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

FIRST EDITION NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Lndmg 16 085 Dec. 13th . ESTAELISHED 1870 W BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930. ~-EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS HELPLESS GRIPPLE ASSAULTED, ROBBED ON HARTFORD AVE. Attacked From Behind While Seated in Wheel Chair in Galage $240 CHECK AND §1.8 IN CASH REPORTED GONE Blax Stevenezer, 41, Rendered Un- conscious By Blow While Sorting Apples in Barrel—Finds Pockets Turned Inside Out and Emptied ‘When He Recovered—Police Have Description of Stranger in Vicinity 41 and avenue, Max Stevnezer, crip- pled, of Hart n the victim of 80 was alk A man— Critchfield, | A woman can out and attractive Clara his wheel chair | ahove, is living proof of She is | in the|the first girl who ever has won the after Jmnnu.xl oratorical contest for m\nr man students at George Was 4]”"7(”! University, Washington, Her home is in the capital, too, where oratory a brutal attac while seated in £0 apples in the garage rear of his home shortly o'clock yesterday afternoon, when he was struck from behind by an un- | robbed of a check | one dollar bill and identified man for $230, 26 an o cents in ck Unable to in move except wheel chair, Stey - told Serg Flynn who was sent to his home on VNN S robbed as b ed with his | ;u; Frank Leser Grene L a R in Native Hills someone “,‘nunp Before he could turn | , L AN NOTABLES PRESENT\ was struck on e back of the hea The force of the blow he told Ser- Flynn, forced his head ward causing his left eye to be in- | | St againt rrel | Congregational Church at St. Albans over which he w Pockets Turned Inside After Stevnezer had recov senzes he told Se ynn found his pockets turned inside end their contents missing. He as found half dazed by his 17 year old son, Max .\’hnr(l) after | the hold up Deputy Chicf et T. | United for- the edge of th siwork Crowded With Friends and Rela- | red his| tives, I'rom All Walks of Life, as he | out Services ; | | Out { ; Are Held, Albans, Vt., Greene, Dee. 20 (P—F Vermont's ank | | States senator, rest tod the familiar surround- | ings of his native hills, He had come home last Monday for an .operation which was believed would be comparatively simple, His “lrecovery seemed Last | Wednesday afternoon o gradual d be- od in to chat with the dealer. When he entered the : where the man usually is to son told assure 1e went int en Chief natter had no ordered 1 trip to 3 Soun LI ional gston i was geant Flynn e 1 a not serious He lea from Anth who resi at 86 Harttord | had observed a| ") ¢ kellor oy Hisvrizen Bt night, muffled t i n escort of the Tth Field dowii from Fort Ethan Allen, wi who, he to bi ry farewell 10 w co vears old, 5 fee v erved 1 the first in height and w nt, Vermont Volunteer Infan- ing a tan polo coat and brown hat. | ;.o g i {sh-Ameridan St at the close AT BOLD JOY RIDERS| rovernor of Vermont, |anda educational affairs rved as others were: John G. Sargent, for- porte man arrive Yarone ue that he strar about t shortly before the wd the police Interment ave tread of Artillery office man fur- a de- t sev great in Honorary Pall Bearers Vermo political honor pall bearers. Governo B . N ~ | John Weeks led the group. The Auto Thieves Chased From Berlin to This City and Caught (Continued on Page Two) 'PROBE POLICE LINK Four New 12 to 16 last Brit- before the Believe Money Used to Take Fling in Wall Street notified the wrtment of the of auto that had been parked on venue, New Haven, carly in teletyp machine About an hour after the loss of the car had been reported, Dr. Vin- cent Lacava. of 1045 Main strect Hurt while driving with three men north of Meriden, was almost forced off th by a car that passed him so closely that some paint was rubbed from the of his car, The doctor car, and altho an hour, was unable The two car York, Dec. 20 P—Inv tors moved today to dete | whether police invested v {in Wall street. A blanket subpoena naming cvery member of th ) of | them—and the f: order- cd for upwards of 2,000 brokerage houses and banks in the metropoli- tan area by assistants of lsidor J. chased the smaller | iresel, council in magistrates’ gh traveling 65 miles | sourts inquiry. to cateh it. | mranscripts New Britain | counts in the one, turning into | were demanded in an effort to learn Willow Brook | whether bribes taken from women went to Kelsey street and | ang gamblers were used to play the driver that he Was|market rather than deposited in a dead-end street he | pank accounts or strong boxes boys in the car | Referee Samuel Seabury has heard | testimony indicating that police, in by Dr. | conspiracy with lawyers and bonds- Lacava and comparing notes found | yen, framed the st of women t the car was the one reported | ang petty criminals and extorted stolen in New Haven. Police Officer | money from them in return for John Punkunus, the doctor and his | quashing their cases. Four offict three companions then began a|are standing departmental trial on cruise about the south end of thethe basis of these charges. city to find the boys. Police Offi-| In connection with this, Mr. Sea- cers William McCarthy and Steve | bury has announced he will seck a Cotfey went to Kelsey street and|writ of mandamus from the ap- getting into the stolen car also be- | pellate division to compel Corpor- + search. | ation Counsel Arthur J. Hilly to ap- I'he group in whic» Dr. I«um\n’m—nw salary vouchers totalling $1,- finally spotted the | 740 for five lawyers in the inquiry. a short chase caught | Mr. Hilly previously refused to brov to the | approve these on the ground that readily admit- | they were “‘unreasonable.” “just for a little - — nd were held until four New NO SKATING IN PARKS police detectives arrived | The park board announced today 1 2 o'clock this morning to take | that there is no skating in city Lack to New Haven, parks, rmine graft ford, vice squ road lies, wa fenders of all trading ac- raced int name of policemen and the smaller Stanley park, when the at the end of and the other three Jeaped and ran. The police were notified near saw 1+ member, ind after and they were n. They caling the car, D e U { Out-Talks Men | | head of the |the | scheme senior | was laid at| fallen dur- | American Recluse, Curing Natives Of India By Strange Rites, Claimed Broken Heart Causing His Death Mysterious Cave Dweller Said Theft of “God-Given Spectacles” Deprived Him of Power to See Lord —Loss of Mystic Gift Preyed On Mind— Made Many Miraculous Cures. Poona, India from a brok by Dec. 20 (P—Death toda tha “superinduced @ to India ] God had depri a fortune by treati power of healing, , halt and blind extraordinary verdict ren- |herbs, : potions and dered by a coroner today in the|prayers strange and mysterious case of | On his deathbed James Brandon, ‘h‘ d he Described as a former resident of | w weeks ago because Nashville, Tenn., Brandon, who in|“God-given spectacles” had later life devoted himself to asceti- | » cism, occultism and mystic healing, Through the spectacles found dead ago in thelable to sece God,” wit squalid cave in which he lived, close |inquest said Brandon by an old Hindu temple. | “and through the spe Got Fortune By Methods | Evidence brought out at the lon ago, show heart, a belief that him of the divine was the it was complaine power a fe a wee (Continued on Page Two) RYKOFF RELIEVED SCIENTIST HILLED OF EXECUTIVE JOB IN VOLCAND BLAST - { Ardent ngh (Quits Union Goun- Prol. Wemer Borchardt Low- cil of Commissars | ¢red Sel Into Crater STALINITE HIS SUGCESSOR NATIVES FLED HOUNTAIN < Important Post Similar to That of Proceeds in-’ | to Merapi in Sumatra Premier in Other Countries—Only Against Advice of Officials—Guide Other Man Ever to Hold Position Says He Saw Man Disappear Into ‘Was Lenin. Lava Pit, i | | | 20 (Pr—Alexis avia, Jama, Dec, 20 (P—I Werner Borchardt, ovich Rykoft, hmprnd ted with th 'Hunl;;H: i been relieved by the Union Central |, Tot fita Moscow, Dec Ivan- | a scient ropi- con with conse executlve committee of as Merapi, Council of Peo- | his post volcuno Union ago Borchardt and stants, against the 1l offic tarted for volcano where ple’s Commissars, a place which in | complicated soviet governmen in some ways corresponds to that of premicr in parliamentary governments tyvkoff's successor i of Joset ral of the comn | Viacheslav Mikhailoy himself one of the threc of the party, a member o vortant Politburean and a member of Pra of the Union Central exccutive com- | | mittee. The only ot man ever to | have held the post late Nicholai Lenin, Asked Retir e elimination of R his own request. It fol conflict in i een Ryko est tenden | the pa pletely with M 1y outside of the man b scenes, Two ot ht wing, ) Nicolai Bucha cd and expresse ogics for th ipparently h to the orthodox cor though shorn of some right wing leaders of wotably Leon nants Molotoff, | One of hi cretaries | the the im-|of t expedition, named the comn rong powe former ye hay burning, (Continued on Page Two) (Conti WICKERSHAM SAYS es God al- | | gloved 1 GLOVED HAND BEST FOR ENFORCEMENT Chairman of Law Comrmssm Believes That Public Would | Respond to Education | - o SHOWS DRUNKENNESS HAS | FALLEN OFF IN ENGLAND Law to Fact That There Arc So Many—Finds Arrests For Dry Law | Violat crease Seven Tin More Than Population. oo Washington, and s rega W. Wick Sten; Quizzed By EIWIMITTEE HEARY MISS RYAN SUED LUCAS TESTIM[]NY; FOR HEART BALM T 1 i o Arokes oz veresasa e Tolg G, 0. 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