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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
First Chinese Junk In
Atlantic Arrives at
Norfolk

NORFOLK, Va, May 81
The Annoy, a fourteen-ton Chi
nese junk, said to be the first
ever to sail into the Atlantic
Ocean, and the first ever to
pass through the Panama Ca
nal, is anchored in Norfolk
harbor today after a 10000
mile journey. Hundreds Of
persons have been attracted to
the queer craft, which is de-
scribed as very fast and sea-
worthy. She has a crew Of
only five-four men and one
woman, the captains wife, who
is first mate Of the vessel.
The Annoy came from Miami,
Fla, following the inland wa
terways most ~ the distance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
GAMBLED STOLEN $1,000,
IS HOMESIcK IN CELL

NEW YORK, May 6.-Driven by
hunger and homesickness to confess
theft of $1,000 from the Canadian
customs offices at Windsor, Ontario,
Hugh G. McVean was In jail today
awaiting word from Canadian
authorities. He said he took the
money last September and ran away,
going to Seattle and Mexico. After
losing the money on the races he
"bummed" his way TO New York.
Last night he accosted three de-
tectives and confessed. He said he
was hungry and wanted to go back
to Windsor to see his wife.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
WINE AND BEER LEAGUE
PLANS MARCH OF 100. 600

NEW YORK. May 5.-A campaign
to enroll 100000 persons in a
monster Eight wine and beer''
demonstration during the. Demo.
cratic national convention next
month was started here today.
It follows the formation Of a new
organization. the Tight wines and
beer league Of America" which an.
nounced it has but one purpose-to
'1egalize light wines and beer Of a
reasonable alcoholic content"
It was announced that 1900 per.
sons had enrolled as charter mem
bers and that organization com.
mittees have been formed in
seventeen other States.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
0UEZoN ASKS FREEDOM
FOR FILIPINOS AT ONCE

A plea for immediate and abso-
lutte independence for the Philippine
Islands was presented today to the
House Insular Affairs Committee
by Manuel Quezon, Filipino political
leader and chief critic of the adj
ministration of Governor General
Leonard Wood.
Quezon said that the Philippine
people had received a promise of
independence from the United
States whenever stable insular
government existed, and maintained
that this had now been accom-
plished, despite General Woods
declarations to the contrary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
GHOST RUMoR AT DEATH
FARM KILLS PUBLIC SALE

LANCASTER, Pa, May 5.-Ru.
mors Of ghosts in the house on the
Sammet farm, near ROthsville.
where, two weeks, ago Richard Sam.
met killed Kate Maggie, his common.
law wife, and then committed sui
eide, resulted in the property beg.
ging for a buyer at public sale
today.
There was but one bid Of $3.50
for the forty-acre farm. Realty men
said the place should bring $4,000,
so the property was withdrawn.
A feature was the. demand for
small articles as curios Of the
double crime.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
WIFE SLAYER TELLS COURT
He ALSO KILLED BROTHER

CHICAGO, May 6.-Samuel Rosen,
thirty-fo1r. today was sentenced to
life imprisonment for the murder Of
his wife, whom he shot to death
on the street when she refused his
pleas for reconciliation
In court, after pleading guilty
Rosen said that he had shot and
killed HIS brother in Baltimore, Nd,
In 1910. ana been sent 10 an asylum,
from which he later was released
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
IRISH FREE STATE NAMES
BOUNDARY COMMISSION

LONDON, May 5.-Colonial Sec
rotary j. H. Thomas announced in
Commons this afternoon that the
Free State has appointed Professor
Mcneil to the commission which is
to settle the Free State Ulster
boundary dispute. England has
asked Ulster to appoint a member.
The government is taking steps to
appoint chairman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
Hagerstown Boy Killed.

HAGERSTOWN. Nd, May g.
Adelbert Schmidt, fourteen, son Of
Mr.. ana Mrs. Water e. Schmidt,
was killed on North Mulberry street
here this morning while on his way
to the Antietam Street School bv
being struck by an automobile. His
skull was fractured and he died
while being taken to the Wash
tngton County Hospital, a block
away. Roy Stouffer, driver of the
car. Is being held pending an in
quest. Stouffer said the boy ran
Into the street in front OF the
machine.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05

store announced, because we
would not have the heart or the
nerve to ask our manufacturers to
cooperate again this, year and make
such price reductions, and, too, the
merchandising task entailed is too
great to be undertaken more than
once a year."
/, Details Of the one-day sale will
be found in advertisements in The
Washington Times tomorrow.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-06-27
BISHOP JAMES CANNON, R, ON PROHIBITION AND THE SOUTH
Imagine That the Dry Southern Dem
Like Branded Cattle Into Corral Labeled
If Is Written All Over the Walls

neither be required nor expected when
candidates are nominated who are gen.
orally understood to be opposed to the
moral convictions of great masses OF the
voters, and especially is this true if they
arc nominated on the bare, bold assump
ton that political affiliations are so much
more binding than moral convictions,
that the southern people will vote for
man who has the Democratic label on
him, even though it is known that the
very purpose of his nomination is to Sc
cure wet votes, and although it is we'll
understood that the election of Governor
Smith would be declared to be clear
proof that the country had repudiated its
decision on the question of prohibition,
and it would be demanded, therefore, that
the Volstead Act should be modified to
meet the views of Governor Smith. The
any political issue, and there are millions
of southern men and women who hold
their allegiance to moral convictions to
be far more binding than to purely po-
litical platforms.
think this full statement indicates
what the writer meant when he author
lied the statement in Who's Who that he
is an Independent Democrat" The lam
guage, 81 have always been a states-right,
freetrade Democrat" was used at Spring
field to emphasize as strongly as possible
how utterly impossible it would be, polit-
ically speaking, for the writer to become
a Republican. He is state-rights Demo
crat in the sense that he believes that no
duty or responsibility should be laid upon
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-06-27

the federal government if the state can
perform that duty equally as we'll, and he
is certainly opposed to any effort on the
part of the federal government to assert
any authority on any matter, except as
such authority is clearly conferred upon
it by the Constitution. And furthermore,
he believes that no duty or responsibility
should be laid upon the federal govern
ment, even by constitutional amendment,
unless it has become evident that the sew
eral states can not perform that duty
equally as we'll without the assistance of
the general government. The writer
would not have favored the Eighteenth
Amendment had he not become convinced
that the concurrent cooperating powers OF
state and nation were necessary to abatc
the ever-increasing greed and lawlessness
of the liquor traffic. Likewise the writer
believes in free trade in the commonly
accepted meaning of that term, as it was
used by President Cleveland, and exern-
p1ifed in the Wilson bill of the Cleveland
administration, as opposed to the Mckin-
ley the Aldrich and the present-day Ford
ney-McCumber tariff.
Not Party Issue
While Democrat, therefore, on purely
political issues, the writer is independent
in the sense that he has always placed
moral issues above purely political poll
cies. The prohibition question is, in the
thinking of many millions of the Ameri-
can people, at base distinctly moral guess
ton. For this reason, the writer has
opposed the effort to make prohibition
a party question, whether in state or in
nation. AS Superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of Virginia for many years
without salary), he insisted that state
wide prohibition was not partisan but
was moral issue, and in Virginia the
Democrats and Republicans have always
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-06-27

ton legislation. Likewise, as chairman OF
the national legislative committee of the
Anti-Saloon League Of America from the
organization of that committee in 1913 to
the present time, he has insisted that the
prohibition question has no place in a
political party platform, and at the DEM
ocratic convention in San Francisco he
went before the committee on resolutions
and opposed the adoption of either wet
or dry plank. He holds that same view
in reference to a prohibition plank in
either party platform this year.
In his speech at Springfield, he endeav-
ored to show how futile it would be for
any political convention, of either party, to
imagine that it could transcend its proper
bounds and bind the members of the party
not only on political issues but on great
moral question by nominating candidate
for the presidency who, whatever might
be said to the contrary, would stand out
before the nation as the embodiment of a
direct attack upon what millions of voters
honestly believe to be paramount moral
issue. Should Governor Smith be noni-
President Butler by the Republican con-
vention, in either case it would be taken
by the country as direct bid to secure
the wet vote, and in the event of such
nomination the issue would no longer be
Democracy or Republicanism, but would
be dry or wet, the strengthening or the
repeal of the Volstead act the rigid or the
ak enforcement of the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
"A Solid South" Against Lawlessness
The writer repeats what he said at
Springfield, that in that case, IF there
that it would be a solid South against liq-
uor lawIessness." Kindly note that there
is no declaration that there would be a
solid South. The writer does not think
that there would be. He is satisfied that
there would be greater break in the SOLID.
South than in 1922, when Kentucky and
Tennessee broke away from the candi-
dacy of Governor Cox; but he is con-
WINGED that if there should be a solid
South at all, it would be solid South
against liquor lawlessness."
In an editorial in The New York Times
some days ago there appeared the follow
ing statement: There seems small
chance of better candidate than Gov
ernor Smith The objections brought
against him are thin and disingenuous."
The writer respectfully submits that
while the objections against Governor
Smith may, in the judgment of the editor
of The Times, be "thin," it is certainly
a very sweeping implication of the mo-
tives of many millions of people to say
that they are "disingenuous." They are
no more disingenuous than is the attitude
of these same millions of people on the
question of prohibition. If they are hon
est and sincere in their support of prohi-
bition, and of their desire that the Eight
zenith Amendment shall be effectively en-
forced, then their objections to Governor
Smith are not "disngenuous," but are alb
solute1y sincere.
The Southern Baptist convention, rep
resenting more than 100000 COMMUNE
cants and 100000 adherents, at its re-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-06-27

games Cannon, Jr, member oil the legls-
4ative committee OF the National Anti
Saloon League, is a concise and compre-
hensiye analysis of the attitude OF the
dry Democrats of the South on the dry
Gaw enforcement issue.
:. Bishop Cannon, for many years, has
had an active part in southern politics
so far as prohibition is affected, and it
lis doubtful if any man is better qualified
TO give so accurate an estimate of the
ssentiment of the South, when he says,
.@If there be solid South, it will be
solid South against lawlessness." He is
not speaking without knowledge.
The communication follows:
In your issue of May IS there was an
editorial the greater part of which was a
discussion of the statement made by the
writer to the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Spring
field You ask. What sort of Demo
erat is he?" Bishop Cannon. Taking
it for granted that the question is asked
in good faith, an attempt will be made to
answer. 1t will assist correct under
standing to quote first, exactly what the
writer said at Springfield. This was the
language used:
IL may illustrate how this matter ap-
pears to me by reference to the political
situation. l have always been a states
rights, free-trade Democrat; I do not
know or see how | could ever be Re-
publican, and yet the brand of Demo
craft and Republican is not so firmly
fixed that there may not be circumstances
when that brand temporarily fades away.
For example, should the Democratic par
~, of which | am a member nominate
man for President of the United States
who does not favor the effective enforce
ment of the Eighteenth Amendment and
of the Volstead Act, or of something
even stronger than the Voistead Act for
the enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment; while l am Democrat, |
am not law-breaker, and should the Re-
publican party Nominate a man who
sands squarely for the genuine. better en-
forcement of the Eighteenth Amendment
than we have had up to this time, ! think
know my people in the south we'll
enough to say that in that event the issue
with them would not Dc democracy YER
sus Republicanism; it would be law yer
sus lawlessness. And il there should then
be solid South | am satisfied that it
would be a solid South against liquor
iawlessness. And l have enough conf
!. dence in you brethren sitting before me
that you would take exactly that same
action if the position should be reversed"
Allegiance to Moral Convictions
The writer was asked by The New
York Times reporter whether in his po-
iitical illustration he was referring TO
Governor Smith, and he replied that his
statement included Governor Smith, or
any other man, Democrat or Republican,
who might be nominated by either party
whose record has been such that it was
thought that he would be an acceptable
candidate to those who are opposed to
the genuinely effective enforcement of
the Eighteenth Amendment. He further
more said that it was an insult to the
southern people to assert or imagine that
thew would vote hlindlv in mass forrna-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-06-27

State How Record of Vote
ConAm January 25887; 2781
J.,
Colorado Con /, Against 80r
Dis of plumb November l. 1917
Const Amend January !, 1919 Dry majority 0Z4z
Legislature January l. 1903
Hawaii 4,
ConsA 16 9O576; Against, 45o
diana Iegsla 1918
Icgsla January
Kansas Const 1880 For 92302; Against 84504
Juy /
For 28S64; Against SOP
Main Const 70783; 1881
May1 Against
IegiIat
Refeen
May 1864; Against 1H132
For 1928; Against 1900
Newt Stature /,
New Mexico ConstA Amend
For 1l36l2 Against o94o
For 1852 1888
StaeC May2 463654;
Oklahoma
242619
1917 Dry majority 3oAoO
Dry 1870 out
total vote
South For o4o Against 53o2
Legislature July l. 1909
Tov.s Const Amend Tulv 30 1910 majority
Utah Legslat l, 1917
o5 94,25
Washington january For 1880 Against III @
Yves Virginia
Wyoming 1, Dry majority $4,000
January l, 1913
Congress March q 1918
of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-06-27

These SO states went dry of their own volition.
were large dry areas, made so through local option
wholly dry.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-09
DEMOCRATIC MEETING

Plans for the fall campaign have already began to formulate according to ward from the democratic town committee. A meeting was recently called for the election of officers. However, lack of quorum prevented any election and meeting has been called for next week. At this time it is expected that the election of officers will be held and plans will be made for the fall campaign. It is understood that there will be some changes in the personnel of the town committee. The selection of candi- dates for senator and representatives will probably be discussed at the meeting although democratic leaders have said they have no idea who will bs nominated.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-09
City Items

Miss Leonie St. Louis, a graduate of Smith Business college has taken a position with the Trumbull Manufac- turing Co.
 D. l.. Nair, trustee in bankrupt ee- tate of H. A. Engieman, doing busi- ness under the firm name of Stewards has sold the stock in the store to Meyers Speciality Shop.
 The metal pattern makers of P. (; F. Corbin are having an outing at Woodcrest Inn. Guilford. this after noon. Walter Talk will entertain with vocal selections and will be accom- panied by William Neuman on the piano.
 Aubrey Fisher of 7S Prospect street, care taker of building at 59 Arch street, reported to the police last night that the office of Dr. Charles V. Wahlberg, dentist, had been en- tered some time within the past few days.
 The fire department was called out at TIA o'clock last night to ex- tinguish the blaze in cellar of a house at 9 Lafayette street. The damage was slight.
 l.. S. Bushnell of Berlin reported to the police last night that his automo- bile struck boy in front of the High school but he did not appear to be hurt.
 Abraham Wintz of 4S Tacott street reported 10 the police late yesterday
New Britain herald., 1924-08-09
City Advertisement
INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS.


 The City of New Britain. Conn, acting through its Committee on School Accommodations oi the School Board will receive bids for the construction Of an addition 10 Inc Os. good Hill School 10 be erected on os- good avenue.
 All bidders shall, as an evidence Of good faith. enclose with their sealed bid, certified check or bid bond for sum equal 10 per cent of their bid. made payable 10 the Committee on School Accommodations. Said check or bond to be held in escrow by the chairman Of the committee un- til the contracts have been awarded when said checks or bonds shall be returned to their authors.
 Failure on the part of the success ful bidder to properly execute a con- tract for the work in question and to deliver bond as hereinafter provided, shall forfeit said check or Sid bond, and 1t shall become the property Of, and shall be paid 10 the said com mittee. to whom it is made payable: the whole amount, or such portion as y, tee to make up the difference between the defaulting bidder, and that of the next lowest bidder: the balance. if any, of the same shall be returned 10 its author.
 The Contractor to whom this work is awarded shall within ten (10) days after signing of contract, furnish the owners with satisfactory surety bond in sum equal to thirty (S0) per cent of the amount of said contract price, conditioned upon the full and faithful performance of said contract The Committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids; to award the contract to any bidder other than the lowest bidder: or to invite new proposals, as said Committee may deem advisable for the best interests of the city. Sealed bids, marked on the outside | 'Proposal for Osgood Hill School" addressed to Mir. Joseph NJ, Halloran, | chairman, shall be sent to the office of the Superintendent of Schools, in | the Old State Normal School Build lHSt NtW DIlldiu, SOlh't Hob ltttCi than 12 o'clock noon, August 2l, 1924. Sealed bids will also be received | under the conditions above noted, for the heating, plumbing and electrical | work, each to be awarded as sep arate contract.
 Contractors may obtain plans and specifications at the office of the Architect. Max J. unkelbach, 52 Main St, New Britain, Conn. by making a deposit of Ten (Sl0.O0) Dollars. The amount deposited will be refunded upon return to the said Architect of the plans and reproductions in good condition.
 VIOLATIONS.
 By Joseph NJ. Halloran, Chairman.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-09
DANGER MUST EXPLAIN
Evan Burrough Fontaine Must An swer to Charge That She Is Trying to Extort Money From Whitney.

San Francisco, Aug. 9. - Federal Judge Partridge has overruled de- murrer entered by Evan Burrough Fontaine, dancer, to the answer of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney of New York, and San Francisco, in her s1,- 000,000 breach of promise action against him.
 By his ruling Judge Partridge makes 1t necessary for the dancer to meet the allegation that she has en- tered into conspiracy to extort money upon threat of suit for breach of promise, as we'll as the charge that she secured fraudulent annulment of previous marriage to bring the action. Hearing was set for August 20.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-09
RELICS WERE FAKES
Prague Police Learn That Supposed Antiques, Once Owned By Napoleon. Were Only limitations.

Prague, Czechoslovakia, Aug. 3. - Police investigation has shown, the authorities declare, that the recent story of the discovery of quantity of Napoleonic relics here was an elabor- ate hoax perpetrated by Leopold Bas- sano, an eccentric member of the younger branch of the family de- scended from the Duke Bassano, who was Napoleon's foreign minister and confidant.
 Basson, who is a Czechoslovakian internal revenue employe, admits, the police say, that he invented the story to mystify the newspapers and cer- tain politicians. Tn doing so he in- cidentally hoodwinked the French Consul at Brunn, who reported at length on the discovery" of the relics to his government, although he had not seen single one of the alleged documents, Bassano declining to give the name of the bank where he said they were stored.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-09
CONRAD'S LIFE WAS
 CLARIFIED BY NAP
Famous Author, Recently Died,
 Lured on by Geography

Washington, D, C., Aus a-What geography and exploration, and ths sea meant for him, the late Joseph Conrad told recently tA some personal memoirs which he wreie for the Ma tionsi Geographic Magazine,
 "of all the sciences" De Rrate, geography hhds its origin m action, and, what is more in adventurous ace ton, Of ihe kind that appeals 10 sedentary people, who like 10 dream of ardnpus adventure m The manner of prisoners dreaming behind their bars Of all the hardshlps and hazards Of liberty, dear 10 the heart Of man,
 Mans rnsppessable Curiosity.
 Descriptive geography like any other kind of science, has been built on the experience of certain pheno- mena and on experiments prompted by that unapnsasable curiosity Of men which their intelligence has elevated into quite respectable passion for
New Britain herald., 1924-08-09
COOLIDGE PLANS TRIP
President Going ts Fathers Home in Vermont For Brief Rest Follow. ing Notification,

Washington, Aug, 3, - President Coolidge will leave the capital for q bflef vacation soon after his formal acceptance Of the republican presi. dential nomination here next Thurs. day night, visiting his father at Ply- mouth, Vt, for ten or ls days with Mrs, Coolidge and their son, John, In siew Of his absence, the party man. agers are expected 10 await the moves fopposing candidates before deciding definitely on their program for the national campaign,
 Decision to leave Washington for while was reached late yesterday by Mir. Coolidge after s conference with Chairman Butler Of the republican national committee. Satisfied with en- thusiastie reports brought 10 him by Mir. Butler, the president yielded to the urging Of friends to take a few days away from the duties which have kept him almost constantly at his desk since he entered office year ago.
 Mir. Butler told the president that visits with party leaders throughout the middle west and cast had shown Mir. Coolidge's candidacy increasing in favor, and that foundations had been laid for q strenuous campaign In every section, including the north western states, considered the strong hold of Senator La Toilette Of Wis consin, independent candidate. The report Of Mir. Butler was similar in many respects to those of other party l leaders who have conferred here re- gently with the president.