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New Britain herald., 1929-10-08
BRITISH HANDLE
 GOLD CASUALLY
Contrast in Methods Of Guarding
 Bank Shipments

London, Oct. 8. tR-Bar gold worth s5,o00,ooo was flown from London to Paris the other day.
 It was a consignment from the Bank of England and, except for the fact that air transport was used this time, it was handled as casually as so much bacon
 Automobiles (not armored cars) were sent to the bank. The gold was loaded into them and they went to the airport, where en- ployes hcaved the precious boxes of metal into airplanes. And that was all, as far as the British side of the transaction went.
 It is true the Bank of England is protected by a special guard. A company of gorgcously uniformed soldiers, wearing beaver hats and brilliantly polished shoes, march each day behind a skirling bag piper to keep watch over the in stitution.
 But they make no attempt to cluster around cars into which a few million dollars worth Of gold is being placed, nor do they look aggressive when strangers in high powered automobiles draw up to the curb.
 No one here seems to remember the last time an attempt was made to rob the bank of England. 1t simply isn't done And that is bet ter protection in this country than thousand men with sawedoff shotguns.
 Solitary bank messengers on long crrands sometimes encounter robbers. Not long ago q messen- ger was relieved of St,o00 by ban dits who. he testified, knocked him scns"icss with an umbrella.
 Even bandits here do not always find it necessary to carry danger ouS weapons.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08
GOLD SEEKERS NOW LIVE IN POOR FARM
Sixteen Who Went to Alaska
 Depend on Charity

Seattle, Wash, Oct. S-Here in the King County Poor Farm are 16 tired old men whose eyes still re- fleet the shine of lost dream as they live on Seattle's Charity-pau- pers waiting for the end.
 Thirty years ago they went to the Klondike in the great Alaskan gold rush of '9S, when any man who was lucky could make himself a mil lionaire by following gleam through the lonely, frost-bound val leys.
 They went north for gold-went north to make themselves rich
 And now, 30 years after. they are in the poorhouse.
 Sixteen of them there are; 1 $ old men, stopped and weary, not at all like the Is hardy fortune hunters who were so sure, so very sure, once upon a time, that they were going to stumble right across the rainbow's end.
 They went after gold, and they found gold. Some of them found just little and some of them found a good deal. But all of them lost what they had found. Here they are, the Is gold seekers who storm ed the klondilte in the day when Dawson and Skagway and the Yu- kon were words like trumpet calls here they are, inmates of the y1ritl oil 11Tt +n 31 but talk over old times and figure up the chances they missed.
 He Missed Fortune
 One old chap, the dean Of the lot, can remember even before the days of '9S. He lived in Alaska before anyone knew there was gold there. AS he sits here with his cronics, penniless, he has the consolation Of knowing that | years before gold was discovered, he pitched his camp in the Klondjke on the very spot where George Carmack was to make the gold discovery that set the world mad.
 "Furs, and trading with the na- tives, was our job then" he explains. ''Mebbe the Indians always knew there was gold therc I don't know. never seen an Indian yet excited about prospectin'. Sensible, ain't they?"
 Then there is another one. named F. Martin, whose Indian partner in SC, tipped him off 10 a good loca- tion near Cooks Inlet. where hun- dreds of thousands of dollars worth of the yellow metal was fairly cry ing to be taken out Of the ground He located there with the Indian Then the Indian, needing whiskey, sold out to a stranger for $l0-and the stranger froze Martin out.
 Every man has one break in life" says Martin. Every man has one real chance. That was mine. It never came again. tried my hand in Porcupine, up above Kluck- wan, and later in Ruby and Idit- arod. But all I ever dug up was the other fellows old tin cans.'
 Clings to Gold Stickpin
 Bob Mcdonald is the Beau Brum- mel of the place. He still has a visible memento of the gold he used to own-a gold nugget stickpn which he wears in his spotted tie every day, refusing to part with it even though he is in a poor farm. It was the first nugget he and his partner "panned' on Bonanza creek.
 Sort of a keep sake" he says. 'When l finger it sometimes, it helps me to remember l wasn't al ways like this"
 These 1G Klondikcrs can remem- Der the wild days Of the boom towns; the wild days of Skagway
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08

The Swedish industrial committee is working towards the standardiza- ton Of sawn and planed wood.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08

in landing with both feet on MT. William B. Shearer and the ship building companies which employed him. The proposal for a Senate investigation of the scandal was the most popular one of it's kind that anyone here remembers.
 Farm relief ragged as an issue for some eight years. Hoover saw to it that something was done about it. If the agricultural prob- lem is solved or partially solved as a result of the work of the new Farm Board, Hoover will get most of the credit.
 Appointment of the law enforce ment commission was another popu- lar move; hardly anyone saw any thing in it to complain about. At the outset of his administration he abolished the famous White House Spokesman" and one recalls no ob- jections to that, but many com mendations
 The progressives, who generally attack on specific principles, and the Democrats, who attack on gen. eral principles. were pleasantly astonished when Hoover abolished the Mellon policy of secrecy on in again when Hoover promised to purge his party of the nasty oondi- tions which it had tolerated in the South.
 Even the World Likes Him
 There isn't space even to sum- marize the many other acts and statements with which Hoover, by common consent, has justified at him. The New York World, very much pro-Smith in the cam paign, recently admitted that i've have had a steady succession of sharp decisions and prompt action" { with which it apparently found lit tie, if anything, to complain.
 Sometimes in Washington one hears an undcrcurrcnt of criticism of Hoover's achievements to date, but they're very faint. One hears that he hasn't made his stand clear on prohibition and on the tariff 1 bill, for instance.
 But the fact is that, in the first seven months of the Hoover admin istration, the applause has consist ently drowned olit the misses and l the bOOS
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08
STE DENTS REACH NAPLES

Naples, Oct. s GEo-Students of the Mary Murcham school, Northamp- ton, Mass, arrived here today for a visit. The students will make a tour Of the city during the day and will have tea this afternoon at the ltalo- American Union.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08

poetry: but perhaps the poet who wrote the following had someone like him in mind They sit at home and they dream
 and daily.
 Eahins the cmbcrs of long
 dead years But you go down to the Haunted
 Valley
 Iight-hcarted pioneers. They have forgotten they ever
 were young. They hear your songs as an
 unknown tongue. ..... But the Flame of God through
 your spirit stirs, Adyenturcrs-oh adventurers!
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08
FACE STRENUOUS WEEK

New York, Oct. s NP)-Thc N, !. l.. Niolcts face a strenuous week of practice in preparation for S;atur days clash with their intra- city rival Fordham. Experts rate the teams on even terms.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08
Special Notice

Whist will be given by the w. l Morgan Lodge. No. II, Knights Pythias, Tuesday evening, Octobe s at o'clock, at the J. o. U. A. \ hall, Glen street-advt.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-08

street and learned that he had left the Polish orphanage. He was sent back.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
RATE CARROLL AS
WISEST PITCHER
Says Year or So in Minors
Needed by Youngster.

Owen Carroll, star hurler of the De-
troit Tigers, already Is rated as one
of the wisest pitchers in the circuit,
despite his lack of years-he was only
twenty-five when the 1928 season
started-and some of his axioms might
be worth needing by the sandlot pitch
ers who have ambitions to become big
leaguers.
"a young pitcher needs one or two
years In the minors If for no other
reason than to acquire condolences"
says Carroll. Minor league clubs do
not carry pitching staffs of nine or
ten men and when you get yourself
in jam, you may have to pitch your
self out. In the majors, the moment
yGu wobble, there is another pitcher
down in the bull pen getting ready TO
take your place Naturally, you be-
come nervous and instead of pitching
yourself out of the tough spot, you be-
come more deeply involved.
"But, in the minors, you get the
chance TO solve your own problems
and eXtricate yourself, an experience
that is valuable when you strike the
big show. Take my case. joined
the Tigers in 1925 shortly after finish
ing at Holy Cross, my only experience
having been at college and in a twi-
light league in Massachusetts. l had
the stuff, but | never learned how to
use it until had been sent to Toronto
for development. There, under the
guidance Of Dan Howley and Steve
O'Neill and, knowing would not be
yanked the second the trouble clouds
appeared, l was successful.
"At Toronto, also acquired con-
troll, wildness having been my greatest
fault and, speaking of control. every
successful pitcher learns to know
which is his control ball' and de-
pends upon it in the pinches. Use the
other stuff when you are ahead of the
batter"
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24

Feathers" Scott at Vera Cruz and
started toward the City of Mexico.
To his parents back in Ohio came
cheerful letters from the boy, telling
of the rapid succession of victories
won by the American army and as
suring them that the war was almost
over and that he would soon be home.
His last letter was written the night
before Scott's soldiers stormed Cha
pultepec. The boys parents awaited
his return in vain. Today in the en-
virons of the City of Mexico there
is a little cemetery in which stands
a small granite shaft bearing these
words: "To the memory of the Amer
ican soldiers who perished in this
valley in 1S47, whose bones, collected
by the cOuntry's orders, are here bur-
ied.-750" And so this Unknown Sol
dier of the Mexican war sleeps among
the 750 in alien soil.
Fort Sumter had been fired upon.
In the upper Shenandoah valley of
Virginia a father was bidding good
bye to his two sons. pray God, you
two never meet in BATTLE" he said.
And one rode north to wear the Fed
eral Blue under General Patterson
and the other rode south to become
a member of Gen. Thomas ]. Jack
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24

sons "StOnewall Brigade" Whether
or not his prayer was answered, the
father never knew. He never saw
either again.
Perhaps in some Valhalla two warrior
spirits reminisce of Charlottesville and
Antietam, of Manassas and Malvern
Hill but there is no bitterness in their
tones as they call each other ''Yank"
and Johnny Reb." The crumbling
dust of the bodies which once
housed these spirits rests under
great monument of rough-hewn gran
ite and polished marble in Arlington
cemetery near Washington, d. C. On
this monument is an inscription which
reads:
Beneath this stone repose the
bones of 2,111 unknown soldiers gath
cred after the war from the fields of
Bull Run and the route to the Kappa
hammock. Their remains could not be
identified but their names and deaths
are recorded in the archives of their
country; and its grateful citizens
honor them as of their noble army
of martyrs. May they rest in peace"
1t was the spring of 1898. A Col
orado miner, coming off the night
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Football Stars at Iowa
Improving as Students

T. N. Metcalf, director of athletics
at Iowa State college, has come to the
conclusion that football players at the
Ames institution are becoming better
students. Metcalf has just completed
survey of the football squads of the
last three years. Last year 10 per cent
of the freshman players and % per
cent of the varsity men received pass
ing grades in more than fifteen hours
of college work. Records show that
freshman scholarship was much bet
ter last fall than ever before. In 1926
30 per cent of the freshmen were
dropped because of poor scholarship.
The following year only IS per cent
were dismissed and last fall the figure
fell to per cent.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
G3!sf!I4CIdH

Cicero, H., has been awarded the
1890 Elks' national bowling tourna-
ment
Horton Smith is said to have tn
shortest backswing of any top-notcb
golfer in this country.
Eastern collegiate boxing will be
limited to six classes with no fighters
weighing more than 175 pounds.
The tenth Olympic games at Los
Angeles in 1892 are expected to draw
entries from AZ leading nations of the
world.
Bud Foster, last year center, has
been moved to forward by the Uni
versity of Wisconsin coach, DR.. Wal
ter Meanwell.
Five hundred schools have been in
vited TO send teams to Carnegie
Techs thirteenth annual interscholas-
tic track and field meet at Pittsburgh
May 4.
Allie Wolff closed his boxing career
at Penn State without losing single
decision in % fights. He is a two
handed middleweight. who outclassed
his field.
Referees officiating at games played
Oy the Canadian Professional Hockey
league will in the future wear num-
bers so that the fans may know their
identity.
Gus Sonnenberg, champion heavy.
weight wrestler, will reappear in Los
Angeles in June In a championship
bout. The bout may be staged in
Wrigley field and is expected to
arouse great enthusiasm.
Jimmy Londos, idol of all Greek
wrestling fans. is very proud of his
chest expansion. which measures ,
inches.
Edward J. Walsh. city magistrate
in New York. is the famous Walsh
who starred in football at Fordham
In 1909.
Tommy Armour. famous golfer
sometimes takes 80 or more "waggles
before hitting the ball George Dun
can doesn't even step cp TO the pellet
he hits II In his stride.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24

shift, Joined q group Of his fellows
gathered about one who read in
Denver paper the headlines: "War
With Spain" A month later he was
on an army transport that steamed
through the Golden Gate into the
broad Pacific. The next year he was
one of detachment which set out
through the Philippine jungle in pur-
suit of party of Moro raiders. There
was a deathlike hush as they pushed
on through the steaming heat of the
jungle. A moment later its stiffness
was shattered by the sounds of men
engaged in furious hand-to-hand COM
little brown men clawing at a group
of swearing, desperately-strugg
/ khaki-clad figures and bearing them
down to earth by sheer force of num-
bers. A few months later back in
the Colorado mining town a band
played "There'H Be Hot Time in
the Old Town Tonight" for the troop
of "our boys" was home from the
wars. But out in the province of
Sulu rusted Krag-Jorgensen and
webbed cartridge belt already nearly
hidden by the lush jungle vegetation,
marked the last resting place of one
who didn't come home-an Unknown
Soldier of '9S-'99.
November II, 1922. In Arlington
cemetery a great throng stood with
barred heads as bugler blew 'Taps"
over a new white marble tomb in
which had been placed the body of
dead warrior. OF him it has been
written, "Once he trod our streets
perhaps the very pavements which we
daily travel. 1t never entered his
head that he would become a symbol
of sacrifice and his tomb a shrine of
pilgrimage. If any one had foretold
as much to him, how he would have
laughed! If anyone were to reveal
to us who he really was-that he had
been a cashier in a New York bank
or taxi driver in Chicago-would
he still retain his power so deeply
to move us? Who was he, this Un-
known Soldier, whom we have ex-
alted out of humanity into saint
hood?"
That question of identity can never
be answered. But of him this can
be said: since that day seven years
ago Memorial day has had a new
meaning. On this day his tomb is
shrine before which in spirit all
Americans bow reverent heads For
thus they honor not only the Un-
known Soldier of the World war but
the Unknown Soldiers of all of our
wars-the Revolution, the War of
1872, the Mexican war, the Civil war.
the Spanish-American war. We can
not decorate their graves in accord
ance with the Memorial day custom,
for their last resting places, un-
marked, are scattered far and wide
over the face of the globe. Some of
them fell before Indian bullet and
lance on the wind-swept plains of
the Great West. Some Of them died
in China, in the Philippines, in Mex
leo. Some of them "went West" on
the battlefields of France and Bel
gium.
So in alien soil they keep their
lonely "bivouac of the dead and
while we cannot pay them the same
honors on Memorial day that we do
| the others who gave their lives for
their country, we can offer up to them
our tribute of gratitude by remember
ing on that day what they did even
though we do not know who they
were.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
High Rating Given
to Washington Team

Eddie Collins, once king of
second baseman. is among those
who believe the Washington
club is ON the way to more than
moderate success.
AT baseball luncheon of the
Penn A. q. in Philadelphia, Col
Inns cited the Nationals as one OF
the most improved clubs in the
American league. and expressed
the belief that they and the st.
Louis Browns would give the
Yankees and Athletics an argu-
ment over the pennant.
Collins paid glowing tribute TO
Walter Johnson as a leader. He
ascribed the hustling spirit and
generally high morale of the
club to the players faith in the
Big Train and their admiration
for him.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Bill Hallahan Cardinal
Star When Has Control

There probably will be bot of shut
fling around in the batter's box when
Bill Hallahan takes the mound for
the st. Louis Cardinals this season.
For Bill, with all of his curves and
speed, is, or rather has been one wild
right-handed pitcher. Working for
Houston, pennant winners on the
Texas league last year, Bill famed
244 men in 276 innings, but he walked
149. He won % and lost II games.
Bill was up with the Cardinals once
before. His wildness was too great
q handicap then.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Memorials Multiply

America in the "carry-on spirit of
Flanders field and the Argonne, is
keeping alive the memory of her World
war dead.
The pinnacle Of tribute to the he
roes on Memorial day this year will
have been raised to new heights as
states In the Union add to memorials
which already are represented in mill
lions Of dollars.
Even while these stately piles Of
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
McGraw Likes Giants

John McGraw is convinced his New
York Giants are greatly improved
ball club and will be in the thick of
the National league pennant struggle
from start to finish. AS matter of
fact, McGraw believes the Giants
have their best chance In some years
to make away with the league gon-
Talon. He thinks the Cubs are the
most improved of the Giants rivals
and that st. Louis and Pittsburgh will
make trouble during the course of rho
chanlpionship race.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Day for Thoughts Of Peace

Memorial day is no longer day
for the recollection of martial times
alone. 1t is day given less and less
to parades, the salutes of guns, the
clank of swords. 1t is a day given
more and more to quiet and indiyid-
ual strengthening of that bridge of
love" that stretches from the dead to
those who live. 1t is day set aside
for memory. When the new and shin
ing link of World war veterans grows
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Extremes in Cemeteries

The annual report of Quartermas-
ter General Cheatham says that Ar
lington is the largest national ceme-
terry both in area and number of in
tered. The smallest is at Balls Bluff.
near Leesburg, Va, about one-half
acre In extent and containing the bod
les of one known and twenty-four un-
known dead.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Makes Him Howl

We are unreasonable animals. man.
of us. The person who sputters like {.
hot tea kettle because he Is required
to button his raimenf every morning
and unbutton II every night-day after
day. month after month"; long and
dreary round of monotony-wails like
fire siren when one little buttos
comes off.-Portiand Oregoniaa.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Mans Uppermost Thought

Whatever one. may read into the
name of patriotism, however variously
the citizens of nation may love their
land, with whatever admixture Of
criticism and doubt they yield their
support, love of home and fellowship
with ones own people remain the COM
mon lot. Man cannot escape them II
he would. The beat of their drum is
in his blood, and their memories march
as banners in lasting parade.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
Call to Service

Patriotism is merely another name
for service. On Memorial day we honor
those whose service became sacrifice.
As you stand in your cemeteries. heed
that whispered voice that still calls
to the service of others.-Grit.
The Ely miner., 1929-05-24
BASEBALL ~
NOTES AAl

Charlotte has released Pitcher Paui
Pechuk, youngster from Scranton, Pa
AL Lopez, Cuban catcher, has been
farmed to Atlanta by the Brooklyn
Dodgers.
Jonah Goldman, an infielder, was re-
leased by the Cleveland Indians to Al
bany in the Eastern league.
Ivy Griffin, first baseman of the Mil.
waukee American association club, has
been purchased by Louisville.
Joe Boley's arm has bothered him
for several seasons, but this spring is
the first time it went dead on him.
George Stallings is reported to be
well on the road to recovery from
the illness that struck him last sum-
mer.
Nearly half of the players in the
Southeastern league of last year are
with the Southern league clubs this
spring.
The Middle Atlantic league has
abandoned the split-season schedule.
Last year there were Is leagues with
the split.
The Newark Bears may change
their name to the Newark Gray
Eagles in honor of their new man.
ager, Iris Speaker.
When John McGraw wore knee
pants, Connie Mack was a dashing
young blade. Now John is fifty-six,
Connie ten more, and both still work
Although Carl Lind's galoping
stride doesn't indicate he is speedy,
the Cleveland youngster is rated one
of the fastest runners in the big
league.
Herbie Thomas, second baseman for
the Toledo Mudhens in the American
association, has been traded for Cur
ley Ogden, pitcher for Buffalo in the
International league.
st. Louis university has abandoned
baseball for this year because of the
absence of playing field. Intercol-
legiate competition in track will not
be attempted. either.
Three players in the American
league were born on Christmas day.
They are Gene Robertson with the
Yankees, and Emile Barnes and Lloyd
Brown with the Washingtons.
Captain Charlie Grimm of the Cubs
has realized the ambition of every hit
ter. Grimm hit a straight flush"
against Houston-a home run. triple,
double and single. a feat rare in
baseball.
Topeka has purchased Outfielder
Bud Honea from Denver. Honea
played with Independence in the West
ern association last season and Man
ager Payton regards him as a promis-
ing youngster
The first southpaw in the big leagues
to pitch no-hit no-run game with no
batter reaching first base was John
Lee Richmond of the Worcester Ma
tiOnal league team, who turned the
trick on June II, 1880.
Fred Haney, who looks like a big
Improvement at third base for the
Cardinals got into his hitting stride
in the second game against the Reds.
collecting double and triple. He has
been fielding in great shape.
Lou Guisto, injured in the war and
unable to keep bis Job in the big
leagues. is this year manager and
first baseman of the Bakersfield cInb
of the new minor league In California.
President Hoover is said to have
displayed one of the best arms of any
Chief Executive in recent years In his
first pitch at the Washington opening.
delayed one day because of bad
weather. Mr.. Hoover pulled back and
senf tho hall on q limo all tho xuov tn