New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1928, Page 4

| TRAWLER MAO 1S SWEPT ' POLITICAL FIRES ONTO ROCKS; CREW SAYED‘ | Goes Ashore tn Terrific Gale and | Snowstorm Off Provincetown, Massachusetts. Capitol Fill Lit Up by Presi BURN BRIGHTLY republicans might finally turn to | Calvin Coolidge brought a rapid fire cross examifation from democrats, and at last he said he had ‘“gotten it direct” that the presicent “means what he says and wants to get out |of office.”” He related also the de- tails of his visit to the White House a few months ago, and how he had given newspapermen the impression RIDING WAS GIDD ON STEAN AUTO But That Was 149 Yoars Ago— mobile had actually been built. Firwt U, 8. Builder Timols Semats Muddle Given o] | | that the president had rebuked him ! ! | tor continuing to express his opinion France and England and in all three countries there were gasoline auto- Once Prohibited Pl o Setonen | | | Provincetown, Mass, Feb. 10| | (UP)—After its crew of seven had | | fought their way ashore in a blind- | dmull Mp Fl‘m |that Mr. Coolidge would be drafted | for another term. He said he had not been rebuked Washington, Feb. 10 UP—Political | |but had said so to the newspaper- New York, Feb. 10.—The earliest known ancestor of the modern auto- mobiles before we had any here,” says BStearns. “It is generally conceded that the ~ Springfield, T, Feb, 10 (UP)— ing snow storm, the beam trawler, | jires are burning brightly on Capital The confused Minols senatorial sit- | \io "1yy” Ly 50,000 pounds of fish | iy and in the eddies of the sona- uation was thrown to the voters of | ;hoard, was swept onto the beact. (orial debate fanning them a large the state for solution today through i here early today. and smoky question mark has been the resignation, reappointment and | The battered trawler lay high warteq to the White House, where announcement of candidacy for re- and dry on the sands near the | pregident Coolidge silently watches. election of Benator-Delegate — late | Peaked Hill coast guard station and Ia ‘Resolution first American-made moter car that Tan was the product of the late El- wood Hayaes, of Kokomo, Indiana, |men to give emphasis to his state- | jnoblie,- a self-propelled steam-pow- {ment that he was speaking for "im'! cred vehicle, attained a speed of |self and not for the president, Demo- | t\vo and a half miles an hour over |cratic senators joshed him about|, yrench roadway in 1796—six |that and finally Hefiin of Alabama, |ycarg pefore the Americen Revolu- | suggested that so far as Mr. Coolidge | tjon! {15 concerncd the door still is open. | In 1504 Oliver Evans steered a buggy in 1894. It was a one-cylinder, one-horsepower affair, weighing 900 penator-elect—Frank L. 8Smith. | was expected to be a total loss. Most of the fire has come from the Suffering from exposure and ex- “That is the democratic interpre- steam-driven vehicle through the | pounds, and it ran for a mile and 8mith will go before the voters on | the issue of the state's right to elect haustion after a tgrrific battle for its own senator without approval of | their lives, Captain Bradford Amir- La Follette anti-third term resolu- tion, with Senator Fess, republican, |tation,” Fess retorted. “That party is Ohio, throwing on tinder with his |very fearful the door is open. Not streets of Philadelphia, and by 1836 there was a regular steam-autobua a half withoat faltering. Several other Americans, including the semate, which refused to seat, him, Smith’s reappointment was fol- | lowed by filing of a call for a spe- clal primary to be held in April for | nomination of candidates for the| senate and for a special election to be held November 6. A petition as a candidate for re- | nomination and reelection will be filed next week, Smith announced in | a statement issued last night. In his statement Smith asserted the seat, declared vacant by the sen- ate because of alleged use of slush funds in 8mith's campaign was not recagnized as vacant by himself nor for: Governor Small. ault of Somerville and the six mem- bers of his crew were being cared for by coast guards. Besides Captain Amirault, the | men who escaped from the crippled | trawler were J. M. Jensen, Rock- land, Me.; Anthony Fakins, East Boston; Charles Almiro, Lynn; Ralph Rocheteau, Previncetown; George Muise, Lynn; and John Car- | ew, Roxbury. The Mao was groping its way through a curtain of smoke about | a mile south of the Peaked Hill| coast guard station when it ground- ! ed on Peaked Hill bar, Its seams cracked and it began to fill. Giant waves swept the deck | pronibition. renewed prediction that the next only the democratic senators but the convention might nom. |New York Times and other demo- Other |cratic papers favoring the election | ot Governor Smith republican inate President Coolidge. stokers fed the flames in the senate vesterday and in their glare was pictured the names of both out-| spoken and silent candidates and an | issue that is not permitted to rest— The inflammable prohibition ques- tion was raised by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, who as its de- fender is deeply curious concerning the views of presidential candidates. He invited Secretary Hoover and Senator Willis, republican, Ohio, to state publicly how they stand on this important issue.” Recently despite the president's summer an- | He Could Accept The Ohio senator declared tlmti‘ nouncement that he did not choose | nted /o run, he could accept the conven- issue of The Flks' Magazine, is that |tion nomination without Senator Bruce, democrat, Maryland, opposed that view and said the presi- | |dent would be acting in “very bad | faith |after |into the race. dishonor. if he accepted the nomination | “enticing” other candidates When Fess repeated that demo- | C. A. Duryea, who also claimed ‘the bonor of being the first American automobile builder, were at work o.1 automoblle designs at this tims, mays Stearns, while Selden, first 1o project such a vehicle here was beginning 2 fight which was to hold back motor car development untl 1911, It wasn't until 1895 that Beldon finally took advantage of his patent rights and got a backer in the Columbia and Electric Vehicle Co., the Elks' article re'ates. By that time scveral picneers had got into the field, but 8elden carried his Tights to the courts and was upheld. Ford's Victory Over Selden ine running between London and Brighton, England. These are the surprising facts un- earthed by Myron M. Stearns in an effort to answer that highly con- troversial question: “Who invented the automobile?” Mr, Stearns' con- clusion, presented in the February the automobile wasn't invented, it was evolved, and a half dozen fig- ures gcattered over more than a century contributed essentially to its development, - Except for three handicaps, Stearns shows, the automobile prob- ably would have reached its present intellectual cooperstion. Among them were Madame Curie and Professor Langevin, of France; Professor Rutherford of Cambridye, England, and Prof. Einstein, Ger- many, Professor Lorents who won the Nobel prize for sctence in 1903, had been a collaborator in the formulation of the Einstein theory, He died here Saturda CHICAGO SHOOTINGS Chicago, Feb, 10.~(P—Five per- stage of devclopment a generation “From 1899 until “In fairness, to the people who have honored me,” the statement 1911 gasoline said, “I have determined to create such a vacancy by what I am ad- vised the only legal way it can be done In six years, which is to resign crats were fearful that Mr. Coolidge would run again, Senator Reed, Mis- sourl, a possible candidate himself, | vejoined that “the senator is hug- | ging to his breast one of the delu- |sions he frequently embraces.” sons, two of them policemen, were shot and killed yesterday and two others wounded when & Negro with a fancied grudge against a packing house employe set out with a pistol to seek revenge. and efforts to reverse the engine |Borah quizzed Senator Curtis of proved fruitless. | Kansas, another republican candi- For half an hour, the men 6trug- | date, and the latter replied that he | 1ed to launch a dory. Several times | \was for strict law enforcement. the little boat was almost erushed | g against the trawler's sides. Watson in Race cr more ago. These are: Once Prohibited By Law | First—That the original steam- driven autos, whick had to be con- stantly fired with wood or coal, | aroused such public prejudice as automobile manufacturers in the United States paid a royalty of from four-fifths to one and a quarter per cent on the retail price of all cars | sold, which fees were split by Sel- my commission as senator. “If the people of Tllinois desire to admit they must elect their s subject to veto power of the senate, | they ought to have the opportuni 1o express that desire, my candidacy for renomination and reelection will give them that opportunity.” Smith's action was believed to have been in kecping with advices of Governor Small and Mayor Wil- | Jiam Hale Thompson, his supporters in the Tilinois republican party, that he keep his case out of the courts. It also was believed Smith will not attempt to gain recognition by the senate on the basis of his re- appointment to fill the vacancy caused by his resignation. His - renomination, political ob- servers sald, was virtually assured, since it was believed Senator Charles 8. Deneen of Illinois who had back- ed Smith in his fight to obtain his place in congress, would join with | the organized vote of all factions in the state republican ranks must run in the special election. He has announced he will campaign on the question of state's rights, con- tending the senate exceeded its pow- er in refusing him his seat. -GAN'T READ BIBLE Unlawful Public Schools Michigan Attorney General W. W. Potter Says in Startling Ruling. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 10 (®) — Bible reading and teaching of re- ligious subjects, sectarian or other- wise, in the public schools of Mich- igan, is unlawful, Attorney General W. W. Potter has ruled. In an opinion yesterday, the at- torney general held that such prac- tices must be discontinued, by rea- son of provisions of the state con- stitution. The ruling, according to State Superintendent of Public Instruction ‘Webster H. Pearce, affects a num- bar of normal schools, Michigan State college and scores of grade and high schools throughout the state. At these schools, he said, it has been the practice to read the Bible in.class, and courses had been provided for “presentation of the general principles of Christianity.” The University of Michigan, it was stated, is not affected, since religious training there is conduct- ed in a separate building not main- tained by the state. VIOLATORS AKRES New Orleans, Fen. 10.—(UP)— More than 12,000 traffic law violat- ors in New Orleans either were ar- rested or ordered to report to traffic court for traffic law Infractions % during 1927, according to a report Just made to the office of Superin- tendent of Police Thomas Healy. 1.0 these, 6,627 were placed under arrest by police while 6,347 were glven “tickets” to appear in court. Finally the crew got into the dory | and started the mile pull to shors. | Captain Amirault said later that if | the wind had been less favorable | they would have been swept out to | Meanwhile a coast guard lookout had sighted the flickering lights of | the crippled fisherman, The} Dbreeches buoy was preparéd, a surf | hoat was made ready for launching | and flares went up as a signal that aid was coming. But before the guardsmen put ouy, the faint shouts of the Mao's crew were heard above the roaring surf. h lines about their waists, coast guards rushed . into the surf and dragged the Mao's boat ashore. ! Three of the Mao's crew collapsed | as they reached safety and had to Just before the senate got well | started on the La Follette resolu- tion with debate sufficient to post- pone for a second time a vote on it, Senator Watson, of Indiana, an- nounced himself as a republican candidate for president. At the same time the Indiana delegation in congress, Senator Arthur Robinson and the house members, announced their support of Watson. Third Senator Watson is the third senator to an- nounce his candidacy and the ninth | to be voluntarily or otherwise enter- ed in the field. His campaign will be managed by M. Burt Thurman of Indianapolis. To Stay in Kansas City Another republican political de- Reed sald he believed Fess was arguing for Coolidge’s renomination and added: “T protest in the name of Senator Willis from Ohio; the republican lleader, Mr. Curtis; the English statesman, Herbert Hoover; the [great dirt farmer, Mr. Lowden, and| lin the name of the great republican | party that, | with all its faults, it is| Inot absolutely forced to nominate | |one man.” There was also a development in |the Willis candidacy, a statement | coming from Charles R. Frederick-| I son of Coshocton, Ohio, denying that | Senator Willis had at any time at- tempted to dictate whom his dele; gates would vote for as a second they went puffing over the country- side, frightening men as well as horaes, tearing up roads and endan- gering property with fire, had to be abandoned. In England a law was enforced for 50 years prohibiting their use “except when preceded by a man with a red flag." 8econd—That although N. H. Otto of Germany designed the four- cycle engine on which modern auto- mobile propulsion is based in 1877, and George B. Selden applied for a patent on a gasoline-driven motor car in America in 1879, develop- ment vas held back a generation by al issuance of the patent for 15 years while he tried futilly to in- ‘('hol(‘t‘ for president. terest capital in his idea. Third—That the pneumatic Selden himself. Selden delayed actu- | | | tire, | Auction Ends be carried to the nearby coast guard ! velopment of the day was the flat Frederickson sald he would vote| station, GOATS REPLACING CANINES IN TESTS Laboratory Experts Turn From One to the Other 5 — ‘. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 10 P—Re- | rcefulness i s necessary in scientific laboratory as it is in industry. Dogs are among the most valu- | | able animals for laboratory study in the medical sciences. In the | south, however, they are difficult to obtain, Regardless of their lack of any sort of a dignified pedigree, hardly anybody is willing to part with them, even for a good piece in the interest of training physicians | and surgeons to alleviate the ills | of human beings, No such sentimental feeling, how- ever, attaches to goats. And they abound in the south So Dr. George T. Pack of the University of Ala- ! hama medical school has turned to these mammals for experimental work in surgery and pathology, finding them valuable substitutes | for dogs and much less expensive. | They are not only as easy to handle | as dogs, he has learned, but they | stand operations well and their re- | actions in certaln pathological” ex- | periments are satistactory. f | PNEUMATIC STEAKS FOR DOGS | | “Paris, Feb. 10.—(UP)—Dog fash- jons are rivalling milady's modes. 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After he met with a part of the committee hand- ling arrangements for the convention he said the full committee’s earlier decision giving the meeting to Kan- |sas City was final and that “therc | |never has been any thought of tak- for Curtis for second choice elected a delegate but that othe would select their own free will. said it is pulsing, throbbing thing that hourly gathering force througho |the nation.” it he is| which made motoring comfortabie | rs| enough to attract public interest, | of | was not developed to a practical | pont until late in the 19th century. | Of Senator Willis' candidacy he| The French forerunner of all| s “not only genuine but it automobiles was built, Stearns finds, is| soon after the invention of Watt's | u\ | steam engine, by Capt. 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