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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1928. re Captain James Cook first | mentiol in the Norwegian claims. |his plant and the Republiean mndel cumnavigated the southern scas, | It is boldly set down on some maps |its appearance in an abbreviated | Bouvet set out to look for the hypo- | but doubt is now expressed whether [form on the streets this morning. | 3 | thetical southern continent. |it exists. Some mariners have re-| A copy boy, Joseph Pelakoff, was Island or a Continent? | ported secing it; others have sought |the first person in the news room to “The Frenchman discovered land |it in vain. When the Norwegian |discover the fire, which originated in —the land we now know as Bouvet | lcascholders begin to hunt whales [the press room. | island. The name he gave to the [and game, under the terms of their| Press room employes said the . : {1ana he saw, Cape ¢ - | grant, they probably will he able to flames spread so fast that their tele Takes Formal * Possession OF|cun oo o bt sam . o | ropocs inate unthe o L Tamon pread o fot, st hele toe- | 3 |clings to the western hcadland of | the third island.” jcould warn the news room, on the “Hide and Seek” Gmup | Bouvet istand. Bouvet gave the - second floor. I | ilot of his ship, the *Aigle,’ a purse | The loss was placed unofficially, at | for heading toward this uncharted S[;RANT“N PRESS | ro00.000! : Washington, D. C., April 4— [land, and for twelve days he hov- | | George Gower, Associated Press, “Norway has just taken the final | ¢¥€d about the cape. Great ice | {telegraph operator, was the last : ¥ . “" | sheets prevented his going as !man out of the building. | step toward annexing two of the lang heavy fogs drove him northward = loneliest bits of land in all the 100¢- | hefore he could ever cireumnavigate | | | 1o a Norwej whaling company lands in the South Atlantic ocean Ty e L ys a bulletin from the Washin N A | LOSS IS Ha" Mlllmn 1 D. headquarters of the N vemained for Captain | the land he found. Theref , for the " Bouset and Thompson i |11 aa Touna -ty et or vro.« REDUDIICAN Building Gutted— Cook, tional Geographic Society | Who never saw Bouvet island. and | ¢ Norwegian announcement 10 could not find it when he tricd, to | ; ; fhe British Foreign office ot this | ove ity tnaular eharactcr, Ho st scmmn iensanr 0o == ™| Swears, However, He I§ Guilt-, ¥ i on| claim interests geographers for tWo | .q over open water 300 mites to {1 hington street was de- | reasons. It determines the nation- |south of it, evidence that it did not Fii T e l IH ne M Pd ality of what has ben a ‘o mans s « morning. | 1658 O] Harrington Murder orm a part of the southern conti- ive men were burned and were ! land® and, incidentally, illustrates the | peng. (ook's further voyaging, and taken o the state hospital for treat- tic course of oce; . the explovation of others, having dis- ment | St Vanl April 4 B — Fred W. Tror Rutet tsland was discovered LY provod thers was a continental mass| With all ayenvics of escaps cut oft| Bilol, undar ingletment in New York + Frenchman, itsMocation was deter- | in the south Atlantic projecting men had to leap through windows, for the murder of Mrs. Emma Har- mined by a German, it once was |northward hetween Africa and South lor hang on 1o I dges two and three (rington, actress, has indicated he will clatmed by an Englishman and for | America, it became the fashion to [stories above the ground wntil yes. |not fght extradition. ' time bore the name of Liverpool, | discount all previous land discover- |eued, “So sudden was the outbreak Assistant District Attorney John ! md now No is annexing it. ies in that region. there was barcly time for the men MacGowan, here with two detec- | One, Two, Three or None? “Bouvet island remained on the at work in the building to escape. [tives to question Edel has wired New ' “But, more fundamental than that { maps, sometimes with & question /One man was trapped on the roof |York for a certified copy of the in- | is the ‘hide-and-seck’ character of [mark after its name, the mariners of the building and with flames |dictment, necessary in extradition Ilouvet and its neighbor: if an aid that Bouvet probably hhd |shooting all around him, was forced | proceedings, but Edel indicated it During the past 189 yea it has|merely sighted an iceberg. Not un- (to retreat to th very edge of the |would not be needed. h bren variously believed that in this [til 1598, when a German expedition 'T0of before o was finally rescued. | He maintained during e severe mes to vatch of the Atlantic occan there|steamed in these waters, were its| The ne ail was trapped in the [zrilling by New York officials that were three islands, two islands, one | latitude and lo ude accurately elitorial rooms. The composing he was innocent of Mrs. Harrington's istand, and no islands at all! | determined. : room force was compelled to take |murder. She was found beaten to | “Many maps of today show Bou-| Bouvet On, Thompson Off, Maps. |to the roof while the news staff hung |dcath in her New York apartment vet island, with Thompson island ‘Curiously, this me cxpedition [On to the ledge on the second story |December 19, He said her clothes, Iue north, and Lindsey island duc | h put Bouvet island on the |awaiting the arrival of firemen to be |jewelry and the hammer with which st maps sought to take Thompson is- (taken down hy ladders. she was Killed were delivered to him ‘inec the Norwegian grant fol- | land off. The Valdavia, havice taken | Rol Whecler, Reginald Wil- |2t the Pennsylvania hotel but de- lows reconnaissance expedition | the position of Bouvet, scarched the |liams, Frank Barney McKillips and |ticd he had any hand in the killing. made by the leaseholders it appar-|vieinity for Thompson islind, and |John Haddock were burned before| Iederal authorities holding Edel cntly has been determined once for [yot finding it, reported that the under $25,000 bail at the ecounty | they had time to reach safety. They |1 all that two of these islands men- | whalers who thought they had sight- |were treated at the state Yospital, | Jail on postal fraud charges, have tioned in the lease, Bouvet and|ed a second island, and named it McKillips we trapped in the .;1.«.‘4"}!' 1 "01 'U:‘n him over to New g Thompson, are there and are to| Thompson, probably had scen Bon- vator shaft. ork authorities. . < A5 o e TR A axs hAmnsen St In SEE Bowever, navientors | The mews staff rushed to the win. | IMMIETation authorities notified : This new household fuel is now available in New Britain. A sup- 200 Miles Away. {annni& danio Lol e vin e e Dol e 5 | postal authoritics that Edel can be i i Eaatiio franbsi Bl g 8 el fdons dnfinin birond ot Ui buiidins) (SE1A1 Rt oHIER (het Baal o4n e ply has been shipped to the local yards of these reliable dealers and the composing room staff took | Bonvet island are Tristan da Cunha, |islands now is officially confirmed fa the roof. The press room em.|2P1e alicn. ~Although he came to this who are agents in this community for The Connecticut Coke Com- mother lonely land spot rising along | by Norw clair hough the pre- ployes and the mailing room sm“‘wmm'r)’ 17 years ago, he has pever 4 gitudinal ridge of the Atlanti rise { . oy {become a naturalized American, they pany. longitudinal ridge of the Atla « ! cise location of ompson is not yet made their way to safety through | x Iy hi ) o the northwest, and € | fixed. |said, having taken out only his first South Africa, to the nor B2y > papers, laces are some 1,200 miles nt | about ‘ is only 0 For the past ten ycars, the Koppers Company has been making i s e e [ it and a ery went out that thero was o coke. They sell approximately 2,000,000 fons a year. Koppers man trapped in the composing room. % < 5 “What lies hehind the ey £hor: | canic cone, the slopes of which ter- |\ search of the roof showed Haddock | 0 famous Seaboard Coke is made in their enormous New Jersey lines of Bouvet island still is little |y o civitous cliffs and zla- trying to dodge the flames as he own, its very existence was doubt- castern side, at least, i made his way to the rear of {he roof. plant and is sold largely to heat homes and apartment houses in vl for a century or more, yet for covered by an ice sheet which, o About to jump, he was warned to ) Tow Yonk 189 year its name has app | the accan s ¥ vall wait while firemen rushed to his| Greater New York. maps a tribute to the coura nearly as h as the Washington rescue. Ladders were raised and he n early French explorer, L { monument. ‘Fhe nerthern and west- \was taken to the street, H “ok 2y 5 ‘ucti Bouvet, [ ern sides are reer from ice hecause Robert H. Fetridge, managing The Connecticut Coke Company is now constructing a hr“ KOI" “To appreciate Bouvets' early voy- | of their s b > obviously cditor of the Republican announced 1ze to the far north it must be re- | st as inh able. The other geo- this morning that the paper woyld pe,ls COke planl m Ne“ Ha‘ £ hal bo' W hl(.h y lll hnve a up.CIty called that mp until ahout 1750 prac- | graphic name, aside from Cape Cir- |contimue publication I temporary | s of 300,000 tons a year. About the first of September this plant the rear of the structure. 4 heckup of the men in the strect showed that onc was mi 5 ticaly all the navigators who sighted | cnmeision 1wt of Cape Valdavia ters and that plans are already ' southern fee did 50 not from inient, | on the no 80 called from ihe ay for the erection of a now P will produce this same Kopper Coke giving Connecticut a depend- Lut becayse they were driven off the | vessel of the German exploring party | structure. e R e e 5. 3. 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