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New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
List of Dead

While meagre reports from the flood-stricken districts of New England indicated tre- mendous loss of life. the known dead totalled only 22 this morn ing. The victims included:
 Ralph Winters. Barre, Vt. Gerald Brooke. Barre. Vt. Mrs. Justine Carroll. Becket, Mass. Mrs. Irving Reynolds. West Hartford, Vt. Two children, West Hartford, Vt. Martin Shepard, Bennington, Vt. John Sabula, Rutland. Vt. Mrs. Lucy Salter of Ticonderoga, N. Y.. at Rutland, Vt. Charles Rubeck, Northampton, Mass. Mrs. Charles Rubeck, Northampton. Mrs. Charles A. Putnam. Mill bury, Mass. Dorothy Putnam. Millbury, Mass. Mrs. M. Cassius, Worcester. Mass. Mrs. Anna Kannia, Westfield, Mass. Ro- land o. Lyford. Milo. Me. Car 1nilla Bardillo, Boston. uniden- tified man, Pittsfeld, Vt. Harold Dewey, Of Simsbury, Conn, at Westfield. Mass. Helen Moore, Westfield. William Lampson, Canaan, Conn. Albert Blacknall, Westerly, F. I.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
EXPECT $7,7S2 GATE
 AT H. s. GRID BATTLE
No Standing Room for New Britain Hart
 ford Contest

Receipts from the annual New Britain High Hartford Public High school football game which is to be played at Memorial Field. Willow Brook park, on November 19 will total $7,7S2, if all the seats which have been placed on sale are sold.
 According to the figures of Newell S. Ames, Senior High school comp troller, total of s,S32 seats will be available. Of this amount he has deducted 200 as complim htary tickets. Tickets have already been printed and are now in the hands of the school authorities. MT. Ames plans to send 2,200 student tickets and 1,600 public tickets to Hartford Monday and 1t is expected that they will be out on sale mmediately New Britain High school students have been allotted 1900 tickets and
 he public of New Britain will have ,,632 tickets. Student tickets will 1e sold at 75 cents and tickets to he public will cost $1.
 Figuring on this basis returns rom the Hartford student ticket ticket sale will be s1.650; from the public sale of Hartford tickets, $1,- 800; from the New Britain student ticket sale. s90O: and from public sale ill this city, s3.632.
 Each ticket is marked for a cer- tain section and certain entrance. Every entrance will be opened. Hartford will have the west side of the field and on the east side will be the New Britain section. It is probably that the extra number of tickets the New Britain public has over Hartford will be in the seats at both ends of the field.
 New Britain tickets will be placed on sale at CroWell's Drug store Tues day afternoon. Comptroller Ames has announced that the sale will continue from until 6 o'clock every afternoon until the tickets have been sold. Tickets may be bought from students, also, he an- nounced.
 Principal Louis P. Slade. chair man Of the athletic committee a, the school. has ruled that there will be no standing room tickets sold this year. Every ticket sold will provide for the seating of the buyer. This is believed to be a move to prevent disorders which have been noted in previous games.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
Toll of Life and Property Lost in New Englands Worst Storm Mounts Every Moment Lieu tenant Governor of Vermont Said to be Among Victims-Trains Unable to Move Boston Faces Milk Famine Seventeen Dams Break-&vers Rising Rapidly.

Boston, Nov (AP)-New heights were reached today in the ever mounting toll of life and property lost in the worst and flood disaster that New England has with Tn memory and although 30 reported to be dead ana maternal damage ran into staggering was feared that when full of the catastrophe which overlook Mont peler Vt became known the list of victims might be greatly increased
 uncon1ned reports from White River Junction. Vt had placed the dead in Montpelier at between 137 and PIP but in the complete failure of telephone and telegraph communication 1t was impossible to verify these figures.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
Plays Flashight on Face of Sleeping Man,
 Warns Him to Remain
 Quiet and Takes Loot.
Charles B. Caldwell of Russwin Road Forced to Stay in Bed While Trou- sers Pocket Is Riaed.

Awakened about 1 o'clock this morning by the glare of flashlight playing on his face. Charles B. Cad well of Russwin Road looked down the barrel of a revolver held by steady hand, and heard a calm voice order him to keep still and every thing will be all right" Then the burglar searched several articles of clothing which were on a clothes ;ree in the room and finding noth- ing of value. turned his attention to Mir. Cadwell's trousers which were on the floor beside the bed. From one pocket he took s250, which he put into his own pocket and after examining Mir Cadwell's watch, left It where he found it. While MT. Caldwell remained in bed within range of the revolver,s the burglar walked out of the bedroom and downstairs. leaving by the front door.
 Enters Through Window
 At 5:10 o'clock. Sergeant T. J. Neeney at police headquarters .re- ccivcl word of the burglary from Mr. Caldwell, and Officers T. c. Dolan, H. C. Lyon and J. M. McCue hurried to investigate. They found that the burglar had gained entrance to the house through a window in the rear hall but on finding the door locked and the key on the in- side, he used an ice pick which was handy and a. bit, 10 force the side window leading to the kitchen A bench from the porch was used to stand on in order that the window might be more easily reached as it IS about 10 feet from the ground.
 Cuts Telephone Wires
 Stepping into the kitchen, tho burglar saw MT. Cadwe]ls dog, but soon found that there was nothing to fear from the animal, which fail- ed to give any warning of the en- trance. Before ransacking q desk on the first floor, the burglar cut ary move, and then mounted the stairs to MT. Cadwell's bedroom. So suddenly was Mir. Caldwell awaken ed and so quickly did the burglar operate In the darkness that tho police were unable to obtain a de- scription on which to work. It was established that Mir. Cadwell's
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New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
COOLIDGE FAVORS
 s225,0O0,OO0 CUT Committee Meets to Revise
 Revenue Statutes HITS DEMOCRAT PROPOSAL
Calls Suggestion For
 $4OO. 100000 Slash Impossible Hints He Will Adhere To the
Treasury's Recommendations.

Washington, Nov. Pl-Presi- dent Coolidge having placed his ap- proval on the treasury recommends tion to limit prospective tax reduc- ton to 225,0O0.0O0, the house ways and means committee again today considered suggestions for admin strative revision of the revenue sta tutes in an effort to devise a way to aid the taxpayers in meeting their obligation to the government.
 Few Witnesses Today
 The list of witnesses was short as the hearing was arranged to permit conclusions or discussion regarding the administration of the revenue laws so that the way would be cleared for consideration Monday of the excise or so-called nuisance taxes. one of the controverted fac- tors entering into the present tax situation.
 While committee members, pre- ceding the hearing, admitted that they had read with interest the White House announcement endors- ing the treasury recommendation public comment was not forthcom- ing. and it was indicated that the statement of the views of the presi- dent had failed to change the con- fiicting opinions already expressed.
 At the White House 1t was said the treasury proposals to limit tax reduction to $225. 5.0oo,000 represent
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New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
FLOOD WATERS CROSS
 NEW YORK BOUNDARY
Thousands of Dollars Worth of Silk Destroy
 ed in Wrecked Mill

Albany, N. r., Nov. Pl-The backwash Of flood waters that gripped western New England lap ped about property and continued to eat away at bridges and dams along New York's eastern boundary today. Damage was not confined to the flooding of homes, but included loss in material and equipment of manufacturing plants and power and water stations. Railroads were attempting to fight off the paralysis that floods had imposed upon them.
 Whitehall at the head of Lake Champlain, was believed to have in cured the greatest monetary loss
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New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
Ramblers and Dandelions
 Picked in Garden Today

Red ramblers and dandelions at this time of the year are distinctly unusual. However, Mrs. L. F. Thorpe of 542 West Main street discovered the flowers in her garden this morn- ing. She stated that the rambler bushes bore many buds and that the spite of the chilly atmosphere last night
New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
CRIPPLE PROVED
 FAKIR BY POLICE
Ser6eants Feeney and Flynn EX--
 pose Hartford "Panhandler"
COMPANION ALSO IS HELD
Arrests Made On Greenwood Street
 Where Pair Were Soliciting Aims Accused Calmly Rolls Cigarette After Being Taken Into Custody.

Covering his left hand with a brown stocking and holding it in a cramped position to give it the ap, pcarance of being crippled. John Clark of Hartford was arrested about 10 o'clock this forenoon as he came out of a house on Greenwood street, where he had been soliciting aims, and a few minutes later, while the attention of Sergeants T. J. Feeney and NJ. J. Flynn was di- rected towards Thomas Kelly of Middletown, alleged partner of Clark, the latter removed the stock ing and dropped it over the side of the police automobile and calmly rolled a cigarette. using both hands. Sergeant Feeney was quick to notice the absence Of the 'crippled" right hand, and Clark readily admitted that he had been affecting the con- dition. Driving back to the place where the car had been stopped for Kelly, the police found the stock ing.
 Complaints Received
 According to the police, com plaints have been received that pan handlers were operating in the vii cinity Of Greenwood, Linwood and other streets in the south end of the city. and last week a housewife re- ported that she had been insulted when she refused to give money to one of them. It is believed that Clark and Kelly were the cause of the complaints, although the police were unable 10 find anyone in the neighborhood until this forenoon when quick response was made to a telephone report Of the activities of the pair.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
Hub" Faces Milk Famine.


 Boston, Nov. 5 R-A combination of railroads today gave New Eng land its first emergency rail connec- tion with Albany and the west in 4S hours By using the Boston & Maine main line between Aver and North Adams and the Boston and Albany between North Adams and Pittsfield a route was established over which each railroad scheduled three freight trains to move it's accumulation of milk, perishables and express.
 The only contact of Vermonts capital with the outside world came from an Associated Press cores pondent operating over a radio sta ton which depended on power from door bell batteries.
 Overshadowing everything else in the storm stricken area was the message of l.. A. Kelly which told of 10 dead in the neighboring city Of Barre, including the lieutenant governor of the state, s. II. Jackson.
 In Montpelier there was no check on loss of life. Light and power were cut out. as they were in prac- tically every other place in the cen tral part of the state and many in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Bridges had been carried away by swirling torrents. Water iN the Win ooski river was 20 feet above nor nal.
 The message was sent out by sta ton lBEB and was picked up by Arthur l.. Kent, an amateur opera tor at Binghamton. N. Y. who re- layed it to the Associated Press.
 Death Toll Mounts
 Elsewhere throughout New Eng
 land disaster stalked ill many forms and with varying intensity. A revised list Of the dead showed that including those reported dead jn Barre but without estimating the possible fatalities in Montpelier. Vermont led the list with 1s. Massachusetts came next With 1o. which included three for Westfeld where varying reports placed two and three occupants of submerged machine among the victims.
 Rhode Island had a single re- ported fatality with one man be- lieved to have been carried to his death in rush of waters near Westerly.
 Connecticut and New Hampshire apparently suffered only heavy pro perty loss while in Maine, where the storm took the form of a gale. a lineman was electrocuted while re pairing Q fallen wire.
 Railroads Affected
 Continuing rain in many place. and utter inability o. railroads 10 cope with the extraordinary situa- ton in others brought the traffic paralysis which has gripped tho en tire area no nearer an end today but 1t did present fresh and EraNs problem.
 That was the threat of . mil. famine. Coincident with . warning
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New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
President Issues Order.

President Issues Order.
 Washington, Nov. R-President Coolidge has ordered several army planes to fly from Boston over the New England flood area in the hope of obtaining information as to the extent of the disaster there.
 MT. Coolidge has directed Secre- tary Davis of the war department. to confer with Gov. Weeks of Yer mont, to ascertain If the government can be of any aid to the states in meeting relief demands.
 Neither the President nor Attor ney General Sargent whose homes at Plymouth and Ludlow, Vermont. were in the flood area, had any de tailed information on the situation.
 The President was represented as being greatly concerned over the flood reports and expects the aviat ors to bring back information which will help him to formulate any plans of relief should they be necessary.
 Under the direction of the Presi dent, the war department also in structed Major General Preston Brown. commander of the corps area at Boston. to exert every effort to ascertain the extent of the flood and to direct necessary relief meas ures.
 Secretary Davis said after call at the White House that it would be left entirely with General 3rown as to how many airplanes should be flown over the flood zone. It was believed. however. that four or five would be dispatched. If it is found necessary to send relief supplies or men, the army headquarters at Bos- ton will furnish them.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
Complaints Received

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Evening star., 1927-11-06
IGNORANCE, Madam


know" And the famous man
asked for books on Abraham
Lincoln, about whom he con-
fessed he knew very little, but
wanted to know more.
In contrast with these success
ful gentlemen are two New York
friends Of mine, not SO noted.
One is ticket-taker in a theaterj
the other travels for a silk con.
cern. The motto Of each 10:
"coneede nothing. Ask no ques-
tions. Put up a stiff bluff and
bull it through"
think the rich man or the
famous man, meeting them in
cosnito, might be a little en-
barrassed at their complete and
unqualified self assurance. For
wise old Samuel Johnson they
would feel contempt; he COM
mitted the unforgivable sin, ae-
cording to their code.
1t was at a dinner party, you
remember. The lady on his right
asked the doctor how he had
happened to make a ridiculous
mistake in the definition Of
certain word in his dictionary.
Ignorance, madam" he re-
spondsd frankly; "pure isno-
rance
Ny wise New York friends
would never be trapped into any
such damaging admission. They
know everything.
Everything except this-that
about the biggest three words
big man can use are, ~ don't
know"
1o01N
Evening star., 1927-11-06

Arabian peninsula; now in our mem
ory 1t receives a paragraph.
Apparently they became peaceful in
their turn, lost the arts of war and fell
prey to another horde of Semitic war.
riors, the Amorites, in 1900 BIC. In
their capital at Babylon the new con.
querors ruled and consumed taxes
royalty. Twenty-one centuries before
Christ the great King Hammurabi as.
ceneed the throne, waged war for 30
years till he had subjected every city
within reach, and then composed a
code of laws to promote justice and
peace. To this day q shaft Of stone
survives, 1000 years old, on which
the king had his code engraved; and
over the laws persuasive picture
shows Hammurabi receiving the code
from the hand of the sun god. Kings
will always find work for idle gods
to do.
Perhaps it was a forgivable hoax,
since these laws are not only the
oldest, but among the wisest for their
time and place. in human record.
Like our own barbaric code, Hammu.
rabi's legislation was based upon the
principle of punishment; crime was
something for which society must take
revenge. Further, the revenge was to
be as much as possible like the crime:
an eye was to be taken for an eye. a
tooth for tooth, life for a life; If
house fell and killed the son Of the
householder, the guilty builder must
suffer the execution Of his son, and the
innocent lad must pay for his fathers
negligence. But as against these saw.
age penalties the code made enlight-
ened efforts to curb violence and
greed. and to protect the weak from
the conScienceleSS strong. The widow,
the orphan and the poor were guard
ed in their simple rights, and woman
was made free to enter school and en-
gage In industry and trade.
Thirty years ago French archeolo-
gists excavated a Babylonian school
house dating from 21O0 BIC. The
clay tablets on which the boys and
girls of that ancient classroom had
written their lessons were still lying
on the floor where they had been
left in some tragic overturn four
millennia before. On one of the tab
let's fitting soul had written a pious
precept of his ma sters: He who shall
excel in tablet writing shall shine like
the sum-" Then, apparently, the
world had fallen in.
X X 4 X
A thousand years passed. Far in
the north, at Assur, another tribe of
Semitic nomads had developed pow
erful military state. For centuries
they spent their energies in fighting
off the Hittites. a non-Semitic people
who dwelt along the southern shores
of the Black Sea; from these enemies
they learned the art Of forging the
iron of those shores into strong weap-
ons of war; and so armed they made
themselves masters of the Mesopota-
mian world. These Assyrians were
apparently the first to use the horse;
and one need hardly add that they
turned the magnificent animal chiefly
to the purposes of war. About HOO
B.C. they swept down upon Babylon
and subjected it to their tax-gather-
ers: and in 1872 they captured Damas.
Gus, where the Arameans were devel-
oping a language destined to sup
plant all other dialects among the
Semites Of Asia, and to become at
last the speech Of Jesus. BY 700 BIC.
the ferocious armies of Assyria had
conquered Israel, and were exacting
tribute even from mighty Egypt.
Evening star., 1927-11-06
Oil Made by Animals Who Lived in Salt
Lakes of Past Eras, Scientist Holds

The gas that makes the car go and
the oil that lubricates its pistons were
made drop by drop by tiny animals
that lived in salt lakes millions of
years ago. This is the theory ad.
vanced by John Rogers of New York
City In an article which will be pub.
lished In the next issue of Science.
Many biologists believe that oil was
made by such animals living in the
sea. Mr.. Rogers agrees with them so
far as a saltwater environment Is con.
cerned, but believes that it existed in
the form of saltwater lakes. like the
Great Salt Lake of Utah and the Cas-.
plan Sea Of the Old World. rather than
n open seas. He argues as follows:
"Oil fields are quite frequently found
contiguous to salt deposits and the
water which succeeds the oil In most
wells is Aalt water.
'In SOME brine lakes, such as Great
Sale LakeA Utah, there Is a great deal
of marine life, but Of very small size.
In Great Salt Lake there Is an abun-
dance of very small shrimp or crayf1sh.
and in certain Of the marshes on the
lake shores there small creatures seem
to die in large numbers. so much 80
that the marshes in places give oil
an almost unbearable odor. much SINH
lar to the smell of drying Goldfish.
"The natural presumption is that
the bodies of these small creatures do
not decompose' in the ordinary way
but become picked in the brine and
are more or less permanently pre-.
served.
''Where conditions have been fav.
orable and mud beds formed. having
the preserved remains of this small
marine life imbedded in them. this
mud might very readily have been
changed into beds Of shaie carrying a
large percentage Of Oil. Petroleum
may possibly be distillation from
such shale and being fluid may have
moved about over a considerable area.
Mud banks would. normally form
at the mouths Of rivers flowing into
Evening star., 1927-11-06

TiFTEEN years ago was
- employed by a gentleman
whose income was exactly
- 100 times as large as mine.
The first interview in his office
was crisp and to the point.
"Don't get into :he habit Of
agreeing with me-" he said posi-
lively. II can find plenty OF men
who will stand around and say,
'Yes, yes!' What need 10 some
one to say, mo, no. when I'm
wrong, and stick to it,
Some months later a discus
sion arose on a matter with
which 1 was somewhat familiar.
l took him at his word and dis
agreed, but he was sure OF his
ground and overruled me.
The next morning the tele-
phone in my boarding house
rama at about 8:15. The caller
was my boss.
~ have been thinking over
that matter" he said, land ! just
want to say that you were right
and ! was wrong.'
! have talked with one Of the
richest men in the world, and
one Of the most famous. In the
course Of the conversation each
Of them said frankly and un.
hesitatins:y, ~ don't know"
Everybody tells me we've got
to get back to normal" said the
rich man, wrinklins his brows
like o schoolboy puxxIing over a
problem in arithmetic. "What's
normal? That what I'D like to
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Evening star., 1927-11-06
BY GEORGES CLEMENCEAU.
As Told to His Lifelong Friend.
Constantin Colas.

time and time again. Love each
other! Thou shalt not kill! Thou
shalt not judger A victory Of words.
not feelings, since our religious or
secular civilization results in the
same state of mind which killed
Christ more than 1900 years before.
For centuries upon centuries. all the
precepts Of charity are found. pub
lished, recommended. enhanced: they
only lack, as a conclusion, being put
into practice"
Speaking in the same vein. he says:
France has the privilege, happy or
unhappy, of being a field or expert
ments for all nations. The absolute
dogmatism Of divine authority and
the desperate revolt Of the human
re:fid are there at grips with each
other, in a deadly struggle. Tne
Roman Catholic Church and the
revolution! A tragic encounter be-
tween man and his God in the storm"
This cynical note runs through
Clemenceaus conversations like red
thread through fabric. 1t IS IN
most of the aphorisms 1 have remem-
bered from our talks; witty aphorisms
of a code of politics and ethics which
are as much like Clemenceau as his
photograph.
Judicial errors date back" he told
me. ITO the age Of the first man who
judged"
"Representative injustice must re-
main. in order that the league Of
dominant powers should not be en-
croached upon"
"The spirit of military CASTE" ne
solemnly assured me. will not admit
force to be subjected to reason" and
with the same air of finality. Present
iniuuity is an immense force com.
pared with future justice!"
I could make catalogue or the
witty, provocative, scathing sayings
I have treasured from my long asso-
citation with Georges Clemenceau.
Here are some Of them:
1.-THE errors OF every man who pre-.
tends to have an authority over man
are numberless."
"He who seeks for an injustice to
be righted has simply to hold out his
hand at random"
words are too often nothing but
feigned ZEAL" -
"Instead Of scattering ourselves in
sterile precepts. let us put all our op-
portunities to account to surprise our
short existence by an act of piety that
prolongs us beyond ourselves"
"Innocent or guilty--man must be
condemned---such a thought deserves
to 60 down the centuries =
(CQpvfight. 1927
By Ccnstantin Colas. -.t.&