New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1929, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 RICE GOES BACK TOCHICKEN FARM IN WILLINANTIC Former Deputy Sberm Laaves Brooklyn Jail Sulfering From Slight Cold COUNSEL SURPRISED AT SUDDEN RELEASE Judge Marvin Tells Attorney King He Lacks Jurisdiction to Acquit Client and That True Bill Must stand Regardless of Nolle—Case Can E2 Reopened. Wilimantic, April 27 (P)—After three months in the Brooklyn coun- ty jail, indicted for first degree mur- der of his friend, William E. Jack- son on January , Trenor A. Rice. former deputy sheriff today picked up the threads of his former life as a poultry farmer at his home on Brown street. Rice was released Friday noon from confinement after State's At- torney Howard C. Bradford nolled the case against him, on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Rice, after his release visited with his wife and children at Canterbury where they are living, with the mother of Mrs. Rice. After a short time here, Rice, accompanied by John Harvey, son of his defense counsel, drove to his Willimantic home., where he made preparations for the resumption of raising chick- cns and farming. Rice has been scparated from his wife for over a year. Resigned as Deputy Sheriff Charles A. Gates said to- day that Rice had resigned his com- mission as a special deputy sheriff on bruary 15, two days after the suicide of Mrs. William E. Jackson. Sheriff Gates said that Rice's resig- nation had been accepted at that time. When questioned last night if he would ask for reappointment as a special deputy, Rice gaid he could not tell until he had talked the mat- ter over with Sheriff Gates. The discharge of Rice by the state was a complete surprise to his coun- 1, William King and Samuel B Harvey, as they had been active in the preparation for his defense. Im- , mediately after State's Attorney Bradford asked for a nolle, Attor- ney King asked Judge L. P. Waldo Marvin to acquit his client. The court explaine: i this case it had no jwefsdiction of ae- quittal. He said that a grand jury had presented a true bill against (Continued on Page 14) ROMENICI 15 FINED FOR FAST DRIVING Aftermath of H. S. Frater- nity Dance Heard in Police Court Agon Romenici, street, who driving a covpe when it struck a pole on Staniey street near Hartford avenue early fn the morning of April 2, injurivg himself and two comnpanions, plead- ed guilty to the charge of speeding and was fined $25 and costs in po- lice court today. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney W. M. Greenstein told Judge Tracoski the charge originally was rcckless driving but there was no evidence obtainable except Komenici's own admission that he was driving at the rate of 30 miles an hour and for that reason the lesser charge was preferred, Mr. Greenstein said he believed the specd was greater than 30 miles an hour and there were also indi- cations that liquor figured in the a cident although proot was lacking in this respeet. Attorney Albert C. presenting Romenici, said there was a depression in the road which con- tributed to the accident. Judge Traceski asked Mr. Green- stein if he had a recommendation as 10 penalty and Mr. Greenstein thought $25 and costs ample. Judge Traceski said that was the amount he had in mind and he accepted the recommendation. Charles Smith of 71 Lincoln strect and James Kane of Common- wealth avenue, who were badly in- jued in the crash, ha%e recovered after hovering between life and death for several days at New Brit- ain General hospital. The three had been at a high school fraternity dance. Greenberg, re- Women From 40 Nations Gather London, April 27 (#—Women delegates from 40 countries were gathered here today for the convention of the interna- tional council of women, which will last until May 8. The Mar- chioness of Aberdeen and Te- in England, the British council In their honor, and in cele- bration of the 30th anniversary of the previous gathering of the international council of women in gland, the Britsih council has arranged an international women's festival at the Wharn- clifie rooms, Great Cantral hofel, on Monday. May 6, at which a costume “pageant of progress” will be given, followed by an exhibition of the national dances of many countries, 19, of 56 Murray | I'm Alone Sinking In Abrogatlon of Rum Treaties Taft Suggested for Ameri- can Arbiter But Accept- ance of Assignment Is Doubtful. Washington, April 2 gation of the great net-work of uor treaties under which the ited States granted foreign steam- ships the right to bring unlimited quantities of alcoholic beverages in- 10 American ports under seal proo- ably will be urged by the treasury i..epnrlmcm as an aftermath of the I'm Alone incident, it was learned todoy, In rxchflnq(‘, the United States ob- tained permission to seize rum smu; glers within an hour’'s sailing d tance of the American coast. This authority has proved useless in the enforcement of prohibition, the United Press was informed at the treasury. The abrogation has not been pro- posed to Secretary of State Stimson. the state department, it is under- stood, is likely to take a somewhat different attitude. If arbitration of the I'm Alone ! cident, which soon is to begin, srould o against the United States conten- tion that it may pursue rum smug- glers onto the high seas, the state 7 (UP)—Abro- (Continued fln I’dgt‘ lfi) NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929.—-EIGHTEEN PAGES May Result GERMANY OBJECTS T0 EXGLUSION OF TRAINED RESERVES Yoo Berustorll Holds United | States Expects Concessions on Naval Questions Later NETHERLANDS DELEGATE SECONDS HIS POSITION' Declaration of Former Ambassador | To Washington May Be Arbiter Interpreted At | | Geneva As Expressing Teuton | Chagrin at Gibson's Latest Am- | nouncement of American Policy With Regard to Disarman Geneva, April 27 (B —Despite strong German and Russian ob- ‘ jection, limitation on trained army reserves was ruied out of | the draft treaty of the prepara- tory disarmament commission today. The conference then adjourned to Monday morning. Geneva, April 27 (®—Count | Bernstorff told the preparatory com- | disarmament today that | von WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT mission on FIGHT ON SCHOOL BILLY 15 PENDING Assembly to Take Up Educs- tional Quesuons Tuesday SESSION NEARING CLOSE Chiropractor Measure PPermiti Signature of Death Certificates | | Also Comes Up For Action Senate On Tuesday. State Capitol, Hartford. April (M—Having failed to satisfy the two | major groups, which clamored for | legislation solving,their troubles, the | tax collectors and the dirt road bloc, | the general assembly in the last five business daye remaining to it, still | mms the problem of satisfying two groups, the mioor vehicle and { the Jiie AR | The education group allowed the | house vesterday to reject the bill | providing for school transportation of crippled children, for the appro- riation committee, which had re- | cived the bill from the eduation. had ! decided the appropriation too great I a strain on the state’s finances. They (Contir ued on PAWTUCKET TEACHER IS SENT TO PRISON | { Wheeler Gets 3 1-2 Years | | for Relations With Girl Found Dead Page 15) | Providence, R, 1, April 27 [ Francis E. Wheeler, 34 year old marricd man, former instructor ot the Joseph Jenks junior high school at Pawtucket, was this morning sentenced 1o three years and X months in Rhode Island state pris on by Judge Charles A. Walsh in superior court for his relations witn Florence Weirbrick, 15 year old stu- dent at the school, whose mangled body was found on the railroal tracks in Central Falls on the morn- ing of April 6. Wheeler pleaded noile to an in- dictment in five counts based on his confessions to the police, during in- vestigation of the circumstances surrounding the girl's death that ne had been intimate with the, child. The coroner's inquest revealed an illicit love affair between the pair which culminated on the night of April 5 with a threat by the girl to commit suicide. Wheeler stood like a statue during the entire ar- raignment, giving not the slightest sign of emotion. His wife was in the court room when sentence was passed. STUDENT KILLED IN PLUNGE FROM TREE Youth Meets Death at jened big rise Tinspired any s ‘even Amherst Building Ob- servation Nest Amherst, Mass., April (UP)— Tumbling from the top of a 75-foot pine tree, John B. Howard, 20, of Reading, Mass., a student at Mas- sachusetts Agricultural college, was killed instantly in the woods here today. Howard. with John Andrews of West Boxford. a fellow member of the junior class, had gone 1o the tree to construct a “crow’s nest” for observation purposes. After Howard had climbed to the top. he reached for a branch and fell to the ground. Andrews carried him half a mile to the college infirmary but Howard tvas pronounced dead on arrival treaty which trained draft into account - |a disarmament ‘<Ild not | reserves as army eectives wouid be | unacceptable to Germany. His declaration was interpreted here as expressing German chagrin announcement by Ambassadar Ihn.,h 8. Gibson that America wouid | | withdraw its cbjections to non-in-, dvmon of trained army reserves ¢l'h ives, The former take LEVEES SAVED BY SCANT FEW INCHES German ambassadoi to the United States intimated that Mississippi Reaches Crest With- out Burstmg Quincy Dykes o i : the nited States, in taking th tand, was !-.ngalnlnx for dn(l ex- | DANGER STILL THREATENS e s, s (C(m(mmd on I‘Ag:- 14) Iinois Drainage Section Fearful LT T GHMANAN ARRESTED | - LTLEM S DOPE NG HEAD Closely Watched. 1L, April 27 (P)— being, when the thre " of the Mississipyi fail- | Alleged Contact Man for by & inches to react its 0 stage, the lovecs proteeting | World Smugglers Caught | in Boston Hotel Quincy, aved for the time od predict 170,000 Ve acres of neark lowlands constituted an insoluble mystery to- | They may go out before night; the may go out next weelk, and {they may not go out at al | Boston. Ap The oaly thing anyone knew , police vigil in a downtown hotel end- | definitely—the only thing also that |cd carly today with the arrcst of nse of security—was | Zing Kee, 48, alleged “contact” man that the river apparently had reach- |in an internatisnal smuggling ring ed the crest of its latest attack. The | the seizure in Kee's bag of $5,000 tage increased slowly here during |worth of high grade opium and the | the night and was expected to stop | discovery on his person of 30 affi- | about 21.6 feet this morning. |davits which the arresting officers Jiven that is one-tenth of a foot suid would have prepared the wu last Monday's stage, which | for cntry into this country through all modern records, but it is| St. Albans. V1., of a like number of foot below what had been | Chinese aliens. by government observers| Police revealed that th on the hasis of heavy rains to the | scarching the Chinese dis north, in lowa. Missouri and Tllinois | city for niore than a we forcover, no heavy rains were geant Caverly and Spi promised in the forecast for the|Curran of the headquarters’ week-end, so there was no immedi- | 1 miade the arr ate prosp of another rise. One| The man declared he an thing is certain: no drainage section | American citizen and denied owner- | around here will be safe until the ship of the opium. He gave his ad- | Mississippi has dropped below flood | dress as 4 Mott stree stage. which is 14 feet at Quincy. Affidavits were drawn by Late Rise Yet to Come York lawyer and purported to Nor can the farmers in the bot- | be bona fide apulications by native | toms count their troubles as over horn Chinese for the entry by their | if such a drop should occur, |sons into the United States. Police | said they would turn them over ‘o Seven) federal authoritics for investigation. | il 27 @—An all night above Iuol\r |almost [ predicte had been ct of this k for Kee, sial Officer narcotic was | o | | (Continued on Page Bermuda, | tomorrow morning v York. | | CREW SAVED AS SHIP SINKS | " The fouren storm. sted schooner James E. Coburn which sank in Atlantic Nine members of crew were r ed from lifeboat 100 miles off One w died of exposu DAYLIGHT SAVING' BRITISH TEAM WIN BEGINS TOMORROW RYDER GOLF MATCH Clocks to Be Set Hour Ahead, Whitcombe Deieats Johnny Far-| rell in 36-Hole Contest alam Sunday | Churci Iy to Adopt Sum- Gene Sarazen Is Defeated. Sixv and mer Arrangement With Business Five, by Starting Mon, Play at gram—Lifiective Until Sept. 29, and smith Square. Britain will saving cdule at row morning and that schedule ur go on daylight o'clock tomor- will remain on il nest September Although the time for setting clocks ahead one hour is 2 o'clock tomorrow morning, the majority of fresidents will their time hefore retiving for the night Moortown, Iing. Apt » British professional golfers o- v regained the Ryder Cup by a smashing victory in the sin siter their American rivals stublished a bare le: Taursome yesterday play set pieces ® team Moortown, 7 The Ryder poi April cup golf of the singles play iries Whitcombe de- Il vight up and i hole match. tish ahead when orge Duncan returned a victory over Walter Hagen, to play Leo Diegel sent back level with the feating able Mitchell ht 1o play sarazen Is Beaten victory for Archis over Gene Sarazen, six gl the British the in point scores, 4 1-2 to four matches to be completed I'red Rtobson and Horton Smith all square er 26 holes as Al Espinosa and Ernest Whit- tthe s stage of the holes vy Cotion three up over Al Watrous. Iive down to George Duncan luncheon rec Walter Ha i it found no opportunity to stage i New Dritaln and comeback at the expense of the Fair (onight: Sun brilliant British captain in the aft- ing cloudi ernoon. Duncan went out to play 19 holes in 35 strokes, a performance rival captain could not Churehes with two excr begin their services on daylight time St. Mary's Catho- lie church will not change to the new schedule until next Sunday, al- towing the parishioners anoiher week to hecome aceustomed to the change. The Reformation Lutheran church will continue to hold s on standard time throughout the summer. The New Hartford railroad standard time but operating scheduls Monday all business places and offices will open on daylight saving time. Schools will operate on « light time also ptions will lish first today when C feated Johr to play y Far in the went the de- | up and British nine 5 by New Haven will operat under York and on a revised A and five, Zave advantage Millions € York. Aprit (Continued on w coml Page was at * |\ THIS WEEKS AFFAIRS . . . . . by Knight AMATING TRICKS DONE (N vICTORY LUNCH FAIL TO (MPESS JUDGE TZACESK| — AND WE Guess THS CUEF AS NOT S0 ‘501D’ ON (T,ETUER NEWINGTON CONSTAGLES DETETMINED TO STOP ROADSIDE PARKING THE KERALD's ANNVAL. ‘DONG 1T SPRLUAC DSE Has TdeM A — /‘L O AT THAT [strREEY — HOW ABOUT SOME ACTION S 9 mcn— S wARD —— ——— BERLIN'S NEW CONTTACT BROuIDES FOML MCUER REES AND N SUMANCE COVE RAGE. ON TTCKS AND MEN ~——v DRewy Bv cLPp Moortown—Rohson won 10 up and eight | | Americans | Compston | 3 1-2 with | play. | match | | expect Said to Be Youngest Professional Player of Saxophone in State || —PlLoto Ly Arr ROBERT SCHAEF de Studio R | ars old, of | to the suxophons plays with his father, leader. The an accom. | n extract from | blues” and sobs | adult players think exist, | | Rober Schacter nine y Shn streer young profe player in the stats an orchestra of | Bdwara schae ‘Immv Rudy V | plished player and ez | his instrument more * than many is said be st ssional He which s the ORONANCE OFFICERS MEET HERE TODAY . {NATION ADOPTS SCHEDULE HAGEN LOSES T0 DUNCAN Captain MacGregor to Ex- | plain Mechanizing of ? Army Archie Compston in sin- ned to the Bridgeport district ordinance office lof the Officer's Reserve Corps will | hold 1 1 meeting in | New weir 1 r spring it oday. | Britain t i It about { is expected that from m Massachusett meeting, which will Burritt hotel this | Arrangements have been made for | {all officers who desire to play goif | 1 the Shuttle Meadow club this aft- { #rnoon and 1t is expected that many | will take advantage of this opportu- | { nity to play on the local course. ! Immediately following the dinner |at the hotel. Captain Duncan G MaeGregor of the regular army wili | zive an illustrated talk on the ex-| | erimental mechanized force which | was ory ed last summer at Fort | Leonard Wood, Maryland. The government is experimentine | a mechanical army, using motor trucls s and tractors instead of lorse-drawn vehicles. Captain MacGregor's talk should be interest- ing 10 all Reserve Officers, as he has {had charge of repair and mainte- | | nance of all vehicles in this force | from the time of its organization un- | 11il the present. It is expecied that there Jarge turnout of Reserve ¢ Captain MacGregor was forme | tached to the Jocal district 1 an important part in its or- all over the state | will_attend be held in evening at weste At | | | ™ i will be a | ¥ ficers who are in charg arrangements for the meeting arc Captains L, S | Avery and W. I, Costello, tenant J. Km SCHAGHT MAY MAKE - NEW GERMAN l]FFER‘ Reich Bankers, Frightened| at Failure, Likely to Grant Concessions Apri (®P—The advanced here Schacht may bring him from Berlin next week a stion or offer which may be the | he reparations con- adjournment without having reached a settlement soon cht will attend a meeting teichshank directorate at Rerlin returning to Paris there- continue are of the f the committee of repa- rts. 1t all impossible German | cles, awakened to the reversion to the discuss with him 10 the and Lieu- ] I | Hja with possihil Leen at r. Ima hack | sug busis of saving ference from his sl t ng < probahle « Dawes plan, | and evolve illics, | canwhile he at s of | might an offrr acceptable seems to have mad | no move which would have given the creditor nations a basis for re- sumption of negotiations. Private jons among the delegates continued but it was under- stood here they dealt principally | with phases of the reports to the | governments, rather than terms of ttlement, | The secretaries of the delegations | today continued busy marshaling the data for the committee’s report. It | this was proving an un- 1y large task but should he complete enough for submission to a sub-committee was suid Paiis absence | Morgan or his yacht . He and went returned en days cruising in the looked much refreshed immediately to the head quarters of the reparations experts 1t the Hotel Geor V' to see how negotiations were ting along | | | Life | ‘m | his assistance Ifor tha sce was considered | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending April 20th 15,469 PRICE THREE CENTS POLICE CHECK UP WIFES STORY IN BEARDSLEE DEATH Friends of Stratford Eccentric and Widow Quizzed But Nobody Is Held PROSECUTOR IS SILENT ON POSSIBLE ACTION Insurance Policy Found in Issued to to Have Borrowed From Him Dead Man's Effects Man Known Heavily When He Was Scattering His Wealth With Lavish Hand. Bridgeport, April Medical Baron Peters’ 27 (P—Spurred H. statement at the ct t Friday that it would ave been a “physical impossibility™ for the late Oliver Beardslee 1o have fired the shot which caused his death, Police Chief William B. Nichols and Prosecutor Raymond Baldwin of Stratford Friday night started a roundup of known friends of Beardslee and his wife. with a view to securing all possible infor- mation which might serve to break down or corroborate the story tord \In~ Gladys Foster Beardslee, year old widow, lm-er print records of Beardsles were made by a Bertillon expert and will be compared with any finger prints that may be found by police on gun used in the Kkilling. Friends who knew Beardsler when he inherited the fortune left him by parents. and others whe have known him and his wife in recent less prosperous days since the appointment over him of a conser- vator, were interrogated at Strat- tord police headquarters, Chief Nichols and Prosecutor Baldwin were (particularly desirons of securing information as to whether any friends of the Beards- lees were in the house with them after they were brought back from Sridgeport in an automobile driven the bootlegger at whose place teaffislee had purchased a bottle of !uuml ear n the evening. Insurance Policy Found Discove. among Beardslee's ef- fects of an insurance policy for § 000 issued to a man who was known to have borrowed as much as $12,» 000 from Beardslee when the Ist- ter loaned and gave away his mon- ey with a prodigal hand, cculation as to whether this man had been a visitor at the Beardslee on by Examiner Le oner's inqu (Continued on Dage 14) (i0 TO AID OF GIRLS, MEN BADLY BEATEN New Britain Young Wom- an Figures in Meriden Incident (Special to the Herald) Meriden, April 27—Two girls who gave their names as Josephine La- montagnue, 18, of Meriden, and Mar- guerite Connelly, 22 of 618 North | Main street, New Britain, were ques- |tioned by the Meriden police after ‘our Meriden youths were arrested |for assaulting two men named Jo- jscph Macri. cousins. of 36 Gracey avenue, about 11:30 o'clock last night about 200 feet north of the underpass on Lewis avenue. The Macris stated that as they crw on their way home, they heard a shrill scream for help. Pulling their car to the side of the road. one |of the men went to the assistance of the women and four men jumped upon him and started to beat him up. The driver of the car went to and he was also set upon. The Macris man Kaiser. ne then notified Police- who started with them of the affair. As they the place, they saw the men into a taxicab. Policeman r blew his whistle but the taxi failed to stop. The quartet was over- taken at the junction of Kensington enue and the following men were placed under arrest: Norman Dun- 17 Pasco street; Daniel of 245 Crown street: of 59 Goodwill Paul Bergin, 21, of nea zettin avenue King str In excitement, the two girls got away. but they were later ap- prehended and taken to police head- quarters for questioning. The four men were fined $10 and costs on @ charge of breach of the \d an assault charge was The young women were Wit- nesses only in the affair. Vermont Girl Lost; Farm Hand Missing South Franklin, Vt., April 27 M—Secarch of wooded areas to- day failed to reveal a clue to the whereabouts of Lillian Play- ful. 13-year-old school girl who disappeared yesterday after- noon Te mystery surrounding the girl's absence deepened todav h the failure of Herbert Co ; employe of the to return after having participated in the night ‘h e sea it anished after being excused from school when she said she was ill.