New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1924, Page 5

X e ATTHE o = (= .“ ] Iy o~ o @ . SAFTER SIX DAYS'==LYCEUM vAfter Bix Days,” the dynhmic film story now being shown at the Lyeeum, ia by far the most unusual pleture ever shown in this eity, Here I8 a Alm which traces the history of the old testament from the very creation (o the time of King Solomon, when the wise king sang his song of songs ti the lilies of the flelds, And this picture s the Bible, without orna- mentation, told baldly, shocking sometimes, In Its very baldness, Oon Thursday the program changed, bringing “Borrowed Hus- pands,” a modern drama which Is mora or lesy of the so-called high so- ciety life type, It has scenes of everyday life and some of the party episodes are said to be quite startling, Florence Vidor and Rackliffe el lowes are the featured performers in this pleture, RETIRED PROFESSOR IS GAS VICTIN W. E, Waters, Former Member of the New York University Faculty Dies From Inhaling Illuminating Gas New York, Aug. 4—Willlam Everett Waters, 67, who was retired Iast year from New York university, where he was a professor of Greek for 21 years died from inhaling illuminating gas in his home yesterday while his wife and son were attending church services. Professor Waters, who was born in Winthrop, Maine, had suffered from a complication of diseases for several years, and had been under the con- stant care of a physiclan. When the professor's wife, Alme. F. Oyler Waters and their son, Professors Waters, of Yale university, returned home they discovered Dr. Waters body in a chair in the gas filled dining room. The medical examiner's office re- ported the death as due to illumin- ating gas poisoning. A gas jet in the dining room was turned on, and the doors and windows of the room were closed, according to the assistant medical examiner who investigated the case, AIR PROBE I8 ON First Session of Aircraft Investigation Board Held Today Washington, Aug. 4. — Reports of investigators who for several months have been investigating the adminis- tration of all branches of the air services today were before the special house committee authorized to inquire into all phases of alrcraft activity, which was called for its first session since congress adjourned. Pending a complete survey of the data, Chairman Lampert sald a plan ot procedure could not be formulat- ed, but that he hoped to push forward rapldly with the Investigation. He indicated that several meeting prah- ably would be held this weew, and, if heads of the army, navy and postal air services were in Washington, that | they would be asked to testify. Several inspection trips to nearby aviation fields and aircraft plants, he =aid, probably will he taken by the committee in the immediate future. LYCEUM NOW PLAYING AFTER SIX DAYS” MOSES AND THE TEN COMMAND- MENTS A $3,000,000 Production Played Boston For 4 Months at $1.65 N\ in completely | we 0 this lll N, - column are TEPIN LA TVRNYYY GREAT VAUDEVILLE AT CAPITOL Btarting today and for the st haly pf this week the Capitel is presenting a Keith vaudevilde bill of five exeellent acts that are guranteed to give fine |entertainment, Topping the shew is Moran and Wiser in "All in Fun," a Juggling oddity that is very clever "hese two boys come from Austrhlia, the land of the boomerang and so naturally juggle hats in a boomerang fashion, Another feature on the pro- gram is the offering of the Sandell Sisters revue, The Sandell Sisters are a pair of pert misses, attractive enough to please & modern Paris and lare excellent harmony singers and duncers, ‘They are assisted In the re- |vue by Smith and Stritt, Al H, Wilson, late star of many ‘prmlufllnnn, and at the head of his own travelling company for many |years will offer a conglomeration of | wit and nonsensicalitics In “Are You Listening." | rlety act that comprises singing, danc- ing and a dash of acrobatics all com- bined to amuse. Lorraine and Ritz will be well liked in “Broadway Con- troversies,” and there is as much good | comedy in their act as there are lights on Broadway, The feature photoplay ofters Holbrook Blinn In *“The Bad Man,” as taken from the noted stage | play_of the same name and in which Mr. Blinn starred . in the leading and title role. ' SKUNKS, WHOLE ARMY OF 'EM, IS INVADING TOWN | Weston (W. Va.) Citizens Suffering Under One Plague the Egyp- tians Missed Weston, W, Va., Aug. 4.—There was one plague which the Egyptians missed, but which Weston is enduring in anguish of spirit—to wit, skuns. All the polecast east of the Missis- sippi seem to have foresaken their ancestral homes and to have chosen Weston as their permanent place. They are encountered in the streets. land church. They apparently have discovered that they are immune from attack and have become haughty and impudent. Even a dash to the cor- ner for a package of cigarettes has become an adventure. The local post of the American Le- gion has chosen a committee to con- fer with Mayor Edmiston in the hope of hitting upon some effective method of dealing with the invaders, HELD FOR MANSLAUGHTER Jersey City Man Arrested—Used Com- pressed Air Hose on Fellow Worker Jersey City, N. J., August 4.—Jo- by the Hudson and Manhattan rail- road, was arrested on a charge of death of Antonion Palenti, 40, of Ho- boken, which resulted, police chargé, from application of a compressed air hose to Palenti’'s body. George was held as a material witness. BORROWS 85 FROM COP Atlantic City. N. J., Aug. 4—When Mrs. Dorothy Evans, 24, crossed the with the approval of Traffic Officer Strehle, then talked back to the offi- cer when he remonstrated, she was ar- rested on charges of blocking traffic and jay-walking. House Sergeant But- ler refused to entertain the jay-walk- | ing charge, but the woman would have been jailed but for the sympathy of another officer who loaned $5 to post as ball, Heals Like Magic Chafing, Rashes, Itchingand all Skin Irritations of Infants, Children & Adults. Jvkes omfort Healing Toilet Powder Gives Instant Relief, There’s Nothing Like It. All druggists 0 CAPITOL Tonight—Tues.—Wed. . KEITH VAUDEVILLE 5—Gl'eat Acts— Featuring Sandell Sisters Revue with Smith and Stritt [ Francis and Wilson will offer a va- | abiding | They invade theaters, stores | seph Peluso, 37, a foreman employed | manslaughter in connection with the | H. | Rider, of Newark, a fellow employe, | street in a manner that did not meet | NET BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1024, UNITED STATES USES BIG PULP WOOD SUPPLY mption in This Country Greater Than ‘ On Per Capita Basis All Others Combined Waphington, Aug, 4.-~Consumption of paper it the ited States, amount. ing @ Mare thun 5,000,000 tons & | yeur, Is greater thun that of il other 1 nations combined and, on a per capita l“""" tWice that of Great Britain, but despite ample resources in this couns try, says the forest service of the departmeimt of agrieulture more than | half of ita supie I8 imported In_a survey of pulpweod requires ments, the first ever made on a na- tion-wide scale, the forest sorsvice, which was assisted in the work by | the American Paper and Pulpwood as- soclation, declared that the United States can produee its own supplies by cwthvating timber crops, utilizing timber'species not now in gencral use, and Increasing efficieney in producs tion | Nearly four-fifths of the timber now | used for pulpwood, says the report, | 48 spruce, fir or hemlock, although the | Pacific coast states, Alaska and the south, “contain ample quantities of | timber suitable for pulpwood which will meet our fmmedkite needs,” For | future needs the service adds, It would be necessary to culthvate only A relatively small part of the 470, 000,000 acres of forest land available having a “higher potential produe- tivity than that of any other pulp and paper country in the world." ANTI U. §. AGITATION IN JAPAN DYING OUT Ambassador Reports That Feeling Arising From Exclusion Ace is Modifying | By the Associaten Press. Tokio, Aug. 4.—Masanao Hanihara, | Japanese ambassador 1o the United | States, on his return here yesterday |from America, said he did not know !ton, He declared that he was not re- called but came to Japan to discuss | the situation arising out of the passage lof the Amétican exclusion act with | Baron Kijuro Shidehara, minister of | foreign affairs, | The ambassador expressed the hope |that the coming elections in the Unit- led States would change the complex ion of congress so far as Japanese ex- clusion was concerned. He declined to discuss the American act until he | ®ad reported to Baron Shidehara, but said the question could not be solved | hurriedly. He did not expect that it |would be taken up again before the | American elections. { Hanihara said many congress had told him they regretted |the manner in’ whic hexclusion had {been enacted, the use of the phrase “grave conse- qunces.” The agitation which accompanied | the passage of the exclusion act, the |ambassador said, was dying. While some Japanese in were anxious, owing to rec dents, | and weve confident they would not be molested, The ambassador predicted the elec- tion of President Coolidge. TROUBLE IS ENDED. St. Johns, N. F., Aug. 4. — The threats to destroy the Humbermouth Pulp and Paper project, which caused the dispatch of two warships and 30 | policemen ment of Cornerbrook, had blown over | today and the strikers had returned ifornia nt finei- | the company. | Advices received here said work in all departments was resumed |in ruin The strikers had demanded better | housing conditions and wage increases | of between 10 and 20 per cent. The lexact basis of agreement | known here. | i Robbin Dies At 17 ] Columbia, Pa.—"Bobby," ffct robin | owned by Miss Mark Ziegler, died re- cently at the age of 17. Miss Ziegler | placed the robin in a caze when it | was young and cared for it like a | cana The bird quickly became tame and answered | three chirps, uttered in quick succes- | sion. | whether he would return to Washing- | He denied he erred In‘ the majority were not uneasy | to work under concessions granted by | that | was not |, to its name by After SPECIAL PriceReduction BRITISH WOMAN1S ! ~ SLAININ MEXICD IMm. Evans Central Figure in Recent Diplomatic Wrangle Ry The Assoviated Piess, Mexico City, Aug. 4 | are searching for the slayers of Mrs, Pederal forees 4 », Rostlie Evans, who was shot dead | from ambush near Texmelucan, Pues bla, Saturday night he widow of a Nritish former president of the B Mrs. of the central fgures in the rocent in ternational affair betweon Great Rrits aln and Mexico ending in the with. | drawal eharge des archives, Herbert | D, Cumming, Mr. Cumming was ace | cused by the Mexicans of undue | harshness In his eommunications con« cerning Mrs, Evans' dispute with the Mexiean government over attempts to | divide her, estate under the agrarian | program, Accompanied by John Strauss, Gers | mun manager of her estate, Mrs, Fvans was driving homeward when | shots came from the lett and she fell | from the wagon. Her hair became en- | tangled in the wheels and tha body | was dragged some distance, badly mu- tilating the face. Strauss made a! desperate effort to defend his employ- | ler, but was wounded in the arm and foreed to abandon the fight. He man- | |aged, however, to rcleasa her hody |from the wheels and summon help | before collapsing. American Charge D'affaires hoen- | field last night conferred with Foreign | Minister Saenz. He said later that they discussed the details of the at- tack, but he was otherwise uncom- | | municative, Representative of the | | British consulate general have gone to | Texmelucan to bring the body te | | Mexico City. | Mra, Evans' six-year fight to hold | her hacienda, consisting of 1,050 hec- | tares (about 436 acres) and called | San Pedro Coxtocan, has been follow- led with interest in diplomatic circles | and in British and American colonies. | Mrs. Evans was formerly of Hrown- | ville, Texas, | The question figured in the pre-ree- | | ognition confefences last summer | whe the American delegates' unoffi- cial efforts hrought atout a meeting hetween Mrs. Evans and President Obregon. Several months ago, when | word reached the capital that the | hacienda was surrounded hy armed | ! agravians, volunteers from the British colohy visited Puebla to help protect the owner. Was Brave Woman | She personally waged a fearless | fight, several times driving invaders off her land at pistol point. She in subjoct, & ank of Lon. Mexleo, Evuns don in Was one 8 "house. which had been burned, and | abandoned his . contracting business here several months ago to go to the | hacienda. His presant whereabouts is [ unknown. | Official adimission that the Evans | case had been taken over hy the American embassy came several weeks | after Charge Cummins' departure, when Ambassador Warren said Mrs. | | Eivans had laid the entire question be- fore him, The Mexican government's | | stand has always been that Mrs, EXans | | was making ohstinate and unjustifiable | resistance to its plans for the division of her estate under the governmental agrarian program, with proper re- muneration to her. to the west coast settle- | Below 30 Degrees® [ Saranae Lake, N. Y., Aug. 4.—Sat-| urday night was one of the coldest on record for midsummer in this section, | many northern Adirondack points re- | porting frost. At several places the| mercury fell below 30 degrees. It is belleved the damage to crops not serious, although seme potato | flelds were blighted. | Foremen's Outing | The Russell and Erwin Foremsn's club held what was voted one of its| Imost enjoyable outings on Saturday | |afternoon when about 50 of the| | members motored down to Thomp- | |son's Grove on the Connecticut river.| Caterer Budd had served a "luneh a program of sports was in- | !dulgml in. {able controversy BUSY TEN DAYS AHEAD FOR PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Knotty Govt, Problemis To Be Settiod Hefore Notification Date Arrhves Washington, Aug &=President Coolidge faces a busy ten days before he delivers his campalgn heynots speeeh at the formal notilication veres monies here August 14, with some knotty goserument problems \ivlng with politics on his calendar, The re ports of the taviff eommission on the sugar tariff, in which opposite views are set forth and over whieh consider has waged for more than a year, are on his desk, and ex- pects also 1o make an early selection of an ambassador to Meaico to sue- ceed Charles B, Warren, who retired today, Meanwhile Mr, Coolidge to conclude his speech acceplance carly this week and go over It with Mr, Warren, who was chalrman of the national convention resolutions com mittee, and with Chalrman Butler, of the nationu! committes, who expeets to come here about the middie of the week, Mr, Warren has been a guest plans of at the White House for several duys, | The sugar reports are quite volumi- nous, three members of the commis. | sion recommending a reduction in the sugar rates, it is understood, while two oppose any change, The president has let it be known he will earefully study the reports and may submit them to the treasury department for analysis before he acts U. S, WILL ACT, England to Have This Country Repre- sent Her in Mexican Muddie, London, Aug. 4.~—The British go\- ernment is leaving the case surround- ing the killing of Mrs. Itosalie Evans in the hands of the American em- bassy in Mexico City, which has been | handling British affairs there since the withdrawal of Herbert mins as chare des archives. Recommendations will hs made from London as to the course to pur- sue as soon as full details have been | received. MAC The Candy choice of the world. members of | sisted on living in the ruined ranch {in addition to her employes was pro- | tected by George Camp, a Texan, who Cum- | FORMER SENATOR DIES Charles E owmsend Was & D Time Senior L, 5 senator From Sate of Michigan Javkson, Mich,, Aug, 4.—~Charies K Townsend, former senlor Lntied Bates senator frem Michigam, died suddenly of heart discase while visiting at the hdme of frivnds here Nunduy night Al the tiy 1 his death My send o nationa! Doundaries onn inter with Wil & member of dealing e and to th 1 until N commission He lad boen natlonsl pu YOUrs in wnd iy or nor vloetod 1o congr schate in 1810 Nefeatod by Nenator Verrls. democrat, 19 A lifvlonn v torial cnmpalgn waus marhod ter sirifs K in dofonse of Peamin . Newberr after disclosures of eaee paign expenditures the outstanding one and the drive he made for support 18 helioved to have impaired his health. Mr st it twenty " s in 19 Where e sery Waoodbridg with hits stand he senator restgnod wilve Crine ss00 Sas srenuous pablicnn beeause of the former This Townsend wus 68 years o survived by his widow, whe wa Nannelte B Loomis of this ity first wife died carly in 1830 MILK FED SOLDIESS Camp Devens, Mass, Aug. 4.—Btu- dents at this eltigens military trainie camp will be milk-fed soldiers. AMar milk wugons had left & lot of botties at cach ddeilt field this woming, Luglors suundgd an uneapecied mess call and every student was requived to deink & pint of fresh milk, An o der from the camp commandan! ans pouneed that senior afficers would be required to see that eaeh wludent drank a similar itk ration dally herss aftes ONE SHOT, SIN ARRENTED Now York, Aug. 4=One bandit was shot and seriously wounded 4nd others captured varly yesterday g when 12 dotegtives surprised 10 omen in the Amevican Raliway Ex- pross offiecs, Move than 80 shots were fired according to the detect!ies who waid sereral thousand dollare worth of eurrency and merchandise were in the offices of the Express company N [ Down With Cooking and stewing Summer mornings QUICK QUAKER = ready in 3 to 5§ minutes. No hot kitchens, no fuss, no muss, no frying pans to clean ERE'S the new Summer breakfast, Quick Quaker, the new Quaker Oats. 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TEL. 230 La France Blues as 1t cleans. Loosens every sticky, greasy particle of sonl 10 it can be easily vinsed away, Use it with saap of any brand or kind, -PALACE- HARTFORD ALL THIS WEEK THE POLI PLAYERS with MR, ARTHUR HOWARD and MISS WINIFRED CLAIRE Direction of Mr. A, H, VAN BUREN Presenting FRANCIS & WILSON 'MORAN & WISER “All in Fun” " HOLBROOK BLINN plat vy “The Bad Man” ';l‘hursd;ly MONTAGUE LOVE in person “The Runaway Four” MR, EDMUND ELTON (Guest Star) in his new play “Faint Heart” written by Phil Danning Patrons are requested to make their || Ressrvations early as the sale of || seats for this week s vers large.