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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-12

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-12
SALVAGE WORK AT
 TANKER ON REEF

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Nov. 12. Taking advantage of fair weather salvage work is being rushed on the Richfield oil tanker Tamiahua, aground on a jagged reef at Pes cadero, 50 miles south of here. The crew of 40 men is still aboard. There is hope that the tanker can be floated when lightered.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-12
ATTENTION REBEKAHS

Regular meeting Rebekah Lodge Perseverance No. PA, Odd Fellows Hall at 8 pm. tonight. A large attendance is requested.
 GERTRUDE HELGESEN, -adV s-rt NODle GIdIlo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-12
TIDES TOMORROW

High tide, 6:4S am, 13.2 feet. Low tide, 12:3O pm, 6.1 feet. High tide, 6:23 pm, 13.S feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

The German airplaneS were interested in Us.
They few over as soon as we arrived and VIZ
got aerial bombardmentS every night Soon we
reached RethondeS, in the forest of Compiegne
the very spot where, two months later the Ger.
mans signed the armiStice Gun No came up
and we made ready to open fire.
It was on September that we fred our first
shot at the Germans. We laid our gun on
Tergnier. German railroad center Al 900 yards
away. OF course. we couldn't see it. All set,
we waited to hear from the French aviator who
had been assigned to help US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

An admiral wears majOr-generars
stars. Rear admiral Charles p. PImnketf
eScOrting Franklin p. Roosevelt, then
Assistant Secretary Of the Macy. noe
Governor Of NesO York, through the
naval gan rait'oay yards.
WE waited and waited and never heard from
him. So. finally, got tired, and let fly
with the first shell that had aimed at Ger
mans. Incidentally, this the first Ameri-
can-made shell to be fired from an American
made gun in France
don't know just where that shot fell Be-
fore we could fire another the French called us
up and told us to cease firing as French troops
were entering Tergner.
"Huhi' said the gobs. Scared 'em againl"
We moved up to FOntenoy- Ambleny that
night. in the midst of a German air lombard
ment that damaged the track and made it
necessary for us to feel our way along with
scouts. We pulled in next morning and pre-
pared a new gun pit within range of our new
objective.
big German ammunition dump just west
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only place where we could fire at our maximum
Targe was Sandy Hook
We fired our first shot April 80, 1918, with
special trainful Of high digntaries from WASH
tngtOn looking on. The thing worked perfectly.
We were jubiant. We left that night for Eddy
stone to dismantle the gun car preparatory to
sailing for France.
Then our troubles began. We had planned
30 land in the British zone and reply to the
Dunkirk bombardment. But the German drive
for the channel parts was and the British
reported they didn't have a safe port for us
to land. So we asked Gen. Pershing If he
wanted u.s. He told us to come ahead as fast as
we could, but. he added in effect, Don't ask
me how.
tina their meaning
We sent the officers and men over ahead
and finally managed to ship our own gun cars
and equipment from Newport News. st. Nazaire
was the debarkation port selected because it
was equipped with heavy cranes.
Things didn't go smoothly at St. Nazaire
They assigned us to barracks, and we found the
barracks full of potatoes. We had to build our
own barracks out of empty packing cases. We
had to lay the harbor railroad tracks all over
SO they'd stand the weight of our gun cars. To
put the gun cars together we needed COM
pressed air, and there wasn't any, so we SAL
vaged an DID, leaky stationary boiler, rugged up
a pipe line and compressed our own.
THEN We discovered that our stuff wasn't
coming over in sections, and some of the
needed pieces didn't come on the first Ship
We had to wait At last we were all ready to
hop to 1t and assemble our gun cars. And then
We discovered that we had no blue prints
full set had been mailed, but they never got to
us. don't know where they are to this day.
II the men hadn't kept notebooks showing how
the various parts went together we never would
have been able to do it.
Then we found that there we're no riyets.
When We opened the packages marked ''rivets"
we found they were fun of stove bolts We had
to put together ~ cars, each one of which
needed between 500 and 200 rivets to hold it
together-and they had sent us stove bolts
We borrowed rivets from all over France and
drew them down to the proper size by hand
And with them we got our cars together.
Then we found the French were doubtful
about letting use their railroads. They were
afraid we'd ruin them ut we inspected track
and bridges for miles around, and finally per-
suaded them to take the chance.
CEN. PERSHING visited us. inspected our
cars and told us that he hoped to have OUR
guns attached directly to the American Army
eventually First, however, he said, we were to
be under direct orders Of Marshal Foch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

The French wanted US to 60 up and knock
out the Big BerthaS that were Smelling Paris.
They were in a hurry about it, begged US to
send up two guns at least even If we had to
delay assembling the other three. We worked
night and day, and by August IL we had one
complete gun car and train ready TO move.
We wired the French high command that we
were all set and asked them where they wanted
US. Back came the dscouraging word, Don't
come yet Await further orders"
That was hard to take but there wasn't any
thing we could do but wait. We waited until
August 10. when we were finally ordered to get
going with train No. l. with train No 2 fol-
lowing the next day. Our destination was
Helles- Mouchy, about halfway between Paris
and Amiens and over $50 miles from st. Ma
zaire. 1t was the most thrilling railroad trip
l ever made.
We held down to a speed of 6 miles an
hour out of respect to the French fear that
we'd wreck their roadbeds. Wherever we went
crowd gathered. The French made a great
fuss over At some towns they decorated our
guns with flowers and wreatfS.
OUR French engineers weren't quite so happy
They were worried to death every time we
came TO q bridge, and they kept calling to us
to go more slowly when we entered the yards
We reached Helles-Mouchy with Battery No
on August 23 We went through Paris without
seeing Invent through on their famous UNI
derground belt line railroad. In that long
labyrinth of tunnels French railroad Official
held us up He crawled along underneath our
locomotive and discovered certain nuts and
bolts that hung down so far they might foul
some special fitting in the tunnel He started
to make long speech, but we cut the bolts OF
with oxyacetylene before he got half through,
and went on.
Then had another French official to deal
with. On our railroad map the French had
marked all unsafe bridges in red ink Then
they routed US across one of those bridges We
crossed n-and then a French official caught
us. He was deeply Mortified. The only way to
remove that mistake from the record was for us
TO go back, across the same unsafe bridge, and
take another route. We did 1t.
There were hot boxes, too We had to sling
hammockS over the side so that sailors could lie
right next to the bearings and feed oil in
through q tube.
WELL anyhow. We got to HeIles-Mouchy and
the French artillery officers received us
with open arms. They had, they said good
news for us The Germans had stopped their
long range bombardment and drawn their Big
Berthas back out of range.
We hated to break it TO the gobS but when
we did they we're philosophical.
"Oh, well, they heard we were coming and
skipped out" they said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
7heAmericanN Mays
Largest WarJob
Mas Done ON Dry
Land in France,
When 1t Fired One
Ton Shells From
Gigantic Guns,
Cutting Germany5
Mainline ofSup-
ply and Retreat.

of Laon was our objective. Gun No limbered
up and fired % shells at it, with the help of
French aerial observation. Then came a mes
sage from the French.
That's enough" they said. "Fini, ammuni-
ton dump"
Gun No. /. meanwhile, was going into action.
During the German retreat from Mortiers this
gun fired 1879 of its great shells, undergoing
terrific aerial bombardment the Germans
tried frantically to knock it out No. was in
a cemetery on the edge of scissors, and for
two weeks it took hammering every night. But
it kept on with its job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
Navy's Big Berthas During World War

This terrific detOnG-
tiOn, 'Oith its blind
ing fGsh, made it
necessary to do all
the firing during the
daytime. The flash at
night sOOmId have
made too good a tar
get for the Germans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

TEN PERSHING visited us, inspected our
cars and told US that he hoped to have our
guns attached directly to the American Army
eventually. First, however, he said, we were to
be under direct orders Of Marshal Foch
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
HOLMES D|SRUPTS CHURCH GATHERING
Unirocked Clergyman Wants
 Reinstatement to Post

New London, April 8 LP) - The harmony of the New England South ern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church which is in pro- gross here has been marred by the arrival of Guy Willis Holmes, New Bedford, Mass, unfrocked clergy man, who seeks reinstatement or satisfactory redress on the part of the conference for what he considers it's injustice in cXpclling him.
 A letter from Holmes to the con- ference infcrs that unless satisfactory adjustment of tho situation is made by them, he will bring q civil action against them.
 No Official Action
 No official action has been taken by the conference in the matter and it is understood that none will be taken. The letter, however, will be read in open meeting late this aft ernoon. MT. Holmes states that he is here in a conciliatory attitude and that he seeks only to have his moral character cleared.
 However, if the conference refuses his request. it leaves him no alterna- tive but to seek justice through the courts.
 It is expected that he will fife suit through his local attorney some time today, in the event of the conference receiving his request for rcinstate- ment with disfavor.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
DANBJRN MAN HELD

New York, April (tP)Isadore Simonelli of Danbury. Conn.,. for mcr Brewster, N. Y, banker, is held in Tombs prison for trial as q re- suit of an appellate court ruling re- versing q previous conviction on q tcChnicality.
 ing Italian Dankbooks and failing to deposit q sum estimated by the dis trict attorneys office at Sl00,000. The seven new indictments were drawn 10 overcome the tcchnicali- tics. Simonclli was held when he failed to post bond.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
Proposals For Shade Trees

Sealed bids will be received bv the Connecticut State Highway De paftment at the office of the Land Seape DlVlsion, 90 Oak Street, Hart ford, Connecticut, until ? n. m April 7' 13SO for the planting of shade trees along various state high ways as follows:
 JNTRACT I-Counties of Fair 1leld, New Haven, Litchfeld, New London, MiddleseX. and Windham. lI2 American White Elm, 137 Sugar Maple, 1O2 White Ash, 9G Pin Oak sp Silver Maple, 60 Weeping Willow, ls Norway Maple. 5 Oriental Plane CONTRACT 1I-Counties of I.itch- iield, Fairfield. Hartford, New Haven MiddleseX, Holland and Windbam. 31 Sugar Maple, 153 White Elm yS Norway Maple. 45 Pin Oak. % Fed Maple, 19 European Linden. 19 Fed Oak. IS Silver Maple. White Oak. Oriental Plane. Poplar.
 Plans and specifications may be obtaincd by applying at the above address. Bonds in the amount of one-third Of the bid must be sub nittad with the proposal.
 JOHN A. MACDONALD,
 State Highway Commissioner.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
CHICAGO BOY INHERITS
 NEARLY FIVE MILLION
Young Thompson, Now in Concord Prep School, to Attend Yale
 -s on Graduation.

Chicago. April L9 - Alexis Thompson, 15 year old Chicago boy preparing to enter Yale, will not have to worry about finances while attending college. He is to receive the estate of his father, David F. Thompson, valued at between s. 50o.o0o and s5.0OO.O0o.
 His father, q director of the h. land Steel company, died in Miami, Fla, March >24 without leaving a yesterday. with one of Chfcago's largest banks named conservator.
 The boys mother, Mrs. Mile Calf fee Thompson Beaumont, of Lon- don, who divorced Thompson in 1923, was appointed guardian.
 Alexis is now student at St. Paul's academy, at Concord, N. II. MUNSON 26 YEARS IN OFFICE
 Starting this week Edward J. Munson completed 26 years service as assistant postmaster in the New Britain post office. He was 24 years old when he received his ap- pointment as assistant postmaster, April l, 1903. At that time Ira E. Hicks was postmaster and the post office was housed in the building now occupied by the Fitch & Jones Co
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
COMMITTEE FAILS
 ID REPORT BILLS
DeierS Action on Prohibition Changes Until Wednesday

Washington, April 3 P>-Th- house judiciary committee failed iC agree today on prohibition propos- als of the Hoover law enforcemcn, commission, and deferred action until next Wednesday,, when a de- cision on whether they will be ap- proved is planned.
 Predictions were made that the commissions bills to broaden th2 powers of the United States com missioners to hold juryless trials and to define msdemcanors unde" the dry laws would fail of commit tee approval.
 Chairman Graham said the com mittee wanted to assist in formulat- ing measures 10 bring about better law enforcement but added i've re- fuse to rush action on measures that would result in unscientific legislation"
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
Amphion Club to Give
 Next Play on May 16

The Amphion club of the senior high school will present it's second production of the year on May 16 in the senior high school auditorium. The club previously has presented "A Reluctant Romeo" which vas a huge success. The usual poster con- test will be held before the play and the winning posters will be used for exploitation.
 Louis r. Slade, principal of the school, announced this morning at the regular assembly that there will be no session of the school on Monday afternoon because of the public exhibit of school work.
 A special time schedule will be observed tomorrow morning. The girls of the school will gather in the auditorium for the continuation of tbe series of talks on home nurs. ing by the school nurse, Miss Nellie O'Brien.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
Bay Shore Police Hold
 Suspect in Death Case

Hartford, April P-Search TOT the murderer of Reuben Rome. high school senior, shot to death in his fathers chicken market, by bandit Saturday night. extended to Bay Shore, Long Island. today.
 Police of that town notified Cap tain Andrew J. Williams of the de- tcctive bureau that a negro, fitting the description of the slayer, was picked up there yesterday and is be- ing held for examination. Capt. Will Hams is awaiting q photograph or a more detailed description of the man before yonturing an opinion as to the significance of the capture.
 Tho Bay Shore police report their prisoner has q decidedly flat nose. The murderer is described as hay ing long nose.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03

the character of the offensc. The de- partureS from that policy consist rather in leniency than in severity"
 The judiciary committee resumed a study of the measures today, along with q proposal to recommend ap- pointmcnt of additional federal judges to handle the increased court business.
 Except for rcbuttal testimony, the prohibition hearings which began February 12, were concluded yes terday when the drys placed q half dozen statements from their leaders into the record opposing measures 10 recpal the 18th amendment.
 Over on the senate side, Senator Brookhart, republican. Iowa, had served notice of an address today, dcnouncing prohibition enforcement under Secretary Mellon and discuss ing the wet views of Senator Ty- dinSs, democrat, Maryland.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
MYSTERY SHR0UDS
 ANDERSON SHAVING
Police Believe WetherSield Man Was "Taken for Ride"

Hartford, April 3 UP)-Policc were convinced today that Nils An derson was murdered near Standish park in Wethersfield Monday night. several miles from the river bank where his body was found Tuesday. Mystery continued to shroud the identity of the slayers as we'll as their motive.
 apparently, investigators said, the 2S-year-old student mechanic was taken for ride by two or more men. Discovery of .32 caliber shell, blood smears near q telephone pole ana witness who heard a shot placed the scene of the crime at Standish park.
 F Anderson's quiet life and retiring personality made the search for q murder motive difficult He was nown as a church member and a %ounG man of strict moral char acter.
 | Anderson was dumped into his Tayer's automobile and taken to the niace where his body was found, ac- eordlng to the theory now held by police.
 Woman Saw Car
 Mrs. William Schmidt, Garden street, is the witness. She told police she heard a shot between "7 and o'clock, and looking out a, window saw the tail-light of an automobile.n Plaster casts were taken of foot prints around the telegraph pole.
 Reeds driven through the lobe of the mans ear and through his nose. penetrating the brain, were held to be further indications of the brutal lsy or the murderer. Evidently An derson fought violently even after he was shot, breaking the glass in the automobile in which he was taken to the river bank. Why the body was deposited at this spot in stead of being thrown into the river Is one of the factors that add mys- tcry to the case
 Seek Pistol
 The Wcthersfeld fire department bumper was used yesterday in draining the water on the lot so po ice could search for the gun, but # Was not found. Mrs. Schmidt said she heard splash in the swamp later on in the evening when she Was about to retire.
 Robert r. Bujak. WethersffelJ postman, picked up Andersons hat on his way to work and deciding to play an April fool joke, tied a piece of twin to the hat Later he tied F to a bread box at q grocery store Where It was picked up by a truck driYer Blowing off the truck the nat was passed by a number of Der sons who thought it was an April fool joke. Warden Reed also sa,y the hat several times and ignore IL until he read of the murder. H. then took q trusty and searched for IL put could not find it. The next morning he did find it and noticjn,
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03

the blood stains, turned it over to state police.
 Although it is believed Anderson was thrifty in his habits and saved large sum of money no trace O. this money could be found by rela- tiyes either in check book or say ings account. It is believed that ne had hoped soon to return to Sweden.
 Funeral services will be held for the man tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock.
 Seek Rome Clues
 Police are still Investigating the mysterious murder of Reuben Rome, 17-year- high school stu dent, who was shot Saturday night while taking care of his fathers chicken market. James Tucker, p, a negro, is still being held by au- thorities as suspect in the case.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
.|SMS IN SCHOOLS
 RAPED BY BARNES
Bristol Editor Urges Return to
 Study Of Classics

Decrying socialistic, communistic and atheistic trends in modern edu- cation and making a plea for a re- turn to the fundamentals and q study of the classics, Arthur S. Barnes, editor of the Bristol Press, club at it's noon luncheon meeting today in the Burritt hotel
 Supporting the statements he made Mir. Barnes had on the ta- ble before him books, magazines. newspaper clippings, pamphlets and personal letters to which he referred from time to time. He also invited his audience to examine this liter ature after the meeting so they could see for themselves the truth of his claims.
 The editor opened his address by making a plea for a return to the study of the three R's and the clas. sics. He lamented the superficial study of such subjects as manual training, domestic science, interior decorating, singing, sewing and su- pervised play.
 Since the close of the war" he said, there has been d mania for change and reorganization which has affected the schools and col legcs. The history books are now written in such way as to belittlc prominent characters in our naton- al history especially those that had to do with war and tighting'
 Qucstionnaires submitted to col lege students and even school chil- drcn were next censured. Reading extracts from these questionnares the speaker said that they dealt with every ,nceiyable subject but work and cducation."
 The Daughters of the American Revolution were then praised for the part they had taken in defend- ing patriotism. T have all respect and praise for these women who dared to advise their own members as to the character of many of these college professors and publicists who are responsible for communis- 1 tic teaching" he said.
 Breakers Ahead
 In concluding his address MT. | Barnes summed up the breakers ahead in education as: Wandering from fundamentals, yielding on the | part of professors and students to soclallstlc propaganda, forgetting patriotism, following up absurd and destructive questionnaircs, desertinr the classics and tlippancy in sacred things
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
SAUL WARRANT RECORDED

The police today were notified bv Chlef Inspector John O'Brien of the New York police department that the warrant against Peter H. Saul, charging that he obtained money under false pretences, had been lodged with the authorities of Schcn- ectady, N. Y, where Saul and John W. Sinclair will stand trial on the charge of grand larceny, alleged to have been committed Dec. F, 1928,
 Saul is known as Peter German. Paul Morton, and Fling" accord Ing to the New York police. He is alleged 10 have swinded local woman out of more than sS,O0O in stocks, bonds and cash.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-03
HAMILTON GREETS /. YANCEY AND PALS
Bermuda Does Not Allow Stops
 to Mar Enthusiasm

Hamilton, Bermuda, April (UP) Captain Lewis A. Yancey's forced landings on his remarkable flight from New York failed to dim Hamil- tons enthusiasm today for the re- markable feat of the noted air navi- gator, who reached Bermuda after eight and one-half hours of actual flying, after two stops on the way.
 Yancey's first stop, compelling an overnight stay on calm seas 50 miles from his goal, was followed by sec ond landing when he had almost reached the harbor because his gas supply was exhausted
 With suspicious weather condi- tions, Yancey and his two compan- ions, Zch Bouck and William Alex ander probably will attempt their re- turn trip to New York soon.