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New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
FLETCHER ID HEAD
 NEW TARIFF BODY
Veteran Diplomat Picked as Chairman Of Important Group

Washington, Aug. g P-Thc new tariff commission which soon is to take up difficult tasks under the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. will have at it's head Henry P. Fletcher, vet cran diplomat
 Selection of the former amb2ssa : dor to Chile. Mexico, Belgium, and Italy as chairman of the reoreaniz- cd commission was announced late yesterday by President Hoover. The appointment was the first made since the new tariff act, providing for reorganization of the Commis- slons structure and duties, was passed more than two months ago. The president has until September 16 to name tho five other members. Under the law the group must be made up equally of republicans and democrats.
 Fletcher's service in tho state de- partment at home and in the em- baSsies abroad was considered by President Hoover exceptional quail fcation for the intricate problems Of world economics to be faced by the recognized commission. Mr. Fletcher's home is Greencastle, Pa.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Ronald COlman in
 Rallies" at Strand

Ronald Colman as that most fla nous of all gentleman crooks, "Raf- fles," cavorts at his adventurous best in a stirring photoplay at the Strand theatcr Sunday. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Samuel Goldwyn presents this United Artists picture as a successor to Bulldog Drum mond," in which the famous English star pcrpetuatca his allegiance to detective thrillers.
 Rallies" is Colman's third suc- cessiyc criminal talking film. The first, Bulldog Drummond," revealed Colman in pursuit of criminals. The second. "Condcmned!" showed him a convict. held in the tropic fastness of Devils Island. Rallies" the third, shows him as an amateur criminal desperately trying to clude the law.
 Kay Francis, she of the dark eyes and the glossy black hair and the piquantly upturned nose, is Colman's leading lady in the picture. Which, incidentally, will show Colman mak- ing love 10 a brunette for the first time in many years, six to be exact Blondes there have been-Ann Har- ding, Joan Bennett, Wilma Banky. Lily Damita. Lillian Gish and Con- stance Talmadge, but not brunette until Producer Goldwyn picked Miss Francis.
 David Florence. who vas the doughty banker Of "Disrach" has the role Of Inspector Mckenzie of Scotland Yard. The veteran Fred cric!l Kerr is the Lord Melrose of the piece, while Alison SkipNorth, who has an equal number Of the spoken stages aervice stripes, is his screen spouse.
 Frances Dade and Bramwell Fletcher. both new 10 pictures. make their first bow in Rallies" Her success in the Colman picture has already brought Miss Dade parts in He Knew Women" with Lowell sherman and another with Cyril Maude in Grumpy Bramwell Fletcher has been -,.udIly success rGI.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
LAKE, COMPOUNCE

One of the most elaborate arrays Of fireworks pieces ever to be dis played in this section of Connecticut has been set in place at Lake Com- bounce. ready for the St. Oronzo celebration which is to be held here tonight. Huge stationary and nov ing pieces. more elaborate than the most spectacular shown at the Bristol resort this season have been constructed and great bombs and rockets mounted for a laundering finale. The exhibition tonight will be fcG.ured by many surprise num- bers. Arrangements have been made fer the accommodation of a great throng and it is estimated that mcre than 1o,0O0 will witness the display
 The two band concerts, which will precedo the display, are expect e1 10 prove as great an attraction as the fireworks exhibition. Great pains have been taken in the preparation of the programs which are expected to prove highly enter taininC.
 Sunday night the feature attrac- ton at the Bristol resort will be McEnelly's Victor recording orches- tra which will visit the pavilion ballroom to present another eX- cellent program similar to those which have made the well known group of musicians one of the most popular ever to appear in New EnCland
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
GRAND THEATER, HARTFORD

Mutual Burlesque officially opens it's 1930-1931 season in Hartford Monday afternoon with a popular priced matinee at 230. The demand for tickets has been decidedly brisk and indications point to a capacity house on opening night, certain proof that the new innovations planned for the forthcoming season have met with hearty approval as far as the public in general is con- cerned. Ann Corio, Hartfords own burlesquc queen and Mutual's brightest luminary is the particular star of Girls in Blue" the attra2- tion all next week at the Grand. Having played two triumphal en- gagements in past seasons in Hart ford Miss Corio needs little intro duCtion to fans in this vicinity. This year Ann boasts a show second to none, q production that sparklcs with new scenery. new costumes, refreshlngly new humor and catchy songs, Every member of the cast this year boasts more than average talent when it comes to difficult
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
ROOSEVELT PLAYS
 PROSPERITY TALK
Blames Republican OVer-En-
 thusiaSm for Crash

Delhi, \. Y, Aug. g (UP)-Gov- ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt attack ed the prosperity" economic the orics of President Hoover in Q speech here last night.
 The governor. prominently men toned as a candidate for the demo- cratic presidential nomination in 1882, blamed prophets of prosperity for the current economic depres- sion.
 Without mentioning the president by name. he criticized the thought expressed by MT Hoover in speeches at Boston in 1928 which resulted in the adoption of the republican slo- gan Two cars in every garage"
 Some people thoughtfhere nev- CT would be a stop to production..' Governor Roosevelt said. They thought they could sell anything $ long as they made it. They thought they had discovered new law bet- ter than the law of supply and dn- mand and they sought to carry it out first by paying high wages and second by putting on high speed selling campaign.
 Lifting By Bootstraps"
 Tt vas said that instead of hay ing one car we should have two cars in every garage. Now that IS what l term the theory of lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
 Well, we went along that way for a while, confident that our leaders in politics and business were omniscient, and then when produc- tion had greatly outrun demand, We were taught the sad lesson ill our two stock market crashes that We cannot get away from the law of supply and demand.
 Some people in very high posi- tion gave the impression a year ago that nothing could happen to pros perity, that everything was well and that prosperity could not be slowed down. We are now paying the pen alty for the wild economic spree
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
AT THE PALACE

The epic sweep of the old West is the background against which Song of the Vest Warner Bros. latest 100 per cent natural color singing, talking. dancing picture in tcchnicolor, coming 10 the Palace theater Sunday and Monday is laid.
 Drama and comedy are inter- mingled in this tale of pioneer days. The story starts at old Fort 1nde pcndence, and moves along with the westward march of the pioneers to the California mining towns, San Francisco and the Golden Gate. A dramatic love story, which concerns q young dcser,er, and several of the crinolIncd ladies of the covered wagon caravan, is the core of the drama.
 The companion feature is "The Girl from Havana q thrilling TO- nance Of stolen gems and crooks ir Cuba. Lola Lane and Paul Page are the featured players.
 Selected sound shorts complete the program.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
G'The Dawn Patrol"
 At the Embassy

For the first time in his career Richard Barthelmess is about 10 ap- pear on the screen as the hero of q romance which has no heroine. The picture is "The Dawn Patrol, 7" q First National and Vitaphone pro- duction which will make its bow to New Britain for one week at the Embassy. Now showing.
 It is a story of war in the air of the clash between British and German aviators above and behind the fighting lines in France in the year 1915. Barthelmess' role is that of a captain in the Royal Flying Corps-the leader of q fated legion of young fiers whom he sends, day after day, week after week, to face fearful odds in the sky. For at that period of the war the English fliers were outnumbered; their planes and equipment were inferior; during many tragic months their task seemed 8 forlorn hope. Yet the air lanes had to be held at any cost, and the birdmen flew gallantly to the death that awaited them up above, hoping only to carry an enemy plane or two 10 eternity with them.
 Tho comradeship, the cheerful stoicism, the gallantry and grim de- termination Of the men who held the "air front" for the Allies in those desperate days are the essen tial theme Of "The Dawn Patrol"; and the story moves against a back ground of aerial warfare which took four months to prepare on two ex- tcnsivc locations in southern Cali fornia. At these remote spots. far from settled communities which might be imperiled by bombs, and crashing planes. two fleets Of fight ing craft battled in the blue. raided and reconnoitered. and met the des- tiny laid down for them by the au- thor of the story. John Monk Saun- ders. who also wrote those classics of the silent picture era, Wings" and The Legion Of the Con- demned."
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Investigator Appointed to Prevent
 City Heeding Fake Relief Appeals

Mrs, A. C. E3undberg has been ap- pointed investigator 10 check up on information given by applicants for city employment, this procedure having been decided upon 10 prevent persons not in need of employment from securing jobs under false pre- lenses.
 Mayor Quiglcy disclosed his plan for investigation of applications yes terday afternoon when heads of city departments employing labor and representatives of welfare agencies met with him to discuss unemploy- ment relief.
 It was found that many men have represented themselves as having de- pendents when such was not the case and that some have been receiving aid from several sources when one would suffice. Through cooperation with the New Britain Welfare Asso- Ciation, where a clearing house" of cases being aided by welfare soci- cites is maintained, it is planned to extend the city's welfare work over the broadest possible territory.
 Mayor Quigley inquired as to pay roll funds in the water and park de- partments and was advised that they are low and will not stand addition al drains. This requires that relief in the form of jobs must come al most wholly from the department of public works.
 The mayors plan for a $16o,0oo street bond issue to release the pres ent street fund of $1o0,000 for char ity work was outlined to the meet ing and approved.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
SERIOUS OBSTACLES
 FACE RAILROAD
Building Of Persian Route Will
 Be Difficult

Washington, D. C.. August 23 - Persia's plan for a north-south rail- way traversing the country from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf has run ito serious obstacles in recent months-the obstacles including two lofty mountain ranges.
 A bulletin from the Washington. D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society tells of Persia s building and the difficulties that must be overcome if the country is to be traversed by a steel highway.
 Country Isolated By Mountains
 Because of it's geographical fea- tues. Persia is one of the most iso- lated of the worlds important eX- tensive areas" says the bulletin. The high central plateau that con- titutes the bulk of the country is almost entirely trimmed by lofty mountain ranges. Their crests and even many of their passes lie deep in snow in winter. The isolation is increased by sizeable desert areas in south, central and eastern Persia.
 Since the earliest historic times Important trading routes have led across Persia, but until recent years they have been exclusively caravan tracks for camels, mules and don keys; and even today these are the most important factors in moving Persia's exports and imports and in distributing her domestic products. During the World War few high ways were given hard surfaces and automobile trucks put into opera tion. The chief route that has been thus partially motorized leads from the frontier of Iraq on the west, over the Zagros mountains to Ham hdan on the plateau. and thence on ? Teheran. the capital. The road hs not been kept in good repair, however, and is used bg caravans pf slov-moving animals. SO that as motor highway it is not highly efficient.
 Railways Stopped nt Persian Border
 For more than quarter century Ehcre has been talk of building rail- Hays in Persia, but practically noth- ng was done until during the World War. Before the war the bnly railway that Persia could boast bf in all her 62S.000 square miles vas a toylike pleasure line between Teheran and a suburb eight miles distant
 Railways have reached out to- sard Persia for some time from neighboring countries The Russian rans-Caspian line in Turkestan dips b touch the Persian border near Abivard, hundred miles southwest
 f Merv. A line built by the Brit sh from Baghdad has it's railhead
 n the Iraq- Persian border near ehaniquin. It is from this railhead hat the motor road runs toward Iamadan.
 Two railways. extended for mili- Pry reasons during the World War, ctually penetrated into Persia. The
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
GENERAL MANz0
 MEXICAN OUTCAST
ConquerOr Of YaquiS Living in
 Arizona

Tucson. Ariz., Aug. 23 (UP) - There resides in this border town a rancher who has a good idea of how Napoleon felt when he was banished 10 St. Helena to ponder the vicissi- tudes of war.
 He is the former General Fran cisco Robles Mango, 260-pound eX- under-secrctary of war of Mexico, commander of Sonora and the con- qucror of the Yaquis. Today. he is political refugee from his native country.
 In the 1929 Escobar rebellion, General Mango served as com mandcr Of all rebel forces in north western Mexico. With the defeat of his army by the federals he was driven across the international boundary, leaving behind him a fortune accumulated after years of labor in his home at Ortiz, Mexico
 Despite his comparatively low es- tate here. the once noted military leader may look across the boun- dary of his mother country to a number of economic achievements which still stand as monuments in Ortiz 10 his enterprise. Tn making his escape, he left behind 5.6oo head Of cattle. a s25.06o light and power system, a modern water works which he founded. extensive ranch ing interests, some 200 miles of inn proved highways in and adjacent to Ortiz and modern barracks housing some 2.0oo soldiers whom he com manded.
 Whatever glory that was once mine was wiped out in a moment" " he said, smiling sadly. But I still have my wife and four children and I am 2. good rancher-so per haps I should not be Respondent There still may be brighter days ahead.'
 And the once highly honored fed oral officer, clad now in dungarees. goes about his work as any other Mexican laborer. And occasionally from his lips sound Mexican na- tional anthems he loves so well. Incidentally. one of General Man zo's favorite historic characters is Napoleon.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

Washington, Aug. 23.@Pl-Clouds on the financial sky lifted today with word from the White House and the treasury that prospects were good for continuing the present one per cent reduction in income taxes.
 No promise was made, but Presi- dent Hoover said prediction of deficit that would prevent continu- ing the reduction was unwarrantcd and Secretary Mellon added there was probability" the lower sched- ules would be continued As the re- duction authorized by congress for this year was not made continuing, new legislation will have to be pass ed or the previous higher rates will return.
 The two statements late yesterday followed earlier pessimistic fore casts by treasury experts. Publica- ton of these gloomy reports brought round of conferences and the optimistic announcements followed.
 Several Factors Overlooked
 President Hoover said severa, items not taken into account in cal culatlng a deficit could be counted upon to swell treasury receipts Among these he cited increased GUS toms receipts-temporar reduced because of advance imports to anticipate the new tariff law-in- creased construction at home and substantial payments on the debts of foreign nations. Not the least import ant in his list was the downward re- vision of government expenditures.
 Partial reports on the drive for new economies in government de- partments, the president said. indi- cated a reduction of about s75. .0O0,- coo. Several departments have yet to turn in estimates.
 Mellon Hopeful
 "A very real hope,' of continuing the tax reduction was voiced by MT Mellon, who pointed out also that the last fiscal year ended with S6,000,00O surplus.
 The one per cent cut reduced in come taxes by about $160, 900, ,O00. in amounts ranging from s3.75 on s4,- GOO incomes to nearly S100 on larger personal earnings. Corporations benefited proportionately.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Name Oakland Streets
 For Dead War Veterans

Oakland, Cal. Aug. 23 GP-New names for new streets or old thoroughfares is Charles \. Brier's job. In the last eight years he has named or renamed, most of Oak lands 2,OO0 streets.
 Eventually, he says. every one of the citys 19O men killed in the World war will be honorod by hay ing street named after him. Brier is busy re-numbering q large part Of West Oakland as result Of street eXpansion.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Plague of Rats Menaces
 Farm Crops in Algeria

Gran, Algeria. Aug, 23 tPt-After the plague of loCusts this depart ment is being ravaged by rata that are dcvouring everything over an area of 100000 acres; seeds in the ground. grapes on the vines, fruit on the trees.
 In the district of Mascara alone the rodents have consumed 2o tons of choice grapes.
 The local authorities have al ready spent SSo,ooo in fighting the invaders.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Peggy Was Better Wife,"
 Leads to Divorce Court

San Francisco, Aug. 23 LP,-The memory of Peggy Hopkins Joyce was blamed for the marital unhappiness Of her successor as the wife Of Ever tition filed yesterday.
 Archibald, the petition complain ed, could never forget he was the actress first husband and was found of saying Peggy was q better wife than you ever could be"
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
HURT BOY ESCAPES

New Haven. Aug. 9 = A fireman was badly burned and youth mar rowly escaped death when a fire of undetermined origin razod two Chapel street houses yesterday. The boy. Michael Penta, Jr.. was asleep in one of the houses when the fire atarted and awoke half-stiflcd Jy he smoke. He barely escaped.
 Hoscman Frank Lee was burned about the left arm and shoulder while fighting the fire.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

steps and some real hot dancing should regale the deyotees of terp- sichore. Among the innovations to be tried this year is a located chorus made up Of Hartford beauties. The Grand has been completely renovat- ed for the impending performances which will be offered daily at 2:31 and S:30. The box office is open daily from ten until ten.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
LEAVES STOLEN DRESS
 ON STEPS OF RECT0RY
Woman Who Filtered Garment in Store Deposits 1t At Entrance
 to Priests HG:sc

Believed to have become con science stricken or overcome by fear of being exposed. a woman who stole a SIG dress at the Leonard X Hermann store on Main street few days ago. left it on the steps of St. Mary's rectory last night, with a newspaper clipping of the police re- port of the theft. Rev Matthew J. Traynor, pastor of St. Marys church, found it and notified Police Lieuten- ant Matthias Rival. who arranged to have it returned to the store.
 Tractors have replaced mules or many farms and cotton plantations in South Carolina.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
CIVIL SUITS RECORDED

A suit for s4OO damages has been brought by the Auto Collision Spe- cialists, Inc. against the Domijan Motor Co, whose manager. Victor Domijan, is being sought for alleged forgery. Damages of $500 are asked in an action brought by the Atlas Oil Co, against Bessie Feingold whose Lafayette street property has been attached.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
CARNER.A HARTFORD

Hartford Aug. 23 (UPJ-Promo- ter Ed Hurley has announced Primo Camera, tn Italian man mountain, will box a unnamed opponent here September 5. Connecticut's one-man boxing commission, Thomas E. Don ohue, is an official of the National Boxing association, which has sus- pended Camera.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
GENARO NS. BROWN

Los Angeles, Aug. '25 P-Frankie Genaro, recognized by the National Boxing association as fiyweight champion, has signed to meet News boy Brown Of Los Angeles in a 10- round overweight match at the Olympic auditorium here September 9. Brown last Tuesday gave Midget Wolgast. recognized in New York and Pcnnsylvania as the fy"eisht champion, decisive 10-round beat ing.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
REFEREE DROPS DEAD

Littleton. \. H.. Aug. 23 (UP)- Referee Gene Powers of Berlin dropped dead Of a heart attack here last night while officiating at a box ing bout between Charlie Ricardi and Bobby Subcr.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

The highest average price per pound ever paid for North Carolina tobacco was 536 cents in 1919.
The Washington times., 1930-06-13
DISTANT STATIONS

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The Washington times., 1930-06-13
PRn|CIRALR LRADIOP 2 0 GRA rs

11:45--Jack and Bill.
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12:3O-Frolic.
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6:30-C.B.S. Network.
7:45-Necklace Mystery.
S:00-C.B BIS. Network.
lO:30-Palais Royal Orchestra.