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= 1 | men, Commissioner Parker remark- | | €d that Captain George J. Kelly, who | [nas the o a. m. 10 4 p. m., smr, | » s the best officer the department | ever had on the desk. “When ' you make u complaint to him, he| les it promptly and correctly,” | Occasional Day Dty | Mort Declaring that the system in the police department as it aff; 1 hours of duty of Lieutenant Lias Rival from midnight to § a. m., is “unfair,” Commissioner Harry Morton asked at the meeting Jf the police board last n well,” Commissioner | vsiclan ] Kupelian will succeed | ward J. Dray as examing phy- | N department, the ap- ' t having been heduled for ‘s meeting but Commission- rton was reluctant to act he- he is not acquainted with Dr. It he should at least | Ppression of opinion e oine him before voting for him. Dr. | Samming and Chi#f Hart rela. | Kupe is known to the other com- | tive to an arrangement wh nissioners and made application for lieutenant would ha place. Chairman Ban appointment is a political one e felt t for an said Chief Hart, who re had not had any in ter in some time, replic not favor a chang compel Licutenant to take Lieutenant condition which siruck the ct incapable of producing any good for | wor the department or an individual. He | not do armi. said, however, that if it was the wish | incumbent ¢ ist of conducting of the board that changes be made, | physical exaniinations of applic: he would be obliged to comply, and | for appointment to the department after a discussion it was decided to|and the compensation is on the fee | have the chief work out an arrange- | basis. appointment will be | ment whereby Licutenant Rival | nw would be allowed diff. working | ( hours at least part of the time 1 1 mo chief's report will he m next meeting of the hoard on Aug Bringing up the matter, Commis- sioner Morton said he had ed the police statio placed. He ith Dr. Dray an make the posi- oners clear. All | tion of the commiss th d there was no ith Dr. Dray's ners s; found ¢ felt a change woulc e cor t to dor ¥ 10 be competed for at the | to be held in connection state convention of t sociution on August §, a phon- fether members seconded it heartily. ber of | Connmissioner Morton called times late Licuter Chicf Hart to explain the details of Rival always answered. He had aleo | scen the lleutenant wending his way (and said he felt it proper for the home after 8 o'clock cvery morning, | Loard to show {he department mem- and the thought occurred to him |hers that their efforts to build up that there should be a differsnt their organization were approved by rangement. There are two licuten- | commissioners, in a material ants in the department and it scem- | way The trophy, which will be se- d to the commissioner that their [lected by the committee in cha hours could be equalized 1o some | of athletics, will be paid for per- extent. |sonally by the commissioners. Chicf Hart Opposes Change | Cole Appointed Supernumerary Chairman M. W. Bannan said it| The board appointed Sammnel T might be a good idea to ailow Lieu- [ Cole of 42 West street a super- tenant Rival a month on day duty [ numerary policeman. He appeared every three months, and have a ser- | hefore the discipline committee in geant take his desk shift. In this|the uniform of the Connecticut ) ay, the lieutenant would have a re- | tional Guard, having come from | lief from the night hours and the {camp to be .examined, and Commis- department would benefit by having | sioner Morton, in moving that he be a new desk man becoming familiar | appointed, said he made a very fa 3 with the routine. Commissioner | orable fmpression. Cole will he the Morton thought this would be a|only member of the department of ] good arrangement but Chief Hart | Jewish extraction. He was born in 4 spiked it by pointing out that the|Hartford, April §, 1899, and has principal argument employed in{heen employed as a clerk in the | bringing about the creation of the | Stanley Works for several years. He leutenancy which is held by Rival, | s i about a year ago, was that a rank- | weighs 203 pounds. According to ing efficer should be in charge of | the report of his physical examin- Feadquarters at all times. It would | ation he carries his weight well and be inconsistent to revert to the old | his muscles are firm. order of things within a year, he| On suggestion of Chairman Ban- said. nan, it was decided to take from the | “Maybe I'm too soft hearted,” the | tahle the application of Stanley Kuk- chief sai®T “But Sam Bamforth has|linski of 33 Smith street and sumi- been with us a long time and he is | mon him to appear before the disci- | an old man, too old, I b e put on the midnight 10 8 a. M. |7The applicant was poor in penman- shift. The 4 p. m. to midnight shift |ship when given an examination is by far the busicst night shift, but | ajout a y 4 the hours are considered more de-|was nervous and did not do him- sirable, and I should dislike very [glf justice. much to have to put lim on the Chief Hart reported that Officers ¢ po- During the discussion that ensued, | Cornelins Keough have been off duty | it was brought out through reference | hecause of injuries sustained in the to the department records that Licu- | performance of their duty and .the | tenant Bamforth hecame a member | commissioners voted 1o extend their of the supernumerary department in | sick leave so that they will not lose 1898 and became a regular patrol- | (heir pay man in 1895. In 1918 he became |ahle to resume duty very soon, but | Jieutenant after having been a de- | tne other officers will be on the sick tective sergeant, He will be 70 vears | jist for some time, it is expected. of age this year. Licutenant Rival| \hen petitions from the common became a supernumerary in 1912 and | couneil were read, for an overhead two years later was promoted to the |jyrhe ot Wooster and West Main regular force. In 1922 he became a|gireets, and a reflector on Arch sergeant and on May 1, 1427 he be- street at the foot of Hart came & lieutenant. With the pro-|Chairman Bannan rer motion. however, s tour of duty | {jere was no question of the need | Otficer Keough may be | Chief Hart rem. he possible to give L a day shift without di ‘he traff tenant Bamforth by organizing a|he petitions, however, in addition j liquor enforcement squad with Licu- |5 overal others of a similar nature, | tenant Rival in charge, but he sured the comn s that itleouncil that they will be attended to Would be a “niserable jobt for dhe fir tha money {8 dnvsights lteutenant, and he might also assign [ A petition from the common cotn- 4 the lieutenant to special investi el asking that the police depart-| tions, but cither wav, the hugaboo | unt cooperate in reporting the con- | of having a ser in charge of | gition of unsafe light poles on city | headquarters for eight hours would | roets, was received and will be turn up. Chairman Bannan pointed [0y care of by the patrolmen. out that a serzeant will be in charge | = gy qp Hill was appointed a spe- | while the licutenant is on vacation | for the State Normal | and it would be Ie to extend | Whers: hiotis the sergeant's rent to a full o ana Patrick Luddy was given | month, thereby allowing the lieuten- | 5 gimijar appointment for the Ro- | ant four weeks o Ihert 3. Vance school, where he is CormiRsIguers or o jnitor, on recommendation of Iro- Parker had little to say about the |poccon \arcus White. it would | ynoney avail: bly be impossible to install them. that th 4 his st nant 1 n his the conmissions nothing personal Lei tion but he felt 1 should ha EXPre ng nks to the department for the excellent policing accorded tion with the Independence orks display at Stanley er park, and a letter of than .‘“ reccived from Treasurer 17 W. Macomber of the Ne Britain Trust lacrity with which d when the val a c company for th night patrolmen re burglar alarm at the bank sounded weidentally a number of times re- | Mr. Macomber sent @ box of s 1o the d \.LUBRICATION SERVICE il meet 1 the local com- April 9 will 1 to hold the yieeting of the b Don’t shorten the life of |!noon on that day vour car for want of grease AT —enjoy driving vour ma- Rcccl\g .\lf:s o | chine and know that all parts || Ceccioni Is vot Qfi i while working are not wear- Oslo, Norway, July 11 (P—The Har | 11ess 4 from Spitzbergen at | Milano, fi two o'clock this morning, deny Have us lubricate it regu ¥ Franklin Square Filling & East Main, Cor. Stanley space, the Rev. Robert M. Russell ! West Main, Cor. Corbin Avenue conve: ’whn is vacationing here. opposed to the no ernor Al occupied with plans to place the | state in the 1 Novenmber. terda &s democrats who have | they will not support t rtain that Dr. Dray |governor and haye uld not he offended by heing re- | the part d he would confer |for July 1 ganization. ence v A, Colli 1| twice governor of Texas. C The duties of the | Colquitt were leaders of the const tutional or “Lone dry” democ nts | Who waged a bitter fight to instruct | state delegates to the national party | convention against Governor Smith. | t meeting. | conference that it was missioner Morton sponsored a | recommer: ate a cup or sim- [that a state exccutive committee composed of one member from « senatorial disf ated, and that a chairman and cam- d the | paign manager be named to dircct activities of this committee. Others who attended the conference said | resolutions urging vots sociation and the convention, | Herhert Hoover for pres awainted news from | national campaign plans before be- | to th | ginning the battle which their lead- ers have said will be waged to roll | up the normal democratic majority in Texas next November, 5 ft. 5 inches in height and |from Norway to Spitzberg, jened almost continuously for the plane's wireless and The operator who arrived at Trom- soe lilew the pl other shift.” [ I'red Wagner, Alfred Tanguay and !,y 14 not ohange. | of the fixtures but there was liutle | Yo ble and 1t would prob- ! cleg matter, but both favored Laving | pglice Department Prajsed (A€ Chief Hart give it consideration dur- communication was _received jhat the ing the next few weeks. Commis- |, 0 () n James J. Naughton |censure for their sioner Morton & 1 the chie of the public recreation commission, | Miss { Blond Boxer Haute, Ind., dug partment. | punches out of hi last nig ssioners discussed Uie necd 108 | over the 10-round route itional grappling hooks for use | s it i hat caqupm il i s~ iive committor of the Po- with Fidel La Barba, who Sda¥ i nounced that he intends to u i summer vacation from Stanford their guests, 3t | pniversity rily returs ba formerly was fiy age .ving Say b Halian legation received a wireless{oe Vincent Youman's married | ing out. « from the base ship Citta 1»11,. L ” . reports of the death of N R k' ff U,I c cnon, motor chief of the dirigibic aid TEXAS DEMOCRATS TURNINGTOG.0.P. " Smith Opponents Want to Have State Go Republican Dallas, Tex., July 11 (P—Texans rination of Gov- ed E. Smith today were publican column in ns for an anti-Smith drafted here yes- meeting of leaders of Tex- Yorlk reatencd 1o bolt tother session was called to perfect such an or- Tentative Among those attend the confer re former State Senator V. Colquitt. ns and and Oscar ts Senator Collins stated after the ch rict of Texas be cre- nt proba bhly would be presented to the July 17 meeting. Mea N0 NEWS OF AMUNDSEN | Wireless Operator Reports That He Got No Meseage and Did Not Hear | Plane As It Passed. Oslo, July 11 (A—A wireless op- {erator from Bear Tsland said today that on the cvening that Raold | Amundsen and the five men missing | | with him supposedly were flyfig | 1 he list- ard nothing. © sent out radio calls to o and received no reply. . He also failed to hear the ma- chine’s motor. The weather was fine and the visibility good at the time. The operator asserted that on th ve, 10| pline committee for an examination. {contrary when the Italian flier Um- berto Maddalena flew to Spizbergen his huge Savoia Marchette machine ago but it i3 said ho was clearly seen and he: sed near Bear island. Bear island is midway between rd when it | Spitzbergen and Norway. Presum- v Amundsen would have passed | |over or near it on his fiight. This | district around the island has heen rched fn vain for traces of the missing men by I'rench, Norwegiin 1and other ves ol SCOTLAND YARD PROBE Famous British Detective Agency Cleared of Charges of Using Third | Degree Methods on Prisoners, London, July 11 (f)—Scotland d is understood to ¢ been 1 of charges of commission appoint- ate the Savidge cas v out of the arrest of Majority and minority reports have been sent to the House of Com- [in the Imons and are expected to be mad. | public in detall ahout the end of | the week The minority report comments on _[the extent 1o which the liberty of | Brit subjects is involved in the episode and suggests that there are matters of police administra- tion urgently demanding the grave attention of the authorities. It dis- s with the majority conclusioa the police arc mot subject to t widge. TAYLOR BEATS VAGCA n Terre Haute Will Be Matched in Near Iut Fidel La Barb; Los Angeles, July 11 () vlor, blonde hoxer Tud rom Terre few hefty repertoire her frat Johnny Va it o « ylor weighed in before the bout at while Vacca tipped n 15 pounds. By virtue of his lor will matched in the near future e I a means of tempor £ to the ring. La Bar. t champion the wor vs Hushand Is $1,050 Behind in His Payments Chicago, July 11 (#—The cou His estranged wife besought court yesterday. contending Youmans $1050 behind in the $150 a k which a court held he should TALKS WITH AFRICA pay the wife and their twin babies | Northfield, Mass., July 11 |&he (1) —Across nearly 5.000 miles of | for contempt Mrs. Youmane, sevaral months azo [or Larchmont, N. Y. & miscionary [petitioned ¢ in Africa, earried on a wireless code | charging Ae ation last night with his wifs | Toumans refused to ses the babizs|about $10.000 in realty and $1,000 in personal property with $1,000 debts. ked the song writer be cited parate maintenance, born last August. | Were Rescued By Coast (.‘ulnlquml Oft Rockport, Mas: Last Night. daso, Juy 11— | ant Lundborg Reports Thirty-four persons, young women, were rescued today }h,\' coast guardsmen from the motor on the rocks of the Sandy Bay breakwater two miles off Rockport The yacht was taking the puwty on an excursion around Cape Ann when it struck the breakwater and guards from to decided 10 | to the mecting July 17| (@ Win §1,900,000—Nisters Assert ¥ opportunity 3 of Vincenl Kerens tu contest in circut court here nest his claim to “five consecutive years i r Bryan, coun- to support | of sob | Company, said toda s deline Kenna awhile, old line democrats |of New York, and Mrs w York of | k¢ willingness of the Trust to Kerens 145 W 900.000 share of the $7,000,0u tate of his father, Austria-Hungary. Kerens, now engaged in the bond the A. E. F. air force, was mustered out a captain with three wounds and and subscquently and marrica snow-white hair was married, divorced Under the terms of the will d an income of $i00 he was gran Bryan declined to divulge the na- ture of the said Samuel I Louis police Loard, conducted an inve Kerens' claini lated in his ather's will—and him a vote of confidence “Three previous applic: mitted by Kerens his father's death were refused by the Trust Company. When he finally won approva Trust Company was confronted by | | the obicctions of the sisters agd titioned the circuit court for autho admitting it doubts as to its dut 0UT T0 GET UPSHAW Democrats Want Him Declared ln-"‘ intention of former Con- sman W. D. Upshaw to work for the defeat of Governor Al Smith to- 1 Leen made the basis of an cffort to declare the dry crusader ineligible as a democratic candidate for congress from tlhe fitth district, Tn a formal statement last night | William Schley Howard, chairman of the fifth district Democratic ex- ceutive committee, ting of the committee at st possible moment to con- sider the question, “1 will inslst that the committer declare Mr. Upshaw ineligible as a | democrat under the rul Mr. Howard de, L aw recently was quali- fied to oppose Congressman Leslie His name has been entered Democratic primary, Septem- TION BATTLE First of & Serics of Bouts to Select | plane. employing | third degrec methods in the majori committee will consider |ty report of th cd to inves The case gre {and may report to the common |Miss Irene Savidge and Sir Leo Money in Hyde park on charges of improper conduct which were dis- [ missed Iater. Opponent for San my Mandell to | ©° Be Held Tonight, Chicago, July 11 (UP errogation of | ot aniny Man, morrow night when Jack Berg, land, meets Mike Walters, Ca round hout. The Winuer of the hout tomorrow |was expected failed to appear. The e With | Vil mect Billy Petrolle here July 26. | of this bout will Mandell Iiter in the summer, Promotor Jim Mullen is handlin, the elimination bouts and will st the title fight, 118 Being Held in Syria ! In Con % 74 T nection With Death o state Keliogs's anti-wi Sy 11 (P—Eigh- | trial toduy for ti Syrian artist, wnd his Ame pursucd the eighteen e was shot down and killed. His assailants &endarmes had and captured surrounded the villa ey and s wife on Saturday night within a vards of their door were assassi- was also Kille: ot £0 smoothly, nor so happily | were found in t1 musical shows which he| 5| writes for a living Sixteen knife wounds Erd of Lexington, K BLINN LEFT NO WILL White Plains, N. Y., July 11 (UP) Benson Blinn, Holbrook Plinn, piled in surrogate's court for letters of adAministration for her husband's 16 | | | Kings Ba (P —Indi ¢ tragedy of | tion had ¢ | tained for ‘ive others. Those belioved dead were: | Ten members of General Umberto |scttled hard and fast on the rocks. | Nobile's party of 16 which was | In response to flares sent up by the | the stranded craft, Rockport put out ‘lhe wreck in their surfboat and took off all aboard the Captain James MacDonald, owner of the Connie, said that the accident was due to engine frouble, the engines |swept on the GONTEST SOBRIETY GLATH Kerens Must Bebave For Five Years aboard the [ crashied 3 north: pole | Roat 4 seaplane, bile's party. tain Sora Varming who also started search. killed in the crash. Fear was incre: of five feu e ¢ peard sh of th airship. There ap by radio tailed. | Radio. Weak | This silenc- today we attributed | o enther w i was weak ed tw ice dail | short wave radio communication, | The floe upon which they are | drifting was growing soft preventing from landing to take them Their hope of rescue appeared to rest upon the ability of the fce Lreakers Krassin and Braganza forc- their way through the pack ice in reported no v being held in the ice about $0 miles away from the | plane: joft. fo them. The K progress yestord survivors. Sora is Lost, Sora with 1 nd V ce s |marconcd men although warned [that such an attempt was fraught al we lowed up by the arctic. Li guide rescuers, Brarded and dirty General Um-| {berto Nobile fell into Lundborg's larms in the tent. He wept from mingled joy and distress as he em- n. Lundborg said the condition cligible As Democratic Candidate |of the tent haffled doscription, Al Since he Opposed Al Smith, {of the Ttalians were more or less physically and mentally il from istraln, exposurc and lack of proper | food, | Lundhorg and Lieut. Shyberg, who jaccompanied him, carvied and drag- | 82d Nobile to the plane. They took him to Hinlopen Strait and from therc he was transferrcd to the Cite ita Di Milano. | Then Lyndborg returned to the ice floe alone, hoping to bring out |two men in his plane, The ekiis of his craft ent through the soft snow. | The machine turned over and was | wreeked. Lundborg was marooned among the men he had hoped to | rescue. Very Weak Painfully and with great difficulty |the five able Dodied refugees had jcarried Natale Ceccloni, motor chief | whose leg was broken in the crash int the airship, to the place where the plane was expected to land. Ap- | parently w too weak to carry I him back since when the plane was | wrecked he was placed on a wing {of the machine and left exposed to | the rigors of the arctic until the next day. Then the tent and the cntire camp were moved to the The shelter was spread over cioni’s couch on the wing of the | machine. | Days of despair followed. Fog prevented airplane rescue parties )—The first | from either rescuing them or seeing of elimination bouts for |them. Shifting winds loosed the fco clion of an opponent for |around the camp, The rising and I, world's lightweight | falling of the floe added to the mis- |ery of the party. The food began to | ing- | run low and all were placed on lifor- | short rations. | The ice breaker®Krassin which marooned men could see Cape I meet |Leigh Smith ten miles away but | dared not attemtp the perilous jour- & [ney over the ice to it. |France%o Accept the is, July 11 (UP)—Se (be accepted formally by France \a 4 note to be sent the state depast- ment, through the French ambassa- | dor, this afternoon, it was decided | today at a cabinct mee ng. ment will be sent copies of the note, | which Forcign Minister Briand sub- | mitted for the cabinet's approval. | The French note, it is understood, i will express complete accord with the American pact fid at the same |time will explain fully French views | on several questions that might arise | from it, particularly France's obliga- tions to her smaller allies and the necessity of conforming to pledges given to the League of Nations and to world-war powers in connection with the Locarno treaties of friend- ship. It is =aid that the explanations do not constitute reservations to the proposed pact, but simply places the French interpretation on record. A, FIRST DEATH IN 72 YEARS Portsmouth, R. I, July 11 (UP) ate, saving no ‘tion She claimed [found. She said the estate would be —The death of Mrs. Phoebe C. Ta- bor in Middletown was the first death among 10 brothers and sisters in 72 years, Spitzbergen, July 11 ations increased today that nodern polar explora- d the lives of nine- | {teen men. Grave fears were enter- dirigible Italia when it 2%, returning from the | indsen, Licutenant Lief | Dictrichsen, Captain Rene Gilbaud and a crew of three of a Frénch | which tried to find No- The Italian Alpine chasseur, Cap- 4 two Norwegians, i Vandongen, guides Commander Nobile is the only one | of his party rescued. One man was ed for the safety stricken and partially insane men niarooned on the ice by to be 1o immediate prospect for their rescue, For four days at- | tempts to communicate with them | ness of Radio Opera- | | tor Giuseppi Bioggi or atmospheric | conditions. Licutenant Einar-Paal | Lundborg, Sw.dish airman who was | rescucd trom among the marooned | men oif Foyn Island, said that Biog- om fever but manag- to send out radio re- ports. Aboard the base ship Citta i Milano it was asserted that at- m e conditions prevented A dog team expedition of Captain Norwegians Varming ndongen started across the "k8 ago to rescue the with great peril. They were swal- . Lundborg said that on |Eresslonal leaders to mount the ing on the ice on June 24 he | s met by Licut. Alfredo Viglier, now in command of the gros anw Bloggi. With great difficulty they | truggled over the ice to the silk tent, which had been painted red to ced and kissed the Swedish air- Who will have general supervision of republican campaign speakers | from his' headquarters in Chicago. accompany Secretary and Mrs, Hoover on their forthcoming trip to Callfornia. Senator Moses, another early pas- senger on the Hoover band wagon, was appointed ‘“director of plan and policy” for the eastern ecam- paign. He, too, had been nientioned for eastern manager and there were reports of intcrnal strife over the place he has to have in the Hoover organization. committeemen from eastern states will be held in New York July 23, to start the new organization in action, Chairman Work of the national committee announced yesterday. Similar conferences will be called every week thereafter. presidential nominee. will be for- mally notifled of his nomination at Topeka, Kans, Aug. 18, a week after Hoover's notification at Stan- ford Unlversit; thelr acceptance speeches and have announced they will refusc to dis- cuss campaign issues in advance of | delivery. parations for the start of his west- ern trip Saturday. He will stop sev- eral hours Sunday afternoon in Chi- cago, proceed thence to the summer White House at Brule, Wis, and then to San Francisco for a wel- coming ceremony. will be the occasion for his first formal public appearance. He will make a short speech there before | motoring to his home on the Stan- ary |for University campus, where the notification cercmonies are to be | held. Kellogg Anti-War Pact | r pact ®ill . Britain “confidently expects” to send | The British and German govern- |her reply to the United States sug- gestion for an anmti-war pact before the parliamentary session ends in the first week in August, Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign minister, said in ths house of commons today. |consideration of the proposals. was necessary. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1928 34 PERSONS ARE SAVED | NOBILE'S PARTY FROM WRECKED YAGHT GROWING WEAKER "Men Are Going Insane Lienten- NAME SMITH? WELCOME vited to Join Smith Asso- clation 8t. Louls, July 11 (UP)—Final {plans for the biggest party the big- gest family in the world ever held meeting of the newly formed Smith Assoclation of the World. Nearly 2,000,000 American Smiths { 000, & ) % by a new there are 1,900,000 in this coun nging Tower try—have been invited to join the Applications for membership have come from nearly every state in Union and from Canada. “There'll be plenty doing from 10 the All-Bmith dance that night,’ Frank R. Smith, founder and fir president of the association an- nounced today. line a' day-long program of entcr- lead the musical features, Motion pictures of High-Smith content will be shown. the visiting Smiths. phia, the tell the family story proclamation making next Saturday Smith Day” in St. Louls, “The idea i just to get together and get acquainted.” Smith said. CAMPAIGN PLANS ARE PROCEEDING Moses for Hoover Washington, July 11 (UP)—Re- publican campaign plans proceeded rapidly at national committee head- quarters here today with all majos organization problems apparently settled and campaign machinery ready to move, Appointment of Rep. Tilson of Connecticut as director of the eastern speakers' bureau seemed to remove the last remaining ob- stacle to complete harmony among castern leaders. Tilson was one of the first con- Hoover bandwagon. Later he be- came a candidate for the vice presidential nomination, and was understood to have been ambitious for the chairmanship of the ne national committee. Hoover s deeply indebted to him politically, ~and until yesterday’ charge of the speakers' bureau, it had appeared to many that this debt was to be Ignored. Tilson will take orders from Rep. Walter Newton of Minnesota, To Accompany Hoover The eastern bureau under Tilson will be established in New TYork, | but probably not for several | weeks. Tilson and his wife are to| Prior to Tilson's appointment, A second meeting of national Senator Curtis, republican vice » Cal. Both at Work Both nominees are at work on Hoo s office is completing pre- His appearance in 8an Francisco BRITAIN SPEEDS REPLY London, July 11 (UP)—Great Chamberlain added that careful LIC AUCTION 6 Rooms Household Furniture Saturday, July 14 2:30 P. M. PUB 23 Dartmouth Place 10 JOIN BIG PARTY All in World With That Name In- will be completed here tonight at a| uwington, Romans Raced for Bell “Bells are so commonly used today S & < that their importance in a. m. Saturday, July 14, until after | medieval times is often forgotten,” ‘lod'?,\ on charges of kidnapping and ; {assault, preferred by special . from the Washing- ¥ special prose m,u?.':,».l tor the .\‘5- jcutors investigating alleged viclence o 1o |in Tllinois’ April primar, isays a bulle in their worship | The rohes of l . 010 Tretament | ¢4 0 the “Bloody 20th" ward elecs One member of the smnily, de.|.linese used bells |scribed by Smith as a “dead-ringer b ! Jewish 1 " 2. 8 " owi ad- | 1. or Gov. Alfred E. Smith,” will head times tinkled with tainment. | Romans adorned their horses with A chorus of 100 Smith voices wiyl | €M and silver bells were coveted ' Roman prizes. “In modern times the civilized | world is literally full of bells. It | i i |the telephone companics ‘plugged | Smith . : Smith, the president, will welcome ! ane in the United | time vlll' on every telep Percifer Frazer Smith, Philader-| Stites more ssociation’s historian, win | WOuld ring at |every residence Mayor Vietor J. Miller—hy special | MOSt Of them have family dispensation—will extend the | VIR Pells and ma city’s welcome and read his offiei |01 fashioned enough to have dinner vans ot wwe | SPECIAL INQUEST HELD fire apparatus warn the populace of its speedy aproach. e is regulated by bells and on land 1o- 'Lowell, Mass., District Court Tne comotive bells are familiar sounde. | When secular bells rest church bells | vestigating Death of Dance Hall otiiiie h;i‘(‘n’;’r_gfd;‘;"fi'c",‘l'f SIS 1 Man Killed During Fighe. “Christian churches did not use bells until the fifth or sixth century. | | The first church bells were made tri |in Campania, Tilson Will Aid Work and| Life on the sea | more than a centu Seven centuries later announcement that he would take weighs 128 tons. one weighing shaped bell king weighs only Rouen and weigh 20 tons, “The United States has the high- WILL TAKE BOY SCOUT est swung bell. It is attached to the clock mechani New York City, Gotham also h one of the world's two largest cari lens with 53 bells. more famous than the eracked old Independence Hall, | above the st But no bell ring of bell turies ago. ‘Ve: the church vestry. nounced village meetings. called workers ‘Oven hells' noted ‘Mote bells' to the field. the hour when | S —————— the ovens of the Lord of the Manor EYES EXAMINED were ready to bake bread. ‘Market | i bells' signalled the opening of the | F Good ringings when children of notables ‘Passing bells' are still Eyesight Specialist rung in England atter the death of |32z viayy s, Fell 1908 Chased Evil Spirits. ringers usually refer to a the famous bells of England bear masculine nam: Great Paul, a 161 ton bell swings in a tower atop §t. Paul's in Lon- It is England’s largest swing- cat Peter at Yorkmin- There is a There were ster 1s a 12 Great Tom at Lincoln and another at Oxford University, Westminster Abbey bel lis affection- ately called Big Ben, lish bells were believed to possess personalities, moved from one town they were taken down with much ceremony and great over which More cercmony took place when they were re-hung. In the low | ) YOU can depend countrics. bells were credited with chasing evil spirits, “The great modern carillons are the outcome of rivalry among the Netherlands and Bel- gium. In the fifteenth century when time pieces were rare and the pes- ple depended upon the town clock day or night, leach town sought to surpass. others by adding more and until bricf melodies could be played. Then came the keyboard and pedal console much like that of an ergan, the playing of which has hecome an The Netherlands and Belgium® in which more than two-thirds ot the world’s 180 carillons are located, | have established government schools | for carillon players. while the The old Eng- they were to another crowds lined they were cities of the time of the better bells, Joset Denyn of YONKERS FERRY Between Yonkers, N. Y. and Alpine, N. J. IS RUNNING USUAL 15 MINUTE HEADWAY 6 A. M. to Midnight WRITE TOURING BUREAU, YONKERS FERRY, YONKERS, N. ¥, Elm Hill For free maps and road information Belgium is called the Paderewsk! of BEL[S wlLl RlNfi the carillon. Unfortunately bell metal (copper and tin) makes good cannon metal, and eleven carillons As WAR MEM“RIAL were destroyed during the World War. —_— |Towers and belfries of northern Europe, and the bell towers of Eng- (Tribute to- American Engjneers " P oty e e ot Who Died in France |- : ) aws 1—| GANGSTERS ARRAIGNED | American engineers who dicd during | ———— | the World War will be memorialized *, carillon installed in the 1W® Chicago Yeggs Brought Inte at Louvain (Bel- j glum) University. The carillon has organizat t V. = SesEsson and st ndime peny e SRR Court as Result of Violence in April Primary. ! Chicago, July 1 (UP)—Joseph “Pepe” Genaro and “Rocco” Fanelli, outhside gangsters, were arraigned nt and Genaro was identified as one of | the jailers in the “prison” establish- ition day. Genaro and Fainelli, it is charged, {Kkidnapped two special poll guarda {of the Chicago ‘bar association. and kept them prisoners during the vot. ing. One witness testified he saw Gen- aro riding about the district elece tion day with a ehot gun across his lap. It was in this district that Oc- avius Granaby. colored candidate {for committeeman, was killed elec- hells. The door bell alarm cloeks | 4on “day. of them are % Lowell, Mass., Julv 11 (P—A special inquest was held in the dis- t court today into the death of and used in [Sylvio Desrochers, who was killed After a little lin a struggle with Harry C. Kit. ¥ their popularity | tredge and Joseph Croteau in the ordain that |early morning of July 4 Kettredge, church should have one, la dance han tells about a large ireturned to his home from the hall |pell suspended in the ccnter of Pe- fwith his wife and Croteau, his | king from a lotty building, but early | chauffeur, when Desrochers attack- European bells were tiny compared [ed Mrs. Kittredge, who was carry. th the modern giants. the hand bells in general use were| Kittredge and Croteau went to her made of hammered iron, rive gether and shaped Iike the so-called |down. Kittredge then sized Des. proprietor, had just Many of {ing a bag. ed to- fassistance and Croteau was knocked rochers by the throat and over- “Bells grew in size with the cen- ipowered him. Desrochers dled soon When a king presented a [afterward and the medical examiner bell weighing slightly more than aisaid death was due to strangulation, urch of Orleans in the . cleventh century, the people looked Chicago Reserve l;tmk the age Russta, the Has Rediscount Rate ‘Land of Rells,’ cast the famous 150 Washinzton, July 11 (UP)—The ton Tsar Kolokol which been rivaled in weight or ing on a mound in a Mos it is 19 feet tall, 60 feet in diame- lan increase of 13 per cent over the {ter and its sides are two feet thick. |old rate, An eleven-ton piece which has fall- Government financlal experts inti- ien from its side lies near the gaping | mated that unle | hole that has been used as a door- [in the tempo of the financial mar. way to a small chapel within. kets soon, the other 11 banks of the Highest Swung Bell. the largest |their rediscount rates a bell which Increases in the rediscount rate, it :r Burina has ) was pointed out, result in higber The barrel- [ price credit to the borrowing and Kyoto, Japan. weighs [speculating public, cause a rise in 63 tons, while the great bell at Pe- |the open market money rates and ten pounds less. | force closer scrutiny on general Vieuna each | loans. has never | “hicago Fedcral Reserve bank, with ze. Rest- | treasury approval, established a re- ow square | discount rate of 5 per cent today, there is a change federal reserve system will increase Onc of American Boys Will Make Trip to Antarctic With Byrd New York, July 11 (UP)—A boy {scout will probably become one of the youngest Polar explorers in the history of the world. Speaking at the Boy Scouts camp at Bear Mountain park, Commander England almost | Richard E. Byrd announced he hap a few cen- requested the organization to select one of its members to accompany him on his flyin; exploration trip ‘Harvest [to the Antaretie. unimoned L=————— GLASSES FITTED mmmeam upon us for expert dry cleaning of all your garments. Our service is guaranteed to give the desired results. “The Spot For Spots” STAR ""Tcl. 1075—1076 ies and gents sult; clenned "and " presecd. $1.69 o vy an oy »—me CH® > Dy o H:“

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