New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1927, Page 2

STAND OF NARINES EPIC OF GREAT WiR “Devildogs” Blocked Road to Paris Nine Years Ago Today France is recuperating from the frenzy of excitement at- tendant on the reception the nation gave to Captain Charles A. Lind: bergh, Intrepid American birdman, who succeeded in flying an air- plane from New York to Paris, but during the week, memories which will hold forever the dark days of nine years ago, recalled the excit- ing and desperate events which cas Paris and all Frenchmen almost the ultimate Gepths of despair. It was during the World war and especially nine years ago last Tues- day, June 2, that the French nation and in fact the aliied governments had cause to #gain pay homage to the United States through the cour- age and bravery of the Amer army, comprising the Fourth Bri- gade of Marines, the Ninth and 23rd Infantry and the Second Engineers with the division’s artillery support. at Chateau Thierry, Bouresches and Belleau Wood. To reeall more vividly the stirring | scenes of those days, it is best to get the story from one who took part in the bloody struggle, who suf- fered with his comrades and fought shrieks rent the air. Grunts of a hit man were silenced as a second slug finished the work. For days and nights, the armies | struggled. The Germans with strongest divisions at mand, hurled line after line battle, and yet could gain no ground. From tree to tree slipped the foemen and all around were death and destruction. | But the Germans were in the | open. No long slege of training was needed for the American soldiers in | ‘thh method of warfare such as “':w; . imperative in the trenches. Back to :flle days of ancestors who battled | | the Indians, went the minds of the | Imen and they were the better ones 1 at the use of cold steel. i Slowly but surcly the German horde was stopped, until finally after more than a week, the enemy was forced to retire to positions further back and there dig in. s a costly fight for the | the | of It | Americans, this battle for a patch | | of woods, but the losses to Germany | wera much heavier. In the Marines | alone, out of 8,000 fighting men, | 6,000 were efther dead or wounded. | But, to the fighting man, the in-| | formation that only 45 of them were | | taken prisoner speaks volumes in it- | self. | Nine years has made the memory ! of those days like a monstrous | dream to Marine Felngold. but th ! bitter hours of sutfcring in hospitals | and at home since that time will | | prevent utter forgetfulness. During | that time, the French government | | named the Belleau Wood the “Bols | | ds la Brigade da Marine” in honor | of the stand taken there and every-| ! where the men in the corps were thelr com. | into | QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can gel &p answ r to any question of fact or information by | writing to the Question Editor. New Britain Herald, Washington Bureaw. 1322 New York avenue. Washington, D. C.. enclosing two ~euls ‘a stampa for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be underiaken. All other questions will recelve a perscnal reply. Un- signed requests cannot be answ:red. All letters are confidential.—Editor Q. Who was Major Whittlesey? A. He was the commanding of- ficer of the famous “Lost Legion"— a battalion that took part in the Argonne Forest drive in the World War and broke through the Ger- man lines on October 2, 1918. They | :re cut off until October 7th from the American forces. When rescued only 252 of the battallon were left out of 679 officers and men. Major Whittlesey disappeared from a stcamer on the way to the West to stop German army from breaking ! hanled as the “Saviours of Paris.” |Indies November 19, 1921. through and reaching the heart of | Franee, {ts heautiful capital, Parls. Joseph Feingold, a New Britain boy, a member of the Fifth Marines, bas a shattered hip as a permanent reminder of his service with the corps during the war, and his vivid recollections of the fight at Belleau Wood relates only to the work of the Marines, through the Ninth and 23rd Infantrys and the Second Engineers hold equal honors with the remain- der of the Second Division. During the latter part of May, 1918, division was resting behind the lines at a small town named Buerry, Marine Feingold says. Drilling and manecuvering occupied the working hours while the usual duties of camp lite took up the remainder of each day. On May 31, the company in which the local boy served was lined up in the street and ordered to be ready to depart at 10 o'clock that . night. On June 1, a long string of motor trucks wound out from the cluster of towns bound for an un- kpown destiration. On the endless string kept moving while nearer and nearer the dull booming of the hig guns could be heard over the hills in front. The company was delivered to a small town behind the lines and the members lay down to rest in a field. Farly next morning, little expeeting what was to come, the entire divi- sion was on the move. As the mean trudged through ¢he mud and over the ruts of a shell torn road, they were met by crowds of 014 men and women, some carry- ing babes, some emall belongings wrapped in shawls, all fleeing from the Boches who were driving down through Soissens toward the goal vzhieh, it en, they believed, would end the war as far as France was concarned. The road on the return journcy was a moving mass of bewildercd people, gun mounts, trucks, horses and every imaginable conveyance. French soldiers, wounded and ex- tausted, stumbled by secking refuge from the terror they had just left Broken they were in everything hut spirit, and as the Marines, youths eager for the coming battle, passed, thess I‘renchmen smiled and mo- tioned with their hands what should be dome with the encmy when they | It met. Slowly the French and British were being pushed back along the front. Soissons®aimost impregnable, had fallen and everything in ,the path of the oncoming hordes ro- “Semper Fidelis” is.the motto of | the Marine Corps, and in that fight | | as in all others, the meaning of | | “Always Faithful” was demon- | | strated. 'BOY SCOUTS AFTER 1‘ [;ITY Il_’l_‘!‘_f- T““AY ‘ is common to all Aryan peoples. 1t | | “Get Troop 4” Will Be the Cry at Walnat Hill Park t | The annual cry of “Get Troop 4" | will sound this afternoon at Walnut | Hill park when the 13th annual fleld meet of the New Dritain Doy Scout council is held. ! Twelve meets have been held, be- | ginning 1915, and Troop 4, located of them, so that the determination of the other troops to defcat it and break its string is especially strong. Troop 4 has lost a large rumber of the sconts who won last r's meet, but with the remaining | calle veterans and a good amount of new material strong teams in every event have been built up. Its chances | against the field or 22 troops are rather dublous, but against any one partcular rival organization it is | conceded at least an even chance. Troop 15 which 100k s posit After giving Troop 4 a hard run, is not considered partienlarly danger- ous now, but several others hav come fast during the twelve-mont | interval and are expected to make n last year things hot for the defending cham-' pions. Foremost amoug these is Troop 9 of the Iirst Baptist church, | the organization which won the sec- ond class title a ycar ago. Troop 3 of the Trinity Methodist church is welieved strong, and American Le- n Troop 7 is sald to be very <trong. Troop 1 of Pla to make ifself felt. The South Con- gregational church troop, Troop 2, is another ranked among the favor- Advance fnformation about the 1emaining troops is either vague or to the effect that they are we but there may be a dark horse or two among them. | Al troops are warned to report on time, as the meet will start land first appeared in of St. Mary's church,| A. inville expects | Q. Where did the saying “Every man for himself and the Devil catch the hindmost” originate? A. It is an old Spanish proverb Inglish in | Burton’s, “Anatomy of Melancholy.” | States, any national bank may issue Q. true? Al Is the story of Wiiliam Tell The story in its main features is found in the Icelandic Thidrek- saga, in Persian Poetry, in Grammaticus, and in old ballads and elsewhere. A stone in the Washington Monument in Washington, D. C., bears , the in- scription “This block is from the original chapel built by William Tell n 1338, on Lake Lucerne, Switzer- land at the spot where he escaped from Gessler,” Since the stone was presented to the United States, the Saxo English Historical Society of Switzerland has | demonstrated that no such {as Tell and Gessler ever existed. Q. How did X-Ray get its name? A. X Is a symbol commonly used by mathematicians and scientists to | at the Center church, has won all 12| de gnate an unknown quantit | When Professor Wilhelm Con | Roentgen of the University of | Wuertzburg, Germany, discovered a {new ray in 1895, he did noty know | exctly what its nature was, so he s stuck even though the proper- ties of the ray have since been de- | termined. Q. Is it possible for a wom: *ho speaks only English to travel one’ in Europe without any dan- \'zaze | A woman can travel alone in Furope as well as she can in the United States. If she is dignified and quiet there js little likelihood that | | she will be in any danger whatso- ever. There are always numbers of | people who speak and understand English and she will find little trou- | ble in making herself understood in city of Europe. t was the “Dead Rabbit 1 A. 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The stings of some spiders are much more severe than those of | wasps or bees, and may cause con- siderable general weakness, head- ache, sweating and vomiting, but | they are practically never fatal lnl | most spiders the mandibles are so | small and weak as to be incapable of piercing the human ekin and if they did so, the small amount flll i poison 1Injected could have no de- | leterious cffect Q. Do sugars and starches have the same effect on the body in the process of digestion? A. Sugars and starches are in- | terchangeable, both being carbohy- drates. In fact, all starches are transformed into a sugar knows as dextrose in the process of digestion. It may be sald that sugar and starch are identical in their chem- jcal conmstitution, but are different in form, just as water and ice are identical except in form. Q. What did John Adams do after he retired from the Presidency of the United States? A. He withdrew from public | lite and his last years were spent with his books. He lived for a quar- {ter of a century after leaving the ‘White House and saw the day when | his son was inaugurated President. | Strangely, he died on the 50th anni- | versary of the Declaration of Inde- pendence and on the precise day when his great political foe, Thom- | as-Jetferson, passed away. | Q@ Who es National Bank Notes, the bank or the government? | A, Upon deposit of certain pre- | scribed United States bonds bearing | the circulation privilege, in trust with the Treasurer of the United | national bank notes. The amount of | notes issued may not exceed the par | value of the bonds so deposited, or the amount of the capital stock of the issuing bank actually paid fn. Each bank is required to maintain upon deposit with the Treasurer of | the United States lawful money cqual to five per cent of its ncte | circulation. This fund is held and {used for redemption of the notes. Nutional bank notes are not legal | tender but are receivable for all | public dues, excepting duties on jm- ports and may be paid out by the Government for all purposes ex- cept interest on the public debt, and for redemption of the national currency. The notes are actually printed for the banks in the U. S. Buread of Engraving and Printing. Q. Can you giveme a recipe for | making apple butter fn which plums are used? i | A. Use one measure of plums to | two measures of peeled and sliced | | apples, Wash and cook the plums | and rub through a trainer or co-| lander to get out the pits. Cook the { apples into sauce, add the stewed | plums and continue cooking an | hour or two or until of the right consistency. When two-thirds cooked add two pounds of eugar per gallon. | When tinished use spices and vanilla | according to taste. | Q. Where i3 “The Land of the ! Midnight Sun"? A. Tho expression refers to all reglons about the poles, but espec- ially to the North Polar Regions where in mid-summer.the sun does | { not fall below the horizon cven at midnight. ASYLUM FOR INDIANS | Canton, 8. N.—The only asylum |in the United States for the Indian | insane is at Canton, 8. D. BRAIN POWER? in any compzny dcpends upon your judge you, size you up, by the intelll- [ Do you want to find out nce? Our Washington Bu- ton usked by every reader of this o know. And it has complled a Ingly interosting bulletin called ro in a separnto section of tihe bulletin. —Photo by Johnson & Peterson MISS MARCELLA GINGSBERG V. B. Chamberlain School Miss Marcella Gingsberg of 314 Chestnut street, a tédcher of the first grade of the Valentine B. Chamber- lain school, has been connected with the New Britain school depamtment since 1915, having had all her teach- ing experience in this city. She re- cejved her education, including her Yigh school and Normal school courses in New Britain. Woman Analyzes Troubles Of People in India New York, June ¢ — Physical and no political causes are at the base of the woes of India and the In- dian people, according to Katherine Mayo, who, in her book, *“Mother India,” published today, says: “The whole pyramid of the In- dian's woes, material and spiritual rests upon a rock-bottom physical base. This base is, simply, his man- ner of getting into the world and his sex-life thenceforward.” “Mother India’ does not deal with a comprehensive study of soclal and sanitary conditions of that country. Miss Mayo visited hospitals harems; talked with princes and politiclans, as well as religious lead- ers, missionaries and British admin- istrators. The author says the western world would be shocked by the revelations of the religious and social customs in India which de- stroy the health of its women and children. READ HERALD CLASSI FOR YOUR WANTS Epnsren adyGnfiance Sferln-s the political situation, but attempts . and | $1,000,000 0UTLA FOR SCHOOL NEEDS Education Costs in Coming Years Likely to Increase When the school department this year adds to its group of buildings the proposed Clinton strest school, a total expenditure of $2,307,847 in a three year ante-war construction period will have been made. Yet, withal, there will not be suf- ficient classroom accommodations to provide for current needs, on top or which must be met the increased school population condition which causes the city to be confronted with the necessity of adding one new building each year. New Britain Not Alone. The situation in which New Brit- ain finds itself is true not only of i this municipality but of every other growing city where construction dur- ing the war period was either halted entirely or greatly curbed for patri- otic reasons. In a perhaps more com- prehensible though very likely as un- | welcome a fashion, the situation might be presented thusly: New Britain must lay aside each year an amount equal almost to two mills on ,its grand list to pay for achool con- struction costs alone, this to be in- dependent of maintenancy charges and the costs of previous bullding activity. In September, 1926, the number of children in the city between four and 16 years of age was 18,968. This was 584 more than were enumerated !in the previous September. For the 10 years from 1916 to 1926 the av- crage annual increase in children of | that 80 per cent of this increase is i taken up by the public schools, there | must be provision made each year to !accommodate 425 additional chil- dren in the public schools. To properly house 4256 children | requires at least 12 additional school | rooms, or in other words, a 12-room school building or its equivalent is to keep pace with the nceds of its increasing school population. This fact partially explains the 1eason for the demand for new schonl buildings | ' during the past few years. Another | reason for these demands is the fact | that New Brjtain in common with all other growing communities fell far behind its needs during the war, as | bas already been set forth. ! In March, 1923, a schoolroom | vhortage of 44 classrooms was re- | ported. During the three years ED ADS | which have since elapsed the av- i school age has been 537. Assuming | must be bullt each year if the city | planned to build a $250,000 building ber of puplls in a need for 36 additional achool rooms, thus making a total of 80 needed. Activity Since War. Since the close of the war, the building program of the school de- partment to make up for the short- age that accumulated during that period, and to provide for the cus- tomary annual increages in school enrollment due to the city's growth, has not only been continuous but considerable in its proportions. Bulldings and additions have been erected as follows: The Washington elementary achool, completed in September 1923 at a cost of $366,662, provided 28 rooms, with gymnasium and auditorium; Israel Putnam school addition, com- pleted in 1925 at & cost of $75,581, added four rooms, auditorium and gymnasium; Stanley school addition, completed in September 1925, at & cost of $148,362, afforded six rooms, auditorium and gymnasium; Smalley school addition, completed in Janu- ary 1926, at a cost of $261,475, in- creased the accommodations there by 11 rooms, an auditorium and gymnasium; Roosevelt school, com- pleted in October 1926, at a cost of $354,585, furnished 14 school rooms, with auditorium and gymnasium; Nathan Hale addition, completed in February 1927, at a cost of $224,243, made available 24 rooms and two gymnasiums; Lincoln school, com- pleted May 1, 1927, at a cost of $350,360, contains 18 rooms, audi- torium and gymnasium. The 18-room Vance school, erected ! at a cost of $325,580, will be ready for occupancy September 1, and {n the meantime work will be started on the $200,000 Clinton street school of 14 rooms. 123 Rooms in Progran. The total cost will be $2,307,847. Seven auditoriums, eight gymna- siums and 123 classrooms are includ- ed in this program, but offsetting are 9 rooms abandoned through portable buildings being discarded, 12 rooms given up in the old Bur- ritt school, 10 no longer used in the Lincoln school, and eight to be dis- continued in the Monroe school. The net gain therefore has been 84 rooms. For the immediate future it is to allow 16 rooms for the district in the vicinity of Oak and Allen streets; the Northend school must be en- larged; Roosevelt school must be converted into a junior high school and an elementary school built to replace it, and the senior bhigh school must be extended. In the opinion of Supt. Stanley H. Holmes and members of the school board this entire program, though costly, is absolutely necessary. lts completion will require an outlay of NOW YOU ASK ONE These ten qu‘-tlm all have to do with Biblical matters. 1—What is the firat animal men. tioned in the Bible? 2—Where was Jatob buried? 3—Who destroyed Baal's altar? 4—Who succeeded David as king of Israel? 5—What three men were set over affairs in Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar? 6—~What was the name of the man Pilate released to the people at the time Christ was tried? 7—How long did Paul preach in Rome? 8—In what book of the Bible is the parable of the two eagles and a vine? 9—Who David? READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS R e S Sl Special Notice was the father of Benefit whist at Judd's hall, Main street, Tuesday evening, June Tth, 1927. Gaod prizes, also door prize, Public invited. Tickets 26c.—advt. WAS ASHAMED 10 BE SEEN Face Disfigured With Pimples, Cuticura Heals. Joseph 8. Bettencoust, Jr., 537 Rev. | ere St., Revere, Mass., July 15, 1926. approximately $1,000,000 over a per- |erage annual Increase in the num-itod of about five years. Q'Incsess%fric'\a hvlm8 Princess, Anne Sierlns At LeWitt's Fairfox Sfievh'vs treated. Nearer and nearer to Paris H promptly at 1:30 o'clock. ! CLIP COUPON OFF HERE ~ drew the German high command. | IGENCE TESTS EDITOR, Wa shington Bureau, New Britaln H More joyful and happy were the New York Avenue, Washin 5 B German soldiers at the thoughts of fomant & copy of the bulletin CAN YOU AN ]v'hu av.'iu:.edv them. lF]lu.«hr:d land postage and handling cos 1appy with victory with everything N their own way, they rushed on. Prevent shoe pressure. | o But little did these sons of the | Atellingand sioe sors STREET AND No. Fatherland krow what was in store | * JADScholl’s § o for them as they passed in the ficlds | 79 o | | Zino-p Ly Chateau Thierry. *Americans,” they laughed, “yes, but they would | fight with money and supplics, not with men and what could the few hiundred who were in France do to help in thie drive?” Northwest of Chateau Thierry, the victorfous army came. Down on the road that ted to Paris were the Marines, dug in in shallow rifle pits with machine guns enflladed across the fields. Waiting, eager and confi- dent but not too confident, the flow- er of America, listened for the word to fire, 1 Overconfidence has been given as | the causa of the defeat of the Ger- | mans. As they advanced in mass formation across the wheat flelds, their every bearing gave that im- pression. 1 Suddenly the signal came and thousands of rifles and hu#ireds of | machine guns spat out death at the | columns in the open. The Germans | fell back but came on again. Again the same deadly fire met them Again they tried but gained noth- | ing, losing hundreds in dead or dy- | ing. i} | Almost unscathed the Marines | Kept up the fire. Al through the night, artillery pounded down on | their positions. Angered at the delay, the officers behind the lines halted | for a consultation. ‘ “The best defense is a strong of- tensive,” it has often heen said, and | the next morning, the Marines with- | out awaiting another attack from across the flelds, t Germans. | Belleau Wood formed a V in the line and it wes this spot just beside the little town of Bouresches for which the Marines Legan that at- tack. Into the bushy undergrowth | of the woods charged the Ame s | and there in hand to hand combat, s was enacted one of the bloodiest | EIVEN NUMBER. battles of the war. Never giving an | | WHEN WIFE BULLETINS inch, both sides struggled. Bayon. ol THAT TRED'S IN BED, His were pushed home, trench knives| {]1eHT's ouT ! dug deep and rifles and pistols cut | men dawn. Everywhere there were dead and wounded. The “spang” of a bullet mingled with wail of & mortally wounded “budd Curses rang out, groans arose and ( Silver For Brides For many years brides have been selecting their silver patterns here. As the years have gone by patterns have changed, until today we have the cul- mination of the silversmiths’ art repre- e(:jnted ir the beautiful designs illustrat. ed. 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Up 1 Flight. 299 Main St. _N ON WAY T BED MUTTERS HELLO, FRED PERLEY'S LEFT HIS CELLAR LIGHT |cone Plate rBu«:kir@ham : 7, ASKS WIFE HAD NE BET- TR CALL FRED UP AND TELL HIM ABOUT 1T DELARES HE REALLY QUGHT T0 CALL FRED UP ABOUTIT, SEEMS THE ONLY NEIGHBOR- HiS BEDROOM after the | v o » < WAITS FOR ACES, DI7ING WIFE CALLS HOLD ON HERRS TRED'S VERY GROUCHY| WHICH HE IMAGINES TRED THAT WASN'T FRED'S CEL- HELLO, DECIDES DISCRETION CUSSING, HUNTING FOR ~ LAR LIGHT ATALL, IT WAS 1S THE BETTER PART OF HIS SLIPPERS AND STUMB- JUST THE LIGHTS OF THE AR VALOR, AND HANGS UP UNG DOWNSTRIRS ACROSS THE STREET MAKING SOFTLY A REFLECTION” &4 (Copyright, 1927, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) CLUYAS WILLIATS| FHostess stes cflnn;?.e*v.sclv