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NEBRASKA HONORS SENIOR SENATOR Proposes Gilbert Hitchoack (o Garry the Standard By the Associated Press. Gilbert - M. Hitchcock, ward by the ka for the presidential nomination, has been a prominent figure in na- tional politics for more than 25 vears. put for- His most notable work during a | combined service of 18 years in both houses of congress was as chairman of the foreign relations committee of and 1920. In that post he bore the Lrunt of the strenuous fight for President Wilson for ratification of the Versailles treaty with the covenant of the League of Nations. Started in 1898 The former senator began to . de- velop politically in 1898, when he was the democratic candidate for Tepresentative in congress from the second Nebraska district. He wap defeated by David H. Metcer by 8§00 votes, but four years later turned the tables and took his seat in the fifty-eighth congress as the only democratic member from Ne- braska. Lost in 1904 In the Roosevelt landslide ot 1304, Hitchcock was defeated by John L. Kennedy, Omaha lawyer, regaining his seat two years later as the lone democrat from Nebras- ka by winning over Mr. Kennedy. He was re-elected in 1908 and at the conclusion of his term became the democratic candidate for Unit- ed States senator against Senator Elmer J. Burkett. Wins by 20,000 In a popular vote Hitchcock was favored by a majority of 20,000 votes, and the choice was ratified by the Nebraska legislature. Six years later he was re-slected, de- feating his former congressional opponent, John L. Kennedy. As chairman of the foreign rela- | tions committee and member of the military affairs committee | during the world war, Senator | Hitehcock aided materially in mak- @ng the United States an effective member of the allies. He encour- | aged the expose of alleged laxity and weakness in army preparations and worked for measures to epeed | up the complete mobilization of | . the country's ftghting forces and their participation in the war in France. Bom in 1858 ; | Bepator Hitchcock was born in | Omaha, September 18, 1859, the son | of United States Benator and Mrs. | Phineas W. Hitchcock. He attend- ed the public achools of Omaha, < was tutored privately in Germany and was graduated from the Uni versity of Michigan {n 1531 wit the degree of bachelor of laws. Ke was admitted to the Nebraska bar that year and practiced until 1§85, Starts Paper In the latter year with three as- sociates he eptablished the Omaha Evening World He bought his partners’ interests. and later pur- §pecialists in Sc to $1 Merchandise Open Till 10 P. M. Saturday INFANTS' HOSE All colors. Saturday only Oc pr. Misses’ Chegked SPORT HOSE Regular 49¢ value. Saturday only 5c pr. Fast Color PRINTS Regular price 39¢ yd. Saturday only 22c¢ yd. Boys’ Sport “SLIPONS” Saturday only Very Special 88c e. democrats of Nebras- the senate in 1919 {he copsolidated with the World. The combined journal became the ,Omaha World-Herald, of which he still s owner and publisher. Five years after his venture into journalism Hitchcock received a call one day from a seeking a position. He was the |late William Jennings Bryan. Mr. Hitchcock employed him, and when Bryan became editor of the news- | paper the owner devoted his atten- {tion to the husiness office. Married Twice In 1883 the ried Miss Jessie Crounse, daughter of Lorenzo Crounse of Fort Cal- houn, Neb., a former governor of the state. Mrs. Hitchcock died at Washington May §, 1025, and two vears later, June 2. 1927, the sena- tor married Miss Martha Harris of i Memphis, Tenn. Senator Hitchcock received the | preferential votes of Nebraska democrats as a candidate for the | presidency in 1920, but withdrew |in favor of James M. Cox of Ohio, | who became the party's standard bearer that year. NEWINGTON NEWS [ The next meeting of the Newing- ton Garden club will be held Thursday afternoon, July 5 at 2:30 |o'clock at the home of Mrs. William T. Wells at Robbins station. The subject of afternoon will be “Perennials Following a talk by Mrs. Charles L. Luce, there will be a discussion by the members perennials. Mrs. G. K. Spring and family of | Thompson street are spending a | month at Canoe Harbor, East River. Jonathan and Steven Hart have returned home from Tabor Naval | Academy on Buzzard's Bay to spend |the summer recess with their par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hart of Thompson street Mrs. D. K. Perry and children of | Golf street left last Saturday for Hotchkiss Grove, Indian Neck, where they will spend the summer Miss Betsy Starkweather of West young man | former senator mar. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUN LOCAL VONAN AT *C.C.C. W, MEETING {Conference Considers Subjects of Interest on Welfare Lins Among the New Britain people who attended the conference of the Connecticut Council of Catholic Women were Mrs. E. J. Bardsley, | Mrs. T. W Crowe, Mrs. James Mal- {lory, Mrs. J. H. Mulligan, Mrs. John J. McBriarty, Miss Mary Snoczynski, Miss Vivien McBriarty, Miss Della B. Daly, Miss Catherine O'Leary, Mrs. Thomas C. Cranley, and Miss Anna Romejko. The conference was successful, heing attended by 85 persons repre- senting 17 cities and towns and six auspices of the Connecticut Counci!| of Catholic Women. HANSAS BACKS UP HER NATIVE SO Nominates “Bill” Ayres, 0ld, Timer in Congress Topeka. Kan. June 29 (P—W. A Ayres, who has served longer in| congress than any other Kansas | democrat, is the choice of the Sun- | flower delegation to Houston for the presidential nomination Called “Bill” | “Bill" Ayres—few call him “Mr’ —has won six congressional elec- tions in a state which has elected only three democratic governors and his friends assert that he will countles of Connecticut. Miss Mar- |garet Lynch, assistant executive ! secretary of the National Council of | Catholic Women, was the guest of honor. There were five sessions held during the conference. Tuesday morning was devoted to the subject ot immigration. Mrs. Louis E Buckley, president of the Bridge- port council. presided. At the luncheon meeting held the same day the subject discussed was “The Ite- |lationship Between Volunteer and | Professional Social Workers.” Miss | Marguerite Boylan, chairman of the | Connecticut Council of Catholic | Women, presided. Mrs. Edwin Riley lof Middletown and Mrs. E. J | Bardsley of New ‘Britain showed different phases of the subject. | The Tuesday afternoon session |was devoted to study clubs. Mss | Mary P. O'Flaherty of Hartford was chairman. Reports of successful | study clubs in Hartford and Nor- walk were given. Wednesday morning was devoted | Rural Social Work. Miss Mar-| ito | be a winner on any ticket. He ‘has |represented the eighth district dur- ing all except one congressional {term since 1914, losing by 167 votes to a republican in the Harding land- slide of 1920. Some of Ayres supporters hop: 'he will receive the nomination for vice president if the first place goes to another candidate. They point out that a man born on an Illinois farm, reared on a Kansas farm and elected repeatedly in a district with a large farmer consistuency would gain strength in the middle west for a ticket headed by an easterner. Started at 20 | Ayvres entered politics before he reached voting age. At 20 he w a member of the democratic county committee. Later, as county prose- cutor at Wichita, he made a record of more than local fame for the strict enforcement of prohibition In congress he has attracted at- tention with his advocacy eof a strong navy and his staunch gup- port of the League of Nations. “The United States will enter the Hartford is a guest of Miss Betty |82ret Doyle of Torrington presided. |league through the back door and Spring at East River. for a month Mrs. Robbins avenue have opened their |cottage at Point o' Woods where they will spend the summer. Miss Leonje Harding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Harding of Rob- bins avenue is visiting in New York city. Miss Betty Lienhard, danghter ot Mr. and Mrs. H. A TLienhard of Golf street will leave Saturday for Wells River, Vermont. where she will attend Camp Fare-Well Irving Rau has returned from Detroit. Michigan, to visit hiz par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Rau of Farmington avenue. The Lorne Pierce Medal, given in recognition of distinguished contri- bution to Canadian literature, has bheen awarded to Bliss Carman, the | Canadian poet SCALP SPECIALISTS SAY - BANISH GRAY HAIR EASILY APPLY YOURSELF—NO ONE KNOWS LEA’S HAIR TONIC GOLDS Elmer Pape and family of | Miss Margaret Lynch, representa-! tive of the National Council, spoke at length on the subject of ‘\‘ara-} tion Rural Schools.” | | Wednesday afternoon, Miss Jane Dargan, vice president of Bulkeley High scheol, presided at the ges- | sion devoted to the Big Sister Move- | ment. The speakers were Miss Julia | Maynahan, dean of girls at the | Warren Harding High scheol, and | Mrs. Rose Legrande Clark, New | Haven county chairman of the | Connecticut Girls Protective associ- ation. Miss A Gertrude Daley, ex- ccutive secretary of the Catholic | Charitable Bureau of Bridgeport, | diccussed her work with girls while formerly with the Massachusetts | department of welfare. Session came to a close with a meeting devoted to the National !Council of Social Service at Wash- ington, D. C The Connecticut coun- has for the last four years given |a scholarship and has raised fund of $10.000 towards the permanent WORTH WEIGHT IN GOLD" Verdict of Woman Who Tried Pinkham’s Compound Tully, N. Y.—“Tt hurt me to walk or sit down without help and I felt sick and weak. My mother-in law took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound and ehe induced me to take it. T am now on the fourth bottle and have also used Lydia E. Pinkham’'s [ fund of $20,000. 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The superintendent-less year w marked by the largest attendance in the history of Chicago schools and by the largest number of grad- uates from high schools. Chicago Schoof System e 4 The state convention which 1| VVithout Superintendent torsed Ayres for the ' presidency| Chicago, June 29.—(—One ot took the action after the congress- | the world’s largest school eystems, | man notified it he had no desire for | that of Chicago, has completed a the honor. The indorsement came year's operation without the serv- ter a struggle between support rs!lccs of a superintendent. The cause of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New |is traced back to the 1927 municipal York and Senator James A. Reed|election, at which Willlam Hale of Missouri for the 20 Kansas votes Thompson was chosen mayor. at the Houston convention. 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