New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1929, Page 1

STUDENT FROM THIS CITY 1S BOSTON HAIR SNIPPER; " CAUGHT IN Willard A. Mouradian Arvested After Cut- ting Locks of 14 Year O} Girl-Detected By Her Mother Who Hears Sound of Shears Scissors Found in Knickers When Searched — Ad- mits Having Weakness for Cutting Tresses — Has Box Containing Hair in Room, Police Say Boston, June 15 M—Willard A. Mouradian, 21, a stduent of naval architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had con- fessed today, police said, to snip- ping the hair of two girls, one while aboard e street car lpat night and the other a few days ago in a downtown subway station. Mouradian, the son of a New Britain, Conn., woman physician, told police he was unable to over- come his longing for girl's hair but “I Qon't know what made be do it.” Tries (0 Escape from Subway His capture last night was c. tacular. His victim, Miss Katherine Ahearn, 14, of Jamaica Plain, was seated with her mother on a sub- way bound car in Roxbury. She felt a tug at her hair and heard the clip of shears.. Her mother turned on Moyradian to demand what he was doing. The youth did not wait to reply but rushed to the front door. The motorman, warned by the commotion, refused to open it and held his car until a trafic @fMcer ot the intersection arrived to take the student into custody. Had Scissors in Knickers At the Roxbury Crossing pelice statjon, Mouradian was searched and & small pair of scimsors discov. ored inside one of thy knees of his Xknfckers. . Under ™ foning, he was said to have told Police Lieu- tenant Charles Miller he was the man who clipped several locks from the head of 11 year old Alma Troy of Arlington in & busy sub- way station last Baturd: Search. of Mouradian's room in Cambridge revealed a box contain- iAg several other clipped tresses, police said. Betieve He Was ‘Terror” (8pecial to the Herald) Boston, M June 15—Willard A. Mouradia year old son of Dr. Mary G. Mouradian of £7 Pros- pect street, New Britain, Conn., was arrested last night in Roxbury, after he had clipped the hair of a 14- year old girl in a subway car, and he later made admission to the po- lice which convince them that they have captured the youth who has been the cause of mild terror through snipping activities in and about Boston. Mouradian, caught with a small scissors and the lock of Cathering Ahern's r, admitted he also had clipped a blonde tress from 11- years old Alme Troy of Arlington, about a week ago. The police searched’ his room following his ar- rest and found the blonde hair, be- lieved to be that of the Troy girl, and also a lock of red hair, the source of which was not known. The New Britain youtli is a senior at Mamachusetts Institute of Tech- nology where he had specialized in the study of naval architecture, and he planned to remain in Boston dur- ing the summer months to study in the summer school of M. 1. T. Tries to Flee From Car Mouradian was arrested on an eutbound Jamaica Plain street car. The victim of last night's clipping was riding with her mother, Mrs. Catherine Ahern, when she felt a 614 object pressed against the back of her hair and sensed the snipping of her locks. She made an outcry, attracting the attemtion of nearly a ocore of passengers. the conductor siid motorman. When Mouradian started for the rear door, the con- ductor jammed it shut. The com- motion attracted the attention of the motorman and he turned in time to block the student’s escape by the front door. A traffic policeman do- ing duty nearby was signailed and he entered the car, placing Moura- @lan under arrest amid scenes which bordered on violence, several men pasiengers having approached the New Britain youth in a menacing manner. When the arrested youth was asked to explain his actions, he an- swered he did not know what made him clip the hair of the two girls other than an irresistible fondness to have lusuriant locks in his posses- sion. Worried Over Examinations He later offered the explanation that he had overstudied and his nervous condition was bad. He had worried, police say, over passing final examinations. Mouradian told the police his mother has married a second time, but continues to practice medicine in New Britain under the name of Dr. Mouradian. ‘When arrested he was hatless and ‘was dressed in knickers. The scis- A"ut.\m« on Page 13) SUBWAY TRAIN CITIZENS PROTEST VIRKKULA KILLING Telegraph Presideat Hoover for Relie! From Reign of Terror BORDER TOWN ENRAGED ‘Arregant Lawlessness” of Dry Agents is Bitterly Condemned in Messago—Charge Against White ..is Second DegreegMurder, Carry- ing Life Sentence. International Falls, Minn., June 15 M—A contest between federal and state officials for the custody of E. J. White, "border patroiman, charged with killing Henry Virkkula, loomed today, as this Canadian bor- {der town waited for executive action from President Hoover, to whom has been sent an appeal for rellet from what citizens described as “ar- fogant lawlessness” on the part of patrolmen, The message of the president was dispatched last night, following fil- ing of a charge of second degree murder against White, accused of killing the Big, Falls confectioner last 8aturday night while searching (Continued on Page 15.) TEACHERS’ TRIBUTE T0 DEAD ASSOCIATE H. S. Faculty Members Bearers at A. S. Guilli- ano Funeral * Bix fellow members of the New Britain Senior High school faculty, many of whom had been associated with him for years, were the pall bearers at the funeral this morning of Professor Andrgw 8. Guilliano, of 33 Whiting street, Spanish instruct- or at the Senlar Migh school who died at the New Britain General hospital following a short illness. The pall bearers were Principal Louis P. Slade, Newell 8. Ames, Ro. bert R. Gotf, 8. Dayis Chase, Charles J. Drapeau, and Palmer P. Howard. 8t. Joseph's church where the funeral services were held was crowded with his fellow ulty members and Senior High school pupils as well as alumni members who gathered to pay.final tribute. Among those present were School Supt. Btanley H. Holmes, and George B. Matthews, director of music in the New Britain school system. Nuns from St. Joseph's convent were also present. Rev. John F. Donohue celebrated a solemn high mass of requiem. Rev. John C. Brennan was the dea- con, Rev. John J. Keane was sub deacon, and Rev. Father Hayes of Hartford, master of ceremonie: As the remains were being borne into the church Organist Frank Sul- livan played “Nearer my God to Thee” and dt the offertory Mrs. Irene O’Brien sang “Ave Maria" by Abbe De Doss. The sanctus and ben- edictus were from 8t. Cecilia's mass. James V. Sullivan sang “I Come to Thee" at the conclusion of the ser- vices. Father Donohue conducted the committal services at the grave at 8t. Mary’'s cemetery. . RECEIVING NEGRESS AROUSES TEXAN IRE State Senate Votes to Con- demn Mrs. Hoover’s Recent Action Austin, Texas, June 15 P—The Texas senate was on record today as condéemning by resolution Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the presi- dent, for entertaining Mrs. Oscai De Priest, wife of a Negro member of congress from Illinois, at a White House tea last Wednesda; Miss Margie E. Neal, democrat, only woman member of the upper house of the Texas legislature, in- troduced the resolution which was adopted with only two dissenting votes. Other Vote ‘The Neal resolution was accepted instead of one offered by Senator T. J. Holbrook which was aimed at both Mrs. Hoover and the Texas democrats who supported Mr. Hoov- er at the election last fall. The resolution adopted did not con- demn the Hoover supporters but pointed out that ' in the campaign they were “warned of the danger of racial equality recognition at the national capital through the election of the republican candidate.” Texas went into the republican columns last year for the first time since Civil War days. The resolution condemning Mrs. Hoover said ‘“social recognition of & member of the Negro race accord- (Continued on Page 15) NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1929.—EIGHTEEN PAGES YELLOW BIRD WILL HOP OFF FOR PARIS WITH ITS STOWAWAY THIS AFTERNOON; FRENCH PLANNING WILD CELEBRATION Dominic Cartelli Donuinic Cartelli of 97 Putnam street, who went to Atlantic City three years ago for the first time as “Nickey, the pewee champion from New Britain,” today won the city marble championship for the fourth consecutive year and will be the Herald guest at Ocean City, N. J., for a week, beginning June 24. W. C. French, principal of the Central Junior High school rolled the first marble. William Desmond, who prefers to speak of himself as “Bill" Desmond, and whose reputa- tion as an actor both in vaudeville and movies reaches as far as the English language extends, was referee The games started at 9:30 o'clock this morning at Willow Brook park. Other school champions who shot today are: The matches were shot under the personal direction of Captain Wil- liam W. T. Squire, Junior Achieve- ment director, with the assistance of his aide William Helm. Willlam Desmond was present and (Continued on Page 15) Again Winner Of Ciy's Marble Cham ., 4 ord, DOMINIC CARTELLI Columbus Authorities Seeking With Whom Slain Co-ed Had ‘Date’ Columbus, Ohio, June 16 P— Theora Hix, 24, pretty post graduate student at Ohio Btate university whose mutilated body was found on a rifle range and identified last night by school companions who had known her as a quiet, studious co- ed, was thc subject of intense police investigation today as search was made for un unknown person with whom she had a “date” on the night | of her death. Two boys found the body yester- | day when they went to the rifie range to practice. The head had | been punctured 17 times. The throat | and body bore deep gashes. Seven hours later Alice and Boa- | trice Bustin, sisters whe roomed with the girl near the university hospital, identified the body through personal effects after notifying po- lice of her absence. The features PA[INESSA RENEWS secin s ATION £ AL BOARD Conn, . Attack Today Based on Nead of Portable Buildings for Use in Belvidere CALLS H. §. MONUMENT TO PRESENT COMMITTEE Statement Asks Whether It Is Fair 0 Erect Memorial at Expense of Little Children Who Must Sweat in" Galvanized Attacks Iron Boxes— Fallure to Ask for Funds. In a statement criticism of the school committee | sparkling with for its decision to place pupils of the Stanley school in portable bmld- ings, Mayor Paonessa today made | the claim that the committee disre- | garded the overcrowded conditions in elementary grades to erect a| were unrecognizable. | Sought Summer Work | Police learned that the girl hid‘ gone to the hospital Thursday night to inquire about part-time employ- | ment there to defray expenses at | the school of medicine during the | summer semester. At 7:45 o'ciock | she left, telling Bertha Dillan, ' switchboard operator, that she had to keep an engagement and that she | would return before 10 o’clock. She failed to reappear at the | hospital or her home, but it was not | until late yesterday that alarm was | felt for her safety, the girl's room- | {mates believing she had spent the | night with friends. Their surprise that she had men- tioned a ‘“date” started authorities on a line of investigation which (Continued on Page 15) MEDICAL LICENSE FAKERS ARRESTED State Officials May Be In- volved in Illinois ‘ Counterfeiting Chicago, June 15 (M—SBeven per- sons, five already under arrest, have been indicted by the Cook county grand jury as members of a nation- wide ring of counterfeiters supply- ing fake medical and dental li- censes to those” having $3,000 to| pay for them. Pat Roche, chief investigator for the state's attorney, said he expect- ed further inquiry might show offi- cials of the lllinois state department of registration were implicated. He based the belief partly on the fact that several of the licenses issued by the ring appeared genuine. Headquarters of the ring were maintained in Springfield, the state capital, with agents in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and elsewhere, The Springfield headquarters and the evident genuiness of some of the Ii- (Continued on Page 15) {Four Sign Confessions— | those who abducted and robbed him VIGTIM IDENTIFIES IDAHO HOLDUP MEN Lieut. Gov. Kinne Was Kidnaped Juliaetta. Idaho, June 15 (A— ‘Four or five men in jail here had | been identified today by Lieutenant Governor W. B. Kinne of Idaho as last Wednesday and then shot and senior high school which, he argued, would not be needed for many | years. Admitting the likelihood that the | structure now being erected will be a beautiful building, the mayor asked: “Is It fair for any group of offi- | cials to build a monument to mark | their term of public life at the ex- pense of little children who must swelter in a galvanized iron box in | (Continued en Page 15.) CONGRESS TO FACE HARD TARIFF FIGHT! { Takes Rest Todey After Con-| troversy Over Debenture Borah Expected to Insist That Tariff Revision Be Confined to Agricul- On Floor. Washington, June 15 (P—Con- gress took a rest today after a week's work in which it disposed of many of the administrat grams for the special session and felt for the first time the edge of the keen controversy in prospect over tariff revision in the senate. Farm relief legislation was out of the way, excepting for the task of beat two men who came to his as- sistance. | The men were captured near here | yesterday after two boys discovered | two of the bandits asleep. Those under arrest were George Norman, 47. Seattle, alleged leader of the| gang, who igsaid to have a criminal | record; Talbot Reynolds, 20, Met- | aline Falls, Wash.; Frank Lane, 21, Redmond, Wis.; George Livingston, | 19, Alabama, and Engos Fnoysland, | 21, North Dakota. Confession Obtained [ A confession by Livingston fol- | lowed the arrests, brought about by | (Continued on Page 15) THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS W $aY St D providing funds for the new federal farmi board. The 1930 census was provided for, together with reap- portionment of the house member- ship in accordance with that and succeeding decennial population counts. Part of Program Passed To that exent, President Hoover's five-point program was ready for the | statute books. A fourth point, his recommendation for suspension of the national origins immigration quota basis, was before the senate during the weeck, and the fifth— tariff revision—was started on (Continued on Page 15) ture—Sides Lined Up for Battle | | his face becamc wreathed in smiles. vh@i o %‘?';M%p 3 T This map shows the route of the Yellow Bird. French monoplane | which landed in Spain y-sterday after a non-stop flight from Old Orchard ‘lhat they hoped to make all in one flight. Beach. in the line on the coast of Spain i beach at Comillas, Santander, Spain. The white line shows their approximate route and the break ndicates their forced landing on the From this point the fliers are hop- | ping this afternoon to Le Bourget Field, Paris, to complete the journey |away in their plane made the gasoli | through. The presence of a boy stow- ine supply insufficient to carry them The white line is shown extended to a point near Paris, where | they are expected to be this afternoon. Stowaway More Amazed at Safe CENSUS MEASURE PASSED. Landing Crew to Take Assolant, Inclined to Be Angry at First, Finally Bows | Than Fliers Themselves; Youth On to Paris to Nerve of Youth and Accepts Him as Compan- ion—Boy Wanted to Be Second Lindbergh, He Says. Comillas, Santander, Spain, June 5 (®—Youthful Arthur Schreiber, stowaway on the Yellow Bird, per- haps was the most bewildered indi- vidual in all Spain when he stepped 10 the beach at Oriambre yesterday after his stolen trip across the At- lantic. He seemed perturbed until he felt | the ground bencath his feet and then The smiles and faded, however, were replaced by a look of blank | astonishment as he heard hundreds of voices about him making exclam- ations in Spanish, which he did not underftand, and the aviators answering in Frerch which ke also did not understand Introduced by Lotti Ameno Lotti, financial backer of | the flight, and one of the three cthers aboaxd, introduced him to the crowd as, “Our unlocked for pilot. A French resident of Comillas acted as interpreter. M. Lotti was smiling bLut Jcan Assolant, the pilot, lo‘)k the matier more seriously. “We considered turning back d,r- (Continued on Page 15) ARTHUR SCHREIDER THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: howers this afternoon or to- night; Sunday mostly fair with not much change in temperature. | OCEAN FLIER SAFE, BRIDE IS RELIEVED Mrs. Assolant Plans to “13” Join Husband— Lucky for Her New York, June 15 (® — Mrs. |Jean Assolant, the bride of five |days whom the pilot of the Yellow | Bird left on the beach at Old Or- ‘chard Me., was preparing today to | sail for Paris to rejoin her hus- band. The 22 year old wife, who |was Pauline Parker, a New York | chorus girl. expressed her joy and | relief at the news the fliers had landed safely in Spain. “I am so0 relieved and happy that I can't think of anything to didn’t sleep a wink all last night.” she said. “I was constantly think- ing of my husband and his com- panions and trying to follow them in my imagination across the At- lantic. All night long T fancied 1 | could hear the Yellow Bird's mo- |tor roaring.” | Mrs. Assolant said someone had | suggested that she stow away in the | plane, but. she added that she {would not have thought of such a |thing as it would have endangered the lives of the crew. She said the number “13" ap- parently was lucky for both her- self and her husband and pointed out that in addition to the fact that the plane took off on the 13th day of the month, there were 13 let- ters in her name and they were married 13 days after their meet- ing. She said their brief courtship had been carried on with the ald of French-English dictionaries, and ges- tures, as she does not understand French and Assolant's English vo- {cabulary consists of three phrases. | “Show nte,” “Shut up,” and “0. K.” Another romance rode on the wings of the Yellow Bird, for Rene Lefevre, the 24 year old navigator, | was fiying toward his._marriage to Mile. Renee Baligant, a 19 year old French girl to whom he became engaged just before the fliers came ‘u this country. Lotti's Father Receives Word From Son—Gas Tanks Dry When Hugs Monoplane Comes to Rest on Sands, and Water All Gone Also. Comillas, 8pain, June 15 (P—The IFrench transatlantic monoplane Yel low Bird, took off from its landing place on the beach here this after- noon, but returned shortly after. wards. Take Test Flight The men _Jean Assolant, Rene Le: fevre and "Armeno Lottl, were le- companied by their stowaw thur Schreiber, of Portland, Me., ll‘ it was generally aunderstood that they were headed for their wuitls mate goal, Le Bourget, but on thei¢ return they said that they had nh made a test flight. The aviators explained thuufl an interpreter later that they had decided not to leave for Le Bourget before 3 or ¢ o'clock this afternoen: (between 9 a. m. and 10 a. m. easts ern standard time). : Welcomed By Spanish . The French airmen, who coms i pleted the eighth eastward airplang crossing of the Atlantic, at 8:30 jo'clock last evening, dropping dewa !on the beach at Comillas, 508 miles short of Le Bourget, were given ep- thusiastic welcomes by the pepula- _|{tion of Comilias and visitors frewm nearby Santander, but this they were ready and “‘um i on their last lap to their native land. Their plane, which was virtually dry of gasoline when they came down at Comilas, was refueled dur. | ing the morning and after brief naps [the airmen climbed in with 23. yéar. ,old Bchreiber and started off. The Yellow Bird, lightened by more than half since it left Old Or- | 7 (Continued on Page 15) PORTLIND LAUGES AT YOUT'S STUNT iSchreiber Well Known ss Entertainer—Sought Adventure Portland, Me., June 15 (UP)— Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was the second greatest fiier of the world today in the eyes of this city's youth. His halo of heroism had béen somewhat dimmed overnight by 22-yer-old “home boy” who had in. terrupted his activities as a youtnfut “man about town” to have his nam¢ inscribed indelibly in the annals of aviation as the first transatlantic airplane stowaway. Well Known Entertainer . Had you mentioned the name ‘of Arthur Schreiber a week age, you would have been referring to & young man with a great deal eof “it” who, as a singer, dancer, adépt conversationalist, amateur acter, linguist and “stationary traveler.” ‘was in popular demand as an enter: tainer at house parties and the like, But today Arthur Schreiber's name had taken its place in the aerfal ball of fame alongside of those of Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air pes- senger. and Clarence Terhune, first transatlantic zeppelin stowaway. For a flip of a coin in the fiicker- ing light of bonfires on Old Orchard | Beach last Wednesday night nbbfi Schreiber of his long-played rele ' “stationary traveler"—a youth whe merely dreamed of going places— and sent him across the ocean a8 8 stowaway aboard the French mono- plane Yellow Bird. Youth Cables Home To Folks in Maine Comillas, 8pain, June 15 (UP) —Arthur Schreiber, the Portiand, Me., stowaway on the Fremeh Bernard plane’s transatisstie flight from Old Orchard, seut his greetings to his parents through the United Press today. Young Schreiber gave the Unit- ed Press correspondent the fel- lowing cablegram to send Ri§' mother, Mrs. Hermina m “My dear folks: Arrived : illas safe and okay. Trip difftult. Don’t fear anything me. I shall wire again Paris. .Let my 'mAR