New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERAL Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 5 ,989 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930. — 'WENTY PAGES LORENZ SENTENCED TO HANG Fu 2,000 MUTINOUS CONVICTS DEFY OHIO PRISON GUARDS; PROBE OF BLAZE RESUMED Frenzied Prisoners Yell| M[]B KILLS NE[]R[' o Release and " TIEN FRON AL Threaten Officers-Ef- forts to Quiet Them%Sherifl Seriously Hurt Defending Only Partially Suc- Prisonerin South Garolina cessful. CHARGED WITH ASSAULT Empty Cartridge = Shells| 50 year 01a Defendant Dragged to Explaix}ed — Two Keep-| 7ree, Tied and Riddled With Bul- ers Suspended—Finger- | print Experts Continue| .. o\ Work Identifying ‘ | Green, 50 year old negro, was lynch- | Dead in Morgue. ognized Onc of Masked Men. Ol ed carly today by a masked mob that | Hl':l;:ml him from the Oconce |ty ijail, tied him to a tree and rid- dled his body with bullets. Sherift John Thomas was struck heavy blow on the head when he re- sisted the mob. He was taken to a of the Ohio prn\"‘nnarh fire today continued their probeinto | OSPIal in Anderson to determine if o x £ Probe/into] pisSaull was fractured. the disaster which took a life toll of | Charged With Assault 318 convicts, the general spirit of un- rest in the prison flamed into open revolt againsf discipline. After a|arrested Sun The next day night of disquicting reporls, some| was given a preliminary hearing 2,000 —convicts in the idle housc |ordered held in jail without threatened open warfare if they were | for trial in court of general sessions. not released immediately. They said| Jugene Thomas, 2L year old they would kill the score of guards|of tho sheriff, said the mob gath in the cell block if they were not|outside the jail about midnight turned loose from the into the ‘nixht Leaders aroused the officer yard. }'\ml his son, who were asleep in the Disorder in Yards | building, and demanded the negro. In the vard itself another disorder | mpaking his shotgun with him. occurred. Some 100 convicts confined | speriff Thomas went to the temporarily in the chapel, were in-|the building and flamed by incendiary speeches made | mop o disperse. by leaders. These men were from the | {po men hit him on the el biotl v of el gaiq, with the victims dicd. National Guard officers | i and prison officials attempted 10| e negro then was taken CRLAiLh | his cell, marched to Mystery surrounding the firing of | /1 i two shots during the fire was cleared | {oc ¢0vna'a short time up today when Warden Preston| S A (O Thomas reported a guard had fired g a revolver twice to sound an alarm Recognized Onc Man offive) Fugene Thomas said he and A trusty working outside the pris-| on walls heard the shots, and looking | 0P ip| sasv flanics, o ran to a nearby |l Eana and I can/sweap to recog- fire box and sent in the first alarm, | Mzing one man.” Thomas said. ““His Suspension of onc penitentiar; andkerchief slipped from his face guard, and a recommendation that|and both of us saw him.” another be suspended was announced [ The name of the man was today by Warden Thomas. He said|hcld pending an investigation he had suspended Guard Edwa .. | state officers. Kerr, for intoxication last night. Green was said Guard Captain Harry T. Laukhart [ calmly from the cell recommended that Guard Roy C.|companicd the Minshall, be suspended. He charged | & word. the guard had failed to properly pa- trol his beat last night. More Guards Ordered Tmmediate employment of 25 addi- | gy John tional guards at Ohio penitentiary |{ oy i was authorized by Hal H. Griswold, | 2 state director of welfare. A spirit of unrest in the prison since the tragic | el fire of Monday night was H\Dughl‘ix"m”:;\‘:fi‘ S 4 to have caused the director to order |~ 7 e that more guards be placed on duty Of the many prisoners who were | injured and taken to the hospital, all but 14 had been released today and had returned to their companies. The 14 continued in critcal condition, 11 being victims of pneumonia. Work was started to clear up wreckage and debris in the ill fated cell blocks, 25 prisoners doing the labor. Prisoners, most of them cells, continued to grumble Columibus, April 24 (P — vestigators As in-| an 18 year old white woman. He was he bond ca pleaded with Instead, one head, butt of a pistol and the dead body later tied to his with- by to have walked and to have mobh without utte Sherift Badly Hurt Anderson, S. C., April 24 (P)ya- Thomas, of Walhalla, this morning resisting an armed mob at the Oconee county jail, was in a s actured and that he (Continued on Page Two) 'BRITISH CAPTAIN HANGS | SELF ABOARD CRUISER! | | | Welby Commits Suicide Just Before .| Ship Was Scheduled to Sail for in their| about Target Practice. Portsmouth, . April 24 (P — Tragedy came {o the British cruiser (Continued on Page Three) Champion lying at her berth here today. 39 PROPERTY LIENS =527 out during the fore- [noon, but a short time before she was due to steam away her com- manding office Captain Richard Martin Welby, was found hanging dead in the bathroomof his cabin. The door had to be forced to reach the commander, who by a rope tied to the ceiling. ficial respiration was applicd, without success. 1t was understood farcwell letters | In compliance with a rcquest|were left by Captain Welby, who | made by State Tax Commissioner |1ad been promoted to the rank of | William H. Blodgett {o all collce- [captain in December, 1929. 1ors, a report has been prepared by Reports $323,031 Owed to City in Uncollected Levies Arti- | but lets—Son of Oficer Says He Rec- | coun- | treen was charged with attacking | front of | of | his son | from | n automobile | father recognized one member of the | rious condition today | al. Physicians said | was hanging | ‘ MARIAN BENNETT SAILS FOR EUROPEAN LINKS Here's a feminine American expeditionary force—members | to invade Lurope to take part in inter-team competition. | sailed from New York. In the center | her several times in the last nine years. Glenna Collett, famed woman link (P—Allen | the team, who is in quest of the British and French golfing champiun.\hms which have eluded Ine Left to right are M New Britain, Glenna Collett, Bernice Wall and l*rltue Stifol. of the first women's golfing team They are pictured above as they star and captain of . 0. 8. Hill, Marian Bennett of Mills Tells of Plans BREMEN COLLIDES WITH OIL. TANKER W on, Mills, under seerctary ury, contended before terstate commere that the unified | posed by the mission should De enforcement of the horders and preventing |try of all persons and over land April of the border patrol cl }Giant German Liner Slightly Damaged in Channel Fog ENGLISH BOAT BATTERED * " “ entry ON TARIFF BILL ! | I Jand, With Two Tanks and Krill:ri | Wrecked—Seeks to Land Scaman | Hurt in Crash, Mests Republican Leaders Breakfast Gathering Dover, glant German ship of the Iin, 24 P - Bremen, April liner sister record-breaking Juropa. in a ~|U.h1 IO]H\IO\\ with the | U\!)VK» nness in the | this morning | The bound, wa English Channc I Bremen, which was outward | House to reported to have pro-| poypsy — Bl | cecded on ‘uHM‘ | dense | curred her wi a scarch for fog in w and wa any, dam d. The tanke | battered on her | though not wirelessed that to Southampton the tanker in a hich {he o s apparently All But Few ";yj" Discussed Today. Washington, April ional republican ed at President Hoover today first consider the port on the tariff bill, Proceeds (o Southampton | e report will be ready After a delay of about four hours, | Tuesday but will not be the Bremen proceeded in the diree-| the diousc until tion of Southampton with only sl t The White House damage, a few scratehes and a slight | called at the reques dent in her starboard bow being the | and senate leaders, only evidence of the collision. rocedure Discussed The {anker was not so fortunate| The only purpose was to di and in addition to damage on her|the procedure on the tariff port side, she lost large quantities of | W tid later at the Whitc oil, the sea over a wide area being| 1t was announced or | covered with crude oil. The tanker| White Housc that there was reported late this afternoon an- | cussion of rates or | chored in the Deal Roads. provisions of the complex and After the collision, the Bremen's|uminous bill. passengers lined the deck and waited | Jt was decided to issuc to see the tanker, but she had disap- | statement on the meeting, but | peared in the fog. 3pro edure was changed and | The Bremen, which was due at|an oral announcement was | Southampton at noon from Bremen,| —The president was informed continued on her way after sceking [ the two houses were (Continued on Pag¢ b nd however, port side requirin st he was putting Deal to land a man requiring im-|! mediate medical atfention. D leaders e a breakfast conference into s by conference. t of the dispute. he scctions reement Two) to be and vote (Continued on Iz Bridge (onstructlon Forces 40 Day Detour Reginning next Tuesday morning | when demolishing of West Main | strect bridge begins and continuing | for at least 40 working days, : tour will be in force in the locality of operations, City Lingin Philip NoUpPC d this afternoon proceeding westerly will {go by way of Black avenuc and Corbin avenue to West Main street. Inbound traffic will follow the same route or turn northerly at Burritt street, engerir the center of the city by way of Myrtle | street, | The new bridge will he constructed by Leardi & Tomasso. first de- Tic i S—— 12 Bring Action Builder and Surety Company Rock Twelve construction of the contractors in W Hatcl Collcetor Bernadotte Loomis listing | 559 parcels of property liened for unpaid taxes, the largest of thesc heing on the Rialto theater building | | on which the unpaid account exceeds e . Visitors Soon, Uncollected taxes of record on | April 1 gregate $325,081.03, the bulk of which, Collector Loomis satd | Provided M today, has been protected by lien. |ley's convalescence continues as it| Personal property and automobiles | has for the past few days, business do not come within this group. callers will again be «admitted to his | All collectors in Connccticut | room at the New Britain General | are required by statute to prepare | hospital in about two more days, Dr. before June 6. a record of all undis- | Joscph H. Potts, one of the attend- wrged tex liens, and the statute | ing physicians, said today. requires the commissioner to bring | Conferences which will be held “\ mandamus procecdings in superior [ soon as the mayor is able to receive court in cases where the collector | callers will probably complete the | has ot complicd. Collectors are en- | reorganization of the municipal titled to compensation for the extra | boards which began on {he day that | work. This list is o be kept up to | the mayor suffered a relapse and late with additions being made as|was cut short by his illness. On his liens are placed, and names stricken | first day as mayor, Quigley announc- oif when {axes arc paid. ed changes in the finance board, po- Collector Toomis is one lice commission, city hall commis- | tax officials in the state sion. park hoi hoard of public requitements of this act. jvorks, and re-appointed the ceme- | yor George A. Quig- of {he f 1o meet the 'Mayor Quigley May Be Able to See | mayor's return to health, - building at 24 Washington A. I. Leavitt, local contractor | the American Surety Co. of York, a honding company. Ph R t | The sub contractors and ysmlan €POYTS scues are as foliows: New Woodworking Co., §1 | Bros. Co., Inc., Upson (o Lumber Co. Wood Co. inson, $2 field, Mfg. Roof sereen tery committee. The re-organization of ing boards will pro Quigley's next step: plan commission (of which the may- or is now chairman). board of com- pensation and sment. from which Aftorney Patrick 1% McDon- ough, Quigley's opponent on clection | day, has resigned, water board, five board, public welfare commission municipal recreation comm Dbuilding commissior 5 mission and hoard of adjustmen Concern over the task of re-or izing these boards I the follow- Hart 17alt Co., he Ohio, $1,165; Capitol Hartford, $1 West Hartford, assc Goi (Cont ed on I ssion, zarage com- THE WEATHER n- retarded the doctors be- | they expeet that he more speedy has been completed. New Britain Partly cloudy cold tonight: and and cont his T Priday fair, when lieve. and covery will this work For Patrol at Border 1 24 (P—Ogden | tro a housc committee today | Take Up Revised Measure Agreement Reached On I'oints — Procedure 24 (A — Con- decid- to have the conference taken up in a week from today. housec bill, House. administra an official onli made. in agreement on virtually all items of the bill in reported upon CONTRACTORS IN SUIT OVER LEAVITT'S BOND Against Coal Hutch- pring- Newma vicinity: ued FOUR IN FLEVATOR in- pro- | law cnforcement com- rged With the prohibition alor the werchandise and water borders cxcept | en- Trust Go Bu:lding MOTOR FAILURE - BLAMED ;. | Two Women and Two Children Make Escapo Throuzh Roof, Clinbi Up Step Ladder to Floor All Bemain Calm, Tour persons were clevator | the and cond | Commercial Trust Co. ‘NOW than half hour |irg and it w [ enter at imprisoned anded betwe floor of wilding this morn s necessary {o open door in the roof tepladae tho passen second floor. motor furnishing the stop about §:45 burned out. At vomen, one an clderly po , and tw ildren were in clov Despite the predic | in whic found t caly first an ey place of against s to Do 0 ¢ {0 s v m selves none of them bec y operator, to meet, he sumwoned aid let down {hrough four were n hims: t to work - 1N with | himgelf competer uation, and | 1adder w | opening from the we next re motor. halted for abou 10:45 o'clock the n to function is the first 1t that troublc was 8 was at service | hou tor This scrious failure of th hanism elevator to function properly the building was construct Lfforts to determine the an caused by th cuss, it has he tive vol- | (Continued on Page Two) this that in Miss Gladys M. Who Retired Recently, Dies Today i 66 E wdys M. Moore, ag Winter s W roti eral months a achc the Washington use health, died this home Her o a school e morning signation was acee pt the street ¢ plaintiffs in a §5,000 suit against and New their Rackliffc wift City R MISS GLADYS M. MOORE { January 10, 1930, and at that Miss Mary Washington scl exp d Pour) (Continued on I'agc PRISON HALF HOUR Trapped in Cab in Commercial <t Above— in n | the for an the | it climb o'clock the the ent | excited proved | im- The two | names DEATH TAKES TEACHER BELOVED OF GHILDREN, Moore, time the COACH ROPER SAYS DRY LAW FAILURE:; Testifies Dispensary System | Success—O0thers Attack Law ANTL-PROHIBITION LEADER | lege and High School Boys Girls Think Afraid to Send Own Boy to Scho Over Letters to Judges. Washington, April mony that prohibition has prohibit in American borhood ttlement | Ontario province across the in Canada abolished its bone regime bec > it didn't work, wa the » judiciary committe 24 (P)—Test and prohibition hearings | ne <[4L1 an end. \\ Roper, oton, and 1id head football coac describing himself as a worker for tempe seeret drinking bad influences about th men and 1d made l(vl‘xl v ance, | thrown \\un parents fearful of th Speaking for the Riis neighbo hood settlement in New York, Jacob A. Riis declared in a put into the regord that “the ¢ of enforc n impossib was having a demoralizing « among the of the aw a fect poor city. Drayton Gives Evidence Henry Drayton, head of th liquor control bhoard of Ontar province to government plying hip flasks of illicit liquor had convinced people that they needed some | eftective method of Roper appeared as one of the r s for the wets, and t1 Riis was pr manag Sir stand appeared ion Sir control after mult 11 supervision, ¢ the wet who still w {noon recess, s I neither Chai Sir gors. the id he side but ) 1 Graham. Drayton came here to reply | reflections on the Canadian systc which had been presented by the d committe members more about the prop the Federal Dispensary Tax Redu tion league, an organization favori control system somewhat akin 1t in effect Dr. D, S W tary of the | amination, ness for The | hear. ‘anada Testifies exeentive under cross, e when Colo in ¢ Buck Bu league, said that had a dispensary law, enforced. Now, he 1id, the (Continucd on Page Two) - FOUR BURN T0 DEATH FIFTH MISSING IN FIRE Boonville, N. Y., Coal Pamily Lost in Early Morning Blaze Today. Boonyile, N Four persons and a fifth which des home of ¥ were April missi royed the lar 3ert Cronk, ¢ he carly today. Mr. an1 Mrs. Paul granddaughter flames. Anni was Clifford ecaped n was sufferi coloni: deale Cronk voung died missing. voung son of the Cronk window to safety, F rom cffects of I in 1k smoke Cronk room and leadir was found in the wife in a rom that room her grandchild were burned in their bed. The hous iming furnace when fir dinir doorwa Mrs, An his and death a 1l W emen a ‘| OBBYING' FLAYED Ontario Liquor CGontrol Head ADHITS WORK IN ILLINOIS Princeton Football Mentor Says Col. aml it Smart to Drink— —~Curran Clashes With Robinson failed to colleges and tha border dry had women in colleges, in Mr lette impos cat | had gone from prohibition and an inundation morc nte Henry, at the for of a wit- also Is of the statute we prohibi- Dealer’. 24 —P— burned to death in a fire and Mr Anni and her as April 19th .. PRICE THREE CENTS URDER THREE JUDGES FIND KILLER OF ANDERSON GUILTY TODAY AFTER HEARING HIS DEFENSE || Bride in Rome Today l Wethersfie]d Murder Trial Ends In Middle of Second Day as De- | PAS fender Makes Vain LR | Effort to Prove Crime Was Sudden Passion. Defendant Denies Pre- meditation, But Says Shooting Was Result of uffle—Feared Victim Would Expose Secret to Sweetheart’s Family. ol | il 1t 1S h i ALLLOT i crenz E in Wethersficld on March 31, and | ad pleaded guilty to murder first. deg before a court was convicted this as indicted sentenced o be prison on 0. Anderson April 24 (P—Henry willed Nils E who e who the of three j {afternoon He wa |at the he Associated Press Photo ALEAZZO CIANO dda Mussolini r- s. hanged August 12, Lorenz and Anderson were clos nds, but on the night of March they went out in a car to discuss some which was not clearly explained during the trial Anderson body was found in a | field. Lorenz fled in his car and as a sted Windsor, Ont., and yrought back. He confessed to slay- ing Anderson, but claimed it was | done during a quarrel. After indi ment Lorenz elected to be tried bhv theee judges. Yesterday when called to the bar he pleaded guilty. Lorenz when asked by Presiding Judge Newell Jennings if he had anything to say hesilated for a few minutes® and then said: “I did not awve intent to kill him.” The sentence of death by hanging | at the state prison on August 12 was then pronounced, Lorenz walked almly to his seat in the cage, but Mrs. Benson, sister-in-law of Ander- son, and mother of the girl with whom Lor 1d been keeping com- Mus-| pany, collapsed and became hysteri- Italy, | cal, her screams being heard all over | the building. She had to receive med- ical treatment. The court w COUNTESS Formerly DUCE’S DAUGHTER QUIETLY MARRIED Mussolini Gives Edda fo Count Giano, Legate to Vatican COUPLE ~ RECEIVE GIFTS ¥ state = f le io at - he ¢ a Dictator’'s Discouragement ils to Halt Stream of Presents—Ame | can Ambascador and Wife Attend to| m| Ceremony. TNome, April 24 (A premier Benito solini, and dictator of this morning gave his daughter, I c-[da, in marriage to Count Gale 0 s then adjourned. Testifies in Own Behalf Hartford, April 24 (®)—THenry O. Lorenz, who killed his friend, Nils Anderson, in Wethersfield on . testified in his own be- the three judges, who constitute the trial court today. He said in effect that he shot An- derson while in temper and during Anderson, he said, told Ciano, secretary of the Italian at the Holy the Ttalian Mini | tions. The church of is Il Duce's crowded with d orated with be the capitoline pal | and flow Em- to bassy See and Son of v of Communica- o- Joseph church, s. 1t was dec- tiful tapestries from es and with palms | St. which was x- 5 parish fo! rom the | rlonia, 10 siznorina Ed¢ { led the yrocassion on the arm of * . father in-1 Count Ciano. * ]N PRIMARY $2.219 premier himself with Countess Ciano. | = The bride and groom procceded to the -altar to the m of kEnrico Bossi's wedding 1 h, played by the |List of Contributions and Bills Filed by His Manager premier’s the (Continued on Page ‘Three) .u,M s sic organ and an instrumental quartettc fhey knelt before the altar and r ceived the initial blessing of Mon- signor Giovenale I'ascucci, the p ish rector. Low Mass Follows Wedding After he had read the brief cer mony uniting them in mar al by Don- republican necessitated 79.67, according 1paign conducte ett for the nomination for mayor cxpenditures of $2 0 a report which has heen filed by Thure Bengtson, political agent for the candidate. Contributions, many of them exceeding $100 in amount, totaled $2,293 rtlett, republican nominece in J | 1928, was defeated in primary this “t‘q ‘ o o SLHOAS and a depth | vear by George A. Quigley who won Ok il poried 10|54 the polls over Attorney Patri [sebcenasog Hol 1. MeDonough, the demcoratic stan- dard bearer. he (Centinued of Two) i» Arch Street Building e Is Sold for $55,000 Samuel Steinberg of Hartford to- day sold to Emil DeLoretto of He ford the building 161 Arch street consisting of four stores with e in the rear. The property | ity Wy ni to r- “Reds Incite Discontent ln State, Constitutional L Communist activities cut in particular and program throughout the States, especially New York were discussed by Joseph 1. Kan of the Constitutional Iduc League of New Haven, at luncheon of the Rotary Burritt hotel today. Samp showed photographs pamphlets distributed to workers port, New Haven and Ha ford and told of the intensive pr gram that is being carried on in ti tatg_especially among the young Work Directed From Moscow his introductory remarks speaker told of the Soviet tional and how it dircets all the anda work in America om Moscow. In this produced photograph copy of a telegram sent from Zinovief telling t the In pr L dir conne he of carbon |Chi g0 eague Speaker Says in Conneeti- radics United city, tiona the noon club in the the Intern: tion Bartlett cam- D. L. Bartleit, Contributors to t fund wer David L. Attwood, Bennett M. H. Hor- $150; Georse §2; . *. W. Parker, $50; Neumann, $100 . Christ, $80; Pape, $25; 1574 ( ooley, Bruno Wagner, §100; 1% M. Holmes, ; Thurc Bengtson, smu 1. Res- 8. Hart, $100; W. 1% . H. Pease, $100; L. Carl Johnson, § v John Recor, W. Young, B. Stone, $100; C. 8. Neumann, $10; Berson, E. M. Wightman, $25; A. John- . $25; . Dean, $10; P. Suzio, $3; $50; M. Tertes, $10 tempicn, $25; H. H. Wheeler, $10; M. H. Pease, §10; I'. B. Woods, $50; W. M. Greenstein, $25; I Nair, Harry Hatsing, § Total, national conve communists tion of the just what the Soviet expected them business sessions American Russian to do at thei he scope of al np al | |Sovict propaganda was also deserib- | ed | Photostat dailies and columns. copies, of Communist nd weeklies were then shown | extracts read from the news| The Civil Liberties Union icked by the speaker as do- more to communism than | any other or The activi- ty of clergymen in aiding the Soviet was also rapped and Bishop Mont- | gomery Brown's hook condemned. |3f, Cites State Work This program of inciting working class and stirring up tent is not limited to New Yor np said. “We have it right he he state of Connceficut. In Mohill, ok H. Hart, § in | wa ing 0- 2= the o0- dis- K in penses were: W. 3120; Grubar G. Muller, a Print Shop, I (Continued on 1% Three) (Continued on Fage Twe) [}