New Britain herald., 1930-06-17

to their stateroonls by Captain Osca, Steege.
 The police reporter breezes 1T with an unconflrmed rumor tha. Harold Hultberg is being seriousl, | considered to replace Jack Wrinkle as police commissioner Of New Yo.l City. Mayor Herman P. Schmarl later confirmed the rumor from hi! office in Municipal Building and alsc informed the paper that former . Senator Charles Sheehan had beer appointed chairman of the reception committee, succeeding Franl c Brlen,
 A flash on the teletype' Grace Macarthur, telephone operator per forms heroic deed at the grea ] PlaInrllle fire.
 George Baylock is leaving fol Philadelphia to cover the vorld's heavyweight championship fight be. tween Nathan Falk. the Hardware l City Wildcat. and Charles Gullong the pride of Kenslngton. The third man in the ring will be Honest Al l Dankevich. Personases of note who will occupy ringside seats will be Bradford Clark, successor to the late John Jacob Astor. Clarence Derrick, president Of Shell products Joseph Matrazzo humorist eXtraor- dinary and collaborator Of Mllt l Gross in their Italian-Jewish dialect stories, and William Nichols. secre. tary of state.
 A cablegram IS received from In. ! dia 10 the effect that Morris Cohen red communist leader, is spurring adherents 10 revolt ln opposition tt the cruel carpet tax laid down bN high British officials King Michae ! (not of Rumanla) Parkus has in structed army officers 10 quell up { risings at~once, if not sooner. Amon9 the high British officers in India art Captain Samuel Halpern. Lieut. Stanley Kolodziej, and Flight Com. mander Walter Neumann.
 1 Fifteen minutes, and then'-the deadline. AS the minutes dwindled away and the pages were being fit l ted into their place in the press. q young cup reporter, Robert Hayes ] dashes in wildly and shouts with might and main, Hold err From him NC learn that a scientific grour ! of men and women have just taken off in q rocket 10 Mars. Included lr the party were Professor O. Ander- son of the science department al Harvard, Hlda Gourson, dean ot the school Of astroloEy at North western: Grace Wolfer, chairman ot the inter planetary commission re gently appointed by President An drew Wesoly, and Sadye Epstein famous woman geologist and eXpo- nent of the Einstein theory.
 At last the presses swing into ac- ton and the papers find their places on the street. GlarIng headlines lurid news, and photos decorate the front page. Other news items ln- form US that Edward koerher has just been elected to the state assem- ply from SqUodunck County, that Walter Holmquist. [. s attorney general. has completed hls task ot cross examining Hyman DworIn on lobbying charges and that Esther Anderson hac completed negotiations to open beauty parlor in Holly wood.
 On the society page we find the startling annoupceMent that the tol~ lowing American young women VIII be given an audience with queen Coughlin. King Parkus being ln- disposed; Derna Vetrano, Bernlce Bollman. Mary Mautner, Mildred Sonnenberg Dorothy Potts, Mary Alice Mangan, and Harriet Sprague.
 Paul Cianci has recently opened up a new night club in Hollywood called The Brown Derby MT. Cl- anci has been hailed by press and public alike as Paul Whlteman' s sue cessor to the title of King of Jazz,
 Thus. after a brief perusal Of the paper (of the compettor) the city editor vends his weary way home ward only to begin the following day in the same hectic manner
 The Graf Zeppelin was gently walked out of it's hangar once more in readiness for its proposed flight to the United States. In the grim gray dawn everything was executed with the utmost precision and de- liberate haste.
 With a. whirr of the starter the motors swung into steady drone and the silver wrapped cigar sIith- cred away into the fast disappear ing haze of the morning light
 We were standing in the foreQart of the ship when we first sighted the shores of our. good old |. :. A. Everyone crowded around 10 be the first to sight land, just as Count Eckener's sailors had done and l felt quite honored to be the lucky per son.
 My original intention was just 10 return to my home office here by air but a radiogram advised me that l could stay away longer as I was not needed. With few weeks to spend doing nothing l decided to tour the country with the Graf thereby fulfilling a long cherished hope.
 After arriving at Lakehurst. two members of the party and myself betook ourselves to New York for the day while the Graf was being