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12 WIFE BEATER 1S * GIVEN JAIL TERM - High Street Man Has 30 Days. ' to Think It Over of Steve Pych reet il Allf was ¢ o'clock was callec owskl to 30 by was sentenced or beating in police rested ¥ nhis wife g court to. rolman He ound Mrs. give a sa tions and v over his Jail bet The arged Unkelbach Case et er 31 Nolled atio stigation cor Patrick O'Mara, yh G. Woods reca September Nerney on W ined by death at N pital the same The stigat O'Mara, according Attorney Woods, establish that Mr. Un ch was not drivi carelessly or r and was not at fault. * vitnesses de- ceased brought his owr death,” the prosecutor told the court In attempting to avoid striking the man, Mr. Unklebach drove into a telephone pole and damaged his car. Judge Alling accepted the recom- mendation and nolled the charge. Laplante Fined $100. Frank Laplante of Brooklyn, N Y., charged with trying to obtain money under false pretenses from the Besse-Leland store, changed h plea of not and through his attorney, Frank Carroll, of Water- bury, pleaded guilty. He was fined $100 and given a suspended jail sen- tence of 60 da The charge olation of a park ing ordinance preferred against E: ward Applegren, driver of a mail truck, was nolled. Applegren parked too long in a restricted area on Klessly about German Is Arrested in International Dispute Germersheim, Germany, Oct. 2 (#) —Herry Holzmann, one of the threg | Germans shot by the French Lieu- tenant Roucler here Monday, has been arrested by the French author- ities on the charge that he struck at Roucler during the affray. The ar- rest was made after Holzmann and the lieutenant had been brought to- gether for examination at Landau. The population of Germersheim is displaying indignation over the ar- rest. | he French foreign office vester- day said official investization showed | that Lieutenant Roucier, who killed one German and wounded two oth- ers, fired in self-defense. Reports from the military authorities in the occupled area, it was added, indi- cated that recent agitation there | was due to the infiltration of young | nationalists, who entered the terri- | tory for the purpose of provoking disorders Girl Changed Her Mind, | Former Lover Now Sues Chicago, Oct. 2 (P/—The successful advertising man sell himself, #s well as his product, Willard Besh- getoor announced yesterday in st the former ( Pulman, Oak Park, for $5 pre-nuptial ex- penses and damage to his feclings. Beshgetoor won a 48-hour debate | before the girl on his merits and the demerits of his rival, Charles Grant, | with the girl’s hand at stake, but the day after he won Grant married th prize. The advertising man says he must now be reimbursed also for an en- | gagement ring, an apartment and the | mmoning of his father, Rev. K. Beshgetoor of Alma, Mi 0 was to perform the ceremony, ien Caroline changed her mind. | | 1,000 the Gold Watch Must Be Gold, Trade Commission Rules Wash Oct. 2 (A—A gold watch | 1d watch to the fe ral trade which has or- dered npany les which ¢ pany also advertise {ts sapphires, or other precious Charles Morris Bradley Dies at Chicago Home 1 has heen received of the dcath of C Morris Bradley which home cago. irle oco nf Col. Picot on His Way To Legion Conventi Paris, Oct. 8 (P —Col. ¥ ber of the t t passenger nd for the 1 represe Fran ican Leglon convention in phia October 12. eye during the on " ck s is a bot on 1 P Picot war., world ALCOHOL SPECULATION New York, Oc are speculating comy in nature uses in the h as b to > in Major Chester administrator. Icohol are holding | it prices which will n for the highar come when the supply s cut down, Major Milla sald. |sion when he went home that eve- NEW BRYTAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1926. PEQUABUCK DEATH | TEAMS W PROBE WIDENING ' Detectives Inguire Into Demise of Three Other Persons City Items ick Frank who was recer | to the Jerald) Action by State's slter Holcomb of Lite ¥ is likely to follow a re- | investization conducted ty Detective Anthony To- . o the deaths of Gabriel Sr LM M k, 34, July 1 Aoz 'r; sriel £ Lincoln s el St wski, 32, son of Mrs. Petron- sl ““"‘f"\\\‘v‘f,“‘ ?"': i anowskl, August 14, 1924 i '“_,mri hony Nozicki, 40, August 16, ibuck, who passed aw \stances much like T e | under which Mrs ronella iranowski died. Mrs. Baranowski's | body was exhumed yesterday and an Robbery Suspected as Motive by | ivcione ams rnames. i s i et Relatives Here G v spe with Ki ding t Mr. an et on Anne Bacon of = s visiting Miss Ma ught Hart, Mrs city is s eaht cireu; the to right—Mr. Miller Huggins' Braxton, Charlie O'Lear; ager,) Walter Beall, Herb Pennock SKiff, Waite Hoyt, Tony Lazzeri, Ba he has admitted that an inquiry i being made into the three o mentioned above, that curred within the past four under circumstances similar to th of Mrs. Baranow 1 who is believed to have been poisoned | In jhe background is Mrs, Anna | Swikals, Mrs. Baranows. er, home the fou ¢ re frec rer oc disclose any findings. It is said that of Gasper Bonen- | occurred in Newark, N. v night, was a case of mur- | is in the opinion of re New Britain. Mr. Bonen ormer resident of this city and was 41 years old. He was found at the | foot of a stalrway in his home in Newark, Monday evening, with his back broken, his nose fractured and his body badly bruised and cut. He was alive but in a dying condition and unable to talk intelligen He died a short time later at the Newark city hospital. His talk con- vinced the police department that he | Probe had been attacked, and robbery is | Buck thought to have bgen the motive. |man The deceased man was a brother | forma of Alex Bonenfant, yardmaster for Wi New York, New Haven and | ter Hartford railroad in this city, and | factory a brother to Mrs. Patrick J. 0'Mara, | Co. of wife of Police Sergeant 2 O'Mara. The body was shipped to New Britain and burial was made this morning. Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's church at 9 o'clock and burial was in St. Mary's ceme- tery. That robhery was the motive is the belief of Sergeant O'Mara and the brother Alex, the latter havi bheen to Newark yesterday to ascer- tain the details of the tragedy. The Mond died at short time al's hom a hoar when' he dic Aiding Dete the manio in the teorge Buckley, like Mr. To- to divulge in- his time. lives a daugh- at the Watch is vital ikal who work Ingraham Bristol and a son, James, is employed at the Eagle| Two daughters are | the who Patrick | 2 Lock shop marri ] LABOR WANTS BUT | AMERICANS HIRED Tommy Thevenow, Bill Warwick (manager,) Otto Wiliiams (cc (coach,) Mike Gazella and Bob Shawkey. Teft to right—Mr. Rogers Hornshy's St nd T ) Jim Bottomley | Bill Sherdel, Allan Sothoron, Herman Bell, Bill Hallihan, ' New York Yankees, Front row, Mid and Bob Meusel. Rea Trainer W be Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Myles Thomas, Louis Cardinals. ylor Douthit. Al and “Spees” Toporcer. Elmer Front row, Ch ick Haf iddie, Jake Flo wc Clough, Vic HICH CLASHED IN FIRST GAME OF SERIES TODAY Urban Shocker, Ben Paschal, Garland dle, Mark Koenig, Pat Collins, Benny Bengough, Miller Huggins (man- 0ods, Fred Merkle (coach,) Sam Jones, Earl Combs, Aaron Ward, Bill erb McQuaid and Joe Dugan. John Barnes, Spencer Adams, Lrnie Vick, “Nig” Holm, Bill Southworth, Bob O'Farrell, Lester Bell, Ray Blades, Bill Killifer (coach.) Rogers Hornsby ar, Sylvester Johnson, Grover Alexander, Flint Rhem, Jesse Haines, Keen and Art Reinhart. R deceased man was known to have had more than $300 in his posses- Would Exclnde Foreign Labor an Public Money Jobs 'YANKEES TAKE ning, although when found he had but 14 cents. He was a member of the theatri- cal stago hands association of New | i1 et 2 (P — A demand | Rritain and of the carpenters' unlon. | (™ F0n v L oGidin s that a He was a veteran of the world war, | oF “BF® O0, CH 0 TS e cpendi- | belng one of the first to enlist, and | (PR TeERs PEHET T B e A | remalned in the service throughout | D iC e et the entire war. A military firing S el squad fired a salute and “taps” were none by 1‘:: ‘“-‘_"Fn: blown over the grave at the funerel | the work, is contained ; ety lution adopted at the convention »f the metal trades department of HOLDUP IN NEW HAVEN |12, mreee seommston e her The is to be (Continued from First ri up. Ba ed past | second. Ruth scored on sharp hit to right. Lazzc de. 1 i si and n Geh was thrown out, Hafe i went to second on all one, | s ground use one, ot Thevenoy resolution, a copy of which to President C declares that Ameri- can workers are being discrimi- nated agal by employe: tn | Severeid fore 1 Du favor of forelgn labbr, particularly | Hornsby. One run, in th hip yards, |{EEROL “After a careful investigation,” reads an excerpt of the resolution, | find that in all the foremost shipbuilding yards, American me- chanics and trade unionists are be- ng discriminated against in the nterest of low priced foreign la- bor.” The convention instructed Presl- dent James O'Connell to urge upon the Ame leration of labor, which will open its convention here Monday, “the of better or- ation of automobile plant em- , particularly mechanics.” 'REBELS IN FOURTH WARD T0 FORM ORGANIZATION Horwitz Says Smoker Will Be Held sent Severeid and congr: OVEREid Driver of Orange Strect Bus Robbed Ball one, outside enow to one of $40 at End of Line in Lonely | th iis, Section. Seventh Inning Cardinals The crowd and began roc g fo nals. Bottomley up, foul, stri Bottomley w out to Gehrig, un- sted ball on high 1 sent up a foul which Severeld | red. Hafey up, foul, strike one. Foul, strike two. Ball one, high. Hafey struck out, swinging weakl on a low pitching ma being made inning, whe | runs, no hits, . Yankees: Pc Kk uy | called. Pennock eve- | now to Bottomley. up. Strike one, called. Ball one, low. | Hornsby m a nice play on Combs' roller and tossed him out. | Koenig up. Koenig out a fly to Hat No runs, no no er-| rors. New Haven, Oct. 2 (P—Held up jand assaulted by a T ed bandit who sprang from a clump of bushes at Cold Springs and Orange streets last night, Jack Crilin, of 58 Orch- | ard street, a driver for the Orange street bus line corporation wa robbed of $40 of his own money and about taken from the cash box of the bus It was at the end of the Orange street bus line, in a lonely section, that the holdup man seelcted for the robbery. The driver was about to turn his machine around when the assallant sprang out of the bushes and ordered Crilin to step down. As the driver got down from his ma- chine, the holdup man struck him across the chest with his revolver. After getting the money the bandit disapeared in East Rock park. stood up Cardi- we e one. up, nock , not a need Cor ie shot a THOMAS-STANLEY Tighth Tnning Cardinals: O'Farrell up, {one, called. Ball ¢ o. Strike two, swung. Foul. Ball two, out- side. Ball three, low. O'Tarrell got a base on 1 fourth ball b wide. Tl up, foul, st Thevnow sacri in to Flowers batted for Sherd one, called, Pennock took T grounder and O'Farrell ws down, the p! b Pennoc to Lazzeri to Dugan, Flowers went to second. Douthit up, ball ont- side. Ball two, high. Ball three, low. Douthit got a base on balls. Holm batted for Southworth one, high, foul, str one. Ball two, | high and ine Combs made a fine |cateh of Holm's t fly. no hits, no erro Yankees: Ruth a little he Meanwhile there w St. Louis pitcher wa fleld from the bullpe in the box for § dark light Hornsby |a fast ball pitcher. Halnes warmed |up a bit in the hox. Ball side and low. Ball two, Strike one, called. Ball And G. 0. P. Leaders Will Be | strike Tgnored. : Y of New- Raymond Vollman Thomas of New e the republican town com- mittee has not seen fit to recognize ave definitely decided to have a smoker the latter part of next week in which a committee will be appointed and an organiza- tion formed that will bring mat- ters to a head,” Louis Horwitz, lead- n insurgent group of fourth wvard republicans, declared today. | The movement which started earlicr in the week by republicans in the fourth ward who believe that they given consideration hen appointments were . being made to office in the city govern- | ment, has rapidly gained under the direction of Mr. Horwitz. Asked | this m g what the republican also Lafayette col- nittee intended to do, | a member of the D. William H. Judd said | also attended (pat o 1s been done so far he was waiting | h warders to act. ark and Miss Virginia Stanley of | | us we Short Beach To Wed. e Strike The Stan of Miss Virginia ter of Mr. and Mr Short Beach, Bran- rly of this cf and Vollman Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W, Thomas of Newark, will take place on the aft- ernoon of October 9 at the “Little (el Aror the Corner,” N Yo The ceremony will membe of the s or daug rs' | run one, ew be , im- were not a graduate of at Exeter and up. came th limped | to the plate. sad he | Iked » Tnstitu as He is fr Me lay 2 ross the i es wa Louis. In the| 1d called upon 10 AWAIT HANGING Oct (A —Death en in the number in mur- since a War cells, have by v 3 cooc. World Record for tal Anti-Airveraft Gun al., Oct. 2 UP—What world record for | side. Haines we 1 machin gun fire has a slow ball. Bell N out Rut hed at Camp McQuaid, | at first. Me 1 up, foul, strike one. here, by the machine gun bat- | Ball one, el had to of the 63rd coast artille of | step aw Ball two. ts ten one, in- outside three, the largest dence time World n death emned m gher courts. orary r Santa Cruz, ( is claimed as us anti- 1t H near Apy | tery | OPENING GAME;]I}AUGHERTY CASE | Page) ! |erty ga |the claim nor investigate it, but re- {lied upon investigations of Johnson, | | that UP AGAIN MONDAY Defense Will Continue With Its Evidence i York M Oct. 2 (P— Daugherty has hed on he tri Thomas end wo wit- for the de ving given to absolve the ants from any blame at- alleged illegal approval of 00 claim. There was no session of the trial today, which will be resumed Mon- rea of 1 appeared of them intended havi 5 both stimony fen d to 1y D. Goff of West Vir- d yesterday that he, as t to Daugherty, approved the disputed claim for the attorney gen- I's department, and that Daug ve him no instructions con- George E. Williams as- ponsibility the day be- e for approval by the alien prop- lian's off Both for At they and assistance o, a I orney g passing tor Gu Te- trom ugherty ap- neral's de- upon the ceived advice Adnah R pointee in the nt, in Jo a government ¢ es that the {two officials of the Harding adminis- tration shared in a $441,000 fee which Richard Merton, German cop- per magnate, testified that he paid late John T. King, formerly an national committecman, for expediting the claim. Evidence s offered to show that some liber- b which formed part of King's fee found their way to a bank ccount of Mill d to a bank | where Daugherty had an account. Senator Goff yesterd testified | that he had never met Merton or King before approving the claim, nd that the first time he talked over the case with Daugherty was when President Harding asked for 2 report on the c when it aroused criticism, | His decision “represerted my own | conclusion, not only on the law, but h facts, as the facts were pre- sented in the record which was ex- hibited to me,” he declared. The senator said, however, that did not read all of the report on | | who also wrote a letter of transmit- tal to the alien property custodian’s office for him to sign. Senator Goff was called out of hi: turn by the defense yesterday so he might complete his testi- mony and sail for Europe today. Arrested on Charge of Smuggling in Diamonds | Fort dest In wer towed Winfleld an Francisco. | Meusel had to si r one. two minutes firing, 160 hits | Ball three, inslde. Strike two, call target | ed. Meusel got a ticket to first. Ititude, $00 | Gehrig up, strike one, called. Geh- miles an hour. flied out Hafey. Lazzeri up, in efficiency was said one, high. Haines tried type of sights Meusel off first. Jazzerl Lieutenant | grounded out to Bottomley who iwched him he dashed to the No r no hits, no errors. Ninth Inning Cardinals: Holm played right field for the Cardinals in the Hornsby flied out to C tomley singled into right fc |ond hit. Bell fanned. Lazzeri took Hafey i roller and threw him out. & hit, no errors. A WPSTED FOR NEW HAVEN sarkoskos, who resides at and Chapman ted this morning ant George Fish of New man Schatzm transportin on a bench Haven police rig to ball catch 15¢ due to a new cond Hav He liquor war- | to | bag. as OPPOSED 2.~ —Presi- | 1 oppose any Amerlean govern- ake over on {ts rman railroad se- of a program for settlement of European war debts and reparations. No proposal of this kind, however, has been ad vanced to the White House, COOLIDGE Washington, Oct. dent Coolidge wou move to have the ment market or own account G curities as part HDAY daughter Mr. and Mrs. John Sheehan of Madison street, observed her elghth birthday yesterday by entertaining a number of little friends at her home. Games were played and luncheon was served, Constance received many pretty gifta CELEBRATES BIF Constan; last inning. Bot- his sec- of o No ru or |READ HERALD CLASSIFEED ADS| I FOB. RESULTS to | | boara Plattsburg, N. Y., Oct. 3.—(P— | Two Canadians were arrested in this | city on charges of con- y and smuggling diamonds | worth §20,000. | | Posing as a Charles Renaud New York ,«.“.-vm-,l persuaded Alex Alison of Montreal, one of the men, o give him five packages contai | ing 127 deamonds. With Allison w | Benjamin Rubin, also of Montreal. Both. were arrested by Deputy | Sheriff Murray and Deputy Collector of Customs Addison H. King of | Montreal, who said he saw a third | man give the parcels to Allison on the New York train near | Rouses Point. | Arraigned before Commissioner | Pattison, the men were committed to the Clinton ¢ w-’i“ in defaujt Of Dalle il l Ses 0 kit 15 | would COBHAM TALKS OF HIS LONG FLIGHT Thinks Hydro-Airplane Should Bt Developed More Ranks High in Class At Yale University London. Oct dir necessity 2 (P—"Possibly the n of this flight is for veloping the rplane immediately for com- Alan J. Cob- 3 r who return- cd home yesterday from a round trip t from England to Australia. statement is made in an ar- ticle contributed by Cobham to.the | Daily Mail. The man who made the 000 miles in 320 hours at an aver- speed of 87 1-2 miles an hour, asserts that he succeeded only be- cause he used a seaplane. He be- ved it impossible to reach Austra- in an airplane during the mon- | soon season. vdro-a Cobham says he is convinced the | i y By air liner of the future, whether air-| HOWARD EDWARD HAUSMAN g boat, must | o sl contained and amply able to | Howard uate ovide food and shelter for pas- hat if the aircraft were Sc000h IS 50 Ghag L e g RcraL > the second rank in the freshman at some lonely place the - i b same C1ass at Yale for the second term passengers would be in the fame oo 1455 96 announced today by the position as if on board ship, said he: ; . university, He had a general aver- My flight has proven that fVIng. |;z0 in his studies of between 80 and from the mechanical point of view, ; tion and the righ type of craft.” possible to fly 365 days a 3 ing how Wilbur and Orville Wright has reached the stage when it is as| - Cobham sees a great future for English pilot would regard flying in flew three miles at the rate of eight reliable as any other form of tra r— = portation. All that is needed to run NEW HAVEN MAN fiying in Australla, where he suf9 | U fl VIGTIM aircraft can develop communications Australia as a rest curc.” Today the Daily Mail reprints miles an hour at Kittyhawk, N. C. The dispatch was captioned “Bal- an airline with safety and regular- as no other form of transport s . v ] e i Killed in Crash Which Ocours om its edition of December 19, loonless Afrship.’ DL LU Edward of New included in Hausman, a Britain High scholars of ns- ar. Norwalk, Oct. 2 (A—Willlam E. Higgins, student, of 245 McKinley avenue, New Haven, died in Nor- walk hospital today the victim of an automobile accident. Willis Mun- n, his companion and driver of the car, was hurt, not seriously, and was cared for today at the home of friends here. The accident came when the banged up against the wall on the {bridge which spans Mill river be- tween Southport and Fairfield. Mun. |son’s home is at 11 Woodbridge ity is an effective ground organiza- In Australi he declares, An | s 5 in Norwalk 1903, a New York despatch record- Boards to Confer on 0il Burner Ordinance Feeling that the enforcement of the building code tive to the is. suance of licenses for the installa- [avenue, New Haven. ion of oil burners would be an ex- The accident occurred at 11 last pense on the contractor ‘slu‘fi’{ he | night. There is a new road near the have to pay for building, | hridge the shoulders of which are plumbing and electrical licenses the | not completed. There is about a fif- fire board at its meeting last night | teen inch drop from the concretd to voted to confer with the building |the filling on the side. Munson said fon relative to a change in | togay that the flare of approaching the law. machines blinded him and he did The commission will mclcll\\'ed{ R el Ihe Ear s o e T nesday and the chairman, clerk, and | ¢qgq of the concrete until it top- chief will mw;j;fl:t 'h; tire ""'l”l‘h'“ | pled off strinking the concrete wall the meeting. e board came of the bridge. Higgins was thrown decision after the clerk read the en- | pqinst the windshleld, and received tire law to the members at the , gractured skull and lacerations meeting last night. over both eyes. He was taken to the Norwalk hospital in an unconsclous conditioned and remained so until | death came at nine this morning. car comn REDS D TED Managua, Nicaragua, Oct. 2 (P The liberal revolutionary forces ve been defeated in battle at La Reforma, 12 miles from Chinan- dega, on the west coast of Nlcar: gua. The government troops cap- tured 100 rifles, a machine gun, and 30,000 cartridges. The revolu- tionary losses were heavy. A delayed report from Cape Gracias, reccived by way of Hon- duras, states that revolutionists assaulted Juan Paiz, a collector of customs, taking t_l‘xiw he had on DADds [, sl b G . 2 DEMOCRATS TO MEET Prominent democrats have been invited to attend a meeting Monday evening at party headquarters, 308 | Main street, at which plans for the | tall campaign will be discussed. WINDSOR LOCKS HOME BURNS The police were notified this morning by telephone from Windsor Locks that a home there owned by John Sacharek of 82 Booth street this c&t‘w‘s»g.eitmye‘dfl bir,. e lagt 'YOUNG PRENTICE WINS MORE HONORS John D.s Grandson Brillian Student at Yale 2 Oct. #® — Joh Rockefeller Prentice of New Yor New Haven, clty, feller, by working as night tel phone operator at the New Have hospital, is earning money to pa his own way through Yale, an again has won a place among th ranking scholars at the univer For his philosophical orations i the classification of junior ap| pointments, Prentice’s genera average was 90 or above, placin him among the scholars ef th first rank. He {s ranked as scholar of the second class in th studies of the sophomore yea: having gained a general averag of between 85 and 80. A year ago Prentice was award ed a poor man's scholarship a Yale by reason of his high schoo scholastic standing and the fac that he is working his way througl| the college. He served as nigh grandson of John D. Rocke] | telephone operator at the hospita all of last year and returned hi: t4 duties at the switchboard wher Itred M. Bingham, son of United States Senator Hiram Bing. ham, is a scholar of the first ranid in the studies in the Junior year| class of 1927, having gained th general average of 90 or above. Charles Tiffany Bingham, an other son of Senator Bingham, has won honors for his orations in the classification of junior appoint. ments, class of 1028. His general average in this connection s be. tween 80 and 84, Benjamin Brewster of New York gained a triple honor in the list o ranking scholars issued today. He is a scholar of the first rank foy the sccond term, freshman year| his average being between 80 and 100; he is a scholar of the first rank in English, his average being between 90 and 100, and a scholar] of the first rank in biology, his standing for that subject being be. tween 90 and 100, Phillip W. Bunnell, of Seranton, Pa, captain of the Yale foothall team, awarded the Fre=tis Gordon Brown scholar-| ship in Yale college, Thomas Holmes Branford, who was among the scholars of the first rank in the freshman year. was a ranking in. dividual scholar in English, tory, physles and French, Among the Connecticut men who are scholars of the first rank, are: varsii is Bracken of] his- | port, | B. Mermin and Milton 1. Ne | stein, Hans A. Klagsbr | Roger _Junior' year — Saul R. Game New Haven; Bernard C. Kamer. man and Blanchard W. Means, of Hartford; Louis H. Porter, ir, Stamford; John H. Speer, and Herman M. Levy ¢ N wman, of New Haven. Freshman year — George J. Ep. im and Don- New Haven; Waterbury. vear — Joseph M geport. I8 MILE ROADWAY FOR RACING CARS ald T. Ward, of Makepeace, Sophomore Bernstein, Briq s, \Prussia Abont to Open Its New Speedway _— Adenau, Rhenish Prussia, O —(P—The “Neurburgring," oug :r the longest and most picturesque automobile speedways in the world, Is nearing completion, It is a tarred basalt road 18 miles long tn its out. er cireult and approximately 30 feet wide throughout, It comprises fn its course 172 difficul o fficuit closed and open A grand stand erected on a high plateau and three spacious plat. forms facing the start offer points of vantage for more than 10000 spectators. The competing cars may bo followed over vast plains through forests and over plains, The construction of the course in the heart of the romantic Eifel mountains represents a unique ven- ture. In return for an agreement to recruit all pecessary labor from the army of unemploged in Cologne, Coblenz and Bonn, the county of Adenan was guaranteed by the Ger- man government the requisite funds With which to carry on the under- taking at 6 per cent interest on credits so extended. The result has been that during the year and a half the work of bullding this speedway has been going on at full blast more than 2,000 former yn- employed have been given profitable and healthy work amld congenial surroundings and homes in pleasant barracks located on sites o pic- turesque as to arouse the envy of many mountain tourists, The officlal opening of the speed- way has been set for the next spring. The “Nuerburgring” takes its name from the ruin of an old castle of the 12th century, which from a’'mountain top dominates the surrounding country and around which the speedway forms a ring. WALKER NAMED TREASURER D. V. Walker has been elected treasurer of the Industrial Council of the Y. M. C. A., it has been an- nounced. Mr. Walker will take charge of the financial matters per- taining to all branches of sport over which the council has jurisdiction. In the past each branch has had its own secretary, but it has been de- cided that the purpose would be served better if one man acted in that capacity for all. The resources of each branch have been pooled into one large treasury. The councll held its first meeting of the fall season on Thursday night. The program of educational work was outlined by Walter R. Fletcher of the Stanley Works and the factories < e’ ovort R Sk Lo