New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 4

POLIGE ARRESTED FOR KILLING BoY Yirginia Colloge Youth Failed to Halt at Gommand Abingdon, Va., May 8 (UP)—A policeman and two deputy sheriffs were Reld for the grand jury today charged with murder as a result of the death of J. W. Kendrick, 17- year-old student of Emory and Henry college, from wounds causel by shots allegedly fired by the of- ficers during an automobile chase. The policeman, James McRey- nolds, and the two Washinglon | county deputies, James Crowe and J. T. Worley, said the boys did not stop When ordered. The shots, th suid, were fired at the tires of the | auto in front of them. The officers said they had been or- dered to investigate a disturbance being made by some students. Paul Phelps, driver of the car in which Kendricks was riding, and Denning Dutton, third member of the group, said they heard no order to stop. | The officers waived preliminary hearing and were held for the grand jury. BRond for each was set at $5.- 000, Warrants for their arrest ware sworn out by E. M. Kendricks. un-le and guardian of the slain boy. who said he would “spend his last dol- ‘ar” in prosecuting the officers. Following the officers’ arrest. they | were detained for a short time in the office of a justice of the peace who fixed bond. Bherift Bordwine, the | officers’ superior, said his men had | not been relieved of duty and inti- | mated he might not relieve them un- | less they were shown to have over- stepped the bounds of their au- committee of the Girl Scout council night and threatened him with more blows. The steamer came from San Pe- dro, Calif., with a cargo of oil and gasoline. REBEL AIR LEADER T THLS HIS STORY irl Scout N Girl Scout News |0 e o A, B I'he May meeting of the executive Tl]r"ljng Expmmcg was held Wednesday at (he Girl | | sincere. Jfe really felt that there was no chance for a man to get intw of- fice in an open election. He Bombed Torreon “Well, I covered the whole Ks- | cobar march—from Juares to Chi- hvahua—and I am the fellow who bombed Torreon. 1 had been there but a few days when 1 got Instruc- tions to do little eise except bomb- ing and observation work. Ob- servation meant chiefly to cover the ™ | street, Scout office. Mrs. Leon A. Sprague, Mrs. W, 1. Savage, R. Davis, Miss Florence An- drews, and Mrs. J. W. Marsland were present. Miss Irene Haigis, di- rector, was prevented from attending | was called to May 14, at the by iliness. Attention the state meeting Hartford Woman'a club, Hartford. An interesting program has heen prepared. The morning session will begin at 11 o'clock with Mrs. Clif- ford D, Perkins, as chairman. and will consist of group singing of Girl out sougs under the direction of Miss Agnes Goose, roll call, reports, old and new business, following which Mrs. C. Nathaniel Worthen of Bridgeport will speak on “News from the Reglon.” Three-minute written reports from councils, com- munity committees and lone troop captaina will then be given after which Mrs. Worthen, chairman, will give the report of the mandate com- mittee. Discussion groups problems will follow. The afternoon session will start at 2 o'clock, with the annual meeting. Reports will be given by chairman, secretary, freasurer and nominat- of Girl Scout ing committee, followed by election ! & of officers. The address of the afternoon | “How Massachusetts Goes Camping,” will be given by Miss Edith Sinnet, director of Metropolitan Boston di- vision of Massachuetts, Mre. Perkins was vecently the thority. | Young Kendrick was shot throuzh | the back of the head according to | his uncle. Intimations that the ! boys were carrying liquor were flat- | 1y denied by the elder Kendri who said if anything were wrong it was but the play of college boys. He | said the three left howme Tuesday vening together. saying they were | “golng for a ride.” He said his nephew died in Abin don Memorial hospital early W nesday. SHIP RADIO OPERATOR IN TRONS FOR SHOOTING Police Arrvest Portland, New York Harbor After Death e., Man in of a Crew Member. Raltimore, Md., May § (P—W. A. Mullen, 32, of Portland, .\Ip.' an oiler on the tanker W. L. Steed, was shot and fatally wounded ahoard ship as it was passing Bloody Point, Chesapeake Bay, last night, by Glenn A. Harrisoi. radio operator, who arglment. Muilen died shortly ;before claimed he fired in self defense after ®eing assaulted by Mullen during an argu! t Mullen died shortly before the val of & policé bost which met the steamer off Quarantine early today with physicians summoned in a radio message from Captain Frank Pharr of the Steed, .informing police authorities of the affair. Harrison after sending the mes- suge was put in irons by Captain Pharr, who turned him over to the Baltimore police. According to his story as related by Captain Pharr to detectives, Har- rison had carried a revolver for melf protection ever since he had his jaw broken by a member of Steed's crew at Panama last February. The physician who treated him. the radin operator said. told him if he was ever struck again In the jaw the in- jury would be permanent and he wonld dose the power of speech. lat the home of Mrs. Leon A guest of the Girl Scouts and spoke at the May supper The new circula {camp are in the ofti the troops. The annual meeting of the Rritain council will be held, Ma pertaining to and ready for New! Theodore street, Maple Hill. Lu j eon will be served at 1 o'cloc expecting to notify the attend are office after ked to |morrow. EAD COLDS Melt in spoon; inhale vapors; apply freely up nostrils. Us Hé remembered this warning. he said, when Mullen struck him on the head In the erew's quarters last 2. L. Warren, Mrs. | | marches from the air and to piotect 175 Broad | 3 o'clock to- | FREEZE WITH HEAT New York, May 9.—The ‘“red| %ods” of Kipling whose call some- | Low reaches the ears of adventurers and soldiers of fortune, have sent 1d Barher, until recently chief filer | Genera! Escobar's Mexican rebel | . on his way again. s time he's headed for czucli. Somewhere on the seacosst a schooner is fitti out | “for a little trouble down there.” | President Gomez, who has held his | job for 21 years, soon is to have | another troublesome revolution on | liis hands, and Barber has joined up | for bombing and scout duty with mu} insurgents. | herewith ends for the moment the whimsical game of official hide- and-seek which has been under way since Barber hopped off from Mexi- | co with all that remained of the | vebel air force—two native airmen, | to he exac d landed in Phila- | delphia where a United States Attor ney General and some customs of ficers have indicated an interest in | certain hreaches of aerial red tape, | such as the failure (o come down at the first airport for custom inspec- tion. There is also an argument con- cering the Escobar plane in which | he arrived and which the Calles covernment has indicated was pur- | chased hy the rebels with money | seized in raids on Mexican national | hanks. Was Movie Stunt Flier in Hollywood _ At any rate, Barber, arrived in | i with the first inside story life in the rebel army. | 1 ha1 known Escobar since I was a child,” he began. “You see, I came | originally from Ajo, Arizona, and as | a kid 1 had spent much time around | the and working in films & Angeles when the Mexican tion broke. 1 had been flying 1920, getting my first groundwork in Rockaway, near New York. 1| headed ont for adventure—I was in | 1 South American revolution; 1| went with the Coast Guard; I was with Bruce Biela muu:p\ Whist” club and saw service in Ser- | | bia. | “And there a few dozen | minor exploits Auyhow, 1 had a | little Waco 10, which was in 50-s0 | | shape; T hopped off and came down | | Juarez 1o find mysell a few homu later as the private pilot of | ||-ru|,m I've taiked with him fo: [ ours as we flew around lookinx | Ven- | stern | | ind 08 revolu- | since | were \\/ /\ border towns. T was stunt flying |l | that the troop trains as they went from cre point to another. “But 1 can’t begin to tell you the handicaps a fellow has to face when ie's fighting for a side which has to et its equipment in any old way it can get it—smuggle it, steal it, oribe i d even make it. “The first thing | found out was that we actually had no air bomhs. So we had to figure out how to get them. At nights they would put groups of soldiers to work making them. They'd take pieces of old lead pipe gnd cut them up, then solder on tin vanesa made from stripa of five-gallon cans. They had a lot of dynamite, smuggled in, or seized | from mines, so they plugged the | pipes with it and rigged up a deto- nator. I'm telling you 1 wasn't any too corafortable with these bombs around. T fixed up a bomb releasc #0 that it would discharge these clumsy pieces of pipe—and, belleve me, 1 never landed until the last on~ had been dropped. 1 didn’t want to take a chance on a jar or a crash sctting any of them off, and blow- ing me along with them. Gasoline Hard to Get “Then there was the problem of | &asoline—and it was the toughest problen: we had. “Many a time I've had my plane | mtanding around doing nothing just | because.no gas had been turned up by raiders. When it finally arrived. it would come iogging across the desert on the backs of mules which, vou know, take their time geiting anywhere, “Once we came upon a nice sup-,| ply in a very funny way. us w A couple of e making a little whoopee in Torreon. The nars had been thrown wide open to us and we could grox as much as we pleased without pay- ing for it “Durirg the evening we got the bright and nerry idea that we'd like to go riding on the fire truck. So we raided the fire department and took out the fire engine. We were having a swell joyride around town when we were ordered {10 put it bas" Shot Dowa by American “When we drove Into the sta- tion, we were monkeying around when it suddenly occurred to us they had to have a gas supply for their motor-driven fire equip- ment. 8o we pried up the floor and there it was, about 750 gallons. Just The ELECTROLUX Refrigerator The Kitchenette model is just the vight size for the mallfomily. It bas « food capacity of ¢ enbicfeet and makes 36 large ice cwbes between moals. The Years won’t make ELECTROLUX Nz'sy T'd been doing obse ing but a few days when a guy brought me down and mighty near. broke my neck. You'll notice a scar over my left eye where they had to take some stitches. And it wrecked my Waco. “That's one of the funny things about flying in a revolution like that —you’re not sure whether one of your best friends almest got you. I'd bet my shirt that the fellow who came after me that day—It was near Escalon—was an American you know, a lot of the be up on the Calles side. “At any rate, he went ll it like an American flyer. The native fliers are all right on straight routine, but they Laven’t had the experience with trick stuff in attack fighting. They haven't learned how to dodge around and do some quick ththking. And that's «<hy 1 think my opponent waa a fellow 1 know pretty well. 1 seewed to recognize hia atyle. Funny, two fellows who have nothing against each other—really are friends—trying to crack each other up. “They gave me another plane 2 few days later. Kscobar had had a good vald, getting about half a million dolla~s from a bank. This money was used for aupplies and raying off the soldiers. They brought me a Ryan No. 1 from Los Angeles. In fact they brought in several. 1 uscd it for attacking the other fellow's tro@p trains and guarding our own. They didn't have Mothers Day Special De Luxe Mother’s Day Package of Delicious CANDIES SPECIAL WRAPPING Packages For Packedin 1, 2,3 and 5 Ib. Packages ynchronized machine guns shoeting through the ‘propelier, and had to catry Thompeen sub-machine suns and shoot right out of our cockpits. We had a special plate un- der our seats and lower wings, how- ever, 8o that we weren't in much danger. Safe from Ground Fire “One day, under orders to stop a troop train, 1 zoomed down ane drowped all my bombs. The enemy train was right in two. My wings were peppered a little—but that was reat was driving in the opposite di- rvectien iu front of the trolley car in charge of Metorman John Falion of 54 Norwich street, Hartford, on the South Main street run. Hasson claimed to. have stopped to allow Mancin! to pass, but the motorman said Haseon's car was in motion. The trolley car bumped Hasson's car and forced it against Mancini's car: Officer Doty reported that the motorman claimed to have applied the brakes but the wheels alid along the tracks. Nobody was in- | Trolley and T\\;Imn hcar and two automobiles figured in all. jured. Coast Gmmmu Badly Wounded Hunter Vineyard Haven, Mass, May 9 (UP)—In danger of bleeding to death from a bullet wound in the arm. sustained accidentally while he was fox hunting on No Man's lLand, an island four miles at sca, Elton The best guna they had could only go a few thousand feet and didn’t do much harm. “After the retreat from Torreon, Escobar slarted going down hill and there wasn't so much for us to do. T went with him into Chi- huahua and when we left there it vas just about over. | only saw him once after that — and we had a little argument over money which cansed me to jump out. But that's another story.” Giftord, 20 coast guard cutter Marion ight, and rushed te the Martha's Vh‘i yard hespital here. 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