New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 3

_— LANES-GILF WAY NOW IS PROPOSED Indiana Wants an Outlet to the Sea Vingennes, Ind., Jan. 20.—M—To mak= the Wabash river famous for ‘omething more than a song, Thomas H. Adams, veteran Indiana vditor and a group ®f Vincennes men propose a new lakes-to-the- sulf waterway project. *“The Indianu plan of river trans- portation and waterways,” as it 8 termed by the sponsors. contem- s 1hie: dredging of a channel in Wabash river from the point e it empties Into the Ohio river 10 a site near Huntington, Ind., then the use of the little river as a canal to connect at Ft. Wayne with the Maumee river, which extends to Lake Erie at Teledo, Ohio. Tt ulso is suggested that the Wa- i be connected with Lake Micht- Zun by 4 ca dug from Lake “ounty {(Gary) to a point near Del- phi. Ind. Adams says the cousider the Dl the project cost $30,000,000. The editor and his associaies pre- engin sented their plan to the rivers and | arbors congress and also conferred vith the Indiana delegation in con- ss on the sul .S, PROSPECTOR HEPT VERY BUSY Peton Gordon Much in Demand in Oil Tria Washington. Jan. 20. UP—Peyton Gordon, United States district attor- ney for the District of Columbia, has been identified with the Doheny and Wall-8inclair oil trials so long now that the public may think that prosecution of thexe cases is all that he does. On the contracy. during most of the litigation the prosecutor had spent most of the nights in attend. ing to other matters involved fn the upwards of 12,000 ¢ nal cases his office 1andies each-year. Gordon personally reads every brief and supervises the work done by his 20 assistants. Another one of his practices is to read cvery communication tice und to sign every letter that s out. Since Gordon took office n 1921 he pevsonally has recelved every person who called to see him. The work of the district attor- ney's of in the District of Co- lumbia is greater than in any other district. because many cases tried state courts’ clswhere cge fed- and - not because ime in the distriet, addition to crinie, Gordo hindles all litgation concern- cabinct officers in the District Columbia, War Risk Insurarc: s and those of 1he Shipping rd. Taternal Revenue, Treasury tpent and thé Hoard of Tax In i 30, attorney's * office here took eare of 10,586 cawes started that number | ated with 6,523 aequittals and nol-prossed. During 051 persons pleaded gullty, but thera were 2,416 cases tricd by jury. which any case can bs traced from its beginning to its conclusion. received by his of- ! « | devil picked up the ston !etill gee the marks of his claws—to He | NEW BRITAIN DALY EE DANE EXPLORER VISHT GREENLAYD Repori Toai They Find Country Dreary spent many nights going over ths | court dackets listing cases \\hlrlll had caused congestion. He inves- tigated every case then pending | and in his own handwriting order- ed its dJisposition. By doing this he cleared his Jockets so that they are n'rly up tc date, It was wnile Gordon was occu- pied with the Fail-Binclair oil cor- spiracy case in October that onc of | {hia “boys” started the investiga- | Itlon that brought about the bigzest | sensation in months in the oil scan- |dal. Neil Burkinshaw, assistant | district attoraey, a former member | _Grecaland is the loncliest couii- { of the Washington staff of The As- |\t in the world. Tueked away in sociated Press, uncovering the fact |y)e grctic cirele, with its fingers that Burns detectives were KeebIDg | prozen and its cars frost-bitten from the oll jury under an intensive SUi- | one end of the vear to the other, it | | veillance Burkinshaw carried On | cicoq out its existence catching geals | Godthaab, Greenland, Jan. 20.8) |the subsequent grand jury investi- | ung cating fish, gation and helped Gordon These a the eonclusions of members of an official expedition sent out by the Danis | to make & complete exploration of ——— | government | Jurns and four for eriminal contempt of court. BILLY THE KIDS OLDHAUNTS THRIVE {Lincoln County, N. M., Revives i Cattle Herds ! carrizoz M., Jan. 20 (P—Lin- |coln county, whieh was for many | | years a center of the livestock in- | ! dustry of the southwest, is staging | a comebick in the cattle business. | | Many noted old ranches, some em- | | bracing as much as 300,000 acres, ! | have changed hands and are heing ! | restocked with high grade or re- | tstered animals. | Lincoln county I the cattle busincss, herds of the state, often |ing over 100,000 head. being ranged | here during the Civil war. The in- | dusiry in early days was lxrgulyl confined to big companies, and their conflicting range interests gave cause for many bitter range ! wars. It was here that Billy the Kid !rosc to fame in range war activi- | ties, killing 16 men of the opposing action in the i.incoln county war | before he died with his boots on at | | the age of 21. The factional fight !in which he figured grew out of the | | killing of Robert Tunstall, for | whom Billy the Kid was range fore- | | man. | | George Coc. a former partner | land friend of Billy the Kid. still {lives here and is one of Lincoln county's leading stockmen. ! —_—— | Lithuanians Aftach Legend to Only Stone —Profit By This —Special! was a pioncer in the first great | number- | —Remarkable Values! —Smart look styles. ng sport, Middy | later Torfinn K. RALD, lition found fur the most the wux clothied, nts they make hem- kins of animals. | mple sports they | went. There are 4 Furopeans on piaced i the L would run to Dunver, and its from Clevelind to Floride its total population of s would not make a good sized | town. Gnited Greenland. ¢ from Norway to reenland. 11 Ericsson. son of Eric the . discovered Amer- ica In the vear 1000. A few years Carlsefne sailed fiom | with but re- Blates It story of, the really beg with was on u voyag turned three v 'he old Norse sagas say that | Sale! ‘ Boys’ Novelty Suits $2.79 and Lumber Jacket All are made of 100% jersey, with pants fully lined and each seam bound. Clearance F JANUARY 20, 1928 first came to | ish cxpeditions continue to find evi- they M the same | dences of ancient Eskimo civiliza- living there as they | tion in the north, but the Eskimaux I, in Americ: have wandered to the thoy live dreary lives, tainment being to Norsemen of poopl nd in Vinla several thousand During the 1 ter however, all commiuni- cenland and Nor- by the sixteenth ce of the Europeans hey had either inter- the Eskimaux or had rminated. Neighbors in Boyhood 4 Govern Three States . 1., Jap. 2 (A—The ¢ as, Oklalhoma and Montana grew to manhood in three adioining countics of southeastern Kansas, but fate nd politics de- that the two democrats were \we this normally republican before becoming chief execus Eeen ext of but state the > was horn in all cume to the Sun- in Childhood. Gov. Paulen of Kansas was ht to Wilson county from 1 thplace in Illinois, Gov. Henry conturics in 1721 by Enormous land ar great majority on the west ter, to be reintroduced a Norwegian clergyman stretches of Green- 1 uninhabited. of the poputa south coasts. SALE! slon $toi . Quality - Service - Value - 200 STORE BUYING POWER New! —Offered at a low price, The “Chemiloon” s Premier Undergarment In Rayon of Supreme Quality Anyksclal, Lithuania, Jan. 20. ' —Every coat in stock must go re- —There is only one stone tc be | | found in all Lithuania, where even | the paving cobbles for the town | streets have to be imported from | | abroads. . This solitary stone, a relic | | of the ice age, lies in a forest near | here, and being unique has a name of its own, “Puntukas.” The country pecple say that the one can | | i destroy Anykscial chureh. He hurled | |it at the churen, but missed, and only broke ofi the tops of the two | steeples. And two truncated stee- ples—the only ones in all Lithuania —are there to this day to prove it. STARTS FRENCH FAD Regulation hats and ties of Amer- | ican sailors are the last cry in | | sinartness at French seaside resorts. { On tennis courts and beaches where winter fs forgotten in spring like | sunshine the little white navy hat 1s | popular among mien and women alike. Women wear the. ties with | blouses which have sailor collars, | and men use tiiem as scarfs or belts on white trousers. 1926, | | i H | | Tan, Special Sale Stenographers Pencils See Our Window All the popular brands of pencils in No. 1 (Soft) especially suit- ed for stenographers. Regular Price 60c dozen Special at 42c doz. 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