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CONTESTS FEATURE G 0. P. PRIMARIES Large Republican Vote Looked | for in Five Wards With republican contests in five | of the wards tomorrow after- noon, chief interest centers about the third voting district where one pres- ent member of the common coun- cil and three newcomers in politics | will make bids for the two council- | manic nominations there to I)Qv made. | Councilman W. §. Warner out for | renomination is in a field of candi- | dates which includes Attorney Wil- | liam F. Curtin, John J. Holloway | and Attorney Leonard . Appell. | Each candidate has made a canvass of the ward, the result of which is expected to be a record-breaking | vot { Although the fourth ward is con- | sidered to be the only recognized re- publican district in which the mi- nority furnished a real threat, four candidates seck to be the nominees of the G. O. P. ,and attempt to hold the district in the republican column. The candidates, none of whom had previous service in public office are Lewis A. Horwitz, Frank Narcum, Walter J. Nelson and Joseph Land- wehr, Peter J. Pajewski is believed to he far in the lead for the aldermanic nomination in the fifth ward, a p tion also sought by Stanley Ucha- lik. { The first ward will witness a fight for council nominations in which Councilman H. Stuart Hancs, Merton A. Kirby and William Scheuy are to be the participants. A democratic primary will be held from 4 to § o'clock today in the party headquarters, but in the ab-| sence of any contest, it will be & Jere formalily. 1f the party is sic- | cessiul in holding the fifth and siath wards, those districts will have | two changes m representation, John J. Kata and Degnan being the nonnn s for councilimen, 1'or the fir in several years, ther constahles, r St time 18 1o contest for the offices of and the following will be nomimated: Irancis Clynes, John ¥ O'Neill, James W, Manning and Jo- I Hayes Fdward J noconmittes Hennessy, sixth ward will be moder tha den primary. A. Karpinski and Marry Within will run for selectmen as a ticket which, if successful, will re sult in the elinnnation of Sclectman Jewis W a member of the board for the past 10 years. Tl republican primary places as follows: First Ward—Senior ssell, street ond Ward—State Trade school, Main street Third Ward—Camp school treet to man, of eratic ey Lawyer polling High school, Pros- P Fourth High school, Bl IVifth Ward Bartlett Broad and Grove streets Sisth Ward—Elhu Burritt Jun- High school, North street. Junior Chestnut Ward — Central Main and school, for MEXIGAN FEDERAL ARMY APPROACHES TOWN OF ESCALON (Continued from First Page) still hung fire, although they within eight miles of the town. A group of Amecrican fliers being organized by the rebels 1o counter the growing of plancs by the government forces. were use air- Acrial Battle to Death March 27 (® — In the first acrial battle to the death ever fought in Mexico a federal .pilot was victor. e sent his rebel adversary crashing from an altitude 4,000 feet, government advices v said The battle occurred Sunday dur- ing the sicge of Mazatlan by rebel forces under Generals Ttoberto ¢ and Krancisco Manzo. A federal plane piloted by Lieutenant Jorge Llercnas met the rebel plane over Venadilla, suburb of Mazatlan, and after brief mancuvering and fight- ing put the hostile crait out of com- mission, General Calles reported dent Portes Gil today that umns had succeeded in cr Desert of Bolson De that he expected by tonig vance guard would occupy I The federal generalissimo acribed the crossing “the serious battle of his military cam- paign.” He termed the desert a more powerful enemy than the rebel general. Joe Gonzalo Escobar, whos: troops he is pursuing. Rebels Rip up Roads rebels, retreating from Tor- tore up almost every mile of railroad track northward to Es- calon, and General Calles able to make but little use of the linc i advance. It was necessary to nrovide for his soldiers by | means of fank trucks, the isolated wells i the vast g in- rufficient for their Seventy tricks also were ne to carry fodder for the eavalr With arrival of his at Jarel Grande, =outh and at Bscalon. the former dent said, the water sitnation would solved, further ard would he quicker Mexico City, of tod: to Pre his col- ossing the imi, and t his ad- calon de- most The re th water horses forees today of Escalon, presi- advance than NOTICE Tk>Mountain Inn Foot of Wat ry Mt EVERY SAFURDAY NG DINNER and DANCE Entert £1.50 (No Cover Charge) Music By WALLER'S ORCHESIRA hone Sonthington 18-14 W. S. WARNER PETER J. PAJEWSKI the last hundred miles. The gen- eral's report revealed he was mov- ing anly a force of 9,000 men north frotn Torreon for the campaign in | Cy 1ahua, | marches of Monday and Tuesday, I can assure you.” General Calles wired to President Portes Gil, “give us complete control of the situation in Chihuahus his was inferred here to mean illes considered himself in ion now to force the t or to retreat from Sonora to fice 1 States a po- | to | state the rebels the into es said his aviators reported lonment of Escalon by the reb- cls with their forces concentrated at Jir z. 50 miles north. The " said Calles intended to go to his headquarters at Berma- | More Railways Ruined ville, as the campaign on st developed into an- prospective General lan wired all the railroad Culiacan, capital of hiad been torn up and he to force the rebels into an battle there when they found retreat cut short. o reported aviators un coast Gihior Jaine € the trac preside s noith of (doa hoped oper had under Is Roberio 20 at La on foot and Aviators flew harassed them rebel colums 4 Prancisco 1 flecing ¢ to Culiacar 1g and gun h were no rebel he said. T federal General Lazaro Cardenas Guadulajara for Tepic and with its arrival in Sinaloa | asc of the rebels, disheartened ure of their 2 on Mazat- | was to begin in earnest. this campaign and of | of General Calles and Almazan in the north were | here to confine the rebel- the of Sonora helore south of ity of rit; ch ok uccess of the efforts General lion to LNy more state da hi ») 1 Consul William 1. Blocker tlan, reported to the state partment telegram An- sent last night rebel ich had attacked that city in full retreat north of Quila consul said that rail and tele- communication to the south restored by the end of the ay in a Tie phi should b Morrow in a tel today said the rebel force state of Sinaloa, in whicl 1 is located, is now reported seen 2,000 and 2,500 men re sador gram in Maza He a o said there was no especial in the Chihuahua Bere General Calles is pursuing the DICKENS BOOK BRINGS 86500 March 27 (Pl—A prese fation of the first edition of Charles it novel “A Tale of Two Cities™ was s0ld o Gabriel Wells of New York, for 1200 pounds sterling. (ap prosimateiy £6.500) at Southeby's today. Dickens had copy of a gift to th Lissh novelist, Charles Lever,” Getion roons ‘Iu,\l' HERALD CLASSHLTLD NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WED WILLIAM F, CURTIN H. STUART HANES NTANLEY UCHALIK BOOZE SUNK IN RIVER 1§ OBJECT OF SEARCH Modern ‘Treasure nters Seck Liquid. Not Golden Riches—Boat- | loads on still Blair. Nch., Modern tre more 1 “prew their O time citizegy tell of the of April 1, 1864 hen the good ship “Bertrand” to the bot- of the Missouri river short distance from Blair DPown with the “Bertrand” a lafge cargo of whiskey cury. March sure hunters p) mad lern by prohibition - whiskey as the object of went tom a went and mer- hecame prow Treasure however, “Rertrand” niud bank, could ! ever, hunters when the found that tound of the a workman on bridge construction gan, he has the “low down’ the whiskcy and mercury found Every Blair ci showed interest when the spr the river of its ice fort to make the its whiskey and e 10 be underway, What whiskey is five active, ship. How- hway ares could be N ; in th « h, 1z thaw niptic a concerted Missouri give up reury i will would It up now. LONG DISTANGE PUPIL he jaw do if 11 found rehers have that rosy S0 rather not brou, Washington Student avels 180 Miles a Day 1o and from Coll —Studics on Train Seattle, Wash., March 2 Wihen Raymoad Jaureg ated from the University of Wash- ington he will be fully prepared fo cateh the 7:48 train for the offic He might well | id 1o he mia 1 day 9 trip to an & o'clock always on tinme. makes 0 class, and he is guy lives in Tacoma home in the he take ride, to Wher dark of th 30 inut atr takes s a then hoards cattlo trect car campus, “I study the tr obody disturbs you was believed Jq nal record for distance by a student comes and to ! on in," he said Tolds o traveled gy rly TOCZRO-ORZEL, Mis Anna Orzel stroct today Wi of announced of DING High ap- the daugh- Edward atherine Toc- niar- Mary’'s proaching 1 ter, Miss Toczho, et to irriage O Mrs. ( v street. T place at St son of » of 15 Be ringe will take chinreh on June ADbS Missouri River Bottom ! have | niL:h'.l of the | . 1R R DAY, 1 9 JOHN J, HOLLOWAY Y W1 LLOYD GEORGE 1S T0 BATTLE AGAN British War Leader Prepares IN still 1 party almost as it The “little W Lord Norti {he Ish W late s call two men ¢ orh tiot moved Llovd to Wales. 15 quite to ester thrne Thus shoem Geor his early cduct orte Vior school 4 Lloyd G his indebte At (i tarted o Jess (o 1 ning to be trai olicitor ARCH 27, 1 T e I In 1588 he marricd Margarct Owen of Chiccicth, Wales, and launched | | his political carcer by becoming secretary of the South Carnarvon- | shire Anti-Tithe league. He was | elected to parliument in 1890 as a radical, deteating con {opponent by 15 votes. Since then | his reputation as a champion of | Welsh nationalism, Welsh non-con- formity and liberalism has become thoroughly established in the coun- try and in parliament. His advancement has been steady. He was president of the board of {trade from 1506 to 1908, chancellor of the exchequer from 1908 to 1915 I minister of munitions from 1915-16, secretary of state for war in 1916, first lord of thc treasury and prime minister from 1916 to 1% Although the conscrva have pledged themselves to “safe- | | zuarding,” Lloyd George still is a | free trader, Ile calls a protectionist am “unutterable folly” and “You cannot have protection without taxing food and I am abso- {lutely certain the people of this country will net consent to food | taxes.” There scems only which Lloyd George agr with Stanley Baldwin, the conservative party leader and prime minister, and that is his high regard for Abraham Lincoln. Mr. a once said that the American war presi- dent was “one of i st men produced by our rac Lloyd George long has heen student of the martyred president’s life and is regarded as one of the few authori- ties in England on Abraham Lincoln ves now one point on civil MICHIGAN FAMILY * HAS 250 MEMBERS Brinks Keep Census Takers Busy Every Ten Years Cadillae, Mich., March John PBrink, 78, a here, clabms to be a the mily in stilt parents grandchildren dren and |dren to the all are AMic The Brir | Duteh Jol | eight brothers Michigan in rpy farmer nea member o the stat childrer great-grandchil- at-great-grandehil- mber of 250. Nearly largest f. living are ners Pennsylvania parents ! sisters eame from the (Key stone stile Oldest William in the group is now living hand, retired Muske rmer. Ten children, s living born o liams. She is 80 years old John had o daughters and son. One of the danghters is dea! the other Mick She is the mother of seven chil- dren, all living. John has two great-great-grandchildren. He re. Iy remarried following 1l ath of his fivst wife a year ago Xt in order in point of year a were Mrs, “ lives at Ravenna d ars M8 ather Mrs Mi Brink, 76 of tno gi a hoy. A. Griswol 1. of M on, *h., widow, mother of three | boy d living. Mrs. | of Grant Mich., o dead There than B grand- at-great-grand- of Canton, O two girls, ire Riley mother of 10, t now grandchildren, a0 children, and nine children, John's father and mother died when they were 75 | One of the grandchildren is a | banker, another an clectrical engi- neer, 1 2 third a Methodist min- All others in Michigan'. family are farmers. | niore both |ister. largest “TAX ON BOBBED HAIR" | " HOAX FRIGHTENS GIRLS B Practical Joker in Leipzig Sends | Out “Notices” Calling Attention to ‘ “Failure to Pay Tax” Mar bobibed he: thrown into a panic when their owners h the mail what ap- Leiy Germany, | (UP)—NMany of the lof Leipzig were the other day received th peared to be official notices calling attention to their failure to pay the JUST PHONE—6240 And we'll call. And we de- liver the garment as good as new, LINCOLN DRY CLEANING 0. Plant and Office 15 Lincoln Strect EASTER CARDS Choice Selection BEACON BOOK and GIFT SHOP 85 WEST MAIN ST TEL 6100 | were informed that they must |or 20, e required bobbed-hair tax. | that the notices might have been | positive the dampers were open. While none of the young ladies [the work of a practical joker, and ! i —as well as those who were not | even then a few remained skeptical | L so yoting—had ever heard of a tax |until it was formally and officiully | heen cn bobbed hair, only a few of them | explained that the city of Le ed. doubted the authenticity of the no- | was not tuxing hobbed heads. recked tices. The letters were written on | 5 the official stationery of the local tax office; the cold, abrupt, formal| 7Thy cause of the explosion at language employed in the notices | Landers, Frary & Clark's fuctory .ast | was exactly what one would expect| Wednesday mauy never be known, from a tax-colector. The recipients | Vice P ent Joseph F. Lamb said ap- today. The cloctrically operated kiln pear at the tax office on a certain | which was hlown up has been ex- day to explain their failure to pay amined by urance company rep- to have their tre measured | resentatives and officials of the con- to sce whether they were taxable. |cern without result Promptly at the appointed hour| Mr. Lamb said it is po scores of women appeared at the |the dampers wvere not open office. It was not until after they | gases inside oven did not had waited around for half a day.|a chance to « but the employe however, that it dawned on them |in charge of the oven said he Ll possible, a so, according to !dr? , for the dampers to have 1 to be open and yet be oven was so completely by tue explosion that no clue to the cause could be el EXPLOSION IS MYSTERY ' HURT of Oakland ton, who was take Britain General hospital afternoon after having n struck in the head with a base- while playing in a school yard I ton. was found to have ht concussion of the brain but no sknll fracture, it was said at the BOY N0 Elmore Nelson, Gar Farmin en to v vesterday Fec ball ir that have READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS was —— PAINTING AND KNOWLEDGE IN PERFECT HARMONY Better Home * t Decoratars ke 1878 WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH BOYLE PAINT We have heen telling about all its superior qualities . . . how well it wears . . . how splendidly it withstands the elements . . . how true and lasting its color . . . what real- ly wonderful paint we sell. 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