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New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
RING TROPHIES GONE
Invaluable Collection 4 Prize Fighting Relics Destroyed by Jersey Fire.

Allenhurst, \. J., Dec. l4 tP - Treasures Of a lifetime devoted to the prize ring, souvenirs of fierce bare knuckle combats long since forgotten. are not to form the nu- cleuS of a boxing museum after all, as Jimmy DeForrest, 65 year old trainer, once hoped they would sometime after his death.
 The invaluable collection, pa ticntly gathered and stored in trunks for some future date when display might keep his memory fresh. was destroyed in the fire that levrlled DeForesr's home last night.
 There wer" the gloves that Jem Mace and Mike Donovan fought with. John l.. Sullivan's gloves. Jim Corhett's. Tom Sharkoy's, Kid Me Coys and, most precious of all. the gloves Joe Cans and Spider Kelley wore in their great fight long ago.
 There were trunks filled with trophies and that big hearskin shako, the drum ma ajor's hat l wore when I led the big Tim Sullivan | fife and drum corps down the Bow cry. All gone up in smoke. I'm heart broken"
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
STUDENTS GO WILD
 AT LONDON SHOWS
Boys Wreck TheaterS and Insult
 Performers

London, Dec 14 P,-Indignati ton was evident in London today against Oxford and Cambridge students who ran riot in the west end theatrical section after the annual football match between the two universities.
 Performances in theaters were halted by one of the rowdiest rags ever witne ssed. America n actresses were among the victims of the student uproar.
 T thought your university boys were gentlemen, but I am afraid was mistaken, they were simply hor- rid said Alice Marley in her dress ing room after being driven from the stage of the Hippodrome in tears.
 The "rags was obviously not spontaneous but deliberately prepar- ed. Numbers of seats had been bought up in several 1heaters by the | undergraduates and their friends. Soon after the performances got un- der way the trouble commenced. | The Hippodrome was one of the worst sufferers.
 1 During the first intermission the rival groups of undergraduates went ! to the saloon bar. There they turn ed the fire extinguishers on one an. other, They smashed glasses In thu bar and many women'3 dresses were ruined.
 After the intermission they re turned to their seats and the uproa continued.
 The ''Hallelejuah song" In "Hi the Deck" was the climax of the dis turbance. With a bowling worth. of mad balloons, the students drowh ed out everything and the theatel had to be closed.
 The Palace theater, where Louis' Brown, American dancer. is appear ing in "The Girl Friend" fared littf' better. The dancer was pelted witt paper balls and other missiles. ] was also closed.
 Lesser disturbances occurred il four other theaters.
 When the undergraduates arriv cd on the streets the disorders wer' renewed. Piccadilly Circus becam' the center Of these and the polic' had a hard time coping with them
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
AU'TOMOTlVE
tutO and Truck Agencies

CADILLAC AND LA sALLE CARS Sales X Service. Lash Motors. Inc. "A Reliable Concern" 4l1 West Main St. IT, nn0n
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
AU1OMOTlVE

TELEPHONE soo--INsTANT SERVICE
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14

ranch grew larger. acre by acre and section by section.
 Tanned and srizzled, Yates kept plugging away.
 Then, abruptly. 1t was discov cred that there was oil on his land.
 Yates set to work 10 develop wells. So rich was the pool under- lying his ranch that standard oil drilling tools were not needed; ordinary water well rigs sutficed to bring the flowing gold to the surface.
 And now
 Yates fortune is beyond all cs- innate. Oil men here say he soon will be worth the astounding sum of $500, 0,000,00o - more money than all the thrifty ranchcrs Of the world ever dreamed of
 Yates has had to go into hiding. Too many people want to try 10 help him spend his money Too many people know of "worthy causes" to which he could donate. They made life miserable for him. He never had a moments peace. Always there was someone al hls elbow, suggesting investments or gifts.
 So Yates has disappeared. Only his closest relatives know where
 ,1. ..l1 c fortune has driven him from his old home and the broad acres he loved.
 If he could findtPjefchmrdluctao
 If you could find him, possibly he could speak very entertainlngly on the subject, Does wealth bring happincss"'
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
City Items

Mothers you will please your kid dies by having their Christmas hair cut on ''Lindy's" airplane at Chris tien's Barber Beauty Shoppe, g. Church Street. Come early.-Advt
 Miss Maude T. Traver. directress of nurses at the New Britain Gen eral hospital is back on duty follow ing a recent operation for appendi- citis.
 The Leading Star lodge will hold it's regular meeting Thursday Eve. All members are requested to attend this meeting at their hall on Glen treet.-advt.
 A daughter was born at New Brit ain General hospital last night to Mir. and Mrs. Isidore Peck of 449 Stanley street. Prescription service at The Fair Prompt, reliable and cconomical.-- advt.
 Miss Marjorie Cannon of 1i75 Stanley street entertained on the oc- casion of her fifth birthday yester- day afternoon. Ton of her playmates and friends were prestnt. Luncheon was served and q special entertain m"nt was given. santa Claus was present with gifts for all the chl- drcn.
 t,lks attcntion Nenison supper Thursday. Dec. 15, G:30 at the club. i Benefit of flower fnnd.-advt. Mrs Harry Astoria of 23o Elm street and her three children left yesterday for Sussex, England, wher" ! they will visit Mrs, Astoria's parents. Nash Suit or OverCost-S2 .90. McCabe A Walnut St. Tel 454.- advt.
 { Miss Dorothy 1lenk" of 5J Gris-
 wold street is recovering al her home after serious attack Of pneumonia.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
CJRRJ\T E'\I\TS CLASS

Mrs. Clarence r. Bennett will hold her Current Events class this eve tan association on Glen street. Sh" will then review The old Countess. ' by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, and "A Daughter of the Samurai," by SugO- moto. In closing. she will speak of President Cooiidge's message to the 10th congress. and of the eXCava- tions in the Agora at Athens, This lecture is free to the public.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
Painting. Paper Hanging
Plumbing. Heating, Metal Work 2s

WE FURNISH PAPER AND LABOR for S7 room and up. Call J. Gutowski. Phone s59-4 after G:3G p m,
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
MONEY IS NOT KEY
 ID ALL HAPPINESS
Fortune DroY@ Texas RanCher
 From Home to Exile

San Angelo, Teas, Dec. II. - Fate picked out Ira l.. Yates wealth. er-beaton Pecos rjvcr rdncher, and played on him one Of i's most sar- donic jokes.
 Yates is 69 Halt century ago he moved here from south Texas gnd bought q small ranch on the Pecos river. Yates worked hard. He had no time for recreation, no time to take things easy As fast as his ranch made money for him, he put the money back inro th" land. Year by year his lul"
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
EDUCATIONAL
Dancing Teachers
 Instrumental and Vocal
EMPLOYMENT

TWO MEN of good character for out side sales force. Splendid opportunity. Apply between , and 6 p. III. Service Appliance Co, HI Arch St. YOUNG MAN. with car preferred, tc train for salesmanager. Salary paid while learning. Apply 5S Church St.
 Help-Women Wanted 4 DISHWAsHER wanted. Apply 95 West Main St. Soda Shop and Restaurant. EXPERIENCED middle aged woman tc help with housework and baby. Phone 3612 or 272 Corbin Ave. LADIES, 20, neat, to distribute adver. Using literature. No selling. Salary Convenient hours for those with hom, duties. Apply Miss Arnet Burritt ho. tel, Tues. morning. 9 o'clock. MAID for general housework Go hom, nights. Phone 5431.
 sALEsWOMEN wanted for part tim. work. Apply Superintendent, Raphaers Dept. Store.
 situations Wanted-Ait,, A YOUNG MAN wants position doing any kind Of work Willing, hard worker. Can drive car. Costantino Fabratu, 2ud floor, 3l1 Clinton St.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14
EARTHQUAKES CAUSE FEAR

London, Dec. II (UP)-The Daily Mail Nicosia, Cyprus. correspondent cabled today that eighteen separate earthquakes had occurred on the southern Cyprus coast Tuesday morning. that inhabitants were camped outside the town, and that public and private buildings had cracked at Limassol. llmassol schools were closed, the corrcspond- ent said.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14

ranch grew larger. acre by acre and section by section.
 Tanned and srizzled, Yates kept
New Britain herald., 1927-12-14

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 4l Pleasant street
Evening star., 1927-10-03
Won Hindenburg.

In point Of volume and vociferous
enthusiasm the celebration yesterday
in Berlin Of President Won HindeD-
burg's eightieth birthday anniversary
marked a high point in German his
tory. There was never in even the
old days Of the extreme popularity of
the Kaiser anything quite the equal
in sincerity Of the acclaim that was
rendered to the veteran executive.
The crowds that attended are esti.
mated at from 100000 to a million
people. The venerable President Of
the Republic was cheered wildly. Re-
publicans and monarchists We'd to &C.
claim him in terms of extravagant
praise. In the procession that march
ed in his honor were the banners of
the rival schools Of politics. the black,
red and gold Of the republicans and
the black, white and red flags of the
monarchists. One dispatch states
that there were ten Of the latter to
one of the former. There were like.
wise many of the uniforms Of the old
regime. Taken altogether. 1t was the
Judgment Of observers that the roy.
eAss sentiment WA dominant Ryf
Evening star., 1927-10-03
PHILOSOPHERS
GLENN FRANK

Years ago I heard the patriarchal
Jenkin Lloyd Jones discuss the way
in which Americans had become a ma
ton Of gadders, no longer tethered to
the old homestead as a place in which
to be born, to live and to die.
He painted vivid pictures of the old
homesteads of New England and of
the South in the stabler days of the
nineteenth century, the permanence Of
family life, the continuity of family
traditions, and the pride of names that
kept communities great.
In contrast to these pictures he
sketched the life history of the twen-
tieth century American, born in New
England. married in j-ansas, dying in
California, with children scattered to
the four corners and ON the seven seas
Of the world.
1--WE are" he said. 'Bedouins of the
boulevard"
This is the outstanding mark of our
generation-We have become nomadic
again.
Until rapid transportation and swift
communication were born in the inven-
tors brain, the history of civilization
was the history of a settling down, the
story Of how humanity worked out of
the wandering hunter and herdsman
stage into the farmer stage; but after
rapid transportation and swift COM
munication came humanity broke
camp and began wandering again.,
1t is a new nomadism we are prac-
ticing, but it Is nomadism neverthe.
less.
In the past the nomads have played
a part in history out of all proportion
to their numbers--the triumphs of
those nomads extraordinary, the Mon
gols and Manchus in China, the Mo-
guls of India, the Hebrews of Pales-
tine, the Morse Of France, the Goths
of Italy, the Hyksos of Egypt and
the Turks in Asia Minor, make a story
of ,matchless leadership and accom-
plishment.
These old nomads were conquer.
ing lot, according to Ellsworth Hunt
ington, because their wandering life,
with it's dangers, it's difficulties, it's
sudden demands for exertion, discov.
cred and disciplined in them every
available faculty and power Of brain
and body.
He names FIVE qualities that the
life of the old nomads called for and
called out, viz:
First, the ability to exert themselves
strenuously and without reserve In an
emergency.
Second, the power to be leader
when necessary.
Third, the willingness to follow
leader when necessary.
Fourth, self-reliance.
Fifth. hospitality and faithfulness to
their comrades.
The old nomad in his wanderings
achieved these Viking virtues under
the hardening influence Of poverty.
Can we new nomads achieve these
Viking virtues under the softering in
f1uence of plenty? ."
G. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
Evening star., 1927-10-03

Won Hindenburg In his speech OF re-
sponse to the addresses Of congratu.
lation was careful not to show any
partisanship. He urged upon his fell
| low countrymen unity and a healing
of the dissension that has split the
German people into two camps.
Granting that the monarchists most
effectively seized upon the occasion of
Won Hindenburg's anniversary as an
opportunity for demonstration, it does
not follow that the spirit of kaiserism
Is dominant in Germany. Far less
does the affair of yesterday signify
the growth of a desire for the return
of the Exile of Doorn to the throne
at Berlin.
Won Hindenburg is today the idol
of the German people because of his
past services and his present contri-
| button to German stability and recov-
cry from the war wounds. 1t was
| not the military leader who was yes
terday acclaimed so much as the exec.
utive who, in time of the greatest
difficulty, succeeded by election to the
post of responsibility and authority
and by his tact and firmness, his
ability and his fairness, allayed the
| turmoil of partisanship and held the
ship of state on true course.
When Won Hindenburg was pro-
posed for the presidency there was
| undoubtedly serious apprehension lest
the monarchy. But If the royalists
expected him to espouse their cause
and to work for it's success they were
grievously disappointed. He steered a
course Of fidelity to the republican
principles that had been established
BY no word or action did he give the
royalists encouragement. Yet yester-
day he was given roaring greeting
on his birthday by them as well as by
the republicans.
This spectacle is we'll worth study
ing as a manifestation of the per-
sistence Of the hope for the restora.
ton of the monarchy that Is evident
in Germany today. Won Hindenburg
himself will not promote it. He will
not encourage it. Nor, it would seem,
will he discourage or retard it. He
is giving a remarkable example Of
non-partisanship while carrying On
faithfully as republican executive.
Perhaps the outcome either way will
be agreeable to him, so long as Ger.
many prospers, as she is now doing,
and recovering her standing as a
| world power.
Whatever the significance of yester-
days demonstration at Berlin political.
ly, 1t stands as a deserved tribute
to a man Of great ability.
Evening star., 1927-10-03
Another World Series.

! AS the result Of two widely differing
battles within the American and Ma.
tonal Leagues Of base ball clubs, two
teams have been named as the re-
spective champions Of their circuits
and on Wednesday will meet in the
climax struggle for the title that has
been established as the world cham.
pionship. These teams are the New
York Yankees of the American League
and the Pittsburgh Pirates Of the Ma
ltional. AS to their respective merits
partisans are today differing widely.
ESeven games may be necessary to de.
ftermine the outcome. Or, again, only
-four may be needed. It all depends,
IN this series. as in any other sequence
Iof base ball encounters, upon the
burn Of tickle fortune. A suddenly
weakening pitcher. perhaps a single
hit in each game delivered at happy
duncture, maybe a misplay at a
critical moment, or a combination of
factors may cause a complete upset
Of the dope" that at this time would
seem. on "form." to favor the Yam
KEGS rather than the Pirates.
! These two races that have just
ended have differed remarkably. From
the outset the New York team Of the
American League was clearly the
s'class" Of that organization. It led
Virtually from the pitching of the
xirst ball. It's hitting prowess carried
! \ s3eeg ~ ths Aisaasy q yaR shA ,sssss
Evening star., 1927-10-03
Reserve Bank Rate
Stirs Up Argument

From the New York Times
A question Of great interest in Fed.
eral reserve policies has been raised
by the action Of the Reserve Board
on the Chicago rediscount rate. On
August 4 the New York Reserve Bank
lowered its official rate from per
cent to 81, and subsequently most or
the other reserve banks whose rate
still held at per cent followed New
York's example. 1t was belleved tnat
the Reserve Board favored a uniform
3h per cent rate by all the larger
banks, but that the Chicago Reserve
Banks directors did not desire to
make the change. That banks rate
was not, at all events, reduced until
recently. D. -"s '
Naturally, no public record Of the
exchange of views is available, but 1t
was presently asserted that the rate
had been changed through peremp-
tory insistence on it by the Reserve
Board and against the opposition of
the Chicago bank itself. This fact,
which appears to be admitted, has
aroused great resentment in Chicago
banking circles, where the contention
Is made that, irrespective of the mer-
it's Of higher or lower rate, a change
ought always to be initiated by each
Reserve Board, while undoubtedly
possessing the power Of disappearing
the fixing of a new rate has no legal
power to dictate it.
The reserve law, in it's enumera-
ton of powers conferred on every
Federal Reserve Bank, specifies the
power 'to establish from time to time,
subject to review and determination
of the Federal Reserve Board, rates of
discount to be charged by the Federal
Reserve Bank for each class Of paper"
The meaning of this proviso would
seem plain; it is made still more un.
mistakable by the fact that it repre-
sents a change from the language and
purpose of the original drafts of the
act. The first print of the Federal
Reserve bill as submitted to Congress
made it one of the powers of the
board itself "to establish each week,
or as much oftener as required, a rate
of discount which shall be mandatory
upon each Federal Reserve Bank" but
the bill as laid before the House by
the banking and currency committee
transferred that power to- each sepa-
rate reserve bank, subject to the
boards review and determination.
In that form it passed both House
and Senate and was enacted into law.
Both the law and the practice of
the reserve system wisely clothe the
board at Washington with large super
visory powers. AS we have seen, the
statute explicitly confers on the board
a veto power, even in the case of pro-
posed changes in a reserve banks dis
count rate. In the exercise of it's nor
NAL functions. advice or recommenda-
ton by the board to a reserve bank
would be unquestionably proper. 1t
was wisely and usefully applied in
1919 and 1920. But mandatory action
was not contemplated in the law. The
record shows that it was considered
by the congressional committee and
rejected and that Congress indorsed
the committees action. ~.
Evening star., 1927-10-03

contenders. It's home.run twins, Ruth
and Gehrig, were constantly in evi
dence. Steadily it drew away from
its competitors. Once or twice II
slipped and there seemed for a few
days in midseason as If some other
team, perhaps Washington. might
overtake 1t and gain the peak Of the
list. But that was not to be. Hitting
strength, coupled with pitching abil
ity, gave the Yankees the necessary
margin, and the league race became a
contest for the consolation positions
in which eventually Washington
twice champion Of the league and once
world champion, secured place by a
narrow margin.
In the National League the case was
different. Four of the eight teams
were strong possibilities for the pen
nant, Pittsburgh. Chicago. st. Louis
and New York. Each of them at one
time or another held the van. Each
had it's squirt, followed by it's slump
In the latter days Of the season the
fight was fierce. Not until the day
next to the last was the decision def
initely rendered. when Pittsburgh wor
a game and gave itself the necessary
margin of mathematical certainty.
It is always a question whether a
ball team that has won its league
championship after hard fight Is as
fit for the world series as one that
has had easy going throughout the
season. There have been cases tc
point to both conclusions. 1t all de
pends upon that element OF chance
that makes base ball the most attrac
tive of all the sports. Good pitching
hard hitting, accurate fielding. If com
bined, will win. But it Is the nature
of the game that this combination
does not prevail persistently through
out even a short series Of contests
Hence it is that no one can really
foretell the outcome of this classic OF
the sport.
Washington is again an onlooker
cheered by the hope that another year
it may once more, as it has twice
within a brief period, be participant
Evening star., 1927-10-03
James Tanner.

! Kindly and competent in the admin.
astration Of the Office Of register of
wills for the District for nearly a quar-.
ter of century, James Tanner, who
died in this city yesterday at the age
of eighty.three, had become a yer.
table institution. From his long
association with Washington, both
In this assignment to duty and
in previous participations in gov.
ernmental work, Corporal" Tan.
ner. as he was fondly known, was
identified with the Capital. Yet he
was a national figure as well. The
victim Of wounds received in the Civil
War. he was cruelty manned. but de.
spite this grievous handicap he rem.
dered valuable service in various posi-.
tions. He was active in all patriotic
movements and factor for the recon.
ciliation Of differences between the
once-contending sections Of the coun.
try. In his long residence in Wash.
ington Corporal" Tanner, as long as
his strength permitted, took an active
part in civic matters. His good judg.
ment, his extensive acquaintance and
his intelligent understanding of wide
range Of subjects were at the service
OF the community on all occasions.
His career is an example of the value
of courage and sincerity in citizenship.