New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By ‘Associated Press NEW BRITAIM ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN; CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, in Special Tax—| Holmes Wonders if ( _ Situation is W o rs e Formally Announces Quest of Than _Elsewhere— Democratic Party Nomination IN PROBATE RAGE:VIGTIM 1S IN HOSPITAL . - DEPARTENT HEADS FAVOR - SUCIE ATIMFT - CHRISTMAS RELIEF FUND; SakEM NS - PLAN MERITS QUESTIONED s 1 o * Humphrey Beties IUNGANCANDIDATE| "o AND REFUSES T0 EXPLAIN| Detective Hickey Questions Wife of | > 3 9 e N s YERALD Average Daily Circulation For 15,049 Week Ending Aug. 30th ... o oo™ 3;1\\“\(40"‘ <4 1930.—T WENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS |Red Sesquiplane Is Sighte i Route—Expects to Rea Cincinnati, Sept. 4 (P—Definitely identified by local pilots, the trans- |atlantic airplane, “*?”, carrying Dieu- | donne Coste and Maurice Bellonte |passed over Cincinnati today at 11:57 a. m., E. S. T, on its way from New York to Dallas. The was preceded by another plane which carried Rene Racover, Coste and Bellonte uver Ohio . En Route to Dallas After Prize; Make Perie_ci §E\fl Early Today| d at Various Points Along ch Texas City Late This Afterncon—Manager Accompanies French Pilots in Second Ship. |New Holland, Ohio, near here, at 11:20 a. m., ecastern standard time, today. The ship was heading for Cincinnati. \ Seen At Allentown Allentown, Pa., Sept. 4 (M—The {ransatlantic Sesquiplane “Question Mark,” being flown by Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte from New York to Dallas, Texas, passed over this city at 7:45 m, E 8T, It soared over the United States air mail landing field here at a height (Continued on Page Three) BANDIT SHOT DEAD " BY POLCE OFFICER West Haven Holdup Man Falls | Hortally Wounded 'COMPANION BELIEVED HELD | Pair Make Mistake of Trying to Rob New Haven Vice Squad Member— | Authorities Think Capture Clears | Up Robbery Cases. | New Haven, Sept. 4 (P)—Officer SANTO DOMINGO ENTIRELY WRECKED, 900 REPORTED DEAD IN HURRICANE; HUNDREDS HURT AND LEFT HOMELESS %lflfl TYPEWRITERS IVESSELWMHERS | cal Storm Filters Into REPI]R’IMMAEEI] TRUPI[M[[]RNAD[] Country-160 Mile An (Machines in Seuion and Juniorfiner Coamo Outrides Worst Hour Wind Sweeps | High Schools Tampered With Hurricane in Years Entire Streets Free of GRNCY HEAD KRRESTED psoupg, auaggs skppg hoves n Area | Herbert Pecterson, Who Admits Re- Battered Ship Faces Violent News of Terrific Tropi- 150,000 People in Path of Tornado in City — Out- lying Section Probably Escaped Full Fury of Blast —Communications Systems Wrecked. Gale moving Covers, Charged With Seven Hours—Makes No Progress Theft and Injury to Private Pro- With Engines Set at Full Speed perty After Long Questioning. i Following an investigation into the finding of over 100 typewriters dam- aged in the Senior and Junior High | | schools on Franklin Square and cor- ner of Main and Ct | spectively, also in the old Burritt | - 4 5 e 'has known in many years' The ship, [ o\ o A hf"” Gt sty : fain streets | o porto Rico liner Coamo, Captain |besides three in the Smith Business | | " Nine hundred persons were re- | Thomas Evans, narrowly escaped an- | chool on Main street, Sergeant T. J. | nihilation. [(Borted fasas gand ”U:”d today in | Feeney and Officer T. C. Dolan of | The Coamo turned back from San- the wreckage left in Santo Domingo |the detective bureau this afternoon |0 Domingo, her destination, last by a hurricane which swept west- | . boik W Peter 13 | night, and for a dozen hours no word | ward along the Greater Antilles dur- |arrested Herbert W. Peterson of 18 |oame from her. Her wireless failed | i 1o last 24 Hours. | Fairview street, West Hartford, pro- | early in the evening and it had been | = © " N | prietor of the New Britain Typewrit- |feared disaster had been visited upon 1e capital of the Dominican re- | e G e G Gt public, a city of nearly 50,000 popu- injury to private property. the ship and all on board. Enferging from the great wind |lation, was laid waste by the storm. | Admits Removing Covers i Peterson, according to Detective | San Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 4 (P)— | A battered tropical passenger liner | reached this port today after having | | passed through the center of one of“ LR |the worst hurricanes the Caribbean | } 3y storm this morning, the skibper |xoi unfil midday was communiea- brought the Coamo safely to anchor. ' ;5 regtored with the stricken city He could not explain how, with the | \pen All-America Cables improvised member of the this city, returned this week from|New Haven vice squad, shot and kill- Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he|ed one of two men who early today Sergeant G. C. Ellinger, who also questioned him! admitted that he | was in the city schools a week ago | storm at its height all about him |, giation in the island city by which amid furious seas, the ship had miss- ed being wiped out. Buffeted for more than seven first details of the horror began to reach the world. | 160 Mile Wind Blows repairs are made after the year's ex- tension has passed. Local authori- ties have always complied with the state law and no situation has ever b been created as a precedent to in- dicate what would happen in this case. There is a possibility that the building would be condemned as a school site but no threat has reach- ed the school board, members say. The Northend School Parents and tions committees as well as acting as house chairman of the manual and roll committee. This announcement of Mr. Clark leaves the field open to Pardon C. Rickey, only announced republican candidate for this post from Berlin. Two years ago friends of Mr. Rick- ey urged him to run against Mr. Clark for the nomination but he de- this evening after which dt least one hour will be required to sort out and count the paper ballots. The result of the caucus in Berlin will probably be known before the New Britain count is completed un- less a serious caucus fight in en- countered. Voting places here are: First clined to do so with, the result that (Continued on Page Four) Teachers' association has taken [his name was withdrawn from con- ’ steps on at least two occasions to [sideration in favor of the candidate - get better accommodations. Lact from East Berlin. Year a committee appeared before the school board and appealed for relief. Repairs have been made but Mr. Clark's action was expected in view of the fact that the unwritten law of Berlin politics is that a man * accommodations for modern educg- |may not seek the second term as tion are not available in the build- [representative. According to the ing. Some of the children are St ; #oused in portable buildings. b (Continued on Page Four) & f | attempted to hold him up on a lone- |1y road in West Haven. | The slain man was Archer B. Lafo of West Haven, whom police had sought for some time in connection | with recent holdups in this vicinity. | His companion fled following the | shooting. i Second Man Held Later a policeman driving to the scene of the hold-up arrested George B. Moore, 35, who they believe | was Lafo's companion. He is being | held for questioning. According to police Lafo told his | wite before leaving home last night | He was going to play cards at Moore's | nome, while Moore told his wife that | he planned to play cards with La- | to. McHugh and Moore were among the witnesses summoned to appear | before Coroner James J. Corrigan B | this morning. | McHugh, dressed in civilian clothes, had gone to West Haven to (Continued on Page Two) ONLY 3 COMRADES WILL ATTEND W00D FUNERAL Remairing Two Veterans of Civil | War Required By Health to | Remain at Home, | Of the five remaining members of |the Stanley Post, Grand Army of the Republican only three will at- tend the funeral services of Spencer Hubbard Wood, one of the most active members of the post and | commander at the time of his death, which will be held tomorrow after- noon at 1:30 at the chapel of the South Congregational church. | Mr. Wood was keenly disappointed {on the occasion of Memorial Day this year when his condition would |not permit him to take part in the Honorable David Lloyd George as4 program which he had personally | prepared. | Military honors will be accorded to the Civil War veteran at the in the family plot in the Longmeadow cemetery by members of the L. D. Penfield camp, Sons of Veterans. “Taps" will be blown as the casket is-lowered into the grave by n bugler representing. the Sons of Veterans, from which the firing squad will also be selected. The regular G. A. R. committal services will then follow. The pallbearers will be George Clark, commander of the Sons of Veterans, Edward Carroll and George H. Wells, past commanders of the Sons of Veterans, T. L. Weed, F. W. Macomber and B. D. Clifford, | representing the Harmony lodge, A F &AM . | Bartlett for Bonds. | Armistice Street Man Untll 4 |}ygness manager for the French * N0 OPPOSITION EXPECTED| ocioek ®mis Morning Bue sne fere Ko Gi Credit b ‘ Claims She Was Not With Him Passes Ohto Town une; iven redal | S Washington Court House, Ohio, y Y | Former - Deputy Judge of Police| \ihen Shot Was Fired—Tealousy |Sept. 4 (F—A large airplane, flying - Qui <11« Court! Hag ®3ad’ Hatenstve, Caveer | high, and believed to be the trans- Mayor Quigley for Sug | | Thought Factor in Case. atlantic Question Mark, passed over i gesting Idea — Teachers| ™™ FuPlic Offfces Since 1910 —| yentaily upset through reading 5 M W Non-Politi | Known For Interest in sports. |2 note of fatepell o tianEhy };‘: Non- 3 wite, Who was to le ay . Want Non-Politiz| . . . i;cement of his can- [to work tn West Harttord, and g | didacy for the democratic nomina- |jealous because of his’ belief that o 1o /he cal Group to Dlsbur_se tion for judge of probate in the dis- [his young wife's love for him had | G trict of Berlin was'made today by [cooled, Myron Steele, 32, World | Money Received. Judge William F. Mangan. There |war veteran, of 3 Armistice street, will be no opposition, the under- |this city, shot one 22 caliber bullet [starding for some time having been |into his bods. just above his heart, i P ; ® With every municipal department |that he would be the candidate re- about 9 o'clock last night, near the | Naw By Preach g represented at a mecting today in |gardless of the outcome of the re- |Oswego Inn, Farmington, and today ¢w Britain aSlOI‘, Teacain; city hall, a vote was passed approv-, publicah primary fight today be-|he is lying in a cot in St. Francis } m EI] ‘&lld MGS[S Pl‘ellllel‘ ing a two per cent payment from the |tween Prosecuting Attorney J. G.|hospital, Hartford, in a serious con- g ) h I @ carnings of salaried officials and |Woods and Attorney General B. W. |dition, hovering between life and | AR workers on the city payroll for the | Alling. death while physicians strive to save months of September, October and| Judge Mangan had no statement |his life. ; SPEAKS AT CONFERENGE November, this fund, estimated at “m make beyond authorizing the an- Steele staggered into the inn| $9,000, to be used for relief during | about 9:30, and Gus Musnulis, pro- | _— the Christmas season. | prietor, thought that the man Was(p.c o o0 pyct Congre | et % S gational The only forgeast of opposition | drunk. Steele asked for a glass of ‘ was made when School Supt. S. H. | “fl""Aa"fi "‘“‘tfl":‘“k“;‘g "\Qu“}?le‘;:: Church Spends Summer in Eu- Holmes . mentioned the ljkelihood out. A moment later Musnulis e . ? that the teachers ‘might insist upon 1!.] thud. :\sd of ad hody‘dro:mmdng m:; rope As Exchange Preacher Un disbursement of the fund by a “non- | |the ground. and went outside der World Alliance. EiEll and soncnobbesl agdoes | | saw Steele on the ground. He exam- L and, offered possible arguments in | |ined him and found g‘e ;"’“‘d“:h"‘: Rev. Theodore A. Greene, pastor « upport of any refusal to donate [clotning sosken {x ol beun shat, |Of the First Church of Christ in|James J. McHugh, which might be encountered. | zealized that the man had been:shot, Holmes Nettles Quigley i o f‘:&*‘h“““:"fi “l’l 5"-"{ e jef Nathan V. Fuller o ‘arm- At the conclusion of Supt. Holmes' l, o 3 4 il e e |ington was notified and he took |has been spending the past fort- (s s kad: “Don't| | Steele to the hospital in an am- |night with his family following six som e e el |bulance. Before entering the hos- |weeks' vacation in England and on el e Dl |pital, Steele murmured, “I have |the Continent. D:&\T‘m,'\,h’:x‘r,',:.hp';: o o;““;‘o ?;., nothing to say. I am not talking.” Rev. and Mrs. Greene sailed on et b County Detective ~Edward J.|June 21 aboard the S. S. “Transyl- A SR s | Hickey, suspecting that the man had |vania” of the Anchor line, landed in A R | probably been shot by another per- R s |son, entered the investigation, and | aeaen e o came to New Britain late last night o ]"‘r"'\'l'_““:"Phzpf:r‘;’(':’m:‘:”;?“;’;s“;:l‘)’l’;é, to question Mrs. Bernice Steele, wife | > - | H v an, ome works department and take care of o ;h"‘ “°f'r:‘£_e£l“'r‘:“l.hit,;:°1, hEm_ | the needy. Chairman D. L. Bartlett | [Bh g maen e e | of the park .commission suggested | A e Sl G ded bond issues to make up the amounts had‘ r"mnm;wd lone alncecniear W hmhu‘;‘-"Ali’.:in“:n-;m'mmilies JUDGE WILLIAM F. MANGAN |ing tne hospital, and who was evi- {8 Vst ; try ake the shooting | Opening the mecting, Mayor Quig- | nouncement of his candidacy, but he | 3enLY TTIng to make [0C Fhoot 16| 8 ley explained that economic condi- |indicated that he will wage &|pno oot he was not Steele. “My tions and the necessity of furnishing | Strenuous campaign. He consid- | e is not Steele,” he se;id.'but e employment to several hundred men |ering the appointment of a political | ¢ 04 o te] what his right name as well as aid to others has present- [agent but will probably not make a | L'~ | o ed a grave problem to the city. He [selection for several days at least. [*3% (/00 Lo b g | made it known that 296 families|An experienced campaigner in the | g on'Urot Hickey conld learn of | are receiving aid from the welfare = B G o e depastmant whereas only 16 wara or (Continued on Page Two) e E i owatiire) the m;m‘? :;Cu:":“’;:gfi]“;raf:'mnc trouble started shortly after his| e ks T : marriage four years ago to Miss | night to put through a street bond | S hotw 12 years older than his Iegue ot RI0NA00 whinh will relonse | wite, whom he married when she | A e |Sampanions. Both mals ana temals,| AR h el ues iion ’.Or‘a"““,o _ |and steadfastly refused to go out to TSI, 5 : o BT o v the pictures with her, attend parties o er cent payment out of salarics was | Fiast Berlin Man Will Not |with her and even refused to join| REV. THEODORE A. GREENE @ manebyabenntyfEhlet A Souney, e in the fun when there were parties | of the fire department. the mayor | Seek Second Term in |in the Emmons home, she said to- |Glasgow, Scotland, on June 29th, disclosed. Admitting the amount to 4 e |and proceeded at once by rail to X Legislature VBelieves Tiness Was Feigned |London and Bournemouth on the ’ (Continucd on Page Two) Steelo often fold his wife and |south coast of England near the —_—_— = Isle of Wight. Here they attended = (Special to the Herald) (Continued on Page Two) the fifth international council —of Berlin, Scpt. 4. — Robert O. / Congregational churches, July 1 to Clark of East Berlin, Berlin's IS, These conferences are held al- representative in the general EP"RT BITWRNESS |ternately Wery 10 years in Lngland T[] REPMR ['L[] SEH""L assembly for the past two years, : and America, 11 not seek reelection to this post, | The moderator of the recent con- : |according to a persofial announce- ference was Rev. J. D. Jones, C. H., e ment which he made tdday. |D. D.. pastor of the Richmond Hill - 5 = s | Mr Clark was elected to this po- | Congregational church of Bourne- Granted Year Extension |sition two years ago on the republi- _ |mouth, a leader of long standing in 5 |can ticket and during his term held g Ty the Congregational denomination, o byStateon Northend |50 Cccmt oo S o orpora: |Woods Followers Aroused [ orsiEine eaurcs of o s Conditions | by Alleged Attack on |2 to the couneft by the Right | : the “arch-wangler of the free « Extension of one year to comply | | Candidate SR o AR (i i Ve A mouth is the garden spot of Eng. e ) |1and, resembling California or Flor. education relative to repair and re- With some ‘bitterncss engendered |131d; Tesembling California or Tlor construction of the Northend school by suspicions on the part of Prose- | oo i es, e e s cuting Attorney Joseph G. Woods'| “ry (njs fifth international confer- Mo e il mcho s oticain s bl | forces that supporters of Attorney |o;ce came men and women from all er it had been decided that expen- | General B. W. Alling were, resorting | vmeng tne merid benormen, trom 2t diture of money for repairing the {to unfair tactics, the republican | rs. A sl E building would be unwise and that | e | Congregational churches of Englani, 5 - T - contest for the nomination for judge | s.otang, Ireland, Wales, Canada e e e ol o e |of probate swung into high speed | \ygiralfa, New Zealand, Tasmani: school being constructed, Buildini st coniwanw e fon et Al DR AR R Zonla Rl g Supervisor John . Downes sought |South Africa, British Guiana, China, A : : {aroused by reports that friends of |1odia and Ceylon. Madassasear. the permission for the extension of time. | Alling were guilty of making de- | : pipacaneastar A S |South Seas and Papua, Japan, Ny N B (TS GONBIIICL VoL "‘”5‘"“51 | precatory statements concerning the | v,ochoslovakia and the Unites mentioned Dy the state was the re- | ndten echodloakls handithe, Unted placement of the wooden stairs with | 1t is expected that the contest be- | Shtce: prans the sementan, mvanslis gireprootanaterial : | tween Woods and Alling will bring | 1" churches in + Greece and the o E Gt Gy out a heavy party véte. Registered ) | e building has outlived its useful- vepublicans in this city total 12,827 . | . 2,351, Continued on\Pege Four ness and hope has been expressed | Ot these, 7,460 are men and 5,367 ¢ Ad oiEeee Fodr) Hacemiinin s aeas pine for s men) \re women. Automobile fleets with uilding on the premises will be T o 1\ made. Because of the present need st e e of economy no definite steps will be e igiRe e taken for some time. Polls Open 4 to 8 P. M. Aoy (algoducdorsaNofa st R. 0. CLARK Today's voting will begin at 4 « loss to know What will result if no Silooh AnALohtenle uEiN S cielor Tromsoe, Norway, Sept. 4 (P—IEx- amination of the bodies of Salomon August Andree and Nils Stringberg, resumed this morning by the Swe- dish experts, Prof. Hedren and Prof. Lithberg, produced a variety small objects belonging to the two men but threw little additional light on the fate of the expedition In Andree's pocket was discovered a box of matches, besides some trinkets identified as having be- longed to Strindberg, who appar- |ently died before Andree and was buried by him on White Island Strindberg’'s belongings were recog- nized by hig brother, a Stockholm sculptor. The preserved body of a very fare Examination of Bodies of Andree ' Expedition Victims Is Continued ‘Arctlc bird and nautical tables and | charts, all belonging to \;Were found among the objects in the | boat. | Clearing up the mystery of the ex- of | pedition’s wanderings now depends | George Gelpin, wholly on the text, as yet undi- vulged, of the Andree diaries and | | note books, particularly those found | | vesterday. The latter were placed |for safeguardipg by, the aeronaut- | explorer under' his own body before he died. Safeguard Diaries The diaries are being kept care- | fully locked, and it is stated that even the experts have not yet care- | (Continued on Page Four) hours, the engineers raced the craft and took about 34 covers off type- | [ writers, replacing them with his | company's covers. Those he took | | bore the name of the Reliable Type- | | writer Exchange, which has the con- | tract for keeping the typewriters in | condition, and Peterson is said to |have admitted that he erased the | Reliable name from some of the covers. As to damaging the machines, Pe- terson made an | absolute denial, ‘claimlng to know nothing whatever | of it. The police reported that screws | Not a Life Lost | were loosened, wheel belts released | In all of this maclstrom not a life and the mechanism otherwise tam-|was lost and only a few passengers | pered with to the extent that exten- | were slightly injured. sive repairs were needed to return| Captain Evans said the barometer (them to their original condition. The | Went to the bottom of the glass while machines in the condition in which |his ship was in the center of they were found were not workable, |storm. Dr. W. F. Gray, ship's sur and all of them bore numbers $den- | §eon, made a further examination of tical with the numbers given to |all in his charge and anndunced that typewriter concerns when bids for | their injuries were slight. |keeping them in condition were | The Coamo’s holds were practi- {called for. The Reliable Typewriter |cally empty, containing only about | Exchange has been the successful |40 tons of cargo. | bidder for the past two years. The wind pressure on the sides of Peterson said he knew nothing of | the ship was so terrific that it blew |the damage done to the machines |the hatch coverings off. Nearly all in the Smith Business school, which |the skylights were blown out. lis privately conducted, but he ad- |Ship was drenched inside and out. | mitted having been there recently in | Captain Evans said that for [the interests of his company. | hours he could not see the foremast at full speed but could make headway. The wind stripped the decks of everything moveable, tore off hatches and threw the vessel so far over on her side that the oiling machinery was useless. Finally Chief Engineer McGough 'was forced to | stop the engines entirely so that emergency oiling could be done and fuel oil ballast could be pumped |from port to starboard bunkers ‘to {trim the ship. waves and so dense the rain. The steamship Catherine also made port this morning with her little | the | The | five | The wind mounted to 160 miles an hour during the climax of the hur- ricane, leaving @ trail of ruin and almost sinking the Porto Rico Line | steamship Coamo. The storm lashed | its way toward Cuba and the Florida straits but latest advices said, swery- |ed sharply northward, apparently | passing out to sea and sparing lands | further to the west. Every agency of the United States | government today was bent toward | gauging the extént of the calamity and preparing for whatever rellef | measures might have to be taken. | Weather bureaus around the | storm area watched closely for new | developments. Red Cross héadquar- ters stood ready to use its facilities. The navy department awaited mes- ages which would indicate the role it might play. | Sends Plane to Scene Miami, Fla., Sept. 4 ® — R. L Dunton, operations manager of Pan- American Airways here, said that a plane dispatched today from San | Juan, Porto Rico to Santo Domingo | City to set up emergency radio quipment and to ascertain the dam- ge from the West Indies hurricane santo Domingo at 9:40 a. ., E. S. T. and reported from the air that the city was badly wrecked. No information has been received | since that message, Dunton said, in- | asmuch as the plane could not trans- | In failing health for some months Andree, | " HILL THO, WOUND 3 Alleged Murderer Dead— Rejected Suitor Hits Girl Nine Times New York, Sept, 4 (P—A man | sought by police since last April | for murder was found today, dead. | His body with five bullet wounds | in it was thrown out of an automo- | | bile onto Riverside Drive. | The body was identified by finger | | prints and police photographs as | | that of Morris Howard, alias Moe Horowitz, 42 years old, wanted for | the shooting of George Hodson, | secretary of the Amazon Leather | company. | Witnesses said Howard's body was | | propped up on the front seat of a | closed automobile which drew up to {the curb on Riverside Drive nmr‘[ | Tiemann Place. Two men were sit- | ting on either side of the body and | |a woman occupied the rear seat. {The men shoved the body from the | car and drove away | | Police said Hodson was shot to| | death in a speakeasy near his leath- | er shop when he went to the place | to discuss labor trouble. No shots werg heard in the vici-| |nity where the body was lett and on | Riverside Drive. Police assumed | Howard was slain elsewhere and the | body placed in the car. | New York, Sept. 4 (P—One man | was killed and two others were crit- | |ically wounded today in a shooting | lin a Brooklyn candy store which | | police blamed on’warring slot ma- chine racketeers. 4 | samuel Cohen, 24 year old, was| | killed instantly by a bullet through |the head. Louis Fisher, 20, and . were taken to a | hospital with bullet wounds through | (Continued on Page Two) THE WEATHER | | | New Britain and vicinity: | Fair tonight and Friday; not | | | | much change in temperature. | | | | | * AT e mit after it landed. Dunton said that a plane reported | here as having left Port Au Prince, aftermast blown away but otherwise undamaged. Wa‘:"‘;“;]i:‘hf‘\, ooty D elcer® | Haiti, for Santo Domingo, had been C6an e sk T® | held at the former city because of | bad weather, according to later ad- | vices. Seven | A5 soon as we learn the extent €D- | 5¢ damage, we will offer all of our speed | facilities and cquipment to the gov- advance | crpment of Haiti,” Dunton said. Made Only 40 Miles From 9:30 a. m. to 5 p. m., hours and a half, the Coamo's gines were running at full ahead but the ship could only 40 miles. At another time the Coamo keel- Almost Totally Lost cd over until it was necessary 10| ganto Domingo, Dominican Re- pump fuel oil from the port to the | pyplic, Sept. 4 (P—The city of San- s to Domingo most ancient settlement of the white man in the new world | was almost totally destroyed by a hurricane that swept over the east- |ern_end of the island of Haiti yes- | | | | (Continued on Page Two) PROGRESS OF APEMAN - PRAISED BY SCIENTIST "~ (Continued on Page Three) CRAP GAME SLAYING RESULTS IN ARREST Bristol, England, Sept. 4 (UP) — i i y i Statements that the pre-historic Fasanelli Claims Vecchione man could have become “a skilled| Rushed at Him and Ran Into Knife d that 900 persons Psychologist Tells of Ado- lescent Girl’s Attitude Toward Father mechanics or an able bishop” and that - the modern adolescent girl doesn't appreciate her father's | place in the home were made today to the annual meeting of the British | association. | Miss A. H. McAllister of Glasgow, Waterbury, Sept. 4.—(P—A by- standers' offer to change a one dol- lar bill in a crap game today had in a psychology address, said the resulted in the death of Felice adolescent girl apparently mini- | Vecchione, 28, and the arrest of mizes the importance of her father | James Fasanelli, 33. in the home. The police version of the killing “Compared to the importance giv- | was that Fasanalli a non-partici- en her mother, she appears to ex- [pant in the game last night, offered clude her father from conscious | to make change and that Vecchione thought of the home,” Miss McAl- | objected, attacking the other man lister said. "This may be due to a |with his fists. Fasanelli, it was said sudden adolescent realization of the | had an open pen knife in his hands importance in the home of the |at the time and stabbed his assail mother, whdse offices during child- [ant in self defense. hood are largely taken for granted.| Vecchione died of three knift “Or it may be due to the gradual- | wounds in a hospital and a half hour ly developing sex consciousness fu- |later detectives found Fasanelll in tensifying the mother's influence in|a relatives home washing blood- the girl herself.” | stains from his hands. Detectives Miss McAllister's observations | said he admitted inflicting the fatal were based on the examination of |wounds and surrendered the knife 18 year old girls. used in the slaying. Lauds Apeman According to Fasanelli's story The 3,000 delegates attending the | most of the wounds resulted from meeting - were informed by Dr. H. | Vecchione's rushing at him while he S. Harrison, president, that “man |held the open pen knife in his hand. roborated Fasanelli’s version. roborated Fasanalli's version. (Continued on Page Two)