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New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
OFFERS 10 PAY TAX

Dallas, Texas. May 2s M-Whils friends in the national capital were trying Tuesday to get congress tp remit to Captain Charles Lindbergh the tax on his $25.000 prize for hi0 Paris flight. William E. Easterwood. Jr. Texas capitalist, was taking . more direct route to the same end. In 8 cable to Lindbergh. Easterwood offered to pay the tax % that The kid can have every cent of the prixe money"
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25

Slim" Politiy. elongated and husky cop of this city. will probably be selected as one of the mainstays of the pitching department of the town team. The outfit is in need of a left handed twirler and "Slim" has been recommended to them. Nego- tiations for his services may be opened up today.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25

The Southington team will have a representation of New Britain base ball players on the squad Last Sunday, Joe Jasper. former Aiken sington shortstop, made a favorable impression on the management and coach by his work at third base and he will probably be stationed there for the season.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
WANT GAMES HERE

The Blanford Blues. of Blanford, Mass. would like to book games in this vicinity for Sundays. The club is rated as one of the fastest in western Massachusetts. Paddy Green, former Eastern leaguer. his brother. Aimee. Butch Hickey. Southern leag- uer, Pliney Donohue and Mossey Kelly are among the stars on the team. Games may be arranged through Manager Norm Haines at Blanford. Mass. telephone 44-3.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
AFTER DIAMOND BUSTERS

l The High Street Tigers would like to get in touch with the Diamond Busters who have promised to play a game at the Washington school grounds. The Tigers lost a double header to the Busters in the last meeting The Tigers want revenge and would like to book few games with the Busters. Games may be arranged at 322 High street.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By the Associated Presa
 (1ncluding games of May 2D

NAlloNAL Batting-Farrel, Giants, .40S. Runs-Hornsby. Giants, B. Hits-Farrell, Giants, 49. Doubles-Grantham, Pirates, 1S. Triples - Frisch. Cardinals, 6; P. Waner. Pirates. 6. Homers-Williams, Phillies. g. Stolen bases-Cuyler, Pirates, 14. Pitching-Meadows, Pirates, won 6, lost 0.
 AMERICAN Batting-E. Miller, Browns, .416. Runs-Ruth. Yankees. 36. Hits-Gehrig. Yankees, 53. Doubles-Burns. Indians, IS. Triples-Manush, Tigers. 6. Homers-Ruth, Yankees. II. Stolen bases-Simmons, Athletics, 2; Goslin. Senators. z. Pitching-Pennock, Yankees, won 5, lost 0.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
ALTOS AT GEORGETOWN

Washington, May 25 P>-Becaus- he believes that student owned au- tomobiles "are a means of health recreation" President Charles w. Lyons of Georgetown University has ordered parking srace set aside near the campus.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
0NE.ARMED HOMER
Ned Sterling With Only Left Wing, Raps Out Circuit Hit With Two Men On Base.

Washington, May 25 R-A home run with two on base from the bat of a one-armed outf1elder is the lat est addition to baseball novelties.
 Ned Sterling. whose right arm Is amputated two inches from the
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
The Standing

Games Today Baltimore at Jersey City. Reading at Newark. Syracuse at Buffalo.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Yesterday Pittsburgh II, Cincinnati 1. Brooklyn 6. Philadelphia 5. Others postponed, rain.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
The Standing
Games Today

New York at Boston. St. Louis at Chicago. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
LEAGUE STANDING
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Games Yesterday

Games Yesterday Detroit 6, Cleveland 8. Philadelphia-New York, games, rain. Chicago-St. Louis, rain.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25

Games Today Springfield at Pittsfield. Waterbury at Albany. Providence at Hartford. Bridgeport at New Haven.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
The Standing
Games TO(1dy

Philadelphia at New York. CD. Detroit at Cleveland. Chicago at St. Louis.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
EASTERN LEAGUE
The Standing

Games Yesterday All games postponed, rain.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25

Ed Hurley, DuSlneSS mdnaSeT TOT the Massasoit A. C. which conducts the open air tournaments at the velo- drome has found 1t necessary to post pone the tournament once again from tonight to Friday night. The same card of boxers with Bat Bat talino meeting Jimmy Walker of Philadelphia and other Connecticut simon pures battling other Quaker City fighters, will be shown.
 This will be Battalino's last ap- pearance as an amateur. He plans to turn professional immediately and will probably make his next appear ance in ring as such.
 More than 200 people attend the tournaments in Hartford each night they are run and many have in- quired as to parking facilities near the velodrome. On the grounds sur rounding the mammoth arena, there is space for almost a thousand cars while on the boulevard where there is unrestricted parking. there is room for many more. There are other parking spaces in the vicinity of the park so that anyone driving to the tournaments should have no diffi- culty in finding a place for car.
 This weex-end will be an extreme ly busy one for New Britain baseball teams. The Falcons are scheduled to play the New Haven Hudsons Sun day afternoon and double header with the Bristol New Departures on Monday. The Pirates will open their home season at Willow Brook park on Sunday against the fast St. Johns team of Meriden. The Corbin Red Sox go to Southington to play the Pextos of that town in the first game on the schedule of the newly formed Central Connecticut baseball league and the Kensington team meets the Landers, Frary & Clark club at the Percival avenue grounds in Kensington.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Yesterday Syracuse 5, Toronto 2. All other games postponed, rain.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25
Speaking of Sports

Trying to beat the weather has become the popular pastime in Hart ford this week in the matter of the outdoor boxing tournaments. One tournament was carded for Capitol park on Monday night while another was to have been held at tho East Hartford velodroms on Tuesday night. Both had to be postponed because of rain.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-25

The tournament at Capitol park was postponed until Thursday while the velodrome show was postponed until tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
10000 PARTICIPATE
IN Church MEET.
Brethren Conference Hears
Personal Evangelism Stress
ed by Chief Speaker.

by the AsSocldbcu TresS.
HARRISBURG, Pa, June Ii
More than 10000 persons thronged
Hershey Park today attending the
annual conference of the Church of
the Brethren. Delegates were pres
ent from all parts Of the United
States and Canada. India, China
and Africa were also represented.
Today was laymen's day and the
chief speaker was DR.. George 1rbie,
assistant secretary of the Y. M. G.. A.
with headquarters in New York. He
stressed the thought of personal
evangelism as the great work of the
laity. He did not minimize the work
of mass evangelism as demonstrated
in the activities of Moody, Chapman
and Sunday, but he did magnify the
Importance of individual work among
individuals.
At the afternoon session the chief
speakers were r. w. Miller of Chi
cago, DR.. o. G. Brubacker, West Man.
chester, India, and Levi Minnich Of
Greenville, Ohio, representing the city,
town and rural groups, respectively.
The annual meeting of the general
organization of the Ladies' Aid was
held in the Hillside Auditorium, with
approximately 5000 persons present.
This meeting was featured by the
presentation of pageant, THE
Needle Pusfers," INSTALLATION Of the
work of the society.
Monday will be Missionary day,
climaxing with a ceremony at which
missionaries will be sent abroad and
the annual missionary offering will be
made. This offering often amounts to
more than $1,000,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
SW|MS 8 MILES
TO SAVE HUSBAND
Woman Battles Tides to
Summon Aid for Yacht
Drifting to Sea.
nv Aha Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GEORGETOWN, S. c., June Ill
Bruised and tired, but suffering no Ill
effects from her eight-mile swim
across Georgetown Bay against cur
rent and tide last Tuesday to summon
aid for her husband, who was being
carried out to sea on Q disabled yacht,
Mrs. Anita Forster Of Brooklyn, n. Y,
today announced herself as being
ready to sail for Miami, Fla, soon.
! Before being forced to swim when
the small boats which she was row.
Ing to North Jetty, capsized, Mrs.
Forster was compelled to carry the
boat on her back some hundreds of
yards over the sand banks Of Bird
Island, which she reached first after
leaving their yacht Black Hawk,
which was being swept out to sea
past South Jetty. After finding a
suitable place to launch the rowboat,
she startedd out for North Jetty, but
her small craft capsized when short
distance from shore, forcing her to
battle for life against wind and tide.
Becomes Unconscious.
81 hardly knew what was happen
ang," she said today. 1T seemed as
If every wave covered me with tons
VI W6COAs LAG WA4A0 P0aAO0 AAtO EOHO
way and the tide another. / lost
account Of the time and everything
turned black.
1.-THE next thing I knew was
clinging onto big rock. 1 must have
been unconscious on the jetty three
hours. The walk to the light was
terrible, but l kept looking at the
high tower and screwed up my cour-
age. I never lost sight of that light.
house even when was in the water"
In expressing her gratitude to
Joseph H. Criscillo, the lighthouse
keeper, and his wife for taking care
of her, Mrs. Forster said, Il don't
feel as though / had done anything
big. I would do it all over again if
/ found myself in the same fix"
Severely Cut and Bruised.
Mrs. Forster's hands and -eet were
severely cut and bruised in her adven.
1lre but today she declared that she
felt no Ill effects except for soreness.
The swimmer recounted a similar
experience which befell her and her
husband some months ago off the
North Carolina coast when their yacht
drifted helpleSsly for seven hours until
Mr.. Forster rowed to shore for aid.
weakness from recent surgical oper-
alton prevented his making shore in
the present case.
The Forsters expect to stay in camp
on North Island for four days, when
they will continue their cruise to
= Miami Fla, to visit Mr.. Forster's
brother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
YOUTH IS DROWNED
NEAR GREAT FALLS
George R. Dewitt, Jr., Loses
Life in Colvin Run-Auto-
list Receivers Body.

George Haywood Dewitt, jr., "a
years old, only son of DR.. George
Haywood Dewitt, principal of the
Dewitt Preparatory School, was drown
ed late yesterday afternoon in Colvin
Run, q few miles south of Great
Falls, near Peacock Station on the
Washington & Old Dominion Railway
in Virginia.
Young Dewitt was swimming in the
deep stream running into the PotAsnac
River with a friend he was visiting,
William +. Orrison, jr., of Peacock
Station, when he was suddenly seen
to throw UP his hands and sink from
sight. Friends on the bank of the
creek thought he was joking, but be.
coming alarmed when he did not ap.
pear on the surface asked Orrison to
dive in to attempt rescue. Orrison
went into the water but was unable
to locate the body of his friend.
Harold M. Fleming of 1908 Seven
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

tenth street, an expert swimmer, who
was passing the spot in an automobile,
was appealed to and stripping himself
of his outer clothing, dived into 16
feet of water and recovered the body.
Volunteers worked over the body OF
Dewitt for more than two hours, but
could not revive him. He was pro.
nounced dead by DR.. L. P. Tayloe
of Vienna, Va, two hours after his
body was recovered from the creek.
Dewitt, according to eye witnesses
of the accident, swan back and forth
in the creek with young Orrison sew.
eral times. Just before he sank from
sight, he came close to the shore and
turned back toward the center of the
stream. apparently intending to swim
across the narrow creek. Suddenly
his hands rose above his head and he
sank from sight. He had been play
ing tennis earlier in the afternoon
with Orrison. Dewitt was known as
an excellent swimmer.
His father, who has conducted the
preparatory school in Georgetown for
many years, was in Washington at
the time Of the accident. His mother
was at the family home at Dun Lor-
ing, Va. Funeral services will prob.
ably be held Tuesday. The dead youth
graduated from George Washington
University last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
ON SOILS
GATHER IN CAPITAL
100 Foreign Delegates to
Attend First international
s Congress on Subject.

The most cosmopolitan group OF
scientists ever to meet in Washing
ton, including official representatives
of 80 nations, were gathering here
today for the first international Con-
gress of Soil Science, which Will De
opened with an address by President
Coolidge tomorrow afternoon at the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Building.
Among the guests are 25 from So
Wet Russia, headed by DIR. A. X.
Glinka, director of the government
experiment station at Len1ngrad
This is the largest body OF RUSSIAN
scientists ever in the United States.
There will be 100 foreign delegates
in ALL representing every corner OF
the globe, who have come to wash
ington to lay down a basis for future
ecientific work on the productivity OF
the soil.
Among the discussions will be one
on the ultimate capacity Of the globe
to produce food for man.
Native Types Brought.
Each delegation has brought ex-
hibits of types of native soil. The
Russian exhibit, due to arrive today,
soil science has been particularly
notable, it was pointed out, and dur.
ing the last years of the World War
DR., Glinkas researches, revolutionary
in scope, were forming the basis OF
much of the work done in the United
States.
There will be about 200 American
scientists in attendance, including 10
official delegates appointed by Secre-
tary of State Kellogg. The president
of the International Congress is DR..
J. G. Lipman, director of the New
Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta.
ton. The present session is the re-
suit of a conference on world soils
held in Rome three years ago.
Five Languages Used.
The business of the conference will
be conducted in five languages-Eng-
lish, French, German, Spanish and
Italian-and abstracts of all the papers
have been printed in these tongues.
The executive committee consists OF
DIR. Oswald Schreiner, chairman, or
the Department of Agriculture; DR..
Lipman, DIR. C. +. Marbut, DR.. K. f.
KelIorman and DR.. A. G. Mccall OF
the Department of Agriculture.
The papers have been prepared In
accordance with the program OF SIX
international commissions. These are:
Soil mechanics and physics, soil chem
istory, soil nomenclature, land cultiva-
ton, soil bacteriology and soil fer
tility.
Each of these commissions will hold
distinct sessions, continuing through
out the week. Extremely delicate in
strulnents for use in soil analysis
have been brought to Washington and
will be set up in the exhibit rooms.
The fertility of soil, it is emphasized
in the programs, furnishes some of
the most vital problems affecting the
future welfare of the human race and
they can be solved only by interna.
tional cooperation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

murder charges in Oregon. Arrested
at Steubenville Wednesday. they were
held incommunicado and were ar
raigned there yesterday, pleading not
guilty to the Oregon train robbery.
They were unable to furnish bonds
of $4,000 and were brought here last
night.
The alleged 27-year-old bandit twins
will be turned over to Sheriff Ralph
Jennings, who left Jacksonville, Greg,
yesterday. At Jacksonville State au-
thorities will try them for the MUIR
der of four men during the dynamit-
ing and robbery of Southern Pacific
passenger train near Siskiyou, Greg.
in 1923.
They also face Federal indictments
in connection with the robbery, but 1t
is planned to try them first on the
murder charge.
They chatted freely last night, but
refused to talk when the questions
narrow ed to their exact whereabouts
or actions during the last four years.
Both denied any completely in the
train hold.up and robbery.
They said they want to get to Ore
gon as quickly as possible. and get It
over with"
Ray admitted he had served year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
DIPLOMATS DAUGHTER
WINS LEAGUE POSITION
,rrespondepce Of the Assoclated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
GENEVA, June 11.-Diplomatic life
as her environment since infancy has
helped prepare Mile. Renee de Lucy
Fossarieu for her Office of secretary
to Sir Arthur Salter, director of the
economic and financial section of the
League of Nations.
Born in Paris, she later lived in
Ceylon and in Japan where her faith
er was French consul. Returning to
Paris she worked with the ministry
of foreign affairs in 1912 and was one
of the three women officials who fol-
lowed the French government when
fl moved to Bordeaux. Later she was
with the American general staff at
Cfaumont and with the reparations
commissions Mile. de Lucy attended
both the allied conference at Spa and
the international financial conference
, at Brussels in 1920. 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

at Monroe, Greg, for criminal syndi-
calism in 1919, but Roy said his arrest
at Steubenville was the first tine he
had been in prison.
Roy said his chief concern is to get
a razor and remove the mustache
which he grew to aid in Disgusting
himself Rays ordinarily jet-black
hair had been bleached almost white
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

People of India now prefer Ameri.
can clocks to all others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
Cleveland's Cousin Engaged.

NEW YORK, June II P.-The en-.
gagement of Miss Phyllis Cleveland
of Boston. second cousin of President
Grover Cleveland, to J. Ainsworth
Morgan of San Francisco, was an
nounced today. The wedding will take
place here next Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
BROTHERS AWAIT
MURDER HEARING
De Autremont Twins, Unable
to Give Bond, Held
in Ohio Jail.
By the Associated Press.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 11.-Roy
and Ray De Autremont, twin
brothers, whom Federal authorities
captured at Steubenville, Ohio, after
a four-year hunt that extended over
the entire country, and even into the
Philippines, sat in the Franklin
County Jail here today and awaited
the next lap Of their journey to face
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
GRAY'S DEATH TO WAIT
HEARING ON HIS APPEAL
Notice Filed by Attorney-Casa
May Be Delayed Un-
til Fall.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 11.-Henry Judd
Gray, convicted of the killing of AL
bert Snyder, today filed through his
attorney an appeal from the sentence
imposed by Justice Townsend Scud
der that he be executed in Sing Sing
Prison during the week Of June 20.
The notice of appeal was brief and
did not indicate on what grounds the
appeal would be taken.
Warden Lewis Il. Lawes Of Sing
Sing has been notified by the district
attorneys office to stay execution un.
til the appeal is heard, which prob
ably will be sometime in the Fall.
People of India now prefer Ameri.
l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
DAWES TAKES TRIP.
Proceeds to Alma Mater for Com
mencement Exercises.

4HCA1CCAIAcAHI 1~ACIC4 htS.
PARKERSBURG. w. Va, June II
R.-Vice President Charles G..
Dawes and Mrs. Dawes. accompanied
by Maj. Gen. James Hartford Of the
Radio Corporation of America. ar
rived here today on their way to
Marietta, Ohio, where Mr.. Dawes
will attend the Marietta College COM
mencement exercises.
Mr.. Dawes is an alumnus Of Ma
rietta College,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Rhymesters Take Heed
"DEoPLE with ability to rhyme can

"DEOPLE with ability to rhyme can
turn this gift into money pro-
vided they have the added faculty of
creating humorous lines and ideas.
There is a dearth of funnN lyrics, so
much so that comedians will pay
almost any price to get such material
for their acts"
So declares viii Mahoney. the nut"
comedian who is holding forth In local
this week at b. f. Keith's Theater.
Because I cannot find suitable ideas
and funny lyrics for songs" contin-
ued Mahoney, 81 have to originate
such material myself. Most OF the
other comedians find themselves in
the same boat. If aspiring writer's
would but devote their attention to
this field of endeavor. they could
earn big, fat salaries once they be-
came proficient in the art Most of
us can get off wise cracks; most OF us
have the ability to pun. Yet. If we
could translate this art into terms of
lyrics. backed by a naturally funny
idea, the road to fame and fortune
would be assured.
II personally am always in the
market for funny lyrics The music
is secondary since this can be sup
piled by well known writer's. The
main thing is comedy If there are
any such lyric writer's in town I will
ne pleased to see their wares. And
if | find l can use the material sub
mitted, l will be happy to paw them
a royalty on any lyrics accept and
use"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
METROPOLITAN-Van and SchencIx
The Nervous Wrnck."

Van and Schenck, the famous high
priced singing team, Will be presented
as the special stage attraction at
CrandalPs Metropolitan Theater this
week, beginning this afternoon. This
"Pennant-Winning Battery of Song
land was for three successive seasons
special feature of the Ziegfeld
'Follies." Their clever songs reflect
a versatility which embraces all dia-
lects and all manner of popular mel
ody. They will be heard today at APP
proximately 3:15, SIS, 1880 and $50.
and on week days once at the matinee
and twice In the evening.
The screen feature will be Al
Christie's production of The Nervous
Wreck" adapted from the stage play
by Owen Davis. The story concerns
the experiences of a young hypo
chrondriac who journeyed by rickety
Ford to the Far West to die in the
wide open spaces, until he meets a
rancher'S daughter, who succeeds in
salVaging the perfectly healthy young
tourist from the ravages of his
counterfeit ills. The amusing story
should be familiar to all. Harrison
Ford and Phyllis Haver will be seen
In the leading roles.
The supplementary features will
be the Metropolitan World Survey,
one of Paul Terry's Aesop Fables. and
gram arranged by Daniel Breeskin
for the Symphony Orchestra, includ-
ing an overture of Victor Herbert
compositions, an interpretative score
arranged from Pretty Cinderella" a
new composition by Irving Berlin
and Elsie Schultsenheim." by Cliff
Edwards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

Around the Bases" with the Cole
CLANS is the comedy which together
with Otto f. Beck's organlogue and
short reels round out the bill.