New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1930, Page 5

Taylor’s Last Hope ' Folorn Chance of 4~ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1930. of Aiding Wife Offering Health; Insists Compensation Hard to Get Bidseport Veteran Wil }{(USE BECOMES ing to Be Inoculated; With Trachoma Germs,| 1 But Albuquerque Doctor | Has No Money to Offer Mate—Out of Work Two | Months. ‘ Bridgeport, July 16 (UP)—Ches- | ter Taylor's last desperate hope to &ccure support for his wife—based | 6n the offer to give his eyes for medical experiment on appeared a forlorn one today, but the frail World War veteran still persisted that he was ready to offer himself for science Taylor was informed that physician at Albuquerque, N. M., who sought a man to inoculate s0 that they might experiment with gew treatments, had expressed interest in his offer, but did not have the funds to guarantee the wife's support. Believes It Last Hope “Well, I'm still ready,” was Tay- lor's comment when interviewed by a United Press correspondent in his meagest¥ furnished flat of four . “I'm still ready to g0 to work for any doctor who wants to ex- periment on the same terms, It's my last hope, I guess. I don't care what | happens to m long as 1 can get spmeone to take care of Ruth.” While he was talking his returned from a search for looking worn and dejected shook her head in response unasked question “Please don't let him sell himself to some doctor,” she implored the correspondent. “I'd rather starve than have him die from some awful disease. It he dies T want to die. 1'd rather live on like this than hav him suffering and me in comfor still Looks For Work Living “like this” for the Taylors means a continual round of factories trachoma— the wife work, She | to his e &nd shops without result; their {unds/ have long since d dled and the rent was due. Taylor was a baker's assistdnt until two months ago when poor husiness forced his discharge. The small savings were quickly dissipated as he and his wife made the endiess and djscouraging search for a job that was not available “I've been to every factory and 8hop in town since they fired me at the bakery. but there's a thousand men for every job and nobody wants a man in my physical condition,” Taylor said. He has bean operated on eight times since the war. The experience has made him bMter. Says Lif@ “Rotten Business” “Life isa rotten business anyhow," | he said. I gave the best years of my life over there—reenlisted after two streiches when we went into the war—and now what am I fitted for? 1 haven't even a trade. “A soldier can't be a man and get veteran compensation,” he went on “You can't take their back talk and keep your self respect. A man has to be a politician to get help from the vBterans' bureau.” Taylor said he 306th field artiller served with th FLAGPOLE KELLY HAS NERVOUS FIT Anno'yed by Cool Weather, He Cuts Himself Shaving Atlantic City. N, J.. July 1§ (UP) —Alvin “Shipwre Kelly never seems to have a hous lem, had a thoroughly unsatisfactory morning yesterday as he began his 24th day atop the 150-foot flagpole | on the steel pier here. In the first place it was cool and | Kelly wasn't dressed for it. His| woolens apparently had been left on scme distant flagpole and he shiver- ed from unseasonable chill Then the division. the th It was so windy cut himself with the razor. &tains from the wounds, the bluenecss ot his disposition and the white of his shirt combined to present a pa- triotic but depre sing spectacle Nevertheless, masking his feelinzs &< a true artist m perform- | ed stunts for the bencfit of photog- | raphers and 10,000 spectators. | Kelly is now establishing a new | world’s record as he passed his for- mer record of 23 days at 3:13 p. m. Monday. MOHAWK MINING PAYS DIVIDENDS Profit Slice Considerably Lower Than Previous Payments New York, July 16 (A—Directors | of the Mohawk Mining Co., a Lake Superior copper producing company, have declared a dividend of 75 cents | on the capital stock. Three months ago the company paid a dividend of $1.50. The company has been | paying dividends in' irregular | amounts | New York Merchandising Co. di- rectors yesterday declared a quar- terly ividend of 25 cents on the common stock, placing the issue on a §1 annual basis, compared with $2 paid previously. 1In addition the regular quarterly disbursement of 51.75 was declared on the preferred Both are payable August 1 to stock of record July The United Engineering & Foun- dry Co., of Pittsburgh, has declared the usual extra dividend of 35 cents, in addition to the regular quarterly | disbursement of 40 cents, payable | August § to stock of record July 29, | wear shoes and it w | before AID TO SCIENCE Rodents Now Being Used in Study of Cancer London, July 16 (A—The lowly mouse has become an instrument in |aid of human health. The annual report of the grand council of the British Empire can- cer campaign published yesterday says that an experimental method by which mice may be subjected to can- cer of the skin and heart has made available a mass of new material for necer researches Some causes of the di formerly were scarcely suspected said 1o have heen discovered, as a consequence of experiments on the small rodents. Among other experi- ments the backs of the mice have been painted with fobacco tar to accertain whether smoking causes malignant tumors of the mouth, but no case of malignant tumor has re- ase whic The report says that the death fate from the disease would be sub- stantially reduced if people took full advantage of radium treatments. The report revealed use time mustard gas in combatting the disease. It was stated that “the in- duction of tumors is inhibited when mustard gas is applied to an area of skin which is being swbjec to painting with tar. The report also seems to be the ue antic cinagenic ever discovered Action of the gas was explained as being localized to particular ar~a under treatment and its cure to he strictly limited in time, “but noue the less on that account a remark- able cure.” Mustard gas first agent SABOTAGE WITNESS FOUND BY AGENTS Wozniak Will Not Talk fo United States Offcials Washington, July 16 (® — looking for the cause of the & explosion and fire huge stores of ar land, N. J. government investigat- ors have located after a 12 year search, the missing key witness in the case He is Thepdore Wozniak, who was employed at the Kingsland am- minition plant, and subsequently became an important figure in Ger- many's defense against America $£40.000,000 sabotage claims for this 1 similar one at the Tom a the Lehizh railroad. Found In Tupper Lake Affidavits filed late yesterday with the G an-Americ mixed claims commission said Wozniak had been found at Tupper Lake, N. Y. in company with an attorney for Ger- many, who had refused to permit American agents to question him. Wozniak was interrogated imfme- diately after the disasters, but when the adjudication of the claims began after the war he could not be found. Arguments before the commission were ended reopened hy the Germans, They said that Wozniak had ap- ared at adquarters and Kingsland fire ted hench, but denied he had or been engaged in a program for imperial Ger- still time which destroyed unition at Kings- Black Valley at his wor caused it sabotage many. ~ Given Letter At Tupper lLake, Wozniak was given a lstter informing him he was wanted for questioning in Washin ton. Subsequently he went to New York, the affidavits said, last seen east side, He informed a government agent who was shadowing him he had no tention of coming to Washington questioning unless a subpogna entering a house on the for is issued. Final arguments are to be heard before the commission in Germany in September INDIANS PREFER SQUEAKY SHOES Style Introduced by Prince Who Wanted Attention Cateutta, July 16 (P dians from prince to merchant andl certain of the Swaraj ders have gene in for squeaky shocs consid ing that they give them swank. The average Indian coolie gocs bare-footed from babyhood. On the other hand the ruli classes all < a prince of Many In- the royal idea of wearing noisy footgear attract attention when he among the laboring natives and their likewise shoeless women in the vari- ous districts of his province Speakers of the Gandhi move- ment for self government, in travel- ing about the country and appearing assembles of natives in the have' found, to too, hoes ha country districts, they that squeaky helped them considerably th noise not only attracts ntion but gives them individuality as well The squeaky shoes are made chief- 1y by Chinese shoemakers in Cal- cutta and Bombay, the squeak being brought about by the loose tacking ot the sole leather so there is a cer- tain amount of friction say, American Indians are considered citizens of the United States and have the right to vote. of war- | and then the case was and was | blood who gonceived the | went | SEARCHERS PRESS LUTHERANS NOT FORWARD N HUNT We . CYCLE ENDURANCE . RIDERS CONTINUING quisition ars, the evid vent to hat we CONFIDENT NATION TG FIGHT LIQUOR - MAKING PROGRESS Still Hope to Find Trace of Air Pastor Says Churches Should Mrs. Willebrandt Believes Dry Mail Aviator | | Utah, July 16 (B — Confident they have picked up the trail made by Maurice Graham, air mail pilot, when he left his wrecked | plane in the Kanarra Mountains last | January, searchers today prepared to push deeper into the mountainous | country in their quest to learn his | tate. | | Major R. N. McDonald, World | War associate of Graham, and J. C.| | Leigh, sheriff, of Iron County, ves-| | terd®® discovéred what they are con- | | vinced is the trail taken by the pi- | lot Several miles south of the wreck- age of the plane theyagiscovered the remains of a campfire and articles which they believe were carried by Graham, including three revolver cartridges. The rumor airculated yesterday that Major McDonald had sefit a plane to investigate the report that an unidentiffed man suffering, from loss of memory, had been living in a shack near twe Boulder Dam site, proved unfounded. A check up revealed no plane had been dispatched to the Boulder Dam site on the Colorado River. Major McDonald, it was learned, had re-| ceived the report of the unidentified | | recluse some time ago, but had not | considered the, clue worth investi- gating. NSECTS GATHER T ATTACK CROPS Pests Increase in Numbers On| Western Plains Cedar City, 16 (A—An in- insect pests was to plague Washington, July creasing army of reported mobilizing toda the western farmer, and plans were pushed forward in the offices and| laboratories of the department of agriculture to combat the invasion. An outbreak of grasshoppers, forecast by the department two months ago, was described as ap- parently materfalizing in a half doz- | en states Caterplllars Gather Dr. W. H. Larrimer, department { entomologist, at the same time re- Ported a host of range caterpillars, | capable of layving waste to thous- ands of acres of grass, was gather- ing in northern New Mexico. Meanwhile, other department en- tomologists indicated that the dread suger beet leat hopper—described as one of the most serious existing drawbacks to the beet industry— night appear in greater numbers than last year. Grasshoppers similar to the custs” which have plagued and Palestine since Biblical were reported increasing out the entire United States. al- though they were not threatening in North and South Dakota. Michi- gan, Nebraska, Idaho and Colorado. An expected outbreak in Montana was averted by cold, wet weather| at egg hatching time. “The grasshopper is not the dread of the west it used to be,” Dr. Lar- rimer said today. ‘“Although it eaty préactically everyvthing edible, is born hungry and never satisfies its appe- tite, a poison has been devised ca- pable of killing the pests in guch great numbers that they fall 30 to the square foot.” “xperiment On Poison He said experiments were being | conducted by the agriculture de- partment to cheapen the cost of this n-mash-arsenic poison and give | wider use | A curious, wasp-like insect was| being introduced in the west to combat the range caterpillar, Dr. Larrimer said. Feefling on its en- emies eggs. he explained, the wasp should wipe out the caterpillar within four years. No means has yet been devised to combat the sugar beet leaf hop- per, other entomologists disclosed. Intensive experiments are being con- | ducted to discover a means of| chemical control | British Scholar’s Talk Edited Before Printing Boston. July 16 () — The address of the Rt. Hon. Herbert A. L. Fish- er, British scholar and main speaker at yvesterday's tercentenary celebra- | tion on the common, goes on sale today in the form in which it was written, although parts were deleted | at the request of the tercentenary| | commission before being delivered at the celebration. \ | Certain sections dealing With race | and religion, which were believed to | offer the danger of misconstruction, were removed by the scholar. About one-third of the address was deleted. | Original copies of the address, | distributed on Sunday were regalled | in order to make the changes. The | address in the original form, how- | ever, gocs on sale today The longest passage removed was | one dealing with the difficulties of | the Catholics and Protestants in England at the time of the Bay Colony’s founding. “lo- Egvpt days through- ‘Washington, 1 Cameron of Boston, newly appointed ambassador to Japan, has concluded his conferences with state depart- ment officials preparatory to sailing | July 29 on the President Taft from | San Francisco for Yokohoma, to as- sume his post While in Washington the ambas- sador talked at length on Japanese- Amegican problems with Assistant Secretary of State William R. Castle, Jr. American ambassador to Japan | during the London naval conference. KILLED BY SHOVEL | Meriden, July 16—Joseph Hepple, 19, was fatally injured at the Broad | street trunk line highway joh yester- | | day when he was pinned between the boom and steel girders of a tractor shovel. Hepple had jumped onto the machine to throw a lever land was caught, | tion M e Law Wil Be Enforced Den Not Be Dry Weapon | Cleveland, July 16 (®) — Selection of next year's meeting place was the principal business before the annual convention of the International Wal- ther League today. Delegates from New York Jersey and Pennsylvania joined in urging that the 1331 meeting be held at Lutherland. Pocono Pines, Pa., a summer colony and camp promoted by the league. Rev. Harry Weidner, Cleveland,! vesterday told the 2.000 young Lu- therans assembled for the conven- that the churches should not be made a weapon for prohibition- ady Beaten Indiana Record Hoovcr Real Fighter Ho ed States and ultim: enforcement of the nation. tion law pressed or de New | dress day for Nomin, started their relay at 6 p. m. Sun- day, July 6, furthermore scorn the orts of several others in Litrle rry, to better their record. saylag it they win it will not ause the Little Ferry boys men,” all 19 years old. oungsters are Jimmy Dooley . Vincent Hoffman and Uzzalino. They ride in of six hours eac making it hour working day. last night the boys 216 hours, beating diana of 120 hours have travelled es, around Jac Fe Per tore At six o'clock 2d pedalled for vd of spectators “mployment Bureau and - Steady Employment al Fee # . Call, Write or Phone he Lutheran church does not want to force its views upon anyone through the state,” he said. "It feels that the prohibition law expresses the religious sentiment of a few churches which consider it their duty to tell others not affiliated with them how they must live “The Lutheran church feels this is usurping the rights of state. 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