New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1928, Page 13

JESSE JONES IS A SELF-MADE MAN Brought Democratic Convention to Houston Single Handed By the Associated Press. Determination to accomplish things has been an outstanding characteristic of Jesse H. Jones from boyhood. He carried a lot of it with him when he went cratic national committee to pre- sent the claims of Houston as the best place in the country in which to hold the democratic convention, and he carried polnt, ) Choice of Texas Then'he became the choice of the Texas delegation to the Houston convention for the presidential nomination. That determination to which marked every effort of his life, was first exhibited when as a boy he became a mule driver on his father's farm in Tennessee. Given a team of the animals whose chief characteristic is stub- bornness, Jesse was put to work plowing a portion of the farm land. In half a day he completed the before the demo- | national | his | 1915. He is president of the Na- tional Bank of Commerce and the | Southern Loan and Trust company and head of the Houston Hotel as- sociation. He is also publisher of The Houston Chronicle. Red Cross Worker During the World War he took an active part in the work of the Red Cross. He was appointed by President Wilson to the War Coun- cil of the Red Cross and was di- |rector general of military reliet of the American Red Cross. | Although always interested in politics and public affairs, Mr. Jones has never held public office. His ability in financial matters led to his selection in 1924 as director {of finances of the democratic na- tional committee for the presiden- |tial campaign of that v Born in 1874 was born in Robertson | County, Tenuessee, April 5, Jones 1874, |© NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1928 SHINMING TYPIST | T0 TRY IRISH SEA (Miss Glitze Faces Handicap of Snatching, Swirling Currents | By STEPHEN WILLTAMSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) Donaghadee, Ireland, June 28 ()7 | —Deprived of official recognition in |a fast swim across the English channel, Miss Mercedes Gleitze has | | set her summer goal as the span- | | ning of the Irish Sea between this | ish fishing village and Portpatrick, | cotland. or on-shore, and in any event there would still be that ever-present dif- ficulty of selecting a safe landing place along the rocky shore. The first four miles of the Scot- |tish mainland would, however, be |found to constitute the greatest of the swimmer's handicaps, after ! which she would be in comparative- Iy smooth water, albeit she would have to use good judgment in cop- ing with the currents and tides. In regard to the time of start on such a venture, while June offors daylight, there is the rmth in July or August » considered as a counter-attrac- LANES HELP REINDEER RANCH the son of William H. and Anne Holman Jones. He received a pub- lic school education. The South- | western University in 1925 confer- | red upon him the honorary degree {ot In December, 1920, e Gibbs of Houston, i Wild Life on Films For Chicago Museum ' Chicago, June 29 (A—The private life of the white pelican is to be pre- gerved on celluloid for the benefit "nf city folks whose Kknowled of wild creatures is gleaned from zoos, books and the movic A little party of scientists has gone to the lake district of the Du- $ to make motion picture stud- of this ancient Awmerican hird Left $2,000 #nd of other feathered creatures Jones was still a boy when his|that mhabit the region. The leader father died. In the division of the |vf the expedition is Alfred M. Bai estate the mortgaged farm went to |1y, dircctor of the free miuseum of three daughters, while Je the Chicago Academy of Sciences brother were each left § After visiting northeastern South boys turned the money over to the Dakota in seacch of subjee for sisters to help them pay off the | their films the travelers will go to mortgage and started out for them- | he vicinity of Lake in cen- selves virtually penniless. |tral North Dakota, where the gov- A Laborer crnment several yoars ago ablish- At the age of 20, Jesse Jones ob- | vd a flourishing colony of white peli- talned a place as laborer in a Jum- | cans. Pictorial histories of the Cali- ber yard at Dallas, that of the M. |l[ornia, ring billed and Franklin T. Jones Lumber company. A year lie double crested cormorant, later he was made manuger of the | nd several species of siiore vard and in three more years won | birds will also be compiled promotion to the position of gen- eral manager of the company. He held that post until 1905, mean- | while organizing a busincse of his | own, the South Texas Lumber com- | Yellowstone Park, Wyo., June 29 pany, which eventually became one | P -Nature's adherence to the law of the largest in the southwest. | of supply and demand is emphasiz- A Stepping Stone |4 this year by the great increase of The lumber busindss was a nat- | Gila chipmunks in the Grand Can- ural stepping stone to building en- which had a bumper crop of terprises, into which Mr. Jones en- ion nuts last fall tered on an extensive scale. His re Pinion nuts maks estate holdings mow include 29 | of this business buildings and hotels in | are still on the ground, so the chip- Houston in addition to a dozen | munks have no diffienlty satisfying business buildings and theaters in [ themselves, and several may be seen Dallas and Fort Worth. He also !scurrying about where only extended his operations to New inight have heen ohserved had York city, where the Houston crop heen less bountiful, Properties Corporation, of which | is incrcase in chipmunk popu- he is the principal stockholder, owns | lition can hardly endure, however, clght large buildings. since the decline in supply of nuts Besldes his real estate holdings will soon hring about keen competi- and lumber business, Jones is in- tion for the food and the number of terested in financial institutions in ' rodents will diminish Texas, In 1902 he organized the Texas Trust company of Houston, now the Banke Mortgage com pany, of which he is president. He was vice president of the Lumber-. men's National bank, now the Se ond Natfonal bank, from 1307 to task, which ordinarily would have taken two days His father, hav- ing compassion for the animals, ' took them from his son and never gave him a similar job. i he Chass Nature Obeys Own Law Of Supply and Demand von up a large animal's diet. Many part nuts one the Germs cannot (i germicide known as 8 which destroys bacteria so quickly that it s impossible to figure fhe time n which the reaction fakes place. O6m resist the new 1i- ! Miss Gleitze, a 24 year old Lon- {don typist, conquered the FEnglish | Channel t October, beating Ger- frude Lderle’s time but because no no recognized swimming officials or newspapermen were present she was denied official credit for the feat. | Miss Gleitze also has swum the 1it of Gibraltar. If the young swimmer in her difficult a inent, receive the pionecr’s cro venture which calls for a for Products Alaska, June 20 (P— Alaska has found a new use for air- planes and at the same time a valu- alle aid in its cxpanding reindeer noin o aindustry. 66 mile | Regular transportation swim through cold, tricky waters. decr meat by airplane from this Her initial attempt on June 23 failed small native village in northe when she was forced to quit after Alaska has been started by the Arc- seven hours tic Prospecting and Developing | Distance 22 Miles [Company of Fairbanks. dircet distance across the | A pany plane, the Arctic S ovan fhe ol noval sailing | Brospoctius, was) 1he finst evan sesn which she plans to follow, is Lere and was the first o transport jonly 22 miles, but treacherous cur- rei meat to Alaska. By a ce- {rents would foree swimmer o incidence Tilot €. P. Crawford alse swim three times that distance, de- Bought the first meat sold by the alaient HuCLEMoIE aeein o 1k cooperative company, re- {tidal conditions, who will act as d with the assistance [ Miss Gleitze's pitat division of the United e o tes burcau of education lent streak of water offers a swinm- thrown Into ex- [mer much greater handicaps than by their first sight of an cven the English Channel, and, al- | dirplane but experienced their though in the Irish Sea the fAistance EM"atcst surprise when the chief of | appears temptingly short, where the the Kovukulk Indian | swimmer is concerned it must be ™IUS of the Shungn ! : climbed from plane for a fried- [muitinlied’ many: fimes when taking | ST ETOTL NS plane for & Toeds into consideration the zig-rag course ||¥ VISl Moy Nears the, Ksiiuios bad that miet be ‘pursuad whils Nghting | CARCAE AR IREADe ARG 85 Pes dangerous tides and currents in £ i0ardy b R0 Risliot iRy RE- | piereingly cold water. Yortpatrick and Donaghadee, lected by Miss Gleitze as her ob- | dective poin were originally the Imail packet stations for Great Britain and Treland. Fach has | government-equipped harbor, and | the distance between the two s 21 1-2 miles. In the days of old when windjammers had no me- chanically propelled rivals on the English monarchs crosed this on their state visits to Dub- Incidentally it between dee and Portpatrick that st experiments in wireless made. Miss Gleitze, n decidi her plunge from the Irish probably have the advantage of & | opyyent comparatively smooth-water start, favorable tidal conditions and aiding her, more or less on the journey. She would, hov ever, have to by d for a stiff struggle when cared the Scot- |tish coast, which is washed by {four knot tide, the sea bring par- ticularly rongh at times owing 1o Success would largely depend on | o wonderfully that after my second jar I could whether, when she reached a cer- dicard the elastic stocking 1 had wor 1 taln point in mid-channel, the Mrs. Jos. P. Glynn, Miller Place, : 1N V. T you euliss, etars Vstrong current would carry her off ALM tonight. 500 and $1.00 at drugemmt nak, sueceeds she will of rein- The Irish S ronte, turbu- were citement nig tack Much of the o meat taken by plane ke will be sent to the district, 130 miles south, prospecting company op- ning camps. A fortnightly is planned for the summer Koyuknk where the a | orates n CABINET MAY FAIL Athens, June 29 P —With the post of ninister vacant, the fall of regarded as imminent G sea wiys nance s cahinet was today. Kafandaris, signed party, dominated to make | \epizelos, f s WL DG wn Jin. on the f was a minister of fi- because the liberal by Eleutherios rer premier, had its support of the gov- The assumption of full re- for . financial policies been criticized by Veni- sponsibility which had z10s. more hreeze "RABALM RELIEVED ILLION ‘Provide Regular Transportaton | president. HOLL FAVORED BY HIS HOME STATE Tennessee Wants Him for the| Presidency (Copyrighted by Associated Preas, 1928) Prominent in the national coun- cils of the democratic party for many years and with a record of L0 years in the house of representa. | tives, Cordell Hull was proposed for the democratic presidential omination by the delegation from his native state, Tennessee. Chosen Chairman s chosen chairman of the itic national committee in and served until after the memorable New York convention 1924, stepping aside in favor of | Clem L. Shaver, who had lected as campaign John W. 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