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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-05
Auto Racer Killed in Collision.

GREENVILLE, Ohio, August S.
Kenneth c. Louder. Is, Dearborn, Mich,
automobile race driver, was killed in the
collision of three cars at the motor
speedway here Sunday. Louder was
tuning up his car for the races that
afternoon. His neck was broken.
The body was sent to the home of his
parents in NATION. Ill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-05

Mooney and Billings were sent to
prison for life for the bombing which
killed 10 persons and injured 40 during
a Preparedness day parade, July ~,
1916.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-05
Mothers Go to School.

SALTWATER, Okla. Oklahoma
mothers are going to school to learn
how to care for children. A course for
mothers at Oklahoma A. and M. here
has 20 students.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-05

In the first four months of this year
Brazil shipped nearly 1875. 900 pounds of
reptile skins to this country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-05
CLAPPER> WORKS QUICKLY
Contacts Bell Seven to Eight Thou
sandths of Second to Ring.

NEW YORK [P).-The clapper of a
bell as it rings chimes is in contact with
the bell for from seven to eight thou
sandths of a second.
These measurements are reported to
the Acoustical Society of America by
Arthur Taber Jones of Smith College.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-05
NURSE'SSTORy JARS
BILLINGS DEFENSE
Hearing on Plea for Pardon
Looks Like Trial as New
Evidence Enters.

BY The Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 5.-The
protracted State Supreme Court hearing
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
CITY SLOGANS NS. NICkNAMES

New Britain has no slogan-thank heaven. It has, however, a nick name, and 1t means som ething. No body would mistake the meaning Of The Hardware City" anymore than a wrong meaning would he squeezed out of The Silver City" for Meri- den, The Brass City" for Water bury, or The Insurance City" for Hartford.
 Some cities. however, are growing high-toned and think they need a slogan. Thus Stamford, suffering from a disease that begins above the neck, has evolved Busy and Beau tiful Stamford, This slogan must he in the same class with Water burys, Waterbury has something on everybody and "Danbury crowns them all'-to mention only a few of the literary meanderings indulged In by Chambers of Com- merce when they begin studying art fully contrived words and decide upon something that gets the laugh elsewhere
 One of the slogans for 6 large city that IS equally meaningless is the T Will" of Chicago. But per haps Chicago. having the nickname Of the Windy City, naturally would try to prove it with some foolish slogan. The gangsters there have changed the slogan 10 T Kill"
 Connecticut. by the way has two nicknames, the Nutmeg state, and the Constitution state. The latter is historic; but the reference to the nutmeg is mentioned at least 100 times to the others once.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
S30 PER CAPITA TO "RLN THE GOVERNMENT"

Interest in taxation is always con- siderable; but when taxation, Or the cost Of government, is brought down 10 per capita basis interest is cer- tain to increase. Too many people think that the other fellow" Is paying most Of the costs Of running the government. when as matter Of fact, the costs are paid by every one. either directly or indirectly. The man who doesn't own anything but the family flivver and a little nest egg in the savings bank, who pays no income tax and who gets no tax bills from the federal govern just as cffectually as the man O. heavy investments; indeed, relative ly speaking, he may pay more than the big fellow. The main difference is he pays his money indirectly while the big fellow IS more apt to pay his taxes directly. It counts for just as much either way.
 Roughly speaking, what everyone pays to the federal government amounts to s30 per capita, or s125 for the average family.
 In other words, virtually every family hands over the price of radio to the federal government every year. And this in addition to state and municipal taxes.
 Congressional appropriations taper close to $5,00O. 100000 a year, But these figures include expenditures of the postal service, most of which is met by the revenues from the mails; they include the retirement Of the public debt, while about s200,000,- 900 is received annually in payment for war debts owed by foreign gov ernments; and they include a variety
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
THE ISSUE WELL PUT

President Hoover well put the issue before the Senate when he de- cLared the senators opposing the London Naval Treaty are in reality opposed to all treaties of the kind. They are Of the ilk who, when Woodrow Wilson was endeavoring to consolidate the victory against militarism into universal brother hood Of nations, spiked the en- deavor upon purely political grounds. Fortunately it looks as if merely a handful of such pro- fessional malcontents are left.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
THE LEGACY OF SIR ARTHUR

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's chief contribution 10 literature vas to make detective stories popular among all classes of readers. Where as, before Sir Arthur came upon the scene, detective stories were usually read by a preponderanCe of adolescents, many of whom bought their mental settlements in the form ot the once universal yellow backs" 1t remained for the British author 10 make his output of such a uni versal appeal that 1t became as necessary for an educated person to have a lowing acquaintance with Sherlock Holmes as 1t vas to ad- init having once read the classics.
 Incidentally Sir Arthur created character that has become the in- eyitable synonym to designate sleuthing skill. When we wish 10 imply that 8 detective in real life is overwhelmingly superior We naturally refer to him as another Sherlock Holmes.
 From the time Of Doyle in his best years Of productive activity down to the present there has been q steady stream Of detective yarns modelled fairly evenly upon the Sherlock Holmes masterpieces. Nothing has become more self-evi- dent than that the reading of nys- tery, crime and detective fiction has become a staple method of mental exhilaration. We pity our wits against the author and dutifully re- train from reading the last chapter first.
 The daddy of them all has passed
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
NO NEED TO OVERDO
 PESSIMISM

The country is not on the way 10 tho dogs and the world is not com ing to an end.
 The stock market has had a flat tire and some industries are out Of gas.
 But there are 12O,OOo,oOO people in this country, they are for the most part accustomed to a higher standard of living than the people in any other country, and 95 per cent of .he adults remain sainfully employed.
 We have a surplus Of products from the farms, and this will con- tinue for some time; which means
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
25 Fears Ago Today

Principal Akers of the high school is having a hard time filling the many vacancies here. A large ma jority of the high school teachers have been offered higher salaries else ewhere.
 The Y. NJ. T. A (; B society will give a field day at Rentschler's park on August 26.
 The city is being visited by many gangs of dogs and fear IS felt for the safety of the public because O. the extreme warm weather.
 There were two fistic fights in the vicinity of the saloons on upper Main street today but the partici- pants escaped before the police ar rived.
 A large meeting Of the Iron Moulders' union was held in the Commercial hall last evening The moulders Or North 6 Judd are seek ing higher wages.
 Corporation Counsel F. l. Hu7- gerford and family will leave for Sharon tomorrow where they will spend the summer.
 At the meeting of the street com- missioners he'd last evening dis cUssion was held concerning the ad- visa bility of building a new streat between Hart and Linwood streets.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
BALTIMORE TO ORGANIZE
 TRANSATLANTIC" SERVICE
$10,000,000 Concern to Open New Steamer Line to Hamburg,
 Hayre and Bremen.

Baltimore, July P}-Formation of the $10,000,000 Baltimore Mail Steamship company which in 1881 will give Baltimore the first trans- atlantic passenger line since the World war, was announced today with the filing before state officials of the application for a charter. The line will provide weekly sailings of 14,S00 ton liners to Hamburg, call- ing at Havre and Bremen.
 The line is backed by local cap- italists, in conjunction with tho Roosevelt Steamship company, and details of the system were given out by John M. Franklin, vice president of the Roosevelt company who will act as executive vice president of the Baltimore line. He said five liners would inaugurate the service with government mail contracts which provide for two additional liners on federal demand.
 Donald H. Symington, Baltimore banker, is president of the new com- pany, Kermit Roosevelt and Henry E. Treide, vice presidents and l. W. Iglehart. treasurer. W. Frank Rob- erts is to be chairman of the board.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
'O.O.McInfyre

Paris. July S.-The Sport of Kings is literally that sort of sport on this side of the Atlantic. l stood watching the King of Spain, fascin- ated, incidentally by his Hapsburg lip, while he watched the nose to nose finish of an exciting race at Longchamps, that beautiful course on the fringe of the leafy Bois, to- day.
 The race tracks of France offer a far more interesting, colorful an1 cosmopolitan crowd than we see in America-Save perhaps at the Louisville Derby. There are the gaI.y dressed mannikins from fashionable dressmaking establishments. Kings, princes. duke, East India rajahs and the smart looking demi-mondaine only seen over here
 In the betting sheds I noticed there were few heavy bets most of them ranging from few francs to about $40. The leading courses are Longchamps and Auteuil along with Nincennos, St. Cloud. Maison Lafitte and Chantilly. A different course is used daily, the horses be- ing moved in huge motor vans.
 The turf here is a grassy green course sprinkled with yellow wild flowers and t is the only place in France I know where dogs are barred. But mine should worry, for he mapped during the proceedings on the plush softness Of Bill Hogg's Hispano-Suiza.
 The beautiful concrete grand stands are terraced with yari-colore1 flowers and the presidents box is private castle in itself. A gentleman in a high silk hat who occupied it. however was prominent wine mer- chant from Norseilles. The crowd vas the best dressed I ever saw
 Among those I recognized in the promenade were Felix Wildcnstein, the New York art dealer, Jules Eache, the banker, Betty Baker, of Hollywood. Jack Hobby, the Amphi- tryon of the Coconut Grove at Palm Beach. Grace Fields, former Amer ican dancer. Watterson Rothack"r and his wife, and a newspaper edi- tor who once clred me for lazinHss.
 After the races We motored 10 Versailles, that stupcndous pile of decaying grandeur that perhaps more than anything else in the world hastened the twilight Of royalty. Among other places we visited the room where the treaty of Versailles was created. I indulged furtive peek under the table 10 see if the delegates parked any gum there.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

of other expenses met fully or wholly by receipts, such as Panama canal tolls, irrigation receipts. revenue from various trust funds. etc.
 The amount actually met by di- rect or indirect taxation is between $500, 100000 and s4,000, 100000 a year. That Is the annual sum Uncle Sam reaches out for and he assesses $50 per head on all of us including women and children.
 Yet there are people who think the |. s. Treasury is boundless in it's wealth. All the treasury amounts to is a machine to extract money from the people, and when we consider the treasury as able to stand any possible expense it is tantamount to saying we ourselves can foot any possible bill by simply reaching into our own pockets.
 To find out how quick the aver age individual is to contribute his share to any such enterprise just ask him 10 donate $50 to some worthy cause-a cause that may be just as worthy. from some stand points, as contributing 10 the treasury.
 It is lucky, perhaps that Uncle Sam has his collecting machinery so arranged that the money he needs is collected Indirectly" He gets the s50 per capita without the general run of folks knowing they are part ing with the money,
 But he gets it.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

hard luck for the soil-tillers, but 1t also ought to mean enough for everybody to eat.
 We have had 8 surplus of manu- factured goods, but for half a year or more production of manufac- tured goods has been under the average of consumption.
 This means that some fine day in the near future industry will have to bestir itself to catch up with the ordinary demands for manufactured goods in most lines.
 This is not our opinion, but the opinion of virtually all industrial ob- servers who have been trying 10 de- termine when there will be q turn in the industrial world.
 It is perhaps unfortunate that the wheels of industry are capable of surpassIng the demands for manu- factured goods very easily. At such times the plants work full blast, many of them on double shifts, everybody Is employed, and industry looks prosperous.
 But the inevitable overplus of manufactured goods is created, and then comes a period Of marking time until the overplus is consumed.
 The last halt year has seen such period
 There is no reason to believe that what will happen this year, after our surplus Of manufactured goods Is fully consumed, is 10 be different from what happened In 1S96, 1907. 1914 and 1921. History still repeats.
 What happened in those years? Industry was down lower than 1t is today. There were soup houses in some Of the cities. But after the high fever of depression had passed in those years industry promptly moved forward 10 new heights. Not only was lost ground recovered, but higher peaks Of prosperity were reached In the succeeding years.
 The same experience is in store Time 10 quit being professional pessimist. The greater the pessi- mism, in fact, the longer it will take 10 bring back good times. Pessi- mism is like a depressing drug; it submerges enterprise, kills ambition paralyzes energy and is an antidote against hope.
 Time to look for the silver Hn- ing. IL is easily found.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
LONG ROAD FOR FIEXIBHITY

After having insisted that the flexibility provision Of the tariff be retained and succeeding in retain ing it. it IS now being supposed that President Hoover will be in a hur- " 10 make it work.
 Some, indeed, go so far as 10 sur mise, inasmuch as he does not like some of the tariff increases, he will do what no other Republican presi- dent has done in the : 1-o years Of nexibility history and reduce the rates on some important products.
 Indeed it is further surmised that it was in order to play some such trick on he tariff boosters that he was so strongly in favor of retain ing the flexibility system,
 The assumption is a fair one, but it must pe rem embered that presl- dential rate changing cannot take place unless superimposed upon recommendations Of the Tariff Commission. After such a recom- mendation is in hand, the President can take action.
 Heretofore the changes made by presidential fiat after the commits sions recommendation involved small items that made little differ ence to the public; on the big items. such as cotton goods and sugar, the White House changes were not made, and findings on about ten commodities were held in abeyance to await the present tariff law.
 What one may expect in the future can be reasonably ascertained by looking into the past. The average length of time between the dates when the Tariff Commission began it's investigations and the dates when the 37 changes Of rates were pro- claimed was years, 4 months and q days.
 T. is now hoped that the Tariff Commission will be able to make it's investigations more expeditiously, and due to certain changes in the law it is really reasonable to antici- pate more speed. But those who know the ponderosity of govern mental bureaus will be of the i'm. pression that nobody will break a leg to rush pellmell into concluding investigations.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
Observations On He Weather

Washington. July S.-Forecast for Southern New England: Fair tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature; light west or northwest winds
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Fair tonight and Wednesday,; little change in temperature; moderate northwest and north winds becomin g variable.
 Forecast for New Haven and vicinity; Fair tonight and Wednes- day.
 Conditions: An area of high pressure central over the Lake region is producing pleasant weather in all sections east of the Mississippi river Only light scattered showers have occurred during the past 24 hours. The temperature Is slightly higher this morning in the northern districts than it was yesterday. Several places in the interior re- ported maximum temperatures of 100 degrees or above,
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with warm sunny days and cool nights.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

Near Place Clichey in Montmartre l saw an American girl who gained some prominence as an entertainer or Broadway ten years ago. Her complexion was splotchy and her face puffed in an unwholesome bloat. l had heard liquor, cocaine and Parisian night life had exacted it's toll, but the change to me had something of horror. I had known her passably well and as a face to face meeting was unavoidable I held out my hand. She took it. but there was only the blank vacuity of a clouded mind in her stare. A phil osophic American friend, who had known her too in aftluent days ob- served: They die but go on living like that over here"
 I have made three visits to the bird markets on the quay near Notre Dame. On each occasion ] purchased for a pittance a bird and took it to the Tuilleries and released it from it's tiny cage. If I were a bird (Noice: In many ways you are" l can think of no life so won- derful as caroling and fitting about in the beautiful gardens of the his tCric Tuilleries.
 Copyright, 1880, McNaught
 Syndicate, lnC.)
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
Coroner Investigates
 Accident in TOrringtOn

Waterbury, July S-Because death hovers at the bedside of James p'Amclio and John Tartaglio, bo: h or this city, who were injured in an automobile crash soon after motor ist gave them a lift, Coroner John T. Monzani spent several hours in Tor rngtcn yesterday questioning wit ncsses.
 The youths together with Louis D'Amclio. brother of James. were picked up ir Waterville by Fred Norman, 26 of Carlsbadt, x, J. Later his car crashed with one driven by Ferdinand Nasko of Schenectady, N. Y. The nine occu- pants were injured and both cars demolished.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
Three Americans Given
 Paris Divorce Decrees

Paris. July UP)-Divorces were granted to three Americans by a Partisan divorce court today
 Mrs. Edith Wrigley Horn was granted her petition for a divorce from Frank John Horn, now of Massa chusetts, when she charged de- sertion. They were married here in 1918.
 Mrs. Helen Russel Auchinoloss Everitt was divorced from William Russel Everitt They were married at Salisbury. Conn, on March IS, 1925.
 Mrs. Camil Foegly Sawyer was di- vorced from John Mills Sawyer, of Darby, Pa. They were married in Paris in 1910.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
Taxi Drivers Freed as
 Occupants Carry Booze

Little Rock, Ark, July : tP}- The Arkansas supreme court has absolVed taxi drivers of guilt as transporters of liquor when passenger carries intoxiCants without their consent or knowl- edge.
 The question was decided in an opinion in which the court re- vcrsed iudgment of Hot Springs circuit court. The lower court had upheld an order of Malvern municipal court tining Ernest Henson, a taxi driver. s10O on a charge of transporting liquor. Henson's passenger pleaded guilty 10 possessing liquor.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
MAKE FIRE FIGHTING PACT

Hartford, July - Hartford fire commissioners last night approved q pact whereby Hartford and Wethers- field wll cooperate in the matter Of fire fighting. Under the proposed agreement Wethersfeld will send ap- paratus to the quarters of Company 10 to fill in" should a general alarm take all the engines from this company. This will afford added pFo- lection to the southern end of the city. In return Hartford will send one company presumab ply No. 10, 10 Wethersfeld in case of a fire there that the towns department can not capably handle.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
Charge Coroner With
 "Abuse of DiscretiOn''

Norwich, July 8 - Coroner Sam uel A. Herman of Litchfeld county was charged with abuse of discre- ton yesterday in a habeas corpus hearing at. 6 special sitting of the supreme court seeking the freedom of two Torrington men held as sus- poets in the staying of Anotnie Russo who was found dead with a bullet in his back May 9.
 The two men, Theodore Alamo and Dominic Chirarella, have been kept in jail since May 24. At the hearing it was brought out that a person may be detained only 4S hours on a coroner's warrant.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
Grand Jury Rebuffed
 By Police Commission

Hartford, July 8 - Police com missioners last night refuted charges made by the grand jury that Police Chief Garrett J. Farrell is not in favor of active enforcement of the liquor laws and that he has shown favoritism and partialty towards certain members of his police force.
 The board also found Policeman Robert E. Daley guilty of one Of three charges against him in the jury's report and suspended him for one year. The board issued signed statement asserting it's faith in Far yell
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
RED PROPAGANDA FOUND

Athens, July 8 P)-Military au- thorities here announced today that they had discovered that communist among members of the Athens gar rison. Several Bolshevik proclama- tions were seized. Similar attempts to circulate propaganda in the navy have failed.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

After a bus line IS established comes the argument 10 extend it. And the beauty Of it is that it can be done without putting any bus company further in the red,
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

We judge by the papers that the higwigs are inducing Mr. Huston to resign which is pretty word covering q multitude ot circum- stances
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
Member Audit Bureae of Circulation

Member Andit Bureae of Circulation Ths A g. c. is national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- ti,eB with A strictly honest analysis of circuistion. Our circulation satisfies hrs based upon this audit This inrures pro- lection against fraud in newspaper dis trieution figures to both national and local adverL erh
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08
JESUIT PRIEST APPOINTED

Vatican City. July (UP)-Father Thomas Emmet, a Jesuit who was born in the archdiocese Of Boston, has been appointed apostolic vicar to Jamaica, it was announced here to- day,
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

With nine in one day losing their lives in airplane crashes one comes 10 the conclusion that the use of alrplanes is by no means as well stabilized as the manufacture there.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

In other words, after a heavy storm Willow Brook no longer IS d blllowy brook.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

Ths Herald is sls daily in New York at HotalnSs Newsstand. Times Square; schutrs Sewsrard. Entrance Grand Central lind Street
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

Thank Goodness! If Darwin was right, the next generation will be born with too much sense 10 trump a partners ace.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

If Mayor Quigley wins final victory over the widow, well, let him have II.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

Discretion is the quality that prompts a missionary to burn the newspapers from back home.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

The quality called 'It' has limi- ted value as bait. Cheese attracts mice, but you cant catch lions that way.
New Britain herald., 1930-07-08

When the police allow motorists 10 pass signs without restraint they are criticized by pedestrians; when they arrest motorists they are criti- cized by their victims. Now, just what should the police do 10 be popular with both sides?