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New Britain herald., 1919-08-05
FOX'S THEATER

An exceptionally well balanced pro- gram opened at FoX's yesterday, and will continue through the first half of the week. In addition to the two big photoplay features and an entertain ing variety of shorter film subjects, a complete change of vaudeville brought four brisk and popular acts to New Britain.
 It was a toss-up between the Lee Riddles and William Russell for first honors on the screen. The former aD- peared in one of their most captivat- ing comedy dramas called American Blds." and Russell was seen as the stalwart Texas Ranger in "When q Man Rides Alone" A Harold Lloyd comedy entitled Just Neighbors," and the latest edition of the Pathe News are among the other pictures on the program.
 Wholesome comedy, striking dra- matic action, an interesting love story and a very plausible and illumi- mating expose of spy activities in the army are phases of the fast-moVing production Am erican Buds," the star ring vehicle of the Lee Riddles. They play the part of orphans who are sud- denly transferred for some mysterious reason from their orphanage to the humming activity of an army post There they manage with all their us- ual naivete to get themselves and everybody around them into numerous em barrassing scrapes, which give rise to hOWls of laughter.
 When a Man Rides Alone" has for it's theme the fearlessneSS and dare devil bravery that has given the Texas Rangers such a, prominent place in American history It tells the story Ot the efforts of Mexican outlaws to ob- tain fOrcible possession of d mule-back shipment of gold ore, which has been entrusted to the guardianship of Cap tain Bonfire. The story is full of strong heart interest situations, and finishes with a brilliantly startling eli max.
 Four entertaining and satisfying new acts of vaudeville include the Great Nickelson, May and Dufor Clark and Harris and Roy Harrah and company.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05
LAUREE PARKS BIG WEEK,

Those who delight in the modern dances are looking forward with great pleasure to the series to be conducted agment of Laurel Park and it is q certainty that the realization will be quite as keen as the anticipation, for nothing has been left undone to assure the success of the big event. The dances will be held tonight, Thursday and Saturday evenings, which are the regular nights for session at the park
 This week, however, will bring numer- ous innovations. Among the many features will be Hatch's orchestra of cities, including the cathedral chimes. the saXophone, the marin ba phone. etc. From now until the close of the season there will be special programs every week Every Sunday afternoon there is band concert at the park. while on Sunday evenings the latest and best productions of the moving picture world are shown. The park may be reached by trolley or auto mobile. The roads are of the latest improved type and the trip from Hartford takes only ten minutes
 Boating, merry -go-'round and swings are all enjoyed at their best at the park. The restaurant serves dainty. home-cooked food and the water is all drawn from the parks artesian
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05
PALACE THEATER.

"Break the News to Mother," Select Pictures latest special attrac- ton, has for it's theme a subject which is as popular today as it was hundreds of years ago-a story of which one never tires. It tells of the most beautiful love in the world that of a mother for her child.
 In small country town, Dave Bray lives with his widowed mother. To her that boy means everything in the worTd she loves him with a love that is beyond comprehension. Dave wor- ships his little gray-haired m other. Her wishes are his commentators \ happiness his happiness.
 So. when in fit of temper-justi- liable temper, too-he loses his head and attempts to strike his employer and loses his position, he goes back to beg for his reinstatement and of fers an apology to the vinegar-heart- ed, pig-headed employer-all because his mother had asked him to.
 Dave is in love with Ruth Goodwin, daughter of Howard Godwin owner of the Goodwin Iron Works, the factory in which he is working. Warren Flint, his superintende and employ
 
 love is not reciprocated. Dave and Flint get into an argument over Ruth the night Dave goes to ask for the return of his position. Flint draws a revolver, there is a tussle and Flint falls to the floor. Dave believes he is the guilty man. He f1ees-far away from home-and his mother. A won derful story See the struggles of the mother-heart, and the return of her boy, @ sadder and a wiser man. The vaudeville bill offered is of an excellent character and includes vaudevil1e's funniest act, Ball Broth CTS Company, with special scenery Young and Dow entertain with songs , and stories, and Shepard and Ott l offer music, songs and dances. Taken l all in all, this bill is one of the best | offered at the Palace in some time | There will be complete change o1 program on Thursday.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05
YES OR NO,' STRONG
 EMOTIONAL DRAMA
Cormlcah Players Do We'll in
 Local Mans Stage Success
(By Herald ReHieWer)

The Lyceum Players, in their final production in this city, have done well to select the play they have es or No,' written by Arthur Good rich of this city. This play is one of the so-Called "heavy'' dramas and ranks with "The Brat" and "Com- mon Clay" which the players have presented so successfully here.
 The general theme of "Yes or No' Is unique and the play is produced in
 d prologue, three acts and an cpl losue. The prologue shows a young woman of wealth and refinement who,
 because her husband is struggling with business in order to insure suc- cess for himself and herself, imag- ines that she is neglected. She is about to run away with another man when her mother and friend of the family whom she has always called aunt, tell her the story of their own lives. The three acts tell the story and at all times during the play there are two scenes on the stage, al- though by the use of spot lights the audiences attention is directed to
 but one at 8 time and in this way the continuous parallel of the two fam lilies in question is kept up. In brief, the story deals with a family of wealth and one of poverty In both the husband is striving for success
 but the wife imagines that she is neglected. In the case of the wealthy family however, the wife gives up the fight and deserts her husband, causing. his death. In the other the lucky lit
 tie wife rejects the attentions of a suitor and remains steadfast so that n he c11 loo !, Subsequently the erstwhile wealthy
 woman comes to live with the other family as 8 com panion and at last comes into what little happiness the world still has for her. In the epi- logue the dissatisfied girl sees the er- TOT of her ways, is saved from her self by the story she has just heard and as the final curtain drops her husband rushes in with the glad news that he has achieved success Unlike so many plays, the reason for | the title-"Yes or No"-is evident throughout for this is the question ] that each of the three women is called upon to answer definitely when tempted-"Yes or Mo-"
 The Cormican Players present an augmented cast this week and all fit into their respective parts well. Miss Antoinette Rochte is Auntie Phipps, and Margaret Vane, the once wealthy woman who said "Yes," when she should have said ''No." Nell, who is saved from herself, is Ethel Daggett
 and her mother, Mrs. Berry, is played by Miss Van Waldron. Desmond Gal lagher las the dual role of the tempt
 CT and the weak brother and w. B. Read has a minor part, that of Nich- Olas Rankin, Nells husband. Comedy is injected into the play by the parts
 played by MT. Cormican and Mrs Gleason, as Tom and Kittie. The
 Read children, Hazel and William, do
 their juvenile parts well and make a decidedly favorable impression on the audience. Other parts are taken as follows:
 Donald Vane, Wilbur Braun: Paul Derrick, James Marr pr. Malloy
 William H. Evarts; Jack Berry, J.
 Burke Morgan; Emma, sister to Min
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05
The Way DicKy "Setticd"
 the situation,

s'We can try it right now Dlcky 4nounced with a glance of pride at
 l e touring car which he and Alfrel 1urkee had just brought home to our finite surprise. "You're all ready,
 |see," with a swift approving glance the lilac gown and accessories l Rd donned when l had heard the
 kices underneath my windows and |heW that I must forego the rest of ly nap. You look like a million
 bllars or so left around loose.'' I flushed at his extrava gant en- lmium. Dicky never does anything hf-way. If in one of his fiamboyant |oods, he pays me a compliment one
 Rn never mistake for anything else. Rita Brown stirred restlessly. Must the rest of us come up to
 Ie same standard of sartorial ele-
 fnce before we are permitted to try le new car?' she asked a note of |aintive playfulness in her voice. Dicky glanced at her with apparent bnchalanCe, but l guessed that he hderstood her perfectly, and meant thWart her feline plans wherever
 E could.
 "Oh, no; you'l do as you are!" he
 l i'd carelessly, but I could have
 kouted with malicious glee at the
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05

Pierce and Norton, Props.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05
enough to eat and sleep. and read an occasional note, 1 suppose?"
 | didn't answer.

enough to eat and sleep. and read an occasional note, 1 suppose?"
 I didn't answer.
 "Oh, very we'll"
 Time pressed, and he drove fast. We reached the station just in time for me to get my ticket and board the train.
 Don't go in with me, Jimmie" I. urged, motioning a porter to take my bag. I'd rather you wouldn't. Thanks a thousand times, and au revoir: I'll be back at Lively Beach before you've realized I'm gone" Jimmie seized my hands and pressed them hard. As dashed into the concourse l heard his motor start. I rushed to the ticket window, one eye on the clock, the other star ing into my handbag for my purse. "A one-way ticket" l shouted to the man behind the wicket ito Forest Valley, New Jersey"
 But at the instant I discovered my purse wasn't there, who should ap- pear at my elbow, holding it out to me, but Jimmie.
 Here, careless grill" he grinned triumphantly, "Now you can get your ticket to Forest Valley.'
 Curses on that Jimmie Ross!
 DOLLY.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05

Somewhere on a Train. l My Own Joan:
 I almost wish I hadn't undertaken | this trip. No, I don't mean that | But I'm upset-and all on account Of 1 that most exasperating Jimmie Ross. 1 I never supposed that poor little col ] orless chap had it in him. 1 wrote 1 you before that Jim Ross is one of l those youths no girl particularly 1 notices until he suddenly begins to make love to her. He has but sin 1 gle talent-courting And a man l may be neutral tinted, narroW-Shoul- l dered, nearsighted and shy, but if he attaches himself to a girl with the 1 fidelity of an airedale, anticipates her 1 every wish, ignores her every slight, has eyes for none but her and makes love with all the intensity of one track mind, I challenge that girl to
 remain totally unimpressed. 7 Now, when I told young Ross I was going away for two weeks in the mountains, and he insisted ha was coming to see me there, l merely laughed and tried to put it out of mind I was busy getting off and did not see him again until 1 was going down the hotel steps to get aboard the bus for the station.
 Suddenly, from a little blue roadster that whipped up to the door, sprang Jimmie. He seized my bag from the startled bellhop, laid hold of my el bow and proceeded to haul me gently but firmly toward the car.
 You didn't suppose" said James, 1T was going to let you go to town on that stupid train, did you? Cars been in the repair shop nearly a month, but I got her out just in time. I'll spin you to the Grand Central or the Penn or wherever it is you go"
 But I've got to make the twelve ten," l gasped, rather undone by the turn Of affairs.
 '"We'n make it all right don't worry. Come, jump in.''
 He had tipped the boy, slowed my suitcase in the little car and tucked me neatly in before I knew what was happening. The thing whirred, rasped, coughed and shot forward with a jerk that nearly severed my cranial vertebrae, and we were off toward New York.
 am not used to motor cars, Joan, worse luck. And especially am I not used to being kidnapped in them. The breathlessness of it all kept me from conversing overmuch until we were third of the way to town. Then 1 became conscious of Jimmie repeat ing something again and again, gradually increasing the volume of his tone till it reused me.
 "Where is it you're going?" was what he was saying.
 "Oh, a place in Jersey, Jimmie; don't insist on knowing. As a matter of fact, Pm going on business and don't want anyone to write or come or-or anything"
 What sort of business?" persisted James.
 Tn connection with my work. I told you I was a stenographer, not d lady of fortune as you seemed to think"
 'eBut you're on your vacation. Why
 break in on it to resume your pro- fession?"
 It's an unexpected piece of work. A rush job. I don't want to be dis i turbed.'
 Any reason why fellow shouldn't write? You'll stop stenogging long
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05

nic and Mrs. Nane's maid. Josephine Saxc; Leach, George Ellwood, and Hooker, Foster Williams.
 On Friday there will be a special matinee and on Saturday evening the players will conclude their engage ment in this city.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-05
STUDENTS.

STUDENTS. |Ir Fall Term Commences Sept. 2.
 REGISTER NOW!
 Office Hours: I30 a. m. to 1 D. m. and to 4 D. m. lily. Evenings, Monday Tuesday, ciday and Saturday, ' to 9 o'clock. BUSINESS COLLEGE hone 6O5-3 163 Mains St.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
LOCO Massacred by
Bolslleviki in Russia
Men and Women Clubbed to
Death by Reds When Forced
to Quit Nekateriuoslay

CONSTANTINOPLE (via LondonN
Sept. A. More than thousand per
sons were executed by the Bolshcviki
before they evacuated the city of
ekatcrinoslav. in Southern Russia. in
July. according to a dispatch received
here from that city giving an account
of the massacres by a physician who
was the principal medical expert pres
ent at the opening Of the pits into
which the bodies of victims we're
thrown. This physician. Dr. Robin.
declares the victims heads had been
crushed with hammers and the bodies
mutilatcd
The physician tells of the case Of
one officer who missed being struck
by the firing squads bullets and
escaped the Bolsheviki, who came
along bayonctting the wounded by
Stimulating death.
The Bolshcvik organizations in the
city had bcen headed by a workman
named Nalavka and various Chinese.
the report adds. and tho principal
posts Of Soviet administration under
them were in the hands of young men
and women Wholesale pilIaging is de-
carcd to have occurred in the town
before it's evacuation.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Austria is Granted
Two More Days for
Peace Treaty Reply

PARIS, Sept. 4.--The supreme coun-
Gil of the peace conference has decided
to grant the request Of the Austrian
peace delegation for two days delay in
the time for presenting the Austrian an
swer to the terms of peace,
The question Of the Teschen district,
in issue between Poland and Czechc-
Slovakia, was taken up by the council
The council first heard DR., Bcnes, the
Czecho- -Slovak Foreign Minister. who
set forth the viewpoint of his nation
with regard to the allotment Of this
mining territory.
The consideration of the question
went over until tomorrow, when Pre-
mier Padercwsk of Poland and r. v
Dmowsk. the Polish representative in
Paris, will present Poland's side of the
argument.
The council also discussed the Ru-
manian question. Nicholas Misu, Ru-
manian representative in Paris, in
forming it that Rumania never re-
ceivcd tho notes previously sent by
the peace conference.
The latest note of the council, which
is being carried TO Bucharest by Si,
George Clerk, of the British Foreign
Office, will unquestionably reach the
Rumanian Premier. J. J. G.. Bratiano
and until that time no response is c.l-
pected from Bucharest
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
French Trains to Run
Into Germany Again
Peace-Time Schedules Will Be
Settled by Sept. Is;
Meet at Paris

PARIS, Sept. 4.--International train
representatives of the British. French.
Belgian and Central European railways
have been in conference in Paris for
three weeks with the object of estab-
fishing a new service of international
trains. Subject to confirmation at a
final meeting OF all the delegates. it
has been decided TO run the Orient
Express via the Simplon Tunnel, with
through carriages between Paris and
Bucharest and between Paris and Bel
grade. A portion will 60 on to Athens,
In connection with this express the re
viii be train from Ostend to Milan
and vice versa via Brussels. Another
international express is TO run between
PARIS, Prague and WaEsaw by way of
assburg and Nuremberg, in place of
the former Nord Express.
The timetable for this train through
the German countries concerned re-
mains to be settled, and this is to be
done at Strassburg in time for the
flna meeting in Paris, which is fixed
1or Saturday. 1t is expected that this
tram Will begin on September Is.
The delegates have also debated a
Pals convention to take the place of
the former Berne convention. dealing
with waybill tariff and other inter
natlonal traffic questions
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Hostage Slayer
Ouails in Court
And Passes Blame
Chief of Firing Squad Forced
Him to Order. Murders,
Says Fritz Seidl During
Red Trials Cat Munich

MUNICH, Sept. a {By The Associa- l.
ted Prcss). - The trial of Bavarian
Communist leaders on the charge Of
having murdered hostages taken dur
ing the uprisings of February last con-
tlnued here yesterday. The first i'm
portant witness was an artist, Bernhard
Hesselmann, who testified that Fritz
Seidl. the Bolshevik commandant of
the Luitpold High School, was respon-
sible for the murder of the hostages
Seldl, Hesselmann declared, carried u
revolver constantly end threatened to
shoot down any one defyng him.
The evidence adduced against Seidl.
IS the first of the accused to be placed
on trial. tended to show that he treat
ed the hostages with an iron hand.
He is declared to have accepted thou
sands of marks to grant immunity to
certain Of the hostages.
Seidl, testifying in his own behalf,
claimed that the murders were forced
upon him by Willie Hausmann, who
was in command Of the firing SQUAD
which executed the hostages Haus-
mann threatened to kill him if he
refused, Seidl declared AS the trial
proceeded Seidl appeared to lose nerve
and said he regretted the whole affair
The Communist Stakeholder, the sec
ond Of the accused to be tried, de-
clared he was against Scidl's plan to
shoot the hostages.
Professor Merkel, who examined the
body of the persons shot by the Com
munists, testified that each had from
four to seven wounds, the majority
having been shot with their faces to
the wall.
The first of the accused Communists
10 admit guilt was Herr Rjcdcl. who
declared, - shot along with tho
others"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Denikine Captures Kiev
After Two-Day Attack
Bolsheviki Previously Claimed
They Had Penetrated
Outskirts

LONDON, Sept. determination OF
the occupation of Kiev by the forces
Of General Denikine, the anti Bolshevih
leader in southwestern Russia, has
been received by the War Office Gen
eral Denikines troops took the town
after two days of heavy fighting
A wireless dispatch sent out from
Soviet headquarters in Moscow ano
picked up in London Wednesday an
nounced that Bolshevik forces had
occupied the southern outskirts OF
Kiev: The dispatch added that the
fighting was proceeding.
The War Office has received no con-
irmation of yesterdays Soviet govern
ment wireless dispatch from Moscow
reporting that Admiral Kolchak, head
of the AllRussia government. had
evacuated Omsk and transferred his
headquarters to 1rkutsk.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05

putes made up Of five representatives
OF the railroad owners and five Of the
workers. He also opposed suggestions
for enactment of a compulsory arbitra-
tion law.
"A board of arbitration to be ap-
pointed by the employers and en-
ploycs of the railroad companies of
the United States will only look to
the matters in dispute between the
contcnding parties and will not have
in mind the ultimate rights Of the
people" Senator Underwood said.
THE general courts of the land are
not equipped either with knowledge
or the power to obtain information
in reference to the cardinal facts that
must decide the controversy. If you
want final and just solution of such
a controversy YOU are practically
driven to leaving the decision to a gov
full and ample opportunity to inves
tigate the rates of wages, the earning
power of the transportation compa-
nies. the cost of living. the burden
that rests on the shipping public and
after fair investigation to deter
mine, first, what is a fair, just and
living wage for the men and to how
great an extent fair, just and liv-
ing wage may be increased to en-
ideals of life and living; second, how
far an increased charge for labor. in
terest, and supplies can be handes
down to the public without doing in
justice to the shipper and traveller
and without becoming menace to
the development Of industry Of the
country
Dual Power Declared Essential
1t is essential. Senator Underwood
said, that the commission or board
given power to adjust wages should
also have the power to reflect its
findings in the rates charged for the
transportation Of persons and property
over the railroads.
THE board or commission that is
created for the determination of these
grave questions" he continued, must
determine whether the rates for
whether a charge made against the
railroads for increased wages shall re-
main charge on its capital or whether
in justice and fair dearing it shall be
handed on to the shipper and travel
ling public"
Senator Underwood established by a
legal argument that the government
under the Constitution had the power
to exercise the same control over rail
road wages that it exercises over rates.
MEN will not strike against Est
after fair determination Of the con-
trovorsy by an impartial tribunal,
public opinion will force the contend
ing parties to accept the verdict rend-
cred as final. 1t must be done in the
interest of the men involved, the in
dustry of the people and the peace of
the nation"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Committee Told Pershing
Reduced Smith Sentence
COlOnels White and Reed Tes-
tify in Paris on Court
Martial Proceedings

PARIS, Sept. 4.-The committee of
the American Congress which is in
vestlgating war expenditures to day
took up the question Of court martial
proceedings in the American Exped-
tlonary Force, with Colonel White,
Judge advocate general. and Colonel
Reed on the stand.
The only fact developed regarding
cases which have been the subject OF
discussion was that General Pershing
personally reduced the sentence of
Lieutenant Frank H. ("HardBoiled")
Smith from three years to eighteen
ponths.
Colonel Winship, of the Service OF
Supply, will testify before the com
mlttee Monday as to the production of
records in court martial cases.
Lieutenant Frank H. ("Hard- -Boiled")
Smith was the commander of the
Chelles detention farm in France. He
was convicted of brutality and was
confined at Gievrcs.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-05
Eben Briggs Thomas Dead
Former President of Lehigh
Valley Was II Years Old

Eben Briggs Thomas. president or
the Lehigh Valley Railroad from De
cembcr. 1902, until February. 1911.
and since then chairman of the execu-
tive committee and the board Of direc-
tors, died yesterday at his home in
Morristown, n. J. He was about seven.
ty-scvcn years old.
Mr.. Thomas was ranked among the
leading railroad men of the country.
He was credited with unusual mastery
OF the details of all departments and
with executive ability of high calibrc
Prior to 1888 he was for several
years general manager of the Clevc.
land. Columbus, Cincinnati e. Indian
apol's Hallway, leaving that post 20
become second vicc-presdent and gen
cral manager of the Richmond & Dan
vile and Georgia & Pacific roads. From
1888 to 1894 he was with the New York.
Lake Erie & Western, being promoteN
to first vice president. In 1894 he be-
came president of the Chicago & Erie.
and when that property was reorgan-
lzcd as the Erie Railroad he was maGe
ITS president, holding that position
till 1901.