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DY N -~ HOLDEN T0 ASSUME DUTIES NEXT MONTH Water Dept. Engineer Selected | From Field of 17 — Joseph W. Holden, town engineer ©f West Hartford, who has been selected for water department en- | Eineer in this city has had extensive eXperience with water system projects. He was connected for seve eral years in the development of the New Y ork city water system. His salary here will be $6,000 a year. Mr. Holden was chosen from a field ©of 17 available candidat Mr. Helden will prabably take over | his new duties soon after September € when his resignation will become | JOSEPH W. HOLDEN | the Senegalese |army at any time in the history of | At the polytechnic school, which he | effective in West Hartford, He will succeed Joseph D. Williams whose resignation became effective on July 1. He will take charge of this city's $1,225,000 program to recondition | the water system. | The new engineer is a native of | Meriden and was educated there, | After he was graduatel from the | Meriden High school he entered Tuft's college, Medford, Mass., from which he graduated in 1907, | He received his first practical ex- | perience in work at the Pennsylvania tunnel in New York c After this | he worked on water projects in the | city and then returned to Meriden | where he was seleeted as assistant | city engineer. He becime city en- | gineer and superintendent of the | board of public works in 1916, He was appointed engineer in West Hartford in 1921. His previous ex- perience and qualifications brought | ahout an understanding that he was to become town manager after al period of service as town engineer. An elaborate topographical sur- vey of the undeveloped section of | West Hartford was carried on dur- ing his term as engincer, He design- ed and partly conducted a sewer system for a part of the town, An| unusual amount of macadam road, sidewalk and curbing was laid and during his seven year stewardship the staff of the engincering depart- ment increased from 12 to 30 mem- | bers, The first step in his work in this eity will be that of puritying the water supply and when this is com- pleted it is planned to Increase the | supply through the building of a reservoir in the Burlington hills. Expenditures on pipe lines and other improvements will require an appro- priation of more than $1,000,000. HIRAM JOHNSON FACING FIGHT IN CALIFORNIA' Veteran Scnator is Facing Opposi- tion for His Renomination | Tomorrow ! 1 San Francisco, Aug. 27 (®-—The contest in which United States Sen- ator Hirman W. Johnson sceks re- ination on the republican ticket | hes the only interest in to- | morrow's Califernia primary elec- tion. The vetcran senate leader is)| opposed by Charles Randall of Los Angeles, candidate on both the dem- ocratic and prohibition party tick- ets. Senator Johnson has the endorse- ment of the state republican central committee and faces the barrier with less organized opposition than in any of his previous campaigns. | His fight for federal action on the Boulder Dam project has gained him much support. Minor Moore, a Los Angcles at- torney, s unopposed for the demo- cratic senatorial nomination. Six congressmen, candidates to succeed themselves, are unopposed even by the opposing parties and are assured of reelection. Five are re- publicans. Before scraping new potatoes, let them stand for five minutes in warm water in which a small lump of soda has been dissolved. Quick safe relief Dr. Scholl’s Zino-padsend corn pain the minute they are ap- plied by cushioning the corn and removing the cause—friction and pressure of shoes, These small, thin, soft, protective pads heal corns naturally and with absolute safety and surety. That is why doctors use and recommend them. Buy a box today. At all drug, shoe and dept. stores. DrScholl’s Zino-pads Pus one on —the pain is gonel NEW BRITAIN of his armies with ness of judgment, decision and a sense of the realities of the times that were incomparable. He has the greatest titles (o the gratitude of his | country.” When Fayolle was created a mar- shal of Krance in 1921, the above citation was read again before the assembled troops, Fayolle's eyes filled with tears as he turned to General Lyautey who was standing next to him, just pre- vious to receiving himself the in- signia of marshal of France, and said: These are the words I should like | to have inscribed on my tombstone.” DEATH AND RUINS FOLLOW PATH OF NEW YORK FLOODS (Continued from First Page) keen- MARSHAL FAYOLLE, HERD OF WAR IES (Continued from First Page) | e ! renowned dishes of his Ccunlry's} cuisir A great admirer of America and Americans, when he returned from an extended visit to the United States in 1921, he brought back with him only one grievance, “Your countrymen can not cook,” he said. “They have me on the verge of dyspepsia. Their cuisine is oo hcavy Then he added twinkle in his eye: “I don’t suppose even French cul- sene would taste good with fce water.” Loved Amcrican Troops He was the greatest booster that Amgcrican soldiers ever had among v men in I°ra American soldiers who, with and Moroccan di- visions formed the end of the wedge driven into the German lines b tween Soissons and Chateau Thie in July, 1918, wcre the equals of any toldiers ever gottenstogether in any with a merry |boats early today and moved to a |tarm house on highcr zround Ly | Kingston police, deputy sheriffs and state troopers, Birldges Swept Away Throughout the entire Lridges were destroyed, the largest | being an all steel structure on the | main highway at Napanoch, the flooring of which usually is twenty feet above the surface of the creek the world,” he once said. They were the finest men physic- that 1 have ever seen, brave and of courage amounting at times to temerity and which had to be restrained instead of fanned." creek and the unused D. and } canal to be prepared to le | smaller streams flowing into Rond- valley, || Born In 1852 Marshal Fayolle was born at Puy, in the department of the Haute Loire, May 14, 1852, His parents chose for him a mili- tary career in which he entered at first without enthuvsiasm. He would Lave preferred to become u writer, he villag: lenville, Gra- | hamsville, 1, Lack- awack, Montela and Rosendale w | marooned by the tlood. Although the [crest of the flood had passed the {upper portion of the valley, the wa- |ter was rising at the rate of two feet an hour at Rosendals early today |Communication with that village |was cut off, telephone lines being special attention to artillery. {down, and highways largely washed A first licutenant in 1877, he was out. pfain at 30 years of age, rather| At Wawarsing, the tracks of the | a rare occurrence in the French|Ontario and Western railway were | rmy. Fayolle was needed as a|washed out, while the main street | teacher in the “Kcole Superiure de |of Rosendale was six feet under the | la Guerre” (Superior School of War) (water which was still rising. i and thus in order that his rank Private Dam Bursts might impress his youthful scholars, At the Lackaw Country club, a created a lieutenant colonel in |casino and nine cottages were de- joined in 1873, he decided to devote 1e01, |stroyed by the flood and about 300 FFayolle was made a colonel in|guests were marooned on a higher | 1907 and a brigadier general in|part of the property. They were res- | 1910, in command of the 12th army |cued during the night. The dama corps then stationed at Clermond |at the country club was said to have | Perrand. [been caused by the bursting of a Little Field Experience |private dame on the club's property When the great war broke out, the |when the water behind it became | only actiye servic eld that [swollen by the cloudburst. | Brigadier General 1 1 seen, | The Napanoch institute was with- | was a short six months' campaien |out lights, owing ot damage to the nst rebels in Tunisia from April [power plant of the §untral Hudson | to November 1851, as a first lieuu- |Gas and Electric company at Honk | tenant, Falls, which supplies power and | Promoted to a gencral of division [light to that section. No disturbance | ~—then the highest rank in the famong the 1,200 inmates of the in- | ench army-—in 1815, Fayolle suc- |stitute was reported, cessively commanded the 33rd army Others Reported Drowned the 4th and 1st army during | While no definite information a and 1916. On the first of May, [to possible loss of life could be ob- 1917, he took command of the group (tained, reports coming out of the | Gf armies of the center, facing the area indicated that motor- | armies of the German Crown Prince. 'ists passing through the valley may Sent to Italy in command of the [have suffered. Three persons were | | | I'rench troops aftor Caporetto, he reported drowned at Accord when restored the morale of I Al-|they attempted to ford Mombaccus hies and only returned to I'rance in jcreck in an automobile. The main | the spring of 1918 when he was | highway between Kingston and El- Placed in charge of the group of | armies being assembled to assume the counter offensive fn July. The rest is history. He was in command of the troops which entered Metz, Trier and Mayence after the armis- tice, He alu from poli Cited r Times Fayoile was cited feur times to the eorder of the army. [Iirst on June 2, 1915, when he was made officer of the Legion of Honor; then on Oc- tober, 1416, whe reated grand offi- cer; July, 1918, in connection with his eievation to grand cross of the Legion of Honor. His last citation and the one he treasured most was signed “Georges lenville was several feet under wat and the trio attempted to drive | |through the ereck which is erdinar- ily fordable at that point. Kingston police carly today receiv- ed a report that two motorists had drowned at Kerhonkson, a few miles st of Napanoch, when the flood | swept a the highway, subwwr ing their car. At Kingston, police were warning | residents at the juncture of Rondout s kept religiously away i | | | | Cleme and written entirely in the Tiger's own handwriting. This s in October, 1619, when he was warded the medaille Militaire, The citation is short and in real Clemencean style “Marvelous soldier who since 1914 has never ceased to fight against the enen Tn 1918, caught the enemy by the throat and took preponder- ant part in victory. Directed the op- MEAT MARKET SPECIALS Tuesday & Wednesday n 31 SHOULDERS = 19 CORNED BEEF » 15 SHOULDERS . 18 n 21 BEEF LIVER FRANKFORTS ». 31 STRIP BACON ». 27 = ATLANTICS PACIFIC CUDAHY'’S “PURITAN" HAMS (whole) HANDY", DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928, more than an hour and many ve their |streams on the southern side of the homes, should the lock between the |Catskills overflowed their banks al- | canal and the creek give way under |though Rondout creek bore the bur- the increased pressure of the water. |den of the downpour. The water in- First Warning Given |undated more than 5000 acres of The first warning dwellers in the [rich dairying land. valley had of the cloudburst was| Police and volunteers throughout about two o'clock yesterday after- |the night patrolled the banks of the noon, when police at Ellenville re- |raging torrent, warning villagers to ceived a call for help from Eagle be prepared to leave their homes Nest. some distance nearer the head {should dams at Ulster lake and Cape of the stream. They reported that Pond give way. It was reported the flood appeared to travel in waves | that both structures had been weak- sweeping everything in its path. |ened by the flood. The crests of the flood was reach-| The cloudburst occurred at ap- od at Ellenville about 6:30 o'clock | proximately the point from w last night and the water began to|New York city planned to draw its subside during the night. The flood | new water supply, utilizing the con- reached its peak, however, at Ros- | fluence of the east and west branches cndale, gathering force from several | of the Neversink creek and Rondout ereek. | CROWDS THRONG. PARIS at noon ¥y to witnes ciation of war oact. Bhortly after the lunch hour t {number of spectators | greatly and the police hegan cle ing the streets that borde t ministry of foreign affairs. was no col but the police were All leaves were cancelled and eve | commanding officer was on du while a net work of patrolmen ‘unrn\«n over the factory regi { whe there are munism. The communists. through newspaper L'Humante, that they would not permit the y lice to stifle 1 and their maniée “solidarity with the Soviets much of the fact that Soviet Ru was not invited-to the first sig {of the treaty. T | cleanup during ti three persons wers carding walls with ry Kellogg's and ‘Pact of W: | Levine Undecided On th taion Barns and other outbuildings were swept away, and livestock was car- ried along with the raging current. As the waters rose, many families left thelr homes and fled to higher zround, while the water ate away the banks of the creek for a dis- tance of fifty yards on each side. arrested for p posters Gather Farly to Catch Glimpses of Celebrities There to Sign Famous Peace Pact Rain Falls in Torrents Napanoch was after five p, more than e Parls, Aug. 27 m. The rain tropical shortly (A —Crowds began fell with | to gather along the river embank- intensity for ment in front of the Qual d'Orsay 27 (A —Charlc: to London frc stated today th London, Aug. Levine, who flew Dessau, Germany. Peanut Butter Made from selected Virginia and Spanish peanuts—children love it LB PAIL Good to eat and good for you, too! 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