New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1929, Page 1

- | | 1 News of the World By Associated Press W BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Sept. 14th 15,237 [:\STABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1929. —TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS PAONESSA § ol | " O PROHIBITION PRUBLEM: SAYS SENTI Mayor Revea!s Canvass Among Mayors, lectmen and Police Chiefs for Conditions in Connecticut Towns -Move Kept Secret. 62 Beginning to Letter— Authorities in Com- munities Reply to Score of Answers to Question- | naire Reflects Desire Modification for More than a score of replies reaching the office of Mayor Pao- nessa today isclosed that he has ircularized the mayors, selectmen nd police ch of 62 cities and lowns in Connecticut to gather re- ports on the success or failure of the in communi- rminc sentiment modification, n no advance an- of hi plan ind re- wested those to whom he sent-let lies before giving the replies reccived at his office to i ken as a criterion, the ! eves the survey will show cities and tow on- necticut to 1 in favor of modifica- t and will prove his contention tinct failure, he said today » citie d towns 1o which iestionnai were mailed were {aken acco r populations. wrly replics 1in cach in- tes angl tadny’s Hooal ot miil ins cated that the mayor's request will Mayor's Questionnaire The letter t from Mayor Pao- ial of have vou no doubt thought to the effects of the w""v\ on act, particul with refe the people of your community. “I am taking it upon myself to inquiry into Connceti nough to have been tried I"or the present, the survey is to he kept con- wnd I ask that you his o publicity “Will you be so kind as to fill in his questionnaire? (1) Do you bel the law has worked out 5 a0 sued 4 (M) Do you believe can be en- “(c) Do You think it has b fited the country or has had the op posite effect? “(d) Do you belicve it should he I on the statu books or modi- ‘I am hopeful you will find time to make an carly reply “Respeet fully “A. M. Paon ‘Mayor of the City of New Britain” FARMINGTON AVENUE IN NEW ZONING WAR 38 Plnpelt\ 0\\ncr‘ Want Removal of Business Barrier The dispute over zoning ula- tions on larmington ing from the move the congre- gation of the Sacred Heart church to restrict business from the district, 1s further complicated today when tition was presented in behalf of that thrown open for avenue, result- a pe 38 property residential arc busi ov asking rs of the petition own pro- between Miller and Allen and on side streets within { 500 feet, it is set out v propertics are now in resi- dence zones, but they desire to per- mit business uses. The request of the mnmuuon for a char W partly heard at the last mec ¢ the board of ad- justment and was then tabled with a suggestion that attorr s for the in- terested parties attempt a compro- mise. Doctor’s Plea Denied, Sent to Life in Jail Los Angeles, Sept. 18 (P—Dr. Frank P. Westlake, 57, retired phy- sician, today was under sentence to San Quentin penitentiary for life fol- lowing denial of his plea for a new trial on charges that he murdered Mrs. Laura Sutton, Artesia, Cal., di- vorcee, He was convicted last week, re life the jury onment mending impris- Dr. Westlake was charged with slaying the woman, his admitted sweetheart, for her property, and disposing of her dismembered body in the Los Angeles river. Defense attornc nnounced they would appeal the ¢ Se- | matter in strict con- | MENT 13 “WET” PROSECUTOR SAYS CRIME DELIBERATE District Atmméy Charges Pea- cox Planned Wile's Death DEFENDANT 50BS TODAY Fir Jo Silvey, t Witness, De- i seribes Finding Body—Youth Bre ks Down When Counsel Says He Is “Medically Insane.” White N. Y., Sey Joseph § first witr trial of Earl Peacox for t | b of his told on t1 | of finding the woman’s body h in a thicket He had stoy his automobils and walked t from the road abont 75 fe “I saw a body,” he suid, “T went Lome to decide what I shouid do L made a report to the poli Silvey told of findin bhody, portimg it, and going hack to the s with police and the medical ined Lioyd man. a photographer, | took the stand 1 told of takinz pictur e body in the place it medical examin- pictures offered in ev- H but not shown to the jury counse no ior County photogranner a print expert Joseph idill other he took and they a pictures showed the wher the body was found al the hody v © shown fo the Pictures of the erior of P cox apartment alss were marke evidence Hill was followed on th John N. Hecnoy, a civil Who made a surzey of the see vhere the body was found. The sur was accepted Millk Bottle in Court As all this perfunctory in ion of exhibits was goir as noticad that half hid 2 papers in the vrosecutor's tabl there lay the milk bottle in which P'eacox admits he carried kerosen to tie thicket, pouring it on his wife's body L setting it afirc Peacox broke down and eried in court today as his lawyer told of {he sordid marriage that led to the slay- of Peacox’s wift Sydney Symes, defense counsel had just said he would prove Peacox was “medically insane” at the time of the killing. Then he told of the last mecting of the couple last April and Peacox began () sob, his face clutched in his hands. He quickly regained his composure. however, ind was soon taking notes of his at- torney’s address, Insanity in wox showed Family I 10 emotion when Syme said it would be proven that insanity had rui ough cox family for members of the family, Syme said, had been sent to insiitutions, one of them being obsessed with the notion that he was the “Yellow Kid," comic v weter of a generation ago Peacox began fo ery asain Syme began {o tell of the lor friendship hetween wox and Dorothy Heinzelman before they were mnvyw\ vays,” Syme said .:‘ stuck to her through thick and thin and tried always to help her and keep her good.” This ended the opening statements and Joseph Silvers, the man who found the body, first witness. B stand a ten minute rece District Attorney I charged in his opening was called as the he took the ss was taken 1k H. Coyne ldress that Peacox killed his wife deliberately by strangling, after felling her by a blow from his pistol butt Peacox admits killing his wife, but asserts it was done with the pistol and was not premeditated therefore not punishable by the degree murder penalty of death. Cites Deliberation Coyne's assertion of leath by strangling, after the first blow, was (Continued on Page Two) 1 Wreckage of Tallman's Plane On Mot Lamentation - NIGHT MAIL PILOT KILLED IN BERLIN When day of the airple of the mach New York Men Kidnap Ship dawned on which crashed 1t which with a car TAKEHN Textiic From N Hour After S Dynamited. eSSNCT WAS Tepor to have been ta across the South C n. After being re ner went to Charlotic essner summo C. 8. Hedrick that a half hour had come to ti lusband, carryi peake Wite Reports Kid rst word of the ki local police ‘clock this morni Unlon Leader Spirited cth Carclina s Stan Ve the sloy o of mail ANGRY OB CL03S BIF AR essner i Night —SPa Him Badiy OVER STATE LINE Away Town Half Mrs. Tessner men knocl slow in answerin who was knocl wanted, the m front door of {he She said the men they wanted him. 1 night clothing and asked tin change. The men fold him, s said, “You probably won't mneed them.” and hustled him onut of t honse A speaker's stand erected by i union on a vacant lot on Picdmo enue 1 from which union lea crs addressed mill workers every Saturday night was dynamited a nlf hour bhefore sner whs blast awal st of in the cit was done by cxplo Orzanizing Local ner yesterday moved from the Cora mill, where he had been trying o « local of the o S - 1o the Bonnie mill. He was arrested two weeks ago on comnvplaint of of- ficials of the Cora mill when h posted circulars inside t mill County Recorder Horace Kennedy found him guilty of trespassing bu gave him a suspended tence. Choked By Assailants Charlotte, N. C.. Sept. 18 (&) Cleo Tessner, 24 year old org for the Natio xtile Workers' Union, was ta om his home in (Continued on Page Two) 50 000 Late Requests For World Series Tickets Put I Old Barrel | Philadelphia, Sept. 18 nd request now for \\ml'l series tickets | of 40 clerks helped for the Athletics-Cubs tussle is just | the place, tempo 50 much fodder for the old sugar barrel. Officials of the Philadelphia | club keep announcing loudly that all tickets are gone, but hopeful | fans keep on mailing requests for reservations, trusting that provi- dence or someone will take care of “Not a chance now,” said Secre- tary Schroeder as he directed m extra’ helper to drop another bz of orders into the old sugar I at the end of a 20-foot table. “We were oversubscribed more than twice our capacit fow hours af cr opening for business Monday." When the club offi t Shibe ‘l‘urh became flooded with orders (A)—Any | Monday morning opened in a nearb Several empty sugar found in the buildin were used thousands a chance sund letters of haven't got Fifty tho tomers won't sec a ball yard that 00 can't mo One would-be purch address- ed his letter to “Mr. Shibe Park.” and his salutation was, “Dear Mr Park.” Another showed similar un- familiarity with the iation by beginning his request: “Dear Mr Shive," in extra foree ciutter offices vacant bar as wastebaskets bulges accommodate fac rels and for fans prospective es, bocau a crowd of 50,000 ug » were tory. were the whe AS PLANE CRASHES AND Dead Airman’s Wife Thinks First - Of Whether Her Husband Suffered; . Bears Up Bravely Under Her Loss “Was He Badly Burned?” Mrs. Henry H. Tallman Asks 1 Herald Reporter—Not Advised How or Where He | Was Killed—Little Daughter, Aged 1, Helps to Comfort Mother. IS BURNED NEAR PEAK OF MOUNT LAMENTATION Heary H. Tallman, 32, Ridgewood, N. J., On Hartford-New York Route, Meets Tragic Fate While Defying Night Storm. Laughs at Warning Not to Risk Life—Believed Try- ing to Get Back to Brain- Field When ard Ship July and were York on heroha iy ) =edraned Smashes Into Stone Cov- . Tallman. Little is left o . H o T = S ter n.u'ml mm the sky to its way from ton to r 1l ered Upland Not Far d. The photo_show mass of twis metal Rehis Ry From Turnpike. and the-wi d engine, Dur s % Within a few hours after »Ien Dodge Jail in s B oo dusaait. iy }". ’iyr‘ % ;ld \UII Lnll:l”\‘-l 'fih:-f VaZewor s oY dy, Nad lau - Whoopee Lzl\'.l ld“i\ —— | Iy assured friends at Brainard T ort, Sey 1 p ine © I 2| field, Iartford, that he could G @E! HELBS ‘(}AVED Trumbuil Deseribes 2 1 with the night air ) ~ ; Perils of Fog Flying ody was being pre- ; q e e l). ied here for forwarding to ¢ | ), nect STen his home. Ile was instantly H ‘ run i e Lilled 1 night when his ship a R, T ore el crashed into the side of Mount California Blazes Under Control |2 b i i b e i f i urned. cath was caused oy : —Damage Exceeds §3,000,000 st ed skull. Today the i = S ! sent from the B. ‘ Last Chapter of Ney n e TIR = s funeral home to i ism Written in Conrt—Demors (}WEC‘ON SHLL HHD H” | 1ome in Ridgewood i e I ! v where a sorrowing widow and irol i . e T . i : AL ittle givl wait in silent grief ) 1o 1 Antos Abandoned to Flames on Tm- J u T (o e G T it gy o A AU R ; et St s (s 5 y peialie : + || pid pilot who was known as the 7 ~ | MHartford, S 1 3 \ Lost — t ! tallest man in the castern fly- iy , . bl Flames Destroy Mail I E! 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Not Waging e on D S e T R ot his 2 DARiore HEHRE AL OF to Miami, Fla w will join him in M AL accompanicd K the lo inister o M inglanirous | bl s ‘l(’,‘;“ S At Miami he will st Business in Washinzton » purpose of the ke ads o derso L Linitshe ' emperance eholition . ion at Occan Grove, | % f-day air 1o of intoxicants—not tobacceo, declared uth ) in Mrs. Blla A. Boole, = (Continued on Page Two) | . : | cave dent of the orzani - sided over an ¢ mec _ Toosevelt I day in prepara the national ) (Coloncl : convention which opens tomorrow. FHE WEATHER Lindifergh took off in “No of ition can succeed wit 8:55 (E. D. T.) today b more than one major yosc,”" she New 1 Vi ton. on their to : v B explained Tair tenight and Thu from where they will toa 20w n " s \,] kv Mrs. Boole said the only way in ceoler tonight, possibly day tour of Central and South from (here to Miami 5 which the W. ( U. would nttempt frost. | America Colonel Lindbergh lea to curh the use of tobacco will be by | The colonel flew r e e SR (Continued on Page Two) Jeducation of the young. — # | monoplane borrowed from M for the 10s tall, om the il put in the ship when I the Hartfor rport. A off he head dowa I « me of the crash at 1 iin cannot be i i & f nation : in aster came | (Continued on Page Two) !