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New Britain herald., 1928-03-27
Police Hunt Youthful
 Gas Station Bandits

West Haven. Conn. March :1 tl P)--Po}lce sought two youthful bandits today, who last night at- tackled 3 filling station attendant here and escaped with s75 from a cash register.
 An all night search with few clues revealed no trace of the young crin- lnals and it was believed they had fled the county.
 Charles Munson. or Fair Haven. night mana ser of the station was recovering today from deep 9ash over the left eye, inflicted hy a blunt instrument in the hands of one of his assailants. He could give but a sketchy description of his attackers
 The youths accomplished the rob- loery by pretending to buy gasoline. When he opened the cash register for change. Munson said, he was at tackled from behind After a strug- gle, during which one Of the bandits seized the contents of the till, they escaped.
 Munson said he last saw them dis appear in the direction of Yale Bowl.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-27
LANG BOUND OVER
 ID SUPERIOR COURT
Accused o[ Setting Fire to New,
 iDeton CoDstable'S House

Hsnlngton March o- Thomas Lang, s. resident Of \eNlngton and mocha mic at q garage of the state highway department on East Fohb1ns avenue, was bound over to ne superior court on a charge of arson at session Of tho town court last night presided over by Justice of the Peace r.. Stanley Welles. Lang Was represented by Attorney Wilson ,f Hartford The charge resulted rom an alleged attempt to set fire 10 Cnastahle John F. Walsh's home on Main street on the morning of March lf, 10 which act. Long con- fessed. the police say.
 On the night of March ta Lang, accomr panied by samuel Harprr. a lso of Ne"ncton. visited friends at the Center where they each had flew drinks" The men left about to:"0 10 go home but, IS thor passed the Grange hall where a Il. nee was be-
 ng held. they dccl,'.I 10 go in ,onstahle Walsh s on duty at the hall and vas tod that men under the influence ct liquor were ln tho lobby. Constable Walsh told them 10 lea,s the h1n. The former did hut the constable had ia use fore" @ have his order carried out in the case Of the latter. \ few minutes 'ster, Lang roaprearod i'll the hall and Walsh threatened to arrest him IS he sent him out of the hall He z appeared inc third time but Walsh paid no attention to him. When the Consta h'e left the hall about i o'clock, Lang followed him 10 his car and according to several witnesses. threatened 10 get" the constable be- fore the night was over.
 When Constable Walsh woke up Friday morning. March 16. his at 'antion vas called by his fathor-in- law, Ernest Stotzcr. to evidence Of attempts to set fire to the house. Walsh recalled the allerCatlon of the previons evening and communicated with the state police. Officer Eukers was dstailed 10 investigate the case. The officer found that the alleged grievance evidently arose from the fact that several months ago. Walsh arrested Mrs. Lang for keeping an unlicensed dog. Mrs. Lang was med in court and Lang said aftcrWard that he felt that he had not receiv- ad 8 square deal.
 Lang vas arrested on March Is as B suspect and a technical charge of breach of the peace was placed against him. Later, at the state po lIce hcadquarters. he confessed. 1t is said, that he had attempted to set fire 10 the house After leaving Harper about 1:%h Friday morning he went 10 Walshs home where he made 2 plant" of leaves and tWlgs cn the north and west sides of the house In his dazed condition, he decided to put these out and set an- other al the southeast corner of the En,lsr. When he went home, ne went 10 sleep in a chair and woke up inc next morning with C)ump Of dry grass in his hand. He dld not so to work Friday.
 Judge Welles found probable cause and bound Lang over in 5000 bonds to the June term Of the superlor court. Grand Juror Harold G. Lu- cas prosecuted the case.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-27
ACHIEVEMENT CLUBS MEET

The joint annual meeting of the Blue Bell and Dew Drop Junior Achievement club was held and q pleasant party enjoyed at the home of Mrs. F. F. kjos, c4o South Main street, last night. Mrs. Kios is the leader Of the Blue Bell club, while Minnie Ncsta is the leader of the Dew Drop club. Refreshments were served. Oria and Jean Gagner offer ed vocal entertainment, appearing in costume suited to their roles. The old officers of both of the clubs were elected to serve another year.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-27
CHIEF KILLED.

Mexico City, March 27 Pl-pis- patches from Zamora today said the Chieftain Ignacio Robles and eight insurgent followers were killed and two federal wounded in a clash at La. Gunilla, near Tinguinda, state of Michoacan.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-27

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New Britain herald., 1928-03-27

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06
DEnTTHFE CTODTEc BY THORNTON
DILL llv1L OlORlEO ". BURGESS

/ Mrs. Whitefoot scrambled up and
looked it over. Perhaps II she had dis
covered it first it would have suited
her. But she hadn't discovered it
Whitefoot had discovered it-so Mrs.
Whitefoot promptly said it wouldn't
do. But she failed to give any good
reason why it wouldn't do. 1t just
wouldn't, that was all.
Whitefoot was beginning to lose in
terest. He had been very enthusiastic,
but all his suggestions had been so
promptly turned down that he decided
that he would leave the whole matter
to Mrs. Whitefoot. OF course. he should
have known enough to do that in the
first place.
He sat on the edge of a shelf, combed
his fur. made his toilet and watched
Mrs Whitefoot running about this way
and that way. quite as IL she didn't
know what she was about. Finally she
disappeared. Whitefoot hadn't been
watching and he didn't know where
she went to. It was little later that
he heard her squeaky little voice.
Come here, Whitefoot!" called Mrs.
Whitefoot.
Whitefoot couldn't tell where her
voice came from. He climbed down
from the shelf and ran around looking
for her.
Come here" squeaked Mrs. White
foot again. and there was most i'm
patient sound in her voice.
Where are you, my dear? Where are
you?" cried Whitefoot. and his voice
was just as squeaky as hers.
Suddenly Mrs. Whitefoot popped out
right in front of him. Here I am"
said she rather GROSSLY. Now you fol-
low me-"
Whitefoot Immediately followed her
Where do you think she led him?
Straight into the fireboX of the evapo-
rator. Yes. sir, that's where she led
him. 1t was dark in there. Whitefoot
didn't think much of the smell Of dead
ashes but Mrs Whitefoot didn't mind
this at all. In a corner of that firebox
she showed him where she had cleared
away the ashes Here" said Mrs.
Whitefoot, lis where we will make our
nest No one will ever think of looking
for us in here It's the very best place
we've ever had. Now we'll get busy and
make our nest"
(Convrirht 1923
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was smoking and thinking and
ma sed, Well Willyum do you still feel
that your stay in the country did you as
much good as you thawt it did?
Absolutely, ony more so, pop sed.
NV lungs are bersting with pasturized
country air and my mussels are throb-
bling with suppressed desires to werk,
he sed.
Ny, that's wonderful. ma sed, and
pop sed, It's CRATE, its the way he men
are Suppose to feel according to fiizziol-
ogy books and Western story maya
zines.
It's really marvelliss, ma sed, and pop
sed. It's perfeck, I'm consumed with an
ineXtinguishible desire for action,
wunt to take the worlds tuffeSt prob
lens one by one and crack them be-
tween my fingers like peenut shells, in
other verbs I feel like Napoleons big
brother.
Well I'm certeny glad, ma sed. Be-
cause vile your so overwhelmingly ambi-
tious and bersting with irrepressible
desires and everything like that, you'll
welcome the chance to do that little
Job on the kitchin door that you've bin
promising to do for so long. so Nora
wont thretten to leave every time she
has to push it open, she sed.
Say. have hart, zee gods. just got
through suppir. pop sed, and ma sed,
Now Willyum I wont lisSen to a werd
you've told me about your mussles tx
ploding with repressed action and all
that sort of thing and you've got to
come this instant and fix that door, you
cant feel like Napoleons brother one
moment and jelly fishes sister the
next, its a fizzical impossibility. so the
sooner you get started the sooner you'll
get finished.
Ding bust it to blazes you set trap
for me, that's wat you did, all rite,
Eapoleons brother has met his Water
loo Junction, pop sed.
Meening he would fix the kitchin
door,
Wich he did.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06
Farm knowledge

A dismal fate was Bildad Bakers;
for years he titled the same old acres,
and every year his crops were smaller,
the while his load of debt grew taller.
And now. gone broke like many neigh
bors, he left the scene of all his labors;
the much loved home he left behind
him, whose every single must remind
him of hopes and dreams he once had
cherished, before all fond illusions
persisted. He, like the soil, was quite
exhausted, his eyes were dim, his
whiskers frosted. The old home farm,
run down, forsaken, was by youthful
stranger taken. From some farm school
he'd graduated, and with strange learn
ing he was freighted. He talked glib
berish surprising and spent much time
in analysing small chunks of soil from
here and yonder, and over volumes he
would ponder; and old-time farmers,
much like Baker, looked on him as a
locoed faker "A man can't learn the
trick of farming in schools" they said,
with candor charming; "he has to work
with hoe and sickle while streams OF
sweat adown him trickle; he has to
tool the pillow and harrow, and push
huge burdens in barrow, through beds
of weeds he must be Wading and break
his valued backbone spading. This
aleck from some tinhorn college may
have a store of phony knowledge, but
little will that store avail him, and all
his modern tricks will fail him" And
yet that cheeriest of strangers aston
ished all the old-time grangers. He
gave the soil what it was needing, and
every place he did his seeding respon-
sive crops would grow like blazes, all
kinds of wheats and oats and maizes.
He gave the WORKOUT farm tonic and
bumper crops at last we're chronic. The
woes of men engaged in farming would
be less heavy and alarming If they
would cease their heartsick screening,
and listen to some modern teaching.
WALT MASON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06
A Nest in a Queer Place.
Who would avoid domestic strife
viii leave decisions to his wife.
-Whftefoot the Wnad MnnsI

Whitefoot and Mrs Whitefoot did
lot Of Scurrying around inside the little
sugar house of Farmer Browns. Mrs.
Whitefoot wouldn't be satisfied until
they had their nest completed. and the
first thing to do was to decide where
they would have it. There were all
sorts of wonderful places for the nest
Of a Wood Mouse and there was plenty
of material to build it Of
In that little sugar house was bunk
and on that bunk was an old mattress.
Whitefoot thought it would be wonder
full to make hole in that and make
their nest inside, but Mrs. Whitefoot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06

said no. She couldn't give real good
reason for not making a nest there, but
she was opposed to it.
All right. my dear" said Whitefoot,
"iust as you say. There's a nice dark
corner underneath. How will that do?"
1T won't do at ALL" replied Mrs.
Whitefoot. and went on running about.
Then, up on shelf Whitefoot dis
covered a box with a little opening in
It. i've got It'll" he cried. This is
just the place for it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
Supervisor Helped Police
Capture Bandit;
Many Cited.

Announcement has come that two
employees of the Indiana Bell Tele-
phone Company, Miss Lillian Mae
Pierce, supervisor at Marion, and
Clarence Harold, combination man
at Muncie, have been awarded
bronze medals by the Committee Of
Award-Theodore N. Vail Medals,
for outstanding performances of
noteworthy public service.
Miss Pierce's citation came when
she directed police by prompt action
to a bank hold-up in Amboy, In
diana, last october. which resulted
in the capture Of the bandit. Har-
rold's award came as the result of
applying first aid treatment to an
injured woman in an auto accident
last December in Muncie.
Ten Indianapolis employees re-
ceived letters of commentator for
performances that were worthy of
recognition but not of the high
standards of noteworthy public
service which warranted medals.
They are Mrs. ROvena McGlacken,
supervisor; Nellie Walker, evening
chief operator; Susanna Richter,
supervisor; Mable Gibson, super
visor; Georgia Ingersoll, supervisor;
Virginia Boyer, OPERATOR Marie
Mooney, supervisor; Dorothy Blumc,
supervisor; Leona Hershberger, SUI
peryisor, and Fern Light, supervisor.
Others in the state to receive let
ters are Ida NJ. Neidermeier, super
visor, Evansville; Katherine Rob-
bins. supervisor, Newcastle; Mrs.
Zella Mckinley, operator, and Mrs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06

$500 IN FEES
GIVEN ATTORNEY
BY COMMISSION
Ruling Also Orders Issuance
of $4,000 Stock by
CorydOn Firm.

Public service commissioners to-
day in authorizing issuance Of stock
for the Southern Indiana Utilities
Corporation, Corydon, Ind, gas COM
pany, allowed Clyde H. Jones,
former commissioner and attorney
for Governor jackson in his recent
Criminal Court trial, $4,000 in at
tOrney'S fees.
A few weeks ago commissioners
declared themselves against excess
Sive attorneys fees when considering
a northern Indiana telephone COM
pany case in which the fees ran into
thousands of dollars that ultimately
would be charged to the customers.
The commission refused to allow
Ralph E. Davis, engineer, $4,000 and
a group of out State attorneys ST.
600 for their services.
THE commission also believes
that certain legal expenses to Clyde
H. Jones of $500 were necessary
in bringing this property into be-
ing" the order read. 1T does not
feel however, that the fee of Ralph
Davis, engineer. of $500 is justi-
fed, in view Of the fact that the
commissions engineers made a very
much more comprehensive ap-
praisal, the entire cost of which was
S619O4."
Commissioner Harvey Harmon
when asked about the allowance to
Jones. said when the rule was
adoDted bv the commission against
excessive legal fees that it was not
O. aUply except to cases filed there
after. He pointed out that the case
was filed Aug %, 1927.
He also said that Jones had done
work on other affairs of the COM
pany when it was in receivership.
He said these were not paid because
Of financial incapability of the
company.
The commission already has
authorized issuance of S165,000
worth Of securities and today di-
rected issuance of $4,000 more for
the company. Five thousand shares
are to be sold at So share and
$50 900 worth are to be 6 per cent
preferred shares selling at not less
than 500
Logan J. Smith was granted ex'
tension of a bus line four blocks
from Minnesota St and Belmont
Ave, to Thornberry st.
On petition Of J. P. Glazier the
Peoples Motor Coach Company was
authorized to extend bus lines from
Brookville Rd., and S. Emerson Ave,
to the Hawthorne railroad shops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
FATHERS REVOLT TOPIC

"The Revolt of the Middle-Aged
final lecture of the Open Forum
Father" will be the subject of the
series at Kirshbaum Community
Center, Sunday night. DR.. I. M.
Rubinow of Philadelphia is the
speaker.
DR.. Rubinow gained fame as the
author of an article on this subject,
which appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly 1t dealt with the subject
of whether or not a father gets his
moneys worth by sending his son
to college. Whether college is a
place for young men to loaf and &C
quire polish or a genuine education.
He is writing book on the sub
ject and has already written
numerous books on social relations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
ASKS CONGRESS-
TO MAKE SOUTH
PAY FLOOD AID
Large Land Owners Will Be
Benefited, Contends
Frear, Wisconsin.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 6.-More
than rs per cent Of the nearly A.
100000 acres of land in the Missis-
sippi valley which the United States
Government must require for flood
ways to control the Mississippi flood
waters is in the hands of large land
owners and corporations, Repre-
sentative Frear, (Rep0, Wisconsin,
pointed out today in an interview
with the United Press.
Furthermore, many of the same
land owners and corporations own
lands which will adjoin the flood
ways and other control works and
rise greatly in value through the
protection afforded, he said.
The Government, he explained,
must buy land for floodways direct
ly or through condemnation pro-
ceedings in which jurors from the
local region will determine the price.
Frear fixes the total cost to the
Government at $150,O00,000, large
part of which will go to corporations
and large land owners.
The Wisconsin member will use
figures showing the extent of hold
ings by large corporations in his
fight in the House for local contri-
buttons, in refutation of claims that
the Southern Mississippi valley is
not able to contribute something to-
ward flood control
The figures were prepared by the
War Department. They show, he
argues, that much of the land to be
benefited is held by those fully able
to contribute
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
Gets WILLIS SEAT
LOCher to Take Papers to
Senate April is.

COLUMBUS, O., April 6-United
States Senator Cyrus Locher, Dem
oCrat, appointed Thursday by
Governor Vic Donahey to succeed
the late Senator Frank B. Willis,
will present his credentials to the
senior House Of Congress on April
is, it was announced today. Loeb
ers home is in Cleveland.
Appointment of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Earl D. Bloom, Dem) of
Bowling Green, to succeed Locher
as state director Of commerce, was
announced today at the Governors
Office. A successor to Bloom will be
announced early next week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
STATE EDITORS FAVOR
HOOVER OVER WATSON
Poll Conducted Among Republicans
by Secretary's Headquarters.

One hundred twenty Republican
editors of Indiana who responded
to a presidential poll directed from
State headquarters for Herbert C.
Hoover gave as their first choice;
Hoover a; Watson, 81: Dawes, %;
LoWden, 10 and Curtis ].
The Republican editors expressed
their sentiment on second choice
as Dawes, 40; Hoover, %; Lodwen,
II; Watson, Is; Curtis, 6; Coolidge,
l, and Norris, /.
'eThe fact that forty-four Repub-
lican editors of the State favor
Hoover on first choice and twenty
two wish him on second choice is
in line with every other poll taken
in the State so far" declared Oscar
G.. Foellinger, Hoover's State man
ager.
Considering Australia as a CONT
nent makes Greenland the largest
island in the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
NOISES; NO BURGLARS
Police Answer to Calls, But Fail to
Find "Marauders."

Mrs. H. C. Smith, 1884 E. Eleventh
ST., looked up from her ironing
board Thursday night when she
heard a noise and saw man at
the dining room window. She
screamed and he ran. Police found
no trace of him
Oliver Jackson, night Waterman
at the Pittsford Purity Pie Com
pany, 1920 N. Senate Ave, told po-
lice he heard someone trying to get
into a side door at the plant,
Thursday midnight. Every time he
went to the door and investigated
he could see no one, but as soon as
he put out the lights and remained
quiet the person returned and made
further efforts to open the door he
said. Police called but found no
trail of the alleged burglar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
Several Thousand Officers
of County Augment
City Details.
STATE TO TRY CAFfEY
Wins Fight With Federal
Authorities Over Dry
Agent.
BY G. C. NICOLET
United PICS sian COrrespOndent

CHICAGO, April Give thou
sand police, five-sixth's of the citys
entire force, will guard Chicago's
polls in the Illinois primary cleo
ton next Tuesday, Commissioner of
Police Michael Hughes announced
today.
Police details, assigned to the
city's 2,755 precincts from opening
of the polls until closing, will be
augmented by several thousand
representatives of County Judge
Edmund Jarecki.
Commissioner Hughes said the
normal detail of thirty-five detec-
tive squads would be reinforced by
siXty-five special squads under
Deputy Commissioner William E.
O'ConnOr.
Biggest Guard in History.
Several hundred special police
also will be assigned to the cleo
ton commissioners office in charge
of Judge Jarecki.
The announcement, outlining the
most extensive primary poll guard
in the history of Chicago, was ac-
companied by no comment from
Commissioner Hughes except that
If there is to be any trouble, it
probably will be in the battle over
ward committeeman elections"
There was no mention of an extra
guard in the Twenty-Fifth ward,
the old Bloody Nineteenth where
Diamond Joe" opposite, powerful
Italian leader and Republican
candidate for ward committeeman,
was slain.
Espositos death, while also at
tributed to the alky war, generally
was believed to have resulted from
his political activity.
The extensive police plan, it was
said, was made necessary by refusal
Of United States Attorney General
John c.. Sargent to authorize as
Segment of special deputy -marshals
to Chicago's primary which had
been requested by United States
Marshal Palmer Anderson at Chi
cagO.
The Federal grand jury, which
earlier in the week was instructed
especially regarding statutes cover
ing interference with the exercise OF
citizenship at election polls and at
tacks upon the person or property
OF Federal officer, adjourned
Thursday until after the election.
State Will Try Caffey
Judge James Wilkerson, whose in
structions to the grand jury, gave
rise to the belief the jury would in
vestigate the bombing Of Senator
Deneen's home and alleged political
intimidation, Thursday ruled in
favor of State and city authorities
who sought the right to try MyrOn
Caffey, Federal prohibition agent
CHARGED with shooting a municipal
court bailiff.
Caffey was a member Of squad
Of special prohibition agents sent
here from Washington. During a
raid on a saloon last week, William
Beatty, bailiff, was wounded Fed
eral authorities protected Caffey
and prevented service Of a warrant
charging assault with intent to kill
which was issued by city author
tiles.
Government attorneys procured a
writ of habeas corpus cum causa
before the warrant was served. City
and State attorneys Thursday sue
ceeded in having the writ set aside
which leaves the State free to pros
ecute the dry agent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06
Urges MonopoIy Overthrow

Negro and white should vote to-
gether "for the rights of the COM
mon man and the overthrow of
monopoly which increases the cost
Of living" declared Alvah j. Rucker,
candidate for the Republican nom
ination for Governor, addressing the
congregation of st. John Colored
Baptist Church, Sixteenth and Mar
tindale Ave-, Thursday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-06

Orlan Landrum, supervisor, New
Albany; Mildred Benefel, operator,
Alexandria; Mary B. Hollowell, OPP
orator, and Hannah Jones, super
visor, Elwood, and Marguerite
WEIGH, supervisor, Muncie.
The committee of award was
composed of Fred Thomas, chair
man; J. w. Harmon, A. r. Henry,
w. j. McWilliams, Vance Oathout,
A. E. Smith, and C. R. Woods, all
Indiana Bell officials.