New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1930, Page 1

[msTam] NEW BRY: S il “AIN HERALD EGSLTION AN e Yor Conmrit At ) CANADIAN SCHOONER TAKES LTy i sy | EARLY LEAD WHEN BOATS | START OFF IN RACE TODAY Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 5’28 7 Oct. 11th ... ESTABLISHED 1870 POLICE QUIZZING THREE SUSPECTY “ IN MURDER CASE Former Rbode Island State nenator Found Slain in Wood | NEW BRITAIN, CON. PRICE THREE CENTS Wheeler Denounced as Fanatic In Church Debate On Dry Law; Judges 2 to 1 for Amendment .~ George Chapman, Vice Chairman of Stanley Memorial |, . .. a Men’s Club, Sketches What He Believes Are | S0cialist Charges Fascists and Evils of Volsteadism—Secretary of C. T. U. |\ Rights Gansed Other Nations River Junction Home ROBBERY PROBABLE REAS( FOR DEATH, POLICE SAY Dharles When Wife Returns F' Burdick Dead On Porch m Shop- ping Trip—Six Bullets in Body— House Gives Evidence of Terrific Struggle, Indicating Attack While Victim Was in Kitchen of House. Westerly, R. I, Oct. 18 (UP)— Three suspects’ were reported under questioning by state police today in connection with the murder of former State Senator Charles Bu dick, 67-year-old prosperous farmer, Bt his Wood River Junction home, eight miles cast of here last night. Robbery Believed Cause Burdick's body, bearing six calbre bullet wounds, was found by his wife on the piazza of the home when she returned from a shopping trip to this city. Robbery was bu- lieved the mofive, since Burdick usually carried large sums of money. His pockets had been turned inside out. One bullet struck the former sena tor in the middle of the back, below the right ear, two in the left wrist, and onc under the left eye. State police believed that at the time of the shooting Burdick was sitting in the kitchen of his home operating a milk separator. The slayer apparently entered and shot | Burdick in the back. Almost cvery piece of furniture in the kitchen had been upset, indicat- ing a terrific struggle. Investigator: believed that Burdick, after being struck by the first bullet, battled fo his life and that the assailant then fired the other shot State Police Start Probe State police were sent to Wood River Junction from the Hope Val- ey, Perryville and Wickford bar- racks, Licutenant H. L. Siteman as- suming charge of the investigation. Burdick’'s body was brought {o ‘Westerly hospital where X-ray pic- tures were to be taken in an effort | 1o locate the bullets. Medical Ix- aminer Michael H. Scanlon was (o perform an autopsy later today. Burdick was well known in this gection of Rhode Tsland. From 1912 10 1914 he was a state representati and beginning in 1915 he terms as state senator. One of those in custody was ar- ested in Westerly and the other (wo {n Charlestown, R. T. They were confined to the local police station pending investigation. Police re- fused to divulge their names, ex- plaining that they had had no oppor- tunity to check up on the suspecls’ whereabouts yesterday. Authorities expressed rved two the belief that two men were involved in the | murder. MURDER POSSIBLE IN CHILD’S DEATH Girl's Body Found in Lake —Parents Strangely Sick Denver, Colo., Oct sutopsy was ordered today on the budy of 10 year old Leona O'Lough- lin, found yesterday in Berkeley Jake, two days after she had dis- appeared from her home. She was the daughter of City Detective Leo ©O'Loughlin. Authorities ordering the autop said they were considering the p. sibility that the child had been mur- dered and the body thrown in thc Jake. Police late last night arrested one Tan for investigation after they Tad been told he was scen a week azo within a block of the O’Lough- lin home attempting to entice two small girls into his car. Police said they would question him today and check his past activities, A preliminary examination of the gitl's body by Deputy Coroner George Bostwick and W. S. Dennis, city pathologist, disclosed two deep two | 18 (P—An| | Wins Decision. Picturing the late Wayne wrote most of the 1Sth amendment and also most of the Volstead act, | George Chapman, vice chairman of |the Stanley Memorial Church Men’s | club, unsuccessfully upheld the af- firmative side of the question: “Re- |solved, that the 18th amendment is |a failure and should be repealed,” |losing, by the vote of two of three {judges, to Gustave Bockman, secre- |tary of the Connecticut Temperance | Union, at the semi-monthly meeting of the men’s club last night. 1 Mr. Chapman was opposed to & B. |well-versed and experienced debater Wheeler as a misguided fanatic who [on the prohibition question, but he | presented arguments for repeal of the amendment and law that showed no little study of the question. Mr. Chapman presented the affir- | mative side of the question first. He | charged that the 18th amendment | and its operative law, the Volstead act, were children of the brain of | Wheeler, who “had the congress un- der his thumb, and they always ran to him and asked him how they should vote and what they should (Continued on Page Two) HOSPITAL ANXIOUS 70 HOVE DIAWOND Racketeer Not Wanted at Poly- clinic Institution elephone Call Warns Officials Ene- mies Will Take Desperate Means to Finish Gangster—Police Don’t Want Victim. New York, Oct. 18 () Imond, Broadway racketeer, present- led the figure today of a man nobody wants. In Polyclinic hospital he is recov- cring from the bullets and blows in- by enemy gangsters in his the Monticello hotel las | flicted lvoom in | sunaay. | Hospital Threatened | Directors of the hospital told po- |lice authorities of their desire to be |rid of him yesterday after an anony- |mous telephone message informed |the hospi 1 officials that the institu- ion would be boombed to finish Dia- |mond off. The dircctors said his | presence was disturbing other pa- |tients and disrupting the hospital routine. But police replied they did not * | want Diamond and only doubled the | guard of unitormed patrolmen and detectives stationed about the hos- pital to repel any possible invasion by Diamond's enemies. The warning was regarded crank. In reply to the request of hospital authorities to remove Diamond, Po- lice Commissioner Mulrooney said: “T know of no law that would per- Diamond was taken as the gesture of & | mit us to do so to the hospital as a private | shooting that we |had taken place, and inasmuch as (Continued on Page Two) BOMB PLOT THREATENED against a bemb plot | patient. | It was not until two hours after the | ~Jack Dia- | | learned of what | A, i | | fering from a fractured skull MAN STRUCK BY GAR DYING AT HOSPITAL Unidentified Victim Hit at Stan- ley and East Main Streefs 1 | ACCIDENT AT 1 A. M. TODAY| Joseph P. Bruzas of 70 West Street, Driver of Machine, Takes Pedes- trian to Police Hecadquarters— Skull is Tractured. | An unidentified man, said to be| about 45 years of age, is lying ar the point of death in the New Brit- ain General hospital, while police and hospital ofticials endeavor to ascertain his name and address. He was taken to the hospital about 1 o'clock this morning suf- and He had not regaia- cd consciousness at noon today and | his condition is critical. other injuries. According to hospital records he| was struck by an automobile driven by Joseph P. Bruzas of West street and owned by Tatas Malinow- skas of 19 Florence street, as he| was crossing the street at the inter- section of Stanley and East Main | streets. | The victim was dressed in clothes | that indicated he was a workingman of limited means. He wore a pin striped coat, showing signs of wear, plain blue trousers, heavy under- wear, black shoes and stockings and a white shirt. He has gray eyes and thin graying hair and a long thin face. Bruzas brought the man to police headquarters and explained the ci cumstances of the accident. Police- | man Thomas Tierney removed the | victim to the hospital. Sergeant I’ | McAvay went to the institution in an cffort to identify ti but was unsu ful. 1% today vietim 'MADE CHURCH PASTOR N HIS BIRTHPLAGE Rev. Dr. S. G. Ohman A pointed to Skelefteo in Sweden ‘Word has been received in this city of the appointment of Rev., Dr. 5. G. Ohman, to the pastorate of a Lutheran church in Skelefteo, Swe- den, in the Bishopric of Nroland, was made bv Archbishop Nathan wounds on the back of her head and | bruises on her left upper arm. The child’s stepmother, Mrs. O'Loughlin, was taken to police Jicadquarters and questioned Iength after the discovery of the body. Irank O'Loughlin, brother of the detective, who roomed at the O'Loughlins, also was questioned. Neither could throw light on the girl's disappearance. Mrs. O'Laughlin, like her husband, hay been suffering a mysterious ail- jnent for several days, occasioned, she said, by cating tainted food. O'Loughlin was in a critical condi- tion at a hospital last night. SALE NOT VIOLATION Hartfore Oct. 18 (A—The ale within Connecticut of securities ‘s- sued by investment trusts which in- clude, in their portfolios or units, sgecurities issued by mining and oil companies which have not qualified under the mining and oil act, but which would be required so to qual- ify as a prerequisite to the sale of their own issues in Connecticut, i not a violation of the act, it was Jield today by Assistant Attorney John H. King in an opinion given 10 Bank Commissioner Lester U. Bhippee. Leo | at | REV. DR. §. G.TOHMAN Soderblom, primate of tho state Lutheran church of Sweden. This appointment is particularly pleasing to Dr. Ohman, according to his friends in this city, because of the fact that it is his birthplace and is in the diocese of Bishop Berquist, a personal friend of the minister. Dr. Ohman was pastor of the First Lutheran church of New Britain when it was the Swedish Lutheran church. He filled the pulpit there for 27 years, A son, Ernest Ohman, left New York today for Drottingholm, Swe- den, to join his father. He plans to complete his education in Swedish schools, | 1% THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: | Fair and colder tonight; pos- sibly light frost; Sunday fair. | tate agency. It is reported that the | | The property has a frontage on Ru |sell street of 224 feet to Distrust Germany HOEGNER CALLED FRENCH AGENT BY NOISY ROWDY Strasser Charged With Breach of | Pledged Word to Landshut Police ! in 1923—Crisis Reached As Sever- | ing Stalks Out of Hall Through| Section Given Over to Op- ponents, Berlin, Oct. 18 (P—Airing of fac- tional enmities in the Reichstag to- day delayed further the govern- ment’s program of legislation for | rehabilitation and brought charges to ¢he door of the nationalists and Hitlerites of having caused Germany's post-war woes leading up o her present of German business by charging mounted police. stringency. The slow progress of today's pa Associated Press Photo In the fourth communist disturbance within a few hours York, a group of demonstrators in City Hall park was in New dispersed The communist candidate for | lieutenant-governor, J. Louis Engdahl, was arrested. shows Engdahl and three women in custod Picture of police. llamentary session was interrupted |~ suddenly by a socialist speaker, Wilhelm Hoegner, who, in a bittec tirade against the right wing mem- | bers, charged that the nationalists, | with their wild war-time talk about | annexation and tributes, and the fas with their threats and growing opposition to government plans, had caused forcign nations to look upon Germany with di trust. Fiery Debate Follows The speech was brought forth by goading of the right parties which | the socialists with their 143 scats| decided to resist openly. An ar- raignment whicin started as a fi oration, however, soon deteriorated into a two-man debate. With 12 non-confidence motions before the house directed at cabinet officers. {he government forces be- iieved they had a safe margin of from 30 to 40 votes in the Reichstag with which to resist attempts to block their measures of procedure. | The nationalists and fascists had formed a coalition to oppose the | $125,000,000 foreign loan, which | yesterday passed its first and second Notables I'rom Many Localitics Gather For Ceremony—Gifts Ar- | riving From All Over World Fer | Many Weeks—Was Reporter. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 18 (A—Rep- | resentatives of generations of wealth in the east and on ante-bellum Vir- ginia aristocracy, together with tit! ed forcigners were here today [ the wedding at noon of Anne fdon Kinsolving of Baltimore and | John 10ls Brown of Providence | — 1 Newport, Rhode Island. T ON RUSSELL ST. SOLD. cribed as one of the Mark J. Lacey, Southington Manu- | (Continued on Page Two) remony, Paul's church, was de most imposing St. in recent Baltimore For many weeks wedding from all corners of the globe | poured in the Kinsolving home, the rectory of the old church. cradle of the Episcopal faith in the city {The bride ther is Dr. Arthur| Barksdale Kinsolving. He was to perform the ceremony and Bishop James De Wolf P primate of the Epi of America, pronounce hav facturer. Buys Home of Late City Attorney. Mark J. Tacey, vice president of Peck. Stow & Wilcox of Southington, ased the home of the late Charles Mitchell at 54 Rus- sell street, t being made through the Louie S. Jones real es-| Dinner For Srice nall was about L B (8 Gl L il The residence has remaned in the (.0 bridal party by Mrs. John Nich- Mitchell family since the death of | O1% Brown. Sr. . mother: of fih: Mh. Mitchell. It has been occupled( bridesroom, once kiuown asi“the by Mr. Lacey for ahout six months. | "ichest baby in the world. His grandfather, John Carler Brown, founder of Brown univer- | sity at Providence, left him $10,000,- in | = (Continued on Page Two) Party Last 000 The house is a 10 room single family dwelling. Mr. Mitchell was city attorney 1871-72. |ing mounted to $1,500,000, BALTIMORE GIRL BUILDING BLAST HILL WED BROWN ~ RULED ACCIDENT Aune Kinsolving to Be Bride of Los Angeles Police and Fire Oficials Frd Inquiry Twelve Story SOCIETY EVENT AT-NOON BOMB FIRST ~SUSPECTED Block Wrecked By Seepage of Gas and Unintentional Spark—Labor Troubles Not In- volved, Authorities Conclude. Los Angeles, Oct. story ing makel garment | downtown wor TS, W 18 (P)—The 12 Capitol building, shop of 1,200 cloth s wrecked carly yes Se.- | terday by an accidental explosion re- sulting from an accumulation of ga police and fire officials have agreed. ond van. would be held for an in- The here yest While pected, | gressed t ward conviction the aused by the accidental illuminating gas, explosion injured erday. sabot as he authorities 43 persons ge al first was sus- 1 investigation pro- leaned to- explosion was ition of which they said had been sceping through the build- ing for The est with was $1,00 in the tions wer akened the weeks. Million and Half Loss imate com 10,000, building were twisted, blown The of damage, increas- pletion of surve Originally it Its elevator sl D out and fire that followed blast confined chiefly to the fifth floor where the explosion originated, 1ged stock and fixtures, and police t many \;mlkr;’s in the build- | sixth *wife" of George (Jiggs) Per- | had ing rece nausea, ntly believed officers ascertain- complained of due to escaping Managers of the building said (Continued on Page Two) THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS . . . . . by Knight ‘ED.CLIEE HAS AFINE(?) RIDE {MIKE PALMISANO. DID THE PUSHING wn HILL GeTs HIGHEST RATING P - culep® W IGH s - Toehes P\ PoLTICS oy P e 7)es% e ARMING oSeerv\WTE) > ANCIENT SCHOOL TURNITURE SOLD — SUCH EXTRAVAGANCE e \ (0] HAw 7 Qusiness GAWS IN NEW ENGLAND A TUOSE SPANISH WAR VETS KNOW THEI STUFF - THE ANRUAL_ \NSPECTION PROVED THAT/ SWELL /NE\GHBOR WERE HAYIATT REG'LAR FINE 5l Says Mate May Be walls | STUDENTS KILLED Th‘ebau(! Gets Over fifll“NEfl] GAMF Line First, But Loses Advantage to Big Salt \Duke University Men En Route. Banker — Ideal Wea- | to Anfhpolis Die ther for Contest as AUID HITS TWO TRUGKS Craft Get Under Way. Three Youths Trying to Get to Navy Nova Scotian Skipper Gets Weather Berth and Makes Gap Grow to ‘Three Length Advantage Near Six Mile Mark Off Gloucester. ¥oothall Clash When Car is Mar In- | volved in Accident in land. Oct. 18 (®)— | who intended to | Duke-Navy foothall their T'redericksburg, Va., {Three students the |game at Annapolis today, lives in the and plunge down of an auto- mobile and two moving vans ncur‘ | witness + lost | | collision | an | embankment Gloucester, Mass., Oct. 18 (P— The second race in the international | ishing schooner series between the Gloucesterman Gertrude L. Thebaud and the Canadian champion Blue- nose, many times postponed because of unfavorable weather, started off here today at 10 a. m., E. 8. T. .| When the boats neared the six mile ate | mark Bluenose was leading Thebaud when | by about three lengths. of the| The wind was whistling out of the car. Henry | northwest today three hours before Chapman, Hagerstown, Md., Duke | the Bluenose and Thebaud were university sophomorc, and James |Scheduled to start the many times |Johnson, Trenton, N. J., Duke |incompleted second race. |freshman, died soon after arrival at | Inside Gloucester ~Harbor —the |a hospital her oast Guard placed its velocity at Daries Tacratt Thomas 128N between 15 and 18 miles an hour, suffered a fractured leg, fractured | Put said it was much stronger out- jaw and severe internal injur on the ocean, where the Thomas Miller, Baltimore, a f chooners race. Some rain acoome- e e A panied the wind, but visibility was termined. Charles Murray, driver of | 500 : |the leading van, was {reated for die.| The sea should remain moderate- |located knee. Jarrett and Miller are | 1V Smooth with the offshore wind TG |land the best, fiahisrments Hiracal {f Left Durham Yesterday cars, Was i’ RIORDEC) S g T T e e e pehooners preparediforitheistantine | Durham, the university seat, yester- | H2% = | Raleigh and were traveling on tho | miles an hour as the schooners mn.le | Richmond-Washington highway | SUrsins out of the harhor towasd | when the crash occurred, * |theistarting marlc witn the founing | Authorities said Murray ang|CT Seils set. The rain had blown | Chandler McComb, driver of the gec- |2WaY and a bright sun made the sea Commander G. U. Stewart of the, C. G. Destroyer Conyngham placed vis- o number one was chosen. e | The wind had faded to about 15 WIFE ANX"]US Tfl { miles an hour as the schooners went {over the line. Thebaud led Bluenose Canadian was slightly to weather of | the Gloucester boat. i i ing line sharply at 10 o'clock, T luenose by | Correspondence Spouse | Thebaud leading the Bluenose by slightly to the weather of the Glou- |cesterman. The Canadian over- | shortly after the start, however, and after 20 minutes of sailing, the Midland. Tex., Oct. 18 () — Mrs. lvessel by about three lengths. The Lovie E. Remington of Midland had | wind had faded to about 16 miles an she Was iy fore the breeze with thelr sheets here late last night. Two more students were serious- {1 injured and onc of the van drivers | suffered minor hurts Truck Being Towed Fred Ingram, High Point, N. C a student North Carolina college, Ralcigh, was |the two trucks, one in tow |other, piled up on the at killed vestigation of the accident. Early to- day they had not learned who was at the wheel of the automobile. | glisten like a field of broken glass. ibility at 20 miles. Sailing course IflENTlFY HUSBANI] lacross by about a length but the The schooners went over the start- about a length, but the Canadlian was 3 | came the Thebaud’s slight advantage George Perry | visitor was leadinz the Gloucester reazontio bellave | nour and the vessels were running today | | eased well off. | ¥, sought by Wisconsin authorities, About a mile from the six mile ,as the slayer of one of five other | turn, Captain Johnson was attempt- women he allegedly married and |ing to haul up into Bluenose's wake, abandoned apparently in an attempt to blanket | Mrs. Remington realted last night |the invader. Bluenose appeared to her marital venture with “George C.|be holding her lead, but Thebaud e el e under arrest |Was hanging on doggedly. |in Harrison, Ark tentatively | Both schooners were ready and | identified as Perry | their crews anxious to get the series | She said she became acquainted | | with Adams through an ‘“agency" | | while living at Fort Worth, and cor- | responded with him regularly for | | several months before meeting him | lin Durant, Okla., several months| |ago, and marrying him. o | Subsequently, they returned fo | Fort Worth and on his insistance, | |she allowed him . to dispose of her | | property. She learned afterward that | |he had sold for §4.800 property | iti c orth cvirar s tnat amount | Petition Expected Agalnst | went to Chicago and | Fuller, Richter, Ald- rich & Co. and (Continued on Page Two) Bl BROKERAGE FIRM FACING BANKRUPTGY | The couple on May 14, registered at the La | salle hotel. There her “husband” |left her, she said, telling her not to | | open the door to anyone except on | |a signal knock. Mrs. Remington said Jesse Moore, a member of the |she never saw him again. | : firm of Fuller, Richter, Aldrich & | She returned to Fort Worth and| ¢, 'giock brokers, today confirmed |started proceedings to regain her | 5 04T the company probably jproperty. would be petitioned into bankrupt- When search began for the slayer | G ; / e seonan | €¥ by creditors. His statement was in |of Mrs. Cora Hackett in Wisconsin | /1 (50} 20 sas papers printea pictures of | 1150 50"y wora 1o the s o S & T | that a petition in bankruptey would | man she had married. o(brougLi againabahting, Recently she followed closely Lpnoacitamiidne l“l;f :" 3 | of other women “married” by Perry | Hon Will be taken about moon.% ikt |5 4% expramsediito) mex Arelafives the | Liens zeterted Sihe Sguestionecs e A o enf 'Adasas | dudge (Sclomon: Tisner of Hartford opinion that Perry and “Adams™| ., o) for the company. Judge Els- AR LT O | ner could met be reached by tele- | phone. Missing Broker Accused | Tuller Richter, Aldrich & Co. has Of “Wash” Stock Sales | lcadavarters at ‘94 Pearl street, ot Hartford. It has been in business New York, Oct. 18 (UP)—Charg=s | since 1902, It maintains branches in |that Charles V. Bob, missing finan- | No Britain, New Haven, New Lon- |cier whose 6,000,000 investment | gon ang Boston. The New Britain companies are under investigation | nianager is former Mayor Joseph M |by the state bureau securities. | Halloran |put through “wash” sales in Con-| Nembers of the firm are Jesse | solidated Chromium to hoost the |fgore of Farmington, C. Morgan Al- [price of the stock, caused buread |grich and Clarence H. Adams, both | officials to examine the hooks of his’| of Hartford, and Henry Spafard of brokers today. West Hartford, Ierdinand Richter of Assistant Attorney General Wat- | Fast Haddam withdrew from the son Washburn said he had evidence | firm several months ago. that Bob, using dummy customers,| The bankruptcy action may be put through sales on the New York | brought before Judge Edward S. produce exchange to enhance Chro- | Thomas of the United States district mium's paper value, and then sald|court. The approximate net loss is the stock to other concerns ia|not know but is reported to be which he was interested. about §400,000. of