New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1929, Page 4

CRNESE FLOVERS 1N ANERIGAN PARK San Praciso Bas Disgay of Rare Oriental Blossoms ‘Washington, D, C., May 7 — Thbusands of visitors who have mar- veled at the rainbow beauty of the rhedodendrons in Golden Gate park, 8a3 Francisco, this spring, may have been unaware that these graceful and colorful plants blossomed this year for the first time in the United States, and that back of their intro- duction in this country is another eplc story of heroic adventure of American plant hunters. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the Nationa] Geographic society, to- Gay received from John McLaren, superintendent of the San Francisco park commissioners, a letter which, in part, tells the story of these flower: “Reveral years ago we received through your kindness a collection of rhododendron seeds, most of | them having been gathered in west- ern China by Dr. Joseph F. Rock, | under National Geographic society | auspices. Blossomed for First Time, “We were successful in germinat- ing the majority of these seeds and | for the past month or so many of | them have been coming into blossom, for the first time in this country. These constitute both a striking color display and a very interesting bo- tanfcal exhibit, and will mark a new departure in the cult of the genus rhododendron locally. “Many forms are yet too small to have borne flowers, and it may be years before we are able to estimate | fully the debt we owe to your so- | ciety and to Dr. Rock.” The rest of the story—the chap- | ter ‘which embodies the adventures and dangers of plant hunting in the remote world areas—is hinted by Dr. Roek in a letter received at the Na-| tional Geegraphic society headqus ters the same day. The letter was| written in the “wild west” of China's| " | sis Tibetan borderland, a region where | king and one from a bandit address- ed to the king. It happened that after our second tour of Mt. Kouka in August a severe hail storm de- stroyed the barley fields of a tribe that lived to the southeast. This calamity they attributed to the dis- pleasure of the residing deities in the snow peaks, caused by our collecting plants and birds and our climbing about those sacred peaks. They said they had planned to rob us on our second visit but now they would kill us. So the king exhorted me not to | go near the mountains.” NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 7, BOY SCOUTS POINT FOR B1G JANBOREE 50,000 Due in England for In- ternational Competition Bitkenhead, England, May 7 (P— Bridge Burning Barred Visit | g o00cnony here already are put- Apparently it was not the menace | of the superstitious kept Dr. Rock from visiting the re- gion again for, he adds, in matter- of fact fashion: “We then found the bridge leud- ing across the river into Kouka ter- tribesmen that [ting in stores of boy {ment in fall of 50,000 customers when the great the twenty-first anniversary of the birth of scouting opens at Arrowe | scout equip- anticipation of the wind- world jamboree to celebrate ritory burned, so this prevented us park, July 31. irom going even to the base of the | mountain.” jover-night population of One of Dr. Rock's memorable con- tributions te science was the loca- tion of the chaulmoogra tree, the of which arrests the progress leprosy, and which is so successfully 4 now that the number of pa-| tients in various leper colonies has been materially reduced. Later, while heading an expedition of the National Geographic society, Dr. Rock sent back to this country a blight-resisting chestnut tree which 18 being experimented with by the department of agriculture as means of reforesting chestnut arcas devastated by the blight. | A complete set of Choni classic writings, hand-bound between pine board covers, deposited in the li- brary of congress, in Washington, at- | tests one of Dr. Rock’s most im- portant discoveries; his explorations | among the people of an ancient Ti betan principality, ruled by a here- ditary prince, the existence of which | was unknown to the Chinese them selves. It was in a Choni lamase that Dr. Rock located printing bloc of the Kandjur and Tandjur, chief Tibetan classics, and effected the preservation of a set of the iwo classics which are of priceless valuc ih a study of world religion Victim of Gunmen | Detroit, May 7 (A—Because he re- d an attempt to their own ernment of [turning Arrowe park and the sur- |and The of “parking” an this siz with their own laws and customs, internal system of gov- even, will be solved by problem rounding country into a vast ca It will be a little town in itseir. complete in every detail, and will print its own newspaper. Its “citizens” will be drawn from every corner of the globe. Forty- two countries will be represented among the scouts expected. Indian scouts, Burmese scouts, youngsters from Ceylon, the West Indies, Af- vica, will mingle with Great Britain, the United States Canada, Australia, New Zealand in a great international confraternity. Young and old, smooth-faced and bearded, decked with the medals of long service, or trudging for al- most the first time in khaki, they will gather with knapsacks on back staves in hands, to meet the chief scout, Sir Robert Baden-Pow- ell, and their brother scouts in the biggest international camp of good-fellowship that the world has cver seen, The Duke of Connaught will open the jamboree, which will continue until August 13. City officials are cooperating with the boy scout chiefs in organizing displays. con- certs, rallies and exhibitions of special interest to scouts, no mat- ter what their nationality. boys from | Competitions in woodcraft, sports, and athletics . will be held among the various groups. A prominent feature will be huge camp-fire meets, around which scouts from countries all over the world will exchange stories and relate the various customs and peculiarities of scout life in their native lands. Scoutmasters and interpreters will lead these meets, and will en- courage boys of different nation. .| alities to mingle and make friends. One of the hardest worked mem- bers of the organization staff, now busy preparing for ‘sthe jamboree, is the camp quartermaster. He is checking and putting in store thousands of articles necessary to every good scout’s happiness, The commissary department will have an anxious time preparing food to suit the tastes of the | youngsters®from all parts of the |world. The British scouts declare, however, that by the end of the jamboree they will have interna~ |tionalized roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. | Brockton R—e-fuses Heflin' Summons Brockton, Mass, May 7 (UP)—A | resolution sceking the arrest of U. 8. Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Ala- bama today had missed its mark by as wide a margin as the historic smpty bottle which was hurled at him here March 18. | By a vote of 20 to 1, the Brockton {common council decided last night that the senator should not be sum- moned before the local district court for addressing a Ku Klux Klan meeting in Vasa hall last St. Pat- |rick's Day without a permit. The only councilman who voted in favor of the resolution was How- ard Coleman, its author. SE SPAC | New York, May 7 (P—Corporal |Claude B. Tidd of the Royal Cana- |dian mounted police ahd Mrs. Tidd, |who was Mary Ryder of Lancaster, .. are visiting here, but are anx- ious to get back to his station in the | Ross river country, 400 miles from the nearest settlement. They can't | et accustomed to the noises of the {cit | JUDGE TO PRESENT SPELLING PRIZES B. F. Gatfney to Take Part in Bee This Evening Prizes for the Herald’s fourth an- nual spelling contest which starts this evening at 7:30 o'clock are in the hands of the spelling bee editor and will be presented to the lucky apellers on the stage of the Central Junior High school this evening, im- mediately after the close of the spelling bee. The Herald has been fortunate enough to procure the promise of Judge B. F. Gaffney to present the prizes. Judge Gaffney was one of the judges in the Herald's firsh spelling bee, when he was chairman of the board of education. When he re- signed as chairman of the board of education Judge Gaffney was invited to continue as judge of future spell- ing contests, but declined on the grounds that his successor as chair- man of the board of education, P. I, King, was the logical man. He has followed the contests with keen in- terest and this evening he again will appear in the spelling be in an offi- clal capacity. The doors of the Central Junior High school auditoriuin will open at 7 o'clock. For the last time the Herald wishes to emphasize the fact that lack of a ticket will not bar anyone from the audience, although the possession of tickets will assure the holder of a better seat. The spellers will meet with the spelling bee editor as soon as the doors open, at 7 o'clock. The first half hour will consist of a concert by the Boys' club fife and drum corps. At 8 o'clock the spell- ers will be introduced to the audi- ence and the nature and rules of the = 192, contest explained. the bus against the rear right fen-|will be the first called by the Ssim- When the spelling is half finished, L. 'P. Slade, pronouncer, will call a few minutes intermission to relieve the strain upon the spellers, while the Boys’ club fife and drum corps plays another selection. At the close of the contest the prizes will be awarded by Judge Gaffney and the meeting will adjourn to music by the drum corps. A telegram arriving late yesterday afternoon from Donald McWain of Louisville, Ky.,, who is manager of the national spelling bee, which will be held in Washington, May 21, and to which the Herald will send the city champion, states that there will be a total of $2,600 to be divided among 21 spellers in Washington, The winner of the first prize will be given $1,000. Other prizes will| be as follows. Second prize, $500; third prize, $250; fourth prize, $150; fifth prize, $100; sixth prize, $75; seventh prize, $50; eighth prize, $40; ninth and tenth prizes, $30 each: eleventh to twenty-first prizes inclu- sive, $25 each. Truck Turned Around In Collision With Bus An automobile truck owned and driven by Alfonse Vozella of 40 Con- cord street, collided with a Connec- ticut Co. bus driven by Thomas C. Martin of 515 Stanley street about 10:10 last night at the intersection of Myrtle and Washington streets, the impact of the front bumper of All In Intestinel poisons are sspping Jour energy, stesling your pep, making you 111, Take M —NATURR'S REMEDY—the wale, le, vegetable X rieht. Gotasicbor. @ ALRIGHT Recommended and scld by All 22 New Britain Druggists der %of the truck turning the truck around and smashing the left rear wheel. The bumper and left front mudguard of the bus were bent, Ofricer John W. Riley reported that Vozella was driving north on Washington street and the bus was proceeding west on Myrtle street. No cause for police action wzos found, 3 HEARINGS BEGIN TOMORROW ‘Washington, May 7 UP—Hearings will be begun tomorrow by the sen- ate interstate commerce committee on the bill of Chairman Couzens for the establishment of a federal com- munications commission, L. G. Caldwell, former general counsel for the radio commission, mittee in the hearings, which are ex- pected to go extensively into radie, - telephone and telegraph communi- cation, b The first post office in the Unit~d States was in Massachusetts. q. Dead Letter Office was established . In 1825, * 666 s & Preseription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, llengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. 18 Is 1he mant sprevly rensls known. To Page 5! RAPHAEL'’S 4-DAY MAY SALE — Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday " Big Values In Summer “take him for Dr. Rock was the first explorer to|2 ride” William W. Gunn, 51-year- cnter many areas, and where he has|0!d music store owner, was shot fa- diseovered many mew plants of |tally late last night at the door of ecobomic value, revealed strange |lis home. His wife, Carrie, naprow- tribes, and studied ancient religious |1Iv_escaped being struck by a shot | rites hitherto supposed to have been |Which lodged in the side of the ! effaced from human rituals. | doorway in which she was standing. More Plants of Value | Gunn was summoned to the door “During the summer while explor- | ©f his house by his wife .in response | ing we collected thousands of speci- |10 @ request by two men. As he ap- | mens of plants and earmarked such | peared both men drew weapons and | as would prove of value if introduc- |ordered Gunn to accompany them. | ed Into the United States,” Dr. Rock |Gunn seized the nearest and obtain- | wrote. “When we returned to our [ed his gun but the other opened fire, | base In the fall and requested the a bullet striking the music store | tribal king to exert his good influence | prictor in the stomach. with the outlaws of Mt. Kouka he| The two men then fled in an au- was obliged to decline for various tomobile. redsons. 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