New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1930, Page 1

/] _ TUNNEL EXPLOSION “having been ‘who owned the tree in News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HL CALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 15;346 July 12th ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930. —TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS 12 MEN KILLED IN ON PACIFIC COAST Gas Blast Wipes Out Entire| Shift in San Francisco Water | Project Shalt ENGINEERS SAY CREW STRUCK EXPLOSIVE FUMES| Hetch Hetchy Drilling Gang Hit By Terrific ‘Blast—Two Narrowly Es-| cape Death—One Falls to Go to| Work and Other Comes to Sur- face Just Before Detonation— | Two Bodies Recovered. 17 A entire Camp Mitchell, Calif., July —+A gas explosion killed an shift of 12 men in a tunngl of the Hetch Hetchy San Fran- cisco’s municipal today. Engineers pocket probably the boring and the ignited i Shaft Drops 800 Feet tunnel project, water area, early said a natural gas had been struck in gas accidentally The ward down- | the drops straight more than 800 feet from surface and then branches into a| drift. to the east and one to the| west. Those killed were in the east drift. Thirteen men in the west| drift, which goes down about 1,500 | feet, were badly shaken and some were gassed, but all were brought to the surface. None was seriously hurt. ' Two bodies were recovered al- most immediately. but the gas flow\ soon drove rescuers to the use of | m; W. J. Kinney of Hartford, Wis who was reported among those in | the east drift, later was found at the surface. He did not go to ork the shift as scheduled, his placs taken by Patrick Gal- lagher. Dan Tranar, the bottom of ed 50 feet by not believed Trompo: ar, also ¥ skip man working at the shaft, was hurl- the explosion but was critically hurt. R. A nski, who was near Tran- badly shaken Barely Escapes Death | Chdrles O'Malley, who ascended the surface just before the ex- | plosion, es¢aped the fate of his ¢o- workers by a hair's breadth. He had barely stepped away from the shaft| when the ground quivered from the bl The shaft belched a great column of smoke. €. R. Rankin, engineer caid the men had been working in 1 serpentine formation of earth yes- d had found no trace of Evidence of the presence of cas generally appears in plenty of ime to take precautions, he said The bodfes of John McNiehols, 4 hift boss, and J. C. Maybin, were recovered Those remaining were G dress. €.\ Ry Kay H. E. Kaub N. Yaworski, da A. W. De Molay, Tracy Tony Redka, 44, no addrees C. Urich, 45, Loveland, Colo. J. McMaster, 41, Sonnra Patrick Gallagh addr known L R to in charg it Nations, married ugh. 3 Yorba L 34, Whi 28 Cal. Crowley Oaklang | SAVE-A-LIFE DRIVE WILL BE HELD HERE! |2 Police Will Check Up on Auto Safety Devices in August - | Inspector Rufus Grant of the state motor vehicle departraent was | in New Britain today to enlist the cooperation of the police m‘par(-‘ ment in the “save a life" campaign which will be conducted in all parts of the United States during the| month of August. The state depart- ment plans to take an active part| by checking the equipment of auto- | mobiles as to the condition of| brakes, signal devices and hghls,i which are considered the most im- portant parts from the viewpoint of safety. H Local police will assist the state inspectors and motorists will be stopped at various points about the | city_by day and night to have their equipment tested. Franklin Square, st Main street and other places where tests of brakes have been held in the past will again be utilized for | the purpose. Swaps Trees Without | Losing Endurance Mark Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 17 W)‘-‘ Nick Getty, 14 year old endurance tree sitter, changed trees today without losing his status in the na- tionwide contest. The transfer was| made necessary when a neighbor, which Nick was perched, called the police to have him removed. { ck's manager summoned a ground crew of 20 men and cut a branch from a tree across the street The ground crew held the branch | while Nick climbed into it and then | hoisted it back into the new tree Nick's 66th hour passed at 10 a. wm. today. | | g WG } ernistic | 49th to | the form be | dergo changes | owners, | unless | The work on her Ready for Departure to’ Future Homes In Poland [)QMIJAN'S CHECK DEFENDANT ABSENT —Photo by Herald Well on their way to Poland, these former New Britain residents sailed from New York came about 20 years ago. | forefathers, for the first time. | last night to make their homes permanentlv in a land from which the adults in the group The five children in the group will sge Poland, the land of their Several hundred persons gathered on Broad street to bid farewell as the exodus began at the office of a steamship agent. RECEIVE CONTRACT SKIPPER BLANED DISCOVER GRAAMS : FORR. & £ ORDER. IN FAIRFAX CRASH BODY NEAR BROOK - Factory Prepares 0 Ship Hard- "ware for Waldorf Astoria ' DOES NOT AFFECT PLANT | Generdll Manager Black Says Work- ing Conditions Will Not Be Changed by $200,000 Sale—Hotel Will Be 42 Stories High. Official confirmation of the order for $200,000 worth of hardware for th Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York city was received today v officials of the Russell & Erwin division of the American Hardware [Corp,, and work will begin immedi ately at filling the order. While the order is one of largest to be reccived in this for a long time, it will change in working cor plant, according to Black, gen- eral mWnager. All templates dnd patterns are made, and the Russell & Erwin plant, which was the first in the world to make and ship mod hardware in the new dex is prepared to proceed with- elay in dghvering the material eded The new new the city ons at the hotel will extend from 50th streets and from Park adison avenues in New York It will be 42 stories high. ground floor at the corner h street and Lexington avenue the nev riers for the : The corner E and Lexington avenue occupied by the Savarin res- one of a large chain. From the fourth to t 7th floor will be guest rooms. From the 28th to the 42d floors will be suites. This portion of the building will be in of two towers and will be known as “ihe tower section.” Alternate floor iis section will French and English with archi- ture and hardware to carry out genoral decorative scheme. The old Waldozf hotel was known as the place where visiting royalty was entertained and the new structure will be the same but on more elaborate Visiting dignitaries will he entertained in laborate suites in the design con- will by will be taurant, WHIRLWIND QUITS IN YACHT CONPETITION Plan Extensive Changes Before Boat Re-enters Elimination on Page 10.) July 17 (#—The largest of the four Newport, R. I, yacht Whirlwind, contenders for the honor of defend- | ing the America’s Cup off here in September, today was withdrawn by its owners from the current observia- tion series and sent back to a shiy yard at City Island, N. Y. The other three, Yankee, Wee moe and térprise will e as a class (od ay. ‘Whirlwind, th heavy weather beat of the four candidates will un- in her rigging and She has won but a single race present official tests. Landon K. Thorne and Paul Hammond of New York decided it was useless to continue to race her she could be speeded Up. will be rushed o for further sails. in the that she will trials in Augi be ready ust New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Friday; somewhat warmer tonight. | * make no | Her | Federal Inspector Fixes Respon- sibility On Steamer Captain MANY CHARGES ARE CITED Reckless Navigation, Lack of Skill, Etc., Alleged When Craft Sunk Tanker Pinthis With Loss of 49 Lives. Washington, July = 17 (UP) — Blame for the collision between th steamship Fairfax and the oil tanker Pinthis June 10, of Sci- Mas: lost, has Archie H. Fairfax, it off the coast tuate, . in which 49 lives were been laid upon Brooks, master of the s announced today by Dickérson Hoover, supervising inspector general of the steamboat inspection service Faces Many Charges Brooks was charged with r¢ navigation, violation of Article pilot rlles for certain inland w unskilfullness. in failing to maneuver properly on sighting the Pinthis and negligence in making an and diligent search for possibl vivors who might have been float- ing in the water. Hoover, in a report ary of Commerce Lamont, said Captain Brooks would he brought to trial and that upon conclusion of the trial he would advise Secretary mont of the action taken ag: Fairfax master. Hoover report was nothing in the disaster t reflected upon the steamboat inspection service and Captain 16 of e to Secret inst t Hiene sed on Page Two) COMMONS IN UPROAR AS MEMBERS REBEL Two Suspended After One Steals Mace, Other Defies Chair (Contin London, July 17 — Th of commons was thrown into citement this afternoon when ner Brockway, labor member, middle of the question period, in- sisted upon delivering a speech on India and Prime Minister MacDonald moved his suspension for disobeying { the chair. e house en the tellers table to give | Atter a division, wh were lined up at the the result, one of the laborite, John Beckett, scandalized the chamber by ing the mace which is the hou emblem of authority and running down the floor with it A m enger caught him at the bar gf the house and the sergeant of arms recovered his mace amid enes of great excitement Beckett's suspension also was moved by MacDonald and carried 324 to 4 As Fenner Brockway's suspension had been declared Tied he and Beckett left the together. Members who sat he snatched the mace reported him to the chair as shouting "Mr. er, it's a damned disgrace!” | ring apparently to his labor col- league's suspension | e v Foxt Worth, Tex, July 17 (® — Oscar ¥ox, 15, tree-sitting”” endur- ancer, “crashed” today. Asleep, he fell 15 feet from his perch and was taken to a hospital with two broken ribs and other injuries. house near Beckett as BANKER COMMITS SUICIDE Rutland, Vt., July 17 (P—William A. Thrall, a promin®nt husiness man and director of the West Rut- land Trust company. shot and killed himself in his home in West Rut- land today. federal Speak- | Refer- | Lengthy Search for Missing Air Mail Pilot Ends PISTOL CLUTCHED IN HAND - Discovery Climaxes Hunt Under W Since January 11 When "Heavy Snow Storm Caused Plane to Crash in Mountains. Cedar City, The ham, Ut search Western Air since 17— long for Maurice Gra- Express air 1 pilot, mis Janu when his body six miles from where his ed plane was discovered late in June. Major Richard N. McDonald time flying companion of the dead air mail pilot, led a small searching rty that discovered the long sought body in underbrush along a st .in the Kanarra Mountains, outt of here ion was mads his revo taken from Major Donald said he Graham died from exp: tly while In his left h ended vesterday was found wreck am K mile Identifica 0 perso through er and plane selieved appar- cat esting across his chest was a k and beside the body a can of tor In his right hand, lying over his head he held his revolver, fully loaded An empty can of foo lay beside the hody Found Burned Firet discovery dlown to The sive search of been under way the plane. The clue to have been mainly the naxed an the vicinity wh sin ry of is believed responsible for 1 was found last Saturday in the discovery of a burn- ed out camp fire and articles inden- tified as from a kit carried by t the In addition to McDon who found the body my Allen of Los A of the pilot, and Gl Edwards, Leo Currier Bartlett, all of ald and Allen return leaving the other fo the hody McDonald imm v not the Western Air Expre Los eles of 3 was discos mystery Jim- 1sin corg Fran - City. MeDon- Ced co ied s officials in the discovery flying the mail of his Los Angeles to was on the last flight that he became over Nevad; d Utak Left January m left Las Ve night on January lost 1 storm 10 Nevada i wing noted for his daring could battle through it he odds were against hi ever, and before he th® blizzard had increa sity. At St. George in the sou corner of Utah, residents plane circling over the town 0w~ far ten- hwest his and be wo) (Continued on Page erday - 7 war | RESULTS IN SUIT; Deputy Sheriff Unable to Find Garage Man or Attachable Property BANK ORDER FOR $250 COMES BOUNGING BACK Attorney Sable Issues Writ for Un- named Client But Horwitz Finds Errand Useless—Principal Figure Left City Several Days Ago But Brother Says He Wiil Return Next Saturday Sheriff Martin H. Horwitz garage of the Domijan Co. on Washitigton street to- serve a writ of att y of Vietor Domi nd neither the indiv y standing in his name as prepared by Attc sable in behalf of a clievt ment put 1ual nor jan him was re- riff was this informed city several at i¥ expected itain Saturday. An attempt 1 previously been in banks but accounts did of the writ, ac- Sable that he m: ney ling to Attorney Hnr\ Domijan, who is associated his brother in business, said the rrm in question is not one of the com 's checks and is not an obligation of the corporation. Harry Domi s in charge of the repair r the motor com- Domijan handles it was explained. or sales and financing. “ OF NEW HAVEN" FLIERS ACCEPT BID T0 BANQUET Three Aviators Who Leaped to Safe- ty Plan to Return North and Try Again Monroe, Ga.. July 17 (#) — by a fuel shortage which caused the abandonment of the monoplane K of New Hoven." three ambitiou: iators rested today and hop®d would be rle to ob back- ng for another attempt ke a New ey tain to m fror James aped erday riles approximate- contemplated to safety near Bo from her in which ly 800 9,000 mile hey accepted an invitation banquet at Athens, Ga., tonigk fore proceeding to Atlanta tor and back to New York. The sponsors in New York said a deci- sion on purchase of plane would not be re e fliers od ir jour: to a be- orrow ship's crew could not see their for a heavy fog. Yesterday ihility grew be but still no land marks could be d and the plane went out of gas exhausted way the vis- erned cor Police Seeking Negro Who \ssaulled “oman Houston, Tex., J available officer city today in s criminally assaulted wife of a Houston o’clock this morning he negro was dis hroom of her home shortl mercha cover bat by an b left for work door. but it negro overtook nto the dining 1 her, brandishing a kn vear old son witness After the assault manded money, took th purse and left the house Bov Wi ho I\rlled \ursc Insane, A\lrem:t \d\s Morristown, N Thomas C' who assisted in 14-year-old charged with killing 1 maid, said today that t suffering from dementia an incipient stage. He re the youth be confined ir tion for the insane was locks her o Dr. ist of en- on Woolsey mother" boy was praecox in ommended an in he exan Harn Man Who Offered Self for Test ‘With Trachoma Germ Given Job 17 (UP) to work today| Bridgeport, July Chester Taylor went in a Bridgeport dairy of four jobs his offer to sell his body for medical experimentation had brought voung fellow like tha the dogs.” Joseph Dewhirst ninent ryman, has given the health-shat- d World War veter as general untility man on h Dewhirst was waiting for Taylor when the latter returned last ning from a one-day job of cleaning house—a job which earned him an old suit and a pair of The dairyman described the visit, i hosition farm eve- |to the United Press today “I'd read about T newspapers,” said Dewhirst didn’t seem right to me that a vot fellow should have for experiments support his wife to be big enough cases like th Had Ouly § “So I dropped up t look him over. 1 aske they had any money and he they had two dollars which his wife had earned house cleaning. He said he had spent the day scraping wall (Continued on Page Two) to flat to m said Herald to Announce Mandell-Singer Bout A blow by blow account of the world's lightwe ampionship fight at the Y: stadium t night between Sammy Mande title holde: lenger, will be the windows through t ice furnished Press. T uled to sta LAW STUDENT DIES ON'5. 5. VIRGINIA Stanley M. Glinski, 18, Was Workmg ' Bducation SHIP OFF CALIFORNIA Boy Was Youngest Student at Ford- t ¢ ham When He Enrolled in 1928 —Body Will Be Brought Here for Interment. year old yea never be eld- i of 68 ddenly Vir- fornia. th the gram ting nquiring he re- and bu bur- i requesting that ns be sent here for burial. cause of the death is unknown that he suffered attack. The body to be brought to is believed heart cted is ex- thior ting his year nt a and New employ- e vesse, With his earn- the sistance of his he would have continued his unior the law school On learning of his death expressed grief ‘and sorrow associates from is Haven will attend act as pallbearers Gli was graduated Sacred Heart school and four years he spent-at 100l at Ramsey. secured ings and mother, friends School ski from the the next Don Bosco er be- titution niver- was the university is youth he holars of A and youngest stud at that time. Despite Mary by his d three Anna being ; Stanley Borawski POLICEMAN FREED IN KILLING OF SUSPECT: Glint of Man's Belt Buckle Mistaken for Re- t during a liquor ra he mistook a shiny buckle tello's belt for a pistol obe: throw ough to draw a gun. The o a Piscithllo his was nday wer commu on with ami to check a r t Piscitello had been a hen n Al Capone. When Pisc cht Halcyon d of liqu d. The and troope all night se port ello was and were was ized with men were admitted reported today arch had failed t whereabouts of a of shot ar to bail rest e most addresses ov ous APPROVE OIL SALE New York, J 7 (P—Th lirectors of the Consolidat- 0il corporation to Stapdard Oil Sinclair's half interest pe Line company 1de Oil Purchase Sinclai oda 2 company HIGH TIDE—JULY 18 (Standard Time) New London 2:08 a.m..2:50 p.m New Haven 3:21 A.m.4:03 pm. v | his stat Aaktiy WATSON MOVES TO INVOKE CLOTURE RULES IN SENATE T0 HALT PACT FILIBUSTER DEMOCRATS SILENT ON SALARY SLASH Make No Protest Against Cut in Board Clerk's Pay THREAT FALLS LIKE DUD Council Holds Up Comtract for Piper Brook Culvert — Investigation of “Mortgaged Street” to Be Made— Claims for Storm Damage. s to fi uigley's a to reduce Keog 2500 to of Clerk H R board fro Drawn partly published rep minority to ba the measure, tators were 1 room mor standing Josept promise where Cour and William opponents the f mittee who had pro their campaign to sit cyes turned nority direc ilmer W, were marks one intended to spi to the house ary was approved. spectators on the lower s; many of t only to witness t on the salary cut wa those Two Vetoes Two vetoes by Approved Mayor Quigl 1o with appo tee to work o ing interest com plan ents on sewer and E 1 call commission was passed appoint a zens as an ac ater com to take the which may t ond resolution e city plan tion ility o called for a report on commission of pocket str ciora moved of public works t dvisability it comm of doing 1 t for subway wor Wlll DISCLOSE PLANS Announcement on Probate Judgeship Expected Within Few Days to succ >v whose retir the end of t Alli Hart Alling s00n on a tri orney General to leave the city \ation of H which has no said 1t his h has been fo appearance disclose bet ' medk years confi e atane Johnson Refuses to Agree to Limit on De- bate, so Republican Leader Circulates Petition to Compel Vote on Treaty Soon. Two-Thirds Majority Is Needed to Push Emer- gency Measure Through Sees Wilful Delay in Speeches —Administration of Opponents. July 17 P—A peti- re rule to shut London maval culated in the senate or Watson, the re- after Senator John- California, had re- agreement for a ginnigg next enter any Py 16 Names Enrolled 3 mes were son had ex- t the neces- irds majority could be rule, although dvocates are the petition ¢ voted upon each senator rour of de- cafter. ~ call had brought chamber, Senator nson. leader of the would agree to a 1t mited to one he treaty dopted a quorum 1 senators to t oppo! time to vot I will not,” an Wil replied the Califor- the senator agree to limit to ten min for each seni- tor beginning next Tuesday?” the re- lican leader then inqui I will not Plans Saturday Session Watson said the senate be kept in session Saturday at this would give the opposi- r days to complete their ar- added the proponents to shut off debate as but said in- publican, 1 t opponent, inter- °d to his Indiana col- e spoke yes- ess purpose of er senator % binson senator exp Johnson or a clotu Asks No Quarter o bat he said. T soruce or T to fight for s great actly as Il protect what rights from any way to die. The some foreign ad- 1 made no only Seek Early Vote 2e Two) DRY AGENT KILLS [0WA BOOTLEGGER Harland Peterson Shot When Officers Attempt Arrest ght in a gun Peterson’s de- alcohol to th “ho shot Peter- an appoint- lcohol at a three miles v roadside point t of Hampton. Five men rove and left his car towar men awaited walked e can. O and n e of ified him of his dropped the car fired agents rson once and ot once, the b terson’s with Deter Wheeler, 26 and , both Waterloo. pending an ing the shooting said two of undercdver men and luding the man were state pro- ad son wher Cecil They and nes! nts were son bition agents. P