New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1930, Page 14

Florida Murder Mystery Proves Mass of Conflicting Evidence As | Police Hold Carver for Inquiries Man Who Claimed Negro Servant Killed Wife and Child Apparently Link- ed With Slaying by Bloodstained Shirt Jury Reverses Decision. | Fla., April 5 (UP)—Thi ida resort town today h mystery Sebring, south Flo vored a centering about William missing murder R. one of its most influential citizen: arrest charged with conceiving and executing an cate plot for the murder of his at- tractive wife i two-year-old son, gro houschoy. s arrest yesterday Carver, who is und brought which nee that killed onl child. ed pe ther had ife and jury had retur ustifiable homici reconvene, suddenly reverse cision and involve Carver in a mass of strong evidence, Evidence Contradictory Shortly after it was recalled Deputy Sheriff 1. Helm presented an affidavit alleging that Carver de- liberately pl: ed the death New evidence. tory, was reviewed and he was ar- rested on warrants sworn out by District Atto! Grady Burton an- Police Chief ender. Today Highlands county et to consider the case a ver- only to its de three cvidence brought forth | last night in the re tion of the coroner's jury. Dis Attorney Burton is expected to ask | that murder indictments be return- ed against Carver. he bodies of Mrs. Carver and her son were mutilated a room of clusive home. Both apparent been Killed with a hatchet other blunt instrument was the body of the houseboy, to death. Carver's story was a plausible one. His wife had gone into a room in which her son was playing, and he told the coroner’s jury she had en- countered Ben Whitehead, the houseboy, ransacking the room. Ruth Stapff found ir Nearby shot The boy seized a hatchet when Mrs. | Carver had been attracted by the struggle. He shot the negro dead. Blood Found On Shirt . shortly after Carver was new cvidence came to F Witnesses told the jury that a blood stained shirt had been found under a refrigerator. Others said Carver had changed his shirt short- ly after they entered the home, and | it was pointed out that Whitehead had ample time to gscape. between the time of the alleged killing and ver's arrival. Information also was received to 1he effeci that the four shots were heard from the home which s-dradicted ecarlier testimony Carver fired only twice after : had entered. Burton said he had come into posseszion of the slain woman's in- irance policy., which he said made - Carver the bereficiary of $10,600 _ with double indemnity in case of ac- - cidental death. He would not say ~ whethep he attached any importance to this angle. 7 Meanwhile Carver « Fairfax T. Haskins, prominent at- « torney. A telegram was received . from Mrs. Carver's brother, Julius % Stapft, of Cresco, Pa.. asking for » particulars and declaring “charge against Carver ridiculo = Carver's father, Samuel » Who recently purchased the former + Willlam Jennings Bryan home in ~ Miami, came here yesterday. " The Carvers formerly lived . Philadelphia. - con- t he has retained in HATWICK TO AID MEN New York. April (UP)—Th ‘American Civil Liberties Union a nounced today that former Thomas W. Hatwick of . would appear before the Carolina supreme court or behall of Fred Be tile strikers in their conviction of conspirac Chiet of Police I'red Gastonia, N. « nator i this mont. GEARY SLIGHTLY BETTER Boston, April 5 (UP)—Ed I, Geary, wealthy helor advanced from office hoy to partn in the banking house of Hornblow and Weeks cribed “slightly better” today b ants at his South where he is seriousl his unpretentious est wooden hon and from Boston hom Despite trolley JUNKMAN MISSING Mas: wr) r-old Lyna nd wago today hal wimost 43 hours. Thes Thursday proceedi Jircetion of junkman green with been mi were I in the ger Peaboc Many Herald € HARD-SOFT LARGE-SWALL a business T ified advertis much of it contradic- | ot Hawkes is a member. He is a teac Carver, . |1 when it comes to murder Chicago CORN Out to St;\i()a;Rgols and All After Plasters, Worthless Liquids, Dangerous Cutting Have Failed! NEW BRITAIE_D'AILY HERALD | || Police Station Blaze Hard on Bystanders || Detroit. April 5 (P — One | | branch of the city's bluecoats had || 2 good laugh at the other yes- {| terday while the innocent by- || stander got it in the neck. It all started when onc of the rec elevators in police hcad- | | auarters developed a short circuit and spurted flames. Edward Krogulski, the operator, dis- charged his passengers on the @ floor and rang up the fire 2 Cries of “fire” re- sounded through the building. Down on the first floor a dozen patrolmen sprinted for a handy hose recl, just in case Operator Krogulski happened to bring his fire within range. When a score of fire engines arrived the fire- men found groups of drenched patrolmen playing catch as catch can with the hose after having flushed most of lobby fre- quenters out into stre the York A wedding present | ide is a life appointment as | y Salonica, Greecee. | From Connecticut to Arge map is the non-stop refucling and Herbert Partridge (right) in the e n Theological semir ed to William Emor; | Hawkes by the president of the sem- New York, April 5 (P—The lonc est non inary and then will receive her ap- pointment from the Amcrican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- ¢ sions at ceremony in the Fou h |5 Congregational church, of which Mr.| ~ | op distance flight yet empted by airmen United | 5,000 mile air journey from New Haven, Conn, to Buenos | Aires—is the ambltious project | two former military fliers for con- | summation. The first good day of the full which will be sometime be- | April § and 15—should scof Comd. George R. Pond and Herbert C. Partridge, winz-| of the tates—an er at Anatolia colleg |is home on furlough. Salonica, and London — Whether they want hot | dogs or caviar women often are re- | Moo | fused permission to visit eating|lWeen places at night without male escorts | Licut. and the government has befors it |Capt. | demands that it do something about | in& their way southward toward, it. A women’s mass meeting, at|the southern cross m their which the new Lord Balfour presid- | sitgle motored Stinson monoplan . | |ed. requested repeal of a law for- plane built especially for sus- | |bidding restaurateurs to permit ined flight with a heavy load |certain women on the premises.| The flight will be non-stop Speakers told the embarrassment|at least four and perhaps five |often afforded women night workers. | fueling contacts will have to be EETT | made as no ship yet has been bui New York The Authors’ club, | that can take a load of fuel off tF | founded 50 years ago, has just ad-|ground ne ary for such a dis-| mitted women to regular member- | tance |ship and the first is Tda M. Tarbell.| Tor i | Harriet Beecher Stowe was an hon- [near New Haven from which to| |orary member. John Erskine. the|take off with a full load the fivst | president. said that when the clublrefueling contact will be at ecither {was founded women writers were| Roosevelt field or Newark munici- | almost negible—now the sexes share | pal airport. From there their routs {the honors almost evently corrics them over Havana, for an- other refueling contact ross t Caribbean to Cristobal, Panama, for ble third refueling, down the ept, fog bothered west coast { South America to Lima, Pern, for more fuel, to Santiago or Me | deza, Chile, for another refuel contact and into Bucnos Aires The fliers expect the vo take 80 to 90 hours. Partridge, who has nursed the | idea of the flight tor over a year | while seeking financial backing, v war flier and for several vears| i e was a test pilot for the army. He London — A painting showing the | 155 1,000 hours of flving. Pond is Prince of Wales at dinner table With | 1"0 ' o “hier called back to ac- |an uncorked bottle of champagme |yjve gervice in 1917, an experienced before him has created a stir. HOW- | \ovivaior” ang the ard Robinson intends to submit 1"s{the flight of the |work for exhibition at the Roval|on " Cglitornia to Australia two Academy. He says two of the| i o R 4 the | Years ago—counted the most suc- | prince’s equerries have inspected the | o (oo \MOrC o Coe demite painting and laughed at criticism. | He has 8,000 hours of flying. ! Their plane was originally built e s to be abolish- 3 hd‘“"“gl‘; = al3“”"°;°m:‘dm‘:’,?:'s‘fv for an attempt at the world’s non- AL A nn e e 3 seling endurance record. It has ukase of the all Russian medical a 55 5 foot wing spread, is powere ] ess. ce it E congress. Russian will replace It. | ;i1 5 425 horsepower Pratt and | Whitney senior. Fuel tank of = capacity of 1,000 gallons have been | installed. The plane has a cruising peed of 100 miles an hour and a rvice ceiling of 20.000 feet. N | o but lack of an adequate ficll London — Phil Scott is to use some of the procecds of his Amer can tour to open a beauty parior, |which will aim to beautify women and keep men youn | | | | Philadelphia— Dr. Frank N. Free- {mai. professor of education at the | University of Chicago, has found | |that truck drivers are the least in- |telligent men. A high intelligence rating is an absolute disadvantage | ‘(0 them counsellor for | Southern Cross ! | New York — Comes Charles §. | Peterson, city treasurer of Chicago, |to point out that far from being No. is No. 15: Washington, D. C. has more murders per capital than Chi- | cago. Peterson spoke at a luncheon at the Harvard club. In order that hie may remember Our Hat Cleaning Arcade whom Shawkey Has Big List | Of Pitching Candidates Forth Worth, Tex., April Try us once. All to find enough all to keep in shape s relcased impossible 140 MAIN STREET L flight | lacd |1 sct the pace for a five-day We know the hat business from beginning to end. profit by our experience. QOur charges are most reasonable. New Haven-Buenos Aires Aviators Hope to Establish Distance Mark over the 8,000 route shown in proposed by George Pond (left) ir Stinson-Deiroiter plane (top). AIR CORPS TAKES DAY OFF IN FIGHT Honors Governor While Mythi- cal Fog “Pillages” State Sacramento, Cal, April 5 (P—A theoretical cnemy today slaughtered, pillaged and burned its imaginary w through central California without ance as the r corps abandoned its de- tions and took a day oft to honor Governor C. C..Young and to preparc for a week-end behind the front. The hypothetical loss of life and the amount of punitive destruction in the war-torn area could not be certained, because every com- munication line had been wrecked the theoretical thunderbolt of the cnemy. I highway and ilroad was theoretically Dlocked, shipping was imaginarily bottled up in San Francisco Bay and the popu- was in a state of figmentary terror. While all conjecturally going on, the fliers who hav been defending the area since April by this was week ring *100 planes for a the Califorina gover- war by preps review before nor, Beginning Monday morning, how- ever, the enemy will have to pay and pay and p3 because planes are going to leave Mather field her: under sealed order They expect to rake the dastardly invaders with paper bombs and blank machine gun bullets. Rookies Are Let Go From Camp of Browns Kansas City, April 5 (A—Frel Bennett, outfielder with Wichita Falls last year and Eddie Roetz in- clder, seems due to leave the St. Louis Brown: Bennett is said to be in for seasoning with the Mil- waukee brewers and Roetz may g0 to Wichita Falls. * sammy Hale, who is scrapping with Frank O'Rourke for third base, was under the care of a physiclan | yesterday with the flu. ANNOUNCEMENT is now open for business. You'll work guaranteed. RAYMONDS “New DBritain’s Leading Hat Cleancrs and Shoe Dyers” TELEPHONE 2324 FLY 1.00 FLY AT EDMAN'S FIELD PARACHUTE Drive Out Newington Rocky JUMP 2P, M. and 5 P. M. Upsidedown Flying Exhibition Flying Circus Under Direction of Lieut. Carl A. Dixon SUNDAY Road One Mile or Out Hill Avenue FLY 1.00 FLY SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1930. —_— Trick Fire Bell Proves Puzzle to Department Marshalltown, la., April 5 (P— The Marshalltown fire bell should ring now only when there is a fire—or at the most only when somebody thinks there's one. The bell bad been ringing every hour or so for days, and for no apparent reason. This, of course, caused all sorts of incon- venience to the firemen — they never knew whether to dash out in search of a blaze or take an- other yawn. All sorts of traps were laid in hopes of catching the practical jokester, but none could be found. Finally the search led to the bell itself. There, it was found a brooding pigeon had built a nest around the electric cord leading to the gong. Part of the insulation had worn off and the wire had become en- twined with bits of string so that every time the pigeon turned the eggs, a contact was made that rang che bell. Funeral Services Held For American Diplomat Vienna, April 5 (UP)—Tuneral Albert Henry Wasn- burn, former United States minister to Austria, were held today at his home and at the English church hea attended. Twelve services for mounted police led thez funeral cortege from the house to the church. Four carriages in the procession were heaped with flow- ers, and the coffin was drapcl with the American flag. Chaplain R. F. Moody officiated. ashburn and her son were & Frederick I". A. Pearson the American charg d’affaires The body was placed a state at {the church until afternoon when | public ceremonies were arranged at the large Austrian Protestart church. The bodly will be provi- {sionally buried at Heitzing cemctery here. | | | | BOUGHT, NOT STOLE, METAL | New London, April 5 (P—Reuben | Lubchansky, president of the New | England Iron and Metal company, recently detained in connection with theft of metal parts from Fort H. G. | Wright, for which alleged theft two | soldiers were arrested, was discharg- ed by U. S. Commissioncr Corran vesterday after a hearing. Metal which Lubchansky had was identi- fied as a portion of stock which he had had,long before the thefts from the fort and he showed that it came into his possession by auction pur- chase. Dixon and Wright LIEUT. CARL A. DIXON The flying scason will be ushered in tomorrow in greater New Britain by Lieut. Carl A. Dixon and Licut. Charles Wright, both of this city, who will summer, Licut. Dixon wil have his base at the Edman farm in Newington and Licut. Wright will use the Swanson airport in the northern end of the | city. Three ships will be used by Licut. Dixon, two four-passenger Whirl- wind motored Standards, and a ‘Wright powered 300 horse power Bellanca monoplane, with a capacity of six passengers and a top speed of 145 miles an hour. The Bellanca is Y operate airports for the Taking to Air To Open New Britain Flying Year LIEUT. CHARLES WRIGHT 1a duplicate of the plane used by Helena Smith recently when she cracked the world's altitude record for women. Lieut. Dixon will be assisted by Al Burham and Joseph Baltrun of Hartford. He wil stage an air circus tomorrow, including in his program delayed parachute jumps at o'clock and 5:30 o'clock by Edward Sherman of New Haven, a dead stick landing in the afternoon by Burnham and an exhibition of up- side down flying and stunting by himself, also in the afternoon. ¢ Licut. Charles Wright will be as- sisted this season by Lieut. Sanford Chandler of this city. Flights will be made cach Sunday. Trouble With Labor Is Blamed for Explosion Kansas City, Mo., April 5 (P— Labor troubles, believed by officers to have resulted in destruction of numerous buildings in recent months, were blamed for an explo- sion today which" destroyed a re- cently completed filling station and [rocked the southwest Kansas City residential section. None was in- jured. Police indicated a dynamite bomb had been planted on the premises. Mrs. Harry H. Parr, who lives near the building, across the Kansas line, said she saw a motor car rpeed from the scene immediately after Ithe blast. ‘Windows in homes and business |houses many blocks away were | shattered by the explosion. Hun- dreds of alarmed persons called po- lice. T. J. Rayburn, who lives nearly three miles from the filling | station, reported the blast knocked him down. EDITOR SENTENCED New Delhi, India, April 5 (P— The editor of the newspaper “Arjun” named Indra today was sentenced to nine months rigorous imprisonment for sedition. Indra also is president of the Youth Leaguc here. Many a successful local business man owes his place to a Herald Classified Ad. 1 01930 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. Political Advertisement Give New ETHEL AN S “FoR AWAILE. LONG SILKY “FiR WAS ALl THES S —THEN THAT CREP, WIRY GYUFF WS e VoG UL, - ~NOow IT'S TRES GOFT cuRLY COAT—— —BUT WaAT I'D OLKE YO Khow = — WHEN (& 8-NICE. GHAGGY, EFFECT o coMmG (8 Political Advertisement Britain Political Advertisement A Good Business Administration Vote the Straight Republican Ticket CLAIMS TWO: RECORDS Helene Madison, Seattle Aquatic Star, Clips Seconds Off Two World .Marks in Meect. Seattle, April 5 (A —Helene Madi- son, Seattle aquatic star, today claimed two more world's swim- ming records. In a 300 yard race against time, the 16 year old swimmer who sent eight world's marks into the discard in Florida aquatic meets last month, last night clipped 17 1-5 seconds off Gertrude Ederle’s official time and nearly three seconds off the latest record established by Jo- sephine McKim of Los Angeles. Miss Madison’s time was 3 minutes 41 3-5 seconds compared with Miss Ederle's record of 3:58 4.5 seconds and Miss McKim's recent figure of S:44 1-5. At the end of 200 yards in the race, timers clocked Miss Madison at 2 minutes 20 3-5 seconds which was nearly two seconds faster than the officlal world's record and 1 1-5 seconds better than her own recent time. Miss Ethel Lackey of New York holds the official record of 2:22. Miss Madison swam the dis- tance in 2:21 4-5 in Florida. The 300 yard race was officially sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic union. An attempt will be made to have the mark recognized. It's a good habit to get into, if you read the Herald Classified Ads nightly. e _ POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT MARTIN To the Voters: Affirming our faith in the political principles of Thomas Jefferson, and asserting our op- position to the growth and en- croachments of the monopoly and corporation control of our city government, Never before' was a change more necessary in the wasteful, inefficient, extravagant, spoil system of government at the ex- pense of the taxpayers who are finding it hard to meet their obligations than now. Equitable valuation of all taxable property by bonded ex- perts from one of several cor- porations in this line of busi- ness, not influenced by local political machines. Also a CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOV- ERNMENT, which would dis- pense Wwith political log-rolling and special interest. Pensions for people outlawed by age limit set by the greed of our big business institutions and unemployment insurance for the working people in emergencies such as the present, to be charged against the fabulous profits and surpluses created by the working people through im- proved and speed-up machinery. The gouging institution, known as the Public Utilities which, in their attitude of charge as much as the people can pay, regardless of their profits running in some cases as high as 45 per cent, on watered stock. If the people continue to elect those who are responsive to and servile to Machine Con- trolled Groups, there should be no complaint when monopoly begins to grind the people of our City. For years the small mer- chant and business man have been aligned with the Old Guard crowd in politics on the falla- cious assumption that their in- terests have been identical with theirs. They have all been business men and capitalists. Now they have discovered that they are like fish in an aquarium—the fish are all fish, but when the big fish begin eating the min- nows it is foolish to tell the minnows that their interests are identical with those of the big fish, The small business man is being swallowed by the big fel- low and is becoming alarmed. Here in New Britain we will have opportunity to vote for Candidates who are being sup- ported by big financial groups that are the beneficiaries of monopoly. There are candi- dates who stand for another philosophy—that the common welfare is paramount to big profits for a favored few. It will be interesting to watch nest Tuesday's vote in an effort. to appraise how deeply this Ma- chine Control of City Life has afiected voters of our City. The people have an oppor- tunity next Tuesday to say whether or not they approve of a system that has produced high tax rate, unfair assess- mants, waste and extravagance of the people's money. Will they take the trouble next Tues- day to go to the polls and reg- ister their protest? Tconomy and efficiency must be practiced in our city govern- ment, if taxes are to be kept from mounting higher, year by year. Independent Party + Advertisement EELLY