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New Britain herald., 1929-04-26

His home town is Kearny, x. ]. His father was a wholesale fish dealer, though recently Fred Allan. Jr, has dragged him into the real estate business.
 When he was II or 1o lie was famous as the hoy soprano" Ht made records for Edison and caused middle-aged people to break down and weep as he sang T Hear d Thrush at Eve" "Junetime." Some where a Voice Is Calling" and "rhe End of a Perfect Day. He doesn't sing so well now, he says bscduso speaking from trucks and street corners for several years hasn't made his voice any sWeeter.
 At school he went in successful ly for all kinds of athletics except golf. He has played professional
New Britain herald., 1929-04-26

personal machine among a host of young men who played or watched all sorts of sports. But the going was tough. His congressional dist rict is the most populous in New Jersey. II takes in parts of Jersey City and Newark. with Kearn Bayonne and one or two othe. places in between.
 Was Busy Campaigner
 For seven weeks before the pri- maries Hartley averaged four speeches a night. He had to fight the Republican organizations of both Essex and Hudson counties. His opponents were lawyers, but Hartley challenged them to de- bates which weren't accepted and went to their meetings to challenge them from the floor. He got the nomination. beating the machine candidates.
 His Democratic opponent was Con- gressman Paul Moore, Democratic leader of the Essex County organiza- tion, which is allied with the power- ful Hague machine of Jersey City. Moore relied on his supposedly in vincible organization and made few speeches. But his other orators shouted about the fact that the
New Britain herald., 1929-04-26
EXODUS, REPATRIATION
 BALANCE IN PALESTINE
Jewish Population in Holy Land Remains Same Despite Efforts
 of Zionist Leaders.

Jerusalem, April 26 IP, - The movement of Jewish population into and out Of Palestine last year was xactly balanced; immigrants, 2,17S, emiErants, 2,17S.
 This extraordinary coincidence is by no means pleasing to the leaders of the Jewish national movement, seeing that their aim is 10 bring the largest possible number of Jews into he homeland. or, at least. sufficient ly large numbers Of them to form majority of the population.
 The figures for the period since
New Britain herald., 1929-04-26

June, 1920, when the civil admin istration was established, are, how ever, much more encouraging to the movement. In that period y2,O0O Jews were registered as having en- tered the country, while the round number of 26.000 were emlgrants.
 During the whole postwar period. therefore, there has been a consider able gain in immigration, but not large enough to realize the ideals o1 the nationalist movement.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-26

Hoover But ] don't want 10 bear the
 disgrace of being only one
 termer"
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nous people who have visited him, but
no one made such an impression on
him as Stevenson.
'"They come in and out. and I don't
always know their Names" he said.
There was Miss Ellen Terry, though.
She wrote especially that her children
always bought their toy stages from me.
HerSon, Gordon Craig, has often been
to see me. @. X. CheSterton has had
four or five stages from me, too, and
Thomas Burke calls on me sometimes.
"AS for them Sitwells, they are al
ways in and out. They have been COM
ing to see me ever since they were chill
dren, and now Mr.. and Mrs Sacheve-
rell have promised to bring their baby.
He Is to have a toy theater directly he
is old enough.
But times are not what they were.
At one time the toy th.ater was the
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shop, with Mr.. Pollock Is one Of the
chief characters.
It all began more than 80 years ago,
when Robert LOUIS Stevenson "discov-
cred" the little shop and wrote his
essay. Penny Plain, Tuppence Col
ored," about it.
mfr. Stevenson often used to come In
here" said Mr.. Pollock, his blue eyes q
little dreamy as he looked back into the
past. Every tall he was. Sometimes he
used to bump his head on the ceiling.
He never said very much. He used to
stand Just there" Il looked with interest
at the worn boards a foot away from
mel land go through the boxes of prints
and sometimes he would smile to him
self A nice gentleman. but he always
looked pale and i'll. Pity 1t was he
died"
7 ~-'--d Mr.. Pollock about other ia
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divorce trial Mrs. Jackson claimed her
huband had threatened to kill her.
Mrs. jackson sued for $500 monthly
alimony, but the jury reduced it to SITS
monthly.
Mr.. Jackson denied allegations of
Mrs. Jackson, who said he had threat
ened her with o pistol and O butcher
knife and treated her cruelty.
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cren with them as a sort Of excuse, II
I may say so. But It isn't the children
who are interested"
Mr.. Pollock has recently been asked
to prepare q complete theater for exhi-
bition at the Victoria and Albert MN-
scum, and the New York Library has
asked for q complete set of his prints.
(Copyright, 1923. BY North American News
paper AIliance.O
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child's chief amusement at home, but
now, what with radio and talkies and
all this craze for rushing about
"Once we had orders all the year
around. At this season we used to get
really busy. A man would come in just
to- do the woodwork for the stages.
turned out the autographed plates.
others would help with the coloring, and
my wife would serve in the shop. But
nowadays I do the whole Job myself.
One Christmas I didn't sell a single
stage. If it were not for the grand
fathers and great-uncles, should have
to close down."
"The grandfathers?" I queried.
Bless you. yesL They are the people
who keep the trade alive. They like to
come here to recapture the days of their
youth, and they bring their grandchil
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DRY LAW ADMINISTRATOR
DIVORCED BY HIS WIFE
Mrs. o. D. jackson Of New Orleans
Accused Husband of Threaten
ing to Kill Her.

BIZ the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, November 26.-Mrs.
o. D. Jackson yesterday was granted a
divorce with alimony from o. D. Jack
son, Federal prohibition administrator
for this district.
Mrs. jackson and the prohibition ad-
ministrator had been separated for
several years. In her testimony at the
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Size Of Pool Balls Reduced.

DETROIT, November 26 R.-Bigger
golf balls and smaller pool ballsI The
National Billiard Association of Amer
lea has reduced the diameter from
25-l6 inches to 2K inches for the
pocket billiards national championship
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Walker enjoys" English coke"

NEW YORK, November IS Pl.-The
best English joke that Mayor Walker
has heard Is a cable dispatch to Lon
don paper that he intends to wear
plush and gold robes on official occa-.
London.
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Chisholm, OF the superior bench, wal
pledged to commit matriniony with
Pryce winthrop.
sPoor Old Priceless" commented Bill
Hes an awful stuffed shirt~-hut he
deserves q better fate" ].
&**
THREE unrelated headlines that were
: presumably, q bit OF the cosmif
whole. but that did not az into Bili'i
life anywhere. Or 30 he believed then.
Nevertheless, the snow. ct least. had
become something in his, life now, a
although he had yet TO discover 1t, only
two miles away was the judges daugil-
ter and the escaped lunatic. A l,inatic
who already had committed one murder
when. some months before, Judge
Samuel Chisholm had committed him
for life TO an institution for the GRIM
inal insane.
That morning at breakfast the Judge
had read OF the mans escape. He had
offered no comment on 1t, for the mat
ter Of his daughters engagement was
uppermost In his mind. He approved
Of her fiance. Pryce was conventional
and conservative, and Connie needed
steadying influence. Connie herself
admitted that. ,a \
As Bill Biddle could have told any
body, Connie was not romantic. He
had said that in the beginning.
Two years ago that had been. She
had merely wrinkled her impudent nose
at him. 5
"You mean" she had amended, ''that
I don't roll my eyes and say, Aren't
you wonderful?'"
81 don't mean anything Of the Sort
he had protested, beginning to show
that heat that even their most casual
contacts always engendered, on his side,
at least.
"Oh, yes, you do" she had main
tanned calmly. "And I'm sorry-but
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/ ond enOroSci,,c t3,incx he'd hanneYief}
such nartic,,iarlv. ss that itern L
which the lead i,osition and majol
tvnn eunnhasis had been accorded. This
"Lunatic LITER Murders Guard,
| Makes Escape
This might mean something In some
body's life. but it meant nothing In
| Bill's. or SO he then thought. He
went on consuming coffee and head.
lines. He tried another:
Expect Rain Or snow Tonight"
Snow or ,rain---it was all the same
to him. He took another sip Of coffee
Then:
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For once In her life, she would no.
have minded being chaperoned.
As his eyes met hers, he smiled. A
curious smile, bland, yet crafty; bit
sly. yet assured. Unmatched, somehow
the expression of his China-blue eyes
and
Connie realized that the man was
mad--stark mad. She felt faintness
threaten her, but fought 1t of. ,
II must be cool--T mustn't lose my
nerve" she reminded herself desper-
ately.
Somewhere she had heard or read
that the only thing to do with insane
people was to humor them. Or per-
haps 1t had been to reason with them
as IL they were children. She wasn't
sure which.
He was regarding her with those
China-blue eyes that, with their hard
stare, were SO terrifying.
You look like the judges daughter.
he told her. :.
But I am the judges daughter -
replied Connie, taken by surprise. And
she wondered If she should have ad-
mitted that
It know" he said. "But I mean like
the judges daughter in the story ]
read about. About the man the judge
.You mean" gasped Connie, "that
my father sent you to jail"
X r + II
THE mailman grinned at her. NO
to an insane asylum" He glanced
around the kitchen and added, II used
to work right here, peeling potatoes,
washing dishes, anything. And the pro-
prietor said was crazy"
He paused there, ref1ectively, and, for
second, he looked almost innocuous
ST don't think was then" he added
eerily. But ! heard him tell his wife
that ought to be put away and So
put him away, instead"
This seemed to amuSe him nightly
Sometimes I'm not crazy at all" he
assured her proudly. II can think and
talk like anybody. You'd never know
was different from other people.
don't think the man on the truck knew
was crazy. Not at first, anyway"
Every minute helped. she hoped
When she failed to arrive at Bolton
Pryce or somebody would telephone and
q search would begin.
1.-THE truck that gave me lift
after I'd killed the guard and escaped
He was all right at first, but then he
began to act funny and so T."
"But how did you find my house
know where lived?" asked Connie
hastily. She Just preferred to change
the subject somehow.
1.-THE truck driver told me-" he ex-
planned calmly. But didn't drive right
up-I knew better than that Crazy
people are awfully smart some ways
, you know. I just left the truck and
took the jack-handle from behind the
seat"
"The jack-handle?" echoed Connie.
Truck drivers cary them Therein
case anybody tries to hold them UP
They hit them over the head with It
| just as "--complacently-"I hit the
truck driver and your chauffeur"
"Edward?" gasped Connie, horri-
| fed
HE sat in the car waiting" he ex.
| planned" and I watched him. Then HI
| got out to look q. the headlight End
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~ Asst blew the November gale and
- fast flew the snow as Mr.
William T. Biddle. I'd, drove
IL to the rescue of q damsel In
distress. At the rnotnent-it was
q little after 3 o'clock-no enc would
have suspected Bill Biddle Of being on
any such errand, least of all himself
He knew of no damsels in distress;
In fact, he did not even know just
what neighborhood he might be in. He
had quite lost his way and. with the
impeding his windshield wiper, was
driving more slowly and with much
more caution than was his wont. In
fact, he was hardly making As.
There was sign of some sort Just
ahead. He stopped his car and step
ped into the storm to shake the snow
from it.
Eagles Eerie Inn-2 MI" was all
the sign said.
Bill eyed 1t with disgust.
Probably q Summer hotel-and
closed" he grunted pessimistically.
And that was quite true. Eagles
Eerie Inn was Summer hotel and II
was closed, as Constance Chrisholm
might have told him. But 1t was not
deserted, for she had been literally and
mOSt melouIdmdtiCdly Caitioo AcV AZ
some twenty minutes before by q
stranger who, she supposed, was en-
gagged in kidnapping her.
"This," she had thought then, sis
going to be an awful blow to Pryce."
Pryce was the man she had just
got herself engaged to. The engage
ment had been announced formally on
" yesterday; the first printed word OF
it had appeared that morning.
Bill Biddle, with the paper propped
up against the sugar bowl, had seen
it as he consumed coffee and bacon
and headlines.
It hadn't, of course. been the most
important item. Much more dramatic
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Knocked. He held the glass Of water
not to her lips, but an inch away.
How much do you want it?" he asked
maliciously.
She caughtsher breath there, but only
because he suddenly emptied the glass
of water over her head, and this last
indignity was too much. Her ankles
were bound, but she kicked out at him
with both feet, as hard as she could
The glass clattered to the floor as,
Infatuated, his fingers clutched her
throat. -.-.r~
"Help-helpi" she claraored, franti-
cally-and was choked OF.
n +
EREE use of her vocal cords would
L have availed her little, anyway.
Eagle Eerie Inn was isolated, and even
Bill Biddle was still two miles away.
He had re-entered his car, but was
lighting cigarette at the moment, still
considering the sign-board and his next
move.
"Oh, well, he decided, cts only two
miles, and there may be a care-taker
there. Or somebody nearby who can
lodge me for the night.
Lodging for the night was his only
requirement from life at that instant.
IL IidQ UcCu lAio AACd, WAACh AAC AAe1N
left Boston, to push through to
shooting-camp in New Hampshire.
He had made his mind up suddenly
during the afternoon. He had felt
restless, in need of change. And. at
last, he had yielded to the temptation
to get away from town; to foregather
in the open spaces. where men were
men and girls with impudent noses were
absolutely nothing.
And here he was-lost in a blizzard.
The snow drove in at his windshield;
it was like trying to drive through a
feather-bed. He still had no idea that
any damsel was in distress anywhere:
he felt ne himself needed all the SYM
pathy he had at his command.
This. however, would hardly have
been Comics idea of 1t. She had been
granted a respite, the choking fingers
had relaxed their hold.
Mono" the mailman was nutter-
ing. almost regretfully. Il mustn't do
it that way"
He turned and scanned the room,
crossed to the stove and picked up q
poker.
| At that point, for the first time in
her life, Connie tainted.
The mailman paid no attention to
her. He stood by the stove now, ex-
aiming the poker from time to time.
Minutes passed. Then, abruptly, his
head went UP. The searchlight OF a
car had swung across the kitchen win
dow: second later the car stopped
outside.
| Bill had arrived. He noted another
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he knew her recklessness, and he had
his position to consider.
Edward and the limousine are at
your disposal whenever you have any
legitimate need of car had been
the judges ultinatum.
Edward was the family chauffeur.
He was so and not to be hurried, even
II Connie happened to be In q hurry.
She usually was. Edward was another
Of those rare males who did not approve
Of her.
Tonight when she emerged from the
house he had not even bothered to
He's mad, because the car was or
dered for $50 and it's a little bit
later" Connie had diagnosed. And IL
I spoke to father, he would say Edward
had q. right to be annoyed"
The Judge made q cult Of punc-
tuality. Connie did not. Time was
nothing to her. It was actually almost
z, and 1t was showing as Connie. with
her bright head bare and an evening
cape over her shoulders, opened the
limousine door. She was on her way
to q dinner and dance In Bolton. Bryce
would be there probably -.
Connie yawned again. And this was
life-her lifel Gosh, didn't anything
exciting ever happen?
1t struck her then that the car. was
moving faster than usual. She glanced
out the window, saw that they were
approaching q familiar fork where the
car, swinging right. would continue to
Bolton-and boredom.
Only it didn't. It had swung left.
Onto country road.
Connie opened her lips but did not
speak, The limousine. striking
vicious place In the road, had left earth
and she felt herself catapulted upward
Gosh" Connie had thought incred-
ulously, as the car and she returned
to normal, "is he crazy?"
The heavy limousine was caroming
along the road at close to go. Trees
sprinkled with snow flashed by madly
as II running for their lives.
x* *x
UEDwARDp she had commanded
II peremptorily.
The speed-drunk demon at the wheel
had paid no attention to her. And
then The, car had skidded viciously and
she had believed the crash at hand.
But, as she braced herself, it had swung
completely around and. with one wheel
on the road. stalled half across 1t.
''Well." Connie had begun. recover
Ing her breath, perhaps yeu can ex-
plain"
She had stopped short there. her
pretty mouth at its widest. The man
at the wheel had turned. He had on
Edwards cap and Edwards great coat.
But-he wasn't Edward!
It was incredible. Even as she
fought. wildly and Intellectually, while
he BOUND her, she couldn't credit it.
This isn't me-this isn't happening
to me-" she had thought.
Things like this just didn't happen
to people. At least, not to oneself, or
anybody one knew. Yet she was GER
tainly awake and-well, being kidnapped,
she supposed.
She was neither frightened nor very
much worried. There was, she hoped,
no reason why she should be. She had
been subjected to much discomfort and
might suffer more before she was
through, but what gorgeous saga it
would bel
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MOST MEM ARE gyssys1s,s4s
Melodrama in the Midst Of Perfectly Normal Coursp

/ you aren't 30 very wonderful, you rec.
You're just q bit spoiled BY other
women. Most men are"
Imagine falling In love With girl
Ike that! But PTyce had.
Connie didn't know how many times
he had proposed. or just why she had
accepted him.. 4,
The day had been late October, with
lingering color still In the foliage. A
mellow, benignant, yet melancholy, day.
when even youth feels both old and
unfulhlled, with nebulous. restless
urge toward something anything.
They had been walking in the woods
when abruptly Pryce had fioundered
into his fortieth--or perhaps 1iftieth--
Anybody who proposes to any girl
on day like this Is apt to be ac-
cepted, II he isn't careful" Connie had
commented.
She had said much the same thing
before, but not just that way.
"You--you mean Pryce had slut
tered.
He would have taken her In his arms
bit clumsily-he. Of Pilgrim ancestry,
men among his f0rebears, but not
cavaliers--but she had eluded him. She
hadn't known just what she meant.
II think" she had warned him, 'that
q married woman should have an al
own, Just like man. Perfect free
dom both ways"
Pryce might have gagged at that. II
well, II Connie hadn't looked 50 ex-
quisitely desirable. He acquiesced
n&StiiV.
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The thought was in her mind now
as she sat, slim, erect and determinedly
ccol-eyed In q chair her abductor had
placed her upon. They were in what
she had guessed was small Summer
hotel Her captor, still wearing Ed
wards cap and great coat was stocking
the stove.
As YET all her impressions Of him
were sketcly. The most she could have
said was that he did not look like q
man she could wind around her little
finger ss
Now, with IRE started. her captor
strai9htened up and turned toward her
and she saw him, squarely, tor me
f1rst time. Il
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car standing outside. saw that light
burned in the office, and stepped out
to investigate further.
The Office was deserted and chill Is
6. tomb.
Probably only q caretaker here,
thought Bill.
The register, he noted, still lay open
on the desk. He crossed and glanced
at 1t, glimpsed the last date Of entry:
October II, 1927.
This held his eyes only an instant.
Then they lifted arld--wel1, II anybody's
blood can freeze, Bill's touched zero.
For there Is difference between
touring no mans land during night sor-
/ ties. where onezexpects things TO happen,
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hit him. Then I took his cap and coat
and waited until you came and
He turned abruptly, and crossed the
room. Her eyes followed him. What
was he going to do now? Then her
tenseness relaxed. He was trying the
faucets over the sink. but nothing came.
TOO bad she managed I'D like q
drink
He grinned at her over his shoulder.
Pump iii the shed--I'll get you one. Z
4 He disappeared and Connie Strug-
gled desperately to. free herself until
she heard him returning. Then, swiftly,
she composed herself to an attitude
lof serene calm. Yet:
Couldn't get hose, could you?" be
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no doubt, but destitute of beauty. The
year Is divided into two seasons
Winter eight months long and rather
uncertain Summer of four months. The
latter season, If Summer 1t can be
called, Is only by contrast with the
Winter and at any time snowstorm
may occur"
THUS we have pictured for us this
Northern mo Mans Lane" One
Is apt to ask "why 60 there, then, II
there is nothing to be found?" The
answer is that despite its dreary OUT
look and its desolation much has been
found that Is of value to science, and
it has proved valuable base for fur
traders and whalers. It has been called
by the weather man 1.-THE place where
weather begins" and many experiments
have been carried on at the Govern
ment meteorological station that would
have been impossible in any other
locality.
Again, to quote Lieut.. Powell on some
of the climatic disturbances recorded by
his expedition: 1.-THE wind reached q
velocity of 140 miles an hour. while
for "a hours the average velocity was
more than so miles. One of the ane-
mometers at the station was broken
long before the wind reached its high
est velocity
A vivid description of the aurora
follows, when he says: Intimately
connected with the aurora was the dis
turbance of the magnetic needles. In
fact, during the prevalence Of the ali-
rora the magnets were IN Q state OF
chronic perturbation, especially during
txA A5ey@1nVyc xvhAvH than
often so disturbed that some of them
could not be read"
It was with the realization that in
this strange land, where the winds, the
seas, the sun and the skies seemed to
meet to plan their campaigns through
the rest of the world, valuable informa-
ton might be obtained for science that
the United States placed there an out
post for the Weather Bureau.
The small group Of white men who
first settled there found native colony
Of about 200 Eskimos With the occa-
sional visits Of whaling vessels and the
establishment of q trading post by the
Hudson Bay Fur Co. Of London, and
later by an American Arm, Liebes &
Co. of San Francisco, small post
office soon became necessary In order
| to maintain some sort of established
comMunication Win the OutSloe Wofld.
Thus matters stood, until the advent
| OF wireless brought o new hope and q
new cheer INTO the hearts q that small
frouy =, VILE men wno nao cared the
Iset t,,sv tyee,,o,,+ ' ts '..a s - q
t to0s. y;th cSuis;vsts9y,, VEN NJ ~
would the l,,,ndrelis 81 n,,,es ~ irs 49,
s,,nu, ,,r;ct. is,, $500. 49,, - ~ t,.s
ianH ~ thsir p,rtS hnia .rv t H s Sns
then them For no Greater dread can cl,,tci