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4 HISTORIC BOSTON HOME THREATENED Washington and ~ Thomas _ Planned Battle There C vour tickets night. ity Items for big Tickets 50c—; ment & advt police were return of the Rocco D'Ave we of fire depa art wet 10 sew in 0dd Fellows' W 0. O. F. hall on organization has ga hall where meet- | e been held heretofore. | condition of George H. Ham- Camp street, who has been 8o usly ill at New Britain General | pital that a week ago it was said there was no hope for his recovery, reported to be improving gra ually. His recovery is expected rescent Past Noble Grands as- sociation meet with Stella Re- | bekah lodge Friday afternoon. In the evening t 1l be con- ferred on a ndidates by the Acputy president, Mrs. Simpson, and staff of Bristol, with the officers of Rebekah State as-| mbly as guests. | Mrs, Clarence F. Bennett has in- vited the members of her Current s to her home, 123 evening at § o'clock. follows the conclusion en weekly Y. W. L em from ated ter t o British General d the g about their on wway for Hali- district “lebrates the 1 tion of the ousands of s. This year and | i s of lectures g winter at the Much of Cargo on Liner Lee Ruined by Water Manomet Point, Mass, March 14. ~(1'P)-—In preparation for salvag i operations, about 100 tons of th g0 of the Kobert E. Lee, Eastern | steamship liner ashore on Mary Ann | rocks, off here, has heen taken from | the hold and returned to Boston. | A =ood part of the cargo was| uined by the water. It was either thrown overboard or given to shere Awellers who came out to the wreck o0 its chairman will 1 its ¢ odies that have interest in the movem the old ding saved bury Historical soci En; E ¢ for the Preservation of Antiques. Other MILWAUR PRIMARY Milwaukee, Wis, March 14 Mayor Daniel Hoan, socialist, has mrved as Milwaukee's ehief e coutive for the last 12 years, polled | i boats. 12,000 more votes in yesterday's pri- _ Wfih the transfer of an additional | mary than Sherifi ¢harles Schallitz 300 tons during the week, the| nominated o oppose him at the Wreckers will attempt fo pull the slection April 2. The third candi- | Stranded steamer off the rocks. fats for mnvow. Bdward Schu The Loc was to be replaced today was eliming in the on - service b twin sers steamer Ne York, She will alternate with the Grorge Washington in the run he- tween the two citics. “Trader Horn” Arrives in New York on Olympic New York, March 14.—(®—An ¢id man whose reminiscences b nade him \ international figu rived last night aboard the V Star | 7. - who Smith, 76, better known | as the “Trader Horn" of the book by that name, landed from the Olympic . ond class passenger, The former peddler of gridirons, who | sprang to fame by his stories of trading among suvages of Africa, was o picturesque figure as he made | s appearance 1o talk with report- r=. Tall and slightly stooped, he | wore a tweed eape-coat and 4 wid brimmed felt hat. He complained of the cold in New York and recalled with relish the time he spent in Georgia before i World war, where he lived on a farm with his son-in-law, William les, Gives Your Hair Unusual Beautv The att t ost b ful the loveliness s of even their hair. tely, beautiful hair fs now ained. It is simply a 1pooing shampooing nd silky. It and lustre 21 color, an wom of ur ! casily ol Pr mat. Boston and Maine Wil Slash Pay of Some Men Roston, March 14 (UP)—A wag reduetion. of 10 ur Boston and Maine clerks express and s to take effect ratroad will ¢ cents a for reight ars station em- Anril B w officials railroad offi 1y 1 Hand tion Employes, t the propos- ! Miss Frisbee Leads Class 1 At Northfield Seminary M Lena D, f Cedar | t the honor of attaining the k in scholarship in t of Northficld seminary, 14, Mass., for the fir iresent academie Fris o o8t 1z Northt was Acting-Princ Colds When the air passages of the Throat and Nose are inflamed from a Cold, the irflammation will remain unti] the Cold is gone. 'To work off the Cold and to fortify the system against Crip and Quinine toblals 47 ——" It in easy to get rid of a Cold if vou don’t neglect it too Jong. Get a box of BROMO QUININE. 30c. The box bears é%‘&"m this signature Proven Merit since 188! [ nted in 1 pr exeeptio i which £ ali 1 league for bovs for seh d { the land that lined hi { towards his knees and [ary; | murder. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1928 ANOTHER OLD RIP VAN IS COMI Myth —~ o NG A-VISITING sia rTr:uler Horn Wants to Convince America He's No and No Liar. ADER HORN New York, Aloysius $mith Winkle, Mar. modern is determined to prove pockals 3 gold that he is neith a myth a liar. When ¥ atskills, Adown fror tumb p came his rough heard his t his t in tatter scoffed And when “Trader Horn become known from came peddling his gridivons doorsteps of a Johanneshu Africa, co tures met upon coast seemed quite Rip's. Like at tha A as ineredibl had heer as do Rip he ha taverns, onvivial co! and his irresponsibilities. Likc he had come out with a 1 and a tattered gart Rip, s0 many sir had s him that his memory clutchied fechly first memory and ther, together finally Wias penne And most avidly of all £1,000 2 Week Royaltics S0 the peddler ol in the jungle “had s goddess . . dark himselt with £4,000 & week in ) rovalties jingling in his pocket although his health is to his strength is headed toward S It will not b se shores, He saw mu Rip he e 1 fa lien 9% | oy ver gridi ica in his younger years book there is th “Yea, Ame people, except ironic com cans ar hen *it They mu m t have elties, foods g whether in v literary s modern for him an elabor The literati of him and he will be and toasted. Cameras will click and the radio will bid for his v H s preparcd fc rader Horn pur hat in Lond ok shoes shi to ques o show 11 lion's an African * rmits hir claws and 1 ound ¢ 1h he nid of D sin, why take zood for th In the pr tirections, free from Eive doss world t v lor 3 prospected in Colorado 1 nd death struggle for ivory on t River. He will be plur osis of the prim Joy of our particular form of Ozows zed from the apo- vith nor the his H iles ording to of an ble English family. As vouth he ran away to sea and found self in the African ivory belt, white to save him death and fonumerable years of primitive struggle ahead of him. Enclishwoman Discovers Him He was discoversd a couple s ago by Ethelrefla Lewis, Fnglish auth South African literary colony. The 4 man came to her doorsteps, & *ha engaged him in com- ind, from his stumbling, rambling conversation, began 1o pie together a story pelhound Finally she arranged to have him writs memories down in his il she odited them. The s an immediate best seller 1 Trader Horn from & cggar to a rich man. dfall came of course when 15 100 ol 1o do much about his merely dedicate him- world; a bored and the m of an versation g8 Hn, on these ¥ ary world that likes its Rip les. and adores appgritions king out of the Afri- tales of *“white god- | where in the brack- | round Some Ol Friends Mar, 14. (P—01d sarkle, but there was ier” Horn's ut his intended iled. 1 he rica s ot as a stranger Eoir ere, “Outside Africa, years in as heen my forty of my life New Cleansing Cream Amazing, Beeomes loguid as t for dry ski ) ry ry por. xion youthful. Cocoa Butter, I Noury and is Vi ke ps the 1 this new wonderful r MELLO-GLO, a compani MELLO-GLO Fa oo famon drug stores ad to have yonu how much Dr. sin can mean Just write “Syrup oper Pepsin,” Monticello, 1linois, and we it is will send you prepaid a FREE SAM- v PLE BOTTLE. u and yours ! into the pride ! wio was writing in | that left her eyes | that he's| oon as it touches and does not | es ana | You will mar- Cream, | have the generous spent in America,” he told me. did everything there from cott picking, oil painting, brickl r?: | and peddling gold tecth to fi g | Indians in UCtah with Bill Cody— | but principally prospecting. | *“I've been a prospector all my | |life; for diamonds, gold end plat- inum in Africa, for precious met- | als in Colorado. | A Georgla Recollection i “Englishmen ask me hew I will | get along in a dry country like America, but I ltved in dry Geor- gia once and always managed to get my little nip. Fact ia they once tried te mix me up with vio- lations of the prohibition laws, | but by the time the case was called | somebedy had drunk up all the evidence. “One place I want to go s Bridgepost, Connecticut. I once salled from there in the sloop May, destined for service in the Red Sea. A Scotch Mohammedan in the service of the Bultan of Zanzi- bar employed us to collect a reli- gious tax then levied on all ships salling the Red Sea. Oh, there's many a shilling made in the Gar den of Allah! I made quite & few myself. All those renegade Scots | and English who became Moham- medans still had a hankering for pork and whiskey. They didn't dare eat and drink them en land, for fear of betrayal, #0 they used [ to visit my sloop to get a Chrlfllln‘ meal. An OW Fricnd “When 1 get to New York I want to see Miss Mary Foster Nas- |sau, the first white child born in a eertain part of Afries near the Equator. 1 saw her last 4¢ years ago. She's lving in New York | !now, She sent me her picture nof jlong ago with the word “mboelo written on it. That is native Afri- can for ‘good morning.' When [ | see Mary we will have the laugh on the reporters beeause we will talk & language nobody but us will | understand.” Trader Horn's. wife ia burled In Pittaburgh, and a two-year-old | daughter in Denver. His only son, | who was killed in Mesopotamia during the World War, was born | at Cherry Creek, Colorado. ' Now 1,750,000 Jews in New York City Estimate New York, March 14 UP—The Jewish -population of New York city increaged from 1,603,000 in 1916 to 11,750,000 in 1825, a survey of Jews |in the five boroughs just completed | by the bureau ot Jewish social se- | search_ehows. The survey also showed a marked shift of the Jewish population of the city from the congested to the less crowded districta cminently | al DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED | Hartford, March 14 UP—Peter, | Mora, 35, of Union avenus, West | Haven, waa found gulity of drunken driving in police court today and fined $100 and costs. He was ar- rested late last night after a deputy sheriff had pursued him from South | Prince Albrecht palace explains why | \FLASHES OF LIFE: SOCIETY WOMAN GIVES SOCIAL FOR HER SERVANTS New York—A ball given by Mrs. E. F. Hutton at Palm Beach for her servants and their Yriends reminds veteran soclety editors of the hey- day of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish in New York when she always had a walting 1st of applicants, although she paid lower wages than many others. She | had a ball at Newpert for her ser- vants; she was wont to ask their ad- vice about her gowns and she fed them well. | Berlin—The head flunkey of the| Amanullah of Afghanistan was en- | tertained there instead of a hotel: | “We know how to behave in the presence of royalty; those hotel fel- lows don't.” Prince Friedrich Hein- rich, who owns the palace, got $25,- 000 for the kinge' fortnight stay n Alfred Smith who has tapped at our front door is at- tracting more attention momentarily than the governor. The visiter i bet- ter known as Trader Horn, who gets 34,000 a week or so royalty for his deacription of barter in Africa. But money is nothing new to him. I have had plenty of it before,” he ex plains. “But it always seems to hav: legs on it—a centipede; that's it. Just walks away from me.” Copenhagen—Tourists long have been deceived by a mound which a wag. erected in the suburb of Elsin- ore and labelled “Hamlet's grave.” H. Percival Dodge, recently showing a friend about, came across a piece of cardboard on the grave with thil inscription: Stop Visitor, and cease your chat; Here landlerd's cat. New York—Helen Smith, 18, ma- chinist's daughter, is an evangelist, who hopes to ‘bring modern women back to the fold.” Preaching in a Brooklyn Baptist church, she said: “Girls who smoke, dance and wear short skirts and then gome to church are sinners and hypocrites.” London—S8ir Willlam Arbuthnot was finterred the | report on first day of state medieal { examinations. Hartford — Glarence M. Knox, state aviation commiasioner sees proposed state airpert at Groten as |ideal American terminal for possi- Je transatlantic air lines. Hartford—Trinity {ollege awards fellowships to Millard F. Manning of Yantic and Nicholas A. Mastron- inrde of Hartford. ! Wallingford—8pecial town meet. ing votes to rent new municipal atr- port to outside interests. Bolton—This town will be abso- |lutely free from debt if plans for jtax colection bring in necessary ]Yuuds. New Haven—Three men are in- | Lane. famous eurgeon would like 10 |jured as eight concrete pillars in be dictator of Great Britain so he |14 Journal-Courler building crash could reduce the number of hospi- |to ground from second floor. | tals by one half. He would do it by | {teaching people how to eat. They| Stonington—Plane piloted by R. stuff themselves now, he says; every | T. W.ckford of Boston is forced mouthful is a coffin nail; ten years down here in heavy fog and is dam- hence if we stop people committing |aged while landing. euiclde by overloadng their stomachs | |we may begin breeding a race of | Danbury — Governor {supermen and superwomen. !Wallace R. Farrington i .are cntertained by Dr. | Naugatuck—VYear's search for Al-|Davis C. Brown at the (bert Lewis, Michigan jail breaker, |Country club. ends with his capture here. | { and Mrs. of Hawait and Mrs. Ridgewood New Haven—Harry Busse, report- Harttord—Col. Charles H. Allen |¢d as missing is found dead in his tof Rockville loses his chance to go | room. |to republican national convention on | toss of coin. It was between him and | TWO FLIERS KILLED | State Senator R. Leland Keeney of | Manston, Keut, Eng., March 14 | Somers. Senator Keeney tossed and |P/—Two British officers were killed 'Allen called. He called wrong. today in the crash of their airplane | after a collision with a second plane. Hartford — Seventeen c.nd!dumi The second plane landed sarely, The choice of famous hotels Touraine Coffee :))ou might as well have the best Windsor to Hartford. C i | .~ heNEW ENTU » EIGHT Certainly no The Contory 125 Bight quality of modern aids to smooth performance unrivaled among the finest productions of Europe or America. 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