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New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
JUDD OBJECTS TO
 RULING 0N F|REMEN
Disagrees With Kirkham on Ap-
 pointments to Department
SAYS AGE LIMIT IS 35
Alderman Declared Intent of Coun- cil in Adopting Ordinance Was Not Considered in Opinion Of Cor poration Counsel.

Alderman William H. Judd of the third ward, republican leader in the common council, looks with disfavor upon the appointment of tiremen who have passed the age of 35 years but he was not prepared today to state whether he would formally re- monstrate.
 The men in question are Victor Davis and John Fay, both of whom reported for duty today, having been appointed last week. Each will reach his S6th birthday in April.
 Alderman Judd was responsible for an amendment to the fire de- partment regulations to fix the age limits as lover 21 of age and under 35 years" Until he read an opin- ion from Corporation Counsel John H. kirkham last week, he was of the belief that no man who had reached his 35th birthday was eli gible for appointment, he said today. It is now his understanding that the common council failed to write this provision into the ordinance every where that age limits are mention ed and that this makes it possible for the board to name a man over 35 years of age. The alderman was emphatic today in his declaration tn. the intent of the common coun- cil was that no man who becomes 35 years of age is eligible, and he feels, he said, this principle should have been adhered to by the fire board.
 Recalling the case of Joseph F. Ryan who failed of appointment two years ago when Corporation Coun- sel Kirkham ruled no man over 32 years of age could be appointed, the alderman voiced an opinion today tha the board could have ignored that opinion and legally appointed Ryan at the time, this in view of Judge Kirkham's latest opinions.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
Negroes Send Petition
 to President Coolidge

Washington. Feb. 14 Pl-A peti- ton urging President Coolidge to re- move discrimitations against their races was presented to him today by a committee Of negroes representing organizations in New York, Boston and other northern cities. The committee, headed by Rev. George Frazier Miller. of New York, asked the president to take steps to end racial segregation in the fed eral civil service whereby some of ficials ''are attempting to perpetuate an official caste system based upon color"
 Referring to recent lynchings in South Carolina and other states, the petition urged Mir. Coolidge to send special message to congress urging early enactment of the Dyer anti lynching bill.
 An investigation by the attorney general Of the whole questions Of disfranchisement of persons Of color in the states of the south,' was asked 50 that you may be informed of the grave peril to the peace and perpetuity of our government"
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
zAPA7KA TO INQUIRE ABOUT NEW TAX RATE
Fears Constituents Will Be Hard Hit by Increase
 for 1927-192S

When members of the common council gather tonight at the office of the mayor to discuss the budget for next year. Councilman Frank Zapatka of the fifth ward will ask the finance board to explain the ne- cessity for an increased tax rate when many assessments have also been increased.
 Discussing the situation this after noon Councilman Zapatia pointed to the fact that the district he rep resents is made up mainly of hard working people who have acquired their property only after years of hard work and saving and are main- taining it under the same condition. An increased rate with increased appraisals will work q hardship in many cases, he fears, and the coun- cilman is hopeful that tonight's meeting may find way to reduce the rate
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
OFF ON GOLF HIKE
Joe Graham Leaves Mobile Today, Pounding Golf Ball in Direction of Hollywood. California.

Mobile, Ala, Feb. II UP)- Starting in a torrenual rain that would have drenched the spirits as was as the knickers of less ardent golfer, Joe Graham, Mobile amateur. was 20 miles and an unreported number of strokes on his way to Los Angeles today.
 Graham teed off from the Mobile Country club yesterday on the course which will end on the Pacific coast. He will journey via New Or leans, driving a golf ball the entire distance.
 Graham expects to run up a card of million and half strokes and to take five or six months to com plete the course. He is accompanied by Happy" Kirby, q Mobile caddy.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
REPORTS FROM CHINA HINT RUPTURE IN NEGOTIATIONS
 CARRIED ON WITH BRITISH
ENLARGED MAN HACKS
 AT WOMEN WITH AXE
John Buda Sends Wife and Florence PetrOwski to
 Hospital

Attacked by John Buda. well known in police circles. Miss Flor ence Petrowski, aged 20, suffered a painful injury to her hand, and Mrs. Buda, who does not live with her husband, was cut on the head by a hatchet yielded by Buda al his wife's home, 5S Broad street, about midnight Saturday. Buda act cd like an enraged savage. accord ing to statements to the police by his wife and Miss Petrowski, and might have killed Mrs. Buda but for the arrival of Policemen William Grabeck and William J. Mccarthy. who heard screams and rushed to the Broad street tenement. The women are at New Britain General hospital and will be able to leave Thursday, Sergeant P. J. O'Mara told Judge Hungerford in police court this morning. when Buda was arraigned on the charge of assault with dangerous weapon. The case was continued until next Monday in s1,000 bonds.
 According to Mrs. Buda's state- ment to Sergeant O'Mara at the hospital yesterday. Buda went to her home and demanded that he be served with liquor. On being re- fused. he flew into a rage. accord ing to his wife, and in short while the entire neighborhood was awak- ened by his shouts and threats. Miss Petrowski ordered him to stop his noise or she would call the police and this added to his anger to such degree that he Is alleged to have seized the hatchet and attacked the young woman.
 Raising her hands to protect her self, Miss Petrowski was cut on the index finger of the right hand be- fore she had a chance to run out. AS soon as she left, screaming for help, Buda is said to have turned on his wife and struck r on the head with the hatchet. She was covered with blood from the wound when the police arrived.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
"Lil, 'uueo n,.- -~A @'"''1 '..,s 's,a ;.s'a9,,,s.1ssss critics" rIay.~
 Church Sermon.

No mercy was shown gossips and scandal mongers by Rev. Dr. George w. c. Hill. pastor of the South Con- gregational church, when he struck out from the shoulder in his sermon on gossips last evening.
 Characterizing gossips as slander- ous he spoke of the pride of Ameri- ca in the late Theodore Roosevelt's s Square Deal" He called attention to the fact that in England a man arrested is presumed guilty until proven innocent, and the burden of proving his innocence falls upon the accused. In the United States, he explained, it is just the other way round, every man is accorded his right to a fair and impartial hearing.
 Time after time during the ser mon the minister gave illustrations of dialogues between two gossips over the back fence, through the kitchen window on the street and other places. When his characteri- zation brought litter from a few members of the congregation, he paused to assure his hearers that it was mot laughing matter"
 He described graphically how whisperings spread from tongue to tongue, growing with each repetition until an innocent persons character is irretrievably ruined
 Dr. Hill said in part:
 Americans are proud of their  ideal of square deal.
 If a man in America is seen com- hitting a crime by thousand peo- pie, he still has right to a trial until the state proves him guilty.
 What chance has person for square deal when some of our busy bodies get their fine work in?
 Sometimes boy or girl will make slip and do some fool thing. as boys and girls have done since the world began and will until the end of time. Then the lily white prudes and sanctimonious hypocrites get in their work. They stop each other on the street and ask, Did you know about so-and-so?' and they repeat things which are remembered for years.
 Murder is a terrible crime. We wouldn't think of stabbing or shoot ing anyone, but we would wantonly stick q knife into somebody's char acter without quiver.
 T don't know a more selfish thing in this whole gamut of life than gos- sip and islander.
 Tt might be a good thing to bring back some of the old Colonial forms of punishment. Make the punishment fit the crime. If the wo- man who repeats the islander and the woman who listens were placed in stocks on the front lawn or in the center of the city, where everyone could see them. or were treated to the ducking stool or the whipping post, there might not be so much of this sort of thing
 Some of yot will go out of here tonight and you'll say, Did you see So-and-So in the congregation? It's the innuendo that's the hellish thing of it all.
 This miserable, dirty rotten slan- der and gossip is cutting to the heart in some peoples lives. It's time we took these things to heart and learned the lessons of letting him who is without sin cast the first stone"
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
SUNDAY BOWLING BANNED
Bridgeport Authorities Notify Own- CTS of Alleys This Sport on Sab bath Is Forbidden.

Bridgeport, Feb. If P(--Sunday bowling has been ordered stopped in this city. For year bowling in al leys has been permitted in the city and it has become a much liked Sun day diversion especially in the win ter months.
 Complaints have been made to the police department heads that bowl ing is not permissible under the law. The intention was to have served mo- tice on all alleys proprietors Satur- day to close up yesterday but it so happened that only four were noti- fled.
 Today, notice was given 10 every owner to close beginning next Sun day as hereafter bowling would not be permitted on Sunday.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
URGES LOWER RATES.

Boston, Feb. 14 P>-The state de- partment of public utilities reported to the legislature today that in a number Of instances electric light companies, based on returns filed with the department. might reason ably be required to reduce rates. The report recommends the enact ment of legislation giving the de- partment the power to classify rates of gas and electric companies and to review the propriety of rates and charges provided under special con- tracts.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
Married Saturday, Killed
 Today in Airplane Crash

Owensboro, Ky, Feb. 14 Pl-- Frank P. Sheehan, precident of the Kentucky Aircraft corporation, new industry of this city. was killed today in testing a new airplane. Eye wit nesses say that one of the wings broke when the aviator was flying over the city at about three hum dred feet. It fluttered about 200 feet and then dived to the pavement. He was married last Saturday in Evans vile, Indiana.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
Heartless Vandals Take
 Trees Off Girls Grave

Waterbury. Feb. fl tR - An un- usual act of vandalism was report. katz, who said that two pine trees he planted on the grave of his daughter eight years ago had been stolen. The thief took enc tree at Christmas time in 1925 and came cember. Mir. katZ believes the pines were taken for use as Christ mas trees
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
Leaves Baby at Albany
 Hotel, Woman Disappears

Albany, N. T., Feb. 14 (UP)- Police and charity officials today were looking for a woman who reg istered as Mrs, F. II Miller, of Boston," in hotel here, then left an eight months old boy in the room and disappeared.
 The baby, described as "blue-eyed, blonde and good natured," was taken to a hospital.
 The woman registered shortly be- fore Saturday midnight. took the baby to the room, and ,old the clerk she was going to the station for her bag. Her absence was unnoticed until the baby's cries attracted the attention of maids SundaI,
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
Dr. Hu Would Reuiue Stocks;
 Ducking and Lash for Gossips
Radio Valentines Sent
 Across the Atlantic

London, Feb. 14 (UP)-Radio Valentines figured today in Great Britain's observance of St. Val entine's Day for the first time in history.
 A new type of Valentine this year was the voice across the At lantic as Anglo-American lovers, who could afford it, exchanged greetings of Hello, sweetheart. Guess who 1t is." Radio tele- phony proved the most popular means of exchange of love greet ings between England and Amer ica this year.
 Almost dead for the past 30 years, Valentines Day was reviv- ed in England today as a Heap year" event. Where the English youth formerly sought the most choice verses of love for his sweetheart, the fair sex is now the best customer of postcard stalls on Valentines Day.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
Paris Reply to Coolidge
 Note Being Guessed At

Paris, Feb. 14 P}-Frances reply to President Coolidge's naval arma- mcnt memorandum will reject the proposed method of procedure, it is said in the best informed circles. Foreign Minister Briand and his col laborators are working on the reply to have it ready for the cabinet meeting tomorrow.
 The reply will omit reference to the merits of the disarmament ques- tion, being limited to a discussion of the complications which, it Is con tended. would result from taking the matter out of the hands of the League of Nations, and objections to separating naval disarmament from the general disarmament scheme.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
JAPAN FEELS NAVY
 IS STRONG ENOUGH
Premier Also Tells Diet He Con.
 siders Army Sufficient
AMPLE FOR NATIONS NEEDS
Statement Highly Important In View of President Coolidge's Proposed Conference for Naval Limita- tiOnS.

Tokyo, Feb. fl Rl-Premier Wax atsuki told the upper house of the diet today that Japan's "present mill tary and naval forces are necessary to maintain and protect Japan's ex- isting position and rights"
 The premier's statement was in reply to interpellations in the diet concerning the proposal of President Coolidge to world powers that an other conference be held to consider further reductions of naval arma- ments.
 Particular interest was attached to the premier's statement because or he interview given yesterday to the press by Minister of the Navy Taka- rabe, in which the minister said:
 ".One thing may be justly empha' sized and that is that the Japanese naval force is at present at mini- mum for defense purposes and therefore can no more menace other powers than can American land air forces, such as President Coolidge assured in his memorandum"
 But, Minister Takarabe said. the naval authorities will not hesitate to participate in the conference for further limitation of armaments. provided the agreements are to be concluded on fair principles and in such way to guarantee the safety of the empires state of defense"
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
WIFE ASKS FOR DIVORCE

Charging habitual intemperance and intolerable cruelty. Margaret Desmond of this city. through At torney Alfred Levitt, has instituted proceedings for divorce against Frank Desmond of Springfield, Mass. The writ Is returnable in the su- perior court, Hartford, the first Tues day of March.
 Mir. and Mrs. Desmond were mar riad May 3. 1916, and they have three children. In addition to the divorce. the plaintiff claims custody of 'he children. Deputy Sheriff Martin H. Iorwitz served the papers
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
w. w. WOOD DIES

Waterbury, Feb. fl P>-Walter w. Wood, formerly of New Haven and prominent local clothing mer- chant died at the Waterbury hos pital here shortly after noon today. MT. Wood, who was q Mason and an Elk had been ill but a short time.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
House Committee FaY0rS Issuing Licenses to Private Distining
 Companies
FARM RELIEF MEASURE
 FIGHT BEING CONTINUED
OFF ON GOLFING JAUNT

Afternoon to Substitute McNary- Haugen Bill for Companion Measure-Favorable Report on Pittman Railroad Exemption Bill Is Made.
 Washington, Feb. 14 P)-A bill to authorize the secretary of the treasury to issue permits to private companies for the manufacture of incidental liquor was reported unanimously today by the house ways and means committee.
 Representative Hawley of Oregon, chairman of the b-committee that drafted the measure, said that it was the plan to give permits t. existing plants.
 One class of permits would pro- vide for, manufacture of Bourbon and the other rye.
 Good for 10 Years
 Permits may be good for ten years and would be renewable, but could be revoked for violations of the law.
 The treasury would prescribe the formulas to be used by the per- mitees, who would be allowed a reasonable profit
 The measure was approved as a substitute for the administrative medicinal whiskey plan submitted by Assistant Secretary Andrews.
 Under the Hawley bill existing stocks of whiskey would be con ccntrated in not more than six warehouses. Importation Of whis- key would be permitted if existing stocks should prove insufficient to meet the demand.
 "The committee believes an emergency exists in the enforce ment of the eighteenth amend ment," said Hawley, "and after many weeks Of dilfgent considera- ton, report this measure to meet the emergency"
 Farm Relief Bill ... Substitution of the McNary- Haul gen farm relief bill as passed by the senate for it's companion measure now before the house was recom- mended today by the house rules committee.
 Pittman Bill Favored
 A favorable report on the Pitt man bill exempting short line rail- roads from the present require. ment that they pay to the govern- ment one half of all net earnings in excess of six per cent was order cd today by the senate interstate commerce committee.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
MERIDEN VETS OBJECT
 TO SPEECH BY GERMAN
Oppose Permitting Von Luckner to Talk in High School
 Auditorium.

Meriden, Feb. IA P)-A commit tee from the Veterans of Foreign Wars today protested to the school board against use of the high school auditorium tonight for lecture by Count Felix Won Luckner, com mander of a German sea raider dur ing the World War.
 President Benjamin Krentzman, of the board of education, called a special meeting for ? o'clock this afternoon at which time the con- mittee in charge of the affair and the committee of the veterans asso- citation will be heard.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
STRIKES ARE FORBIDDEN,

Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. l4 Rl-The right to strike is abolished M Portu- gal by decree promulgated today by the Carmona dictatorship. Disso- lution of military units which took part in the recent rebellion is also ordered.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
GIRL BANDIT APPEARS
New York Miss Robs Grocer of S20O Was Accompanied By Youthful

Escort.
 New York. Feb. II tP-With her black felt hat pulled rakishly over one eye and partly covering her blond hair an 1S-year- old girl, to- day supplemented her request for a pound of butter, dozen eggs and q loaf of bread with a demand for "all the money you've got in the shop and left William Mccarthy, t'latbush grocer, ScO0 poorer, with his hands, palm down on his counter.
 During the robbery, which took place at about 9 o'clock. according to McCarthy's story to the police, a youth of about IT, who had entered the grocery store with the girl stood casually in the doorway. smoking a cigarette while his companion. the girl manipulated revolver and di- rected the grocer to open the cash register and the safe.
 The two, turning corner with their loot, escaped.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

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Seward daily gateway., 1927-07-14
BAND OF WOLVES MAKES APPEARANCE
 SUNRISE DISTRICT
ANIMALS SHOWING GREAT BOLD- NESS-CARRY AWAY TWO OF
 ANDERsoN'S GOATS

Wolves, reported to be running in bands, have shown up onthe Kenai Peninsula, according to reports from Sunrise. The animals are showing unusual boldness, coming to within the settlement and making raids. Last week Anderson lost two goats and on investigation discovered they had been carried away by wolves. Sev- eral persons have reported seeing the wolves from time to time in va riOus parts of the district
 It is expected an organized drive to rid the peninsula of the pests will be made this winter. A wolf pelt is worth from $25 to S3O and the animals carry bounty of $25, making their capture profitable to trappers.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-07-14
CHANGE FOR COLLEGE MEN

COMPLAINT is being voiced in the United States to the effect that college graduates finding difficulty in securing lucrative employment at their professions which appear to be overcrowded.
 If careful inquiry was made 1t might disclose that tendency has developed in the older portions of the States to consider cean honest labor and intellectual develop ment inharmonious-there too many seeking sine cures believing material advancement may merely through the sale of thought rather than through comb nation of labor and thought.
 The history of what termed the great leaders of the nations industrial and financial world dscoses that the great majority of them discovered early in life that not matter of luck gift from fairy hands, but only to be gained by combining practicable physi cal energies with thought process
 generation ago. when immigration to the United States at the peak and when there vast stretch of unapproprated public domain and other of developed country there of absorbing practi caly every professional and woman With the grad ua dmuntion of these undeveoped and the stop page of the flow of those who sought the frontier this work of building communities practically has ceased
 Casting about, there appears to remain but one sec ton of the nation which offers opportunity for the flow from the congesed centers and that is Alaska There in it's 500000 square miles of territory for large nation possessed of practically everything boasted by the Northern States and Canada Here the college bred may rid himself of the slavery of form do his dress suit don his overas work with pick and shovel and reversing the process have opportunity for ndu ing matters of form without losing ioa in the process
 The father seeking opportunity for his son in the crowded professions and industries could better judgment than to stake him for few years and send him to Alaska The country will bestow much that is vau- able and he will have opportunity to return it in kind
Seward daily gateway., 1927-07-14
A FRIENDLY ENCOUNTER

While going to work, at Mile 52, Jack Rosness and Howard Seferovich saw a black bear not far away. Howard took out his camera, wishing to get a portrait of the animal. At this, however, the bear made tracks, but the boys followed and soon came upon him, not more than 25 feet away. They were not expecting to come upon him so suddenly, so they were little surprised and not know ing the temper of the bear, they in turn burned the earth under their feet. Cit is hard to tell, whether they stopped to rest or not, but they arrived in town yesterday about two o'clock.)
Seward daily gateway., 1927-07-14
GOLDEN COCOON" AT
 THE LIBERTY TONIGHT

"The Golden Cocoon,' the Warner Bros. classic of the screen, tonight at the Liberty theatre It is an excel lent picturization of Ruth Cross's novel of Texas life.
 Helen Chadwick, in the leading feminine role of Mollie Shannon drab little Mollie who later bursts her golden cocoon and is transform ed into radiantly beautiful woman, lovely heroine.
 Huntly Gordon, gives one of the best performances of his career Frank Campeau is a william ,convinc- ing enough to strike terror in the heart of any distressed heroine, and Richard Tucker his able assistant in their interruptions scheming Others in the cast are Margaret Seddon Carrie Clark Ward, Charles McHugt and Violet Kane.
 "The Golden Cocoon" is a story of an unsophisti ticated country gir who meets her first disillusionment Then, after a serious of misfortunes when she has known happiness fol the first time she is faced with the nanaccitv of caorifioino if all
 The picture moves rapidly and in terestingly to a dramatic climax.