New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1930, Page 6

5E G i g . all new New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT New Britain, Compecticut Issued Dally (Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bidg., 67 Cburch Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES 3590 & Yoar $1.00 Three Months e & Moath Tatersd at the Post Office at New Britain &8 Second Class Mall Matter, TELEPHONB CALLS Business Offce 28 Kditorfa]l Rooms The only profitable advertising medlim In the City. Circulation books and pres Toom always open to advertisera. Member of the Associated Press The Amocisted Press ia exclusively en- titled to_the nse for re-publication of redited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local mews published thersin. Member Audit Bureaa of Crculation The A. B. C. is & national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with s strictly honest analysis of clrculation. Our circulation statistics are based upon this audit. This insures pro- tectlon against fraud Io newspaper dis- tribution figures to both pational and local advertisers. The Herald fs on mle daily In New York Hotaling’s Newsstand, Time Square; Bchuits's Newsstand. Entrance Grand Central, ¢3nd Street. Nothing new under the sun in politics, f'rinstance: “Democrals flayed at G. O. P. Outing.” Seems a policeman was found in a speakeasy during a raid. sSo thoughtless of the raiders not giv- ing the brother cop notice to keep out while the business call was be- ing made. Out in Toledo, O., the explosion of a still killed four persons. By the way, Ohio is the bbne dry state where Senator Fess comes from and where the politicians are ali . bone dry. The lion which roamed at large inside a Boston & Maine freight car was destined to be an attraction at & New Hampshire filling station. " The time when every filling station is to have a zoo, however, is far distant. Off hand we should say the system of showing wild animals at a 200 has nothing to commend it. SR PROBING ELECTRIC RATES Our councilmanic drive to de- termine the justice of existing elec- | tric light rates in this city seems . 4o be proceeding quietly. The effort, o 2 however, has met with some inter- est elsewhere, electric rates being what they are. The Hartford Times comes hand with an exegesis of the local efforts, and after reviewing the causes that led to the attempt to secure ‘the ' needed ':imformation, waxes a trifle’ pessimistic at the abllity of the committee when con- fronted with the expert interpreters of cost figures that the C. L. & P. Co. In all probability will be able ‘to produce. Says the Times: To discover whether a rate is rea- _sonable one will require some keen analysis of cogt figures. 1t may beg quite easy for the company to pro- duce data showing that its income from electric current sold is not too high. But before such a state- ment ‘should be accepted as final, the question should be raised as tb whether the company is properly capitalized. For example, it is free- to . ly pointed out by economists that the modern holding company, or parent corporation, can easily be used to float large stock issues, the expending of which ~may or may not benefit a given community, and the interest on which becomes a drain on income revenue. Thus the income from one city may be uscd to finance construction in another part of the state. Yet to determine whether the capital structure is in keeping with the best interests of the consume one would need to survey the whole financial setup of the corporation, admittedly a large task and requir- ing expert guidance. Also, it would need to be determined what share of central power plant structure is properly chargeable in the rate for a particular town or city. Chances are that the company's perts will talk the public and ils representa- tives off its feet on these points. Connecticut lacks law providing for entirely adequate supervision of | utllity rates by the public utilites commission. 1t will be interesting to observe how far New Britain's com- | mittee gets with its investigation. The committce should regard this as & warning. Figures don't lie, but there are ways of interpreting then. The committee should not be guid- | ed by the persuasiveness of expert | cost make it a business to cause figures to falk i accountants who any language. NAMING MR. SEYMOUR Nomination of Colonel Clar W. Seymour as the Republican can- didate for Congress from the first without a | realize district was completed hitch. George A. Quigley, teemed Mayor, seemed 1o which the and not cating to get himselt into a fruitless and hootless tangle in | the district rites, ing his delegates The gathering pretty lovefeast and our own Gard- | ner C. Weld had the satisfaction of casting the ballot for th vention in favr of his Mr. Seymour is a first class can- didate. From the®moment when he our, wind was blowing | way withdrew by viell- to Mr. Seymour. therefore, was a entire .nn—" nd announced his intention of being a | candidate for the nomination the stoek of Congressman k. Hart Feun ! went into a total eclipse. Inde dl“n“h she is spokesman in I ment to become effec there is a well authenticated rumor that influential Republicans of the district had had enough of Mr. Fenn and that they considered the time ripe for a change. Nobody wanted to hurt Mr. Fenn's feelings how- ever; so the current congressman was left to realize that the bagking behind Mr. Seymour was very great, and that he would probably win at the convention. Mr. Fenn did not require a more definite hint and as he had been sick anyhow, he evi- dently concluded that he would woo health to better advantage by re- tiring from the field. If these were his thoughts he probaply was right, as wrangling over politics Is not conducive to that mental equanim- ity which is a foundation for good health. Mr. Seymour, a healthy and robust individual, will be better able to gtand it. i The quiet evaporation of Mayor Quigley in the congressional can- didacy race, howeger, is something clse. Mr. Quigley!ns friends who thought he had a chance—up to a few weeks ago—and a fight was in prospect. Mr. Quigley also is a man who has some confidence in his ability to put up political battle. But, as we hinted the other day, putting up a strong political drive in his native town and being success- ful at it even against the recognized organization is something entirely difterent from swinging voters of del- gates in an entire district. There are a lot of hidebound Republicans in‘the district who stick by the or- ganization and to these Mr. Quigley does not mean as much ashe to the local politicos. He was have had an uphill tussle from the first, and he exercised that keen political judgment which has ser- ved him in good stead by getting out of the way before the boys ex- their gentlemanly preroga- tives in elbowing him aside. Mr. Quigley as Mayor of this city, and as the solver of its manifold prob- lems—or at least making a brave "attempt to solve them—has a better job cut out for him than being in Washington member of the team captained by Messrs Long- worth and Tilson. does 10 ercised as a THE RUSSIAN WH MENACE Secretary of Agriculture Hyde's drive against the alleged practice of the Soviet government in selling | wheat “short” on the Chicago | Board of Trade, thus wheat prices to the American far- mer, calls forceful attention to the Rusflan wheat menace irrespective of whether the charges made by the secretary are true or false. Russian competition in wheat is almost certain to be severly telt as time' goes on. The Russian five- year-plan includes the operation of farms by the state, and already the largest farm in the world is being operated by the state—with the assistance of American engi- neers, tractors and farm machinery. Before the war Russih was a vast producer of export wheat. The land is still there and it is likely that*Russian wheat production in the future will be vastly increased. That means increased, competition in foreign markets. It is competition right in Ameri- ca, however, that has aroused Sec- retary Hyde, a species of competi-{ tion that is made possible by trad- ing in futures. The secretary says the Russians are not prepared to deliver grain in the American markets at the prices quoted and the Chicago Board of TMdes nal- urally must make an inquiry to de- termine the facts. o It is not the first time, howcver, that grain prices have been depress- ed by this species of trading. It merely happens that the Soviets stand with having adopt- ed tactics on a large scale that in n- AT depressing charged the past have been adopted by dividual traders or firms. ctBA'S MONKEY WRENCH It is reported from Geneva that a way will be found to include the World Court amendments of the opposition of (‘uba to technicalities United States in the through the court's proposed basic law despite incident to the procedure. Where there is a will there is®a and it 1s learned old saying; that the jurists working the r repeatgd conferences, may be to bring the United States in that | ma- way, runs the entirely likely on subject. able the monkey wrench ed Cuba threw despite embat into the chinery last week. certain | ve | Cuba, through pique over of should not permitted to halt a natural devel- | in this great international | its sensibilities, opment tribunal able to go as far as she did can be The reason why Cuba was told fn a few word The original statu Court is a document members of the court, and in effect In order for any amend- the World | o signed by 3 a treaty tive, therefore, it must be acceptable to all of the | signatories. Ameri- Court. Cuba is not opposed 1o can World What Cuba opposes is the fact that call for entry into the the amendments proposed Latin-Amer- Cuba | two only judges from World and the Latin-American nations for this | el ica upon the Court. | the beet fields and | necessary for them is to & lusually matter demand three judges. 1t is also probable that the Cuban World Court judge, Senor de us- tathente, does not care to live at the Hague for long periods, asthe amendments prescribe, disliking to thus injure his very lucrative pri- vate law practice in Havana. These are points that can ironed out. be 1HE A¢TOGYRO \ When Thomas A. Edison becomes enthused over a new invention after inspection and demon- strgtion it must be O. K. Conse- quently, without having seen the autogyré, a contrivance which en- ables airplanes to rise and lana vertically, the conclusion is that an important development in aviation is imminent. 2 Mr. Edison himself experimenfed with a helicopter y®ars ago until an explosion of gun cotton injured an assistant, when he gave up the experiments. The autogyro, as dem- onstrated at the * Newark airpors, uses no explosive, using rotating . The long runs necessary for air- plane take-offs, %nd the long roljy as they. descend to earth, have ne- cessitated large fields, It may soon be possible to have them take oft and return to earth within a com- paratively short area. The advance that this bespeaks is self-evident. The time may soon come when every town will be able to afford to maintain the necessary small land- ing field thus need. When this time comes even New Britain may be able to do‘better than it has done in the past. a careful vanes. By the way, what has become of the municipal airport argument? WAILS FROM THE FAR WEST In the ¥ar West the tendency is to permit all the hard work to be done by Mexican immigrants. In the Southwest, especially, Mexican labor has been lured over the bor- der to do the dirty work, live n hovels, and make it possible for the native to avoid participating in menial activities. L But the Administration is, alive to the fact that there are many un- employed in the country and per- haps, after all, it is not necessary for so many Mexicans to cross the border. Consequently the visas have been controlled by American con- suls in Mexico and Mexican immi- gration, although there is no quota restriction against the southern Re- public, has been reducedgto the vanishing point. This gives the Far West employ- ers ®f Mexican labor a great pain. They much prefer to employ cheap Mexican labor rather than native labor; and they say, of course, that native labor won't work at the ug- ricultural jobs at the wages offered —which are the wages customarily offered to Mexican immigrants. If there were a shortage v.’ labor in the southwest or in Southern Califorpia this could be easily un- derstood. But now there are very many unemployed in Southern California_besides those who have retired from all labor in that sun- ny clime. Senator Willlam H. King, Dem- ocrat, of Utah, is to be the mouth- piece of the Southwest and Far West- demands that Mexican immi- gration be not curtailed in this man- ner. The irritated senator is to “wait upon” officials of the State Department In an effort to discover the why and wherefore of the imn- migration curtaflment. He can save himself the trouble by realizing that when there al- ready is a large surplus of+ idle labor in the country it is scarcely | Worthy while to invite thousands of Mexican immigrants into the coun- try. The government of Mexico is just as well pleased. It wishes to keep Mexicans in Mexico. 1t Senator King and his friends #ant to insure a labor supply for other agricul- tural pursuits, and also for other species of hard labor, all $hat is se the rates of pay to an American stand- .ard of living, instead of insisting that the rates.be in conformity with the Mexican standard of living. Observations On The Weather Washington, Sept. 23.—Forecast for Southern New England: Fair tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature; moderate northerly winds becoming southeast or south. Forecast for Eastern New York: | Generally fair tonight and Wednes- dgy; somewhat warmer tonight in west portion; moderate northwest and north winds becoming southerly. Forecast for New Haven and vieinity: .Fair tonight and Wed- nesday. Conditions the country east of the river. A disturbance with un- low barometric readings is over North Dakota. Show- ers were reported from the north- western plates, Louisiana and east- ern Texas and a few scattered stations. Calgary reported §'inches of now on the ground this morning. Temperatures continue high in the Mississippi central 'upper Mississippi and Ohlo valleys. Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather and not much Lhangcl New England High phessure covers | in temperature. Temperatures yesterday: High . 86 38 82 68 74 88 84 70 26 Atlanta Atlantic City . Boston Buffalo Chicago .. Cincinnati Denver Duluth Hatteras Los Angeles . Miami ... Minneapolis Nantucket Nashville . New Haven . New Orleans . New York Norfolk, Va. . Northfield, Vt. Pittsburgh .. Portland, Me. St. Lewis ... ‘Washington . Factsand Fancies "By Robert Quillen You can tell the great servants of humanity. They are the ones whose names are unknown to wise-crack ers. Of course man has the best intel- Iget, but you never hear a crowd of frenzied rooters cheering brains. Old Dobbin had his little faults, !but he didn't run out of oats and quit cold fives miles from home. George Washington couldn't tell a lie, s0 he never was called as a defente witness in a homicide case. Corn is bringing 10 cents a bushel more than wheat. You see, the buy- e of wheat has no kick coming. The quarter you leave on top of the luncheon check is a tip. The Kalf dollar under the check is strategy. America is a land where every- body finds fault-"with conditions that many another land would wel- come, It's a pretty good country that has three million men who won't take jobs as snoopers. Journalist: A newspaper man so important he can get by with rotten work. Americanism: Piously pinning our faith to ideaMstic theories until con- dtlons get so bad we are forced to do something sgnsible. o The new paper money is a little too small to serve the ghrage me- chanic as a towel, but he still has seat cushions. How did the strip-down car origi- nate? Seme fellow wrecked his and left it over night on a lonely woad. American efficiency secems es- pecially astonishing when it does something:for charity and spends only 98 per cent of the receipts for “‘overheas The world fsn’'t all wet. The doory nman wears a gorgeous uniform agd never writes any memoirs. Russia may be foolish and wick- ed, but sinee when has America re- fused to recognize that kind of peo- ple it they had money to spend? There will be no more war when a nation's opinion of a flight doesn't depend on whether one of the home boys did it. HomicMe: The result of a jawing match that would have ended with- out tragedy if there were no yellow streaks or pistols. It scientists cap't find absolut2 zero, they might observe a dictator's importance the day after the inevit- able happens. Correct this sentence: “He's real- ly a good boy,” said the mother, “ard those tough boys he runs with are to blame for all his meanness.’ ~ Copyright, 1930, Publishers Syndicate 25 Fears Ago Today The new telephone building on Coyrt street has been completed and will be used next week for the first time. It is said to be one of the most modern of its kind in the country. Herbert H. Pease won the beauti- ful qup offered by Charles F. Smith at the final golf mateh held at the | Maple Hill club course yesterday. Professor Matthews defeated Pro- fessor Marsh in the final match be-, tween the New Britain players and the college boys played yesterday. Although there are 4 applica- tions on the “to be made” voters’ list, only 14 had appeared before the board of selectmen up to noon today. Richard Schaefer of this city has heen re-elected national secretary of the Order of Sons of Herman. He has already served 12 years in that capacity. ' Superintendent Stuart has com- pleted plans for the opening of the evening schools on October 3. Although typhoid fever is spread- ing throughout the state, only a few cases have broken out in this city. The health authorities do not expect the diseasc to gain headway here. The rock of Gibraltar 18 com- posed of limestone covered in shale. LOW FARES Comfortable buses, courteous operators Travel by bus for cconomy and pleasure. gicave Railroad Station NEW BRITAIN M—1 P M. LML (B ST Transportation Co. One way $63.54 Fare .. 2 Round $3.50 QUESTIONS ANSWERED sYou can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washing- ton, D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medicay, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be under- taken. All other questions will re- celve a personal reply. Unsigned re- quests cannot be answered. All letw) ters are confidential.—Editor. Q. How many Indian tribes are there? A. .Dr. Swanton of the Bureau of Anerican Ethnology estimates the number to be 336. Q. Whe was Davy Jones where is his locker? AN The name stands for the spirit of the sea, that commands all the, evils of the ocean. Davy Jones's locker is the bottom of the sea, where sunken ships and drowned sallors go. The expression is very old, and its origin is unknown, ex- cept that it arose among Britisn sailors. Q. What has happencd Von Berne, who played in of the Devil?” A. She returned to Germany upon completion of that motion pic- ture. Studio officlals infornted her that she would™® be given another éhance if she became proficlent in inglish, but she is now living in Germany and latest reports say that she has been acting in movies there at 1500 marks a week. Q. Where are the lands of the Papago Indian and who owns them? A. In the southern part of Ari- zona. The land is owned and con- trolled by the Federal Government Q. Hovi-long doeés a round last in boxing? A. In modern professional box- ing it lasts three minutes. Q. What is the ccstliest motion picture ever produced? A. “Ben-Hur" is believed to have been the costliest. It was re- cently stated that $3,500,000 was ex- pended in making the picture. Hell's Angels recently presented. is sald to have cost atmost as much. Q. Which American President was taught to read and write by his wife? A. Andrew Johnson. Q. What is the population of the Philippine Islands? What race of people predominates? What is the leading ¥ religion? - The total population, accord- ing to the Philippine Census of 1918 is 10,14,510, chiefly of the Malay race. The Roman Catholic religion has the largest membership there. This hody reports 8,724,965 adher- ents. The total number of protes- tants is 165,235. There are 24,363 Buddhists and 443,037 Mohamme- dans. Q. When should geraniums be slipped for winter blooming? A. About April or May. Q. Howjis par on a regular golf course computed? A. For holes up'to 250 yards, par is 3; from 251 to 445 yards, par 1s 4; from 446 to 600 yardg par is 5; from 601 yards upwards, par is 6. Par means perfect play without flukes, and under ordinary weather conditions, always allowing two strokes on each “putting-green. Q. Does rock =coften through the years? A. Not in the ordinary sense. Rock is of varying consistency ac- cording to its composition and some are harder than others. All rock will disintegrata over a long period @f vears, by erosion and the action of rain, hail, snow and particularly freezing, which in winter splits them by rcpeated expansion of wa- ter in crevices. Q. When a man enters the Mili- tary Academy at West Point or the Nfval Academy at Annapolis does he have to stay for a stated num- ber of years or may he resign at any time? . A. Upon admission to either West Point or Annapolis, the en- trant must sign an agreement tao| serve for a period of years (S vears ac West Point) and (“during the pleasure of the President of thc United States” in the Navy), unless sconer discharged by competent au- thority. Q. What is the seating capacits of the Roxy theater, in New York eity? | A, 5.920 Q. Under what President did James Rudolph Garfield serve as Secretary of the Intcrior? A. President Roosev:lt. |OSES AS STATE AGENT, ADMITS FRAUD CHARGES and to Eva “Masks T'alse Pretences Charges in Wallingford Court Haréld C. Mays, 31, of 46 Maw' street, this city, pleaded guilty to the charge of zccopting money un- der fnie pretences when arraigned in the borough court at Wallingford vesterday. He was bound over to the superior court at New Haven by Judge Michael T. Downes. Mays will be arraifned at the September session of ¥he superior | ctiminal court in New Haven, open- 'ing today. The arrest was made Iriday. Posing as a New York state agent with authority to employ in- spactors. for the agriculture depart- | ntent, Mays had accepted $24 from George W. Townsend of Hartford, and was caught in,the act of accept- ing $60 more in the way of a bond from Townsend, whom Mays hal “hired” as an agriculture inspector, Jt was alleged. Claiming to feel pain, Mays was | examined in a Meriden hospital Sun- New Britain Man Pleads Guilty to! D New York, Sept 23.—Broadw vnderworid believes: The silent longer! Garrulity is supposed in- evitably to cnd with the quick bark of a pistol. Yet three of the tight- esi-lipped racketeers moving fur- tively in the Tenderloin shadows were assassinated. Arnold Rothstein was a paragon of reticence. Kven with intimates, he was monosyllabic, enigmatic. No one had his confidence, and in pub- lic he aiways sat with back to the wall—a bodyguard nearby. ‘“They plugged me through the gut » gasped in the ambulance—but nev- er revealed identity of “they.” Frankie Marlow was similarily silent. So was the dapper Harry Block: Yet their uncommunicative tongues were further stilled by ambush shegs. Indeed their skulk- ing taciturnity seemed to attract at- tention. To inspire a gangland hor- ror they knew too much! Al Capone appears continually talking. And lives. Most gangsters | are swaggering braggarts, and, con- sidering their enormous numbers, small percentage meet violent deaths. The killings are rarely cour- ageous. The victim is usually trapped alone—feppered with ma- chine bullets from a speeding car. In other gangland days, toughs miet by appointment and shot it out from both hips. They were not primed with dope and booze' but got drunk afterward in celebration. Kit Twist, ,Humpty Jackson, Big Jack Zelig, Spanish Johnny, Little Augle and-all the rest were gangsters, but riot sneaks. | Bootldk racketeers generally get | their man, but one escaped recent- | Iy. He was in a basement speakeasy when he received one of gthose grapevine, messages to duck. He did not stop for baggage but werft di- rectly to Grand Central and waited for the first train westward. He was last heard from in Singapore. | The murderous gangster’ has strong home ties and a misty-eyed sentlmentality for wife, children and parents. In the Sweet Papa Beit_he is distinguished for his profl and helping a pal. He| bas been influenced by the Broad- | vay Arado work is for saps. Gallipolis, O., which was glorified in “The Easiest Way," chiscls a break in Kenyon Nicholson's cork- legue s in Cincinnati, but the rest oi the locale is Pomeroy, O., where a soiled-lady exclaims: “I have a ccusin in Gallipolis!” Just a line— sUll anythmg is something lean ing drama “Torch Song” logue is in Cincinnati, but the rest still anything is something these | leag days . One of the play’s characters is a | shiftless, baggy-trousered porter in a small town hotel. He is known by the hilarious title of “Droopy Drawers.” But the line toppling me into the aisle was that of a hard shelled traveling salesman with a terrific hangover, who, when asked ifyhe did not want a morning’s morning, moaned: “I'd just as soon have a glass of warm fish! On Lexington avenue a cafe, blass its enterprising little heart. advertises: “Your coffce will be served along with your meals here without the slightest argument.” And right in the midst of this a yisitors drops in and appropos of | nothing .whatever remarked that no | dish tastes so elegant as a left over | bowl of creamed peas from the ice- box at midnight. And it took a large sized desk blotter to mop up the drool. ay by Doy |two New Fitzgerald and NEW YOR The long dinner table in private homes is being supplanted by small- er tables for four in the manner of bridge parties. Instead of painted and studied efforts, conversation begins immediately to buzz. One of my minor ambitions js to sneak up and ask a gang of work- men why they are tearing up a New Yerk strect and scoot away on & kiddie car before they tell me, as of course they will, they haven't the slightest 'idea. I like the reply of Herb . Roth when I asked him one day why they were fiercely pounding up the asphalt in front of his apartment hcuse. “Perhaps,” he suggested naively, “they are mad at it.” Trade last from Variety: “‘Mc- Intere's articles have a hum.” At last, the crooning columnist! (Copyright,* 1930, McNaught (RATER CHECKUP PUSHED IN WAIN Ruthorities Wait Tor, Wile to Recover Compostre Augusta, Me., Sept. 23 (P—Inves- tigation here of the disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater of New York marked time today waiting for Mrs. Crater to recover sufficiently to be ques- tion®d. Captain Joseph T. Young, Jr.. of the state highway police, yesterday questioned H. G. Herbert, Mrs. Cra- ter's brother-in-law; Fred Kohler, the Crater chauffeur, and Mrs. Mar- garet Lynch, a maid. In State of Collapse Herbert said Mrs. Crater was in a state " of collapse bordering on hysterfa after being questioned by York detectives, Edward Morton §. Owens, and could see no one. Kohler told Captain Young he last saw Crater August. 2 when Crater left his summer home at Belbrade Lakes, Kennebec county, for New York by train, saying he would re- “THE HART STUDIO Instruction in Musica] Art PIANO HARMONY ORGAN THERON W. HART 259 MAIN STREET Telephone 4895-M turn in a few days. X When Justice Crdter did not ap- pear, Kohler sald, irs. Crater sent him to New: York to look for her husband, fearing he might have met with an accident. Kohlet said he left August 15 and | when he arrived at Crater's New York apartment he found a two- weeks' accumulation of mall, He said the doorman told him Crater had not been at the apartment for a week. # Frederick JohnsonyCrater's secregq tary, Kohler said? told him Crater ‘would be back-any day‘and that everything was all right.” Went Back to Maine The chauffeur ‘sald he returned to Belgrade Lakes August 20. Mrs. Lynch stold Young a similar story of Crater's departure and the chauffeur being sent' to seek him. Herbert told Captain Young no pri- vate detectives had been engaged. Frank E. Southard, county attor- ney for Kennebec county, sald ques- tioning of Mrs. Crater would be held in apeyance for a few days. Plans to summon Mrs. Crater, Kohler, Mrs. Lynch and others be- fore the grand jury next week and to search the Crater cottage; rounds and lakes in the vicinity also0 are held up pending questioning _ of Mrs. Crater. FIRE GUARDS ON ALERT FOR FRESH OUTBREAKS Flames Creep Up to Foundations of Heuses but Change in Wind Aids Firemen. Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 23 (F— Fire guards were posted along Elm and Pléasant streets today to watch for the first sign of an outbreak from the forest firc that has burn- ed over almost 3,000 acres of wood and marsh lands since Sunday aft- ernoon. Flames crept up to foundations of homes on Kim street yesterday after fire fighters believed they had the fire confined to the peat bogs in Hockomock swamp. A shift in the wind and a gasoline purper of the forest fire, patrol saved the houscs. In the Great Meadows sec- tion, 500 acres of marshy grassland were burned over last night. The recurring flames were stopped at the Town fiver and the fire was confined to a segtion between Elm and Pleasant streets today. RUBBER OPENS STEADY New York, Sept. 23 (—Rubber futures opened steady, September 7.10; Decpmber 7.90; March 8.20; new contracts—September 7 De- cember 7.96: March 8.30. e S ! “NOW IS THE TIME, TO THINK OF WEATHER STRIPS . J~t Us Estimate N. B. Screen Mfg. Co. Rocky Hill Ave. Tel. 5147| IT MAY BE HARD TO BELIEVE Some of the facts contained in cur Washington Bureau's bulletin on LARGEST AND SMALLEST THINGS but the facts fa it are authertic. In the world of animais and insects, world, of construction and ergineering, there's always a largest thing of IN THE WORLD may ourprise you, in tha ts kind and always a smaliest. This bulletin tells you about scores of them. 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