New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1930, Page 1

g ESTABLISHED 1870, FOUR BANDITS GET 3130,000 GEM HAUL FROM AUTO PARTY Evanston Millionaire and His Friends Halted and Stripped of Jewels Early Today ONE RING WORTH 830,000 INCLUDED WITH BOOTY Cheese Company Official and Guests, ! Attended Theater, Then I Restaurant, Where Police Believe Thieves of Diamonds—Quartet Takes Keys to Victim's Automobile. Evanston, Ill, Sept. 6 Jason F. Whitneys and a party of four en route to their home in Evansgton after attending a theater were robbed of jewelry valued at §130,000 early today by féur young robbers, two of whom ywore hand- kerchief masks. Whitney is president of the Kraf{;Phenix Cheese com- pany. One of the members of the party was James\A. Hewett of Manchester, England, a house guest of the Whit- neys. The party -had attended the fhe- ater in Chicago and were dmyé one of the guests, Mrs. Gladys S. Mehan, at her home when the Whit- ney car was crowded to the curb by t¥e robbers’ machine. Robbery Done® Quickly Rings, bracelets and necklaces were quickly stripped frem their wearers at ‘the point of revolvers. The robbery.was executed so quick ly that the bandits' car had disap- peared into the darkness toward Chicago before the alarm could spread. Mrs. Whitney reported her per- sonal loss -was $125,004, including a ring valued at $50,000. After the theater, the party had stopped at a restaurant where, po- lice believe, the dazzling gems were observed by the four men who a few minutes tater stole them. Mrs. \Vh¥no)‘ was the immediate objective of the robbers when they surprised the party. One of the ban- dits started tearing her ornaments from her until she exclaimed, “I'll give you everything if you won't harm us.” Thén they allowed her to hand over the valuables. Besides the ring, 15 carats in size, Mrs. Whitney lost five bracelets and 4 necklace. One of the other women was allowed to keep her necklace, comparatively modest in value. Take Whitney Car Keys The bandits ~ also demartded the keys of the Whitney car, which they carried off with them to prevent im- mediate pursuit. The Evanston po- lice were notified by telephone and flashed word of the robbery to Chi- cago. A radio,alarm sent 15 squad cars to Sherman road in an effort to intercept the bandits. Besides the Whifheys. Mrs. Me- han and Hewett, the party included Mr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Blackburn. Mr. Blackburn is secretary of the Kraf-Phenix corporation. INJUNGTION AGAINST GLEVELAND PREACHER Pastor to'Be Prevented From Giving Sermon Two Sundays Cleveland, Sept. 6 ()—A tempor- ary injunction will keep the ' Rev. Rey E. DePriest from the pulpit of St. John’s Episcopal church, one of Cleveland's oldest holises of worship, for the next two Sundays. Attorneys for the vestry obtained the injunction last night as the re- sult of differenceg between the rec- tor and the vestr¥ over a proposed salary cut. Rev. DePriest, vestry attorneys said, walked out of a meeting July 24 when it was proposed that his salary be reduced from $3,600 to $2.- 400 annually,“along with other de- creases in the church budget. +The rector submitted a verbal res- ignation at that time, the vestry con- tends. - Rev. DePriest denied thaj he had resigned, but said he-left the meet- ing in “righteous indignation” when the salary decrease ®was proposed “after all the hard work I have done for the church.” He said the Vestry acted contrary to canonical procedure, but announc- ed there would be no services pend- ifig a hearing on the injunction Sep- tember 15. Captive Drops Dead as Police Seek $200 Reward Detroit, Sept. 6 (A—Willliam But- ler, alias Banner, who was held ‘by the Detroit police in connection with a Matawan, N. J, bank robbery, dropped dead in h‘s cell last night, thereby depriving police of the $200 reward offergd for his capture. Butler, reputed to have been a nationally known racketeer, was ar- rested more than a week ago. He was alleged to have participated in the robbery of the First National bank at Matawan. The reward offer- ed for his capture stipulated that he Jnust be turned over to New Jer- sey authorities “alive.” Visited Noticed Dazzling Display (A—The ing | = —— it Passengers i | Above are pictures taken during which sank in the south Pacific, Upper picture shows passengers of the sinking Tahiti en route to the rescue ship Ventura in life boats. Lower left is view of the liner just beforeshe sank and lower right, the final plunge of the Tahiti. Deserting Sinking Liner i < the thril e ling resque at sea of Tahiti passengers of the liner Tahiti QUITS GUN SEARCH: I | STEELE STAYS MU | | Hunt'for Mystery Revolver | , T, JEREES 'HICKEY OUT 0F INQUIRY Mrs. Bernice Steele Positively Denles Husband,;-Who Will Not Explain How He Was Wounded. Constably Nathan W. Fuller of Farmington has abandoned the search f a bullet Was fired into the Body of {Myron G. Steele of 3 Armistice | street, this city, just above his heart, on Wednesday evening. County Detective Edward J! Hickey, who was interested in the case because it presented a mystery aspect, is now determined that Steele shot himself. Feeling that there is no longer any mystery, despite the efforts of Steele, who is in a setious condition at St. Francis hospital, Hartford, to make a mystery of the | Shooting, Detective Hickey is no longer interested and has withdrawn from the investigation. Unless Steele makes a charge of, being ‘shot, and | zle, Hickey will not bother with the | case. With the withdrawal of the coun- ty detective from the case, Constable |FuHer, who has been persistently (Contified on Page Two) LN FATE OF FIREWORKS - TO BE DECIDED S00N [Council Committee Will Put Explosives on Trial Alderman J. Gustave Johnson, {-ehairman-of the common_ council | committee on ordinances, has called | a meeting for Thursday -evening, | Sept. 11 at Room 201, City hall, to |act on the proposed ordinance to | prohibit the use of fireworks in New | Britain. During Alderman Johnson's ab- sedce from the country the dommit- | tee held a)public_ hearing but took no action, although it appeared that the majority of the members were not 'in favor of a sweeping ban. The claims committee of the common cduncil will meet Wednes- day evening, Sept. 10, at Room 201, City hall, to hear claimants for com- pensation for damage to their pro- perties by blocking of sewers In the northwestern section of the city on |July 6, during a severe storm. \ William Kowalczik, 36 Clinton street, claims $2,000; Luigi Fabale, | | 242 Burritt street, $90; Mrs. Rose | Ruszezk, 374 Broad stret. $65; Jo- | seph Kowalszyk, 246 Burritt street, $100; Alexander Kaminsky, 1 Farm- ington avenue, $1,600; Elizabeth 367 Broad stret, $50; An- toni’ Lozinski, 236 Burritt street, $25; Galliaus Lazzerini, 26 Clinton street, | $4.000; Peter Bardeck and M. Zaj- | del, 365 Broad street, $30. The to- tal of the claims is $7,560. The monthly meeting of the com- mon council coinmittee on supplies and printing will be held Monday | evening in the city clerk's office. | | % * | | HIGH TIDE—SEPTEMBER 7 | li A% | (Standard Time) New London 8:53 a.m.,! New Haven 10:22 a.m.,10:. *. ‘Farmington Constable Abandons the revolver from which: tries to assist in cléaring upthe puz- | Next Week \ D e S R T Wild Horses Will Be Slaughtered and Canned Tonopah, Nev. Sept. 6 (E{‘ Four hundred wild horses in ‘the valleys surrounding Tonopah werc rounded up yesterday, most of them to be slaughtered. Horses sold for slaughter bring 90 cents'a hundred pounds. Some of the meat will be ganned for shipment to foreign countries. | | | [ | GREENWICH BLAST S v SHATTERS VESSEL Two Mbn “Hurt, One Perhap | Fatally, in Explosion ROGKS/WHOLE WATERFRONT Gasoline Just Transferred to Tank Boat From Truck Blows Up as Driver Touches Starter—Windows | fractured arms in addition to severe | burns. ~ John Curtin, _seated in a tank truck on the docksfrom which the boat had just begn loaded, was seriously burned. Both men are (Continued on Page Two) CONFESSES TAKING B FROICAUTD | Bristol Man Bound “Over Tor Stealing From Local Machine DENIES “AGT WAS THEFT Theodhre Garlick Says He Intended to Return’ Money to Iago Abelion Temorrow—Sergeant Tells i | | Confession—Bona Set at $500. “ ' (Special to the Herald) | Bristol, Sept. 6—Charged with | stealing four $50 bills from the au- toniobile of Tago -Abelion of 422 )lain cet, New Britain, last Sun- day night, Theodore Garlick, 23, \of Stafford avenue, Forestville, was bound ®ver to the next term of the superior court this .morning when Jidge Willlam J. Malone of the po- |lice court found probablé cause. | Bond was set at $500 | Abelion testified that last Sunday Broken. |he was doing repair work in Gar- 3 lick's printery. His car had a flat Greenwich, Sept. 6 (UP)-TWO fire, and Garlick went out to Make | men were injured, one perhaps ! the.necessary repairs to the ma- fatally, today when a 30-foot tank |chine and while thus engaged boat carrying 2500 gallons.of gaso- | found and took the $200, Abelion M erplupediatd dock, ia“;f:;;am Daniel McGillicuddy told HiSh e boa anansh Captain | e court that he had arrested Gar- iGeflrgfv Wortley, 28, was thrown 40 |lick and had obtained a written {feet in the air and suffered two |confession from him. Garlick took the stand in his own defense and admitted taking the four bills. He said that he had jdéposited them in a local hank. He |denied, however, that ~ his motive (Continued on Page Two) of | 'NEW BRITAIN HERA7T . g o o NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1930. —-EIGHTEEN PAGES Nyt MISSING NEW YORK | JUSTICE REPORTED SEPNNEAR BORDER oman Says Crater Was at Rouse’s Point, af Canadian _ .+ Line, Wednesday PROBE. DOES NOT REVEAL “#0ONNECTION WITH EWALD| Federal Investigators, Look Into Possibility of Link With Accused Magistrate—Port Chester Resi- | dent Tells of Giving Crater Auto- mobile Ride—Study of Bapk Rec- ords Reveals New Facts,” New York. Sept. 6 (P—A report | that Joseph I, Crater, missing eu- | preme court justice, was seen last | Wednesday near the Canadian bor- {der held the attention of police to= | day. [ m Point, N. she had 27 seen the on the border, who said | missing out to searchers. A city detective now in Canada on other business was instructed to investigate. Police Commissioner Mulrooney | pointed out the report whs not con- | | sistent with an carlier one from a | I resident of Port Chester, N. Y.. who |identified a picture of Justice Crater |as that of a man he gave a lift on | August 28. L. G. Boedker said he | picked up the man along the Boston | post road and took him as far as| New Rochelle. Boedker said the man told him he was Judge Crater. B cl: ARGENTINE LEADER justice | himselt there, declared she could pofnt him | HinolitosIrigoyen nibited public | nearly military. tablished |and telephone calls were watched. police and students, di { [ been o A R Aug. 30th ... Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 15,049 PRICE THREE CENTS SLAND NEAR SANTO DOMINGO SWEPT BARE BY FURY OF HURRICANE BLAST; QUITS PRESIDENCY | Military Hands | | Friends Urge Elderly Official to Resign—In Power Since 1916 As . Friend of People. | Sept. 6 (P—Rigid | invoked in the | Bucnos Air artial law wa A woman resident of Rouse€’s | anital today as the new president, | Martinez, entrenched | the place vacated by . Argentina’'s man r. Enrique in my tery. The martial law regulations pro- embly, and placed uenos Aires with its population of ,000,000 in the hands of the A rigid censorship was es- on outgoing cablegrams, Many Persons Wounded Many persons were wounded in ashes during the night between the atisfied that dent Irigoyen’s withdrawal hag only a qualified one under A | gentingy law, which permits a presi- | A published report that the jus- |5 oEs ; {tice, who dropped from sight a |d¢nt td retire for so long as he month ago, had been found-by | Vishes dnd to delegate power to the | [ friends in a lonely cabin near Mons |treal was denied by friends here and !scouted by police | | Seck Link With Ewald Since the justice’s disappearance, | federal investigators, it was learne | have examined his bank bpoks in an effort- 40 determine any connection | Detwe¥n him and George F. | former city magistrate, accused of | | buying his office for $10,000. It was understpod that no connection has |thus far been found. United States Attorney Tuttle, in his investigation of the Ewald case, said he has discovered documentary |evidence that the $10,000 which Mrs. wald gave to Martin J. Healy, {Tammany district leader, about the [time of her husband's appointment | was not a loan, as all principals in the case have maintained. Bank Records Check A study of the bank records of |Healy and Thomas T, Tommaney, {recently suspended as chief clerk at | ithe sheriff's office, he said, showed a withdrawal of $1,200 from Healy's | agcount and-deposit of a like amount | |to Tommaney's account about the |time of the appointment of Ewald | | andy Jacob Cash, a former city mar- |shal, who said he paid §2.000 for |se {his job. Tuttle pointed out lhz\txhr“ |$1,200 was exactly 10 per cenfdof |the money Healy is known to have received. | Samuel Seabury,appointed by the | n st but in most cases, due to watchful 4. | acter. | ous fighting occupied when students, | marching (LONG IAGNOSIS QUEST | MAY HAVE FOTILE END vice president; and was not actual resignation. The disorders were widespread, ess of the military, minor in char- | In one instance really seri- Avenida Te down the Bwald, | Mavo. encountered police at the in- ¢ | tersection of La Calle Peru. Most (Continued on Page Two) | Irving Spencer’s Search for Relief | for lliness Climaxed With News | of Critical Condition. Arthur F. Spencer of 536 Stanley reet was summoned early today to the bedside of his son. Irving Spen- | cer, who is critically ill at Samaritan hospital. Philadelphia, where he has | been réceiving bronchoscope exami- | nations by Dr. and undergoing treatment for an ab- Chevalier Jackson ess of the lung. He has been at the hospital fnr: weeks, having suffered from the | i Iment for eight years. During that | time he has been a patient at many | lospitals but the nature of his ill- | |appellate court as referee to inves- ness has baffled physicians. After | |tigate magistrates and magistrates’ comprehensive te "Dr. Jackson | |courts in Manhattan and the JBronx. diagnosed his condition as being due |arrived from BEurope vesterdhy and |immediately %irranged for a confer- |ence with Edward R. Finch, acting )presiding Justice of the appellate di- |vision. He declined to discuss his | plans for his investigation. to ce er were hopeful }nnws of his critical.illness will be re- the abscess. Relatives and frien of his recdvery and | ived as a shock. | Mr. Spencer, the father, is treasur- | of Stanley Memorial church. | Fage THIS WEEK'S'AFFAIRS . . . . . by Knight \ i Forwarp, NORMAL ScHo OPENS WITH 60 STUDENY: 7 .,CB—ESS'-. TdoSEISHOES ARE ABOUT ITHE RIGHT F(T_FOR Judee M weLcome Home /. © wegev | driven by Charles Baker, |in a westerly BRADFORD HELD 'IN NARCOTIC CASE Irogyen Leaves Buenos Aires in | Gary Politician Declares Charge Just Frameup NANY: HORT N LASHES REED COMMITIEE Winhgss, Y Storm i | Public Assembly Banned — Even | Detectives Follow Messenger (o Of- fice and See Him Deliver Drugs— | Secretary Arrested as Material Ind., Sept. 6.—(P)—Ralph B. Bradiord, Gary political lead who startled the Reed senate inves- tigating committee in 1928 with tes- timony of alleged political intrigues in Indiana, faced prosecution today on charges of complicity in a nar- cotic distributing syndicate. A warrant for his arrest was issued by U. S. Commission Dwyer esterday after officers had followed a postman delivering a package said to contain morphine worth Bradford's office. His secrote Martha Malachek, who signed the package, was held as a material witness. Calls It “Frame-Up" Bradford, in Chicago/ when the warrant was issued, denqunced the charges as a ‘“political frame-up” and said he would surrender today. ederal authorities fiss head of the Ku Klux Klan here, and certain men in New Orleans under age which led to the arrest of Mi Malachek was mailed from New O s |leans and its progress to Bradford's (Continued on Page Two) 'SPEEDER HITS OP: 'ARRESTED ON SPOT! E L |Motorcycle Policeman, Al- though Injured, Takes Driver Into Custody Motorcycle Officer William J. O'Day was struck by an automobile 24, of 9 Connerton street, at the intersection of Clark and North streets, a short | distance from the officer's home at about 7 o'clock last night, and pdin- fully bruised about the right knee. Dr. John J. Tokarczyk, police sur- | geon, ordered the officer to remain off duty for a few days at least. Before going to the surgeon for an examination, Officer O'Day ar- rested Baker on thetcharge of reck- less driving, reporting that the motorist, with three companions in the single seat of the coupe he was driving, approached the intersection direction on North street at the approximate rate of 35 or 40 miles an hour. The officer, riding north on Clark street, stopped as he reached North street and looked in both directions before proceeding in second gear at (Continued on Page Two) - IN GRITICAL CONDITION Eight Year Old Victim at General Hospital With Possible Skull Fracture, Knocked down by an automobile driven by Charles Brigandi of 140 North street, on Main street near Lafayette street, early last evening, Stanley Abramzik, 8, of 64 Booth for | asserted that | hey had kept Bradford, a former | surveillance for months. The pack- | ~ DOMINICAN DEAD MAY REACH 2,000 Leeward Isle Reports . All Crops Lost, Every . Vessel in Harbor Sunk and Two Killed-Com- | munications Cut Off {Scenes of Horror Related From Main Section of Nation—No Safe Drink- ing Water Supply Avail- able, Officials Report to Red Cross. Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadaloupe, Sept. 6 (P —An official report received to- day from the leeward island of | Dominica related that the hurricans of Monday destroyed all crops on | the island, sank all vessels in the | harbor and killed two persons. | Communication throughout the |island of Dominica was cut oft. Buildings were demolished and the | peasantry and laboring people were | particularly heavy sufferers. [ Strikes Island Monday | The storm, of ‘“considerable in- tensity," according to the statement, struck the little British island on | Monday. | Strong winds passed over Guada- loupe but caused no damage. & Dominica’s population of upwards | of 37,000 is in urgent need of sup- plies to avert famine. A majority of the population are Negroes. The + capital is Roseau, with about 7,000 | population. | Previous direct advices had placed fthe dead at*20. - Conditions Grow Worse Copyright, 1930, All Rights Resdrv~ ed by The Associated Press. Santo Domingo, Sept. 6 (A—Re-. | lief agenctespeeding to the asist- | ance of this stricken city today en- | countered conditions 6f horror, | which have been accentuated rather | than mitigated since the storm of | Wednesday. A Between 1,500 and 2,000 persons, |i is estimated now, - died in the hurricane which swept Santo Domingo. ‘More than 5,000 were injured. Thirty thousand are home- less and of 10,000 buildings but 400 are left standing. Property dwm- age, it is estimated, will exceed 1$20,000,000. A United States marine corps of- ficer who flew over from Port Au Prince, Haiti, commented: “It is as if a giant hand had smeared the town down like a toy, and thep had stirred the pieces with a stick. “There is no water fit to drink, The water works are demolished, the river is a sea of mud and the dead are still uncounted. + Floods have washed out the new- 1y buried dead in the cemcteries and coffins float around like corks. The * dead are being collected and burned above ground. Concrete cisterns are being used as funeral pyresr cre- mating as many as 50 bodies at a time, P See Bodies Being Burned. lven at a distance of ten miles and at an altitude of 4,000 feet in the air it was apparent bodies were being burned. When we landed we could see wagons pass by loaded with dead. The drivers would (Continued on Page Two) FRUIT JUIGE DEALER * KILLED BY ENEMIES Scrubwomen Find Body street, sustained head injuries and a possible fracture of the skull and is in a critical condition at New Brit- in Broadway Office ain General hospital. Building Brigandi told the police he was driving north on Main street when the boy ran into the road and wa# New York, Sept. 6 (#—The kill- struck by the front bumper. Al- ing of a fruit juice dealer whose though he was thrown under the body was found on the 10th floor of car, the wheels did not pass over a Broadway office building by him, Brigandi said. i o Rreal S ieinmantlb) ot 713t Areh cleaning women was regarded by po- lice today as the outcome of a boot- leggers' feud. Two charwomen entering the of- fice of the California Dry Fruit Im- porters company last night, found the body of Joseph Pinsola, 43 years old, sprawled on the floor. He had been shot five times. A pistol with six empty shells in it was nearby. Dr. Charles G. Norris, the medical street, was thrown from his bicycle when struck by an automobile driven | by Katherine E. Colton of 53 South High street about 10:45 o'clock last night, and sustained lacerations of the face and right leg. Officer Charles Weare pulled him from be- neath the autoraobile and Supernum- erary Officer Mullen took him to New Britain General hospital. He was able to go home after being | ©Xaminer, said he had been dead treated. several hours Officer Weare reported that the | FPinzola was sentenced to two years in prison in 1908 for possess- ing a bomb and was arrested in 1922 for violation of the anti-gun law. Police were attempting to trace an anonymous telephone call receiv- automobile was going south on Main street, as was the bicycle, and the collision occurred when ghesautomo- bile turned to the right to ‘enter | Court street. The bicycle was de- molished. ed by a mid-town undertaken short- | ly before the body was found, in- * structing him to “pick up a bedy on the 10th floor of the Brokaw build- ing.” The building superintendent sald he had never seen Pinzola before and that the office had been rented to Thomas Luckese. At the home of Luckese police were told he had lett town yesterday. THE WEATHER 1 | New Britain and vicinity: | Partly cloudy tonight and | Sunday: little change in tem- | perature. e i I | | | | * SO S ey