New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1930, Page 2

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930. BY RIPLEY] more or less prevalent gossip which these attitude and assertions have undoubtedly provoked — all these factors, both malicious and irrespon- sible and ignorant, compel us to ap- peal to you, not in a spirit of de- fense, but rather in a spirit of a challenge to our accusers, to appoint to your earliest convenience a com- mission of disinterested and un- prejudiced citizens to make a thor- ough investigation of the manage- me..t of the institution behind open doors. “We urge you, sir, this course rather than await the ussembling of the legislature, in order to safe- guard the welfare of the institution, to anticipate any prejudgment with- in or without prison walls and to protect the good name of the state of Connecticut, whose humanity has been assailed. We arc nt unmindful of the reaction of the uninformed, at | a time when prison administrations in other sections of the country have been subjected to serious criticism, | though. let me know.” {o charges and gossip affecting the | Diamond, his doctor said, is im- integrity of ours. We quite under- |Proving rapidly and soon the bullets | stand the psychology of it and be- |in his body will be removed. cause we understand it, we deem it | Gets Information our duty to invite at your hands| After the interview the district at- such an inquiry into conditions here | lorney said he had learned a lot as will establish the truth, the whole | from the gangster about the men | truth and nothing but the truth as|who shot him in the Monticello ho- | NG regards the manner and form in |tel 11 days ago, and about the cir- | REPUBLICANS T0 HAYE 10, 0. F. HALL RALLY | Messrs. Christ, Bengtson and Lange, (On request. eent with etamped. ~ad- dressed envelops, Mr. Rl will furnisb oroof of anything depicted by him), (Reg. 1. & Pat. OR) DIAMOND CORDIAL WITH QUESTIONER Tells District Attorney He Does Not Know Gunmen New York, Oct. 23 (®P—Jack | (Legs) Diamond was right friendly | today when the district attorney paid his routine visit to the hospital on Welfare Island where the gang- ster ig nursing four bullet wounds. Who shot vou, Diamond?” the | aistrict attorney asked for the 10th | time. “I don’t know any more about it | than you do, judge,” the racketeer ' replied. “If T can help you out, V.F.W. COMMANDER PROTESTS LEGION RETURN OF FUNDS Lirst HI-JACKERS USE (A5 ON OFFICER Among Others, to Speak Next First Thursday Night. (Continued I"rom Page) of the contraband were taken atl Wyman beach ts Seven Men Singled-handed, Licutenant Sweet arrested seven me in woods the beach. Three suspects taken in custody and in Salem None of those according to police. authorities said, however believed the man who Patrolman Kelle taken At Mary A pital, Kelley danger. 1t owever, could be dete sight would be Men Under e A CONTINUOUS LINE 40 MILES LONG CAN BE DRAWN WITH AN QRDINARY LEAD PENCIL Plans for a rally at L O. 0. I. ball on Arch street next Thursday night were announced today by Chairman Harry M. Ginsburg of the republican town committee. The speakers will be Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel George J. Grady of New Haven, Mayor Carlson of Jamestown, N. Y., Col, Clarence W. Seymour, nominee for congressman in the first district, Senator Ernest W. Christ and Representatives Thure Bengtson and William F. Lange. The town committee is arranging other lies at which s kers of prominence will be heard. Post Office Clerks To Meet in Hartford Between 15 and 20 clerks from the New Britain post office will at- tend a gathering of post office clerks from all over Connecticut at Hart- ford Sunday. The meeting is an in- formal gathering for the purpose of hearing addresses from four na- tional officers of the National Asso- ciation of Post Office Clerks. The national body is cooperating with (Continued From Page) have had to abandon these plans and we will have no celebration. “L want to see in the future council formed so that money | propriated for Decoration wrrested was armed | {pigtice Day or any other day, will Marblehead | 1ot 1o given to the American Legion that they | to the council of representatives BNOLRRRE A0 Al the soldiers’ or thos= | i) he cit Disabled |are with us in this and Spanish War Vets Sclander Candidate Dew clander, War veteran didate for i local He h w ok we five a ap- Day, in Lynn, from o was among 50 arc e reported several hos of Alley rgency out Leader wounded World | outstanding can- or 10- woul days uthorities suid, hefore i nined permanently @ Arrest U'H‘ Ne merican sam- | Page, | War. and is cter: | ddy-Glover * I He lost advance is the wlhi the office of comman tion mander of | 1bled | World | ber of n Legion first days of ¢ post at el been itai Ve L pro Myer Rox} Joi D ames as follows ! Klinosky, brof uel Gordon, Dorch Bostor John ¢ ank Parris, Last Boston; di ‘< / ‘r“u Boston; Michael cail Ihierry Morin, Gh Snd i his clbow was shattered by | ¢ machine g or W in new club Satons: root theater build The annua there tonight. | gold. who s | or of the Hart- cil of the V. 1%, W., named permanent chair- hospitalization commit- | ‘The duties of this | be to take care of | rans who will bhe United States Vet- ains Bureau hospital in Newington, ! T e y 3‘ Auxilia ection | liary to Private Walter J. Smith post, will be held in the club rooms of the | V. 1. W. tomorrow night. No candi- ced themselve (Cont rans b Yine At he post astle Dorche his arm which we have discharged our |cumstances of the attack. obligations to the state. 1f we arc| Four men whom Diamond didn’t guilty of the charges which have |know were the assailants, the gang- Dbeen brought, we should transpire |ster said, and he defended himseif that these charges, insinuations, and | with a pillow snatched from hjs bed | innuendoes are found to be false, |as the intruders’ guns began to|the state association in meetings of the responsibility for them shoula | bark. But, despite the evidence of a | this type for the purpose.of keep- be placed, with such disapproval in |broken collar bone and three crush- |ing postal employes informed on public opinion would seem to fit |ed ribs, Diamond said nobody laid a | conditions in Washington. their offense, where it belongs. hand on him John B. McGrath of New Britain We remain, “They didn’t kick me, cither,” he |is sccond vice president of the Cons “Respectfully yours, told the district attorney. “All my |necticut branch of the national as- “N. G. Osborn, president | wounds are bullet wounds. Sociation; s “William C. Cheney, vice presi-| The district attorney sald he had dent, subpoenaed the gangster to appear " before a grand jury November 16. He thinks the man is telling the truth, he sald, but he hopes to iden- tify Diamond’s assailants by means of rogues gallery photographs. Tony Max Gordol Salem; Charles Shapiro Boston Joseph D. W Lynn les Fred Wilson ptain Edward department Flynn disclaimed with rum running said he had come drive some friends home The 18 men and th vere to be turned over authorit C B Martin McDonald, Glou Flynn Keega Lvere nd ( Salem firc SMOKING WAS COMPULSORY 1N THE HARROW SCHOOL ENGLAND (To ward off tnfection re ster of th commanc o ty coun any ) activities. He to Marblehead to to nect co will needs of ve 1ced in the ne it Feingold Returns Home From Trip to Hospital Joseph Feingold of 175 KEast Main street has returncd home from the government hospital in Washington, D. C., where he under- went a period of three weeks' obser- vation by government physicians in an effort to improve the condition of a hip which he had shatterel during the World war. Feingold, who is commander of Private Walter J. Smith post, V. F. ‘W., has had a Ibng number of oper- ations performed on the injured limb but none of them has corrected his disabi After a rest of about two weeks, he will return to the hospital and will undergo a serious operation. He has been told that he will prob- ably remain in bed for more than six weeks. TOR BEST RE ind 1 contr . M. Salmon, secretary, “B. M. Brainard, “I. Wise, “C 8. Reed, warden. “P.S.—The abscence of Mr. Root from the state and the illness of Mr. Taylor account for the omission of their names from this appeal.” “A very desirable move, if the right kind of men are named to the commission—otherwise the investi- gation won't amount to a row of pins,” caid Professor Edwin Knox Mitchell, president of the Hartford councll of churches, one of the in- stigators of the probe, commenting or the governor's action. “The mere appointment of a group of benevolent gentlemen, who know nothing of the <treatment needed for the reformation of pris- | oners, will get nowhere,” he said. ‘:What is needed is a group of men who really known modern methods of working with criminals—a group possibly composed of a business man, a physician, a psychiatrist and a scciologist, at least.” Judge Thomas Coughlin Dies in Stratford Home Bridgeport, Oct. 23 (P—Thomas C Coughlin, former judge of pro- be and well known member of the Fairfield county bar, died at his home in Stratford this morning. Judge Coughlin was born Decem- ber 24, 1867 and was a graduate of the Yale Law school of the class of 1900, He was elected alderman from th> 11th district and served in 1301 and 1902, He was elected judge of pro- bate in 1903, serving until 1905; was named police commissioner in 1905, serving until 1909. 1In 1913 he was named judge of the city court and held that position until 1915 TR k‘7 dat " MRS.RT MCUTCHEON -of Ruealo, Golo. BOWLED &17— INA SGAME SERIES its dance local post is furtheri ns for to be held in 1 | hall on Armistice it he pro- | matter | ¢ will 1end to |help di in this | | city. Ik 0 be dd; a abled ex-servicems and attention ferring the s fo and Patriots A WATER TOWER - FULL OF WATER, CAUGHT FIRE AND BURNED _ To THE GROUND — Liderly, Neb. 0 . Averaged 19] for 789 gemes 192523 MADE 3 SCORES oF 300 € 175, K Features £ ndcate. Inc. Graat Briain rights reserved e Daughte of Amer sympathetic therefore IPounders he found with Mr. Scott's ing to cooperate and a (heek was soon forthcom hunds of ¢ very able president [ Miss Mary Whittlesey | With the receipt of the nds | Mr. Scott reopencd his negotiations with the w completed | (¢ I the most 70-23 = them and will- bstanti ambition EXPLANATION OF YESTERDAY'S CARTOON THREE TRAINWEN z at the| BUR'EI] IN A[":NA\ Paderewski, “Man of No Dreams”—Czar Nicholas’ rclmke (“Pas de reves, messieurs”) LR 10 a Polish delegation waiting upon him in Paris after one of the numerous Polish insurrec- g ;tions had been suppressed \uth great severity, ccnstitutes one of the milestones in the his- tory of Russo-Polish relations. Paderewski’s birth date, his name which is identical with those famous words, and the fact that the Poles consider that he has done more for the liberation of his country than any other man, are a most curious historical coincidence. My information is based on Paderewski’s official biography, which the Polish government circulated under the title “The Man of Destiny” (Maz Przeznaczenia) at his accession to the 3 t r department, ontinued From First nec == hor- [u mel was located on a br of the railroad half from Adena. to the C about a The son coal minc wile and branch e | near Har- | ¢ tation and other ,\;mmu:w s which the war department could not fray—until now he has the 1ds satisfaction of his dream of so many years coming true The letter of Smith in part Neweastle-on-Tyne, October Lisquire, Mr. M. oty follow ngland 193 Charles F. Smith, Chairman, Board of Mest New Dear Sir Attention is respectfuily invited to the story N mony at Cemetery, castle-on-Tyne, Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Septembe! which two headstones United States War Department unveiled by my ter Forrester, in memory of Captain George Bell, and by Miss Scott honor of Private Philip Leger. both Civil War veterans. In a sense the ceremony had reference to the oth six headstones, onc of which been erected a ceme Hull. The headstone for the g Mexican War veteran, Private Sloan, had been broken en route and therefore was not in position, but the war department very mom]uu substituted another which recently arrived in nol‘d‘ tion. You have t est in this Directol Landers, Britain, Connecticut w- t wer sent step-da in in tery near of a John one perfect a very decp inter- Mr. George W conferred | times able. You the atiention Whittlesey of dent of the I and Patriots of Americ kindly donated a very sum of money which principal contribution cidental expenses erect the tor's cha hases, som the stones wany tr b fro Tyne ! 1 lancous exp SEa of Fo who most considerabl en t stones in ¢ 1ditiona and their sportation dtwell o be sixt can War mony ma Kave m, Miss | hal | rissv mine A the | six cars and caboose. ot latter | the The | were d | was 1 The vic been Harriss branch | Erie ra | was not 20 mil | - The twai co COAST GUARD RUNS ' RUM SHIP ASHORE le rid caboose, ight Near ilv by the ! premiership of Poland in 1919. necting with the | ew of 50 men went and started excava Ang to the crew from | | ne ir |cach, he nel ed to enter t end. Six Coins Placed So There Are Two Rows of Four—Take coin marked number 4 in my drawing and place it on top of coin marked number 1, and you have two rows of four coins horizontally and vertically. TOMORROW--The Poor Fish men | | The Mohawk Coast G vorted | of the the be st | tion. G0 10 DESTITUTE of the Wheeling and Lake | ) report said d but he oaning ler t third wrecka nd has long been on the d suspect list. She was re- en routc today in tow Irippe and like the Mary will d to customs for ac tha man ims 1 here din the men a in w caboost backing into ilroad wh the tunnel col- The e of the accident known here. Aden about s west of Wheelir oad officials said llapsing at both ends, mak-| work difficnlt The pas about 4¢0 yards long and is cted principally of | they One end ly blocked is the tunnel (Continued From First Doge | evs of finance and indus | met in York city | the economic problem and decided that tanding of them ment As soon as pos tinued, a meeting would be ed in New York of leac try and fing to furth problem said ry lust week to d the coin- 1110 out- unemploy- >, he con- organiz s in indy er study the | n of o New seuns wplete cus of v he wa nee The conferees said the tep would be tion for Woods |information ied From First 1a and then where to obtain on Jobs can be aid the y would draft men worlk from all over if possible would men who worked with Colonel Woods in his unemployment work in 1931 under President ew Not Found litied untry 1 | au the obt evidently and repor indicated 1 valuable hav- | avoid | to lo- | Hel- | n thos liminary rters the carg faa oni¢ slodged ling ana 17 ich ich Coope Colonel dustr {pected more leral campaig “T not only part," he ation Requested Woods said thus far in- doing its part but he ex- cooperation in the gen- prob- | by the som was Patrol Boal to do that industry hut 1 0 the relic expect said is alveady doin 1dquarters for nnemploym ministra- will Dbe It 1hinet n to get within of cftort tioning Jossible Hous re confer- urned to nent, confer- amont, and be- nize his headquarters Wood ce deps retary Montauk Point M Hunt 0 was sec nt commis- m- tary to the cconomi commis- ruction cpartment in work Colonel Woods committecs Vi Curley Visits Hoover " later first definite | 10 set up an organiza- ly assist the @ permanent instead of temporary program to provide employment, akes Job Oct. (UP)—Col. nephew of J. Pic and business assoc Wonds Washington, Arthur Woods, pont Morgan | ate of the Rockefellers, grappled to- | 'day with the problem of getting work for 3,300,000 or more unem- ploved men and women in the Unit- cd States. Woods' t: igned to him by President Hoover, is to provide relief {by co-ordinating all local. state and federal efforts this winter {o shield the workless from hunger and cold. He was installed today in ofil in the commerce department. president discussed the impending work for half an hour ter Woods' arri | York last conference Woods and Secretary of Commerce Lamont |at the latter's home: No Ceremor No ostentation officlal's arrival huge and glossy ranged in front of the executive of fices, Woods reached the White House in a Ford driven by Bdward yre Hunt, who is expected to have vial duties with 1he federal unemployment organization Neither was Woods downhearte although the f{ask assigned him i$ tremendous. He smiled and spoke quickly of his impending problem In a word he ruled against expendi- ture of federal funds for charity that is. the provision of food. cloth- or shelter for the workless. The word was quick and definite “No.” Mr. Hoover simply told him to go ahead. They ha ined in on and when placed them both on th id his recommend riod stood good 1o The president and Woods conside ¢ resources of the country ample or the task ahead. The federal gov- crnment will co-ordinate local ef- forts. If a sound plan is developed in on community for solving lems. other communities will be giv- en opportunities to adopt it Race With Misery “We are in a " said Woods, “with human misery We can win it with jobs or with relief to prevent kind of suffer- ing winter we o would have telief itself is o5 from New between Arrival the new on attended Although a fleet of motor cars W seer previous period of i unemployment President Harding Woods that job ions of the this that rwise We a local problem to en- merely will co-ordinate that able various places to know being d clsewhere. TLocal com- munities already have shown extra- ordinary vigor. That is one of the clements of difference between now and 1921.” Woods is a republican commissioner of New appointee of Mayvor Woods family is d yere soon. Mys. Woods Helen Mo Hamil ughter of William 1 Ham Juliet Pierpont 0 5 and former York an hel to rn nd Morz New York Starts Count York. Oct () —TPolic n counting persons out need to under wa city thi New men of work the suf- nd campaign in the winter becatse | country by formulating The | immediately | | evening and there was a | ¢ knowledge of cach | in it is | of unemployment. The emergency employment com- mittee, composed of 100 industrial- ists, financiers and civic representa- tives, was organized yesterday to |raise $150,000 a week for a payroll | fund to be administered through the charity organization society and the Association for Improving the Con- dition of the poor. It is planned to | provide work in parks and on other | city propert: | Mayor James J. Walker, in an- nouncing that members of the police department ‘would be detailed to make the unemployment census, said he planned to throw open the recre- ation piers, Bronx terminal market and other municipal buildings house homeless. Subordinate em- ! ployes on the city payrolls, he added, would be asked to contribute $1 a | month toward a rellef fund. He es- timated that this fund, with contri- | butions from officials, would amount 10 §170,000 a month | At the meeting of the emergency {employment committee a | from President Hoover was read ex pre his appreciation of the {work underiaken by the committee. Plan Like Loan Drives The cxecutive committee decided to adopt a plan similar to the Lib- Lerty loan drives to canvass all trade groups in the city to the payroll fund Wa Gifford, president of the | American ‘Telephone and Telegraph company, explained that the plan | for the emergency employment com- | mittee, was the result of discussions with Cornelins Btiss. chairman of tha hoard of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., and president of the Association for Im- proving the Condition of the Poor “There will be a tremendous ad- ditional task this winter,” he said, “due to the amount of unemploy- ment which in many cases has been running for over a vear. which means that numerous familics have two winters to go through without work. Their savings are used up. The ituation in many cases is quite des- perate. We do not believe this is the [only thing that should be done, but we believe that at least it should be done and must be done.” prob- | GOV, TRUMBULL T0 NAME GROUP TO CHECK UP CHARGE (Continued From First Page) given the charges laid by the former chaplain of this institution, Rev. William H. Smith, against the spirit and humanity of this administra- tion, and the more or thetic comments which have their way into the column: the widespread brought by Miss Genevieve Cowles, ho, for a period was engaged at the prison, painting her excellent porirait of ‘Christ at the Sea of Gal- The extensive refercnce to scandal” by a few of the news- papers of the stat he s Hartford Council of Churches pledging itself to make tion of jpear to be taken for ilee the in an investiga- granted; the to | message | for contributions | less sympa- | found | of the | ’dl‘k’ll.\:\llonfl: ion of the | prison conditions which ap- | YOUTHFUL BANDIT SHOT BY BRISTOL PATROLMAN DIFS (Continue From Tirst Page) that he purchased the gun in New | York ci A search of | | | | Theriault’s clothing | at the hospital disclosed discharges papers from Company H, 5th In- fantry, United States army. It was learned today that he joined the army séveral years ago, having been discharged because of a distorted | shoulder, | Owed Money to Mother | Tt was learned here today that| five weeks ago Tuesday night, Ther- | | lault went to Persccue, Me., with| Kenneth Gallagher of 28 Irving street to dig potatoes. Upon their | return herc Tuesday Mrs. Ired Theriault, mother of the dead ban- i Git, asked her son for $25 which she { had lent him before he left. Theriault informed his mother | that he had mailed §40 to her by | express certificate. Interviewed, | Gallagher said that his companion “never made enough money to save $40 while in Maine.” He said that Theriault has been forced to sell his overcoat before returning here. An | {uncle of the man told reporters that | e had never noticed a gun in Ther- | iault’s clothes and, as he slept with him, he had had many opportunitics | to observe his clothes. Mrs, Theriault asserted that her | son had planned to marry a cousin | in Maine and also proposed to visit a brother, Alfred, in New York tomorrow. Yesterday, she explain- ed, Edmond ate a hearty supper as usual and lay down to rest until | about 8:30 p. m. She said that he | lett in the company of another man | at that time but refused to divulge | this man's name. Police are led fo | believe that Theriault procured the | gun he used from a local “fence” | just prior to the holdup. ! Slayer Meets Victim's Mother At about 2:30 o'clock this morn- | ing, Officer O'Connor met Mus. Theriault at the hospital, where her son was confined. He said: “I'mi sorry I had to shoot him, but it wus either me or him. I knew he was a Catholic 5o T summoned a priest The mother thanked him for calling | in the priest and added, “I don't| blame you, but—0, why did you | have to shoot him?” | "The man's father is employcd as | |a riveter in Maine. O'Connor Former Sailor Officer O'Connor is 33 years of | ge and has been a member of th | police force here seven years. He | | ranks No. 10 in line of service. He | is an cx-service man, having been |in the U. . navy during and before | the World war. | Police Chief Lrnest T. Belden to-, «aid that since O'Connor had shot Theriault in the performance of | l‘”" duty, no action would be taken igainst the patrolman. | McNamee's Death Recalled Last night's gun battle recalled | the, death last January of Patrol- | mdh James McNamee the local | police department, who was shot | and killed when he approached to | auestion the occupants of mobile in Forestville. For ing John Brophy, 20, of Waterbury was sentenced to life imprisonment after he had pleaded guilty | ond degree murder. 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