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

News of the World .By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 TRANSPORTATION BILL FOR PUPILS NEW BRITAIN HERAL NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 19230 % 04\ Lm&ys Girl Visits Grandm,, >~ . l New Commissioner I LIST N SENATE Small Towns Fight for State Aid Irrevocably Ended for This Year FALLS- BETWEEN HOUSES AFTER BITTER BATTLE lenator Durant, Education Chair- man, Favored Bill But Voted With Appropriations Committeo—Sona- tors From Citics Opposed Having Citles Pay Most of Cost of Trens- porting Town Children, State Capitol, Hartford, May 3 (/@ —Small townz seeking™help from the state in their problems of transport- ing elementary school children failed toduy in their appeal to the general assembly, for the appropria- tions committee, defeated in the house yesterday, turned that defeat to victory in the senate today. For the first time this session a bill lest by “falling between the ho " ‘The house, after a violent battle, adopted the bill, which originally appropriated $400,000 for trane- portation, after amending it to ap- propriate $270,000. The senate, re- pudiating the education committee and supporting the appropriations committee, rejected the measure as it was originally and as it was amended, Only Senator Hackett of New Haven, second senate member of education, was heard in a “no” vote, though several others had spoken against the .appropriations committee report. Prevent Reconsideration To prevent any attempt to hav@ the bill reconsidered, Senator Christ of New Britain, appropriations chair- mian, moved, after the vote, that the senate reconsider the bill it had just rejected “with the hope that the motion will not prevail.” His motion was lost, as he wished. (Continued on Page 29.) TARIFF REVISION BILL CONTENTS SECRET Measure Will Not Be Pre- sented Before Motidsy or Tuesday Washington, May 3 (®—More committee activity than usual tended to diversify the interest of members uf congress today as the senate con- tinued its struggle with the farm relief bill. The house, awaiting the tariff re- vision bill, again had no legislative program for the day. The senate, on the other hand, still had the troublesome debenture provision of the farm bill to dispose of, and the hope of Chairman McNary of the agriculture committee for a vote late today was fading. The senate agriculture committee, meanwhile, was called to conduct & hearing on flood conditions in the Bouth, and the military affairs com- mittee to consider presidential nomi- nations. The question of Andrew ‘W. Mellon's right, as a corporation stockholder, to hold office in view of the 100 year old statute declaring that sccretaries of the treasury shall not be engaged in carrying on trade or commerce, continued to concern the senate judiciary committee. Another postponement of the in- troduction of the tariff revision bill has been announced by Chairman Hawley of the house ways and means commiittce, who said the measure would not be ready for presentation until Monday or Tues- day. Tndications are that the mecasure will not be made public until after stock market hours. . As a precau- tion against premature publication ! of certain provisions, the republican members of the committee who have been drafting the bill are understood to have voted down a proposal that the press be given advance copies in confidence for use when it h intro- duced. Some members had nrotened it ‘was said, that the house member- ship was entitled to the information in the measure as soon as it was dis- tributed to the press and to guard against possible leaks it was decided to make it available to the press and members of the house simultane- ously. After & conference with William L. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, Senator Wheel- er, democrat, Montana, announced yesterday that he would ask the sen- ate manufacturers committee to be- gin consideration Monday of his resolution for an inquiry into the textile strike in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Chairman La Follette of the com- mittee said he would call a meeting whenever Senator Wheeler was ready. Noah Flood Loses Post at Reservoir Boston, May 3 UP—Although his name is Noah Flood and he resides on Spring street, he will not guard the waters of the New Bedford reservelr. The civil mervice department, disregard- ing the propriety of Flood's name for such a post. today notified him that he stood ninth ameng applicants. REV. MATTHEW J. TRAYNOR REY M, J. TRAYNOR O PUBLIC BOARD Pastor of St Mary's Appointed to Wellare Commission FIRST PRIESTe IN OFFICE, Mayor Paonessa Announces Many Reappoiniments — Chairman Dob- son Returned to Board of Public Works for Three Year Term. Rev. Matthew J. Traynor, pastor of St. Mary's church, was today ap- pointed to the public welfare com- mission. Father Traynor is the first Roman Catholic priest to become & commissioner, The appointment of FFather Tray- nor followed the resignation of Park Commissioner Robert Andrews and the transfer of Welfare Commission- er Samuel Greenberg to the park board. o 4 Father Traynor came to this cily from Bridgeport, September 11, 1924 to take over the pastorate of 8t. Mary's church, left vacant by the death of Rev. John T, Winters. He is in his $9th year of priesthood. -Bask Commisgigner Greenberg was appointed to the welfare commission, by Mayor Paoneasa.in 1526 and serv- ed during the second administration of the mayor. Following the elec- tion of Gardner C. Weld as mayor, Mr. Greenberg r ned at his re- quest, only to be re-appointed to the bourd several months later. Former Commissioner Andrews servcd on the park board one year. He had found it difficult to devote time to the commissionership and asked to be released from furtaer service in that department. Other appointments made today by Mayor Paonecssa include: Chair- man George R. Dobson, board of public works, three vears; Ceme- tery Commissioner Virgil M. Paliner, three years: Public Works Commis- sioner Romaldi Szymanski, three years; James T. O'Connor, board of compensation and assessment, three years, and S8amuel Menus to the same board for a like term; Drs. D. W. O'Connell, M. 8. Dunn and William I°, Flanagan, health board, two years; E. T. Ringrose, Maurice Stanley and 8. M. McCutcheon, board of adjustment, one year; Alexander Brzozowy and Willianr A. Forsyth, public welfare commission, two years, MOTION MADE T0 ABSOLYE NEW BRITAIN DIRECTOR Erest M. Harwood Pleads That He Was Not Responsible For N. A. L Collapse Hartford, May 3 (®—Two mo- tions designed to absolve two for- mer directors o fthe National Asso- ciation Investors, Inc., were before Judge Judge Edward M. Yeomans in superior court here today. Ernest M. Harwood of New Brit- ain and Herbert R. Mayers, of New York, named defendants in the $900,000 suit brought by the receiv- ers of the N. A. 1., charging direc- tors with negligence, contended in the motions, that they were direc- tors only during & brief period, and could not be held responsible for the collapse of the Roger W. Wat- | Rosario Adorno, PLANE PROPELLER BREAKS HAN'S LEG 8. C. Coale, Jr., of Berlin, In- jured at Groton 'mn IN NEW LONDON HOSPITAL Publicity Agent for Flying Circus Kuocked Down By Whirling Blade as He Tries to Start Engine for Pilot. (Special to the Herald) New London, May 3—Seriously injured when the propeller of an airplane which he was attempting to crank struck him, S8amuel Chase Coale, Jr., of Berlin is in the Law- rence Memorial hospital with a com- pound fracture of the right leg and possible internal injuries. Coale is connected with the Red- wing Flying Circus that was in Bris- tol the past week, as advance man and publicity man. He has been with the company for a week. Prior to that time he was connected with the New Britain office of the Hart- ford Courant. The accident happened about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Groton airport. Lieut. Roy Ahedrn, pilot of the airplane was at the con- trols and had signalled for Coale to twist the propeller. At the first twist Coale stepped back and the contact was given by Ahearn but failed to catch. As Coale stepped forward again, the spark fired and the propeller caught him in the right leg and hurled him some distance across the field. At the hospital it is reported that Coale is resting as comfortably as can be expected. X-ray pictures were taken this morning. The leg cannot be set, pending the develon- ment of the X-ray pictures. RIOTING IN BERLIN BREAKS OUT AFRESH Killed in Fighting This Afternoon Berlin, May 3 (M-—Communist dis- orders broke out again this after- {noon in the Hermannstrasse, prin- cipal street of the auburb of Neu- koelin and battieground for last night's troubles. A number of shoty were suddenly fired on the police trom windows and hombardment of stones began from the house tops. Simultaneously a steady stream of communists began pouring in from adjacent streets, By 2 o'clock this afternoon the fighting was in full blast with in- cessant firing by both sides to the accompaniement of yells and shricks of the wounded. Two women who {inquisitively stepped out on a balcony were shot. The police passed word gtrictly prohibiting showing oneself at win- dows or roofs. Most of the eommunists were armed with clubs, and brass and iron knuckles. They charted police who fired shots in the air. The at- tack soon grew so hot the police be- gan to shoot to wound. This checked the communists who precipitately took shelter in nearby houses, while police cars filled with emergency squads dashed through the streets returning the shots from houses and doorways by steady ma- chine gun fire. Tondon, May 3 (#—An Exchange Telegraph message from Berlin states that three. women and one man were shot dead this afternoon in the streets of Berlin while they (Continued on Page Three) FATHER AWARDED $2,000 FOR DEATH OF DAUGHTER Decision Reached In Suit Over Kill- “ ing of Child By Backing Automobile Judgment for $2,000 against Jos- eph Liss was rendered in favor of administrator of the estate of Mary Adorno, by Judge Edward M. Yeomans in superior court this morning. Mary, who was the three-year-old daughter of Rosario was killed in a driveway on Farmington avenue, May 14, 1928, when he was struck by Joseph Liss, who was backing a touring car out of a driveway. sario was represented by Attorney kihs scheme, some five months later. Thomas McDonough. Transatlantic Dirigible Race Late in June New York, May 3 M—A race across the Atlantic by two huge air liners, the new British R-100 and the German Graf Zeppelin, loomed as a possibility today. Robert T. Pollock, American rep- resentative of the Airship Guarante? | company, owners of the R-100. said the British ship would start for New York the latter part of June and expressed some concern overi the possibility that the Graf Zeppe- lin might be en route to America at the same: time. The Graf Zeppelin plans to take off for America May 15 with a sec- ond trip & month later. It originally Appears Imminent had been planned to start the first flight next week. Arrival of both ships in this coun- try at the same time, said Mr. Pol- lock, might result in an awkward situation as the 5000 hydrogen | cylinders available to the naval air station at Lakehurst, N. J., suffice for one airship only. He said de- parture of the British ship would "be delayed for no reasons save those occasioned by physical considera- tions. The British ship carries a crew of 45, the same number as the Graf Zeppelin, but has a passenger ca- pacity of 100 ax compared to the Graf Zeppelin's 25. Three Women Reported | Associated Press Phote Miss Anne Morrow (right,) fiancee of Col. Charles Lindbergh, is shown here leaving the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Charles Long Cutter, at Cleveland Heights, O. Her sister, Miss Eliza- beth Morrow, is with her. BOULEVARD STREET Ordinance Committee Authorizes Police Board to Experiment Decldes—long Waits for Lizhts o Criticized, Authorizing the police commission to install the boulevard traffic sys- tem on West Main and other streets for six months, as an experiment, the ordinace committee of the com- mon council last night made possible the opening of a new era in traffic regulation in this city. Under the Woulevard system, all traffic about to enter streets selected by the com- mission must first come to a com- plete stop. Trafic Light Criticized The city's traffic light system came in for criticism at the meeting of the ordinance committee, Council- man Joseph Landwehr of the fourth man M. W. Bannan of the hoard of police commissioners to the delays that are encountered at the corner of Elm and East Main strects and the corner of Broad and Washington streets at time when there is barely any traffic Councilman Joseph Miynarskl of the ‘fifth ward rose to the defensc (Continued on (GRABS EHARfiEI] WIRE KNOCKED SENSELESS Bristol Man Burned and Mother Thrown to Ground (Special to thg Herald) Bristol, May 3—While attempting to remove an aerial from across a live wire shortly before 7 o'clock this morning, Roy Bostwick of 95 Curtiss street, narrowly escaped death and his mother, Mrs, Richard . Dittman, who lives next door and uno came to his assistance, receiv- | ed a slight shock. Bostwick was knocked unconscious but was reviv- ed after the prone pressure methqg of resuscitation had been applied for half an hour by Dr. 8. N. Whip- ple, who was called in by Mr. Ditt- man. The aerial, blown down ‘by the high wind during the night, lay partly across the live wire with one end touching the ground. Bostwicl as he was leaving for work in a local factory, noticed the broken strand and grabbed hold of it to pull it out of the air. Immediately upon touching it the current surged attracted the attention of his moth- er who lives at 104 Curtiss street. She ran to his assistance and suc- ceeded in pulling him away. The shock of the current passing through her body from the contact with her son threw her to the ground but she escaped without be- ing burned. An examination by Dr. Whipple showed Bostwick to be suffering from a third degree burn on his left hand and across his left thigh and other burns of a leaser nature along hin left mide and about the head. While painful, the burns are not re- garded as serious. ~ PLNTOBE TRIED PIRST ON WEST MAIN ST ! Other Thoroughfares to Be Included | in Six Months' Tost as Commission ‘ ward calling the attention of Chair- | through his body and his screams PEACOX DESGRIBES CREMATING TESTS, | Confessed Murderer Found Kero- sene More Eficient Husband of Former New Britain Woman Taken Over Route He ’l‘mwlfllv with Body of Hig Wite Before Cremating 1t. White Plains, N. Y., May 3 (P — Police today had the charred rem- nants of a pony skin coat on which Earl I, Peacox said he experiment ed before he decided to use Kkero- sene 10 burn his wife's body. The pieces of coat were recovered near Yonkers, N. Y., when detec- tives took the young radio repair man to the spot where the partly burned body of his wife was found and other locations mentioned in his confession. Peacox said he soaked the coat in gasoline for a hour, then set | fire to it. The gasoline burned away | quickly, he said, without consuming | the coat, so he declded to use kero- |sene as a_cremating_agent. " At a Bronxville, N.TY. garage Peacox identified a car as his and {as the one in which he transported {the body of his wife from his apart- ment n Mount Vernon on the morn- ling of April 22 to the thicket near | Scarsdale, N. Y., where he set firc (Continued on Page 20.)) VESTRIS LOG FALSE, CHIEF OFFICER SAYS Testifies Captain Warned Him to Be “Careful” of Entries B London, May 3 (#—Instructions to be careful what he put in the log Look were given him, Chief Officer W. K. Johnson of the liner Vestris | testified at resumption of the board of trade inquiry today into her sink- ing last November. G. P. Langton, counsel for the {owners of the Vestris, questioned |Johnson as to a conversation the chief officer reported he had had with Officer Anderson whose duties he had taken over as chief officer. In this conversation Johnson had in- timated that Anderson told him to be careful what he put in the log book.. Johnson today said he had made no protest against the statement at ‘the time. Furthermore, he added that Captain Carey, the drowned mastcr of the vessel, had explicitly told him to be careful what he put in the log and that e had then re- plied that Anderson had spoken to him about that already. “You are scriously suggesting that Captain Carey meant you to put a false draught in the official log?" asked Langton. “Yes,” replied Johnson. Langtlon suggested that ued on Page 32.) Johnson THE WEATHER s | i New Britain and viclakty: i B |e FIRST TRIED GASOLINE, .WO PAGES .,«\““ 5 Avel \Vuk‘ April 27th .. Duily Cingelation Jor 15,571 PRICE THREE CENTS UEATHS MOUNT IN WIDELY SPREAD STORMS FROM NORTHERN VERMONT T0 MEXICAN GULF; TOTAL NOW 48 ° Virginia Suffer’s Greatest Loss of Lives By De- structicn of School, But Seven Southern States All Have Heavy Property Losses—New York and New England Experience Destructive Winds and Rain Storms of Unusual Intensity. (By the Associated Press) Storms that have swept the eastern half of the United FRANGE YIELDS ON LAND ARMANENTS Count Massigli Makes Special Appeal to American ENGLAND IN APPROYAL Lord Cushendun Considers French Suggestion Step in Right Direc- Yet to Be tion but Sees Much Doue to Reach Agrecment. Geneva, May 3 ()—Count Massi- gli, French delegate, told the prep- aratory disarmament conference to- day that France would give way, if necessary, on her proposal for limi- tation of land armaments through | the budgetary system. In announcing this policy of con- ciliation, he defended the system for limiting materials by - the amount of money to be spent on them rather than limitation by number and quantity, as the only sound and practicable method of !limitation, one which strikes the eye and which is easily understood. He urged the delegates to reflect upon the problem after adjourn- ment of the commission which he felt could not hope to complete its work at the present session and to seek a compromise on the matter. | He addressed a special appeal to Hugh 8. Gibson, American repre- sentative, to +help in this. Eduardo Cobian of Spain an- nounced that Spain would support budgetary limitation believing it would satisfy the public. He thought the publicity system proposed by the war (Continued on Page 30.) LINDY AND FIANCEE ESCAPE REPORTERS { {Slip Away for Long Auto Ride Over Jersey Roads 3. May 3 (P— IColonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his flancee, Miss Anne Morrow, probably were chuckling today over how they eluded newspapermen and photographers to enjoy an undisturb- cd automobile ride of 11 hours over secluded Jersey roads. Arriving at the Morrow home in a blue sedan during a temporary lapse of vigilance by news and cam- era men, the colonel with Miss Mor- row at his side departed again at 1:20 in the afternoon and did not eturn until 11:15 o'clock last night. Where they went remained undis- closed. Reporters meanwhile had made a frantic search of the coun- tryside for them. The colonel was not among those ipresent when Miss Morrow earlier in the day arrived in New York from Cleveland with members of her family, Their meeting in the early afternoon was the first since the colonel visited the Morrow home in Mexico City. All information as to the time |and place of the wedding was re- fused at the Morrow home and re- porters were asked to leave by Mra. Morrow's sccretary who said no statement would be issued. It was after the 30 or more news and camera men had left to go into the | town for luncheon that Colorcl | Lindbergh arrived. On the return of the ro\mll‘ last night from this auto trip, a patrol- man who had been defhiled to guard the home from the curious, | was about to halt the car when| Colonel Lindbergh raised the wi. dow and revealed his identity. hortly after midnight supper was served. At table were Mrs. Mor- row, Mrs. Charles Long Cutter of Cleveland and Mrs. Stanley Yates. Mra, Morrow's mother and sister; the Misses Elisabeth and Anne Englewood, N. States for three days moved into Mexico today and tl hreatened to sweep the Middle Rocky Mountains, leaving only the south- west and the north Pacific coast free of gales and rain and snow. The storms have taken 48 lives in the last 48 lmllrl and caused heavy property damage. | Western Educator Here | MRS, J {PHINE C. PRESTON EDUCATION RAISING TEACHING STANDARD Future Will Demand Thor- ough Training, Normal Girls Told *“Tn a few years there will not be a classroom in the country without a thoroughly prepared teacher,” said Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, former superintendent of public in- struction for the state of Washing- ton, in an address before the stu- dent body of the New Britain state normal school this afternoon. Mrs. Preston, who held the state superintendency in Washington for 16 years, and who is a_former presi- dent of the National Education as- ciation, is on a nattion-wide speak- ing tour. 8he addressed the students of the New Haven Normal school yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Preston set as a minimum training for teaching any grade a two vear course following high school graduation the normal school girls to continue in teaching training by attendance at university professional schools wherever possible. “There is no greater service any- one can render than that of teach- ing a classroom.” she said in her ad- dress this afternoon. She spoke especially of the need for trained teachers fn the rural schools throughout the country and told of the advances that had been made in her own state. She paid a glowing tribute to the educational standards of New Ingland. RAIN RIDES IN ON GALE Night Reservoirs but Storm Throughout ptics Acrial Practically Littic Damage. Heavy rain, driven by gales, fur. shed this city with a severe storm through the evening hours and un- til shortly after midnight. epting for tree limbs blown down in sev- eral mections of the city, there was no damage. The telephone equip- ment suffered no more than the usual temporary interruptions, and the electric light and power service was not interfered with to a no- Morrow and Colonel Lindbergh. ticeable degree. Alphonse Roy was mounting the rear stairs to his tenement on the lthird floor of the Paradise block at 364 Elm street about 7 o'clock last night when a human form, hardly larger than a fair sized bundle, | hurtled through the air from the stairs above and struck the cement sidewalk in the yard below with a| dull thud and lay motionless. Terrified at the thought that it might be his three year old mon, Freddy. he ran down the stairs twe or three at a time and clasped the inert form to his breast. His fears| were justified. It was his baby boy. Supernumerary Officer John Hul- ten notified police headquarters ai the child was taken to New Brital Boy Falls Off 3d Story Veranda, Lands on Walk at Feet of Father General hospital, where an exam- ination disclosed a laceration of the head and numerous bruises but no serious injuries. The child's recov- {ery is anticipated, it was said at the hospital. Officers L. E. Harper and Michael Brophy assisted in the in- vestigation, and Dr. R. W. Pullen was also called. The police learned from Walter Sweakawalak. 12, of 288 North street |that Freddy leaned against the ban- ister and it gave way. Building In- spector A. N. Rutherford and Depu- ty Building Inspector Thomas B. Fay were at & meeting of the ordi- nance committee in the common (Continued on Page 13.) and she urged | Tornadoes and severe storms hava token 34 lives in the south and the middlewest. A hurricane swept the Gulf coast of Mexico, resulting in |one death, and far away in Mary- {1and'and New York four others were | killed in the collapse of a house and a railroad wreck caused by wash- outs. Buildings were wrecked and plans tations were damaged from Tampico south to Vera Cruz when the storm hit Mexici An American seaman was knocked overboard and drowmed {when a [reighter was torn from its moorings at Tampico by the same hurricane that threatened craft in | the harbor at Vera Cruz. A 90-year-old woman and an 8. vear-old girl were killed at Laytons- ville, Md., and four persons were in- Jured when a heavy wind blew down a family home, The engineer and the firemen of a | freight train died and several were hurt when the train struck a wash- out near Owego in southern New | York state. | In New York harbor, where"the {liner Cristobal Colon yesterduy l|<hrmr‘d and sank a freighter. The navy tug Iuka with 30 men aboard | was blown aground on the mudfiats |off the Brooklyn shore. The tug uu in no danger, however, and will probably be floated at high tide late .xnd-y. The North Atjantic states, which |often bear the brunt of severe |storms, escaped with comparatively {#mall loss whiie the elementy let go | with greater force in the mll and | the middie. west. Seven Bouthern states contributed ' most heavily to the death and the middlewest sufféred ttom property damage. Snow fell-ia-the southern Michigan fruit belt, al- though the snow is believed to have (Lomlnued on Page 22.) CAVANAUGH DEFEATED IN QUEST FOR OFFIGE Judge Denies Motion for Judgment Against New Britain A large gallery of local attorneys was~ deprived of the privilege of hearing more Latin quotations trom T. Clay Cavanaugh, when his aetion for judgment against the city of New Brifain came up for a hearing this morning before Judge Yeomans in the superior court. . Cavanaugh endeavored to show the court cause for action and why a judgment should be given against the city, and before he had any time to present his argument Judge Yeomans folded the papers stating that he would have to #how cause of action as against Alfred L. Thomp- son, the city clerk, and not against the city of New Britain. Cavanaugh attempted to say something else, but Judge Yeomans stated emphatically that the motion for judgment as against the city was denied. Cavanaugh elicited considerable |laughter in superior court last week with his Latin quotation when at the conclusion of his argument he sald, “If the city will file a cognevit actionem pro tanto, $3,600 and casts, 1 will withdraw my cempiaint.” At that time a motion fer a demurrer was denied, and the metion to show cause of action against the eity was continued until today. In his com. plaint, Cavanaugh alleged that he was illegally prevented from enter- ing into a democratic primary for nomination as town clerk, but that subsequently he was elected to the office and was prevented from fil- ing it. Sing British Anthem For Mayor Chicage, May 3 (UP)—A Eroup of Austratian cadety tod an assault of the council cham- ber stronghoid of Mayer Wil. II Hale Thompeon, arch en- y of King George, and re- lurned without the loes of a single man. The British offensive centered in a band rendition of “Ged Bave the King.” The invaders hoisted their British Sag ever the mayor's rostrum. “Big Bill” countered with & bread grin and hearilly ap- plauded the musiclans they played “Ameria™ —the same tuse a8 W anthem. The