New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1929, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN lost more men and gained mora ground there. It was the longest | gain made by any allied division up | to that time in the World war. Our Qivision held the whole sector and then advanced and captured the German positions. | The 52nd brigade was prominent | 26th Division Going Ahead With Plans For Its Belleau Memorial In Spite of Harbord Statement s b s o | New Britain Men, Who Died in Battle, Included A'mongi £i¥ie dojnot wanbile entennioig ; Gbaltics For Whom Chiirch in' French! Town | |dia nesac. ke emicers, The | Is Being Reconstructed—Boston Lieutenant irouble s thegeecond Dl B on Criticizes Marines. sion of the regular army while the 16th | | was a National Guard, a volunteer | organ tion As a matter of ]fi\\\.i we were just as regular as they | were and more so. The Second Di- | vision was officered by regular army | officers. Some of the non-coms were regular army men, but most of | them were new at the game. We're going back to Belleau on| September 28 to dedicate the church It has been a long time in the pro- | All the rest| cogs of construction and It appears | elsewhere. | 1o me that it is rather late in the| game now to criticise. | Company T in Front Line | veral hundred men from Con- | necticut, including many from New | Britain, were killed in the advance | for it. He |out of Belleau Woods and Boures- | on in t committes | ches on July 18, 1918, | t 3 the for the of the 102nd, composed of Meriden ed over § ind New Britain men, was in the| as contribut- | front line when the advance started. | The drive in which the division took part continued for seven days and | its and on the morning of the | cighth day, the 26th Division was| relieved by the 42nd or Rainbow | another National Guar on Harbord,| In answer to charges made | Major General Harbord. Lieuten- | Carroll Swan, formerly ar | officer in the 26th Division and | of the Second Division, A. E. I7, president of the YD club in Boston | precipitated a red-hot controversy|stated “These marines think they over the erection of a memorial in|won the war ard they didn't even the town of Belleau in has ull division over there. They the 26th Division of New had oaly two brigad n of war dead in Paris and Harbord claims that Belle greatest bunch of adver- property of the marines world.” erection there of a mem other d n “will distor for post U Veterans and former he Yankee Division, t land National Guard World War Major General James G the president of the Radio Corporation of America and wartime commander of the Fourth Brigade of Marines, by an has Swan s workin nt to France and as- s sery on the A scorc an irbord | donated the division. memorial h: two years,” and the vaking ver miembers o of the way for have declar oo \struction b Harbord's cor ler ‘ Swa ficial ments John J 3 th t Be comt Pers the concern- at prot \(l\ he division was commanded by s- Major General Cl Bdwards Month |3nd the 102nd re ; Coloner YD | john (Machine Gun) T the drive more than 7,000 prisoners and 100 guns n by the di- vision and 18 and a half kilometers, nearly that number of miles, in ound was taken. The salient was closed with pture of Y and ) leau ence, Woods, gion m the to Dedication on October 10 Two vision ton on the exerc Belleau o Division taking any glory lieutenant st place, we no yrial in Bel- Woods town o Octobe Fismes yemori on August 6 Portes Gil Eliminates Mexican Death Penalty xico City, Aug. 8 (A—President | E lio Portes Gil has eliminated the death penalty from the draft of ti new national penal code which he xpected to promulgate before the | 4 of the month | He is still considering, however, | proposals to eliminate trial by jury in favor of examination and fixation of punishment by a committee of physchlogists, behaviorists, nd doctors. di- and lNean y the elleau B stene.d of a chapel reco . e woods, a town d vision th ch le la I Woods by the gade d The \f fon M rmans a tine Tt old but ribute for a ma or ion. as five infantry one hich, the 102 from the «ct two comp ment, half of th up of New Britain n Companies E and 1 ent, C. N. G.. w ralgamated with comipa came designation in the § iment, into two L102nd Infantry, 26th Divigion. General _iarbord claims that th cond Division saw heavier fighting in Belleau Woods than the New Iingland National Guardsmen and he intimated t the Second Divi- s/0n might formally protest the er tion of the th Division memo in Belleau ited sol- d years $ ticut wcing it as of ly we lost in appear o our casualt *It is being ¢ rmission and and military authorities and societies and with appro- sal of o government Captured Town of Belleau P rench ci\ the The presideht has long been an | enemy of capital punishment but he “It is true that the marines were |iS 5aid mot to have convinced him- Belleat Woods, but they didn'e|S€lf ¥et that arguments that juries advance tl They merely held |aFe swayed more often by sentiment St relioved the marines||than reason are valid. on July 5 and held the line until the e 7 18th when we advanced and took, 39 RUSSIANS FACE TRIAL among other things, the town of Bel-| Tokyo, Aug. 8 (A—Rengo new leau. Our division ptured thai dispatches from Harbin, Manchuria, | e Contredictas ‘\m\rv‘iv | m: "1‘\11‘1;'\!\"50\\‘lly]dn\v\. '3\11‘:‘_\] | today 1;\11. Ay who | According to him. the Second Div- | ™ v £ /e went e aid on the so- | B on for about and a haif kilo- |viet consulate there May 27 had been isten was thrown into a breach i1 e the line at the Belleau Woods on mete |charged with communist plotting | < “Our memorial committee first|and committed to trial. | June 2, 1918, to stem a tide of e G GRS e | GO R e A EHL e | : gL - we had fough ey decided that| China’s 400 million population driving towards Paris. TFor 12 days, ) i SR Pol Bk conmotan At |dbe everest s in Bellgau | won't insure success in war. Onc Mot R n Matnis: the Ninth [Hid t reatest ac- |doughboy had a population equal | and Twenty-Third Infantry : gormpt iy die | Second Engireers with t | panying artillery and machir units, battled. General Harbord elaims that on June 12, the division was relieved by the 26th Division. _ This is said to be incorrect. The #6th Division entered the lines ani relieved the ‘ccond Division on Ju fth, holding the line, which includs the Belleau Woods and the town Bouresches and accompanying ter- | ritory until July 18 when the cou ter:attack was started. The divi- sion then started the drive to close the salient made by the German a vance and the battle has become known as the battle of Thierry. companies of (2 in fig at there was th ment of our division. Itchy Eczema on Husband’s Scalp. ' | Kept Him Awake. Cuticura Heals. “My husband had eczema break out in sore eruptions on his scalp. 1t itched and burned and kept him awake nights. The eruptions scaled over and he used to scratch them until they would bleed. He had to wear a cap at night on account of the trouble. It bothered him for several months. “He began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment and they helpeg him and after using one cake of Cuticura Soap and one and a half boxes of Cuticura Ointment he was completely healed.” (Signed) Mrs. M. C. Ross, 37 Happy St., Norwich, Conn., March 19, 1929. tment 25 and 50c. Talcum 25¢. Sold everywhere. Sample each free. ‘Cuticura Laboratories gDept. H, Malden, Mase. 3~ Cuiicura Shaving Stick 25c. Chateau Special One Week Sale SEVERAL SUMMER DRESSES At $12.75 Starting Tomorrow These Will Be Reduced $1 Each Day Seme of these are not strictly summer dresses but all year around prints Parker & Parker Open Until 9:00 Frid: Closed Saturday at 1:00 Company Tlipe department of |it is understood, carried on negotia | DAILY HERALD, THUKSDAY, AUGUST § 1929 the near future it would lend | Byra. F[]UR ARRESTE[] lN | statod they had mointention of talks |sirength. to the report of last wee I }ing part * n any plane to use unfair | Mrs. Mary Bourgeois was a | tactics toward any person or organ- | Britain visitor yesterda ing what they consider a just claim.” {NCW Haven Woman Mrs. Hillenbrand, it is understood. | acted as the Nobles' in some | Details of Washington Charggs| of ineir nexetintions with the Cui- Obscure Pending Trial e an internationally fire AL, known sculptor, are at liberty under (Continued from Page Seven.) hond and one is in the district jail e here today on charges of conspirac to blackmail Capt. and Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, socially prominent Wash- ingtonians who entertained the Prince of Wales on his last visit here. Before U. §. Commissioner Need- ham C. Turnage the five pleaded not guilty of the charges. W. Clark Noble. famous sculptor, and Mrs. Noble: James F. Byrd, attorne and Stephen rmstrong, busin man, all made bond. Mrs. Anna ] Hillenbrand, a nurse, failed to pro- vide bond and was sent to jail. 0,000 Char from a complaint filed by Capt. and Mrs. Calhoun with j e charging extract 70,000 and had thre: ened that “this will be one of the greatest scandals in history if it cver comes out in print.” attorney for the Nobles, agent with New Haven, Aug. 8.—(/P—Sidney ade of this city reported o police ¢ the disappearance of his wif 25, and their four year old | son, Arthur. Slade said his wife and {son left home Saturday to go to | Tarrytown, N. Y. to visit his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Polla Mrs. Slade and the boy took a train bound for New York city where they were to change for the Tarrytown ade has learned, however, mother and son did not ar- | rive at Mrs. Pollack’s-honic The husband said Mrs. ir Washington, rsons. one | Wesleyans has been postponed one week and will be held Saturday. August t the home of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Morse. 3 There will be a Methodist church th {o'clock conducted | Adkins. | The library will row afternoon and exchange of books. Ralph Gamble of Springficld, Vt., and son Ralph, jr., are expected to this afternoon for a short visit with friends. Mrs. Gam- ble and daughter, Virginia, came carlier in the week and are the sts of Mr. and Mrs. George Dal- service at the| ade had evening at § by Rev. L. E. tomor- | for the | be open evening Sought §2 ere arose the defendan fromithem:$2 > Tafanso club will wtey party this evening in New | Britain, all of the cight members {to attend, Mrs. Ralph Gamble to The complaint gives only scanty |be their guest. The party will leave information as to the background of |from hére at 6:45 o'clock. events actuating the charge. Noble R 1 repair men connected the state highway department have | {been inspecting the highway be- st Berlin and Middletown during the present week. Their ac- ! believed to be connect- ed with present activities perfain- ing to the New Britain and Middle- ttown bus route which now seems to {appear as a possibility, The road from New Britain to East Berlin is in excellent condition but from here o Middletown it is in poor | vepair. Tf work is commenced in hold a INTERNATI with tions for some years with the Wo- 1 Alliance, in which s are interested, for the a miother’s memorial according to a statement Calhoun, asked the organ- ization to him a contract for 500,000 his complete design nd for his unifinished 1odel alliance refused to do e 1ding that Noble, in . withdrew his design. men’s tween [tivities are give for 350,000 The said. Our graduates are the best proof we can offer in favor of our methods. Let us give you a list of our pupils who are more than making good. DAMPNESS doesn’t discriminate. Wet weather hardens salt on the dinner tables of rich and poor alike. At least, ordinary salt gets lumpy. 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