New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERA, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1930. -TWENTY PAGL ¥ & a\!"’ Average Daily Week Endis Oct. 18th . Daily Circulation For s 15,293 ‘PRICE THREE CENTS TERRIFIC BLAST SHAKES TROY AS BARGE BLOWS UP Two Killed, Two Badly Hurt, Hundreds of Windows Shat- tered by River Accident TWO TOWBOATS BURNED; FLAMING OIL ON WATER Practically All Glass for Pive | Blocks Broken—Watervliet, on Opposite Side of Stream, Nearly as Children Hard Hit—School in Nearby School Unhurt, Although — L Fleagle’s Slayer To this Los Angeles police officer goes the distinction of having ended Prantic Mothers Storm Building. 20 (P—Two men | « Y., det. were killed, two others were severe- and two towboats and nn" Troy. 1y burned, oil tank barge were destroyed after gasoline explosion aboard the barge in the Hudson river here to- day. The explosion occurred a little after 10 a. m. at the barge canal terminal. An oil transfer barge own- ed by the Oil Transfer Company of New York city ticd up at the | terminal pier with the tug Dynamice, owned by the Connors Transporta- tion company, beside her. The tug Craig, of the Marine Tmnspor\n(ion‘ Corporation company, tied up on the other side of the Dynamic. The oil barge was empty, except for some gasoline in the forepart. a wa the career of Jake Fleagle, bandit |and murderer and noted as southwest's Jesse James. The officer, Harry Wilde, shot Fleagle at Branson, Mo., when the bandit was trapped in & railroad chaiv car by half a dozen detectives. Fleagle died in o hos- pital. BOERSE REFLECTY BRUENING VICTORY (Chancellor Turns From Reich, ~ Strile to flendmg Fences Cause Not Determined The cause of the explosion has not, been determined, but .there was a | terrific blast aboard the barge, | which enveloped that craft and the two tugs in flames/ The detonaiion shattered all windows in five blocks of River strect here. and blew all the glass out of three blocks of buildings in Watervliet, on the op- | posite bank of the river. At the instant of the blast Captain John Auckerman of Brooklyn, ma ter of the Dynamic, velled to the six | of seven members of his crew to | jump overboard, which they did. All | were picked up except one man, | who has not yet been accounted for, | but who is believed to have been | among those rescucd. | The dead and injured were on d the Craig. Returned for Clothing The known dead are Fred Denoy- ers of "Pleasantdale, just no of | here, & former member of the Craig's | crew, and a man who is believed to be Philip Gallineau, of Waterford, a deck hand. Denoyers quit work on the tug Saturddy night, but returned today to get his clothing. The charred body of one of its crew could be seen after the blast, but the wall of flame surrounding the craft kept rescuel a dis- | tance. A few minutes later the motor harge Dynamic ught fire. ‘e explosion w £ terrific in- tensi Buildir Troy and in Watervliet tremb The force of | the explosion hurled a 500 pound fire hydrant three brocks. Rescue efforts were hampered by | the fact that the blazing gasoline covered the surface of the river. School Near Scene A public school is only a short distance from the scene of the ex- plosion. Scores of frantic and hys- | terical mothers rushed to the school- | Iwuse fearing thal their children might have been injured. Teachers maintained order and kept the pu- pils inside the schoolhouse, while tiie police strove to keep the moth- ers in control. Thousands of persons lincd river banks, where waited for firemen to reach the boats. One man was crdwded over the dock and carried out between the burning tugs. Firemen rescued him. KILLS HIMSELF WHEN GORNERED BY POLICE Man Said to Have Forced Attentions on Girl b G the ambulances | Boston, Oct. 20 (UP)—Trapped by Police in an Allston rooming house | where he allegedly attempted to | force his attentions on the 15 old daughter of the proprietor, George C. Mitton shot himself in the head and died instantly today. | The girl, Roda Lynd ly hurt when she jumped from a roof to the street while fleeing from Mitton. At St. Elizabeth’s hospital it was said, however, she probably would recover. Mitton, said to have been ejected from the rooming house recently by the proprietor, Mrs. Eliza Lynds, be- cause she objected to his attentions to Roda and two other daughters, entered by a basement went to Roda’s room. Roda fled to the roof, Mitton fir- ing twice at her. She jumped to a store roof and from that to the street. Her sisters also fled via the roof. Police, summoned by a neighbor, entered the rooming house with drawn guns and with tear gas. Mit- ton fired several wild shots at the officers and fled into a bedroom. He was pulling the trigger of a pistol held to his head when the policemen broke into the room. ar- | was serious- | door and | | both right PAPERS SOUND WARNING Socialistic Extreme Left Says Situ- ation is Sti!l Precarious While Communists’ Paper Hits of Treachery. Berlin, Oct. 20 (P)—Victory of the government in the Reichstag Satur- day night produced a pronounced reaction on the Boerse today where gains up to 10 points on principal | issues were recorded almost from the start. The government of Chancellor | | Bruening turned today from the parliamentary strife of the past week to the task of consolidating {heir positions before December when the meets again. There is plent work to done Curing that six week interval. The chancellor's financial program and 30 supporting bills must be forced through committee, and the government, despite a majority of 82 on the final vote, which signified confidence, must look about for way to increase and make more stable its margin over the opposition. Although in politic: cellor Bruening's attainme wjournment was viewed a inet victory, Albreit made d of the social democ ally opposition, it conceded rally that the rest attained was at best just a respite and that the difficulties of piloting numerous bills through committee were just beginning. May Protest Adjournment Der Montag hinted today that either the nationalists, fascists or communists, or all together would protest to President of be al circles Chan- of ad- a cab- possible tech- < was unconstitutional. hai the parliamentary situation still is precarious is admitted even by the ists’ extreme left news- | paper Montag Morgen. which warns the chancellor that many surb in store for him und to beware being knifed by his temporary al- lies, meaning the smaller parties, such as the populists, economic party, and the like. The communistic Rote Fahne to- day says support of the government by the social democrats in Satur- day's voting marked the greatest so- cial democratic treachery since 1914, The nationalists’ Lokal Anzeiger finds that the government and coal- ition parti will be unable to héld their new positions in the long run again:st the flood of attacks from nd lieft. s0¢ w Principal Chosen To Head Hebrew School | Announcement has been made of the appointment of A. Huberstein cf Holyoke, Mass., as principal of the Hebrew school. Plans are being made for the fall and winter session and a large registration is anticipat- ed. s swe ) SHALL 1055 HERE the worst desperadc since b Saturday night,| Von Hindeny | burg that adjournment of the Reich~ s | THROUGH FAILURE OF STOCK BROKERS Few Margin Accounts Reported in Fuller, Richter & Aldrich Local Office MAJORITY OF CUSTOMERS OWNED SHARES OUTRIGHT Thomas J. Milford, Oct. 20 (P—Two officers called hurriedly to the home of Jo- | seph Whyland in Meadows End road | at 6:30 this morning arrived just in |time to prevent Whyland from re- newing an attack upon his wife, his daughter, Eleanor, 18, and his son, Arthur, aged 11, who had been wounded by him with a razor. Mrs. Whyland had been slashed on the face, throat and arms as she tried to protect herself. Eleanor had wounds on the face and arms as she battled to save hér mother, and Ar- thur, who had rushed in to aid the others, had lesser wounds. Whyland, seemingly unbalanced. was still in a frenzy when the offi- Spellacy, Appointed Temporary Receiver, Making Ef- fort to Determine Amount of Tdquid Assets on Hand—Salvage Expected to be Light if Depres- sion Market Continues. Losses to New Britain investors | \u.xounh the failure of Fuller, Richt- | |er, Aldrich & Co., a brokerage firm |cers subdued him. or Hartford will be (‘ampnr'nl\ol | The noise of Whyland’s first at- Milford Father Attacks Wife, Son and Daughter With Razor; Police Subdue Apparent Maniac | | Joseph Whyland Slashes Woman So Seriously She May Die—Man in Frenzy When Officers Arrive— Neighbor Calls Authorities When Screams Awaken Him Ear Early Today. tack upon his wife aroused a neigh- bor, James McDermott, who called | for police aid and an ambulance. There had seemed to be no warning of Whyland’s condition. He was tak- en to the station to await an exam- ination by doctors. The others are at Milford hospital and the condition of Mrs. Whyland is precarious. Elea- nor is a first year normal school pu- pil. After physicians had examined ‘Whyland, he was ordered committed temporarily to Middletown insane asylum on an order from the pro- bate court. The man has shown some signs of | excessive religious fervor of late, it | was said, by an acquaintance, and he |had been attending special | service at Devon for the week past. PROTECT MARKET that there were n.-\\' margin acco\mts \n this city. The New Britain office (Orders Checkup on Tllegal Stock Speculations IN DIFFICULTIES | \he great majority of them were | balanced in bought and paid for in- vestments. Persons in touch with the situs tion said today that there were probably not more than 10 or a doz- | n local investors who would be put | to a loss, and should therc be no | alvage whatver in their accounts | the total might not be in excess of ‘H\’ 000. W Checking Up Liquid Assets BANKS Hartford, Oct. 20 (P—The task | of finding out just what liquid a sets there are on hand in the bus- | |ness of Fuller, Richter, Aldrich and (0, petitioned into bankrupte urday night before Federal S. Thomas at his home in Nor was taken up by Thomas lacy, temporary receiver, today. The first cursory review of the a ounts indicated that the troubles'| |of the firm are primarily due to|Persons Lecio | what are described as “frozen ds—i““““g“ g financial |sets,” a condition which was brought | 12821 speculations to an acute point by the continued | "OTMal functions | drastic fall in values of securities in C}‘:l‘.‘:‘""f A tion tolloweat lozelyiunon A e ownward course of |4 agdress by Premier Tardicu yes- s Tl : |terday in which he said France had | Mr. Spellacy said, in taking up his | decided to keep its cconomic and duties that the liquidation of the af- | financial house in order with the fairs of the bankrupts, would be and determination it largely upon market conditions, a cd in preventing meet- rise in values giving promise {hat to disturb public I3sses will be minimized while con- national security. tinued depression will make s The his address difficult and forced sales |would create heavy losses. | fort to insure the continued stabil- It was understood in absence of a [ity of the French government. One Suspends Payment It has been known in banking cir- cles that as the result of what the \mns press describes as wild ru- mors, one or two financial houses have been obliged to seck nd an institution, called the V seur bank, has been forced tempo: arily to suspend payment a run of depositors. The manage- ment has issued announcement that the bank’s assets far exceed its lia bilities and that the institution will resume business soon The investigation ordered today will be pursued under an article of the penal code which provides im- prisonment of from two months to two years with heavy fines for per- |sons convicted of deliberately at- tempting to manipulate the prices of stocks and bonds for the furtherance |of their own interests. Bourse Very Nervous The Bourse recently has beener- vous and irregular and often has dis- ved weakness. This has been as cribed in part o reaction to the New ment That Evonomlc and Hnnn— Sat- | cjal Trends Will Be Closely Wate n- | ed by Nation. Puaris, Oct. government investigation 20 (P—The today ordered judicial and prosecution of ail markets and imperiling the of the stock ex- has manife and prime minister in (Continued on Page Two) REPUBLICANS TIE UP - HALLIMFIFTH WARD Hire Rialto for Imporfant Dates Prior to Elec- tion Day Stealing a march on their demo- cratic rivals, the republican town committee, through the fifth ward personnel, has rented Rialto hall on Broad strect for threc important | dates, Sunday, Oct. 26, Sunday, Nov. }_ and Monduay, Nov. 3, leaving the Jeffersonians in the position of heing | torced to hold their rallies in other halls or the Rialto on less at- | tractive use dat It has been the custom of both parties to bring their campaigns to | have affected solid French securities a close in the fifth ward the mght‘\uthout reasonable justification. before election, and the democrats| This situation will be examined, were able to obtain the use of the |in the application of Premier Tar- Rialto hall in the last campaign, ne- [ dieu’s statement that France must cessitating the use of the Washing. | persevere in its risistance to “the ton school by the republicans, who | cconomic depression from which the | preferred the school auditorium t world is suffering” and that France's | Falcon hall, which is much smalle economic stability is due to the har- | Profiting by their expefience, the re- | mony and stability of the French publicans rented the Rialto for the —— three dates, much to the consterna- (Continucd on I tion of their opponents. wirman Harry M. Ginsburg of publican town committee has addressed letters to republican coun- | cil members and other city officials, inviting them to cooperate in plans for the election on Nov. 4. Tomor- row evening at 7:30 o'clock second ward representatives will meet at re- publican headquarters, 269 Main street, and representatives of other | wards will meet while the campaign s in progre | Two) HISSING MAN'S LAND LIENED FOR §1,277 |Children’s Aid Society Files Judgment Against Williams i ‘Women Ask Nation’s Drys to Pray For Bay State Oct. 20 (UP)—The Na- tional women'’s| committee for law enforcement will ask the entire country to pray Sunday, November 2, for retention of the so-called baby Volstead act at the state clection on Boston, | November 4. The baby Volstead act is the Mass- achusetts state prohibition enforce- ment act and the question of its re- tention is conlained in a referendum on the state election ballot. At a prohibition rally afternoon at Boston Garden yesterday the holding of the day of prayer was an- | nounced to more than 15,000 drys assembled from all over the state. Prohibition speakers urged the election of senate candidate Willlam M. Butler, republican, and the de- feat of Marcus A. Coolidge, demo- cratic candidate. A judgment lien ainst property of James Williams |of Hartford on Henry street, this city, to secure a judgment given' in the court of common pleas on Octo- ber 7 in favor of the Connecticut Children’s Aid society of Hartford against Williams for $1,277.09 and costs of $56.54. Attorney Philip H. LaFleur of Hartford represents the Children’s Aid society, the action having been brought in an effort to collect the mount of expense incurred by the ociety in caring hildren when he state’s prison for a vear in 19 Attorney LaFleur said to the present whercabouts of Williams was not known and Attorney Ken- dall Pierce, who represented him, had withdrawn his appearance, not knowing where he was living. The ed as intoxicating liquor which con- | Henry street property standing in tains less than 12 per cent alcoholic | Williams' name is believed to be strength, when the beer traffic that [ worth approximately $1,000, Attor- the amendment was designed to pro- | ney LaFleur said. It is not built up- hibit contained under 4 per cent.” |on. Baby Volstead Act Although speakers expressed con- fidence that the enforcement act would be retained, they said the wet tide could be stemmed only by mob- ilization of 600,000 voters. At the meeting 1,000,000 pam- | phlets were distributed calling for Coolidge's defcat. Referring to repeal of the state | prohibition act the pamphlet said: | | “The only wo calamity that could befall Massachusetts and the |nation would be the adoption of the | ‘sblution’ offered by Marcus A. Cool- idge to perforate the constitution by providing that congress shall pass a law that nothing shall be regard- was sentenced to French | ispected of engaging in acts | s called upon the public for united ef- | support | following ! York stock exchange bul the govern- | ment observed that the movements | for Williams' three | AMERICAN PLANEY USED BY FEDERALS Machines Owned by Sao Paulo ». Sta ePo ice Utilized BOMBS DROPPED BY HAND| | Action Follows Tardiew’s Announce- | | Government Keeps People Informed | specify that the board of Progress by Mcans of Radio Broadcasts in Which Warnings Are Issued Against Reds. De American 20 () — airplancs comprise Rio FFour Janeiro, Oct. part of the military cquipment be- | ing used by the Brazilian federal | government to put down the rebel- | lion. The machines. owned by the Sao | Paulo state police, were equipped with machine guns several days ago and now arc doing active against the rebels in the state of na, near the Sao Paulo border. 1ey also are used for bombing, but since they are not equipped with vaclks all bombs must be dropped by | hand. A foreign engineer brought today that the city of Campos, & sugar making center in the state of Rio De Janeiro 137 miles northeast of the federal capital, had never been menaced by rebels from the state of Minas Geraes. Previous re- ports had indicated that the town was endangered by bands slipping over the nearby Minas Geracs bor- der. The people of Rio De Janciro and Sao Paulo are kept informed of fed- cral progress in the present warfare by government broadcasting sta- tions, which go on the air every night with communiques pointing out the situation and answering the | claims of revolutionary forces. | One point stressed in such talks |is the possibility of communist trou- |ble, the government warning all | Brazilians against such movements. Government sources said today that the federals ¢ maintaining lall positions on the Sao Paulo-Pa- rana front, and advancing against the rebels in southern Minas Ge Yesterday was a quiet day owing |to bad weather, the (l‘ominuwl on Page Two) LARGER FORGE NEEDED FOR NEW TAX SCHEME Semi-Annual Collections Would Require More 1 “lerks, Loomis Says The proposed semi-annual collec- tion of taxes, which will be consid- ered at a meeting tonight of a spe- cial committee of the council mem- bers and Chairman W. H. Judd of the board of finance and taxation, will, if put into effect, increase the | |detail work in the collector’s office |and may necessitate extra help, Col- lector Bernadotte Loomis said to- | day. He does not oppose the plan, aid, and if the common council or- | ders it done, he will carry it out. He |favors including in the city charter |{a provision setting forth the time the | (taxes are due and payable, there be- | |ing no charter arrangement in this | | respect at present. There are many details to worked out in connection with the proposed plan, such as interest| effect of semi-annual collection of | personal property taxes. The latter lare charged in small amounts, some iof the bills being for only a few dol- lars and in some quarters the fecling is held that split them into two payments. * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight, possibly light frost; Tuesday fair, continued cool. * church duty | word | es. | stormy condi- charges on unpaid balances and fl\e| it would be unwisc to | 7ONE BOARD BOSS, Corporation Counsel Acts to| Clarify Question of Authority | Confusion Caused By Ambiguity of Up—New Action | On Several Petitions. Action of the common council on | ed at the special council meeting to- night, if resolutions prepared by Corporation Counsel J. H. Kirkham lare adopted, and action to clarfy | zoning ordinance so that there will Le no question as to the responsibili- for holding public hearings on | petitions for zone changes will also | be taken, | As the ordinance stands, there is !a difference of opinion among city officials and lawyers as to-whether the board of adjustment or the | ‘ordmancc committee is the body | charged with the vty of holding ‘Ihu hearings, and it is proposed to of adjust- ment shall do so. If the clarifica- tion is effected, it will be necessary | | for the | meeting be time ings on the third Wednesday of t month and the board the first Wednesday of the following | 15 days' notice as re- ite because there will not month to give | quired by ordinan | Before the ordinance can be clari- | fied, however, the board of adjust- ment must act and if the proposed |amendment does not meet with the |approval of the body and an un- favorable recommendation is made to the council, it will require | three-quarters vote of the council membership to make the change. What the aftitude of the board will |be was problematical today. | Would Rescind Votes | One of the resolutions {by Corporation Counsel IKirkham recommends that the action of the council on the petition of Vincent D'Agata, et al, in changing a zone at Myrtle and Burritt streets a few months ago, be rescinded and the matter referred back to the board of adjustment because the board | gave only 14 days' notice of hearing |instead of 15 days as required by | ordinance. | Another | rescinding | changing street, on the to Main Beloin, resolution calls for of the action relative a zone on West petition of Fred and the recommendation is that the | | reference to the ordinance commit- tee be rescinded and the matter re- ferred to the board of adjustment to hold a public hearing with 15 days | | notice. The board in this instance did not give the required 15 days (Continued on Page Two) Wife Sues Engineer to Obtain Support Money Norwalk, Oct. alleged in a $75,000 attachment filed here today by Annic Sims Smith of Silvermine against her husband, | Theodore Lowndes Smith, or this city, but now of parts un- known. The defendant’s share in the ps'am of his late grandmother, Ab- lbic H. Lowndes, as well as his bank deposits and other valuables here were taken in the scope of the at- tachment. in which the plaintiff asks | .000 outright and damages of 000. The couple have no chil- dren Theodore L. engineer and connected with the |inghouse Electric € | 7t is understood that the action i brought to increase what the plain- Smith is a well known for many years aff of the West- | tiff has regarded as insufficient sup- | port. Divorce is not mentioned. KIRKHAM'S RULING: ordinance Expected to Be Cleared | Recommended | | board to change its monthly | hetween the council meet- | meetings on | a | fected, prepared | formerly | was | MERIAN ANSWERS BOARD CRITICISM Mollenr Defailed fo Accompany l Councl on Street Inspection | COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT TOLD HE WAS NOT NEEDED Mayor Quigley Expresses Preference | Yor Grading Work Rather Than Laying of Macadam As Providing Work For More Men. | . | Commenting today on published eight zoning matters will be chansg- | reports that there was poor cooper- | the matter of |ation on the part of works department in the deciding on the strects to be re- | street fund note issue on which ac- tion will be taken at the | council mecting tonight, City | neer P. A. said today that | Engineer George J. Molleur wa: | detailed to accompany the council members on an inspection trip Sat-| urday afternoon, but when he re- ported to them he | inasmuch as they had a list of the | streets it would not be necessary for whlln to make the trip. | ¥ive Council Members on Trip Aldermen J. G. Johnson. W. R. Falk and Joscph Mlynarski, Coun- cilmen W. H. Nelson and W. )~ ney were the only council memb to make the trip. They drove miles, covering every tion of the |city and decided to favor the | works department program with a mew changes. The proposed ex- | penditure of $25,000 on grading Steele and Wooster streets was not approved, Alderman Johnson re- porting that the Sandberg family, owners of considerable property af- | did not want the improve- ments made. The proposed for grading | Clinton street to Osgood avenue al- <o was disapproved, and it was the consnsus of the council that Judd avenue and Market street {in th: eastern section should be re- | paired, also Cabot street which runs off Farmington avenue. Alderman special Merian expenditure Slater road (Continued on Page Two) 'TWO BOYS ON BICYCLE Treated at Hospital After Accident at Clark and Winter Strects— Not Badly Hurt. Raphael Verano of 63 lafayette street, both 13 vears old, were re- |moved to the New Britain General | hospital this morning to be treated |for injuries sustained when they were struck by an automobile driven by Ralph Bordanaro o Church street and owned by mino Monaco of Hartford av 20 (A—Desertion is | | The accident happened at the corner of k and Winter streets | shortty after 8 o'clock. The youths were riding a bicycle south on ark street and Bordonaro was driving west on Winter street. As the driver of the auto approache Winter street he saw the boys, ac- ording to his statement to the po- ice, and swerved sharply to the left to avoid a collision with them but was unable to swing far enough land the right fender of the auto struck the bicycle, throwing the boys to the ground. A passing motorist .00k youths to the hospital where received emergency treatment after which they left immediately for | their homes. Officer Thomas Dolan investigated | ]‘and found no cause for arrest. the he | M 20 (P— to the apparent slaying of a federal | prohibition agent Raton, Oct cwS unearthed almos |two months ago after his disappear ance, today and state authorities to a hunt for | throw some light on the identity of his assailant. Ray Sutton, on the trail of boot- |leggers in this section of New Mexi- |co. dropped from sight August 28, No trace could be found either of him or his car. although hundreds of men combed the mountain fastnes: for days and an airplane scoured the vside. Bloody Car Discovered Last night the reason for their failure became apparent. The car had been hidden carefully arroya between two pinon trees and | covered with brush. The rear seat bore bloodstains. The body was not found, and authorities today planned to continue the dragging of a lake near Taylor, N. M., in the belief that | |it might have been thrown there. spurred government | in an | Search for Dry Agent’s Body Spurred On By Finding of Car| | Perry prohibition agent on a charge of cashing an expense | voucher of Sutton by forging his en- | dorsement, using Sutton's initialed ring and a Masonic emblem of his | for identification. Caldwell refused Caldwell. former federal be | his body and evidence that might |to discuss the case. He was dismiss- ed from the force in 1925 when the government was reducing its num- ber of field men. Believe Man Slain { C. U. Finley, a federal charge of the case, expressed a be- lief that Sutton had been slain and the body dumped into the rear of the car to be hauled to the place | where it was disposed of. J. P. Clements, fingerprint expert of the state penitentiary, and John obtained fingerprints from the ma- |them. Sutton left his hotel on the after- noon of August 28 and was last’ seen seven miles south of Raton, his car parked by the roadside, apparently | waiting for some one. public | | paired out of the proposed $100,000 | Engi- | S | Beach was told that| pul-l\:; of $7,-| from | members | KNOCKED OFF BY AUTO“ street and Louis Siverio of 80 Clark | they | is held under bond | agent in | L Pounds of Clayton, deputy Sheriff, | | chine and spent last night classifying | THREE HISHERMEN RESCUED FROM ICY WATER BY LIGHTHOUSE ATTENDANTS: ABANDONED AS DEAD BY SEARCHERS 4 In Boat Off Bridge- port Tossed Into Sea— Best Swimmer Strug- gles 2 Miles to Shore for Aid—Back With Help, Finds Pals Gone. [Night of Despair Ended When Missing Trie Lands, However, With Thrilling Story of Rescue in Angry Sound—Mourn-« ing Becomes Rejoicing. Bridgeport, Oct. 20 (A—Given upg lost when their overturned dory was found deserted in Long Island sound yesterday, three fishermen were landed safely today at Fairfield after spending the night at | the Penfield Reef lighthouse. George Schmidt, 30, of Central Park avenue, Yonkers; his | cousin, Harry Eifler, 19, of 761 East | 219th street, New York, and Walter | Reilly, 30, of New York, were res« | cued at noon vesterday and taken to the lighthouse, after clinging to the capsized boat for over two hours im | the choppy cold waters of the sounds | Because of the lack of means of | communication. news of the rescus did not reach the mainland until the three fishermen were landed at the beach early today. Attendants See Men Aid was being rushed to the fishe ermen from the mainland when theist plight was seen from the lighthouse about 300 feet from the overturned dory, by W. A. Shackley, the Keepa er, and his assistant, E. T. Pastorini The latter put out in a rowboat and after dragging the three exhausted men into his boat, returned to the thouse, x A fourth member of the fishing” ") party, Harry Schmidt, 28, a brothes / of George, swam to shore after the boat had capsized about two miles oft Penfield reef, to get aid for his companions. A police boat put out for the trio, but was delayed when |it struck a rock. Meanwhile the res= cue was effected by the lighthouse keeper. When the police boat finally arrived and only the capsized dory was found. it was feared the trio ad become exhausted in the cold lwater and drowned The rescued men today said at no [time had they given up hope they { would be rescued. During their more |than two hours in the water, theip |only concern. they said, was for | Harr: hmidt, whom they feared had drowned during his swim ashora for help. Schmidt “Wisecracks” George Schmidt kept up the cours |age of his two companions during the long wait for help with a con« stant stream of jokes and facetious remarks concerning their plight. At The men, (Continued on Page Two) MURDER PUZZLES CAMBRIDGE POLICE Slain Woman Found Burning Apartment ' With Husband in Cambridge. Police today pu r the mys< tery of the slaying of Mrs. John | Furtado, 3 , the finding of her hus- band, bound, gagged and suffering | from bruises and burns, and what [they believe to have been an incens | diary fire. All occurred in the Fur< |tados’ apartment yesterday. | Firemen responding to an alarm !saw flames bursting from the win« dows of the Furtado home. The doors, however, were locked and they “cre forced to break their way |in. was then the tragedy was dmmoml They first stumbled over the body. f Furtado. He was bound and tight- |lv gagged and in an unconscious |state. A short distance away the {hody of Mrs. Furtado lay upon a bed. An autopsy. performed later, dis< |closed she had been dead several hours. Furtado was taken to the Cama bridge emergency hospital and placed under guard. There he re gained consciousness and was quess tioned by police but steadily denied |that he knew anything of the cause | of the fire. At one time. police said, Iie was heard to mumble that two men had tied him up while he slept, but when asked to describe them, he could not According to police, neighbors re~ ported bearing sounds of a quarrel in the early morning and later saw flames coming from the apartment. The neighbors rescued the Fure tado's five-year-old daughter. Furtado was recently placed oxt probation after having been found guilty of assault and battery upom his wife.