New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1929, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 15,040 July 13th ... JTIA" st FIRST ED ESTABLISHED 1870 ‘HEX’ SLAYER SURE DEATH THREATENED - NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929.—EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS WORLD POWERS WORKING T0 HALT CHINESE-RUSSIAN WAR; 12 PERISH IN “Mock” FIRE SCENE | Capt. Hoyt to Resume Flight to - Nome Today After Forced Stop At Vanderhoff, Because of Winds Fair Diplomat } Victim Gouid “Give You Any| | Digease”, “Kindly Fisherman” | Killer Tells Authorities MAN BELIEVES HE DID “RIGHT THING” IN MURDER| Burgess, Who Clubbed Aged Woman | to Death, Says She Had Already | “Cast Spell” on His 17 Year Ol Killed Daughter—Told Him She 100 People a Year, Including Her | | Husband, July 20 (P— | . 53-year-old taxi- | b driver, who until Thursday night | was known to do anything vicious than bait a fish hook Y Kalamazoo county v today and told officers why Mrs, Etta L. TFairchilds, ar-old inmate of an old ladies® home. to death. “I have done. the right thing,” said. “That woman could make you have kind of a dis i 1 Woman Dead Burgess' wife sat besidc corroborated his statements. woman is dead and I'm glad of it > was led to a According their the county prosecutor his wife believed .rs. was a witch and could kill peopi by the power of her will They said she bragged she had kil ed 100 people a year for the past . including her husband in he of victims. they said, thev invited the aged woman to supper | Thursday and Killed while she . Burgess 1 hilds® hammer Kalamazoo, Mich e Bur ever, any 1 and [ While firemen stood inr being he | to death in this flu at Gillingham, En, planned as part of ding.” The firemen moment, hut ther pants of the buil persons burned ra recorded the grim scene dummy structure had been called “The Fireman's Wed- to the rescue at the crucial nals, and the volunteer ds look orant of by, twelve were building s the came The firing of the ng supposed 1o ru L mix-up in the ed while hun, al tragedy w ng nd an old wert was oceu- Fairchilds the evening her beat Mrs, Iair- lead pipe an! tied cement blocks to the ody and dropped it into a well at the rear of their home, Says He Has “Pains” Asked about spells which he said \ies. Fairchilds cast upon her tended vietims, the confessed aid, "I stagger lots of times— n" at times, hes and ins my head and trouble breathing. 1 fel* me, you wouldn't It vither Mrs. Iairchilds’ or he head with a SHUN MIGHT CLUBS ~ ASSIST ON LIQUOR Whaten Warns Public Gangdom Amendment to United States Rules New York Speakeasies ~ Law on Clearance Urged W0 HELD—FOR MURDER GTTAWA Glfi OPINIOR Venturous Souls 1 r Sugses- Not Apply in- slay- have and you be in arms men sorry. life Iresent ite Does to G tion Will Get “Plenty of Atten- Small ¢ ofi- was ours, He said vitehed™ tion” From Police, Commissioncr cials Pind Hands in Co- Mrs. Fairchilds had “be- his 17 year old daughter ugenie and intended to cause the <irl's death by witcheraft. Burgess' daughter, who w way from home when Mrs., I was slzin, and his son were held released today snys in Statement To operating. Toronto. July: 20 (—The Toronto Glohe published the follow- ing despateh from Ottawa today Canada indicated New York, July 20 (P—Visitors to Ont New York and “decent people” have hoen warned hy Police Commissioner Whalen to keep away from night ihs, which he are controlled | United it method gangdom. Those who fail to heed | the iHezal importation warning are liable to get a lot liquor into the ve tailed ton 1 ir Bur b The | &V of police attention The commi ing in announc e i CALL FOR MEETING for atur- day’s double slaying to the which has hilds tes a et B to by of says madian be he cur- vere public ons with W no definite may on Page Conversa shi (Continned Two) procecding, +hut has been re An the ment is prepared to liquor-laden for the provided vization laws of republic mended with respect to vessels the [der five tons which compris control of 'majority of liquor carriers well for | Detroit river. from [ Noarly 100 per cent of (i sueh places, for they're to 8et fearying liquor and the persons of police attention NOW | gaged in the traffic are from the o The ent 1 The Hotsy Totsy club 5 one of . the less pretentious of the district resorts. Diamond sioner issued his warn- ent of torious conclusion whed Want Law und Canadian to i o) tood govern hound last refuse the Dinmond vessels the at Hot arance Totsy club of which part owner, indictment missioner, “brings the fact that gangdom is in the night clubs. Tt would b decent people to keep away the the fore This said com - the the ““rnings of $333,000 Arc Shown in Annual State- ment to Stockholders to on hoats goin lots frem pre navigatien law oo dw and En Notices for the annval meeting of (Continued on 1o ttockholders of North & Judd Bad Going Used So Much Fuel Flier Landed—Hoped to Make Trip to Alaska and Return From Mitchel Field In 75 Hours, 40 Minutes Flying Time N Ross w York, July 20 (M- G. Hoyt intormed Captain | Minneapolis in 7 hours army offi-| utes. He refuelled and Is here that he would resume his|night flight to Kdmonton, arrivin New York-Alaska round trip flight |at 6:45 a vesterday. 15 minutes today after a forced landing at Van- |ahead schedule. His derhoff, B. ( speed for the first two Hoyt left 140 miles an hour. 2:38 p. m., The layover at Vanderhoff will ursday, in an attempt to fly the add about 12 hours to the elapsed 8,460 miles to Nome, Alaska,|time. Unless he succeeds in flying ind return in 75 hours and 40 min-|ahead of schedule on the return utes time. flight A telegram from toyt The said he had landed Vanderhoft | hour r because of a fuel shortage due to|six hour head winds. His landing interrupt- | total of 6 d a flight from Edmonton, Alberta, |air. to White Horse, Yukon, a distance of | Hoyt is attached to the air 1.090 miles. Vanderhoff is less than | tactics group and is flving a plane. half om Edmonton to Whit: | powered with a 600 h. p. motor, ca- Horse. pable of a maximum speed of 150 Hoyt of | miles an hour and a cruising speel 1,030 to | of 150 miles and 30 min- | made m of average flights was Mitchel castern Iicad, N daylight time, at total clapsed vesterday schedule calls 1eling for four on:- ops each way and a layover Nome, with a hours, 40 minutes in the at | way covered miles from the first Mitchel ump Iield TRINGALI AT FAULT N IN FATAL ACGIDENT EW LIOUOR DRIVE ‘Cm'oncr Says Negligence | Caused Death of Joan Wenzel Arkansas Officers Start i Out for More Boot- leggers Today Middeto ). —TFrank Tringali o is held crimin- U1y res ath of Joan Wenzel ~old ter of Mr. and Mrs We f 319 Bur- ritt street ritain. in an auto- the corner of Court streets here last cording to the decision - Lowndes A. Smith, which known today. Tringali is held $1500 bonds for appearance city court, where will be bound Little - With orders “hard boiled, federal prohibition raiders invade Ark., to July 20 be o, for an unannounced sect today to further women bootleggars M. Gurley, deputy ministrator for the of the ion of Arkansas | the war nst | launched by S. | prohibition ad- western I'red New 1obile acci Broad and Saturday section state )¢ Coron o of Coron Gurley, who accredits 75 per cent liquor vending in Arkansas to women and has declared that, “he- fore are through hundreds of | them are going to find themselves facing a federal judge.” personally that | givected today's raid ,(,]‘”,1,,\ m"um\ -‘H\\“ W1 Nineteen ranging 20-year-old stockingless girl to a 60 e ;‘[ Ly ,“')"“‘_‘ ”;‘]‘) could | Lovold mother. dy have been not have heen looking where he was iraaiza going. mmination of the two A8y cars involved revealed that the Wenzel car was struck in the spoke of the left rear whéel by the left spring of the Middletown machine, indicating that the New Bri n auto 'y across the intersce- he ma ot fof being under 00 local I it we it is expec over to superior cou Coroner th stated today the must sn women, from a sive rat arrested sinee T L his campaign Wedr IFive of the arrests were mads terday by raiders at Pine Bluff and ' squad crossed over info Texas Raids over Wednesday and Thursday in the vicinity of Texarkana gather- in 14 alieged women prohibition law violators, seven white and seven negroes, most of them released on | ond Mrs. Long. sons and the were taken into Bluff yesterday 1gen who said they overhauled an automobile from which bottles of liquor were thrown and broken. Dot 20, and Mrs. Bonnie Pulmer ed by the officers who d into Texas. A char scssing lquor was places them. | | adminis- VOs- tion when struck A impact of the collision over- urned the Wenzel and threw the girl out on her head. rvesulting in almost (th Believing that 11 a dan- Ella 60, her daughter, of of custody at federal instantancons two wif them Pine corner i one Coroner Smith taken rectify. and s taking the highway authori- accidents have intersection, where leads motor- He s zerous one is see inz fo have steps to by conditions there matter up with the ties. Several occurred at the U four per cent grade ists 10 speed up to make the hill believes that the installation of fie lights will prove the lution. serious Benson cros e of pos- | against correct with d ¥ la of far ment s statement nehing the . that chivalry are in southern as women | “the days THE WEATHER s sQ et Tulinin R aa I oin e violators of the prohibition are con- | Vaie and continued cold to- cerned,” in a lecture of night: Sunday fair and slight- Magistrate G. W. Ragland to the lat- Iv warmer in the afternoon, ter two women when they were ar- — ed before him was seen American and, ar ow. ove, of named U there to take cz ists fi For vigitors to e assured of fair fair Margaret Lincoln, Mass., nited has States viee are of the interests of rom her home country ON WOMEN BEGUN ENDURANCE FLIFRS Wi arner ~ REPORT MANCHURIA INVADED | Leen | It will be her particular task tour- END WEEK IN AIR Jackson and 0'Brine Pass 168th Ho Craft Mu to Bett Califory Peel W <M. Lov a4 Ja piloting Louis-Rol in the air AS hour alof the fuclied and roared on toward a new | boys are planning to world en than thr functioning smoothly indicated dition. ur in Plane Today t Stay Up Uatil Tuc er Record Recently S jin - Men—Both Ak, cll. » O} plan nis, Mo., July ckson and Forr the endurance bin," at 7 fliers t. the completed 17 a one today. their m., d plane w i record still The and the in excellent durance e days off they were sister Ship Fuclled A Missour endurane i-Robhin,” planc, passed its esday 't By iors Dalr drine, week 165th n re- mor motor was fliers con the t0th | hour of flight this morning and also was refu ceph Har ton The maining 4 and ounced r conta St elled nmer The and W pilots Gol Louis-1tohin” to Lambhert-s flying high hereafter all will be made close was that It re Jo- shel- re Louis was efuel- within it of the ficld, providing weather conditions remain favorable. Sew sw New HI( it Fo veat r Leaf Clovers shirts and a bla anket Two) H O TIDE—IULY New London 10:16a.m.. New H aven 11:Hia, double sidy, atta disappeared after the iunufacturing company, which is to i : ooting in which William < se held at the general office of Ui Corporation Tuesday afternoon, July 30, were placed in’ the mails todu: AL the meeting dires will cleeted o other husiness nroner neh an event transacted n alleged il Walker, « Eillod. The canse not heen disclosed by the poliec Whalen's hootlegger, non former were of the shooting has ‘ conviet, I b slight PROVEILI- Commissioner THIS WEEKS AFFAIRS . . . . . by Knight | ized “Broadwa descended upon more than it the midtown scetion last night and early today, quantity of liquor and number pe The 1sed a generdl shut down while places that remained onen were reported to have immediately jumped the priec of whiskey from 30 to 75 cents a FRENCH MAY FORCE BEBT ACCORDS YOTE squad change in wording rathcr than n | dozen speakeasies ont in Nection three of the by-l been recommended, involving up of a quorum, Stock hooks will e July 25 to July 31 The statement of the concen makes it apparent $9.87 has been added to uiplus after the payment of §2 dividends and setting up a re- erve for taxes and depreciation he dividend ha 10 per ni and the K with ixes and oit 255,000.00 The complete statement is as fol the make ransfer seizing rresting raids the wi closed from of condition of few that the th 38 it heen carning depreci: or 1 tion plus July 1, 1928 H v justnient 719,889.5¢ Less 7 AN (@_ =22 SUDGE DONCUAA CF SrisroL PLAYS GoLF AT AIINE P AA PR ar ending June after deducting Feserves taxes and de preciation for Put End to Long Controversy 259, dividends paid 50,000.00 arplus July 1, 1929 Assets July 20 (P)—Th Das decided that 1o protrs ed of the debl agreements | Britain and the United was cven a possibility might come on the ments tonight. Par ment be made 000,00 atification e Great 7 There (less 4 votc L650,665.7 govern- an end mus hate on unts and bills receivable fieates of S government vestment i other entory deposit ccuritios socurities (lecm reserves) cou'pment 130,710 of deputics to formu- ratification chambe be “rench will its reservations (o resolution entircly separate the ratidication texts to be on prior to the ratification Liabilites sked bl s e late in a from voted m faderal taxes asny find a financc Today's 1 this 1 of ruthlessly Dennty faand f was to The chamber yo that offered which had government ted eblem ltion the veiectod Delig o previonaly it had reje proffere Terstnod nment the corpo M. THolu ition fasl viee M int Oficers of crident. 1 lent and sceretary van; treasurer and a. ey, McCuteheon; assistant Wird, and director G. (. Clark, 1 M. Holmes, 17 MeChtc for pres Wight committee ter ay ny e, Samuel VoL treasurer, 1. 1 AT Sloper M. Wightmen, 1 Chamberlain, Noah (° Juud. VAL FOf THERS = ra ver, that stron=ly Towe would [ (Continucd on Page 15) SN 7503 Feas’€ WEST EAD FITEHOUSE *‘\ LANS AE "N THE. | TALHOUSE NOW— \ (WHAT WE NEED S PIED PLPEL TO LURE AWAY [ CoPPERHEADS ¢ THAT SEEMTO * UE T00 FRIEADLY [ = New CrTAIN Boys P0 WONDERFUL WOIC N MIMIC BATTLE AT NIANTLIC cLitc !uwa 2 roa ) \ ~\K WELL —WENE = JUST WONDERIA' (F THE QLD STRAW Wikl—s STAND (T MUBH S SECOND SHIP 70 HOURS i {in the | Major General by LITIA PREPARES FOR RETURN TRIP All Work Over as Camp Trum- bull Enters Last Day MUCH WHOOPEE TONIGHT M 1 Detail Draws Toughest Guard Consignment—General Cole Given Chest of Silver—Men Due Home By Tomorrow Neon. Niantic is over at the and July 20. Trum- umbull Al work bull companies Camp N Liri encamped and after a he and tonight the their homes. entive regiment ants and mess wher thred Britain two ol com- panies 1 past two w this afte will ents Today the ing cooks, supply ser sergeants will organize on the par. grounds, where pup tents and equip ment will be by Col. D. Gordon Hunter companies will then march O th where they will The roll will be re will be dismissed cks noon boys in for includ- inspected The ! company be mus- t and the red ad 10y s ants will have Ihe supply serg lost ck-end Sorrow of Company 1 Stanley Harb H of per cquipment must be done personal helongin to “pitch in company’s possessions . the last night of the en- is usually the “wildest” night of the entire 1wo Things will e wn about unl every type of play will prob Many the 20 to dances ut only a short and Sound eight Many wi Sergeant wski of and Georg Headqu the Conside Com ant Unwin will s the ing their will ny rtc transport compa vise tion of packing the nien have and heip pack the Tonigh campment weeks. hors: ably be committed of Pine Grove, whigh distance from the View, which miles from Camp Trumbull are going to tke in the camp amusements. and others are plin- ning to spend a few hours at Nian tic artd then retire carly in prapara- tion for the trip home tomorrow. The train will leave Niantic tion at 7:30 o'clock. and it is X- that the soldiers will arrive home shortly hefore noon. The hoys w camp. is approximately part st pected Britain companies are orward with anticipation to ay dinners, hut they are back on 14 days of enjoyable whletics looking their Su looking work, fun, s, good mc o) GIVEN REPRIMANDS : National ined Massachusetts Guardsmen Discipl for False Story Mass the 26th national guard Cliffe, chief been reprimanded Alfred . IFoote, cting under direct Irank G. Allen as an outeonic the inve ation ordercd the latter into the origin of faked paper storics about liquor ¥ authorities in the i Shirley July 20 (T— Division, mp Devens, Five officers of Massachusetts Col. Sydney have in- of by cor cludin staff, nander orders from Governor raids towns Apology (o Selectmen In addition, the ral mitied expressic " to the selectimen towns. The apologies, as well reprimands, were direeted zovernor, who rejected th gen has sub- of “sincere the T two 15 the the I's by zene first explanation of the storics which had heen given ou renee R, Goldber paper 1 and ficer, by Captain Law- Boston news- porier press liaison of- CGoldberg had by Adjutan? General who conducted the verely eriti- Jesse 1 been s ed tevens investi- | gation ordered by the governor. Gen- | infor | | | directly eral Stevens that ation contained in General Yoote's original explanation, Gold- | berg officially “in camp” and responsible for the raid found contrary to | was Two Others Disci L > officers disciplined by 1Poote, in addition to Clific and ( were Licut Everett Prout and William J. Blake and Ma- jor Roland H. Choate. Officials® of Ayer and Shirley carried their pro- test to Gov. Allen after responsible officers at the camp were o to have minimized the effect of the fake stories on the standing of the two communit.es. News of the alleged raids came on the heels of a statement by General oote that he intended to keep the camp surroundings “clean™ and w as indieation that the were acti quickly to dry up Not until the communities protested did news- papermen learn that no had heen made and the purported details fabricated. taken ofticer guard nearhy raids Great Britain Joins France and United States in Reminding Nations of Kellogg Peace Pact Provisions —Both Realize Duty. Overt Acts on Either Side May Be Regarded as Ex- cuse for War, Howeve‘r, Diplomats Assert—Both Sides Disavow Intention of Starting Battle. The vorking Manc) power actively to ave uria btween China and Russia, e Kellog pact being one of the chief medinms through which * this 1S i Progress. today were war in Great Britain joined I'rance and the United States in secking to bring about relaxaticn of the tension by endly advice.” Both China and Russia announced they fully conscious of their under the Kellogg pact nded to observe them but on would mean mili and war Both Disavow Invasions ina and Russia disvowed any in- tention of invading the other, but it recognized that border incidents constituted the chief dan- I to peace. neh consular authorities hai said that } Russi were oblig ind \tions s clearly ut rbin reports n,iroops crossing the Manchur order at the eastern 'nd of the Chinese castern railway. Previous dispatches that this was met with denial in Moscow ind there was no authentic informa- cither China or Russta had invaded cach other's territory. Russian dispatches told of a rush of workers to join the Red army defend the unfen against China. Nanking reports in London indie cated that the Chinese minister dm Finland.would &o to Mokcow. (o, dis= cuss the situation with the Soviet government, Americans Confident American officials at Washington eapccted the Kellogg pact to exert profound influence toward peaces tul settlement of the controversy. e Kuo Min news agency dise & wer public in New denied that the seizure of the Eastern Railway meant that ar action would be taken uinst other foreign interests in China han, told of made Britain Warns Nations London, July 20 (®—The DBritish 1 office unnounced today it had informed the United States and that Great Britain associated itself with the efforts these govern- ments are making to b about re- laxation in the sion There was no disposition thoritative circles in London to re- the situation from an unduly imistic viewpoint. It was pointed out in such quarters that there are still methods of communication be- tween the Russian and Chinese gove crnnients, althoush it is not entirely clear what connmunications if any are actually passing between them., in au- Report Border Shanghai, July 20 censular authorities stated had received an official report from the Freneh consul at Harbin, Manchuria, that Russian had crossed the Manchurian tt the vastern end of the cast nilwa vious thitt had ocenpied Mag rossed (A —French here today they roops Lorde Chinese Pre ns m reports the huii, Rua- at (Continued On Page Two) MLYNARSKI OPPOSES SWIMMING POOL PLAN Would Have City Pond With Larger Capacity Buy Councilman sponsor of & movement to have a swimming pool provided for the children of the northwestern section of the city, does not approve of the plan submitted to Mayor Paonessa yesterday by Dr. Henry R. Lasch, & wember of the park commission. The purk board members had sketches of a pool with a concrete 100x150, having sand beaches and a bath house. He suggested that it be placed on the Washington school grounds. and estimated the at 825,000, Councilman Joseph Mlynarski, co Miynarski has in mind a pond lying farther north. The property can be purchased for much less than the Lasch figure end will accommodate several thousand children in excess of the number that may enter a pool 100x150 feet, he feels ain. 13ight acres of land £0 with the pond, Councliman Miynarski sald today