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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-29
Think HYDES LOST
IN THE COLORADO
Believe Man and Wife Perished
on Canoe Trip
FIND LOG BOOK NOTES
Advcntl,resome Couple Who Started
Out from Idaho to Sail River to
California Shot 16 Rapids In One

Peach Springs, Ariz., Dec. 29.-UP
Conviction that Glenn r. Hyde
and his wife perished in the swirling
waters Of the Colorado river, which
they attempted to navigate on
honeymoon trip, was expressed here
today by Emery Kolb. veteran river
man.
Kolb and his brother Ellsworth.
first men to navigate the Grand Can
yon. returned last night after
hazardous journey in the deep
gorges in search of the venturesome
Hansen. Idaho. couple who left
Bright Angel trail in their home
made scow November IS. The Hydes
expected to reach Needles, Cal,
about December /.
The river man reported that ex-
animation of the scow used by the
couple to shoot the river rapids indi-
Gated that disaster had overtaken
them December I near where the
craft was found lodged in the rocks
which clog the tortuous canyon
river bed and where it was seen by
army aviators who Joined in the ex-
tensive search begun two weeks
ago.
Find Log Book
Apparent testimony to the tragic
end of the Hydes adventure was
found in their log book. which was
recovered with other personal ef-
fects from the scow. Entries in the
diary, with code notations, recorded
progress of the journey.
The last notation, made on No.
vember 80. reported their arrival at
a point ~ miles below Diamond
Creek. and that they had Shot 16
rapids that day.
The location of the pilotless scow,
~ miles below Diamond Creek indi-
Gated to the returned searchers that
Hyde and his wife had been lost in
the rapids within the last two miles
above there.
Hurled to Death
Opinions were given that the
couple. who were managing their
unwieldy craft by means OF long
fore and aft sweeps. had been hurl-
ed from the careening scow into the
raging waters. One entry In the diary
indicated that the scow had nearly
capsized in a whirlpool on November
%. 1t was pointed out that both
might have been thrown from their
bounding boat while throwing their
weights upon the long sweeps to
steer the scow away from rocks in
the perilous rapids.
Kolb alao reported that the scow
was lodged but short distance from
shore. and that 1t would have been
possible for the couple 10 have
reached there safely had they still
been aboard. Clothing. food, camp
ing equipment and other supplies
found in the scow. Kolb pointed out.
was further indication that the
Hydes were not aboard when the
craft stranded. The presence of this
equipment also furnished evidence
that. If the couple had gained the
shore, they were scantily prepared
to face the rigors of severe canyon
weather and any necessary hike to
reach distant aid.
Footprints Unexplained
The Kolb's theory leaves unex-
planned however the finding of foot
prints in the snow at points along
the canyon rim above Diamond
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May McAvoy Announces
Plans for Wedding

Hollywood. Cal. Dec. % R-Aay
McAvoy. motion picture star. lag
night announced her engagement -
Maurice Cleary. manager Of tho
British Dominion Film company
which IL making productions hseA
The wedding = to be in April
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-29
BURGLAR ALARM FAILS
10 AWAKEN SLEEPER
But Others IN House Get Up In
Ttnae to Canse Arrest u
HObhee

Brockton. Mas. Dec. - N
After his store had been broken
into twice during the last week.
Clarence c. Howard installed a
burglar alarm connected with his
house next door. Tho alarm sound
ed early this morning but failed to
wake Howard from 4 sound sleep.
1t aroused other occupants Of the
house. however. and they called the
police. They arrested Robert
Croker, ~, Of West Bridgewater on
charges Of breaking. entering and
larceny. Crocker was recently dis
honorably discharged from the coast
guard service.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-12-29
Plans RODE0 TO
AMUSE Coolidge
President Viii Witness Unique
Sa Island Affair
STEERS RUNNING WILD
Roam Freely Through Co3ln Esta&es
-Priso Given Negro Who sticks to
His Mount the Lnngost-To Woe.
ship Tomorrow.

Sapelo Island, Dec. - VA Sea
Island rodeo. far different from
hose affairs of flashing spurs and
pranclng ponies which President
Coolidge witnessed while on vaca-
ton In the Black Hills Of South
Dakota, was arranged for the chief
executives amusement today a the
first feature Of a busy weekend.
Sapelo Island. where Mr.. and Mrs.
Coolidge are enjoying a Christmas
vacation a the guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard e. Coffin. abounds in
semi-wild steers which are left free
to roam A. they will through the
woodlands and fields Of the Coffin
estate. Some so OF these were
rounded upon the broad beach At
the seaward side OF the island for
the rodeo. and for each native
negro rider was provided.
The island rodeos are conducted in
two days. Sometimes prize IL
offered to the negro who sticks to
his mount the longest while at other
times a point down the beach 10
fixed a. goal and the reward goes
to the rider who. still astride his
steer, first reaches the objective.
Lived As Slaves
The negroes OF the island were
for the most part within the con-
fines OF their waterbound home.
Their ancestors lived there in slav-
cry. In the slave running days,
Sapelo Island served as a transfer
point for the slave ships and the ne
groes on the island today are de-
scended from the Americans left
there In those remote times. Many
Of them spend an entire life timo
on the island without once setting
foot on the mainland.
In their isolation. the negroes
have built up a rich lore OF chants
and spirituels which also furnished
an item today for the presidential
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Evening star., 1928-12-02

Poincare. He is a great lawyer, a Lor-
raine lawyer; Lorraine being frontier
province, he has had from his very
nursery days constant thoughts of Ger
many-Which does not in the least
mean hatred of Germany, as the French
"nationalistS" have. Poincare the Lor-
rainer knows better; he knows we'll that
Germany is there, and that some real
peace ought to be found.
When he became president of the
council of ministers and minister for
foreign affairs in 1922 he gave the i'm
preston that he was holding the brief
for the treaty of Versailles before the
world. He was so uncompromising that
more than once at the time I heard
this word uttered-from British lips:
"Shylock."
In reality, he has been constantly in
clined (if we except the period of the
occupation of the Ruhr, for which I'll
point out an Interpretation of my own
a little further ON he has always been
ready, like all LOrrainerS, to make peace
with the Germans the moment Ger
many discharges her obligations.
Like all Lorrainers, I said. Often
during certain small dinner parties in
Paris, when I was ambassador there,
/ spent long evenings talking in some
quiet corner with Maurice Barres, then
at the apex of literary glory and hailed
in fashionable aristocratic circles as the
prophet of anti-German patriotism.
How often did feel that Barres-deep-
ly skeptical as he was (he really only
believed above all in the beauty and
music of Words) was, not in his mind;
but in his instinct, imbued with such
a touchingly naive patriotism" that
conceiving patriotism as the necessity
Evening star., 1928-12-02
Italian Rice Workers
Are Paid With Product

A customary preliminary to harvest
time. which begins in early September
in Italy's rice-growing center sur
rounding the city of Alessandria, in the
Piedmont, is that the farmers and peas
ants arrange for wages and other labor
matters. This year the respective syn
dicates of workers and growers reached
an agreement based on compensation
by nature" or emolument in kind. No
money to the worker; he shall be paid
with rice.
Thus peasant lads from IA to Is years
of age receive seventeen and a half
pounds of rice day, those from Is to
Is earn twenty-three pounds a day
and boys from 16 to II years get thirty
five pounds. Girls from Is to Is earn
twenty pounds of rice for the eight
hour day, while the womens stipend
Is twenty-six and half pounds.
Should laborer insist on cold cash,
the grower will be troubled with the
necessity Of utilizing his arithmetic.
For he must take the number of pounds
the worker is entitled to and multiply
1t by the current market price, which
Is now cents pound.
Evening star., 1928-12-02
What of the Next Congress?


not exactly what the Originators of the
slogan had expected Make the tariff
effective" indeed, thunderously echoed
the textile mills of New England, the
cement mills of all the States, the brass
founders and locksniths of the indus
trial East. the shingle mills of the
Northwest. Less reasonably, perhaps,
but just as sincerely. every interest in
volved in an existing tariff schedule
took up the cry.
A tariff bill is curiously interlocked
measure, in which no single item may
be altered without impairing the equi-
librium of the whole structure. When
ever we begin to make the tariff effec-
tive" for the farmer, we shall have to
make the tariff effective" for every
body else, too. This means a general
tariff revision, which cannot possibly
be undertaken at short session of Con-
gress. The existing tariff bill took more
than a year for its drafting and pas
sage. The Underwood bill required
more than six months. If the next
tariff bill should require as much time
as that, it would mean that we would
not be able to pass 1t until the mid
Summer or the Autumn of 1930-and
that we should then plunge into con-
gressional campaign with a new and
untested tariff bill as major issue.
Hopes for Future.
Not for me, thank you, If l can help
it. I want no more campaigns ike
those of 1890 and 1922. 1t should not
be difficult to impress this point OF view
upon the majority leaders in the Con-
gress now in existence and, through
them, upon the new President. There
fore, I look upon an extra session OF
the Seventy-flrst Congress as inevitable.
If this should prove to be the prevail
ing opinion, what effect will it have
upon the program which confronts Con-
gress this Winter? 1t should have none
at all. Nevertheless, it will probably
lead to a much more prolonged debate
on each controverted measure than If
it's advocates realized that it is now or
never-or, at any rate, now or fully
two wears hence-for their pet projects.
Personally, now hope that wiser coun-
sells might prevail and that we can go
on-as we surely car-with the essen
tials of legislation and dispose of them
so that we can confront tariff revision
next Summer untrammeled by a lot OF
other major legislation.
That 1 have spoken only of the Sen
ate in this discussion of the forthcom-
ing Winters work of Congress is not
because of my well known regard for
the Senate as legislative body, in spite
of what any one may say of its rules,
which, may add parenthetically, ]
probably know as well as the next man.
I speak only of the Senate because, as
sought to point out earlier, there is
only one subject of major consequence
in the Winters program-aside from
appropriation bills-in which House ac-
tion is required. That is farm relief,
which must be attacked again. How
ever neither the House nor the Senate
is likely to spend much time in debating
this subject once the agrarian leaders
come to an agreement, as they doubtless
will
And it is in the Senate, too, that we
find Boulder Dam.
Evening star., 1928-12-02

of hating some neighbor-he was. above
ALL anti-English. He felt, more than
he spoke. as if Joan of Arc had been
burned about the time of the Dreyfus
affair.
His Political Life.
If there is a touch of paradoXical
contradiction-not any enigma-in
Poincare's political life, see it in his
home policy. M. Poincare. for all his
conservative poise, is sincere demo-
cratic republican. One might even go as
far as to say that. intellectually speak
ing, he has something of the radical.
When he may do SO freely and without
danger he never loses an opportunity to
display his feelings; he does so, for
instance, any time there is danger, or
an appearance of danger, of an excess
of Catholic influence in the life of
France. In spite of that have al
ready pointed to this contradiction-he
is generally supported by majorities
elected on ticket opposed to his own;
while he is almost always abused in
the press and in the chamber by his
political, or-to be more exact-by his
intellectual co-religionists.
M. Poincare has an old Republicans
deep respect for the constitution; he
has the lawyers inbred respect for law.
Success has not made him leader for
whom men hold deep affection. What
is rarer and in way beautiful is the
fact that he has no longing for such
feelings nor for the warmth that may
come out of them.
It is his very temperament that
obliges him to work in solitude /
watched his way with great curiosity
when in his previous cabinet he was at
Evening star., 1928-12-02

little gloating. But all this can be
done and we still shall be able to pass
the indicated program by March If
Boulder Dam can be disposed of.
Even this, however, will not necessa-
rily obviate an extra session of the
Seventy-f1rst Congress-though it may
not be called at once. The farm relief
measure, which can be passed at the
approaching short session. will deal pri-
marily, perhaps altogether, with the
problem of the exportable surplus, and
will provide for some sort of gradual
support of the farmers co-operatives
along the line of the activities of the
Alberta wheat pool, if an effete East
erner may be permitted to hazard a
guess on a subject which the West re-
CARDS as its own.
This, it will be observed. has no traf-
fic with the tariff, although the central
war cry of those who battled for farm
relief last Winter was: Make the
tariff effective" This slogan fell upon
responsive ears-but the response was
Evening star., 1928-12-02

w YHEN I was in Paris as AM
bassador, about six years
Nv ago. it was an open secret
that there was difference
.f 4n..in.Aninr hat, a
Evening star., 1928-12-02
BY SENATOR GEORGE H. MOSES,
President Pro Tempore, United States Senate

President Pro Tempore, united states Sehate'
~ OULDER DAM-When? Where?
How high? At what cost? For
n food control? For irrigation?
IL For power? For domestic water
supply?
Whoever can answer these questions
can tell something about the second
session Of the Seventeen Congress
which will come to an end on the 4th
of next March--becauSe the Boulder
Dam bill stands in a preferred position
on the calendar of the Senate ana pc
cause it is backed and opposed by
groups of Senators who are both able
and determined.
It may be taken for granted that
neither Boulder Dam nor the naval
construction bill nor the multllateral
treaty nor farm relief will be permitted
to stand in the way of the regular sup
ply bills. These, now reduced in num-
ber and favored under change In the
rules of the Senate-With which the
Vice President has nothing to do
should take but little time. So the
question continues-how far will Boul-
der Dam obstruct everything else?
IT cannot be that the opponents OF
the measure. who conducted the ILL
concealed filibuster at the last session,
will now recede-they have just been
reelected and, I would take 1t, feel
that they have fresh mandate TO con-
tinue their opposition.
The indomitable proponent of the bill,
Senator Hiram johnson, also has just
been reelected, and by fabulous ma
iority. He, too, has fresh mandate
without question, as he views it. I seem
to recall some axiom of my school days
to the effect that when an irresistible
force meets an immovable object. the
by-product is likely to be interesting.
That is my initial forecast for the next
session on Congress, and 1t is based
upon the position of the Boulder Dam
legislation.
Oppose Extra Session.
Meantime the subcommittees are
working on the regular appropriation
bills, and almost every Senator and
Representative is hoping that an extra
session of the Seventy-first Congress
NAV be averted. This is possible be-
cause, except for farm relief and gen.
eral water power legislation, all of the
enumerated measures have been acted
upon by the House. And farm relief
now should not consume much time
anywhere.
Both President Coolidge and Mr..
Hoover have declared against the So
called equalization fee, which has been
the bone of contention in the frame
work of farm relief as thus far pro-
posed. Accordingly it will be impossi-
BILE to secure this feature prior to 1888.
if ever, and I can see no reason why
the advocates of farm relief-which
means all of us-should not get to-
getner and agree upon measure and
pass it, The House rules are con-
ducive to speed i'll such matter, and
the Senate, regardless of its rules, can
outdistance the House whenever 1t
chooses to show its celerity.
Hence, Boulder Dam. If its friends
shall decide that national security and
Evening star., 1928-12-02
Elevator Loses Caste
Among London Society

Elevators are going out of fashion in
London since half of smart society
have become physical-jerk maniacs.
The doctors latest dictum is that run
ming up and down stairs is one of the
finest exercises in the world for the
man or woman who gets little chance
to take any other kind of Jerks"
Only one person uses the elevator now-
adays for every 10 that used it year
or two ago. Nearly every visitor to the
hotels, Americans particularly, seem to
prefer the stairs. An elevator mans
job is rapidly becoming one of the lone
liest in the world. Restaurants, big
stores and owners of many-storied man
sions are noticing the same thing and
at the same time are ruefully regard
ing the stair carpets that are rapidly
getting threadbare under the new
regime, and carpets cost lot more than
electricity in London.
Evening star., 1928-12-02

international peace pacts are more i'm
mediately desirable than a cheap water
supply for Southern California, and
that farm relief for every one is better
than flood relief for few-then the
Boulder Dam bill will be laid aside and
the session can finish work in orderly
fashion.
Some Debate Expected.
But we shall not be able to complete
the program without some debate The
pacifist lobby which always infests
Washington-and should like to know
the origin and maintenance of that
lobby-Will do all in its power to defeat
the naval construction bill. And those
of us irreconcilables of 1919 who are
left will want to make sure that the
naval bill goes ahead of the treaty and
that the treaty is safeguarded so that
we do. not barter away the right of
self-defense or the Monroe Doctrine.
The advocates of the McNary- -Haugen
bill in its original form will want to do
New Britain herald., 1928-03-14
SERVICE STRESSED
 BY DR. I. E. REEKS
Hospital Superintendent Ad.
 dresses B. &P. ", Club

The value Of service to com munlty and the importance. as a first aid to real friendship. Of the use of first names among civic club members and members of other or ganlzatlons was stressed by Dr. r. Eben Eeeks Of the New Britain Gen eral hospital i'll an address to the Business and Professional Women's s club last evening It the clubhouse on High street. Dr. Reeks and two To- cal newspapermen were guests of the club at a League of All Ma nons dinner The menu and dec crations were symbolic of the many races represented in America and the speakers. according to Miss Naude E. Traver. president. were se- lected because of their cosmopolitan ancestry.
 Dr. Reeks spoke of the value of fellowship in an organization such as the B. and F. W. club and pointed out that contacts are made and last ing friendships formed through the organization N hich would be ill1pos- stble under any other circumstance.
 Bernard G. kranoWitz of the New Britain Record told how Dr. Reeks has brought tue New Britain Gener- al hospital to it's present state of eff clency and had put 1t in the front ranks among the best hospitals in America.
 Ernest W. perlla nt of the New Britain Herald told of some eNperi- tnces in the lives of ncWspa pcrmen. lie pointed out that attempts by persons or orga nizations to suppress news of public interest often reacts as a boomerang. He referred 10 criticism naWspap"Tmen often rc- ceiyc when they persist in reporting facts accurately instead of ,otoring them to suit the desires of the in Uividuals.
 A program of music by a balalalha orchestra and by the orchestra of the Washington school fellow cd. Miss
New Britain herald., 1928-03-14
of what was to have been the Der. lin Baglad railway,

of what was to have been the Ber- lin Bagdad railway.
 ''Is the Sultan of Nejd trying 10 repeat history? Time after time city ways have softened city conquerors until new harbaric horde swept over them. City Ara hs have taken readily to civilization's ways. They work in ice and cotton cloth fac- tories: upon public works and en- gineering projects.
 Much agricultural land has been reclaimed by irrigation in an effort to revive the luXuriant Garden of Eden. Dates from the date palm are the chief product. Wheat. barley and rice are also grown. Experiments looking toward cotton growing have been promoted. Vegetables and flow CTS thrive in the protecting shade Of palm fronds.
 The scene of expected conflict figures prominently i'll the Old Tes- lament. Abraham set forth from tr 10 the Land of Canaan. The tra- ditional ruins of the Tower of Babel rise on Babylon's site. The tomb Of the prophet Ezra can still be seen on the Tigris shore"
New Britain herald., 1928-03-14

desert on one side and the Persia n uplands on the other. West lies the French Mandate of Syria; north the Kurdish highlands of Turkey. The Persian Gulf forms corridor 1 ,ooo miles long giving 1raq a waterway to the open Indian Ocean. Dates from the Garden come 10 New York by way of this corridor, Within Irau live S,oVo,o00 people, slim popula- ton for soil which once supported more people per acre than does densely populated Belgium
 Great Britain controls 1raq as a mandate from the League of Ma tons. The tendency 10 grant the people of 1raq increasing indepcn- dence was revealed in the recent ap- plication Of the oldest country in the world 10 become the newest member of the league.
 Great Britain has made her Mesopotamian mandate the Arab Kingdom of Iraa ruled by Mo- hammedan prince, the son of the former King of Hejaz. King Fcisal relgns where Babylonians. Assyrians. Chaldeans, Persians. Greeks. Ro- mans and Sarocens ruled success lively for six centuries.
 'Ot the three principal cities, Mo sul. the oil town, seems safely be yond reach of the Bedouins. Bagdal, in the center Of the valley, comes by its position of capital honestly. Basra. in the far south. is the end
New Britain herald., 1928-03-14

Lillian Zalka, a Washington school girl. gave a demonstration of Rus. sian dances.
 Those who participated were as follows:
 Balalaika club: Mary Chupack, Nellie Garlewska, Olga Belkun. Olga zaveronock. Walter kartie, Waslily Zaiko. Walter Zuk and Edward Baranoski.
 Washington school orchestra. Sal vatore Frazetta. cornet: Charles kos- loszki. drums; John Ladder. violin: Stanley Draczyneki. violin; James Leszczyski violin: Sam Cardella, vio- lin; Benjamin Pinkos, violin; Sam Morino. violin: Walter Messner, cor net; Walter kiejko, violin: Theodore Grocki, violin; William Swanson, violin: Walter Zmitruk, violin: Olga Twardus, piano.
 Several solos were rendered by Mrs. Harry E. Christensen.
 It was the last regular meeting of the fiscal year and the following committee was named to submit list of candidates for the election next month: Mildred Weld. chair man: Clara Leupold, Ella Ferguson, Catherine Cotton and Clarissa Bent ley. Miss Anna Borg was chairman Of the committee in charge.