New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press _ NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 THREE PLAINVILLE YOUTHS ’ NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 38, L.:‘ BADLY INJURED BY BLAST WHILE TESTING DYNAMITE Joseph Pavano Loses Both Forearms When\ Charge Believed Dead‘ Goes Off as He Blows 10 Relight Fuse—Not Expected to Live. Roland Lobhdell's Ribs Crushed—Alex Gudat’s | Hand Mangled — Triof Blown 20 Feet— Con-| tractor Blames right Carelessness” “Down- (Special to the Herald) Plainville, Sept. 3 — Joseph Pa- | vano, 19, of Shuttle Meadow road, and Roland Lobdell, and Alex Gudat, 21, both of River street, arc in the Bristol hospital in a critical condition suffering from injuries re- ceved this morning about 10 o’clock when a stick of dynamite which they were testing exploded while they were around it. The three were in a lot in the rear of the Gudat home on River street They were planning to go to work for W. J. Lobdell of River street, & | dynamite contractor, blowing up stumps on a farm nearby. They took two sticks of the explosive which were damp and, setting a short Tuse to one, they went into the lot near the Quinnipiac river to light it. The fuse flickered but then ap- parently went out. The trio gathered around and Pavano spread his hands over it and started to blow. The fuse was burning internally and suddenly the explosion came. The three youths were hurled from the spot. Pavano was thrown about 25 feet towards the Gudat home. Lobdell was sent hurling through the air to land about 20 feet away, while Gudat was tossed to the bank of the river., Both Arms Blown Off Pavano's arms were both severed at the elbows while he received in- juries to his stomach and face. He suffered powder burns in his left eve. Lobdell received the full force of the explosion in the chest and suffered several fractured ribs. Gu- dat had his right hand mashed | while his face and body were lacer- | ated | Members of Gudat's famliy, seeing | . the plight of the three vouths, be- | came hysterical. Albert Delage of Queen street. a driver of a milk truck owned by the senior Gudat, | rushed to the spot to give first aid. Gudat and Lobdell were able to get to their feet and staggered almost to the house before they fell. Pa- vano crawled along the ground Telephone calls were sent in to (Continued on T‘azflifi'wo) | SECOND BOGUS CHECK | I5 CASHED FOR §47 Counterfeit of Insurance ! Company Blank Nets Crook $45 One more of the hoz which bankers and polic have | been distributed broad the | cify appeared in a local bank today when the Alling Rubber Co. deposit- ed a check for 347 which was found to be worthless The check was similar to the one passed Saturday night in a local | chain store. It was made out on a‘ check blank with the words “Metro- politian Insurance company. \m\ Britain branch” orinted in two! lines across the top and “New Brit- ain National bank” on the lower | left corner. | The check w presented by a | middle aged man, inclined to be | stout and of blohd complexion. He | was well dressed and was accom- | panied by a woman, thought to be | his wife. | In the rubber store he purchased | spark plugs to the extent of $2 and | proffered a check for $47 in pay- | ment. The check was accepted by a clerk who gave him the change | in cash | In the other store he purchased $2 or $3 in merchandise and received | change for a check for §$57. The first | check was made out to Charles | Leonard and was signed by Charles | Fallon. The second check was made | out to Claude Walton and signed | Charles Fallon. In both places the checks were proffered by the same man Who | was accompanied by the same wom- | an. The check for 347 was deposited in the New Britain Trust Co. and its worthlessness was discovered to- day when it was transmitted to the New Britain National bank | Miss Georgia Willington, head | cashier at the local office of the Metropolitan Insurance Co. said to- day that no checks are written at the local office except under un- usual circumstances and that she knows of no one named Fallon who | is authorized to sign checks fof the company. Ihe was I being bare when he was taken out SPENCER H. 00D, (. A, R, HEAD DIES Gommander of Stanley Post Served Lincoln Thres Years TO0K UP ARMS WHEN 17 [ Beloved Veteran of Ol War Fought in Many Battles—Guarded Prison Where Booth Was Kept Prior to His Execution. Spencer Hubbard Wood, Civil war veteran and hero of more than a score of the major engagements dur- ing the war, one of the best known opticians and one of the most gen- ial business men of New Britain, died at 11 his home, 11 Emmons place, after an illness of one year and seven months. The true history of Mr. ?'Ood might read like a history of the business section of N&w Britain, so closely interwoven was he with the growth of New Britain's center be- tween 1866 and 1928. Many of the changes in business locations were o'clock this morning at WL Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg Aug. 30th . 15,049 :!tlfr,u PRICE THREE CENTS DISCOVER THIRD DIARY FROZENTO ANDREE'S CLOTHES Experts Now Believe They May " Be Able fo Reconstruct Ea- COSTE'S FRIEND WILL ATTEMPT TO FLY “?” BACK TO PARIS; PILOTS WILL START NON-STOF DASH T0 DALLAS TOMORROW, SOUVENIR HUNTERS NEARLY SPOIL GHANCE AT PRIZE MONEY tire Epic of Expedition 'BONES FOUND THOSE OF POLAR BEAR, NOT FRANKEL | Brother Present When Body Ts Iden- | tified As That of Nils Strindverg —Believe Third Member of Ex- pedition May Still Be Found— Discuss Sending New Expediton to Hvitvoen Island. Copyright, and All Rights Reserved in North and South Amer- ica and in Japan, by The Associated Press. Tromsoe, Norway, Sept. (P— Salomon August Andree's pioneer polar aeronautical expedition, buri- ed for 33 years by the snows of larttic White Island, today gave up in the hospital here what experts believe is the secrel of its fate. 1930, Securely wr shirt, the day- explorer's tramp ice from the spot loon was wrecked, latitude $3 north, fo White Island, where they perished, was found on Andree’s body at Tromsoe hosptial Protected Book Andree in death had arranged for its proteciion and ultimate issuance to the world. As.the numbness of death stole over him, he lay down upon his records and died shielding them wigh his body. The new diary found today also proved to be a treasure trove. It is filled with writing, from n‘overi to cover. and the writing is legible. pped in an under- ay record of the across the polar where their bal- presumably in Another chapt | Breguet in aerial history biplane down at | tact | though SPENCER H. WOOD made about the same time that MrWood changed his office, so that many of his friends declared that | “things ,Aare going to change again | in this city for Wood is changing his store." Enlisted at Age of 17 Born in Hamden, Mass., March 13, 1845, a son of Hybbard and Mary (Pease) Wood, Spencer Hub- | bard Wood was 17 years old when Lincoln's third call for volunteers came, and the young man, fired with patriotic zeal, hastened to enlist in the old 37th Mass. Infantry. He enhsted at§Longmeadow, Mass., in Company D, and served three full| vear; from August 8, 1862 Despite being in the thickest part cf the battles of Gettysburg, Fyed- ericksburg, Antietam, Bull Run, Harper's Ferry and a dozen or mnre other big battles of the war, he uas Inever wounded or coptured. ‘ seemed to bear a charmed life, and when he returned to Longmeadow | to receive his honorable discharge not incapacitated in any way In fact. Private Wood was such a fine looking ex-soldier that one of the fairest yvoung women of Long- | meadow, Celia Melissa Bliss, fell in love with him, and on September 14, (Cortinued on Page Two) AN CURSES POLICE AT COURT HEARING Uses Prof anitA Freely When Presented in Bare Feet The most belligerent prisoner ar- raigned in police court in some time, according to the authorities, ranted and fumed at the police system and conditions in general when brought before Judge M. D. Saxe today, his profanity pouring out in a streaf despite the efforts of the court offi- cials to quiet him He was Stanley LuKasiewicz, 38, of 1555 Corbin avenue, charged with drunkenness and breach of the peace at the instance of Sergeant Stadler and Officers Tierney, Politis and Blanchette, and he was dressed in his underwear and trousers, his feet of his home early today. Judge Saxe continued his case until tomor- row for investigation by Probation Officer E. C. Connolly. Hurls Pulmotor Off Veranda Officer Blanchette testified that the police received a report that| someone had turned on the gas in the Corbin avenue house, but noth- ing on which to base such a report | could be found. The police pul-| motor, which was brought in the | patrol, was thrown from the ver-| anda to the sidewalk by Lukasiewicz, | smashing the case which holds it, | (Continued on Page Two), [tion of the order In interest it wholly supersedes the book first discovered by Dr. Gunnar Horn on White Island. It was annéunced that Dr. Horn's find bore writing only on its first pages i A formal statement | experts, Hedren and Lithberg, states | that only the skeletons of the bodies | | seated three stop crossing in the forward Coste and Bellonte = issued by the of Andree and Steinberg remain in- The organic parts were very | much deteriorated, and the clothing. fairly well preserved, hadJ :nfaelrl much torn, probably by ani- \SC[}O{)I Dep Ofl]fl]flls Whl NO Recommend 2 Per Gent Gilt “After the remains of the Andree | expedition had been transferred to | the hospital ar Tromsoe.” the state- ment says, “the experts began their work at 1 p. m. Tuesday. to the hospital such hnlungmgs aboard the Bratvaag as the sledge, | the canvas boat with its contents, and objects found in Andree’s camp |on White Island, including the log | |book and the diary found in>the | inner pocket of Andree's jacket. | “So far the remains of two men | have been found. The organic parts | Chairman of Board and tendent Say They Have No Au thority to Force Instructors Contribute Part of Salaries. School teachers will not have to (Continuéd on Page 10) contribute two per cent of their sal- | | ary for September, October and No- vember to a fund for relief of fam- ilies of unemployed unless they wish | to do so voluntarily, it was decided this noon at a conference between DR, MARTIN CHOSEN 3 Payroll Totals $270,000 Will Represent Grand‘ The total payroll for the three Lodge in Connecticut months in question amounts to | $270,000, according to Supt. Holmes. East District This would mean that $5,400 would | be received from the school depart- ment if the_plan were accepted Mayor George A. Quigley sent a | letter to the heads of each city de- Dr. Henry Martin of this city wa today appointed district deputy grand exalted ruler of the Benevo- |attend a meeting at the common lent and Protective Order of Plks‘rcvmfll chamber tomorrow morning for the Connecticut east district. The | and give a report on whether their | appointment was made by Lawrence | respcctive department salaried em- H. Rupp, who was elected grand |ployes are willing to make the con- exalted ruler at the annual conven- | tribution. in Atlantic City| It has been estimated that employes affected by this move would number nearly 1.000. The group would include approximately 500 teaghers, clerks, policemen and firemen. Officials Will Not Force Issue When interviewed today Supt { Holmes Sa‘vd the school department had no right to order or even to the last July. The Connecticut east jurisdiction includes lodges in the city of Hart- ford, Wallingford, Middletown, No It was Mr. Holmes' contention that the teachers agwe to work for a certain wage scale and unless they nioney it was not proper for school authorities to ask them to do so. They only method would be to ap- proach them as they v®ould be ap- proached when a community chest (Continued on Page Three) written, Capt rtiss Airport cockpit of the Question Mark hours less than the 40 he had predicted braved the elements ON MAYOR'S FUND Superin< But in his c | which he went into every to | that a pl partment yesterday asking them to |Morgan's suggest a two per cent contribution. | wish to contribute a portion of that | Dieudonne Coste and M Long Island, completing the fi which made th (Colonel Charle n cockpits. nlike TEAGHERS T0 ACT ~ Speed of Pianer BrorugiAit Sueces To Coste, Qp@}indhergh Says New York, Sept (P—Speed s believed by L. Charles A. Lind- hrrgh to have been the determining f4actor hetween succe: and failure in the Paris to New Yok flight of Coste and Bellonte "“Of- d said bergh, this Coste other which him reful purse, u h had aseure Colonel Lind- speed Captain characteristics of his success. preparations, detail, he recognizable fact e with speed and power alone would see him through “Captain Coste is one of the mo experienced long distance fliers realized that easily in in | ‘Paul Codos to Use Fa- i | flow | New mous Ship in East- West Hop—Hoover to Entertain Fliers at Luncheon-Seek $25, 000 Award Offered. |Vandal Rips Fabric Off Fuselage of Plane, But Damage Will Be Repair- ed in Time for Takeoff for Texas in Morning, to Take Ten Hours. York, Sept. 3 (P—The Queg- tion Mark, flown from Paris to New York by Coste and Bellonte, will be 1 back from New York to Paris Paul Codos, French aviator, as as Coste and his comrade have flights in the plane to Texas and to Washington, it announced today. Codos will sail from France with a mechanic in a few days to be in York when the Question Mark urns from United States flights. To Overhaul Plane The plane will be thoroughly over- New hy soon completed Dallas, W | hauled and Codos will attempt to re- aurice Bellonte are pi rst Paris to g e perilous 3,2 s Lindbergh, set their scarlet smiling is shown Atlangic in nearly an eastward nog- 160 JUNIORS ENROLI AT NORMAL SCHOOL New Britain Represented by 30 Out of New Class HARTFORD TOTAL 1§ 4 “stay 78th Year | tured here just after they had Captain Coste, happily westward air voyage across the who first linked New York and Paris by the world flight last portunity d On his record year he had to realize that speed and g t distance.” The Coste-Bellonte plane h:v‘ a ed close to 160 miles hour, faster than any other ma hm to attempt the Atlantic crossing. For ]“l’! first 600 miles " of his flighr, Coste, with the aid of a wind of ap- proximately 15 miles an hour, made Ao onendc e mRed Rl Bheul ) ol Arrivals and Outlines Work to Be During the last stage of the flizht | he averaged ahout 100 miles an Done During Year. ami 5 r over Iastitution Opens for its —Principal Welte Welcomes New ; (Continued on Page Two) | With exactly 30 of the 180 juniors W Im h:’g:\n their two years' course in | MORGAN YACHT FAST ON ROCK OFF MAINE Corsair, Hits Reef During Night Sept. 3 (P—) $2.500,000 Tsleboro, Me., new P steam vacht Corsair rested Rock Penobscot while fleet of tugs ‘stood to at- off at high tide, son of the own- irmly on Minot Bay ready in a by tempt to pull her Junius Morgan, er, and his wife with 20 gu 5 were aboard the Corsair yesterday when she tan onto the rock while proceeding into Dark Harbor craft ran half her length into the ledge and listed to port when the tide ehbed Unable to free her with her own power, the Corsair's officers called for help. Five tugs responded and worked for several hours. but were unable to budge the craft. There was some fear that she might break in two when low tide left her stern unsupported. Pontoons may be need ed to buoy her off the rock The Corsair, which is the fourth yacht by that name to be owned by Mr. Morgan, was brought out this year. She is 343 feet over all with a (Continued on Page Two) Chicago, Sept. 3 (UP)—After questioning detectives who had been assigned to follow him by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, republican nom- inee for the U. S. senate, Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the senate cam- paign funds investigating committee, charged today that an attempt had been made to tee.” Kenneth Wilson, an operative for |the Dannenberg detective agency which had been retained by Mrs. McCormick, laid before Senator Nye an involved account of the relations between detectives for the commit- tee and for the private agency. Aft- er hearing Wilson's story and the testimony of two committee em- |ployes Nye dictated his own state- DR. HENRY MARTIN wich., Meriden, New London, Wil- limantic, Putnam, Rockville, Bris!oll and New Britain. Grand Exalted Ruler (Continued on Page Two) Rupp has * HIGH TIDE—SEPTEMBER 4 | | (Standard Time) | New London 2 a.m..7:10 p.m, New Haven 8:57 a.m.9:05 pm, | I \ 2 1 ‘frame the commit. | | concerning the charge |atives of his agency had been bribed | | by investigatorssin the employ of the Sen. Nye Says Attempt Made to Frame Campaign Fund Committee ment charging that the evidence in- dicated a frame up Detective Recalled Chicago, Sept. 3 (A—W. C. Dan- nenberg, a private detective, direct- ing Congressman Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick’'s “investigation of the in- vestigator: was recalled to the stand today by the Nye senatorial campaign investigating committee. He was to be asked more concern- ing the strange woman he charged had been “planted” in a closet of Mrs. McCormick's hotel suite; that (Continued on Page Two) Worth $2,500,000 The | more | oper. | New Britain Normal school today residents of New Britain and gradu- \tes from New Britain high schools, this city is well represented, being urpassed only by Hartford,, with 41 cntering students. Bristol and Meri- dent, with nine each, are tied for third place in the standing of towns represented in the entering class. o he Normal school entered upon for s 7sin year today, the students registering yesterday and in the aft- ernoon gathering in the auditorium | to listen to a short talk by Princi- pal Herbert D. Welte, i which he | welcomed the new students and briefly outlined the work for the coming academic year. Today, while the students were in | class rooms, workmen were grading and rolling a plot of lawn north- st of the main building and “\H | put in four tennis courts, which m ady for use within a \\!‘r‘k nr\ ten days. This, with the courts in | Stanley park, which were used hy | the students last year, will enable | the athletic council to plan for CANDIDATES PREPARE. - FOR PRIMARY CONTEST Auto Fleets Ready Alling-Woods Probate Court Fight is Two strong headquarters forces and complete automobile fleets to- day are making ready for tomor- rcw's republican primary election here and in Berlin which is to de- cide whether Prosecutor Joseph G Woods or Attorney General B. W. Alling will be the G. O. P. candi- date for judge of probate the November election Statements of confidence emanat- ' bhoth from Woods headquarters more extensive tennis program, where the ability and experience of | The new municipal golf course is the candidate was extolled and from | easily available to the students at | Alling quarters where that candi- e i date was termed the logical man | (Continued on Page Two) TO SPOT VIOLATORS by both aspirants to the position he re at a which, the workers believe, a heavy vote. In New Britain registered | republicans will have opportunity to | | make known their preferences in the school buildings used in ward elections. Republicans of Berlin Drv will caucus in the town hall. Vot- | | ing hours here will he from 4 p. m. to S p.m Paper ballots will | with the four delegates pledged to | vote for Alling appearing first and | ose pledged to Woods following | directly. An opportunity to vote for | gestions for using small boys in | | cither four is offered through a |shadowing suspected bootleggers or circle placed at the top of each |liquor establishments are included in group, but'if is possible to split the |the course of study outlined for the | | ticket by making “x" marks to the |34 federal dry agents attending the left of whichever candidates for the | prohibition school here. delegatidh are preferred | Harry M. Dengler, supervisor of The campaign committee operat- |the school, also urged the dry agents ing in the interests of Prosecutor |to read Sherlock Holmes and mod- | Woods today issued the following | ern muystery thrillers for the tips| | final statement:— they might furnish on the methods | “Since Prosecutor Joseph G.|Of great detectives. | Woods announced his candidacy for| Unremitting attention to details | the office of judge of the probate | constitutes the mark of the expert | oot investigator, he told the agents, and | | (Continued on Page Two) no clue is too small to overlook. Tler advises agents not to attempt to | trail a persons who is suspicious, THE WEATHER | | unless three “shadows” are used who | will alternate in watching the sus- | pect “If he is very suspicious, be used to advantage,” assures the Agents Told Lads Can Help Gather be used here | Evidence Washington, Sept. 3 (UP)—Sug- New Britain and vicinity: Fair and cooler tonight and Thursday. boys can | - Dengler's | \*‘___——wi (Continued on Page Two), | worldwide acclaim. |alleged drunken driving, makes to Edward G, In the lesson on shadowing Deng- | | dertaker was on his way the flight from Le Coste and Bellonte Bourget to Curtiss field It the mark the across the same planc Rising carly foday from the firat rest they had since Sunday night in Baris, Ihicudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte prepared to receive the city's greetings and to take off at $ a. m, (BE. S. T.) tomorrow for Dallas, Texas and the $25,000 prize which awaits them there. Marred somewhat by souvenir hunters, their scarlet plane “?” still was believed to he capable of fiying If way across the continent with- out extensive repairs to qualify for the purse posted three years ago by Colonel William Easterwood, Dallas millionaire, for the first one stop flight from the French capital. Must Leave In 72 Hours By the terms of the prize offer they must take off within 72 hours of their arrival at Curtiss field last evening. The airmen found themselves sur- rounded this morning, long before their official reception began, by a Tailors bobbed in and out of their hotel suite put- ting the last touches on new clothes ordered last night and fashioned by many deft fingers through the night. The fliers arrived with only their greasy coveralls and flying togs, and needed presentable attire for their public appearances totlay. Coste was on the telephone be- fore 9 a. m. and talking to his pret- ty wife in Paris—but it was just a private conversation and at this end of the line, at least, nobody listened in. Tate today Coste and Pellonte will go to Curtiss field and inspect their plane, to see that it is being flight is successful it will first round trip journey north Atlantic by the (Continued on Page Three) REED CASE IS ENDED, VERDICT IS SUICIDE Coroner Files {Report on Hanging in New Lon- don Cell Unless some member of the family of the late Edward C. Reed, who hanged himself in a cell of the New London police station on Auguat 17 after he had been arrested for a | formal complaint and demands a coroner’s inquest, based upon definite evidence that there was an outside influence that caused young Reed to make away with himself, the. case will stand as completed, according McKay of Norwich, coroner of New London county, in a statement to the Herald today. On the morning that Reed's body was found hanging to the upper bars of the cell in the New London police station, the police first tried to re- suscitate the young man, and worked over him for more than an hour with no result, it is said. The {police then called Medical Examiner Dr. G. Kaufman of New London, who made an examination and re- ported the cause of death as suicide by hanging, giving the police per- mission to turn the body over to an undertaker. John Kelly, New London under- | taker, does most of the town work, ind he was called by the police. He took the body to his undertaking rooms, and.it is said he did not then know that Reed was from New RBritain and that a New Britain un- to claim at the request of the family, of 340 Washington the body, Reed (Continued on Page Two0),