New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1930, Page 1

ews of the World Average Daily Circulation For By Associated Press Week hndmg 15 995 Feb. 22nd ESTABLISHED 1870 GIRL'S SLAYER CONSIDERED SUICIDE AFTER HIS FLIGHT BUT DECIDED TO SURRENDER Schmale Rejected Urge BEQUEATHS MONEY to End Life While Hid- | T[] WELFARE W[]RKI ing in Woods in West Willol s, By 8. Waler i ill of Mrs. Henry S. Walte End—Police Think He Filed m tha e Gour Intended No Harm to Wife. MISSION FUND CREATED NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 —TWENTY-TWO PAGES TH[][]VER APPEALY PRICE THREE CENTS R CITY PAYROLLS STILL TIED UP WHILE an 8 ecovowy EFFORT IS MADE BY MAYOR'S COUNSEL e e v v o T() SOLVE COMPTROLLERSHIP DISPUTE Confessed Slayer in New York Support Admi Elfort to Cut Down Expenses SEN. GLASS LEADER IN ATTACK ON STATEMENT President Savs Mach of Work Asked ‘Gardiner Insists on His Appeal Lawyer Appears Before from Six Months Term He Served = Superior Court to Ask in Jail; Casein Supreme Court Appointment of Clark and End Muddle Af- fecting Salaries Due From City. Special Meeting of Com- mon Council, Suggested Motion to and Legal to Originates With Sections and Will Demurrer to Quoting Law Reply Files Dismiss Proceedings, Authorities, in Assistant State's Attorney Gaffney. Be Undertaken later — Watson Sprinzs (0 Fxecutive’s Defense in Woman He Married Em- braces Him in Cell and | ‘Assures Him of Her Sup- | port—Will Choose Trial ‘[“mr::““[“: ity, ¢ by Jury — McDonough | "',"‘]“"" el Says Client Is Wreck. q Debate On Senate Ploor—oOthers Kennedy School of Missions Gets < 3 Join Argument, £5,000—Children’s Home $1,000— Son-in-Law Rewarded For Yo < Correspondenc | hildren Home Hartford Seminary Hariford and seversl organizations will of Mrs. Martha admitted sociation | : i o os set es- | ° A by Camp, Futile, Execu- tive Declares—Cites Or- A | Walter which bate court Mrs hand, Britain executors H. W dinance to Strengthen Stand He Has Taken. hday Walter appointed Henry 8. Walter and the National bank trustes The witnesses 1o the Hatsing. A nley A. Kary Al of N will Michal- Schmalz, 41-year-old a Miss Mary s Mary Walicki 1 Sun A sell: [exas above as, who tyled “Napoleon of murder” Jim Mhu confessed slayer ten men, heavily ckled and cavefully guarded, he arrived in New York to face a charge of having poisoned to death a nicht watchman. [t was revealed that he even had plotted the deaths of Detectives George Fitzpatrick, left, and Arthur Hore Waterloo, pictured | ¢ met his Paonessa went to Hartford tory forcman who confessed to 00N 1o set in motion legal by which he hopes 10 W established in act comptroller by expe Mr. Hoo nd the police t he shot ar in 38 drawn on January o known ! 1 ¥ Mason, , Sunday Mary of o] Ann| “mye Kenn dy hich connect School o s Demanding Work ler. forenoon on is and fled withont knowing that all of the three revolver bullets 100k effect and killed her, looked on cide as “too cowardly” and when was arrested by ant M. J. Iynn and Officer Strolls in | ont of his mother's home at 39| Armistice street, he had resolved to the police to come after him, was learncd today That he had harm his estrang alled at her ford Seminary IFoundat tablish a Howard AT fund for the education from India who expect t evangelistic work. Many benefit and in many cas me wl RTes kst cngage velat s they ain in Serg W. Hotify Walter 1! her wearing silver and je Alida Stanley tions to leaves G0n and apparel, furnitur welry 1o Johnson, distribute S her daught ed wife home, ) plan to when he i West Main P et, shortly after the shooting, is|'" @ letter addressed to her doubted by the police who talked to | 51,000 for him about all angles of the murder,| The Chilc tthough the revolver still had threc New Brifain is bullets in it. He wanted to tell his| building fund he said, that he had broken| Her husband from his paramour cven |left $1.000 to he though he had to commit a crime to |10 a letter addre do so. As it happencd, his son wa {ennedy home and his wife was out of {he 000 city, but admittance was refused him > How the boy was afraid of C ntemplat s Suict e sing to the wooded area in the of Jerome und Armistice Schmalz stayed for almost contemplating his predica- | He did not know Miss | Velicka was dead and as he had not Children's Home Home left o 000 for the wife, He Walther expended accordiig od to School which will Arnold Wal it the fo ‘assisting eaucation students ;\,!10\»* purpose is to r¢ |to engage in $1.000 Rews The sum of liam Brower | husband of her ny is away him of M in the India turn to India evangelistic rd for 21,000 is e Johnson Norfo: daughter, Alida his writing to m ded Cros of vicinit streetfs, hour ment from Letters ft to W an of (Continu Two) ition of trequently during the p years, Mrs her left 1 Walter Arnold W is housckeep Marguerite on, Howard 21,000, if she she is not the ed on Pagr B. | or SEES OWN GAR STOLEN THEN GOES 70 SLEEP w Owner Unaware of Theft of Auto Until This Morning e & (Continued on Pa par tric OF SPURIOUS $10 BILLS of 50 Concord strect | : window at his home last | Police night and saw an automobile part- Iy stuck in the mud being finally propelled to firm ground and two yYoung women, who were waiting nearby, step in and being driven away. Then he went to bed Going to his garage this morni he was surprised to find that the lock had been pried off the door and his car taken out. In its stead was a car ot a different style and make and he immediately reasoned that the €ar | the bills are poor imitations and can he saw being driven away was his|pe readily detected if careful watch | own lis kept of all paper money offered. | The police were notified and De- Gealo Davisina, proprictor of a| tective Sergeant O'Mara {ook 1{he|siore at Beaver and Broad streets, | registration number of the car which | reported to Captain Kelly today that was left in the garage and found itfy young man offered a $10 bill in | fo be registered in the name of | payment for cigarettes last night, James P. Monahan of High street.|and he gave him the change without | Thomaston. He was notified and | oticing that the bill was counte came here {o claim his car, telling | foit. The detective bureau is inve: the police that the lock had been|gating BY MYSTERY DISEASE The police lhnm'x wishing to drive to Mona n's car and fearing detection A search for his car was being made | FOrmMer New Britain Girl by the polic > about the state today. Bitten by Bug in Palestine TOYING WITH PISTOL, | INJURES HIS BROTHER, e Thomaston before Baba missed his | Police Inquiring Into Broad Street wol to to Peter Baba jooked out Hear Counterfeit Money Is Being Circu- lated Here im Counterfeit 310 bil in circu-| s lation in New Britain, the police nounced today, and storekcepe. others handling money during rush periods are on the alert. It is said | n- and is that someone | w Britain stole car. Had Baba investigated last night . m set wh tior mu 1o (Special ta the H Baltimore, Md., I'ch fering from a strange dis ing her skin believed to caused when an insect while she was visiting Palestine, (¢ Grosse, 10 year old, is A Sinai hospital possibly dying. Several policemen heard six shots Physicians at that institution and fired in the northwestern section of | ¢pecialists from Johns Hopkins ho: the city shortly after 12:30 o’clock { pital and Hopkins medical school this morning and Officer William | pave tried in vain to diagnose Cronin saw a man running through |Clara's case. Numerous remedies back yards on Oak street at about | been applied, all in vain, it is| the same time but he could no catch him, losing track of him after a sprint from Lasalle street. Clara and her family Officers W. J. McCarthy and |ing to the United States Charles Weare met a group of young [in the holy land. The men coming from a wedding in a hall on Grove street and also learn- ed that a young man who had been there had a pistol and slightly in- jured his brother while toying with it, about 9:30 o'clock last night. The matter was being investigated today. ase affect- have been | bit her | Affair, Also Firing of Gun on cot Oak Street, | at t Va | 1ic its plo. cla have aid he ailmen’ first Lo appeared | were return- | e osse family formerly lived in New Britain, Conn. A. Grosse, the father, decided to| settle in Boston upon their return from Palestine. The child's illness had developed | i more acute symptoms after the| wa plo tak cor wa he jur family's arrival at Boston and her mother brought her here. MERCHANTS WARNED B neig caranc the B Inj has siemer city day. that he reviewed. rney S. Varrichions ctory in 1923, him taken ho brought from Detroit. from him Yoi iletto werc AD BERLIN VOTES Townspeople Cast Ballofs on Gommittee Told o Questioned Junior H 1011 Schnr,l Building EARLY VOT , or Is One Per Minuge for First our—300 Votes Cast by Noon— Iractors Haul Autos from Muddy Roads—Town Mceting Tonizht inuts wing od )etol ticu oring ed the pol their vk ing hon Those living Hills fo to mal at t it muddy was chborhood of possible for the W 1, nted to or the pre m from 1 either a on. As it trac ral vote A4 ont 00 Vote noon the carly this mort used 1o puil the mud almost | cars stuck in an was a of the townspeop During Morning had reached the v vote & (Continued on I Two) OFFERS TO TURN BACK CITY’S COMPENSATION jured Laborer Says He Has Not Been Given Light Work lix Varric nt laborer tlement ) and a en hione who 1 medical promise of it wassavailable 1 for an injury a nicipal return ived a cash bills of light work | in compensa wy his offered him and Commis open his ggravated | cmployment, 1 the money paid Compensation Noonan 1o r¢ asked Leo J o offer officials defense {a this motion were summoned to the nmissioner’s office in Hartford to- | 17 The specific complaint made by rrichione is that the board of pub- works has neglected to carry agreement with reference yment and it is on this ground asks 1o 1 the contract de- | void and entire He is represented by Pollk Waskowitz entered the city's em fall, and in October w en from street work to his home, mplaining of a st I s found, upon that had suffered a serious back in- v while employed in a Hartford nd medical author- that the latter nce of the out [198 to em ve red the question AtL- | Y€ v last as ned back investigation, |1 s agreed S @ re-curr first, age ggra — | (Continued on I'age Two) i after he H!L]Hf‘ train, TRAGTORS NEEDED STATE POWER (0, IS HEAVY RUSSELL DEFUDS AGTS Senate | Tittle 1852 sta Actors pany nywhere skimmed thy | ed | columns | who live Oak ad injury | nouncement at notabl I'wo loaded pistol T roposals to had boarded rom ‘\ yropositions origina all over the ¢ said many of tually should be but added th, al exp ilthough o countu the pro- and un Wsion of nditure there s meet VALLATIO 1D~ by "y Items in Power Reports lic Hous d 1o ¢ to s ot Other lich M ! ional 1 hold expendi ined by Senators Join ed con Hoc ders | Commitiee, Given Figures On res 1dg In o within Norihern Conneetlent Power Co. nd Doubts $1.050.000 Properly Tn- d of cluded As Value of Idaho, publican limit 0- of one to start s that have been recom- v the administration en Watson expre attack ssed th today was aime dministration edly e torted that he (Continued on 18) ACTION ON AIRPORT IS NOT ON MARCH DOCKET Swanson Fails to File Map as Or- dered by Board of Adjustment in Preliminary Hearving AW ¢ cha ion Swanson on. that would per- oper of a commer avenue, did r on Osgzood 1ap of his pr 1 council o rty w as reques i adjustment stion will not e hoard's board of titioner tion in g awaiting maps to show the nd the s othet bhoard ceting plots mate whick ial fwo reque busi o allow now poses. One nd West stre block ho I'wo) tha, Capitol company tory er compan inded and Burrit Girl Who Played First “Little Eva, 82 Years Old Now, Recalls Show M Lva, wh ) n on h Belmont (iP) — 2, wh as Cor wonder of the a role of of lia Howard * she playeld Little Fva in the pr the trips 10| “the W Lt ack lived 10 $ vanish Americzn those mir “Unele Among She re dramatic Tom's Cabin” the Lowly was only Fia L faculties which the long 1 looks and feels your she It “Li Last wee York ion announ th four then she vears old Equ Today sl possesses that for time in 78 trical com tho th keen title of cious child not a is playing in the United nation's most the than preco- Tom's Cabi for Civil war, She . s Most new probably | is 1 then allov der to other v charming little la vellow house cn | spape ger than sb has that charm of that reminds old la 1t was in {he old muse Y., that Little Liva f Cordelia Howard to Heaven ed to bring tr ul a their o lavender ani b to wir you of big m at T in the oy this Boston and nue in read subuch v re Luity’s an- her s made jour whizh Played to .l memory night of & Show her back plember remicr carried Her (Continued on Page Two) won her | looks, | first BLOOD OF MOTHER ILURTHER DELAYIN GIVEN TO INFANT ~ NAVY TALK L[][]MS Child T With Sinr Heroic Eiforts Made {o Save|Vote in French Chamber to De- Erysipelas vide Future of Conference Mrs, Frank Rogers, wife of Labor Ajernate Delegate Arvives Prom | Shelc rece Burcau Director, Prevent Death o Her 10 Children A mother of 10 ¢ |Bave a pin her | | tusion oy effort 1 1 with erysipelas hospital or at the rccording r hospi operatio Today, Dr. fort nith ¢ to gain for dmission 1o an i 1l N solation hosy in SENATORS SAY SPIES ARE TRAIL Watson ()r(lcrs tion of Surveillance in (‘apitol Building o senators iled 1 Pre R d spe has men S Barr senate, 10 nd ordered b Leader Watson The compla police th lot an cha the living up door o 1 a must co entranc policeman The any close enter u rmed stationed | tives in follow str ersion of | ter | rom time | charged that their o sacked, or that ject cent to espionage, b years has it (Continied on THL New Cloudy, rain tonight and warmer tonight, nesday night. Britain his tity that they ar senate’s own dete to time been found WEA’ and probably v TRANSFUSION DECIDED ON LEADERS ARE OPTIMISTIC Takes Action t0 Paris and Visits Ma nald—1{n- Y oung of certainty of Chautemps Regime Cast Cloud of Doubt Over Group, | 7 (P —A spokesman ! lood in a n on 1o the rforme 1l erer French cabinet does confidence tonight probably would have continu until such time (con | as Franc 1 to ohtain | ral delegat and is Genc to send on to London. | artford isolation! pan. S er delegatc b echn v the Irench London room > Wes de to de | Par tand talization ent Sn on was tostre in from Minister He vier ench del tomorrow ontinued | work where i infant ion L courtesy MacDonald sed hope temps that | s would ar- 1o take up the ek exp 1y was left all of 0ff last we pati downf the Tardien min- | ng a bed at Ha Conversation ( It was understood zencral and di stions o \ At saching London {rom I’ doubtful whether Chautemps “.mu gain of t0- ht eral con ition ich on the same tim s made it | a vote of confidence confer me Minisfer cir Machor ch d assum- Investiga- | 1 on Page Two) WON'T DIVIDE BERLIN - TOAID CORN GROWERS - ‘Appeal, l‘l\’- ays—Meeting in G:lastonbury (Continu ed complain Farmers May rious spies, ¢ day. plain-clothe David rms galler o s and has | IFloor | Haven town of Berlin publican i some pped way 1o New whil ntines remair portions of ain blighted today s0 that co tion | , made in| rohibition made night be own bec the corn grows in one end & corn borer was found in another se tion . Dr. W. E. Brit ton o Connecticut Agricultural ixperiment station here said that he as doubtful if the quarantine would be lifted in Berlin or any part of that | | tow Dr was division the nd me at some distanc throt the e where a uni- | E lways has be angers who en- Rri of tfon said that the g RBerlin corn growers anifested by the presence of Berlin | farmer a meeting of corn growers in Glastonbury last night. At that meeting he nnounced that, for flu“ first time in the history of the e an agricultural quarantine had been lifted so that Glastonbury corn could | he sold in Hartford | “The corn growers of Berlin may | make the same appeal Glastonbury farmers made said Dr. Britton, “but 1 doubt if it will do them any | good. The federal authorities would | not approve of dividing a town. 1f| that were done other towns would request similar privileges and the work would he complicated and in- | senators have ffices were ran- were ut st being sub. & never in neces- e st Page 18) THER vicinity: occasional Wednesday; colder Wed- (Continued on Page Two) aid to-| in| € ed ) o'clock nev Henry he conferred with . Calnen, the law- order of injun Judge Thomas .. Wiliam H. Day any of the acts of and from having access and the records. mayor's contention that order eliminating Day and lark to retain poss I that pert comptrolle uctiven et him up he official in control but the ruling of Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel Mortimer H. Camp t there is no one in office h d refu Treasur, the ch d W Molloy rom enjoi performi nptroller 10 the office It is the S oonnt ctin of of ion r Curtis any orders drawn treasury. provide that w njunction shall be signed by of the rior court, but at thorizes judges of the court of com- mon pleas to sign in the event ra superior court judge can he reach« ed. 1t was under ihis proviso tha I Molloy was aproached and affixed his signature last Friday. Referred 1o Superior Court Taking the stand that the action properly one 1o be prosecuted m superior court, Judge Molloy has referred Attorney Calnen towdudge Newell & Jennings and it is pefore this that the motion&eing red this afternoon will be pre- mayor will ask either r of injunction be for- nterpreted to place Clark in or endment to this he eration today Clark under ordins 14. ihe form fixed ipal State statut a judg: S. jurist prey ent tha mally offic th made. an mavor aiso had under consid- the appointment of ihority of the follows he comptroler shall a bond for the faith- of his duties to an ordinance. In case . inability or disability comptroller, the mayor shall some person to perform the of the office temporarily, the common council shall ap- some person to perform suci such person 1o furnish a tory bond for the faithful per- ance of, his duties.” Day “Unable” to Serve mayor pointed {o the court of restraint as the basis for inability” on the part of Day, tha d auditor, to perform the duties of the office. This ordinance quires no the part of the common 1, permitting tha mavor to ing eity to city ul per nee amoun of the absenc apoint until point duties, stac forn Th ra. assent on counce act. With refercnee fo the suggestion Acting Corporation Counsel Camp that a special meeting of the com- mon council be called to name «m icting comptroller, the mayor d2- Clared foday that such action weuld futile injunction would he ed on Page Two) HITS WIFE ON HEAD, JUMPS OUT WINDOW Tidewater Director Com- mits Suicide in Eight Story Leap New York. Feb. (®—Richard H. Jones, a director of Tidewater O1l Corporation of New Jersey, was kill- today in a fall from his eighth floor apartment on-Park avenue, Po- lice listed the case as a suicide, and said Jones jumped to his death after striking his wife on the head with | an electric lamp. Employes of the apartment house heard the body strike the courtyard nd called the police. An ambulancs surgeon was called and pronounced Jones dead. The surgeon attended Mrs. Jones for lacerations of the Ip and she remained in her aparte ment. Mr. was Sta Md., the ton, Jones, who was 35 vears old, graduated from the United Naval Academy at Annapolis, in 1916 and was a member of Army and Navy club, Washinge and the Engineers club. Mrs, } Jones is the former Louise H. Con« ke 39 s otk