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STATE DEPARTMENT WON'T COMMENT Not Discussing the Situation in China Now Washington, June 26 (#—Inform- al negotiations look nition of the Chinese nationalist gov- ernment have not reached t where the state depart comment on their sentatt regime nere, that ar expression gress is in no wav ou may be made soon by States The nationalists representative in G.4C. W the matter of ravising , are co indicating pro- f order and the Uni their Dr throngh country, this the Chinese treaties fo the state department in | addition te asking recognition Dr, Wu has stated that the ¢ 1 ment is giving the subject co ation. Tt 18 understood that action b the United Srates depends largel upen developments in China and whether the nationalist govern will show willingness ability sately to carry tional oblizations nd out USING HIS WEALTH T0 AID DERELIGTS Hungarians’ “Uncle” Devotes Life to Canse June 26.—(#) Budapest, Hungary, —One of the most remarkable characters in all Europe is Robert Bacel, who during his 42 years has ‘work as “‘a servant of mankind saved from death or destitution 000 lives. Left a fortune many years ago by his parents, “Uncie Robert,” as the Hungariane affectionately call him. | has spent it upon salvaging human lives. He 18 himself penniless today but friends {inance the work he is doing. 5 For 33 years Uncle Robert, who 6 70 years old, has spent $5,000,000 of his own money in clothing the ras- ged. teeding the hungry, reclaiming social outcasts, helping the halt and | maimed, and burying the homeless dead. His assistants are would-be sui- cides and others he has saved from the grave, He works in close co- operation with the Hungarian po- lice. He is an institution in Hungary. Among the would-be suicides he re- | trieved from death are eix former army officers, three professors, two lawyers, a violinist, four govern- ment officials, and two attaches of the former royal family. Uncle Robert dislikes publicity, and by special request his name is | always deleted from the newspa- pers. He lives modestly in a two- 1oom attic. For his own living re- quirements he depends upon a Jaughter in England, who sends him tea, sugar and other elementary needs, and kindly friends, who pro- vide him with cast-off garments. Uncle Robert, who is a man of great plety, decided to become his “brother's keeper” after he escaped death in Russia, where as a boy he wae attending Tolstoy's While driving in a sleigh in the depths of a Siberian winter, he was caught in a snowdrift and for six days was cut off from the rest of the world. He fell on his knees, according to his own narrative, and prayed that it hie life were spared he would Jjoin “the army of Jesus” and work for others. When almost on the point of death from exposure an starvation, he was s peasants, Born of Jewish parente in Jaffa in what once was a ’ ince, Uncle Robert is : Turkish subject. But in of the pledze he made he became a he goes among a Bible with b consolation. Of small star ruddy checks, © & pointed beard anything wears a hat stovan blouse, t neck, role raim morning with long after r morning he Corns Lift Right Off! Hard corns, soft tween the foes and right off! You'll laug ané does:'t hurt a bit Tuet drop “Freezone” on a Instantly eall I des, tc. corn Sching: then shortly you that old oethe o with your fngers worwg ke & charm. sver winis at an g to the recoz- | have presented informally | ¥ MRS, O school, | B | Wheelbarrow through the etreets of ‘Budapest distributing milk to poor mothers and children | Leading the correspondent to the slums of Bud t, Uncle Robert said: “l want you to e my army {1t is an army of peace.” 5 | In a great public square was a mass of men, wome dren, ! ROBINSON LOOMS - AS POSSIBILITY - May Get the Nomination for cle Robert rai hand |one gigantic chor derelicts 5 . {whom he called ¥ broke v P d {into the Lord's Prayer. Some were 166 Frest ent on crutche others in invalid's | e . irs. All were dressed in tatters. | Houston, June 20 (P—With a |, Do vou see this woman? Well, |score or more candidates scrambling {1 picked her up last week as she bout to jump into the Danube Is now one of my cooks” Unc ohert said Taking the corr improvi id: “We m v, home ouls ours, are no woree off than 1 pondent into an 1 kitchen, Uncle . provide | enate, with al daily The k beef for a position before it, the vice- presidential spotlight threw a spas- modic beam today upon three or four persons, perhaps lingering long- | est upon Senator Robinson of Ar- | kansas, the democratic leader in the Meanwhile, with the new names | still coming to the fore with newly rriving delegations, there arose a ossibility that if Governor Smith 1°a- | were given the presidential nomina- tion he would throw the race for second place into a grand free-for- |gm. Indesd. T have a simpler fare. | a1l with the selection to be made on [T eat cabbage, calad and froit. That | the floor of the convention. cret of my lonzevity. T am | Raker or Woollen, est man in the world.” OLIDGF -~ VISITS IN DULUTH Gives Natives of Minnesofa Gity a Thrill Minn | | Duluth June 26 (A—Mrs oolidge thrillsd residents of Duluth today by driving som 50 miles from |« 1and Lodge to patronize the | vy parlors of one of the depart- | ment stores here Apparently g to take ad ntage of the fi day of brilliant inshine since her arri made the trip with her ho r and nurse. Few persons k e was | coming and it was a surprisec cashier who Jooked up to find th first lady of the land” asking the | way to the beauty parlor. | Some warning had been given, however, and the stairs had been vigorously scrubbed and hooth num- ber six hurriadly tidis ened with a bouquet According to he 1 and bright- of tea appomtment, M roses Coolidge was to recoive a sealp treat- {ment, shampoo, marcells and mani- cure, &he wore a dark gray tweed suit, a large red hat and a silver fox fur. Word soon spread through the | husiness district that Mrs. Coolidge | was in town and police reserves | | were sent to the store to keep the crowds in order. Work was sus- pended in the office buildings in the neighborhood and windows crammed with pe hoping to sec Mrs. Coolidge as she Jeft. Business in the store itself was at a standstill women wWho happened to be there | when she entered, refused to leave, as did those who came later and heard the news The side re lined for bloc 1 so many were standing in the streets that policemen rerouted traffic. It had been planned to close off the block in which the store is located, but Mrs. Coolidge spoiled that by arriv- ing early. As she left, Mrs. Coolidge gave cach of the three girls who did her work a bright shiny quarter and re- plied, in answer to a request to re- turn, that they would find her hard to get rid of. She indicated her re- turn by oper a charge account. Mrs. Cooli said she liked the y and was enjoying the vaca- Wl Lodge. She smiled her way through the crowds outside the store, posed for the photographers and then was the bay. NEW BRITAIN Wednesday M 9 TO 12 CLEARANCE OF 600 Trimmed, Sport and Tailored LOOK! LOOK! *5 HAT Out They (o Special 50c i ore v zee windows | Go‘défiblum 188 MAN were | ior street hisked away to Wisconsin, across MOST POPULAR MILLINERY SHOP Cer. Main and Court Sts, | A tomb-like silence has hovered over the lair ¢f Tammany in Ho |ton from which have emerge o vague intimations that while Evans Waoollen, of Indiana, and Newton D. | Baker, secretary of war under Presi- | dent Wilson, were favored by some of the Smith leaders, probably more of them were looking over the Rob- | inson record At the same time there came still other reparts that if their candidate should be given first place on the ticket, he might request the conven- tion to select his running mate in an open fight on the floor. Rainey and Taylor. New rumbles of thunder echoed from the central states and the west last night as delegates not yet ip- ured to Houston heat launched new ce-presidential booms for Repre- ntative Rainey of Illinois, and Richard V. Taylor, a member of the interstate commerce commission and a former mayor of Mobile, Ala. Rainey, it was contended, has taken an active part in the farm relief legislation and might do much to swing farm votes into the démocratic eolumns. The Taylor boost came from the Arizona dele- gation. Amos Vetts, chairman of the delegation said that Taylor was in harmony with the views of Smith on prohibition enforcement Cordell Hull. of Tennessee, still | bulked large in the minds of many | delegates today and others suggest- | ed Atlce Pamerene, of Ohio, or Gov- erior Donahey of that state, zs can- [didates who would strengthen the kick of the democratic mule. Hearst Wires. New impetus was given to the campaign of George L. Berry, presi- dent of the Pressmen's union, with the publication of a telegram from William* Randolph Hearst, the pub- lisher, asserting that the democrats should take notice of Berry if they were consldering the ability and availability of candidates. The mes- |sage added that the Tennesseean | was popular both with union men and the public Other new candidates names appeared on the list yester- day for the first time included Sena- | tor King of Utah, who was boosted potroas h I:cw e:fi:t. when ) { R kbt GULOENS ‘Mustird‘ orning Special HATS Valnes to $5.9 AT FOR MISS AND MATRON ALL HEADSIZES | LOOK! LOOK! Another Special WHITE FELT High Grade $1.85 | Regular $3.00 Value Children’s Straw Hats $1 $1.95 $2.95 Millinery Co. NEW BRITAIN whose | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928 Wagner will speak for the group en the resolutions committee. New York will be represented on the credentials committee by former Representative John J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn. Senator Wagner, close persona)l |and political friend of Governor Smith, was expected to be in posi- tion to place before the resolutions committee the views of his candi- date on questions to be covered in the party's declaration of prin- ciples. Retiring Speaker Does Not Want Peerage London, June 25 (P—The right Mayor James J. Walker, another delegate at large from New York, who will join Frank Hague, a fel- low mayor, of Jersey City, in aiding delegates. Still other delegations|Mr. Roosevelt's floor direction, |spoke of Senator Pittman, of Ne-|smiled his confidence in the conven- |vada, as a second place man, and|tion outcome but would not fore- Gov. Ritchie, of Maryland, himself | cast. mentioned as a possible nominee for | The first demonstration for Govs vice-president, said that former |crnor Smith was made by his home Senator Underwood of Alabama, was |folk at the New York delegation a desirable man for the place. meeting when Miss Elisabeth Mar- | Well Futed. . bury, national committeewoman, in | Those singing the praises of Sena- |a ringing voice, read a resolution, |tor Robinson contended that his|interrupted by wild cheering, pledg- |long experience in the senate would |ing the delegation to vote fot Gov. | fit him especially well for the work |Smith “until his nomination.” The |as its presiding officer and that his|resolution was adopted with up- proximity to both the south and the |roarious enthusiasm. farm belt would The naming of Mayor Walker as|honorable John Henry Whitley, re- smooth any ruffled feelings of the |a member of the rules committee tired speaker of the house of com- one and wage an active fight for | provoked the second outburst of | mons, has shattered a precedent of votes in the other. }chosrm:. The New Yorkers came to | 120 years standing by declining the | by his home staters, and Husten Thompston, a iormer chairman of the federal trade commission, whose praises were chanted by Colorado enable him to| They considered him preferable to | cheer for they had reached good |king's offer of a peerage. He ex- Woollen, who, they said, would not |voice in whooping it up when Mrs. |plained that he took this attitude prove satisfactory to the farmers | Caroline. A. O'Day was elected | for “personal reasons.” It was he- because of his views on farm relief | chairman® of the legislation. They also pointed to the Indiana man as a banker whose political experience did not fit him delegation, to be [lieved in parhamentary circles to- charged later with the responsibil- | day, however, that the order of ity of voting New York's 90 for the | merit would be conferred upon him. governor. For 120 years every speaker has for the strenuous campaign ahead Norman F. Mack, for 28 years a|accepted a peerage. The Kking al- of the democrats. On the other imember of the national committee | ways bestowed the honer in re- hand, they explained, Robinson is a | from New York, was reelected as|sponse to the “humble petition” of vigorous pelitical battler whose ex-|31s0 was Miss Marbury as national | the ho of commons, which un- perience fits him for jousting with |committeewoman | dertakes to defray all expenses in the Kaw Indian opponent from — Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, wife of the connection with the bestowal. { Kansas, Senator Curtis. New York governor, reached Hous- SMITH WAL W Ea bride, who with her repubhican | husband is making the convention Delegation Thinks Nomination ' Is Matter of Hours |2 part of her honeymoon. Mr. and Mrse. Arthur Smith, Mr. and Mrs. | Alfred E. Smith, Jr, and Walter { Smith also will look in on the con- | vention Houfton. June 26 (A—The New York delegation, with 390 votes for Governor Smith, moved on the dem- ocratic convention today, confident that the nomination of their candi- date for president was only a mat- ter of hou While the leaders continued to refuse to hazard a guess as to the ballot on which the nomination would come, some of the younger spirts enthusiastically declared. “It won't be long now." Others turned REPORT IS UNTRUE Tokyo. June 25 (A—The report printed by a Japanese newspaper in {Honolulu that Katsuii Debucht, vice minister of foreign affairs, had been named ambassador to W ington was declared by official circles to- | day to be untrue. In unofficial quarters it was con- ‘Wagner to Speak | sidered probable that Dabuchi The New York delegation will go|might be appointed as successor to to the first session of the conven- |Tsuneo Matsudairi, present ambas- tion with no announced position on |sador, who is now in Japan for the | platform planks. Senator Robert F.|wedding of his daughter to Prince —the ones your friends ask for —are always suc- to sports parlance to say. “All is > 5 | Davis Not Talking cessfi!l when Ruo | John W. Davie, nominee for the ford is used. They presidency in 1924, who reached Houston only a few hours before |the formal meeting of the delega- |tion X0 take his placa as a delegate |at large from New York, had noth- ing to say immediately after his ar- rival. “I have not been hers long enough to learn the news,” said Mr. | Davis. “It was suggested soon after my arrival that I make a prophecy. I declined. Perhaps a man may |safely prophesy a month before an event, but he is foolish indeed who sets himself up as a prophet when |only a few hours are left.” It was | considered probable that the former lambassador to Great Britain would |have something to say after the scoreonallcounts— perfect leavening, texture, flavor, ap- pearance, dependa- bility, economy! 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