New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1924, Page 16

18 NEGLIGENGE CAUSE OF FOREST FIRES NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, | Fire Haard Eliinated Wi, Removal of Human Carelessness San Prancises, Aug 16,—The great | hem- | forests of firs, pines, spruces, focks, redwoods and sequolas that stretch over the states of the Pacific poast have been menaced more seri # ously by fires this summer than at any time in recent years, California, in the grip of a protracted drought, was the worst sufferer, Despite the tinder:like eondition of the Callfornia national forests, where the most disastrous of the fires have burned, Paul G, Redingto United Btates distriet forester here, is of the opinion that there would have been virtually no fire hazard, and wonld not be at any time, if human ecare lessness could be eleminated, In a recent statement, Mr, ton attributed to negligenee 839 fires in the state this year, “About §0 per cent,” he mald, “are eaused by careless campers, motorists, fishermen and others who frequent the forests, Tt Is true that every summer a certaln number of fires are started by lightning, but we do not fear the lightning fires, Generally they are started In exposed places at high ele- vations, spots easlly discerned by our lookout men, It usually is & much simpler matter to put them out than to check those of human origin Campers are apt to cause biazes alo; stream beds, In places less cool and less mccessible,” 8o serious has the situation been in tha Callfornia forests that the federal forester arranged for United Etates soldlers to patrol certain districts of the national reserves where the haz- ard was greatest, The federal forest service maintained a force of 650 men in this state throughout the summer, and at times, when several huge fires were burning In different national for- ests, thousands of temporary fire- fighters supplemented the regulars. At times, when fires were raging uncontrolied and, in sevarel instances, towns were threatened, men near the scenes were conseripted for service. But this was resorted to rarely. At the close of July the fires all had been controlled and most of them were out, but the drought remained. Normally there is little rainfall on the Pacific coast in summer, The dry spell in Callfornia, Thowever, had started -in the early spring. By the Jatter part of the summer the federal forests had lost more than $1,600,000 in timber, with unestimated damage to watersheds. There also were severe fire losses in Oregon, Washington, Tdaho and Montana, though the peril was less acute than in California. late sum- mer rains removed much of the haz- ard in Oregon and Washington. It was held necessary to close to the public large areas of the California national forests. Such closing never would be required could the element of negligence be removed, the district forester said. He and other officlals expressed the opinfon that education was the only weapon to combat this carelessness. With this in view, they have placarded the state with posters and notices re- minding people to put out their camp fires carefully and not to throw un- extinguished matches or cigarettes into brush. MORE PITCH HORSESHOES — Four Times As Many Play Barmnyard Golf As Do Baseball At Univer- sity of Michigan Ann Arber, Mich, Aug. 16.—Horse- shoe pitching is more popular than baseball with University of Michigan students participating in intramural athletics, statistics compiled by Field- ing H. Yost, director of athletios, have revealed. The report shows that 870 found diversion in the anclent and honorable game of barnyard golf, while only 160 sought to emulate Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth. Of the more than 8,000 students participating in {ntramural sports, 1,- 800 have shown a favogitism for bask- etball, and 1,178 for playground ball. Speedball, drawing 900, comes next in line and bowling, with 717 students regularly on the alleys, is fourth. Gymnastics was the least popular, only 35 participating. Indoor hase- ball attracted but 50. ing 657 of SART A FAVORITE — Eloop Expected To Win Last of Lipton Cup Races Chlcago, Aug. 16.—The last of the Lipton cup races, run simultaneously with the triai race to determine the Richardson cup defenders, is sched- uled for today, with Benjamin Car- penter's Sari, Mackinac Tsland cup winning sloop, a favorite. The cup defender will meet the Canadian and Lake Erie champlons in races start- ing here September 10 for internation- al honors. Sarl won the second race of the Lip- ton oup series yesterday and by vir- tue of a second in the first race, took the lead in the percentage column from Ogden McClurg's Arie!, which finished third. Advertise Meat Rio De Janeiro—A pubiicity cam paign to popularize Argentine meats has been undertaken by the Argentine | government throughout the principal citles of Europe and North America. A depressing condition exisits in the domestic live stock industry in this eountry. famous Follies, frequently go to their estate at MEXICO MAY BAN HUNTING OF BIG GAME BY ALIENS | A Growing Sentiment in That Country Against Foreign Hunters, Says Ben Tinker. Tueson, Ariz, Aug. 16.—The Amer- jcan big game hunter may find him- self barred from Mexico, it was stated by Ben Tinker, who guards Mexico's game by appointment of the Mexican government and is back at his home here. Tinker said there was a growing sentiment in Mexico against foreign hunters. He attributed this to the alleged ruthlessness of some of them in slaughtering deer and other game. He described Mexican officlals as determined to prevent Americans from enjoying the big game hunting afforded in the mountains and plains of the northwestern states. Tinker |predicted that with the opening of the fall hunting season no hunters would be allowed to cross the border. Big game has been diminishing rap- idly in Mexico, Tinker sald, and President Obregon has determined to put a stop to wanton and useless de- struction. A ten-year closed season on big horn and sheep was started more than a year ago. At the next session of the Mexican congress it is expected that a measure will be passed limiting the killing of all classes of game to a few months each year with bag limits on deer, tutkey and javall hogs. Marie Corelli’s Will Bars Actors From Gift House Stratford-on-Aven, England, Aug. 16.—The late Miss Marie Corelli left an estate valued at about $120,000, and bequeathed all of her properties to Miss Bertha Vyver, her life-long companion. Mason Court, Miss Co- relli's Stratford residence, is to be preserved intact with its garden and paddock, and after Miss Vyver's death it is to be preserved for the benefit and service of distinguished persons visiting Stratford-on-Avon from far countries. These visitors are to be selected and recommended to Mis Corelli’s trustees by the councll of the Soclety of Authors. Miss Corelli, however, ‘“absolutely excludes actors, actresses, and all persons connected with the stage,” and ‘“‘moast strictly enjoins that no persons connected with Stratford-on-Avon, officially or otherwise, shall be permitted to co- operate or be concerned in the car- | rying out of the trust.” Killarney Villagers Sigh For Prewar Tourist Trade | Killarney, Ireland, Aug. 16.—An| American heiress with a large income | and a few million dollars for the re- | storation of the mansion on the es- | tate of the Earl of Kenmare would be highly appreciated by the entire | population of the village of Killarney, | The Kenmare mansion was de- | stroyed by fire many years ago and devote all of her attention to her new play, “Annabelle,” formances of their little daughter, Patricia. charming family picture, don’t they? [the village sighs for the return of | the days when the dwelling ranked as one of the most magnificent in the ! | British sles, | Kilarney has had lean years since | the opening of the great war but now tourists, the source of tha chief in< come of the village of 5,000 which is better known abroad, perhaps, than | any other scenic spot in Ircland, are | beginning to come again. | ANTIAANGLO-SAXON PACT? Japancse Fiditor Suggests Nippon Get |1'>xt'llmr With Germany and Russia Tokin, Aug. 18.--That “the three orphans of the warld,” Japan, many and Russia, must unite for their | common protection against Anglo Saxon domination is the gist of an edi Ger- ——= | searing 0 the Yomiurl Shim CAPITOL STARTI SUN. NIGHT JACKIE COOGAN Litt1e Robinson | mxm Crusoe Special Shows For Children Each Day, 4:00 p. m.—10¢c but & of the national- | bun, a journal | now one of the o | 1etic alements, “In international politics Yomiuri, “there are three orphans in | the world, Japan, Germany and Rus- |sla. Now they are isolated from each | other, but the time may come when changing political conditions will re- 1t is likely that tormerly a liheral | quire them to unite | at some time an alliance, or relations | |2pproximating an alliance, will be ef- fected bhetween Japan and Russia When the orphans are united it will | etrike consternation to the sou: of Anglo-Saxondom.” | Ziegfeld Family Holds Its Own Revue EFNFRAI. WFWN" ; Flo Ziegfeld doesn’t pass all of his time worrying over his Nor does Mrs, Ziegfeld (Billie Burke, you know) Both Tarrytown to witness the per- They present a GERMAN WOMEN ABSOLYE KAISER FROM WAR'BLAME Women's Clubs To Set About Proving Germany Blameless—Say Allied Agreements Caused War Fisenach, Germany, Aug. 16.—The Amalgamated women's clubs of Ger- many have resolved that Germany was not to blame for the beginning of the war in 1914 and held a special meet- ing to devise ways and means of sci- entifically assembling material design- ed to prove their contentions to the world. The meeting, attended by women from all parts of the republic was held in the castle of Wartburg, where Martin Luther tought the devil while he ,was passing ten months un- der the friendly arrest of the elector of Saxony. Frau Clara Mende, president of the organization, in her opening address, asserted that the club women had made arrangements to gjve wide pub- lieity to documents which tended to show that a secret understanding ex- isted prior to 1914 between the Rus- sian czar and other nations and with which Germany had no conneotion whatever. It was due largely to these secret agreements, she contended, that the war was brought about. The onus of starting the war had been put on Germany by the world at large, declared Frau Mende, but the life work of the associated clubs would be to prove otherwise. Auto Smugglers Active Along German Frontiers Berlin, Aug. 16.—Automobile smug- zlers have been operating in Germany. This fact came to light recently when government agents swooped down upon the Avus speedway, between Berlin and Potsdam, set up a guard at either end and confiscated a lot of cars of American and other forelgn makes, the owners of which could not produce papers to show that they had paid the import dutles. Government officlals announce that a great many forelgn cars were brought into Germany ¢this spring through t h e occupled trritory along the western frontiers, where there are no customs officlals. Most of them came from France, and paid no import tax. SPECIAL ZR-3 STAMPS ¥riedrichshaven, Germany, Aug. 16. ——European stamp collectors received a thrill recently with the announce- | ment that the dirigible ZR-3, which is expected to make the flight to Lake- hurst, N, J., this fall, will carry a cer- tain amount of mail for which special stamps will be provided. Letters and post cards may be sent to any ad- | dress in the United States, South and Central American and Canada, the Jetters at one gold mark (24 cents) for 20 grams, and 50 pfennigs for posteards, Norwalk Tires The leader in quality and the only Tire that is protected with U. S. Government Patents, insuring uniform quality. NEW LOW PRICES ARE JUST OUT ' said the | Real Estate Rackliffe Bros. Co., Inc. PARK and BIGELOW STREETS H. D. HUMPHREY STILL RULES SYYRIA! Silences Rumors That He Was (0| Resign His Post Belrut, Syria, Aug. 16.~The recent return of General Weygand, the French high commissioner for Byria, has had at least the effect of silencing the persistent rumors that he was not returning to his post after golng to Reports that gn imme- dlately he reached Parls were sel afloat before General Weygand turned bis back to Syrla, It was even as- serted that on reaching Paris he in- formed Poincare that he would not return to Syri cept at the head of several divisions of troops with which te put down the incursions of Turkish bandits to the north, and malintain or- der within Syria proper, Although his plans are not known, it is safe to assume that Gnucull Weygand will make no drastic changes in the French administration, The French system of governing Syria has been, and will probably eontinue, one ATURDAY, AUGL IST 16, 1924, GERMAN JUNKERS FRET AT POLITICAL REPRESSION Party Do Not Like Political Role Al lotted to Them By Thelr Own Party Breslau, Germany, Aug. 16, ~— The Jjunkers of Germany are sore as oan be over the pelitical rele allotted to them by thelr own party, the Ger. ! man National People's party, B sinee the revolution they have been told by thelr party leaders that the nobliity, as sueh, must keep in the background, that the only way for the meonarchists to get back into control is by keeplng up & semblance of democraey, that the nabllity must content itself with having influence in the inner party councils, but must not figure muech outwardly, The worm Is turning with the jupk- ers. They are mot content with this passive role, It grates on thelr sen- sibilities that Count Xe—w—— ghould figure eleventh on the list of nominees of the party, with his election quite doubtful, merely because he happens to be of noble birth, while Master Painter ¥ heads the Iist be- eause of his popularity and because the party ean demonstrate thereby | not hold & monopoly of working class Vo The nobility keep In toush with cach olher thiough a paper published In, the Assoclation of Noblemien. In & recent lasue, this organ devoles twe |eolumns (0 s misgivings along the {lines indicated above. “The nebllity must see to It that it secures more pariiamentary seats” the ergan con- |eludes. It \dibick and tived of sub: | stituting to a pelitical expediency rest- ing upon false ass ptions and to be he wall as an inconvenient The junkers alse eriticize their own party leaders for kowtowing too muech to the farmers, [Ocean Weather Charted For ZR 3's Flight Friedrichshaven, Germany, Aug, 14, ~Virtually query alr mile of the At. ilunllr over which the ZR 3 is likely {te fly in her trip from this pert to Lakehurst, N, J,, possibly some time |in August or September has heen charted by meteorologists employed by the Zeppelin eompany here, The task has taken many months, and the investigators have examined records of atmospherie phenomena covering a perlod of 25 years, dirigible navigators, and are consid- of conferring make-belleve independ- | that the socialists and communists do 'ered an invaluable asset for the pllota ence on the governed, The French have set up & native government with titles of independence for high offi- clal There is, for instance, & na- t resident of the Syrian Confed- eration” and a governor of Damascus, Actually, these officlals are without power, all the authority being left in the hands of the French, The “President of the Byrlan Confedera- tion" may not slgn an administrative erder of any kind without approval of the French high commissioner, In the selection of men for posts with high-sounding names the French bave displayed much ingenulty. The idea seems to have been to buy off and persons likely to make , 'The “President of the Syrian Confederation” is none other than a former brigand leader in a revolt against the French, Together with his oftice, the French conferred upon him the highest grade of the Leglon of Honor. In French administrative circles it is olaimed that in a country like Syria, with 35 unequal religious groups repre- sented in the population, the manda- tory power has to enforce its author- ity even though it frequently leads to sccusations that the French have simply annexed Byria. MOB JUSTICE DECINES Steady Reduction in Number of Lynoching Cases Shown in Figures Neshville, Tenn,, Aug. 16.—That Iynching is gradually being overcome in the south is indicated by a steady reduction in such crimes in Tennessee during the last few years, according to a report on this subject made by James D. Burton, secretary for the commission on Inter-Raclal coopera- tion. Mob justice is shown to be on the decline both as to the number of vic- tims and the ares in which such orimes occur, the report sets forth. For a perlod of 23 years, from 1,960 to 1928, 73 lynchings have been re- ported in Tennessee, Twelve counties had two-thirds of this total, 24 others had one each, and 60 counties had none, says the report. Tennesses bad five lynchings during the last five years, the report added, two {n 1922, and none ase year. Most farmers from the South African veldt wear evening dress when going to a theater. FOR SALE Two family house on South High street, 14 rooms. Excellent loca- tion. COX & DUNN 272 MAIN ST. e————— CINDERS FOR SALE A. H. HARRIS ~General Trncking— 99 WEST §T. TEL. 2079 fi CROWLEY BRUS. INC. 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Captaln Brs et A, Lehmann, ene of the ZR navigating officers whe will make th filght, will remain 1n the Unite States, as will some of the other ex pert members of the erew It was announced recently that th mitial trial Aight could net possibi: {be nade before the latter part o | August or carly in Seplember owing to deelsion of the officials to serap the lerank ecases of the Maybach moter land vepla » them with new ones When compleied, the officials eon tend, the ZR 3 will have its driving power five engines superior to thes of any other sirship ever built, andy fully capable of making the great non- stop hep from Priedriehshaven, bor-J dering on the Alps, to the lowland=} of New Jersey, NEW AIR MAR Southampten, B cesaful tests have oceurred with new air-marine homber bulit for the Spanish government by an al firm here, The plane easlly “took off" as well as came to anchor on Pilot, gunner and ob. server accommodated in the fi ward position of the beat and the bombs are carried in the hull, On Your Vacation NO PAPER WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THE —HERALD— f It Will Follow You Wherever the Mails Go For § 18¢c a week Before you leave for the Shore or the Mountains be sure to order THE HERALD mailed to you—1It will keep you in touch with the news at home while on your vacation. 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