {liean national committer {vears. Her husband is a banker. a democrat. and |last year was an officer in the lLeuue Opposed to Prohibition. in of which exists. in spite about better citizens what heen an the repub- for sy Charles H To-| Attorney | had re- | Myron T. Herrick FiAuE TO HONOR | DEAD AMBASSADOR Alien lened for Herrick ‘POINGARE TO GIVE EULOGY! Service. Though Impressive, to Be Extremely Simple, With No Mu- to Speak for United States. Paris, April 3 UP—Not in the his- tory of France has a foreigner b"n‘ honored in death as France tomor- row will honor United States Am- bassador Myron T. Herrick. Every French regulation has been stretch- | ed to the utmost to make the last| rites for the dead American an im-| pressive memorial to Franco-Amer- | ican friendship. The ceremony will be, as Ambas- sador Herrick would have had it, of extreme simplicity, but only space will limit the grandeur of the obsequites for the man who once, though a foreigner, inferred a sim- | ple offer to give his life, if it was needed, for France. Only a few of the thousands who | have applied for tickets to the serv. ices at the embassy will hear the farewell words of Premier Raymond Poincare, - who will speak in the name of the French government, General Pershing, who will speak for the American people, and Qui- {nenes De Leon, Spanish ambassa- | dor, speaking the diplomatic corps. No Flowers, for Music, Women sic. No women will ‘Onl\ kome 300 representative men in severe mourning garb, all ac- | cording American usage. The (Continued on Page Four) to ADARS EXPRESS BUYS AMERICAN HOLDINGS Purchase Gives to Firm About 75 Per Cent of Total Stock New York, April 3 #—The Adams Company in the Express Company, today. | press Company in American Railway cent which, added to Adams’ sic, Flowers or Women—Pershing | |and Connor testified There will be no flowers, no mu- | be admitted. | Average Week Ending March 30th | | | [ | | | i Check | | Daily Circulation For 15,407 PRICE THREE CENTS CONNOR ASSERTS BRAINARD WADE PRORIT ON DEil | Watkins' Confidential Man Gives Testimony in Egan Trial it Hartlord WITNESS TELLS ABOUT TRANSFER OF STOCKS Made Out to “Cash” and Credited to Account of Former Lieutenant Governor Identified as Showing Gain of $789.20—Ses- sion Deals Largely With Books of Watkins' Firm. Hartford, April 3 (P —Testimony by Michae! F. Connor, inside and confidential man for Roger W. Wat- kins. stock broker, in his brokerage | enterprises, given today in trial of Greatest Funeral Ever Given| Willam E. Egan, attorney, Judge Isaac Wolfe, was that former Lieut. Gov. J. Edwin Brainard made |@ profit on a stock transaction in which there was sale of stock or ! stock transfer A check identified by Connor. made out to ““Cash” and credited to Brainard's accounted, represented $799.20 profit. Most of the morning's testimony had to do with the accounts and books of the concern which were promoted and managed by Watkins that he had knowledge of large sums of money before | which underwent transfer betweer, the concerns and finally went into | Watkins’ own bank account. Bank Cashier Testifles When Harold M. Reed, assistant cashier of the Phoenix State bank, was on the stand, State’s Attorney Alcorn called his attention to a check for $3,731.80 drawn in favor of Willlam E. Egan on January 20, 1928, The state’s attorney asked it Robert T. Hurley, state police com. missioner, was a depositor in the bank and Reed said he was. Calnen of defense counsel objected to ques. tions about a check for $1,174.80, saying that evidence about it was irrelevant, Alcorn exrlained to the court that he hoped to prove there were certain secret counts kept by Egan from which he paid out certain money and from one .of these accounts money went to Hurley. Judge Wolf. overruled the objection of the de- fense and Mr. Alcorn had Reed identify a check for $1, .80 drawn by Watkins to Robert T. Hurley and cashed at the Phoenix State bank. Reed identified for Mr. Alcorn a deposit of $587.80 which Hurley had made to his account at the bank. Reed showed to the court a de- posit #lip which showed one deposit (Continued on Page 15) HARDWARE NADE HERE FOR PALACE IN SIAM P. & F. Corbin Products Received by Builders in Bangkok Officials of the P. & F. Corbin Express Compaay has purchased the | division of the Amecrican Hardware holdings of the American Express | corporation have been notified of American Railway | it was announced of Corbin hardware the safe arrival in Siam of a cargo consigned to | His Majesty, King Praiadhipok, of The holdings of the American Ex- | §jam. The hardware, which is of the Express amounted to about 36 Per|most expensive and elaborate turned !’"’"out by the Corbin plant was shippea us holdings. gives the Durchaser|sometime ago. and now is being iy about 75 per cent of the stock. Since the sale of its properties to| the Railway Express Agency Inc., effective March 1, American Railway Express has been in essence an iIn- vestment trust with assets of $42.000,000 in cash. Holding Company for 11 Years Adams Express has been a hold- ing company since 1918 about | when it| turned its express Lusiness over to! the American Railway Express which was then formed to take over the operation of busincsses of the country's lead cXpress com- panies. The can Railw can Expres travelers che holdings leaves Ameri- h business ke, letters of credit, and forwarding Express common a share on the New cxchange to $675 a price, on announce- in purchase WIFE OF BANK CASHIER lNJURES HIP IN FALL : Mre. Julia L. Kelly Painfully Hort at | Her Home on Brads Avcnue. Mre ) Kelly al bank ia 1. Kelly, wife of Vrancis <hier of the City Nation- d a fractured hip when she fell yesterday morning while in the ecllar of her home at 28 Rrady avenye. §he was taken to the New Britain General hospital, where is was stated that the infury was not Mre Kelly could not explain how she fell she must have fainted The fall was heard by her son. who took her to ‘me hospital sustaine serious stock | cxcept that | |stalled in the royal palace, more familiary known as Kiai Kang palace, kok, which is tie king's summer home. About two years factory officials received letter from a f Asia asking 1 to duplicate a door catch of a simpie was made either The letter said this door catch was to be placed on the royal palace of the king of Siam. The local factory immediately re- plied and included other information about New Britain products. Nothing was heard f while when suddenly ther letter from Prince Tddhiten. h the throne ir land of the elephant. than catalogue 4 enclosing for 23 ces of Corbir for the royal palace at T The P. & F. corbin two years ago suppl dware running ir the local g0 ,mv ( i | under U‘n.!»‘n governm Pope \\lII Bless Alpine Veterans Vatican City, April v Pope Pius, breaking cedent af fifty-nine yea of construction will hlase Alpine of his the T window cterans liar troops from a ivate apartments in the Vati- overlooking Peter's Square on €nnday when the vet- rans after attending mass at 8t parade in the A deiegation of Alpinists came to the Vatican this morning te discuss the detalls of the im- portant event.