New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Nov. 30th 15,454 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, M( Advt, LUFF AND WOMAN ARRESTED . IN HOTEL AT WASHINGTON; 10 BE BROUGHT BACK HERE Man Alleged to Have Embezzled Christmas Club Funds From Cor- bin Cabinet Lock Co.’ Workers is Cornered | in Natlonal Capital. Trails Luff and Woman To Washington Hotel Agrees to Return to Face| Court Trial Without Ex-| tradition Proceedings— Capture of Couple I)uc‘ to Clever Tracking by Detective McAv cant Patrick McA local detective 1y of bureau | TIVE P A, MeAVAY Philadelphia, Pa D C., Harry C. Daga C. Curlson, | Avrest of were taken out of | hezzler, Hotel Annapolis | d norning and will | ity cokskill Washington, 47, and M id Whose Sleuthing Harry nd Resulted i f woman in the st ed em- th room companion to- LEVATOR WORKER WPNANS WITNESS Saw Rothstein and Heard Him Say “I'm Shot” BITTERLY FLAYED Gruelling brou this for arraig court. Luff is charged zalemen of approxi- ed to employes of or morc inct Locl Hardwar 1 Corbin € At division o ric Corpori- | n tior e a rince New @ week azo ne red until Wed tmas club chec positor tain having been when names 0 e 5 in e ere ntially 15 On Teail hough Luff had fore the police it MeAvay which eve Al WIDOW wer had ntually led s informa ar hie He | in Doris week tion rost Larned t Juff's aparting on Main street and had be Lis Wi never | I'a Cross-Tix- ithin a ned to the hours inves voman h fo after Lion. d been i in the Hotel for at least n represented by Luft although ftranged | o who lives in N n, had Hmindl been in the hotel, and he also arned that Miss Carlson tic in the home of Iv, had left the city pany Whe amination by Defense Lawyer— cnies Lver rested— 4| Court Finally Rules Out Past Lite wite, his Ne the Conrts > (P —A urder York, tate \ | the Dec itness for in trial of « MeManus { November a domes the 1 t end fam- Luff's com- orge, L W stified today that on 4, 1928, he st floor hallway in saw a man in the the I'm word fo th that Luff's automobile, driven by the on Chestnut the Corbin garage who Lut could not overtake i day night, Sergeant Mc ormation whereabouts with the only a prospect quarry with the lice in other Washington Police Barly th ation was in cani police | presumably had been scen uployes of ave 1 hote hot 1 who said * and held lis stomach as o rk Centra owner street by « n pain the te sa Rothstein n room 1y m ’ man s, was Nis pain- Me- him over street, 1 Thur had in- robable on it him- with, his po- 1kin, shot to the and taken to a died days Arnold ful way fro lleg imbling ere he liospital later. where as 1o Manus mnd 1 hat ept worli i he fou liours behind aking of the was found self fe whe he eve 1ce Llectrici testimony 1y, who in and in b Tells Story was given Park Central running 1 that 11 o'clock ground floor service his car for a call though he at the time, he wounded man ) The t Vin- citic by Make Arr important K an 1or cen | ric eley night waiting Hway Kelly know the dearned Rothstein He had Mrs. Marian | haired who hs a morn t in- Sunday i pos- t to De- around the side id t man ssion and s . who with | the could word | the tive inunicated Washinzton ct hotel wl found ater k that w couple was bac followed to A Putn he stand had bec it made and Mirs Carlson to I¢ Washi cord- police there ant having brought the ville, day she Rothstein floor 4 and abdomen wable as Broadway's widow d tes ssemblin, down a {h t November look on clasped 1o his were pre- % on Me- law ing ‘o the Avay's chasc (Continued on Fage Two) his face his hands . to iden- the man sambling | TINKHAN PRESENTS “INTLOBBY’ BILL by James counsel however, wias 'y e s m wis subjecied to a today fense Cross D unination Murray. de tempting credibility wio doubt Bay State Congressman |vitness 5 ; 2 & | ppeals to Court Would Make All of Them | Near the end of his probing ¥ 1 life, . Putnam lost her com- Register 0w on her as a into re for a moment, her voice (Continued on Ps Two) Washington, Dee, 2. (P)— r:»-,v..\u,\.' to | alt Marsh Will Be Ditched Against Insects New Haven, Dec P — Ol ne and Old 0ol ether have the largest are more than icres in Connecticut, are ing with the Connecticut tural experimental have it ditched as a mosquito elimination 1t the mouth of the cut rive Old Lyme this fall ed $5,000 in addition spent last winter for which marsh R, arrang- gricul- station me The arca Connec is appropriat- to $5,000 spropriated for this winter's w cost is approximately Old Lyme has conwplet acres and old Saybr has ditched 186 acres. amount The in sS4 STEAMER AGROUND IN LAKE ONTARIO Sarniadoc Fast on Hain Duck ! Island Today |18 ABOARD ARE IN DANGER Canadian Freighter Swept By Heavy Seas—Cleveland Boat Stands —Owners Worricd Over Safety of Craft, N. Y. Dec. 2 (P-—The Sarniadoe, Canadian r ound today Oswego, imer wits Island. 26 Ontario, ner. is try, on Duck iles Lak from heavy zhter, grain 18 t here, with The tons of Joad- an m pi e d with carryin nt erew of in sout shore orthwes a ter Stands By Valley Camp of reported standiniz were on th the hieavy prevented ighter. reach r ighter was suardsmen but Coast this and seene u rough to the were made wrecking o ni surf er v steamc Sarniadoc is owned by Jam Clayfair 1Y, of ont.., opera i & Compr of a fleet by the irniadoe terday’s Dlizzard, - minimun; one & numerous jagged reef surroundirg the Duck Islands and ick about 800 feet offshore f hthouse on Main 1) 1slan island is o1 formations str Lake Ontario between ind the castern tip of Prince county in Ontari Radio Station Nearby Canadian government ks completed work on dio compass station located on t land wad a radio station also is lo- cated there. Owners of the one a nt aground in when visibili She was fast ¥ L on of t st m ali string of AcTo Point ward "he E Ky hing ony E tvo ago 1 Valley Camp wer d in messages from Clevelan worried about their ship. Sha yucking high seas as she stoc Sarniadoc and was handi- pped by dead we tons of coal in her hold. AIR AL PILOT LONG OYERDUE AT CLEVELAND Lo be by Thomas P. Nelson Due fly This didn't | Moznin 1w Planes Starg For Craft Today (hE) Pilot Plaintield, from Bele- was hours Dec, Nelson, of the air mail to Cleveland, Offici; veland, s P, flying Pa., today P fonte, overduc tional Air Transport might have failed to a snow storm over the ride through Pennsylvania | mountains. Nelson, 11:15 p. m uled to arrive lost reported over at 12:45 a. m. . Underhill, pilot. arriy fonte carly today, SHT battle with |around Clarion, T'a. 1t that Nelson might have | ais in this area IFour planes were sent out by A. T. at 8 a. m, to search 1son. Bellefonte at was sched- 1. m, He Brookville, who left yesterday, here at cast wmw :n safely ¢ but mwl*-l a snow storm was feared met with mail st the for N a, tion of all lobbyists was asked in a Bill today by Rrepresentative Tink- ham, republican, Massachusetts, who shortly is expected to appear before the s lobby committe o give reasons why he commit- tee to investis of the hoard of temperance Metho- dist Epis “hurch 4 Feder- al Council of ClI Washington, Dec. Caraway said today an opportunity would be given Representative Tink- ham, republican, Mrasachusetts, to ppear before the senate lobby com- niittee to testify in regard to his v quest that the committee investigate 1o hoard of temperance of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Federal Council of Churches. Caraway expeets to call Tinkham in the near future. The Massa member in a letter to ( od that the committee indefensible political {wo organiztions Tinkham in the communication as serted the organiz had at- | mipted to influence legislation and | actions of government depart- ments which he said “would inevit- ably lead to the destruction of reli fon with its beneficent inhibitions upon human conduct and therefore must result in lawlessness and crime in social chaos and ultimately in revolution.™ te ires the wetivities of th 1d the A the football which was awarded Lo of the hool | victorious N football t captain v High s ago will be presented to t 1929 tomorrow 2 (A—Chairman | Pritain z | victorious captain of 5¢ the cabinet at henceforth. The ball Senior High school of Tred of the| is the property C. Teich, who was manager winning team in 1903, Mr. Teich | now is president of the Lions’ club, | which will be host to the footbal " |squad of 2 tomorrow at the |rcgular moon luncheon. Coacl “unmask | 1 5 3 Activitions | Goree Cassidy and Principal Bk wilil he Joseph | Pout captain h school team, also witl sps Joseph son of Dr. Joseph Potts who was ot o/ the founders of the Lions club. The prize football will be accepted as one of the school’s most valuabl trophies from a historical stand- point. Rivalry between New Britain and Hartford was cven keener in thos¢’ days than it is now, and the game was a great real rougher. men M Kers. the sped of is a | noon and will 1epose in the trophy | H S Fomball Team to Be leen | Championship Pigskin of 1903 Mr. Teich was manager and John Curtin was captain. Both men presented with footballs, keeping with the regular Mr. Teich will make the presenta tion to Mr. Slade who is expectd | to it on behalf of the team | and the school. he hand of death has struc vily at the 1903 team during the passin rs and at least five of its | members have died. Those who have died in the past vears are Valentine B. Chambe fullback; Judge Henry center; Frank Olcott, qua terback: Aungust Kallberg, end, and Llliott Parker, substitute, I who still survive Ired C. and left halfback: John Curtin, captain and tackle; Jamos Flemming, right halfback; 1orank Fowler, now in Virginia, guard: | George Noren, now in New York, tackle; Henry Donnelly, end; Wal- | liam Brady, now in Florida guard; | James I, Curtin, substitute. The | New Britain veterans will be jnvited | to the me cting. [ E wer accept hea 26 ltin, Roche, 1 ers eich, By | Main | in| 1) in custom. | (‘onn:-c Dept., Hartford, Cona. tmvt State Lins, 1929. —EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS Special Train Will Bring uuests - From New York to Traffic Dinner; Three R. R. Presidents to Attend | Eleven Vice Presidents Included in List Accepting Invi- tations to New Britain Association Banquet— Leaders to Discuss Vital Transportation Problems, pany N. Y 1} announc N com- 1l itain R &ML T ed direct to New has that a speci rain coming will New York December high railro planning | banquet leave Grand Central tion, W at $:00 p. m to transport a4 officials who tend the sixth annual New Britain Traffic I at Burritt evenis this year a New I speake New Ei Kimball Hardw tmaster. John J. Pelley New Haven, and d company will spe and it announcr projects Thursday, the, many of the on 1o he hotel in the The affair degree threc of soci 1a will be, to a land night the land railroad: resident of the Corporation. u n | ofticial Geor Americar will be tor President chic Hart- Kk on is expecied some of the of the com- N ford he at he contemplated pany | Vied the N. W R Hawkes of iilroad will President Boston & Main LAWYER'S MACHINE SNAPS MAN'S NECK New Plainville Highway IS NOT BRUISED 0R CUT Atorney James Carroll of Water- bury Held Under $1.000—Says Headlights Blinded Him—Victim Survived By Seven Children. Plai stalked along the nville, Dee new state highway on last early this morning for the street first time since its opening I Meadow roa four months ago when DiBenedetto of Shutle utomobile James W. Carroll Waterbury fatality was struck by an oper- ated hy Attorney of 24 Hewlett street, nd killed. the is loc instantly oc- home of IFrank ated 1hetz near which just Hart's cort Wate tto to the office of Dr. The rbury lawyer rushed Di- Benede = beyond med Geor Cook but the physician found I rles W Moody, medical examiner, was call- ed and pronounced death due to a broken neck. It was stated that there was not a bruise or cut on the hody of the dead man and that he did not shed drop of blood. Blinded Him were no witnesses to the accident. According to the story told to Prosccutor Charles I, Conlon and Constable Clesson Saunders by At- torney Carroll, DiBenedetto was walking along the right the hizhway about 12:30 o'clock. The lawyer claimed that he was proceed- in a southerly direction when a car approached from the opposit direetion and blinded him with the from its headlights, When he DiBenedetto walking on the voad he pulled to the left in an at- tempt to avoid hitting him but the ender of the car struck the man, Killing him instantly. Constable wnders reported that the hody of | the man found on the r hand side road. al aid. Dr. ¢ to ays Light here ng side of alare of tI (Continued on Page Two) . VETS URGE SPEEDING OF NEWINGTON HOME :D, A. V. Says Quick Con- ‘ struction Would Relieve Unemployment Dec. to the 2.—At Herald Dristol, a meeting | the Disabled American War Veterans | held here te was at the state armory yes- rds noon a set of resolutions drawn up requesting the tes Veterans' burean to go | through with the ercction of a sol | diers' home in Newingten the at once and to continue funds utilized in | the management of the Soldiers' | home in Noroton and also suggesting that.a new constructed | at the latter place to care for the | ever-inereasing number of patients. The resolutions were adopted drawn up following the declaration by the veterans that the crection of {the two new buildings would help | the unemployment situation gicatly and would be dircetly m line with the wishes made President Her- bert Hoover recently The D. A. V. plans to send copies of the rcsolutions to Governor Trumbull, Colonel We and the yeteran commission, also to Gen- building b by (Continued on Page Two), above | of | United | | speak of (¢ | ments on e | road.” tion."” Governor While t reservations iy banquet lack of resc ain people i bers of the Tr th quet appreciat this b quet tickets Prominent have signif tending i i & H. 1 J. A NS v B ar Pelley R Dro; . tler (Continued on Pag Bo: Trambull Will or this ha held tions n Co. ew England Todd will iion sp polica Ne rintendent nd ns tion olida Attend CONGRESS OFENS, " AWAITS MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT Ghairman Hawley Presents Tax Reduction Measure Immedi- ately in House ROYAL VISIT NEXT THURSDAY T0 POPE King and Queen to Make Trip While 500,000 Watch SENATE SESSION LASTS ONLY 9 MINUTES TODAY N Formalitics Take Today i Both Bodics, With Many Guests in tor t MYSTERY SHROUDS DEATH N BERLIN Fallen From Railroad Trestle WALKS 10 GAb STATION Kensington Man Stag, Despite Anay at Story—Leaves Lerlin, De unded track ov railroad t y to a e though { tained filli it 18 the ir approxim. it was gathe Kanupka, and 1 tended incoherc him just befo tallen posite (o the from the D dirt ro fractured skull, and possibly vere cuts of Roso Martin filling My ‘ne zave a rather one_angle of He was en, about sameone fum the door op gered m Story e and the ario. * e came cold or ed around aropped into by and home. “hout nj ceral euts ture at the Although of th o complet was i The ! is it Dr. ( 8 o'clo [ pened. to have a “stumblin rhe di gas station slightly more cording to have been po the ance wtured s had given more ed together | statements made I to is believe avoid an line coac was he might auto on the there sa ha I fallir | fact that cd by It is tho amily that b walk towards | dently to when the and his Fractured acks an was taken fractured Marion, back of into the the Skee h story Several where Dr. fallen weight by the thought is no cvidence Then his statements seem the fall of ards Willow fall occurred. Mystery , of ng nis know f1 o not hjuries tely d by Con ho inve . Matth M nt ve dic trest nnelly »ad und face, attend station t nis stat 7 o'clock blir ned and Is lecding 1 his hit irst 4 warm room hait it iriswold ck and f the yase v of I lie of times mentione 18 thiou from he than Grisw ssible for kull, and from 1 from h hefo e may pproachi h. for ve been 3eech al to 1 injuries ht by he had w I five conld which members of been ont 1 a statio 00-fo hon how n om hou ble 1s L A 1t le alw Meath from eseription of ion 1 herent rom 1 0w He was ¢ ound tl red man was suffering from sev- and onscio: not ] he d h the tresf was old it him o cover ground cven though he the he t is re have ine ing his i ho « Descendants. ' + Francesco Di Benedetto Killed on Samuel Skeene Believed to Have s — o o YIS EERGISES. PLANNED Named Inform President Se-- <ion is Opencd—Tarift Expected (o Pive Acts (o Pageant Announced— Be Undertaken Soon. Pontiit Will Not IReturn Visit in Person—Pilgrims Already Arrive Long Expected “Hou: 1o place Skull — Passes Home—Tells Incolierent nd pourin h n v lich rs 1 « d om ments made he 105t suf- of wi e joui- i Al- ob. « restlc ohe train struck Swamp roud 1o susf sout t sear were he by tr ot unipis Ac- would org I Griswold Berlin ring for enormous. It Virst Covers Procession tled the ourney by the procession fron; 1 drick company was taken to his home, at the Sritain, 3rook park Native of Scotland M migrating to age. He first moving (Continu to New America ttled Brita ted on I'a at in in at Tw L WEATHER New Cloudy wi orning Tuesday. | # tain v an( slightly vic Tue: ———————% | she has been estran airy o) ity : n or snow to- night and probably colder ~day on e Skeene was born in Scotla an r i had idea that tory picc- leath. umped or " Wealthy Sioux Chief’'s Body Gone; Estate Claimed By Estranged Wife (P—Char g tin with ho eld Il nor sted from months of ors 00 ¢ conve and fol- floor. Ther 1y as some ers who vy procession ntly Among in ret 1 rd of mounte ion iles long dow oks i v m'/s '“w o hen ) i v M‘\u\ W 2T . lery, sident ¢ to call th roll nt Committee Wat notify the call met by ral ore The itary arch, 1o See Hoover 1 resolut house that the sc nd to mi on offer on to nate was horize appoint- Pros- in ¥ history of . B Sointa ‘ption in Courtyard 3 party will nother 1 Hospice 1o a royal procec rd obinson, leader commitic « wn ception it the 15 vin <poli, mas- chief execut will i assist Ohio, 5 of republican v resol ng hour at Arka tion to set the noos ot 15, then pro recent death Wyoming as a ma the r between will throne s private. Only the 1 the Pontiff will s will be closed. been arran papal throne. The Pope to the sovercigns va cs. Following the ting, King' entoura will presented to the Pontiff. 1o third act, entitled “Another will s » in the of Cardinal Gaspari The soh sover sorrow at il Warre adjournment Wa the ended for the senate House Members Gather Tn the Housc i) end of the capitol, imme the meeting the housc 1t about ting har i umed Loy 1tgome chaplain red p of Sei moved resy wor of mn to ar ula re doc airs 1 of Two cl e chamber, as t religious ralics. Iy 1 mee members afte T pict tary of state sov- I'wo) (Continued on Two) Hawk Dec. L Sioux chiet nearly $2 1 oil la 1 what e for many years lands of the Indian in OKla- been held in trust tor at the g property was inherited from € was concern s ing Hawk's parents to whom it iis hody alloted hy the government. > Indian's hody med by n known as W « himsel Kin notin:i Bear have (00, The dead 3 ay there had happencd d Indian, a ward of on at {he Cook octoboer, His 18-y r-oid er, Tnez, named in his will to half his fortune, an i mate the ilousc Good Shepherd, where s 1s a de- liquent. llis white Iithel Gumbo, is also somewlhic in Chica queathed half the s, to on 1l was cl ilver Be as next Hawk ilver County ) ) since of g orney, saying lative, Hawk ey dau s W s Jood 1 Che United volice ofticer at the veservation. His wife, with him there, but wa hy the Indians and 10 Chicago. ire rved with and also Rosebud, S, Sthel, of th 1 known living s the n. liv aciz wife 1id to be re L 1 estate, althou 4 from Chas- | ey FURT finally returned | SKIDDING AUTO KILLS BOY, INJURES SISTER; CRUSHES VICTIM UP AGAINST FENCE Machine Leaps Over Curbstone at Broad and Beaver Streets, Bringing Instant Death to Bertrand La Prise, Seven Years Old Paul Kukish of 86 Sexton Street Held by Police for Investigation — Declares His Car Went Out of Control on Snow Covered Road. ise, 7 ye old son Adelard LaPrise of nstantly killed old sister injured short- ar Mrs, t, was t year Jac- o'clock this afternoon ruck by a coupe by Paul Kukish of ¢ on Beaver strect a south of Broad street. kish was a 1 by Sergeant T v and Officer T Dolan on 3 slaughter pending ition into the fatality. y to School fren were on their way to hool and Kukish was on Beaver street. A front of him, he claims, to make a turn 10 tho traffic sign to When he ap- approaching under con- car interferred n extent his ma wanageable and ter and onto the m wt distance rresto yut 1 vin str s hefore Boy Crushed Against Yence children were walking along the southwest corner of ction, unmindful of the mpending crash, and nobody could urn them. Kukish, in a desperace effort to avoid the accident, struci |a street sign, yet his car continued and pinned Bertrand against {he fence with such force that was snuffed out in n instaut. sustained bruises on the body and a third 10 witnessed the accident, 1 the sidewalk. causing by- to believe she, too, had been ister i and about the 1kish d out he could istanc:: away and hoy fell out His head was jured about caused pass- even thoug was to give as- cant Feeney, vot investigations of thiz was the worst sight ot had ever witnessed. Beyond Medical Aid Tok k., who lives was called and Rev. Thom- Lawlor, principal of St. Mary's school summoned but Bernard was beyond help. Dr. To Lkarczyk attended his sister. Captain was notified by Dr. Toka ViE K as soon and with t pushed his of the little -like grip. and was i sight aw others body the vise shed car he The turn by to first impu 1y he Child John by was 'so Kelly > Two) 60 CHILDREN TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL FIRE _ Deadly \ Rd\ Gas Nearly Overcomes Interne in Newark N¢ P d Mo resc fire in th tution spre the buildin Dr. Geo: liscovered the X-ray night. He v hand fire extir ily. but when he was a [ he notified ment and quictly throughout Attaches bega childr mon evacu hospital. Fire vieinit N. J. Dec inmates of the for Crippled Children d early today when a 1 room of the inst deadly fumes throus war 2 (UP) Hospital Qsaw an 1es con rne th fro:a room shortly t th es with monentar nost over fon d an alar ution. hospit sp the orderly 1 quict er of th e from fou ospital quietly panic among the When they arrived the staff of and internes had transferred all of the patients. There was no excitement during the order- Iy rescue work. Firemen were driven from the buildtug til they donned gas masks. The blaze was extinguished quickly and hospital ches declar- cd damage to the building was slight, although valuable records ruined and costly apparatus in the X-ray room was destroyed. Firemen said they believed the | fire was caused by defective wiringe childr 10 nurses were