Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - March 26, 1938, Lowell, Massachusetts THE WEATHER Showers Expected Clearing Possibly by Tomorrow Morning THE LOWELL SUN WITH EXCLUSIVE t YEAR NO 70 LOWELL MASS SATURDAY MARCH 26 1938 16 PAGES TWO CENTS KILLED AS SPEEDING AUTO LE CRASHES TREE Back on Bench Youth Accused of Attacking Young Mother Held in Anthony Jefska of Concord Street This City To Be Tried for Alleged Attempted Rape on Chelmsford Woman Near Her Home MORNING DEATH SCENE HON JAMES E O'DONNELL Judge James E O'Donnell re- turned to his duties at district court today after ari absence of three days due to illness He presided as usual over the first criminal session John P Curry in Fight for Peter J McGuire's Place A Lowell youth who went haywire in Chelmsford last night allegedly attacking a young Chelmsford mother as she strolled along the highway with her year-old daughter near their home was arraigned in district court today charged with assault with intent to commit rape Judge James E nell ordered him held over in bail for trial next Wednesday The youth is Anthony Jefska of 558 Concord street Mrs Grazia B Linnell 25 of neck road Chelmsford was the tim of the attack The woman was walking along the sidewalk near her home with her three-year-old ter about 7 p m a man from behind and asked the direction to Billerica The woman pointed out the way and then turned to continue her walk As she did so the man leaped upon her from behind and bore her to the ground fied the child screamed as she watched her mother struggle with the man The woman's screams joining with those of the child created such a din that the assailant became ened and fled Mrs Linnell on the verge of col- lapse staggered to her home and told her husband and her father what had transpired on the highway The two men hustled into the family car and scouted along the road to Billerica In less than half a mile the men came upon the youth who answered the description of their quarry Just to be on the safe side the men enticed Jefska into the car with the promise of a ride to Lowell In- stead of driving to this city the two men took their quarry back to the Linnell home where Mrs identified him as the man who had attacked her While the husband de- Jefska in conversation the father went to the telephone and summoned Chelmsford police Chief Arthur Cooke and Officer Winslow P George responded to the call and when the woman faced him witn the charge that he had attacked her placed Jefska under arrest and brought him to the Lowell police tion Here local police discovered that Jefska was wanted on a charge of of his wife Mary ska This charge was also levied against him in court today Protesting his innocence Jefska en- tered a plea of not guilty in court He was unable to raise the bail and was ordered committed ro East Cambridge jail to await trial on Press Five Woonsocket R I men were killed almost instantly and two were injured early today when this light sedan wrapped itself around a tree hear Woonsocket with terrific force One of the dead was a policeman father of seven children who was still on crutches from a motorcycle accident last December The car failed to take a sharp curve The arm of the driver can be seen in the doorway while the clenched fist of another can be seen below It was learned at city hall today that another candidate has entered the post of election com- missioner John P Curry is being mentioned -as a possible nominee to succeed Peter J McGuire whose term next week Martin D Sullivan is also a candidate for the post which must go to a Democrat In the meanwhile it is understood that the Republican city committee may endorse Chairman William Scott at a meeting next week and suggest to Mayor Archambault that he be re- turned to office The chairman has been a for the past year COMPLETION OF NEW BRIDGE FACES DELAY Contractors Refuse to Elevate Building at Bridge St and Lakeview Avenue at Price Set Up Needs Its Help to Speed Arming Foreign Policy Opposed LONDON March 16 Minister Chamberlain retired for a long week-end to study the dis- quieting dual problem of staunch Labor opposition to his foreign policy and the necessity of getting operation of the same group to speed up rearmament The national council of labor tral body of British labor yesterday declared in office of Chamberlain's conservative ment a grave menace to the peace of and demanded an im- r meeting of the League of Nations assembly to consider of European problems Chamberlain's attitude the council declared was a disregard of the need for defending democracy A the same time the group bone of the opposition Labor party was believed willing to join a corn conference among ment employers and employees to armaments on a u In commons lobbies it was rumored the proposed might reach 50 per current program to to if he succeeded in the be given said because berlain had impressed labor leaders with information that Britain WES against Germany commentators however said ran the risk of into too many political concessions in order to gain labor's in the gun factories had no doubt though that he labor's political proposals The prime minister and Sir Thomas defense co-ordinating went ahead with for a meeting Monday with the Confederation of Employers i organizations AT this meeting they intended to ask co-operation of c River at Peak The peak of the spring runoff in the Merrimack river was reached shortly before midnight last night when the gauge at the Boott Mills recorded a height of 50.17 feet and a flow of cubic feet per second less than half of freshet flow At 10 a m today the level had dropped half a foot and the flow was down to 21.950 cubic feet The completion and dedication the new Central bridge may be de- layed unless immediate steps are taken by the state department of public works to elevate the wooden frame building on the end of the structure Mayor Dewey G Archambault will confer with Commissioner William F Callahan at the state house Monday in an attempt to secure action According to local officials several contractors have been consulted con- the work of elevating the large building to the new level of the street and as yet these firms have shown no enthusiasm for ing the work The state and federal governments have allowed to cover the cost of elevating the ing and one contractor has already informed city officials he would not undertake the work for less than Several weeks ago the city cil rejected a proposal to tear down the building to make way for a broad approach to the new bridge The state public works department offered to contribute the allotted toward the cost of seizing the i that only routine business is building j it is expected that several Work on the bridge is going ahead j wjn up the question of and barring delay caused by i the building problem will probably be j salary for Coach Tom of the ready well before July 1 Lowell high school football squad Debate on State Budget Cut Deeply to Start About Apr 4 Discussed Tuesday The school committee will hold its March meeting next Tuesday night Although Mayor Archambault who is chairman of the board said today BOSTON March 26 A state wanted for 32 snow removal trucks appropriation 5600.000 bought in advance of appropriation j greater than that recommended last The committee by its i vear bv the legislative and the department to the money means committee today handed from federal funds it saio were to the legislature for approval available when it made the purchase The committee's budget called for j appropriations of cut from Governor Charles F Hurley's original budget but included no reserves for appropriations on cial bills later session and at- tempted no estimate of the state tax cities and towns must pay to balance i the budget Debate was expected to i start April 4 Last year's final appropriation was I Likewise the committees omitted a I recommendation at this time on sion of highway funds to pay general governmental expenditures Hurley asked for a diversion of and a state tax of the amount Pending further elaboration of A major fight meanwhile shaped up over the committee's that automatic step rate increases in about a year for now saving the rest of this year and for a fuli year While refusing to grant Hurley's for the appointment of 50 additional state troopers at a cost in 1938 of the committee recommended hiring 99 more sons in state mental chiefly ward a cost of Then the committee cut from state income tax division to force dropping of 25 men put on former Governor M lev's of a for an unemployment committee hacked from fund the committee passed up that Hurley's office expenditures part of the from Attorney General Paul A Th nit and from Lieutenant which the Public Works department Governor E Kelly's Three Tipsy Murray Pelletier and Fitzgerald Assessed Each Drunken drivers held the spotlight in district court today three ists being assessed a total of in fines for operating motor vehicles while under the influence of cating liquor Francis J Murray 33 of 1215 Mammoth road Dracut an auto worker was given three months to raise a fine of A drunkenness charge was placed on file Murray was arrested on the night of March 10 on West Meadow road after Police Officer George A Elie a dent of the district noticed the un- certain manner in car being operated along the street Of- ficer Elie and Officers Martin A loy and Alfred J Cooney testified that Murray was drunk when ar- rested Henry N Pelletier 45 of 1002 Moody street a mill worker was also fined for tipsy driving and the drunkenness charge was placed on file He also was given three months to settle up in full Police Officers John F Downing John F Craig and Edward J arrested Pelletier on the night of March 11 after the car he was driving allegedly swiped two parked cars on Moody street Stephen Fitzgerald 29 of 13 lie street was given three months to pay a fine of for drunken driving and his brother Robert gerald 37 of the same address had a drunkenness charge placed on file Both are pressmen Cruising Car Officer Martin A Molloy arrested the brothers on Fletcher street when he found them in an automobile which was being driven in a manner along the street on March 17 Officer Molloy testified that Stephen was driving and Robert was a passenger in the car Officer loy and Officers Cooney and James test to condition of the pair when arrested FIRE ALA TIM TROUBLES Trouble developed in the of the fire alarm system again i when box 125 was sounded at 12.10 a m and companies responding had to be ordered out by telephone The fire was slight a flash of gasoline in Hanover street that did no age and the recall was sounds two after the box Other alarms during the day low 6.23 a m telephone flooded oil burner at 7 Ralph street 9.50 a m telephone grass fire in Flemings street m telephone Textile dump Leaves Sun for the AP Frank E Carey Local Reporter for Seven Years Goes to Boston Francis E Carey staff member of The Lowell Sun tomorrow will enter the employ of The Associated Press Boston bureau Mr Carey has been with The Sun for seven years and in that period of time has demonstrated his and ability in the newspaper field He is known by thousands of residents Carey's assignments for The Sun have taken him as far afield as Cairo Illinois and Arkansas His reporting has been of the mane variety displaying an incessant interest in people and in events A graduate from Lowell high school Mr Carey also was graduated from Holy Cross college in 1930 He came to The Sun early in 1931 Among his assignments were stories on the N R A the Soldiers bonus the shoe strikes of 1933 the State Legion convention the State Labor Convention the great Lowell flood and his famous trip west and south during the great Mississippi floods Mr Carey has interviewed among others Fritz Kreisler Nelson Eddy John L Lewis Lou Tellegen Jeff vis The Hobo Alice ander Paul Lawrence Admiral Byrd Mrs Martin Johnson His Music Box has been one of the outstanding music notes columns in New England and he was responsible for a good many of the stories in Man About Town The Lowell Sun joins with the public in wishing one of its best reporters Godspeed and bon voyage in his new journey in the fields of the Fourth Estate with the Associated Press Parents Forgive 11 If Matthiesen and Carroll Families Share Grief NEW YORK March 26 There was only the state to satisfy today for the slaying of Charlotte Matthiesen Grieved and bewildered by the puppy love tragedy which robbed them of their daughter the girl's ents nevertheless freely forgave ald Carroll Jr They even visited with Carroll's parents to share their mutual grief j Mrs Matthiesen I loved j Donald as my own son Mrs Carroll Charlotte was just like my own daughter to me And against that display of under- standing and forgiveness District At- torney Charles P Sullivan moved for- ward in his charged duty to prosecute the youth who killed his sweetheart because she feared the shame of unmarried motherhood Donald claimed that only an over- sight made him a murderer It was Charlotte who first placed the death gun to her heart and pulled the trigger he told police but there was only a had forgotten to raise a cartridge to the firing ber That over sight made him a derer for when the trigger was again pulled it was Donald who pulled it Bodies Pried From Wreckage One Victim Patrolman Injured Three Months Ago WOONSOCKET R L MarcH 26 Woonsocket men homeward bound in a light sedan were killed almost in- stantly today when their caC failed to take a sharp curve shot state highway was demolished against a One of the five was a Woonsocket patrolman father of seven still on crutches since a accident on duty last December The dead were identified Norbert Arsenault about 86 policeman Dennis Fatsy 1758 Mendon found in the driver's seat Isaie Tanguay 28 Lowland street Joseph Dubois 207 Manville road Emile Leduc 130 Newbury street The injured both at Woonsocket Edward Dupre 1812 Mendon road f fractured skull and not expected to live Unconscious since the accident Arthur Gaulin 117 Newbury both legs but given a chance to recover Police said the men's ages ranged from 20 to 40 years Arsenault and Fatsy were in the front seat of the car and a wrecker had to be called to pull the vehicle apart so they could be ex- They were killed instantly The car struck the tree near the driver's seat and wrapped itself around the trunk Police said there were no brake marks on the road Henry Rondeau in front of whose the accident occurred said there was a terrible crash which awakened all the family Two of the injured died on the way to the pital and a third died a minute after he arrived The others were too injured to talk Arsenault two of whose seven dren are twins had been off duty since he broke a leg while doing cycle duty three months ago Cherry Blossom Time WASHINGTON March 26 annual display of Japanese blossoms was at its height today and thousands of visitors thronged Potomac park Police traffic assignments were made on the expectation of ing to route tourists through the this week-end No Change in Victim I Three Die in i Chair Monday I BELLEFONTE Pa March 26 INS i were preparing the electric chair here today for a triple 1 tion early Monday morning The victims will Ralph Hawk 121 who cremated the mother and i sister of his financee while ing to kill Fred Reibaldi 27 who killed a policeman who surprised him i in a holdup in and hert W Gregg a Joliet parolee who i killed C Morgan Knight socially prominent broker who attempted to frustrate Gregg's during daylight holdup of the Wanamaker store in Philadelphia Took German Labels from Auto Parts NEW YORK March 26 New York police department tingly has been helping to build Nazi industry at the expense of American manufacturers it appeared today with arrest of one man and filing of charges against three others for claimed removal of made in many labels from automobile parts Under arrest was Matthew Ury who supplies the police and other city departments with replacement for cars and trucks He will be ar- Monday with Herman Waker William Bodecker and William erston all officials of the American Bosch Corp of Springfield Mass with manufacturing headquarters in Germany Streets Cleaned by fare Gang U- S TREASURY WASHINGTON March position of the treasury on Receipts expenditures balance G customs receipts for the month No change was reported by city health authorities today in the tion of a girl from the so-called Little Canada section of the city who is under treatment at the Isolation hospital for meningitis She is unconscious and her condition remains critical Dr John J health director stated today that her illness is not the contagious spinal meningitis Seek Warrants NEWARK N J March 26 Failing to appear voluntarily in eral Judge William court j lis H Parker Sr and his son Ellis i Jr were sought on bench warrants j today i They had been to appear in an action which sought their removal i to the federal district court Cor the eastern district of New York where i but is a j are under indictment for the i coccus meningitis equally serious to i kidnaping of Paul H Wondol in one the patient but not to other contacts of the Lindbergh case fiascos II That 47 streets in various parts of the have been cleaned in the past week by welfare recipients under the supervision of regular street department men was the report given out by Supt George P Legrand today The 85 welfare men who have been working since last Monday have been relieved of their duties and will be replaced by another crew of 200 men assigned by the welfare office who will continue the street-cleaning program next week There are proximately 1050 streets in the city so that the cleaning work will well into the spring TODAY'S SUN INDEX Amusements Comics Deaths French News IS 5 Serial 5 Sports 6
