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New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
TWO AIRPLANES CRASH
 IN RELIABILITY TESTS
Mummert and Schroeder Meet With Accidents in Ohio but
 All Escape Injury.

Cleveland, Aug. 20 0P = Harvey c. Mummert, crack pilot in the Ford reliability airplane tour, and two passengers narrowly escaped death late yesterday when their plane. a Mercury. somersaulted on it's side as it landed at Cleveland airport. The three escaped with out injury.
 The mishap cost Mummert third place in the race among q air planes for the Ford reliability trophy and s20,O00 in prizes.
 While workmen were extricating Mummert word came through that the triple-motored Ford plane, piloted by Captain R. w. Schroe- der and bearing Earnest Greenwood, special representative of Herbert Hoover; two mechanics and two newspaper men, had crashed three miles north of Nova, Ohio, 50 miles from here. None of the pas sengers was hurt.
 Vance Breeze. pilot of west coast plane, was the first flyer to arrive here from Cincinnati. He was closely followed by L. C. Meister in Buhl-Vermille.
 Walter Beach, who has been leading the tour since its start, al- though closely contested by Meis- ter, was third.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
Workmen's Arbitration
 Board Rights Doubtful

Mexico City, Aug. 20 P,-A final decision as to whether the supreme court or workmen's arbitration boards constitute the highest law in Mexico in labor disputes, has been requested by the Mexican Match company, a subsidiary of the Inter- national Match corporation of New York.
 The company has appealed to all manufacturers and employers of in dustrial labor to join it in its fight to determine the issue, as a result of a strike, called because the corn- pany had discharged workman, its plant has been idle for more than a fortnight. The company has se- cured various decisions and in1unc- tions sustaining its position and rul- ing against that of the strikers, but the worllmen's arbitration boards have continued to issue contrary rulings.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

o'clock each night, glows brightly for several minutes and gradually fades out to appear again in another place. At no time, observers claim, has itappeared more than half mile from the cemetery.
 Although the light resembles St. Elmo's fire, many believe it appears too regularly to be explained in that manner. St Elmo's fire is described as a tlame-like appearance, some- times seen in stormy weather at the points of yards and masts of ships and also on land on tops of trees or steeples. It is in the nature of a brush charge of electricity, reddish when positive and bluish when nega- tive
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
RESCUES THRILL
 CROWDS 0N SHORE
Atlantic City Guards in Spec
 taCuIar Efforts

Atlantic City N. J., Aug. 20 P)- A boy was drowned, a girl bather narrowly escaped death when dashed by the waves against the jagged rocks of jetty. several life guards were severely cut and bruised and one was trapped beneath a boat on a jetty in two spectacular battles with the heavy sea here yesterday afternoon.
 The dead boy was John Simpkins, ' years old, of S11 Atlantic avenue. His brothers, Steven, 10, and James, 9, were brought in after two life boats had capsized in the attempted rescue. The rescued girl was Miss Marguerite Alderman of 40S1 Spring Garden street, Philadelphia.
 Thousands of persons on the beach and Boardwalk witnessed the res cues. The Simpkins boys, who were in the water off Maryland avenue, were swept to jetty at Virginia avenue. Suddenly the younger boy disappeared. The brothers shouted for help and plunged in after him. Larner Conover, football star, a guard at that point. and Charles McCann, his partner, started out in boat. They were followed by sev- eral guards in other boats.
 Pick Up All Three Boys.
 The guards had a hard battle with the heavy sea but finally picked up all three boys. The boats, however, caught in the sweep Of the current pitched, and the occupants were thrown out. The guards clung to the boys and succeeded in getting them aboard again and finally ashore.
 All three boys were unconscious as willing hands took them from the exhausted guards and rushed them to the hospital tent. The two older boys responded to the treatment of Dr. William Arsenault. but the youngest was pronounced dead after being worked over for more than an hour.
 Miss Alderman also was caught in the undertow and was in danger of being battered to death against the Jocks of the jetty along the central pier when life guards Richard Bew and Allen Turner launched Q life boat and started for the rescue.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
ISLAND MONSTERS
 NOW BEING HUNTED
Americans Searching for Cob
 hams Dragons

New York, Aug. 20 R,-The dra- gons which Alan Cobhams told about seeing on Komodo Island, near Bima, Australia, when he ar rived at Port Darwin on his flight from England, have aroused scien- tific curiosity in London and word was received from the British capi- tai yesterday that an American scientific expedition is going to set out to capture some specimens of what had been previously regarded as linked with the legends of Saint George.
 Gotham said the monsters he be- held seemed to be the direct des- cendants of the prehistoric creatures of mythical lore, being about ten feet long and possessing huge claws, with which they were able to kill animals as large as horses. When angered, he added, the dragons emitted fumes not unlike smoke after the manner of their legendary forebears.
 The authorities at the London Zoo and the South Kensington Natural History museum are awaiting the report of the American expedition with keen interest, but the hope is expressed that the Dutch officials of komodo will take steps to prevent dragon staying from becoming a pastime.
 These creatures are belived to ex- ist only on Komodo, which is no larger than the Isle of Man, and at Labuan Batjo on the western ex- tremity of the Flores. komodo is apparently useless island, except as a fishing base, and the dragons, considerable numbers in late years. The British scientists declare it would be a pity if they were killed off by sportsmen in search of the thrill which this really dangerous quarry provides.
 In the meantime more specimens have been shot, according to the re- port from London, one of them 13 feet in length, and 20-footers have been seen. No giants have been shot for the reason that the natives take no risks in assisting sportsmen.
 It is added that the natives cannot be blamed for their caution inas- much as the reptiles sometimes run down and kill the half-wild island ponies and have been seen to fight one another over the carcasses of wild boars they have slain.
 Their long yellow tongues and the scalloped crests on their croups and tails and their habit of retiring at night to their holes and caves are in accord with the me ,ieval tradi- tions of dragons as to appearance and actions.
 The Komodo species of dragon is known as the monitor lizard of the genus yaranus and it is called very dangerous in any size. The lizards, or dragons, use their powerful tails as a flashing weapon and can easily break a mans leg with blow. They are very swift and deliver crush ing bite, besides using their formid-
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
FRIDAY 18TH, UNLUCKY
Two Boys Who Escaped From Canaan Industrial School That Day Are Recaptured.

Cambridge, Mass, Aug. 20. Pl- Kenneth Waters of Rochester, N Y, and John Howell of Westfield N. J., chose an unlucky day wher they made their escape on Friday the 18th, from the Berkshire In. dustrial school at Canaan, N. Y.
 The boys travelled by fast freight but the jinx overlook them in Bel, mont where the police gathered them in. They were then so hungry that the police became alarmed over the rate at which they swallowC doughnuts and coffee. An officer of the institution appeared in court here today to take them back.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
CLEARS UP PRISON LAW
Attorney General Ottinger Rules Date of Crime Determines Action

Albany, N. Y, Aug. 2O.-Attorney General Ottinger has ruled on the question whether sentences imposed after July 1 on criminals who pleaded guilty prior to that date should be under the old or the new law that it makes no difference be- Cause the prison records must show the date of the commission of the crime charged rather than the sen tence date.
 The state prison department asked for a ruling on Aug. 5 after receiv- ing Daniel Keefe at Sing Sing prison for a sentence of two years and six months. On the commitment pa- pers was a notation that the warden of Sing Sing should receive the pris- oner as of June 30.
 The attorney general will advise
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
BREAK UP WEDDING
Mother of 26 Year Old Man and Son of 72 Year Old Woman Interrupt Nuptials.
Nuptials.

Paris, Miss. Aug. % tP-Cupid's plans have gone awry here and May and December wedding has been indefinitely postponed.
 Luther Sebastian, 2e. of Shelbino, Mo, and Mrs. Lucy Gpeenup. 72. who first met last Saturday. obtain ed license to wed yesterday. A mipister was summoned and the wee Ing guests were gathering when the prospective bridegroom's moth CT and son of the intended bride, himself twice the age of the youth ful lover, arrived.
 Sebastian was taken home by his mother while his 7e year old fiancee accompanied her son.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
ANOTHER CLUE FOUND

N'oi' 'AcONti T iNiNNh Np 4NSnI CtCtie
 of HalI-MilIs Murder, Now Comes
 Into Case.
 Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 20. Rs-- Senator Simpson, special prosecutor in the Hall Mills murder investiga- tion said today that a man named Tierse, proprietor of the Tea Pot Inn, roadhouse near New Bruns- wick, picked up a gold brooch at the scene of the murder few days after the bodies of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were found.
 The letter said Tierse turned the brooch over to Fred Davis, chief of Middlesex county detectives.
 The brooch was not among the exhibits in the possession of Sena- tor Simpson, and he said he had sent detectives to secure an affi- davf from Tierse.
 Simpson said he would leave for Somerville to check up on the statement by Inspector Underwood that the Spanish pistol turned over to Philadelphia police was not the weapon used in the staying.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
Y NEW RADIO STATIONS
Licenses Issued This Week - Ten Stations Already Operating An- nounce Wave Length Changes.

Washington, Aug. 20 Pl-Seven- teen new radio stations were issued licenses this week, while 10 stations already operating changed to higher wave lengths, the commerce depart ment announced today.
 The new stations, with their call letters and wave bands include: Frank Crook, Inc, Pawtucket, R. l., WFCI, 229; Harold Dewing and Charles H. Messter, Providence. R. L, VICES, 242; and Stanley N. Read, Providence, R. I, WRAH, 2S5.
 Stations MEAN, Providence, R. l., changed from 270.1 to SGT and WKBE, Webster. Mass, from 2S1 to 270.1.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
LIGHT PUZZLES PEOPLE
It Glows Brightly Over Country
 Cemetery for Several NirhtS

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 Claremore, Okla, Aug. 20 LIN- A weird light in the form of a red ball of fire which farmers declare has appeared for several consecu- tive nights over a country cemetery near here is causing scores of north ern Oklahoma residents to plan watch parties in an attempt to ex- plain the phenomenon.
 Farmers living near by say that the light appears between and II
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
PERSONALS

Miss Henrietta Shonts, Miss Helen Hines and Fred Cramer have re- turned to their homes in New York city after spending the past week with MT. and Mrs. NJ. J. Shonts of Miple Hill.
 MT. and Mrs. Nels Granquist and son, Nels, Jr., of Sefton Drive are spending two weeks at Indian Neck.
 Mrs. c, T. Rowland and daughter, Miss Florence Rowland, are spend- ing their vacation at Clinton beach.
 Mrs. A. Pinkus and daughter. Bernice, have returned from their vacation.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. J. Buckley and son and daughter. of Park street, and Miss Anna Buckley of Austin street left today for Canada by au- tomobile.
 Mrs. Edward F. Feldman of 72 Monroe street is visiting friends in Boston.
 Claude A. Patterson, formerly in- structor in the Central Junior High school is in the city visiting friends. He is now located at Aberdeen, So. Dakota, where he is head of the fine arts department in the/ State Teach CTS college.
 Miss Grace Schneider of 205 | Maple street and Mrs. Estehr Hal lock of New Haven were the guests of Mir. and Mrs. A. Beck of 202 Hart street over the past week end at their summer home at Double Beach.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. H. Harris and sons, Robert and Richard, of Stan ley street, are spending a two weeks vacation at Oak Bluffs, Mass.
 Miss Catherine Shine and nephew have returned to their home in Brooklyn after spending two weeks with Mrs. J. H. Dillon of West street.
 MT and Mrs. H. l.. Chichester have returned from Miami, Florida, and are spending few weeks with friends and relatives in this city.
 Mrs. John Mccarthy, of Quebec, Canada, is visiting her sister, Mrs Alfred Roy of 164 Maple street, and her niece, Mrs. James Malloy, of 270 South Main street. Mrs. Mccarthy was formerly Miss Lea Bissonette of this city.
 Joseph A. Haffey and William L. Burns have returned after attend ing three day convention of under takers at Boston, Mass.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. NJ. Burkarth of Walnut street have returned from their vacation spent at Clinton Beach. Mrs. Burkarth had as her guest, Mrs. J. J. Kinney of this city and Mrs. John McNiff of Hartford.
 Joseph and Philip and Misses Irene and Mary Burkarth are spend ing their vacation at Clinton Beach.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
TENNIS RESULTS

Southampton, N. Y, Aug. 20 P) William T. Tilden of Philadelphia anI Brain l. c. Norton of Dallas, Texas, advanced to the final round of the Meadow club invitation tennis tourney singles today with straight set victories.
 Tilden overwhelmed Percy L. Kynaston of Rockville Centre. N. r., GO, 60, 6-4. Norton outscored AL fred H. Chapin, Jr,, of Springfield, Mass, 6-4, 6-3, GO.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
POST OFFICE VACATIONS

Employees of the post office who Iare vacationing include the follow ing: Harry J. Phealon, spending two weeks in New York city; Con rad H. Hultberg, registry clerk; Jos eph E, Grace, stamp clerk. in Phila- delphia and Atlantic City. The car riers now on vacation are: Bernard Lynch, Paul Heller, Everett E. Her wig. Richard F. Herwig, Richard E. Hotchlliss and George, C. Clark. Mir. Clark is taking motor trip to Orono. Maine. with the delegation of the Connecticut Grange to the convention being held in that place. The return trip will lead the party through the White Mountains.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
Florida Real Estate Man Kills Himself at Miami

Miami Beach, Fla, Aug. 20 VP'- Walter Richardson, S5, real estate operator and attorney. was found dead with his throat slashed and a small penknife by his side in his fashionable home here today.
 Richardson came here q year ago from St. Paul, Minn., where his father resides. His wife and three children are in Princton, N. J.
 Richardson was said to have been despondent over failure to pass the state bar examination.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
Vacation School Closes
 With Exhibit Tonight

The Pennington avenue vacation school will close with an exhibit this evening after eight sessions of two hours each. The exhibit will be held in the Osgood Hill school.
 During the time the children have been attending the school the elder boys and girls have made a model house, three and half feet high and have furnished it. The kinder garten children have made scrap books and the older children have decorated china.
 Large eagles of the tropics eat monkeys.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

the prison department that the warden is to enter judgment on his books as of the day the prisoner came in. July 20, and not antedate it. The opinion will be written in 8 few days.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
COMPLAINT DISMISSED

Washington, Aug. 20 P-An in- terstate commerce commission eX- aminer today recommended dismiss sal of a complaint by the Boston Wool Trade association against car load wool rates from Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri to Boston. The Chicago Wool Trade association sup ported the complaint.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

able claws.
 Most professional hunters who know these creatures prefer to go after crocodiles. Monitors only four feet in length will swallow several rats whole, and the strength and ap- petite of the Komodo dragons makes them dangerous foes to big prey.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

Boston, Aug, 20 R-The com plaint, the dismissal of which was recommended today by an interstate commerce commission examiner, was made by the Boston Wool Trade association on behalf of certain re- ceivers in this city and Philadelphia. It was complained that varying rates to shippers and receivers had been granted in a manner not aI- lowed by the interstate commerce law and that this practice was dis criminatory and an iniustice.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

Eagles on United States currency were copied from birds in the Na- tional Zoo.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-19

logical psychatry is a new one in other languages as well as in English. In using this new term my purpose is 10 apply those facts and methods of an thropology to psychiatry which may be of most scientific value. One of the latest methods of anthropological re- search is to estimate the weight of the brain in living persons by means of equations.
 "In order to perfect all the details attendant upon applying the test of the equation on the living, l am now, for the first time, so. far as 1 know, testing it upon the dead, where make three measurements of the head and then the brain is taken out and weighed and the difference between the predicted and actual weight of the brain is found After l have tested this equation upon sufficient number of the dead, and found the percentage of error, it can be applied to the living, to both normal and abnormal persons.
 But it will be necessary to apply the equation to a sufficient number of nor nal persons for purposes of compari- son. It is proposed to apply the equa- ton to the 600 members of Congress as a control experiment for the normal,
 As the largest number of insane are at about the age of 10, and as the aver age age of the members of both houses of Congress is between 40 and 50, such a control experiment will be of special value. Moreover, the insane in the Gov ernment hospital here in Washington come from all parts of the country, just as the Congressman do.
 "The ten millimeters subtracted from each measurement of the head in the equation represent the average thick ness of tissue on different parts of the head"
 Dr. Macdonald admits that he is groping in the dark, hoping that there may be discovered some truths concern ing the relationship between the size of the brain and the mental capacity of the individuals concerned. At the pres ent time," he continued i've do not know how much size of the head, or of the brain, or of the body has to do with
New Britain herald., 1926-02-19

mentality, but it is interesting 10 note in this connection that four-ffths of the animals which have relatively hcav- fer brains in proportion to their bodies are more intelligent than the other one fifth.
 Further nore, four-ffths of the brains of all great men which have been weighed were heavier than the brains of the normal individuals, and about one fifth of the brains of great men were of normal size We must take into consideration also in studying these fig ures that possibly half of the great men whose brains proved to be of normal size were diseased incident to their death, which may possibly have had some effect upon their brain size.
 We do know, however, that no head less than twelve inches in circumference, either of child or of adult, has ever been known to function normally.
 "One of the reasons why scientists know so little about this subject is that it is very difficult to get permission to weigh the brain of the average man or woman after death. The only persons, as a rule, upon whom we are allowed to perform autopsies for this purpose are the insane, the criminals, or inc paupers. A few persons interested in the advancement of science have given their brains to be examined, but the reaction of the average family is against permit ting the body of a loved one to be studied.
 "Mrs. Helen Gardener gave her brain in the interest of science, as have other well-known persons-Benjamin F. But Ter, American soldier and politician; E. II. Knight, American mcchanician; A.. Winchell, American geologiSt, and Dr.. Burt c. Wilder, scientist, and any num- Der of eminent foreigners, among whom are included AnatoIe France and William Makepeace Thackcray. Few persons know that the brain of Abraham Lincoln was removed and studied.
 "I believe that if the brains of Con- gressmen are much above normal in weight it would indicate that weight of brain in man has some definite relation ship to intelligence.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-19

data concerning any one individual is going to be given out to the public.
 IT SOUNDS like grand scheme and, if it goes through, we ought to know what is prosperous American.
 There are few stumbling blocks, however, for the scientists after they get the consent of individual Congress- men for the examinations. For instance, they cant weigh the brain while the Congressman is still alive and kicking.
 To get around that difficulty, Dr. Macdonald has worked out mathe- nautical formula by which he can calcu- late the weight of the brain from meas urements of the head, He says that he is not quite as accurate as the astr0no- mer, who can foretell the minute and second of an eclipse, but his formula is so nearly correct that in numbers of cases where he has estimated the weight of the brain of dead persons and later actually weighed the brain after it had been removed from the skull, it was found that his estimate made by for mula was virtually never more than two grams different from the real weight.
 If you are curious to know how much your brain weighs, just try it out for yourself, or better still, get Dr. Mac Donald to do it for you.
 It is simple: Measure your head length, head breadth and head height in mllimetcrs. Subtract ten from each of these three figures and then multiply them together, and multiply the product by 0OO337. To the product, add 40601, which will give the cranial capacity in cubic centimeters. If this result be multiplied by g, you will have the weight of your brain.
 The ten subtracted from the head di- mensions represents the average thick ness of the skull in millimeters-a com- posite figure arrived at from scores of measurements.
 For instance, the head of one young woman of supposedly mature judgment was TAO millimeters broad, 1S3 milli- meters long and l36 millimeters high. Subtracting ten from each of these fig ures, and multiplying the result, we have 2,S33,740 Multiplying that result by .0OOS37, We have 954.97. Adding to that figure 40601, we get 1224.sS grams the weight of her brain.
 In speaking of his work, Dr. Mac Donald says: "The term anthropo-