New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1930, Page 11

Second Section NEW BRITAIN HERALD |« «x]| I\EWyBRITAIN CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930. Chicago Publishers Determined To Run Down Every Rumor About Newspapermen’s Racketeering| 5 " Jchn A. Swanson would agree not Tribune Head Offers to Ap- s quesiion +he reporter privatan $ | first. Taylor did not want to run pear Before Grand Jury |the risk of having Swanson hear Brundidge’'s story, brand it flimsy, and then refuse to ke him befor | the grand jurors. Swanson replied |that a personal interview was im- perative as a part of the legal pro | dure. Thus the editor and the state's attorney reached an impasse. | But the Chicago papers are urging | Swanson to waive legal procedire "flnd accept Brundidge on own term: It is likely that he may vet “hav a chance to give to the grand jury the names of the repo |ers he has ac ed as racketeers. to Tell Lingle Investiga- tion Result. EDITOR'S NOTE:—Following s the third and last of the Unita. Press series of special dispatches dealing with developments in the Lingle murder case. Chicago, July 12 (UP)—The at- titude of Chicago newspaper pub- ing among their reporters may b summarized in three typical state- mefits 1. That the newspapers nothing to conceal. 2. That every rumor of an alli- ance between reporters and gang- sters is being investigated. 3. That the country will do weil to withhold judgment on the Chicago | (Halt Blood Moves Steadily With ress unet tre o are known. | Mill Buying Moderate | | essence of conversations which the | | United Press has had with leaders| Boston. July 12 (UP)—The wool | in the Chicago newspaper fraternity market is showing a slight day by | in the days of journalistic excitc- |day improvement and dealers are | ment since the murder of Alfred J. | encouraged owing to the fact that Lingle, Chicago Tribune police prices are holding up in spite of in- porter. coming supplies of domestic wool, Those Bradstreet's Weekly Review of local Thomason, publisher of the Daily |trade conditions issued yesterday. Times; Col. R. R. McCormick. pub- | “Mill buying is very moderate but lisher of the Tribune; Walter S. half blood and quarter blood wool Strong, publisher of the Daily is moving more steadily, knitting and News: Homer Guck, publisher of the | weaving mills doing their share of Herald-Examiner; Herman Black, | buying the Review continued publisher of the Evening American, |“New clip wools is moving actively have interviewed were §. eneral | Arkansas Town Reports 111 Degrees—Deaths Reported News SLIN IHPROVENIENT in sales of | M First row, seated, left to right: Mrs. Z. Garela, Mrs. K. Kalinowski, Mrs. . J. Bialobrzewska, Mrs. H. Polakowska. . Gen. Haller Post Auxiliary Aiding In $10,000 Drive . Narotowicz. Seqond row, left to right: Mrs. J. Bory czka, Mrs. J. Krawiec, Mrs. S. Golebiewska, Mrs. W. Kozlowska, Mrs. S. Grajdus, Mrs. M. D obosz, Mrs. M. Piendak, Mrs. M. Suschicka and Mrs. A. Lasota. Gen. Haller post auxiliary, organ- ized about three vears ago, is instru- mental in the activities of the post and is assisting in the disabled vet- erans’ fund drive for $10.000 which is being conducted by members of the post. Officers of the auxiliary ident, Mrs. S. Narotowicz ident, Mrs. M. Suchcicl Mrs. J. Bialobrzew resentative, Mrs, Z are pres- vice pres- ; treasurer, ka and state rep- Garel DENMARK HONORS HANS ANDERSEN Pageant Depicts Plot of Popular Fairy Stories Gd Denmark 12 —The people of Denr vesterday towards the in Munkemoellestraede many ago H dersen sat as a youth the dreams he afters some of the stories Yesterday was the 1 of Andersen's birt d lated tribute to his flights into believe land was begun dedication of a beautiful mo 1 here. Tod be an elaborate pageant where one of Andersen's stories will be repro- duced. But amid the pomp and cere- mony, the thoughts of countless thousands turned to “The Little Match Girl” They remembered with what in- finite tenderness this dreamer, who himself was born in the one-room shack of a poor shoemaker. had portrayed the mistreated little suf- ferer. Years ago perhaps they had shed tears over the child's futile at- tempts to shelter from the cold: how hurned matches and saw visions of food. a Christmas tre~ |and finally how she lighted all that remained in her hox to keep the nse July (UP) turned quict brook alley where Christian An- and dreamed rds put into world's greatest fairy vears iver- be- ake- h the new me- there will sary LA seek she paper | publisher of the vening Post. with some slight easing n prices | dollars. Most of the papers repre- |side uppear leather but no tive duties it would be unusual if |week. reporters or minor editors. stocks being low. Shoe manufactur- | of Lingle's dishonesty until the scan- | fore long. Quict collections prevail Lingle scandal itself was in the| “Dry goods jobbers report a de- enough to warrant exposure in the |ing line. The men’s clothing business tive newspaper atmosphere in Chica- [ lull. their positions for illicit gains. Pub. |sale jewelry business is still 20 per tain staff men whose names were |corresponding period of 1929. Col- ing “on the outside.” In some officcs But, as Homer Guck. of the Hei-| ald-Examiner phrased it, “A father | IN BLAZING HEAT often is last to learn of his own son 5\ own staff is 100 per cent pure, but be discharged and prosecuted oped in the wake of the Lingle Kill- | “Under present conditions of | Fublic confidence in the press must Herman Black of the American to avoid all contact with gangsters. fidence of at least one gangsters who Often it is necessary to hire tipst & connection with Julius Rosenhein, extortion among gangsters by threat- | by the papers as “just a part of the have an official showdown ion (he | Colonel McCormick offered to make tion he has gathered since the Lingle ed editorially that Harry T. Brun- b, brought before the grand jury on | porter for the St. Louis Star. He | wrote a series of dispatches about | and Charles A. Segner, managing| “Sole and upper leather markets ch publisher is in charge of a noted in offal leath There has | sent investments of many times that activity in most lines is anticipated the publishers were familiar with Some slight improvement in shoe | Unaware of Facts ers are looking for more orders dal of Lingle's gang connections among local wholesalers and retail- rumor stage several days before the | crease in volume of sales and thi Tribune. |is quiet. Dress and ladies’ suit man- g0 was filled with rumors that other | “Department store and specialty lishers began private investigations, | cent less than last year and retailers mentioned in the rumo and ques- | lections are fair to slov personal finances of reporters we misdeeds.” None of the publishers all are emphatic in saying that any Walter Strong of the Daily ing as endangering public confi- crime,” Strong sald, “the newspapers | be preserved.” | pointed out the fufility of expecting A reporter's first job when assign 1 will tall, Each reporter develops and stool pigeons. Leland Ree who was dropped by that ening to “expose them in the News business.” racketeering charges ‘“to clear the a personal appearance before the murder. Thursday the Evening Post didge, author of the most sweeping his own terms. spent several days here investigating “itchy palmed newspapermen” in | editor. who spoke for John Shaffer, |are again reported generally quiet | property worth at least a million been some improvement figue. Under the pressure of execil- (until after the shoe style show this the private affairs of their polize | production is reported due to dealers | Colonel McCormick did not know |from this source and fall buying be- came to light after his murder. The ers evidence of his betrayal was strong |is also true in the men's furnish- Meanwhile the intensely competi- | ufacturers report the usual seasonal reporters besides Linsle were using |shop sales are smaller. The whole- hired detectives to check up on cer- [report sales 25 per cent under the tioned their editors about men worke —— even now will guarantee that Liz man found to be racketeering will gres the situation which has devel- dence in the press ace about all the people have left. | Must Know Gangsters reporters assigned to cover gangland to a crime expose to obtain the con- his own technique in such dealin Daily News reporter, once had su after he was said to have attempted These connections are looked upon All have expresed an eagerness to names of those who are not guilty grand jury and submit the informa- and the Evening American demand- charges against local newspapermen, Brundidge is a widely-known ve- | the Lingle murder for his paper and | Chicago. Lists Charges In his articl which were enacted by the Chicago Tribunc. | Brundidge suggested the grand investigate: “A reporter who is known as the ‘unofficial mayor of Chicago.” “Why another reporter is paid cents a bag for every sack of ceme, sold in Chicago. The reason why one editor main- tains an office in the Loop separate from his newspaper office. “The bond signing racket, police reporter is said to control in.” | Brundidge offered 1o take his evi-| dence before a Chicago grand jury. Frank W Taylor, Jr.. managing edi of the St. Louis let him do so unle t | as a| a State's Attorney | by lightning at | Cuthbert, Ga., and | Thomas county Georgia, | to the Meriden line | nis Atlanta, July 12 (®) — The south continues to swelter under a blazing sun : A record temperature of Jonesboro, Ark.. and a reading of 110 at Monroe, La., represented the peak of the present heat wave yes- terday. In Memphis. nn., where 103 de- grees was recorded tributing factor in four d persons sought relief from weather in Alabama st ms drowned. Alabama reported 104 Br in both Montgomery i bile and 100 in Birmi m s 103 in Macon, Ga., a ee less in Augusta, Ga A Negro succumbed to meat in At- lanta where degrees was re- 111 at A con- Four the and de- Mo- It de- hs, and | ported. A farmer and his mule were killed Dawson, Ga Two windstorms, one between Eufaula, Ala., near Boston, a village in were re- ported yesterday. Trees were felled, communications and utilities inter- rupted and several small farm houses damaged. North End Bus Line Runs Via Winter St. During the repaving of Nor street, work upon which has already started, buses between Central park and Belvidere will be operated via Main street, Winter street and Hart- ford avenue, avoiding the recon- and one | struction job, Supt. William J. Bryan of the Connecticut Co. announced to- day. Michael O'Brien, trolley cars on the for man who operated North End line ears, has been transferred nce the trolley service was supplanted by buses REDS ATTACK SHASI Shanghai, July 12 (A—Commu- s attacked Shasi, Hupeh province said reports from that area today, and fighting was going on in the city. All foreigners left the city. foreign exodus began earlier in the week when bandits began concen trating about the city preparatory to attacking it. Many Chinese also left. EXTRADITION TREATY SIGNED Berlin, July 12.——A treaty of extradition between G y and America, Germany's first with any foreign power since of the extradition law of 1929, today was signed by the American Ambassador Frederic M. Sackett and Dr. Von , secretary of state for for- eign affairs, passa The | | dead, image of her dead grandmother from departing. Millions of children and grown- ups remember the trip of the one- legged “Hardy Tin Soldier” through the gutter where h pursued by |a rat and later swallowed by a fish only to he returned to his original | home to worship again in silence his | beautiful princess. Later he is cast into a stove and burned and among the ashes is found his remains melt- ed into the form of a tin heart Andersen tried many fields before he found one destined to raise into the ranks of Den most son. He failed ¢ classical danc constructed a toy clothes for his pupp The harbor and streets of Odense were beflagged. street cars covered with bunting and the hotels packed with visitors as the festival opened | with street processions and music. | The weather was sunshiny. Assessment of $6,000 | On Corbin Avenue Job Assessments totaling $6,000 have been fixed by the hoard of compen- sation and assessment on Corbin avenue, northerly of Clinton street, where a road improvement program costing $8,000 is planned. Some changes in the street layout arv planned, but they are not expect to involve additional report will be presented to the com- mon council at its meeting Wednes- day night. Curtiss Spends Quiet ight After Operation b alo, N. Y., July 12.—(UP) The condition of Glenn H. Curtiss pioneer in the airplane industry was reported ‘‘satisf ory'" today a! general hospital, where he is recov- ering from an operation for pendicitis. “He spent a comfortable night and is gaining strength rapidly,” it | was said at the hospital The operation was performed yes terday morning by Dr. Thew Wright afte nd made rwards | i | LIGHTNING | Portland, Me., J —(P—Two deaths by ligh red yester- day during severe storms over the state, Earl Lewis, Harrison, Killed while sitting on an iron cot near a window in his home A lightning bolt hurled Wilfred Videte, Jr, 12, Sabattus, from a wagon load of hay and he was found TWO 30 was ap- - Parents Taking Bodies Of Dead Children Home bodies of their childre the Ammonusuc river. had tion at mother. ed on turn during the 1ghai H., July 12—P—Mr ester Elderkin, Toledo, O eir way home today with Rogers, 1ma, 11, drowned yesterday been spending a vaca- the home of their grand- pair The drownings were discov- | desponder e children’s failure to re- | way of t LIVING COSTS RISE OVER July 12 (P—Living costs hich have been rising be- silver price dey increase incr intford, o mast in eciation, sed expenses ne- advance. July, LOVERS COMMIT SUICID Germany, 12.—P) lovers of this village, r marr; e obst in the age, today climb. line hands wire power the and Both DENY REQUESTING Orangeman Statue to Be Melted Up and Sold to N!gtal Dealer REICH NEUTRALITY Paris and Rome Disavow Ap- proach Rumored in Germany London, July denials have been ian and French | Ttaly was s of neutrality T Franco-Italian conflict, that France had warned Ge y such negotiations were viewed with mis- givings. The report of the ncgotiations be- tween Italy and Germany, and the resulting conversations tween France and Germany, emanated from a high German authority in Berlin Despite the strongly worded de nunciation of the report in Rome and Paris, it still held considerable interest in European political quar- ters today in view of the recent m taristic declarations of Premier Beni- to Mussolini, and the failure of Italy and France so far to reach an agre ment on respective naval strength. The Berlin source said that M solini, through Italian naval military attaches in Berlin, had “‘un- officiaily” approached Germany with a proposal that the German govern- 1ent pledge its neutrality in case of conflict between the two countries. According to this source, the pro- posals were made in such a circum- spect manner t} Mussolini imself a way open to deny they had been made. if the story leaked out Fra was added, fearned of he Italian negotiations, and Pierre De Margerie, French ambassador to 1y, called on Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and informed him that such a move aroused misgiv in France regarding Franco-German friendship. At the time Louis Loucheur, former French cabinet officer, co (UP)—Emphat issued by t irance of a left Germ ferred with Dr. Leopold Von Hoesch, German ambassador in Paris, and through an intermediary advised Gottfried Treviranus, Ger- man minister of occupied territor- that such Italo-Germanic nego- tions would be viewed with misgiv- ies, ke Berlin story a base lic of the imagination, the Italian foreign office said has never proposed that Germany remain neutral in case of a Franco- Ttalian conflict. France's acceptance of Prewier Mussolini’s proposal of a naval holiday is the most glaring proof of Italy's desire to maintain the most friendly relations France with ial emphatic ions were held be Loucheur and Von Hoesch regarding the negotiations. The Quai D'-Orsay described the re- ridiculous fantasy weath sakes Emphatic Dz Paris denyir was cqually in conve een port as “a enother hot Tnofficial quarters i doubied the possibility of Loucheur's articipation in such conversations. It was pointed out that Loucheur was not connected with the present French government, and has been out of the bitterest enemies of Premier Andre Tardieu since he lost b portfolio. In Bgrlin. it was said the Louc Von Hoe conversations were broken off only this week due to the tension aris of the R Berlin regarded manner in which the purported overtu Ttaly's inability to p price required for The fact remains German and Italian becoming increasingly closer, the French government is observing all developments with growing un- casiness er yarn ur- clandestine ade to the neutrality. that the Mussolini 1 s due however, nty Roscommon, Jrish 12 P—In a final disdain for the first “Orangeman,” a statue erected here 50 years ago of William Prince of Orange and King of England, has been sold to a metal dealer for & »w shillings. It will be melted down used for building purposes. 3 d an inter y after its erection by Kingston. It first stood on a bridg in the center of this little town. The inhabita . most of whom violently with the tenets of the himself, dubbed it “King Boyle, (! Free St gesture of Frequently in recent years the statue would be found of a morning arred and feathered or painted in the national colors. Finally it was thrown into the river Shannon, from Orange partisans res- cued it. They painted it white and set it up on a high monument ir the local tennis ground One morning police found it without a head. Another time a branch was placed in one hand and a De Valera flag in the other. A year ago what was left of “King Billy” was thrown to the ground, remaining there until the govern- ment decided to sell it to a metal dealer. new wh INFANTILE PARALYSIS Angeles, July 12.—(®—Dr. George Parrish. city health officer, tod, anuounced five new cases of infantile paralysis here, bringing the total month to 71 with ste deaths. Tifty-eight cases and fiv€ deaths were reported in June. < MORE Los SCHOOL TEACHER KILLED * Londo! 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