New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Assaciated Press \ ESTAB}ISHED 1870 Average Daily Circulation For Week Fndmg 15 01 1 Aug. 16th . NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THYRSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930. —\TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS | DERBY PLANES LEAVE HARTFORD IN CHICAGD RACE Mon 5 100- Horsepower Maohmoso Hop 01 From Brainard Field | Belore Huge Growd RAGES IN ALL SECTIONS o o Texas With Mrs. O'Donnell S!fl] Hoiting teat —Twoan pervy THO PLUIBEYS' Union Oficials| Rouses Patron’s Ire || (Special to the H®rald) | Plainville, Aug.,21—"This is a \ fine post office. It's a wonder you wouldn't get some ink. My foun- tain pen has not worked right since I started using your ink.” Thus protested a Plainville res- ident in the town's post office to- day. According to the post office clerks he has been using the ink for some time. Clerks refused to confirm a rumor that special ink might be provided for the foun- tain pen owner, | || Plainyille P. O. Ink | | Reaches Fort Worth—Killips Has ‘ Lead on\ Others Setting Out From Miami—More- Ladybirds to Take Off Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. Airplanes—big, little, and | fast—shot throuxh the skies today | from the four corners of the nation, with Chicago and the national air | races as their target. From Long Beach, Seattle they were flying—women and men; and from Hartford, Conn., and Miami, Fla. and Brown: ville, Tex. 1L will be next Wedn day, at a time when the natiol air classic is at its height, that the last of the air derbyists drops his plane on the grandstand-ban Curtis®-Reynolds airport near Chi- €ago. The women slow Calif., ar!mJ fliers, who hopped from Long Be t 17, were winging toward Amariilo, Tex., with a scheduled stop at Lubbock. They will cross Oklahoma, Kansas, Mis- souri, lowa and Wisconsin before they finish at Chicago next Monday. There are .six pilots in this race, | with Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell, who finished second in the women's derby last year af having had only 49 hours of solo flying, hold- ing the lead The two-man to Chicago, north today Fort Worth, derby, Brownsville was moving further af a night p at John H. Livingston of Aurora, 11, held an advantage of more than one hour over W. G. Moore of Kansag Ci when the planes were down at Forth | Worth last night. This derby fin-| ishes at Chicago Saturday, the day the national air races open Another derby finishing Saturday is that which started at Miami yes- terday. Art Killips of La Grange, Ill, had a 14 minutes iead over Art Davis of Lansing, Mich., with the third pilot, George Burrell, also of La Grange, 13 minutes back of Davis. This der is zigzagging northward, its itinerary marked by Nacib and Augusta, @Ga., Murfrees- boro, Tenn., and Cintinnati, O. Two Start Today Two derbies, one from and one from the west, day. From Hartford, Conn five planes were scheduled to arrive in Chicago Sunday after night stops at (Continued on Page Two) -4 the rast" startgd to- HOSPITAL CURTAILS CLASS IN NURSING Lack of Housing Accom- modations Prompts In- stitution 1‘0 Act construction of So crowded is the the New Britain General hospital that it is nec ry to curtail the gize of the class of student nurses because of lack of quarters, accord- ing to Miss Maude I. Traver, direc- tress of nurses, today With accommodations for only nurses in the dormitory and the | minimum number under which the | hospital can function being consider- | ably more than that, the institution | has almost a per cent nursing personnel more that its housing ac- | commodations, while from 10 to 15 | more students coyld he trained if they could be houd The incoming which has een curtailed because of lack of ac- cmmodations, will bring the num- ber of murses, graduates and stu- dents up to while the needs of he inatitution requi it is ald. This is in addition to about 15 enior nurses housed in an adjoin- | ng building and the night nurses | vho sleep in the administration | building. | So serious are conditions in the| urses’ home that in some cases | urses are sleeping three in a room everal times within the past few ays it has been necessary to shift | urses from one room to another in rder that proper accommodations jght be made for incoming stu- Hens. | The need of a new nurses’ home | fras announced about three years | go when James S. North, president | bt the training school, annoumed| t a publie graduation exercises that dditional acccmmodations were es- ential. Since that tine the demand for | ospital service has been growing, | he number of patients is increasing, | dditional internes and other at- aches have been nceded and the | eneral growth of the hospital has ten so rapid that it has expanded ster than the nurses’ home. While | ntative plans are under considera- on for an addition to the home, | nd the hospital has gradually been | uying property on all sides of the lock upon which it stands, lack of | nds, it was said today. prevents | oy, further immediate extension, nurses' home of 50 | a class, ne)‘n‘.:\n Plumbers’ | figure | say | exceeds all |“the very apparent improvement in | Killed in Chicago Fight GUN BLOGKS STRIKE CALL Bullms Fired into Men When They Go to Site of New High School Building to Call for Cessation of | Work by Journeymen. Chicago, Aug. 21 (®A—Bernard Ruberry, known to police as a mys- | tertous power in the Chicago Jour- died to- suffered | union, bullet |late yesterday at the time his union | Mulcahy, |day from wounds superior, Charles was | |Kkilled. | Mulcahy, nationally known labor | and business agent of the plumbers’ union, had gone with Ru- berry to the site of the new ILane| Technical High school, ostensibly to call a sirike because of the failure of a plumbing contracting company to discharge its superintendent, | | Charles Couchere, from the high | school job. Police are secking Couchere and Charles A. Stein, son of Carl Stein, who heads the contracting company | employing Couchere. The elder Stein, chairman of the arbitration committee of the Build- ing Construction Employers associa- tion, told police Mulcahy and Ru- berry came to his Loop office yes- ter and demanded that Cour- chere be discharged. Stein said he refused to do this and that Mul- cahy then threstened to call'a strike on the construction job. The young- er Stein then went to notify Cour- chere. 0 Witnesses to Shooting | No one at the construction site saw the shooting, One workman said he saw the union leaders gnter Couchere’s office -and that 10 fmin- @es or so later he heard shot The workman said he went to the office and saw Ruberry lying out- side, bleeding from wounds in fhe stomach. He found Mulcahy inside, dying A youth at a barbecue stand nearby heard the shooting and said he saw Ruberry stagger from the office. Two men ran from the office, the youth said, and drove away. Ruberry, at a hospital, refused to who did the shooting. His con- ditiog was critical and last night a blood transfusion from a union member was made in an effort to save his life The Stein company head told po- lice that Mulcahy had once threat- ened to kill Couchere during the the Stevens hotel. (Continucd on Page Two) CAT FINDS WAY HOME OVER LONG fllSTANEE Merian Feline Makes Tnp From Willimantic to Wallingford i | | more En- his “Ard the cat came back,” than a mere expression to City gineer Philip A. Merian and family Fhe Merians Wallingford for left an their home in automobils tour of New F land. Ruth, the daugh- ter of the city engineer, was de- termined that her pet cat should be a member of the party and tabby was taken along. At Willimantic the éat became unruly and fearing that the animal was about to take a fit, Mr. Merian opened fhe door and across the field went kitty. The family continued on the trip and returned a few days ago. This | orning when Mr. Merian opened | his door, preparatory to his trip to his office here, the cat was on the steps purring in satisfaction | Textile | repsentative of the | ropes |on March OTRIKERS CAPTURE THREE GOMMUNISTS, AND BEAT THEM UP* Nomh Garolina Textile Workers Tie Two Together and Handle Them Roughly VDRIVE TRIO FROM TOWN IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS Radicals Who Come to Bessemer City to Speak and Distribute Liter- ature Manhandled by Strikers Who Denounce Communism and Union- | Ism—Officer Rescues Two and Es- | corts Them to City Limits. Bessemer City, N. C., Aug. 21.—(®) —Three men suspected by striking textile workers of being communists | were captured by strikers last night | two of them tied tozether, all of them roughly treated, and then | chased from town. The men were said to Albert Herder, organizer for the National Workers Union; W. G. Binkley, of Winston Salem, com munist candidate for congress in the fiftth North Carolina district, and Walter Wilson of Asheville, southern American Civil | Liberties Union. According to Town Clerk RHyne of Bessemer City, the trio came to Bessemer City prepared to speak and distribute literature Strikers of the American mills | number dne and two, who walked | out Monday in protest against a wage cut and since have been out- spoken against radicalism or union- ism, took them in hand. Two of them, reported to have been Herder and Binklgy were tied together with and taken to the center of town. kicked and otherwise violently handled. Wilson also was mistreated it was said. Officer M. A. Carpenter, Mr. Rhyne said, approached throng and take Herder and Binkley from th strikers' hands. Then putting them into their car, he escorted them to he city limits, leaving them on the hizhway to Gastonia = Wilson, Mr. Rhyne said, was chae- ed from the town in the opposite direction, disappearing through a railroad cut. Victims Tell Story Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 21 (P—Two men who said they Albert Herder, organizer for the National Textile Workers' union, and W. G. nkley, communist candidate for ongress in the fiftth North Carolina district, declared re today they were beaten severely by striking tex- tile workers in Bessemer City last nizht The men said the them and bound them with ropes, kicking and beating them. Police officers took them from the mob's hands, they said, and took them to the highway toward Gastonia. The men expressed fear for the safety of Walter Wilson, southern representative of the Am Liberties union, whom they left in the hands of strikers. $25,000 BALM ASKED IN THO SUITS FILED Man and Girl Run Down by Automobiles Plaintiffs in Actions were strikers seized William “Carlson of t through Attorney §. Polk Wasko- witz of Hartford, has brought suit for $15,000 against William J. Abetz of 134 Curtis street, this city, and property owngd by Abetz has been attached by rt\g‘unsr:n»rn Fred Winkle. In the complaint it is alleged t 1930 while crossing ¥ain street est street, was struck by Abetz,and so badly now has total paralysis of the left leg, which was permanently short ened throdgh double fracture and through injuries to the knee and ankle. It is afleged that the de- fendant was careless and negligent and failed to give warning and to reduce speed €arlson formerly worked at the New Britain Machine Co., but since the accident has ben unable to work, it is claimed. Fric Prange Carlson, ar C r driy c by injur he of 277 Chapman (Continued on Page Two) Oysters Profit from Depression; Purer Conn. Waters Aid Breeding Washington, Aug. 21 (—Drought 'and business depression are good for the humble oyster. Scientific evidence has led to the conclusion that this generallys ob- | scure but important bivalve mollusk | is one of the few living creatures to | draw benefit from the two causes of | discomfort during past months to human, animal and vegetable lie. The fede fisheries service re- porting that along the Connecticut | coast this summer the “unusually early and abundant set of ovsters | records for the past 15 attributes the better condi- to years," tions for the new oyster young | get | | swimming young creatures and the quality of the sea water as a re- sult of a decrease In trade-waste pol- lution,” and to “abnormally high air and water temperatures” prevailing during the spawning period On Long Island Sound, the setting of the new individuals is egually in- creased in its volume and the oyster- men have strained every resource to the grounds prepared with old shell, gravel, and the types of col- lecting instruments that lodge he ive them foundation for growth. Reports are not in from southern waters, but a count just completed shows the last pack of canned oysters ran much above totals for previous Little Prospect of Maintaining Present Reductionin Income Tax for Another Year, Officials Say mergency Slash of One Per Cent Allowed During Past Year Unlikely to be Repeated—Congres- sional Action Necessary—Still too Early to Talk Definitely, Mellon Says ashington, Aug. 21 (A—Treasury officials see little prospects of main- taining for next year the reduction of one per cent in income taxes which was allowed this year as an emergency measure by congress. Congressional action would be necessary to extend the emergency reduction over another year. Unless | action is taken at the short session |hope for extending the emergencs | beginning next December, the tax |reduction over another year. |rates enacted in 1928 would apply on next years taxes. was too early ny definite tion. The treasyry secretary said no estimate would be made about the future at this time, It was indicat- ed he agreed with the treasury ex- perts that the general business sit- uation just now does mnot warrant to hegin talking with about thé tax sit- by the treasury in the formulation of No action is expected to be taken | | Mrs. While the outlook is not regard- ed as hopeful | for the lower tax scale, Secretary Mellon said today it the tax policy for next year until shortly before the December session | of congress convenes, BOGUE BOUND OVER FOR SLAYING TWO Tries fo Plead Guilty to Double Murder in Groton PLEA ORDERED CHANGED' Court Unable to Accept That Offer- Alleged Rivai, ed By Prisoner—Bogue, Killer of Woman and Maintains Soltdd Compsure. New London, August 21 (P— Stanley Bogue, self-confessed mur- derer of Eva Jennings Roberts and Ole Ostberg, whom he is alleged to have slain with an axe in the kitchen of Mrs, Roberts' home in Groton a week ago Saturday night, pleaded guilty to a charge of first murder when presented be- fore a special session of the Groton town court today before Judge Cor- n Costello. degree s C Bogue was cause to criminal to was Following his plea houng over on probable the September term of the superior court, without bonds, await trial and indictment. He not represented by counsel Retains Composure Bogue, who has maintatned the same stolid composure which char- acterized him when arraigned short- | ly after the crime, was perfectly calm when he rose to plead to the formal charge. The word “guilty” was practically the only one which passed his lips during the whole of the brief procedure was escorted following & cheerful breakfast, from London county jail, by Arthur Whitmarsh and Donald C. Brown of the Groton state polide barracks, to the Groton police court, where he was present- ed. Immediately after pleading. he wastreturned to the jail in this city. Since one charged with the crime of first degree murder cannot plead guilty to the charge court re- fused to accept Bog plea and avidence was presented to de whether probable cause exi binding accused over. PAGKARD CASE TRAU. LEADS TO HARTFORD Vermont Pnsoner May Be Man Wanted for De- serting Wife New Springfield, Vt., mont authorities suing the Ruby angle of their gircles about woman burie Chester. A tween the Green and Aug. 21 uvhf\'[. were today Chickering cian mystery case, which the identity of the in Potter's field at striking sin be- handwriting Mrs. t of a note found near the mysterious dead woman wAs the latest clue to the unknown woman's identit Belief that in might be Mrs peared in ed by St At Edgerton Tuesday, when he receiv- ed a letter from Mrs. Green's moth- er, Mrs. Belle Chickering of Hard- wick, stating that the woman might be her daughter. Further credence to the belief was expressed when former acquaintances told him that Green had two gold teeth as did the dead woman and when Mrs. Chickering wrote Mr. Edgerton that her daughter had had 10 teeth ex tracted. The dead woman had 1 teeth missing Meadwhile Hartford. Conn., po- lice were seeking Robert King, who is held on a statutory charge with Mrs. Catherine R. Packard, who | some days ago blew up the theory | arity or suicide the un wom- Green, who d was first announc ate's ney Lawrence | that the dead woman was she when she reappeared after a vear's ab- sence. The Connecticut authorities sought a Robert King on a charge of wife desertion, but Edgerton said that he did not helieve the man he held was the wanted person THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy, continued cool to- night and Friday; possibly sfowers, PUBLIC KEPT FROM “FOOD GOST INQUIRY Witness Intimidated 7at Last | Hearing, Tnvest 1gator Charges RACKETEERS WAX RICH New York's Milk Bill Jumps Daily as Gougers TForce Increase in Price — kgg Market Guarded From Sabotage Warfare. w York, in w (AP hearing on is being held was clear- of Deputy 2 The August room ch a state | food prices ed at Attorney General Jr.. who d session a dated 7 After spaper a right to be pr ted and two offic ton Deliveryme called to testify Members of the associa been charged with boycotti eggs of the Utah Poultry Producers’ Association because it dealt directly with retailers instead of through jobbers. The witnesses, William R. Dos- cher, president of the tpuckmen, and Sol Newman, recording tary were excused at once and ordered to produce mediately all books and records of association Of the intimidation charge, d he had not yet discovered threatened one of N declined to iden to put him bac cause the man for his life. The investigation was adj until Monday and William B Jr. theNassistant attorne conducting the inquiry, s while he would go ups evidence of new ain today the instance William Groat, lared that at a previous ess had been intimi- af n an nt were readmi rs of the Washin, Association were have the secre ess or his witne he wit had s: ir Groat, c operations, Refuses to Pay. Attacked ob Gr a Brooklyn man, t ied today was attacked by “guerillas’ he refused to pay tribute to “org izers,” who he said had taken over the truckmen's association by force and underhanded methods Displaying a t Ja inch scar on (Continued on ¥ JUDGE RESIGNS POST AFTER FATAL MISHAP Torrington Official, Facing Drunken Driving Charge, Quits Office Two) Torrington resignation o udge of who driving fatal automobi vas in t han Hammann Judge Miles in the A Fre the irunken is sct driving and operating a c intoxicated. He was driver of an automobile involved in an accident on the Thomaston-Tor- ington highway in which Dep Sheriff J. Malcolm r was i stantly killed Judge Miles. resignation to last night. judge gluring the legislature and took 1929. He also served the city court. Funeral services mer were held today, a requiem high mass being celebrated at St. Francis' church. The services were attended by delegations of fraternal organizations of which Sheriff Pal- mer was a memb sheriffs from throughout Litchfield co and members of the Litchficld County Bar associa arrested P o submitted his Hammann wa 1ep offic Sherift Pal- for 17 HIGH TIDE—AUGUST New London 7:25 a.m..7:48 p.m. am.9:20 pm FULL GRAFT PROBE | TO UNCOVER FACTS - | Advises New York City Judge Tnvestigation on 0w Motion I5 Advisable ‘SAYS PUBLIC ENTITLED | T0 LEARN FULL FACTS Writes Justice Dowling of Appellate Division—Citywide Inquiry Fore- cast as Attorney Gemeral Ward Invited Every CitizPn With In- formation to Come Forward and William O, Chicago s ed obtaining a $400 lo Reveal It to Investigators, on, a burt Albany, N. Y., ernor Roosevelt Victor J. of Aug has s D divigion, Dowling Appellate nt,* the Bronx division o: B the NO ONE FAR RIDE FOR CITY GOLFERS Connecticut Co. Fails to Approve 0f C. of C. Request NO SERVICE EXTENSION Communication For President Rickey which emt ur inv partme n and Appellate own mot nder its thereof, Jstices 1y know he fact goV: st b inspection counties. The tnor made public £t for the let- fore thro His lett charges a tof southern r follows: against certain 1 a question as the magistrates’ tier cent tutio Appellate iven the st and stat divisior servision rior re B o Now in Mail Will Explain Why ustices These offi Transportation Corporation division alone thority, not eve No Specific Charges “While i > that no spec rges pre d to me 1 respec magistrate now ting on appellate ivision is n my ion charged with broad res lity Qf seeing that confidenc maintained at the appellate d r the provisions the code of crimi amended by C of 193¢ tig tion, magistrates’ its jurisdiction and hereof so that the pu It hefor Rejected Suggestion. been to any less golf course on ecame known to- e ferior co has heen therefore ision ac urge e rejection could the the to Ha ferred At New ant gene he had written ) of t inv ate on the court justic may know lic t the governor to Presid ski of cond departr Brooklyn s the source, authentic BOY HAS 25 roor'rou ATVETERANS HOSPITAL Two Hospitals Rush Ambu- and Sight Excites Public Intergst gested in Dowling. This would extend oall of t magi irts in New York City Explains Order av the gove was agreed with the opinion trates’ Before asked if he rnor (Co d on Page Two) PURIFY L, 1. SOUND, GOAL OF NEW BOARD Sen. Walcott Asked to Rep- resent Connecticut on Tri-State Group lanc Stepping off a board w one of several placed acro: tor shz pital wh E tom Herman m street, fell Sl this morning Har A ors Co and Kean of New Jer d invitations to becom tri-state com ord, Senat sey, have movemen the pollution of the w und and Ne mination of rs of Long Island § York harbor. United Frederick C. Walcott of Conne invited to be th is committec sisted fellow workm hird his and Wa Copeland ihams, dire commission A is scheduled for ew York and in- n forwarded to the three states to S William of the second September 15 at vitations have he the governors of be in personal attendance mecting. R state veh ets pre- hone calls water confer 15 flood ol had red and the ng rapidly at than one per- serious accident. to pital there heen more son in n a vRoosevelt Captures Presidential Limelight by Graft Probe in N. Y. New York. Aug. 21 (UP) — Gov rnor Roosevelt of New York. ofte mentioned as a potential democratic presidential candidate in has captured the national political lime- light again by assuming direction of the tigation into nmany zraft charges in New York Political leaders watching his cour the probable effc Roosevelt h from the and has Attorngy Gene to conduct which er New York City Risking a possible powerful Tamma s0 long has wielded a don ng in- luence in York state and oc- casionally in national politi t has T mag are canse hances vestigation own party republican ilton Ward investigation A the in- his organization Heteating Has | SIX THOUGHT LOST ¢ WHEN YACHT SINKS OFF BRITISH CDAST Several Members of Parliament and One Woman Believed Aboard Wrecked “Islander” VESSEL GOES ON ROCKS AND QUICKLY BREAKS UP Violent Storm Drives Boat to Disas« ter in Lantivet Bay, Cornwall— Coast Guard Efforts Fail—Wome an's Screams Heard—Swimme# Goes Down in Attempted Getaway —Commodore King Victim, Cornwall, Eng., Aug. 21 amnog two or six persons. eared were of parliament and en, were believed yacht Islander the rocks of Lanti« t storm last en chartered by Douglas Kingy nber of parliament, grave apprehension other members who ed to accompany him. when the yacht met with -foot wvessel N. Diggle of on, went to coast undes thé point of the to a height of from 50 Vessel Breaks Up far as known this afternoon, nber of the party or crew 1d been saved from the yacht. Coast guardsmen who had attempt- 1 all to rescue the persons on hoa firing lines across ring men over the reported that the vessel broken up of Fowey is the haven torm-bound vessels. It is wrters of a coast guard has a lighthouse. The mely dangerous and strewn with bowlders. Udder Rock lies half a eastern shore of Lan- uncovers two feet at 1t is known as one t dangerous points of the vacht apparently miss- nace before crashing. which was owned by > Diggle, rezattas of 1 along the So d lowe ipice, entirely port med mile o cht d here in the vessel was in distress out from Fowey. crew was unable vessel, however, and hot over the yacht nobody on board was VETERAN LEGISLATOR AND EDUCATOR DIES J. C. Brinsmade, Former Gunnery Head, State’s Best Known Headmaster was 21 P— for 43 hool here died sud- Iy the prepara- hroughout Gunnery which was Gunn, his spent politics his town WELDING COMPANY AYOIDS LITIGATION BY MOVING Decision I1s Made to Transfer Ma- chinery From Glen Street to Booth Street ng Co. has street has been past year and ilding on Booth street the industrial district t tion of ma- which neighbors secured an order the present build- ain Weld or take over a b omplain against >d and any had been operating and the interfered well ns according police. the lding, John F. Downes ights and those of t the decision to move litigation. reception as her annoy complaint to the owner of rney