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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-08
DESIRE TO BLOCK
SECRETARY HOOVER
Remnants Of Other Forces Buck
Commerce Head

Kansas City, June P'-The line
OF battle for the republican presi-
Dental nomination stood clearly de-
fined today between Herbert Hoover
and a determined group organized
and pledged to defeat him.
Modified to stem the cabinet
members progress toward the nom-
ination, the combined strength OF
Io~den Curtis, Watson, Goft and
the remnants of the Willis organiZa-
tion has fixed one immediate objes-
tve-the blocking of Hoover's selec-
ton on an early ballot,
With the forces thus organized
the strategy councils OF the combin-
ed opposition now are canvasslng
the means by which they can pre-
vent Hoover from getting the neces-
sary 545 nominating votes. The aim
of these strategists is to hol3 intact
the votes OF their own candidates
while endeavoring TO wean from the
Hoover and doubtful delegations
enough strength to keep the issue in
doubt.
Hunt for Standard.
Analysing Hoover's second hoice
support as his weakest point, the op-
position councillors are searching
for rallying standard toward
which that support might be drawn.
Some OF them have injected the
name OF President Coolidge as a
~ ,trl,t
prove irresistible and accordingly
have suggested the wisdom of
switching some Of their own votes
70 Coolidge on the opening ballot
The allied leaders defended that
theory as means OF maintaining
Coolidge as a possibility before the
convention and thus prevent a STAN
pede to the Hoover band wagon.
Not & few Of the strategists recog-
lied that any appreciable move
ment to Coolidge might not only de-
feat Hoover but also the coalition
candidates. but the statement often
was heard at allied headquarters
that Coolidge would be better for
them than Hoover. They coutJed
that declaration with a long look
ahead to November when the voters
must choose between democrat and
republican.
All these activities in the enemy
camp. which now will be under the
command Of Louis l.. Emmerson,
republican gubernatorial nominee
Of Illinois, found the Hoover forces
still confident and clinging to their
claim of at least 500 votes on the
first ballot.
The possibility Of injection of
Coolidge into the fray produced lit
tie reaction in the Hoover ranks,
where It was remarked that tn.
whole campaign for the commerce
secretary has been based on the
conviction that the president had
definitely eliminated himself.
The Hoover forces continued their
activities among the delegates, leay-
ing no stone unturned to hold every
vote already considered in their
column and to add as many more
as possible. These efforts included
a statement by James w. Good, the
Hoover manager appealing for party
harmony and pointing to the No
vember elections as time when re-
publicans must stand together.
Both the Hoover and allied groups
are banking heavily on the still
doubtful and powerful delegation
that Secretary Mellon is bringing
from Pennsylvania. The Pennsyl-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-08

short business meeting Of the fed
Grafton.
There have been acceptances
from many prominent leaders from
all parts of the state and the meet
ing is expected to be largely attend
ed. Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch.
president of the federation. will well
come the visitors Mrs. Josepha
Whitney is being assisted by large
committee. Those going from this
city may take the trolley from the
New Haven Green marked Double
Beach or Branford.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-08
Squadron of Jap Planes
Has Arrived at Picking

Picking. June s P-A squadron Of
japanese airplanes arrived here
yesterday. They landed on the east
plaza adjacent to the legation quar-
ter which was leveled off recently
for use as an airdrome. The planes
will be used to maintain communi-
cation with Tientsin.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-08

he has ever done In the American
open. The Atlanta ace is saving his
stuff for the two big tourna ments
en- native turf this year, after tri-
umphs abroad during the past two
seasons. He will be the marked man
at Chicago in June as well as at
Brae Burn in September, when he
defends the amateur title.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-08
COUNTY RAR MEETING,

A meeting Of the Hartford County
Bar viii b" held on June Is, at the
County building, Hartford, 9:45
o'clock to pass resolutions ON the
death of George H. Gilman.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-08
WALKER HAS NO
PATH OF ROSES
Middleweieht Champion to Meet
HudkinS and LomSki

New York, June S R1Mickey
Walker. in many respects the most
remarkable fighter the modern ring
has known, is picking no soft or
gentle ring occupation in hooking
fights with Ace Hudkins at Chicago,
June 81, and Leo Lomski in New
York, two weeks later.
The Nebraska wildcat and the
Aberdeen assassin are just about as
dangerous as they sound. Two OF the
toughest customers the ring has had
in some time. Hudkins Is not as
hard hitter as the heavier Lomski
but Ace has claWing, persistent
style that becomes more annoying
as the evening gets along.
If Walker survives these two on
counters triumphantly it will be one
of the greatest feats Of his rough
and rugged career. The smiling New
Jersey Irishman, a tWo-fster slug
ger himself, will be a favorite 10
check Hudkins, but against the
heavier Lomski his chances will be
no better than even, if that.
Walker is the only champion Of
the class of 1922 who still sports a
title toga. In fact. since the retire.
ment of Jack Dempsey this year he
is the only one of the whole group
still in active competition, a remark
able record in itself
Mickey held the welterweight
championship six years ago. at a
time that seems even more distant
when it is recalled that Jimmy
Wilde was fyweight champion.
Johnny Kilbane the featherweight
king, Benny Leonard the lightweight
ruler. Battling Sikh the light heavy
weight titleholder. and Dempsey the
monarch OF all the maulers.
Walker lost the welter laurels In
1926 to Pete Latzo but before the
year was out he had taken the
worlds middleweight crown from
Tiger Flowers He still holds it and
will defend it against another ex-
welterWeight when he meets Hud-
kins.
Mickey has gone up and down the
scale, fighting anything from welters
TO light heavies in the past half
dozen years. He outpointed Mike
McTigue when the veteran Irishman
was the worlds light heavyweight
champion in 1925. Later the same
year, however, Walker took one Of
the worst beatings of his career at
the hands Of Harry Greb when he
tried to wrest the middleweight title
from the Pittsburgh windmill.
Many critics considered that Greb
took a lot Of the fire out OF Walkers
fighting equipment in that fight even
if he couldn't disturb the Irishman's
bulldog spirit. The forthcoming
fights with Hudkins and LomsN will
test Mickey's present qualifications
| to stay at the top. Since he won the
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-06-08

An abortive attempt to assassinate
Baron Tanaka, in which an Ameri-
can woman was killed, VS. made at
Shanghai. China, March IS. 1922.
The Baron. who had recently re-
tired as minister Of war, was walk
ing down the gangplank of a ship
from Manila, when two Koreans
fired at him. Mrs. W. J. Snyder of
BRAZIL, Ind, who was few PAGES
behind him, was killed and four
persons were wounded. Baron
Tanaka was not hit and the kor-
cans confessed that the shots were
intended for him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
Criminals and Jails.

Much has been said and written as
10 the why's and wherefors of crime in
this country. but it remains for Potts
vile, Pa, judge to hit the nail squarely
upon the head on a hitherto seldom
mentioned aspect of the situation. In
one pithy sentence Judge Forrest r.
Shanaman gives the reason why a life
of crime attracts so many. He says.
THE people of America love their
criminals too much, and, as a result,
are threatening to defeat the very pur-
pose of courts in imprisoning lawbreak-
ers." Declaring that the average meals
served in Jail and prison are better than
those served in good many of the
homes of workingmen of the country,
and that one prison has radio in
stalled in fifty per cent of its cells,
Judge Shanaman is evidently of the
opinion that prisons are rapidly becom-
ing such attractive places of haven that
the criminal no longer breads incarcera-
ton.
It takes only a visit to first-class
penitentiary in the United States to
convince the average person that this
Judge knows exactly what he is talking
about. AS a matter of fact, conditions
throughout a we'll run, modern peni-
Tertiary are far better in every way
than perhaps two-thirds of the inmates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
Guard the Children.

School days are here again. The
children are dashing across the streets
going to and from school. Their bodies
are active and their minds not yer
drilled to bitter experience to be always
on their guard against dangers.
Every autoist should take a pledge
with his own conscience to drive so
carefully that no little life might oe
endangered by his recklessness or lack
of precaution.
Carried away by their play. the chill
dren are apt to dart out from behind
parked automobiles. or group crossing
a street are apt to scatter in consterna-
ton in every direction at the approach
Of an automobile.
While the children in school and at
home should be impressed with the i'm
portance of the utmost caution IN
crossing the streets, the real RESPONSE
bility rests with the adult driver to
think always for the fullest protection
of the children.
This cannot be matter of law and
police regulation. 1t must be matter
of conscience and the heart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20

methods Of beating safeguards. The
contest between the safe maker and the
safe breaker is in point. AS fast as
additional means of security are adopted
the yeggman evolves new schemes of
overcoming them.
An instance OF this competitive spirit
is just reported from New. York. Two
men wearing the uniform of the crew
of an armored car that was engaged
for daily collections of cash from large
establishments entered the cashiers
cage of dairy corporation, to which
they we're given access without question
Drawing their weapons they held up
the cashiers staff, scooped up $4,000
and walked out with their loot TO a
motor car and got away. One Of the
guards pursued them in a truck, but
YVES distanced.
These men had carefully planned the
robbery. They had. it appears, put out
of order the siren of the plant SO that
the alarm could not be Immediately
sounded. They had studied the prac-
tice of the express company agents
who made daily calls for cash. Faith
fully initiating the. uniforms of the
guards they gained access to the cage
without check or question, and on their
exit they were allowed to pass without
being halted. Here was a cash room
equipped with every known device for
resisting robbers. and yet they entered
it freely and left it unimpeded.
Now it will be necessary to devise a
system of armored car collections that
cannot be initiated by the crooks. But
that does not give assurance that the
new method will be absolutely crime
proof. For the war is on between the
and the law and only the i'm
position and execution of the utmost
severity of punishment upon all who
may be caught will gain ground toward
security.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
Assails Use of Dogs
AT EdgewOOd Arsenal

To the Editor OF The Star:
have read a letter in your issue of
September 8, by Kate Edmonds, regard
ing the vivisection of animals at the
Edgewood Arsenal. A few years ago
there was quite stir over these atroci-
ties and Congressman Albert Johnson,
who was captain of chemical warfare
during the World War, made the state
ment that the animal experimentation
(viviSection) done at that place was un-
necessary. I am as good an American
as any one but I am ashamed when I
think of the commercialized horrors be-
ing carried on under the protection of
Old Glory. One paper says they are
done to save mothers sons" Who
knows this? And how about the count
less lives that were saved by dogs during
the World War. mothers sons" too?
We understand that those who get dogs
from the Washington pound are re-
ullired to sign paper agreeing not to
have them used for viviSection. though
they are handed over to the Edgewood
Arsenal offices for that purpose Have
We one set of laws for Army officers and
another for civilians?
The doctor representing the District
Health Department is quoted as saying
the dogs have to be disposed of at any
rate. Such sentiments are only to be
expected from this department. Perhaps
we have wars because the men must be
disposed of at any rate
Many will appreciate your publishing
letters on this subject and we hope to
see many more people like Kate Ed
monds and Gustav Stryker
LENORA B. SIMPKINS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20

have been accustomed to. The sensi-
tive mind, of course, naturally feels
humiliation at curtailment of liberty,
but there are comparatively few prison.
ers who have a sensitive and intelligent
degree of mentality.
All the people of this country, whether
criminals or otherwise, want clean, sani-
tary and we'll managed jails and peni-
tentiaries. Some of the people. unfor-
tunately, wish to make these places so
luxurious that the lawbreaker can con-
fidently look forward to a far better
home than he is accustomed to if the
authorities arrest him and he is sent
to jail. 1t is the view of this minority
and its success in working its will that
the Pennsylvania judge scores, and he
will have the support of thinking men
and women throughout the country in
his view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
Progress in Rail Labor Case
Is Credited to Better Spirit

less prosperous than those of other
sections. To further complicate the
situation, security holders of certain
Western lines have petitioned the In
terstate Commerce Commission for
higher freight rates in this territory,
contending that the earnings of this
group of carriers have not been UP to
the standard of the country as a whole.
Quite naturally, also, employees of the
Western roads feel they are entitled
to the same rate of pay given for
similar work elsewhere"
Recording the fact that "the public
was never greatly alarmed" the In
dianapolis News adds: This is not to
imply that walkout of the conductors
and trainmen would have been without
serious effect. That goes without say
ing, since SO out of every 100 workers
on the fourscore railroads would have
been included. The explanation of
public serenity can be traced to the
knowledge that labor and capital un-
derStand better than formerly that ex-
tremism generally defeats itself and
causes financial loss to all concerned.
The public counted on a realization of
the fact to make for moderation in
VIZ Cuu dI4O Illus ldCultdIe SeLlle-
ment.''
THE public has learned" contends
the Long Beach Press Telegram. ito
look upon the various orders of train
men as given to conservative thinking
and deliberative action. 1t was not
generally believed that business served
by SO per cent of the railroad mileage
west of Chicago would be disrupted
by these workers if it were possible
to find an honorable way to prevent
such a disaster The service
ability of the Federal Board of Media
ton is another development of this
controversy that gives cause for con-
graduation"
The issue of the total number OF
employees is mentioned by the Muncie
Star, which presents that phase of the
situation: THE locomotives developed
in recent years are so powerful that
trains have been made heavier and one
engine Is used in a much longer haul
than formerly. This has reduced the
number of train crews necessary and
decreased the number of working
hours. The railroads feel that
the higher wages scarcely would be
justified if arbitrary limits were i'm
posed on the size of trains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20

How patches of human beings get
the same idea at the same time is
something that has always struck us
as extremely interesting.
In nothing has this trait been seen
more strikingly illustrated than in the
present fashion of women wearing their
bobbed hair behind their ears.
Every girl who thus exposes her
ears to the public gaze harbors the de-
fusion that it makes her look intensely
sophisticated.
why any woman should want to look
sophisticated is something we, along
with most men. we believe. cannot I'M
derstand, since the true genius of wom-
ankind lies in exactly the opposite di-
rection.
But that hundreds of them do cam
not be gainsaid. Let girl get
cigarette in her mouth and her hair
pushed behind her ears, and immedi-
ately she imagines that all the neigh
bors think her extremely chic
Women are but children of a larger
growth Schopenhauer declared. In
this connection one is irreverently re-
minded of the song sometimes taught
to little girls. which ends with the
succinct lines:
Your mother will love you, no doubt,
And the neighbors will love YOU
maybe"
Women who insist on wearing their
hair pushed behind their ears ought
to be spanked
They are rocking the boat. They
are upsetting the progress of the GEN.
turtles
To think that it took until AID.
1920 to put bobbed hair on the map,
and that now they are spelling it!
Spelling it, we believe, since the very
essence of the beauty of the bobbed-
hair style is the covered ear.
We have yet to see beautiful ear.
Ears are nothing but handles on the
side of the head. Men must expose
theirs because there is no way out of
II. Women, however, have a conven-
tent excuse. or reason. for keeping
thelrs MD from the public gaze.
Long halr required that it be dressed
IN certain ways. 1t is aside from the
question that not one woman in a
.nousano knew how to put up her
mar for the best effect.
The fact was that the hair whom
women wore it long. had to be t,,cked
up, and twisted around, and coiled
ana held in place, and that sort of
thing. QUIZ "a
In achieving this result, good or bad
as the case was, ears had to be mn
covered, to more or less degree. Now
since most women. no more than most
men, have Shell-like ears, the result
was that women were driven to ear
rings to make their ears decorative.
Men may look ugly and get awav
WIN IL, out women are charged with
the divine duty of being as decorative
as possible.
If they cannot be ornamental. whv
all right. That is one thing. Men
readily forgive them and do their best
to discover other good points.
The plain duty of every woman. how
ever. everything else being equal. is
to be as near like an angel a statue
OF the Venus de Medici and a painting
OF Mona Lisa, as possible.
Very few will ever attain this
theoretic perfection. of course-but
then, how many men look like gods?
The gods, no doubt. would smoker at
man in Knockers, and we couldn't
blame them.
Jove himself would rock high Olym-
pus with laughter at-the sight of male
being in knickerbockers trying to eat
corn on the cob.
To get back to the ladies and their
always amusing and interesting crown
ing glory: When bobbed heads became
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

interest in the game. Games were held
on the White House grounds and thu
Marine Band played for them.
@. What were some of the names
suggested for the vehicle that is called
the automobile c. E.
A. Originally it was known as the
horseless carriage. Up to 1899 num-
Der of names were proposed and rejected
for the new invention. Some of them
we're as follows: Carleck, electromobile,
gaSmobile, auto carriage, autovic, loco
motive, cabine, victorine, ipsomotor.
sineque, autogo, kineter and autokinet.
@. How hot do the sands Of the Sa-
hara get?-J. H.
A. At times the sands of this desert
are as hot as boiling water.
@. How much blood does the heart
pump in a given time?-W. v.
A. 1t is only recently that physicians
have finally succeeded in measuring the
output of the human heart. Expert
ments show that the heart pumps sig
quarts through the human body every
minute.
@. Has Mime. Schumann- Heink son
in the movies?-C. A.
A. One of her sons had a role in
-Four Sons" and in "Hell's Angels
@. What is the exact location OF the
ozone belt in Louisiana?-U. B.
A. The Weather Bureau says there Is
no ozone belt in Louisiana or anywhere
else, in the sense of region where the
! atmosphere contains an appreciable
amount of ozone.
c. Does the Army insist that passen-
| gers taken up in Army planes wear
parachutes?-M. A. C.
| A. Army Air Corps rules require that
all passengers flying in Army planes
must wear parachutes.
! @. How many private ships were
sent out of Salem. Mass, in support
of the Revolutionary cause?-H. H.
A. One hundred and ffty-eight pri-
vateers or ships of war were sent out
of Salem. They were owned and equip
ped by private individuals. not by the
Government. These privateers cap
tured nearly $50 English vessels.
@. What constitutes British West
Africa?-W. T. d.
A. Included in this general term
are the colony and protectorate Of
Nigeria. the Gambia colony and pro-
tectorate. the Gold Coast colony and
Sierra Leone. Parts of the Cameroons
dated territories.
@. What is the oldest library in the
State of Virginia?-W. H. S.
A. The Virginia Historical Society
says that the library of william and
Mary College is the oldest existing
library in the State.
@. Give the percentage of right
handed and left-handed persons
H. F.
A. Ninety-six per cent are said to
be born right-handed and about per
cent left-handed.
@. Please give some data about the
Federal Industrial Institution for
Women that is being built at Anderson,
w. Vac. M. T.
A. This is a Federal industrial in
Stltution for women who are serving
or would serve sentences in various
penal institutions when they could be
incarcerated for violation of Federal
statutes. Facilities are being provided
for 200 inmates of all ages. According
to the plans embodied in this report
the inmates are to DE given a thorough
domestic science education. Sewing,
cooking, waiting on table and chamber
maid work are among the occupations
that will be taught. The idea is that
when they are released from the in
stitution they will have sufficient train
ing to guarantee them an honest liveli-
| hood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Back to School
Studying hard, sometimes by night,
No less than through the day,
With, as we keep the balance right,
A fleeing hour for play,
We turn from Summer to the Fall.
And we obey the rule
Which brings the call to great and
small;
"It's time to go to SCHOOL,"
The youngsters and their elders read.
Endeavoring to learn
The precepts that mankind should heed
When called to speak in turn.
And they who teach, with patient care
Must Learn; or teach in vain.
With hope so fair, we all prepare
For Study, once again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-20
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

Eight billion dollar revenu, bill passed
by House of Representatives today by a
vote OF $50 to O, amid cheers and an
plause, and now goes to Senate. Unani-
nous approval given as politics is cast
aside. American guns continue
to shell the fortreSSes of Metz but
spare the city itself. Field Mar
shall Haig's forces, pushing enemy back,
regalns Moeuvres and new advance
IN Flanders gives the British more ter
ritory near La Bassee. French
operating against st. Quentin continue
their enveloping movement by captur-
ing Essigny and repulsing strong at
tacks north of Allemont. Gen
Allenby resumes his drive In Palestine
and sends the Sultan's army in head
long flight on 16-mile front between
Rafat and the sea- In Macedonia
the Serbians have extended their front
to width Of IS miles and have cap
tured 10000 Bulgarians in single day.
Eight Americans are killed when
clearing hospital is hit by a German
shell. Ofiicers claim the Germans de-
llberately aimed at the hospital, plainly
marked with huge red cross laid on
a field Of white. Three hundred
and thirty-two casualties given out to-
day. 95 killed in action. 1872 severely
wounded and log missins.