New Britain herald., 1926-10-04
FLASHES OF LIFE: BIGGEST CITIES
 IN COUNTRY SEEM TO BE WETTEST

By the Associated Press.
 Hartford, Conn.-Mr. Cold Cash Pyle seems to have rival in the sport impresario field. Dudley Field Malone is to handle all of Gene Tunney's financial affairs be- sides Trudie Ederle's.
 Paris Another defeat of Tll- den is more In Henri Cochet's young life than s.7,500. Henri was tempted, but in order to play Big Bill next year he Sorned Pyle's offer of a million francs to turn pro.
 San Francisco - Little Bill Johnston comes higher than Henri. Pyle offered him sSo,o0o. Little Bill prefers to remain an amateur.
 New York Mir. Pyle thinks Helen Wills will play Suzanne again. He has had no dickering with the Californian, but he just dopes it out that developments will force her to join his highly paid staff of stars.
 Mexico City - An offer of s5O.- GOO to thrill the theater goers of the United States for two months by telling his story of how he kill ed Pancho Villa has been refused by Congressman Juan Salas Bar rasa.
 Hollywood, Calf. Queen Ma rie can get ten times as much in the movies as she did for descriS- ing the merits of a beauty cream. She has been offered sc5.no0 to appear on location just one day.
 Paris - Raquel Meller, Spanish singer, who says she was treated like queen in the United States last year. Is going to live there permanently. She made a lot of dollars on her first visit.
 Belgrade - Queen Marie's pet black spaniel is likely to make the grand tour of the [. S. A. with her. He looked so forlorn in the leavetaking at the station that her majesy decided 10 take him as far as Paris. But some of the royal party think he is wise enough to stow away on the Leviathan if he has to-
 Paris-They don't drink or smile in New York if a word picture by e French journalist just back is cor rect. He describes New York as a city Of abstinence, the saddest city in the world. There is no way to live happily there"
 Washington-If the number of padlocks fitted by prohibition en- forcers is correct index the wet test cities in the United States are those first and second In population. In the last fiscal year there were 6S4 injunctions in New York and only two less in Chicago. Des Moines-In order to live to an active old age, youth should nev- CT drink, smoke or tell dirty stories, in the opinion of the bishop of Lon don. The advice was given to stud- ents at the University of Iowa along with warning against what he said was the growing tendency for young people to regard free love as not In conflict with moral standards.
 New York-Magistrate Jean Nor ris has just had her hair bobbed. Would she like long locks again? :? You don't see men going back to side whiskers, do you?"
 Myrick Harding, who started to work for the Armour and company packing plant in 1888 at the age of II with the task of picking up the feet of slaughtered cattle and plac- | ing them in a basket. has been made general superintendent of the company to succeed John E. 1 O'Hearn who died recently. l New Haven-Yale and Princeton l agree to end pre-game scouting as l far as annual gridiron battle be- tween two institutions is concerned. New Hayen-Mrs. Bridget Ken nedy, under arrest In connection with fire which destroyed her cot