New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 REICHSBANK INCREASES ITS DISCOUNT RATE AFTER HOT FRENCH ATTACK ON SCHACHT Paris Papers Biuntly F| FCTIONS WIND [P e ereking v . OFV.ASSEMBLIES cier of Seeking to Make German Econo- M B. Haven New London, Com- mic Situation Seelnf mander ol Encampment Precarious. ‘ 'MRS. RICE AUXILIE AUKILIARY HEAD ipport of President Hoover in Depletion of Teutonic Gold | Reserve Said to Have| Recently Menaced Sta- | bility of Mark and3 Morgan B. Haven of New London Threatened Dawes Plan\ud. unanimously elected state com- Imander of the Connecticut depart- Payments. I ment, Sons of Union Veterans of lthe Civil War, Mrs. Ada M. ‘l'\ro of Danbury, was clected presi- forcing All Laws Adopted by Res- olution—1930 Convention to Be in New London, and Paris, April 25. P—Severe criticisms of Dr. president of the Reichsbank, for his failure to take steps lo prevent de ion of the bank's gold reserve led | “rench “% ldent of the Connecticut department, this con- Hjalmar Schacht, | ‘Son% of Veterans® auxiliary, afternoon at ession of the state today, it was learned in responsible | financial circles, to a raise of from | 61 to 71y per cent in the Reichs- | bani’s discount rate. French newspapers, views of responsible financiers, in- sinuated and openly charged that | Dr. Schacht was seeking to make the German cconomic situation appear precarious and unstable as justifica- tien for his plea for lower repara- tions. his. it was said, he was able to| do Ly refraining so long from a raise m the discount rate which would | Jave tended to check withdrawal of gold and foreign currency from the bank. This withdrawal recently had taken such proportions as even to threaten stability of the mark, and | —under the transfer clause—make | possible postponement of tne Dawes | plan reparations annuities. | Schacht Going to Berlin | It was understood Dr. Schacht| ! would go to Berlin Monday or Tues- | day of next week to attend a general | Loard meeting of the Reichsbank. | DELAVON B. BOW However, as the discount rate is the | National Com er-in-Chief of the province of the bank manager, be Sons of Veterans might have given his approwal te#he | | voicing the | {ventions being held in this city The Sons of Veterans are holding | |their meetings in Odd Fellows' na, | while the auxiliary is meeting in | (Continued on Page 14) | Junmr 0. U. A. M. hall | The conventions resumed s G. £ DIDSBURY DIES this morning ‘Allh the s 3 = FROM CRASH INJURIES 1.5 v ‘o[ Homhlnmon department com- |mander of the Sons of Vetcrans, |presided over the men, and Mrs. Glen Street Man Succumbs |Estella Blair of New Haven. ,.u,m\ president of the auxiliary, handled at New Haven |the gavel at the women's conven- Hospital 4 | | | | | tion. | Both sc sions were given over fo received 20, Injurics by George E.| Didsbury, years old, of Glen| sireet who suffered a fractured skull brain concussion and several cu's‘ and bruises when an automobile in | which he was riding was sideswiped | in Clintonville, North Haven, Sun-| day night were the cause of his| death at Grace hospital, New Ha-| ven, yesterday afternoon. | Didsbury was riding with Ellis | Larson, of 18 Lyons strect when a south boun~ automobile forced the New Britain machine off the road, through a fence and against | a telegraph pole which it broke in | the crash. Although it was thought | at the time that son's injurirs | were as serious as those suffered by bury, he was discharged from the hospital the foilowing day. Mr. Didsbury was a native of Southington, but for about 30 years had lived in New Britain at inter- Is. He lived on Elm street for some time but about (wo weeks pre- vious to the accident moved to Glen street. urviving him are his Mrs, Martha Watkins of three sisters, Mrs, M los Angeles, Mrs. Willi of Plainville and Mrs. John ton of 2038 Stanley street, city, and a brother, Edward day was George bury ot Pasadena, Cal. i X Funeral services will be held Fri- | CConlinuas onh day afternoon at 3 o'clock at the n & Peterson | moth Plainville; Jewett of 1 Kensel Middle- this Dids- dent of First Auxilinry in Connecticut | the receiving of change Among the reports and ex- fraternal cetin ‘ distinguished guests to- | A. Tucker of New Page 15.) gt \ulhll Is Son of oman |was on his other NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929.—~TWENTY PAGES WIND AND SNOW 'TORNADOES Death and devastatio Kas.,, where seven were caugh STRIKE HEAVILY IN were left in the path of to radocs in two states, Below: Devastation TWO STATES Above: Ru wrought by storm at London, A oG ok ™ aft uv UFFICE Gunmen Shoot Him Down as He Treats Patients TIED up WITH CROOKS Who Killed Herself During Murder Midget Fernekes, Nolo nal. 25 (P—Dr dentist, Chicago, April Fra Brady, a West callers last listed on his appointment book, and Side, had e ren't night who we them shot him dead. Brady, for one of br. tooth had extracted a woman patient given her a chair in a private of- fice that she #he effects of the local A man patient then sat down in th dentist’s chair while Dr. R. H. Best a physician sharing officcs with Dr. | Brady, watched over the womaun 'wo men pushed open the door fing from the .corridor to the om in which the patient, Mrs, Edna Walsh, was sitting. Dr. Brady the point of returning office when the men from might recover anaesthetic. 10 ap- (Continucd on Page Eight) 'WILL OF DR. KELLY FILED FOR PROBATE Vife ol’ Dec“ased Phy- sician Receives Bulk of Estate will of the late Pr. John Law- reneesKelly, which was filed for pre today, dir that $10,000 b set aside for the New Britain Trust Co. in trust for investm and investment, the incomr which {to be used for the maintenance and support of his brother, James Kelly. The trust company is cmpow- cred further to use its tion should the income prove and use so much of the principal necessary to accomplish the objeet for which thestrust is created. U the death of his brother, the lalance (Continued on Page bate o discre insufficient 15) funeral home of B. C. Porter Sons at 19 Court street. Itev. Samuel Suteliffe, rector of 8t. Mark's Epis- copal church, will officiate. Burial | (Continued on Page 17) Pie Is Banished From School Menu New York, April 25 (UP)—A great move for scientifically fed school students started today when pie, tea and coffee were removed from the menus of the concessionaires at the public schools. Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea ordered the three samewhat standard Juncheon requisites from the menus because he did not be- leve they were conducive to good health. He also gave an official frown to hot dogs, al- though they were not formally banned. The students may have milk five cents a half pint. The dessert menus must contaln as much stewed fruit as all the other desscrts on the menu. Hot cocoa must be served in the winter. Washington, April (UP)—A | |Plea for longer bed sheets, for the | adoption of fabric traffic markers | or: city streets, and for the increased | vse of cotton in milady's wardrobe {is being made by the textile manu-“ |facturers in their effort to retrieve | the prosperity which has slipped away from the industry during Ihe1 |last decade, it was learned at the |commerce department today. | The efforts of the cotton interests ltc overcome the fierce competition | of silk and rayon seems to be achiev- | ing siiccess, it was said. At the end | of 1928, 33,5 of the 35, 56 |spindles in America had hummed | | busily at least part of the year. the prospects for 1929 are |brighter. | The American wongan's unfaithful- |ness to southern cotion during the ‘1 st decade when she had been clad | |almost exclusively in Japanase silks lur rayon is often blamed for the tex- even | | at | tile industry’s trouble. And | lused to vary However, Ll 08 inchese Plea for Longer Bed Sheets to Help Demand for Cotton Cloth the commerce department refused today to condemn her. What the textile trade has lost in women's custom it has more than gained by the large demand for cot- ton in automobile and tire construc- tion. During 1928, according to figures of the Rubber Association of America, motor car and tire makers consumed 700,000 bales of cotton, or one-tenth of America's crop. Yesteryear's ginghams and calicos | have given way to smart cotton n terials which textile makers are now featuring to compete with other | fabrics. Masculine America’s age-old plaint cainst too short bed sheets has found a sympathetic hearing with the cotton men. Such coverlets between 90 and 100 inches. Now, as the result of a campaign for covers long enough 1o hide the tallest man from head to toe, they have been lengthened to ns of home at Reece, HACKETT DEMANDS BULDING BONDS Sena(ors Petition, Signed Only | | House PRINCESS MARY Londor count the April scelles, 25 (1P) da only I queen Prince 52d birthday ss Mary is re daughter urban better colebr model and an example Britain. The orge s o mother, mother Gera 1t of her tim her husbard rural ot Chilire spends the them royal sh greatest and parents. with h nml FEDERAL BOARD TO PROBE PAPER SALE Purchase of B by Power Intere: Under Fire wit 25 (I—The | April federal tr commission n ade the lie today nam fc wed April i 5 to testify a 30 in vetie purchase of two 1d and the tional Paper heat on cont withe the Bo velor papers, the by the Int sses subpos rt 0 nt Li \colr th hich publishes the and former cditor ston Herald W. N. Hurlburt the International Co. of Boston. John R. Macomber, dircetor of the International Paper and Po James Garfield, secrets Roston Publish Norris Demands Inqu The proposed investigation the purported purchase of the newspapers by the paper company was instituted after Senator Nor republican, Nebraska, had reque ed such an ing Senator Norris letter o the commission the investig ering req today Chairman i ission said 1 received Norris into th trol bama ric 1 Roston new ors of the president of Pa and Power Co. the into two - recently sent a| asking for tion and after consid- his st the commissi decided to hold the inquiry McCulloch of the com- the commission also letter from Senator asking for an investigation lleged purchase of the con- several newspapers in Ala- power utility inte i by public st ' added the commis- ken the Nebraska sena- a n regard to the Ala- bama sitnation under consideration. but declined to say whether an in- | quiry would be instituted, chairman has s sion tor's st by Himsell, Goes to Committee | MAJOR JUDGES APPROVED |ing but Chiropractors Right to Sign Death | 5505 ™ Ce Judge. State Capitol nator Hackett of N roduced on the floor - o ¢ today the al tion authorizing gen. assembly the state bonds with the Loard of sufficient to issue the finance amount to cove he constructing W Th fi Vis- ter .f and Mar today arde ] ma and two improvem petition e committee, Scnator Hackett''s his attempt yester bill providing the authorized to issue worth of honds for named in his petition only He day and despite the coope test of his colleagues, Ser in of New Haven, minor and ator Conroy of several bills which would b by the democratic state 0 H Hartford, April £ the tre r the ents to purp e was signer of this petition. was ruled out of order yester- rating pro- n H ity or Passes Bill Designed to Gi tificates—Ives Named Danbury sen- petition demanding that enact legisla- irer approval of and control, in cost and buildings at state institutions. was referred the action follows | v to introduce a treasurer be £10,000,000 pose the Ber- ader, Hartford, b affec proposition ted of having honds issued to pay for capi- tol outl nave the v expenditures ra stute follow the vou go” plan were passed Senator Hackett minority’s contention posed to the “p: but not to the projects a favorably by the majority. that v as you (Continued on l'l:‘ reite ther t > “pay rated it is go" cted u 17) han as the op- policy | pon STATE CHAMBER WILL | AID IN WATER FIGHT Special ‘\leetmg Called to'; Act in Swift River Di- ver H. tford, April 25 L special mecting of the of the meree tion to to consider which has controversy n acu en w (P ion Controversy A dire ) ite ith sit Connecticut Chamber of Com- u rega between Connecti- cut and Massachusetts over diversion of tain tributaries of the Connec- ticut river was issued today by Pres- ident Arthur G, Kimball. Ernest L. Averili, deput zeneral, who handled the pects of the case before t St court, w a hotel 30, according to the nouncement. Ways and means state chamber can assist of Connecticut will b the announcement said. An acute situation has connection with the water controversy wherein nterests threaten to be (Continued on Pagr ates supreme he director: by here chamber tor legal he Un il add A N which the arisen ney as- ited ress pri an- the | state considered in diversion Connecticu affected and 15) THER New Britain and vic Showers an tonight and Friday. thundel Friday: “torms cooter s | catapuits | ana [5 ‘| Mrs. | | that STORMS RAVAGE WESTERN STATES Tornadoes and Blizzards Lash Rocky Mountain Region, Halting Traffic THREE TEXAS HAMLETS WRECKED BY CYCLONES| Town of jocum Shaken to Bits With Toll of Seven Dead—Ne- | braska Experiences Cloudbursts | and Blizzard—Worst Storm ll History of State Demoralizes Wy- oming Communication. By the P Tornadoes and blizzards had torn their way across Nebr and Wyoming today, leaving death and desolation in their wake, and| several Rocky Mountain states had | experienced snow and rain storms that demoralized traffic on the ground and halted it entirely in the Assoriated ss. Texas, ska {air. Three Fast s farming ham- lets were wrecked by two tornadoe the most severe of which shook the little town of Slocum to pieces and killed seven pers ing along its three mile wide to raze Benson Springs. The Janes community was struck by the second twister and one woman was injured and 75 per- sons made homeless, no one was Killed. The Nebraska path tornadoes struck s a blizzard raging across the western part of the stat Cloudbursts occurred in some 'I(Hl.s and at least two towns suffere | from floods. Loss of Life Feared In Wyoming loss of life was cd from the worst blizzard in the history of the state. Communication systems were wrecked and trans- portation brought to a halt. Auto- mobile the city stro s of Cheyenne. The blizzard centered was felt with less severity throughout the Rocky Mountain states. Streams in several parts of were nearing flood stage and the Yama river was reported carrying away its bridges » storm struck in the lambing sece season and it was feared that there | | would ew Haven | livestock. enormous loss among The property damage was impossible 10 estimate but it was known that it would be great. Be- sides were wiped out by the twisters many be (Continued on Page Eight) CRUISER PENSACOLA FORMALLY LAUNCHED Newest American Warship | Is Christened at Brook- lyn Navy Yard New York., April 25.—®—1Uncle Sam’s newest cruiser, the Pensacola, was launched at the Brooklyn navy vard to As the war craft glided gracefully | down the ways from the forest of scaifolding which had engulfed her, Josephine Knowles Seligman of Roslyn, Long Island, a native of Pensacola, broke a bottle of spring water over her bows, exclaiming: “T hristen thee Pensacola. The Pensacola, 10,000 tons, is the st ship to launched at the vard since the war. Her ulti- mite cost will be $11,000,000. The Pensacola is 505 feet long has 4 65 1-2 foot beam und a maximum vh Aft of 19 feet. Her oil-burning urbines and four propellers can drive her at 32 1-2 knots The vessel will be equipped with for launching airplanes and will mount ten eight-inch guns four anti- aft ns. Her will number 330 officers and be t navy ve w men. Called a “treaty” cruiser hy naval men because of her relationship to pact, the Pensacola is a sister ship of the Salt Lake City, launched ently. Six other cruisers of the same type are now being built in various yards. ns before continu- | thought | eastern | could not be driven even in | in Wyom- | the several communities that | Average Daily Circulation Fev A zn - 15,469 April 20th PRICE THREE CENTS STRATFORD ‘WOMAN HATER' DIES FROM PISTOL WOUND AFTER ACCUSING HIS WIFE LASALLETTE PRIEST Besrisis, Who Swor SOUGHT AS PASTOR O Yotng When Sot. frage Won, is Shot 'St. Peters Church Parishioners. After Quarrel — Wo- ! Want Rev. carl Fuchs | HAS.BEBN SERVING HERE Cannot Talk. |Room Adjoining Chamber Where Shooting Occur- red Wrecked, Giving Evi- dence of Violent Row— Bed and Floor Stained With Blood. Has Won Devotion of Local Church- zoers While Substituting for Rev. Charles Coppens — Parishioners Seek to Influence Bishop Nilan. Although no definite action has | been taken, plans are being made by | {leaders among French church to prevail |John J. Nilan, bishop of Hartford. Briice oot {‘vo assign Rev. Carl Fuchs of the La| Qliver Beardsice, 51. Sallette order of Hartford as pastor| eccentric, found shot home at Stratford tod: iridgeport hospital noon. the German parishioners of St and Peter's upon Rt. Rev o— wealthy in ms v. died at this aft April the Rev. Father Fuchs has been the acting pastor for several months and with the assisiance of Rev. Daniel Masse of the La Sallette order has administersd parish affairs while the of | Sridgeport, April ardslee, 51, of Stratford—who late Rev. Charles Coppens was ill. |Once vowed never to vote again if Questioned today, Philip ". Bar-|Women were granted the franchise deck, a trustee of the church, said (and kept his vow—is dying ‘n [the people of the parish have be- {Bridgeport hospital from a bullet {come devoted to her Tuchs and |Wwound in the brain alleged to have if he were made pastor it would he been fired by his wite, Gladys Fos- a popular move. However, it s ter Beardslee, 27, in a quarrel at her !doubtful if petitions would gain the |Fome in Stratford early today. desired purpose. but if the hmmp} Before sinking into a coma at n be prevailed npon in any other Hndgenort hospital, where he was wav it 18 expected that the other |laken folowing the shooting, Beards- Imethod will be adopted, he said. |lee told fergt. Patrick J. Finnegan Father Fuchs is very popular with [of Stratford that Mrs. Beardslee had parishioners and many have express- (fired the shot. ¢d hope that he will be obtained Mrs. Beardslee, 80 intoxicated that head of the parish |she could not talk coherently, de- |nied that sh> did the shooting and LOCAL MAN DEFENDANT 2 .o ey IN SUIT FOR $20,000 {bed early today. Louis Gerent Sued by Wife Goes After Change The first news of the shooting Woman Living in New Milford (P—Oliver | he came to police early today. when | Patrolman Robert Nairn, who was ‘on duty at Straiford Center, was ap- proarhf‘d by Mrs. Beardslee, who |staggered up to him and asked him |for chapge for a five dollar bill. He gave her smaller bills for the five (Continued on Page 17.) An automobile accident which | appened on | August 10, 1928, at {Camillus, N, Y., was recalled today 110 GUESTS FLEE IN New Milford against Louis Gerent of | this city. through the firm of Pull- & Comley of Bridgeport The plaintiff claims that she was walking on a highway in the town of Camillus and that an automobile lowned and operated by the defen- dant struck her. knocking her |down. as a result of which she was severely injured. The plaintiff al- |leges that Gerent was travelling at 3 : 12 high rate of speed. failed to keep | €10UdS 0f smoke filled the hallways [to the proper side of the road and|2hd rooms of the New Dom hotel | zave no warning of his approach. At [1OU!"E £ e : 2 .| early this morning when a fire which |the time of the accident. she Was |y, og in the basement of the build- |employed as superintendent on a 4 large dairy farm and subsequently |08 rumed the stock and fixtures of lost her employment and compensa- | 1. Butler credit clothing company ploy P s, which occupies a store in the build- : ¥ ing at 311 Trumbull street. Two | The injuries were of a severe ma- | persons were overcome by smoke but ture, the complaint discloses, con- | recovered after treatment at the hos- sting of a fracture of the cervical | pital; three persons received injur- vertebra, a fracture of the lumbar |ies while escaping from the hotel. vertebra with marked displac- | Constable Edward Lacey, who nt: bruises, contusions and lacer- |made his home at the hotel, occu- tions on the head, body and limbs. | pying a room on the fourth floor, a result of which she suffered a | was found unconscious on the street severe nervous breakdown and men- [overcome Ly smoke encountered [tal shock. As a further consequence |while he was making his way from she was put into great apprehension | the hotel and fear of bodily harm and death | He was taken to the Hartford hos- and was confined to the hospital and | pital where after being treated, was later to her home for a considerable | dismissed later in the morning. Mrs. length of time. It is further alleged | H. L. Roby, of Collinsville, who had that she was totally incapacitated |been living at the hotel with her and suffered great physical pain and [ husband for some time, was also |Two Overcome, Three In- jured in Morning Blaze at New Dom Hartford, April 25 (P — Dense | | | | | | | as by 33 Woman Trying to Exposes Ali Al story of the miother who had entrusted themselves to alien smugglers to gain admittance to the United States was told to im- | migration officials today anc, result- ed in the arrest of three members of a South Franklin family on charges of conspiracy to evade the immigration laws. Mrs. Katy London of Montreal, who was taken from a southbound train at Montpelier Junction yester- day, told officers she had paid $400 to alien smugglers to have them take her and the children to her husband in Hartford, Conn., only to have them desert her after a week of us, Vt. April hardships endured by a immigration patrol. The woman said she left Montreal | with her two children and three men and another woman who had also paid the smugglers to get them mln‘ P—a and her two small children | hiding at a border farm while | waiting a chance to slip through the | v was est arry eral loss of good health. The plain- [by Dr. Fialey to wear it to her great discomfort of Hartford pushed his right glass and e was treated for the S I, R. Sliding down a safety rope from taken to the hospital for treatment. |farm of Levi Gerrow, in the bor Gumless Stamps limmigration officers while trans- —the sufficiency of mucilage on |and her children to Enosburg Falls that the stamps do not they boarded a train for Hartford. | (o' ump off or are lost in transit immigration officers raided the Ger- ferring with officials of the bu- | were taken to Franklin county jail | continues to suffer from nervous- |overcome by smoke and was taken ness. is subject to severe headaches, [to the police emergency hospital suffers from sleeplessness and gen- |where she recovered after treatment tift further claims that she has been | After josing his way while walk- compelled to wear a brace because {ing through the smoke-filled corridor of her disfigurement and continues |looking for an exit, Julius I. Gross, Papers were served by Deputy Sher- |hand through a window in attempt- iff Martin H. Horwitz ng an escape An artery in his arm was cut by injury at Hartford hospital Reach Hartford where he was dismissed shortly after his arrival. his room on the fourth floor, Adolph H. Bargmann, 43, of New York. blistered his hands and was also the United States. Traveling only| It i that the total fire at night over almost impassabic!loss was roads, the party finally reached the | s Wi |town of South Franklin, a week ago. Howl Ascends On One of the members of the smug- ling ring. she said, was captured by Washington, April 25.—UP— i : Postmaster General Brown has {porting the three alien men from his hands full of a sticky subject |the farm. The others were fright- encd. she continued, and 100k her | (ho hack of postage stamps. i of complaints have and abandoned them there. . -d the post office depart- By begging rides, she and the children reached Burlington. where s oc g alb ol g but instead fell into the hands of | \1°¥ have been molstencd and |immigration authorities. St et e A | After hearing the woman's story with the result that the letters row farm, where another alien re returned to the senders. | woman was found hiding. Gerrow. The postmaster general is con- | his wife and son were arrested and e reau of engraving and printing to determine if there is need of more and better mucil where they joined another son who | was arrested last week. ‘ \