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you before the Contemporary club in | Philadelphia on January 19, and in which you invited attention to the fact that prior to delivery of your eXtemporaneous talk you had been assured that you could speak your
 mind freely and that your state ments were to be confined to the ! limits of the four walls.
 "2-You are informed of this con-
 nection that the navy department
 can not express too clearly it's dicap-
 proval of the conduct of any officer
 of the naval establishment in mak- ing remarks which tend to embar-
 rass the international relations of the Government. Such action on the part
 of an officer of your rank and length
 of service merits and receives the unqualified condemnation of the navy department and for their utterance,
 which you admit, you are hereby reprimanded.
 ''3-In view of your letter express ing regret, taken in connection With your record of brilliant service, in navy. department feels that it is no longer necessary to resort to pro- lcecdings by court martial and eX- poets that this incident will have a
 salutary effect upon your future con-
 duct in matters of this character" Buffers letter was as follows:
 'In connection with the decision of the department to try me by gen.
 eral court martial it is requested the consideration be given the mat ters hereinafter set forth.
 q was told by the president of the Contemporary club before which ] spoke on January l that I could speak my mind freely and from his remarks, taken in their entirety, 1 understand that the club was com posed of responsible members of the community interested in public qucs- tions and that my statements were to be confined to the limits of the four walls.
 This information is submitted on the assumption that it was not in the departments possession when it
 was decided to bring me to trial.
 q very greatly regret this incident that the fact that my indiscreet re- marks have caused embarrassment
 to the government"
 1t was the second time in less than
 two years that Butler was lon the
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carpet" as a result of his remarks Speaking before a club in Pittsburg in 1928, he told how the marines had swung Caribbean elections theil way. The navy launched an inquiry but Butler escaped censure when he explained he was referring to events nearly 20 years ago rather than the Cicaraguan elections of 1928.
 People Are Pleased
 Philadelphia, Feb. 9.-UP) - PhiladelphianS were not surprised at the decision of the navy departmen mt to abandon the general court mar tial ordered for Major General Smedley D. Butler.
 As far as the general public was concerned, the calling off of the gen. cral court martial was received with unfeiGned delight. There is little left of the rancor caused by his severe methods as director of public safety d few years ago.
 I'm glad to see return of req son in Washington" was the brief comment of President Judge Harry $. McDevitt of common pleas court a close personal friend of Genera Butler.
 I'm perfectly delighted said Ro- land $. Morris, former ambassa dor to Japan, and one of Buffers coun- sel.
 Pm not surprised said Col Archibald M. Holding, president of the Chester County Bar association, who also was one of the generals counsel.
 Alta boy" delightedly declared Col. Frank K Hyatt, commandant of Pennsylvania Military Academy. II knew it would end that way"
 Mrs. Thomas +. Butler, the gen. erals mother, was too overcome with joy to comment and begged to be excused
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New Haven, Feb 9-A new Euro pean corn borer quarantine for the state of Connecticut that moves the Woodstock -Branford diagonal di- viding line much farther west is an nounced to-day by the Connecticut agricultural experiment station. The orders, now effective, place approx imately three-fourths of the state under regulations against the insect.
 Holland. Windham. New London and Middlesex counties are included in entirely within the restricted area and all of Hartford county except the town of Hartland. The quaran- tine line is drawn from the north at the western border of Granby and, bending to include Waterbury, cx- tends almost straight south to the western border of Seymour. From Seymour the line is drawn south west to the northern edge of Green wich. All territory east and south of this line is regulated for the two- generation corn borer
 The rest of the state is free ter ritory save for Seven towns in north
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and when Armour got back to Stock bridge the childhood sweetheart had married the village doctor-forfeit- ing, unwittingly, the chance to be- come a ti-millionaire's wife.
 Amour. Al, accordingly turned to Milwaukee Armour went, forming a partnership, in 1859. with one Fred B. Miles to deal in grain and meat. At that time armies of settlers were passing through Milwaukee to take up farm lands in the west, and pickled and salted meats were in high demand. So, more or less au- tomaticalIy, Armour became a meat packer.
 The word packer" was more apt in those days than now. Refrigera- tion processes were unknown: one simply packed the meat in brine. barreled it and sold it-or else smoked it, as with ham and bacon. This work was done in the winter. when the cold weather permitted large quantities of meat to be handled without danger of spelling. chant, and he prospered. In the early eos one John Plankington. called the first of the "big" meat packers, invited him into partner ship, and he accepted. The Civil war was on, and there was great demand for pickled and smoked meat, since bacon was the chief ar ticle of diet in the armies of that day. The firm of Plankington & Ar mour made money.
 At the close of the war came Ar mour's chance to show that he had that combination of astute vision and keen-edged rapacity that marks the great industrialist.
 There was a postwar boom on. Prices were high and business was going at full speed ahead, and few economists were wondering If a new economic era had not been entered. Picked pork was selling at $40 barrel; and it occurred to Armour that this was too high, and that the current prosperity was too hectic to last.
 So Armour proceeded to sell vast quantities of p!ckled pork that he did not have-gambling his fortune on a sudden drop in the market. He gambled correctly. The market broke and postwar prosperity ex- ploded in everybody's face. The pork that he had sold for future delivery he was able to buy at SIS a barrel. He found himself wealthy.
 So, in 1867, he used some of this surplus money to start the enter prise that was to make his name famous all over the world.
 NEXT: The Chicago branch office that stole the show.
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toned at Branford on the post road 1 to inspect automobile and trucks. The new state quarantine, which coincides with the federal orders, follows closely the recommendations of 75 corn growers who met at the experiment station in a public hear ing last November. The alterations permit a single inspection for the borer and the Japanese beetle in the southwestern part of the state and vehicles will not be required to stop twice.
 New Haven county towns under quarantine are Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby. East Haven, Guilford, Ham, den, Madison, Meriden, Milford, Naugatuck. New Haven North Bran ford North Haven. Orange, Pros pect, Seymour. Wallingford. Water bury, West Haven Wolcott and Woodbridge.
 Fairfield county towns under re- striction are Bridgeport. Darien. Easton. Fairfield, Greenwich. New Canaan, Norwalk, Shelton, Stam- ford Stratford, Trumbull, Weston. WeStDOrt and Wilton.
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POlitica! Leader
 Was Murdered
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 the forehead. The body was decom- | posing. As if the murder itself was not | enough of a sensation, the circum- stances surrounding Potter's recent life themselves were leading to a climax. He had been tried three times, and acquitted, on charges growing out of land fraud scandals that disrupted the local republican machine. Two men went to prison over the charges. One of them. Lis ton G. Schooley, Jr, is to be pa- roled tomorrow, despite his refusal to talk" even after 22 months be- hind bars. Schooley's father is the other who went to jail. He is serv- ing five to ten year sentence. There had been suspicion that the Schooleys took the rap" for large number of politicians charged with complicity in extensive land frauds graft of various sorts, particularly of holding out large sums bid by the city for condemned property.
 There was also suspicion that Pot ter had threatened to tell all.
 On January 2S, q man, dark, whereas Potter was ruddy, expen- sively dressed in tight black suit, and apparently some ten years younger, rented the Hardwood Drive partment-layishly furnished.
 On Tuesday a blonde woman, 22 or so, dressed in black and de- scribed by police as 'very attrac- tive" visited the lessee of the apart ment, known to the superintendent as "M. J. Markus, a chain store dis trict manager"
 No one knows when or how Pot ter got to the apartment, but they believe he was killed there probably Wednesday, and most probably be- cause someone in high local political circles feared Potter would tell what he knew, which was about al any, body knew, about the graft which had upset the city politically.
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BY BRUCE CATION. NEA Service Writer.

form.' Williams stressed the point. however, that such legislation is secondary"
 Tt is popular thing to say, Don't you want your money now?' Of course I do,' you say" Williams said. But I know the class of men who make up the American Legion throughout the country, and I know the class of men you are, and if it was shown that the carrying out of any plan would prevent our dis abled being taken care of, I know you would say, The disabled first. |"
 Referring to the endorsement by the national executive committee of the legion of 'the principle of inn mediate cash retirement of adjusted service certificates on application, Williams said, 'ft is for us to handle this matter in our organization, and we are not going to tolerate anybody coming in from outside and telling us how to handle it."
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That Promised Court
 Martial Called Off
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retary's protest and the state depart ment's formal apology to Italy.
 Washington received with surprise the announcement of the dramatic ending of the case. Refusal of all principals to comment led to rumors the cancellation of the trial had been ''by arrangement
 While these ~rumorS apparently were without tangible basis, it was pointed out that Sunday ordinarily is not a day for transaction of such official business. The fact that But ler'y letter and Adams reprimand both were dated February alse was cited
 Butler was again on duty to-day at Quantico, Va, marine base, re- instated as commandant there by Adams action. He refused to dis cuss the case.
 Major Henry Leonard, who served with Butler in China nearly 30 years ago and who was his chief counsel in this case, replied to questioners with the assertion he was bound by a gentlemen's agreement not to dis cuss the subject.
 The charges on which Butler was to have been court martialled have never been made public, although it was reported they were of q severe nature, alleging conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline in the service" The maximum penalty un- der a guilty verdict, it was said, would have been dismissal from the service and up to l ) years penal servitude.
 The severity of the charges had occasioned considerable surprise, as previously President Hoover was represented as having asked Adams to soften" the allegations. The President and Mrs Hoover were in Tientsin, China, in 1901 when Butler first won military glory during the Boxer uprising there.
 Cognizancc of Buffers brilliant service record was taken by Adams in q brief statement acknowledging the generals letter of explanation. This announced withdrawal of the court martial and accompanied the reprimand, which was as follows:
 '1-The navy department is in re- ceipt of your letter of February s in which you express regret for the character of the remarks made by
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western Litchfield county. which are quarantincd for the generation borer. They are Canaan. Cornwall, Goshen. Kent, North Canaan, Sails bury and sharon.
 Growers Retain Markets
 By the terms of the new orders vegetable growers in the extensive market gardening centerS of Hart ford. New Haven and Fairfield counties are able to ship sweet corn to their greatest consuming centers, the cities of Waterbury, New Ha- ven, Hartford and Bridgeport and the southwest shore towns.
 The metropolitan area of New York city. which is an outlet for much of the Connecticut sweet corn crop, has been placed under quar- antine by the United States depart ment of agriculture and so will be free for shipment.
 The Boston post road, which bears the heaviest automobile traf- fic in the state, will have no road patrol station this summer, since it's entire length and the two states ad- joining are under the regulations. Last year 10 patrolmen were sta-
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grow on trees; and presently Philip Armour, failing to make a strike was digging ditches at $5 day. Then he discovered that
 ditch diggers who would work at
 nlght-for times were booming, | and the work went on without stopping-were paid $1O; so he went on the night shift, and after a while, saving his money,
 branched out as an independent contractor.
 For five years he worked thus;
 then, having laid by $8,000, he went back east. He planned to marry the girl of his choice-the same girl. one hopes, on whose account he had been tossed out of the seminary. although history
 is silent on the point. But empire
 builders often are poor lovers
 and while Philip Armour had been delving in the soil of California a rival had been getting in some sur- reptitious licks behind his back;
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vancement to higher education and greater efficiency shall be your defi- mite urge and that the highest ideals of the Boy Scout movement may be the controlling impulse of your life. We are sending herewith the cer- tificate which gives evidence of such- scholarship, and we will also forward soon the scholarship pin. which we hope may always be worn as an in spiration and as a reminder of your opportunities for still greater serv- ice.
 Sincerely and cordially yours,
 BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
 (Signed) JAMES E. WEST.
 Chief Scout Executive.
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, must not do things in the ordi- nary way. They have to be giants wearing seven-league boots, trav- ailing nightly along untrodden paths.
 Behold, then. Philip Armour walking from New York to Cali fornia. It was romantic time They were singing, then, sail OTIS chantey-
 For there's lots of gold, So I've been told,
 On the banks-of the Sacramento!' And a young man of spirit could go nowhere but west. al whatever cost. One of the group of four died, and two more grew discouraged and turned back; but Philip Armour kept going, put the last of his savings in wagon and OK team, joined covered wagon caravan, and after six months of marching reached California. Despite expectation, gold did not lie in the gutters. nor did it
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Two Measures as
 Battle Ground
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 general to take custer action against the commission for alleged failure to enforce grade crossing removal laws. One measure would give the attor- ney-general discretion as to whether he should prosecute after receiving a petition signed by 100 electors in- stead of making such action com pulsory as it Is now interpreted by the state supreme court. The other would eliminate the law that rail- roads must eliminate one grade crossing per year for every 50 miles of track in the state.
 The district court bill comes into committee hearing with the unquali- fled recommendation of Governor Cross, who has stated his opinion tkat it is non-partisan reform measure of greatest importance in the interest of justice. The district court system advocated in the meas
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Attorney Healey
 Was Appointed
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from Waterbury. The duty of the committee Is to maintain a high standard of ethics, conduct and mor- als in the practice of law in New Haven county. The other members of the committee are Attorney Ar thur w. Chambers and Attorney Matthew A. Reynolds, both prom inent New Haven lawyers.
 It is considered distinction to be member of the grievance com. mittee. Attorney Healey was grad uated with high honors from Yale college with the class of 1909 and
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give his sons good education. In
 his teens young Philip Armour
 went to seminary in the neighbor-
 hood to get his schooling. Youth of a
 century ago. apparently, famed even
 as it does to-day-and the result was that Philip Armour went rowing and refused to stick to the an- central acres.
 Briefly, young Philip committed the crime of taking a fair school girl for horse and buggy ride without getting permission from anybody but the young lady; and in consequence he was expelled.
 and thereupon he anticipated
 Horace Greeley's maxim and went
 west to seek his fortune. In 1851,
 with three youthful companions | and with s10O in his pocket he set afoot for California.
 It is the American tradition that great industrial;sts shall have picturesque beginnings. They
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Brilliant Woman Doctor Suicides
 After Quarrel

New York, Feb 9-(UP)-Leav- ing her home after what her hus- band termed a trivial quarrel" Dr Helen Reiner, brilliant young physi- elan, went to laboratory of New York university and committed sui- eide by poisoning herself.
 She was found there late yester- day by her husband, Dr Leszo Rein- CT, who had started a search for her when she failed to return home. He notified police but she was dead be- fore reaching Bellevue hospital.
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i Ine uTdUldllC IlStOTy Ol Inc AIHioul family now climaxed by the retire. | III the last of the line from the famous meat packing company. The remaining stories will follow. BY BRUCE CAPTION. NEA Service Writer. | Copyright 1881, NEA Service, Incl Chicago. Feb 5.-The fast Of the Armours has retired from the meat packing firm of Armour & Co, and another great family cycle in Amer | ican industry has finished it's long swing.
 American business families rise and wane like medieval barons. They start from nowhere, come up to ter mendous fame, wealth and power, rule for a while--and then disappear leaving a name and tradition but vanishing as personal factors in the business world.
 But, in the process, they make history; American history. full-blood- ed and gay with colors that stay bright for generations With the pe- culiar genius of the American in- dustrialist, they stamp their time as ndelibly as the Medicis stamped rem aissance Italy. and the stories of their family fortunes is the story of frontier America growing to great ness.
 When youthful Philip D. Armour third of the family to bear the name stepped down as first vice president of Armour & Co, the other day. dis appointed because the directors had cast a wary eye at his scant 36 years and had chosen another man for the presidency, the industrial saga of the Armour family reached it's conclusion.
 The beginnings of the story go back almost century-back to the day when the Erie canal was a great new highway for leisurely | commerce, the day when Chicago was a muddy trading post and the west coast drowsed under the Mexican flag; and to get to them it is necessary to so to the tiny village of Stockbridge, in Madison county, New York.
 | One Daniel Armour. Connecti- cut Yankee of Scotch Irish ex-
 traction had moved to Stock bridge in the 1S20'e. The family had distinguished itself in the Revolutions; one Armour had been killed in action by the British had drawn a word of approval
 from Washington himself. Old Daniel bought ;t farm in Stock bridge and in May of 1892 rejoiced in the arrival of a son whom he named Philip D. Armour.
 The Armour family was mildly prosperous, and the father aimed to
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PAPERS FILED IN
 DAMAGE SUIT

Damages of $500 are claimed in suit instituted to-day by John Statkus against Mary Snapkauskas. Attachment papers involving prop cry on Wilson street were filed this morning in the town clerks office.
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GENERAL STRIKE

Funchal, Madeira, Feb. 9.-(UP) A general strike, started last Thursday. developed into serious orders over the weekend and halted all business to-day.
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sPAIN,S NEW ERA

Madrid, Feb. 9.-UP).-Spain entered a new political era to-day under a royal decree signed by King Alfonso XIII providing freedom of speech and associations and convok- ing election for constitutional par- liament. Newspaper censorship waa lifted.
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While several flour mills in Dem mark experienced financial difficult ties in 1880. breweries report they had a banner. year. both in produc- ton and earnings.
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MANY WERE HURT

Pavla, Feb 9.-UP)-Oreste Role was seriously injured in collision of automob due to fog near Fer rera to-day. Lima Damnotti, Anita Danesini, Tide Rivalta, Lima Sfon- drini, Pasquale Damnotti, and Pietro Damnotti were slightly hurt.
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"A GdDFAHD

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No. l of A Series Of Five
 Articles
 The Families

Editors Note: This is the first of q series of five exclusive stories on the dramatic history of the Armour family now climaxed by the retire. ment of young Philip D. Armour III the last of the line from the famous meat packing company. The remaining stories will follow.
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Bonus Has Been
 Made Political

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and company of New York. Mr..
Byrne was graduated from Dart
mouth university last June and has
spent the summer here with his par
entS.
Papers describing the Egypt Of pre-
historic times were read at d meeting
OF the Current Events club Wednes-
day afternoon at the home Of Mrs. d.
j. McGillis, 8l4 Fourth st. Mrs.
Obert Olson had paper on "prehis-
toric Egypt" and Mrs. French one on
THE Nile" Mrs. George r. Shafer
presented a report Of the recent fed
Grafton meeting in Fargo.
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Miss Agnes Parsons, who has
spent the last several months here
with her mother, Mrs. l.. M. Parsons,
514 Sixth street, will leave Saturday
for Rochester, Minn., to resume her
duties at the Mayo clinic.
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Members Of the u. G. T. Auxiliary
resumed their business and social
meetings with a card party Wednes-
day evening at the home Of Mrs
Bernard Andrus, 1904 Eighth street
The group will continue it's meetings
throughout the fall ana winter.
Bridge was played at four tables with