Bridgeport Telegram, The (Newspaper) - March 19, 1928, Bridgeport, Connecticut THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM THE WEATHER M KM M I Mil I union ow in i r i orn ON PAGE Books lo III c c I vis VOI NO 07 I 1 ji d c i i it the lot if at L ui a t of IS I og U t- Pat Oft 20 WO OV U A TICK Bf JUDGE SIDDONS DENIES HE RECEIVED BONDS IN TEAPOT DOME OIL DEAL Supreme Court Justice Who Presided at Aroused by Mention of in MYSTERY WITNESS TO REVEAL NEW ANGLE Man Who Is Alleged to Have Received Bords by Mistake f Will Testify Democrat to Be Hi opt right Bv Universal WASHINGTON Maich 18 of the name of a Mi dons as the Intended recipient of in bonds in the Teapot Dome oil scandal Investigation Justice Frederick L Siddons of the District of Columbia tonight to Issue a scathing denial o' miv connection with such a plot Justice Siddons denied eve bavin any bonds or anv com on the subject HP ed I have anv 01 any other communication It f 11 made out of whole so far ai I am concerned This thing has not t p vestige or of truth 1- difficult to speak w th com u e about a thing Why on the face of It 1 1 ng appears most asinine I tan ot make that too emphatic I hope the Senators will make o most complete It is lather that one needs to male a. denial I want to make tin fni il as complete emphatic ant sweeping as I possibly ran Justice Siddons presided at the le rent oil conspiracy in which a mistrial was granted am the contempt trial lor lurv shadowing which HP sentenced Sinclair Burns and for contempt finding them I The na ne of a Mr o' i T 1 of 1hp Tea e f finil of the ornate p at C hirago li r with a nn however kepi M He a NV P tlir n stated that tra rii between the name u s 71 rl of thp Trip witi ess if was hart nn f led st n to the com ln executive A tnn fled hv UP pss of ir- tlic committee tonight be i met service ion of f- i P N e of Noi Mi Dakota chairman of the subcommittee rlc 1 e would call an executive to continue t n it tne to consider the new turn events but that declined ab- to comment On ihls executive session and upon Hie unearthed the secre sr investigators and of the rests the on whether the mysterious witnesses i I be tailed to the stand dm it learned Despite the gravity of it was believed witness be subpoenaed to tell his It is known to be so that the committee ill bring it li to the open afte Investigation of every angle has given r substantiation Nve and Norbeck of South Dakota reached the fl it after the Chicago sessions 1 Ich mysterious witness with h s which Nye said will the If true was questioned Package Held 000 The mystery witness Is understood to have told the committee that a package bj which xid been misdirected to him Instead o Washington D C Ine package according lie leports b IB the address of a 01 company and contained 1 i bonds li advance of Us receipt warning i ad been sent in telephone and tele message from the office of the j 1 company not to open the package h it to forward it Intact to the person a i rested it was learned Int witness however en t ely In the regarding the pack opened It and later was dismiss I orn his position because ne le the story to a of al H is t investigation by the I centers a i on the e and r messages involved r the t nn and also a check up bv of the ot DIP package t i i e the comn i IPC line of its inve ha I ed W M March DP lat c to at th session Will H Ha noi of the ind and for n Republican chairman may bp re I i lir stand for was stated Mfu will be quest v 1 he emph ti all denied he made a witl IP Fied W Upturn pi ot ir ii d p mi i ortt fo t i pn in 4 V nc r tP Ma li li sr P c f s PI nil he i I In r i- f I v ri en Jus IP i i fi mi I i His Neck Broken For Three Dies Ib As Piess His neck T most thiee Rody P snall Ji who Ins became acquainted well known ts idols and vv is a familial at National 1 eague baseball games In lecent died heie tonight The was injured lie diving i shallow at R I and until seemed to be his although lie was confined to a wheel a lovei of sports and ad- mit ei of Babe Ruth Bobby Jones others of the spoil realm was visited bv those notables when weie In Pittsburgh time to t me keen in Pirates and their est in him was credited to some ex- tent with prolonging his fight foi He a son ot P s i II Protected by Will Enter Hunt for Remains of Eight WILL WORK AT NIGHT Bodies to Be Removed after Drivers Held For Perjury in Milford Case Harris and Who Boasted of Police in Investigation ot Fatal Accident on Milford Turnpike Last Are Taken into Custody in New Charged with Statements under DRAFf TREATY TO ATTIC DWELLERS LEAVE SMOKE-FILLED HOUSE AS 11 BOY DISCOVERS BLAZE r Him am Bci Imsky both of wilt morning the pulu c with his investigation of the death of August 2 last At the i both me i occupants of a cm te that hud found the victim on the Unn pike and that they did not him On Investigation the SO that NO police found they had stiuck the man Hauls admitted tills to police Tlie airest of Hauls ancl bv Chiel James W Mallei ot I two weeks ago was a of boasting on pait of in detection Hairis was held In bonds ol as c ci ol the auto on the charge ol a motoi vehicle in a ma so as to of Them Can Be BObTON Mai h Assoc aled Ihe was towed into a sale beith at the Boston vaid just ahead of a cious gieat News Summary POIl I Bound cases aie to jail Pease states Page 1 Attic me to fiee fiom smoke-filled house two alaims in foi early morning blaze Page 1 Lutheran church chooses new toi Page l aie sung at memorial Page 13 Bridgeport needs up Simpson says but will let some one else do it Pane 1 of St Patricks dav bv A O H urged by Page 2 Polls open foi two houis at 1 can primaries tonight Page 10 damage to shipping In Massachusetts Bav Had the stoim the and hei tugs the would sunk Navy said Tonight the brought up fiom the bottom of the sea olf thiee months of the wintry elements was c ladled In hei six pontoons off dock 2 at the Navy jaid She will not be docked until high tide moi The at the 8am almost on the schedule planned by Captain J King and Ha i old 8 deis who weie In charge of the salvage operations Then plans weie followed until the submarine and tugs oft Hull daybreak Heie they ion Into a choppy sea and It was to i educe the speed to less than 37 knots an houi the rate which the salvage directors thought safest About daybreak Benjamin Kemp captain of 111 3 Boston Navy yard pilots and a civilian pilot boarded the sweeper which led the tow at Boston Light They steered the lineup into the north channel at exactly 6am The raised was opposite hei In two houis and the operations wete then over to Captain C H Summers who will her bei thing cause death was held as a witness pending the i Inquest The of Hauls and ling ol the s Inquest w is expected bv to up a has baffled and since eaily on of August 2 when Hauls and brought the badly mangled body of to a Milford hospital with statement that they lou d him In a clump of bushes on the loid Peterson who was tK UJ -one mid a of was lound to be suffering fiom a ccl skull eial broken bones th ee one of which punci lied p King and the Horn Ills HP died a Id LI i hospital In. pneumonia and partial Hulls and told police tint as they were long the luin pike they noted a bundle of clothes in the load and stopping to found wounded in a clump of They rushed him to the hospital and turned the bundle ol clothes ovet to police who lound it to contain a stil ors outfit by which Uie man was Identified At the time of death dil igent of the failed to leveal any tiace ol blood 01 glass which would Indicate that son had been sauck by i hit iun and police who weie that one incl light on cai weie dented Despite a piobe by pei MK and polite officials the two youths to stoiy snd to link them with son s Jlp tallies Anest While police accepted that Peterson met his death unknown they did not their search and Chief ud and Seigeant Hemy been quietly seeking clues In the case foi the past months A tip fiom persons to whom Hauls and aie said to have blagged ol the manner In which they ted the police started a. new gation which in the ot Hauls and a summons foi Prominent Americans Demand Immediate Negotiation for World Wide Peace OF So Much at Stake Effort Must Not Be Allowed to WISHING TON Maun A of i loiu THE KILLED AS PLANE FALLS INTO t LP Y Airplane bums horse in Milford fires Page 1 Hit and motorists aie held on charges Page 1 FT school committee wants Moon tract for school site asks Grout s I opinion Page 19 Republican caucus In night Wheeler explains leason foi I Surgeons To Today Navy divers and the pail of pontoons about v u two 1 the amidships to ate the seven list The pon came up uneven when the men SAYS T PEASE Die in Boy Is Knocked Un- to have public hearing on to eliminate curve on Post loan it. blacksmith shop Page 19 Republicans to caui ul to night Page 2 tells Yale audience nil j nn hincs cant love or think Papr Donovan Catholic doctor ancl I I athlete dies on Mill birthday In Middletown Page 13 W Siddons denies IIP PVP IP cr pd bonds in Supreme Coin justice incensed at mention of 1 Mi In case 1 Repudiate those who had i to do with Teapot Dome disgrace Cap- PCI Republican Page 11 treaty that will outlaw w u notable urge in lettei Page 1 is towed Into navy vaid will be div docked today surgeons protected bv masks to hunt for bodies them dark Page 1 breaks dishes shakes i ouses In Page 1 Thiee killed as into of children pilot crushed boy and girl luit Page chops dead In Greenwich taking a cold Poit athlete fiom shock Page 8 Disabled 1 nei is New York after 26 hours to lepai engines Page 4 of seven wiped out when dam burst Page 11 Grand Duke loses of that was s pass ing as dukes villa is Page Long is now fourth wife of of page 14 Adjutant knew of Ku Klan attempt to Rhode Island slate militia Colonel Pane 1 d absolves Dons McDonald of minder she liud nothing o do th the Pige 1 Man s moie than machine Di Page 12 Special cartoon Pnge IJ Complete Page 12 Magadine page Page 10 Radio Page 20 SPORTS X mil HI on Page ELECTS NEW PASTOR Hardest Men to Keep Are Those Awaiting He Tells n citizens in a le tei to the im- mediate negotiations of a to outlaw t hough the administration has made 11 plain the in its opinion is not susceptible of cut definition The lettei was s PU bj UP si IIP of men who sub to Ihe a definition of Kellogg with the of Briand of Fiance foi the iting of his to wais of aggression that he Is dis- inclined to see qualified In anv and that he has noi that is a factory definition of aggress faie the to tup 1st P weie M r ORvan b Majol r Mien J Allen of Kansas Hany Emeison and William White at stake It making the of wai a fundamental pic of Intel national law suggesting this in the It is agreed by and between the engaging in this covenant that the of hall be deemed a fundamental prln ciple of law and a im- tion upon wai In violation of Its obligations shall be guilty of the most serious offense against the of nations With so much at stake the tei said it Is difficult to believe that the negotiation of the proposed will be to fall It is tlie one Earthquake Breaks Shakes Houses in Albany M NY Mnl died I bioke and caused apprehension shook New York this between 10 end 10 10 oclock I lip weie felt in 1 ko Malone and like and M Lake the shock v as fco c crp that in residents then the In- ju IP and no sellout was C have explained that of locks in Logans franK in this section of the Adirondack mountains Is responsible loi the Thp lasi of in tie pist 20 was felt 28 1925 AIRPLANE n i Ot delphia Is Chosen as cm HIP Rev Mt of 7135 street Mt Airy Philadelphia Pa ns the of the English Evangelical Lutheran chuich was voted at a meeting of the noon following the chuich service F one of the trustees of the church fd the of his election but had not received an acceptance ov last The new If he accepts will succeed the Rev G Weng who several months ago to accepT a In Philadelphia The Rev Mi recently conducted a seivice at the church which has called 1 mi He is o graduate of j is taking his theological studies at Mt I Anv seminary He will in I May ancl will come to t about of May he accepts the said PAIR CAUGHT ROBBING MOVIE MAN'S MANSION WILMINGTON Cal Mauh 18 Associated Pi ess aviators were Killed and two In- todav when the wine of an airplane collapsed and scut thf hurtling 2 300 to the ing 111 the front of a home a were at plaj Ihe lan loi as the plane came down hem One boy was ed unconscious nnd an was lorn a old jul by a piece ol the falling plane Ihe dead aie Jack Mann foui of Los Angeles H of Los Angeles gcr 1 English of Paik Cat p Tnc plane had taken oft toe Burdett airport Los about half sn before it era- .si Witnesses saw the plane in T over Wilmington As It reached a point of tbe the wing ol the chine was feon to give way suddenly and the plane went Into i nose dive the boy knocked unconscious v 1 i the plane crashed In ths yard of thp home was soon afterward The plane was smashes to bits and the pilot and his two weie dead when extricated from Hit age DORIS MACDONALD A history of the and 1 of the methods of managing f jail were last night by Simeon Pease high sheriff of county m n nt the Sunday evening SPIV ice of the West chuich Penal Sheriff said me trying haid to out the old idea jails of today HIP dark i rli 111 e keeps and aie unknown The fust high sheriff of conn v Samuel He appointed bv the crown n 1674 Tn the 254 since the j inent of 1 ivc seiving an teirn of seven each In 1838 the constitution was on WHEN AUTO SKIDS Pedestrian Halts While ing to to aii be was elected to the the man office First lull In The first jail in the was on the silp of Ihe Episcopal church hi In 1853 that the Jail and county oe transferred lo this a fight this was done undei the terms of the was to a jail and build courthouse The jail was located on new the on ind hulled tin pavement by a at Man and at 2 10 o clock noon Mi 283 street vv is keri cents lio pital hei condition regarded is Two of hei libs lire and t tint nci skull is Mis is the Frink Loppui n spec ill pol veil Known in the Mi lopen Ins only been from the hospital he undei E ALSO LOST Two Blazes Are Seen by Bridgeport Total Loss Fne totally two bains In last night causing an ed damage of around The at 7 10 p m and to the ground a bain on s laim owned by Hellar Wan a loss of The second flic came at 8 4J p m destroying tin bain owned Beard on foid near do ing damage around One flic bu ned horse to an In second flie a twin motored u ov lied bv the crift ol valued at 112000 lour m five and several tools were all destroyed flip If s o tnc plane was Inter placed at 000 when It w is the ol the pi me had been t pn oil to be ih Ihp mo toi ilot c K about Chemicals 1 ami i how No 1 duck No 1 mil No 1 Hie ami found the bam i in nf flames upon Such had that at- tempts to put the flip out weip futile Nothing but smouldering embers and hot lion of tlie trucks and remain The was turned in at 8 p but H is thought the must have started at least an hour that for of this called the Telegram as eanv as 7 30 to the me The flames so lighted up the skv tint residents of this tits could them The plane had been built foi the of which o c lot some weeks and Is still hap plans for The was owned and by Joseph Antonik of 578 Lafayette st cet He Lain el Beach Judge W Plan of head of the on was driving on Main stiee and the loss lhe plane wag Two Alarms Sounded for ly Morning Fire in South Bring Out Array of With OVERLOOKS ALARM BOX RUNS 2 BLOCKS Policeman Turns in Alarm As Youth Rushes Someone Else Pulls Box Damage Is Two alaims flie box 171 M Paik avenue and at 12.M 0 clock this morning called out t a iay of flie apparatus the city 1 nee and the police patrol for a Bie In the attic of 72 and 74 i ice asleep In the at- t c looms weie awakened and cut of the house The second floor and tlie third noor v 1th the exception of one room where the flie started are occupied by cph B and family The family sleip on the third foci Joseph Jr awakened choking the smoke He 1 Is nephew Irving Hannon who t in bed with him and ran Into EH adjoining loom where he woke up 1 is father and mother He got them and rushed out of the t ling in an alarm Box Fne box 169 Is located on pole 11 the street from the 1 60 feet Young i cig forgot about that box In the j and ran to the coiner ot laik avenue and Johnson two 1 blocks away Policeman impson was standing at the corner nd in Uie alarm when i eig yelled that his house was on Several companies under iand of Acting Chief George F. were soon on the scene and j when they were fighting the flie I ne In another alarm from the ame and several moie I quickly on the scene PHI in nrl Charles J ncl bimpson had passed by I ouse a few minutes and eaw i o signs of tnc at time Sergeant back to the i c HIP engines coming and T r and family who on the The In the attic roM i scd by the Schuttel as a etore i om It sin i ted in a papern rnd two holes were burned through j the floor Acting chief Beardslee I nates l hp at v IK used to put out the I The police patrol with Lieutenant John Sergeant Robert i 01 and hurried to the ene and the city ambulance also In c of Di Chester E Haberlin Bright They Immediately when it WM to be only a small stein who resides next door on Park t How the started could not te determined POLE BROKEN OFF BY SKIDDING AUTO NEW YORK March Two youths held on I today they had j caught attempting to remove en 1 expensive fiom a 47 loom mansion in owned by J i moving pto mo ot Blackton Is In England Girl Sentenced to Hang with Him Had No in He Two Men Are Driver Escapes in Crescent Avenue Mis stepped from the west of Mam to ctois to the east side tar Minted to In his statement to the police An says he blew hib auto lion uid the biakes Mis hiked i In the of the meet s cai started to skid and the leai end of it swei cd and the left leai stiuck Mis Que Mauh IB Bv Piess C McDonald Poll had btan stationed In the un sentence of wilh his wife 1 cu e the reported that Doils loi the taxi biass pieces and an- ei in an affidavit made public tonight had and an his wife Is ent oj the mm U der and that hei made ill by a period of two i lust summer w k ui i ue months Eaily todav Ihp mide v In Boi mick eigh een and Andrew 1all In was made pub and had lie Nif Donald s J A Legault to take down the to whom It may li i Fittings valued at t3 concern It said 000 vere found in s loom is to cei thai mv wae Doils Po who the pan confessed McDonald now in J U. in is innocent of the i of A pan placed the valve of the stolen goods licit than 000 Bridgeport Needs but Simpson Will Leave It to Others IMM Oil ca ago Rev W s Methodist and peni of he Bridgeport Cl i rn Un on his di to i lean up nn l ddn u i W ml Bible C I do I i Bi st a Hi cla s set Ire in the lobby of the M C A II P RPV Mi Simpson did i 1 P ai y of his 11 In I mood ft i I fiat klv adult trd i linn stll in Hi p ji I Hid 1 HI l c Iv i pri Bi If I i i i II B I I I r dp I T rl IP t I 1 1 PI II r IP HI rl I I nl I w PI n PI in BI n L. up Hi Jlp RPV Mi will ukp pu t in anv lu me div be told Uie His in diving will only be 1 academic onp His lie have fi this business I hp lan s l Although IIP to take dp f statement Rev Mi Simpson in I that his f last yeai was not by all plum hps in this Jlp to lean up p pit t is In I alids of n pio n p it. l n i. bP I n of Hip C I T IIP 1 I h is Mill In the i IM P'S of i igan i s ii p tu tl p aid of 1 i i I in il enl In Mi Ins nn con npi i nn vvi i h l h I to this b my Ood in heaven She had not to do In the 01 helped In ans way the is Ihe was by Na poison gov p noi o t lie Boi lail ancl D D Loi mi c hief of thp In hei confession Mis Donald said il was she who Hi the shots whn h caused s death The hanging has been sp foi next TWO ALARMS SOUNDED FOR FIRE IN PLAINVILLE oil Uie pavement in of tht and company plant on Crescent Hte lasl night an automobile owned ancl tav Joseph W isco 2b4 clashed a pole ancl It otf at the bise Two passengers in the cai weie ancl weie token to the hospital The Injured ale William Hogan of 170 Davenport stieer and Joseph Beina of 172 atice Both are un del and the full of had not been up to an eaily houi this Wasco was east on descent a nine between He en couit Sei view me whole pan of his cai was wrecked In the II was on the scene lo help hold on 1'URi 3tepnev v ho was in the cai witn I nn lumped Horn lhe cai and to the woman s assistance Someone telephoned loi tht ambulance ui 2 lo and it ai lived at the scene of the accident one latei Di in learned ihal while the tele was in ide foi the uni- bulance lhe woman wan placed in An- toniks cai ind taken to St Vincents hospital flu was back at Lhe hospital minutes niter it started Di H R DeLuc was summoned and is In of Mis Hoi c jn cli Ion is t nd aie feais she will not Anton 1 nt to poll r IICM and made a of the details of thp accident with officials of the jl c m le i h w is n covered bv Insurance but would make no statement regarding the fect the loss might have on plans for the Squealing and grunting 20 pigs through thp crowd The pigs weie in the bain when the file stalled but fought then way out the flames Theie weie also 20 tons pf hav in the binn valued at about 000 The hav and the gasoline fiom the motors in bain made the place go up almost witli a puff The of the flie wus ind because ol the iwo flies the thought of a was but tlie would not give his opinion as lo this Engine No 1 and No 1 the flist does not extend as fai as s faims and hose had to be laid to a 850 feet aw 15 and pumped lo thp biin bnin Is a complete loss The was placed nt 200 Ol the 200 WOO of this amount was to a that was burned to deith Ihp was hitched in his stall and so intense was thP heat lioni the names It to attempt a lescue of tht animal Adjutant General Knew of Klan Control In Rhode Island Colonel Charges BOY DIES IN WAS STRUCK BY AUTO PI Ll I il Bv I PlP SI I V 1 p SPIll 111 t fi a flip HP of Jmi Nrf IIP f I n lit I IV 1 IM P ll li Mm tx i s 1 n l i 1 inr -i i r i lit IP I PI tin l IP TUP P i i ii i HUP i ti tli n 11 p fur fn t ill nl 7 i k llu v IP ailed bin k i II i. o I is i hi hip h id R 1 Mauh Press i that lint C. uri il Within C Cole of Rhode was of the plot the Ku lo Mlu of the of this as long as in list old A of the light nj a battalion of which bus been nf of the t I iPd ihal of Klin uli HIPS in tlic 18 a cf by an automobile opei by Von nineteen of 18 veal old of 1 j this in Noi vv ilk His skull vv s fun s ilp U i b I hi Ir h nl pn Van SKV IP i P I Hi n r I lii th i i 01 i bond of 000 m i ST d I np u s si Kl I i fi n l of his l bf ai nil n n home hp IRI I 0111 bp imrl a gland I n v mi In fi nt if Van Scov R M v I nl I LAI I ol Braman averted l tn i Pla Bi man s 1 o i P 11 and 1f thp tli n II Is that C vv was in of the flist light infantry ment Col recent long ancl who Is said to have of K K K activities in the or sanitation Invited by Adjutant Otn Colp the past two months to lo the National and two of the flist light vv th hiir to foun the second of combat HIP ee of the House is tc to inept prs HP ll t c Ir n d v l i IB HP lump men line PI ins n tl P aio tc i i thru issued bv l tl I man BARROWS HELD AS Lexington Avenue Man ed Charles Is Charge by Chained with with intent to K 11 Ban o vis of 54 a enue was at 6 oclock t rday morning and locked up at I e under bond of He Is alleged to have been the man who stabbed Gomes of Hanal in the left chest a tei l morning Gomes went to the Emergency p tal Di Chester E li und a wound three Inches deep which 1 did not strike any vital n pai s of the The wound WM with two and a i Gomes declared that he hid 0 i stabbed bv a while he wtf 1 kn g him home Thp police weie notified and c IPS Gomes finally that F was the man who stabbed was located and arrested at i o bv Patrolmen and He was Identified by a the man who cut him Gomes is under the care of a an but is expected to be able to p ai In the City court this morning ae a witness in the case against Barrowe INJURED WORKMAN IS LIKELY TO LOSE LEG Ions were stronger latt night t at it will be necessary to amputate t e rig it lfg of Corb t of 684 avenue who i light in a at the Eastern a le Iron plant t noon snd had artery s i ved in his i I thp that lollem were I d qui from being d awn in and 11 to a alh It v to prv i Nets with to irb from grip
