New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1926, Page 5

TENNIS FANS AR WATCHING WOMEN Helen Wills, National Champion, Not to Participate New York, Aug. 16 (A—Tennis in- terests, aroused anew by the defeat of Vincent Richards by William T. Tilden, at Rye, N. Y., is now turned upon the women’s national cham- pionship at Forest Hills. Helen Wills, champion since 1923, will not participate and the final struggle promises to have Mrs. Molla B. Mallory and Mary K. Browne opposing each other. The championship will last throughout the week, with more than a half hundred players entered. Miss Wills will return to her home in California immediately but plans to return east early nmext sea- son with the intention of secking the title which this year must pass to another because the youthful tar was unable to recover fully {rom an operation for appendicitis in Paris which interrupted her European invasion. The champion has been to forsake the courts for at two months, following defe; Sea Bright and Rye by Ryan and Mrs. Mallory. return to her studies at the Univer- sity of California August 18. “Yes, 1 admit that T was tired during my tournament matches re- cently buf in champlonship you advised least cannot stop playing when you feel | tired,” she said. “Now I am going to build up my strength. For a couple of months I won't play at all and then I will start in again.” Tilden, the national champion, who has been beaten three times by Richards this season, finally ended the string of defeats in the finals of hern New York state cham- > at Rye yesterday, 4-6, 6-4, Mrs. Mallory won through to the New York state women's title by defeating Miss Browne, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, and immediately returned the cham- pionship bowl to the Westchester- Biltmore club for another three years of competition. Mrs. Mal- lory put out Miss Wills in the semi- finals, the defeat causing the cham- pion to seek the advice of phy- sicians as to her condition Miss Browne and Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin won the doubles finals from Mrs. M. H. Roeser and » Francis, 6-3, 6-3, while Tilden H. Chapin, Jr. captured the men’s event from Phil Neer and Ed- ward W. Feibleman, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4, Cranston Holman and Lionel Ogden, | Pacific coast stars, defaulted to Til- len and Chapin in the semi-finals. KELLOGG REPORTS ON HEXICO AND GENEVA State Sccretary At Paul Smith’s For One of Most Important Presi- denfial Conferences. Paul Smitl¥s, N. Y., Aug. 16 (P— etary of State Kellogg, fhe fourth member of President Cool- idge's cabinet to visit the summer hite house on Osgood lake, was a guest at White Pine camp toda He arrived yesterday by automo- bile with Mrs. Kellogg prepared to report to the chief executive on de- partmental matters, including the Mexican situation and the Geneva conference. Mr. Kellogg's visit to the presi- jent's vacation home was arranged after he had accepted an invitation to speak at the dedication of the MacDonough monument at Platte- burgh day after tomorrow, and he will remain at the presidenti camp untit he Champlain City. The secretary and arrived soon after Mrs. Coolidge had returned from church at Saranac lake with their son John, and their personal friends Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Stearns of Boston, Chief Justice Rugg. of the Massachusetts supreme Mrs. President Kellogg and Arthur P. | judicial court, and Mrs. Rugg. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge and their guests spent the remainder of the day | quietly in camp. | temperature last night, following the occasional sultry, overcast weather of the past week, sent members of the presidential party into top coats and heavy clothing, and made popular the great open fireplaces in the cabins at White Pine camp. The first frost last summer in this | Mcinity was on August 21. COURAGEOUS GUARD AT Pretends He Has Pistol In Pocket, Forcing Men Back Into Their Cells Chicago, TIl, Aug. 16 M—Courage of a negro guard at the Cook coun- ty jail who pretended he had a |pistol in his pocket. prevented the possible escape of three prisoners early ‘today. | The trio, one of whom Is awaiting |execution, had sawed their way out of their cells and over-powered one |guard, before the negro forced them | back into their ceils. Daniel McGeohegan, awaiting exe- cution along with “Midget” Fernekes and his cell partner, Matthew Stew rt, awaiting trial on three charges | of robbery, were the first to saw out a few minutes later lo Caggi- ano, utilizing the two bars sawed by |McGeohegan and Ste he sawed himself, manag |out of his cell gEiano's cellmate, |Gus Peterson, also awaiting trial on a robbery charge did not leave the | cell Sheriff Peter Hoffman immediate- 1y ordered an investigation. An inspection of the cell block re- |vealed that a bar on another cell confining three prisoners had sawed, but the space was too small and the first prisoner who attempted to crawl through was held fast | HEARING BY LANDIS | Max Carey, Deposed Captain of Pirates, to Lay Complain Before | | | § Baseball Commissioner. | Pittsburgh, Aug. 16 Carey, deposed field leader of the Pittsburkh Pirates, was on his way to New York today to lay hefore Kenesaw Mountain , commis- sioner of baseball, a complaint | against the Pirate management for | their action last Friday in suspend- ling him and releasing unconditional- i his team-mates, Babe Adams and | Carson Bigbee, Waivers were asked | upon Carey. The three were charged { heading a movement to oust | €. Clarke, assistant manager, | vice president of the club, from the ver's bench rey left Pittsburgh late last ght after a conference with Adams and Bighee. The latter two decided | they would not make the trip east- ward but would put in hands the task of presenting ti side of the affair for Landis' cor sid tion Their conferenci ceipt of a telegram from the com missioner expressing a willingness to listen to what they might have answer to one the three ousted vet- ns had sent him in which they ed him to come to Pittsburgh to ccord them a hearing and charged they had been “unjustly treated and | penalized without a hearing.” | Cornerstone of Church In Waterbury Is Laid Waterbury, Aug. 16. (P—The cor- nerstone of the new Immaculate Conception church was laid by Rt Rev. John J. Nilan, Bishop of Hart- ford, here yesterday afternoon Hundreds of priest the ceremony, which w thrae thousand per: Plans arranged for the program were carried out. Rt. Rev. Will E. Flynn of Hartford was master of ceremonies. Rt. Rev. T. 5. Duggan, Vicar General of the Hart ford Diocese, delivered the sermon sketching the history of the Im | maculate Conception Parish for since its beginning more than threce quarters of a century ago. with Fred and followed a re- A sudden drop in | PRISON FOILS ESGI\PEl been | (P—Max | Carey’s | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926. 'REGIONS OF THE PACIFIC COAST PROLIFIC NATURES PLAYGROUND 1workrrs said, shunted the cars off National Parks, Moun(ainlon to the warchouse siding and Retreats and a String Ofi Wonderful Beaches Are Beckoning to Tourist. i San Fran Aug. 16 (A—The | playgrounds of the Pacific coast re- {gion from the Canadian line to the| | Mexican border, are accessible to the | tourist by both railways and paved | roads, which link the western ter-| mini of t continental railroads and highw; Each of the coast multitude of beaches hotels, its scores of inland lakes, its mountain hostelries, and in the south are the latest entries in the |lists of resorts catering to visitors— |landscaped desert oases. National Parks Three principal national parks are Rainier in Washington, Crater Lake in Oregon and Yosemite in Cali- fornia. | One of the newest national parke is that about Lassen Peak, in north- | ern California, the only active vol- cano in continental United States. The summer playgrounds in the | mountain resorts have a great scenic |appeal. The equable temperatures {of the coast afford relief from the | heat which descends upon the in-| {1and valleys. | Mounain Retreats The visitor to Washington ie en- abled to go from his hotel in Ta- coma or Seattle to the big hostelry at the top of Mount Rainier in his own car or in an automobile stage over a road which curves along the top of tree-clad precipices. North| and south from Rainier stretch the Cascades, connecting in an almost unbroken mountain range with the erra Nevada of northern and cen- | tral California and the Sierra Madre | in the south | Rivalling the attractions of the mountains are the beaches and is-| lands of the long coast line Coast of Beaches | Puget Sound's wooded isles and inlets cut off from the mainland the Olympic peninsu whose forest covered mountains constitute the largest expanse of virgin timber left in the country. Oregon's beaches meet those of California which march away to the south, past San Francisco and Monterey ba past Catalina island off Los Ang and on to San Diego, just north of the Mexican boundary. In California the visitor of a lit- erary turn of mind can make pil- grimages {o the former haunts of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Stevenson or London, or he can visit| Carmel-by-the-sea, a hundred miles | south of San Francisco, which is the home of a score of present day writers. In the south also i states has its and beach Movie- land, home of most of the great mo- tion picture companies. Historic interest abounds. 0ld Oregon Trail brought mission- es to the north Pacific territory; 'he gold rush took the forty niners o a vast era which had been peo- | pled with Mexican overlords of In- | dian tribes; and the Apacbe trail in Arizona is rich in prehistoric relics and Indian and Spanish history. The 15 Runaway Freight Cars | Smash Un Things Badly Springfield, M Aug. 16 (P) — Speeding down grade for nearly half a mile after brea g loose from an eastbound freight Boston & Albany train, 15 runaway freight cars crashed into four cinder cars nd- in, on a siding in the Springfield yards and sent them flying through the walls of the flour and grain ware house of the H. C. Puffer Co., a wooden structure, which was de- molished, and partly through the side of the wholesal house of the E. O. Smith which was badly damaged. A more serious wreck was averted accordir to railroad men, by the quick action of a brakeman, whose | name could not be learned. Throw- 1 ing of a switch, by this man, fellow | ompany, IMPORTANT NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Because of the tremendous demand of the public for Furniture during our sale— Because one week is too short a time to get in such large values as ours during our Furniture Sale— For the benefit of those who need Furniture now, or for the future, WE WILL CONTINUE OUR FURNI- TURE SALE THRU THE MONTH OF AUGUST. Everyone is buying Furniture at our sale and saving money. Why not you? The Home Furnishing Co. 7-8-9 Railroad Arcade Telephone 1170 | forest ra stopped the runaway, from racing down into the Union Station yards, where a Boston bound passenger train was standing. Rallroad offi- cials later discounted this story, in- sisting there was no passenger train at the station at the time. Woodcygft Knowledge Saves Youngster’s Life Portland, Ore., Aug. 16 (P—Abil- ity to app probably saved the life of Ja Strong, eleven year old son of H. W Strong o esham, Ore., found yesterday in the d on Mount Hood, where he Jost for three days and Jackie cisappeared Thurs ernoon while fishi with tw brothers. Searching parties organized leade: rs and a system Three men from th AT nger station lo ed him when he answered fusing offers of as walked two and a half miles to the ranger staticn “I'm not hungry,” he told the rangers, “I three h and picked some h 8." “F > Why, no” = z in thickets know woodcraft training who started. g forest late yesterd their shouts. R sistange Jackie ohe auestioned his ences in sl to shelter Many ;’th;sts FaiTto Heed Railroad Signals Hartford, Aug. 16 (A—>Most of the complaints received by the d partment of motor vehicles conc the lack of courtesy on the part of the drivers, but last year there were nts that operators show- arelessness in using railroad de crossings, said a report of the current of the bulletin. 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