New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1928, Page 2

ASKS HOOVER T0 FIRE SEX. NOSES Says New Hampshire Man Is’z Opposed to Volstadism | Springtield, Mass, Aug. 10 (UP) —A request that Senator George H. Moses, because of his “hostility” to the Volstead act, be demoted from eastern campaign manager to New Hampshire campaign manager, is made by Charles L. Burrill of Bos- ton in a letter to Herbert Hoover, Is Candidate Burrill, candidate for the repub- lican nomination for licutenant gov- ernor, described Moses' connection with the Hoover campaign as “an affront to the voters of Massachu- setts.” 'Free Fireworks All Over Sky uled for Night of Aug: 1l On Annual Spectacular Display In K 2avens. ’ THE SUN VALUABLE RELIS DUG UPINLONDON London Museum Inspector Has Many Valuable Finds London, Aug. 10 P—The scene is the sidewalk in front of the exc | tion for a new building. Board-fenc- |ing and scaffolding over the | side-walk. Under the scaf P short broad-shouldered, speciialed | han stands. In his hand is a satchel. It is the noon hour. As workm emerge through whe fencing gate { they spy the man, whom | “Stoney Jack.” Some of th him a few bits of metal or found in the depths of the found {tion clay. As the dirty old o go into the satchel shin g Along tt Rogers will erect a model village to be occupied by employes of the Rogers L. ting Kixture company. A new plant, constructed with & 3! to beauty s efficiency, also will be built, Rog: Althouzh only of moderate means a dozen years ugo, Rogers has be- come one of the community’'s richest in New Mt. Vesuvius Showing Increased Activity Aug. 10 (UP)—Mt. Y\, spouting scent m: L into the Naples, suvius, th was form- nd it is now emit cone. | iting its f ait. s announced. | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928, Man “Dead and Buried” Walks Into His Home Holyoke, Mass., Aug. 10.—(UP) Stephen Oleck, 50, disappeared on July 3. Six days later police recovered a Lody from the Connecticut river. Learning that the dead man wore tan shoes and had a peculiar mark on his face, Mrs. Oleck claimed the body of her husband. Funeral eervices were held and the body was buried in the Oleck family lot in Mater Dolorosa ceme- tery. Mrs, Oleck collected $2.000 in- surance, paid the undertaker and purchased mourning garb. | Yesterday afternoon Oleck came home, alive and well. He declined to explain his long absence. | | Singapore Contract Has “ | Not Been Awarded Yet London, Aug. 10 (P—The weekly | newspaper Modern Transport says it is understood that the British | | e e government has postponed the |awarding of the contract naval base at Singapore in the Pa- ‘cific pending the signature of the | Kellogg anti-war pact and the sub- | sequent meetings at Geneva of the | League of Nations council and as- sembly and the preparatory disarm- ament and security committees of the league. The great floating dock for the Singapore base is now en route there, having passed through the Suez Canal this week. ‘Draper Is Out on Modification Plank Boston, Aug. 10 (UP)—Eben S. Draper of Hopedale, candidate for the republican nomination for Unit- ed State senator from Massachusetts has declared himself in favor of modification of the Volstead act. Draper made known his position on the prohibition issue in a reply to a questionnaire sent to him and two other candiates by the Roose- for the | velt club. The other candidates have not yet replied. While expressing belief that the 1Sth amendment always would re- main a part of the constitution, and pledging himsel? to its support and {enforcement, Draper stated that if the opportumity came to him as a member of the United States senate to vote for modification he would do so0, “provided a proposal to do | this pointed tn enactment of a law should promote and protect true ; temperance.” PARALYSIS INCREASES Boston, Aug. 10 M—The state de- partment of public health today gave the number of infantile paraly- |68 cases in the state since January 1 as 122, considerably more than in !the same period last vear. Seven new cases were reportzd to the de- |partment today. in Watertown. | Waltham, Springfield, Lynn and | Wakefield. | " The total number of cases since | July 1 in Watertown has reached 31 and in Waltham 22. Declaring that “vour choice personal associates and indicates the type of r select to administer the govern- ment,” Burrill told Hoover that hi campaign “must not be ced in jeopardy by conduct of any so- ealled manager.” “I regret to criticize the of any man presumed to be ar | crowns pass from his fing the hands of the workmen. This is'a scene from the life of G. F. Lawrence, inspector of xca- vations to the London Museum:, St. James. It might be titled Hali-Crowns tor Old Sto has come to light only with resignation of Mr. Lawrence his museum position. Forty years ago Mr. Lawrence realized, that unless someons “got managers you will WE SELL ALL NATIONALLY ADVERTISED WATCHES AT Hlinois, Hamilton, Waltham, Elgin Howard, ‘Hampden from ed. “Loyalty to your interest LARTHS ORBIT_ quires me to point out the tlons to continuation as castern man ager of § r Moses N Hampshire. Three tinies from h headquarters in New York he prophesied the loss of a republican senator from Massachusetts, He has recently taken into conference New Hampshire the matter of the republican nomination for a senator from Massachusetts and so appoint a no his persor social favorite who never won tical office in his life. “YWe have three splendid men eampaigning for the nomination at this moment, carrying out the spl of the primary election: Gen. But- ler Ames, Col. Eben 8. Draper and former Speaker Young, all ger men of ability and high character. | Either man with proper support from national headquarters can win the sea now held by a democrat. Hostile to Volsteadism “It is well known Scnator Moses is hostile to the Volstead act. You are known to the world as a sup- porter of this noble experiment as e further contribution to the doc- trine of clean living among the youth of the land. The continual presence of Senator Moses as cast- ern manager of your campaign, is an affront to the voters of Mase chusetts. May 1 respectfully urge that Sepator Moses be invited to| eonfine his activitics to the state of New Hampshire where his idio-syn- eracies are enjoyed where under- stood. His curious aberations, th source of many witticisms in the amoking room, do not appeal to th sober minded citizenry of Massa- chusetts.” WARN CIVIL SERVICE ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN siringent Orders lIssued Regarding Employees' Right to Discuss Politics Publicly. Washington, Aug. 10 (®—Strin gept orders have been issucd 10 federal government employees by the civil service commission to 1 careful to make their political ac- tivitles and conduct conform to regulations. The government workers are not permitted to wear campaign but- tons while on duty; nor can they serve as officers or members ot com- mittees of political olubs or organ- izations. Likewise the employes ar forbidden to make political speeches or even discuss politics while on duty or in public places. The restrictions, however, the eommission said, “impose no hard- ship.” It added they leave the em- ployes ‘“free to vote, think speak privately as they choose,’ The workers also be permitted to make voluntary contributions to the political campaign they are not made in public ings. and prov build- MORE VILLAGES WRECKED Are fwept by Tidal Wave on Flores Islands Caused by Volcano. in Dutch Kast Indies Batavia, Juva, more villa Teland have eruption of which veste have ¢ ed of 1,000 land. The vill tidal wave marine were kilied and Five native ushore but the The volcano smoke todav Aug. 10 (P —Thre Roku persons on R IS MARREIED Angeles 10 (P Strom h poe painter, last night became the of Percy Grainger, guest ¢ ot the Los Angeles Symphon chestra, in a public s of the Hol lighted cross atop a tain peak served «mphitheater Bome the servies, which chestra’'s rendition ger's direction of Princess. The written by the his bride POPE'S SELECTIONS Bydney, New South Wales 19 UM — Pope Pius has 1 “The Eucharist and Our Lady” as the general subject at the eucharistic congzre tember, 1t was announced The subfect will be dividcq sections. Nine will be allot overseas delegates and «ix fo tralian delegates GRAIN Los Vio cmony undey to 20,000 persons followed composition groom honor for Aiscuseions Aus Washington, Aug. 10—The earth is about to keep its annual date with Perseids and one who cares to tay up until after midnight on the night of August 11 has a good chance of getting an eyefull. On that night, one is certain, ac- cording to the astronomers, to ob- serve a brilliant shower of ghooting | stars. One can see meteors on other nights in year, but the show put on by the P 5 is the big- gest and most brilliant of all, This way and that, they shoot; almost horizontally. It is also the most regular, for y sce it every year as the scs through the cluster of fragments, revolving in the meteoric space., We e been since passing the early July. The metcors are quite nu- merous from August o to 15 and August 10-13 always produces large numbers of flaming Perseids, es- pecially after midnight, | Best After Midnight But Captain C. 8 Freeman, su- perintendent of the naval observa- here, says that the period of utmost intensity, with the biggest and most meteors, will be between 2 and 3 o'clock on the morning of August 12 | After that, the earth will begin to edge out of this meteor be These meteor showers, Captain Ireeman explaing, follow in about the same periods as comets. Th Perscids shower comes just at the time the carth is crossing the orbit| of Tuttle's comet of 156 will not sce ntil 195 closed ring or end- AmE A s them in through part of tory 1zain Meteors form in along the Always meteorie fr: o racing ¢ carth’s atmos- x0 much generally entire- they hit the however, ar: to incan- ground thed and - remains form of iron in though some have ion lops oy are consumed before cm cunib W the to be they will be vis- s of the brilliant « that ndre meteoric of No- is of thon- within 5id. thie i1y thron com- 1 Professor it the rise 1 by the im- with a per- e meteor would b s But even the must burned with immens most up or sution be in hefore obtained. 100 perature s can sce 50 or miles Lrticies ingle pereeils whose mass may not grair Charles P 4 United » | Olivier, astronomer at the Leander | McCormick observatory and one of | the greatest meteorologists, #ays: | “Of all the annual showers they | are most certain to return Wwith| averag: richness. Also, as they come | in August, when the nights are still | comfortably warm, they furnish the most excellent opportunity for & person casually interested in meteoss | 1o see a good shower. Many of the | Pergelds leave very bright and en- during trains which, being beauti- | ful phenomena, add to the interest of those observing these meteors.” PERU MARATHONER NOT HITCH-HIKER 1 Declines All Offers of Rides in Long Journey ‘ Texarkana, Ark., Aug 16.—(@—! Afier tiudging across Texas on the | last lap of an 18,000-mile hike, Au- gusto Flores, 1§-vear-old Peruvian | Boy finds it almost as diffi- | cult to wark on modern highways as through the America. He is determined to walk all the way from Lima to New York, and| therefare he is rather annoyed as motorists continually ask him to ride. Every day he declines prof- | fered lifts, and sometimes he has trouble convincing would-be bene- | factors he wants to walk, for he| speaks little Inglish. | While in 2% the Peruvian vouth- casily obtained food and | learncd the best way for his slow | journey, #ince he was able to speak | in his native tongue with the many | Mexicans he met. But he wonder- | ©d, as he left the border of the | Lone Star state, whether he would get along so well where he must| rely on his English. “lores hopes to reach New York | by Cliristmas. | Four companions et out with | him from Peru. Onc was killed in a fall on a mountain, another was drowned in a tropical river, a third Afed from snakebite and the fourth turned hack ofter a severe illness. Florcs himself is in perfect health. Sco OLD COLUMN FOUND Marble Slab of Julian‘s carthed in Ttaly Modena, ltaly Aug. 10, (UP)— A portion of a marble column bear- | ing the nume of the Emperor Clau- fins Fiavious Julianus, generally ywn as Julian the Apostate, was covered during recent bullding operation at Campo Galliano mnear here While the foundations for a farm- house were being prepared, the! workmen came across the broken Vlock of marble, whieh was dirty and diecolored from long burial in the soil The block was about to be thrown away with other refuse, when one of the workmen b n scraping it and revealed the Roman lettering. ‘The local superintendent of an- tiquitics, after examination of the relic. found the nume of Julian the Apostate incised on the marble fc gether with some Roman numerals. It is believed that the block of marbla was originally a mile.stone | from the Via Emilla or one of ita| Lranches Julian the Apostate was Emperor from 0 363 A D. Time Un- The erange originally was a pear- shaped fruit about the size of @& cherey | his shop Mr. Lawrence | rings, amethysts, |ing the next month the { busy” hundreds of priccless Roman, Savon, Medieval and Tudor London relics buried many score neath the gurface of the city would be lost. So Mr. Lawrence himself “got busy.” Excavators soon grew aware that his pockets scemed to overflow with half-crowns for those who were lucky enough to have touched with their spades an old Roman stone or a bit of medicval pottery or ornament. When “Stoney Jack™ became con- nected with the London Museum his shop served primarily as & re- ceiving station for the museu By means of his inevitable satchel and added 12,000 objects to the Muscum. awrence has had some strange “finds.” One Saturday nigh eral workmen entered Jack's” shop with sacl backs and thumped o counter several great ch clay. ve've struck a to ner,” one of them declarvd Lawrence dissected clay Inmps. He found in the heart of them tangled gold chains of Tudor design, engraved stones of the Stu- art perfod, camecos, carbuncles, 5. At i Is dur- workmen returned with ndkerchiefs filled with jewelry. In this manner the greatest hoard of Tudor and Stuart jewelry ever discovered was gath- ered. One room of the London Mueum is full of it, and it is onc of the sights of the Mectropolis. lawrence s retiring from the museum to devote himsclf wholly to & shop he set up some years This is the golden age relles of old London because the foundation tall buildings be sunk far the for finding he believe of the 0 being erected must below the Victorian level Into the rich treasure-house earth of the Tudors and Stuarts. Danbury Will Get a Fifty Acre Public Park Danbury, Aug. 10.—(UP)—A plan for a 50.acre municipal park, a model ctory and new workers' homes was anounced here today by Pephas Burton Rogers, local electri- cal fixturs manufacturer. 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