New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1930, Page 1

% C——— / !lm E. Pratt Succumbs in Ipswich v ] News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN H gt 41‘1; Average Daily Circulation For Week Fndmg 15 133 Aug. 2n LD ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, , 1930. - TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS COAST GUARD BOAT SHOOTS BOATSWAIN IN ERROR AT SEA Salishury Beach Petty Offier | Dies From Bullet Fire of Hen From Own Service BOTH MISTOOK EACH OTHER FOR RUM RUNNING CRAFT | Hospital After Companion Runs | [ Craft to Shore—Inquiry Ordered F After Several Hours of Secrecy— Court Martial Promised in “Acci- dental” Altack by Commander — ~ Boston, Aug. 5 (® — Boatswain Lewis Pratt of the Salisbury Beach Coast Guard station, was fatally wounded by bullets from an- other Coast Guard boat out of Base 7, Gloucester, last night when his surfboat was mistaken for a rum runner near the mouth of the Ip- swich river, Ipswich, Mass. Early reports had indicated shots were fired from a rum vessel Pratt died at the Ipswich hospital a few our r a fellow guards- man had their craft into Little Nec resider section of Kecp Matter Myste sard officials declined to shoo! for hours after it occurred. T statement reveal 1ng the facts was issued by Captain W. H. Munter, division commandey, from local headquarters Capt. Munter id the the of Gloucester craft, an outhoard motor boat on special pa- trol duty, were not immediately available. A court martial would be ducted, he said. He referred to hooting as “accidental.” Captain Munter's ement re- vealed that Pratt and his companion Cleo Falkingham e goin assistance of a vesse]l reported T The crew of the motor bo: pmn ed it had signalled the surfboat and zot no response. Believing it was a yum craft they opened fire. The ooting occurred in extreme “Report Sent A detai was for Washing A board of to convene at station brought Co: names of dark- to Washington of the shooting immediately to aptain Munter said. inqui was ordered e Salisbury Beach | fternoon, . District s, of Ports- and two officers from named to sit on the were The Coast Guard craft was pht into Little Neck, a summer residen- tial section, and Pratt was the cottage of Edward Marcorelle of this 1oy Marcorelle rushed Pratt to the Ipswich ho: 1 but too late to save hi¥life. Pratt died a few hou after Police of all t ties and the tal com- local Coast Guard | jons were notified and officers arched the waters off here during rly morning hours for trace of e supposed “rum runners’ but without avail, before the official ad- 4 on Page VISITS COUSIN HERE, DROWNS IN MERIDEN New Jersey Man Had Seen Local Relatives for 20 Years (Continu Two) ne Kavalawski, 47, a cou- Mrs. Annie Rodman of East ptreet, this city, whom he was ‘.vsi'lf(g for the first time in 20 yeags, drowned while bathing in Baldwin's pond, Meriden, shortly before 7 o'clock last night. Mrs. Rodman stood on the shore and watched the futile efforts made to save her rela- tive Although there were many bathers in the pond at the time, it was only through chance that several children | playing on the shore saw Kavalawski disappear in the water about 50 yards off shore. Their cries attracted the attention of John Doyle, Jr., and Al- bert Cope, who procured a boat and rowed to the place where they thought Kavalawski had gone un-| der. About 25 bathers took part in the gearch for the body, diving and swimming _under, water. Fifteen minutes later, at 7:30 o'clock, the body was located a short distance off | the cement basin and placed in a boat / Within a short time after the mah was brought ashore efforts were | made to revive him with a pulmotor gent to the scene from the l'ra((‘ street fire house. Police and civil- | iuns joined in the effort to restore | life to the man. Dr. Thaddeus . Skladzien injected several drops of adrenalin and when these failed to| stimulate heart actfon he pronounced the man dead. Medical Examiner H. DeForest | Lockwood, after an exarpination, | said the New Jersey man had proba- | bly had & weak heart which may | have contributed to his collapse in the water., ®mong the New Britain residents who comprised the bathing party with Mrs. Rodman and Kavalawski | were, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rodman, Mr, 4nd Mrs. Martin Turskius, Mrs. Veronica Turskius and Joseph Nick- alowski | Mrs. Rodman said her cousin had Benja Bin of 375 (Continued on Page 12.) { many | Mississippi charged | was extinguished without much | tim | practice, | pital |5 to | velled, and | L_Mississippi Firebrand | - SENATOR PAT HARRIQA’)\' HARRISON RETORTS T0 BINGHAM'S RAP Mississippi Senator Denies Coah- tion Caused Economic Sitnation | GIVES SLAP T0 REPUBLICANS Delay fu Enactment of Tariff 2 | | Alderman Clesson W. Parker of |the third ward, acting for business |men and residents of his district, |'Will present a petition to the com- |mon council tonight asking immedi- ate reconstruction of West Main street, between Liberty and Lincoln streets. The petition was circulated by store owners who complained that their business is practically at a standstill and that their customers are being needlessly annoyed under | the |present conditions. The highway be- | tween Liberty street and Black Rock ' ‘West End Business Men Protest Against Destruction of Trade By Delay In Repairs to Street iSituation On West Main, Due to Reconstruction of | i Black Rock Bridge, to Be Brought to Attention of Common Council Tonight by Alderman Parker of Third Ward. bridge has been torn up for several weeks and it is impossible- for their customers to bring their automobiles into the mercantile district, confined almost wholly to the link between Liberty and Lincoln street, they complain. . Sponsors of the move to speed up operations on the part of the street devoted to business say they have been informed it is the city's plan to rebuild the street in the locality of bridge, in which event, they point out, the interference with their business will be greatly prolonged. NATI[INALS RETURN T0 BURNED TOWN Troops Re-enter Changsha— Stories of Torture Heard FINGERS Measures Placed Squarely Up to | G. O. P. Majority of Finance Com- ‘mittee in Political Dispute. By GE (Washington Washington, RGE H Bureau, Aug MANNING N. B. Herald) —A scathing the charge of Senator am of Connecticut that in_the session of was responsible\ for of the pation’s economic ills, was made yesterday by Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi The senator from Connecticut is reported to have declated in & speechy at Bridgeport Saturday that if it had not been for the action of the democrats and progressive re- puMhuns a st the tariff bill, “we could have avoided a large part of the present business depression.” Lays Blame at G. O. P. Door “The delay in the enactment of a tariff bill,” the fiery senator from “lies first at the door of the republican majority of the finance committee, of which Senator Bingham was a member.” Harrison was a minority member of the same committee. The latter charges the committee with laxity in the handling of the measur d points out that the ses- sion which p: ed it did not meet until December 2. He said: crash in the stock market occurred October 24, 1929, more than a'month before the convening of the regular session, although according to Sena- tor Bingham, because of the coa- lition's attack on the bill ‘credit be- came frightened, faith in the imme- diate future lessened, a top-heavy stock market crashed and the pres- ent business depression began.’ Coalition’s Alm “What the coalition was fighting,” Senator Harrison continued, “was the thing that Mr to put upon the country, interest Connec! lobbyist committee as his clerk.” Senator Harrison said it was man- ifest early last March—four months ago—that the tariff bill would pa and there has been no improvement | in the business situation yete “Mr. Bingham's declaration,”” he said, "is preposterous and untr@e on \(iacer repudiation Hiram Bir the coalition the of last senate feut Torrmgton Castings Co. Fire Reported Suspicious Torrington, Aug. 5 (A—The plant of the Torrington Castings Company here was gutted by fire h a loss estimated at $20,000 early this morn- ing. The origin of the fire is not known, but an officer of the com- pany of the opinion it was set afire. About fodr months ago there | was another fire at the plant which dam- age and that fire was reported to the police as of Incendiary origin is STRAY SHOT KILLS WOMAN Waterbury, Aug. 5.—(UP)—Vic- of a stray shot fired in rifle Mrs. Olga Shultz, Middle- was dead at Waterbury hos- today Mrs. Shultz was shot through the lung by one of a group of boys in- dulging in rifle practice in a wood- ed section Sunday. Police began a town, search for the boys, who were said | to be known, toda “The big | Bingham sought |1 and in the | of which he introduced the | to the finance | » | flicting Woman Missionary’s Severed Mem- ber Sent With Demand for Ran- som—Other Indignities Suffered » ! by Captives in War Area. Xanking China, Aug. 5 (P—It is| that morning national- reentered officially announced ist troops this Changsha which recently was cap- tured by communists. Many Stories Heard Shanghai, Aug. 5 (P—Stories of tortuge and other violence involving women missionaries climaxed today's reports from the areas infested with communists and bandits British conSular authorities at Foochow reported desperadoes had chopped a finger from the hand of a British woman missionary at Kien- vang, Northern Fukien province, and sent the severed digit to provincial |officials at Yenping, along with a de- Imand for $50,000 ransom for the missionary and her companion, both of whom had been held captive for more than a month To Remove Other Fingers The message from the desperadoes said the women’s other fingers would be chopped off and evidence of the seriousness of the ransom demand unless payment were forthcoming immediately. The captives are Miss Edith Net- |tleton and Miss Edith Harrison of the British Church Missionary so- ciety, with headquarters in London. Chey were seized while from Chungan toward Yenping in an attempt to escape from the danger area Woman Attacked Nanking, Aug. rne, Wife of a British official of {the Tientsin-Pukow railway, was attacked and seriously wounded by |a Chinese soldier while asleep in her |home at Puchen, north of Pukorw, | early today The soldier wielded a bavonet. in- several wounds on Mrs. | Hearne before her husband reached her bedside. The wttacker escaped ‘\|r~ Hearne was not expected to re- cover. British consular officials here viz- orously protested to the national foreign office Yale Building Safe New Haven, Aug. 5 (P—Reports that the Yale hospital and other buildings in the missionary college (Continued on Page Two) |Lundgren Lea\:s Texas For New York by Plane Amarillo, Texas, Aug. 5 (#—Ted Lundgren, Hollywood aviator who will attempt to complete the round- the-world flight in 200 hours, took & here at 6 a. m. today on a non- stop flight to New York. Lundgren left Los Angeles yesterday. He said he expected to reach New York in 15 hours. He Amarillo at §:30 p. m Lundgren was accompanied by Charles Seilers as co-pilot. He said he expected to be jolned in New Yark by Roger Q. Williams for the | transatlantic fiight. | Boys Rush Into New Swimming Pool Without Waiting to Doff Clothing Plans were to be made this after- noon for turning on the water in the new Washington school wading \"001 but somebody evidently mis- Iool\ the report that plans were to| be made. He thought that plan: had already been made, so turned on the water early Nearly 1,000 youngsters. 16 years old, were nearby and when one *‘Here's the water,"” jumped in, clothes and all, a signal for all to jump in had bathing suits All went pants, shirts, shoes and all, and soon the water was as muddy as though 1,000 wild horses had waslg ed through The kids nobody e complained. from ve youngster and | it w None in had a wonderful time, Soms playing | | hustled home to don bathing suits. | but most of them stayed |their clothes oh and ducked and dived to their hearts’ content. The pool is officially open- ed, but the mayor was not there | say a few words, nor did the park | commissioners appear, clad in their dinky bathing suits, to try out the pool for safety and comfort The pool is six inches in depth |at one end and three feet deep at |the other end. Tt is the laggest pool {fn the city and will prove a God- send to the thousands of voungsters in that vicinity Details of the formal opening of the pool will be worked out at a meeting of the park commission to- {morrow evening at § o'clock. in with swam and D NEW YORK POLICE ARREST FUfiITIVF ‘Healy Held for Murder of 3 'CHOPPED OFF traveling | 5 (A—Mrs. A.R. J. | F to| sent ac | OBrien se | fee can be red Brookline Policeman SECOND MAN ALSO SOUGHT Authorities Allege Man Confesses Slaying—Went to Gotham Ahoard | ¥ Bus—Gives False Name First Captured. Brggkline, Mass, Augz. 5 —(Pr— Ne fl'gurk police today notified local authorities that Thomas Healy, 18, of Boston, wanted for the slaying of Patrolman Joseph P. O'Brien here, had bee in that ¢ had confessed to the crime n arrested v and All Busses Searched New York busses en- Healy was arested whe police made a search of tering the city from sought Healy and Paul Hurley, 20, of Pittsburgh, Pa., both of whom were wanted for O'Brien’s death When taken‘into custody, Healy gave the name of “Kelley” and at s me, O'Brien and Albert W. Daniels, 43, a civilian, were shot while the officer | investiagtad the actions of two men who were acting suspiciously around | some parked automobiles. Daniels had been asked by O'Brien to drive him past the ked cars. Whi rched one of the men the other fired the shots. Daniels was expected to recover from his wounds. Wilson Gives Evidence Suspicion was thrown on Healy 4 Hurley after Gordon Wilson, whose name was found on Kerchief that had been with a ¢ r the scene shoot told police he believed they were responsible. The trio had been living together in the Back Bay Boston Wilson tipped at the men had taken busses out of the city. He was held as a material witn Healy wa a clerk iwo a oyed in a hotel said h Verge as had served nes Indu rmont state insti- tution, and that he feared he would ed of the cr Police said today they had lished definitely that be accu ime estab- the pistol (Continued on Page 12.) GOLF COURSE CHARGE IN THIS GITY FIXED Cents for Nine Holes and 70 Cents for 18 Holes 35 Greens fees to be charged at the municipal golf course in §: Quarter were announced today. T harge will be 35 cents for nine holes and 70 cents for 18 holes. The fee was arrived at after a study of charges made in other cities Chairman Edwin P. Lamphier Jr., of the committee, said. “We have considered the fees levied in other cities and have come to the conclusion that 35 cents for nine holes and 70 cents for 18 holes is a fair charge here,” Mr. Lam- phier said “At Keeney park in Hartford the charge is cents for nine holes | and 70 cents for 18 holes. In New Haven the charge is the same as we propose to make here. In Meriden st is 30 cents for nine holes and 50| cents for 18 holes. The at Goodwin park is 15 cents for nine | holes and 25 cents for 18 holes, but | these is no comparison between th Goodwin park course and the New Britain course. “Of course we are at an experi- mental stage. 1f we find that the | iced at some future | time we shall be glad to make the reduction.” August 23 has heen decided on for the formal opening of the course. ley * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair, slightly cooler tonight; Wednesday partly cloudr, slightly cooler. * When | Boston. They | disclaimed all knowledge of the | a hand- | discarded | of the | | injured persons THREE BURNED T0 DEATH INFACTORY FIRE IN STAMFORD Static Electricity Ignites De- natured Alcohol Fumes, Causing Terrific Blast FOURTH MAN WILL DIE, DOCTORS SAY N HOSP[TAL Richards & Co. Building Totally Wrecked In Blaze That Follows— Damage Believed About $35.000 —Fifth Man at First Thought Vie- tim Lgter Found Not at Work To- day. | Stamford | were burne 50 seriously ery is doubt the plant .0“0\&\’1 by Aug. 5 (P 4 to death and a fourth burned that his recov- 11, when an explosion of Richard & Co. a fire that did da The fire was caused tricity coming in s of denatured alcohol. us in Stamford and platoon were call- It was not breught under control for two hours. One Building Wrecked One small huilding was complete- wrecked by the explosion. Win- other buildings of tr fac- broken and the noise of could be heard for a hree w age by contact Iy dows i | tory we the explo | m The three t Gebrge M | Amoroso. 59, ed both of Stamford, and | Frank De) The hodies were burned beyond recognition and iden- tification was made by the fact that these men were only known ones at the scene of the explosion. The in- jured man, for whom little hope of recovery is held, is Majk Kfrnyehny, 42, of S 1ford He the appearance of a piece of well cooked meat, although able to walk into an ambulance Find One Man Absent Tt thought at one time anothe n had lost h life work this 1 In all four storage buildings were wrecked. The estimate of loss a survey of the plant remained at about $35,000. AMERICAN FREIGHTER that but g0 to orning. frer HITS SWEDISH SHIP While | |Chickasaw Cuts Victim in ‘Half —Four Men Re- ported Missing ockholm, Aug. 5 (A—The Amer- ican freighter Chickasaw, owned by the Moore & MacCormack col collided early today with t dish freighter Femme Femmern in two. Fo ported missing. The blow sla freighter vessel i forepart going to The Chickasaw, slight] was expected to ar fternoon The Chickasaw New York July Stockholm and The Chickasa < f of the Femmern in tow and making an effort to bring the lict into port, according to a wireless message for the A The Swedish is listed in the record as of 3 1590 at Oslo, ow Femmen noted shipping register. damaged here this of was dere- Philadelphia 2 American combination passenger steamer (' lision near Stockhol day, left Philadelp New York July 24 cargo and some passenger for Copenhagen and otk vian ports. The passenger taken aboard at New York The Chick *ope American-Sc by the Moors corporated. The el mand of Captain O of New York city. & MacCormic M She | crew of 48 Her owners here had from the ship other than fhat con- tained 1in Associated Press des- patches. * The Chickasaw was war-time Hog Isla She is 401 feet long a tonnage of built in the here. 0ss shipyard nd has a gr Bndgeport Passes Law Banning All Fireworks Bridgeport, Aug. 5 (A—With t last Fourth of d its scores of fresh in IV mind, this city has decided to pro- Libit the sale or 11 fireworks and explosives u An ordinance fireworks passed last cornmon council Bridgeport led last observance of Indep: in the number of persons in fireworks, in banning night by the the the Day ured by state in * - HIGH TIDE—AUGUST 6 (Standard Time) New London 7:26 a.m, New Haven 9:2. 31 p.m. 30 p.m. * | * ] L Plans Atlantlc Flight LAND APPRAISAL BOOSTERS RUN UP AGAINST FIRST SNAG ON WASHINGTON ST. VALUES CAMP DEVENS DRY, Proposal to Increase OFFIGERS DECIDE -Séion ncucing M- Donough Property Hurtford ~ Sergeant . Creates From 8125 to $400 Ruckus in New Bmam Kitchet . Front Foot Debated in MAY LOSE HIS STRIPES Private by Committee. Hardware City Realty W hlch Fxguled in City Campaign Speeches Holds Center of Stage With Disagreement Re- ported—Check-Up Being Made on Other Streets. Soldiers Prepare 10 ter Athletic Contests—Bristol Blanket Sergeant Gets Nine Inch Py Spurs and Seeks Horse, . Capt. J. Erroll annoupced he will rom Roosevelt for London soon in a monoplane. Captain f anadian aviator World r and was Col non-stop | Yol Bermuda Hoping t ) acro: Boyd, take Field, berg the above, Atla Mass., AUg has .ong I Bellanca , owned McDonough and y mentioned gn w ilot of the flight from New June. 15 the sub- by the INEXCESSIVE HEAT .- e State Total § Since Saturday— Hoover to Aid Farmers - DROUGHT GROWS SERIOUS Residents to specific $100 Front Foot Proposed he tax list for ) & front foot d Lake streets of opinion mbers hold- and breaking of th ed office nd it may b ose only the first or top s Bor1e of the me valuation ible to reach When ion that position and of ser; ; Hamden and Stonington Today's Vietims—Temperature 84 on street. anspired Attorney at 9 o'Clock in New Haven— New rted to cre- shed out of dr Mayor Quigley and democr nee both cluded nk calling Crops Will Suffer Soon Me- s own Britain rather campalj showed no re- En oned the n instance o proper McDonough countered n announcement that, if elect- would begin reassessment with his own plot the first to be con- a le bathing in 2 local hospital. In Anton was icken e unloading ge of Stonington than Santos, repo the bureau of 84. By r had risen to than weeks o tec Orga w o the land ointed by tion was William G. n, and as the 16cal t i noon the week tor rnoon was set ‘0. H. in Battalion ¥ New Brit ite first SR o begin work Aid o Meetings Closed to Press of the first decisions reached at the meetings of the com- until time as public be execu- representa- Hoover Plans 5 (P—P) rounfed no stone Vm!lrnr1 by the to assist in re- ed the un- Wa Hoover today would be left resider ond b gov- | entire New of th troops w Capt Tiaut ee such will ch d others not on be invited. by a situation in Mississippi ohn I Harold 1 Liberty Theater Condemned The s Liberty the noted Lieut World sem of has be Crops Will Suffer (Continued on Page Two) t treet, wher 5 (UP) s broken K0 RESTRICTIONS HERE ON USE OF CITY WATER ok e e ome Forestville ty was reached and e o Gt crop Commissio d H. Healy he and mme said the cts from to consequent unbess rain o) BENCH WARRANT 0UT < FORVICTOR DOMIJAN Pumping Station Being result i Operated Reep Shuttle Meadow Lake Supply Up Issued Today by Superior (Court—Missing Man Penniless 5 (P—A bench today for the ar- an of New Brit- n Booth in the request of Hugh M. Alcorn d cat wave was in tor Dom for New York and J court at of yeste mere 4 on Attorney out today water are n though ¥ falcations ranging be- and 50,000 are Victor Domijan le salesman who is by County Detective iward J. Hickey, friends say New Britain almost and that just prior to his departure n efforts to barrow $100 according to complaints ate's Attorney Hugh M Attorney Joseph Griffi e General Motors Corporation, obtained larg by forg {names of New Britain men to con 5 (UP)—Swarms | &l bills ot Domijan represe men had p from him and ma ncing the bal have tive in many oth (Coutinued on Page Two) ainst soug! pennil e Brmgs Reports of Many Oddities In Scattered Areas ", Press. the phrase made v Domij s i A for ews are few of the oddities in today's | given in the United Press lispatches appearing below counsel “Crazy with heat” an empty was more SRR in this coun- sums of money Augy this sect Louis es in sale. It is alleged area between Rockies, whose every- to affected 1n some soaring ther- ion have ret their hives and are eafing their | own honey, unable to find fresh flowers from which to obtain nour- ishment. Bee keepers have suffere substantial losses from the decrease rned these | that rchased [ did not form of real mental ne of serious- N yways ¢, some of course resu n their commodity na biles for their aise sums of the de- and whether share of the have mot be n Viola, Kan. August but Apples hanging on the t e do- | Wil b much of man, or more, | than it did that tinued on Page