New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 EW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930. -TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS NAREUHESVALUEDi AT MILLION FOUND INFURS SHIPMENT Largest Seizure Ever Made‘ Taken From Steamer Alesia in New York Harbor NO ARRESTS MADE THUS FAR IN FEDERAL INQUIRY | 1,080 Pounds of Drugs Unclaimed | When Craft Arrives, With Ofl‘luzl'i‘ Ready to Pounce On Claimants— | One Box in Legitimate Shipment | Gone When Checkup Is Made — Agents Keep Secrecy About Raids Washington, Dec. 16 () — Hug. quantitics of narcotics, Termed at the treasury the largest seizure ever made in this country, have been taken on the steamer Alesia in New | York harbor. Customs agents reported today it totaled 1,040 pounds and said the market value ran above $1,000,000. Importers Escape Importers of the contraband werc noy capture d. fhe narcotics were shipped from Turkey, enclosed in cases of furs that o inated in Constantinople. ‘Announcement of the seizure was made by Assistant Secretary Low- man, who said it resulted from the | joint work of the customs und nar- | cotics bureau. The Alesia, cn route from 1\m\<\. first touched at Providence, I here customs agents kept it un- der surveillance. Nothing was land ed there. When the vessel prouul- “d to New York, customs boats and | agents followed, keeping close | watch. In New York, the cargo was per- mitted to go to the customs house in hope it would be claimed. The (&t billed as furs were nol‘ for. narcotics were in small tin | Shipment Missing A legitimate shipment 0f narcotics | made to druggists in this country under permit, and carried in safe deposit vaults of the Alesia, was| cited by customs officials as a pos- sible cause of the smugglers being | tipped off. One box of the legitimate shipment was missing when the Alesia reached New York. Officers started an intensive search to locate | it. This it is believed frightencd the | smugglers ‘ Agents Keep Secrecy New York, D¢ 16 (P—A group of customs officers from Boston and New York boarded the liner Alesia when it touched at Providence last week on its incoming voyage from | Mediterranean ports, ostensibly to hunt for narcotics. but they gave 1o indication when the vessel docked in Brooklyn that their search had | met The captain of the vessel asserted that the information that narcotics were aboard came from a dis- gruntled seaman The Alesia, captained by Edmond MacQuin, reached port here Decem- ber 6 and sailed a from New | York December 9 and from Provi- dence December 11 for Near East SUCCess. Notitied By Lowman w York customs officials, con- firming news of the Alesia seizure today, said they had been notified by Seymour Lowman, assistant se retary of the treasury, to withhold announcement here pending action in Washington. It was assumed the treasury officials had hoped to make (Continved on Page Two) ‘ |day left a cloak of snow. the city agreed that the temperaturs | |today, forced an officer of the bank | halt, was fired on and wounded carly . up the ci ¢ ere | Louis : innati, and the ret. Sharkey. Your s wmonth period in M Goes Down to Zero Point, Yaqui Indians Compel Scientis | DANK’ e;f:g; R:::rdlz:l:)f ()Seazl;)(:l l'?ere* ’RF[GJ?{IE[T}E\{I%’[EX[&I&S | a'(ll':)l Leav:nRehzs gf Glal:atst Rt;ce SUSPENDFQ ANKS FUTURE Natlon Hard Hlt By Cold Wave fiENERA[S KILLED Behind Th(flln_s_outhem Sonora HANGS’” : NAI.YSIS RESUI.T, { Freezing \\ eathel- From | Slumps Acutel.\' After 1 Tme]m Say Troulle L[ke]y bmasl_1 Skeletons \}'hich (;mu'? Headed Py‘Ariz()pa Prot Accr{ 4 BElNG GUNE UVER Rockies to Mame——(,on-l Last Night and Dives at fessor Has Unearthed From Ancient Burial ; i - in Saragossa, Spain, From | Ground—Research Workers Will s necticut Has Below Zero Midnight — Many Autos Communist Quarter Return Next Year. “VE TRIJLLL WIR[ Exammers Now Going Temperatures. ! Reported Frozen Up. w3 S AR . \SEVERAL TOWNS FACING /A stetine cxpedition ich |~ Stamcrs of e g ENTANG“’:& TAXIMB Over Records to De- | By the As d Press I vering i te deinityt of S 7 e N s N = 1t Wias co-0:0:0418 toay, Tromthel| 20 bova for the whst v Hiys bt | P ) T THREAT e v band termine Condition of Rockies to Maine. Only in the far |temperature in New Britain sudden- | OSSIBL FAMIN |a prehistoric race Anits 1h south. | Al were e RS and S[l‘ d Falls in SU‘ { and I Huts ‘2:"[‘ ""dlh‘m ‘h’;h< X'“’"‘f'h Pfl([;"cl‘ly started on a nose dive last night, e ern Sonora reached here early today | knives, and looked as though they il i nstitution Future coast was the weather anything but | which ed - he ched zere ot ¢ TUnited States. " | woule esitate to use them | seasi mes e mesihs | urxmg ~4tv)cl>)m;“é} i)— n it reached zero| oo ed in Portugal as Mang | €, route to the Ur ta | would not 1 iR 1 !fiuwhu\.‘u{ )”‘1 Sparkles When Run [)\,er Cannot Be Forecast 1 Thankful they ha ap ith | number of them, i Four degrees above zero in Bos-| Late in the afternoon the mercury lives, the sci t longed to th band that met | Sections of Native Land Witness ton, Albany and Portland, Me.; siX |began to drop until by § o'clock it i : ! ) k i anize another scar th | the party Thursday when it was B f E in \‘{on".rrdl, f_yxghl m‘ Detroit; 10 ln‘)mrl gone down 10 points, where it Turmoil—Nationalists Insist Quict more ade > protection. travelling on burros to the excava- PASSENGER RUNS AWAY €elore xamlnahon |New York: 12 in St. Paul; 14 in{seemed to pause. At 11 o'clock it | They brought o relics [tion site Chicago and Denver; 16 in Kansas|still maintained its position at 10| Prevails Despitc Martial Taw. ooy they beat a hasty retreat late Fxchange Greetings A e City: 22 in Norfolk, Va.; 30 in|above. | terday’ fre 2 t time (1 ) £ i i Abilenc, Texas—tnese § a. m. (5 After midnight, it took AI](HMII" Bitikes Rand O LOLLIEEK niles north of Soyopa. The ekele- | pass, exchar fow o Chanlien e ghanned Unul e County Detective Hickey T.) temperatures, all under freezing, | smmp. and struck a new low level, 1 ) heir native t ) i i g e 4 Rumors That King May Flec, ons they ! —remains | their native tongue with Prof. ) By Policeman — Hotel Owner ] . . told the story of an almost nation- | going to absolute zero which \-,.q, S 4 5 of three adults more than eight t Don “w~'0< cal and z s e id to Be Inves matmg wide cold wave which reached #ts|10 degrees colder than any previ-| Hendaye, France, Dee. 16 P—Ic- 141l and five children all over six Found = {Unconsclous Near = 5noL nadir with a mark of 17 below zero | ous report of the winter. | ports received here tod throt feet—were destroyed by the super- ntinved on I Two) | : in Owls Head, N. Y | The usual trouble with motor cars | republican sources said that Vi . ) (e Comeras e Felt In North East | was reported by local garages. |encia was in the hands of the rebuls | e i, 0 by Rumors — Loomis Report Run Was Caused | In the northeastern states the bit- | Motorists werc having trouble get-|and that three loyal generals hud terest weather was felt, White River | ting machines started this morning, | been executed S £ % Confide " Re i {Junction, Vt. recorded 15 below, cold engines and weak batteries | Travelers pa thro bk thisamiotidg il g Seapatiing Northfield, Vt., felt the bite of 14 |making a combination which meant | Madrid on the way to France below weather. At Berlin, N. H., and | more et il el b le b e , AT D in Short Time, He Says. Malone, N. Y., it was 10 below, and | Radiators were frozen up and bal- | vicinity of Saragossa where com- Boru sitvpoed Uy the cetdiand | ] at Soringfield, Mass, the mark was | teries run down. More difficulties | munists appeared to have ta 1 . minus 5. were expected during the day, one|\untage of the revolutionary 1 in contact with ti art of future of e Commercial e D e R S A A o ] Supl of Agncul ure Blames Dis- New York Gommlssmn Orders < er mmru‘. The advance of winter made jtself | was just zero from shortly after| By the Asso & d g S " f axi ¢ S T IRRUER s e Lo ol AL | an i b a dozen FIbU ]0“ On Ifldm llalS Hlm U i m harkey opers sully y out and thermometer tubes to below zero | morning when it showed a slight|Spanish cities today u ¢ he (Continued on Page Two) [ ported from the suburbs. |tial law throughout the country 36 . ¢ y i : There we ious riots at t 5 miner : S der and those who could were floc- Officials Also Ask Enlarged Flying Stipulation That He Would Meet s into inz across the frontier into France : i n Willi hal A ftai ust be gor | mobilized through the impo ulations — Air Mail Direction | Called to German's Attention— <" A ; i tonsand whathee theve it b | 1ters but at Madrid Premier T tt p AR 3 S $55 l]ul] AT BANK! SHul]T M“T"RlST nguer informed the king that ve service Put Before Congress. | Time Expires. Main street Soraanizal] i comple | terday’s revolution had sup- | Street. Wires Sway 3 e e ! L PO et .| Washington, Dec. 16 (P—Boston, | 2 rk c. 16 (UP)—DMax rabeck was attracted by : e : SR pressed and that the 25 in control at all points. backed | €O was informed today, was | Schmel f rmany, credited | Play of He was star X 3 h NoRt Doy To I on Other Banks Manager, 75, Pleads for Presi- Danville, Va., Strike Area Steme 0" e 2 o om0 ot St Vi M i B rorlde RS- | puiting n hos 50 ing. - He That many depositors in the sav- ey I commission to meet Jack Sharkey of |OV¢ e | guese authorities. was not | | Boston in a return bout £ a loud report and s which would _ ) f his associates. However, cer- 1 A snrori that of his associates. Ho c (s Canaite I t Stipulation Accepted i CEr P 3 surprisingly tain authorities on in ational law e i bl S 3 1 ¢ £ re s for loans eve that such a demand wo giEana s % SEEOR Sehmet i R 2 - T € ed, t one hank Pittsburgh Institution Held At| Hurt—Bomb Outrages Near Dis-|h. contrary to pre Do fae commiasion sHpulate ¢ > rou orted one call for f anv, ¢ % 4 return en- = 1 ngs de rtment | crimes, if any, o ese 161 nt supply bill. at arin gagement to Sharkey. It was ,,Ly d Fm)nvv nt | purzy of a political nature and which the transcripts were made |derstood that this stipulation was ac- | S2rthauake e Vault, ‘ day—Other Homes Rocked. {such were not extraditable offenses. | pyplic today. | ce | aving t olice t ¢ ke S ; | | Trouble in Barcelona Originated In City § ing o N n easterly. When he ; Dney A S Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 16 (UP)—| Danville, Va., Dec. 16 (P—A mO0-| At Barcelona the police were rein-| “Apparently most of it, if not all, | rected Schm - the section of West Mair Six bandits held up 12 employes of |torist, who National Guardsmen #aid | ¢ 004 hy 6.000 civil guards in the | originated in Boston,” he said, “it Ther - in this offi and Grove Hill ceoste the Manchester Savings & Trust Co |refused to obey their command to St a nitiks ioh threatenzaito ] waa {o various points, like St.|challenge ted at yon by Jack |He stoppad Hir tion e bout Sharkey June 12, : tr wires all along 12 Employes and Few Customers In | North Carolina Man Dangerously Gun Point While Intruders Loot| trict Reported to Authorities To- depositor in 1o open the vault and escaped with |today as the troops kept lookout for | (. = 2 B FiE e e Bottiaa l whichit nd your title expired |taxl cab : 4 lan estimated 00 st oy rs bes dynamite into the tex- 2 7 5 % an estimated $ in cash. They |cars bearing dynamite into th e R ’ n- | g Decemb You are dire ¥ wire just a short dist 1 4 Kove ¢ heeded the plea of a 7a-vear-old of-|tile strike area around School Field. | f o) S o Sroanstto Tas o Lo Driver Held Prisoner ficer of the bank not to harm the| Guard officers said they found 60 G N : = R, Hods it A 4 Warning Sullivan to notifs president, who is S0, gallons of whiskey in the automobile. | o 5 500ty s Lo 5 . e oa o Conne The robbers entered the bank at| The occupants, Lockwood Picke e rahs ernon | i e ’ oy Ne s e ran to.the s ¢ - might :30 a. m. The few customers and |of Forrest Hills, N. C., was reported | el et oot Sa e taca : g o L s B g cau ss houses the employes were dangerously wounded in the bck | (Continued on Fa imd drugs now marke commission, said his board inten ensnared ir r's seat. At ., 5 i to tho st ansion raise their hands. Te mployes | near the spine, paralysis of the lo S which he said his department could #d to force Schmeling to agree to Junctur t Cor Trust Co. 'and the customers complied er limbs resnlting. He was brought Vst : ; ARk A g i A arlors 2 ot possibly 1p with by rea- irn bout. He said that details as o3 Expect to Reopen Soon Pleads For President tosaghosplialilSte fon ab OPEIEiEn. HEF”N SAYS MARfiIN n . f to place and date “would come ccti Power € sl et | | The driver swerved his machine : Ll e “wouliicome with : B ? esident Jo ) p Adam Hoffman, 75, manager of lopt when the patrol ordered him to halt the bank's real estate department, |\ 4 ¢ acd “The public is be ted,” The commission a r ALt G y illed clear of th P e i ol staits. He was dragged back down |headauarters staff, said in a dictated fhsdle Sl e S : hal . red, t ; B B G iy seonenin 4 statement, and e fi as k e he: f E Madis short tir ptelion loans aoe the stairway by one of the bandits. |Statement. and the firing was in ¢ R h the | Sauare en h arey de- SeRE pet S e “Don’t kill an old man,” Hoffman |Pursuance of °,'.’:‘f‘ MiOnegnullst T Ale of f i nied that his corporation had plar -“ontinued on Page Two) tated by t t ng commis- plssded, Lo e mnint tha: me Challenges Roosevelt to Markets Are Floded ned to hol Stribling-Carns sioner's analy e “L won't kill you,” the bandit an- | jjoor was discovered in the ma- : e “Manufacturers have taken ad- |29ut In Miami th o HIGH SCHOOL GIRL CUT re force of the t isy. Trease wered, keeping his gun pressel | Stop 1t—Bill Con- vantage of the situation (d also denivd negotiating with Carnera 1 other official 8 . ! 882 | chine. | oD hea ihE o005 ot oy o Qouts close to Hoifman's body | Follows Bombing ! ferees Meet | g . ) pu b ranted Second’s License WITH ART CLASS KNIFE “I don't mean myself,” Hoffma e e iR dns ohBlsRatE by he | sorts of u s the Granted The wounding of Picket e | e k Sharkey was g d a sec- | said. “I mean that old man there.” [ {150ps followed a series of bombin ety i ond's license. He “vid he in Ernie He pointed to President C. C. Ger-around Schoolfleld during the week-| 15 (LD)—alo. | from the dietary standpoint. The |schaarg corner wh e | s Artory While Garving Tinol: ntin on end. an explosive was set off under | Max Baer ir h . | The leader of the gang walked|, porch of the home of Magistrate |lition of marginal trading was ¢ nilhtien onlPagze 1 Im\ :'vm \\.1 ? heavyweight bpout | eum Blocks But Resumes into an inner banking room. Hear-|R. 8. Fitts, Schoolfield police justice, | manded today by Senator Hefli S g SRS e So | velt of New York to prove his ca- Attemipting to force a rear window. |py | was placed on the ill and un- | 107 High school pup ing a noisc in the rear of the bank | carly yesterday morning, wrecking |dumocrat, Alubama. who 1 2 ‘I”("m,“\‘; ense as a ref- | Studies Later in Da he investigated. He found Gerwig|(he front of the house. No onc was |Speech also challenged Gov. Ro SE P Mo elian ST oy et o en et e IN E']URT WH]NES[]AY |He forced the aged bank official 10 A4 station was dynamited | pacity for the pre ¥ DU E | 7 i s til he fulfi! lir 1 bl return to the banking room | el “an end to this giant evil in his own I list until he fulfills an oleum block: B | 1 vith Madison Square | Clé ¢ g ( [ state Four bandits kept the employes | Contint Two) 2cem : e ne Knifc : = i | Hefin, who rib e New ; G oL i Lawyer to Face Accusa- {covered while two others went into BOOK AGENT TURNS MEDICAL ADVISER Diagnoses Child's Case and Sells Mother Magazine Subscription Waterbury, Dee. 16 (® — High pressure salesmanship, under the ur- gent prodding of hard times, is ris- ing to heights not even equalled by real estate salesmen during the Flor- ida boom. A voluable gent peddling maga- zine subscriptions knocked on a Wa- | terbury housewife’s door vesterday afternoon and burst out in his ora- tion as scon as the hinges squeaked. “I'm sorry,” interrupted the hous wife, tactfully, “I can't talk to you. My baby 1s sick.” “What! Your baby sick?" ex- claimed the salesman with tremen- dous gusto. “Let me look at him. I'm studying -nodicine a have Just three months more to go be- fore I'll be an M. D. What do you think is the matter with him?" As the salesman-physician push- »d past the housewife into the house she gasped faintly, “I think he has| the measles.” The jack of all trades rushed to the bedside, looked very wise, asked | the child to stick out its tongue, then very reassuringly remarked, “lor- get it! He hasn't got the measles. He'll be all right tomorrow.” Before leaving the volunteer doc tor sold a subscription to his mag- azine P. S.—The family doctor diagnos- ed the casc as measles two hours | later. | ficials said contained bills of larz | Thames yesterday, was pulled cl St. Francis' church, New Haven, | 'mad T. Hamawei, 50, was under ar-| He said the widow was beneficiary | thority to use the fun f d of all buying taurant, where rrah, a hotel pro- Mrs. Farrah told police she was ' 4 —— D | ! : By City '\almndl Bank Judge Offcrs Plan arloti recover, doctors said. |that his estate was settled by a| | | | |Cuba for his health and died while |that Farrah owns the Trent hotel in iness, rising temperature, record at the close of busi Stock F e as \1-) the inner banking room, behind the ‘\flr!» 5 i on t 3 . T . ielies sicaen i " MOTHER OF FATHER KEANE | Loc ol e u ' Stanley Rule ()fl'lcnal Tends I"‘DQII‘GOH:H% gfl'lce;i s school's physician, Dr © tion of Embezzling Ask For Cashier is hich poild Threatens Love 1 10 her lient’s $3 The roners sevea tor ihe casnicr.| EXPIRES IN NEW HAVEN| ke mareinat trading woias-| to Duties at Plant 85 | xew vork, Dec. 16 (CPy s | Sne jsken . Client’s $3,000 When told he was rot in the bank, ! ; s the a £ ant chinreabatin the assistant cashier, Dravo G i T 15 LS L : sud P ating jceman to extort Ken, was forced to open the vault. | Mps. John Keane Passes Away at kL 1 4 » Two bandits stepped forward s the vault door swung open and pici-| St. Raphael's Hospital. New | prisonment for foregoing Haven, at Age of 7. | “The friends Heflin said a candidate {he is will show 1 {an end to t . his own S0 5By tha Stanley Fix penalties o viola ed up two packages, which bank of- denominations. A quantity of 100z Mrs. John Keane, mother of Rev. currency in the vault was taken, but | join J e of Joseph's money in the teller's cage was left. | church, died at § phael’s hos- The bandits left the bank leisurely | pital, New Haven, last night at @ and drove away in an automc . | o'clock. Police reported the car had been| Mrs, Keane was 77 years Level — stolen yesterday. | She is survived by her husband, a | 5" 7 A I plant in various capacitic . ) | ueen S st e ana | oA totey e Now vor MGt e v s Companionate Betrothal, Judge’s FREIGHTER PULLED CLEAR | two sons, Philip ne of New |Steck xchunge is Nt Hloeq | High school in June, 1865, 3 2 L 2 g Lonon, Dec. 16 M—The Canadian 'Haven and Rev. John J. Keane [ceteatves fecding Wie blong gan his long term o Pacific freighter Beaverford, which | The funeral will be held from her |°f ! Fll {:"L S S nt following mont g SOlutiOI'l Of YOllllg COllp]e’S LOVC went aground at the mouth of the | home on Atwater street and from 0 cars later he was prom tant superi high tide today. She was not|Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. f""i“l and ”"]'"‘ MoRiBiat it f the plant an 1879 he became TEer OO II T YDAt seriously damaged. | Burial will be in New Haven. | well manipulated i t m 1585 Late betrotl Conferees boar 2 Washington, Dec Shoots Husband of Brother’s Widow %% i vt ot e sl L e | employment appropriation s in many in- (e e l l' e form which drew opposition yeste been instrumental in im- fo the Barker home mov n Beliet Death Was Suspicious @b 50 N wravinens bueeied i sl e st unich Granger, 0 {returned to the senate later today E en progressive and s of considerable skept ‘ The revised bill contains the pro- de to many presidents ‘n | says he will prove his abil vision giving President Hoover au- | past For a long ti was | shoulder the obligations of a t{r with Chariotte Barker. 1 stay there six months, act h « regarc nd of od, he is holdi > me a e pleaded Danicl. | Biafo money — — Initial Dividend Voted Eppui ol S s TR s e e Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 16 UP—Ar- left for Cuba st today for shooting Isaac A. of her husband’s $52,000 life insur- if emergencies aris Farrah, husband of the widow |ance and inherited his cstate. He | - of Hamawei's brother. |said she married Farrah about thr ~ The shooting occurred in a res- months after Hanawei's death will be allowed rry h g0 prietor, was dining with his wife. {not married until nearly two years| He was seriously wounded but will |after her first husband died and said | THE WEATHER the mid-month T v is Judge Lewis J.|postmas oard of directors of the ¢ Na- | s t was his solution of « r Hamawei told police that his trust company. She said bequests to New Britain and vicinity: tional bank yesterday. a dividend of | dils that confronted Daniel nts gave 1ernoo brother was arvised by his wife other relatives were provided | Fair, not so cold tonight; $1 was declared. Tt will payable tte when they tried to elope . t re proposed tornev's three years ago to make a trip to| Police said they were informed Wednesday increasing cloud- on December 31 to stockholders to Wash n, D. C., last summer| * s 100 Yo ! 1 with Mr December 27, This is the initial div- | Returned Home resy tomorrow when the case is in Havana. The prisoner said his|Atlantic City, N. J and is part | | ¥ % |idend ol the company. | Detectives caught up with the| (Continued on Page Two) sched 1 trial. brother's health was good when he lowner of a hotel here.