New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1930, Page 1

By Associated Press of the World Average Daily Circulation For Week Fndmg 15 262 News July 19th ‘s ESTABLISHED 1870 HOOVER CALLS CONFERENCE ON STATUS NEW BRITAIN, Y 23, 1930. —EIGHTEE =) @EW 1L CUNTISS — SEVERE EARTH TR "W N i) DEATH TOLL NEA \ PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS MORS ROCK ITALY; CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, Jl ,_*__ RADID ANNOUNGER | rore e SLAIN FOR BATLE e RESIGNATION Burke, M “ u‘tf_;nd Hope Leave By Side Door- and Refuse to Talk on | (vonn, Senator Rumored Work- Reason for Visit-Of- ficial’s \l/helreabouts‘J Vague. %Action Expected Soon on Long Disputed G. O. P. Chairmanship—Many of “Young Turks” Meet With President to Dis- cuss Case. Was of Pr cal the White House today regarding th: audius Huston July 23 (UP)—Three Hoover's closest ington sident politi- advisers conferred with him at tus of Chairman C! the national commit for republican limit ga : fast expiring whose promis- tion regarding his ment \ssociates of the pre el 2 of th casir- he executive door and declin=d to discuss their visit Wher ir abouts Unknown Huston's whercabouts At the White House it was said he was understood to be in town and it was inferred he had been located - former Gov Goodrich of Indiana, who wa sent out last night to look for him At Huston" e, however, his s retary announcee ¥ o had not been heard veral days. the White committec he Assur be given that the expected call for the committee to receive Huston's promised resiz- nation would go out tod Fresh from their victory in bar- Chairman G e Moses of ti blican senatorial campaignfcon;- from participation in ¢ work west of Yhe Mississipyi. | the so-called “young tu the conferred rious times Sena- republican, Mich., i have endorsed Sena- Baird of New Je nship after Hu M were unknown w by of and from Hous nor rs o rep sena Hoov t twelve hours. 1 H retires. | Introduce Keim id his collea Kean, republican, N. > Keim, r Park, N, secretaryship | Edgewater and endorse him for of the national com a post | made vacant several months ago of Representative an, N.J. ed ba hy the ret Franklin POSSE l]N TRAIL 0F TWO NEGRO BANDITS' vegroes Who Killed Texas Store Pro- prietor irement Seek N | automobile Marshall July armed posse side around X today in search of two negroes who shot and killed W. J. Mason. 40, Greenwood merchant and fled after robbing his wife The negroes shot Mason to deatn fn his store when he refused o open his cash register for them. His wife, a witness to the aying, was forced to give the negroes the con- | tents of the register. An armed posse was formed im- mediately and a search for the negroes hegan with the aid of peace officers from Shreveport Sheriff T. R. Hughes of Caddo arish at Shreveport said early to- day that from 500 to 600 men were engaged in the search He said there was ‘'no what would happen if the negroes are caught.” He said public excite- | ment was aroused to such an extent| that mob violence was feared. ex combed the eenwood. La Proxy License Seeker Arrested for Forgery Charged with forgery, Leon C. TRaczkowski, 24, of 49 Overlook ave- nue, was arrested today by State Po- liceman George . Silvia and will be arraigned in police court tomorrow. He is alleged to have tried to de- ceive the officer into issuing an op- erator's license to Esterio Tucci of | 107 Mdtle street by signing Tucci’s name to the application and swear- | ing to it before a notary public. According to Officer Silvia, Tucci was turned down last week because | he could not pass the literacy test | and today Raczkowski took the test | under Tucei's name, but the officer discovered the discrepancy and after notifying state police headquarters, presented him hefore Sergeant John J. King at the police station and he was locked up in default of bonds. | wild 1life, 'of dopesters argue | Rowe | main artery to the North Sho telling | § | ists disappearing ! know DATE ARRIV ) WALCOTT FIGURES INHUSTON OUSTER ing Against G. 0. P, Chairman 'RORABACK ALSO -NAMED | Different Motives Ascribed to Nut- meg State Men in Against Official Now Under Fire— | |half hours after he had announced Whole Situation Puzzles Observers |y rocall of M 2 MANNING (Washington au, N. B. Herald) Washington, D. C., July 23 Senator ]"rl‘dr‘nr‘ i Connecticut is speeding® as Walcott of west for a personal inspection of the national | wild preserves, W sip is linking his name working to oust Claudius Huston from the chairmanship of the re- publican national committee. As chairman of the senate special committee on the conservation of senator Walcott will meet | tors Harry B. Hawes of Mis- souri, Charles L. McNary of Oregi Key Pittman of Nevada, members of the committee, in Chicagi will go immediately to northern Minnesota. Krom there, they con- tinue west to the Jackson Hole coun- try and will visit other game sanctu- aries in the mountain areas of the west. The inspection trip will re- quire six weeks or two months, and during that time, the political gos- sip here in the national capital is not likely to bother the Connecticut senator very much. Link Roraback With Move In the rumbling incident to the forthcoming meeting of the repub- i national committee, however, there is a reverberation of more than passing interest to Connecticut. nator Walcott and J. Henry Rora- the latter national committe n from Connecticut, are repre- nted in this gossip as among those who have been conspiring to un- load Chairman Huston. One school that Walcoit in their opposition to Huston, are lined up with the power interests. Another view is that, while Roraback may be play- ing the game with the power group, Walcotf has been playing the game with President than with any an axe to grind The outstanding fact is that Wal- cott will weep no tears when Hus- ton relinquishes chairmanship of the national committee. has been v close to Hoover and it would not be traordinary if in his opposition Huston he reflected something the president’s attitude. This ap- pears to be an explanation with more color of logic than ghe deduc- tion that the Connecticut senator (Continued on Page Two) AUTO RAISED FROM BOTTOM OF RIVER No Bodies Found in Revere Crash—Car’s Owner Missing and Roraback private group with the of Mass., July 23.—(P—The which crashed through an iron railing and plunged into the Pines river at midnight last night was raised to the surface early today and found to be registered to A. C. Rowe, 46 Parkland street, Lynn. No bodies were found in the car but was missigg from his home. A heavy tida) current flows un- der the bridge and dragged the water and a diver went to the bottom in a search for bodies. Wrecking cars raised the machine, & small sedan, to the surface at 5 a.m. The front bumper and a mud- guard were badly smashed by the impact with the railing and all the glass had been broken. The doors remained closed. The bridse, on the e, was crash and 50 Lynn police aided the Revere police closed after the and metropolitan archers. The car crashed through the rail- ing and was seen by several motor- in the water, 14 feet deep at low tide. Rowe's wife called police early to- day, saying her husband had not re- turned home and asking if an acci- dent had been reported whether he had had aay fricnds with him during his night ride, Police investigating at of Mr. and Mrs. Arthyr Rowe, par- ents of the missing 'man, learned that Rowe paid his parents a visit yesterday while his wife visited her parents in Saugus. While there he complained of extreme fatigue, but declined his mother's suggestion the home that he go to bed. About 9 o'clock, | the parents said, he started in his car to visit a Lynn doctor for treat- ment for a sprained foot. They did not see him again and expressed the belief that he may have fallen asleep at the wheel while returping to their home. Rowe was 24 years old and the father of a four-months-old child. Gampaign| —Just | shington gos- | : with the un- | | der-ground forces which have heen | | posal on, | and they | {ernor Fred W. Hoover rather Walcott | President | ex- | to ! She did not | OF HUSTON AS AGAINST BOWLES WMBC Employe Fought Gam | blers Over Station—Murdered | in Detroit Hotel Lobby \SENT OUT VICTORY NEWS | BY AIR 2 HOURS BEFORE | | Gerald E. Buckley Bitter Opp(m«!nl.i of Vice Ring—Brother, Ex-Prose- | | | | cutor in Wayne County, Says Vic- | tim Received Many Threats—De- | Fight troit Official Loses Ballot But Will Seek Reelection. Detroit, July 23 (A—Two and a avor Charles Bowles Gerald E political commen- ation WMBC gunmen as he the voters of Detroit Buckley, |tator of radio | by | (Jerry) \\uk‘ |assassinated by three the loh at 1 | sat of a downtown hotel in 50 a. m. today. The slaying the three weeks of gangster which have paralleled the intensiv and bitter campaign over the p to recall the mayor on charges which include inefficiency and toleration of lawlessness. Police Start Probe Four hours after the slaying th entire law enforcement machinery of the state was set in motion. Gov- Green took a hand John S. Hersev, | National Guard to By 9 a. m was clin of killings ordering Colonel adjutant of the meet him in Detroit the governor, Colonel Bersey and ranking officers of the state polic on the ground assisting local in an investigation of ti crime. The governor and Colon-l Berscy came to Detroit by airplan: Mayor Bowles for whose recall 120,863 Detroiters voted rday had been assailed in political sur maries given over the radio station ! by Buckley. The had aringly gangster elements who out ten were police uns| spectacular slayings past three weeks. Coming as it did on the the mayor's defeat, the slaying was seen by some as an outgrowth of | enmities caused by the campaign, Police Commissioner Thomas (. Wilcox, however, saw no connection between the two and indicated thai he attributed the slaying to Buck- ley's radio attacks on gangsters and gamblers \ in the heels of Continued on Page Four) ECCENTRIC HEIRESS "BURIED IN GOTHAM Mrs. Rebecca Wendel | Swope, 87, Clung to Brick Mansion York, July 23 (P—Mrs. Re- Wendel Swope, 87, brick mansion surviving among bus- iness buildings at street and Fifth avenue one feiani marks of New York, dicd on Sunday at Quogue, L. 1 Mrs. Swope's death nounced, for she and her sister, Mis Ella Wendel had avoided public mention for many years ineral services and burial wecca whos was not an- were yes- Mrs. Swope and éar inherited t $100,000,000 estate Georglana G. B. Wre in a sanitarium in 1 The fortune was foun John G. Wendel, grandfa th somen, who was a conte John Jacob Astor in the b ness and who used his profits to eal estate. It was his princir inve: in real estate, bu e ve acquired This principle was adhered to by hi heirs, The brick mansion set partment stores in New York's u per thirties on Fifth avenue been for many years one of the usual sights of the city. Besids 1, a spacious yard, as city ¥ %o, fenced off from Fifth avenue by a high, barbed-wire-topped wall The yard was retained by Wendel sisters, the story goes order that their pets might have place to frolic. The house itself is said never to have contained a tele- phone, a phonograph or a radio. Many and large offers have made for the house and yard cording to real estate men, as a site | | for a business building but in keep- ing with the tenet of their grand- father the sisters always declined to entertain the offers. Originally there and a brother in the passing of Mrs. Swope Ella Wendell the only member of the family Mrs. Swope was said to have been the only one of the sisters ever seen in public. She visited, at long inter- vals, the opera or the theater, But Miss Wendel last ndel sister who died porary fur among de- un- it ds th in been | ac- were six sisters family. The leaves Miss surviving | (Continued on Page Two) | * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinit. Falr tonight and Thursda | | slightly warmer Thursday. —_—_— % ‘uull d her marriage to Gordon. She | first flig | here yesterday | honeymoon Noted Tnventor Sucoumbs Fol-| lowing Operation for Appen- dicin’s—Long Famous BEGAN AS BICYCLE RACER, Leaders In Alr Field Pay Tributc to Early Experimenter—Official of Great Machine Manufacturing Concern Involved in Long Drawn v ob- o Bl ne, died Curtiss, who recen 25th anniversary in a box kite a Buffalo hos Glenn H served the Out Patent Litigation — Wife Arrives After Death. today ir | Buffalo, July 23 (®) videly known av SEflRES DROWN AS SR e {he iatior morning in the Tragedy at Coblenz Costs Lwes DI 35 : ENTIRE LOSS N01 KNOWN et e was, h1~.vv v iator ration re with I almost As his con- sper hu nprove she owntown hot summoned when onscious er his death d death embolus, on one of ling out of t Hindenburg Cancels Remainder of Triumphant Rhine Tour Out of ry clot Respect to Mourning Families— American Boy a Victim. tushed to Hespital mondsport, N. Y., July H. Cur who died falo hos) an operatior rushed from '} here the exami Coble » today days Preside phal proz: 188 s to the liberated Rh and was tragically cut short by the collapse of a rickety pontoon bridge over the Moselle river last night in which bhetwee and persons lost their The pre ive up vhich h 41 cration of tis, > on Lake following a ermine in a ore at ysical today. decided to nder of be honor of th the Rhineland from and to return to Be mourning services in William occup: tend Col Among the victims of t which took place in the midst night's joyous celebration was a vear-old American boy, Lawler. of Akron, 0., He drowned h his aged grandfather, whom he s visiting here. The boy’s parents Willy and Cat Lawler, His grandfa was given 1s (‘onr dont e side s tra feigning ill the witness stand iss was excused ws after th 18 suffe Aviator takin, Cu th citis. with recur was br rine suit name Curtiss company e in co: Mrs. Curtiss Excused peals Mrs. h beer who ety sut ary 2t the Co! e action xeused to go 1 was Andrews in of he WS annou be cont r, order Judge An hearing woul o esident mee er R per. drowned and that were feared The cou with bla drawn In his orief ident Von ial e the 1ed on (Contin s§ Hi i e GAYS DONTIAN 1SSUED e Ok WITHOUT VALUE visitors 1d rec Pr his spe ity A xpre th the said, Herman Kalmanowitz Claims Banks we Refused to Honor Draft—Sues d on Pa Brains, Not che, Needed Woodcock Tells Ag Washington, July 2 34 Woodcock, prohibi instructed pr (Contint and Has Two Autos Attached. 'wo used taken from rooms of the tomot the Do onhih law ion th time he Kalmanowitz the auto Maryland o and laid off three They als work brought same through obil road commi icers, Charles R John T. Weig for the for § that the banks refuse days without e order and he charged ful in obtaining from can with firing on his car July 16. $200 of amount d Woodcock said investiz Domijan has been to show this to be true the past two w Cartney ere Wealthy Dlsappearlng Indian Girl Again Cited In Divorce Proceedings Tulsa, Okla., July marital affairs of Maude frequently disappearing ca Indian girl whose w reputed to be § are before a court 1 E the had tody been a of her alleged pretense guardian Her whereal mystery, until nita, Okla., in banker to buy disappeared a plied with h | Gordon fo it was set aside in 1 revealed that Ma ried Joseph Wils er the court had marriage Got Money ma to es in hecame a ared Vi phoned her and i com- once again Gordon automobile o an, whose wealthy girl in 19 only to be declared legal lat for divorce in a petition abandonment filed in district sal marria court Married in Towa Gordon and the Indian were married in Council lowa, in June, 19 Whi on a she disappeared from and was the for heiress Bluffs, in Mines The Indian girl's wea ated from oil, zinc and le ties on the production of Oklah ) lands she R and an aunt whereabouts of Wwas unknown. ad royal 1 Los Angeles theater ohject of a nationwid. Later she was r 1 v In 1926 she appeared Ariz., where a court an- inher porte 1 tr again 300, STILL GROWS; 30 DEAD OF FRIGHT IN NAPLES ALONE FINDS NO EXCUSE PFEPER IS CAUGHT Wort Dister i Judge Traceski Jails Dayid Bou- yier for 30 Days {TOLD PRISONER'S WIFE ILL Chestnut Street Man, Jobless, Makes Desperate Effort to Obtain Funds Fraudulently — Police Learn of Four Worthless Drafts, a small child also David Bouvier, jobless on goods under leaded guilty court has P, Bouvier on the Mass Z, proprie view street wrote for $50 more Tr himself e of ist Co. pa him ivier, his t to the groc th of groce 6 out i Endorsing him also to take £ previous hill 0f no v n cheated out worth of groceries. Other Counts Dropped geunt O'M told court the other worthless checks had Prosecuting ed 1o prose- et gon have him em good. d to ob ons of that into. Bouvier, O'Mara, ha ahout one year DERBY PLANES TAKE OFF FROM GINCINNATI Hosler Hurt as He Crashes v—12 Left in Race minal mpossit wo in Runwa all-Amer be worth Wi by, Moline Orleans nd; Wil Joe M Ogden Brown ry Larry Hosler, Detroit sh ake off placed in his ed while attemp Airport men said lons of extra and that weight threw his plane off balance to Genera hospi ing to t Hosler gasoline evi- sition in total elapsed flying time derby in HIGH TIDE—JULY 24 (Standard Time) New London 7:42 am..8:04 p.m New Haven 9:07 &.m..9:20 pm nee st et e FOR RUBBER CHECK AFTER LONG CHASE Claims He Sought Man He Asked to Purchase Liquor JUDGE IS UNAPPEASED Tells Jankowski Act Was Breach of Peace and Fines Him — Stadler and Sullivan Victors in Post-Mid- night Pursuit Through East End. Says He S r Offi man who 1 not know nev, he said 1 told him ng it back ave a few sked inue PAONESSA CHAIRMAN OF A 4, P, 4. GROUP Former Mayor Heads Ga- rage Division in Local Campaign d on Pa livision in Associ on Am ex-I ayor . M. PAONESSA shme today bro ip is being ion Messina Quake of 1908 Strikes Nation- Communications Shat- tered and Exact Facts Still Meagre. Local Italian-Americans Worried Over Relatives and Friends Who Live in Area—Frenzied Efforts to Locate Injured Made in Debris. v 23 (P—The so sharp and number of deaths in Naples alone 50, struck southern shocks that 1d devasta Me; three idespr the great ina shattering of com- the difficulty of mprisoned in the account of the i still was unavail- number of known steadily approached 260 while ched sev- least a hundred on er dred wit rious con nt shocks felt one o'clock this morn- r shock added to the at a. Melfi Hardest Hit let of Melfi in Apulia was onfirmed reports deaths were were 100 in the stricken region militiamen and ci- rs dug into the ruins frenzied efforts to discover wheth- vietims buried there re bol- roofs we persons were in- measures wert ly by the govern- solini himself or- with a n to the scene yonesi £t for the Foggia and L from Potenza move the injured to a the known dead was . there was a probabil- the list would be increased ed buildings were explored Figures At Noon numhber was difficult to of disrupted com- ons bu finite figures ob- noon showed deaths ied as follows: killed and 30 at exact ine because in- ADMITS WIELDING AXE JUSTIFIES COMPLAINT Man Who Chased Family Onto Roof Blames Home Brew for Action nking home made to his admission i v. Adolph Zering ldren out ahout 10 on a roof while an axe to cut then the f ed 1o go to bed to th ey an comi axe ar drunker he wen in respor ges of der the f the children abuse for Her hus last night to mak irious was driven ed guilty and blamed for his actions. R was not the tim disturbance at hom his wife had ampl complaint a greal He conducts a smal heffield street, he rceski imposed 1 costs and 1 that said fine of placed Zering on advising him to be mors of his family 1t vou to start coming b e court for this sort of thing, 1him and Zering shame-faced- cd that he was entirely in the ate is too