New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 10 " KING GEDRGE AGAIN CONFINED TO BED mwmmm - Auziety o Nation, However —M Worried mmmu NOW DRAINING, "DOCTORS INFORM CITIZENS Trouble Under Oid Chest Soar, Made During Ilines Last Winter — Sovereign Will Be Able to Com- @uct Business Despite Iliness — Dactors in Oonference—Prince At- tends Show. Windsor, Eng., May 31 (P—The thrill of anxiety for the safety of the nation's sovereign, which had pulsed throughout the country since yesterday's announcement that King George was again confined to bed, was somewhat relieved this after- noon by the issuance of an official medical bulletin. This showed that although His Majesty was suffering from the formation of an abscess in the chest, which was the seat of his grave ill- ness last winter, his general condi- tion was good. There was seemingly no cause for immediate afarm, Rad Fair Night “King George had a fair night,” the official bulletin read. “An abscess has fermed under the site of an old scar on the right side of his chest and is now draining. His general condition remains good. *Though the king will need to re. main in bed, His Majesty will be able to transact public business. (Bigned), “HENRY L. MARTYN, “8IR S8TANLEY HEWETT, “DAWSON OF PENN. Another reassuring statement by the doctors, was, while the king ~must keep to his bed, his condition was not such as to preclude his transacting such public business that might be necessary to bring to his attention. Minor Operation Probable Although it was not explicitly stated in. the bulletin, there has been apparently a minor operation on his majesty. This was indicated by the statement that drainage is in prog- Tess from the abscess. The bulletin was signed by three eminent physicians, the chief of whom was his maieaty’s. court phy. sictan, Lord Dawson of Penn. Lord Dawson was hurriedly recalled from & oontinental holiday to his ma- Jesty’s bedside, where the func- tions. of -his ofice oblige him to be at the slightest iliness of the sover- elgn. 8ir Stanley Heweft has been in eonstant attendance on the king here at Windsor castle, while Dr. Martyn, the third physician, is the foctor of ‘the royal family at Wind- sor. ' Physicians in Confferehce . The three physicians had a lengthy consultation this morning. It was then authoritatively indicated that although the greatest care Wwould have to be exercised to main- tain hie majesty's heaith, no anxiety ( Continued on Page 19.) BLOW FLOORS WOMAN IN ANAZONS' BRAWL Females in Battle, .One| Using Her Shoe as Weapon Miss Anna Zaroski, 19, of 1f0 Broad street, was at homd last eve- ning when her sister informed her that Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson, 24, of 100 Broad street, wanted to see her. Anna suspected the purpose of the visit, as she had omnly récent- ly addressed a letter to Mrs. Robert- son, telling her that her husband had said certain things about her which ‘were not at all complimentary. Ae- eording to Anna's story to news- papermen today, she did not mince s, setting forth “in plain what Robertson had told her about his wife. ‘When Anna steped out to meet Mra. Robertson, the latter wasted no time in formalities, according to Anna. She only asked what Anna meant by writing such a letter and Anna replied that Mrs. Robertson had been spreading scandal about her. “I have been going steady with one fellow for a year and I don't go eut with others,” Anna told the fewspapermen. Accerding to Anna, Mrs. Robert- oon struck her, “so I, wasn't going to stand there, was 17" 8he struck back and then Mrs. Robertson floored her. Anna's mother ran out and took her daughter's part, whereupon Mrs. Robertson, aggdrding to Anna, ‘pulled off her shoe and struck Mra. Zaroski with it. Mrs. ‘Zaroski's badly discolored eye bore witness to to this detail. Officers Jarhes Kelly and Charles Weare were called by Anna and ‘they arrested Mrs. Robertson for as- saulting her. ‘Anna claimed today that she did not know she was also under arrest, but when the cases 'wers called today, she was charged with assaulting Mrs. Robertson. Mra. _Robertson was not in court and Judge Baxe ordered her brought in and placed under a bond for trial temorrow. College Girls Wear Street Bathing Suits Northampton, Mass, May 31 (UP)—8eeking relief from the heat, four attractive young wom- en, said to be 8mith College stu- dents appeared on Main street in bathing suits here today. Shocked, some of the more conservative citizens looked to Patrolman John J. Meehan, who was close by, to uphold the muni- cipal morals. Patrolman Meehan was frank- ly puzzled. He did not recall any statute specifically banning one- piece bathing -suits from Main street. Finally he telephoned to Police Chief Bartholomew Bresnahan, 8aid the chief: “If it's a part of callege educa- tion to appear in public in bath. Ing suits, I have no objection.’ THO NE HEWBERS O INANCE BOARD James J. Daley and Louis R, Raplnd Named Today KELLY -KND STANLEY OFF Albert N. Abbe Reappointed to Commission On Which He Has Served Since 1907—Mayor Re- turns 12 to Office on Public Boards Twelve of the 14 city commis- sioners whose terms of office expire tonight were re-appointed today by Mayor Paonessa, and two were re- placed by men who have not been JANES 3. DAEY connected with the city government heretofore. William J. Kelly, democrat, who was “appointed when Gardner C. Weld was in office, will be succeeded by James J..Daley, assistant secre- tary of the Commercial Trust Co., as a member of the board of finance nd taxation. On:the same board, Louis R. Raphael, the city's highest LOUIS R. RAPHAEL individual taxpayer, succeeds Philip B. 8tanley. Both are republican party merbers. Commission>rs Daley and Raphael are appoin'cd for three-year terms. Assessor George Gans was re- appointed for a two-year term. Mr. Gans, who served on the fire board (Continued on Page 24.) NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929 —TWENTY-SIX PAGES Hoover Meets Law Enforcement Commission Mitchell, attorney gencral; Associated Press Photo. President Hoover's law onforcement commission held its first meeting at the White House, Seated, left to right; Roscoe Pound, Ada L. Comstock, William D. D. Wickershani, chairman of commission; William S, Kenyon. Standing: K. R. MacIntosh, Monte M. Le- mann, Paul J. McCormick, Willlam I Grubb, Frank J.Loesch, Newton D. Baker and Henry W. Anderson. President Houver, George an Succumb to Heat—92 in Shade Today, Firemen Say. Two deaths were attributed to the heat over Memorial Day, while New Britain residents endured the third day of a record breaking hot spell. It was said to be the hottest day of the year, At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon fire headquarters reported 92 degrees in the shade. The thermometer in front of the Booth block indicated 90 at 1 o'clock, 'The unexpected heat wave after a period of unseasonable cold and chilly weather caught New Britain people unaware and few were pre- pared to be plunged directly from the atmosphere of a mild winter in- to that of blistering midsummer, Bunburns were the hadge of many persons today while light summer (Continued on Mage Six.) Deaths and Prostrations Reported As Result of Stifling Heat Wave; New England Sweltering—16 Dead' Unionville and Local Wom- | 10 of Victims .Drown,, Others Collapse With | Mercury Climbing Highf —Lynn Men Die. Boston, May 31 .(®—Memorial | day, the hottest May 30 in the his- tory of the local weather bureau, | and New England's third consecu- | tive day of unseasonable warmth, claimed 18 lives in three states. Drownings accounted for 10 of the victims. Connecticut and Maine each had two drownings and Maine one heat death, while the Massa- chusetts death list stood at five from heat and six from water. Double Accident at Lake In the only double accident of the day, Leo, 9, and Eugene Di Pilate, 12, of Worcester, lost their| lives in Lake Quinsigamond in view of several thousand spectators watching an outboard motorboat regatta. Continued on Page 23.) PARKER CONFIDENT drance in Getting Capi- tal, He Asserts New Haven, May 31 (®—John E. Parker, president of the Parker- 8mith company, whose dissolution is demanded by Attorney General Ben- jamin W. Alling and Bank Commis- sioner Lester L. SBhippee on charges of defrauding the public, left for New York today to continue negoti- ations with a New York financial house that he said is likely to ob- tain sufficient capital to rehabilitate his firm and restore public confi- dence in it. Just before he left, ac- countants of the Union and New Haven Trust company, appointed re- ceiver of Parker-8mith, by Superior Court Judge Arthur F. Ellis on Tues- day, began work on the concern's books in its three offices here, in Hartford and Meriden. ‘The accounts, running into about $25.000,000,, will take all of the time from now to June 11, when the re- ceivership appointment is to be con- firmed before Judge FElls, according. to President Perry Curtiss of the trust company. Parker, before he left, said he was “very hopeful in regard to the nego- tiations in New York because the firm he is to confer with had told (Continued on Page Five.) New Britain Pays Grateful Tribute To Men WIIO Died for Old Glory Bpurred on rather than duun(od by the oppressive heat of Memorial Day, veterans of three wars for free- dom together with the city in gen- eral paid signal honors to the war- rior dead of New Britain at a parade and celebration which took place Thursday morning. Though the veterans marched with measured tread, inspired by the fire of martial music played by many bands, yet beside their old buddies walked that grim array; the fallen heroes of 1861, 1898 and 1917. For it was Memorial Day, the day set apart by the United States for re- membrance of those who died that the Union might be preserved: of those who dieq so that Cuba might be relieved of 8pain's oppression; of those who died so that the world would be safe for democracy. Big Crowds Watch Parade New Britain remembered. Throngs lined ' the streets the early at 9:30 Thursday morning in order to watch the parade go by. At 10 o'clock, the time the parade was scheduled to move, the east side of Main street was almost impassable. Just a few minutes past 10, led by Bergeant John T. King and a cordon from the police department, who also were World War veterans, the parade started. For fully 15 minutes Main street was gaudy with uniforms and a gal- axy of flags. Led by Company I, 169th regiment, Connecticut Nation- al Guard and Captain A. H. Gris- wold, marshal of the parade, there followed the veterans of the 8panish- American war, the War of the Be- bellion, and the veterans of the World War. Numerous boys’ and (Continued on Page 19) GOMPANY SOLVENT Fraud Action No Hin-. ENSIGN FREDRICKSON WILL BE TRANSFERRED Local Salvation Army Head to Go to New | Post Adjutant Carl Fredrickson of the Salvation Army will be transferred | from this city to another station in | the near future, according to infor- | mation which reached the Herald today. The news that the local head of the Salvation Army was to be | moved, comes as no surprise since it was evident for the past few | days that plans were being consid- | ered to reassign him. ADJUTANT CARL FREDRICKSON | The removal of Adjutant Fredrick- son at this time puts the Salvation Advisory board of which Fred O. Rackliffe is chairman in an em- barrassing position. The army, which was not func- tioning successfully in this city, was taken over by the United Communi- ty corporation several years ago. Adjutant Fredrickson, then an en- (Continued on Page Five.) THE WEATHER | Co., a Btanley Works subsidiary, COBEN 15 STUDYING STATUS OF BANKRUPT Undecided Whether Take Criminal Action Against Georges to Assistant United States District Attorney George H. Cohen is still undecided as to whether he will seek an indictment of Baba Georges, for- mer jeweler o fthis city, for alleged fraud in a statement given to credit- ors a short time previous to Febru- ary 21 when he was declared a bankrupt. Detectives of the federal depart- ment of justice and the National As- sociation of Credit Men in New York city have been cafrying on in- vestigations in this city during the past few weeks. Attorney Cohen has in his possession some of the reports It wlil be left with him whether or not the facts warrant the indictment of Georges. The alleged false financial state- ment is sald to have been made dur- ing November when difficulties arose ! between the jeweler and his credit- ors. It is said that he padded the statement and assured his creditors that he could pay them dollar for doltar on their accounts. At the time Georges went into bankruptcy his liabilities were set at $17,373 and his assets show in the inventory, $1.750. The jewelry was sold and $2,450 was received in the auction. Efforts are now heing made to ar- range for the sale of real estate which stands in his name and on which there is a first and second mortgage. The second mortgage I8 for $2,500 in favor of Mrs. Georges' mother. A hearing is scheduled for June 3 at which time it will be asked that this mortgage be set aside. Attorney David L. Nair is trustee. WAGNER THINKS GERMANY CAN RE-ESTABLISH ITSELF | Former Councilman, On Trip to U. S, Says Much Depends On Allies’ Reparation Program Theodore Wagner, a member of the common council from the third ward from 1912 to 1916 and now a resident of Danzig free state, is visiting friends in this city. Mr. Wagner was (or many years asso- ciated with the Stanley Works in this city and for the next three months he will be employed as a [ production executive in the plant of the American Tube and Stamping at Bridgeport. Mr. Wagner has made several trips |to this country since removing to Europe ahout seven years ago. He has traveled extensively in Geor- many and has devoted part of his time to building up the Stanley The plant i prospering, Mr. Wag- ner reports, * The German people are recover- ing from the effects of the war and, if not heavily oppressed by repara- tion payments, will reestablish them- selves economically Mr. Wagner says. They support Dr. Schacht in his statement that reparation pay- ments should be restricted to 37 years, he says. At present, there are 1,000,000 unemployed in Ger- many, a great reduction from the number of idle workmen a compara- tively short time ago. Little Girl Injured as Automobile Hits Tree Mary Lesczynski, §, of 71 Governor street, sustained painful injuries about the head, for which she was treated at New Britain General hos- pital yesterday afternoon, when her father’s automobile struck a tree on the south side of North street, near Beaver street. Supernumerary Officer Stanley I Janaitis reported that Lesczynskiy car was sideswiped by a car driven by Giuseppe DiMichele of 13 Nash street and the steering apparatus was day probably fair and cooler. A damaged so that Lesczynski could not control it. Lesczynski and his wife cscaped injury. but has not received full particulara | Works plant at Velberg, Germany. | ICAVANAUGH TRIES TO TAKE NEW STEP I s w“mflv,h,‘l)‘ Judge Yeomans Declines to Sign Quo Warranto Proceedings | Against City Clerk WRIT FOUND DEFECTIVE AND PROGRESS HELD UP Claimant of City Hall Position De- clares He Will Wait Around Court Building to Obtain Signature of State's Attorney — Allowed (o Amend Original Against Democratic Committee, Complaint (Special to the Herald) Hartford, May 31—T. Clay Cav- anaugh, claimant to the office of town clerk of the city of New Brit- ain, came before Judge Edward M. Yeomans in superior court today with an application for quo warran- to proceedings by which he hoped to summon Town Clerk A. L. Thompson to court to show by what authority he holds office, but the judge denied the motion when he found State's Attorney Hugh M. Al- corn had not signed the document. Amends Original Complaint Cavanaugh next proffered amendment to his original an com- ain, and Robert M. Kerrigan, Law- rance P. Mangan, James T. O'Con- nor, John E. R. Keevers, Edward Hennessy, - John L. Fagan and| Themas J. 8mith, democratic town committeemen. Judge John H. Kirkham, corporation counsel for this city, and Judge William F. Mangan, representing the town coin- mitteemen, offered no objection and the amendment was allowed to stand. Immediately after adjournmens, Cavanaugh took up a position out- side the office of Assistant State's Attorney Donald Gaffney, whose sig- nature he hoped to obtain to com- plete his quo warranto motion so that it might again be presented in court, Cavanaugh, who claims the town committeemen illegally prevented him from having his name on the primary ballot of the democratic party, but who insists he was elect- ed in spite of this condition, re- gards it the duty of the state's at- torney to sign the document and to prosecute the case in superior court, “Concerns Peace af Comawnity” “It's a matter which cong;fel thé] peace of the community, ahd it is the duty of the state's attorney to take it into court—absolutely,” Cav- wno 3 *pmn ‘n plaint against the city of New Brit-|. | the creditor experts today agreed on LABOR AND CONSERVATNE FIVE DEAD AFTER HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS Two Drowned Escaping Heat— Automobile Toll Three MANY REPORTED INJURED Seymour Man Loses Life In Shepaug —Roy of 7 Drowned in Bridge- port—Auto Crashes Send Many to Hospitals, By the Amociated Press. The popular conception of what a Connecticut holiday should be wa borne out yesterday when Memorial Day proved (o be one of the warm- est in many years, free from show- ers, with clearest of skies, highway in finc condition, the woods and fields in welcoming garb to those who like the countrysice, and the waves of Long Island Sound running onto the beaches having all the allure of the summer months. No Heat Record Broken In the matter of mercury readings the ofticial high point of 90, did not (Continued on Page 19.) GERMANY AGREES ON RAILWAY LIENS Reparations Group Nears Settlement—Mark Ques- ticn Aired Paris, May 31 M—Germany and the question of lifting the lien on the German railw and on sev- eral other German conditions to ac- ceptance of the Young plan. It was definitely decided also that the question of the reimbursement DARTIES NECK AND NECK IN - BRITISH PARLIAMENT RACE Workm Score Success, But Still Lack Clear Majority —Takk of Coalition Heard-Bald- win Government Loses Out-67 Votes Await- ed. Winning Party Needs 40 of 67 Unreported to Rule Unchallenged — Prime Minister of Last Govern- ment.and Lloyd Goono' ; Re-elected. B ] London, May 31 (P—The Baldwin government which has ruled N land for the past five years, was de- feated in the general elections of yesterday. Late today the labor party had scored a smashing success, but was atill short of obtaining a clear ma- Jority in the new house of pariis- ment, making it likely that some sort of coalition would be necessary it the labor party was to form .8 government. By b o'clock this afternaon, QM Baldwin government lost the. ma-. | jority of 185 seats which it had held |in the last parliament and the com.- bined other parties, including laber, had secured well over half the total seats in the new house of commons. Lineup Is Givem - . The lineup late this evening as follows Conservatives Liberals . Nationalists .. Prohibition Independent Ccmrvqlvu | Independent anulutlonflhu ‘Independent ... of Belgium for German war time marks shall be eliminated from the experts’ report, leaving the two! ~overnments W0 ‘negotiate: their dif- : thrences. Capital Decided On anaugh insisted. The matter took less than five minutes of the judge's time today. When the quo warranto motion was presented, Judge Yeomans looked at once for the signature of Mr. Al- corn and when he found it was missing he handed the document back with his instructions. The amendment to the complain?, red today, reads: The defendants, Kerrigan, Lawrence James T. O'Connor, Rohert M, P. Mangan, John E. R. (Continued on Page 24.) YOUTHFUL SLAYER IS EXECUTED TODAY ebraska Electrocutes 22 Year Old Man for Three Crimes Lincoln, Neb., May 31 (Z»—Henry Sherman, youthful slayer of three persons, died in the electric chair at the Nebraska state penitentiary early today. No_eleventh hour efforta to save the life of the 22 year old killer were made, nor were any of his friends present. Sherman's crime included the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Poch- ron, his employers on a ranch near Burwell, and the slaying of Mrs. Eugenia Pocham, mother of the for- mer, the violation of 14 year old Nellie Pochron, and the beating of a six months old baby. He was crazed with liquor. he as- set up under the experts’ scheme on reparations will be $100,000,000, (Continued on Page Five.) Boys Climb Over Transom And Steal $8.50 in Store Sergeant T. J. Feeney arrested two boys, aged 14, today and turn- ed them over to the probation de- partment for entering Walter Kov- el's shoe repairing shop at 21 Arch street. One of the boys has been employed in the place shining shoes on Saturday for the past five weeks. According to the police, the boys entered the place yesterday after- noon through a transom over a door and took $8.50 out of the cash register. They spent $1 and turned the balance over to Sergeant Fee- ney. Kovel claimed there was $1§ taken but the boys denied it. Officer John M. Liebler is inves- tigating a report by Antoni Sidoti that his store at 76 North street was entered between 10:30 last night and 6:45 this morning and approximately $22 taken out of the cash register. A screen was re- moved from a rear window, the window having been left open to admit air. | Johnson Will Graduate From Clarkson College Everett J. Johnson of 77 Osgood avenue, this city, will receive the degree of bachelor of scince in me- chanical engineering at the Clark- son college of Technology upon graduation next month. He is a graduate of the New Britain high school and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. serted. and angered by rebukes for his attention to Nellie, | Later he was transferred to Clark- |son college. I Planes Unlikely to Old Orchard, Me., May 31 UP—A take-off of the Green Flash for Rome or the Yellow Bird for Paris carlier than Sunday seemed improb- able today in the face of weather re- ports from Dr. James H. Kimball, meteorologist of the New York weather burcau. For the next 24 hours at least, the New York forecaster reported, in- creasingly poor conditions will pre- vail over the north Atlantic and he advised against either evpedition starting on its long and hazardous journey. Lotti In New York Armeno Lotti, youthful French sportsman, sponsor, co-pilot and radio operator of the Yellow Bird, was conferring with Dr. Kimball in New York city and prepared to re- Start Atlantic Hops Until Sunday—Blame Weather should weather conditions take a turn for the better. He felt that he would be in a po- sition to receive more complete re- ports by being close to Dr. Kimball than by remaining here. His two companions, Rene Le Fevre and Jean Assolant, remained at the beach, grooming the big Bernard monoplane and poring into her tanks a new mixture of benzol and gasoline which was to be tried out today in test flights. They also had minor adjustments to make to the motor. Americans Take Rest Captain Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q. Williams, pilot, took ad- vantage of the delay to obtain much needed rest. knowing that their plane was in instant readiness for ifight should weather conditions tura here by air in three hours imn a take off feasible. Paris, May 31 P—The capital of , the new international bank to be’ Thete are 615 ‘seats in the | {of commons, thus leaving’ fi stituempies-etill ! Laborites Neod 40’ u- | At 5:00.p. m., the led 40 aéats of the 678t nr to obtain a clear majority. » - The combined labor, liberal &né other votes was 321 or well ever e 308 needed to take control of ‘the commons away from the M tive party. David Lloyd George, eu-m premier and liberal leader, was'100k- ed upon as apparently holding the key to the situation, since the liber. als were holding the balance of pew- er. i\ Ramsay MacDonald, labor leader. who was the laborite prime minigter in 1923, was the center of & wild demonstration at the Seaham divi- sion of Durham at the conclusion of the poll which returned him to the house of commons. A huge crowd surrounded him and some of the miners tried to raise him to théir shoulders, but so dense was the en- thusiastic group which hemmed him (Continued on Page 10) '$10,000 SUIT FOR DRATH HEARD IN SUPREME COURT Estate of Eugene Massirio of Beviin Wants Compensation Fer Fatal Accident The $10,000 action of Mary Mas- sirio, administratrix of the estate of Eugene Massirio of Berlin, against Sara Goldberg of New Britain, was heard in superior court at Hartford today. The trial was started Wed- nesday and continued until today. The action is based on the death of Eugene Massirio on June 18, 1928. He was crossing Farmingten . avenue, Berlin, and walked against the side of an automobile ewnel and driven by Rowland C. Massle, and was thrown to the ground. Be- fore he could get up the Goldberg car struck him and he died a showt time later from a fracturs of the skull and other injuries. - Attorney 8. Gerard Cassle s counsel for the plaintiff and Day, Berry & Reynolds of Hartford rep- resent the defendant. Bridgeport, May 31 UP—The quietest divorce case in the Wi tory of Fairfield county was heard by Judge Isasc Woife in Fm! criminal court here today. ; Eva Ruth Hendricks, ‘Nerwalk. deaf mute, pleaded for and wem & divorce from Edward Hemdricks on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Hendricks' case was. 18, 1924.