New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1927, Page 30

for the song “Will You Love Me in December As You Did in May?” for which Ball coi day the mayer described Ball as “a plendid man. true friend, and an excellent performer.” George M. Cohan, and Julius Witmark, head of the COHE ON, FELLERS, GET A FREE TRIP Boy Has Chance to Displace marscreas yones, e FORMER HARVARD Irving Berlin Somebody is going to tal 's £ Will the winner of the Herald g spelling contest be a boy or girl?, AR IS SUI[;"]E i guest on a week's vacation to Wash- | i ington. Did she enjoy Just ask i oy §. B. Steel Jumps From this year as the He Hotel to Death companicd by a representative of the (P Sanger ident and di- e Investment brokers, dea om the h floor o Hotel McAlpin ay afterno 1 registe hotel authori- P. Rich of Chi- finanecial eirel n extraordinary was saic since 1 mposed the music. To- | P T AT Ly iLouisiann's “Sugar Bowl” | Today Fears for Worst —More Than 100,000 Are in Threatened Area. New Orleans, La., May 13 (® — uspense blanketed Louisiana’s sugar bowl” today as rising flood waters crept toward the top of the Bayou Des Glalses levees where for three days a crevasse has been ex- pected. Hampered in their efforts to raise the dykes yesterday because of rain, determined residents and volunteers from other sections still were waging a desperate fight to hold the Big Bend levees against |the steadily rising waters, which tricklad over the top in spots late yesterday. 'he menaced area is about 150 miles northwest of New Orleans by rline. The levees are in the At- afalaya river basin and in the el e ol - SRR G e 2o s adgeiaekia s okt THRILLING RESCUE in the threatened area and Major |Gillette sald that every boat that |could be gotten into the district would be needed to evacuate them. | Harry D. Wilson, state commis- sioner of agriculture, estimated | |that a crevasse at Bayou Des Glaises would cause at least $10.- 000,000 in damages to agricuitural interests. | High winds and rains delayed Miss Winifred Callahan, Red Cross worker, In her departure from Natchez for Harrisonburg. Rhine- Ihardt and Sicily fsland refugee |camps with smallpox vaccine and |anti-typhoid serum, that was much Ineeded, particularly at Harrison- |burg, from which 20 smallpox vie- |tims were evacuated. | Miss Callahan planned to return {by seaplane but when the weather prevented, she used a boat. | The crest of the Cabin Teele and |Winter Quarters crevasse waters, |coursing slowly down the Tensas basin, was expected to reach Old} | River between May 18 and May 25, ! depending upon all levees holding. | Along the main Mississippi river |levees south from Angola cons |tlons were reported to be satisfac- { Woman Missionary Tells About Her Release May 13 (P— Yunnanfu, China, |nurse who survived a bandit raid cast of here last April, in which the Rev. Morris Schlicter of Toronto, Canada, and his five-year-old daugh- | ter were slain, gives the credit of a thrilling rescue to H. A. C. Allen, of {the China Inland Mission here. Arriving in Yunnanfu after a long period of uncertainty, during whi Miss Craig, Mrs. Schlicter and the latter's small son were held cap- tive, the nurse related her story. “On April 8, a party of China In- and Mrs. Schlicter, their two small children and myself, left Anshunfu, Kwelchow province, to travel to Yunnanfu, We were attacked l.o-Ping, in Yunnam province. “Our escort engaged in a fight NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927. ANOTHER CRISIS ARISES IN FLOOD ZONE AS BREAK IN LEVEE IMPENDS IN CHINA RELATED | Miss Marcy I Craig, Philadelphia | land missionaries, consisting of Rev. ! by | brigands after leaving the town of lsulp Mr. Bchlicter's body, and even took the clothes off the dead child. [rs. schiicter, her son, and myselt | | then were taken by the brigands into | the mountain regions. “Apart from intense mental dis- | tress we also underwent severe phy- !sical suffering, being out in the" ! mountains all night in the rain and |being hurried along, although we | |could scarcely drag one foot after |the other. | “Troops had been sent out against the bandits. and they severely pressed us to climb o steep moun- | tain, arriving at the top utterly ex- hausted. Then the brigands forced Mrs. Schlicter and myself onward another five miles to a village in the valley below. We were so tired that he would move only with the aid of two coolies whom the bandits had forced to accompany them. | “Next day the bandits sent me! away to tell the pursuing soldiers | that unless they gave up pursult! they would kill Mrs. Schlicter and her little son. The commanding of- ficer of the pursuing soldiers replied that if any harm came to Mrs. Schlicter he would at once put to death certain members of the brig- and leader's family whom he had captured. “After being with the bandits over |a fortnight Mrs. Schlicter's release was arranged by this officer.” they gather here to plan tomorrow Cornell, Army, Navy COLLEGES MOYE T0 PICK IMPARTIAL OFFICIALS jana” corumbia’ sre | represented. | Langford's supervision over 'offi- cials in the gameg¥ot the three big 2 p | universities of N&% England will William 8, ‘Langford to !place him' in a position .somewhat Select Referces. |similar to that of Major John 1. Yo 2 » | Griffith, western conference commis- NegXark May Ut Eastern | oner. . Hiy seleetion marks the college football today felt the un- ¢i6%Hon e’ move in the enst, says dercurrent of & new movement | ghservers, to remove the claims of aimed at selection of officials by an ' favoritism which for many years Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth Name impartial system. = ¢ {have been based upon the present The first step has been taken by | gystem of selecting the officials. Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth. | Abandoning the age-old custom of | permitting the coaches to choo thelr own referecs, umpires and line- men, they have decided to delegate this privilege to a single man—Wil- liam 8. Langford of New York, sec- retary of the rules committee and a prominent college official. |versity has announced. The dentai Hope is held out that the innova- |school will make a similar increase, tion, aponsored by Tad Jones of (and the graduate school of educa- Yale, will be generally accepted by |tion will raise its fee to $300 in leading colleges of the east whonis: ptember. lamson-Jlubbard Fifth Avenue Style TO RAISE TUITION Cambridge, Mass, May 13 (UP) —The tuition of Harvard Law school will be increased from $250 to $300 this fall, and from $300 to §400 the following year. the uni- 1 injured his he football in college, subject to severe eadaches, which a year ago r ed in a nervous breakdown. St was a widower and children, eel leaves three ~Photo by ete MARY KONICKA A Sacred Heart Champion " WASEDA VS. CHICAGO panese Baseball Team With Seven paper, All expenses will be paid even to the clothing for the trip. To get this one of the champion achool spellers of the city will be re- quired to win the city championship at the Herald spelling mateh to be conducted in conjunction with the Rotary club luncheon, Thursday noon, May 26. | A whole week's trip to Washing- ton with a round of sightsecing Victorles in Nine Games, Starts Annual ‘Series. Chicago, May 13 (R--With seven victories in 11 g nst Amer- ican teams to the mes ag. of team of Chi- n the first of three rorkoat yesterday xhibited sparkling fielding, but the 1 test of the Japancse players is batting against curve ball pitching. which they have been striving to learn since the first of the quad- rennial Waseda-Chicago series 14 ars ago. d of a tour of the city, on first day here, the visitor upon secing major sisted | baseball teams play, and Coach Nels Norgren of Chicago to them to | watch the Chicago White Sox and | Washington Senators. They will be guests of Charles A. Comiskey of the White Sox again tomorrow and then leave for their eastern games, the first onc at Toronto. Son Wins Fight for His Mother’s Estate Providence, May 13.—(®-— The supreme court here yesterday rected that the $400,000 estate, left in trust to Miss Lorania C. Beck- with, who died in 1925, should be turned over to Norman Morrison Hodgkin, formerly Lawrence Beck- with, infant son of the woman and born out of wedlock. The decision —Photo by Johnwn & Peterson STELLA BEDNARZ A Nathan Hale School Champion Ppleasure trips, boating, theaters, ban- quets and general good times. In addition to this there is the chance of winning the $1,000 prize. The best | Was the result of a request for in- speller at the national contest will Structions by the Rhode Island Hos- get the $1,000 prize. Other prizes pital Trust Company, made because range all the way down to $35 for of the attempts of other heirs to the spellers who do not get a larger secure the The child was award. !adopted by the Hodgkin family of REJOINS PARENTS Excitement Attends Reunion at| Cherbourg Station r Cherbourg France, May 13 (P— Countess Salm-Hoogstraeten, the for- mer Millicent Rogers, was so excited after a tearfal but jovous reunion with her father, Colonel H. H. Ro- gers and her little son, Peter when they disembarked from the Olympic today that arrangements for the trip to Paris were nearly upset. The countess and her mother planned to jou by antomobile with Colonel Rogers, while Peter was to travel on a special train with Col. Rogers' valet and a maid, She boarded the train to see that th compartment was ready and to in struct the maid, Peter meanwhile re- tform with maining on his grandparents, She was =0 the emotion of failed 1o notice « station p moni . 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Bintloft, federal prohibition agent of be more or less local, inundating yyope, 8. ., and Charles Halbin, probably not more than 25 miles, i S before natural drainage carried it |2 deputy state sheriff, were shot to streams in the section. |death early today by Walter Chriss- | man, tugitive from justice, when they The protection levee at Cotton- port was not expected to hold and ,ought to arrest him at his farm word. oTh the 1,000 residents were to be| levacuated to concentration points |'OMe mear here. ik T I s i | Bintlofft and Halbin. with three gl datal other officers, had surrounded the| Telephone communication With|iy, issman home, expecting resist- the arca was severed last night. All reports recelved came by wire- Efforts were being made to | re-establish teleplione communica- tion today, however, 80 that levee | lofficials and flood rellef headquar- ters at Baton Rouge might keep in touch with the situation. 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