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New Britain Herald‘ NBRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY i Tosned Dally (Sunday Kxcepted) At Hersld Bidg., §7 Chburch Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES 3500 & Year. $3.00 Three Months 76c. & Month Watersd at the Post Office at New Biit ain e Gecond Clase Mail Mattcr. TELEPHONE Business Office . Editorial Rooms cALL® 925 926 only profitable advertising medinm City. Circulation books and prese room alwaye open to advert! Member of the Assuciated Press The Amsociated Press Is exclusively titied to the use for re-publication all news credited to it or not otherw. credited fn this paper and also locu! oews published therein. Member Audit Barean of Circulation The 4. B. C. s a Dational urganization which furnishes newspapers aud adver- tisers with & strictly honest anulysie of tion. Our circulation statistics are this audit. This insures pro tection against fraud in mewspaper die- tribution figures to both national a local advertimers. The Herald 1s oo sale dally York at_llotaling's Newsstand. S.uare; Bchult Grand Central. o New | Times Entrance Now that he dark Lorecs may Neat to a funeral oration th cest thing to listen to is a nominat- ing speech for a candidate having one-half of one per cent of a chan to be nominated. must have been 31- for Hoover. | he Lis eyes and imagine Roraback's face a study in emotion during the minute lnonstration The ¥ was to closs was for Coolidge. only eatistaction ¢ We give it vietion that the woman seconder of as our earnest con- the Hoover nomination—she was rom Kentucky—spoke more ecnse than the men and less blah cians at the convention. politi- When the Connecticut delegation returns home it is entitled to a feast of raspberrics. s elected President the Henry should of the 1f Hoover influence of J the adminietration equal the influen of T Roraback in at least BOVUTIOY WOODEN NUTMEGS J. Heury had an army of sixteon sta He led them back again They went to the convention and art meo, led them to Mi-su-rah and he would stampede it for C. they had their heads wooden nutmegs zht to For where were tho THE HOO' TO VICTORY The candidacy of Herbert Hoover for the Republican nomination was successful because it deserved to be. His nomination on the first hallot by 537 votes—when only & ¢4 to clineh the place—indicates the 5 were nee wideepread popularity of the com- merce secretary even among politi- cians. The able time conventior rominating also-rans. Onl Curtis of Kan resounding ac =pon wag more o tion for the flection nominatior Governor drawir commended y that he nom did n L far d his 1 spurrcd on Meve in an public duty m to stick to i8 determination. Lowden se e one of the few men in pu who take Ti platforis serioues offorts m contenders, | asult, were pitiful where the overwls was eatly aree or tour ot 0-ran ¢ CALT AT THE NORMAL hey possess a nobody denies; ested in public ¢ extent than the a ly be Th vietory of “Al" at t} spontaneous espoucal questioned of larity and reflected the confidence reposed in the New York governor. Perhaps it is surprising that such 4 Smith victory could be chronicled it the State ugrmal. The institution in 2 Republican city—except when a Democratic mayor is elected—and is in a Republican etate. It is an in- stitution that represents the flower of young womunhood in these parts for Smith indlcates clearly it the Empire State executive has a good opportunity the 11 vote to carry Cou- necticut in spite of what J. Henry Whack said some time ago relative how thoroughly the Republican party would defeat him in this state. This is the second straw vote ifi 1 of which we have knowl- I n that has been car votes Smith. Straw may not mean every- thing, but they th much now they did in 1924, when the Republi- mean something; at least, ¥y mean as carried The cane easily sizht. all the straw that the r are beginning to votes in Democruts this y fact win in s'raw votes is at least signifi- THE MINORITY RI The enltural IRT report on the mn the minority gri- plank Republican platform was a strong statement and vas not devold of threa the farm disputants did not ex convention to accept their pleas more definite plank in con- formity with the McNary-Haugen plan; but they succceded in letting . Obvious- the for a the convention know that millions of resentful and that would affect the farmers were their rescntment clection. More Demiocrats than Republicans voted for the McNary-Haugen plan in Congress, the convention was told: nd the hin more than broad that if the convention did not mect the demands of farmers they would was go clsewhere for their political ae- sistance and knew where to get it The threat that the farmers had been fooled before but would not be fooled this vear aroused a flurry of interest, but as was to be expected, it was impossible to budge the ma- jority of the convention from voting for the meaningless plank evolved by the resolutions committec. It the accordans farmers mean to with what their men hinted it will be act in spokes- a bud year in respecte, TALKING MOVIES It is not movies ¢ surprising that du to They talking New re arrive in Britain, are winning ground cverywhere and goodly tilm industry logical almost part of the them as the that will add popular interest to the a regards development. renewed lustre and picture ficld The cffect upon the film actors is profound. Some of them are ex- cellent at pantomime but arc poor on the speaking stage. Many epeak- ing stage the stars have been failures in films because e they were poor “ontortionists in the silent drama. 1f the epeaking movies develop to the logical conclusion that the industry “omprehends there naturally will be in entir ¥ mew crop of “foremost ictors’ *in the near future, That must can that some of the present favor- will to retire t ites have from their carnings and return to more ordi- nary pursuite. As the “talkers” including the pla in the film world ievelo ng of an ccompunying score a lurge sym- phony or d iestrs which can be repro- for the future fuced in ns that in the o provid: pos Nt may possess @ ul value to the millior film drama t of course, is the king the dramatis a8 they {he . We emoat du on in the smalicr s of inventio Is coming buch 1 TORN 1TROM THEIR MOOF 1 delegation o Henry Rors 1 not vot. nator Bingl that mo: out of the ome th as | ent 4t | Sanders, secretary to the President, not to cast ite 17 votes tor the Pres- | ident. This sounds plausible to any- one with & taste for political fairy stories. The probability that Rora- back decided to be recorded in the {Hoover annals as a “supporter” rather than an opponent and attempt to retrieve his lost prestige as a picker of winners is just as good a story as the oth ! The Roraback have had more It might with Vermont, Facts and Fancies The times aren’t out of joints. Why shouldn't a exist in obscurity? ways has. vice president As a rule he al- | The man who named it the ‘silent drama” never had heard illage wudlence devouring pranuts delegation should tn the first | have known that Maseachusetts and Pennsylvania in the Hoover columns that the President's desirc known and respected by the more (stute higher-ups in the party. Roraback gmnibled on the that if a stampede for Cool- had been engineered he and his delegation might have obtained the credit for starting it. le speculated | on chance of being a great hero, | ident-malker; and having lost he has the appearance of a potential licro who failed. There is one word that fits the situation but like 1o use 1t, Price w. Accumulating a defi cit for the winner to collect from the public after it's over. sense place. A trie snob is a rich guy who {won't speak without an troduc- | was | tion when he's parked in a cell with | you. premise idge a pre ¥ i flattery, might ettes, he is too shirewd to and hasw't a dog. brag on his brand of c we dis- Some crop pests b others reach 1 flivye TIE GAIN 1 The gaining in the transportation of mail, thé last report having it that nearly 0,000 THE AR MAIL 19 air mail routes are steadily Ther milk-shak three moy tightwad 3 ing about edn't dri you aren't pounds are being carricd cvery month. | The Boston- | The great tion. There are too stations everywhere ol ew York routc is im- need da better distribu portant, but not more so than most of the others, The record for Ma jrnough between Amer was that 3,291 pounds of mail were | east and west, carried over this line. This is scarce- | 1y more than the poundage betwe Chicago snd nany and nd pot not Americanisi: deeent a | full of faith: pretending vou're not lest people think you an unsophisti 2ted boob. | Solitary confinement causes mad- | This is especially true if solitary idea confined . Louis, is less than between Cheyenne and Pueblo, and | is scarcely more than over the new | line between Atlanta and New Or- leans. The line between New York and Atlanta, also recently establish- ed, has a much higher record than | or ! ness. e | | course women are awful the New England line, the May re- | rivors. But once in a while you | port showing that 8,566 pounds were | read about a train wreck or a ship | carried over it. wreck. And women don’t drive There are some thosc. i than lines that carry the New Kngland route, but they do not serve an en- tire section of the country like our line does. The inter-city line between Cleveland and Detroit, for instance, only carried 144 pounds in May—the | lowest in the list of air lines, The Detroit 2nd Chicago line only carried 1.524 pounds; the Cleveland-Pitts- burg line only 2,550 pounds; tin Buffulo-Cleveland only 1, pounds; the Dallias-Galveston only 1,980; the Chicago-Cincinnati 2, The New York-Chicago, with 53.- 013 pounds docs not head the list, s some might expect. The top of the | ™ list goes to the Chicago-San Fran- | cisco line, with 56,654 pounds, The salt City-Los Angeles line stands high with a poundage of 21.- 1‘ Some Inventions give 747; while the Chicago-Kansas City- | words, but the cigarette Dallas line with a poundage of 14,- will impoverish our languag 148 is very successiul, Ugimm I tam The deduction is that the greater | qy,, picest thing about wealth ts more | {hat it gives you courage to tell the air mail service becomes, | collector in a care-frec way that For short distances the air mail does | YOU'll attend to it next month, fotolaid fenoisy | Correct this sentence: *T'd still | play golf,"” sail 1 f none but the | of a businees | poor would play it and all we day and destined for New York will | uired to wear overalls” | (Copyright 1 PPublishors | Syndicato) | less mail straw it of hist he high hat. | The pancake motif the vogue, hut many dressers sfill cling to t No man really 18 a8 important oung man feels while writing | restaurant tablecloth. - | and | b 575, | i rly to bed and carly to ri: your sleep don't be disturbed ountry run in - exeo return walk. Ab, well; who get no p: training for th lent | Lake | us new | lighter e of | | | the distance to be covered the | vopular th advantage over FFor instance, a letter mailed in Boston at the close trains. {be delivered at the first morning de- livery New i whether it is sent by air mail or by ! | e “": 25 Vears Ago Today | dr mail cannot be touched hy the | other channels of tion and the in York regardicss of ! For long distances, The, 15t om Le | §t. Gabriel’s Parish | Berlin defeated the packing | team of the Stanley I el Co. yesterday afternoon a Captain Hanna of the losers | lhad the misfortune to badly break his thumb. Mrs. R J. Vanes than the dry ‘gren, Johnstone, ftobert, and . It mentions the 18th ' lhave town tomorrow for nendient and tells us that | City, where they will spend g season of the Constitution New Britain's Maple Hill Golf b & club more than m up for an at Senator Borah would | carlier defeat when it defeated the | Glastonbury team Ly 27 points ves- | ) terday without a match, toon Leugue ought 0 . yeores of the men wers ified H. H. Peare, cve Hart 1; N | P. Cooley H Hart BE. 1. | Davison 4; Purcell 9: L. 1. Pease 6 The Stanley Rule, with Riley | pitching, shut out the American World calls attention 0 | garqwere Co. in the first Tndustrial tth v England tex- [ league game of the v foying class [afternoon, 2-0. The 1o | Regulars won 7 | Meriden with * wobble. Only two mills in Lowell are | holding the 1id 10 be carning a profit, conditions | hits, e Had and ih Wew .lu;lc«- J. E. Cooper on 11 S e B . beneh in the police court this morn Bedford there is a wideapread strike |, 0 %0 Jo 0 Tt COF canes. betore | reductions, {him was unueually varied Roinz into the | Governor Chamberlain yestord reasing numbers, | Xi€Ned the hill amending the char ter of the New Britain Savings in the | pang more stable and | New Britain’s mortality rate of what one can call (ing May war 20.8 per 1,000, {one town in the state Lad a Irate. The circus will come to town Friday, June and the factorics | 1 be closed on that day instead of | urday The afternoon 10ft fielder club of mail transporta- ' swifter service is thor- ! onzhily curning its popularity, THE DRY PLANK Republican prohibition plank | much chil- Agnes, Atlantic | the and her further it is and needs t'e nothing new, ! part 1o he enforee but it all The is W D roEres Anti- £t o losing local M. s rean AND SHOES i1 moments the | York son yesterd New! me Britain from | Roch: four mdustry, ern first iff protection, continues Southp visitors to only wis nee ar f t W Conditions ary dur Only of prospettiv, higher lioes are unbeatable the on sound in work- 1 8 stylos almost cvery - comparatively Vs met Zwie I team nd elected pain for rous forcign na- tenpted oz cam The Liberty 1ell pg Derlin at 9:20 o'clock this morning its way from Philudeiphia to ston for the Bunker Hill Day oh- servance, A show will he given in the e theater at White Oak this evening There i 4 moverent on fool to orm a union of stenographers and typewriters, Manipulators of the keyhoard comy that they have to work too long hours. The finance committee common council will hold it an- nual meeting this cicning fn the city clerk’s office 10 liear complaints in relation to the assewsment of property and positions for rellef and exemption from taxation. . Me- tussle in failcd ®0 In textiles. The forcign good and cliap and some w nt to the | ted Statey ift, Rayon products upber hund ating gotting e aguinet tabric Justry New England teatilc i stry faces its most within serious the The southern mills are com- United large- | hard sicd- ! w Enzland textiles of the petition from fault in making it inately the tariff has not ' tilling | 1 in ale ! prot Kindred Spirits! Frances: “I deteat flattery, don’t you:" Waiter: “I certainly do, and you're the first women I ever knew who had common sense enough to feel that way about it, 1 think you're wonderful.” Frances: *“Oh thank you. *You don't know how pleasant it is to find somecone who understands and ap- | i — Send all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care of the New Britaln Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. —D. F. Conboy. | (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction VPorbidden) i Our Twilight Reveric! As we unwind our garden hose We can’'t help thinking, “Goodness | knows W'd like to turn the hose of mirth lots of folks on this old earth!" Cheated Newlywed “You Mrs cheated Grover: “W Mrs. Newlywed: “You sold me a | wmut and when T opened it| 1sn’t a drop of cocoa in it!"| | the matter?" w What'll We Do Now? | Various Ways of Keeping a | 4 i Party at Kull Cry) i dward Longstreeth and 1. T. Holton Adjective Lett 1. tiie spirit of the cven- cms to stray from the usual of bridge and dancing. It is rhaps the time to trot out cetive letter, the idea of zot from Esther Ralston. containing 1,000 or is prepared in advance Uly discusses the party of ning, using the names of all A perhaps some of fricnds—and enemies! o contains a deserip 1ce, the sort of par and clothes of the guests, But before each noun 1eft blank, waiting for a litying adjective to later by the unsuspecting (Being By You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New sritain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medlcal, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- | not he answered. All letters are con- fidential—F.ditor. Q. What 18 the redivation of the English word angel? | A. It is from the Greek, angelos | meaming messenger. Q 1Is Sam»rny Mandell, the boxer, American? A, He is an American of Italian | descent, i Q. Who holds the endurance | record for swimming? | A, The latest rccord was made by Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston who m continuously for 50 hours in | the Lincoln Park West Hotel pool, | Chicago, Illinois, completing her ideons “sniveling,” “second- | swim May 21, 1328, The best pre- vate” which the hostess writes fnto | Vious record was that made by the Bfter in the blank space before | Otto Kemmerich, who in April, ench not turn as the guests call | 1928, swam continuously for 46 i hours in a small circular basin enly Nostuss 44 feet in diameter at Hamburg, Germany. Q. What is the relationship of children who have one parent in | common? | A. Half brothers or sisters. Q. Where in the United & sulphur_produced? n oy chowe 1t word hsent ind s0 on a or qu filled in 1ests wi an % he T for moment Loste seems pro- sks each guest i adjective, partic an unpleasant and un- tury nature. Not know- ing it is all about, the guests will sneh adicctives as “odious in lurly o comy whit ot he then announces that the guests have helped her write & lovely account of themselves and Ner party. She reads it, and it Jlly sounds like this: Il odious Esther Ralston hav- decided fo entertain her snivel- inz friends at her hideous home in- : ited them to a socond-rate dinner.| A. Mostly in Louisiana’ and The first to were the fiednish | Texas, although Utah produces a | Mr. and Richard Thornton, |little. The annual average produc- | otc tion in the last ten years has becn 1,340,000 tons. Q. What is the capital of Soviet Russia? A. Moscow. Q. 13 the name Lejeune French? A, Yes. It means “The young man”. Q. Who are Frislans? A, Inhabitants of Friesland, i province of Holland which s an in- tegral part of the Dutch Republic, Friesland being one of the seven | provinces which on July 26, 1851 at | the Hague, declared their indepen- | dence, Q. Can one buy aeroplanes from the United States Army? The government planes for sale, Q. Do members of the Parlinment receive a salary A, Members of the House of | Lords are unpaid. Members of the | Housc of Commons receive annual | sataries of four hundred pounds | sterling and traveling facilities over | the railways to and from their con- | stituenci. i Q. How long after taking out first | citizenship papers does onc have in which to apply for second papers. | A, Seven years. «. What is the value orc? A, The value of gold is fixed by law at $20.67183 per ounce for pure gold. Ore containing gold varies | greatly in value depending on the gold content. What president is referred to ! in Fannie Hurst's book “A President | is Born"? tes is Ay Mis The party is hound to become live- 1y one or another! way What They Are! Livingston e two problems in the country tod Production and Consumption. Alice: right; automobile production liquor consump- tion!" biggest are Yo and Carl F. Linder. Law s Fact! An author in court for erash was accused of kissing his girl when occurred, The de due to ne om our negligence using a having been the accident has no A no—It all was British of it vt kissing her! point of view M he - . Mary, Quite— ry had returned from one nhors where had been bak M Little the n to sce She looked worrigd d, “Mother, wouldn't Mrs, Bell dresses that rl and it turns out to be and” finally it be awful baby as L hoy 7 McHugh of gold ! THE OTHER KIP WORPS WHEN “My only regret i3 that I have nine lives to give for my coun- Mahomet! If I tried to tll you the iny loyve You'd want Well, if th in your Just depth of me to prove it; a Mountain of Doubt way, 'l move it! -A. V. Smith sk me from a department Fun Shop by gov- sent n. ernment The a): Houored Sir Wing that there are . hands wanted in Your Honor's Department, 1 beg 1o offer my hand To begin with, if my | ilegible, this is due to | reason, ‘for, 1 having come [ cold tooa warm clir | ers stiff and wishes Besides, Most Honored Sir, T beg to state that 1 am in very uncom- fortable circumstanc being the sole means of support of my late brother's seven issiuc the latter being the bain of my existence owing to my having to support two of my own wives as well as thefr jesue of India, Robert in writing 1s climatic from a find wy ¢ disobedient 1o “ my ! Millan i» rhn!rm'q\ of the committee, n which are Frnest Humphrey and {. P. Leghorn, slightest effact upon sonuthern competition, which, by God's misfortunes. the feminine gender predominated | time provinces and | prevails generally ' Atlanta, Ga. Northfleld, Vt. Pittsburgh . Portland, Me. St. Louis . Washington MAY GET TITLE BOUT | Jack Bergz B England Who Secks Match With Sammy Mandell De- feats Froddie Mueller. icago, June 15 M—Jack Berg, {who left England to seek Bammy i.\nmdan‘g lightweight title, may get kis chance. In a ten round match, billed aw an elimination match for an oppo- nent for the champion, Berg deci- sively defeated Freddie Mueller of Ruffalo. The Englishman won nine of the rounds and had the Bilfalo lightweight on the verge of a knock- out in the final round. It marked Berg's second Ameri- can appearance and his second American victory. Promoter Jim | Mullen said he expeets to sign Man- dell soon for a title match with Berg. Three Bandits Steal $5,000 In Buffalo Today, Buffalo, N. Y., June 15.—(UP)— | Three bandits, their faces covered | with handkerchiefs, held up the Hase selbeck Cheese company here today |and escaped with $5,000 in cash and checks. ' The concern had just opened its doors for business when the bandits drove up in thelr automobile. One man stepped to the rear of the main office and herded 16 men employes in a corner. The other twe Fair tonight; slightly cooler in ex- | bandits went into the office of Clar. treme south portion; Saturday part- | cnce Nuereuter, manager, and forced ly cloudy; cooler on coast and in| jim to lie on the floor while they north and central portions. ransacked the safe, Nuereuter told Conditions: The disturbance of | police he had juat opened the safe yesterday afternoon and last night | prior to the bandits entrance. moved mnortheastward to the Mari- | i e War To Stop Attacks of Fits portions of the country this morn- ing. Showers were reported from Reports are received of an amaze ing treatment that epileptics state the Gulf states, portions of the western plains states, the north Pacific coast districts and from the middle and north Atlantic coast |has proved successful in stopping pressure central over the upper |tneir attacks. R. Tepro, Apt. 104, lake districts is the dominating fac- | 595 Jsland Ave. Milwankee, Wis. tor now controlling the weather |hus heen supplying sufferers with tains. It is producing pleasant and | reach all those who have not beem cooler weather in nearly all northern | helped and to do so is making the districts east of the plains states. | qutling offer of a generous treats (‘mr weather with warm days and | aqijeted should write to R. Lepso cool nights. jand this free treatment will be sent Temperatures yesterday: | iliamn et rns 0 68 | 64| 61 a4 38| 50 A. No particular president s referred to. It is & work of fiction. Q. What is the address of Bud Fisher, the cartoonist? Al 131 Riverside York City. Q. What is the value of a United States half dime dated 18397 A. Coin dealers offer from 6 to 15 cents. Q. How many people were killed and injured in the Japanese earth- quake in 19237 A More than ninety-nine thousand persons perisfed, forty- three thousand were missing and | over a hundred thousand were in- jured. Q. Does the President of the Republic of Panama have any jurisdiction over the Canal Zone? A. The Zonc is controlled by the government of the Unitdd States. Tts local affairs are administered by a Governor General with head- quarters at Balboa Heights. The U. S. holds a perpetual leasc on the Canal Zone. Q. What s the lowest age for calistment In the Navy? A. Seventeen years. Q. From what is newsprint paper made? A. Wood that is ground up and mixed with water and other chemi- cals to make a pulp. Drive, New Observations On The Weather Washington, June 15.—Forccast for Southern New England: i and cooler tonight. Sataurday fair, cooler on the cast coast. Fresh north winds. Forecast for Eastern New York: | | | | | Atlantic City loston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Denver .. 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