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ARBORETUM MOVE
IS GIVEN IMPETUS
Conservation Problems of
Nation Discussed at Meet
ing Here of Leaders.

Conservation problems in support Of
q balanced program of Federal forestry
activities, coupled with plea for proper
development of the already authorized
National Arboretum for Washington,
were discussed by Government officials
and conservation leaders in Congress
at a luncheon conference under aus
pices of the American Forestry Asso-
citation yesterday at the Cosmos Club.
A keynote of the conference was
sounded by Secretary of Agriculture
HYDE who stressed the changing atti-
tude of agriculturists toward the prob
lens of forestry and the hope of agri-
culture that lies in closer cooperation
in the task of conserving and creating
new forest areas. Although unable to
attend the conference, DR.. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, Secretary Of the Interior, sent
a message in which he advocated the
relief of forest lands from taxation as
one means of increasing timber pro-
ductivity.
Delan0 Tells Of Arboretum.
George D. Pratt president of the
American Forestry Association, presided
at the luncheon and called for discus
sions of the various problems affecting
forest conservation and protection from
the heads of Government bureaus and
chairmen of congressional committees
dealing with the public domain and
national parks. Cooperation with
these governmental agencies was
pledged in behalf Of the American
Forestry Association and its % aff1liated
organizations.
The Importance Of the arboretum
project was emphasized by Frederic A.
Delano, o member of the National Ar
boretum Council appointed under the
law to carry out the idea of an outdoor
scientific laboratory. Mr.. Delano de-
clared that all the members of the
council are anxious to see the arboretum
established "as a field laboratory to do
for tree growing what the Department
Of Agriculture has been doing for years
in the development of crops"
Outlining the present status of the
arboretum project Mr.. Delano explain
ed that two years ago Congress had
appropriated 100000 for carrying it
out. THE Department of Agriculture
had asked for $500 1000" he said, but
the opinion was expressed that we
could get all the land we needed for
$500. 000."
At present the commission has Sc
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cured 100 acres at about 20 per cent in
excess of the assessed value, he pointed
out, and is trying to buy an additional
| 10 acres, which would give it 268 acres
in all. This land along the AnacoStia
River Is composed of gravelly hills. and
includes Mount Hamilton, which Is
about $50 feet above the plain and well
covered with oak trees.
8OO-Acre Tract Urged.
The Government already owns rich
bottom lands along the Anacostia River
from which to make available 400 acres
for the proposed arboretum, Mr. Delano
explained. But we ought to have at
least 800 acres in the entire tract, II
possible" he urged.
At present, he stressed, officials
seem to know very little about growing
trees under various soil conditions and
in relation to what is needed for cities
and in different sections of the country
ut seems to me we ought to create a
basis for the study of that subject by
creating a national arboretum here, .
he said.
MIR. Delano expressed the hope tt.st
the American Forestry Association and
It's afnliated organizations would see
enough merit in the project to get be-
hind the movement to extend 1t and
establish in Washington great expert
mental station. Many of the States
have gone In for the development OF
their forests, he concluded, but some sec
tons which he recently visited are quite
backward in this respect. An arbo-
return here. under governmental super
vision, would be great aid in the ad-
vancement OF forestry, Mr.. Delano sug-
gested.
Chairman Cotton of the House public
Ap 3wn
walton problems, went vigorously OH
record as opposed to any national park
policy based on geographical locations
The real purpose back of the national
park program, he declared, is to pre-
serve the distinctive and scenic areas
of the country. Referring to the pres
sure that is being brought by practi-
cally every State to have a national
park created within its bounds, Mr.
Cotton warned: I'VE should not embark
on policy Of locating these parks be-
cause of geographic considerations
Such plan. he declared, would defeat
the entire scheme of the Government.
Urge Fire Protection.
This sentiment was echoed by Horace
M. Albright, director of the National
Park Service. He warned that If Con-
gresS purchases tracts for the sole pur-
pose of meeting local demands there
would be no let-up under such a policy.
Mr.. Albright declared that fire pre-
vention is highly successful in the ma
tional park areas, but that the Govern
ment Is unable to prevent disastrous
fires on adjacent private lands. He
illustrated his point by referring to the
recent fire that destroyed 10000 acres
of timber within the Glacier National
Park. This fire originated outside OF
the park and swept at the rate of 8
miles an hour through a section OF
Glacier. It will take so years for the
burned area to recover, he explained.
Chairman Leavitt of the House In
dian affairs committee, in discussing the
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fiscal needs for carrying out the for
estry program, said it was not good
public policy to retard the work by
withholding funds. Referring particu-
larry to the legislation already enacted
into law. Mr.. Leavitt said the authori-
cations for appropriations should Or
considered a mandate to Congress to
carry out the objects involved.
other speakers at the luncheon in
Guided Mai r. Y. Stuart, chief of the
Forestry Service; Representative French
of Idaho; Joseph NJ. Dixon, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior; Representa-
tive Summers of the appropriations
committee, George S. Long of the West
ern Forestry and Conservation AsSocia-
ton and Paul G. Redington, chief of the
Biological Survey.
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SOVIET TO EXECUTE FIVE.

MOSCOW, october 81 P.-Five
men, alleged to be members of a band
responsible for the killing of SIS per-
sons, including six detectives. were con-
demned to death today. The leader Of the
group was said to have been RESPONSE
bic himself for killing 80 of the VIC
tins.
Four members of the bandit group
are still at large, while 20 others. in
Guiding women. have been sentenced
to prison terms varying from 2 to 10
wears
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TT is safe to say that
IL the values which we
have created for Ami
versary in our Fourth
Floor 1920 Department.,
far surpass any previous
clothing value at such
a price. In 2-Trouser
Suits you will find such
fabrics as Hird's Virgin
Wool materials. Gil.
bert's fabrics, W hit.
mans Pencil Stripes,
and others. In Over.
coats. well known fab.
RIGS just as fine; and
every new model and
shsde The oppor-
tunities are tremendous.
Sdks-Fourfh Floor
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
JAMES F. SCOTT,
 EDITOR, SUCCUNBS
New Haven NeWSpapernan Dies
 After 4 Years Illness

New Haven, Aug. 21 P-James in his active days trained many q cub into a writer of ability. died last night after an illness of four years. There are newspapermen all over the country who came under SCott's tutelage. especially Yale men who eked out their college allow ances by working part time on the old New Haven Union.
 Jim" Scott himself was a very keen newspaperman with the nose for news" which is essential in an office and writing style which was terse and to the point, well favored with humor or punctuated with sarcasm. He knew New Ha- ven as news source and the folks in 1t as few men did during his many years as an editor and as a correspondent for New York papers. Many men who worked under hiu went into larger fields with the prestige of having been trained. by Jim" Scott.
 Four years ago Scott's health be- gan to fail and since then he failed gradually retaining, however, his mental faculties so that from time to time he sent out cheery greetings to old associates. His last real copN was in the form of d holiday carG last Christmas bearing his likenes. as he is recalled in health, and ; message of good will.
 The funeral services will be Fri. | day morning.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
Road Houses Outside City limits
 And lack of Parental Care Found
 To Blame For Dance Hall Problem
Government Survey Finds Parents Ignorant of Chil- drens Whereabouts Recommends New ReguIa-
 tioHs For Road Houses Be Adopted.

Miss Gardncr's research included studies of comparative data on
 ordinances of 416 cities each with
 a population of 1000 or more, and
 field investigation" viists to rented
 halls, outdoor paviIions, amusement
 parks. dance academies, cafes, cabarets, closed halls and road
 houses of 15 large cities. In the same 15 cities she gathered data
 on community recreation and 'tha extent 10 which it successfully com-
 p"tcs with the public dance hall for the use of the adoicscents leisure .' Tn many of the cities it was re ported that the lack of cooperation from the parents of minors found
 in the halls was the greatest handi- cap confronting supervisors" the report reads. This lack of COOpera-
 ton was due sometimes to iEnor- ance of what their children were
 doing. sometimes to indifference. and sometimes 10 the old belief that young people must 'soW th"ir wi.d
 'bIS. ! Ie ttot'FI diltI ol Ittt ttl tS h. | however, so important that public ! education as to recreation and re- Crcational needs must be increased. Urges New Regulations
 The report recommends that states and counties pass regulations i for road houses. pronounced hy ] city authorities the biggest prT'
 lem in the protection of young poo.
 pl" from tho dangers of the un- i ro2Ulatod commercial hall"
 i Charges made by tho cities against the country dance halls in.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21

Washington, Aug. q LP - Road houses outside city limits and pa rental failure to keep their young- sters from public dance halls were cited today by the United States children's bureau as, major difficult ties m the "probem presented by the dance hall"
 The report. based on a survey Of cities in 25 states, showed variance in the laws for control of such halls. Echoes of dances long d"al are found in still valid ordinances prohibiting the toddc, shunIn. grizzly bear, bunny hug, Texas Tommy, and camel walk. Children's bureau officials, in is suing the study of which Ella Gardner bureau recreation special ist, is the author, pointed out that there was no attempt to call attcn . | ton to "so-callcd dance hall evils" " | but to discuss how public dance l halls may be made a real reCrca- tional opportunity rather than a brighter form of boredom" for adolcscents.
 The investigations did not reveal uniformly bad conditions in the public dance halls, the pamphlet said, and this fact furnished the hest argument for successful rcEu- | lation.
 some dance hall managers" t continued. had demonstrated that it was profitable 10 offer well-con- ductcd dances in attractive halls with good music"
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
THREE YEAR FIGHT
 FOR LIFE FAILURE
Woodruff Dies, Despite Efforts
 Of Specialists to Save Him

Orange, Aug. 25 tP-Injuries which he suffered more than three years ago proved fatal early today to Watson Stiles Woodruff, 2S, son of Watson Stiles Woodruff, Sr., CT the firm of s. E. Woodruff 6 Son Death followed a three and one half years frantic effort to keep him alive and restore him 10 health. Woodruff's neck was broli- en when his runabout crashed into a horse drawn rubber-tired carriage, driven by a drunken man. in East- hampton, Mass, on December Is, 1925.
 For three months he lowered be- chusetts hospital, his parents at his bedside constantly. When it was considered safe to move him, he was brought home in a special car and numerous operations were per formed, here and in New York, 10 save his life.
 For the last two years Woodruff | was virtually helpless, physically but nevertheless he conducted sci entific research into vegetable phySi- olosy, making various discoveries considered important in the develop ment of seeds. Woodruff was a graduate of Yale. He took post graduate work in Cambridge uni vorsty, England. He is survived by his parents; three sisters, Mrs. NJ Grant Blakeslee of New Haven Mrs. Robert Elliott of East Orange N. J., and Mrs. Sanford Treat ot New York city.
 The funeral will be held Friday afternoon from the home here with the Rev. P. W. Ziemann, pastor of Orange Congregational church ana Rev. NJ. M. Calhoun, pastor emeri- tus, conducting services.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
FIELD ARTILLERY STARTS
 HIKE TO NEW HAMPSHIRE
Troops En Rritc to Training -Grou9d-Othcr U3i;, March
 on Today Also.

Eur}inGton. Vt. Aug. q (P)-Thc
 7th |. $. Field Artillery began a
 hike from Fort Allen, here today
 for Alstead, N. H., where they will he stationed during the regular army maneuyers in September. The col umn will reach it's destination Aug
 ust 29. This was the sixth troop column in New England to begin hiking 10 the concentration area. Troop column one. which left New Bedford week ago, will camp
 at Ashburnh tm Mass, tonight. Column two, from Newport, k. j.. six days ago, will camp at Devens tonight. Column three. which left Portland, Me-. on August 16, will bivouac at Harrington, N. H.. to- night. Column four. which moved
 from this city a few days ago. will camp at Northfield, Nt., tonight.
 Column five, which started rom
 Fort Banks Winthrop, Mass, yes
 tcrday will camp at Concord. Mass, tonight.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
Treatmelt of Carolina
 Workers Veyes Nnyicans

Mexico City, Aug. 21 R)-A con- Vention of workers which has been meeting here for consideration of the proposed new labor code decided last night to telegraph President Hoover a protest against methods adopted by police and courts of North Caro- lima In breaking a strike of cotton weavers.
 The protest also will call his at tention to plans to assassinate six teen workers of North Carolina charged with alleged crimes" and requesting release of those workers.
 The convention is being attended by delegates representing 1,600.00n workers of various organizations.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21

rainian hall on Erwin place tomor- row night at s o'clock at which they hope the sixth ward members of the association will attend and enlarge the present committee of 2 which will represent the ward when mass meeting will be held. Among the speakers will be former Mayor George A. Quigley. Edward o. Kill bourne. Edward Greenstein, chair man of the sixth ward committee; pr. N. B. Jaffe, secretary of the com- ,nittee; Vincent Dobrowalski, prSsi- dent of the association. and John Smolak. chairman of the fifth ward committee.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21

(On request, sent with stamped. ad- dressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by himl.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21

clude such statements as: "They are our greatest menace;' Liquor and narcotics keep the road houses run ming" "The beach places or shack> or halls out in the country allow all the things that are forbidden in the city halls;;" "They are rough cheap, and badly run"
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
Philadelphia Man Is
 Moose Order Leader

Detroit, Aug. 21 P}-Albert II. Ladner, Jr.. of Philadelphia Was elected supreme dictator of tn, Loyal Order of the Moose last night at the 41st annual convention here.
 Other officers elected were: Fred erick Zihlman, of Cumberland, Nd., supreme vice dictator; Henry W. Busch, Detroit, supreme prelato: Malcolm R. Giles. Moosehart, Ill. secretary; Harry ". Mace, of Penn
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21

syNania. treasurer and George NJ Ward, Moosehart, general dictator.
 Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. director general of the order. presided at q meeting last night At which 2,50O new members we"e initiated
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
BOY ELILR DEnRESSED

Peshawar, British India. Aug. 21 LPD-Tabibullah Khan, as Bacho Sakao, Afghanistan's water boy king, calls himself, has become de pressed, Afghan reports state. be cause of the successes of Nadir Khan, who is contesting him for his throne.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
PROPERTY OWNERS ASSN.
 MEETS IN SIXTH WARD
Officers Call Gathering in Ukrainian Hall On Erwin Place To-
 morrow Evening.

The Citizens Property Owners as- sociation plans a second invasion into the sixth ward to increase its mem bership which is said 10 be over 300
 A meeting will be held at the Uk-
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By Thomas M. johnson.

profited by their experience. probably few
know so well as I. We worked as one
organization, and when they had had time to
extend theirs until it reached all over Europe,
I thought sometimes that it was the better
of the two"
High praise from a representative of those
bluff hearty, ingenious English whose far
flung and sometimes precarious empire has
been ever a playing field for what KiDlng
called 1.-The great game" Having taught it
to us, they played it with U.S. probably as above
board as it ever can b, played.
THIS cooperation was one reason why We
sent no more agents actually into Ger
many than We did-Brtish and French had
them there already. When we entered the
war, they had men under cover in most i'm
portant places behind the German lines, front
Berlin to the front.
The French covered General Headquarters
at Spa; British agent was on the staff OF
Crown Prince Pupprecht of Bavaria; both
powers had agents at Krupps', as later SO did
we just as our men checked troop trains pass
ing through Coblenz, Metz, many other great
functions.
1t is commonly believed that an important
official at WilhelmShaven was a British agent,
while a Frenchman swan out nightly from
Zeebrugge to deliver to waiting allied SUBJ
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marine reports of the days activity at mat
German submarine base Thousands of the
Belgian nation, invaded but unconquered, spied
for their own secret service or for British or
French.
The seeds of this system of espionage had
been sowed long before 1914 In the peace
years. both British and French had planted
agents in Germany, just as Germans had
planted agents in France, estimated at $4,000,
and Britain, far fewer.
The Germans caught and executed many
allied agents, but very respectable number
they never caught, worked throughout the war,
and in some cases, still are working. When
an agent was caught or SO closely watched
that he became useless, the allies sent in an
other to take his place.
So that when we entered the game in Sum-
organization complete and well thought out,
composed of carefully selected and trained
personnel Not few of them could pass the
other, 20 work in co-opera ion and to trust
each other implicitly although their lives de-
pended on it.
OUCH an organization is delicate as the works
of a watch, and as susceptible to foreign
bodies. So in agreement with French and
British, we established no new fixed agents
permanently in Germany except in co-opera-
ton with them.
There was less risk in sending agents into
Germany on short trips, and neutral countries
became bases OF American secret operations. Is
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that the height OF secrecy is the
absence of secrecy. 1t was not good form to
mention the United States espionage service.
even among staff officers at general head
quarters.
COS is known of actual spying upon the enemy
by the Americans than by any great power in
the World War. Concerning British, French
and Germans there have been revelations; con-
corning Americans in Europe, silence.
It is safe now to give peep at the drama
that faScinateS tremendously the average
American, the one, drama played always be-
hind the dark curtain of mystery so concealing
that even a friendly audience may be told
nothing is going on at ALL
rushing, glorious, sinister days of 1917, 1918
and 1919 behind the curtain that hid the
espionage service. America had spies then,
as it had Nathan Hale in 1776, Baker and Pin
kerton in 1861, beside whom at least one of
our steathy army of 1918 might stand worth
lily small army, smaller than the thousands
of allied shock troops in the secret war. Our
own spies. agents and nformers in Europe
never to,alsd, probably, more than very few
hundred.
High and low, rich and poor, good and if
truth DE told occasionally bad patriots and
some hirelingS they took lives and fortunes in
their hands and went forth by tortuouS ways
to dangerous places. upon strange missions.
eNttN1 ":>y succeeded. Sometimes they failed.
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Some were caught, and several were killed
But they were not turned aside, indeed, had
hardly begun to fight. Had not the end come
when it did, the Americans would have begun
a spy offensive powerful as their offensive in
the war in the open that they helped SO
greatly to win. .
Even So Col. Nicolai head of the German
military Intelligence, says in his book, "Geheime
Maechte:"
1T was noticeable that American support
of the belligerents stimulated secret service
work. 1t seemed though the allies only
then gained a clear picture of Germany, and
found out where especially to set to work with
their secret service and, above all, with their
propaganda"
\ LIED propaganda owed much to the
Americans in material, method and money.
Not only did American money help to revivify
allied espionage, but at the armistce, Ameri-
can espionage had merited this opinion of Sir
Basil Thomson, in My Experiences at Scot
land Yard" published by Doubleday, Doran:
The Americans had established an excellent
system of intelligence throughout Europe, and
we had been closely associated before, we
agreed to pool our information. At that time
there was not much happening in the under
world of Europe and America that we did not
know. How admirably the Americans had
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II AMERICA never has spies"
n It YVES fashionable to say that
~ when the American Army was i'll
France, the idea being perhaps
= hot la Of ic thu
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Americas Spy System
Copyright, Underwood g. UnderwaA

REGULATIONS E7U e. Espionage Mas Organized IN th
Uod Who Hd It, Hu Spies Wre Trained Hzc 40 United States Spy
Played Their Dangerous Game Abroad Fen Hundred american
ents Woking Among 49, Spies of AUies and Enemies
New Britain herald., 1929-08-01
" VARIANTS ISSUED IN
 ASSAULT ON CRIPPLE
New London Tax Collector and Policemen Face
 Arrest in Case

New London, Aug. 1 P>-Warrants
 were issued today by Prosecuting
 Attorney Max Boyer against Tax Collector Hubbard N. Alexander and
 Supernumerary Patrolman Charles
 White, acting as city sheriff in assist
 ing in the collection of taxes charged with breach of the peace in assaulting and abusing Sol Oc- kooneff, crippled State street jeweler, during an altercation that arose over
 the payment of the jewellers taxes. The affair occurred at the city hall last Monday and Ockooneff received
 a severe eye injury and had a wood-
 en leg splintered in a physical en- counter with White.
 Alexander is alleged to have aided and 'abetted the city sheriff and is Nalso charged with having used abu- sive language towards the jeweler. White, upon learning that a war rant for his arrest had been issued, surrendered himself at police head quarters and was placed under bonds of $500 for his appearance in the police court tomorrow. It was expected that Alexander would be arrested before the day was over. | The affair has causd widespread ] feeling and discussion in this city.