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

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 HUNTING FOR GUN IN MYSTERY CASE; PROBE CONTINUES Police Reported Pursuing In- quiry Into' Shooting of Steele WIFE AND WOUNDED MAN “MAKE UP” AT HOSPITAL Reconciliation Takes Place When She Visits His Bedside—Authori- ties Not Certain Whether New Britain Man Attempted Suicide or Was Fired at—His Recovery at Hospital Expected. (Special to the Herald) Farmington, Sept. 4—Despite the statements of local and county offi- cials who started the investigation of the mysterious shooting on Wed- nesday evening here of Myron G. Steele of 3 Armistice street, New Britain, that they had dropped the investigation on Thursday morning because they were convinced that Steele had attempted to take his own life, the officials, including Chief Nathan W. Fuller of the local police department, were still search- ing today for the revolver that was used either by Steele or by some- MYRON STEELE. body else to inflict the wound that nearly proved fatal. The woods in the vicindty of the Oswego Inn, where Steele was found wounded, was searched yes- terday afternoon and today but no weapon was found. From the in- tensity of the search it is believed hat the suicide attempt theory is not held by the authorities. Expect Steele to Recover Unless blood-poisoning ~develops, Myron G. Steele, world war veteran who either shot himself or was ot in Farmington on Wednesday >vening and who is recovering from the wound in St. Francis' hospital, Hartford, will not die, as was at first feared. According to hospital surgeons who are attending Steele, the bul- let is lodged in the left lung and will not be probed for unless there are unfavorable developments in the wound. No veins or cords were severed or cut by missed entering scant inch. Mrs. Steele, who on Thursday de- slared in an interview with a Her- ald repregentative, that she was through forever with her husband, went to the hospital last night. the heart by a .(Continued on Page Two) LABOR TO TAKE HAND IN STATE ELEGTION L. U. Wil Question Candidates on Labor Legislation Organized labor will take an ac- tive part in the election of state of- ficers and congressmen this fall, ac- cording to Secretary William C. Sievers of the New Britain Central Labor Union. Candidates for con- gress will be polled on their opin- lons regarding the snacting legislation unicns. Mr. Sievers said today that if the unions learn that former Mayor A M. Paonessa is friendly toward labor the C. L. U. will indorse him, in the event that he is the demo- cratic nominee for congressman in this district. The labor unions will indorse candidates friendly to labor's program regardless of party affilia- tione. Labor leaders here say they have always found Paonessa friendly to- ward their legislative aims. They add that Congressman E. Hart Fenn has failed to respond to their de- sires. Committees appointed to draft platforms for the democratic and republican tickets for state offices will be interviewed by the State Tederation of Labor and will be questioned on party stands on the old age pension measure. Refusal by one of the parties to cooperate approved by (Continued on Page Two) N the bullet, which | advisability of | l . A for 338 years. mitted by radio to New York. T0 BE 88 SEPT. 11 Lucits W, Goodrich Sags e Hopes to Reach 100 N THS OV SINGE % stand Those Silly Love Pictures” —May Heed Son's Urging to Take Airplane Ride. | | | | War veterans of New Britain, Lu- | cius W. Goodrich, will celebrate his |$Sth birthday on Thursday, Septem- |ber 11, quietly, at his home, 591 | Stanley street. | Mr. Goodrich is a¢ mentally ac las a man might be 40 years his | junior, but a fall a few vears ago, lin which both knee caps were brok- |en, has forced him to use a can:, and while he appears to be feeble | because of his knees, he is actually |very alegt and physically able. He | was one of three veterans to attend |the Spencer H. Wood funeral this |afternoon. He wants to live to ba ilno. and fully expects to live for 12 | more years. | Enlisted At Age of 18 | Mr. Goodrich was born Septem- | ber 11, 1842, in South Glastonbury. | He enlisted as a private on Septem- ber 7, 1861, four days before his 19th birthday. A brother, two years younger, also enlisted, but in anoth- er regiment. Lucius enlisted in tha famous old Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, better known as “Joe Hawley's regiment.” Stephen, the younger brother, enlisted in the 12th Connecticut Volunteer regiment. Lucius enlisted for three years, ang during that time saw plenty war service, but fortunately was not wounded. He was in every engage- ment the 7th Regiment was in, ani had many narrow escapes death. At the end of the three vears he decided that he did not want to end the rest of his days with a gun in one hand and a piece of half-fried bacon in the othgr, so did not reenlist. He returned o his home in South Glastonbury, mar- (Continued on Page Two) TOWN MAY LOSE SCHOOL BECAUSE OF NEW COLOR Man Says Deed Provides Coventry Building Must Be Red, Where- It Is Now White Sept. b (P — school board as, South Manchester, When the Coventry gave its old red schoolhouse in North Coventry a coat of white paint this past summer, it automati- odlly lost ownership of the property on which the school stands, accord- ing to Charles Jacobson of this town owner of the farm adjacent to the school grounds. Mr. Jacobson cites a clause in an {old deed setting apart land fromi the farm he now owns so that North Coventry could have a school site. This deed specifically states, according to Mr. Jacobson, that the property shall revert to the owaer of the farm land if the town fails to use the plot for school purposes and if the school is not painted red. Mr. Jacobson has not decided whether he will order Coventry to paint the building red again, order the property vacated, or overlook the odd proviso. taken by a member of Dr. Hofn's party. Likes Adventure Movies But “Can’t | from | . o Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 5’049 Aug. 30th ... NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1930. -TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES | | The story of the Andree balloon ex- | pedition is understood to be made | clear in the explorer's notes up to | September 5. It is sald there is | writing in Andree’s log after that date, but it is illegible. The conditon of the dary after September 5 1s such that it may be impossible, therefore, to follow the story of the fate of the expedition | |as told by its leader himself beyond | | that date i Arrived on That Day It would seem that the trio arriv- | ed on White Island on the 5th of | | Septembey, (presumably 1897) after | Sept. 5 (A—| 1 ice since mid-July, when their bal-i oon met disaster on the attemptea | flight to the north pole. | Dr. Gunnar Horn today proposed loon, it was presumed, was nearing | p here today, the end of its second day out, its| | that a Swedish expedition Be sent| to White Island next summer to | look for further evidences of the | Andree expedition. | Dr. Horn said it is possible that|with the additional information of | | Frankel's body there, buried might be in the ice. found | Many of | tual" Discovery of Bodies of Andree and Comp o AR First picture showing the discovery of the remains f Andree expedition after it had been held in the arctic fastness of White Island Picture shows Dr. Gurner Horn's party digging for bodies of the explorers and relics of the ill-fated expedition. After return of the party's ship Bratvaag to Tromsoe the picture was rushed to London and trans- GIVIL WAR VETERAN iLast Part of Andree Diary Proves Illegible — New Search Suggested| the things which the Horn party found were dug up from a depth of 18 inches or more. It is considered possible that Frankel's body lies further down. It appeared today from investiga- tion that something happened very suddenly and unexpectedly to bring down ‘the balloon on the ice when it was less than 500 miles from the North Pole. While the diaries of Salomon August Andree, chief of the expedi- tion, still remain secrdt, it is known unofficially that one of them con- tains the information the balloon descended at 12:30 p! m. July 13, One of the five remaining Civil|p,ying pattled their way across the| 1597, just 46 hours after the start from Dane's Island, Spitzbergen. Send Out Carrier Pigeon Earlier on July 13, when the bal- occupant pigeon “Good dispatched containing the journey northward,” carrier and (Continued on Page Three) LOS ANGELES FEARED FACING DIFFICULTIES Airship Apparently Dam-| ages Rudder in Syracuse Flight Canastota, N. Y. Sept. b (P— Belief that the rudder of the giant dirigible Los Angeles was damaged during her trip from Lakehurst, N. | J.to Syracuse during the night was | | expressed here by Frank Hall, en | aviator attached to the airport here | after he flew near the craft on its | return voyage. | Members of the dirigible’s crew, he | said, were working on the rudder { when he circled the craft near here. | \ Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 5 (A —State | fair visitors were puzzled today by the failure of the navy dirigible Los | Angeles to circle over the fair| grounds, as had been planned, after | it reached this city an hour ahead | of schedule. | The craft, which appeared to be bucking a moderate wind at a low altitude over the heart of the cit appeared to stand still for a time, then swung about and with the wind pushing, sped eastward. It passed | over Onm?u at 9:55 a. m., and then | changed its course to southeast. The ditigible, leaving Lakehurst shortly after midnight, cruised leis- urely over eastern and central New | York cities in the early morning hours. | Herkimer, N. Y., Sept. 5 (P—The | navy dirigible Los Angeles, passing | over here, appeared in trouble. She swung constantly from east to south and back onto her eastward course. The ship later p: d over Am- sterdam, traveling at a low rate of speed but otherwise seeming to be navigating normally. She began a slow turn southward from her course as she passed Sprakers, near Am- sterdam. Lakehurst, N. J., Sept. 5 (P—Offi- | cials at the air station today said | they had no word trom the dirigible | or oot O W 0P 4 30 wounded | Kelsey street, was in the front Los Angeles indicating that it was| in trouble or that it had been dam- | aged during the night. They said the ship apparently was { hastening home because of unfavor- j able weather reports. Herbert Peterson, 34, of 13 Fair- view street, Vjest Hartford, pleaded guilty in police court today to the charge of injuring private property and was fined $25 and costs on rec- ommendation of Assistant Prosecu- ting Attorney W. M. Greenstein. Pe- terson is proprietor of the New Britain Typewriter Ixchange and was arrested yesterday after an in- vestigation into a complaint that ap- proximately 100 typewriters Senior High school, Central Junior High school and the Old Burritt school had been damaged by remov- ing screws and otherwise rendering the mechanism unfit for use without repairs. Attorney Greenstein referred to Peterson's action as “maliclous mis- Peterson Fined for WDamage to Typewriters In Public Schools in the | chief,” and said that although he denied that it was he who had dam- aged the machines, he admitted hav- ing removed a number of typewriter covers from which he erased the name of the Reliable Typewriter Exchange and substituted his com- | pany’s covers, claiming to have done |so for advertising purposes. “The | | fact remains that the typewriters | were damaged,” Mr. Greenstein add- cd. He explained also that the po- | | lice had a charge of theft of type- | writer covers against Peterson bft | he doubted the ability of the !lalc! to prove it, so he had dropped it. Peterson, he said, had no right to act as he had done. “There was no (Continued on Page Two), STANLEY POST HEAD BURIED WITH HONORS Veterans Pay Tribute to S. H. Wood, Local G. A. R. Commander Seven comrades of Civil war days. four of them members of Stanley post, Grand Army of the Republic, joined with representatives of civic and military organizations of this in attending the funeral serv s of Spencer Hubbard Wood of 1] mmons place, commander of the held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at e chapel of the South Congregational church. Rev. Theo- dore A. Dunn, associate pastor, offi- ciated. Several of the veterans made their way with feeble steps to the chapel shortly before the services to pay final homage to their comrade. ome wore medals that were accorded them for distinguished services. Military honors were paid by mem- hers of L. D. Penfield camp, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil war, at the grave in the family plot 1in Longmeadow. As the casket lowered ‘“Taps” was blown and the regular G. A. R. commitfal services followed. Among the many which manifested ce, was floral tributes the regard in (Continued on Page Three) TWO LOSE LIVES WHEN STUDENTS ASSEMBLE Demonstration Against President Yrigoyen Ends Bloody Riot Buenos Aires, Sept. 5 (/) — Two in rioting during the night when police attempted to break up student demonstrations in opposition to President-Yrigoyen. Eight Jundred students gathered in the Avenida de Mayo and forced themselves unarmed through ranks of mounted police massed on the Dl An individual on the side- walk shouted “Viva Yrigoyen,” and discharged a revolver, the incident precipitating the fight with police, during which many shots were fired. The students rallied around ban- ners made of handkerchiefs soaked i the blood of their wounded com- rades, but finally were dispersed by the constabulary. Throughout the demonstration, and other minor dis- turbances and shooting affrays which took place over the city, the great- est excitement prevailed.. A ber of theaters were dark, and there | (Continued on Page Two) * HIGH TIDE—SEPTEMBER 6 (Standard Time) New London 8:18 a.m., | New Haven 10:02 a.m.,1 28 p.m. 112 p.m. 12 message: | PRICE THREE CENTS by anion ] Picture was | MASS MURDERER PAYS WITH LIFE Garl Panzran Executed in Leav-| enworth Federal Prison BRAGS OF 20 KILLINGS | Scaffold Erected in Secluded Corner and Machine Guns Trained on Other Cells to Quell Possible Out- | break—Victim Deflant. Federal Penitentiary, Leaven- | |worth, Kas. Sept. § (UP)—Carl | Panzran, who proudly referred to himself as the “worst criminal man lin th® world.” died on the gallows | the first) execution in c 7 | Kansas in 40 years, | The trap was sprung at &:01 a. m. | He was declared dead at 6:20 a. m. | Scaffold Out of Sight The scaffold was constructed in a | secluded corner of the prison yard, out of sight ot other prisoners. Hid- den machine guns were trained on | the surrounding ‘cell houses from turrets around the yard. Panzran, a giant of a man weigh- ing 212 pounds and standing more | than six feet tall, had been round‘ | guilty of killlng Robert Warnke, & guard in the federal penitentiary | |here, where the convict was con- | fined on a robbery charge brought against him in Washington, D. C. | He bad maintained until the la.t| his braggadocio, wherein he claimed |to be the worst criminal in the | world. During his trial he had ward- |ed off attempts to save him or to | have himself found insane. He de- | |sired either ,Areedom—to extermi- | nate, he said’ the rest of the world, | |which he didn't like—or death. He claimed to have killed between 21 and 27 men in all parts of the | world, eight during a hoat ride when | [ them die. “Deserves Monument” “I deserve my fate.”Panzran sald just a few hours before the execu- tion. "] killed Warnke because I hate people and would kill everyone if I had a chance. I get pleasure out of seeing them die. I believe every hu- |man being should be exterminated. | Society should build a monument to Carl Panzran because I have not | (Continued on Page Two) WOMAN TRAPPED IN RUNAWAY CAR HURT Auto Rolls 200 Feet Down | Hill and Crashes Into | [ % | Fence [ 1 | From a standing start. a sedon {owned by Patrick Guilmette of 108 | Beacon street, Worcest Ma: rolled several hundred down steep incline on Greenwood streef, crashed through a fence and | nedge and came to a stop against a house at 200 Brooks street, owned | | by Charles Herzy, about 9:45 o'clock | last night. Mrs. Fannie Gerlander, 45, et wire ot 189 | seat, and Miss Jennie Stanquist of 35 | Sheftield street was in the rear sea | Guilmette being in a house at 19 | Greenwood street. Miss Stanqu |sensing the danger. jumped out of the car as it was gathering momen- {tum, but M Gerlander stayved | where she was, taking the full fo of the double crash : At New Britain General hospital, where Mrs. Gerlander was treate |it was said she sustained a fracturc of the jawbone, a painful cut on the lip, presumably from contact with the wire fence, and an injury to her left arm. Dr. C. W. Vivian at- tended her and she was able to go home for the night, returning to the hospital today for further treat- ment. Officers L. E. Harper and Eugene Kieffer investigated the a cident, finding no cause for arres The ca was badly damaged New Britain and vicini Increasing cloudiness follow- ed by showers late tonight or Saturday; somewhat warmer tonight and cooler Saturday. | [l | | \WINS BY LARGE MARGIN {water on him I'to kill him and collect his life in- | preference: RED CROSS OFFIGIAL REPORTS 1,000 DEAD, 2,300 HOMES IN § INJURED, 29,000 WITHOUT ANTO DOMINGO HURRICANE ALLING NOMINATED | FOR PROBATE POST Deleats Woods in New Britain and Berlin Primaries | | Less Than 30 Per Cent of Registered | Republican Vote Polled — Loser | Pledges to Aid Winner in Formal | Statement Today. Leading his opponent by a margin | of 1,373 votes here, and carrying the Berlin caucus two-to-one, Attorney General B. W. Alling defeated Prose- | cuting Attorney Joseph G. Woods in the republican primary for nomina- tion as judge of probate yesterday. Although pre-primary forecasts had promised a close election, the ward, | jor- | Alling tic carried some of them by substantial ma every ities. Primary Vote Not Heavy The total vote cast was 3,587 | which represents less than 30 per cent of the registered republican vote and was about one-half as many | BENJAMIN W. ALLING as took part in the spring primary at which Mayor Quigley was the| winner over Donald L. Bartlett. i Candidate Alling must now pre- | e for a second election fight in | overturned the craft and watched | his quest for the probate judgeship. | Past minutes Judge William F. Mangan will be nominated by the democratic party to run against Alling and will enter upon his campaign shortly Léaders in the democratic party have been open in their expressions | of belief that Alling would make the easier candidate to defeat on clection day although the conceded that Woods might make the poorer showing in a republican primary. Woods enjoys wide popularity among the democrats of the city, many of whom had frankly stated that they would vote for him in the event of his nominatich. Alling, the demo- crats claim, is not popular with their party, partly because of former po- litical affiliations. and they do not expect that he will cut into the dem- ocratic vote. They have also point- | ed to the fact that Mayor Paonessa was a comparatively easy winner ST (Continued on Page Three) MAN SAYS WIFE TRIED T0 SCALD HIM T0 DEATH With Skin Falling Off, He Enters Police Station to Lodge Complaint His face so badly scalded that the skin fell oft in several places, Jo- seph Lozenski of 126 Beaver street, walked into the police station at 3 o'clock this afternoon and complain- ed that his wife had thrown hot He said she wanted surane | Cap Kelly had take him to New I hospital for treatme investigation into th Officer Tan- Britain Gen- and an ]ECapt, Silva Tells Wash- L_Dominican President | ington Disaster Toll Underestimated — 4, 700 Houses Destroyed —Grave Danger of Disease. |No Information on Deaths in Remainder of Nation ‘Available—U. S. Minis- ter Says Office Building and Residence Roth Wrecked. —Photo President Rafael personal charge of Santo Domingo following disaster. NEWINGTON CAUCUS REJECTS NOMINEES Six of Ten Names Offered by Town Committee Downed “Killed, 1,000; injured, 2,500 per- sons; destroyed, about 4,700 homes, REORGANIZATION EFFECTED 5 airaios .5 o e Associated Press Trujillo +took relief work in hurricane by Washington. Sept. 5 (P—Captain Antonio Silva, Red Cross official, to- |day reported 1,000 persons killed, )0 persons injured, 4,700 homes 0 homes damaged, and persons homeless as the re- the Caribbean hurricane in Santo Domingo city. The official, who flew to San Do- mingo from Porto Rico yesterday, reported to headquarters by cable: “After surveying San Domingo city both from air and ground and from information by American min- ister and president of republic re- port disaster | destroyec sult of | 29,000 persons homeless. No Other Reports “No reports available from other parts of republic. Governor Roose- most Completely Remade—Dele- | velt sending medical personnel wn- der commangd of Fernos, also food, §aiss 1o Cengresfionsl Guoxentiom ]\ tentage and cots. but not enoush to to Go Uninstructed. | supply demand. Outside help is need- |ed. Iam at AWerican consulate, (Signed) 5.—Insurgency “SILVA." It at the demo- [ Just before Silva's 1d here last week | formation reached Chairnam Payne, spread to the republican party last ‘ar the Red Cross, some assurance evening wfen only four of the ten|had been expressed at the weather names proposed by the town com- |bureau that the storm would not be mittee as delegates to the coming | damaging by the time it hit Florida, onvention met with the approval of | if it reached there at all. the party voters assembled in caucus | Charles L. Mitchell, forecaster, at the Junior High school. | said there was no question but that The meeting was opened by Harry | Santo Domingo had saved Cuba and Webster, chairman of the republi-|Florida from the fury. Dissipated can town committee, and Harold | by Santo Domingo’s high mountain Lucas was elected moderator. Miss | Peaks, the storm has so lessened that Frances Brinley brought to the at-[BO warnings whatever were ordered tention of the caucus that in the |thi- morning by the weather bureau of the caucus had [alOng the Florida and gulf coasts. et Ehaan i rcorded The cable from Captain Silva, first that now was the proper direct report on the results of the bring the matter George Hanbury s clerk Personnel of Town Committee Al- | (Special to the Herald) Newington, Scpt. | which made cratic caucus |h: startling in- time to | the party. | Storm, was transmitted by the Red then Cross to President Hoover, to be {used in determining whether a Mr. Webster put the question aSinrm\lmnzmon requesting public eon- o ethor the Helexates should go | tributions would be issued from the | imstructed or uninstructed, and on a | White House. It will form the basia [ Voto it was decided to have all dele- | 150 Of relief plans at Red Cross | zates go uninstructed headquarters. Officials, who had | The republican town committee |BeeR on watch night and day sines had prepared the following lst:[S!lva went by plane from “iPerto B Prepared e i bury | BiCO. went Into conference to deter- L M e ot i | mine immediate action convention, E Pape Heads Red Cross Chapter IR % The *.Fernos” referred to in the e e Wi Silva_cablegram 1s president of the V. Woodruff; senatorial convention, |optt Juan. Porto Rico, Red Cross E. Wells Edds and Mrs. L. A chapter. The navy was informed to- probate convention, Charles by its destroyer-minesweeper, | wood and Miss Nino Blair. Opposition Slate Offered ' An opposition ticket was fresent- ed ad follows: Delegates to state convention, E. LeRoy Pond and Mrs. | E. P. Schmidt; congressional, Robert | | Bray and Mrs. Bertha Chadd; sena- | | tortal, E. Stanley Wells and C. B.| | Russell; probate, Harold Lucas nnd} Perey Goodale. | | A motion was then made that vot- ing be by check list and the ballot prepared by the town committee be used. As the ballots were being dis- tributed & question brought forth by one of the voters that he | wished to know for whom the dele- gates were lined up, whether for Mr.| (o Fern or Mr. Seymour. The question | ..o F ‘w was passed to Mr. Webster, who | S 1@ stated that it was the vote of the | 0% B8 meeting that the delegates go unin- | S structed and that the town commit- | tee had no knowledge of their | Moderator Lucas stat- | nominees we all | questions befo; elected d Holt (Continued on Page Two) ALFRED A. WHITMAN EXPIRES IN CANADA Grenfell Mission Manager Father of Councilman Roger Whitman as returning from an annual the site of the Grenfell the coast of Labrador, rews Whitman, father of Councilman Roger Whitman of this city, died yesterday, according to word received here. Councilman Whitman has left for Canada and 5 will meet his father's body at Ot- ed that th present How vere asked of The result ev no any of th of th Whitman ship. He was bound for St. John's Newfoundland, and Quebec when he was taken with his fatal illness. died on board T ballot was as (Continued on Page Two) {Coste and Bellonte “R;ad;' to H(r)pr For Louisville On Return Route Dallas, Tex., Sept. § (('F\—(‘avq tain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte had their transatlantic plane fueled and ready to start to New York tod long before they had arrived at Love field. Another plane was made ready to carry their manager, Rene Racover. Shortly before 11 a. m. the fliers themselves arrived at the fleld and planned to start east by way of Louisville before noon, Start East Today Dallas, Tex., Sept. 5 (#—Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bel- He was business manager of the Grenfell Misslon and has acted in that capacity for four years. His offices were located in New York city but once each year, he made |a trip into the northland to wvisit the mission field. The mission cares for the spiritual needs of the fish- | erfolk in Labrador. | _Mr. Whitman was born in New |their scarlet sesquiplane, the Ques- | York city and was 67 years old. He tion Mark, toward Louisville, Ky., |18 a direct descendant of two of the A ds 4 oldest New England families. On today. after completing a one-stop | 1. ¥ LT R e e descended from John Whitman, a pioneer | settler in Farmington, and the John Whitman house there is his an- | cestral home. His mother was Sarah flight at Le Bourget field, Taris,| Andrews of Southington, a mem- Monday, said they would stop over- | her of one of the oldest families in |night at Louisville, continuing Satur- | that town. |day to New York to be in the east| Both families moved to New York {for a week-end luncheon engage- | where Mr. Whitman's parents were | | | lonte, French air voyageurs, pointed Paris day The travel-weary Fren®hmen, who started their historic ocean-spanning w York-Dallas fight vester- Contir.ed on Page Three), (Continucd op Page Two),