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

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HER ESTABLISHED 1870 MOTHER BURNED RESCUING SON FROM DEATH-IN FIRE IN WEST MAIN ST. HOUSE Mrs. John Baker Dares [ Plunges Into Flames ] Death to Save 10 Year | Old Boy Asleep in Bed YWhen Flames Break Out at 1 o’Clock This 'Morning in Home. Snatches Lad From Slum- ber, Wraps Him in Blan- ket and Descends to Street — Back Burned and Hair and Eyebrows Singed. Mother love impelled Mrs. John Baker to risk her life dashing through a flame-filled Kkitchen in her home at 631 West Main street morning shortly i o'clock to save the life of her 10- who was trap- by this before year-old son, Harry, ped in a rear bedroom, She suf- fered painful burns about her back | her flims and eye- as as the flames pierced nightdress and her hair brows were badly plunged through the smoke and fire and then staggered from the room with the sleepy-cved form of her son wrapped in blankets to the front entrance and from there to safety. She and her husband had enter, ned company until about 12 o'clock last night. After. making things ready for the morning, the singed she couple went to bed in a room lead- | ing off the, kitchen towards front of the house and from it by a small hall and the bathroom. The son had been in bed for some time. Both fell asleep almost immediate! As is usual, the door leading into their bedroom was left open in or- der that the parents might hear ths | boy call if he wanted them during »the night. Awakencd By Vire Waking frbm her slumber, Mrs, Baker saw a red glow coming frou the kitchen while, at the sar the room was filling with slight explosion followed her ening and she quickly busband. Both jumped from their bed in | their night clothes and reached the door to the kitchen together. The awak- awoke her husband attempted o draw his wit | back intending to make a dash for his son’s room across the kitchen, but she gave him a push sending him hack into the bedroom and dis- appeared. Hushand Sounds Unable to follow cause of the A"\lm'm her course, blinding smok ke- in his night attire and his feet bare and sped down the strect towards the fire alarm “box at the corner of West Main street and Homestead avenue. The alarm sounded from Box 51 at 12:45 o'clock. When he arrived apartment house back at at the corner the o ‘West Main and Westerley streets, héW dent was too serious to be overlooked | found his wife and bo outside. Knowing that they were safe, he and others in the house who had been awakened by the noise .and the smoke; quickly -went through the building waking the membérs of the other families residing there. Five families in all were routed out of their beds and driven {o the strect. In short order, Iingine Co. No. 4 and Deputy Fire Chief Michael Sou- hey were at the scene. Policeman | L‘)ar:nl‘c Kumm and Peter Skier- CANDIDATES SPEAK IN SPITE OF RAIN Quigley and Bartlett Ad-| dress Rallies at Fac- tory Gates Tn a downpour of rain, shortly he- fore 1 o'clock today, Candidates Donald L. Bartleit and Geprge A. Quigley stood at factory gates and carried to the workers their argu- ments in support of their candidacy for the republican mayoral nomin- ation. Bartlett spoke for a few minute at the entrance to Landers, IFrary Clark’, and Quigley conducted a short rally at the gate of the Cor- bin Screw Corporation. The inclem- ency of the weather had little effect on the attendance. Bartlelt repeated the statements he has made in other rallies to the effect that his six years of service in the common council has acquaint- ed him sufficiently with government fo fill the office of mayor, and that perience in handling large 1 problems gives him the incss background. He assured the workers that his and their interests are common, reminding of his carly work in a cracker bakery whefi he (Continued on Page Two) the | separated | Mr. | Baker dashed down the stairs, stiil | fi-y bus- NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, MARCH Average Daily Week Ending March 22nd Circulation For 15,906 930. —TWENTY-TWO . ..uES PRICE THREE CENTS ONMAIDEN CRUISE (ant Cerman Vessel Culs | Prof. Rafacl Bendandi W DEPUTY CHIEI' M. T. SOUN Minutes ON Bast to West Atlanti o Crossmg Time Bodies 500 Times as Ttome, March (UP)—The dis- D\A‘H of four new plancts—one of B G i e G 6 the |BATTLES HEAD WIND MOST | O WAY T0 UNITED STATES 5270 yee ctimed o b"bro |1m1mn cismologist and astronomer. Tho vast astral bodies, lying hun- |dreds of millions of miles beyond distant Neptune, were described by Bendandi® as far beyond the Minutes—New Vessel Has Faster |of past astronomical discoveries ex | cept the recently found planet ported from Flagstaff, Ariz. dandi of the planets he had discovered w. the one. found by Prof. Perciy Lowell. X Wrests Crown From Sister Ship Wi ith | Mark of 4 Days, 17 Hours and 6 | Engines and Less Vibration Be- Ben- cause of Changed Propcller Sys- tend—Arrives in New York Today. 1 New York, March 25 (P)—A new speed queen of {he seas was en- throned today when the North Ger- man Tloyd liner ILuropa on her|{ronomeys or scientist maiden voyage wrested the crown| I have fully identif from her sister ship, the Bremen. The 51,000 ton racing greyhound | 2 | Ready to Face Tests Bendandi said he was ready | submit his data to any body of to FUROPA SHATTERS |ltalian Astronomer Claims Four BREMEN'S RECORD = New Planets Discovered By Him Checked by Best Observatories — One of New range | re- | said he belicved the second | illing to Have Conclusions| [ Large as Earth, He Dgclares — Data Ready 6 Months Ago. | plancts a doubt.” | were firs | Press corr {but at th | refused to y 1 > said e they exist beyond Bendandi's claim known to the United ondent six months ago, time the Italian expert sermit publication of his The announcement of or Lowell's discovery prompt- ed him to place liis contention hefore the world and offer to submit his | | records to scientists sendandi's deseription of the new | |planets taxed the imagination of ement, Profe: {and volumes involved. | My discove | aitigen many 3 his clain; 100,000,100 pr v planet is ers (4,347,000,- | kilom (Continued on Page Two) | d the four passed Ambrose Lightship, the cross- ing tape, at 5:54 a. m. today, making the 3,100 mile crossing from Cher- 18 Minutes PRINGIPAL IN SUIT SENTENCED T0 JAIL K. §. Pefrauskas Gets 15 Days Tor Gontempt of Gourt GIVES $100 TO WITNESS New Britain Man Attempted to In- fluence Man Who Testiffed 1'or Him, Judge Jennings Belicves— | Refused Yew Days Grace. (Spec Hartford, ial to the Merald) March Interrupling lawyers' final arguments in the“uit of Philias J. Gagner and Alfred Roy against S. Petrauskas in | superior court today, Judge Newell Jenpings summarfly committed Petradskas to jail for 15 days for an alleged attempt to influence the te timony of Andrew Petuskis by giving Lim a check for $100. All the pa: concerned are from New Britain. Gagner and Roy are ing I trauskas to force him to pay a mortgage of $£5,995 on a picce of property which they sold to him. The plaintiffs are represented by At- torney Thomas 1°. McDonough ew Britain and Attorney John Robinson of Hartford and the d fendant by Attorney ¥F. B. Hunge ford of New Britain and Attorne Josiah H. Pecic of Hartford. Gives Check for $100 Petuskis was witness for Pe- | trauskas last Thursday. Today he | gave counsel for the plaintiff a check for $100 which, he said, ‘Petrausl had given him to influence his testi- mony. The jawyers called Judge Jennings' attention to the situation nd he took the matter very serious- Anthony | S vy | Petrauskas was questioned and told the judge that he gave Pctuskis the check in another real estate dcal. Judge Jennings said the inci- and that he did not believe Petraus- kas. He ordered'the sheriff “to talc Petrauskas into custody and put him |in the pen. I'Il commit him to jail for 15 davs for contempt of court.” Concerning Petuskis, Judge Jen nings remarked “He escaped by (Continued on Page Two) Mail Plane Crashes On Edge of Battlefield Hagerstown, Md., March 25 (®}— | Lost in a dense fog, a mail plane | bound from Washington to Rich- mond, Va. crashed near Antcitam slation, at the cdge of battlefield this morning. The pilot, Verne cat, jumped in his para chute after cutting off the ignition “and landed unhurt about three miles from where the plane was wrecked. cat, who i | was about miles off his course said he ran out gas. Ile telephoned to Richmond that he was unhurt and was taking carc of the mail. of | { . Antietam | of | -~ PRESS ESSENTIAL q]l»mlus §| rk I?,\‘ Rabbi Schwartz Speaks on “ls Democn racy 4 il Failure?” HURLS SHAFTS AT “REDS” the Bremen, which on that occasion bettered by 18 minutes the time of of | 1S minutes the her maiden voyage last July when she dethroned the long-reigning Cunard liner Mauretania. The voyage of the made under more difficult weather conditions than those faced by the Bremen on her record-breaking run, Throughout the voyage she buffeted strong head winds and heavy seas. A heavy fog settled over the lower bay just before the ITiuropa drove past Ambrose Lightship where she immediately slowed down and crept through the harbor to quarantine. There the German ambassador, Baron F. W. Von Pritt Witz und Graffon, Dr. Karl Von Lewiiski, Ger- man consul general and North Ger- man Lloyd officials boarded the liner from the customs cutter. The ambassador went immediately to the bridge and shook hands with Commodore Johnsen, and then re- tired to the chart room where a broadcasting station had been sct up, Commodore Johnsen said the ship | had lived up to all expectations. | They spoke over the Tadio both in | German and English. | The fog meanwhile had - settled | down thicker than cver and it was not until*9:11 that the big liner left | quarantine and proccedd cautiously | through the harbor traffic to her Brooklyn pic | A Jarge crowd awaited her there | in the rain. | The liner left Cherbourg, France, | at 12 p. m., castern standard | time last Thursday. The voyage is approximately 3,100 miles. The | Bremen's record was established last | October, when she od by 18| minutes the time she established on her maiden run last July. At that| time she took the record from the | ropa ywas Mussolinl a “Cheap Tmitation Napoleon,” in Opinion of 'I‘h(‘(ylllj gian—Deplores Sneering at Na- ticnal Government. When free speech and free press | are silenced, democracy is dead, sail Rabbi Jes ion Sons of Isr econ of fhe e Schwartz of the Congre- | el at the lunch- | Lions' club at the Bur- hotel today. aking Failur at ritt “Is D tabbi Schwartz pointel that democracy is a faith in the on mocracy out, inherent qualities of the individual | Cunardeliner Mauretania. Closcly Resembles Europa ‘The Europa closely resembles the | Bremen in construction and appea ance, the two ships being built un- der the same broad specifications for | size and specd. However, they a the producks of different designe and different shipbuilders. Both are built low to ecliminate wind resistance, but the Europa, the construction of which was delayed by two fires, contains a number of changes over the Bremen designed s | RABBI JESSE SCHWARTZ. and one of the which fundamentals America was founded. The speaker severely criticised | (Continued on Page Two) the communists who complain that TILSON 10 RECUPERATE | AT WHITE HOUSE SUITE America deprives them of the rights of frec added that .in | penalty those overnment's sup- speceh 1 vho criticise pression of He m and Rufsia is the for the referred to Mussolini and Fas. 15 the i d Mussolini as “a cheap of oleon, a modern who says ‘L am the stat There i no difference and communism e | | speech Hoover Tnvites Connecticut Legisla- | c e as communist tor 1o Make Home Headquarters | character e Fini [ imitation in Regaining Strength AT Washington, March 25 () 2 between dent Hoover has extended the hos. | Fascism | [ Mtality of the White Houss to Ttep- | and that under the present regime | | resentative Tilson of Connecticut, the | it 1taly as well as in Russia demo- house republican floor leader, dur-|Ccracy is an illusion in which the ling his recuperation from a rece nl ing powers do not attack of the grippe. He pointed out there | Tilson has accepted the pr certain snecring and skepticism invitation and will go to the White }~0m~- parts of America House late today as soon as he has|Ward the national government, | been diseharged from the naval hos- | that the shocking thing of all is t pital. He will remain at the exccu- | the recent oil scandals in Washin tive mansion until he recuperat. | ton made so little impression on the | | ed sufficiently to resume his duties | minds of the people. at the capitol, He became ill sud-| Rabbi wart denly last week. owing attitude use?” and the dec 'res | said rul- that t in directed to- but criticised th | What's th sing number ¢ of Washington, March man Legge, of the farm board, was taken to task in fhe senate today by Scnator Borah, of Idaho, for his statement yesterday contending the | expor able. The Tdahoan remarking that Legge would do better’to *demon- rate his filness to deal with the farm situation hefore undertaking to advise congress regarding tion." Borah. who has advo port debenture principle of farm re- lief, which is opposed by President | Hoover, placed the Legge statement in the congressional record. Along- side it he placed a stgtement by Al- | exander Hamilton on the protective tariff, “with apologies to Mr. Hamil- ton.” h. ed the ex Borah Takes Fling at Legge for Statement On Export Debenture (P)—Chair- | debenture plan was unwork- | Icg|sla»: those who go to the ica by polls in Amer. 1ying “We speak of the jority rule as though it were some mystic influence and then accept the rule of the 49 per cent as a mat- ter of convenience. “No one today believes that ¥ ‘The (Continued on Page 14) Brady,zt.ilities Leader, Reported Critically Il ew York, March ®) — The | “I notice €hairman Legge has tak | en a little time off from his arduous labors,” Borah told the senate, “to| make a statement on the export \dnhemu.c 1 think it would be more satisfactory to the country if Mr. Legge would demonstrate his fitness £ : to deal with the farm situation be- | ¢V York World today says Nicho- fore he undertakes to advise congress | 148 I Brady, chairman of the board | regarding legislation.” |of the New York Tdison company | Senator Borah did not amplify the | 2Md a dircctor in a score of public terms of the Alexander Hamilton utiliti industrial companies and atement. Legge, in opposing the ex. | banks, is critically ill-at his homc | port debenture system, which was | on Iifth avenuc, ncorporated in the tariff bill by the| Mr. Brady arrived in New York senate, continued that “foreign im-|Sunday night in a private car from | porting countries undoubtedly would | IMlorida. He was taken from” the | put up insurmountable barriers— | (rain direct to i apartment where perhaps to the extent of an.embar- | he is under {he carc of his private Ro—against American produce on hh_\s-l('mn Members of the family which the debentures were oper- | declined to discuss the nature of his ) ative.” illness or the seriousness of it. | | Minister Grandi of Italy ! adjournme | iy jicans by the French at a conferenc ! may be | Withdraws NAVAL DELEGATES CONSIDER RECESS Six Months Adjournment Defi-| 1 nitely Discussed at London GHANCE T0 END IMPASSE Grandi Credited With Suggestion to Allow I'rance and Italy to Arbi- trate Rival Claims to Tonnage-— Important Conference. London, March (P ment of the naval confercnce for six Adjourn- mont s a means of escaping the being defir today. t impa considered at the prese , Was tely conference | The suggestion for such an ad- journment was attributed to Foreign | and was made to Prime Minister MacDonald Give Chance for Riscussion The idea was that this suspensior | would give France and Taly further opportunity of composing | their-difficultics without prolongins the present virtual suspension of th conference. | 7he adjournment would contem- plate reassembling of {he ¢ nference on October 1, thus giving an oppor- tunity for a possible ement he- fore Christmas This suggestion is now u visement, but it was said in authori- tative conference circles that it would mot be made effective all hopes vanished for a five-power agreement at this time. Pact Still Uncertain | T8 a Whether some sort of a pact would | be signed prior to an adjournment | was a matter of speculation. The Licads of the five delegations planned to meet this afternoon to consider the whole situvation including suggestion. During the day d with a view to achieving- a power pact was given the Amer- |at American headquarters. Adjéurnment Favored Tondon, March 25.—(®—Prop, | als to adjourn the five power naval conference for six months were said today to have made a favorable im- pression in responsible circles and considered serious!y. Most London morning papers credited {he proposal to Dino Gran di, Italian foreign minister and dele- gation head, who after being vainly (Continued orr Page Two) CAVANAUGH OUT OF TOWN CLERK RACE Petition Nomination—Callahan May Drop Out for A contest for nomination clerk on the democratic ticket voided last night when T. Clay vanaugh withdrew his petition of candidacy, leaving the ficld open to | Matthew J. Callahan. whose with- | drawal is also a possibility In the event that Callahan decide to drop out of the race. the republi- can_candidate who is choson at the G. 0. P. primary Friday evening will | e placed on the democratic ficl a6 will also Tax Collecior Bernadotte Loomis and Treasurcr Curtis L. Shel- don. Comptroller William H. Day. 1 publican, will by opposed by Nurezyk, banker and finance hoard member, who is now campaigning for the office. Cavanaugh presented his letter o | withdrawal to the town commitiec, explaining that his act was prompted by a desire to continue harmony in the party. for town was | THL WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Rain tonight and Wednesday Somewhat colder Wednes- da |* {U. §. Official Ordered fo Defend laymen becausejof the vast distances { tion untit | the | surance that the | | rench delegation was ready to pro- | he JUDGE REFUSES TO COMPEL ALLEN Unkaown to World of Scientists - AN[) BATTERSON TO TESTIFY BEFORE GRAND JURY ON LIQUOR PURGHASES FEDERAL ATTORNEY DS INDIAN SOUAW Resists Holdup Men, Newark Man Is Killed Newark, N. J., March 25 (P)— Resisting two bandits in the holdup of his cafe in the base- ment of the Lincoln Park hotel, in Broad street, carly today, Wil- liam Curry, 48, was shot to death. The bandits escaped w they scooped from the c gister and $5 which t from Curry's son, Joseph, 24, an eye-witness to the murder. Two patrotts in the place were search- ed for money. h $25 h Bulfalo Witcheralt Case ‘PROSEGUTOR VOICES KICK re- took Government's Move to Aid Ward GARNER TO SEEK Brings Adjournment—IReservation Inhabitants Rgjoice At Help From Great White Father. Court House, 25 (UP)—The ment today Buffalo. N. Y., United St came to the March govern- of its attempt mt indian model from eled the murder 1d Attorney " aid ward, Lila Jimerson 10 keep the the with Marc States in an Insists Senate-House Conlerees Ought to Inform People LONGWORTH AGAINST HASTE Started Monday dying in chair. She is charged Mrs. Clothilde United of Ttichard of the after he had notified the cou pleton took el rt {hat Work ta Be on that effect Mitchell / District Attorney When he | would take over the defense, District | Attorney Guy B. Moore | feet. “Your hionor.” lie shouted, “I want it understood 1 decply resent the in-|and nited States in | bill We have reached the stage | where the Washington gove feels it can dominate the re- states, protest against he had received instructions to from Attorney General Protests —Bill Formally TRecelfed and Templeton announced Tabled Under Rules, March [t to obtain Washington, | termined effort | of the daily house A de- publicit the senate leaped to his tions of conferees beginning next by Repres G Te the house minority who will be one of | members on the ; mittee. With ou iere to e all tarift bills have behind closed doors but there have been | casions when f{he actions been made public intervention lends the | progress. aspect of all to this strange | Garncr said today > that grew out of Indian super-|deavor 1o have this y stition high up in the hills where, for | on Hawley-Smoot measure, Senecas, witches still prowl the | passed 53 to 31 yester the | border-lines of the Catfaraugus res-|genate, Chairman Smoot, of the crvation. ‘There {he Senecas sound | finance committee, who will head their tom-foms at evening in the | (he It dan Gonter e Al hope that the rit will come | o wonld put the question of pub- | to the aid of son, Wo 10| jicity to the conference when it gets hem is the Lilac” | gown to work on the hundreds htin the of the law they | gifferences in the house and senatc do not attempt to understand. measures carly next week Nancy in Court Longworth said today that In jail sits-Mrs. Nuncy Bowen would be no effort to rush the { Indian crone who accused by the bill through the house | of New Yor beating the U e bill formally out of Mrs. Marchand with a ten-| (o (e house from ent hammer. Also in jail is Henri | iy lie on the | Marchand, a suave French artist who | o Nronday: used Mi erson as a model until| Ty, gesire | she became infa r::,:l with :um. testandl e fFnd A ga0NC P anonportuntty persuaded IS | amendment | Marchand No one yet knows what is to be Marehangd done. Conferences are to he held Mrs. Bowen, Jointly indicted | qping his week to determine the Jimerson woman, goes on | (o H® a charge of murder at the conclusion of the present c: on the tariff week will be o entative now ment speetive this.” “May the court please,” ton said, “I haven't comc listen to all this. 1 object.” Templeton then asked for an ad- journment until 2 p. m. to prepare his The court granted the mo- xas, leader, the o i five conference com- Temple- * two exceptions, B b in conferenc equent oc ken ha as the sessions case. IPede strang he would en actice followe the Lila J innocent meshes aker “there an tavift ate was life messag ate today ker's table to give the semate a members of’ the house to study Longworth said. Mrs. Bowen to kill is held as a material witness with the trial on Longworth said that hefore Mon- | i day the manner in which the | There was a sense of clation on the | 3 les measure will be considered will have | Cattar s reservation today, for | b s & | been determined by the republican | the Senecas believed that their p s cnen | e answered by the Great = S W 1er who had come to save | “Pattered Bill Emerges V- ‘uington, March (UP)— Emdking, tattered torn, from v seven months’ urney Two) HOSPITAL GETS 83,000 FROM T. A. FAIR ESTATE Who i and heetic nued on Page Two) Joulth]ope S \Vi.('c (,e(< Divorce }. 1,“’, ee Today Danbury, Marcl ) —A decre divorce has been given Mrs. Anna Stratten Moulthrope from Watso Moulthrope, who is ahout to from Jackson with added pe habitual crimin: Mrs. Mo set up as New York Resident Died in August, 19 Left $11.095 itain Gene cquest from the rhiomas A. Fair according to port of tl York state N ) robbery, a son for alty of probably being 1o he imposed thrope in her libel und for a divorce that her hus band had represented himself as model young man, whereas he hal been involved in robberies prior 1o his marriage, his arrest following two weeks later. The decree s given on grounds desertion and Mrs. Moulthrope | will take her maiden name est the re- transfer institu- tion My eaving dicd estat ik The bulk ¢ Ir H. Lair an ised today 244,095 net zocs to relatives. Yates and George exceutors. of ‘Dobson Says Mlynarski Is Playing | Politics On the Eve of Election Councilman Joscph Miynarski > fifth ward republican repre- <cntafives, was accused by Chair- man George Dobson of the board of public works at a meeting of the ht of “putting on a show on the eve of election” so voters in the ward will think is fighting for their interests Dobson called his attention to the fact that the hoard is well awarc conditians on Corbin avenue which he complained but the cc mission has no money for improyve ments. Dobson asked the council- man why e Gid not wait until th next board took office. Councilman Mlynarski said 1 one | there was no money of the street Then you want it es that Councilman Mlynarski asks for improvements in the fifth * Chairman Dobson smilingly. Miynarski said Merian had promised him provement on Corbin avenue, lefore he could finish his statem Mr \|¢‘H’1I\ interrupted with the ma “Don't bring me into this, made no such statement.” The hoard of public works he: then called attention to the numi of petitions for road improvement which the councilman had filed in same hoard mow in session might | {he .3 mon council knowing ther probably be the one in power after | was no i ey available the clection. Questioned by Chai ' nian Dobson he admitted he knew (Coggnued on Page Two), for the repair suggested that P im- City Enginee of \ of Bl e e TARIFF PUBLICITY Hundreds of Differences in Rates | [ rner of | n considered | of | ced the senate | in the hc:m,‘ 1Hartford Mayor Alleg- | ed to Have Purchased $500 Worth of Rum, With Implication That ex-State Senator Was “Fnend” in Deal Vice Take Case Before Judge Jen- nings to Compel Two Men to Testify Before Them—Both Refuse to Give Facts. 2| Investigators Ierald) — Judge superior court this afternoon refused to grant the request of the grand jury investi- { gating the liquor traffic situation in Hartford and vicinity that Mayor | Walter .- Batterson of Hartford and Idward N. Allen of Hartford, former chairman of the republican | town committee and former police | commissioner and senator he or- dered by the court to answer ques- tions which they had refused to an- swer before the grand jury. Jennings said that in view of the fact that both men stood on their constitutional rights, he would not compel them to answer the questions and if the grand jury found that this ruling would hamper it in further investigations, the members should report to him to- | that effect and he will discharge them If however, they are able {o pro- ceed without depending on the principals involved in bootlegging for their information, they may proceed | with the investigation. Mayor Batterson was, in court, represented by Attorney Francis W. Cole. Mr, Allen was represanted by Attorney Joseph F. Berry. Attoraecy Ralph 0. Wells; foreman of the grand jury, read a report to the court in which he stated that Mayor Batterson had {estified before the grand jury that he purchased $500 worth of liquor abont 3 months ago and §300 worth of liquor some time previous to that, hoth purchases hav- }ing been made from a hootlegger | who made the deliveries through a friend of the mayor, The mayor further, according the reporf, that he made pay- Iment by check to his friend but he | declined to name the man. As to the name of the bootlegger, he could only recall that it was Mur- | phy. Yesterday, the grand jury sum- moned the mayor and also sum- {moned Mr. Allen. When the mayor was questioned further as to the identity of his friend, he told the {grand jury that he stood on his constitational rights and on the ad- vice of counsel he would not give any further testimon: Mayor Batterson was accused of protecting a bootlegger by the jury | which has been investigating liquor ! conditions in Hartford county, and Allen indicated as ‘“‘probably the friend” of the mayor through | whoni a $300 purchase of liquor | was by the mayor three in the report to Judge to made months ago, | Jennings. At the conclusion of the reading the report, State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn requested Judge Jen- nings to order the mayor and Mr. | Allen to answer the questions or be | committed to jail until they did so. Attorne; replied that M | Allen was clearly within his consti- | tutional privilege in refusing to an- (Continued on Page 19) FORFEITS MOTOR CAR GIVEN AS HIS BOND {Rug Cleaning Racketeer Fails to Appear in Police Court Samuel U. Williams, of 138 New Britain avenue, Hartford, who was to have gone to trial in police ourt today on the charge of obtain- !v: money under falsec pretenses vith a rug renovating racket, fail- \J to present himself and his bond was ordered forfeited by Judge M. D. Saxe. Williams, whose alias is C. Anderson, was in court last week and had his case continue@ until today. 'His bond was an automo- bile said to be worth approximately At Srd, orney John I. Brady of Hart- representing Williams, told Saxe he had not secen him last weel, but he knew he had away to get money with which meet the expenses of the situa- on brought about by his activities rug repair agent. The attor- knew about the automobile, as drew the bill of sale, which was 1ecorded in New Britain, he said. Williams, at the time he was 1\ (Continucd on Page Two)