New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1930, Page 3

?——————-—-—— PARENT-TEACHERS [Youth of 19 Who Sailed As Cabin Boy In Arctic, to Become Explorer IN STATE SESSION Congress Opens in New London This Morning New London, April 24 (P—The| State Congress of Parents and| Teachers opened here this morning | with approximately 200 in attend- | ance. The assemblage convened at 11| o'clock and after a choral prayer the | revised by-ldws were pres¢nted. After luncheon the afternoon sion opened with hymn singing and the invocation by Rev. J. Romeyn Danforth, pastor of the irst Church of Chr Rev. Mr. Danforth spoke | briefly. The rcports of the state officers were read The features of the late afternoon program will be an address entitled the enrichment of adult life by Dr. Ttobert, C. Deming round table discussions. Suggestions for study be given by Mrs, Shaw. Miss Hester | B. Crutcher will lead the discussion | on mental hygienc and social hy-| giene. Dinner will be served at 6 o'clock and at 7:30 there will be an in formal reception to the state of- ficers, The Moodus Parent Teach scciation will present an oper the cvening, REDS INCITING STATE DISCONTENT ses- groups will (Continued I'rom First Page) Bridgeport young men were given | circulars condemning the Citizen's | Military Training Camps and in lar industrial plants in New Haven and | Bridgeport Communist shown. news- | papers, usually mimecographed, are sold to the workers at a cent af in Iinglish and history con- | radicals for the working ceribed by the speaker as being mere channels for the in- stilling of sovict propaganda. Pa ages from the various text bhooks | then discussed. In many of | these profanity was used in adding| cmphasis to the arguments. The speaker also showed a catalogue of workers' books containing 34 pages All the publications listed were five ten and 15 cents a copy 50 as fo be | in casy reach of the workers, Kamp said, ducted b v Taps Questionnaires | Specimens of sex guestionnaires | distributed to college girls we thrown on the screen and attributed 1o communist sourc Yale versity came in for aftention whe the declaration was made that the | report of the unofficial labor dele- gation to Soviet Russia was prepac ed by one of the faculty of the un versity, Frank O'Brien, New Britain h Totarians to support the concert | which will be given by the schosl Sunday afternoon in the school au- | ditorium. Thirty members of the | Boston Symphony will play. In the absence of the Henry Washburn, vice was in the cha 4 also Uni- student hool, asked th in the| president, | president, Submarine Arrives at New London Base Today New London. Apr A — Sub-| marine § of the navy control force, based on this city, arrived 1 ¢ to- d: following winter mancuvers in | southern waters and procceded to | the submarine base. The main group of vesscls of the | control force which arc based here | will arrive in this port May 1, the| §-8 preceding them here so that she | could be ready for further mancuv- s These mancuvers will be partici- pated in next month in Chesapeake with mine layers and mine | ontrol force. > here May 1 arine tenders Camden and Bushnell, the salvage vessel 1- | con, and various submarines of d\—} visions four and 12. : JOHNSON BILL ADOPTED Washington, April 24 () — The Johnson resolution for a survey Df‘ all existing veterans legislation by a | joint congressional committee was adopted today by the house and sent to the senate. | HERALD CLASSIFIED Bay sweep The vo! arc the subm USE| ADS | | only | his ambitious project. | for | ter | planked, | plorer | takes his Gadfly | Greenland and Teeland on the 1930 | itinerary. | river | desks, | from | kerosene lamps from the school, the | freshman | of his plan to carry | MacMilian, | pany hi Boston, April 24.—(UP)—A youth still in his teens, who first went into the Arctic as Commander Donald B.. MacMillan’s cabin boy in 1925 may return to the frozen north this year in command of a ship which dwarfs McMillan's veteran schooner Bowdoin. The young man who has set him. self this goal is Kennett Rawson, 19-year-old Yale freshman and son of Frederick Holbrook Rawson, mil- lionaire Chicago bank president. He has requested and been promised MacMillan's cooperation, and awaits parental approval to carry out Father Buys Him Ship The vessel which young Rawsop | would u, the handsome two- | | masted schooner Gadfly, purchased him' Ly his wealthy father L\s“ year at a price of $150,000. At pre: ' ent the Gadfly is moored at Glouce: \ but is to be taken shortly to | Lawley's shipyard in Neponset for an overhauling so it will be prepared | for the rigors of the far north in thp event that its youthful owner indeed become an cxplorer in lm own right, Double is timbered, and double With a belt of iron wood ound its hull, the Gadfly was built | for Arctic exploration work and, ac- | cording to Commander MacMillan, would be an ideal craft for Rawson to use in fulfiliing his ambition. Commander MacMillan told United Press today that he talked with Rawson a few days ago and ap- proved the youth's tentative plan (o have the Gadfly accompany the Bowdoin when that veteran of six Arctic expeditions sails from its home port of Wiscasset, Me., on June 27, “Rawson was a spindle-legged boy of 14 when he shipped as my cabin boy on the cxpedition of 1925,” Mac Millan said. “But he had a lot of native ability as a seaman and ex and he developed rapidly. 1 made him my second mate on the 1926 expedition. For the sake of ex- perience he served as a deck hand during the cxpeditions of 1927 and 1929, Youth Thoroughly Capable The noted explorer said he thought that Ttawson, despite his vouth, was thoroughly capable of commanding the Gadfly on an Areti adventure Thirty feet longer than the §3-foot Bowdoin, the Gadfly is cquipped with a Winton-Diesel engine capable of developing 230 horscpower, and has L 9.000-mile e ng radius. Tt as two masts and s a sort of big | dition of the Bowdoin, Whether or not young Rawsor into the far north MacMillan | journey 1 Tt will be his with Labrador, the this ¥ Commander will make his annual vond the Arctic circle. 13th expedition, Aboard the hardy little schooner when it moves down the Sheepscott to the sea will be 40 school miscellancous ~ schoolroom equipment, and a complete clectric lighting plant, The desks are to be installed in the schoolhouse which the explorer | erected last year about miles his scientific station at Nain, Labrador. The lighting plant will eliminate vilage church, and the Moravian missionaries, make possible the operation of a motion picture machine which will give some Kskimo children their first glimpse of the movies. homes of and also will | Youth Tells of Plans New Haven, April 24 (UP) —Ken- neth Tlawson, 19-year-old Yale anxiously awaited the con- | sent of his fathc wealthy Chica- goan, today before completing plan; for a scientific expedition to the far north. The slightly-built youth's | sparkled with excitement as he told | A group of scien- | s and fellow students into lhn‘ Arctic this summer in his specially- equipped schooner Gadfly. | Rawson said he hoped Donald | noted Arctic explorer | whom he sailed as cabin boy | voyage, would accom- | under a recent ship. The student laughed at a suggest- | | | | ASTHMA SUFFERERS Mrs. M. Smith, 139 W. Main st || Wauwatosa, Wi, having relieved herself from Asthma with a simple home treatment, will tell others how. Mrs. Smith lias nothing to sell. 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(NEAR ELM) INSTANT SERVICE No Waiting No Excuses SLIP COVERS FOR YOUR CAR Guaranteed to Fit Will Keep Your Car CLEAN and COOL For the Summer CUSHIONS REBUILT Automobile Wrecks | tirely scientific, | walked about in the cage: | attention to it I ed the | the ¢ | that Comp | uation by | London prison farm | to 200 to the Mansfield reformatory. | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, ion that his student crew might be discomforted by the Arctic cold. “Why, the northern part of the United States is as cold as summer in Iceland, even if the thermometer does differ,” he declared. ‘“Inhabi- tants of the far morth do not mmd‘ the cold because the climate is dry. | “An Eskimo would die in New Ha- ven from fhe moisturc on a cold| day,” he laughed. “It certainly will| be lots better than sweltering here all summer."” Purpose Scientific “The purpose of our cruise is en- " said Rawson. “We will carry several scientists with us fly will be equipped with as much scientific apparatus as we can easily | carry. The ship will have a high- powered short wave radio station, enabling us to keep in constant touch with radio stations in this countr “We hope o sail in Juge,” he 2000 MUTINOUS CONVICTS DEFIANT IN PRISON WRECK (Continued From First Page) said. | nothing in particular. Most of the cell door locks had been stuffed with | paper and chewing gum, and the| doors could not be locked. The men | outside 1 cells. When the “t obed” signal was flaghed last night, more than 2,670 conviets in the idle house paid no| At midnigh* they de manded something to eat. Seven hun- | dred gallons of piping hot coff-e was served, and many of the men yricied down after the treat. Compile List of Dead Finger print experts today contin- ued to compile their list of the dead. It was expected that this list would be complete later in the: day. A tripl:| cneck was being made to insure pro | Ler igentificati The bulletin oinice, giving th been changed fisted 3,451 w bo. \ the prison roudation, has not | since Monday when it | Vit G nesrocs | and three Chies {er escup- fire, tha only race 1ot 1 pr sonted 1w the dath dist Early today the convicts caused great disturbance when they sent up | a mighty shout to be relcased from | The convicts demanded ny K, the badmen of the penitentiary, be turned loose. The men in the K outfit shouted back they did not want to be loose. War- | den Preston Thomas said that guard { lines wer being tightened about the white city and that if necessary sol diers would be called in to quict the | men. | About ten guards were on duty in | the block. Death Cells in Section | In the white city in addition to| the Idle House and Company K, are the death cells, where eight con-| demned men are now confined. They arc in the extreme southeast wing | of the block. The general spirit of unrest in the penitentiary caused state officials to | move immediately to remedy the sit- reducing the population. It | was said by State Welfare Director | | Hal Griswold that as soon as possible | 100 convicts would be sent to the| and from 150 | In order to make room at the farm | and reformatory the parole board will advance the date for release of 230 men already recommended for | parole. Griswold was to confer with uperintendent W. F. Armine, of the London farm, and officials of other state institutions in an effort to get Friendly Service Here you will find experts who cxtend thelr services to a quick, fricndly, manner, | pany of the 166th infantry, to make observations and the Gad-i E | continued the disturbance. | these were | the locks had | Guardsmen, 15 | tentiary fir | completion+of two new were in pi hank you Mr. Shaw! Hundreds of Our Customers Say . . . Our Super. Flush- ing Service Offers business APRIL ')1 more space for men confined here. Clergymen Enter Corridor Two clergymen, well known to the prisoners, went into the white city | when the bedlam continued. They were Father Goswin Menge of Cin- cinnati, a Catholic priest, and Re T. A. Keed of Columbus, former prison chaplain. Some of the prison ers quieted as they entered, and im- mediately the ministers started to tallkc to them, | of a prison riot and appealing to them to go to their cells and quict down. Before the disorder began some of the soldiers at the penitentiary were | demobolized. When the prisoners be- | came unruly, however, a hurry call was sent out for headquarters com- Ohio Na- which arrived in tional Guard, | double quick time. As the din continued, Colonel R. Haubrich, commanding officer of the Ohio National Guard and his staff went into hurried conference with the warden. Despite appeals from ministers to be quiet, the men in the idle house None of in cells becausc been stuffed with chewing gum and paper. The only lock between them and the yard was a steel door leading out of the cage behind which are the cells. The 100 men from the chapel fin- ally came out into the prison yard and milled about, shoutinz and screaming. They attacked George ichmond, a convict cditor of the penitentiary paper. He was rescued by guards before he was injured ser- iously. s locked 1,000 Guard Walls Prison officials and guards were doing all in their power to quiet the unruly men. Only regular prison guards were being used inside the walls, but on the outside more than 1,000 fully armed regular army soldicr: from Fort Hays and naval reservists, were prepared for any emergency. As the disorders in the idle housc and the yard continued, investigators the disastrous fire of Mond night reopened their hearing in the prison record office, within 100 feet of the gate leading into the proper. Ldward M. Sass, Lucas County, one of the prisoners who aided in cue work, was the first witness called before the investigating board today. He told the board it was about twenty minutes from the time le first learned of the fire until he was released from his ccll by conviet Probe Continucd Columbus, O., April 24 (P—While additional bodics were being re- leased to sorrowing relatives of prisoncrs who died in the Ohio peni- state officials joined to- day in a determination to leave nothing undone to prevent a recur- rence of the catastrophe which claimed 318 lives. Without waiting to find the cause the fire—and thus fix blam state officials, led by Governor Y. Cooper, started considera- of | tion of plans to relieve crowded con- ditions at the old prison. One step toward this end, the governor in- dicated after a conferen: with members of his cabinet and Warden !r(s'm\ Thomas will be the \wnxur of short term convicts to the London prison farm. The program also calls for speedy cell penitentiary as well re- building of the fire-swept G and H houses in which last Monday's firc had its origin. Despite several manifestations of unrest it was believed that extra guards would be a few da A group of working on a coal house stir carly today when they deserted their post nd roamed about the prison court. They were quieted without difficulty, however, and re- turned to their jobs. Feared Burning of Building Guards at first feared the men session of some gasolinc as at the caused a \ Cleaning 1930. and were |reveal how the stressing the horrors | prisoners might have Ohio National | | cate dt prison | blocks | | the withdrawn within | prisoners | planning to burn onc of the buildings. It was learned, how- ever, that a tank about which they |he had been milling contained nothing. | was to threaten Anderson if he per- | sisted in saying he While the state’s investigation has brought forth various individual opinions, it has failed thus far to fire started. the witnesses before the inquiry devoted their testimony suggestions as to how more of been from their locked cells. These in- cluded a statement by A. E. Nice, chief of the Columbus fire depart- ment, that none would have per- ished had the prisoners been re- leased as soon as the fire was dis- cotered. He charged that rescue ef- forts were delayed by guards inside the walls, declaring th shown by the fact that the alarm was turn- in from outside the prison. Following testimony by Warden T nas that no fire protection was provided at the cell blocks, State Welfare Dircctor H. H. Griswold an nounced that extinguishers had been ordered placed in the cell houses. As an extra precaution, he said, guards would be placed in the top tiers Opinions Differ Opinions to the fire's tinued to be contradictor nesses laying it to defective and others saying the blaze sta in a room barc of wires. Amor those to discount the short-circuit theory were Guard C. M. Donaldson and Superintendent Jenkins. Donald- son, in charge of convict workmen on the new cell block where the fi started, said that convict electri repaired temporary electric 1 which had given trouble Monday crnoon. Jenkins said a prisoner told him the fire started in a room where there was no wir Governor (oope that he was satisfied with Thomas' handling of the during and after the fire it no change in the administrative personnel is planned board of to ed cause con- e wit- wiring d known Warden situation nd indi- prison’s let it he Hall Defends Self Columbus, O., April 24 (#—John H. Hall, year-old captain of guards at Ohio pententiary, ‘issucd cment today denying the charge made by a guard that he had re- fused o issue keys so that prisoners might be relegsed from their cells in the fire which took 318 lives at the prison Monday nig “I did not have any keys,” the zuard said. “T am an old man old, and have long been in prison business. 1 think my ac- cusers arc just passing the buck. “I yaw smoke and the next thing I knew a brand of fire was falling Then 1 told the guards to rclease the men “I have been called ‘hard boiled.’ but I don't think any person will sa L haven't been a fair man. THREE JUSTICES GONVICT LORENZ vet- th IN HURDER CASE (Continued Trom First Page) was to tell telephone ther he was going (father of Loren and it was this threat Lorenz said, that quarrel. him over the *something” Mr. Benson sweetheart) of Anderson’s cipitated the lLorenz described and his entrance by way of Mexico. He said he gun which he used, on March 4, because he intended to return to Mexico and a gun cost less here than there. He did not borrow mon- ey from Andcrson until after he had bought the gun. Believed Facts Important Anderson called him up by tele- phone and said he was going to tell Mr. Benson ‘“something, Lorenz aid, dding that he felt that that “something” might have impor- nis carly i bought an the Only Sure Safe Method of Thoroughly Radiator and Motor Drive in Today Insure Against Motor Trouble in ihe you Complete Service Recharging, Tire Vulcanizing Service, Atlantic Gencrator and s and Oil. If you own a car stop at Rudy's. udy’sBattery Station “Make Our Battery Station Your Battery Station” 186 EAST MAIN ST. TELEPHONE 708 Most of | 4 the , ¢ rescued | | Anderson told pre- into this country,| | and nstened 1ic his life by Lundborg. Stre: t _effect When he took the gun with him. upon his future lifc. went to meet Anderso His idea for was going to tell | The lawyer 1 sence of ill of killing | tween Lor I took the | 1t but 1 do homic the extra my habit a gun. int of that “something “I didn’t have any Anderson,” said Lorenz. * gun and extra cartridges, not know why I artridges cxcept it v do so when I carricd Lorenz said he 1 of ooting until after both out ot car and in a scuf fle. He said he pleaded with Ander- son not to tell “but I got sorc w Anderson said he felt it duty to tell.” Court Room “I told Andc have 1t on his han i Anderson did believe both lost our tei rabbed cach 1" baek and forth. I was none of Ander “something™) but it Anderson lad m with out and shot The court room w tors today it took tion W no they e was 1 Crowded on he wou not m wers and other and we 1 thought on's bus Anderso; did e him.” not know until 1 pulled nson, half ed this morning that Ar s 2 W and Lorenz were the there was no cvid between them In his testin Attor siste best ody of ill 1ony today hrou v W. Gi. Lundbor defense, Lorenz said I from Anderson W months, There which s by for s lonn of s for was another §130 loan and the not v to the I attorney < Good Feelings iid stress on the ling or ill will Anderson circumsta ot show @ depth ‘s plea 5 known aid o for is of P uld moSays Ca ler, a cru in the to 1 atch M erin expr for al be o the 1w the rsor tha N el- asking the judges for a verdiet of degree murder. “No justice can be administered in this court consistent with the tes- timony except a finding of murder degree,” said the prosc- 1 f b LR an unnecessary, wanton it over and conceived ccused for the reason that debeloped in this trial. From the 0 t I could not believe that the had been murdered for a paltry . It was a double motive, a mo- finance and of the secret locked up in the dead man's secret that the slayer locked there by Alcorn. tive of and a intended should be ing hi said M ENPIELD T Thompsonville, for ment' of ACHER DIES April (P—Miss 22 years head of infield high today a r several In October she was principal and dean school. The schoot her the title of viee in Milford. and 12 of her in the schools here in two 1906 anil ment, teach- time at Mil s born will be Frid: fron the Presbyterian and burial will be in Milford Iriday after- byterian church in Milford. ¢oafi- meral will be om the 1 will noon yfand burial b Niclson ght be- Anderson for Lorenz. On the fore the cd him by of the loan s d e more than Didn't Want Cash Lorer off derson Saturday — he had the bank—but Anderson want it that day. Monday morning he called about it again and Monday him on the phont that if he didn't pay back the| money he would tell Mr. Benson mething he knew about hin Lorenz said he called up beth for the purpos of tryir find out Anderson had told her father what he threatened to. I his confession Lorenz has said Iu loved Elizabeth, the 18 year old daughter, but he could not keep up to her standards of living. In an carly part of his cxamina tion Lorenz said that after shooting Anderson and putting him back in the automobile, he did not know he s dead until he sav blood coming out of his forchead | Torenz was calm and unperturbed through the trying ordeal of today Friday 1 lerson surpris- It payme didn't nec from urder, A Then 2 said he to did up night liza- A-»u».w) } les : -Aq”"/ ONT HAVE @ now sand and refinish flOOf.f/ them yourself for ¥ of professional costs TREE TH fave you seen the new j >hnson home floor sander? Drop in and let us tell you about it. or Service Dept. 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