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i ATIE S Cuiese otherwise indicated. theatrical motites and reviews In tnie eolnp are ®Xew by Drems agencier for the RED GRANGE AT STRAND Tonight is the last showing at the Strand of the excellent program which has attracted large crowds to this popular playhousc this first half of -fhe week. Topping the show is Clem Lewis' “New Britain Minstrel Follies,” with a cast of 50 local boys and girls, four gr lect acts, and Norman Kerry The Foreign Legion” make up the balance of a great show. Beginnieg Thursday the Strand scores again in presenting the per= sonal appearance of Red Gran: the famous star of movies aad “Galloping Ghost” of the gridiron in his vaudeville offering. The famous “Red” is now in vaude ing & musical comedy of college lifc entitled with a cast that in- cludes four other players. Other select acts offer Millard and Millicent in *“Twists and Twirl Dwyer and Orma in ‘Jest Playmates’ Murray and Irwin, 'wo Amuse- nient Guides;” and the Villa Vance in “Dancing Around the t including several of the most t ans known 1o the screen, “Oh Kay!" Colleen Moore’s hilarious farce opens to- morrow at the Strand theater for a run of three days. Vivacious Colleen he */in the stefar role of tertaining personali ly suited for the independent young portrays. Such lau as “Naughty But N Oat,” “Ella Cinde “1t Must Be Love” and “Orchids and Ermine” have established Miss Moore as tie cen’s outstand conrdienne “and in “Oh Kay" she is said to at- tain new heights of humor. Lawrence G s the roman- tic lead opposite Miss Moore, as a well-meaning young scion of wealth who becomes nvolved in complica- tions of the most humoro Gray will be remembered Swanson’s leading man in - pictures, while he recently h n in “Duanond Handeus Ford Sterling, veteran comedian of stage and screen adds to the mer riment of “Oh Kay!” as an inchriat- ed gentleman, first scen as a ruri- runner, and later in disguise as butler, Sterling has probably ap- peared in more feature comedies than any other player, being con- {istantly in denand among Holly- $wood produc for his recogni talent as a comedian. ds the cast being ideal- r of the < gir] she shable pictures * vHer Wild several a WHITE RESUMES DRIVE ON SHITH Makes Ligat of His Reply, Call- ing It Emotional Paris, Aug. 22 (UP) SAllen’ White, the Kansas editor, to- continued his attack on the ive record of Governor Al- fred E. Smith, pointing out that the * New York governor in answoring " {he White charges “is trying 1o ‘make up in emotions what his cas “lacks in logic.” White is on a four Europ now and give out his statement 10 American newspaper correspondents after he had been shown the letier * in which the demoeratic presiden- " tial candidate in the United States had answered White, “However he may bemoan #ad case.” White said, “his (Smiil , bublic legislative record must Lfaced again in this campaign. His friends say. his platform is his puh- , lic record. Therefore certainly it the major issue in the campaign.” White denicd that he was attack- » Ing Smith personally or had meant “.to assail the characicr of the New York governor. “He was not personal nor was his character assailed,” the as republican editor pointed atement T have mad carefully declared that his faith and honesiy never have been itn- pugned. The motives can not be . called an attack when I specifically declared that the printing of the public record was raising, not a question of moral turpitude, but one showing the difference Letween 1he viewpoint of Tammany which Smith “supports, and ‘Américan people.” of the ) is A that AUTO INJU Naugatuck, Aug. * Btankew 45, of this town, ! was struck by the .. Hanford Fre:man of week ago Saturday pital in Waterbury late v He was employed in 4 local f Freeman has been at Ithes -bonds awaiting the outconic of the . man's injuries. who aitsville a d in a hos- NON-SUPPORT CHARGLD Bridgeport, Aug. wr)— Bridgeport authorities foday were holding Ernest Zarrin, 52, of Fitch- burg, Mass., for Titchburg authori- tles of a charge ot deserting his wife, PALACE — Today Cnly Dclores Del Rio- in, “Ramona” DON'T ille present- | ay,” her en- | s been | — William | be of the automobile of | 'espective amusement company. NORMA SHEARER AT CAPITOL | Tonight offers the last showin; at the Capitol of Richard Barthel- mess in “Out of the Ruins,” one of this popular star's best stories to dat The most beautiful picture in which Norma Shecarer has yet ap- peared is at the Capitol Thurs., Fri. and Saturday. Lest the trite superlative be unex- cused, let it be said ‘that never, since | Miss# Shearer has become a star, has she been given a screen vehicle laid in a period of so much interest and auty as the pictorial England of | Add to this the dazzling (:05-] E glamour of life *back in an English theater and the | | dignity and picturesqueness of up- | per class English homes and the statement becomes believabl | herself, he Rose | Kathie 01’; Student Prinee In-n*!ol’orc' her most picturesque | Her actig, too, has reached | stage of excellence where it | may be -considered as being in a ! { class by itself. Never were her face and figure more beautiful. The co- feature pr nts red Thomson in a colorful character of the early in “Kit Carson,” a thrilling ative of the siory of this famous ! frontie nan, | Beginning Sunday for four day John Gilbert will be offered in | “Four Walls.” el he considered | part, that BUT 30 BOYS ARE LEFT YITH VESSEL 185 Have Deserted Albatross and Returned Heme Aug, who 22 (UP) joyfully Alba- several other sitting toc Hamburg, Germany | departed tross from weeks ago along young students, ately on ooking the the steamer Six Amctican bo, aboard Hyduey, W N mer, 113 vere found park bench Ireeport district Albatross which | was anchoied in mid-stream. | | e were of the remainin v st with the expedition. All th |others have deserted the vessel and | fmost of them have returned to their | | hon: And the Albatross is strand- | d here and re ted without fu clear the port. These six were witheut complained bitterly a and ommodatiens of But they added “Tell the folks |worry 1hout us. | The six sitting in the park ;.lnlm Dorchester of Nantucket, 113; Roy Kelly, New York city | Basso, Boston; James Keeman, W Ichester, Mass.; Allen W i 4 Te h ove and boys 1 i funds and | Lnst the food the vesscl. at horic | not to | were M Jee | hoy their being port, so fa the reticent | randed in from thei er was e speik n |concernin this str home! a. Unpleasant Ve Yhe vouth said the of 119 had suitered rouzh ocean voya tia to Cork. 'The modations had boen poor and t food net good. Then they said to-| ward the latter part tne food got {worse and beeame particu- | larly at the European ports where | apparcuily cay had run out ot fund The i ze | entire group reatly on the | from Nova Sco-! ¢ said the aceo | scarce, n th in boys duserted the it Cork, they said Others Amsterdam while nuzjority ) Bremevhaven, They said, how- that not all of the Loys actua! re stranded as some had suf money to pay for their return vages to the ited States and | consuls granied passports renwining 30 decided to re- [ main at Hamburg for the additional 10 4 hoping fo receive funds which would permit the ier return, Fruit de: cruise lett at [ ever bis | cient th The © refused to con- | tinue deliver food to the Alb:- ross on credit nd have threatened | Ito have the Albatross attached for, | payment of previous deliveries, The idents said they did not have suf- | nt money to huy drinking water forced to come ashore to stroet fountain: | Captain Bossom said he expected | {money soon sufficient to clear tie | port of Hamburg and return to the “l nited Stat | tie and wer the public FIREMEN'S CLOSE CALL I, Mass, Aug. Py Te lives of 10 firemnen we en- ! her® last night wall collapsed while they were bat- [tling a fire that caused estimated damugh: of $100.000 to the Merrimac fca Company’s plant. | | eral homes in the neighborhood | | threatened, About 20,000 tons of ice was destroyed. of the fire has not been determined: when ase arts of Scotland a four-leaf instead of People in some | believe the finding of | clover denotes bad luck i good luck, M TOMORROW — with “LET ° > JUNIOR COUGHLAN R—THE DOG —it— “DOG IUSTICE” COMING WILLIAM HAINES T - LA DAY in HE. WORL! {is vacationin, | the Ihe life-saving crew NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEUNLSUA { 60 MASS. LAWYERS FACING CHARGES Accused of Frand in Auto In- surance Cases Boston, Aug. 22 (UP)—Approx mately 60 Massachusetts lawyers face the possibility of disbarment in | connection with alleged fraudulent claims under the compulsory auto- mobile insurance law, it was under- stood today. That number of attorneys were re- ported involved in evidence being considered by Attorncy General Jo- seph E. Warner and Insurance Com- missioner Wesley E. Monk. The attorney general opened his inquiry as result of Monk's state- ment that fraudulent claims and consequent losses to insurance com- panies were largely responsible for drastic increases in automobile in- surance rates for 1 . One of the lawyers involved was said to have handled about 400 cases of questionable claims against insurance companies. In connection with sory insurance probleum, two bills have been filed with the clerk of the house of representatives. One bill, filed by John J. Cum- mings of Boston, candidate for the dumocratic nomination for governor, would establish the *“MaSsachuset Motor Vehicle Mutual Insurance as- sociation.”” 1t would provide that| atter the association had been li- censed to issue policies relating to liability for personal inju caused | by opcration of automobiles, it would be unlawful for any other in- irance concern to issue such poli- ‘the second Thomas N. Ashton of Fall River, would amend the present law to double and triple the cost of com- pulsory insurance to motorists hav- ing accide in increasing ratio with the number of accidents in which they are involved. Pe the compul- bill, filed by Rep. rsonals strect 1. Sliney of Miss Mau Spring it View, it wghter, t and Hart street at G ut Mis. J. J et of Miss Anne Fiizpatrick of pending @ week w Beach, Mr. and Mr and son, Robert, of New York cily are guests at of Mr. and Mr and Mr. and Mis vat Indian Neck. sun I Helen Meknro: t Left for Boston for a two ks’ vacation, Miss sty has we 3 ind Aznes ling wodhs Miss 1 Miss MeCarthy at Grove Heath arc spen Point B two THREE MEH RESCUED Bring- Devon Rowboat Succeeds in ing in Trio Walnut Beacl New Haven, Aug. 22— -—While poiice scarched the Sound waters between Charles Island and Walnut Beach for three young men believed drowned in 10¢ accident yester- day, Williain Bratz, Devon, rescurd the trio in w rowboat, a half mile from shore. They disappeared after landing before their numes could be rned. The younz men the Sound about a ing 1o the sides of their canoc until put aboard WBratz's rowboat. Their plighit was first notlead by a Woman | who notified police that a sailboat | canoe had tipped over, | The policemen, with a large crowd an audience, were about to | ahandon their search when notified that the boys had been resencd, Preparations had even been mide hy fire department to lend aid by sending a pulmotor to the beach, and t the Fort of company was had been out in half hour, cling- 15 beach fire ready for action. The seue Wi Charles Island by a large numbe attached to the Dominic t which is situated on the is- mbull s watched from | of | priests Retr land. Amos ffir{d-ég);j);)'ien’s Famed Cop, Gets 2 More T barien, Conn., Apg. 22 Two I'hiadelphia men wer here early foday by ; Anderson, known as “The Wolf” for his single-handed ¢ tures, charged with illegal trans portation of liquor, and 7,600 botiles of alleged” Canadian ale were scized The two men told police they had brought the liquor in a truck from Canada to Philadelphia and were on the way to Rhode Island to de- liver it, gave fheir names as Louis l.eonard, 40, 637 Franklin | treet, Philadelpl and Elmer Gray, 29, 505 North Scventh street, | South Philadelphia. They were held in $2,500 hond for ! arraignment here Saturds rrested Anios Lone p- t AT THE CAPITOL THURS. FRI, BAT. | chine 1 of those JUMP INTO RIVER Two Intruders in Derby Store Fired Upon and Leap into Housatonic and Escape. Derby, Aug. 22.—P—An eurly morning attempt to rob.the store of Charles Dressell failed when the two intruders werc fired upon and then jumped into the Housatonic river. An abandoned autoriobile is! the clue police found. The attempt to enter the store was the third within a week. The pro- prietor suspected the visit and laid in Wait with a gun. About 2 o'clock he | heard an automobile stop and twe men walk to his store and open a window. He opened fire and the two men fled and disappeared in the river when he continued the shoot- ing. Th registration found in the ma bore tihe name of Anthony DiPaola, New Haven, and police a trying to find him. FORUN T0 TAKE UP FARS ISSUE (Continued from Iage Two) basis of American progress. To those who have by necessity worked in oher lands comes this most vivid meaning of America and a decp zratitude for what our fathers have builded. Here there are no limits to hope; no limits upon accomplish- | ment; our oblization today is to | i | i | maintain that cqual opportunity for | | agricultural | other calling | as well as for ever When we traverse the memories who have builded this state and this nation we recall these acts | which are rooted in the soil of serv- | When we rehearse our memories we find that none give us sucl comrort and satistaction as the ord of servi have been able o render. 1 do net helicve our peo- have lost those finer qualities of 1 character, -reliance, or ive, nor have they lost the quality which they imbed rerican characier, the gu horly co-opcration rvice, It i that our hopes m tion of our great And T must again that the solution of the problems has but one purpose—that is the comfort and welfare of the Amcrican family and the Amcrican home. The family is the unit American life and the home is the sanctiary of moral in- spiration and of American spirit, I'he true conception of Ameriea s not a country of 110,000,000 people a1 000,000 fiving in 23,000,000 homes, my serviees fo these LONG FLIGHT Auz. (7] 1ford and we Teat in A of ne mutual s 4 lie in the problems. solu- of bhut T pledge liomes, START Bushi I'ersia, The Duchess of tain C. today in a for The Cap- 1he ane Princess Prinee bonnd from and to India, was forced down here two months azo b trouble. PICK O THE PiCTURES! Capiiot LAST TIMES TONIGUT 7:00—9:10 in a great picture of theatrical life O-FEATURE— [is back from own | in this quality | families * AUuUos FLASHES OF LIFE: AGED BRITISHER USES HARSH LANGUAGE AT MEETING Londpn—Memibers of the Royal | Society for the Prevention of Cruecl- |ty to Animals are perturbed over a | word used by Lord Banbury, 80, the chairman. Another chairman was elected. T.ord Banbury declined to | |glve up the gavel. “I don't know who |George B. Harvey completed. the hell you are he exclaimed. | ‘Get out.” The meeting broke up in | disorder, { i | New York—Arch Bonge. 6 feet 5, | theater doorman, cowboy'and artist, his honeymoon with | the former nice Sweuman, | daughter of a hanker of Biloxi, Miss. Pending a boom in art he's return- ing to work as u doorman. Constantinople—President .\lu.wla-‘w pha Kemal is now a rhetorician. He | is writing a new grammar and ex- | amining all officials on their A B | (s, He has decreed the Arabic al- phabet must be replaced by the Latin, Free radio lessons are being given. New York—Will Ro red Stonc’s part in Dorothy Stone while from injuries received inoan plane accident. Fred is to take vacation with Jim Corbett and show him how to play golf. Jim 1l never played but IFred say he will be 200d enough 1o hit "em on the head. Will is sacrificing $300,000 by pinch- | hitting, Charles Dillingham an- | s is o tuke show with Ired recovers air- a | nounces. Berlin—Germany's progress re- | minds James J. Davis of music. Th American secretary of labor remark- ed at a luncheon that when he visit- ed the country in 1923 the people | to b moving to the tune of Puneral March. Now they the tune of a rag- Chopin' are stepping to time band. ~Mrs. Charles B. liams is disappointed over ability to import cannibal tocs in an effort to get rid of {domestic pest. She says they won't bite humans, but federal authori- ties have put an embargo on them. City health officials the way to get rid of mosquitoes is not to Kkill them but to prevent them brecding. New York Wil- her in- mosqui- the say Tangicr-—Anong the [vations introduccd the French is a guilotine. 1t has been imported for the exccution of two native slayers, latest into Morocco by ral Judge Morton tock of seized product “hy no Boston i refuses 1o forfeit malt extract; | means an ou aw. Winsted— De both on nd in tilms, appendix removed while patient | Litchtield County hospital. ifficld—2Mrs, David . Meikle of rdvfle is killed when husband's >vidro Cordovu, ac- had in tor, D). Barnard took off at dawn | Reserved Loges Evenings engine | | cported Lost off m“ EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION! PERSONAL Appearance OF the famons movie star and “Gallopinz Ghost of the Gridiro |injured right | inno- | %, 1923, car crashes into pole. He is held on manslaughted and drunken driv- ing charge. is Dublin, N. H. — Plans for funeral Thursday at Peacham, Vt., of Col. | Haverhill Mgss. — Big icc purns with $30.000 loss. 4 b | Portland, M ster weleomes T of American Ph ation. -— Governor Brew- th annual me paceutical ting associ Holyoke, of William Hoover takes city Mass, Appointment | Whiting to succeed | ceret of commeree, surprisc. i Conn. v who ter repeated by Stumford, radio amate nals from they were heard last Rockford, rapidly, leading to belief plane v Hartford—Donald vadios from northern tart for Wiscassett for yesterday has been storni, MacMillan Labrador that Mo, planned delayed by Walnut Beac to overturned und are eventually r liam Bratz of Devon. Derby—Charles Dressel, heariag some one attempting to enter his during night opens fire with sun and drives two men into Hou: tonic fully dressed. youths cling for half hom by Wil tore Watcrbury ral agents make Wo raids and seize quantity of home and whiskey. North Jorer Haven—Patrick on highway by hit-and- Sl Summer - which lays Russcll McCrohan, work kip seriously autoist, Stony Cr thrill at fi born of John road. visitors got flat big hay in Flatrock New Haven Will preside convention i delegates will be convention. ol the iy Joln Q. Tilson republican eity t wher to state at nig chosen « lision Iford—As aft of machines of eal- here, George 1t of New York., operator of and Miss I3dith Chase, daugh- of Mrs. H. 8. Ghuse of Water- the other driver. cach reckless driving. None of ars badly hurt one 1 ter hu fioh in fine thos: Elizabeth A, school teacher of tally=hurt in Trum- ay. is buried here. driver of car in- is held pending Washington-—Miss Norton, 60, Bridgeport, | bull on Satu Walter Taylor, volved in cor me accident, ner's finding. TONIGHT ONLY *Noew Beltain Minstrel Follies *The Poreign Legion™ A Miniature Musical Comedy of College Life * Millard and Millicent, Dwye M and Irwin Villa Vaneo AND THE PHOY OPLAY 18 0. K COLLEEN The Play Was Furny — The Picture A RiOT! 1S Ak \ STARTS SUN.—BILLIE DOV Kay/ Pord Sterliag Clauce Gilingwater . CTHE NIGHT W Goolidge Enjoying Trip Overl‘ of $2oolidge H. L. Gary of Kaoss City sn Jada leine Island, where the president MOTOR CRUISE ON |5 s i i lund moest beuutiful of the Apestie |isiands. _ Over 14 miles in_ leugth ANy and about ene in hregth,~Madsicine Island still' holds the remaiw of the oldest settlement in the Archipela; Mr. and Mrs. Gary apd Mr- and Mrs. Woods, whose guests Mr. and Mrx. Coolidge were for the duy, had placed another vessel, thé Madafeine, at the disposal of newspapersii:n, press photographers and éthers who (@ | had to follow the president on the blue waters | Water. 5 | The drive back to the ~summer executive residence will take place this evening, probably after dark. 3ut in time for Mr. and Mrs. Cool- {1dge to have dinner at the lodge. wmfi_osn HIS J0B | Boston Lake Superior Madaleine Island, Wis.. Aug. A day’s cruise on the Lake Supcrior, wandering as his fancy dictated amid the wooded is- ts of the Apostle Archipelago, had Leen jooked torward to by President Coolidge ever since he came to Wis- cousin, Today Le had the oppor- tunity to carry out his de The Nellewood, a 70 cruiser, had been place chief executive's disposal for the day by Frank Woods of Ijncoln, | Neb, karly this morning the cruiser wis waiting at Bayficld, opposite Madaleine nd on the maintand | nd about miles from Cedar s nd lodge, where President and M had arran 1 10 board it. A very small group of friends had been invited to join the No specific itinerary | for th cubin the toot. at Elevated Motorman, Ae- cused of Faunlt in Fatal Accident, is Discharged. Boston, Aug. 22 (UP)—Metérman Bernard A. McDonald, blamed for the Boston levated train derail- ment in which three persons were Killed and 22 ‘njured here last month, will be discharged by the railroad company, I S0 cruise. d Nellewood which was inste rin and out of the bout noon when, lack of formality, a picnie luncheon il been ordered. Devil's Island, perhaps the most picturesque and weird of the islands, with stran contorted Istone formations at the foot of its Jonely lighthouse, had n ted as the place for 1 e been set d shores, with utter i Announcement to this effeet was n by Edward Dana, general manager, following the report of the | inquest of Municipal Judge James | P Parmenter, which placed full re- sponsibility on McDonald. The re- port stated that McDonald was: ope. crating the train at excessive speed while rounding the curve wheré the o e accident occurred, pressed wishes, precautions had heen | The railway company was sharply taken to provide a very simple meat | CtiCiZed shortly after the accident 1t Devil's Island. - Quantity had heen | ¥ GOVernor Fuller when he learned ladiion o, over, 1o muke up | At McDonuld had been reprimand- what the foad lacked 5 elasamate |28 times, suspended twice, rec- ommended twice for dismissal jand, oss, sinee the hosts had supposed fuas i that the long carly morming e | 140 Deen tardy or missing 94 times, to Dayfield and the fresh air of the ! lake would have unust dly stimu- lated the appetites of President and Mrs. Coolidae and other members of the lential party, Following further lvisurely on. President ad been invited tea at the e Answering eruis- and to of JohnA. Andrews & Co. Present 1 DAY OF 100% = ———— GOOD LUCK Guaranteed By flx_e' Commercial Trust Co. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17TH SATURDAY, AUGUST 18TH MONDAY, AUGUST 20TH TUESDAY, AUGUST 2IST \WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22ND THURSDAY, AUGUST 23RD FRIDAY, AUGUST 24TH SATURDAY, AUGUST 25TH ——— e S The Commercial Trust Co. has kindly consented to an nounce that day. They have in their care a slip of paper. scaled in an envelope, bearing some date between August 17th and 25th, No one knows what day it is. Not ever the employes or employers of this store. On Monday, August 27th, the bank will open this envelope and an- nounce the date— If you have made your purchase on this day—whether a complete home outfit running into hundreds of dollars— or just a small purchase—absolutely regardless of price— vour down payment will be refunded and you will be given a bill receipted in full—in other words, your purchase will be absolutely FREE! We are wiliing to do this to get our 200 new accounts—and you may be one of the lucky ones to get your purchase free—so buy now—within the next 3 days—the things vou need or expect to need within the next few months. Watch our newspaper advertising for bargains all during the next 5 days—prices are exceptionally low during our August sale—down payments and terms just as liberal as. ForN-AANDREWS (2 M 5T. KOV BRIT, 152 W

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