New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 17

" EX-EPLIYER 15 STRONG FOR ‘HERB’ Mues Hoover Made “Darn " Oiice Boy Portland, Ore., Nov. 2 (—That Bert Hoover was a “darn good office | boy,” was the emphatic declaration of B. 8. Cook, Portland real estate man, who was one of the two men Who gave Herbert Hoover, republi- | Herbert, attended this achool. B. S. Cook, the Portland real estate man, was Dr. Minthorn's eolleague in organizing the school, and was trustee of the institution. At about this time the Oregon Land Company was organized in Salem, a small town then, about 30 | Dr. Minthorn and| miles away. Cook were the organizers. “Bert” | Hoover, as he was then known by everyone was employed by the firm. “Bert was the best office boy any firm ever had,” Cook said as he rceviewed the old days. “He never fussed around and he stayed home nights and he knew just where everything was in the office, And he knew, too, just when any- body would want anything in_the can candidate for the . presidency, | office. his start in the world of commerce. | “Yes sir, Bert was a smart lad. And Mr. Cook, an elderly, jovial And how he could talk when he soul, carefully folded up a note of got started! He said some things lrlendly greeting he had recently that were really wonderful—all received from the republican stan-|about geology and geometry &nd darn bearer, and stowed it away in his letter case after having proudly displayed it to the circle of friends | who had gathered for a chat. It was back in 1888 that Herbert Hoover first entered the trading ' marts, He started with the Oregon Land.company, at that time a thriv- ing real estate busincss in Salem, such, you know.” . “I have one of his geometry books home now. Cook said, smiling gently. “Of coursé, he hastened to add, “I don’t know anything about that sort of thing— I just kept the book as a sort of keepsake, you know.” Mr. Cook continued: NEW BRITAIN DALY HERALD. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928 While here he will meet important | Messrs. Carmichael, and ‘it was South African statesmen. mornigg without a ticket, but four N began his career as & mining en- gineer. . “] was among those” Cook said, “who recommended Bert for his first employment as & ‘mining en- gineer. He went to Australia with an English company. 1 think he got $6,500 a year—an awful lot of money in those days. They say at Stanford that at that time Bert was the highest paid of any student just stetpping out of the university."” OLD TRIRAL RELICS Minnesota. Discoveries Antedate Columbus’ Time Winnebago, Minn., Nov. 3. (UP) —Evidences of hison, deer, elk nd Indians were discbvered by Engineer | C. N. Krosh, Fairmont, Martin coun- ty highway engineer, when he un- carthed seve ndian graves in a gravel-pit two miles northwest of here, A clay vase, with designs worked around the rim while the piece was still plastic, was found. A human vertebrae, deer and elk horns shoulder blades of bison, jaws of wolves and shells of an extinct specle of clam were among the relics found. A representative of the Smithso- nian Institute wecently visiting the EW ST—\R GU l"l‘ here that George arrived very rule in hand and pencil behind ew: Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 2 UP—The | Passing the ticket collector Gecrge wide scope of astronomical knowl- | would say “Carmichael's” and pass — edge is indicated in a Source Book ation and the Carnegie Foundation lmpomt Job The book deals with nearly 150 dif- 4 ferent astronomical subjects, from “reconciling scriptural texts $hat Cape Town, South Africa. Nov. 2. /seem to oppose the doctrine of the | UP—The suggestion is being made in |€arth’s mobility.” to nebulae and ' political _circles, both here and in |star photography. The authors are England. that the Duke of Glouces. Dr. Harlow Shapely and Helen E ter, third son of the King of Eng |Howarth of Harvard college observ- land, take over the governorship atory. of South. Africa when next it falls — vacant. CRASHES RAIL STATION The fact that political prepara-| London, Nov. 2. (UP)—A foot tlons, according to reliable sources, | rule, & pencil, and the name of a are now under way to test the ac: | puilding firm supplicd George tual desire of the South African | Young with free transportation government shows that ~the sug- | from his home in Dagenham to his | gestion has passed the “rumor”|pusiness in London for many days stage. The Mansion House railroad s‘a The present governor general 1s |tion was being reconstricted e the G54-year-old Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary. He has been in office since 1923 and last year consented to scrve a second term only upon great pressure ex- In Astronomy prepared by two Har- \Rumor Has It He Will Have mme’ smerican ‘orirooopmion: “Asoocr | out into the street. After he was chught, George “ad | to pay $20 fine with $10 costs, or have free hoard and lodging as tne | Buest of the government for a month. New Face ' Powder Popular MELLO GLO i# a wonderful new —youth color. in dry and drawn. 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Oregon by his' uncle, Dr. H. J.!they belonged, letters all sorted and !in that territory were from a race| The Duke gf Gloucester is now Minthorn, in 1885, shortly after the |filed, and everything in order.|older than the Indians found 1in|in Africa with his brother, the @eath of the boy's mother, a widow. | When he was not busy he had his | America when Columbus tanded. Prince of Wales. He will go by The doctor and Mrs. Minthorn head either in a book on mathe- Martin county has a King Tut|ecasy stages, stopping for some big eared for Herbert as though he was' matics or geology. He was a won- | Club, composed of men who have|game hunts, from Nairobi down thelr own. Upon arriving in New-|der in arithmetic.” a mania for reli~s. 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