New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 1

« | FIRST EDITION \3 NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Cirsulation For Week Ending 1 6’1 76 March 1st ... IXSTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN , CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH 8 HOOVER AND AIDES oE BETTER DAY WITHIN 2 MONTHS Peak of Unemployment and| Business Depression Reached } in Late December or January LESS THAN HALF AS MANY | HIT THAN IN OTHER SLUMPS TPresident Says Average Citizens to nation — Construction Have Odd Jobs Done to Ald .\It»! Contracts ‘ | Show 40 to 45 Per Cent Increase Over Any Previous Figures for | | January and February, Statcment Says. | | March and Washington, s Tresident Hoove 5 advisers—officials of the commeree | labor d ark | clouds of unemployment ncls uncertainty cleared in 60 day The chicf excentive, secretary Commerce Lamont and Secr Labor Davis were on record to this effect today in a serics of optimistic statements issued after a three-hour study of the Jatest figures. | Urges Immediate Helps The hand of Mr. Hoover wz in an appeal {o, the average citizen | to help by starting ahead of time | this year those little jobs of clean-| ing up and repairing usually done «bout the home in the spring-time, £o that many now unemployed may bave work. This suggestion wa 1c in the joint statement by Davis | and Lamont, which was issued with | that of the president from the White House late yesterd High poinis of the joint summary the situation were: The worst eficets of the stock market crash on unemployment will pass within 60 days. 2. The low point of busincss de- ion and unemploy ached in late January. Conditions improved since then. The amount of unemployment, | in proportion to the number of workers, is only one-third or one- half as scrious as it after the panics of 1907-05 and 1920 4. A canvass of trades employing 17,000,000 persons indicates that be- tween 1,000,000 and 1,125,000 mor'i | | or) - his busir artments—sec the d b i with- and away of ¥ was persons are out of work now than at his time last year. 5. Acnte unemployment fined 10 12 states, while in the asonal unemployment “minor abnormal uncmploymen rapidly being absorbed Despite Davis® tement Tuesday that “the delays in tariff legislation | e more responsible today for cre- ing unemployment than any other tactor,” he said yesterday, in con-| Junction with Lamont, thatin “those | industries affected by changes in the 121if{* the employment situation has | ationary or showing! sht decline.” Tirst Recent Statement | The White House statement yester- | dxy was thie first important onc dea ing with Lusincss which Mr. Hoover | hag rade since his series of confer: cnces with industrial leaders herc following the stock market crash | last fail. seen here as an at-| com- | which might have | 3 ad un-| employ:acut demonstrations yester-| in -, number of American cities, | that more jobs soon will be available | and that trade will be more brisk. | Nationwide response to the = uest for increased construction and | improvement work by public au-| thoritics, reriroads, ufilities and in-| dt is having a most material | efi the president pointed out. ‘Construction con s in these| categories in January and Febru were from 40 to 45 per cent higher than cver known in those months. The total construction work for 1930 seems assurcd to bhe larger than even 1920, con- oth- or day fi (Continued on T PASSWAY RIGHT SUIT DECISION ANNOUNCED ge Two) | to testify tod | tatone Clothing Company Wins in| Action Brought by Neighbors An agreement relative to a pass way between Main street properties drawn in 1859, was the subject of a recent suit in the court of mnp‘ mon pleas and in a decision which s made public today, the defend- | nt, The ley rocic Co., wa ven judgment. The suit was Yrought by neighbori property owners, Dr. Nathan Jaffc nd J. Lisenberg. During the reconstruction of defendant’s building about a ar agzo it was nec fire es- capes and areaways be constructed on the passway which is jointly owned by both parties. Th de- its claimed the construction done in such a way that it did interfere with the passway. the work was completed. 1 Mr. Eisenberg brought rain the def:ndants from maintaining the chang claiming | that these were not made within th way u The veral months ago was not reached the not Dr. Jaff pecifi but until | naa *a Hungerford & the defendants. represented l} | third turned | fatally wounded January | was with Smith, and who received | be | ring out in a v { man on the stand, [S \ enl “Don’t let 'em kill ‘Tim’ because he's a good dog kill anything,” pleaded Donald v “Tim,” shown here with his osa, Calif., boy, in a letter to Governor C. | pardon for his German police dog convicted at a court trial of killing sheep and sentenced to die under a new California law. | Boy Bsgs Governor to Save Dog ) 0 and wouldn” Diffenbaugh, 9-ycar-old Santa s young master, is the first dog to | torm-souke be so convicted in the ate, C. Young asking OULJA BOARD HOAX - SPURS SQUAW T0 WOMAN'S MURDER Jilted Admirer of Marchand Ad- mits Persuading Ignorant [o- dian to Kill Baffalo Victim TWO SENECA NATIVES HELD IN INVESTIGATION Lillian Jimerson Preyed on Super- stition of Aged Tribeswoman By Was Troubled—Used Talk of Witcheraft to Accomplish Purpose | ‘ Telling Her Chief Charley's Spirit and Get Crime Committed. Y.. March were in murder confessed used a 1l tribal superstition her d accomplice to kill Cloth Marchand, noted art- Bufialo. N | Indian women | charged it said onc had ouija boar to incite i ist. The S () jail after Two to polics she unrequited lian Jimerson, Indian for i | guished n [ Museum the victir tive for the had worked t {chana. A | of Miss old Marchand, of the love Lil- nacs distin- Buffalo and of 5 the mo- Jimerson for M urce artist Scienc: police Killing. as a ol Miss model Son Discovers Body Mrs. Marchand's hursday by She had bren and body was found 12 year old son beaten on the heal led with a wad of chloro- d paper and cloth. Arrested yesterday at hom on the Cattauragus reservation, Lil- her her Gun Battle With Gang KILLER ~COMMITS SUICIDE ‘ MAGNATE Police Think Frankie Punn Clashed | With Former Assoclates—Officers | Exchange Shots With Trio Trying | to Ezcape. . March § (P —T feud engendered Hoboken, N lice today blamed in his beer running days for the kill- ing of Dunn, lionaire beer baron of North Jersey. Frankic retired mil- was set of i After blows Dunn ihe lobby three men him with upon yesterday $n | ofiice building by wo of them felled of their fists. the submachine gun on him. Two bullets passed through his body. He died a few hours later in Mary's hospit: Gunner Commits Suicide The machine gunner, later identi- fled as Frank Dugan of Man committed suicide when police cor: nered him on the floor of an apart- ment house. The others escaped afte a running gun fight with police. Dunn recently announced his re- tirement from the beer traffic along the Jers shore of the Hudson river, where he had ruled supremc EYE WITNESS T0 DESGRIBE SHGOTIN Boy Scout Called Today in Trial of Escaped Convicts Two) Jackeonville, T Additional ey arch § (M— witnesses to the gun attle in which Detective W. D. Smith was Killed here ready at the trial of Roland ad Watson Moulthrope for Smith's death. The defendants, who escaped with Leo Landry from Connecticut state | prison 14 days before Smith was 17, yes- D. Furman, a ship describe the scene of the Detective Willie Jones who we ay heard L. ndler, attle. a bullet wound in his abdomen, was a witness carlier in the week. The trial opened Monday and testimony was begun Wednesday afternoon. Landry, who will be tried later, is to a witne: for the st iy George Jeftries, aboy scout, was wlled today to take the stand. Jef- fries passed the scene of the shoot- ing on the way home from a scout meeting. Fred Peterson, another eye witness also was expected to t tify. I'urman gave the jurors a graphic description of the battle. He said he drove up in his automobile just in time to hear “about cight shots” ar {hat sounded like sun.* He quoted Smith uddy, those racketeers | hinc wing: <ot me . Hunf, who preceded Fur- said Moulthrope an apartment on | or ten minutes after | shooting 1 said he had just litle Dattle” and asked | best way to get out of | came 1o him at Main street five the about the | town,” tion over | ter. was | Abraham’s brother, | been retained BLAME BEER FEUD ERLANGER ESTATE " IN'DUNN MURDER BATTLE FOREGAST ‘;'%Hoboken Rocked by Machine “Wile” Appears on Scene— Brother Denies Her Existence LEFT MILLIONS Largest Owner of Legitimate Thea lian or Lilac, as she was known to her tribesmen, implicated Mrs. Nan- cy Dowen, 66 years old, and told how she worked upon tho old squaw's superstitious belief in witeh- ft and black magic to bring out the killing. She said she be suggesting that she and M Bowen try to get into communi tion with Chicf Charley, Mrs, I3 cn’s dead husband, in the spirit world by ans of the ouija bod Chicf Hungry in Heaven old squaw was unablc the letters on the board Jimerson formed them |tences and transtatea dian tonguc what messages from January by to real and Miss into = into the purported to Charley, saying In- b ters in Couniry Died Yesterday— had been killed by black 1 Attorney Represents Claimig Name. New York, the rl March § (P —Litiga millions of Abrahan nger, r of the thea recast today by contr: dictory statement left a widow. Erlanger, 69, died yesterday at hi partment on Riverside uperintendent of h building told report i la r has issued instructions she i Lincoln The n |not to be disturbed by reporters of anybody else.” There is no Mrs. Erlanger.” Mitchell L. stice of the state upreme court. here is no widow What T am telling you is 100 pe cent the truth.” Attorney Tells of Wife D. Steur announced as attorney whose arms died the ic langer, retired Max he for Ab Riverside ha Erlanger, L. in Erlanger in (Continued on Page Two) Woman | as to whether he s. | went |Was wanderin; traught in the avenged hung spirit world waiting e 5 W ouija L[ Mrs. Bowen tha spelled out was, street. Tts a little IU's a little woman. She is | Her hair is black with gray s | bobbed. She has some teeth |upper teeth. t Lette - | written by s | Miss Jimerson to the older woman rithe confession said, hinting that Miss Jimerson and other membe 1{of the fribe were in danger from the white woman. Finally Mrs. Bowen agr .| Mrs. Marchand, policc r|Jimerson told them. | Greeted by Victim With an ounce bottls form and a hammer Mrs. to the Marchand home. was greeted by Mrs. Marchand, s who had become acquainted with Go hous to in th is out he has purporting to medium w polics have dog.” been nt by ed to kill said Miss of chloro- 1 Bov (Continued on I'age Two) | being filed | Wife Slain Associated P “huto H Marchand, f nd carator of Luffalo Science, whose wife beaten to death in Buifalo, N. Y. mous M artist um of found home at Two Indian women in connec with MOTHER WILL SUF STATE OVER SON Claims Lad Driven Insane at Reform School by Beatings HIT WITH HEAVY STRAP | Mrs. Mary Smigel Alleges Youtit Ticgged Tor Cutting Finger— Seme of Tortures Indescribable, torney in Action. Hartford, March maty by mental work, a Martford mother, sto clinses any ity charpes yet made against Cennecticut State School for Merider, indicated she intended to file state for injuries don N od nd hard telling a e wr-old 7. hecame being hit ad with ¢ -studded > school. retained James 17 Kennedy as According o the the child only sent to the eh, men over, strap at Attorney ri She was chool. i the ir factory i reed Ie on a broken for his afterward, ¢ in. B carclessness claims, hlood poison- boy had to Nospital sehos months to cause the » month in t dded he cquently three claims. Beaten from the h n almost daily pa . his mother continued, lie often struck over th ad with the end of a strap so tha he finally hecame -minded also claimed that he is now unable she is destitute. Kennedy said some of the too revolting to discuss and that he intended to file a pet tion for a hearing hefore the legisla- ture claims committec Kennedy further is possibility of 12ds the was we work and Attorne details wer indicated dar ard S school. that sunt Boyi. The again superintendent o (Continued on Page Two) . 1930. —TWE PRICE THREE CENTS oy DETECTIVE SQUADS RATD HOME OF BOYB BUSINESS {1 Men Caught, Two “Pine- apples,” and Arms Seized in Visit to Farm MEN FURNISHED MATERIAL FOR SEVERAL OUTRAGES Pip Irvom Undercover Men Lead Of- ficers to Building—Cordon Sur- rounds Dwellivg and Captures Whole Gang rust” Believed Iesponsible For Many Under- world Kill | Chicago, March § (P)—ILley o bombs, four ral pistols seized night on a far which police said for e shot in a raid rrested guns wled By Officers W shortly midn t squads of detectives, headlights were turned on the huild- inz f Lsides and the occupants ordered to surrender. Several men ricd to escaps by climbing out win- dows but we covered by officers’ zuns and cantured Most of rer 1 to be Taer -powerful G the side "he two surrounded two of the that v principal captives ony Caliendo, owner of the farm, and Tony Giannini, deseribed police as the licutenant of Mel- Park’s alcohol chief, Joc Mon- out 1ember RANE it na 0. ore The from ittor raid was the result of a tip undereover men of the state's cy's office that a general meet- the bomb trust was 1o b idnight at the lonely southwest of Chi 0. Supplicd Recent Bombs The raiders said they had po tive information that the gang had supplied a number of the hombs that h vlkon Chicago recently. Two powerful dynamite bombs, rapped and azparently veady for re found in in the Kitchen. party was led by Jo- seph Altmeier, homb expert of the state’s attorney’s office. who said the prisoners had 1eorganized the bamb trust that was erushed by a sen tional raid a year delivery, W cuphoard The raiding a ago. Captain and Crew of 9 Safe in Boat Blaze lLunenbu N. 8. March § (#— Captain Charles Conrad of the X- iliary schooner Athenia My, bound ic St. Pierrc illast from Nas- zau, B: nd his crew of nine men were safe hore today after their ship had heen destroyed by fire. The blaze started in the lighting plant carly sterday morn- ing Abandoning ship. 18 miles off La- have, the men reached shore three hours later in two boats. One of the | in landing at Hirtle's sburgh 3 WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy with rain this after- noon and probably carly to- night: colder tonight, Sun- day fair. WelL- (T WONT BE LONG NOW ~— P0BINS ARE SEEN — SPRING (s HerE / \ AKCTATION FOU NATIOK %’ft"cwflw@u REFOTM— sl GNI%Z RDEN QUITS AS VICE CHAITAMAN BERUA SCHOO BOARD ~~ GrouP. OF NEW BLITAN WOMEN OLAN TO ONGAKIZE BZANCH CF A PLOF_ALBERT SAYS CONSU LEVITT MERS SHOULD DEMAND WEARING TO GET LOWER ELeani, RATES ~- CHAITMAN @r. RIGGINS OF RU.C CONDEMNED — THE MOUK GBI VETS WLt HAVETo ARRY ON '~ OALY WL STERABERG AND “BABY” 00T AND AN INDIAN WA o EARLY— \ gu'v QHAT OF mn/ | sceret eret ¢ STORM WATER MAIN BREAK IN MONROE STREET DISTRICT THREATENS NEARBY HOMES MUTILATED BODY OFWONANNFIRE A i o hrms and Legs Wissing From Which Menaces Part Corpse Found in Ruins ~~ of Relief Project— Sandbags Piled Up. SUSPECT GANGSTER PLOT i e Gt Water Gouges Out Earth Separating Trench From Residences—20-Inch Wa- ter Main in Danger— Public Works Depart- ment Force Hustles. Fire Department Firemen Find Evidence and Incendiary Tire at Descrted Summer Resort in 1linois—Cot- tage Owner in Cuta Yilla s iilated rned m hody Lak AT ) The T womai of a you to .a blackened mass s found in ins of a d summer Dec today, a csort automobile | p lake, near be- n- A hrok water sewer nolico main threa of sev- ell Monroc - filled ¥ the safety mur inc cral dw a backflow of diary The missing. Al mes had hec said the them have known to throughout cabins wer owners, on morning, op excavations earthen wall pro-* main on enc aisle.of protection trench and residence on ns of identify the burned conditio believe th the victi haunt t the 20-inch water aw but polic body 1 narrow of to woman might | b been of A. Merian, Joseph M. Works Commis- Johnson » Superintendent and Public P. Alfred ormed of the break carly and hur- ried to direct the work of placing \dbags to check the rush of water past a steam shovel anchored in the trench and into the concrete culvert Lieing constructed as a part of the Willow Brook flood relief plan. Big Water Main Menaced having heen accomplished 1o . only. scepage flowed in line, increased some- what by the overflow at this and other points, a small capacity pump was inctalled to draw the water out the trench and into the brook flowing directly south between Mad- ison and Linwood streets. Under the beating n, the soft carth contin- ued to drop away, lessening the dis between tb excavation and main, threatening 1o the entire layer, an which would be certain main and greatly com- problems, Engincer Mer- asoned. Pire Dept. Pumper communicated with and Chief William J. Noble atter conference with public s officials, ordered Engine Co. o Monroe strec with a pump capable of clearing 750 gallons of ater cach minute. After more than an hour of work it evident that the small pump would be sufficient to Keep the storm water sewer flow below the danger point Toda marked the first use of a fire department pump for purposes other than firc fighting in many years. It was at one time the prac- tice of the department to send en- 1¢s to pump out cellars and other Have Penned Threat cumulations of water whenever quested, but several hundred dol- Letters lars' damag done to a machine through grit and refuse getting into | the gears in a cecllar job some years ago, and requests for this service have been refused nce that time. The likelihood of heavy money dam- es against the cit nd the possi- ¥y of a serious break in the water service which would have entailed outlay of thousands of dollars 1 the request been turned down today, prompted departure from this vule, the fire commission explained, SMITH CERTAIN HE WILL BE NOMINATED Urges “Dry” Law Modifi- cation to Check Wave of Crime Tound by The body was dizcove bers of the Antioch firc r they had been summoned to blazing cat by Iward am, 49, a who has of the others. said were in- depar caretaker, burned cottage and al v defected the further indica- was st g 8 not been ymer and ay it 1 have c in. the carctaker utomobile. notic caretaker, an hour the cottage abl belicved a possible cluc identity of the nocturnal whose visit cnded, supposedly murder. Speed Attracts Attention Schram said he the automo- bile Tace northward the lonely road that l¢ road into Wauke tracted nd the o the Th poin soline the 1t Jast lodor of | tion that deliber: picd vas cottag had oceu- m sinc there no e from wi A specding Schram, the fore he saw W cou 1 by | of was to 1 | visitors nee the Yy ehtuality to snap plicate the ian r Used the fir hy thak board serted fact il motorists | in summer | BOSTON BLACKMAIL AUTHOR ARRESTED 18 Year Old Boy Alleged to zl Boston, March § (11—The fessed author of blackmail letters to prominent familics here demanding | sums of money to their aughters from scandal and social Costas ilis, 18 year old er high school student, was held ¢ by police iis. who was n con- save g bili an for tod Ga wrried in De- ember, was ar 1t his hom night and sion He was ordercd held in $20.- on a char of attempted mag W conf late 000 hail tortion, By the len a co ssion, police said, Al- Burke, former Harvard t who was arrested a month ago n connection with hlackmail letters 10 Donald McKay Irost. prominent attorney, will be completely absolv- An intimate knowled SOVE blocks of the city drawn in a ch showing where money was to he left | coupled with peculiarities of printing in blackmail letters and expressions similar to those of a foreigner id- ed in the youth's detection, accord- ing to Burke's attorney, Lafayette Chamberlain, who helped the arch. Partial idc ition of the black- | , oG ; mailer had been gained already from | 41d3t¢ of the G. 0. I X Candidate Smith today clerks who had handled telegraphed | co -9t BRER 00 messages and Gazulis was put under | (0% ed® AN O | suspicion because he answered q».‘ fn hiotals and Cestau i nntll mm‘ in !l)\c neighbor- | o ca® e | hood outlined in the chart. Investi- | s, not be usec ises his recent application for a mar- | joine statement T [riage certificate showed it t0 be| «f have received many lotters aske similar to the letters, Chamberlain | ing my position regarding the pro- said. hibition question, and having an- | Gazulis and his 19 year old bride, | severed many personal letters re- |the former Valerie White of Bar | garding the same and believing that | Harbor, Me.. a student at Boston | my position would reach more peo- |university, lived with the youth's|ple through the columns of the press, ‘llfl-l“‘l'- | T desire to say as I have already | Among other prominent familics | stated, T am in favor of a referen- [to whom blackmail letters were sent | dum to the people. giving them the | wert Dr. and Mrs. George H. Monks. | right to vote and say whether they [ The first of several black mail mes- | believe in amending the Volstead act sages to the Frost family, which de- | or n | manded $5,000 to withhold alleged | *f | facts about his daughter from the | nNewspapers, was sent on sanuary 26. | also a gr believer in state rights In his confession Gazulis said he | and home rule. I am in favor of the | had sent a letter to Burke after his [ manufacture and sale of light wines arrest in connection with the I°r .75 to three per cent b and | family affair, offcring to submit evi- t may he nted to all ho- dence which would « him from |ihe eharges gor o0, of Despite the entrance of George A. Quigley and Donald L. Bartlett into the race for the republican nomina- tion for mayor, Henry A. Smith to- ay cxpressed confidence that the | primary will name him as the can- declar “dry” nd light wi ants, to be con- premises, and sale in of rsonally, mending the 1 am in favor of Volstead act. I am gr ar (Continued on Page Twe), - ;