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New Britain herald., 1928-06-30
Mabel Boil to Try
 Westward Crossing

Ne" York, June 30 Nrp - Miss Mabel Boil. who was defeated in her attempt 10 b" the first woman to ny across the Atlantic, sailed today on
New Britain herald., 1928-06-30

After 35 years Of study F. W, Burghard. Colorado Springs. has produced champion rhrySa ri he murus which are nearly foot wide on s-foot stems.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-30
NEGaOESLYNCYED
 BY SOUTHERN MOB
Continued From First rage)


 when night came they joined 10 form hug" mob which immediately 7 moved 10 the Iail Sheriff Hris'ei and his deputies were olorpo"ered but they did not surrender th"Ir keys.
 Heavy tImbefs Wer. used to bal. ter down the locked doors and the mob entered th" cell rooms wh.ro line wounded negro and hls brother were screaming or mercy.
 Ag1in h"ld off by locks, the mob sent for an aootylour torch 10 cut through the cell bars.
 Dragged Through Town
 The negroes, James and Stanley Hnard"1. rrre r.rrried 10 th" street here one vas placed in an auto obile and thn other dragged through fhe to"n hy q rope around als neck
 E.ill screaming tbe prisoners were driven sIo"lv 70 s"paratn points on the outskirts of the town and banged. They Were not pushed of O. 4 platform of automobile but were simply drawn of the ground by rope thrown over limb. Then th. bodios were mutiiated and the mob dispersed.
 A third negro. taken from the iail by mistake. was released wit h % out injury. He returned 10 his cell
New Britain herald., 1928-06-30
FLASHES OF LIFE: PEGGY JOYCE WITH
 $300, 900 DIAMOND SAILS FOR EUROPE

By the Associated Press
 New York-Peggy Joyce. $500. 900 diamond and all. is bound for Europe. For pleasure? Not who'll ly, she insists. She is to do some hand work as an author-write her memoirs.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-30

Plainfield, N. J.-Alice May Sisty 2l. has come all the way home from Reno by bronco She used three of them.
Evening star., 1928-11-05
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

Accepting the challenge of the Ger
mans, who threw in heavy reserves
yesterday in an attempt to hold the
line on the Meuse from Sivry to the
north. the Americans swept along the
west bank of the Meuse and, using pom
toons. effected crossing at three places
and threw the Germans back on their
defense lines. The Germans are
retreating on a 90-mile front from the
River Scheldt to the River Aisne. The
situation is changing so rapidly that
1t is impossible to give definite idea
of the allied advance. Roughly
speaking, the allies have crossed the
Franco Belgian frontier 8 miles west
Of the fortress of Maubeuge. and have
captured practically all of Normal For
est. :" Marshal Foch has the
terms OF the armistice for Germany
and awaits application for them by
the German military command in the
field. The German newspapers
are preparing the people for dis
agreeable surprise in the matter of the
armistice terms and, while the pam
German papers are still truculent, the
majority are believed ready to give
UP. One thousand, two hundred
and fifteen names on casualty lists
given out today. bringing grand total
of American casualties to 68.306.
Evening star., 1928-11-05
Quick StaccatO Sound
Advised for Fire Car

To the Editor of The Star:
Permit me to suggest that a siren is
not the most efficient instrument for
warming people of the approach of fire
apparatus. It takes a while for the
brain to react to the noise of a siren
for the reason that the ear is accus-
toned to hearing precisely the same
kind of noise in almost any bus starting
in first and second gear, and in private
automobiles, also in street cars round
ing curve. electric elevators. etc.
What is needed for fire apparatus or
any other emergency vehicle going at
great speed is not so much a tren1en-
dous volume of noise hard to differen-
tiate at a distance, but some ouick
staccato call entirely different from
what is heard every moment in the
streets.
In Paris they use two horns of diff
ferent pitch tuned to one tone of diff
ference like the two notes c and D,
and blown sharply for half second
one after the other. 1t is such a dis
tinct call that no matter how far and
how dim one hears it, one cannot mis-
take it.
/ am sure the sad accident which
happened recently was the result of
the noise Of the siren being DETECTED
by the mass of the body of the street
car in a way so that the girls could
not hear it loud enough to differentiate
it from so many of those continuous
whistling noises one hears everywhere
around; not because the fire captains
car was going fast, which it should do
anyway.
I happen to be musician. and per-
haps this gives me a slight knowledge
of the reaction of the ear to sounds.
FELIAN GARZIA.
Evening star., 1928-11-05

| this hard roll at him what can I do
with it? I can't eat It"
| - X
| One hundred plates have been re-
moved, then come 100 servings Of salad
| Salad Is rabbit food, after all, and is
difficult to handle. A rabbit can grab
banquet must do the thing according
| to the rules.
| About the only thing the bored ban
queter really wanted was cup of
coffee, which is. of course, the very
last thing the management will serve.
| One hundred salad plates must be
taken away before there is a chance
for coffee. Usually the ice cream-on
100 plates--iS borne around before the
invisible person presiding over this
feast consents to allow the coffee to
make its appearance.
Instead of big cup, as one secretly
hoped. the coffee comes in the demi-
tasse form, without cream.
| What is more tiresome than coffee
without cream?
OF course, the stuff can be drunk
black-many prefer it that way-but
If one does not like black coffee the
mere fact that he is sitting a. the board
will not make 1t palatable.
Anything is a diversion, of course in
the monotonous flow of food, sound
and walters. Impatient sitting human
| ity Is faced with the alternative of
being bored by food or bored by the
human tongue
| Which Is the worst?
X
The Jolly toastmaster settles this
! Ia
We wish there might he solemn
toastmaster, solemn all the way
through, solemn from start to finish.
Orthodox toaStmasterS are grave of
visage but hovdenish of tongue.
| Without so much as a smile, they
give vent to witticisms which might
have gone over big on the Ark
Instead of IL speeches, based on the
number of the honor guests, there
are "a.
The POSTMASTER makes an even dozen
all by himself
Somehow the tuxedo he wears and
the fact that all present keep silent as
he pushes back his plate makes the
garden variety of postmaster grow
very fond of himself
Like radio announcer, he loves the
sound of his own voice.
OOLloAdCA 4lOW LlCdIIy LIlc StdClUIl dill
nouncer makes 10 words flow where
only 3 grew before. In the old days
he simply said please stand by"
Now he chortles There will now be
brief pause for station announce
ments."
A banquet POSTMASTER, who no doubt
was advised by his wife to make his
introductions brief, gives in to the
glamour of the occasion.
He must tell neat story or inform
his ignorant audience of facts in the
lives of his speakers which every one
knew already.
One looks around for that hard roll
longing to hurl it at some one. but
luckily thoughtful waiter had re-
moved 1t.
One thinks hopefully Of the motto
carved on the old ring:
Even this shall pass away"
Well. let's hope so!
Ho, hunt
Evening star., 1928-11-05
The Elements Win Again.

Nature does not look kindly upon
venturesome man when he breaks her
laws. At sea the elements are ruthless
In their power of destruction, and in the
air, in mans newly found art of flying,
the forces of nature sometimes rise up
to beat back daring souls who would
invade the domain of the skies. Last
night the elements conspired to claim
two more victims and proved themselves
again supreme to the puny efforts of
humans who seek to conquer them. In
binding snow and sleet storm over
the Arizona mountains Capt. c. B. D.
Collyer and Harry j. Tucker fought the
losing battle. They had started out
from Los Angeles to add another record
to their long list, and they rode in the
crack monoplane, the Yankee Doodle
which already had carried Tucker. its
owner, TO the nonstop speed mark from
the Pacific to the Atlantic, both East
and West.
Rushing through the night at more
| than one hundred and fifty miles an
hqyE, The two ayers encountered nature
Evening star., 1928-11-05
Tigers Hold Own
In Fight With Man
BY r. Il. FREE, PHI. ID.


Tigers in India are almost as good
at killing tigers. Statistics released
recently by the Indian government
show that during 1927 1893 persons
we're killed by tigers, while only 1858
tigers succumbed to human rifles and
traps, making very nearly one man
killed for each tiger similarly dis
posed of.
Against other wild animals India &
record of lf-protection Is better
Wolves, for example, killed 465 humans,
and humans killed 2,439 wolves, q ratio
of about wolves to one man. Leop-
ards killed 2l8 humans, and 1890 of
the leopards died by human hands,
making over 20 leopards to one hu-
man being: Bears killed 10 human
beings, and mans efforts disposed of
2,739 bears, making 35 bears for every
human sacrifice.
The relative peacefulness of India's
largest animal, the elephant, is indi-
Gated by the report of only 56 human
deaths for which those animals we're
responsible, in spite of the large num-
ber of elephants in captivity and used
as work animals or for riding
One hundred and thirty-six people
were killed in India in 1927 by croco-
diles, and 85 by wild boars, the latter
animals once deadly almost all over the
world but now virtually exterminated
in nearly every other country. The
most dangerous animals In India are
still the snakes, although man Is prov
ing dangerous to them also
During 1927. 1909 people died by
snake bite and 57,116 snakes died at
the hand Of man. ratio of about three
snakes disposed of for every human
death.
Evening star., 1928-11-05

at her worst above the Broadshaw
Mountains. Even at that the Yankee
Doodle might have won through. but its
motor joined with the elements to bring
disaster. So there they we're, the three
of them-Collyer, Tucker and the Yam
kee Doodle-zigzagging helplessly above
mountainous terrain, unable to pick a
landing place because their flares would
not show up through the binding storm,
and shut tightly inside a cabin, where
their parachutes were almost useless.
A crash and an explosion of full gaso-
line tanks wrote finis to the careers of
two gallant aviators and gallant ship
All of which proves that man must
find stronger weapons If he hopes for
victory over the forces of nature. Coll
yer was the aviator who piloted John
Henry Mears around the world in a
little more than twenty-three days, and
he had run the ganut, he thought, of
all that the storm gods had to offer
Tucker, an aviation enthusiast, had
ridden as passenger ana helper on
half a dozen cross-country trips. He
was airwise and airminded. The YAM
kee Doodle was capable Of speed of
one hundred and seventy miles an hour
and represented the latest ideas of air
plane construction. It's motor was of
four hundred horsepower and of the
radial air-cooled type-America's great
est contribution to the world of flying.
Yet Collyer and Tucker with all their
experience and the Yankee Doodle with
all its power and stability could not
weather the forces which rose to meet
them, and today Nation mourns the
loss of an expedition which met defeat
in an effort to push back the barriers to
human accomplishment.
Evening star., 1928-11-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

all former American Ambassadors to
Japan. Americas official greetings will
be sent to Toxic by President Coolidge
and Secretary Kellogg through the
usual diplomatic channels. The newly
accredited envoy of Nippon and
Nine Debuchi are entertaining WASH
ington society on Enthronement day,
November 10.
X X 4 X
Washingtonians are hopeful that the
movie audiences of the country will
take to heart the lesson of the District
of Columbia Day of Humiliation" pic
lures shortly to be screened by the
neWs-reels. Recurring national election
days mournfully remind the Capitals
half-million residents Of their un-Amer-
ican and de-AmericaniZed political
plight. The pictures" were seized
upon this year to bring it home vividly
to the people who live far from the
Potomac. The story Is not universally
known. This observer speaks from ex-
perience on that score. He has had OPP
oortunity, times without number, to pre-
sent it to uninformed and astonished
audiences in all parts Of the country.
Practically without exception they in
dicate their willingness to help in
constitutionalizing the Washingtonian' S
right to national representation.
X y 4 X
Two of the bright young men in the
Department of Commences own foreign
service hold executive posts in the In
ternational Civil Aeronautics Confer
ence to be held in Washington In De-
cember, to commemorate the silver an
niversary of the first power-driven fight
by the Wright brothers, and discuss
world air commerce. Leighton w.
Rogers, commercial attache. is executive
officer in charge of the big confab of
all air-minded nations. He has held
various European trade posts, was a
stranded American in st. Petersburg
when the Russian revolution broke out,
and has written a novel based on his
experiences there. The assistant exec
utive officer is Osborn S. Watson, trade
commissioner, back only recently from
China, where he was among the be-
leaguered foreigners, during the siege
of Peking.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1928-11-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

What is more boresome than a ban
quet?
If Dante had included festive board
| in the description of Hades his Hell
would have been complete.
An eternal torture is what banquet
seems to many a man who had rather
| remain home listening to the radio.
| For any one of a number of reasons
however, such wight may attend a
! banquet, and. when he does, his suffer-
| ing is always the same.
! No glittering prospect of dancing
| ladies near the end of the feed" can
| take away the feeling of endless tediun,
which oppresses him from the moment
| he hands his coat and hat over to the
girl with the gold tooth.
There is that useless period standing
around. to begin with.
Suppose the affair to be informal.
Miseries of tuxedo and stand-up collar
are missing, but there are plenty left. :,
Here is the gang standing around
first on one foot, then on another, walt
ing for the dinner bell. >.
If the thing is set for 7 o'clock, IL
never begins until tbs. and often not
until half past, so that one is forced
dividual one does not like particularly.
It Is uncanny, the way one is invaria-
bly thrown next to some good CHAP
who wishes he had been thrown next
to some one else.
1t is with vast relief that both Of you
hear the chairman of the committee an
norlnce in tones which strike you as
bored, too, that the dinner Is served.
Another device to make a banquet as
unpleasant as possible is to allow guests
to choose their own seats.
One is forced to steer rapidly between
the Scylla of the man who never says
anything and the Charybdis of the
fellow who talks too much, and to
plunge at last thankfully into seat
between two plain human beings with
whom one can feel at home.
A hundred bowls Of soup must be
passed out first.
The mere thought of those hundred
bowls of soup weighs heavily upon the
spirit.
A hundred bowls of soup is lot of
soup.
Now a hundred men must consume
all that soup. then the hundred empty
vessels must be removed.
linen one IIluSJ wall uIlIll 1UO pldICS
of beefsteak and potatoes are rapidly
shuttled into place.
Then comes the business of 100 men
eating 100 slices of beefsteak with po-
tatoes to go with same.
Now the 100 plates are to be taken
away.
All this time some one or something is
making a loud noise with musical in
strument, so that it is difficult to talk
even to ones intimates.
An active imagination suddenly longs
to throw the hard roll at the toast
masters head The POSTMASTER has said
nothing as yet, but
Ideas of decorum. however, suddenly
sit on the high-fying imagination,
knocking in flatter than pancake.
ut will never do" whispers Deco
rum, ito throw that roll at the toast
master. Give him chance"
That's the trouble" leers Imagina-
ton. And, besides, If don't throw
Evening star., 1928-11-05
Dedication at Fredericksburg
Called Inspiration to Nation

Virginias great place In American
history is emphasized in comments on
the dedication of the Fredericksburg
and Spotsylvania Battleflelds Memorial
and the address there by President
Coolidge
"The President contributed one of
the most graceful and scholarly of his
state papers," says the Newark Evening
News. which adds that "his tribute to
the men OF Virginian birth, from Wash
1ngton to Wilson, and to their deeds
and works StintS nothing in fair treat
ment. Mr.. Coolidge accords her full
merit" continues the News, ito the
Mother of Presidents and all for which
she stands, nor leaves out even the
concession that those who fought in
gray upon the fields he was dedicating
as national park were as right, as 1t
was given them to see the right, as
those who opposed them in blue"
Congress last year was awakened" +"
recalls the Buffalo Evening News, ito
very proper appreciation of the fact
that an extraordinary amount of ma
tional history is concentrated in Spot
sylvania County, Va. Here were the
scenes Of both Revolutionary and Civil
War activities of the most important
character. An appropriation was
granted to create q. national park in
which these historic sites might be
preserved and duly marked, and to
build memorial at the Fredericks-
burg gateway. The fact that the dedi-
cation date came at the height of a
presidential campaign was incidental
Mr. Coolidge made the same kind of
speech which he would have delivered
if there had not been an election in
cioht within fnilr WARS
"The Presidents speech was a timely
reminder" suggests the Indianapolis
News, that the country has not for
gotten its great debt to the men who
fought in the Civil War, and that it
can, without boaSting, stand in the
presence of their graves with feeling
of having done its best to live up to
their hopes" The News also COM
ments: ''The United States now stands
foremost for peace, not by sacrifice of
position, but with due regard for the
men who fell on the four battlefields
which the park will include, by MAIN
tanning the defense system on a firm
basis, while at the same time cultivat-
ing the principle that war Is a wasteful
method of settling international differ
ences."
Though the President touched but
lightly on the Civil War struggle in
that historic section of Northern Vir-
ginia," according to the New York
Herald Tribune. that paper is reminded
that there Lee fought four great de-
fensive battles, in which his military
genius was most strikingly displayed"
The Herald Tribune continues: "The
Civil War belongs to the past. Presi-
dent Coolidge chose to speak of the
later triurNHhs OF peace, In which both
North and South have shared. The
South has recovered from its losses and
Evening star., 1928-11-05

fees to indicate their importance. They
ramify throughout both hemispheres
Europe is bound. ere many moons, K
prc-crlt proposition for revision o
German reparations and, with it, 6
scheme which will require America
whether we wish 1t or not, to readjusi
or reafirm our position on the subject
of the $4,000, 900, 900 the Old World
owe U.S.
In the Far East, nascent New China
conjures up incalculable possibilities OF
International friction, involving especial
ly the attitude of Japan toward the rest
of the world, including ourselves. In
Latin America, the domain upon which
the United States naturally looks as its
paramount international concern, there
are potential issues which during the
next few years will draw heavily upon
the sagacity of American statesman
ship.
What is to be our attitude toward the
League of Nations and the World Court?
Are they closed incidents, or will we, In
one form or another, draw closer TO
those institutions? Into what now IN
visible commitments may the Kellogg
pact for remuneration of war be lead
ing the United States? What about
further limitation of armaments?
These are the outstanding, but not all,
the grave foreign questions which, as
a matter of fact, affect the whole
American people with little less direct
ness than domestic issues like the tariff,
farm relief. water power and even pro-
hibition. It is Our fashion to consider
the tariff purely national affair. 1t IS,
on the contrary, an enduringly interna-
tional affair. The United States is at
this moment embroiled in more or less
acrimonious tariff controversies with
two countrfes-France and Argentina.
Had Uncle Sans foreign relations
contrived to displace some of the atroci-
ties of the whispering campaign not
only would the campaign of 1928 have
been lifted to a higher level, but the
Nations attention would have been
drawn to matters which before long
will concentrate much of the admins
tration's energy and the peoples
thought.
Evening star., 1928-11-05
PREPARING for Tomorrow.

Throughout the country, save in one
area, there is active preparation for the
registration of the popular will respect
ing the presidency and the personnel Of
the Congress. Ballot boxes are being set
up in the appointed places, voting ma
chimes are being tested and installed.
Election inspectors and clerks are being
instructed IN their duties Party agents
and committees are hustling around re-
ninding the voters of their duty on the
morrow, acquainting them with the
polling places and with the manner in
which to mark ballots or pull levers in
order correctly and surely to record
their preferences.
In that one exceptional area, which
is the District of Columbia, the very
heart of the Nation, there is no such
activity. There is bit of hustle, but
it is different in character. Ballot boxes
are being prepared. but they are mock
cries. A pageant float is being dressed
for the Day of Humiliation, to typify
the shameful impotency of the District
citizenry on election day. Participants
in the ceremonial of observation of this
occasion of mourning are being re-
hearsed in their roles.
The contrast between the scenes en-
acted today throughout the United
States, save in this one exceptional
area, and in the District of Columbia
is being more sharply noted this year
than heretofore, although this difference
has prevailed from the beginning of
things nationally political in America.
After many decades of denial of the
franchise, the District people are aroused
to the point of urgent demand that
they be Americanized. They are pc
titioning for the adoption of a
constitutional amendment that will
enable Congress to grant national rep
resentation to them. They are asking
the country at large to support their
plea for this enfranchisement. In order
the more vividly to bring to national
attention their plight of political i'm
potence they are staging dramatic
representation of the contrast between
their own condition and that of the
people of the States.
Why do this now, after SO long a
lapse of time, 1t may be asked. Because
no injustice can be tolerated or endured
forever; because after many years the
patience of the disfranchised Washing
tonians has been exhausted; because
there is now pending specific proposal
for the correction of this intolerable
denial of American rights; because II
has been ascertained that the country
responds favorably and strongly to
every disclosure that is made of the
voteless condition of the Capital COM
munity and, finally, because it is par
ticularly appropriate that at this time
when it is expected that the greatest
number of votes will be cast in the his
tory of the country, attention should be
| Cdlicu W tiIC 1dCb oila1 AcAC, o' CliC Po-
litical center, the seat of Government
the citizens are not only not urged tc
vote, but are prevented from voting
The Day of Humiliation will be OBJ
served tomorrow in the hope that II
will be the last occasion on which
Washington WILL alone of all American
communities, be shackled in disfran-
chisement while the country votes fol
President and for Congress.