New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 1

' S % s ° - 4 > . > L » . FIRST EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 ==—— REPUBLI[]AN HEAD RESIGNS BECAUSE OF NORRIS BATTLE Victor Seymour Says Grocer's (andidacy and Resulting Ex- ALWAYS LOYAL T0 PARTY . HE SAYS IN STATEMENT = pose End Usefulness Assistant Western Manager .\(ln\lli‘ Case of Broken Bow Man “"how [ Opposed Senator Probably wm‘ | # Make Excellent Political Fodder | —Charge He Paid Filing Fee of | | Second George Norris. Denver, Colo., 27 (UP) —l Charges that Victor Seymour alded: the candidacy of Grocer George W Norris against Senator George W Norris of Nebraska have resulted in Soymour's -resignation as assfstant western republican senatorial man- | ager. ! The in the mittee resignation, in writing, was hands of the western com- today and awaited of Senator Frederick Stei- consid- eration wer, Oregon, vice heairman. Always Loyal “I have always been loyal to our\ party and its nominees and shall | continue to be, and am too good a | republican to stand even inferen- | cially in the way of success of the | ticket,” wrote Seymour, who was appointed on recommendaktion of | the republican national committee. | The charges against Seymour were made ‘earlier in the week dur- | igg an investigation at Linvoln, | Neb., by Senator Gerald. P. Nye,!| chairman. and other members of the senatorial campaign investigat- ing committee. They were that Seymour paid the filing fee of Grocer George W. Nor- ris_of Broken Bow. who was ac-| cused by Senator is of becom- ing a candidate in order to confuse | voters by having two men of the same name on the ticket. It also was charged before the committee that Seymour made donations to Grocer Norris' campaign, which was short lived as the Broken Bow man was ruled off the ticket be- cause he had filed too late, Sees Political Fuel “While T am absolutely innocent | of any wrong act and my motives have been honest and prompted | only by a desire to do what I/ thought would be for the best in-! terests of the people as a whole, | yet 1 realize that the publicity which has been given the matter | may be used by politigal eneim unfavorably against the party Seymour telegraphed to Senator Steiwer. CUBAN BANK FAILS T0 MEET DRAFTS| Government Depository in | Havana Closes Its Doors Havana, Sept. 27 (®—The Banco | Del Commercio, one of the oldest | and most influential financial insti- | tutions in Cuba. suspended pa ments today after an all-night meet- ing of its directors. The two vice-presidents, lie, and L. Lopez acting in charge last week of Porfi dent, in a statement issued after the meeting said it was necessary,| for the institution to suspend oper- ation “provisionally.” No reasons were assigned for the failure. President Machado had left Fri- day for a fishing trip to Veradero, | about 150 miles from Havana, but | was notified this morning by tele- phone of the development and said | that he would return to the capital city immediately. The bank is more than 50 vears old, and was one of the few which survived the crash in 1921. It is the only national bank in Havana and formerly was known as the Arzuel- F. Seig- who have been nce resignation o Franca, presi- | | : I American interests in Cuba use it almost exclusively among the native banks for their .operations. Mestre Machado, nephew of the president, | is one of its largest depositors. The government used it as a depository for payroll purposes. British Engineer’s Death Causes Furore in Cairo Cairo, Sept. 27 (P—Sir John Nor- ton Griffiths, prominent engineer and governing director of the Norto! Griffiths Co., public works contrac- tors, was found dead in his hotel at Alexandria today. Coming 4s it did after the suspen- gion of work on the heightening of Assuan dam, which was being car- ried out by the Norton Griffiths. Co. under a contract with the Egyptian government, the discovery caused a great sensation. i HIGH TIDE PTHMBER 28 | | (Standard Time) New Haven 3:12 a.m. New Haven 3:12a.m.,3: 30 p.m. 30 p.m. i | | | | | i % |sank off | ters. | ’la:hed to the derrick which protrud- | | shores | three missing men. There was SOme | nocg is the cause of a following one PROBE UNDER WAY |Hundred Spectators Average Daily Circelation For Week Endmg 15 103 Sept. 20th NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930.—EIGHTEEN 1t War-Warped Son Slays Father For Romance With Young Nurse, Hope for -Safety of Two Men In* Missing Plane Almost Gone; ~ More Pllots Join In Hunt Today| . Columbia Business Man Passenger, Believed Lost in Lake Erie or in Rough Country Between Pennsylvania and Ohio—Gone Three Days. Cleveland, Sept. 27 (®—Hope for |groundless. The the safety of Willard Parker, Cleve- land Pittsburgh were carefully |land pilot ,and his passenger, Wil- |searched after a letter was receiv- liam J. McNulty, Columbus business ed from a resident of Ashtabula, O., man, was almost abandoned today |that a plane had passed over that | despite an accelerated ~search for [town at 2:30 a. m. Wednesday. the pair now missing three days. | The fact that Parker and Me- Attaches at the Cleveland airport |Nulty failed to announce thelr de |feared the two men had crashed in tination, handicapped the hunters. Lake Erie or the rough section be- | Parker, although a World war pilot tween Chardon, O., and Erie, Pa. | not used to night fiying and local air- routes to Buffalo An aerial search of the Cleveland, |men feared he had lost control of | |Buffalo and Pittshurgh territories | his ship in the haze that hung over failed to reveal any trace of the Lake Erle when he took off early missing pair yesterday. Coast guard Wednesday. cutters likewise ploughed about Lake | Nevertheless additional Erie without result, and a report of | were added to the a crash at Northfield, O» proved |today. LAKE DEATH TOLL DAWES PREDICTS STILL UNE[IUNTEI] BETTER BUSINESS Two Boats, Possibly Three, Lost[Ambassador Financial Expert, in Angry Waves Sees Normal Trend | BARGE, SGHOONER SINK | GIVES ADDRESS IN BELFAST| Eight Believed Lost in Sinking oll"FoolS of Had No Fear. 1929" Salvor—Passing of Old Two .\lut-: Those of 1930 \0 Hope, He As- er Tragedy to Forgotten smmg serts — Fundamentalists Not Men. Shaken, Trouble Psychological. Chicago. Sept. 27 (A — Lake| Michigan went mad yesterday, rag- | ing and pounding upon its eastern shores, gulping down two boats, | possibly three, and taking an unde- termined number of lives. The stone-cargoed barge Salvor | Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sept. 27 (UP)—World business should re- sume a normal trend by the sum- mer or fall of next year, Charles G. Dawes, United States ambassador to Great Britain, predicted in an ad- Muskegon, Mich., with | dress today at a luncheon of the Coast Guard boats standing by, | Lord Mayor of Belfast in the city balked in rescue by the angry wa- | hall. “The business fool Dawes said, s he of 19287 who had no now is he The two-master, Our Son, last of | the canvas-powered pulp boats, sank | fear, The business fool 20 miles off Ludington, Mich. Lo asto nonel The steel hulled motor carrier,| Dawes, who is considered one of North Shore, Milwaukee bound from | the world's oustanding financial ex- Benton Harbor, Mich., with a Cargo | perts, attributed present conditlons of grapes, was many hours overdue | more' to psychologleal causes than early today. She may have put into |any fundamental unsoundness. some other port. Coast Guardsmen, | world depression in business however, fear she may have gone/ > i o due always to a Dawes said, down. Five men and a woman were gyqden change in the attitude of aboard. world’s people. This changed atti- Eight Believed Lost | tude often is explained in different Eight men are believed to have | countries as being the result of di- lost their lives in the sinking of the verse causes, including unwise na- Salvor. Two bodies were washed | tional politics, undue, speculation, ashore late yesterday. Three men ‘merpmducnon undercofisumption, and political and social upheavals. ed above water after the barge had These, however, are more the effects gone down. could hardly have sur-|of this change of general attitude vived the smashing waves. Three | than the causes of it . others are missing. Errors Easily Chosen A search of the sand-duned | It is often easier to conclude that was begun today- for the|one catastrophe or error in busi- hope they may have reached shore | rather than that both originates alive and been unable, because Of from one underlying gause. In the injuries) iofrezch eneller, | United States and elsewhere, a ma- Six persons, including two women, | jor depression in business always who were aboard the Salvor, made | jag peen preceded a few months by the shore alive and are in hospitals. | stock panic induced by overspecu- One of the bodies washed ashoreiation, Many assume that the col- was that of Lornie Olmstead, nine|japse of the stock market caused the vear old son of Mrs. Ida Olmstead, |jter depression. one of the rescued women. The oth- {er body had not been idenlined. early today. The Salvor was in tow of the mg\ Fitzgerald when the cables snapped, leaving her at the mercy of the wa- ters. The tug steamed to Muskegon for aid. The barge meanwhile was being driven toward shore and fin- ally went down just as a life boat (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) IN BLEACHER FALL In- jured. at High School Football Game Columbus, O., Sept. 27 (P—An in- | vestigation to determine the cause of the collapse of bleacher stands at the Central high school athletic field here last night, resulting in injuries to approximately 100 spectators at a football game, was in progress to- day. The section of seats, occupied by upwards of 2,500 persons, gave way just as the first half of the Central high-Youngstown Chaney high game ended. The occupants were thrown to the ground, many of them struck by falling timbers, others pinned beneath sections of the stands or ‘piled upon” by other persons. Emergency treatment was provid- ed almost immediately at the scene to care for the injured, and every available ambulance was used to carry those more seriously hurt to hospitals. More than 50 were treat- ed at the first aid station established in the school cafeteria, while 60| others were sent to hospitals. There were no fatalities, and | broken limbs, several fractured | skulls and severe body bruises were the worse inquries reported. The game was delayed until the injured had been removed, and then proceeded over the protest of the Central high schol principal. Coaches of both teams afterward explained they decemd resumption of play the surest way of restoring order, Oscaa Steece SCHOLARSHIP WINNER) Willard Parker, Aviator, and William J. MCNHM’;GGI'IM[I Cabinet Still KGGDS‘ | i o N;’;::; stration of United Radical Action. searching | PRICE THREE CENTS PLANS WOULD END ' DOLES T0 DRONES; PROGRAM FINISHED (ficial Announcement Secret —Hitler's Stand Criticized CIVIL SERVICE WORKERS FACE 10 PER CENT SLASH Many of Fascist Leaders's Friends | Line Up Even More Clouly ‘With | ment in Court—Disgruntled Job- less Said to Be Planning Demon- | Berlin, Sept. pleted draft of the program on which | | they will seek a vote of confidence | |and a grant of power from the new- ly constituted Reichstag. Publication ‘®f the program expected late today. Meanwhile offi- cial sources would not divulge its de- talls, but Boersen Zeitung claimed to know that under it unemployment doles no longer will be paid if the unemployed decline to do the work offered by the government on road he paper also said that the pro- gram would provide for further cuts | |and the budget amounting to ten per | cent reduction in civil service salar- ies and wages of about ten per cent, Felmplmcanon of the taxation system and other taxation reforms. | Meanwhile the ferment aroused [by Adolt Hitler's exposition of Ger- | man fascism at the trial of three reichswehr lieutenants at Leipsic held the attention of the German people far more than did prospec- tive utterances of the chancellor. Two Parties Take Shape If his predictions of revelution and “heads to roll in the dust” have aroused a storm of criticism and op- position they also have aligned many of his friends more closely with him and perhaps have brought him new |supporters. Some comments are heard that Germany's many-faced political structure for the first time has assumed a two-party phase, fas- cist and anti-fascist. The newspaper Tempo published a story that disgruntled jobless un- derground and surface traftic work- ers, including both communists and fascists, had decided to demonstrate the feasibility of united radical ac- tion by paralyzing Berlin's traftic on President Von Hindenburg's birth- day, Oct. 2, the report could not be verified and seemed incredible 1in (Continued on Page Two) —— Daylight Saving Time Ends at 2 A. M. Sunday The end of the daylight saving period for 1930 will occur tomor- row. morning at 2 o'clock. Before retiring tonight, thou- sands of persons will set their watches and clocks back one hour and thus gain an extra hour of sleep. When the sun rises tomorrow morning, that part of the world which has been regulating its schedule by daylight saving time, will find itself back on standard hours | | | 27 (F)—Chancellor | Bruening and his cabinet have com-‘ vent that, was | Strangers Take Calmly Confesses to Authorities | Sydney Sayre, 37, Shoots 83 Year Old President of Real Estate Concern Because He Gave Woman Presents of Perfume and Handkerchiefs—Police Be- lieve Killer Not Sarve and Blame War. Chicago, Sept. 27 (A—The love affair of a war-warped son who be- lieved his father was carrying on with a nurse was blacked out by tragedy toda: The fathe: year old p concern, was Rockwell Sayre, 33 ident of a real estate dead, a bullet in the back, another in the chesf. The son, Sydney, who was thrice shot down in his plane during the World Him as Result of Audacious State- | war, was held for the murder “I killed him.” said the former second lieutenant of the air corps. Here is my confession, written three ays ago. And I intended, too, to ill the nurse (Miss Alma Zschaech- ner.) Police had arrived in time to pre- Sydney, vears old, was still in the apartment office be side his father’s body when officers, sponding to an alarm turned in by neighbors, reached the place. Miss Zschaechner had been nurse | There for Rockwell Sayre's invalid wife for | eight yea she said. Sydney Sayre, a University of Chi- cago grady nvent told police occupatior 1y father was making ""he said. “He wa gifts to her—handkerchi fume v love to presenting fs and per- Had he given her money, I would not have d. This world is pretty loose today y. But father was of the old school, and ou ave known better. Hand- Kerchiefs and perfume are not pro- | per gifts for a man of the old school. There was no quarrel before the | shooting. “I shot him first in the back, told his questioners, the chest to end h riends estima Sayre's wealth at are two other professor at the Uni and Joseph, a post at Harvard. Sydney Sayre has bee n a government pension on account of his war injuries. Police were in- clined to question anity. T then in suffering.” ed Rockwell million dollars. sons—Paul, a ersity of Iowa, ate student “SEAL PELT' DEAL constructmn and other public works. | COSTS MAN §3,000 Southington Grocer Victimized by “Man From Alaska” TELLS POLICE SAD TALE His Life Savings After Working Up His Enthusiasm Over Making Big Profit By Buying Skins. (Special Yo the Her: Southington, Sept. “Seal Pelts” purchased for $3,000 by John Marciniec of 4 South Center street yesterday turned out to be practical- ly worthless and the life savings of Mr. and Mrs. Marciniec were lh(‘ object of a search in both Hartford and New Haven today by County Detective Edward J. Hickey and Southington police d) of one of the oldest forms of the flimflam game. It was practiced in the stirring gold rush days of '49 and is still successfully used. Two strangers from Hartford and New Haven visited Marciniec's com- bination grocery store and meat market last Thursday and repre- sented themselves as being interest- ed in purchasing the fixtures and mierchandise. After a conference, Marciniee, willing to sell out be- cause of the poor business in recent weeks, set a price of $1 which was satisfactory to the two pur- chasers. Enter the Man From Alaska The deal was to have been closed yesterday morning at 10 o'clock When the men came to the store to talk over the final details of transaction, a third man entered the store. He orderedl some bread (Continued on Page Two) the | and holo- i:‘ormwn governments | CHICAGO LEADERS 10 BAN RADICALS Board of Trade Votes to Act Against Red Traders ACTION BANS BEAR RAIDS| nprecedented Action in 60 Year History of Exchange Follows Rev- elations of Soviet Manipulation of Wheat Prices. Chicago, Sept —A st stockade was thrown up today by the Chicago Board of Trade to pro- tect weakening American wheat val- | ues against Russian bear raids. In a resolution, unprecedented in the board's 60-vear history, 27 irdy of wheat futures by any foreign gov- eromeng.a ‘“new development character” and decreed brought to an end.” Bear Raids The aetion, gram to Secretary “it must be Banned of Agriculture Hyde whose charges of short selling | by Soviet Russia initiated an inves- tigation by the board. included a new injunction to put an end to bear raids and price manipulation. In his message to Secretary Hyde, | President John A. Bunnell of the board expressed appreciation of the | information of soviet market opera- | tions furnished the board's busines conduct committee which met with | the secretaries of agriculture and commerce at Washington, and pledged “every cooperation in pro- tection of the American farmep—in the free grain markets.” Back From Washington The ban against short selling by was adopted (Continued on Page Two) THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS it srars il 17,10 e (Ut ACHERS HOLD T%ac.evnou TO ~ ToeA ROMTIS | it AT; Hewm / T EVERETT D- WILBuR NEW DIRECTON OF STATE TRADE SCHOOL —~ its di- | rectors yesterday branded the xiel\|l\g“.1mend:nenl of |the committee's report to the Marciniee proved to be the victim |commerce of seriously ohJocnonaMn sembly. announced in a tele- | JONES TAKES | EAGUE INTERESTS CLASHINSESSIONS ‘European Agricultural Nations t Take Firm Stand DIYISION ON RESOLUTION | Warsaw Conference Wishes | | to Approve of Preferential Tariffs Group —No Challenge to Rights Stressed | In Talk. | Geneva, Sept (®A—Co European agi non | interests of cultural ountries as against Zurope | agricultural d the T produ clas in gue of Nations asser |no A on committee to: division arose during c of the resolutions of tk W conference which w league to approve of a pl erential tariffs in Europe [tor European agricu Poland and the Dan \wro ranged ag Australia, anada, New Ze d India, Africa which latter group opposed any approval in the economic | mittee's report of the Warsaw | No Challenge on Rights “We do not chal of groups of states to n cial tariffs,” said Walter Riddell Canadian delega ut we that the league itself shall used by any group to A terests at the expense | country or group.” | Mr. Riddell previously had stated |that if the league undértook to exe- cute the Warsaw proposal Bu- |ropean preferential rat would be acting to shut out Ams Ca- anada, and other overseas countries {from free competition in European | markets. | The Polish and R gates were emphatic in opposing a offered by the British |dominions to reflect their view in u They said they feared th | might place the assembly on record as opposed to the negotiations of | group preferential rates | Offers Solution | Miss Susan Lawrence, delegate, intervencd to offer a solu- tion in the form of an amendmen! which should record tha position of | both sides without committ th |league to either position. The issu | was referr® to a sub-comr fo: | adjustment SOCIETY MAY SAVE | | DOOMED HORSES 107 Animals Sentenced to | Death Find Friend in I Woman com- s, insist not b of anot for can, manian dele British | minute “0 save from execution The horses, veterans of th | Street Cleaning department whic {is rapidly becoming entircly m lized, were ordered put to dea | Sanitation Commission Wiliia | roeder, Jr., who declared they |to0 old for work and many of |50 diseased and crippled they effo) ht Sct wer them were ht to save the horse: by Mrs. Stella the Horse Aid societ a few minutes raised a to buy the horses. > said the socie was had NV of at horses | which is dedi { horses in Bt ‘T don't see xul to the c: their old age and that there were only 14 horses, any of the Street should by have she said. Miniature Golf Courses To Abandon Appeal Plan Hartford, Sept (P —Miniature cou operators have found a statute enacted in t a hazard courts here operation o mes ended in Superior Court Yeomans di: unction he rs earli in them from two le Judge Ived the week nterference rlier in the day Judge | John L. Bonee had fined five oper: |tors of seven courses in and about tford $50 and costs. only recourse now of If enthusiasts is embly which will the opera | protect | by potice the legalize Sunday ners must gain an |to the ancient law wh {their game on the basi ed by amateur sport® tures, public concerts and profes- sional football and baseball. playing the amendment h would put now enjoyv- or- | rlich, | motion- pic- | EARLY LEAD IN MATCH WITH HOMANS; FACES CHANCE OF CAREER Atlantan Captures First Hole, Halves Second With Rival Who Stag- ed Most Spectacular Rally in Tournament History Yesterday. 36 Hole Finals of U. S. Amateur Open With 18 This Morning and Same Round in Afternoon— Bobby Favorite to Take Title. cting | Club, Ardmore, a blazing st of the week Il with a blowing to- jr. seeking of the golf- round of e V. Ho- bundled coats and sweaters, e start of the that this 1 be more than doubled oor match wd wo Bviatts 36 Holes for Finals The match was at 36 holgs. the second 18 to beg at 1 p. m. (est) Jones hit some practice shots with the wood before going 10 the first tee for the start at 9 a. m. He wore A heavy sweater and so did Homans. aking his debut as a finalist in any 1 championship. First hole, 360 vards, Jones drove f tee front of pitched par 4. with spoon from but was slightly in Homans' long tee shot. Boh on 20 feet from the cup after Gene put his second in a trap. Homans came out of the sand 35 (feet from the cup. Gene's long putt for a four stayed out. Jones putted close and got his par Jones one up. Bobby Drives to Rough Second hole, 523 yards, par § Jones drove to the rough and Ho- mans to a trap at the long second. Gene came out to the rough and Bobby hit a long iron down the fairway. Jones was barely on the green with his third and Homans was short. Jones' putt ran up the | green’s bank on which the pin was placed but rolled back and each was a long way off on four. Homans 20 feet and Jones 16. It was a half in sixes Third hole, 195 vards, par three. > third Jones sent an f{ron green but Homans' spoon was on top of a trap to the Homans chipped § feet from Jones puteed short from Homans missed his putt for >. Bob holed his par and went Fourth hole, 595 vards, par § Jones drove to a trap on the long fourth. Homans was clear. Bob hit shot from the sand down and Gene fired his into rough although nearer the green. Jones pitched on, 30 feet from the pin. Homans too pitched on but outside his rival's ball. Homans took 3 putts for a six while Jones holed his par 5. Jones 3 up Fifth hole, 435 vards, par four . (Continued on Page Two) TELEPHONE MYSTERY BELIEVED MURDER Frantic Cry Leads Police to Blood Stained Room 1 w York over Sept. 27 (P—A fran- a telephone and a ing man today gave police what e urder mystery. in on a call wa: eam and a voice You're Kkilling me. red ced the Schjevland, 3 wright plant in artled to ip terror Don't!"” ly notified police whe 1 to the office of Carl old, in a Mill Brooklyn the police ific struggle. he floor and the t off the hook. No found of Schjevland at th | office ar at his hom Employes told the police he was alone work- ing on his books when they left | Although no motive was estab- lished, police were working on the theory that he had been kidnaped and killed found blood . could be THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair and much cooler to- night: Sunday fair and con- tinued cool.