New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HE Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending March 8th ... 15,945 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930. —.TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS NO EVIDENCE Police Investigation of Fatality Connected With Fire at Central | Hotel Virtually Closed —Dying Man Makes Statement. Victim Says Locked Door Was Not Factor in His ‘Attempt to Escape by Sliding Down Rope—All Stock demned by City. The investigation into the fire in the Central hotel block, 320 Main street Monday night when one man's life was lost, several others injured and damage to the extent of $30.- 000 was caused, has practically been concluded so far as the police de- artment is concerned. The investigation, which was in harge of Sergeant Patrick McAvay has been directed toward the allega- tion that doors in the rear of the third floor of the building, occupied by the hotel, operated by Mrs. Mary McCarthy, were locked and fastened in such a manner that firemen were forced to brealk it down. Mrs. McCarthy is said to have told police that she kept the rear locked to prevent guests from Arting withov* paying their bills. The fact that the door was locked vas not the cause of Edward John- son, 59, going out of the window in- d of the door, according to a tement made by Johnson just be- fore he died in the New Britain General hospital yesterday. John- son said that there was so much smoke in the hallway he feared to attempt to escape that way and so resorted to the use of jope, attached to the inside window a ency IHe misjudged his distance and re- leased his grip too soon, fall to the ground resulting in a fractured T the door il of the re escape. Investigation of Origin Although Fire Chief caused by carelessness on part of an unident.ded person, the police | lhave conducted an investigation into | the locked door situation. No in- vestigation has been made as to the in of the blaze. he investigation i about at the request of Attorney Joseph G rveceipt of a letter spector Arthur N that action "be taken that he had notified the owners the building on January 14 that the | doors must be kept unlocked. geant McAvay made to Porsecuting Allorney Woods this morning, and added that he might have more to report late it is understood that his investiga- tion has been practically completed and that no further reports will be made unless new circumstances de- velop. 10 s brought rosecuting Woods followi om Building In- No Arrest Justified While stating that he had not yet finished the investigation, Mr. € fied today and evidence or information o far received by me i3 of nature as to justify an arr -t The building has been ordered va- cated by the CALLS EXTRA JURY PANEL FOR DOHENY Trial Begins After Justice Hitz Overrules De- fendant’s Plea P —Tasl- Edward Washington, March 1 ing to secure a jury to try 1. Doheny, millionaire oil man, on charge of bribing Albert B. I7all from a panel of 26, Justice Williain Hitz today summoned another panel. Doheny and Fall were acquitted of a charge of conspiring to defrand the government of the Elk Hills eil naval reserve and the 73 year old defendant maintained that the qu tion of his giving $100,000 to I"a!l in 1921 already had been decided by the former jury. The govern- went charges that Doheny gave the bribe for a lease to the reserve. Ileven remained in the jury box fentatively, The government had ex- cused s and the defense five anl four challenges remained to the go- crnment and five to the defens 'wo veniremen had been excus:d tor cause. £ Al the beginning of the trial co- day Justice Hitz overruled a plea by Dohieny's counsel that placing Jim on trial on the bribery char would constitute double jeopardy. ey contended that the matter of ' {he $100.000 that Doheny gave 1all Jad been disposed of in a previo s (rial in which Doheny and I (Continued on Page Two) 10 JUSTIFY ARREST IN JOHNSON DEATH REPORTED TO PROSECUTOR in Market Con- | knotted | William J. | Noble was satisfied that the fire \uw‘ Rutherford asking nd explaining | of | report | though | Woods | added | such | building department, | atl | HUSTON TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATORS |Says He Does Not Know What Became of River Records REVEALS AMOUNT PAID IN Tells Caraway That Secretary Is | only Onc Having Information | | Wanted By Scnate Lobby Com- | mittee in Probe. i ; Washington, March 12 (P—Ap- | parently wholly at ease, Claudius H. Huston, chairman of the republican :n.uionul committee, sat comfortably in a chair before the senate lobby | committee today and testified that he knew nothing of missing records of the Tennessee River Improve- ment association. Called to testify concerning his| knowledge of the Improvement as- sociation’s activities in (DIH\CL‘I\OH’ with Muscle Shoals legislation, Hus ton, a former president of the or ganization, said that J. W. Worth- | ington, executive chairman of the| association, was probably the only| person who could give the commit- | tee the desired information. He promised, however, to attempt to Lieut.-Com. obtain the records. | transpacific flig Chairman Carawa | mittee had previously ged that | Worthington was *dodging U\UDOM-‘ committce. After Huston said the | Aires. secretary was ill in a Detroit hos- pital, Caraway remarked that he would remain “sick” until there was | no danger that the committee would question him. Huston suggested that if the committee members d|d not believe Worthington was “really ill” they should make efforts to have him appear. Tells of Revenue | Huston said his former organiza- | |tion had collected between ,ww-w‘ and $500,000 since it was (.l'(.d\«'l]v several years ago. He said it m.x| | received as much as $75,000 in | year and as little as $20,000. | Caraway broke in sharply at onc| {time to L that Huston had told | {th committee nothing it did not | |already know and asserted: “You | (Continued on P of the com- cha d non-stop refueling flight They pl HKNOX AND AIDE IN PLANE WRECK State Commissioner and Geuer-‘ ous Overturn at Bethany Field | B¢ DELAYED N ALBANY Mud—Necither State Ship Sinks in ge Two) ‘CORBIN REPRESENTATIVE } EXPIRES IN CLEVELAND Mareh 12 Man Hurt—Graf Plans Lconomy | Flight New Haven Honol Benos Aires Pllots, (UP)~ Clarence State M. Commissioner Sethany, | Aviation Commissioner J. B. Morgan, Formerly of Rocky Knox and Deputy | tare when th v Generous escaped to- s Vought Corsair Hill, Dies From Acute Indi- el | | day gestion Attack, | tate {plane overturned in altempting a | Word has airdrome, The {Cleveland of forgan, for been received from |landing at Bethany the death of J. B.|ship was piloted by Generous. veral years P. & F.| 1s of lll"f Corbin's representative in Ohio, | hit) eautht 1 southern Indiana and Kentucky i"”‘ CALEH BRI IIC The report comes as a shock to the [deep on 1. company and his many friends in|tossed the biplane on its back. | New Britaif who had believed him| The propellor was bent and the | |to be in excellent health. Although | tail and one wing damaged. details are still lacking, death is| Both Crawl Out Unharmed said to have been cat sud-| The state officials crawled from den attack of acute indigestion. |the plane unharmed. They had | Mr. Morgan's carly life was spent | flown from Brainard field, Hartford. | in Rocky Hill where he lived with |they said, to greet Captain Herbert | his parents. He entered the employ |C. Partridge and Lieutenant Comi- of the Corbin factory on June mander George R, Pond, due here | 189 a clerk in the invoice de- om Albany, N. Y., to s rt a non- partment. He worked himself up in | stop flight to Buenos Aires. this department and shortly prior to| Tecause of the accident which he- 1900 was made ‘a salesman and|fell Knox and fi¢ ous, fear was given a territory which covered the |expressed by airdrome pilots that | |miadle and southern Atlantic|Partridge and Pond might have dif- | |states, working out of the com-|ficulty in making a safe landing on | |pany’s Thiladelphia office. 1le re-| the soggy field in their heavy Stin- | | mained in this capacity until 1919 {son monoplan {when he was assigned to the later The plane rollc 1 abont 75 feet he- | territory in which are located fore it titled. Tt appeared fo spec- cral of the company's important|tators that the light ship would iccounts. Here he succceded the | make a safe landing. Then one [late William an. wheel sank deep in the mud and the | | Mr. Morgan was active in sccur-| ship tipped over. ing many large har contracts| The airmen re their safety | in the middle west for the local | —_— | company. i (Continued on Page Two) Spectators said the whe nearly a foot the A cross wind 20, | sov- | 1sed Department of Justice Appeals | Liquor Buying Case to High Court| Washington, March 12 (#) — The department of justice today carried to the supreme court a test case to determine whether the purchaser of intoxicating liquor is guilty of con- spiracy. Based on Boston Case The appeal was made from the recent decision of Iederal Judg Torton of Boston in which he held that the purchase of liquor was not a crime. The government already pending before the court a case in- volving a conspiracy between a purchaser and a seller to transport intoxicating liquors. In announcing the filing of the second case to determine whether the purchasing of intoxicating li- | quors for beverage purposes is of itself a violation of the prohibition act, the department said the action was taken in view of the diversity of opinion of various judges on the | question | The new test c charges against ) | who was hield by to have purchasing liquor. Passes on Buying Clause Judge Morton sustained the con- tention of Tarrar's counsel that | Sectlon 5, Title 2 of the national prohibition act, under which the government sought to convict him, referred only to those legally en- |titled to buy and sell liquor under permits, such as druggists and hos pitals. This section of the act says in substance that no person shall | sell, barter, transport or purch liquor without first obtaining a per- mit. Judge Morton held further that the enforcement section of the Vol- stead act is Section 3 and that this ction clearly eliminates any lia- bility of any kind for the purchase | of liquor. { In his opinion, the federal judge | | saia: [ has ot only did con, texclude the purcha: from the | penal provisions of the act as or nally passed. but has taken no step | mes I Varrar, |to extend its provision to the pur- Judige Morton not | chaser in the 10 years of legislation | been guilty of a crime in|which has since intervened. s cavefully invol the Route of Long Non-Stop Flight anned to make refuelings over the cities shown. \Iendoza being a possible emergency refueling point. MEMORIAL SHAFT 1S |and chief | removed | inseription MAYOR™-DOBROWOLSKI ' President a lu George R. Pond, above, veteran of the historic ht of the Southern Cross, and Captain Herbert | Partridge, below, are shown here with the route of their pro- from New Haven, to Bueno; PLANNED FOR TAF1 Final Rites Held as Late Chiel| Justi loe ls Laid fo Rest \BODY RESTS IN ARLINGTON Immediate i | | | | i | Family Lirst to Leave Cemetery, Followed by President and Mrs, Hoover After Which Crowd Views Grave, W P — Taft will with the ington, March 1 tomb of William Hg rd be marked for posterity memorial shaft befitting place he held the hearts of the | American people | The monument I | by Mrs. t 1d their three chil- | dren, who Hmm the sylvan nook in Arlington Nationgl cemetery in which the man who was president | justice is at rest. high | in is to ected no the dominant | ker, a sim- | imposing but far | severe, with an | in unaffected greatness of the Simplicity is to be characteristic of the ms t will he from the telling language of the who lies beneatl, Guns Boom Requicn With guns booming a requiem, with President Iloover and the | mighty of the government standing | reverently by and with platoons | from the army, the navy and the marine corps drawn up in last lute for one who had been their | commander-in-chief, the body of the dead former president was low cred to ifls last home yesterday the day was drawing to a Then the volleys echoe one as | close. | and | (Continued on I Two) | KELLY WILL RUNFOR of C.P. 0. A Announces Candidate to Head Ticket Dobrowolski. president of | the Citizens Property Owners’ ciation, announced today that Ma tin Kelly, vice president, would be ] the nominee for the mayoralty on| tho independent ticket in the spring | clection. | Two of the ziej of the common Vincent asso- Ielix Kolodzicj | fitth ward and Adam Kolod- the sixth ward, will run for council Dobrowolshi said and the names of the other candidates will be revealed after Thursday night's meeting. Mr. Dobrowolski ated would not teck any office candidates, that but he wiil | | (Continued on Page Two) | I'HE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Vair and slightly colder to- night; Thursday increasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature, #* ) | Named to Direct | bo: | viee o | two, | to this city a HUMPHREY NAMED QUIGLEY MANAGER DURING CAMPAIGN. | Veteran City Official to Head Magoralty Aspirant’s Organization \MRS. BUEL B. BASSETTE CHOSEN BARTLETT AIDE Women's Division of Organization Candidate’'s Drive for Republican Nomination and Arranged Rally at Her Home— Quigley to Open Iactory Gate Schedule Next Week. George A, Quigley, the republican nom believe term pointme as mayor, nt of Ernest as his campaign manag Humphrey Humphrey is a past exalted ruler of Britain Lodge of Llks and is president of the Humphrey Man- icturing Co., whose plant is on Chestnut street. le is a resident of the hird ward, with a record of nearly 20 years in public office. It belicved that his occupancy of ree appointive offices in the gov- ernment at the same time is unpar- alleled in the history of the city. Entered Public Life in 1901 Humphrey was elected a council- v 1901 and was re-elected in later he became a alderman and was his post as council- rced to the alder- alderman until time as mayor One vear for nin; ady He w at ov candidate elected, 1o man when he berth. serving pro tem In 1910, manic Humphrey was appointed Mayor Joseph M. Halloran to the sd of public works. He became hairman of that board in 1914, sley was elected mayor, and t office until 1919. one of the original board of finance and taxation, having been appointed when the board came into existence in 1907, He served as a finance com missioner for 12 year: by the when Qu continued in (h Humphrey members of the 1915 to 1919, he the board of water commis- and during that four years | period gained the distinction of ser- on three boards—public works, | finance and water. Served On G. O, P. Committee Yor many Y he was a menm- ber of the republican town commit- tee, high in the councils of the par- ty, and one of those responsible for building up the smoothly working I'rom A ber of sioners, former openly. Mayor Quig- Humphrey in politi later fought ciate ley, (Continued on I’z Two) THIRD WHARF BLAZE AROUSES SUSPICION Blaze in Cotton Follows Quickly After $2,000,000 Conflagration March 12 (P—TFir origin, the third mysteriously on waterfront within weeks, destroyed between 400 and 500 bales of cotton in a scction of the city dock board's cotton warc- house early today Firemen held {he flames within one section of the warehouse closing partitioning doors With the firc under control, licemen began an investigation seck to determine if the three f were of incendiary origin. The first fire broke out Charbonnet whart three week destroyed the wharf, damagr steamship Scantic and causcd death of six person Late yesterday mined origin Mandeville wharf, burned the (ure and ignited the steams Munaires, tied alongside. The blaze today, like the spread quickly. Lirer i casier fight inst today New Orleans, undetermined to break out New Orl of one the thy by po- fire of d ur starte (Continued on Pas; DEATH STRIKES TWICE AT FAFNIR 0. FORGE Fred Thomas, Successor of John D. Cutter in Detroit Office, Dics Monday the death 44, of ] A o John Shuttle hours beforc Culter, aged Meadow avent man- ger of the shackle division of the Fatnir ¥ Co., I'red Thomas, his successor, as head the De- troit office of the company, was claimed by death Monday night in Detroit. Mr. Cutter, morning at hi few D. of who died home, was ad of the sales de- partment of the shackle division a year and a half ago and Mr. Thomas was appointed to succeed him. Mr. homas, who was connected with company for a number of years, made frequent visits Lo this city and had many friends here Private funeral services Cufter held this Burial was in Greenwood Brooklyn, N. Y. yesterday brought for Mr were afternoon cemetery, ization which his present asso- | WOMEN DRYS CITE ‘POLITICAL CREED HOLDING BUYER ‘EQUALLY GUILTY" IN BOOTLEGGING AT COMMITTEE HEARING - To Make Appearance At Political Rally PULIEE LACK CLUE IN'WOMAN'S DEATH * Body Seen in Heavy Underbrush hy Son Alter Search THEFT WAS NOT MOTIVE Hartford i | | Last Mother of Twelve Children Was Slugged (o Death With Heavy Instrument, Wounds in Skull Show, Hartforc in an all ni 12 (P—Thwarted | it effort to uncover any important clues which might lead to identification of an assailant, Last| Hartford police and detectives from | State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn’s | office to W at 1 temporary standstill in the investigation of the | mysterious d of Mrs. Frances Sylvester, whose body was found by her son in the heavy underbrush sev- cral hundred fect north of the Con- necticut boulevard mear the dry bridge, vesterday mornir The fifty vears old Last woman, mother ently been 1 with a heavy instrument The skull was crushed condition of the ground showed that the body had Iy been dragged to the spot cction of Governor about forty feet Miss Cochrane fo Be Guest Second Ward Republicans O OHH\\ ing an autopsy conducted at St. uncis hospital 1»[ night, Dr death “homicide.” Sharp Instrument Used The examination showed that th | woman had been struck in the head | our times with a sharp instrument uch as an axe or hatchet. | No motive for the crime other| than assault could be established by | the police. The woman's purse, con- | taining more than $5 was found in| N Sritain’s fi v pocket of her dress. Her clothes however, were badly torn, and thrown up over the face. Dr. Costel- lo would not divulge the result of | the autopsy in this peet, and | Chiet McKee of the East Hartford | police stated that he did not expect to get the finding for a day or two.|be the guest of second ward re Monday afternoon {he woman vis- | licans at a gathering in the Mrs. Tose Shea, 14 headquarters on Main strect ot. William, a son of M ince announcing her is married to one ¢ the dead wom _cornered race | an’s daughters. When she failed to i return home by 11 o'clock Monday r family notified police. Ra- arted out at § o'clock Tues- jay morning. ving searched and all the previous ind found sfied tha his mother in th on Governor | g sed to a poin street. demands of the cainp: Several months an Liast Hart- | attended to, Miss Cochran ford High school girl was met on |cepted the sccond ward this same road by a negro who pull-| tation to be with other ed her into the underbrush and at-|at their meciing toniorrow 3 empted to assault her. Her ams| Col. Al L. Thompson, the incum- |and the approach of a pedestrian|pent, and Harry 1. heuy leader frightened the man away., He was|in fraternal and ex-servicemen’s ac never apprehended st of tl tivities who Iruneral services for Mrs. Sylvester | nomination, will be neld Mriday merning in Town Clc his last primary cated, and if and at willin conclusion He MISS JE. WOMAN CANDIDATE T0 ATTEND RALLY of N COCHRANL Hartford dren, had to death and the nearby apparent- from a stre; Col. Thompson and Harry L. Scheuy Invited — Tormer Indicates This May Be His Last Political Cam- paign, 1f Elected. of eral government, Miss f depu king advancement to the position town clerk, will launch her cam- paign tomorro t when pub- V'S entrance for the Coch- into the threc Mic ne and 1 | have devoted the building up of tion i nomination, nager obb, it to a aft can br ih's invi- tes candid nis also will rhompson is fight, he successful in the polls this to step is in que: attend now k in (Continued on Page Two) the pri- year he at the stated. AUBURN CONVICT WINS AGOUITTAL FOR MURDER Not Guilty | mary will be aside his oftice in late Loren leeted town cle ol red the State I’oh(‘c ln\ C\llLdl(‘ Slhplcmus Derby Blaze ) ergeant idgeport head in Max Becker Tound in Death of Principal Keeper— Thanks Jury and Judge March \\ elli of th s of own today March 12 () ax | 1 qua i, N, Y, Auburn 1of acl the he police ng the rday Home 1 convict, of murder, death of Pr A. Durnford, of last December Becker, overjoyed, leaped to t when the foreman read the He turned to the inves vhic s ked niture several first cipat in the 11 ) mnd d i b fire este for Geo prison riot rements when n ed to n fir ver: ry an state o his Tiowever, that stated what brought wlily adi o ispicion that diary ¢ into the « o lifc the will to thank you for 1 1 hope hen you d Supr, B. Cu “Ju I want you have v will fire from give neve * Mhen Benjamin 4 said ank you for your and impartiality. 1f there re more justices on the bench t1 fair and impartial siderate as you, the country be better off.” n e, come was orry he fa L Ju presiding. mingham, T th s of the nt Virelli, vith 1his it damage of ntly the le not phe would ou ce = tota wii pecially rned beli wd conc Tirness and con- other estimates would were ‘Thieves In Berlm Store Us; Safe - As Table and Enjoy Midnight Lunch Veraldy Further thinz an old, un- had been mnants of a half-empty Berlin, thieves, March 2 who broke into local tipped over a large safe and used it as a table top for a leisurely midnight lunch, helped thems to groceries and about § in change and then attempted to carry away their haul in a stolen automobile, were being so to- day by local and New Britain au- thoritic | Shortly after 7 o'clock this morn- back room, leading from the cellar, ing when, Michael Laltose of the had been neatly forced open—holes Gconomy Grocery store opened his|had been drilled at three diffe plac business on Main street, | places and three separate Kensington, he noticed that some- had been drawn. In (he cellar iron thing was wrong. [For one thing, bars protecting (he window several dollars in change that he —_— ‘mq placed in the cash register L\-(‘ night Midnight were missing. tion disclosed other viously wrong. The safe, wicldy mass of iron, tipped over and the re lunch—cooky crumbs, bottles and empt visible. D s if for a family supper, comfortable wooden boxes. gating still further, Mr. LaRose found that the trap door to inves- ob- two stores, clves 25 soda the were —were Awn arc a ght of ches (Continucd on I'age Two) had | will | I ple has indi- | Investi- | the | |2 rent | | ) 14 Points Presented Before Group After Sharp Clash on Cross- Examination - Organ- ized Leaders Praise Hoover as Ardent Dry. Insist Less Drinking Ob- Than Ever Before in Nation—News- tains Now papers Criticized for Arguing for Change in Prohibition Law. Waushington, March ‘of the 12 (A—A Women's National Committee for Law En- forcement, outlining 14 points in support of the 15th amendment and the constituution as a while, was pre- ted at the house judiciary com- wittee prohibition liearing today by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, of Beverly, M She pres “‘political creed’ ited the creed after a score of women representing na- tional welfare organizatfons in rapid succession had taken the stand one r another and endorsed the pro- libition laws. They had argued that the wemanhood of America stood squarely behind the dry statutes. Believe B Guilty Mrs. Peabody, who was in charge of the witnesses, said the crced had been adopted only yesterday. The fifth point of the creed read: “We believe that under the existing act the buyer is equally guilty with the seller in iilicit transactions in liquor.” In addition the creed said the or- ganization believed in “law observ- ince for the protection of life, erty, homes and human rights that it did not believe authority or precedent existed for submission of the n “as a whole or in part” to a national refercndum. It was said the organization felt that t which has been in the past should be now a moral and civic asset ought., without regard “to the personal opinions of owner and edifor, to give fair representa- tion of the views of law abiding peo- and the government,” than to continued attacks upon the law. “Dangerous Attitude” Flayed 1t added that in view of the “dis loval and dangerous” attitude of men and women of wealth and in- fluence that law enforcement groups should be formed throughout the country. The group of women were given authority to present their prepared testimony without interruption, after a sharp verbal clash, precipitated by wet who sought to -examine. The committee, how- by a vivi voca voted deferred interrogation until the women had concluded the statements they had drafted The from inent others tionally tions. The women or cross-examination by committee members during the afternoon. One st to testify this morning rome Johnson, of Cam- pplause greeted her President Hoover s the constitution."” Backing up their contention with statements from Mrs. Henry Ford ind Mrs. Thomas Jdison in favor prohibition, the women appeared rapid succession. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Bever 1y, Mass, chairman of the Woman National Committec for Law En- forcement, took charge of the more than a score of women present. She made clear that it was the in- tion of the witn s to show that constitutis members women witnesses were drawn a wide field. Some were prom- lub and social circles while spoke as chairmen of na- known women's organiza- witnesses prepared of in (Continued on Page Three) o .~ CONN. LAWYER MAY BE e SUPREME COURT JUDGE Bmgham to Recommend Swann as Successor to Sanford By GEORGE I1. MANNING (Washington Bureau, N. B. Herald) Washington, March 12—Should President Hoover decide to turn to L district other than the south in his sea for a successor to the late Justice Sanford of the U. S. supreme court, he will have before him the name of Thomas W. Swann, now judge of the federal circuit in Connecticut, Judge Swann formerly was dean of the Yale law school 1d his work in improving that in- stitution brought him national rec- ognition and, later, his appointment s a circuit judge. Senator Hiram Bingham today admitted that he would submit Judge Swaun's name to the presidont and recommend {him for the supreme court vacancy.