New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 BIG LIQUOR RING WITH VAST FUNDS FOUND IN HAVANA Millions Involved in Smuggling Plot Unearthed by Yigi- lance of Cuban Police WALSH, SLAIN IN FLORIDA, CONNECTED WITH LEADERS Gang Stole Schoouner Loaded With Whiskey and Got Possession of its Cargo—Four Indicted By New York Grand Jury for Conspiracy Through Seizure of Wet Stock Valued at $500,000. Havana, April 29 (A—An interna- tional liquor smuggling plot, involv- ing millions of dollars, a well or- ganized gang of runners throughout the United States and headquarters in Havana as a central distributing and shipping point, was exposed to- day by Cuban secret police. Alfonso Fors, chief of secret po- lice, said the gang had been mnego- tiating for the purchase of a large distillery here, but the recent arrest of S8ydney Hoffman, American chem- ist, believed to be its leader, exposed the entire scheme. Hoffman had made a full confession prior to his deportation last week to the United States. Police are in pos on of names of 18 Americans residing in Cuba implicated in the rum running plot A close watch is being kept by po- lice and Cuban immigration agents to block departure of the men sought all of whomn are said to figure on the black list of booteggers in the United States empassy here. Link Walsh With Ring Washington, april P —The gang of bootleggers exposed by the Cuban secret police was said today by prohibition headquarters to be the one through which Thomas Walsh, killed in a Florida hotel re- cently, and a number of smugglers awindled a wealthy New Yorker out of $70,000 in a whiskey deal. Prohibition Commissioner Doran said today his agents had been aware of the plot laid in Cuba to smuggle liquor into the Unitel States, but so far prohibition head- ! quarters had not been advised of the details of the breaking up of the gang or of the reported con- fession of Sydney Hoffman. The commissioncr said his forces had beew prepared to block efforts | of the gang to bring liquor into this country illegally. Stole Schooner of Whiskey The plot in which Walsh, associate of Arnold Rothstein, slain New York gambler, was involved, resulted in the gang making away with a schooner load of whiskey which was taken to Nassau where, prohibition officials . it was libelled by the New Yorker. Before this, however, according to prohibition got the New Yorker to put up the nioney to purchase the whisk then stored in Havana, on the pretense that it would be resold there, As soon as it was paid for the liguor was libclled by the ng and bought in at a marshal's sale for a fraction of its value. Before the New Yorker could start action the whiskey was loaded on the schooner Tres Rey: and taken to Nassau, where he over- took it The gang, prohibition headqguart- ers said, for some time had tried to simuggle liquor into this country in rload lots. The cars were loaded in Havana and labelled “mineral asphalt ap cleaner,” and “hones.” Prohibition names of the persons obtained by Cuban pol were those of un- important members of the smuggling ring the gang, officials, A . officials said the 18 r lndicted for Conspiracy ew Yol April 29 (#—The fed- eral grand jury today indicted James M. McCunn, Edward Maloney and John H. Spellman, all of Brook- lyn, and Frank Collins of Manhat- tan, for conspiracy to violatc the prohibition laws. (Conlmurd on Page 10) 94 SHALLPOX CASES - IN NIDDLEBORO NOW Situation in Massachusetts Town Considered Slight- ly Better Middleboro, Mass., April 29 (P— Health officials here anounced today that 94 cases of smallpox had been discovered in the town since the outhreak of an epidemic here last week. The number was reduced from a total of 103 reported up to Saturday night as the result of a check-up yesterday which disclosed that owing to separate reported by physicians dpulications have resulted and some cases had b reported twice. The familics, | to 40 In addi- | ken pox were | ses of sickness cases were confined the officials said. tion five cases of ch reported. Several previously diagnosed as chicken pox were found 10 be smallpox. Clinics at which residents of ihe community were being vaccinated were continued today. Up to noon a total of 9,101 persons had been vaccinated, NEW BRITAIN H Widow Held for Hea On Death of Hushand Mrs. Gladys Foster Beardslee is held by police for questioning in death of Oliver Beardslee, Stratford, who was found dead in his home with bullet in brain. Mrs. Beardslee formerly hived in Bristol. PROPOSE NON-STOP HOP AROUND WORLD Six Aviators Arranging fo Start From New York T0 MAKE FLIGHT IN FALL: Will Be From U. Alaska and Route S. to Scot- land, Siberia, Last Across Contigent—Will Take on Fuel in Air. — The that iators Washington, April 29 (P Washington Post says today six internationally known a are preparing to begin flight around the world from New York on the first clear day in Sep- tember. The names of only three of the aviators are given—Licutenant Al bert D. Hulse, former army and air mail pilot: Captain Harry W. Lyon, Jr.. navigator on the trans-Pacific flight.ef the Southern Cross, and Lieutenant L. T. O'Connell, radio officer at Lakehurst. The command- er, the newspaper said, will be a World War aviator with more than 5,600 flying hours to his credit. ost Ambitions Flight in History The make of the plane in which they intend to attempt thq most am- bitions flight ever undertaken was | not learned, but it was described as being constructed partly of and partly of linen faburic, powered with five 420 horsepower Pratt & Whitney engines, equipped to on fuel in flight, and capable of a maximum speed of 150 miles hour and a cruising specd of miles. Twenty-two stations are to be es- tablished along the 13 of which ten will be used only in case of emergency, the Post says, and two of the five engines are to be held in reserve. They will be sufficient to bring the ship through. the aviators believe, if all three of ! the other engines break up under the five or six day strain. Will Refuel in Air The fuel tanks will have a maxi mum capacity of 1,900 gallons, but only half that amount, the news. paper says, will be taken aboard at New Yor the engines at the start. will be taken on while passing over Boston. and the supply will again be replenished over Nova Scqtia, under the plan, while a third refueling plane is to meet the non-stop flicrs near Glasgow after completion of the the transatlantic leg of the flight. Glasgow to Nome Via Siberia T'rom Glasgow, the route out- lined lies over Siberia, thence Nome, Alaska. south to the United States and along a norther route back to New York. Engine trouble is not expected until Nome is reached, if it is to be encountered at all. The route is described as passing over countries containing about half 120 lllu- world's population, and the name of the plane wil recognize the !i[-i (Continned on Page 16) a non-stop | metal | take | an | 500 mile route | to prevent overtaxing of | More fuel to | NEW BRITAIN, ( NO ALGOHOL. FOUND INDEAD MAN'S BODY Undertaker Says Oliver Beards- le¢ Had Not Been Drinking CONTRADICTS YOUNG WIFE Crowd At Stratford Court Room Today Disappointed at Delay in Hearing for Widow Suspected of Sending Bullet Into Husband. Bridgeport, April 29 UP—Disap- pointment awaited the crowd which gathered at Stratford town court this morning in hope of catching a glimpse of Gladys Foster Beards- lee in the event she should be ar- raigned in court in connection with thg death of her husband, Oliver Beardslee, Thursday, from a bullet wound in the head. A number of youths of high school age, and older persons who knew Beardslee and his wife gath- ered early at the town hall, ani did not leave until after Judge Henry Harford had opened court to dispose of a number of minor cases which came up for disposition to- day. Will Await Coroner's Finding Police Chief William B. Nichois said that it had been decided to await the resumption of the coron- er's inquest Tuesday before arraign- ing the woman, The next court day is Thursday. Whether tie coroner will make a finding in the case before that day. will depend largely on the develop- ments at the inquest Tuesday. While Mrs. Beardslee is reported ‘m claim that her husband had been [dvinking with her early Thursday morning, and that it was he liquor that caused him to fly into a jealous |drunken rage, in which he accuscd her of being unduly interested in the bootlegger “Jim” Curcio, there {is one man who says that Beardslee died a little ia bullet wound in his head, there | was no indication that he had been | drinking piior to the quarrel and {fatal shooting. says Victim Was Not Drinking Undertaker James B. Potter, who {prepared Beardslee's body for bur- [ial, is authority for the statement |that there | Beardslee had been drinking | Mrs. Beardslee claims was the caso. “When T received the body and | prepared it for burial” Undertaker | Potter said, in reply 1o questioning by a reporter, “I found no evidence (that Beardslee had had anything to |drink before his death.” Undertaker Potter is the only | person aside from the doctors who performed the autopsy. in & poaition to know whether there were indica- tions that Beardslee had been drinking. Dr. H. Le Baron Peters, medical examiner in charge of the autopsy jon Beardslee's body, did not ex- amine the stomach contents when |the autopsy was performed, he told “oroner John J. Phelan. “Then you don't know whether or not there was alcohol in the stom- ach,” Coroner Phelan asked Dr. Peters. “I do not know doctor's reply. Dead Man Fingerprinted utenant George Haux illon bureau of the Bridgeport | police department took finger prints impressions of Beardslee's hands be- ”orn the body was placed in the cof- fin, The for the purposes of comparison with ‘Bny fingerprints that may show up on the revolver. Whether any fingerprint marks on [the revelver will be discernible 's | doubtful. The weapon is not a nickel plated one, upon which such marks would show readily, but is an old {weapon which appears rusted and ‘upol\ which it is believed such marks, even had the revolver not been handl by several persons, vould hardly show up. | Dr. Frank Stevens, Bridgeport | physician, has heen engaged by the |defense to make an analysis to de- itermine whether it would not have |been pomsible for Beardsiee to have fired the shot which killed him. | Dr. Peters, the medical examiner, stated at the inquest Friday after- noon, that it would have heen phys- lically impossible for Beardsiee to | have fired the shot. 's| Nomination of Starbuck Transmitted to Senate | Washington, April 29 (P—The | nomiration of William D. 1. Star. | that,” the was { buck of Connecticut to be a member | radio commission, | of the federal | formally was transmitted today | the senate. | to Friends of Dead Monk Rasputin Suspected of Paris Poison Plot, Paris. April 29 P —Frcnch police have been brought face to face with what may finally be revealed as a poison plot instigated by friends of the late Rasputin, Russia’s “black monk,” to obtain revenge for his death, The police now are inclined fto scout the theory and insist they are “working along another line,”" hut certain facts remain: First. Prince Felix Yousoupoff. who brought about Rasputin's death suffered from what appeared to poisoning of some sort, but recov Count De Larentys, Larentys, who is a relative prince and guests at their home suffered from time to time with a mysterious illness which they believed was a kind of poison- ing. n. tess de of the Coun- | And now, the Count De Larentys' valet, Baptiste Carbonnel, has con- fessed placing poison in the count's food. He says he did 8o because of a stronge hypnotic influen which Illia Pedan, the prince’s valet, had over him. Pedan, he says, offercd him £00.- 1000 francs (more than $3.000) if the plot were successful and because of this occult power he acquiesced. The poison was discovered and re was placed under arrest, The prince and his valet are present traveling in Austria and | have not been reached by the police. Even official reticence, however, | has not succeeded in hiding the fear of the Countess Larrentys—who was Princess Demidoffl of Russia—that friends of the mad monk have pick- ed their entire family on which to take their revenge, when | later from | wag no indication that | Sl of the | fingerprint record was made | at | What is believed to be the only wage increase demand employer son will be that made painters ot this city. information receiyed from one their officials, a demand will made for the elimination of Saturday by salary scale be effective, Painters receive $44 for 44 hours’ work, This is at the rate hours for the week first five days in the and four hours the working time week, thus leaving Saturday as a holiday. morning as a working day but with | the stipulation that the same weekiy | incre: | several union | Painters' union will be According \u\acxmue action will of | summons meeting will be be \Lhc opinion of the on Saturday. | The painters want the $44 wage | withdrawal this ye scale to remain but they plan to cut | ONNECTICUT, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 192). —EIGHT: Scale; May Day 1s on Wednesday of this | of master | week. s during the May Day sca- | day or twoe a meeting of the held aud taken. A held and painters will be ceived at that time, This is the first demand for wage s made by the painters years. A few years ago a was discussed but on ve- be re demand of eight |quest of the master painters it was withdrawn. Leadérs in the move- ment predici that there will be no Should present plans prevail aft>r to 40 hours a |the summons meeting the first holi- day will this week. be on Saturday of and Hasten to Curtiss Parent. Cartiss Field, N. —Two Mrs. k Miss Stella MeCord, Des Moines, Towa, at 6 sisters, Jasper and | for 0 a. m. [today, hurring to the bedside of their futher, who at Newton, Towa. The sisters were taken off the Liner Baltic at quar- antine by a tug, and landed at the battery and rushed to the airport. of the Baltic from L. Maytag, a friend, condition while the several hours steaming {from New York. Maytag arranged for a tug to ke the sisters off the liner at quar- antine. Customs officials waived | by I father’ was liner 40 a. m. A Curtiss fiying plane was made read {ing when they arrived at the Randy Enslow was assigned to pilot the ship. He said he expected Des Moines about 10 p. | The reached quarantine service cabin and was wait- to arrive at m. cted to Win Race April 29 (A—Two A McCord, Newton, may Expec Newton, lowa, duughters of M. former mayor of win side of their father. said had but & short time to live. Mrs. 1. W. Jasper and Miss Stella McCord, the daughters, plane from New York, will be met at Des Moines by Fred Jasper, hus- band of Mrs. Jasper, standing by in another plane ready to take them the final 30 miles of the trip. The return to Newton from the Mediterranean sea. cruising, word by radio that their father was criti- cally ill. Then began the long trip homeward. MeCord, who once ran for gress on the republican ticket, es heing postmaster and mayor, given only a few more davs to by physician | started i While | | wa live |12 BURGLARS SEIZE Imprison Employes and Escape With $50,000 Worth of Loot Clicago, Aoril 29 (P—Holding | three employes as prisoners and taking full possession of the plant of the Alemite Manufacturing Com- pany carly today, a band of 12 bur- glars hauled away two truck loads of Alemite grease cups for automo- biles valued hetween $50,000 and | 60,000 The fittings taken by the robbers | were made of sold easily and quickly to filling sta- tions and auto accessory dealers, of lh'mh of the Alemite Company said. They discounted the theory the robbers intended to melt the w1l the bra large quantity of brass in the untouched. raw George 0 Blmes Named Assistant U. S. Treasurer | Washington. April 29 P—Geory 0. Barnes, of Penneylvania was nom- inated today as assistant treasurer of the United States Mr. nes entered the service as a clerk in 1902 is superintendent of the bank redemption agency treasurer’s office. fede e now national in the THL WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: alr tomght and Tuesday light frost tonight; somewhat warmer Tuesday. was flashed to them | Field for Trip to Dying| Believed Best Clue to Iden-i took off | is believed dying | The sisters were advised by radio | | | helper, of White Plain, Sisters Take Plane From New York To Father’s Bedside at Des Moines Leave Liner Baltic on Tug [(HECK DENTAL WORK IN “TORCH SLAYING of Murdered Woman tity w 29 P—Police the badly York, | sought today charred body the first step third April to identify of a young woman as in efforts to solve the torch slaying” in the Metro- politan area within 14 months. The hody was found Saturday a clump of woods hetween Scaredale and Ardsley in Westchester county by Joseph Selv a steam fitter's Y. He in ¢id not report it until ater. formalities to expedite their landing. | 20 ye: at|; g The victim apparently was abou: ars old. five fect four inches all and weighed 110 pounds autop: indicated &he had heen ernnx'fl(l bhefore being set afire. tield. | | their airplane race to reach the bed- | whg physicians | coming by | | lice | body and dentists records in West | both of which occurred in New fed. brass and could bel | works commissioner. | Tt was milk bottle with a few it was found A quart drops of kerosene in near the body. been saturated in the «rapped about the head liguid was A man | handkerchief also having an odor oi | kerosene was found nearby. A square of cretonne, evidently part of a house dress was under the body. were found in a ditch two miles from | where the body was discovered, but police have not determined whether | the garments belonged to the torch | vietim. Dental bridge work in the upper jaw was considered by po- to best lead to identificaiion of chester communities and here were being checked. The list of missing girls also was heing scrutinized for descriptions which might fit the ! body. con- i be- | Relatives of Gladys Mor pet ed missing viewed the tify it Frightened Tnto Silence Selvey found the body left his brother’s automobile and ap- A Ca) since last Wednesd body but could not iden- | proached an apple tree that was in | | bloom GREASE CAP PLANT ! brother to sce it, 80 he said nothing | when he returneg to the car. among a tangle of under- brush. The sight decided that he his him want so frightened he did not In the evening he told Patrolman Ro Turner, son of his landlady, gho no- tified authoritis. Of the other two “torch* slayings sey, one is still unsolved. The blazing body of Miss Marga- ret Brown governess was found Feb- ruary 21, 19 near Bernardsville, N. J. She was identified a few hours later. Her slayer was never captur- Police received a $1,0060 bond | which had belonged to her in the | mail with a note saying the writer | had killed her. Mrs. Mildred Mowrey's hody was found rear Cranford, N. J.. February 23, 1929, burned heyond recognition. not identified for severai Colin Campbell Close, en- gineer and ex-convict, was arrested ! loot and | 2Nd police said he confessed Killing | Deputy Sheriff Martin W, they left a|Mrs Mowrey to:get rid of her after of this city was named as trustee. A he had married her bigamously and aken her money. He is awaiting |Committee on Dumping Grounds to Conv: ene‘ Mayor Paonessa’s committee procure new dumping grounds to take the place of those which soon must be abandoned, will hold its first meeting tomorrow night City hall. Councilmen Samuel Sab- lotsky. Willlam S Scheuy and Jo- seph Landwehr arc the committs members from whom a report, en ailable tracts will e expogted One of their first conferences will b with Harry J. Battistoni. publie who owns a plot of marshy land off Newington avenue, near the town line. He has expressed willingness to allow use of this land for the disposal of ashes and rubbish, provided it is properly * | supervised, It is expected that within a | n | innocent six hours | Anl A towel which had | factory worker who was report- | when he ! Jer- | ‘AGES 2, "/ L -7 Painters May Seek Five Day Week |[UNSEL Ffi»> ‘Without Reduchon in Wage Would Eliminate Work Saturdays Union Journeymen Preparing to Forward New Em- " ployment Program to Contractors—Now Receive $44 at Rate of $1 Per Hour—Leaders Say Demand Will Be Pushed. HIT AT BRAuflIRl] Defense Lawyers Take Fling at Murder Gharge Prosecutor (GALL WORDS ‘REMARKABLE' Attorneys Issue Statement Clai | \ | ! Arrested for Slaying County De- tective in Willimantic.. | Willimantic, April 29 |torneys for Trenor A. Rice | statement today declaring their client of blame in connection with the murder of County Detec- tive William E. Jackson. The statement was in answer to the “remarkable statement” by ! State's Attorney Howard G. Bradford that he believed Rice could not prove it statement was made Thursday when the murder charge against Rice was nolled. Today's statement was signed by | William A. King, Samuel B. and John B. Harvey, the deputy sheriff’s lawyers. Say They Can Prove Alibi “We can prove conclusively what Mr. Rice was doing on the afternooa of the murder and up to the time he started for the Jackson house in response to a summons by M Paulus (a neighbor),” the statement said. The lawyers called attention to the fact Bradford mentioned his chuf | reasons for asking a nolle were that [the state's chief witnesses, Jackson and Mrs. Ada Andrews, were dead. tha former a suicide. The written confessions left Mrs. Jackson were conclusive, they id, and had Mrs. Jackson taken her life before Rice wa picion would never have | Eim, they declared Rice's lawyers revealed the tesii- mony of Mrs. Andrews and M-S | Jackson before the coroner and de- clared it supported their claim that Rice had no part in the shooting. Mus, Jackson told the coroner her husband was shot between 5:45 and 6:15 p. m. on January 29 while she was in the business section of this city She told the coroner Rice in her home just prior to the mur- | der and that he called her “mother. Juanita Jackson ‘sis’ and was | known as *sonny” by the middle- aged detective. | Rice has resumed (he life of a poultryman here. He resigned as depnty sherift Feb. 15, He is fre- | quently observed driving with Miss | Juanita Jackson in the | automobile. former | 17 DEAD AS GARGO ‘| i This and a pair of stockings | the only articles of clothing. | A bundle of women's clothing was | 12 Survive Gasoline Blast Aboard Vessel in Philippines front of | Manila membe island Steamer |today. They |in an explosion of the vessel's cargo {of gasoline after it caught firc in the | Visayan Sea, midway between [island of Masbate and Cebu. The ship s a total los edish Steamer Delhi rescued 12 survivors, the DBritish freighter, City f and the Interisland ’wam.r Macta also came 1o the Uflmvm but failed to find other mem- bers of the w Charl Olsen, skipper. was among Some of those burned {Public Works Board To Hold Hearings | Hearings assigned for tomorrew night’s meeting of the board of pun- lic works include the following: Con- [ struction of curbs on Hart street, be- tween Vance street and Corbin consiruction of curbs 01 t. between Lincoln and Vine streets; construction of curl and sidewalks on Forest street, from Adams street to the present curbs and walks; transfer of gasoline fill- |ing station license on Myrtle street west of the Beloin hotel. from the Mayflower Co.. to the Shell Petro- !leum Products Co. The meeting will {be held at 7:30 oclock April 29, (P—Seventeen the crew of the Inter- Viking were missing s of The ran interisland those m ed wers ve | badly av- | enue; ! Adams stre AMED TRUSTEE meeting of the credi- bankrupt New Britain held in Hartford today. Horwitz ! HORWITZ | At the first tors of the !Tron Works, I‘pumon of reclamation for machin- fery and fixtures granted to 1 | Goldstein, represented by Judge | Morris D. Saxe. | | | They Could Prove Alibi For Man | (LP)—At- | issued u | guilty but | Bx'mj(’mnk'a; Harvey | Mrs. | g by tived | latier's new | OF SHIP EXPLODES| apparently had perished | the | ‘Averu'; Daily Circulation For iz 15,571 PRICE THREE CENTS L 'FOUR KILLED, 40 INJURED IN NEW YORK “L" HORROR; ARMS ‘LIMITATION' 15 AI AT GENEVA “Reduction” Ruled Out When Chilean Delegate Protests SOVIET PLAN REJECTED ANIC FOLLOWS COLLISION Tmn of Steel Cars Hits Wooden Coaches With Terrific Force Near 167th Street Station in Bronx — Fire Breaks Out. [ Gitmon's Words Quoted By Litvinoff | Hundreds of Workers on in Making Proposal—Amendment Against Conscription Offered By | China. 1l yenevd 29 (P —Limitation and not reduction o | existing, land, sea and air, the guiding principle of the coming disarmament conference der decisions taken today by preparatory commission. After a brilliant discussion led by Chilean minister, J. Valde Mendevillg, the preparatory comm sion ted an amendment by So- vict Russia to substitute the word ‘reduction” for the word tion” and likewi amendment which Maxim Litvinoft. viet vice foreign commissar quick introduced calling for “limitation i reduction.” "he Chilean delegate unequivocal opposed the Soviet amendments cmphasized that the covenant o league of nations subordinatec April will be forth- the Ly Iy He the reduction in armed forces to nation- and the geographical anc - special circumstances tion for states already too armed. He declared the commission iing a trea'y which would be applicable to all nations under al contingencies. Chile and Latin-American countries had no preferred this system as they favor ed instead regional agreements, re marked M. Valdes-Mendeville, never- | theless Chile was ready to co-operate under the present plan. But it must be 1emembered tha the Latin-American states were in a |steel cars situation differing from other world regions as the delegations of Brazi and Argentina alveady had pointec out. e feared that if the largs Latin-American nations failed | participate in the future conferencs, it would prove a great blow, but i | the Latin-Aniericans were to be in duced to come, their regional need and geographical situation must be taken into account. [ iermany Backs Russia Count Vone delegate, great naval powers have announce:] their rcadiness to reduce the ton | nage of their navies, adding, “Ger. many now demands a reduction in 'land forces, It is quite impossibl ! for Germany to accept a conference | | which will dezenerate into mutua protection against disarmament.” M. Litvinoff then quoted the re mark on the naval question by Hug} 8. Gibson made last come to Lord Cushendun the situation hy week tried to recalling, armed forces un- | “limita- » threw out another ‘U« of the countries and aproved mere limita- feebly was other il to | Bernstorff, German dwelt on the fact that the American representative, that the time had ‘rap the word “limitation.” | clarify as the “hilean delegate had done, that the Way to Employment Suddenly Thrown Into Turmoil—Women Fight Way to Freedom—Fire- men Rescue Injured. New York, April 29 P — Four persons were killed and 40 injured today in a r-end collision be- tween a subway and an elevated jtrain at 167th sireet, in the Broax. Fire broke out on one of the wooden of the “L" train. he collisien occurred near the {167th street station where the sul- j way tracks run on the elevated structure. Both trains were soutn bound and filled with persons en their way to work, Victims Brought Down Ladders ‘he fire hampered the work of ue. Policemen carried the in- Jured along the tracks to the station and firemen raised ladders to the “L" structure to bring the victims to the street level, Four ambulances were sent to the scene from Fordham and Lincoin e | hospitals, besides fire apparatus, and 1'a squad of police reserves. Panic Follows Collision There was a panic after the crash, | Many women were hurt in (he - struggle to extricate themselves from cars not directly smashed in the col- lision, The elevated train had stopped on signal and the express train of all rammed it with terrific v a | t | t 1 | force. J. Cullen, motorman of the sub- 1 way train, and an unidentified youth ¢ |who was standing near Cullen’s booth were Killed. An unidentified »mln who was on the rear car of the I "L" train also met death. -1 Motor Set in Reverse When police and firemen dug ¢ their way into the motorman’s com- {partment of the subway train, using acetylene torches to burn away the | twisted steel, they found Cullen with Lis hand on the emergency and the s (Continued on Page 11) MAN'S BODY FOUND HAGKED TO PIECES Legs and Ribs Cut From Corpse in Stamford Woods h irague covenant calls merely for re- i duction down to a reached that level compatibls | have level and (Continued on BRIDE 10 ACT AS “EYES" Page 10) sing. | FOR BLIND MISSIONARY supcrintendent of Institute Sightless (0 Wed Retired Skip- per in Portland. Me. Portland, tain Henr Me., April 29 (P—Cay Frost, for 20 ys rector of the Seamen’s Bethel missionary 1o those who live nds in Casco T vesight h; handicapped his recent years, is to Thave ‘eves” in Miss Mary Augustp superintendent of the PPolytechnic Institute for the in Washington. D. C. The announced to friends today will be married in J ine. The two met 3 Portland, when cap reunited Miss I'rost and her brother who had run away from home a vouth For five 29 Frost B captain that they the wher ied on a years they correspondence with occasiona finally became engaged st the date for their wedding ptain 1 Miss Irost is 1 They are not 1 car visits, lated -'Woman Fined for w | | Sending Matter Approved by Churches in Mail New Mary York War: sending obscene April Dennett, 29 (1) — Mrs. convicted for matter through the mails, today was fined £300 by Judgs | Warren B. Rurrows in federal court. | Brooklsn. She was paroled in o today of her attorney until Thurs- day, pending the filing of an appeal and posting of bail The conviction last week of Mrs Dennett, who could have been fined imprisonment bhased bution of her Side of Li arote 14 years of hier two sor The pamphl for more than 10 v C. A. churches and tions. and had the many cducators, editors and socia workers. The complaint against i which resulted in the conviction wa was pamphlet which she ago for the . She is 33 years old had heen distribute by the Y. M cial organiza on said she that for on the whose failing work new Columbia a ago in s work and 51 years old and years his senior. distri- “The Sex guidance endorsement of g Stamford April 29 (F'—A hatchet murder was the objeet of an inten- si police search today after the discovery here Saturday of the mutilated body of Gus Oleson, 52, in woods off Old Stamford road. A veil of mystery, enlightened only finding of a large pocket knife near where the distorted body was found. gave authorities no apparent clue 1o track the slayer but led iem to believe that a hatchet was also used. The logs of the feet from the hips Two sections of from the spine deftly carved out after the slayer slit the victim's clothing for convenience Medical Examiner 2 declared Oleson may have dead several days Dbefore Michael Mahoney, an employe of a sanatorium, made the gruesome dis- covery while taking a walk. The medical examiner was of the opinion that a hatchet was used to off the legs and was thrown away by the slayer. Oleson was last seen in Stamford v about days ago. He was a laborer and when he worked was said to have spent his money on drink. Max Rettig, con- tractor and farmer of Darien. told police he had known Oleson to be without a family or relatives. He said he was of pleasant manner and up until four months ago worked on his farm, leaving of his own ace cord Robbery was not tive as the slain by man were left 50 body, hacked off at the were and a chip Ralph W. thought the mo- man was without | work or funds and only recently seught a position at a sanatorium. Two friends, belicved to have for. merly worked with Oleson | being sought for questioning. were New Per Carat l’llce Is Paid for Diamond Kimleriey of Good Hope., April A mag- iticent ond weighing 33 % carats. d at Barly West, wrought 12664 foday. or £80 (approximately $400) per carat «d 1o constitute price reckoned per i 1 t s < h $10,000 and semteuced to five mar:'lmadc Ly a resident of Grottocs, Va ‘