‘■m NET PBEiSS BUN i ^ : . 4W'. •• AVEBAGB DAILY CIBOULATION Forecast hy U.^8. for tbe Month of March,' 19S0 Osrtford.; < Fair and ccotinned cold ionif^t: 5,511 imd.Thursday. Members of (he Audit Bureau of [Conn. Circulations s i x t e e n " PAGES V [ PRICE THREE CEN!1^ VOL. XLIV., NO. 174. (Classified Advertising on Page 14) SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930. , LORENZ IN COURT Convicts'Attemptin|§r to Revive Fe llow Prisoner, Victim of "^Fiamcs ! ''5 CHANGES HIS PLEA 4 \ Admits He’s Guilty and BOTH HOUSES Will Be Asked SeTeral Qu^- Leaves It to Judges to De­ donSv by luYestigatmg termine Degree; State’s PLANAHACK , Board as tu Cause of Fire; Witnesses Called Today. ON SEA PACT w > % Columbus, O., April, 23.— (AP)]—<gslble movement- of prisoners over4 Death Toll Now 318; Cou* the walls, said, “if Warden Thomas Hartford, April 23.— (AP)—^When The opinion that Warden, Preston B. had .ste^ed ihside the w ^s of the the trial of Henrich O. Lorenz for With Agreement Hardly 24 Thomas, of Qliio^ Penitentiary would penitentia-^ during the pandemoni­ victs Out of Cefls Show murder opened in Superior Crim­ have been killed had h4 entered thfe um o^ the fire, he surely would have inal Court this morning, Lorenz Hours Old Senate and prison yard during the disastrous been kilied. ’ Sigus of Uurest But Out­ changed his plea to guilty, leaving fire Monday night, was , expressed “■rhose men ha4 no thoi^ht of to the three judges the determining today by the Rev. Father Albert escape. They, were thinking of those House to Investigate Vari­ O’Brien, Catholic chaplain. men perishing in. the flames like break is Averted-Gott- of the degree of guilt. Lorenz, who The penitentiary explain, ^com­ mo^, theyr were enraged; has confessed to the kilhng of Nils 'angered bemuse of toelr Utter help­ E. Anderson in Wethersfield, March ous Phases of the Treaty. menting on the l ^ t UiBi,.ti^'w^deh tiuue to Identify the Dead; 31, had previously 'pleaded not ordered his chief deputy^ to take lessness;' because they were, beyond guilty to first degree murder. charge inside, and himself took com­ toe help of those gathered outside Acting Public Defender Walfnd Washington, April 23.— (AP)— A mand outside to prevent any pos- walls.” ^ Relatives Arrive m £»• Lundborg, when court opened, an­ two-edged attack on toe London nounced that the defendant vnshed naval treaty was forecast today in CONVICTT^ETS $500 Inmbus. to change his plea. Judge Newell Congress. Jennings asked if Lorenz fully , / . FOB TIBE With toe new international agree­ derstood the meaning of tins acUon Columbus, O., AprS' 28.- * and being informed that the defend­ ment scarcely twenty-four hours New York, April 23.— (AP) — (A P )—Ai E. Nice, Colnmbna. ant did directed the clerk to receive old, toe chairman of both Senate A check for $500 has been for­ fire chief told, the board investi- the change of plea. and House naval committees made TO BE CLOSE ONE warded by William S. Paley,. Judges Ernest C. Simpson and president of the Columbia Broad- plans to investigate. garting the Ohio ‘prison fire to­ Carl Foster are sitting with Judge casting System to • Prisoner day that he believed none of the - Jennings. Falling in with the proposal of Prisoners guards, police, tnllitlameii worked side by side: to give first aid to victims of -the fire which X46822 at toe State Penitehtiary Story of the Crime. Chairman Hale of toe Senate com-1 swept toe Ohio taking 300 lives. This plcturq shov^ QOj’^cjl^'.y^Qrkjng in -ia recognition-of the graphic ac- 318 prisoners who died would Anderson had been a friend of mittee, that the naval experts who the smoke-filled yard of the prison to revive a fellow -inmate who had been rescued from a burning tier of But coimt of the prison fire he broad­ have been lost had they been re­ Ixirenz and had loaned him money, were'.in London'with the ddegation cells. Note toe handkerchief placed-over the face .of the man in the center background to comoat the cast. leased from their cells as soon aa, and the motive for the killing, as be questioned, Chairman Britten of effect of toe smoke.’"" ] r . President that He During the height of toe fire the fire was disceweredi claimed by the State, is that -Andw- toe Houge committee annoimced on Monday night toe Columbia son was pressing Lorenz for toe toat his committee also would ask System hastily assembled a coast payment of a $300 loan, and toat Navy officers why some features of Columbus, O., April 23.— (A P)— Hopeful of Success. to. coast hookup and the prisoner Lorenz inveigled Anderson to ride American nav2il policy were “aban­ Warden Preston E. ‘Thomas of Ohiqi with him to Wethersfield where doned” in london. U. S. HIGH COURT gave an impromptu description Penitentiary was summoned to ap­ outside toe automobile, Lorenz shot FIND ANOTHER PLANET of toe fire. pear again this afternoon before Borah is Curious. Washington, April 23.— (A P )— . -<s> him to death, carried toe Irody in the Chairman Borah of the Senate the board investigating the tragic car to a point east of toe Stote foreign relations committee likewise CITED IN PROBE President HeSoyer was informed to­ fire that took toe lives of 318 Prison and threw it on toe /^v®r wants to ask some questions, al­ day by Senator Watson, of^ Indiana, prisoners in four cell blocks Mon­ There the body was found FAR BEYOND NHTUNE though he has indicated toat he Republican leader, that a close de­ day night. Attorney General Gil­ and nearby in toe river toe gun NAVAL DEEGATES bert Bettman, heading the inqvdry, probably will favor ratification. cision is in prospect_ in the Senate recovered after Lorenzos arrest in Britten said he would summon said the warden would be asked to Windsor, Ontario, and his i^ftum to Secretary^Adams of the Navy De­ Seu. Robinsou Accuses Wet oh the nomlnatioh o f Judge John, J. answer these questions: Hartford, where he re-enacted toe partment, *one of toe American dele­ Canadian Scientists Report SUSPECT ARRETED Parker, of North Carolina, to the START FOR HOME “What arrangements were made tragedy for the detectives. gates, and four admirals who acted Orgauizatiou With Writ Supreme Court. to take care of any emergency such The First Witness. as advisers at London. Confronted with a bre^ in their as,that which attended the holo­ The first witness was Civil En­ He would like to hear, he said, It Showing on Photo- IN TAYLOR MURDER own ranks, the' administration caust? gineer John T. Henderson, who tes­ why toe United States agreed to. iug to the Judges. forces in toe Senate are relying; on Liner Leviathan Held Up 19 “What specific arrangements were tified to a map of toe route Lorenz build fewer 8-inch cruisers and graphs Six Years Ago; Is sufficient Democratic support for made to handle fire? What equip­ is aUeged to have driven over on more 6-ihch cruisers than had been confirmation of Parker. ment was available to fight fire? March 31 from Anderson’s yarding favored by the N?ivy General Board. Late reports from the Democratic Hours Until Our Envoys What information he has learned place on Rowe avenue to Wetoers- His hearings, he s^d, would take Not the LoweU Object. Man Confesses He KiUed Washington, April 23— (AP) — side were understood at toe Capitol as to the cause of the blaze that place in May, shortly after the re­ Letters to members of the Supreme not to be very friendly to Parker, sent dense clouds of smoke rolling- ^^^John T. Stuart from the First Na­ turn of the delegation. Court on' prohibition and another however. Arrive from Londw. through six ranges while the vic­ tional Bank testified that ^ reM While the Senate alone is required Cambridge, Mm s ., April 23— (AP) Movie Director in 1922; Still Hopeful. tims were locked' in their cells?” was a depositor m toe ba^ ftom discussing the advisabili^ of a test Discussing the Senate situation to ratity treaties, the House has an —Possibility of the existence of an­ The warden t^tified before the March 24, 1930 to -Apnl 1. I^ere case in an effort to overtura the dry preparatory to .th^ .opening ,of . tho- board yesterday. J^t the inquiry has equal part in the shaping of Navy other hitherto unknctwn" transi»Nep-r ' 'Southampttfi, Engto April 23. had been cash of $100 Md a $1M building plans, and Britten hopes Police Donbt His Stpry. jaws were Intrbduced today at the Parker debate on'Monday, the Re­ reveal^ new' angles which require —(AP)— ' Leviathan sailed^from insurance check that whatever is developed in the tunian planet was announced today ^nate lobby committee’s hearing. publican leader said after leaving explanation, from Mm. was drawn on the State Bank o House hearings will have its effect by Prof. Harlow Shapley, director Along with these went a charge the White House that>,he ,was still SonthnmptCT httbor at 7:30 a. m. : Heath'Toil Now 318 Chicago by the Mutual Trust Uife at the other en^ of the capitol. of toe Harvard Observatory, follow­ Los Angeles, April 23— (AP) — by Senator Robinson, Republican, hopeful of confirmatiph of the ,fdr New Vork vrith GbiPhel Henry The death list was increased tq Insurance company to Anderson ^ ing receipt of a telegrafc from toe Police early today arrested Russell Indiana, that the Association nonunec. ^ ■ r' "'L.'''^t\mson, American secretary of 318 todtyr when one of the hundreds was endorsed by Anderwn and Dominion Observatory at : Ottawa.