New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1930, Page 2

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BY RIPLEY A GRAVE STONE in THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE CRIPPLE CREEK, Col FLAMING bic F & TELEGRAM of ,253 WORDS WAS SENTTO A CRICAGO NEWSPAPER FROM NEW VDRK BABE HerRMAN - Blooklya star | PLAYED 1Ny~ | O DIFFERENT LEAGUES 1 IN & YEARS e = N S — the New Teslamenrl M King Featurs Syndcas, I Grea B1ls v revreed EXPLANATION OF YESTERDAY'S CARTOON The }mu \(dl Old Bride of India—C! ere quite customary in India until very recently. . energetic 1 of In 0om DENTIST WHO DIED IV STRANGE CASE FORMER LOCAL MAN ADYS O'DONNELL . TAKED SIATHLAP seeking Adventure IN NEW ZUTA CACHE Vor ugh trap ter a in lom resorts outsmart' ouse to ‘alls Drying Cli oY St ago Fasy y Swan oftice on's took wo to persuade Roche to vestigator. 1 notable. Per- dog tracks led to eir final closing. and constant har- g of zambling places has put a rious crimp in hoodlum income He has led numerous liquor raids er- i and doesn't think it impossible to dry Pat Roche is Hero A > he raids on age of eleven 1ildren’s weddings of the kind I attended during my ‘The English govern- abuse, which is highly dia. I drew th de from nature, immediately after the was vears. The “marriage” remains a mere formality year S "', the most famous of 1) e French run- is in exc of $320,000, won in total of 313,000 won in 23 1easures to stanip out th S SIX H e winner: second on the list equi a with TOMORROW —The Bearded Bird TRIO IN EWALD- GASE DECLINE TO TESTIFY e evidence who sin ounced if the jury he would a later one re- fused to act ments fror It was c F leader, 811 pointment Mrs. Ev E was reported Healy ald to the id this was a loan here night three courses were open to the gay- nor ir to widen the in- ed. One would be its scope bench. associa- v, to have the the supreme he investigation appellate FILE INJURY SUITS TOTALLING 75,000 (Cont rom First Page) Ring surgical and tio as a result of th Injuries received b; F. Roden discharged from a Connecti- rmington avenue bus in the path of a truck is the basis for two separate suit 1,000 and £3.000 respectively, against the Con- necticut Co. and against Joseph Gracki, truck owner, by the boy and s father, John Roden, Sr. It iz claimed that on Marc 1930, the boy was a passeng i ch was being operated by one Nelson. It is claimed that Nelson stopped the bus on left hand side of the road and discharged the boy in the middle of t cording to the complai was proceeding at a fast speed and wh caused a fracture of his skull and jaw, hemorrhages, abrasions of the face and scalp and injuries to his ched eyes and teeth. The boy asks for the Gt £20.000 damages and his father for his persona i i The truck was driven by s expected here he | qieodore Gracki, son of Joseph promix Gracki, the defendant. Judge Morris D. Saxe represents the plaintiff and Deputy Sheriff Mar- | tin H. Horwitz served the papers. medical accident seven-year-old e Jo! when he wa Co. Fa 26, the bus w the y morning. at Buffalo. the truck expressed rate of the broad enough attorney general to r He said t would be ter some service e la his be pervision i blican a special deputy - some the case. There had been many d investigation of affairs in New York especially ' with regard to the indiclary. Republican legislative leaders since last winter demanding an investigatior entire city administration of the grand jury fo ind he | 20 Ewald cate. a fact iaid with sources to thee district pitted against Whirlwind as formal handling of the case. brous trials to détermine the defender of of protest and renewed ren the historic America’s cup, got un- the governor for state action. not der way,today. merely In the Ewald case but to sift | Phe pairings were reports man judgeships just before the first race hought and sold. Charles The ships faced a light northerly Rurlingham, \ president of the | wind under a slightly overcast sky ew York Rar association, | which made excellent sailing wet- in pledging that organ"anqnalther, Contenders to Defend America’s Cup Paired Aboard the Susan A. Moran, off | Brenton's Reef Lightship, R. 1., Aug. (I'P)—Weetamoe was padred | Enterprise, while Yankee was city e been announced were c it is alleged, | e road. Ac-| it struck the boy it | PR SRS Protects Crossing Even After Death Hammond, Ind., Aug. 20 (P— Even in death. Caleb Gibbard guarded the Oakley avenue cross- ing of the Michigan Central rail- roud. Automobiles block or more the crossing and waited come. No tr: piled on each last night v for the train to s were even in sight, the gates were down and finally the motorists grew im- patient and started horking. The clamor set up by dozens of automobile horns attracted polic who climbed to the watchman’ tower. There they found Gibba=1 dead—Dhe had lowered the gates s0 that the crossing would be otected until some one camé to take up his post. RORABACK WILL G0, PAPE’S PREHIETI[]N (Continued From for a side of rited up st Page) because [ have not been ex | ing it and when a few of us start do it, quite a few of the rest of vou wonder what's the matter with us, anyway. Are we socialists? Have d the tional right | Connectfcut citizens of Reds? Why can't we hings alene and devote our me to golf, bridge and set- [ back instead of arguing about the admin of the s govern- ment and the secret of open control of the republican and democratic | partiss? “The reason is that the great ma- | f the citizens of Connecticut have paid eo little atter the alls of their nent from against state taken away being used are being r isgoverned and know it. Som say noth vote the In: ead of speaking on this sub- ¥ a crime to party gov- id'y becoming Some of my ¢ profess th nderstand wh ways professing shculd me, al- a good reput any awkwa re phor that anyb: eXp E good (he t) should oppose tt has been able groups. s been jefenders of le-maker and a hall th him or hat what d to say hine and to ma be answered bec a speech adver makes where ause charges he » not rebutted Tevitt and P. T G the way was giv- of our Prof. izen interest- Ich by ilities Prof T oh con as a private cit grade cross ppened a da Eber a Hill w public u vitt ed in a dent w home. H late Congres g acei- near h hter of the zer J. Hill Star trict. Forty as i another | tute books, roads of this grade crossing nually for each fifty 7 track operated. Prof Levitt Hartford to learn whether was being enforced. Word through the offices i vtilities comm crank who s asking ade ing chairman of t pears to have said I.know how to state to abolish one went, that ame was Levitt on W n commission Send h take Guest law n to { him.® “Accordir lished acoou which 1 believe ly admitted to be st rect, the irman 2 poration or what he represented. I represented was a private formation. Ther fused to give hi fermation until he represented a corporation, ly a railroad company. and conse- quently had a legitimate interest in kndwing about the grade crossing la ca to Prof. L of t tery s heen unoffic ubstantiaily ked what cor- ilroad company Levitt said he he in- re- vitt's pub- al- cor- e o on ing an chair ow in my mind, that incident raises questions much larger and more importa than anything about grade crossings. It raises the question whether the state of Con- necticut is a self-governing repub- | lic, as it is supposed to be. It also | raises the question as to whether | the republican party. which most of the, time is entrusted the state government, is a railroad party or a corporation appendage’ of any sort. It would be mighty bad business for | thié state and this country if the | voters should ever be convinced | | that this is & rich man’s country or | | that the repuolican party is a rich | man's party. It would be equally disastrous if the democratic party, which professes in this state to mnnsom particularly the interests of the workingman, should ever be | ccnvinged of selling him out, par | ticularly to 2n opposition organiza- | tion believed to be the kindly rep- resentative of organized wealth | Such conitions might actually | duce the sorialistic or communistic | revolution which defenders of the atus quo profess to be afraid | “Whom is J. Henry Serving?" “Now having established my right to speak and your duty to soberly cis- | pro- | |ana earntty nsten to a short ats- | cussion ¢t state affairs, I am going |to =3k one question. This question | seems to be basfe. It points right at a condition which is discreditable to |the state of Connecticut and to all of its citizens, particularly to those who adhere as I do to the repub-| ;]ltr’\n party. “And here is the question: By what right does J. | Rtoraback, president of the necticut Light & Power Co., | 1argest public utility in the Henry Con- the, state, aleo hold the position of chairman | lof the committee, republican state central | which, as he has always | administered it, mages him virtual- 1y the head of the state govern- ment? We know | that no man can serve two masters. Whom is J. Henry scrving,—those izens of Connecticut who have entrusted him with a high public responsibility or the owners of the { power interests of rom he is one. flh\m.ufli\“ there are t s when the duty of the republican administra- | tien to the people of the state and vlh duty of the Connecticut Light & | ower Co., to its stockholders are ro' the same,—may indeed conflict. hold that the two do confhlict, bave conflicted, and that Mr. ack is no longer a good | publi party utility When he hecame magnate it was his duty When he did not retire, | was the duty, of his party to retire him and put in his place some dis- ted republican who was in a public to to serve the public and not | interest. I know this like v but I believe stand here ready to take er is coming to me for hav- d to say it. | Rocky River Charter ; “For the proof of the charge 1 ap- peal to the legislative record. The a private sounds and’ 1 ha ing dar here! record shows that the state of Con-| necticut issued to J. Henry Roraback | and his essociates many years ago, | when electrical transmission was re- |1atively in its infancy. a charter krown,as the Rocky Riven charter, | which ‘contained some unusual. some | extraordinary powers and privileges. This charter, as I understand it, was peddied up and down the market for some ygars without a Then as the possibilities of electrical transmission became better under- stood this charter became valuable and was sold interests for a good round price and a position with a salary. legislation was needed to make the grant complete, opposition interests had to be kept out. additional laws were needed to meet particular emer- gencies and Mr. Roraback was able, by reason of his position as republi- can state He did them and the { Power Co. t leade them and delivered Connecticut e the largest power 3 state, able to sell | p#ver to smaller companies c than they were able to manufacture it and eventually it will probably ab- sorh every electric lighting and pow- er company in Connecticut. Then he became it esident. The whole scheme was made possible by free grants to Mr. Roraback and his as- sociates of the exclusive rights to te water powers on the state's rivers for which the state got noth- g and ou h they made fat s. Added to this has been the of taking away from land- and the towns their proper: - without, in some notorious cases, the usual and proper compensation provided by law. These charges sound monstrous. They can be proved in detail “Now understand me on one im- portant point. The electrification of e state was a good thing for the state. The super-power pian so-call- ed is a permanent benefit to the tate and is good industrial insur- ance for the state. It may spell the industrial salvation of New England. It is quite proper that the man who accomplished it should make good profits from it, so that they should he able to command the capital re- | quired. But the republican state chairman had no right to be 80 heav- interested and benefited. Control of Leglslature “Because, through his control of e party he controls the legislature, | 1e public utilities commission, the ound criticism, nobody has able and willing to beat down and stifle opposition, investigation and sound criticism. Nobody has been able to say effectively to Mr. Rora- lighting companies that the bargains they proposed were unfanr, | that the terms of franchise ied, their rates were too The public utilities commission | posed to look after rates in the iterests of the conspmer, vet as ad- stered in this statg it is merely a sad jolke. It can originate no in- stigation, t consumer cannot smake out a case without expensive gineering and legal advice which he cannot afford to pay for, the commission appears to exist solely for the purpose of making it appear that there is a public utilities com- mission. Look for a contrast at our reighboring states of Massachusetts and New York ow Prof. Levitt has been saying this sort of thing and pretty effec- tively. He was laughed at at first but when Judge Jennings sustained him on the grade crossing question and when the supreme court sus- tained Judge Jennings and read the state’s counsel a lecture such as no attorney general or assistant attor- ney general had ever received in the history of the state, the professor's stock went up. He was invited to speak around the state and often | and almost everywhere he went, | somebody would say to him at least the Roraback machine gave us good | government. Thereupon Prof. Leyitt began his researches into some de- tails of the state government and he is giving you the results in his present series of speeches. Predicts Roraback Will Go | “He has told us a lot. We are not | only sadly misrepresented but we do | | not seem to be as well governed as we supposed. The Roraback machine is distinctly on the defensive. People are listening to this man Levitt. He is making Connecticut think. I make | a prediction. Roraback will go. There will be a new deal in Connecticut | politics and it is up to you as voters | of Connecticut to see that you cut the cards yourself. When Roraback goes, he must not be allowed to ap- | point his own successor. “You have read a before, no doubt. Now I want to call your attenti to something | new. This has been a long series of charges and some of them serious in natare which Prof. Levitt has been making against the Roraback on good authority | re- | an or a proper leader for the | it | it | buyer. | to some Philadelphia | Further | to procure them. | Light & caper | been | good deal of this | machine and latterly the state gov- ernment. There should be a defense. These charges require an answer. Many months have gone and the people of the state have an increas- ing uneasiness and a convictfon tha things will bear looking into. Thnz are beginnifiz to think that Rord- back should go and are waiting to hear the attorneys for the defense before deciding how to vote. “There have been several answers. Judge Platt at Milford called Levitt a mugwump and advised him to hire a hall. That's old stuff. We won't bother with it further. Down in | Fairfield county Judge Wilder of Fairfield described Levitt as ‘bril- | llant but impractical.” It was only personal opinion. The supreme court of errors scems to have dis- agreed with it anyway. { Attempt to Create Religious Bias Now comes the real answer. It | comes on the authority of a member of the republican state central com- | mittee. Levitt is 2 Jew and his name used to be Livutsky. That's | the answer to all that Levitt has charged “I have good authority for sayifig ®hat a member of the republican state central committee has been o‘f»mz this as sufficient reason why oters should pay no attention to Prof. Levitt. 1 have heatd the story three times in a week in Wa- terbury ‘and have no doubt that all around the state in the right direc- tions the whispering campaign 8 | To non-Jews they say Levitt is a Jew. To Jewish voters, they say he is a denegade Jew. You' will notice there is an important - dis- tinction is trimmed to | suit the hearer | “I know that Prof. the type, who, if it were true that he gere a Jew, would be proud of it 2 not ashamed to acknowledge his ancestry. As it happens he is rot a Jew, He started his career as a Unitarian minister. After- wards he became a lawyer® A care- fully written history of his life in the Waterbury Sunday Republican | of June 13, explains that he wanted to be a lawyer, his mother wanted | him to be a Unitarian minister and finally he became both. Look up Who's Who and you will find his biography. It gives all the facts of an unusually active and honorabls career. There is no warrant for | misrepresenting Levitt. | “But ever® if Levitt were a Jew, | what of it? Does that discredit his charges or him? T should say not. We should judge other races and { our fellowmen by the best that is in them and when we apply this test to the Jewish race, must accord it mental, moral and artistic quali- ties of the highest type unless we are willing to forget Jews such as Einstein and Brandeis in this gen- eration, Beethoven and Spinoza in {he past, As for Levitt, if he were a Jew. I would count him a credit to that distinguished race. a man for Connecticut Jews to be proud of. What do the Jewish voters think of Connecticut politics as they, are practiced, anyway, when they ses an attempt to disctedit a man on this ground? “That's the fact tempt to answer Prof. Levitt after a year of campaigning is to assert that he is a Jew. 1 leave it with you for reflection Is there, after all, something in his indictment that they are afraid to answer, fhat they want the voters to forget? That's | the way the politicians try to fool [you. Don't stand for it any longer, Inquire, reflect, examine for your- selves. Look up Roraback’s record and vote upon that. There's the real issue.” FENN WOULD VOTE TOHAVEDRY LAWS GIVEN T0 STATES 1ed From First Pake) when it rought before congrese for submission to the states.” Backs Assembly Action “I am most heartily in concur« rence with this stateme: made 1r the Times editorial,” Congressmat Fenn i rmed Mr. Robinson. Ir further explanation of his attitudc Congressman Fenn said in a state ment to the Times that Connecticu has never ratified the 1Sth amend ment and that he has always stoo: by the action of the state legislatur in refusing to ratify the prohibitio act A : Mr. Robinson, in comment o1 the letters from Congressman Fennf said today that the Crusaders wish ed to know whether or not he woul work for repeal of the amendmen “The correspondence indicates th; Mr. Fenn is ‘wet, but how ‘wet’ another question,” said Mr. Robf son. “It does seem to me that th Mw"&uon as to attitude toward | peal is still unanswered. The cot | respondence has not yet been prs | sented to our directors, but perso |ally T think the question is not a sworged.” | | on. he Levitt is of we The only at- were not | ‘Secondllh);x,‘zreé;{;ier (‘onvic(iqns Are Uphel Ragjeigh, N. Aug. 20 (A—Thl |North Carolina supreme suprem, court today upheld the second de gree murder convictions of seve textile union leaders implicated § the slaying of O. F. Aderholt, Gas tonfa chief of police, during strik disorders there last year. The court also found no error in th conviction of Alfred Hoffman, o ganizer for the United Texti Workers of America, a branch of tr sAmerican Federation of Ldbor, ¢ inciting a riot at Marion, N. C., du ing textile strikes there BOY NARROWLY ESCAPES Driving south on Oak street sior ly before 1 o'clock this afternoo Leo Rosenberg of 769 Arch stre was forced to pull to the left - |avoid striking John Saltis, 4, of ! Acorn street, as he ran into tl street from behind a parked ca Stopping his car, Rosenberg picke e the boy and took him home. } wvas apparently uninjured, accordir m Officer W. S. StroMs' report. | SRR ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Wak field of Wakefield court announ the engagement of their daughte Lois E. Wakefield, to George Davis, son’of Mr. and Mrs. Jot L. Davis of Hartford. ’