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New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Disclaims Personal Control
FINDS DEATH ACCIDENTAL

Bridgeport. Aug. lP}-A finding of accidental death, with no crim- inal responsibility. was returned in the death of William Whaley, 9, Of Darien, who was killed while riding in an automobile operated by his step father. William DeLong. The accident occurred on the Danbury- New Fairchild road last Sunday.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
EARNINGS REPORTS

New York, Aug. P)-Western Auto Supply company of Kansas City reports net profit for the first half at s210.649, or $1.07 share, against s122,739, or 62 cents a share. in the same 1929 period.
 Interstate Department Stores net profit for the first six months was S482,232, or s1.65 a common share. against s496,376, or $1.71 a year ago.
 Indian Motorcycle ended the first half with net loss of s36S,7sS con- pared with net loss of s37S,201 in the same period of 1929.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
REPRESENTATIVE
 CAUGHT WITH STILL
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breach of promise.
 The litigation went against him. He then chartered an airplane and hurried back to Oklahoma for re- nomination. He announced as the subject of his opening address: Two years in congress, or through hell and back again" The speech was made but the voters were not i'm pressed. Herrick was a poor third, receiving only 16S votes.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
REFUSES TRANSFER
 OF STOCKS, SUED
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the so shares of stock.
 MT. Comedy, through Attorney Gaffney. has made a technical at- tachment on property of the Bly, rolly Co. naming $2O,00O damages. The writ is returnable to the su- September. He claims 10000 dam- ages and also an order compelling the secretary Of the Byrolly con- pany to issue q certificate for 1S shares Of stock and name Bernard A. Connolly as owner of the cer- tifcates.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
TOMORROW In Three Centuries

center as the vestbound trolleys, on the eastbound tracks, attempted to make headway against the heavy east tbound traffic flow during the rush hours.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
EIackcncd .trca Watched

plymou,a. Mas. Aug tP- SloapI--s Cape coGlars pa'rollrd the outskirts of a &.-r.,c fire hlachened woodland today on watch for 'he first H.rasr Of fam" that might moan tar renewed start of rho for .e- fires that have s"o7- both banks Of -ra Ca.a Cod ca.aL
 Thousands Of citizens. fire war 9cns and s'a-a parrolm"n had inc flames prsaF well under control at dawn today i'm. 'he faElc wind that for 'as ra=t -~o days has helped ohars taa flames and as readily swept tha flames forward was still 10 he figured #i-l and fire guards svaro still on the alert. Fire officials said that only a haar" rain would bring tHa flames 70 m absolute s'andzrlI BaoEGros 'renchod and lines Of aahters with chemicals. hrooms and ashorole could ar their hest do no more than hold the fire
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
CLEARING HOUSE

New York, Aug. lR - Clearing house statement exchanges S91S,- 000,000; balances $142, 100000.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Regiment Tcam Organizing

A practice session for candidates .7t sla -5gth. I.g.mautal baseball team Nus held last night at 6:5J o'clock. Merrill S,rong Of Hartford, tha regim.a. 8 Thys,ciai instructor. VIII coaea rho team composed Of players from Nararn and other towns Ia thar locality tomorrow afternoon a- o'elogM
 Boxing Boat, Well Attended
 The aalha ae.d where the box ing bou.s wova ,Nnib.tod last night was crouG.l with thousands of soLGi.rs and oai.grs last night. Sev- cral good tights were put on.
 Bruised and battered after being lloorea ..ra. times in tho second and third rounds. Johnny CBaby rs.. Geazao Of PlatnUue, n mem l.- er Company ]. C. \, G. Of New Hr.-.n lost on a technical knockout r- ... rh.rd round .a a bout ar the camp last nt-G-
 Go.nry took rho first round but ~erH.aa1 -onsia.ra in the sec oaH a-# third --anza. He Was knock ea 70 inc floor jour times in the -.on3 and toar times in the third, Finally rns r1farae stepped in and topped rH1 hou7. There were six .oa.s oa raa card.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Patronage Question Aired

Washington, Aug. ' P-The old intra-party dispute over the hand ling Of southern patronage broke out with renewed yigor today as re- publican party executives gathered here to settle the long pending con- troyersy over the chairmanship of the national republican committee.
 Horace A. Mann, Washington law yer, who managed President Hoo- Ner's 1928 southern campaign, warn cd administration forces in general and Postmaster General Brown in particular that his little band of followers below the Mason Dixon line would stand for no further "out- side interference and henceforth would conduct southern political af- fairs in their own way.
 A statement by Mann. explaining the purposes Of last weeks Savan- nah, Georgia. meeting of his follow CTS, rang with such phrases as de signing political high jackers' and 'interloping element Of carpet bag gers"
 Brown Answers Statement
 Postmaster General Brown replied 10 the ultimatum with the statement that he belonged to no committee with power 10 dispense federal pa tronage throughout the south and that his sole purpose in setting up advisory committees in four south ern states was to get the best pos sible postal service, not subject to barter"
 He said he handled only post office appointments, that other cab iret officers selected men for their departments and that the Savannah meeting of the eight disgruntled men, would not make the slightest difference" to him.
 Indications were the meeting of the national committees executive group would take no official notice of Mann's pronouncement but would proceed with the pre- determined business Of accepting the promise q resignation of Claudius Huston. of Tennessee, as national chairman. and naming new heads to speed along plans for the congressional elections.
 Fess Temporary Head
 Senator Fess Of Ohio was slated for appointment as provisional chair i man, pending ratification at fall meeting of the national committee, and Robert H. Lucas will be the ac- tive head of organization work for the off-year November elections when the republicans hope to retain their majorities in both senate and house.
 Some reports have had it that l Lucas would be made national chair man if he made good as head of the executive committee. while others 1 have mentioned Brown as a possible ! choice.
 1 Brown would not discuss these re. | ports today, but he did take the op- portunity last night to deny ru. mors that in his handling of south. ern patronage he was attempting tc | line up strength to win the vice 1 presidential nomination in 1882. | Disclaims Personal Control Mann also disclaimed any inten. i ton Of trying to build up a persona
 control Of patronage in the south
 but said he was out to stop "traf. | licking" in delegates to the nationa
 convention, to create a leadership O.
 men and women in districts, tc conduct a campaign Of education
 with the ultimate purpose of ob taining uncontested and uninstruct
 cd delegates to the national conven
 tions, and to stand unitedly for th. betterment and general welfare 0
 the southland and all her people"
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Extends 20 Miles

TO thc north CT th" canal th" burned area extends for sGna 2o square miles 10 the outskirts of Pllmou,h and 10 the south for 15 square ntlasnalmost into Falmouth. Waraham was threatened yesterday arJ la~t night a number Of times as trn changing winds jumped tho has lily dug -vorcLes about the town. Catalmot and Pocassct. bach re sorts 10 tho %outh of the canal were saved several times through almost suncrhunan fir" fighting.
 Camps were abandoned through out the fire area and about g0 col teges and summer homes were de- stroyed. Several automobiles that were parked at inland camps were lost At one time f. appeared that the Barnstablo county hospital might. catch but a large force Of men held the flames hack by main force. There were 20 patients in the hos pital a+ the time
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Two Dozen Reported Dead

Al 8. m, the chief Of police of NoSales. Sonora. made his way to tho American side and said he had received reports Of at least two dozen deaths, but could not confirm them. He said 25 children had been re- ported missing in the Mexican city.
 Don Phillips, an American aviator, who had been visiting on the Mexi- can side, managed to reach the American city and said he had seen several small children swept away when an abode building collapsed.
 Excited citizens focked to the po- lice station here and told of seeing persons. mostly children. being swept along by the raging rain wa ters.
 The Nogales. Sonora, chief of po- lice said the torrents of water, sweeping through his city, had cracked sidewalks, uprooted trees and fattened abode buildings.
 Physicians and nurses were mobil-
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
25 REPORTED DEAD IN CL0UDBURST AT
 MORALES, ARIZONA
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pod tN~ol~h a5oha structures, strip ping them Of everything movable.
 Ra:n Follows Hood

ped tN~ol@h a5ohe structures, strip ping them Of everything moveable.
 Rain Follows Flood
 The water wall bore down upon inc sleeping cities ahead Of rain- storm. When the storm struck. rain .aIl n sheets A [ .. n, t still was pouring down.
 The dalpga held the cities in Its grip for more than three hours. At [ o'olooE International street and many side streets still were filled from curb 10 curb, and debris was piled high against the buildings.
 Hundreds Of Afexic9ns ventured to 'Aa highar side streets clad only in night clothes, all their possessions swort from their shattered homes.
 Shelter was given them in houses that escaped the food.
 More than 5o automobiles, left in inc streets were buried in debris. Some had been rolled and tumbled and rolled several blocks
 Confusion was SO widespread at inc climax Of the food that reports Of missing persons could not be checked. The screams of women. caught in buildings of the lower areas, arose above the roar of the flood water. Both cities were dark, as power lines went out Of commis- sion. Telephone service stopped.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07

(On request. sent with stamped ad- dressed envelope. Nr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him).
 (Reg. u. 8. Pat On)
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07

A Herald Classified Ad helps out in more ways than one.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
COMNISSARY FAILS
 ID FEED SOLDIERS

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New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
GnNcrnnl.- in Camn

Governor William T. GaGlm5~ Of Maine will be .a camp on visitors day and Governor Prank q. Allen ot Massachusetts will #e in camp next week. It IS expected J1a1 Governor John II. TrumpuI of Connecticut z,.I1 .7e1 ,--er+ r.r .,,--.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Soa Follows Father

Harry N- Payne. l>. 4ou Q. tI-.or General Morris Payne. third year student in the Citizen Military Training Corps was aWarl.j a medal tor being tho best in -amp n Rhol4 Island
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Orders Out. Policemen

Governor Frank G. AlIon who was appealed 10 by townsmen and summer residents. ordered the state patrolmen at the Middleboro bar racks 10 the scene of the fire and held in readiness the patrolmen throughout the eastern part of the state should they be needed.
 With no rain in sight the resi- dents Of Plymouth county were ap- prehensiye and fearful Of a renewed flare up of the blaze.
 Three of the abandoned camps had been maintained by over 100 Boy Scouts, who managed to get
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
HUSTON RESIGNS;
 ATTACKS ENEMIES

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New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Keeping 1t Dry

Further steps 10 keep Camp Dcy- ons safe for the drys Was taken Wednesday night when Inc place said to be the only spoaloasy in Aver was raided. It is understood that the military police aided in the rad. No confirmation was made Of this re- yg-+
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07

of the camp. They are Thomas Kelly and William (Battling) Jones who fights in a program ot regular army houts tonight.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-07
Ralph Is GuidOn Bearer


 Private First Class William Ralph is guidon bearer for First Battalion Headquarters company. This is an old job for him. Although he is in his first year as q member Of First Battalion Headquarters company he was formerly a member Of Company l where he also carried the com panies colors in the reviews and parades.
 Lieutenants Return to New Britain
 Second Lieut.. William Mccormick Of First Battalion Headquarters company left for home Tuesday,. This is in accordance with the pro- visions of a special arrangement made with Col. Orville Petty last winter. He will return Sunday in time to take part in the big regi- mental review and will be out of camp on Monday and Tuesday of next week. These furloughs are nec- essary because of pressure Of his private business.
 First Lieut.. John I. DeLorenze Of Company H returned to New Britain Tuesday for an overnight trip. He was back in camp yesterday.
 Corporal Stanley Wolinski Of Company I has been granted fur tough for the remainedr of the camp period He has already return ed to New Britain.
The Washington times., 1930-06-11
DENIES
CONTEMPT

Bishop James Cannon. jr., who
a week ago defied the Senate
Lobby Committee and walked out
on it with the assertion he would
not appear again unless formally
subpoenaed. changed his mind
today and did appear.
Obviously uneasy over the pos.
sibility Of his being prosecuted
for contempt. the Methodist cleric
appeared before the committee
today unasked and uninyited, and
declared that he had not meant
any contempt Of the Senate" by
his defiant action Of last week.
The bishops objection. to ques-
tions concerning his disposal Of
funds in the Smith fight came
when he was asked about $6 600
which he obtained from his board
Of temperance, prohibitions, and
public morals Of the Methodist
Church South.
This 5000. the bishop asserted,
was mot spent for political pur-
poses" but was spent in the
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The Washington times., 1930-06-11
.2D. C. Girls In Crash See
Victims Leap to Death

BOSTON, June IL 1N.S9.-A
story Of the tragic death of a
little .family-lnan, woman and
q child-in the steamship Fair
fax disaster was told by Miss
Sarah Poynton and Miss Ionia C..
Browne, both Of Washington, and
passengers on the Inflated liner.
Said Miss Poynton:
1--WE saw q man, woman and
child Jump overheard. The
water was blazing and the
clothing of all three was bIaZ-
ing, too. It was . terrible pic
ture."
The two young women, who
had been here on an excursion,
were returning home. They were
in the lounging room of the Fair
fax at the time of the crash.
Frightened, they said, they started
to run to the deck. Miss Poynton
tripped and fell In the rush to
the deck and Miss Browne fell
The Washington times., 1930-06-11
Old Union Station
At Toledo Burned

TOLEDO, June II HN.S3.-
Investigation was started today
into a fire which partially de-
stroyed the old union station
here last night, causing damages
estimated at approximately $780,
600.
The station, which has served
Toledo since 1886. wes used by
all railroads except the Pennsyl.
vania and the Wheeling and
Lake Erie. !
The fire broke out in the base.
ment fuse room. where signal
flares we're stored. Nearly $50
persons were milling about the
structure at the time. None was
hurt. Baggage was carried from
the baggage room of the station
before the flames spread.
The Washington times., 1930-06-11

BOSTON, Mass, June IL
Drifting through q sea of flames
with women screaming, some men
standing as If frozen. and the
officers shouting orders to the
crew and trying to quiet the
passengers, was the scene which
greeted me when came on deck
after the crash.
In every direction the sea was
q mass Of flames which shot up
above the deck Of the ship and
soon the ship itself caught fire.
The fire reached the radio nlaStS
and after a few minutes one OF
them fell over the side OF the
ship.
Some Of the passengers. eS-
pecially those with StateroomS on
the port side were severely
burned and one woman had most
of her clothes burned off before
the crew succeeded in extinguish-
ing them.
Officers Efficient.
That there was not a greater
loss Of life and more injuries is
due solely to the GOODNESS of the
officers and the efficiency Of
the crew.
We had been proceeding
through heavy fog, continuously
sounding our fog horn.
] was in one Of the forward
stateroor1s, talking to a young
man. We had just looked at our
watches. It was then 8 minutes
after 8 o'clock. We had sailed
from Boston, on my homeward
journey from a vacation, at Sis
o'clock.
Sharply at sos we felt the
Fairfax crash into something.
throwing us about the stateroorn.
A minute later there came a dull
explosion, which we heard dis
tinctly.
Both of us at once sought life
preservers. Our own cabins were
back aft, 50 we had to take fire
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TANKER, RAMNED.
! BY FA|RF AK, SINKS \.
IN BURNING SEA
- tkWrHAN MI

BOSTON, June IL IIN.s. Trapped III q
flaming Inferno Of gasoline and oil, rs per-
sons, according to latest official estimates to-
day, were drowned or burned to death in
Massachusetts Bay, off Scituate, last night,
in a crash in the thickest fog in years between
the Merchant and Miners liner, Fairfax, Bos-
ton to Norfolk and Baltimore, and the oil
tanker Pinthis Fall River to Chelsea and
Portland Me.
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over her. Miss PoyntoIl'S wrist
was sprained 50 badly that she
required hospital treatment when
she reached here.
Both young women we're hys
terical when they landed, but
after they visited the hospital be.
came calm.
Edward q. Cullen, chief quar-
termaSter of the U. s. S. Lexing
ton airplane carrier, q passenger
aboard the Fairfax, said:
"The fog was 50 dense that
I could not see my hand in
front of me. i was standing
ON the port side Of the Fair
fax, after . brief walk around
the deck, when suddenly there
was q terrific crash, followed
almost Immediately by . blind.
ing flash Of flame and ear.
splitting explosion.
Flames Lear High
II knew we had struck, and
running to the side Of the
Fairfax / saw the tanker, al.
ready beginning to list, In q
mass Of flames. Huge geysers
Of flaming oil were shooting
into the air. The tanker was
encOmpassed by flame, and In
3 moment the blazing oil was
pouring like . deIuge on the
deck and Superstructure.
Il saw the blazing oil fall on
seven passengers ON the for
ward deck, four Of them wO-
men, and their clothes were
Immediately ignited. Their
screams of agony rose above
the bedlam Of fog horns and
the shouts of sailors. One by
one they ran to the side Of the
vessel and plunged in.
The Washington times., 1930-06-11
BY KIRK MILLER
Sports Editor, Washington Times

Copyright. 1930)
NEW YORK, June 11.--Jack
Dempsey doped himself and was
taken for ride by his own
handlers on the eve of the fight
In which he lost the world heavy
weight championship to Gene
Tunney in Philadelphia in Septem-
ber, 1926.
Since that rainy, dismal night
in the Sesqui- Centennial Stadium,
the question, What was the mat
ter with Dempsey" has been pro-
pounded tens of thousands of
times.
The correct answer, given
above. comes from a man not in
the fight game, but one on the
edge of it. He is closer to Jack
Dempsey than any individual not
in his immediate family or. fight
household. He is now. and was
then, Jack DempSey's ghost
writer, Frank q. Menke, of the
The Washington times., 1930-06-11
Dempsey Doped Himself
Before Fight in Phila.

King Features Syndicate, to whom
Dempsey gave the correct answer
months after the title was lost
to Tunney.
Menke has never written the
story, either under his own name,
or under the name Of Jack Denp-
Sey. because that would amount
to an alibi from Jack, and Jack
never made an alibi in his life to
anyone.
Told for First Time
But Menke told me the story
today. sitting in that famous
ante-room to the former office Of
Tex Rickard. in which now holds
forth one Francis Albertanti, and
wherein the newspaper men are
wont to gather Of afternoons and
oft Of evenings into the small
hours Of the morning.
''But, why haven't you ever
written that" we asked.
breathlessly, knowing Menke,
as . newspaper man, must
know the story value Of salch
an astounding revelation.
Because" " he answered,
coming from my hand II
amounts to an alibi from or
WiIIiam!"
And here is. what happened to
Dempsey during those feverish
hours before he was to drop his
golden crown TO Gene T,inney,
according to Menke. who gaze us
permission to quote him and who
said no man could truthfII!ly dis
pute any phase Of his recital.
"Jack Dempsey was loaded
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The Washington times., 1930-06-11
CHICAGO RAIDS
UNDERWORLD

CHICAGO, June IL uN.S)-
Chicago struck back secretly.
silently and swiftly at gangland
today for the assassination Of
Alfred "Jake" Lingie, Chicago
Tribune reporter.
Detective bureau squads, slash.
ing into the haunts and hiding
places Of the underworld, hauled
40 men to the detective bureau.
Additional squads seized more
men and hurried them to out
lying police stations.
All the prisoners were held in.
communicate, without being
booked. Their names and identi-
ties, and the places Of their ar.
rests were kept secret.
Records Locked Up.
Ordinarily, when g prisoner Is
taken TO the detective bureau or
q police station, his name and
record and the place Of his ar.
rest are entered an q slip Of
paper and given to the desk
sergeant.
In today's raids. these slips
were made out, but instead Of
being given to the desk sergeantS,
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Eleven passengers OF the
Fairfax were officially re-
ported missing. Death toll
among the crew was esti-
mated at 12. ALI hope was
given up for the % men
aboard the tanker, which
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went to the bottom in a
geyser Of flame.
The steamship Gloucester,
sister ship of the Fairfax,
brought into port eight In
jured, who were removed TO
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I. THE PASSENGER LINER, FAIRFAX st9-
@ THE HEAVIEST FOG IN years BLAMED Tor the sea
disaster in which the Fairfax heading south last night
tanker Pinth which sank after terrific explosions OF
gasoline Of which the boat carried 1900 gallons.
Forty-six are believed dead Many were badly burned.
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ira the Ote0ntSlatp FdfrF69
axes and chop open the door of
a forward cabin to get preservers,
which we. put on. Then We
rushed on deck to see what had
happened.
The whole forward end Of the
ship was a mass of flames. which
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