New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1930, Page 3

FORGERY CLAIMED INMORTGAGE SUIT Delense Claims Note Given Bauk Not Legally Signed Forgery of John J. Erwin’s name to a mortgage note on the City Na- tional Bank by Mr. Erwin’s_son, Robert H. Erwin, was set up as a defense in an all-day session of city court today. At press time the fore- closure suit brought on Erwin place property was still being heard. Judge Morris D. Saxe presided. It was claimea by the bank that ! the note was issued on December 28, 1926, but, the forgery was dis- covered on Februdry 28, 1927, and was corrected by the older Erwin who /signed his name to the docu- ment. It was claimed that for three years the defendants did not claim | forgery until the foreclosure action was brought. John Erwin js presi- dent and Robert Erwin is secretary treasurer of the J. J. Erwin & Son Co. The note was for $2,500 and there is a prior mortgage held by the Sav- ings Bank of New Britain amount- ing to $4,000. Attorney Israel Nair represented the plaintiff, Attorney John F. Downes, represented Erwin and F. Grey Libbey Co., of New Hav- en a co-defendant, was represented by Attorney Thallbers of that city. Francis C. Kelly, a former cashier at the bank, was put under a gruel- ling cross examination by the de- fense lawyers this afternoon. DEPRESSION FELT AT CONEY ISLAND Resort Makes No Money Despite Cut in Prices New York, Sept. 16 (UP)—Co- ney Island, greatest amusement place of the continent, is losing money. Concessionaires at the famous piayground saye this season has been their worst. Last year was bad, due to too-frequent rains, but this year there is no excuse except that people are not spending. “It’ takes $5.00 to see all the sights, * but the average visitor to Coney spends under 25 cents,” la- mented an attache of the biggest amusement center. “Prices have been reduced, but people aren’t spending. Tourists seem to be on a budget, and most of them leave no more than $1.00 with us.” Two reasons were given. One is that all Wusiness is dull, and amusements are the first to suffer. The other is that the middle-class patrons ~ who used to go to Coney Island now drive in their low- priced cars to more distant and less crowded beaches. B “So many of the poorer classes wRo mnow compose the majority of visitors to Coney Island wear their bathing suits under their clothes — avoiding the cost of a bath-house — and bring their own lunches, the entertainment man mourned. “One of these days Surf Avenue ~—Coney Island’s Great White Way —will be apartment houses.” NEW BUS TO HARTFORD Secretary Ralph H. Benson of the Chamber of Commerce was nogified today by R. J. Bennett, assistant gen- eral manager of the Connecticut Co. that the company has commenced the operation of a bus to Hartford | leaving this city at 7:10 a. m. Mr. Bennett's letter was in reply to a complaint made by local persons em- ployed in Hartford, following the re- cent change in schedule, that by leaving at 6:45 a. m. instead of 7:10 as previously, they were compelled to waste that much time unnecessarily in Hartford. Mr. Bennett also stated that the company had tried operating a bus to Hartford leaving here at 1:10 p. m. but found there was not sufficient | demand for it. A bus now leaves regularly at 5:10 p. m. for Hartford, starting yesterday. HILL IN TORRINGTON J. H. Hill of Middletown, who has been a senior instructor under the di- rection of Edward M. Beals of this eity, director of the state trade school, has been promot- ed to director of the Torrington ktate trade school. sumed his new duties yesterday, suc- ceeds H. H. Wilbur, who has been transferred to New Britain, succeed- ing E. D. Packard, who in turn was transferred to Hartford. Exports and imports handled at the port of Savannah, Gar, the first hoif of 1930 were valued at $19,- 000,000. City Advertisement SEWER IN SENECA STREET Notice is hereby given that a, hearing will be held before the Board of Public Works, City of New Britain, in Room 307, City Hall at , E. D. T., Monday, Sept. 1930 on the construction of a | Street, | itary gewer .in Seneca from Commonwealth Avenue Eddy-Glover Boulevard. to All interested persons are request- | it | ed to be present at said hearing, they see cause, and be heard relation to the above. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, Thomas F. McGrath, Clerk. in City Advertisement SEWER IN LEO STREET Notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held before the Board of Public Works, City of New Britain, in Room 307, City Hall, at 7:30 p. m., E. D. T. Monday, Sept 22, 1930 on the construction of a sanitary sewer in Leo Street, from Corbin Avenue to the end of street. All interested persons are request- ed to be present At said hearing, if they see cause, and be heard in relation to the above. BARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, Thomas F. McGrath, Clerk. 1€%ddletown | Mr. Hill, who as- | GEISKING ARRESTED IN LOUISVILE, KY. Admits Identity But Denies Be- ing Slayer of Lingle Louisville, Ky., Sept. 16 (P)—Ad- mission that he is Theodore (Ted) Geisking but denial that he knew anything of the murder of “Jake” Lingle, Chicago newspaper reporter, was made here today by a suspect picked up in a vagrancy charge. Chicago detectives and an Indiana state policeman identified the suspect as Geisking. Then George Williams, Chicago detective, brought up a man | who he said saw Lingle shot down in- Chicago and saw the slayer flee. “That looks like the man except {his hair is different,” said this man. His name was withheld by Williams. Geisking denied killing Lingle and said he did not even know him, but accordipg to police he admitted he had been a whiskey runner and a hijacker. He was ordered held with- out bond on a fugitive and murder charge. Geisking was arrested here Friday and held on a vagrancy charge and | yesterday his bond first made at §5,- 000 was reduced to $1,000. Then De<| tective Sergeant Cecik Essel who had picked him up, noted a resemblance to published photographs of Geisk- ing. As a precaution a murder charge was filed and the bond auto- matically raised to $5,000. When arraigned in police court, Geisking was held without bond on the murder and fugitive charges and his examining trial was set for Wed- nesday. RED AGENT QUITS FOR LOVE OF GIRI Deserts Cheka “Relormed” By| Jirl of Capitalist Class BY MINOTT SAUNDERS Paris, Sept. 15—Love in the class of the hated capitalists and the ter- rorism of the secret soviet police system most strangely conflic Georges Agabekoff, recent Cheka chieftain in the Near East, has| discovered. He deserted his servic to find a happy home and political haven in France, but has been as sisted across the Belgian frontier by the police and told not to come back. Agabekoff created quite a stir in | Russian circles here when he ar- |rived from Constantinople several weeks agq as a reformed terrorist, confessing that he had directed the systematic theft of military and diplomatic documents, supervised attempts at wholesale bribery in foreign offices and legations and dealt out life and death among the workers of the organization. With him was a pretty 20-year- old daughter of a member of the British diplomatic corps in Con- | stantinople. He admitted his affec- tion for this lovely girl had brought| | about a dramatic turn in his polit- ical carrer. She had reformed him, he said. Closely following them came |the girl's mother, determined to| prevent the marriage. She appar- ently was having some success, | warning her daughter of disinheri- |tance and disgrace, when the French | police suddenly intervened and sent the prospective bridegroom out of the country. Deserted the Cheka Agabekoff, who has been only |one of several selt-styled reformed Cheka agents who has come here and asked protection, told an un- usual story of politics and love. A Russian-Armenian, aged 35, he said he spent 10 years in the Cheka metropolitan service at Moscow and then was sent to the high and active post in the Near East. After doing work, of which he spoke with Poride, he said that conditions in the | Cheka became intolerable, and that his resignation, or desertion, was a | protest against the policies of the | present government. But while going good in the dis- guise of a wealthy Persian carpet merchant, he met the girl of his dreams, who changed his whole philosophy of life. At first, she knew nothing about his Russian | secrets, but finally love loosened his tongue and he confessed. It was then that she persuaded him to abandon the communist cause. Started Writing Book With the fear of a marked man —for the Cheka never forgives— Agabekoft looked forward happily to marriage. He started feverishly | to_write a book, “for posterity,” on | the machinations of the commun- ists, hoping he could be married and not killed before he finished. His passport allowed him two months in Paris, but all this time, it has been revealed, he was watch- ed by French detectives, and when he applied for an extension of his visit he was deported. The suggestion has followed that the French police had little faith in Agabekoff's “reform,” There are several Russian political exiles liv- |ing in Paris whom the Checka, or | Guepon, would like to deal with summarily. The disappearance of General Koutepoff, leader of the White Russians, who innocently stepped into an automobile near his home Mst Janudry and has not been heard from since, has not | been forgotten. | “There are hundreds of others like me,” said Agabekoff when he came here, “but for fear of the consequences they dare not free themselves. The Cheka discipline, which means death to those who refuse to take an order, is still irm enough to inspire them all with dread. Says Power of Cheka Wanes “But the power of the Cheka has begun to wane and the influence of his foreign agents becomes less each month. This is due to bicker- ing and disagreements at head- quarters in Moscow and the con- fused political situation in Russia. “The domestic situation in Rus- sia is fast declining to a leve} com- pdrative with that which existed during the famine of 1921. This is the result of two disastrous policies; first, trying to industrialize the A M Ri co; pri a m: m m: co en, tiv go ag ke th he bo: pa: co! wh po. lit ho to Caffrey, by her masses. Sh, and, los frightened, States, York. He said v York was behind the scenes in the American took his English financee with him. He insisted he was one of 15 direct- ing world. Among his other exploits, Je | all confidential -fessages taken by Then frontier. He was empire at Constantinople was recently Savannah, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930. Gives Up Title, Weds Mechanic um of nobility doesn’t m according to the happv newlyweds plctmed here. T Dmoth} Cruickshank Sny and the groom is Bill eno, Nev. Mrs. Caffrey, weal Reno to divorce Prince Nicholas Karageorg married Caffrey immediately { prominent jing A |or | floors; as much as real lov The bride is der Cochrane I\alagcorrre\itclv i Caffrey, garage proprietor of | thy in her own right, went to vitch of Serbia, and r after getting the decree. in five years is dominated by second, confiscating the small operties of the peasants “Russia is ho longer set of dictators. The an has lost his freedom. ent officials of all cla st eir enthusiasm for cause and have servile functi Activities in the U. S. i Agabekoff added that the soviet nsidered Britain its greatest emy, but warned that Cheka ac- ities Would increase in the United where he said the soviet vernment maintained secret ents with headquarters in the Ch untry completely governed common Govern- s have the com- become ries.” unist, ka in ) communist party, and pt-in close touch with the lead- ers and administration of the party ere. With his conscience thus turned, fled from soviet vengeance and the Cheka throughout the asted of procuring and decoding that had ssed between the British high mmissioner in Egypt and London. koff is now trying to gain to return to France, here asylum is usually given to litical exiles, but the stern step the Paris police give him tle hope. Without warning Le wa ed to report to headquarters. There he was informed that he was leaving the country. would not go astr: tained until detectives went To be sure he y, he was de-| to his| his belongings. | he was escorted across the given no chance communicate with his fiancee. tel and packed the Ottoman | in 1255 | found on a farm near Ga. A coin minted by “IF YOU OWN ‘A CAR STOP AT RUDY'S” Give Your ‘Radiator and Motor An Inte Before Adding Anti-Freeze It is important that you have ~your radiator and motor flushed before adding anti-freeze solu- tions in order to prevent over- heating during winter driving. 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RUBY’ Battery 186 EAST MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 708 | Powell, MOUNTAIN CULTURE FOUND BY PIANIST Simple Folk Have Made Contri- bution, Powell Says Marion, Va., The woi Sept. 16 (UP) — nds of persons who have the lack of among Southern moun- taineers have failed wholly to rec- ognize the fact tn those same mountain whites have provided a distinct and valuable part of the ion's folk song, John Powell, in- national famed pianist, be lieve: “The been thous ied over cultural education so-called smart set has wasting its pity and energy,” whose home is in Rich- told the United Press dur- visit here. “The uncouth mountain man is more cultured than his water-logged sympathiz- Preservation of his folk songs, cerrupted as little as may he by ide influences, is on i nt duties.” Powell spent some time copying words and music of many tunes played for him by mountain musicians, He remarked superiority of mountain culture while expressing enthusiasm for the naive songs. | “To understand exactly —my | meaning, it is necessary to revise | the average man's conception of culture,” Powell explained. “To most people culture means a sort of veneer, acquired by laborious conning ofs books, which hides a man's nztive crudities. Millions believe a cultured man is one who puts on airs and tries to think he's better than anyone else “Instead, culture, mond, ing a in its true rnal Bath NOW! | his | the | aspirations | said, { cooked {blood drawn from the family cow. be-1 ediment and other sub- ee lunnmo as the day it Service se, is a mingling of the racial traditions and the racial conscious- ness of a people, handed down for thousands of years, permeating the | of the individual, me time it remains whole. And the man v saturated in the characteristics = of s, through | of folk song and lore | gs, achievements and | of his racial strain —is more cultured than the ordi- | educated person with ‘'book | while an enti who is t adition peopl mediu suffe the far nary I'arnin’ This definition of culture, Powell | was first giten him by Mrs. Richard Green, widow of a English historian. She did so, the pianist said, by shoc him with references to the ex- tremely high state of culture of the very poor people who lived in a certain section of Ireland YAL to her knew two John first 1 could make no sense emarks.” Powell said. “I| se Irish existed in one roomed houses with mud the pigs and cattle resided rooms on terms of Lom-‘ lity with people; and when potato crops failed one contronted absolute star- | ion. Under such urcumstancc:‘ their principal food was chickweed | after being mixed with | 1 thos lete that eve; equ “But, Mrs. Green pointed out, many of those Irish could recite | the complete history of their | ccunty from 1ts earliest days,with | 64x76 BED BLANKETS 77c ¢! 'WE GIVE Awm" GREEN STAMPS \Cnuld an astounding Deaiaror language and wealth of imagery. They could sing the simple old melodies of Ireland in manners and voices of surpassing beauty. Despite their rude way of living, they had a fa- tive graciousness and kindliness that was intuitive and not the re- Su of formal education 1 came to know these\. people and agrec with Mrs. Green they were in th finest, broadest sense, folk of high cultyre. “Mountain music is the nearest approach to folk music America has. If it be objected that it is rot indigenous to America, I have only to say that neither are any of the white races inhabiting this continent. We must preserve this music before it is too late.” Powell believes the mountain people are better off if ignored by the attentions of “uplifting” out- siders. “The other night,” he addressed a music club, bers were people of good s who had expressed the wish help the ‘poor whites.' Suddenly 1 asked for a definition of the Dorian mode. 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