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PACIFC FLEET 1§ OFF FOR HAWA Steams Away From Golden Gate Today San Francisco, April 15 (UP)— Past Land nd where hundreds waved farewsll and “bon voyage. Nor sp Law. Los Angeles, April Uncle Sam’s battle fleet steamed to- | 18Roring a ward Hawaii today. After a last joyous mighi ashorc., 22,000 officers and men answered the fluttering bhandkerchicfs and flags ashore from iiic decks of 72 fighting craft. With alternate periods in and in training at sca, the tloct | ! will spend two months in Hawaiian |1 waters, 1t will engage in flect prob- mery practice en route and around | the Hawatian Isls Aboard the U . California, as she felt her way through the heads today was Admiral Louis Ludolph do Steigeur, commander-in-chicf. With him were Rear Admiral Har- ris Laning as his chicf of staff and Captain Williom D, Puleston, Jr. €ommander of the California Other high officials who hore the woek the et were Vice Admiral W, \ Rear Admiral J. V. Adutiral M. M Namee Leads De i Admiral Luke in commiand ot the dest oF squad- ro0s; tear Admiral Lidley M command of ihe su ne divi- | sions, and Itear . AR, Teeves in command of the squadron The giant airplan: fngton und Naratc and queens of Unele s air water protectors, did not leave the fleot ¥ owill Tean San Poedr The two cyclops which wore built visited in port I'ratt and Rear | Chase Taylor, oyers, MeNanice s carviors Lox- ships and it At an aagregate cost of hundred million doilars. thousunids of interestod while they were in dry dock for re- pairs Euch rport on its Aeck s inan They are Gne-sided in appearance, the and havin Rive more room tors d ) the and mak: Ten ) nearly onc | attructe citizens carrics an tive o iasts been P Landing plancs out of roon for ttleships, 47 destroyer squadron. 12 subuiuri and tendess, three o ne division eraft and hoxoital and supply ship made up the gi siahrl g others, I« sols of the witic tormation Upward Trend Seen for Work Animals in United States Washington, April 18, (k- Ob- wepving that the birth rate of hors:t and mules has become prefty well Stahilized at prosent levels, depart- ment of agriculture cconomists br- Yieve an upaard reaction almost inevitatie At deast one team always will be noc ATy on niost they wnd while the precipitate declin from 920 te 1976 m the number of work animals has heen checked the replacement ' problem remaine An acute shortage is cxpected to dovelop within the neat few yeor Substitutions of m 1 pow- | er for work anmnals is given ac | the most important factor in ae- | counting - for the decrense of the | Tatter. Tractors on farms in 1925 numbered LS00, or more than | double the number in 19 It i extimated © that the de > in horses and mules for the sane pe riod released for other uscs about | 2.500,000 acres of land formerly | required- - fo feed grains, hay and Ppasture, It is «a curious fuct. obscrvers say, that mules have d the tendeney to their displa nt et ter than horses. Mule prices did ot decline as carly nor as much @s horse prices. The farm prices of mules hegan fe advanes las Reptember, on Jannary 15 they averaged $92 g head, compared with $53 a head | i January of 1927, In Fubruary | the farm price of horses aversged $1 a bead above the price at the | beginning of 1 and was on a bLigher level than in any February | since 1924, These advances ec- companied a heavy full movement of horscs and mules into southern markets. Receipts at Ft. Worth. 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It is safe teo use, and failure in any of the ail- ments noted above is next to impes- sible. Jair Drug Dept. can supply you at any lime. farme, say, hanie | | Whitlock, decla one nounced its | e come to California at Governor to suppleme | forts to advance his candidacy {domg so I violate neither the L spirit o the primary ks Melean | good political ethics. nor the New when the New [ drives | nu 1 SUCKS | grdored the Sfted 1o ynd tine up, Eleva- {1oe which the { League of Southern | hung out for her. The league the New n making the toss. the loague so rnor. “We protest an sroup of n the Calitorn | purcly a by the N Nellic Taylor Itoss. fo of Wyouing, today campaign work in California in be- | Now halt of the presidential candidacy of Governor Smith of New cou MRS. ROSS CONTINUES 10 STUMP FOR SMITH1 *ays She is Violating Neither Letter | it of Calitornia R Mrs. EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928 REPUBLICAN CLUB_ | LIGHTING SYSTEW FALED IN PLANE ‘Resulted in Bremen Going 400 Miles OIF Course rnor | itinued York, after ssing” announced that it had notitied Mrs, Opposition 10 licr stumping tour in | the end into a hattl port | behalt ot York governer notice sent to Emm red it had received no lems, tactical mancuvers and gun- | PePIY from the former Wyoming gov- | the )t Such campaigning i spirii and ethi Informed T th ion, “1 ha on of herg Carlstadt, N, J. “our men whe boar vehicl v und I the skill coach robinrs The bus, York ny's i n four fterson oduced pistois to turn vhich is After th s A $500 and som tiE in an automobil ntly had b TOPOGRAPHY Soia. Dulgavia, A he reeent carthogn Bulgaria. whizh Kille sons, HORSES CONTINUE Numerous hills opencd. injured 150 000 homes, comple opography ef the prings appeared, gaping of Democ lifornia ary, outsider’s ¢ paigning in our sta candidates prinary, in behal W hic 0 be d allots of residents only | the notification sent to Mrs, contrary the primary | 4 Mrs, | s hich opor - reaehed Well-drossed their sireratt | Four Children Burned to Death in W. Virginia Fire April 1y W bus York turned out to be by reached i executed a hold frontier-day ited on vinsit ¢ young 1 ordered Stoppe A pril e a and tely creviees wer into Washington Landits | pp, Eers to get The: four men then W leay- vhich ap n waiting for them LnRen 15 (U1 ineas bout 50 demolished tered ricken disappearcd, w lot w plateu yesterday Ross of its Mrs, | miles off their course, due contesting Smith's | Carlstadt |y, ner | ——— April 18 ® details from the l1ozen | north, picced together today. re 1- York, ~Frag- ¥ j0f mentary sign atic had ed a dramatic | ntic plane tory of 1he transat- Bremen successtully the continent of its destination AN auspicious start developed at with the el tlicrs were some 100 partly to planc's lighting izht was blind, Once | fect from the wa- ter. A strange river was scen. then am- 4 wountain. At last was sighted £ of what appearsd to be sealing steamer. It proved to b the light- h is [ house on Greenly Island. ded [ Shortly after midnight eastern said | standard time last Thursday the Bremen stood fully fucled for 10| flight on the runway at Baldonnel drome. Cavtuin Hermann Kochl and Major Jumes Fitzmaurice sat at the controls hind on the v e ments s the the failure of the For hours 1l plane was Vou Huenefeld, fuel pump. Captain Kochl and Major Fitz- I maurice weni to communion beford getting i the plane for their great adventurc, They took a erucifix of ‘conneniara marble with them The cabled German friends that Bey wore putting their trust in the hands of God. After & daring take-off through breach in a stone wall the plane v 2): going strong. two hours later i ever wits | Costello, Galway, at . m. Fog I | gy wenther prevailed along the coast d-up hecause of the heat Soon. however, 1he clear w Atlantic. Al e Phursday during the daylight hours o= the planc travelled westward rapid- plane ran into ther ever the nen thie - however, a blizzard swept the ecean. The plane lost JMituds in the storm conditions and it was flying very low. hting systemn failed during night. The flyers were unable ad thei instruments and Cap- tain Kochl's loag experience in night tlying in Germany stood them in 30040 &t Dayhre ve them opportunity {10 correct their direction. The )— | weather, however, b torn | and it was only with gr per- | that the plane could be Off the coast the | they struck a heavy !t wander. They tried to fly above it, hut at 2,000 foct the fog still en- veloped them. They descended to within fifty fect of the waves but had to clinb upward again because of the high seas running and threat- That night, out ¢y, col- 4 par kept up. hite ater wias groping thyough tog and blizzard for | her ! I« compartment he- | well | S Atlantic having passed over | of Newtoundland | fog and began | ening (o cuguil them. Then they caw | n Woodud countey and they thew oy Lt trying in vain to locate then [tion. Nent they flew over a larg viver which they coubd not wentir large wountain loomed in their path. Again the DBromen beaded Pupward and over it | ruel was rapidly running low |and the country over were flying r t foreed probably have proved i {Von Hucncfeld was cold and ex- hausted. Al through the flight he kept his pistol by jhis side, acady to shoot his comipanions if worse came 10 worsi, Finally us despaiv grew, t what they took to he a scaling steamer frozen in the ice. It was the lighthous: on Greenly Jsland. | They did not know where they were, { their log brarings and compuss were inaccurate, There was a simall pond on the island and although the Bremen was | without skids for a landing on icr, { they descended. The plane broke through the ice. The metal propei- ler wus bent, The axle of the land- broken, God” said ey elimbed from the wccomplished the non-stop airplane Atlantic It April 13, The Baron mud. to the lighthouse but refus until his companions wrrived. The as the Baron shivercd in the cold. they sut down to their first meal in Amcrica—biscuits and fresh Vitzmaurice remarked ihat dor was not Ircland. It was warmer in Iralund he stolid Kocht stoically and the coli landing which would Y osuw the flyers as plane having first westward flight across the Wus noon I'riday, his way ut d to cutr milk said. The accepted the weather COI'OIIC;E!;. 7l;:;|;lvus Of Children Accidental Bridgeport, Coun., April 15 (- Findings of aceidental death turned by Coroner John I’he day in the two childre struck and killed by an auto while at play Tn the first the Tony Cuzuina of Greenwich of crim- inal responsibility for the de April 11 of Anna Barnes, four, of |Glenville Conter, Greenwich. The coroncr und that the ses of coroncr driv- . Baron | which they | 1 1o opportunity | famendment isolves th on' [of the ecig er could not hive avoided the acci- ' dent and did not see the child until was in front of his headlights Hugo Ituchl of Norwalk is a absolved by the coroner in thw death ! of Pasquale Firoillo, ten, of West- | [port. who was struck and killed on April 12 in that town. The boy |who was bowling a hoop, darted {suddenly into the path of the mu- hine. WIDOW GETS T White Plains, N. Y., April 18 (P - | The bulk of an estate valued at sev - {eral million dollars is left to Mrs. | Pauline Brandreth of Ossining, wid- ow of FKranklen Brandreth, manufacturer, under the terms of |hin will, which was filed today. Pill | cipateq DODGE ISSUES Tabled Report Sidesteps Probibi- : tion Question at Meeting | e New York, April 18 (P--The Na. | tioual Republican club today had | successfull tepped the prohi- | bition question | club in executive session last | uight tabled a majority report of its committes on Lational affairs advo- | cating - repcal of the ecighteenth | and @ minority report urging deteat of the report submit- ted by the major.ty. The vote h the two reports came | ter almost dhree hours' debate and e outcome apparently met with the approval of both fuctions. The Vo Wus 124 to SS. Richard W. Lawrence, new presi- dent of the club was among those Who spoke against the majority re. port He quoted President Secretury Hoover Kansas and Coolidge. Senator Curtis of former Governor Low- den of lineis on luw enforcement 1nd asked: “How can this club pro- IV take a position opposed to that e men mentioned as the | for ti republit: \ation for president?™ name of Governor Smith was frequently brought into the discus- sion and opponcnts of the majority rted it wroposed to go her than Governor Smith in his opposition to prohibition. They ted out tnat the New York gov- 1ever has come out for re- 11 of the prohibition amendment. After the meeting Representative Lsmin & Fairchild. chairman of ¢ committee and leader of the ma- ction. expressed satisfac- ko o ive 8§ votes on a side- ~tepping resolution based on politi- showed progress,” he means that the sentiment the repeal of the amendment | will 2o ahead. not only in the club | but in the nation.” | The maiority report urged repeal | teenth amendment on the zround that prohibition was a state | ssue. while the minority report de- | nied the right of the elub to declare | for any prineciple not already pro- | claimed us national party policy. | | report a fu SCANDAL AT BROWN { Providence, . 1. 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