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New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Tree Sitters Sit On Toward New Records - Some Fall Out in Efforts to Get a Little Sleep-More Boys Start.

By the United Press.
 The juvenile endurance craze which has spread over the country and included almost everything from tree sitting to kite flying just about reached the limit today when timor- ous youngsters in New Jersey start ed a contest to see who could hold water in his mouth the longest.
 The approach of Saturday night and Sunday brought new problems for many of the scores of young sters perched in the trees of the east, midwest and south. but they were ready with new solutions and the fun, which now also has developed a serious side, continued.
 There was an Oklahoma boy, for instance, whose scout troop held their regular meeting under his tree SO he could attend, and New Or leans boy who arranged for his pas tor to hold a special tree sitting mass for him Sunday, then fell out and may have to hear the mass in bed instead.
 The serious aspect developed when boys began falling out of their trees. One has been hurt so seriously he may die and others have suE>red broken arms and ribs. AS a result police have stopped tree sitting in several cities.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
WOMAN SLEUTH'S NEPHEW ADMITS
 SAUGUS MURDER
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lContiaGeS From First Page) spoken Of my mother tta' way. She shouldn't have been always riding her. went 10 her home Tuesday morning. deciding 10 have it out with her We had some drinks and then my aunt began saying things about my mother again. couldn't sand f. wen, crazy, I guess, and hit her with Tca blackjack. I didn't mean Q kill her"
 T didn't know she was dead until I read about it in q nawspa per" he continued. T didn't try 10 rob her and that story about the jewelry and money is pack of lies. I came here and got a job, but the thing proyed on my mind so much ! had to give myself ID 10 pohC".'
 Th0n Tson formal confession ma5e 10 police after halt a7 hours questioning. follows.
 On July -5 ar l.3r a. m- l went Q my aun"s home. Mrs K. Edith Thompson Wight my mothers sis ter. at 43 Vine street. Saugus. Mass Shortly after my arrival there we went 70 the grocery story together and later went 10 Boston 0 purchase soma pam. Then We went 10 my auncs house in Saugus Mass. and had something 10 eat about 10 g. m. After that We sal and talked and both drank beer and wine, During this drinking my aunt was talking about my mother and I wouldn't stand for i- All this talk took place ln inc sun parlor.
 T went and got hlachjach that I had when I lived in my auTt's house I couldn't say how many times I struck her She fell 10 the floor while I was striking her with the blackiack. I was drinking after left my aGnrs house. I took bus from Saugus 10 my home in Dor chester. I hung around the house for while and then I went to a movie. Then I went home again. Thursday morning left my home and started on the road. I didn't care where I was going, The blackjack I left in my aunt's house after me"
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Saucus Police Notified

Sau-us, Mass. July 19 tE) - Po- lice were notified early today that Bernard Thompson, 26, wanted for questioning in the death of his aunt, Mr9. K. Edith CThompson) Wight in her home Thursday had been arre-ted at New Haven, Conn.
 Lieutenant Detective Joseph F.. Farrari and William D. Murray Of the state police and Patrolman James P. Sullivan left for New Ha- ven 10 bring him here.
 Mrs Wight's battered hody was found in her home, death having followed savage beating with a blackjack. Young Thompson, a railroad worker, was the last per son seen with her, two days before her death. Mrs Wight vas 2 veteran store detective.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19

Princess, Aged Four,
 Does Own ShOpEing

Forfar. Scotland. July 19 (Pt- Little four year old Princess EIiz- abeth. daughter of the Duke of York, went shopping here yes- terday, carrying her own purse and paying hs own bills.
 She is staying with her mother the Duchess of York. at Glamis castle, near here, and came 10 town escorted by her maternal grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore, to buy a book. She was shown several which, after much examination, she rejected. saying: I've seen that already"
 Finally she found one that was rsw to her and asked the price. Then she said, I'll take that" and produced her purse with dig nifed self-possession and paid for it.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
"STILL" IS REGISTERED

A document registering owner ship of a still" the first paper of it's kind ever filed at the office of the town clerk, vas received by Clerk Alfred L. Thompson today. The still" is owned by the New Britain Dry Cleaning Corp. and is a part of the machinery used in cleansing garments, the paper asserted. Pro- hibition law requirements made it necessary to make q record of the presence of the still" here.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Burkhart Must Hang
 For Killing His Wife

Los Angeles, July l9 P-William Burkhart, p, bookkeeper was con- victed of murder last night by a su perior court jury. which recom- mended he hang for the shooting of his wife, Anne Mcknight Burkhart, actress, March 24.
 Burkhart was charged with killing his wife, from whom he was estranged. after efforts for a recon ciliation failed.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Young Shines Acquitted
 Again in German Trial

Berlin. July l9 P-Hugo Shines. Jr., who was acquitted last July of attempting to defraud the govern ment in connection with the dispo- sition Of war bonds today again was declared not guilty in the criminal court of appeals. His co-defendant, Erich Nothmann, of Hamburg, also was acquitted.
 Shines, son of the German post war industrial magnate, vas com pletely exonerated by the verdict but on July 27, last year, his secretary, Wolf von Waldaw, received a sen tence of four months in prison with seven weeks remitted, and the re- mainder of the term probationary for good behavior.
 Shines was charged with at tempting to defraud the government of S480,0O0,
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Actress Quits Stage
 As Husband Objects

Geneva, July i9 tP-Jane Aubert, actress wife Of Nelson Morris, of Chicago, today cancelled her con- tract to appear at the Kursal thea ter here. She was to have perform cd last night but her husband, who earlier this year had won his fight to keep her off the Paris stage. pending a divorce trial, also served notice on her not to appear here.
 The theater. under the circum- stances. agreed with her to simply cancel her contract.
 On March in the Paris cour: alimony of $1.0oo a month awarded Mrs. Morris at Versailles was re- duced to s20o At that time the Chicagoan testified that he had spent vast sums upon his wife, in- cluGing S52,00O for d villa in Paris suburb.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Three Mayor Brothers
 To Meet in Pasadena

Pasadena. Cal, July 19 P-As boys the Milan brothers all wanted to be mayors. While they milked cows on their fathers Missouri farm, they discussed their political futures.
 The three Milan boys, now all full-hedged mayors. will meet to- gether here this summer at the home of Warren R. Flynn. who in vited them here for visit.
 They are Mayor A. M. Milan, of Monterey Park, Cal. Mayor Arthur Milan of Morris, Okla, and Mayor c. l.. Milan, of Winslow, Ariz.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Field Marshal Count Oku won hi!

Field Marshal Count Oku won his first military distinction in the Civil War of 1877 for having cut through the besieging lines of the rebels around Kumamoto. Later he com manded the fifth army division in thet Japanese Chinese war. He vas made commander of the Tokyo Bay Defense Committee of the eastern military districts and held other high posts In 1903 he was made a general During the Russian-Ja ese war he led the second division. From 1906 to 1912 he was chief of the general staff
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Meet Over Roy

South Bend, Ind, July 1a GP)- The board of county commissioners met in special session today to con- sider the case Of Jimm y Sugonits, l3. Jimmy is 'up tree" and has been there for more than 60 hours. But the tree is in the court house park and the commissioners say the advertising signs alongside Jimmy disfgure the trees.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
SPEEDBOAT RUNS
 INTO BIG YAWL

the two sailors 1Umped in and made thalr way safely ashore
 A nearby boat took members Of the Marshall party aboard. Young Marshall was taken TO a hospital. where an emergency opera ion was performed early today. Physicians said h. would recover.
 Members Of 1He party related that Marshall was hurt vhen he struck the side Of the yavl in diving after Miss Ayres.
 A radio was playing and the young people on the speedboat-a craft or the Cah.A cruiser type-wers laugh ing and talking when suddenly. in 17a hlachness Of rha sultry night. the boats came together with crash heard mile away. Thousands Of hathers along the beaches heard
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
City Items

Henry Shubzda of = Booth street complained 10 Supernumerary Off, cer John Nolan last night that his daughter was struck above the eye with a stone and the attendance of a physician was necessary. The Of ficer questioned three boys but they denied having had anything to do with the accident.
 Miss Gertrude Brusick and Ed ward KalUac were chosen as dele gates to represent Walther League Of St. Matthew's German Lutheran church at the district convention to bc held at Bridgeport early in Sep tt mber, at the meeting held last night at W'iegand's Grove. The al- ternates will be Miss Lillian Hoff- mann and John Glatz.
 The James Quinlan, who has been arrested in connection with alleged stock fraud, is not James M. Quin- Ian of 97 Seymour street.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
FTOUTS LOSSES IN STREET

New York, July 19 UP)-De- clarirg that Wall street losses are being used as pretext by many bankrupt merchants to cover up concealment of assets, Irving Spieler, assistant L. s. district attorney. has announced indictments against sev- eral persons who recently filed bank ruptcy petitions.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
SPFEDFRS ARRESTED

Worcester. Mass, July 19 (UP)- Speeding for pleasure through the Tatnuck section of Worcester early today on a water-sprinkling trolley car. William Nuttall, David W. Mo Donald, and Charles W. Cadorett, all of Worcester. Street Railway em- ployes, were, arrested on charges of drunkenness
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
BEER RECORD UNCHALLENGED

Colon, C, Z,, July 19 UP)-No challengers presented themselves to- day against the beer drinking cham pionship Of Donald Stephens, who was recuperating in a local hospital after winning his laurels.
 Stephens, an American citizen of Colon, collapsed after he had gulped down the 1Tth 10-ounce glass of beer, some five quarts of the liquid. He was removed to the hospital in an unconscious state, but as soon as he had recovered consciousness he claimed a new record.
 Stephens was able to sit up in bed today.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Shocked" Down

Aurora. Ill, July 19 UP)-It wasn't the limbs but high tension electric wires which shocked two Aurora tree sitters out of their perch. The city electrical depart ment issued an order against tree sitting.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Fractures Skull

Dubuque. Iowa, July 19 UP)- Donald Faber, 12, was in the hos pital today with a fractured skull and broken arm as a result of his tree sitting ambitions, He fell out yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Breaks Rib In Fall

Fort Worth, Texas. July 1o (UP) The first casualty of the current tree-sitting craze occurred here when Oscar Fox. 14. fell from his high perch and broke a rib. City authorities ruled against the city wide practice but Oscar climbed back 10 his limb. His mother fore ed him down later when it became evident he was in pain.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Wants Ice Cream

Chicago. July 19 UP) - Curtis Freeland, 12, chose sour apple tree for his endurance sitting but it's hard on his managers. Unless they supply him with hot dogs and ice cream he threatens to eat the apples.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
PEssIMIsTIC OVER FRUIT

Paris, July 19 P-Charles Bril- laud De Laujandiere, director gener- al of the Central Syndicate of Agriculturists of France" today pub lished pessimistic predictions regard ing the French fruit crop.
 He said that he expected a short crop but with enough of last years holdover to meet French needs Bad weather and rust. he said, have caused much damage 10 the crop, which once gave brilliant promise. He concluded: Unless the unex- pected happens the average crop is the best one can hope for"
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Field Marshal Oku Dies
 In Tokyo Hospital Today

Tokyo. July 19 tF) - Field Mar shall Count Yasukata Oku, last sur viving commander Of the Russian Japanese war, died Of kidney trouble here today at the age of 84.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Coast Guards Hclp

Life guard boats DatrolIng the beaches put out at once. and quick ly were joined by coast ruardsnen. Early today coast guardsmon sill were dragging for Miss Ayros' body. The young woman had gone on the boat trip 10 escape the heat. her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ayrcs, said.
 Ths Scarab" only recently ar rived hy way Of the Sr. Lawrence river and the Great Lakes. for the Chicago to Mackinac yacht race starting late today, She was illng of shore when the collision oc- cured.
 The "scarabs' port of registry is Washington. She was Of wooden con struction. measured 63 feet and 10 inches over all, and was sal and motor driven.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
BRUEN|NG LIKELY
 ID RULE GERMANY
out its tasks.
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out its tasks.
 President Non Hinlenburg's financial reform program was re- Jected by small majority which is divided in itself and is incompetent to assume responsibility, An ap- peal is made to the nation to decide its future. Do the people want 10 withhold from the government what IS necessary to regulate finances. maintain German economic life and safeguard social obligations? That is the question for Sept. 14'
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
DOUBLE CHICKEN

London. July 19 tUP)-A chicken that broke it's way Unaided out of an egg shell was found to have four legs and four wings.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
ROAD IS RENAMED

London. July 19 (UP)-Residen of the village of stotfold objected ,e the name of Asylum road and chang ed it to Hitchin road.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Scouts Assist Him

Mangum. Okla. July 19 UP)- A troop of Boy Scouts will do their good turn Monday night in Deacon Gradys back yard Deacon is a ticker for attending scout meetings but he is also stickler for tree sit ting. His troop will cooperate.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Complete 14O Hours

Muskogee, Okla, July 19 UP)- The Thompson brothers, Archie and Bill, completed their 10th hour to- day and are confident enough to be- lieve they won't be down until school opens again We have only started" they said. "We'll come down to go to school but not be- fore"
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Quits News Job

SweetHater. Tex, July 19 (UP)- Buck Sawyer hasn't sold a news paper for more than so hours. He's been busy sitting in a tree. Buck started out in life to be a neHsboy but now says he probably will fin ish as a tree-sitter unless some others show signs of quitting.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
Refueler May Quit

Kansas City, July 19 (UP)-Bill Kearney. 10, has been sitting and thinking, mostly sitting, in a tree for 2l4 hours now. but he may have to give up because his "refueler' shows evidence of giving up. His mother who has been providing the meals now says he will receive no more food unless he Is on the ground to eat it.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19

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New Britain herald., 1930-07-19

Camden, England, has just opened a clinic for sunlight healing.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
MIDSUMMER HEAT
 CAUSES 3 DEATHS
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ENOdus 10 Reach

decades occurred Thursday at Mon rahalIn. Los AnreIas sIn-rM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
WARNS WORLD
TO COOPERATE
OR Face CRASH
German Economist Asserts
Fate of One Nation
Affects Others.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-World
cooperation to bring about better
times in every country, or an al
tentative of disaster for all con-
cerned is forecast by DR.. Gustav
Stolpher, German editor, economist
and member of the reichstag.
The American worker already is
suffering from increased unemploy-
ment and decreased purchasing
power because of the reduced
powers of consumption in Europe,
DR.. Stolpher says in the current
number of Foreign Affairs, out
today.
The noted economist does not
mince words. In an analysis of the
world business depression he pays
particular attention to the part
America is playing in international
economies and flays the idea that
any no country can prosper while
the rest are in want.
DR.. Stolpher says the bubble of
1.-THE American Miracle" has been
pricked For the past few years the
rest Of the world has been looking
on in amazement, wondering how
the United States could defy estah-
lished laws and economically lift it
self by its boot-straps.
Now, he says, observers are begin
ming to see how it was done. It
was not real, after all. 1t was just
an illusion.
American statesmen, the writer
declares, seem to be of the opinion
that economic laws can de defied
and that the high wages and high
standard of living Of Americans can
be maintained by means of an ever
mounting tariff. This idea he be-
lieveS to be erroneous.
The consequence of such policy,
he states, only can be that "the
effects of an American depression
on the rest Of the world will be in
tensified and that there will be a
similar intensification of the
counter effects of world depression
upon America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
CARAVAN WILL
FOLLOW ROUTE
OF MARCO POLO
Modern Explorers to Use
Caterpillar Cars in
Desert Trek.
BY STEWART BROWN 4.


PARIS, Dec. 16.-Thirty-five mod
ern Marco Polos, riding caterpillar
cars instead of thirteenth century
means of locomotion, are preparing
to quit Paris in March to rediscover
little known regions of Turkestan
and the Cobb desert.
The expedition, which is Franco
American in conception and execu-
ton, is being sponsored by the
American Geographic Society, which
contributed $4,000, and M. Andre
Citroen, French automobile manu-
facturer, who donated eight desert
caterpillar cars.
The scientific jaunt will take one
and one-half years, after disappear
ing from civilization at Beirut, the
starting place for the hazardous ex-
curSion.
Taking Wireless Along
The party will not lack contact
with the outer world as George S.
Marie Haardt, veteran French ex-
plorer and head of the expedition,
is taking along a wireless set and a
talking motion picture camera.
From Beirut the party will work
toward Damascus, Bagdad, Russian
Turkestan, Chinese Turkestan, the
Cobb desert and Peiping, covering
approximately the same ground
which the Venetian traveller, Marco
Polo, traversed in the latter part of
the thirteenth century.
Like Marco Polo, the party will
take voluminous scientific and pop
ular notes for the preparation of
a report which will be Illustrated
by a talking film.
Seek Cradle Of Race
The caterpillar cars to be used
in the trans Asian expedition have
similar qualities to the old war
tanks. They can make their way
through untracked wilderness, des-
erts and through tangled jungles.
Very few white men have visited
| the country to be explored more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16

One of Beethoven's essays in program
music. the overture "Coriolanus." will open
the. program for the Philco symphony con-
cert. under the direction Of Howard Bar
low, at $50 D. m. Tuesday over WFBM
and the Columbia broadcasting network
The work is less definitely descriptive than
some of his other compositions in this
genre. but it nevertheless shows some
utilization with the Shakespearean drama
whose name it bears.
A Bert Williams song medley and five or
chestral numbers ere in the Henry-George
stock Company program to be broadcast
from WFBM and Columbia system from 8
to $3.50 D. m. Tuesday. Five Minute
Dramas" featuring Herbert Poiesie. Teddy
Bergman, Georgia Backus and Billy Artzt.
will be included.
The pains that Joe Green, Of Graybar's
"Mr. and Mrs" used to take in the
preparation of his boss public speech
when It had to be taken out for an
airing every few months, were as nought
when Joe is to deliver this grafton at
9 p. m. Tuesday, over WFBM and the
Columbia network
The overture to RosSini's opera Semi
ramide." based on the story Of the myth
cal Assyrian queen of that name. opens
the WJz-NBC period of lumber Music
to be broadcast Tuesday night, at 10
o'clock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
The Shocking Crime of
the Gay MOther-KiL[er!

Just Golden Moth Auttering around
the Candle of Passion-such was pretty,
sixteen-year old Dorothy Ellington, who
rocked the nation with the most helm
GUS crime in the records of San Francisco
shooting her mother in cold blood, and
then dancing and drinking the night
hours away to clear her mind of MEM
cries. Get the killer was the word
given to the San Francisco detectives.
How the police net was thrown over
San Francisco in search of a henna haired
girl, the quest for Jimmy the Hop head
among the young sheiks of the Barbary
Coast, the deep significance of an obscure
telephone call, the final capture and the
famous trial that resulted is at last told
in every uncensored detail--giving the
full truth about the girl who demanded
a "sheik'' caress, even at the price of her
mothers life. You'll find it thrillingly
told, startlingIy told, in the great Janu-
airy issue Of TRUE DETECTIVE
MYSTERIES, selling to-day at all news
stands. Get your copy early, before
they all go.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16


the chain gang, the punishment of
the corrugated iron" the feeding of
the "sourgum. You hear in your
minds ear the whining of leaden pei
let's, feel the hot breath of the raw
enous hounds. And your whole soul
pulsates to the Chords of Misery and
Happiness, Love and Hatred, that
Fate plays in the life of this man.
Truly, you can't afford to miss it,
Start Mr.. Burns oaon sensational
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Would Share Control

Labor might even have its repre-
sentative upon the board of direc-
tors who shape the policy.
Under this plan the laborer who
has a good record and has been en-
ployed at least year, who earns
81 900, more or less, each year would
receive dividends upon his average
yearly wage, based upon the pay
roll.
Partnerships ought to be based
upon character from both the in
vestment of capital as well as en-
ployment. What an easy solution of
the depression if we all could agree
and accept for our basic law the
Golden Rule"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16

fully by the Franco-American mis-
sion.
The members not only will gather
anthropological data. but all sorts
of information which may give
further proof to the popular belief
that the human race was Graded
in Asia.
The equipment for the expedition
viii be shipped from Paris early in
the new year to Beirut by rail and
boat. 1t is expected the party will
cover more than $4,000 miles in
eighteen months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16

in medley of Politics and Crime, of De-
sertions and Disappearance counter
checked with Lawsuits, of faithful Love
and Honor resurrected in one last minute
of magnificent contrition. You'll find
every TRUE detail revealed in this SEN
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the world-complete in the thrilling
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