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DEFENDING ARMY | STILL HOLDS 0T Conditions at Shanghai Same- |“Italian Jack Herman” GomesiBI.AMES IJITY H]R Advancing omr Peking The' Associated Press. Shanghal, Ooct. 8,.—1orced to glve ground during three daya of fighting In the Sungklang districf, 28 miles| south of Shanghal, the defending Cheklang armies fought through the iight and continued the grim battle his morning by withstanding attacks f the invading Kiangsu forces, The Kiangsu forces are attempting » cut the rallway linc hflr\\mn‘ hanghal and Sungkiang, but the hwkiang armies, reinforced last ight, held the railway with forces stending along the ralls for a dis wce of about three miles in the en irons of Sungkiang. Any attempt to move trains on the irt of the Chekiang forces today, owever, would be at great hazard, \ s 1t wonld Invite the full sweep nvl re from the Kiangsu forces. All or- hary traffie over the line been stoppe By ay | Nearing Peking, The Assoctated Press Tokio, Oct, 8§,—The invading Man- ‘nirian army of General Chang Tiso- | in, sweeping down from Mukden owards Pekg in the fight for con irol of the Peking government, had passed the eastern exeremity of th zreat Chinese wall and gained ooting in Shanhaikwan, a Chihltan- | \fanchurian border town, where an ntensive battlecontinued today, ac-| arding to a dispatch to the Kokusai | ewe agency received here ‘today rom Mudken, | Heavy casualtics resulted on both o, Larlier a communiques from the ‘lukden headquarters Gene hang indicated the fighting hanhaikwan had been in nee Saturda ad not I decieive intensity until ye the t the Ma wwees carried tHe fighting to ws held by fc I3 es and captured ile north of th tor | progress | develop- | Peking | 10k wan, Peking s for Jater ady dispatehes from Mukden ga ™ Tell Boys How to | Send in Fire Alarm | pecial ¢ in turning in fire all who feel the this essential, will conneetion Week by the local Scout council. A tent will be rcted on Central Park, in which I be housed a regulation alarm w, without the glass in the door, mnected up with a bell. There il be a scout or official on duty wing the entire day, and any man oman or child is eligible to talkc is course property safeguard- rothe any to wing onducted in Prey 1 of in Seout Exceutive W. 0. s to estabiish this instruction hen he Jearned from IFire Chiet oble t scveral houses in the t few years have been destroyed nse the person discovering the ran to the nearest box. roke the gl tin for the ame roet Cook took e simply and then waited in apparatus, while burned down. Permission to the tent bheen ohtained rom Park Superintendent Ralph R Wainwright and the structure will '« put up as soon as the details are sottled. has Prving to Cet S‘milh To Speak m Chi York, ennan, demncratic linoix, is in 1ith of this state to speak wo on October 19, In an interview, Mr if the olection were h ould thrown into fe declared Senator Robert M. T.a I'ollette, independent presidential candidafe would carry at least s tates and that do 1ealize the La Follette of Chicago. 1cage George T in York in an effort aw Ot leador for Gou in Chi- ernor Brennan said 1 today be the house terne strer Igrounds is the oy | walis of |stay four rounds in the |the [freaks. Uy ling the fair, STRPRISES BOXER AT COUNTRY FAR Away $10 Richer (8pecial to the Herald.) Plainville, Oct, 8.—This is the sca- son of country fairs throughout the state sight on the long row of white tents of the midway with the “bark- out in front calling out the wonders enclosed within the square canvas for the small price of admission “Ten cents, one dime.” And among all these side o tructions, Ithere is one which probu’™y draws | ligger crowds than any othsr, and that is the athletic tent where, Ladies and Gentlemen, Kid Spike, |champeen wrestier will give $10 to {uny man staying five minutes with | him without being thrown and im- .nmxmmv afterwards, Battling But- | ler will meet all comers and will give $10 to any man who is able to and a familiar prize ring."” Up in Harwinton, the annual fair 18 being conducted this week and all men, women and children from the surrounding countryside, herald wonde sights and ga of the scientific upon the nd human » there also, an athletic tent hias been pitched and for the main attraction is Jack Middleton of Waterbury, well known and suc- cessful pugilist. His manager offers able to stay four rounds without calling enough or heing knocked out, $10 in good American moiey, Thus it was that a group of young men from Plainville who were visit- altracted to. the athietic tent where the spieler wa praising the prowc his cham- plon. Middleton presented an im- posing appeartince as he showed his herenlean build to an admirin 2. Then as the time drew ne anyone were 88 of for the od through and an them were several Plainvillites hegan and two hrawny lads of | ay ficlds had alrcady been ed up inst the battler and laid themeelves down to sleep or ealled out “Quits.” Then was asked if wanted “hamp the gate ng tack had either else the anyone to try his skill with of Waterbury and a commotion was seen to start in one section of bleache Then down climbed a man who asked if ddleton would take him on, With smile of contempt on his attler anid, and T’ ll yo looking for bhefore we're through,” but with a shrug of the <houlders the challenger muttered, “Maybe." en st the “Sir e you iwrted the battle, be rememberbd that §10 was off to anyone who conld stay vounds and as the fight progi it became apparent that the chal- cnger skillful and was without trying to do damage. ¥ was finished. round two came to a conclusion, hut «till hoth fighters were on their feets Round three cama to a close and then round four alko passed by and Henger with a smile took hi Tt must ol four saed, = nst was staying any nnd on 15 e dleton was poeved se e that 1 didn’t ve thought h lenger to try r assented A with Middleton ¢ nock your hinck off the nges. He the first ro this tried md and the eye to good | fn the o nd w nibite Snddenle fhe nee wicked ta the A the champ of fhe ghow did a neat dive act to the St rolled avor on i back and stayed there 1 the count 1 he 1A to ba earrled ont At \ pav 1) ad reached 20 af the rine Arabt ha ro e ey o soeand 10, hut when 1'v- ey ut y wha wen to om ore to sleep. paid. maney iightaway 1n man who have | been journeying there to view the ' show to begin, crowds pour- ace the ! NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1924, WALL ST. REPORTS had sent over the knockout punch then revealed his identity and sald he was “Itallan Jack Herman of Plainville' and that's the reason for a wiser though sadder show at the Harwinton fair, SMALLPOX CASES Dr. Oshorne Says Fault Lay With New Britain | New Britain was responsible for its own smallpox epldemic as wero | WaterQury and Bridgeport in thelr | turn, they got what they were asking | | for by not taking proper \uu]nnfion‘ precautions In time, according to statements made by Dr, Stanfey H.| Osborne, state health commissioner, | at the weekly meeting of the Ki- | | wanis club at the Burritt hotel to-| | day. He also deplored the lack of a | refrigerating plant and a bacteriolo- | gist here, | Representatives of the local hoard of health were present and brought {up the question of rubbish collec- | tlon which Dr. R. W. Pullen, health supcrintendent, has heen advocating for the past six months. Dr. Oshorne was Injroduced b Former Charity Superintendent Wil liam Cowlishaw. He opened his ad- dress by pointing out the fact that public health problems of today are very much different than they were a fow years ago. He sald heaith de. | | partments and physicians today know what causes diseases a great deal hetter than they used to. He described the father or grandfather of a generation ago driving through Berlin. Passing the Berlin swamp he would breathe as casily as possi- ble, thinking that by getting as little as he could of the odors arising from the swamp he was helping to ward off malaria. The physician said ma- laria may come from the mosquito in the swamp and probably does, but the avoidance of hreathing the odors I would not make the slightest differ- | ence. Speaking of typhoid fever, Dr. Os- berne said the state hasn't had a phoid epidemic since 1911 when |]vr|! was one in Torrington, due en- | tirely to pollution and lack of proper | care of the water, | He described the fu public 1th department, referring first to the engineering department, which has supervision of water and | SeWOrage Launcl into a the department of cases, Dr. Osborne guid | “Phe pox epidemic in city last spring was entirely needless 4 due to the negleet of New Brit- ain to take proper precautions agalnst the discase, such as mulna- tion of school children. i \ccination won't prevent 1n1'rr‘t- ~d cases coming into the.city from ther p , but it will prevent others from catehing it. Waterbury the ions of the little description of jreventable dise | sma youry z for by not malipox hroke having v cut. ~d attention to other cities, roit, Pittshburgh and Kansas City where epidemics of smallpox exis Ved this past spring and summer and | She has been {ll for about a year, but | said they were due to the lack of vaceination. ! i x of diphtieria he ! peor N immunize themselyes, L Ny 10 years by | He sald N million wspecially children for proper precanutions York city has n rildren immunized against diph- orfa; Massachusetts has between 6,000 and 800,000 and Connecticut 1 He said arly a cent of the diph- ut jast year rs of and 80 per heria cases in Connec | under eight $ea of those wr ag for entire matter th not 1y was some on the and milk | some even alyzed New Rritain and said: that New refrigerating can be | W Britain can't iplant so that the meat properly carrd for. The physician paid pects to ack When a | ) 0 iy 2 medical school, fact put in a his res Never Know When Your Home’s Safe Burglars is just three squares from accident nm‘mlnd. Lieutenant were seriously injured. and fires are not all the hous eholder has to worry about these days. nas to be on his guard against unexpected visits from strange airplanes, too. Ralph Sweigart's home in ]M\tnn 0., after one had “dropped in” ln\annmm(‘ud k Field, and the plane was on its way back II. .\. Johnson, "HHI, and his ! man Otis Hopkine, and George He Just look at « His house | ere when the passenger, \\. . Gearhardt, | John McInerney, | the I'to som | ot health, and Dr. "of private said | under four, show- | spend 46 minutes there and get a diploma it's time for action. When he can take a train to Kansas City, wrrive there at 11 o'clock in the morning and leave at 1 in the af- ternoon with a diploma, or when he can take a course of one or two years and then get a diploma, it' time for action. When they come to Connecticut, pass the state board examination, get a certificate practice and then hang out shingle and begin to practice on the | people, it's time for action.' He said the next legislature would | be bombarded with statements that schools where men can take short | cuts to medical diplomas are the | poor man's refuge. He sald this is untrue, that any man who can qual- ify can get in any college and a rich man's son can't get into Yale or any- where else to study medicine if he doesn’t qualify, He sald: than a glib tongue, a remarkable flow of language and the ability to collect bills. state know what their legislators were up against they would get be- hind them and help make Connec cut a clean state for healthy peopl Patent medicine fakirs who sell their goods, holding office hours and | selling their medicine to people who have not Informed themselves as to who is properly trained to prescribe them, came in for a denunciation by state official, He also denounced a certain type of clectrical apparatus recently ex- posed by a monthly magazine and a system of sending drops of blood ¢ place in the west, recelving from there a statement that certain hereditary discases existed, even though the blood may have come \from a guinea pig or rabbit. Dr, Bray, chairman of the board Pullen superintendent, of a rubbish collection system Bray said neither the garhage or rubbish collection belongs justly to the health department but should be in a department of its own. sald the great majority of nuisance complaints that come to the health department are on account of rub- bish in backyards. Dr. Pullen spoke as well of fire hazards incident to heaps in backyards. are many people in town who have wire covered apparatus of some kind or another for burning rubbish in their yards and the health board receives much complaint of smoke nuisance, He recommended a cen- tral incinerator and the prohibition incinerators, This he bring down insurance Dr. the said would rates also. Mr. Cowlishaw eald the backyards | in some sections of the city are breeding filth, flies and discase. President Hawkins was authorized | |to appoint a committee to act with other civie clubs in this conneetion, Tt was also voted to have a com- Imittee try to get out a record vote on election day. | ‘ Aeaths \ Mrs. Marle Giersch. Mrs. Marie Giersch, 76, widow \dolph Giersch, died the home of her Frank Hemmer, daughter, Mrs. in Newark, N. J. her death was eudden, according to word recelved here by relatives. Mrs. Giersch was a resident of this city for many years, coming here trom Burg, Germany. She had a wide acquaintance in the city when she left here six years ago to make rer home with her daughter. i survived by five daughters, | Frank Hemmer of Newark, Paul Stoeckel of Hartford, David Dehm, Mrs, Harold B. Post Mrs. Frederick M, Seinman of three sons, Reinhold, Rich- 4 Willlam Geisch, all of New- ten grandchildren and one vandcehild funeral n at Mrs. Mra, | fand lard a | ark; great will bhe held YH!I' 40 o'clock from the Mra. Harold Burtal will aftern | B. Post, be in Fair aghter, Arch street. view cemetery. Mrs, Margarct Hopkins s, Margaret Hopkins, o e pkins, West Main street, | Britain General | afternoon | Rritain and He led at hospital as born in has lived here all her life. She s survived by four danghters, Mrs. Robert Coclirane Mrs.! Charles Pailey, Mrs. Godirey Parker and Mrs. Joseph Dagnais; four Super Police- William funeral of the Nev yesterday e w New sons, Hopkins. Friday morning the followed by a funcral mass in Mary's church at 9 o'clock. Rurial will be in West Lane ceme- tery, Berlin, in charge of Joseph A. Haffey, undertaker. will he home st from SARAH B \\ RE Sarah Bayren, age 3 vears and 1 month, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amrichia Bayre of 161 Cherry street, died at noon home from diphtheria. She is sur- vived hy her parents and two hroth- ers. The funeral will he heid to-| morrow morning from her late home and will today \ be priva Funerals Mary Oles, e funeral of Ma laughter of Mr. and M vas b th's orning her parent the itk 130 o'clock Rurial Ukrainian cemetery T % T o s, Infant John Ole followed ch at in the! ome of services in was Mrs, L funeral Rellily Mrs. El r was held this morning ndertaking pariors of M. J ey Co., followed by a high requiem in 8t, Joseph's chu o'clock. Rev. Patrick D cclebrant. Burlal was in St metery en Kelli rom th Ken mass o MCOINERNEY Alice Mcln of M and M was held from her ALICE The funeral of vear old daughter o “The patients want more | If the people in the! health | spoke on the need ' He ! rubbish | He said there of | last night at| Mrs. | [ ta be late home, 47 Beaver street, this af- ternoon at 3 o'clock.| Burlal was in Bt, Mary's cemeter; MRS, EDWARD AGARD The funeral of Mrs, Edward E, Agard wlil be held tomorrow morn- ing. Rev, Dr. John L. Davis wlill | !officiate at services at the home at 210 Maple street at 11 o'clock, Burial will be at Norwalk, DAWES GONTESTS LA FOLLETTE IN . Vice-Presidential Candidate Al-‘ tacks Proposed Gourt Change Dawes Speclal, En Route Through Iowa, Mason City, Oct. 8.—The re- | publican fight against the LaFol- lette independent candidacy in Iowa was led today by the republican | party's chief campaign speaker and vice presidential nominee, Charles ‘G Dawes. The direction of the 'Nght wus taken over by Mr. Dawes | late yesterday when he entered the state, nade a rear platform speech |at Narthwood and spoke to an audi- | ence that jammed the Mason City armory last night, Leaving Mason itinerary took the presidential nominee through the section of the state in which the Lal'ollette strength is most feared by republican leaders, and provided for five Iowa speeches. The stops were listed for Fort Dodge, Storm Lemars, Cherokee and Sloux | ving the state late . Davies will speak at before awinging sperches at | | City, the republican day's vice in the da [up into Wyuaing | Douglas and Casper, The subject select:d | speeches & Daw s same as discnssed in au recent addresses—the | sees it to const mnw zoverninent from the Lalollette movenment. That was the theme of his address | in the Mason City armory last night. | Mr. Dawes in his initinl lowa ad- dresses ignored the aftacis by Iowa's junior scnator, Spnth W, ! Brookhart, who demand.d that Mri Dawes be removed from the repub- lican ticket—a demand ‘hat among | other things, led the republican state central committes to dec last | week that the senator had repu- { djated the republican y. A sin- I gle and direct shot was fired at the senator hy Mr. Dawes last night in his Mason City speech and was {1oudly applauded. No reference, however, was made to Mr. Brook- hart by name. \e Brookhart incident one of the unusual shifts in po- litical winds now blowing in Towa, | {as Mr. Dawes on arriving last night lin Mason City was told that cour- tesies extended by the democratic | state organization had made it pos- sible to obtain the largest hall in the city for his use. Danicl F. Steck, democratic candidate for United States senator, had arranged | for the use of the Mason City ar- mory last night, hut gave up his | reservation in order Mr. Dawes might speak there. Moreover, Mr. Steck attended the Dawes meeting. | WHEFLER BRANDED AS UNTRUTHFUL (Steamship Co. Oficial Replies (o Charges Made today's | was the his more as he is the only nator Wash., Oct. ‘harges Burton K, Whealer, in. | dependent vice presidential candi- date. in addresses in Seattle and Portland that sceret freight rate pact exists between the government- [owned Alaska railroad and _the | | Alaska Steamship company. a Mor were termed by F. | a n corporation, . Stannard, hip firni, partly n | tatemept and partly mwwa'- is nothi cral misstatement clared Mr. sumed that been induer (lLa Foliotte ) into publicly charges. A ing no permamen nage and being e some along its \aul of ore from Yukon raiflway ration. It requested for the benefit of A new arrangement cffect whereby tha W Yukon route would han na, which is locat od Alash could vice president steams as There gen- de- g new in th “It is pre- wtor Wheeler 1 John E. 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ISABELLA CIRCLE ELECTS Miss Mary A Danic retarned isiting friends in E Lunch at Hallinan's, ANR¢ orney Pouzzner home work t zrees on a lo Sylvero, A acting | Sylverio, line awarded a judgment $175 in an action sokalski, by stipulatio against Zundal cording to a re filed clerk of courts office this Roche & Cabelus e pla Gaffney Chosen Regent repre- at Annual Mecting—Plans Being ihet Made for Hallowe'en Party. r meeting of Isabella Knights ters of lsabella held ht the following officers coming yea Gaffney; vice > Kuhne; chan- Miss Mary McDonough; cus- 4 ) ian Mangan; record- B. and Lea : ary, Miss Elizabeth Coo- of New Brita e ancial secretary, Mrs. Anna to send a dele treasurer, Mr: ortation monitor: Mrs. Miss M Miss Margaret Lane Mrs. W. Coogan: Miss Mary Ryan and ¥ Raymond by was re-elected chaplain. be held in being made and minstrel club rooms tonight Shepherds’ hern Connec ober union 1 1ssc wil eting tiddletown, of Good Wi Star will be Plans are party held in the to be IR} \*l“\ STATEMENT. treasury balance, $418,729,961, BERLIN REPUBLICAN CAUCUS Town Hall 1924, at 8 purpose ot for Repre- Assembly, 18 in the tober 14 for lidate ¢ General e Peace, Town Committes, DEMD Chairman. Conn.,