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Evening star., 1925-08-15
DROP IN CEREALS CROP
IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Department of Agriculture Reports
..Decrease-Conditions in Aus
tria and PoLcnd Outlined.

Production of cereal crops in Eng
la nd and Wales is slightly below that
of last year according TO a cablegram
received by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture from its agricul-
tural commissioner at London. This is
the first European country to report
decreased wheat production this sea
son as compared with last year.
The wheat crop of England and
Wales for this season Is estimated at
4S. .o00. 900 bushels, against 50.000.0 900
bushels last year; barley 43.225, 900
bushels against 44,142.0 900 bushels
oats. S7.766.0o bushels, against 1922
629. 900 bushels.
The Polish barley crop Is estimated
at 63,244 900 bushels. compared with
SIS ASS, 900 bushels last year. according
to a cablegram received by the De-
partment from the International In
stitute of Agriculture at Rome. The
Polish oats crop Is placed at 1856
900 bushels. against Sill 900 bush
els. the final estimate for last year.
The Austrian crop report as Of Au-
gust | shows conditions of all crops
considerably above average and bet
ter than reported on the same date
last year. Crop conditions reported
according to the system of the coun-
try, in which is excellent, average
and failure, are as follows: Wheat,
22. against 2.5 last year; rye, 2.1
against. 2.7; barley, 2.3. against 2.6;
oats, 2.3, against 2.5; corn, 2.3, against
23: f1ax, "a, against 2.3: potatoes, FL
against "a; sugar beets, %, against
%
Evening star., 1925-08-15
Marine Corps Orders.

Lieut.. Col. T. E. Backstrom has
been transferred from New Orleans to
Fort Benning, Ga; Lieut.. Col. T. NJ.
Clinton, from Buffalo, n. Y, to Guam
rico, Va; Maj. S. w. Began, from
Quantico to Portsmouth, n. H; Capt
8. F. Bloedei, from Quantico to Buff
falo; Capt. w. E. Riley, from Guam
tico to Fort Benning, Ga; Capt. S. ".
Freeny, from Quantico TO Baltimore;
Capt. F. E. Werner, from Baltimore,
to st. Thomas, V. l.; Capt. II. d.
Shannon, from st. Thomas to Quanti.
co; Capt. NJ. G. Gregory, from Des
Moines, Iowa, to Omaha, Neb.; First
Lieut.. H. w. Whitney, from Guanta.
namo, Cuba, to Quantico; Capt. w. J.
Green from Quantico to Cleveland
Ohio; Second Lieut.. c. ]. Eldridge,
from Quantico to Paris Island, s. c.;
First. Lieut.. o. T. Francis, from Guam
rico TO Camp Alfred Vail, n. J., and
Capt. G. Moseley, from Port au Prince,
Haiti, to New York City.
The following named officers with
troops In Haiti have been ordered to
Quantico: Maj. H. G. Bartlett, Capts
H. A. Ellsworth, A. H. .Turnage and
r. NJ. Montague and First Lieut.. A. c..
Cottrell.
Capt. H. r. Mason and First Lieut..
7. w. Mcnamara have been dismissed.
No explanation was given regarding
the dismissals.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
Old Superstitions,
l3, Cats, Mirrors,
Defied by Couples
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 15.-Three
couples yesterday defied all manner
of superstition when at 13 minutes
after l o'clock, the thirteenth minute
of the thirteenth hour of Friday, they
were married in death cell No. IS
OF the old British convict ship Sue
cess. docked in the Chicago River
here.
Thirteen guests carrying thirteen
black cats witnessed the ceremony,
which was concluded amid the shat
I ring of thirteen mirrors. Each bride
carried a coal black kitten. The jinX-
defying sextette was selected from
eight mons -superstitious couples who
applied after advertisements for
brides and grooms appeared in news
papers.
One happy couple received 500 In
3 coins and a diamond wedding ring
with 13 diamonds. Another received
$50 in So bills and n hard luck opal
ring and the third couple received a
$50 money award and u plain gold
wedding ring.
Those defying superstition were
Albin L. Bemish, Chicago, and Elsie
May Merry. Sioux City. Iowa; Arthur
Ryan and Mida Chesbro, Chicago,
and Charles II. Williams and Vic
torie Christie, Chicago
Evening star., 1925-08-15
HOLLAND STORM VICTIMS
AIDED BY u. S. RED CROSS
$4,000 Is Sent-2,OOO Homeless,
400 Injured, Is
Report

For the relief of 1000 sufferers in
the storm-swept area Of eastern
Holland. the American Red Cross to-
day donated $4,000 to be used by the
Netherlands Red Cross Society.
Latest reports place the number OF
persons made homeless by the severe
storm which swept the country
August 10 at 1000 and the number In
jured at 400.
The donation was voted by the
American Red Cross after a cable.
gram had been received from the
League of Red Cross Societies stating
that international relief was needed
and that aid from America would be
appreciated.
John Barton Payne, chairman OF
the American Red Cross, cabled the
Netherlands Red Cross Society TO-DAY
as follows: Accept warmest sym
pathy for tornado sufferers. Ten
thousand dollars being sent through
American Minister"
Evening star., 1925-08-15
VIOLENCE THREATENED.
Deputy Sheriff Reported to Have Dis
appeared In Land Row.

TAMPA, Fla, August Is CP).-Re-
ports that a deputy sheriff had dis
appeared mysteriously from the West
Coast section of the Everglades,
where feeling is tense between repre-
sentatiVeS of an eastern capitalist and
old homesteaders, followed rumors to-
day of threatened violence unless
State or Federal officials intervene.
The little town of Marco, in Collier
County, where Baron G.. Collier, New
York advertising magnate, is carrying
out one of the largest developments
in Florida, was seething with excite.
ment. Armed deputies representing
the Collier interests were patrolling
the island, and w. G. Williams, head
of an organization that purchased the
town of Marco, was leading an oppos-
ing orga nization.
The Williams forces have appealed
for Federal or State intervention into
what they said would be revealed as
"high.handed" operations of a politi-
cal ring and the activity of a well or
ganized liquor band.
Golfers representatives in New
York said the situation was being
grossly exaggerated" although they
admitted some controversy" had
arisen over ownership of the land.
In connection with Williams appeal
it was said today that i'll feeling had
been evident on Marco Island for
three years and hared into sudden
prominence last Winter when a depu-
ty sheriff disappeared. No trace has
been found of him since.
Sheriff w. r. Maynard has taken
up his residence at the home of the
local Collier represe ntative, Williams
charges and is heading the armed pa
troll
Evening star., 1925-08-15
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

National-'Chicken Feed" comedy,
at S:15 pm. Matinee at 2:20 pm.
keith's - "Pierrot and Pierrette
Frolic," vaudeville, at 2:15 and 8:15
pm.
Earle--"M ar Wand Cole giates," ;"
vaudeville, continuous from l to II
pm.
Strand-"Siamese Twins" vaude.
vile, continuous from 1890 to IL pm.
Coiumbia-"wild Horse Mesa" at
11:2o am, 1:2o, $50, $50, 1880 and
$40 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Lady Who
Lied" at 11:S5 am, 1870. $50, $50,
1885 and $40 pm.
Palace-"Never the Twain Shall
Meet" at 11:10 am, 1:10. 500, $40,
7:20 and $50 pm.
Rialto-"The Teaser," at HAS am,
las. 3:45. 5:45. 7:45 and Gas pm.
Tivoli-"Rafies," at 24o, 4:3o. 6l5,
sos and 9:55 pm.
Ambassador-"AreP Parents Peopls?''
at 2. s:55, $50. 1850 and $3.50 pm.
Earle Roof-"Greater Than a
Crown" continuous from 1870 to IL
pm. Dancing from II to midnight.
Central-"Up the Ladder" at 1890.
3 $50 s. $50, and GAS pm.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
TOMATOES, IN GLUT,
THROWN OVERHEARD
Baltimore Merchants Refuse to Pay
so Cents a Bushel Freight
From Virginia.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, August 15.-Virginia
tomatoes are being thrown over.
board from steamers, after Baltimore
commission merchants refuse to ac.
cept consignments on which so cents
a bushel freight Is charged.
While tomatoes are IL glut on the
wholesale market. they are bringing
from 10 to 20 cents a quarter peck
or $3.50 to $500 a bushel, in the
retail markets.
Steamboat representatives say that
1t Is useless to haul refused consign.
ments OF tomatoes back to farmers
and that therefore they must be
thrown away.
Simultaneous ripening of the Mary.
land, Pennsylvania and Virginia crops
Is blamed by commission men for the
giutted market. Usually the Vir-
ginia produce Is ready for the market
four weeks before that of Pennsyl.
Vania. and Maryland tomatoes usually
follow In three weeks.
Corn is also plentiful and cheap,
selling today at to IL cents a dozen
wholesale. Last year at this time thu
price was from 20 to S5 cents a dozen.
Heavy rains caused the oversupply
OF corn and are responsible for the
heavy receipts of all other produce.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
RESUMES ITS DIVIDENDS.
Norwalk Tire and Rubber Co. An
nounces Action.

NEW YORK, August Is OP).-Direc.
tors of the Ncrwalk Tire g. Rubber co.
today resumed dividends on the COM
mon stock by declaring quarterly
dividend of 40 cents a share, payable
October l to stockholders of record
September TO- This is the first dtyi-
dend on the common stock since 1920.
although the company has an un-
broken record on it's preferred divi-
dends. The company, which recently
retired $750, 900 in bonds with the pro-
ceeds from the sale OF additional COM
mon stock. reports current assets OF
$2.23s. 900 on June so and current liz.
biltties of S337 900.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
4[OST LAND" FIGHT
GOES TO GOVERNOR
Homesteaders in Florida to
Demand 0usting of Is
land Officers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORT MYERS, Fla, August Is
Gov. Martin viii be asked by Marco
Island homesteaders to intervene In
the fight for 5000 acres of lost land. :
Armed with petitions signed by 15S
persons, said to be almost all the
voters of Collier County not in the
employ of Barron G. Collier, a dele.
cation of homestead claimants will go
10 Tallahassee as soon as an appoint
ment can be made to see the governor
The petitions demand that Sheriff
w. r. Maynard and his armed depu'
ties, who are alleged to be supporting
Mr.. Golfers claims TO that portion
of the land unaccounted for in Gov
ernment surveys, be ordered to leave
the island.
Judge Can't Intervene.
Appeal to the governor was deter
mined upon last night by w. G. Will
liams, owner of the town site OF
Marco and other homestead claim
ants, after County Judge G. w.
Storter of Collier County told them he
had no authority to intervene.
The local attorney for Mr.. Collier,
who Is a New York advertising man,
said yesterday that the Department Of
the Interior order of July "a did not
provide for an exploratory survey
of the island to determine the precise
boundaries of all the land to which
title Is held by Mr.. Collier and others.
Mr.. Williams. however, insists that
the order does SO provide. He is re-
lying on the survey to establish his
claim to the existence of strip of
land more than a mile wide running
through the island-a strip which he
contends has never been decided to
any one and still is Government land
on which homesteads may be taken
up. 1t is this land which has been
fenced in by Collier agents, supported
by Sheriff Maynard
Evening star., 1925-08-15
Lipstick and Knickers, Trailing Auto,
Threaten "Last of Americans" i'm Hills

North Carolina has built through their
deep valleys and over their high
passes a system of automobile roads.
The tourists are coming, and the pure
Americans are losing their purity.
A tour through the mountains re-
yea Is the advance of modernism. Men
are seen using paint brushes on cab
ms which had weathered in the nude
for generations. The puff-pufr of fiiv-
vers Is heard in the hills. where only
rifle shots used to disturb the still.
ness. A girl has actually appeared in
knickers. and in two mountain stores
a modern miss sat using a lipstick.
The miss. it Is true, was of cardboard,
but she Is an influence. She is a
symbol.
The mountains are bowling before
her and her automobile from the low
lands.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
SAYS WIFE BEAT HIM.
q. s. Employe Fights Suit o,
Spouse for Main ntenance.

Gottlieb Klein, an employe of the
Bureau OF Standards. has asked dis
missal of the suit for maintenance
brought by his wife, Bertha NJ Klein.
He denied her charges. Klein admits
that he left his home last November,
but says 1t was after an assault by
his wife.
The husband declares his wife and
her daughter last February COM
planned to the Woman's Bureau OF a
conspiracy on the part of employees OF
the Bureau of Standards to injure
them., Investigation proved the charge
unfounded, he adds. The wife and
daughter keep the house at 1855 TIL
den street locked and maintain FIVE
dogs to announce the approach of any
one to the house, according to Klein.
He is represented by Attorneys Bar.
nard & johnson.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
BY the Consolidated Press.

BY the Consolidated Press.
CHARLOTTE. N. G.. August 15.-
Tne automobile Is about to contami-
nate the only pure Americans remain
Ing In America.
In the mountain Businesses of North
Carolina these pure Americans, more
Saxon than the Anglo-Saxons, have
long maintained their racial purity
and their quaint customs in the face
of bubbling melting pot
They have had their feuds in the
good old way; they have married by
customs that can be found not even
in their homeland of England, and
they spoke language that Chaucer
would find familiar should be ride
back from Canterbury
But the automobile is conquering
the mountaineerS The State of
Evening star., 1925-08-15
DENIES PART IN MERGER.
Big Soft Coal Producer Not Ap-
preached, It Says.

PITTSBURGH, August Is OP).-The
Pittsburgh Coal Co. today authorized
a denial that the company was con
sidering or had been invited to con
slider a proposal for a bituminous coal
merger.
The denial was made when the at
tention of officials of the company was
called to a New York dispatch last
night which reported Wall Street
ankers to be showing interest in a
proposed bituminous merger, naming
the Pittsburgh Coal Co. as one of IL
large concerns involved.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
Burst of Steam Kills Worker.

WINCHESTER, Va, August - C4p).
Caught between an engine and a
wheat thresher when a steam pipe
burst. John Gageby. 81, sole support
of his widowed mother and several
small brothers and sisters, died in the
hospital a day later from his injuries.
Two thirds of his body surface was
cooked before his fellow workers
could extricate him.
Evening star., 1925-08-15
Wool Means ''An Wool"

Whenever YOU blankets. bathing suits cloth
ing or what advertised in Washington you
be confident that if the advertisement states wool
the material is ALI WOOL
For the merchants of Washington, cooperating
with the Better Business Bureau caution to be
that customers will not be the victims of mis-
representation. They follow standard that wool
whenever advertised applies only to pure garments.
and wool mixed or cotton and WOOL the terms
used to advertise merchandise that is one hundred
per cent wool.
ITO err is human and onletnes merchants omit
the qualification of part-woo merchandise. To check
up on these errors the Better Business Bureau con-
stantly examines advertising and investigates mer-
chandise
Evening star., 1925-08-15
SHIP BIDS RECEIVED.
Fleet Corporation Gets Offers for
Freight Lines.

Three bids each were received by
the Fleet Corporation yesterday for
purchase of the American Export
Lines, the American Diamond Line
and the American Yankee Line.
freight services operating from At
lantic to European ports.
President Palmer was TO begin for
mulating his recommendations with
respect to sale of the lines today, SO
that the Shipping Board may act on
the American Export Lines proposals
next week and on the others in about
10 days. While details of the offers
were not announced, the present op-
orators of all the lines were said to
be among the bidders.
Evening star., 1925-08-15

The. appearance of this an
nouncement in these columns is
evidence that this newspaper CO.
operates and supports the Better
Business Bureau for your protec-
ton. .{ 1
Evening star., 1925-08-15
Detailed to High School.

Maj Oscar A. Manseau, u. s. A,
retired. at Glenolden, Pa. has been
detailed 10 duty at the high school.
JOptiO Mo
Evening star., 1925-08-15

S 7 O p

asking for a quart Of oil. :"
Ask for Rotorlene Oil. That's
an oil of real quality. Made
by an oil house that has been
serving oils in Washington for
twenty-one years. Try Rotor
lene Oil once. Just TRY it.
We dare you. Columb bia Oh
Company.
Evening star., 1925-08-15


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New Britain herald., 1925-07-22
DEpOSI70RS SUFFER
Appeal ts Made to Governor cf Penn. to Start Action Leading to Relief of Public.

Pittsburgh. July 22 lPl-A com mittee, named by residents Of Car negie to consider conditions growing out of the failure of the Carnegie Trust Company months ago, today appealed 10 Governor Clifford Pin chot to provide specific relief for the hundreds of depositors, many ot whom "actually face hunger
 I've are concerned with the plight of at least 5o,000 people with whom we deal daily in our capacity as the Carnegie citizens committee on bank ing affairs" read the letter to the governor. Ut is not painting an un- true picture to say that thousands of people have been thrust back twen- tv years by the failure of this instl- tuition. Business is almost stagnant and hundreds of homes stripped of their last savings actually face hum ger. Yet In the three months since the closing of the bank, no specific relief has yet come 10 these people. v
 The governor is asked for some suggestion "as to when the people may expect some definite result In the form of 2 return of some part of the lost funds to these desperate shopkeepers, working people, wid- ows and children"
New Britain herald., 1925-07-22
OVER 3,OOO MILES
 AT COST OF S275
P. [, Fay and William Bonba
 Home Alter Trip

An automobile trip of more than 5000 miles al an approximate cost of s276 for two men, has just been completed by Frederic L. Fay. direc- tor of religious education at the South Congregational church. and William Bomba, one Of his raush- toners.
 Messrs. Fay and Romba left New Britain on June 22 for Chicago, spending some time in hotels en route and at other times using Mr. Fays auto camping outht. They drove from here to Syracuse, N, Y, a distance of 270 miles, the first day, They proceeded from there 10 Nj agara Falls, Erie, Pa, Toledo O., South Bend, Ind, and then to Chi cago. where they spent several days sightseeing about the "Windy City"
 Leaving Chicago, they went south through Indianapolis to Louisville,
New Britain herald., 1925-07-22
COAL SUGGESTION
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
 Thinks Miners and Operators Should Form Independent AsSns.

Pittsburgh, July 22 Rl-A special Chamber of Commerce, in a report adopted by the organization and made public today, recommends that the miners and operators of the Pittsburgh district form independent organizations so as "to permit a re- yival of the coal industry" in the region. A committee will be named to endeayor to carry the recommen- dations into practical effect
 The subcommittee contended that the Pittsburgh field was unable to compete with other fields, because the miners are bound by scales fixed by the United Mine Workers of America, and because the operators are affiliated with the Central Com petitive Field Operators of Ohio, h. diana and Illinois, who "are not in terested in permitting the Pittsburgh field the enjoyment of the superior advantages which nature has given it,"
 The committee reported that Its investigation showed that the cost oi producing and loading ton of coal, under present conditions. in this re- zion, ranged from S2,10 to Sc,50 from fifty cents to S1 more than the cost in the adjacent fields of West Virginia and Kentucky,
New Britain herald., 1925-07-22

favor of certain specific commodities
 Tn general l would say that or dinarily grocery stores ought to close all day Sunday to comply with section 6450 of the general statutes However, 1t may we'll be that in warm weather in city the size Of New Britain, that 1t Is necessary that certain stores should be kept open few hours on Sunday in order that the people may have proper nourishment and that there might be special cases where not to keep open and do business would result in depriving people Of the necessities Of life.
 Respectfully submitted
 JOHN II. MARKHAM,
 Corporation Counsel
 Tt Is evident that the law is not sufficiently clear for us 10 say just how far we might so in an en- forcement Of Sunday closing laws. It is certain that some stores can 20 on with uninterrupted business on that day. There Is some question as to whether we can restrict other lines, and If we can, whether we would or would not run up against difficulties In individual cases.
 There seems 10 be one avenue open to those who seek an adiudi- cation of the matter and that is a test case. It might beswell for one of the merchants, or In fact any in diVidual, to furnish the office of the prosecuting attorney with informa ton relative to Sunday sales, If he prosecutor feels the information is sufficient 10 support a case, the question will be decided in court. and in the future we will have a precedent 10 follow.
 At present, this appears to be the only way 10 reach a final ad = justment
 "l appreciate the assistance given by the Chamber of Commerce and I feel confident that schedule of hours agreeable 10 the majority can and will be worked out as a result of this agitation"
New Britain herald., 1925-07-22
NEW BRITAIN AT
 75TH MILESTONE
(Continued From First Page)

lives in the assembly, At first New Britain had been given only one as scmblyman, but protest had brought at a concession another.
 The streets and roads were fewer and different, and Arch street had been built only in defiance of the warning that road there was i'm possible. The Hartford Bristol rail- way was being built and the Prov- dence, Hartford & Fishkill Go, was erecting the first passenger station here, There were no street car lines,
 The old district school system had given way to the modern scheme Of grades only two months before while the high school was also but 60 days old. The normal school had just been built in the remodelled town hall, located where the Central jun for high school now stands. Pro- lection against fire was afforded only by volunteers who manned the hand tubs" while police protection was almost negligible, The sewage all went into stream which flowed | through the town.
 The North Se Stanley Mfg. Co.,, with its one wooden building, was the principal industry of the town. | There were eight churches, the First 1 Congregational, First Baptist, Me- thodist Episcopal, St, Marks Epis-
 
 i Mary's Roman Catholic. All Souls 1 lUniversalist. and Sacred Heart Ad- vent. named in the order Of their establishment,
 1 The town grew rapidly and roach- i cd 10000 around 1870, when, in or 1 der 10 cntend police and fire limits and exercise additional authority. a i city charter was applied for and ob- i itained. The freemen of New Britain approved the act of legislature by one lone vote. 521-52O. on January 1S, 1871. and it took effect in April.
 North and south the city and town were identical but latitudinally the city's jurisdiction extended only l fIISl ElltEL lc IpldNh llbNh il Ill Vt The police force consisted of a cap tain and three ratromen. The fire department embraced t22 volunteers who manned a hand engine, with bumper, two hose carriages, and a truck. There were no paid fire fighters until 1873, The first steam CT vas bought the following year and the telegraph alarm established in 1872. Meanwhile. in 1857, the water works at Shuttle Meadow had been begun, and in 1871 $15h.ooo sewage system was commenced, New Britain was on the way, but 1t was still long ways from the present city. Still, it was very young even then and now, today In fact, it Is 7S years old.