New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1927, Page 6

New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY mation would mean a large financlal | of the state seems to be that here and industrial combination in three|the building boom reached its apex directions. early, while some of the others It is doubtful, however, whether which lagged behind are now catch- spend his vacation. He will pas in a cruise on the Sound. The expressmgen had an outing at Hart's pond, Kensington, vesterday. —THE OBSERVER— recreation park. Mount Tom. This place has thc werld’s lowest and slowest roller coaster, but a very good one would be provided it the cabel cars bro'c away. Every half hour a trolley_. Twmed Dally (Sanday Excepted) At Herald Bidg, 67 Church Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES $0.00 & Year. $3.00 Three Months. 76c. & Month. Entered at the Post Office at New Brit- ain as Second Class Mall Matter, TELEPHONE Business Office . Editorial Rooms . CALLS 925 921 The only profitable advertising medium in the City. 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It is true that vaudeville has spturcd the nation.” It has even { so far as the Black Hills of outh DaKota. A nature says everyone Liould go barefoot in the s ime. Imagine how uncomfor lover mer a bare foot. Somebody with statistics in bonnet has said that 20 per cent of | the people play golf. That must be news to the golf stick manufactur- ers, What the Japanese cannot under- stand about western nations is that they know all about disease germ to fight them, vet the their shoes off and how whites don't take when going indoors. Quite a number of couples have been married in an airplane, this in | t and | order to get a distinctive s follow the bent To do something however, get married astride a horse, if one can b really unusual while sitting found In Detroit 62,000 Ford employes have been idle since May, awaiting the time when the machinery ready to Fords. In the bituminous coal from 180,000 to 200,00 miners been idle since April 1, awailing the time when they can agree with the There must be a lot acture the new field have mant mine owner: of extra fishing going on in the na- | tion this year; that is to say, not all of the piscatorial sport is happening around Rapid City THIS CITY A MODEL IN X METHODS Governor Trumbull . Hall of New state's Why chose Edward head the board of fi- nance and control Is made from the tax pamphlet isucd by state tax department. In this Britain is shown to h Britain to new evident e by lowest per capita tax of any city in the state. Mr. Hall, as chairm: Britain board of fi n of th N nce and taxa- tion, had a strong influence in bringing about this gratifying result. When the for a tax expert his ey rested upon Hall the senate mittee had been inst governor looked about rally culeating sonnd ideas of he state as well It is per most to” a Britai capita city's inha z 434 With Wat one is pardons Wate well off The nd 1 cities indicates lows the payment i lo¥ the low one to be proud of AL INQUIRY OF CENTRALIZATION The Federal T was expected, has t of the Du Ponts' holdings of U. . Steel. interests, already strong ed In the Motors, are more power in the directo steel corporation, and its { b Enizance ot Du Pont ntrenci ownership of General belleved to b seekin consum the trade commission can do much | ing up to their needs. ot Circulation | The A. B. C. s a natlonal organization | for self-expression. | is | New findings are not necessarily final. As a fact-finding body it functions very | well; as one having power to put its | findings into force it lacks finality. { Until the courts confirm its decisions | they are not generally accepted as final. Tt is true that it could issue an order under the Clayton act, but! such actlon inevitably would find its | way into legal channels unless the | to concerns Involved were willing abide by the order without a fight. | The commi could also e rll{yi | its facts to the Department of Jus- suit to enjoin the it might make | complaint; but in such a case final action would rest with a willingness of the on tice and ask a practices of which ustice department to proceed.’ The Du Pont interests n” the General Motors, do not but are | heavily interested in it. The Clayton Act does not apply because there is plentiful in the motor most of the con ion | industry, and even if tock were owned by one concern or one man, it would mean no more than a similar ownership of the | Ford company. The Du Ponts do not own more than a part of the Steel and even if | Corporation securitics; | it owned all of the eteel stock there would still e competition in the steel business, as there are other ns still existi A pro- | ceeding against the Du Pont inter- | ests would be in the same class with |a proceeding asainst the Rockefel- il(rs\\ho are heavily interested in all | steel conce the Standard oil companies and are | also interested in railroads. | The main issue no doubt will be | one ot potential favoritism between the concerns. There can be little | dount that having directors on the | Stecl Corporation will not harm the General Motors in the purchase of steel unless the government starts es and service, as in railroads. would be ble it | would feel to step on the gas with | rezulating pri the case of r to other motor companies if the General Motors had such an ad- vantage; possibly that is what the TFederal rade Commission has in mind. The thing to do, of course, is to prevent such an advantage from eventuating. The ob, munity” of owne hip between such concerns 1s to gain an advantage of 1; but if the administration [is to continue its professed plan of “less government in business” much will be noth- about it— . in fact, under existing law an really can be done. done BUILDING DECREASE; THE FLORIDA COLLAPSE at hand giving the com- parative totals of huilding permits the important throughout all the states lend them- s to ather piquant calcul | tions, and especially noticeable is the fact that the Florida building boom | collapsed with an even louder thud j than was heard at this dis | issued in cities ‘<(l\ The collapse in Florida was so \at its building permits during [ the first six months during 1927 | 927 {no higher than those for Connecti- | cut. It is only necessary to compare are [ the size of Florida with the Nutmeg | state to determine what that means. | In round numbers building permits for the six months i totalled $31,000,000, For ]me same period last year they total- |12d $111,000,000. Thus we have a decrease in that alone of ,000,000—which indicates thor- y that the boom ha at normaley has returncd. Florida's year burst and It is worth noting that another seuthern state h Carolina— shown the la age of one The it stat gain 1 of pro- building permits this total $13,000,000, remar portions, vear in ti hereas last year they were only 2 600,000, total of 1 per- or the six months throughout is not | and total for thi compared with $2,- 70 for the difr llions = same period last is $210,333,131 this involved is 1t * than a slump in. CONNECTICUT'S INCREASE IN BUILDING' n Connecticut whil 1ding o o the irkable, tion compar same D Brit siv mor ing t mits of mor g thar dollars, and d to have returns The diff ituation in this city can be a closc lto nee b fon and many other citi | about it except make a report. Its | ect of a com- | Ten other citles in the state in ad- dition to Bristol have shown an in- crease, however—Bridgeport, Dan- bury, Derby, Hartford, Meriden, New London Norwali, Norwich, Stamford and West Hartford. These cities have made it possible for Con- necticut to be one of the minority states which has shown an increase of bullding permits this year com- pared with last. The total for the state for the six months this year— $31,375459—1s more than a million | dollars above the record for the| same months last year, which was $30,935,500. The figures are significant because carly this year it was not believed likely that the boom totals of last year would be surpassed. These ex- pectations came true in New Britain where there is still a plenitude of building under way, but the state as a whole has done better than during the boom year of 1926. HIGHER GAS TAXES It Connecticut again wishes to “bring in a little extra money” it doubtless will find a way to do so— twenty-one states have increased their gasoline taxes since January 1. Increasing the tax on gasoline is easy once the tax is established. It| usually begins with one cent a gal- lon, then goes to two, then— The average gasoline tax in all the | states—including the thred® states, Massachusetts, New York and Illi- which have no such tax—is nois, now 3.02 cents a gallon. Four states have a gas tax of five cents a gallon—Arkansas, Kentucky, | New Mexico, and South Carolina. | One state—Virginia—has a tax of | 4 1-2 cents, which in practice must | mean 5 cents. | Eleven states have a gas tax of | four cents—Maine, Maryland. Idaho, | | Florida, West Virgina, Georgla, ' South Dakota, North Carolina, Mis- sissippi, Nevada and Alabama. An- other, Utah, has a rate of 3 1-2° | cents. i Seventcen states have rates of 3| cents—Californig, Colorado, Wy- | cming, Michigan, Arizona, Indiana, | Delaware, New Hampshire, Pennsyl- | Ohio, Ore- | gon, Tennessee, Vermont, Montana |and Texas. The rematnder except | the three mentioned as having no | gas taxes, have the two-cent rate. vania Iowa, Oklahoma, Thus the states are shaking dogvn { the money with which to construct highways. Some of them, it is sus- | pected, use part of | help defrdy other expenses. Most of | the mone the money to , however, goes into high- | wa | | Thus, federal govern- ment economy boosters tell us that federal taxes are being reduced but when the at state taxes are being increased, nd cite the large amounts being spent In state projects, it will be well | , to remember that a great part of | | the increased state expenditures are | for highways and that the money is Iron\ing directly out of the pockets | | of the gas chariot owners. These | want the highways and are geting | them by handing over the money. AN UNFAIR REPORT ON FIRE FIGHTING The National Board of Fire Un- derwriters can scarcely be taken |s riously after the unfair report it made regarding fire-fighting condi- tions in this city. | this insurance body The business of 18 to maintain its rates as high as it can, and one way to achieve that object is to make reports of the kind it has just nade. Granted that fire-fighting condi- "tions in city not |100 per perfect, that is improvement; this are cent ! there room for but conditions cannot be as rotten as | pense 1 ple who think they are going ther It was productive of much hilarity and consumption—of eatables. Geo. Bird and Charlie Bence ran a race and they don't know yec who won. Horgce James, clerk for W. E. Clark in Plainville, went to Cottage City, Mass., today for an outing. Alderman Curtis and his special smallpox committee met last eve- ning and voted to dismiss the com- missary and nurse. All patlents | have left the house of detention and only four remain in the isolation hospital. There is no available location for a post office on Main street, nl~‘ though there is talk of a company being formed to erect a structure on the north side. Three Church strect | sites have been selected, the Gid-| dings building, the Calumet build-| ing, and the Wilcox block. FactsandFancies ! supported by | | machines. | a The first machine air were called politic Fable: 'The reason she became star was becavse she could act women afford most and most of the Religion and | of the happiness H figh | | Some children have a good time | and some are told not to make g0 | much noise. 1 Even one of these know-it-all wo- men always wonders what to fix for | dinner. A he-man is one who walts grit ly until his wife whispers and tells him which fork to use, So far science hasn’t invented a better test of blood pressure than an umpire, . Buck up. Other men aren't bet- ! ter; they merely have less trouble- some conscicrnces, The reason some people try to do good is because it's so much easier | than being good. about ex-* on Americanisn King ; heing ashamed to Kick the pri In the white robes floggers wear | it is hard to recognize anything ex- | cept the yellow streak. | One of Heaven's lovely fratures will be the absence of a lot of peo- No kind of stunt flight would pay just now. The world has only &0 much enthusiasm. “The sticks” 1s that region where no town has more than one mil- | lion-dollar mcvie house, | | It must be the ambition of every politician to make people wonder who the other Senator from his State is. America has one advantage for ! war. She has more good harbors in which to hide her battleships. i The hard thing to understand | about an atheist is how he can stay | mad about other people’s mistakes that don't concern him. The large nut that holds the | | steering wheel is alw painted. { Tnis is also true of the one in the | back seat who thinks she is holding | 1t “I've geen | a4 the Qorr this sentence: him wit veral drinks, close obscrver, “but he never lan ass.” ot Copyright. 1927. Publist Syndicate ¢ Amateur Golf Record Will Stand Traver inns report makes out. | Chief Noble gave ]Amlnrii'r when he decl a ntative of the fire insurance | trust sent to this city was peeved when the business of kowtowing to | such an exalted personage was lack- | and that he frankly lesirous of lower rates nd it was his busines !t\.:.v they s to help sec did not get them the situation in a nutshell, This is 25 Years Ago Today contract for the erection of hool on the House lot on Pros- cot let to B, This school will be state to prevent Model school. made rapid tion of the we Al will b A rd s been built the of the Contractor progross in ummar demo hol. taken Providence that there building going on here Providence, which times as large. This is partic factory buildin house on the TFarmington belonging to Patrick Heslin royed by fire this forenoon all the furniture of Mr. and Martin Welch went witl The building is so far out from city that nohbody even bothere end in an alarm. The registrars say they w o attention to the voting list compiled by IFred Goodrich for | EEconomic It AT tor of the Sover {the quarterly ' Guion P. I own tomorrow ilder said yes was mor than in rly he was ¢ and Mrs it il g Sloper clected a 1gn Trading ( meeting yesterda tch of the direc- 0. at Imitted | H. | overcrowd- | the | Minneapolis, Minn., July 30. (®— | No matter who wins national | amateur golf championship at the | Minikahda Club here starting Aug. | 22, even though it he the honor- {laden Bobby Jones, the record of | Jerome D. of New York, | | will stand out supreme. 5 vers won the ch Jones, if he Geor > Von jonship | lin unseating L.os | ehanipion, Walter J. thrice amateur In the th of 5. present will equal of New the ms ravis r has b most th 11 victo i 1 s, Pittsburgh Atlar Ange | Haroll Observations On The Weather [ 0.—1¥or | for v England: G ally irday and t cooler Saturday ast for Eastern New fair Saturday and Su turday vhat cool sast portion litions T nov! has advanced to 1 un "0 MaxsoN FauHALL JURaLL Send all communications t0 Fun Shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. ot? t in sum- Well, Why 0l1d Dobbin wor 1 1l mer days Benecath it both his away, Why shouldr that ve Not put ‘en pray? nak ne by, ears were tuck- follts wear fun-ne way, Why our dispo Answered the Description! wold. “You have travel- indeed.” “Did you ever the Old Mrs. Milfor | THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Black Hills The Black IFrom P th One th ® never c How did those h Crime tsbur ng W n explain Is get black According to a bee expert a bee | s from 4000 13,800 Then why it so down in the wrong place? Basehall a hun to ioes eye often sit e's ought think it would you and Ruth v tennis Gehrig with baseball bats? A robin n the home, We'll ve cic porch of a iture to say woman is a good bri Supply and Demand are w ting more and more! Wilkinse by Mrs. Wil For mer he me track up the kitch- —A. H. Miliano COWIPHYLLIS! by Herman Fetzer) wilis was the most her head was still she I ngue for ad with it, she'd poke got to been 1 her t tor str ST OREADT rn Children pin. 1 1 of o the chin it ent will et north Atlantic Makes Random Observations see | Hills lie a thousand miles | i How many of you have ever en- joyed a long hike in the woods? Really enjoyed it? Hiking has come down to us from the Spanish Inquisition and fs still popular among a certain form of morons. But seeing you are so de- sirous of learning how to hike we will stick to our promise and tell you just how to-enjoy it the most. First, arrange to leave camp at about 6 o'clock when dawn is just | streaking the eastern sky with its fron tints (we think we should | have been a poet) and take the dirt | I road to Finney's Crossing. You will find good roads all the way except for a stretch of about 18 miles this @ of the place the bridge is down just beyond the point they're blast- Keep your car in gear going wn the six mile hill and for the of all that's holy don't forget to STOP AT JOE'S LUNCH FOR | HHOT DOGS AND ICE COLD SODA. Now you are in the woods and you are being chased out by a 1g gentleman with a long, pitchfork. Now little Edgar | allen in the swamp and now Virginia is settling down to the job ¢ g a bouquet of poison ivy. | Your shoes, which the glib salesman lat the sporting goods store crooned over, will suddenly begin to develop sses such as three pen- ny ging through the sole nd a small file suddenly springing from nowhere to rub up and down My, isn't this fun, Whoops that a rattlesnake? Yes, indeed _sce how the place around the bite | is swelling up rapidly. Gather round, kiddies, here is a real live rattle- A not a moving pleture. al, that's what it is—edu- no ucer w nails the heel. Now wa are lost and isn't it great ort to find th every way we turn | 1eads ns 1o the same place? Look, I {ing dark and here we are from home and 24 miles m a trolley line, Who said hik- ing was not sport? . Let us have dinner. Where s the | 1unch box so we can find out just what we have forgotten? Amateur | campers v forget salt, bread| {and matches but the real camper !\will also include the thermos bottle, i the olives and the paper plates. | When you get to the point where vou can neglect to bring the whole {lunch box—you have arrived or ar- n, as you will, we won't argue out it. And now let us think about start- home. Father's feet have gone 1 a bit and there is no time like present to get an early start. | Down the road we go, all unbe- Jwnst that it is the wrong road t we will land up exactly 13 s out of the way. Hand in hand, n order that each might help sup- the other, we wabble down the v road into the velvety purple-| the silently descending dusk. | quite sure we should have | mow that we have arrived| t. let us rest for a brief three days, while your thinks up something 1 to do. Next week we BL: 18 , say sin Joel for will hay “%ching: or Gentle Forms of Be- Complete with paper ling and ilustrations. s are usually mat- of such a private nature that| are not disc d—except at | fternoon bridge clubs. But ages and arics of motion picture folks are operty—that is the penalty pay for being prominent. zine, has | Vari g their ages apiled a list of stars, their compensation which | sting sidelight on | ssonal affairs of the people | or frown from the sereen. for United Artists, more, was born in 1882 vears of age. He is the + of the Barrymores. Doug- JFairbanks is 44 and Charlie nd 40. ngest pair in United Ar-| tists are Gilbert Roland and Dolores | del Rio, both 22. Roland was born | i co. December, 190 1 Ltio was born August 3 st st home 7 wour Later Mix ¢d in the Phi again led and didn't go to war again Boxer uprising in_ Chin must have been treated pretty Clinese because all he aid for the Bri W government dur- Boer War was to break in serapping ac tivities, nese shindig, hav ictly to westerns R 42 5 Pauline § who has o far, is in o she entered a minor. \elly and Frank Cur- Jldest en the Metro horn September 4, won't tell his age more than 70 when who should be al- man par is about 43. 32. Harry Hines may be Both ar faces, arke, not the reg- the « himself rho s Richard anywhere not only but said to 60 of poker 76 cents. de be dead but t is worth razor bl And o up, too, inly hitched get you? How Could She! ken up deep- 1dy for her bottom of the ocean. ing was ready—she weighted boots, helmet, iit. But just as be lowered into ed kes don’t let me forgot to put the powder Lelnet!” — Delle Adele Kuhn 1927, Reproduction Forbidden) ea di s was fir: diving s Iy to the (e 1 fin my (Copyright | ported at $1,000, On the City and Its People faces also have the elasticity and age-weariness of rubber. Ben Lyon is 26. Lewis Stone is set down on the books at 48. Mary Astor is 27 and Lloyd Hughes 30. Mary Brian, of Paramount, is 18. Louise Brooks is 21. Chester Conk- lin, an old clown with Barnes’ Cir- cus, is said to be 40. Richard Dix is 35. Ralph Forbes, 27. Harold Lloyd is 34, Esther Ral- ston is in the early twenties. Madge Bellamy is 24, George O'Brien 26, Kathryn Berry 27. Charles Farrell isn’t more than a few months over 20. Clara Bow is under 20; Lois Moran is 18, Further revelations shows that Reginald Denny is 31.. Laura La Plante i8 not quite 23. Mary Phil- bin is 23. Glenn Tyron, newest Universal star, was born in 1899. Buster Keaton was doing somer- saults soon after November 4, 1895, now being in the 32nd year of life. Ronald Colman is over 30. Vilma Banky hasn't passed the first 25 yet. The highest pald picture actor outside of United Artists Corpora- tian is Tom Mix, earning around $20,000 weeky. Mix's salary is $10,000 weekly with a percentage of the profits of his films. Charlie Chaplin charges himself | $15,000 weekly salary into the cost of production, realizing on the great portion of the profits of the picture | in addition. Charlie started in pic- tures for Keystone at $150 a week. Douglas Farbanks charges from $10,000 to $15,000 weekly salary in- to the cost of his productions. He was taken from the hoards into pic- tures at a salary of $2,000 to start with. Buster Keaton charges $8,000 weekly into cost of production as salary. Buster turned down an of- | fer of $750 a week to appear in vaudeville at the Winter Garden in | favor of starting out with Roscoe (Tratty) Arbuckle at $40, John Barrymore's salary is’around { $10,000. Gloria Swanson charges $7,000 weekly into cost of produc- tion as salary. Norma Talmadge is rated at a similar scale to the last. Colleen Moore gets $7,000 weekly or $125,000 to a picture. She makes four yearly. Mary Pickford’s salary is $10,000 weekly with the major percentage of the profits in addition. In 1915 Miss | Pickford was earning $2,000 a week with 50 per cent of the profits from her pictures. Her salary was doubled in 1918, getting $4,000 and | 50 per cent from the same carper- ation, Famous Players. Lillian Gish is the highest salaried player with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at a reported salary of $7,500 week- y. Adolphe Menjou recelves around $5,000 weekly. Richard Dix's {3 over $4,000. Reginald Den- | ny is the highest paid member of the Universal staff at $3,500. Janet Gaynor started with Fox at $75. Her salary was doubled and it is understood that Miss Gaynor is to be given a new contract at a salary more in line with her box of- fice value as a result of her work in “Seventh Heaven." Olive Borden, another 19-yeat-ojd, getting $75 a week working at odd times under the direction of an agent, was sold by the latter to Fox for $1,000 and is now getting from 2,500 to $3,000 a week. Marian Nixon has just graduated from westerns into real heavy dram- mer at Universal. Her salary, re- may go higher shortly. Our third trip, for no reason at all, will be to Thomas Mountain, er, if you are on more familiar terms with it, Mount Tom. We are quite sure you will reach there if you read the following directions<and fol- low them out. There are many ways to get there, but the following probably as bad as any other and is therefore recommended, for if you strike a better route think how pleasantly surprised you will be. Here goes: Leave New Britain, when traffic lights permit, via Main, Fast Main, ilm, and Stanley streets. Amber light at corner of Stanley and Allen streets is merely a warning; de not stop and wait for it to turn green. On the right is the State Normal school, so called because it is the i normal school for local high school girls to enter. Follow pavement to ‘West Hartford. About this time you will realize you waited too long before turning left, so make another left swing and go west to center, then strike northward. There should be a road in that directiem; if not, take to the ficlds, the road will turn up somewhere. Pass through corner of Bloomfield, mearing left a few times. Cross narrow bridge into Weatogue. Powder mill. Do not ignite. Turn right to Simsbury. Never mind the railroad tracks here; they are used only for circus trains once a year and the hHapers carry warnings when that great cvent is to happen. Right through to / Granby. Straight and take right fork to Massachusetts state line. Stop across line and fill tank with reasonably priced gasoline. Then on to Southwick. The Boy Scout in the road is really a traffic cop, even if he hasn’t a badge, so don't ask him if he has dene his daily good turn yet. Right through to Westfield. This is a tricky place. If you are lucky enough to find your way to the center, be very careful in rounding the green, going outside al! white lines even though they do take you ahout half a mile jout of your direct route. | When they finally permit you to }=zet back to Main street, head north under trestle. A mile beyond take a right turn into a sandy road. This road is a corker and is recommend- ed by all who make their livings washing autos. Keep up your cour- age, pass Holyoke reserveir on left, and go down stecp grade to Holyoke. Turn left up Northamp- ton avenue until forced to detour. When this is reached, have one of party hold each spring to keep it from obreaking—Mount Tom {s an ant-hill compared to some of *he bumps in this stretch of road. Get- ting safely over it—if you are Zor- tunate enough—continue north, bearing left, and go left into the run to the bage of the railway, and this is a very unusual trolley in that no fares are collected. However, it leaves you at the bottom of the fun- icular railway, and they sell only round-trip tickets on this, so you are stuck anyway. From the top you can see all the way back to Hart- ford, and you know the way from there, 50 the return trip is trifling. EXCURSION DEATHS SHOW NOINCREASE o1 Known Dead i Chicago Disaster Chicago, July 30 (P)—A day spent in searching for bodies failed to re- veal any additional victims of Thurs- day's lake tragedy and the death toll today still stood at 27 as four differ- ent inquiries into the sinking of the ex(‘ur!loln boat Favorite were under way. Several passengers of the ill-fated craft who had been reported missing were accounted for today, having been among the first to be rescued and soon lost sight of in the con- fusion which followed. Coast guards who dragged the lake near the place the boat flound- ered and turned over said they be- lleved there were no more bodies and abandoned further search. At the same time, the coroner, the state's attorney, the police and the United ‘States steamboat inspec- tion service were conducting in- quiries into the tragedy but they had arrived at no definite evidences of criminal liability for the disaster. Captain Arthur Olson, skipper of the Favorite, although held in tech- nical custody, was exonerated of any blame by William A. Hofnauer, mil- lionaire yachtsman whose craft stood by and aided in the rescue of most of the excursion hoat passengers. The sportsman told investigators that Captajn Olson had acted heroi- cally, doing the utmost for the safe- ty and rescue of his passengers. He $aid the squall which hit the boat, sending its passengers scurry- ing to shelter on one side and, caus- ing the boat to list until jt toppled over and sank, came up so sudden- ly and was so terrific that there was nothing that could have been done. Government inspectors sald the hoat had been seaworthy and "was equipped with enough life preservers for 175 people although at the time of the tragedy there were only about 80 on board, mostly mothers with their children on an outing. Priest a Hero A Catholic priest who was too modest to reveal his name.was found today to have been one of the many heroes in the disaster to the {ll-fated excursion boat, Favorite, when it capsized in Lake Michigan, The priest, a visitor in th& city for a few days, took two little girls, daughters of a friend for a boat trip and chose the Favorite. When the squall came up, the priest fitted life preservers on his charges and after the boat sank succeeded in reaching them and several other children and bringing them to the side of the ves- sel where they clung until rescued. Finally some of those rescued said, he had a half dozen little tots by his side, all clinging to the Favorite when the first relief boats came. The priest, found at the home of one of the children he saved, acknowledged he aided in the rescue work but de- clined to give his name. Big League Pitchers Fail in No-Hit Games New York, July 30\(#—In every year since 1922, big league baseball has produced at least one pitcher of 8 no-hit game—but the 1927 sea- soh edges toward its close- with no such performance on its records, though more than half a dozen men who have hurled ne-hit games still labor in the majors. In eleven years nine pitchers have entered the hall of fame with hitless performances, Bush for the Athletics in 1916, Johnson for Washington in 1920, Robertson for the White Sox and Jess Barnes for the Giants in 1922, Ehmke for Bos- ton and Jones for the Yankees in 1924, Haines for the Cardinals in 1924, Vance for Brooklyn in 1923 and Lyons for the White Sox in 1926. This year's best perform- ance 8o far has heen Root's one-hit game for the Chicago Cubs against Pittsburgh. AT PALM GARDENS Palm Gardens, located three miles from Hartford on the main Spring- fleld road, holds dances every Sun. day as well as every week night. Tony Jones' original Nighthawks are rendering the latest Broadway musical numbers. The Gardens is known as the only popular priced night club in New England. READ THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS LEHIGH with relj< SERVICE, us, means able, well-screen- ed coal, speedy delivery and uni- form courtesy; not occasionally but always! 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