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definitely on q gold standard and In
that the country's gold supply Is
abundant. Money is cheap In Paris and
there Is a pressing need for credit in
the major part Of the continent and
especially In Germany and some Of the
minor states Of Central Europe.
Cherot's Ambition Cited.
Cherot, backed by the aggressive
Tardieu. appears prepared to 60 long
way in his efforts to sweep aside ali
obstacles which up to the present have
kept Paris In provincial state, in so
far as international money matters are
concerned. But the efforts of the gov
eminent alone will not prove sufficient.
While Paris possesses some Of the fac
tors favorable to the development Of an
acceptance business, observers here
point out that tradition and the meth
DDS of financial organization in the
French capital are such as to bar, for
the present at least, any serious compe-
tition with London in this field. 1t
took London hundred years to per-
feet her financial methods and the or
ganiZation which have given her DOM
nance in the acceptance field, and 1t
is not likely that Paris will be able to
challenge her leadership within six
months or so.
While a number of the leading
French private banks have followed
the wishes Of the government and the
Bank of France in agreeing to particle
pate in acceptance invitation, the fact
remains that the idea developed out
side of the private banks, and they
have accepted the project more or less
as matter Of duty. Their hearts are
not in the idea.
French private banks have for long
years boarded their own capital and
have carried on their operation, in
Guiding discounting, with traditional
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independence. Much water must run
over the dam before these institutions
can be brought to cooperate freely
with each other. In addition, there is
the difficulty Of developing a trained
personnel capable of efficiently conduct
ing acceptance business. France at
present is totally without such per-
sonnet.
The project Of an acceptance bank
is credited to Charles Sergent of the
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prejudices and holding up human life as
a divine gift, while more vigorous pro-
lection is given to human life in the
new penal code, 1t is necessary that the
Judges make this work eficacious. I
recommend that the prosecutors main
tain the letter and spirit Of the legisla-
ton, without revealing uncertainty over
the culpahility of the accused, or, worse,
lending themselves to morbid senti-
pentalism.
"Only by these methods can we avoid
acquittals that threaten the moral fiber
of the nation"
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Longer Skirts Beach Forecast.

NEW YORK, November 80 P.-
Evidently the vogue for longer skirts is
to affect the beaches in hot weather
Palm Beach modes displayed at a So
ciety charity affair include beach pa
jamas so wide that they look like skirts
and tennis dresses with decreased sun
backs.
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"ScandaIous" YerdIcts.

prizes him loose, situation which is
especially uncomfortable on q lonely
beach with rising tide.
One eats octopus also, as has been in
timated, and the demand for these
creatures among thrifty players who
have lost golf balls is expected to in
crease.
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-01
ITALY PUTS TEETH
IN MURDER LAWS
Honor, Temporary Insanity
and Heated Blood Defense
Pleas Banned.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROME. November 30.-Murder In the
heat of blood, murder for reasons OF
honor" and murder under temporary
INSANITY" are stripped of all pretext for
defense and made nothing but plain muir
der throught Italy by an order Wn1cn
Alfred Rocco, minister of justice, direct"
ed to the judges and prosecutors OF the
Court of Appeals and the Courts OF AS
size.
Sharply inveighing against morbid
sentimentality" In murder trials, the
minister ordered the judges to change
their judicial point of view so that muir
derers of the classes mentioned Will not
be granted acquittals.
Falling of Fetish.
Thus falls another choice fetish Of
this hot-blooded nation. For genera
tons the belief has been cherished that
a husband who murdered the lover OF
his wife should be freed, that murder
committed while the blood was up was
not murder, even that murder COM
mitted during the blowing Of q scirocco
"a hot, humid, irritating wind from the
African deserts-waS excusabler
Juries would not convict In sAch cases,
and Judges readily freed the prisoners.
Only recently a husband who had slain
q sutton of his wife was acquitted. Min
lister Rocco called special attention 70
this case.
Extreme Caution Ordered.
The order directed that judges should
admit pleas Of temporary insanity only
with extreme caution. An even II this
plea should actually secure an acqufttal
the prisoner is not to be freed, but is to
be regarded as a maniac and treated
as such.
Although the Fascist regime has I'M
dertaken q work of vast social regenera-
ton, there still persist some preiudlces
and remnants OF barbarism ana OF ira
ditional mi-animality," said the order
mot last and least is the so-called Law
of killing for pretended reasons Of honor
"a law rooted in the mind of the peo-
pie to such an extent that they believe
that circumstances alone induce the
crime Of passion. They therefore believe
that husband whose blood was aroused
by jealousy and suspicious of conjugal
betrayal should be acquitted OF murder
"ScandaIOus'' Verticts.
scandalous, as that pronounced recently
in the capital itself, are frequent, legal
izing through morbid sentimentalism at
tempts against the sanctity of human
life proclaimed inviolable by religion
and by law. Following with close atten-
ton the Assize trials for murder, have
seen with deep sorrow that. even in the
Fascist regime. not only do the citizen
jurors augment the discredit of the In
stitution of the jury, but the judges
themselves sometimes do not do what Il
| possible for avoiding such acquittals.
while the work of the Fascist gov.
eminent is intensified to educate public
opinion bv destroying superstitions and
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Former Mrs. Vanderbilt Def.s Colt

NEW YORK, November 80 R.--
Hatless and coatless in weather below
freezing, Mrs. Emily Davies Thayer,
formerly Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt,
has been seen strolling on Park avenue.
MY philosophy Is one of simplicity"
she explained to shivering, curious
person.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
City Items

Unity Rebekah lodge will hold a regular meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows hall.
 A regular meeting of Stanley Women's Relief corp will be held Friday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock at Judd's hall.
 For good clean Lehigh and Hazle- brook coal, call 419. Stanley Svea Coat &s Oil Company. Menus & Birnbaum.
 Frank Mozdan of 199 Broad street complained to Officer Charles Weare last night that his three year old son was struck in the eye by a stone thrown by other children. The officer learned that children whose ages ranged from to 12 years were throwing stones but none would admit having thrown the one that struck the child.
 Louis Bell of 240 North street complained to Officer Anthony ustach last night that boys make noise at the corner of North and Willow streets and window in his building was broken by a stone.
 Why wait longer with your coal order, call 419 and we will fill your bin. Stanley-Svea Coal & Oil Com pany. Menus S5 Birnbaum-advt
 Mrs. R. P. Babcock, Mrs. E. J. Burdick, Mrs. w. Meyer, Miss Es- tello Molander, Mrs. M. Palmer, and
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
Maj. Gen. Foote Denies Reports Of Impending Resignation Under
 Fire For Incidents During Camp
massachusetts National Guard Head Declares Boston Newspapers Story Without Foundation-
 Three Events Marred Encampment.

Boston, Aug. 22 .(P>-Major Gen. eral Alfred F. Foote, commander of the 26th division. Massachusetts Ma tional Guard, today denied published reports that he intended soon to re- sign his post.
 He told newspapermen over the telephone from his home that there was mo truth in the story.
 The general, who is also state commissioner of public safety, has been under fire because of a series of scandals at the recent encamp- ment of the division, and the Boston Herald said today that confirmation in high official quarter had been obtained of his impending voluntary retirement
 May Quit Next Month
 The Herald said that the press of his duties as public safety commits sioner, coupled with periodic illness would be given as causes of his res lgnation. His retirement was to be expected shortly after the first of next month, according to the story.
 Friends of General Foote, the Herald said, laid his military diff culties to factional strife within the division and a "bo oring- from within" movement of which he has been made the victim. They recalled the wording of an order by former Gov
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22

ernor Alvan T. Fuller appointing Foote to a five-year term as com manding officer in which the then state executive said:
 And I want you to know that you are under no obligation to any one or any group except to discharge the duties of this office carefully and diligently"
 The first of a series of unpleasant incidents during the 1929 encamp- ment was a fake liquor raid story originating from apparently official sources which was investigated bv Governor Frank G. Allen and re- suited in an order from the latter re- quiring General Foote to punish sev- eral officers and apologize to the towns of Aver and Shirley, where speakeasies supposedly were raided.
 Other Incidents Follow
 Later cavalry horses were found wandering loose after camp broke Up and finally Captain Samuel F, Murray of the 18th tank company was court martialed and acquitted on charges of assaulting three en- listed men while he was allegedly drunk the last night of the encamp- ment. Testimony during Murray's trial told of a noisy liquor party of division members at 1 a. m. that night.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
GIRL FOUND DEAD;
 MAN QUESTIONED
Barber Lived With WOInan-
 Says He Is Innocent

Portland, Me, Aug. 22 Pt-Miss Dorothy Knox, 23, whose home is be- lleved to be in Vancouver, B. C., was found dead by Gabriel Porciello, 40, in their home at 163 Vernada street early today.
 A .32 caliber revolver, one shell discharged, and two unfred, was found near the body. According to the police the girl died from a bull let through the left breast and had been dead about two hours.
 Pending arrival of the medical ex- aminer and an investigation, no ar rests have been made.
 According to the story told police by Porciello, a barber, who was held for questioning, had met her in Van couver three years ago. Since then they lived together, he said, and he planned to marry her
 They dined together last night, Porciello said, and afterward she asked him to accompany her to a motion picture theater. He declared he declined, but suggested that she go alone if she wished
 Upon leaving her. Porciello assert ed, he joined Tony Casaile, son of the owner of the house in which they lived. Casale and Porciello spent the evening together, according to the latter's story. and did not return home until after midnight. The bar Der discovered Miss Knoxs body, fully clothed, partly on the bed and partly on the floor. The Casale fam fly, who had spent the evening at home, heard no shot, they declared.
 Medical Examiner William Holt said that while the facts pointed to the case called for thorough
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
Arrange Financial Plan
 For Tabs Consideration

Several hours of conference with officials of the Commercial Trust Co.,, resulted yesterday in formula ton of a financing plan which President William J. Humason and other officers of the Y. NJ. T. A. & B. Society believe will prove attrac- tive to the members and furnish a solution to their mortgage problem, the president said today. He will outline the scheme at a summons meeting of the society tomorrow night
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
TURNER PREPARES
 F0R RETURN TRIP
Crosses Country With Three
 Passengers in 20 Hours

Roosevelt Field. Aug. 22 P) - Captain Roscoe Turner and his three passengers prepared today for return trip to the Pacific coast in their flight to demonstrate the feasibility of one-day transcontinen- tai air passenger service.
 They arrived here last night from Glendale. Calf. having made the cross country flight in 19 hours and 53 minutes with three re-fuelng stops. The return flight will be made tomorrow.
 The passengers were Fred G. Prosper and Russell Pecht of Los Angeles and D. R. Lane of Berke- ley, Calf. H. c. Gatty of Los An geles was navigator
 The plane left Glendale at 12:45 a. m. Pacifc time) yesterday with stops for fuel at Albuquerque, N. M.. Tulsa, Okla, and Cincinnati, o. A stop also was made at Louisville. Ky, to send telegrams.
 Captain Turner planned to make as much Of the flight in daylight as possible, but on his arrival last night he said:
 Tt was sure a tough job flying over the Rocky Mountains this morning before daylight and over the Appalachians after dark. That's enough work for any man in one day"
 He said the plane needed only fuel and oil to be ready for the re- turn flight.
 After reaching Glendale, the same party plans to fly back to Cleve- land for the air races
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
PRINCE SURE WIFE
 WILL VISIT ROME
Princess 1orlonia, However, h.
 SiStS Reconciliation" False

Rome, Aug. 22 (P)-Prince Tor lon!a, husband of the former Elsie Moore or Greenwich, Conn.,. be- lleves the only thing standing in the way of reconciliation between them Is matter of citizenship, and that" he told the Associated Press, will be resolved by her coming 10 Rome next February to live with our three children"
 Their son, Alexander, who will go to college for several months De- fore commencing two year com. pulsory military training course as an Italian citizen, said his mother ana two sisters would return 10 Rome next February.
 The matter of the American di-
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
GIRL BRIDE ARRESTED

Portland, Me, Aug. p lP-A Is year old girl, bride Of two months was held in $1O,O0O bail today on charges of breaking. entering and larceny from two residences here. She is Ruth G. Dobson of Green land. N. H. Police said the girl ad
 mltted that she and her husband served as lookouts while Ralph Chamberlain entered the houses and stole jewelry. Chamberlain is
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
Key fer Wine Cellar
 Given Hotels Guests

Willimantic, Aug. 22 (UP)-Ac- cording to state police and Acting County Detective Rowe H. Wheeler, two keys went with every room in the Hooker house, Main street hos telry-one for the room and one for the wine cellar.
 Officers broke down heavy basement door last night and seiza,i 60 cases of alleged beer, 320 cases Of brew, three cases of malt and other articles.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
Manchurian Bandits
 Seize Two Britishers

Harbin, Manchuria, Aug. 22 LP -Manchurian bandits yesterday Kidnapped two British insurance inspectors, c. M. Burton, big game hunter and member of the firm of Butterfield &. Swire, and l. H. c. Godfrey, of the Harbin branch of the Commercial Union company.
 The men wera captured at Miamusze, about 2S0 miles north east of Harbin and are believed to be held for ransom. The Brit ish consult at Harbin asked the Chinese authorities to secure their immediate release.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
DICE GAME BROKEN UP

Supernumerary Officer F. A. Peterson broke up a dice game on Dudley street shortly after 10 o'clock last night and caught one player, aged 16. The dice were con- fiscated but no money was found.
 The officer reported that there were about IS boys playing. The one caught was lectured by his par ents and promised not to play dice again.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22

Mrs. Leisner, of Scranton Pa. were the guests yesterday of Miss Helen Bromley and Mrs. Ruth Henry of this city, who are taking summer course at the Connecticut Agricultur- al college at Storrs.
 Order your coal before prices 20 up. StanleySvea Coal & Oil Con- pany. Tel. 419. Menus & Birnbaum. -advt.
 The St. Mary's Ladies' T. A. 6 B. society will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at Y. M T. A. tS B, hall.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
SORORITY HOTSE PARTY

The annual house party of the Delta Gamma Sigma sorority will be held at Hawks Nest from August "A to September 9. The chaperon will be Mrs. Hauxshurst.
 Among those attending will be Misses "Vic' Drauckick, Robbie" Andruss, Ethel Barrett, Dorothy Barnes, Reah Beloin, Rose Cenci, Lillian Wood, Cecelia Dolan, Myrtle Timm, Ruth Connor, Olga Steffick, Catherine and Henrietta Minderloin and Mary KraWitz.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22

held at Portsmouth, N. H., on
 charges of possession of burglar tools. :,
 The girl was brought from Greenland last night by local off,, cers who were unable to apprehend. her husband. !
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
FIVE KILLED IN AUSTRIA

Vienna, Austria, Aug. 22 R - Five were killed and 20 injured near Salzburg today in a collision between a southbound Prague Trieste express and another passen- ger train at a junction. It was be- heved the automatic signals failed.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22

One of the hottest places on earth. IS at Greenland Ranch. Death Valley. Calif. On July 10, 1913. 134.1 degrees were registered.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22

Minnesota plans to spend s2,O00,- OoO in two years to eradicate bo- vine tuberculosis.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22

At her hotel in Greenwich yester- day the former Elsie Moore de- scrlbed as absolutely false" reports from Rome that she and her hus- band, the Prince of Torlonia, would be reconciled.
 T am not going to Rome to see him." she said T have little or no interest in him. I am not going to be reconciled and l want you to say for me that any report of recon clliation is absolutely false
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22

vorce which the mother, as Prin- cess Torlonia, obtained in 1928 at Bridgeport, Conn. the prince dis posed of with: AS an American she could obtain divorce but when she returns to Italy, she is still my wife, for divorce is not recognize | here."-
 The prince and princess were married August IS, 1907, at Green wich. In 1927 United States citizen- ship was re-conferred on her by Federal Judge Edwin s. Thomas Her divorce action named as core spondent Marie Lorenzoni of Rome
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28

The Texan is a cheerful little SUI
per-scrapper.
What will the minority's policy
be under his leadership
"Oh, constructive, of course"
We grin behind our hand. He
looks about as constructive as a ma
chine gun.
Personally, I always thought one
of the most constructive things con-
gress could do would be to devote
an entire session to nothing but the
job of repeating laws-as fast as
possible. I suggest this idea to
Leader Garner.
quite right" he exclaims. TOO
many rules and regulation. I wish
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28

are the peak selling months. June
last year having proven the best In
our % year history" the sales ex-
ecutive stated.
THE outlook this year is more
stable for the later months in the
year than 1t was twelve months
ago. Consequently we may look for
even higher records to be set dur
ing the late spring months"
The showing of the Oakland
company to date is in keeping with
a prediction made several weeks
ago by Mr.. Tracy, at the conclu-
sion of an extensive trip to many
quarters of the country, in which
he stated that the United States
had embarked in 1929 upon what
babe fair to prove its year of great
est prosperity. Particularly was
this true Of the automobile indus
try, he said, adding that he ex-
pected the 1929 output to show a
sizeable increase over any previous
year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28
CRAHAM-PAICE
MAKES 100000
Factory Production Running
Over Five Hundred
Per Day

Another milestone in Graham
Paige progress was rc-ched last
week, when the 1oo,0ootl Graham
Paige car was built. just IS months
after the new line of skies and
Fights was introduced.
Production at the GrahU-T-1e
factory is now running owe 500 a
day. well ahead Of the fIqkres of
last year, when Graham-Paige es-
tabiished a new first year sales vol
ume record for the c-c1 IN
dustry.
Graham-Paige motor cars. dis
tinguished by the four-speed trans
mission with standard gearshift.
attracted immediate and wide
spread acceptance when introduced
in January. 1923, by the three Ora
hma brothers. The steadily in
creasing sales soon taxed the al
ready large and well-equipped
manufacturing facilities Of Ora
ham-Paige, and since then con
Struction crews have been at work
almost continuously charging ex-
isting plants and erecting new ones.
More than $10.O 900 have been in
vested in plants and equipment.
Graham-Paige now owns and op-
crates two separate manufacturing
plants at Detroit, three large mod
ernly equipped body plants, one at
Wayne. Mich, and two at Evans
vile, Ind, and a lumber mill at
Perry, Fla.
New factories and additions have
more than doubled the floor area
of Graham-Paige plants since the
three Graham brothers acquired
ownership control. The total is now
we'll over 100000 square feet.
Along with the growing public
demand and the increased manu-
featuring facilities, the dealer or
%ganization has assumed world wide
proportions, extending Graham
Paige sales and service facilities
throughout the United States and
Canada, and into So foreign coun-
tries. The total number Of Ora
ham-Paige distributors and deal
ers has been trebled during the last
Is months.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28
OAKLAND SALES
RUNNING HIGH
Outlook This Year Better
Than Previous Seasons
Officials Think

With March sales of new Oak
land and Pontiac Skies 1000 carr
above any previous month in Oak
land history, the Oakland Motor
Car company during the first quar-
ter of the year sold 1888 cars,
w. r. Tracy. vice president in
charge of sales announces.
This betters the first quarter OF
1928 by 5000 units and nearly
trebles the $4,000 Oakland and
Pontiac skies sold in the first
three months of 1927, Mr.. Tracy
stated.
March sales this year, according
to figures reported to the National
Automobile Chamber of Com
merce. we're 36,460 cars, setting a
new high monthly record in the
history of the Oakland company,
the best previous month having
been June, 1923, when sales touch
ed 29,477 cars.
Mrach of this year shows a gain
Of close to 80 per cent over the
28,302 Oakland and Pontiac skies
turned out in the same month last
year. and more than doubles the
1874 units sold in March of 1927.
Current production schedules are
at peak figures, Mr.. Tracy stated,
many manufacturing divisions
working on day and night shifts
to tuin out cars at a rate consist
ent with the buying demand.
While March set a new high
monthly figure, still higher records
are IN sight, Mr.. Tracy declared.
Normally April, May and June
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28

we could wipe out a third Of the
statute book"
Then why not?
We CANT. Laws don't work that
way"
No hope, then?
NO hope. Sometimes we can pass
a new law, cortradicting an old one.
We CANT repeal. It's the one thing
congress CANT do"
That settles it.
II there is anything that that
streak Of chain lightning admits he
himself, couldn't strike and knock
into it, even in a majority, it CANT
be knocked into pi at all.
Come in again" yells the con-
gresham. He's a trifle deaf. Now.
that we think of it. we notice that
we have been yelling, too.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28
PRUSSIA TO BUY MOUNTAIN

WERN1GERODE, Germany, April
27.-(P)-The Broken Mountain,
highest of the Harz mountains and
famous for the Broken scene" in
Goethe's Faust" is to be our
chased by Prussia so that the land
around its base may be developed
as building sites. The Broken lives
in folk lore as the scene of annual
orgies by witches.