Weinberg, Unruffled, Denies Accusations of Stealin
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, S ' AVEBAOB OAILT CIBCVLAflON THE WEATHER for the Month of inly, 1888 Foreeaat of t). 8. Weather Hartford .4 ' as a 6,039 Member of the Audit r a ir tonight and Friday; slowly Borean of Cltcnlatlniui rising temperature. MANCHESTER — A CITY OF VILLAGE CHARM VOL. LVgU NO. 278 . (nsssWIiid Adw»rtls(ng oa .nupiJO) MANCHESTER, CONN„ THURSDAV,5 AUGUST 2^1988 (TW ELVEPAGffiS) PRICE THREE CENTS — <■ --------- Held in Philadelphia Prison Deaths Case CORONER PREDICTS WEINBERG, UNRUFFLED, SIX MORE ARRESTS \*3 DENIES ACCUSATIONS IN PRISON DEATHS STEER DIVES OUT SEVENTH Inyesti^tion Indicates At| StOBV WINDOW TO RIVER OF STEALIN(^ $300,000 Im t Implicated In Indlaiiapolis. Aug. 25.— (X P ) —^A big Texas stepr, yearning for STATF EMPLOYES STOP the open range, dived from a SUICIDE DIVE:—ALMOST Defense Counsel In Change 'Baking’ Of Four Convicts seventh story wtodow of a pack- 2 B A H A L IO N S ing house into the White river. Waterbury, Aug. 25.— (A P ) — The steer swam the river, Manager Thomas I. Shea ol the Of Tactics Shouts Barrage Who Led Hnnger Strike. trotted through town and put on State Unemployment Compensa- OF CHINESE DIE several impromptu bull fights tion office didn't want any with bystanders who played cow- suicide dives (ro;n his office. 0f< Questions At State’s boy and gave chase. Finally two Philadelphia, . Aug. 25.— (A P ) — When a stranger entered, hur- pplicenien shot and killed the OF POISON GAS ried to a window and began to Arrest o f at least eight persons in Principal Witness Urns ahimal. ------- ii climb out, Shea and several lie “l»klng to death” of four con- others tackled him and dragged who led a hunger strike at Ambassador Protests To him back. Far, As Pro^entor Ob- Philadelphia county pristMi .was .-.They returned sheepiehly to predicted today by Coroner Charles their desks after their ungrate- A. Mersch.' Britain On Violation; Jap- ful captive explained—be nad jects To Rapid-Fire Qniz. He said the investigation he Is been hired to remove a sign from conducting with District Attorney the outside of the building. John A. Boyle indicated that at Alfred W. Brough (left) and Francis Smith, guards, are shown In court In Philadelphia as they were anese Take Juichang In New York, Aug. 25—(AI*) —Un- FLOWN HOME held without ball on homicide charges. In connection with the death of four convlcU who were said to least that many would be implicat- ruffled under a raking crose-exam- have been killed by suffocation In a super-heated airtight punishment celL ed In the deaths of tbe men in Big Drive On Hankow. IrAtlon, George Weinberg, 86, bust* Bteam-heated, almost alr-ttght pun- \ nera manager o f the old Dutch ishment cells. BY 3_raENDS Dr. Hersch did not indicate FRENCH, FACING Schultz gang, today denied accusa* London, Aug, 25-^(A P )—CJhlna whether the Investigation Involved tlone by counsel for James J. Hines employes of the prison, or officials. COONEY MOVES BELIEVE 12 KILLED charged Japan today with '‘creating that he stole $300,000 from tbs Two guards already have been held Former Flying Partner Turns a grave situation" by the use of WAR, INSIST ON Scliultz “ policy empire.” as material witnesses. poison gas. Investigators to ‘‘Turn On Heat.” Weinberg, resuming his tesQ* Over Urn To Wife; Fnner* TO POLITICAL mony against Hines, Tammany dto State prison investigators said In a communication to the British they planned to "tyrn on the heat" IN ATTACKED PLANE foreign office. Quo Tal-Chl, Chinese trict leader on trial charged with EHR^SESSION and enter the stuffy cells to learn al Services To Be Held ambassador to Great Britain, de- conspiring to extend pollural pro* whether the punishment cell block stag ej :enter clared all but four membera of two tec tlon to the gang, was quesUmefl was "a deliberately planned roast- ChinMe battalions were killed last closely about tbe Schultz tfSasuro. American P9ot Of Airliner er" Tomoirow Afternoon. Monday when Japanese used poison Socialists Demand Parlia "What happened to that m oneyf" Charles I. Ehigard, secrets^ of BRITAIN SEEN Defense Counsel Lloyd Paul Strykw gas to stop a Chinese counterattack welfare, directing tbe state's inves- Victory Of Hartford Demo- Riddled By Machine Gnn in northern Kiangsi province. ment Be Called; Daladier demanded, referring to one item Ot tigation of the deaths, disclosed that $300,000. Redding, Aug. 25. — ( A P ) . — A “ Recourse to such methods of men from his office and two state READY TO BACK warfare,” Quo declared, “are In vio- “Well, Schultz—” Weinberg HO* simple bronze um containing the crat Gives Him Share Of gan. > jjolicemen would make the test Bullets Heard Bomb Ex- lation of existing International con- Says Reich’s 2 Million He said they would subject them- ashes of the vaunted speed filer, “You stole it, Weinberg, dlda% ventions to which Japan Is a signa- you?” Stryker rasped. “ You stall* selves to the same conditions the Frank Hawks, waa brought to his tory.’’ prisoners faced in the heated cells State Spotlight With plosions, Later In Day. FRANC^CZECHS In Anns Create Crisis. it, didn’t you?” • . home here today after being flown tenned aa horrible as the Black. Hole, Wetabarg ispUed ealnJg^n o f Calcutta. to “nearby- Danbunr-from - Buffalo.' - Shanghai," Aug. 25 — 7AP) — A' did not." N. T.: near where the ace Was killed Willard And Harwood. Steam Pressure Same Degree. Hongkong, Aug. 25—(A P)—Air- final, successful assault on Juichang. Retains Sphinx-Ilka Poo* in a plane crackup Tuesday. Crisis Believed Reached As a major objective in the Japanese Paris,^ Aug. 25— '(AP) — A <‘The plan to close the windows Pilot Dick Benson, Buffalo teat line officials said Tonight they be- Socialist party demand for a special Weinberg maintained his ephlng- and venthators,” be said, “Just os drive toward the provisional capital like poise In tbe face of StrytuCji pilot, Gibson Gardner, a business By THE ASSOCLVTED PRESS. lieved at least 12 persons died In- of Hankow, was reported this af- session of Parliament today closely we understand they were closed associate of Hawks, and Mack R. Runciman Aide Hurries shouted barrage of questions, 'which Sunday night, and have the steam State Senator Joseph P. Cooney side the Chinriie-Amerlcan airliner ternoon in a Japanese army com- followed accounts quoting Premier drew repeated objections from DfO- Carlin, a former, flying partner o f ' munique. pressure in the radiators turned on the aviator, flew the urn fforh the of Hartford, Democcat, shared the which was forced down and ma- EMouard Daladier as declaring that trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. The victory, the first notable “ Let tbe witness answer the ques- to the stune degree they were when New 'York state city and-turned It center of Connecticut's political cblne-gunned by Japanese war- ^Back Jo London By Air- "Ctermany’a mobilization ->f 2,0(X),- the prisoners were in there.’’ over to Mrs. Kawks. Japanese advance since the Invad- tion,” Dewey protested as Stryksr stage, today with Clarence O. W il- planes yesterday, between Canton 000 men” had confronted him with He said he wanted to know If Funeral services will be held to- lard, veteran New Haven Republi- ers' occupation July 28 o l Kluklang, tumbled one question on top of sn* large radiators tat the cell block and Macao. plane For Secret Parley. a Yangtze river port 21 mites to the "a situation no government chief other in a rapid-fire succession that morrow aftornoon -from the flier’s can leader and Benjamin E. Har- has known since 1914.” “ were really needed Just to heat the home, Hawk’s Nest. The Rev. wood, chairman of the Republican A spokesman for the China N a- east, occurred in sweltering best of left' Weinberg open-mouthed. building In the winter, or If there Lsmde May, chaplain o f the New tional Aviation ' Corporation, the 140 degrees. Newspapers with strong political As tbe state’s princliial witness State Central committee. connections said the premier’s de* waa something else in mind." York city American Legion Post to Cooney moved into the spotlight owners, said the line’s reports In- London, .Aug. 25.— (A P )—A de- Japanese observers maintained thus far, Weinberg had testified claratlon was made at last night’s William B. Mill's, superintendent last night by administering a whip- Ciicated the plane, riddled by ma- cisive development In tbe Issue be- that the fall of tlie walled city put that tbe racket syndicate cleared closed meeting of the executive $780,000 during 156 days: of the prison, said if the building (Oontinoed on Pago Two.) ping to tbe Democratic organization chine-gun bullets, was entirely sub- the invaders In a position t » out- was deliberately planned as twen the Czechoslovak govern- committee of his own Radical- “ Then the fix on race-track num- of Hartford under the leadership ol merged In the small riyer on which flank 30 (Chinese divisions deployed "roaster” he was unaware of It- ment and Its Nazi-supported, auton- Socialist party, at conclusion of bers went off," Weinberg related* Mayor Thomas J. Spcllacy. Fight- the American pilot, H. L. Woods of along the 90-mlle railway between To Ask for State Troopers. Winfield, Kas., set it down.- omy-seeking Sudeten-German min- which the committee voted him “and our banks were hit for $4(k>r ing for bis'party’s nomination for Kluklang and Nanchang, Chinese “complete confidence.” Coroner Hersch announced he senator In the First District, Coo- Only three survivors who reached ority appeared Imminent today 000 in one month’s time.” would ask Governor George H.