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VOL. X U ., NO. 75.Classified Advertising on Page 6 MANCHESTER, CONN., W ED N ESD AY, DECEMBER 29, 1926. (TEN PAGES)

PRICE THREE CENTS

GAS FRANCHISE SESSION LOOMS IN LE G U TU R E

Conn. L. 4 P. Seeks Right to Enter Business; Pipe line Routes Submitted By New Haven Concern.

Hartford, Dec. 2 9 .— Indications of a "gas franchise” session of the state Legislature this winter were apparent today in two petitions for franchises which were filed with the secretary of state's office.

The Connecticut Light and Power Co., largest distributor of power in the state, plans to go into the illuminating gas supply business, according to a petition to the General Assembly filed with the secretary of state’s office here today. Authority to make and supply gas is requested by the company which is headed by J. Henr>' Roraback, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee.

Housatonic DamsExpansion plans of the com

pany’s power business are also provided for in a clause in the petition which requests authority to build such dams across the Housatonic river and its tributaries as will best utilize the waters and water power.

The petition is signed by Edward 'W. Day, the company’s attorney.Authority for construction of two huge pipe lines for gas which would connect New Haven with Hartford and Bridgeport Is asked by the Interests which recently purchased the New Haven Gaslight Co., in another petition to the legislature filed today with the secretary of state.

Authority to change the name of the company which will operate the pipe lines from the Hartford Coke Co., to the Connecticut Coke Co., also is requested. The Hartford Coke Co., was incorporated by the 1925 General Assembly.

Route of Pipe LinesThe petition states that the New

Haven-Hartford pipe line would run through Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Meriden, Berlin, New Britain, Newington and West Hartford. The second extension to Bridgeport would run through Orange, Milford and Stratford.

Directors of the company signing the certificate were E. E. Ey- senbach, Edward W. Day, Joseph M. Berry, Hugh F. Smith, John S. Brookes, Jr., and Clarence S. Blakeslee.

SEEKING GIRL IN FRENCH SPY PLOT

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British Ex-Arm y Officer Is Held Charged With Selling- Information.

Paris, Dec. 29.— Once more the slogan of the French secret service Is, “ Cherchez la Femme” , as they seek to unravel an alleged espionage plot.

Vivia i Sanders, who claims he Is a retired British army captain, is today held by the French police on charges of espionage on behalf of Germany.

The police now seek a mysterious French girl, Ginnette, whom Sanders introduced as his wife.

Sanders declares that he revealed only technical information regarding French progress in aviation to the German authorities and that he disclosed no military secrets. He charges that his arrest is the result of reprisals by members of his family.

ORIGINAL OWNERS GET OAKLAND MILL

LEONARD m ABOUT $20,000,

SAYSU W YERCobb’s Attorney Says He’s

Proof “Dutch” Was Paid For Letters; Ty to Decide As to Suit Today.

Boss of All the Hello Girls

A. W. P. Reorganization Committee Buys Properties at Sale; To Sell Local Branch

POLICE STOP CLYNIC OF A “ BOY HEALER”

Cripples Rage as Indian Lad Is Prevented From Continuing Alleged Cures.

Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 29.— Hundreds of cripples today were protesting to police who last night broke up a meeting conducted by Abram George, eleven-year-old St. Regis Indian boy healer. The father was arrested for exhibiting a minor without a license.

More than 1,000 cripples who had not yet been treated stormed police headquarters, demanding the lad’s healing attentions. Many of those treated reported complete or partial cures and the others were enraged at their failure to benefit from the boy’s laying on of hands.

The Oakland branch of the American Writing Paper Company mills "n-as sold yesterday afternoon at a special auction to Charles S. Flanagan and Robert W. Smith, bidders representing the reorganization committee of the original company. The sale was conducted in Holyoke, Mass., by President Sidney L. Willson, as special master of the New York court.

The move is one planned for the re-vamping of the original American Writing Paper Company which suspended operations when foreclosure proceedings were brought by the Old Colony Trust Company representing the bondholders against the paper concern.

' To Sell Oakland PlantAfter the reorganization is com

pleted and the release of the parcels of properties owned by the company is ordered by the courts the Oakland branch will he offerer for sale. It has been announced that ?50,000 is the minimum bid that will be entertained.

The properties which were sold yesterday were offe"ed in parcels. The total of the bids was less than the sum offered for the Holyoke and Oakland mills as au entirety, so the properties were sold together for the sura of $3,650,000.

To Operate SoonThe sale of the Windsor Locks

plant on Monday has already been approved by the United States Federal Court for the southern district of New York, and it is expected there will be no delay in the confirmation of yesterday’s sale. It is expected that the new company will be operating under the new incorporation soon after Januay 1. In the meantime the receiver will continue to operate the Holyoke mills for the benefit of the new purchasers. Further details with reference to the Oakland mill will be given out as soon as they are definitely determined.

The plans recommended by the receiver are to be carried out. The outlying mills j f the concern with the exception of the Unionvllle and Windsor Locks mills are to be sold. The personnel of the management will remain practically the same.

Detroit, Mich., Dec. 29— Ty Cobb, involved by Hubert “ Dutch” Leonard in baseball’s latest scandal, will arrive here this afternoon from Cleveland to make plans to begin his fight for ^indication.

Immediately upon arrival Cobb will go into conference with J. O. Murfin, former circuit court judge, his attorney.

Murfin said it was still undetermined whether Tris Speaker w'll join Cobb in joint legal action or whether he will start separate action through his attorney, William Boyd, of Cleveland.

Boyd and Speaker, who originally planned to come to Detroit with Cobb, decided at the last minute to remain in Cleveland, Murfin said.

Action Undetermined“ Just what action will be taken,

whether it shall be a suit for slander against the American League and K. M. Landis or whether it shall be a bill in equity will be determined at this meeting,” Murfin said.

“ However until this meeting no one knows even whether there will be a suit or not. All this must be thrashed out at our conference this afternoon.

Regarding Leonard’s statement today that he had not received a cent for the letters in which he started the Cobb-Speaker expose, Murfin said:

PTOof of Lying“ I have definite proof that Leon

ard is lying about this.“ I know he got $20,000 from

Amei’ican League officials for those letters. If he lied about this, it -S fair to assume he lied when he talked about Cobb and Speaker throwing that game.”

Tentative plans have been discussed, it was learned today, by leading Detroit Cobb fans to stage a huge parade, dinn2r and demonstration in his honor, hut these idans as yet have not taken any definite form. Action probably will await Cobb’s decision after his arrival.

Si>eaker Awaits ResultCleveland, O.. Dec. 29— Tris

Speaker is awaiting the outcome of a conference to he held late today in Detroit, b-tween Ty Cobb and his legal advisers, before taking another step in seeking to have his alleged participation in a crooked baseball game brought into the courts. This information was given out by W. K. Boyd, attorney for Speaker, who declared that no legal action had oeen decided upon “ as yet.”

aiDTH M AYBE AUOWED SEA'' FORBW ÂN

Curtis Has a Scheme to Let Illinois Man In, Refer His Case and Beat It For Home.

PUTS POISON R U M

Than in Days Says New York

Hospital Doctor.

By ROBERT CHOATE Special Correspondent Boston Her

ald and Manchester Herald

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Miss Cecilia Seymour. 25, Is on her way from Omaha to New York to become advisory bdss of nearly all the telephone girls in the United States. She will teach instructors how to instruct chief operators in all the companies of the Bell system. She won the job because of her success in the same sort of work at Omaha.

PAY HALF MILLION INTO PENSION FUND

Teachers Deposit $540,841, Pensioners Get $87,977 In Year; 37 Are Retired.

FRIENDSHIP OR WAR DECLARES BRIAND

France Must Chose Amity With Germany as Altema- tive to Conflict.

POLICE HAD SCHEDULE OF WALLINGFORD FIRE

NEW YORK STAGE MAY PICK ITS OWN “ CZAR”

Must Do Something to Clean Up or Mayor Walker Will, Is Ultimatum.

New York. Dec, 29— Appointment of a theatrical czar, with powers similar to those of Will Hays or Judge Landis was being considered by Broadway producers following Mayor Walker’s threat of a strict censorship If the producers

SEVENTY-FIVE BUCKS FOR 3 MINUTE CHAT

That’s to Be London-New York Telephone Rate as Service Opens Next Month.

New York, Dec. 29.— Seventy- five dollars for three minutes, ten dollas for each additional minute.

That’s what the telephone operator will tell New Yorkers early next month when they want to talk

Watch Till It Starts Then Arrested One McAvoy, Shoe Man, For Arson.

Wallingford, Dec. 29.— Following a fire in J. McAvoy’s self-service shoe store, McAvoy was taken to Hartford by a state policeman and an insurance man for examination and later was returned here charged with arson.

While the fire was extinguished quickly with only about $500 damage, several serious incidents occurred. James Downey, a foreman of the local hose company, fell, broke three ribs and was injured dangerously.

According to police, a state policeman and a Hartford insurance man remained hidden near the store all night, apparently having an idea a fire would occur. When the fire broke out and no one appeared near the store the two watchers went to McAvoy’s house and took him into custody.

Hartford, Dec. 29.— Teachers of the state deposited $540,841.46 during 1926 into their pension system, which is conducted under the direction of the State Teachers’ Retirement Board, giving the system its most prosperous year since it was inaugurated in 1917. The deposits, which represent five per cent of each teacher-member’s salary, total approximately $50,000 more than in 1925, according to statistics compiled by Miss Dorothy M. Shanley, secretary of the board.

During the year, 1,122 new members were added to the system, bringing the membership to 8,109, a total higher than ever before, according to the statistics, which are complete up to December 28. Of the total, 6,479 joined under the compulsory state law requiring public school teachers, not in service*he- fore 1917, to become members. However, there are 1,630 voluntary members now on the rolls. Since the beginning of the system there have been 13,294 members.

Pensions Paid $87,977.Annuities and pensions paid to

teachers during the period amounted to $87,977.10. Of this $83,456.- 91 was paid by the state in pensions and $4,520.19 from the deposits paid by the teachers. Refunds paid to 727 teachers withdrawing from the system for various reasons, amounted to $167,- 636.75. There were forty-four reinstatements.

The retired list now includes 215 teachers, an average pension of $43.63 a month being paid. The highest monthly pension is $92.81.

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Paris, Dec. 29.— A new era of peace, dawning In Europe in 1927,

[ was predicted today by Aristide I Briand, F’-ench foreign minister and vetera.. statesman, in an exclusive statement.

M. Briand, who has been working for months towards a. Franco- German rapprochement, expres-ed the belief that such a concord would be made an actuality and that there would be progress towards disarmament in 1927.

I hope that in 1927 material disarmament will make great progress,” said M. Briand.

American Effort Praiseworthy“ France is doing everything

possible to bring it about. America is making praiseworthy efforts to attain it, and others are also trying.

“ Let me say now that France desires that an international conference on disarmament should meet very soon.

“ I hope that 192 7 will see further development of the policy of Franco-German rapprochement. I have been bitterly criticized and villified, satirized and lashed violently by newspapers because of this policy, but that part of tne French press which reproaches me does not understand French public opinion.

Would Lead to War“ But in spite of all criticisms no

one has suggested a contrary policy. A policy of isolation for France and excessive armaments Is no policy. France could strengthen her armaments and refuse to talk about collahoratiqu with Germany.

“ Where would that lead?“ To war, and I wish to avoid

war.”

Washington, Dec. 29— That temperamental body, the Senate, has apparently changed its mind again.If reports circulated today prove correct, it may allow Col. Frank L. Smith of Illinois, senator-designate to take his seat after all.

The fly in the ointment, however, is that Senator Ashurst, sartorial marvel from Arizona, still has lying on the table of the Senate his resolution depriving Mr. Smith of the right to take the oath of office.

Resolution in WayThe Senate, said Senator Ash

urst, in his dignified way, must chew on that resolution a little before Mr. Smith can raise his right hand before Vice-President Dawes and scratch a signature in the register of the Senate.

Ashurst stoutly avers that no senator will care to risk the onus of allowing Col. Smith this privilege. If there has been any change of sentiment in the Senate, due to the kindly spirit generated by the holidays. Senator Ashurst has failed to find it.

Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican leader, has prepared a little strategy whereby the Senate might speedily rid itself of the Smith case, proceed to the passage of .appropriation bills, and depart March 4 on a nine months’ vacation. Aided and abetted by the astute Watson of Indiana, himself facing an election investigation, Curtis has drawn up a unanimous consent agreetnent whereby Col. Smith would be sworn in and ’ ŝ case referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections with orders to report back in five days. Curtis also hoped to limit debate on discussion of the case in Senate to five days.

Borah’s Ire Aroused When Senator Borah of Idaho

heard of this plan to limit debate he shook his mane, grew red about the ears, and muttered, “They will never put that through,” so savagely that Senator Curtis must have heard the dissent in his office three floors above. Mr. Borah remarked that the Senate might well dispose of the Smith case in five days of debate, but that it would never do to place that limitation on so great a subject.

Fie added significantly that the votes were in the Senate to expel Mr. Smith whether a plain majority were required or even fwo- thirds. Borah, it is no secret to say believes Smith should be deprived of his seat because of moral unfitness, the act of turpitude being acceptance of $125,000 from a traction magnate at a time when the candidate was chairman of the ratemaking board of the State.

“ Senator Borah,” we asked, “ why are you so clearly decided against Smith who spent $325,000 in his primary campaign when the Senate apparently cares not a fig that $2,000,000 was spent in Pennsylvania for the pious Mr. Pepper?”

Always Against Pepper“ I am against Pepper,” answer

ed Borah, accenting the pronoun, “ but we are more concerned with those coming in than with those going out. But if we are not to put our foot down on the accept-

New York, Dec. 29— Deaths from Christmas booze today had mounted to twenty-seven. Many other liquor victims are in hospitals and some are in such condition it Is feared

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PAGfE TWCSh MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 1926.

Local Stocks(Fnrnlsbed by Pntnam & Co.)

Bank Stocks.City B’k & Trust . . .625 Conn River Banking .300 First Nat (Htfd) . . .235 Htfd Aetna Natl . . . . 400 Htfd-Conn Tr Co . . . 575 Land Mtg & Title . . . 65 Htfd Morris Plan B’k 115 Phoenix St B’k Tr 7.400Park St T ru s t ............425Riverside Trust .. . .450U S Security.............. 420

Bonds.East Conn Pow 5 . . . 99 Htfd & Conn West 6s 95 Hart E L 7% . . . ' . . .290Conn L P 5 % s ..109Conn L P 7 s ......116Conn L P 4 1 ^ s ....95Brid Hyd 5 s ........... '.103%

lusuranco Stocks. xAetna Insurance ...4 9 5xAetna L i f e ............. . 490Aetna Life full pr. . .400 Aetna-Life part pd ..440Autom obile.................160xConn General . . . . .1 5 7 0National Fire ............ 720Htfd Steam B oiler... 6 40xHartford Fire ..........490xPhoenix .................. 480xTravelers . . . . . . .1 1 5 5

Public Utility Stocks. Conn Power Co . . . . . 320Conn L P 7 % ............ 112Conn L P 8% ............120xHart Gas c o m ......... 73Hart E L .....................340xHart Gas c o m ......... 74xHart Gas p f d ........... 49So N E Tel C o ...........153xConn Elec Serv pfd. 66%

Manufacturing StocksxAm Hardware ............83American Silver . . . . 30Acme Wire .......... 10Billings Spencer pfd — Billings Spencer com —•BIgelow-Htfd com . . 80Bristol B rass............. 7Collins Co .................. 135xColt Fire Arms . . . . 28Eagle Lock ................ 112Fafnir Bearing ......... 90

'Hart & C o o le y .........190xint Silver p f d .........102xint Silver c o m ......... 96xJewel Belting pfd . . 80 xLn’drs Frary & Clark 88% Mann B’man Class A. 19%

; Mann Bo'man Class B 9 ' xNew Brit Mach p fd .102 New Brit Mach com .. 16 Niles Bt Pond new . . 18xNorth & J u d d ......... 22Niles Bt Pond pfd . . 80 J R Montgomery pfd. —J R Montgomery com. — Pratt Whitney pfd . . 85 Peck, Stow & Wilcox 22 Russell Mfg Co . xSmyth Mfg Co . . xStanley Works com Stanley Works pfd xScovllle Mfg So . . xStandard Screw .xTorrington...........Underwood............U S Envelope pfd. .Union Mfg Co . .... Whitlock Coil Pipt

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At Gulf WI . 41% 39% 41Amer Beet Sug 23 23 23Am Sugar Rei 80% 80% 80 %Anaconda . . . 48 47% 47 %Am T & T . . 140 y» 140% 140 %Am Smelt . . . 145 142% 144 %American Loc. 108 107% 108Am Car Fndy. 101 101 101Atchison . . . . 167 164% 166 %Balt & Ohio . 107 106% 107Beth St “ B” . . 47% 46% 47Chandler . . . . 8% 8% 8 %Chill Cop . . . 34 33% 33 %Con Gas N Y , 100% 100% 100 %Col Fuel Iron. 43% 43 43 %Ches & Ohio 162% 161% 162 %Cruc Steel . . . 80 79% 79 %Can Pacific . 166% 166% 166 %Erie .............. 40% 40 40 %Erie 1 s t ......... 53 52% 53Gen Asphalt 89% 87% 88 %Gen Elec . . . 84% 84 84 %Gen Mot . . . 156 153% 155 %Gt North pfd 82% 82% 82 %111 Central . . 123 123 123K6nn Cop . . . . 62 61% 61 %Inspira Cop . 25% 25% 25 %Louis & Nash. 129% 127% 128 %Marine pr . . 38 3’3% 37 %Natl Lead . . 170 170 170North Pac . . 80 80 80N Y Central . 142% 140% 142N Y N H & H 42% 41% 42 %Pan Am Pet 67% 67% 67 %Pennsylvania. 56% 56% 56 %People Gas . . 127% 127% 127 %Pierce Arr . . 22% 22 22 %Press St . . . . 40% 40% 40 %Rep Ir & St . 56% 66% 56 %Reading 95 93% 95Chi R Isl & Pa 68% 67% 68 %South Pac . . 110% 109% 110 %So Railway . 124% 122 124 %Studebaker.. 54% 53% 54 %Union Pac . . 160% 160% 160 %U S Rubber . 59% 57 58 %U 3 Steel . . , 157% 155% 157U SSt pr . .. 130 130 130Westinghouse .69% 68% 69 %

and property of American citizens by the constitutional (Liberal) forces, nor was there any danger of such interference.

“ The practical arrest of the constitutional ruler of a sovereign state, with which the United States is at peace, is almost without parallel in International relations, and is unwarranted by international law.

“ I also desire to protest against the action of the United States naval officers in depriving the constitutional government of the use of the wireless station, the only means of communication, and thus preventing It from placing the true hltuation in Nicaragua before the world.’ ’

Won’t Bo WithdrawnSecretary of State Kellogg said

today that the marines would not be withdrawn from Nicaragua "until Admiral Latimer says so.” He reiterated the White House an- nounceiflent that the marines were in Nicaragua "to protect American lives and property,” and said they would stay “ as long as necessary.”

“ We have made no suggestions nor have we heard of any to withdraw,” said Kellogg.

He denied that Latimer has interfered with the Liberal revolutionists there, or that the American commander had established a censorship which prevented the Liberals from communicating with the outside.

LONDON NEWS CAUSTICSays Nicaragua Affair Spoils U. S.

Influence Abroad.

London, Dec. 29.— America’s moral leadership in European affairs is likely to suffer severely as a result of “ drastic Intervention” in Nicaragua, according to the Daily News today.

This newspaper pointed out that America’s action at Puerto Cabezas (capital of the ^^Iberal or revoU - tion forces in Nicaragua) is generally accepted as an attempt to hit the Mexican government through Nicaragua by destroying Mexican influence in the Caribbean area.

The Daily News believes that “ the confusion and lack of candor about the American policy towards Mexico might easily drift into a ‘war policy’.”

“ The Nicaraguan incident was evilly inspired from every point of view,” added the Daily News. “ It is likely to fail in its immediate object by enlisting the sympathy of Latin America upon the side of Mexico and its efiect upon public opinion in Europe will be deplorable. How can the America of Mr, Coolidge carry any moral weight with the hoary-headed sinners of the old world when America lectures them on their bellicose rivalries and aggressions and iniquitous International Intrigues and their short way with weaker brethren. If, as soon as America is faced with an awkward little problem in diplomacy in her own sphere of influence, she succumbs, also without a struggle or prayer for guidance, to the temptations of the devil?”

PAY HALF MILLION INTO PENSION FUND

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During the year seventeen pensioners died, while the total of deaths in the system\was thirty-one.

Thirty-sevem teachers retired during the year. Five of these after service of more than fifty years each. The longest period of service among the thirty.seven was fifty- six years and the shortest nineteen years. Six teachers reached more than forty-five years in the state’s schools, four more than forty and nine more than thirty-five.

COUNTRY CLUB XMAS DANCE TONIGHT

LOCAL CHRISTMAS FUND JUST BELOW LAST YEARN. B. Richards who was chair

man for the Christmas fund, in which the Manchester Chambetf oE Commerce, the Kiwanls club and the Elks combined forces, is authority for the statement that although twice as many letters of appeal were mailed to Individuals, the total amount collected did not quite reach that of last year. The Christmas fund for the past three years, in actual figures amounted to, 1924, $567.00; 1925, $734.00 and 1926, $732.50. The Herald has already carried an account of how this fund was dispensed to needy families in town. _

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The Manchester Country Club’s Christmas dance will be held at the club house tonight. Waddell's orchestra will play and refreshments will be served.

The house has been prettily decorated with evergreens for the dance. Mr. and Mrs. C. Read Richardson are the committee in charge.

NASHVILLE HIT BY NEW RISE IN CUMBERLAND

Clearing Weather, However, Gives Prdmise of Relief to Elood Stricken South.

Winter Comes—And Niagara Takes on Icebound Grandeur

WUV TO BE BURE* TEACHES.: What was (^ r g e 'Washington noted for?

U TTLE JAMES: His memory. TEACHER: That makes . you

think his memory was so great?LITTLE JAMES: They .erected a

monument to It.— Buen Humor, Madrid.

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Goose DinnerDancing fn »n 8 p. m . until i a . m. in the morning.

Celebrate with good time here.

Admission $3.00 indnding dining and dancing.

Hundreds of thousands of people see Niagara Falls'every year— but not many of thfem see the famous cataract In Its beautiful winter garb. These pictures were taken after winter had finally put its grip on Niagara. At the left is the “ Cave of the Winds,” no\v clothed with thelongest icicles south of the Arctic circle. At the right is a scene from Luna Island, looking toward the American shore. The inset shows the ice mountains at the base of the American falls.

S T A T E TONIGHTCOUNTRY STORE NIGIfrPRESENTS! PRESENTS! PRESENTS!

DOUBLE FEATURE BILLANITA. STEWART AND

GEORGE SIDNEY in“The------PRINCE OF PILSEN”

Here is the Greatest Western Ever Made!

‘The Desert’s Toll’

URGED TO DISPLAY | s m i t h m a y b e g iv e n | NEIGHBORLY SPIRIT! ™ ™

Charles Ray Tells Kiwanians That Lack of It Hinders Growth,

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■E.'UEltGENCY DOCTORS

Dr. Burr and Dr. Boyd will be on emergency call tomorrow.

Memphis, Dec. 29.—-Clearing skies and cooler weather brought .iome promise of relief to tho fioodr stricken areas in southern states today.

The situation was still critical In Nashville, however, where an additional rise in the Cumberland river of nearly a foot during the night increased the number of homeless by at least 700 persons. With 1,500 homes flooded, more than 4,000 are homeless there.

Reports from southwest Virginia Increased the death toll to twenty.

The coal industry in southwest Virginia is paralyzed, highways impassable and rail service crippled.

Property damage In Nashville alone will exceed $2,000,000.

Flood waters In Arkansas were reported receding today but there is no Improvement in Mississippi.

William A. Knofla. the newly elected president of the Manches-| ter Kiwanis club, in a brief speech at the noonday luncheon at the H o-' tel Sheridan today, outlined his j policy for the coming year. He has appointed various committees to carry on the work, and announced that he would do all in his power to merit the confidence the members had placed in him by making him president. Mr. Knofla said he hoped for even greater co-operation from the members, and especially Ihe working committees, than was given to the outgclr.g president.

It was Charles Ray’s last meeting as president .and he took the opportunity to thank tho members for their loyal support during the year. He then gave them a 20-mln- ute talk on the duty of the Kiwan- lan as a business builder. Mr. Rav

'has been in Manchester nix years as general mana.ger of the Rogers Paper company. He is a keen observer. He believes in Manchester and is very enthusiastic over its prospects. He urged the Kiwanians to display a more neighborly spirit. It is Ills opinion that new industries could be induced to come here and that is the only way in which Manchester can continue to grow. He hopes to see our present industries develop into still greater proportions, but it was through the introduction of new blood that any town or city can attain a healthy growth. It is the business builder that amounts to something in the town In which he lives.

Mr. Ray urged every business man in Manchester to pause long enough in liis daily routine to com- ])are conditions today with those that obtained 10 years ago, to note what progress had been made, and also to find out if possible wherein we were lacking and energetically wipe out whatever prevents making headway. Manchester is well located from every point of view. It has good schools, churches, recreational buildings and everything to induce families to locate here.

F. H. Anderson contributed the attendance prize Coday. It was won by* Walter Sheridan,

A number of the members are planning to go to Boston next Wednesday to attend the district convention.

ance of a large sum of money from a traction magnate by a candidate who is at the same time chairman of the Public Utilities Commission then 1 do not see how we are ever going to stop" such thin,gs. If that is not an unmoral act then nothing is.”

We attempted to intrigue Sena- ‘ Trolleys, Autos and tor Ashurst into an expression of '

RAIN AND SLEET STORM CRAMPS BUSINESS HERE

DIFFERENT PAT CROWE ARRESTED IN KANSAS

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anindignation over Pepper, but the Arizona man replied in his witty manner. “ You wouldn't expect the Senate to undertake the role of undertaker, would you?” He referred it seemed to us withput pareful study, to Mn Pepper’s political demise. •

‘■‘If you think that either Smith or Vare are going to be seated by unanimous consent you are subject to hallucinations,” said Senator Ashurst in his dry way. “ You know 1 think many senators will hesitate before voting to give ' these men their seats because of— I because of— ” Mr. Ashurst hesitat- | ed a moment, “ because of political | expediency,” he concluded. i

Pedestrians Forced to Near Standstill By Ice.

HALE’ S MARKET, GROCERY TO CLOSE ON SATURDAY

Hale’s Health Market and Self Serve grocery will be closed all day Saturday, New Year’s Day. Several of the foodstuff stores will be open part of the day, but Hale’s decided to close Friday night at 9 p. m. for the week-end.

The stores not dealing in foodstuffs will remain open Friday until 9 p. m. and will close all day Saturday. Shoppers are urged to watch the advertisements for the individual store schedules.

LAST OP ANDERSONVILLE j PRISON BREAKERS DIES'

STORM KEEPS DELEGATIONS FROM INSTITUTE'BANQUET

Penn Yan, N. Y., Dec. 29.— Prank Danes, 84, last survivor of the famous Andersonville prison break during the Civil war, is dead here today. Danes and five comrades tunneled -under the walls of the prison for twenty nights, only to be discovered by a guard as they finally reached the surface outside. Admiral Frank Schofield of the Pacific fieet is his nephew.

GANGSTER TRIO SHOT BY N. Y . POLICEMEN

Miss Mary Cheney, Mrs. G. Farley and Paul H. Cheney are spending a few days at the Hotel Roosevelt, New York City,

Rain and sleet put a dampef on the banquet held last night In the South Methodist church by members of the Willlmantic Epworth League institute. Only 40 people attended, most of those from distant places being kept home because of the condition of the roads.

New London and Norwich delegations did not come because of inability to secure transportation.

Games and stunts occupied the time after the banquet and the affair wound up with a camp fire consecretlon in which all Joined.

Attack on Two Officers trous For Gunmen Guns Reply.

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REFUSED PERMISSION TO GIVE UP DANBURY TROLLEYS

Hartford, Dec. 29.— Allowingcurtailment of street railway service and the substitution of buses on certain streets in Danbury, the Public Utilities Commission today refused to allow the actual aban. donment of street car service over such routes. Ten new existing bus routes are allowed under the terms of the commlsBiou'tt findibg.

New York, Dec. 29.— Three alleged gangsters were shot today by two patrolmen during a gun battle in which more than 40 shots were fired. Two of them, Dominick Fiolli, 23, and John Geni, 35, are in Bellevue hospital, where It is said Fiolli will d.e. The third wounded man escaped.

A fourth member of the alleged gang, Nicholas Sciallca, 42, was Captured before the shots were fired, and was clubbed on the head when he put up a fight. It was during this enga,gement that the other three rushed from a doorway, their guns blazing away. Fiolli was the first to-^fall. As Patrolman William Landis leaned over him the wounded man attacked him with a stllleto but was finally subdued.

Police believed the four men, who are charged with felonious assault, were waiting for another member of the gang against whom they held a grudge.

Trolley service was paralyzed, automobile traffic slowed up and pedestrian traffic reduced to a minimum during the severe sleet and rain storm which held Manchester in its grip yesterday and last evening. Rain poured down steadily all day, freezing as it struck the ground.

Ice covered the power wires and trolley tracks, causing serious delays on the South Manchester and Rockville lines. Cars were from 15 minutes to an hour late and the schedule did not function properly once during the day. No accidents or derailments were reported at the local office.

No serious damage was done to the local telephone system, although a number of lines were out | of order. The wire chief at the Man- i cheater exchange - said today that I reports of disabled lines were still | coming in but that the system was | fortunate considering the extent of 1 the storm.

A short circuit opened an automatic switch on the Manchester Electric company system yesterday afternoon and the lights In th.e south end were out for about ten minutes. This morning a high tension cable fell on North Main street but no damage was done. Individual house wires were torn down in some places by limbs falling because of the weight of the sleet.

Combined with the foot or more of snow which had fallen on Sunday morning, the sleet made walking and driving extremely unpleasant. Main street was turned into a river and the side streets, which had not had good service in the removal of snow, were Impassable, Evergreen trees which overhung the sidewalks were weighted down with the ice that they blocked progress In many places.

Many limbs were broken off these trees throughout the town but no pedestrians were Injured. The sleet froze on the limbs of these trees and in some cases the clustered spines were Joined together in a solid sheet.

"Tuesday evening business on Main street suffered considerably for pedestrians feared to take the risk of walking on the Icy sidewalks. Automobile traffic fell oft but some of those cars which ventured out were stuck in the puddles of slush which accumulated at Intervals along every street.

The outer coSMug of wet Ice froze solid during the night and formed a shell over the snow beneath. Towh highway employees were hard at work today clearing out gutters on Main street to allow the passage of great puddles v.-hlch had formed during the storm.

Hartford Paper Blames Wrong Individual Through Mistaken Idenfl'ity in News DispatchPat Crowe, nationally known

reformed train robber and highwayman Is not in prison for the rest of his life as was reported in a Hartford newspaper Monday. The disclosure In The Herald yesterday that Crowe was in Manchester at the time he was supposed to have committed the crime in Kansas City indicated the former criminal had a perfect alibi

Press wires were resorted to today with the result.that the information from the Kansas City Star makes known the fact that it ■was not the original Pat Crowe but a younger man who had assumed that name.

The whole story was brought about by an erroneous report in a Boston paper which was copied by a Hartford daily. It la reported that when the news that a “ Pat Crowe” had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment came into the office of the newspapers, the editors Jumped at conclusions without attempting to verify the account. It results in a mistaken identity and was a severe blow at the reputation of the ex-criminal who claims he has reformed.

BERGGRENS CELEBRATE THEIR SILVER WEDDING

Manchester Couple Honored 3y Friends and Relatives In Gathering at Swedish Church.

More than 300 relatives and friends united last night In the Swedish Lutheran church to give a reception to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Berggren who are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary. August Casperson was toastmaster.

Mr. and Mrs. Berggren received a chest of silver. 25 silver dollars and a beautiful basket of roses. The latter was the gift of Miss Marion Olson.

A program of vocal music was given by the Beethoven Glee club, Charles L. Johnson and a quartet composed of the Berggren sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Berggren have been active workers In the Swedish Lutheran church for 35 years. Mr. Berggren recently retired as an active member of the choir.

BARTHELMESSES NOLONGER WEDDED PAIR

Paris, Dec. 29— Mary Caldwell, known on the American stage as

i Mary Hay, and Richard Barthel- mess, motion picture star, have been granted a divorce by the Paris courts.

TEACHERS DISCUSSINGEDUCATION IN ART

Hartford, Dec. 29— The development of art education In the state’s public schools was the subject of the morning session of School supervisors, superintendents and principal here today. The aim to secure for each pupil an appreciation of art and its modern applications was explained by A. B. Meredith. Joseph Whiselpler, supervisor of art education under •Commissioner Meredith, gave an illustrated lecture.

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KEHLER & EDITHWorld’s Fastest Skaters

HALL & ROGERSVaudeville Bits

FLAMING YOUTHA Comedy Classic

Singing Eddie NelsonBroadway’s Favorite

Entertainer.

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STRANDED IN PARISNew Year’s Eve Midnight ShowGet Your Reservp Seats Now They Are Going Fast.

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REX, The Wild Horse— In—

“ BLACK CYCLONE”A Wild Horse! Who Loved With, tho Heart of a Man!

LARRV SBMONi CHARLES MURRAY and

MARY CARR In“ The WIZARD OF OZ”

IT’S A WHIZ

[I R I A L T O I _LAST TIMES TODAY AND THIS EVENING

Rudolph Valentinoi l l

“ The Young Rajah”Harry Carey in “SATAN TOW N ”

SELECTED SHORTER SUBJECTS/

2 BIG FEATURES TOMORROW and FRID AY

“ SHE” An Adaption of Sir Rider Haggard’s World Famous Novel.STARRING BEAUTIFUL BETTY BLYTHE

The Story of a Wondrous Queen in Darkest Africa. \ Her Bomance and Adventures.

“THE PATENT LEATHER PUG”Entertaining Prize Ring Stuff With BILLY SULLIVAN.

A RIB TICKLING COMEDY and CURRENT NEWS.

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YALE MAKES MONEY ON GRID, LOSES ON DIAMONDProfit on Football Pays For All

Other Athletics, However, and Leaves a Surplus.

New Haven, Dec. 15.— Football at Yale In the season of 1925 yielded a net income of $358,968.73. according to the annual report of the Yale athletic association for the year ending June 30, last. Issued here today. That sport was the only major one Indulged in by students that went through tyithout a deficit In the year, and the receipts were sufficient to pay for other sports and glvo the association a substantial profit beside.

Yale’s total receipts front football games'in 1925 -mounted to $740,876.01. Expenses of running football totaled $145,188.11, and visiting teams were paid $236,- 719.17.

Baseball was a losing proposition at Yale last spring.

HOME ACCIDENTS KILLED 20,000 LAST YEAR-^--THIS WILL HELP MAKE YOURAre you sate from accidents .in yo«r own hone? you may think so— but see the dangers that the National Safety Council has illustrated for you.

20 SUSPENDED DRIVERS X ON THIS WEEK’S LIST

The weekly list of operators whose licenses to drive automobiles in Connecticut have been suspended for one yea.i ̂ for driving while UL.der the infliienVe of liijuor was given out today at the state motor vehicle department as a part of the effort to reduce this highway menace. There are twenty names on the list. Two cases were appealed. The department statement advised people to notify the department or the po'lce in case they should see any of the Huspeni^ed drivers operating motor vehicles.

Adam Cernauskas, ■ Waterbury.John Derlaga, Bridgeport.Flory J. Fay, Glastonbury.William Hayna, New London.Archibald McArthur, Monroe.Edward Moore, Garden City, L.

I.John Narsls, Bristol.Albert D. Newton, Woodbrldge.Richard Olsen, Hartford.Hatwood Fenny, Stamford.Albert E. Sturgeon, Plainville.Henry H. Taff, Stamford.Charles. Thompson, West Haven.Harry Venker, Waterbury.Nick Wawruk, Glastonbury.Otto Wiersch, Groton.Wales A. Wilcox, Warehouse

Point.E. T. Wilson, ^ew Haven.Joseph W. Wooteon, Danbury.Leo Zyjewski, New Britain.

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Rugs are more sanitary than carpets, but small ones oft^n cause skidding accidents. Avoid using cleansers that give too high a polish. Don't polish the space covered by the rug.

Bottles containing poisons should be plainly marked and should not be where children can reach them. Poisons shouldn't be poured into bottles that once held some harmless medicine.

The kerosene can does not belongin the kitchen cabinet. All explosives should be kept outside of the house. Never open a gasoline can where its fumes can travel to an open flame, spark or live coal.

Rocking chairs are no substitute for a stepladder. More than 20,- 000 men, women and children wero killed in homo acsidenis last year and more of them wero attributed to falls than any other cause. -

Be careful with hot ashos. Don't put them in a wooden box or backet near a fuel pile, like this man is doing. Such thoughtlessness has caused many fires.

Women who like to adorn their electric light fixtures With paper shades don't stop to realize ^ is is a dangerous practice, which has caused many fires. Below is shown what often happens whan a hot iron left without a guardian.

Never look for gaa leaks with ;S' lighted match'or candle. S uch 'a ' light near lead meter connections may cause a tiny, invisible fl%ms,. which will melt the mstsl, oausjnc^ a larger leak and eventually a strU' ous fire. Cali the gas company.

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WORKING PASSES VOID

Hartford, Conn., Dec. 29.— The Btatê boxing commission today

\ Issue’d a formal statement to the effect that the working passes issued to newsYiapers will be null and void on January 1, 1927. "Everyone concerned Is disappointed in the way the rule rega^'dlng passes has woik- ed out," the statement says, and “ promoters and the press will in the future use any method they may find to their mutual satisfaction.”

’’ilie commission announced also that it had licensed nine announcers, six match-makers, six physi- cians, eight time keepers, tweuty- thiee managers and fvrr referees since July 1, last.

In the same period 11-enses were handed to 149 boxers. 83 seconds, and eight p.oraoters.

STAMP DECORATIONS

Simon’s Tower, South Africa— More than half a million used postage stamps paper the walls it a bedroom In the home of A. F. Thomas, a resident here. The stamps are cleverly worked Into designs according to color and pattern.

By increasing the amount of moisture in the air during the winter, the wilting of plants indoors can be avoided.

New York.— Gloria Swanson,having just finished her first personally produced picture, "Sunya,” hasi turned her mind to two vastly important matters— another child and a stage career.

Of course she has one more picture to take before she will be free to do anything about it and this film— she hopes to begin work in February— will he ready by spring.

Then comes that eventful vacation, of which she has talked for years.

Count Wants One.Gloria wants another baby. Also

the Count wants a child. There has been much talking over of the question, Gloria admits. She has two children, one by a previous marriage, one adopted. The Count de la Falaise would like one of his own.

Both realize that to undertake this might spell the end of Gloria’s career: might endanger her life, since her narrow escape in Paris was an aftermath of motherhood.

The stage' has beckoned her on several occasions. She has been secretly eager to try herself In the theater. But what if she failed? Would this react against future pictures? \

There are so many things she wants to do, for Gloria is an amazingly ambitious person.

“ But, the years are so short,” she complains. She is wise enougli to number the years of a star and look ahead.

And where to spend that famous vacation?

No Place to Hide."It could not be America,” she

says. “ How could I rest? Oh, I know how It is. Everybody knows you, and there’s no place you can hide. It will have to be Europe. Some quiet little spot, some hamlet where the films have not been seen.

"I want to be unknown— completely unknown for months. To go about as though I were another person: to live the lives that others live and cast off all the things people expect of you where they know you. I have wanted this— ôf, for years.”

But I wonder just how long one who has been in the immense spotlight of the world could stand the indifference and seclusion that greets a casual visitor in a far-away European spot?

MARINE CORPS IS PRAISED BY GENERAL LEJUENE IN ANNUAL REPORT TO THE SECRETARY OF NAVY

Washington, Dec.Press).— Construction of a perm- anent Marine base headquarters at Quantico, Virginia, is recommended by Major General John A. Lejuene, commandant of the Marine corps, in his annual report filed with the secretary of the navy today.

Most of the buildings now in use at Quantico are of temporary, remodeled war time structure and are in constant need of repairs, General Lejuene stated and urged 'that permanent buildings be constructed with the least possible delay.

Steps to have the necessary legislation passed have already been started, he said.

During the early part of 1926,

2 9 .— (United?the Marine crops exceeded their es- ' tablished enlisted personel of 18,-

000 by 130, it is revealed in the report. This figure was cut, however, by reduced recruiting until the present strength la 17,913 enlisted men and 1,020 commissioned oflicers.

Praise for the personnel of the corps was expressed by General Lejuene when he said, “ The results obtained by the corps during this year, in spite of decreased personnel and limited funds, have been highly satisfactory, and have been due in most part to the unfailliig ability of marines to maintain a high spirit, even when means of producing the most effective accomplishments are constantly nelng diminished.”

KENTUCKY DISPUTE TRIED IN GUN COURT

NORTH POST OFFICE DOES BIG BUSINESS

No Expense, Nothing to Pay, Except For the Burial of the Three Litigants.

Harlan, Ky., Dec. 29—The little hill settlement of Banner Fork, near here, is burying its dead and settling down to normal once again.

A gun battle in which all three participants “ shot It out” to the death and which literally exterminated one family was being Inves

tigated by county authorities today.Roy Smith and Henry Smith, his

father, and Daniel Jones were the participants and victims in the shooting affray, the cause of which was not determined.

According to reports, Jones and the younger Smith opened fire first and the father, seeing his son mortally wounded, came to the fescue, dropped Jones with rifle sliots and then fell, fatally wounded, beside his son’s body.

Year’s Total Greatly Increased But Christmas Business Fell Off.

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HUSBAND; A largo bill!— Pele Mele, Paris.

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HOGMANAY DANCEFRIDAY EVENING

During the past Christmas there was a big increase in the number of Christmas cards and a noticeable falling off of parcels post. Postmaster Ernest Brown of the Manchester post office verified this fact today. He asserted there has been a large increase of business at the north end post office all year but declared the Christmas rush was not as big as a year ago.

While the reports will not be read.y until the first part of next month. Postmaster Brown stated that the receipts for postage would show an approximate increase of $11,000 for 1926. The blg.gest quarter was April, May_ and June when over $10,000 w’orth of stamps w’ere sold. Large mailing orders by the Bon Ami Company j and the C. R. Burr company accounted for the major share o f the year’s business.

No reason has been advanced for the decrease in the Christmas

i parcels post business.

Here’s an advance look at the most famous All-America football player of— well, about 1943, say. At least the youngster perched on the shoulder of Knute Rockne, noted Notre Dame coach, is Knute’s son. Jack— and that certainly ought to assure him a great gridiron career, oughtn’t it? They w-ere photographed as they left San Francisco Honolulu.

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DEPUTIES FARM

The Amos AdamsOrange Hall Block. Phone 192

Toledo, O-— Because he is In charge of so much farm property, pending sale or settlement in bankruptcy, Sheriff Oscar Carlson, of Shawnee County, is considering adding a department of agriculture to his office. His deputies have been busy with farm chores for the last several months.

The city of Detroit was photographed recently from a distance of 210 miles, aviators using a new 45- pound lens, 9 inches thick.

THOUGHT HIM DEAD

What! No cravat? That’s what greeted Sfd White, cowboy barrister from Oklahoma, at the door of the United Supreme Court chamber In Washington. And they would not let him come in until he’d appropriately garbed his epiglottis. But as soon as he came out! — it was then that this picture was taken.

) Clan McLean, O. S. C., No. 252,I has preparations well under way I for its annual Scotch jollification,

the Hogmanay dance and concert, i to be held in Tinker hall Friday evening.

The committee Includes John T. Munsie, chairman, James Barr, David .Hamilton, James and George I'inlay anti Mr. Davidson. A program Ibf miscellaneous numbers will be given by home talent and a five piece orchestra has been engaged to provide music for dancing. At midnight the gathering will join in singing “ A Guid New Year to Ane and All.’ ’ •

The public Is cordially invited, and the committee is bending every effort to make this year’s event the equal of those given by Clan McLean heretofore. No tickets are being sold in advance, and the admission at the door will include refreshments.

New York— Charging that her husband had prevailed upon her to marry him by telling her that her fiance had been killed in France, kfrs. Jane A. Bobriel applied for separation here recently. She was married in 1920, she said, and j learned later that her fiance was alive. 1

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country to bo jockeyed into n "cowardly little war with Mexico.” U3 Borah phrases it. And it it comes to a showdown and Kellogg has to walk the plank, walk the plank he will.

WEDNESDAY. DEC. 2U. 1926.

SNOW DISPOSAL.Hocauso Ilnrlford has dumped

till' (lump cart In favor oC more et- llcioiu motor apparatus for the haul age of snow and so succeeds in olcaritig its streets with less delay, .New Haven, is stricken with mortl- tlcatiou and want.s some motor ploughs and trucks too. Which is a commendable idea, to be sure.

But while these and other big communities are confronted by the annual, spectre of snow removal, and while they try this scheme and that for the making of greater efficiency, we cannot for the life of us understand why no thought is given, anywhere apparently, to the possibility of letting the snow dispose of Itself, down the sewer and into the river or wherever tlie sewers empty, by the simple process of conversion into water.

' So far as we know no body of engineers has ever brought this matter up for discussion; no civic association has ever taken counsel witli Inventive genius in relation to it; no board of aldermen has ever set on foot a serious iu(iuiry as to the practicability of melting the snow instead of carting it; no oity government has ever called in the service of technical experts and paid them for trying to find out some way of doing this niuch-to-b.r desired thing.

Slow and laborious and cluttering, at best, is the task of clearing away a city’s snowfall by shoveling and carting, even though power shovels and vast motor lorries Lf employed. It is a nuisance and it is a great expense, and it is not the kind of thing that will be done, ill all human probability, a hundred or even fifty years from now. And somehow we are haunted by the conviction tliat it is not necessary even in this day and genera, tion.

When men witli an oxy-acetyleiio ^torch can melt to pieces great steel girders it looks extremely contradictory to see them admitting defeat in the matter of melting snow. And that is certainly all that it is necessary to do— melt it faster than you can shovel it! and at no greater cost. Gravity will lake care of its disposal.

We may be entirely on thi wrong track. It may be that therj is no way in wliich heaped up snow can be converted into water and allowed to run off— no practicable way. But we should like to knoy what would be the result of so much as one day's consideration of this subject by any gathering of engineering minds. They seem to think about every other conceivable thing— why not this one?

p e r f u n c t o b y o . k .If Senator Borah knows the iden

tities of the ‘ ‘not more than ten men” who have stirred up tlie Nicaragua trouble ‘ ‘in the interest of business” he will be serving the country rather better than he usually does by making those identities public, together with the circumstances in the case.

Apparently Secretary Kellogg has succeeded in convincing President Coolidge that the presence of four warships and the landing cf marines and bluejackets in the country of a friendly people 1ms been necessitated by the need to protect American lives and property, despite the fact that in no case has the public been allowed to know of any single instance where an American life was endan- gered.

But it is customary for Pres', deuts to back up the acts of their cabinet officers just as long as they keep them in the cabinet. So that there is nothing very surprising in M f/ Coolidge's putting a perfun.e- tory O. F, on the Nicaragua program. It is noteworthy, however, that President Coolidge makes the flat statement that the United States is not taking sides in the Diaz-Sacasa conflict. Which is tantamount to saying that if it turns out that Mr. Kellogg has been taking sides, or Rear Admiral Latimer has been taking sides, his proceedings have been without the knowledge or approval of the ad, ministration and can Instantly be disavowed at any time in the near future.

One thing is sure. President Coolidge is not going to permit this

00 PER, CENT POISON?Major Mills, prohibition director

at New York, has made the rather surprising statement that of 26,. 000 samples of seised liquor analyzed by the chemists of the New York prohibition staff, 51 per cent show that they were prepared from wood alcohol and 4S per cent from denatured alcohol— leaving only one per cent, apparently, of all the liquQr in circulation in that terri* tory that was not made by rectify, ing poisonous spirits.

Nobody believes that Maj-ar Mills is lying. Nobody will believe that he is telling all the truth. Somewhere in this showing lies a joker.

The distillery business in Canada is not paralyzed. Notoriously whoie fleets of trucks are being worn out bringing Canadian liquor across the border. It is not good whiskey, ns whiskey goes, for it is far too fresh from the stills. But it is made lu the regular way, not from either wood alcohol or denatured alcohol. And a great deal of it finds its w.-iy to New York.

There is a great deal of "champagne” sold in the Broadway district. Mostly It is sand.filtered cider and bl-carbon.ato of soda. But Us alcoholic couteut is natural alcohol, not wood or denatured.

There are thousands of moonshine stills, big and little, running in and within a few miles of New York, making raw, very bad whiskey, w.:ich i.s sold and drunk lu the city. Tornbie .';mff— but not wood or denatured alcohol whiskey.

Not eveu the Coast Guard pretends to cat'.'h more than ten per cent of the liquor that comes from the sea. Most of this is alleged Scotch made in Germau distilleries — very bad Scotcli but not made

j from wood alcohol or denatured alcohol. Tlie New Y'ork bootleg mar. ket is full of it.

There Is also a very definite proportion of decent liquor on sale in the country— at high prices.

Does it miraculously happen that in the dry raids in New York the prohibition officers get hold of none of these genuine if generally low grade liquors— or not more than a hundredth part of genuine in the total of seized rum? .

Or is it that they know the genuine well enough at a glance and coufine all their analyzing to liquors which, by smeU or Conditions of seizure, they re,cognize as rectified poison?

Of course the diversion of denatured alcohol to redlstlllatiou is going on upon a large scale. But it will take a more positive and a better amplified statement than this one about “ analyses” to convince any half-way sophisticated person that there is not more than one per cent of real liquor, counting the good, the bad and the in. different, in the American market.

RED BETRAYERS.Two great trade strikes but re

cently over, those of the cloak- makers and the furriers, cost the participants in them a total of many millions of dollars in wages and brought them little if any good at the end.

Now the cloakmakers and the furriers have discovered that they were hoodwinked into engaging in these peedless and ruinous con. flicts by followers of William Z. Poster and were merely victims of those persons’ efforts to "destroy the American labor movement for the glory of the Third International of Moscow.”

We have never shared with some nervous souls the nightmare fear of redism that robs them of sleep, but nothing is surer than that many of the trades unions whose memberships consist largely of first and second generation European iuimigrants are misled and exploited by the only kind of reds ■who constitute anything of a threat in tins country.

By the process of infiltration these communistic agitators get enough of their numbers into such trades unions to seize and retain leadership by sheer force of voice and energy, notwithstanding that they are in a tiny minority of the whole. And when this happens the fat Is always in the fire.

There have always been some of them in the mines, and they have been the source of much trouble. The garment trade unions have more and they have kept the noses of scores of thousands of workers to the grindstone through their everlasting promotion of causeless and long extended strikes.

If the garment ,trades have at last awakened to the fact that the reds are their enemies— as they seem to have done— there Is brighter promise for the wellbeing of the workers In those trades in the future. And the reds will have been ousted from their most fertile field.

First Showing of Models of

Here are just a few ranges from the complete line of Crawfords which ■we will stock In all popular finishes.

The Fairy Crawford, sketched above, is a popular size for the small home, the apartment, or the home that requires only the capacity of a small range. At the same time it has a regulation 20 inch oven— allowing full baking capacity. 46 1-2- inches long over all.

Here ft the ideal small coal range— made to meet every requirement of Crawford work and construction. Its large oven, heated by its roomy fire box makes an ideal stove for baking as well as cooking. It measures 50 inches long over all.

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The Charm Crawford may be equipped either with or without the gas-end oven. For coal it is simple and fuelsaving—with the gas end it’s convenient and ‘ ‘cool.” The features of this ranp are tlie Crawford Adjustable Broiler, single damper control, and scientific heat circulation.

‘The Victory Crawford is a new typi of combination range— complete in itself for either coal or wood or gas. It has all tlie special features of Crawford construction, three ovens and a broiler, and is the ideal range for large family. The Victory comes in either dull black, or gray enamel.

/P&wiSrdHE new 1927 Crawford Ranges are here and they are beau

ties. Every device—small or large— t̂hat would improve the baking and cooking qualities of this famous range has been incorporated into the new models. Note the new improvements:

7 INCH SMOKE PIPES greatly

LOWER PRICES TOO!

You will .be surprised to find that most of these new and better Crawfords are mai'ked at new, lower pidces, tool

AllDiscontinued

Lines A t Pre Inventory

PricesIm order to be able to

concentrate on this famous line of ranges in combination with tlio popular priced Roseland

A Typical ValueTwo complete modern

ranges using coal and gas, skilfully built into one compact stove in this model. It is in dull black finish and is 42 inches long. Regular $207.00.

$165

improve the cooking and baking qual-* ities.

20x20 INCH OVENS of full height make it possible to do a morning’s baking at one time.

ROOMY FIRE BOXES to supply the necessary heat for the large ovens.

LARGE CAPACITY W ATER FRONTS to give adequate hot water without forcing the stove.

ROBERTSHAW H EA T OVEN CONTROL optional equipment on Victory Cra\^ords — combination coal and gas. ,

WILCOLATOR A U T O M A T I C OVEN H EA T CONTROL supplied as optional equipment on any of the new cabinet ranges.

line and the nationally known Chambers Fireless Gas Ranges, we are discontinuing all other lines in our stock and have jnarked them accordingly at Pre Inventory ^ ic e s . O v e r twenty-five styles of coal, gas, combination £hid oil stoves are included in the Pre-Inventory Sale Reductions..

EASY TERMSAny of the discontin

ued numbers or the new 1927 Crawford models can be purchased on the Watkins Plan of Easy Payments.

Only a limited number of discontinued models. Select yours this week.

1927 Models O fChambers Fireless and Roseland Ranges

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In our Roo?laud Hue you will find a varied selection of lilgii grade ranges at popualr prices. Included are coal, gas and combination stoves in regulation dull black and the usual black arid white enamels In the gas line.

The Chambers is the gas range that actually allows you to coo.k "with the gas turned off.” Its combined insulated oven and Thermodomes, and its automatically regulated flow of gas make it possible to save In many instances half of the gas usually wasted.

WATKINS BROTHERS, Inc.FLORIDA BRANCH — THE W ATKINS-LIM BACHER CO. — ST. PETERSBURG.

Discontinued ModelsHere are Just four of the twenty-five

styles of ranges we have discontinued from opr line. Coal, gas, combination coal and gas, and oil stoves are included.

Here is a pleasing plain model, moderate in size yet with a large square oven that bakes exactly right, top and bottom. It’s oven has a sliding rack which can be adjusted at different heights or placed on bottom for slow baking. Regular $94.60. As sketched. PRE INVENTORY ^ * 7 It U S S A L E ............................ O e O D

Black enameled ranges are proving more popular every day. Like a china dish they are quickly cleaned with a damp cloth. The black enamel has the advantage of not showing dirt as quickly as a lighter range and yet is as easily cleaned. Regular $140.00 as sketched.PRE INVENTORY SALE ............................ $112

as.

A three burner cooking top with large roomy oven for those having limited space, or not requiring a range of large cooking capacity. This model, as sketched, has in addition a mantel back. Finished in semi-porcelain and selling regularly for $45.00.PRE INVENTORY O CSALE ............................ ^ u D s O O

This cabinet model Gas Range has a right hand elevated oven with broiler, four open burners for cooking with simmer and pilot light and In addition Is equipped with a Thermolator oven heat control. Finished in black with white doors, etc.Regular $76.50. as kttched ............... $61.25

FUNERAL DIRECTORS

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OCEAN TELEPHONING.Transoceanic telephony, which is

to be commercially available early In January. Iz going to be a bless

ing to those individuals whose only means of self-expression lies in tbs spending of money. Much more effectual than entertainment at a Broadway night club, where at the best one can do it is not easy or polite to spend more than a hun. dred dollars an hour, will be the device of calling up one’s best or sweetest friend from across the ocean and ticking up a hundred- and-sixty-five dollar charge for twelve minutes of patter. The rare Is to be $75 for the first three minutes and $10 a minute Uiereaftor, with a twelve minute limit if somebody else is "waiting for the line."

Come to think of it, however,]

does it or does it not smack just the least bit of egotism to admit that your conversation is worth twenty-live dollars a minute?

iniHBy RODNEY BUTCHER

Washington, Dec. 29. — The American Cynamid Company, one of the bidders for Muscle Shoals, has mailed sample bottles of fertilizer to all senators with the assur- ancs that it will oroduce the aame

at the* shoals if given the chance. Each senator received about half a pint of fertilizer.

Describing the chemical content a paster on the bottle says: "It is made by the same process of nitrogen fixation for which U. S. Nitrate Plant Noj 2 at Muscle Shoals is designed. The proposal of the Air Nitrates Corporation and Aderlcan Cynamid Company is to produce this same material at Muscle Shoals.

Senators don't know what to do with the stuff and wonder whether they are expected to take it home to try out in he flower pots or spread It on the lawn. 'Two very bald, senators were heard asking each other If it would aid growth of hair. Jenatcr George W. Norris of Nebraska looked at

his bottle pressed.

and remained unim-

Among those who waited In the corridor lor the Faa-Doheny Verdict was Jack Britton, the famous former prizefight champion. Jack was sure Fall, a friend of his, and Doheny, weren’t guilty. He Uxs seen fighter after fighter sell out to the gamblers on the eve of big fights and, “ Why should Pall have sold upwards of a $100,000,000 privilege for, a mere $100,000 loan?” Jack asked. "Under prevailing sell-out rates in the fight igame as ajie is today, be shouid have got $10,000,000 ”

E. B. McLean, the publisher, and an Important witness at the trial, was tha onlv ona tha waiHnv

crowd of high and low degree who wore no vest.

McLean is the richest permanent resident of Washington, so it wasn’t because the vest had 'alien to pieces that he appeared only in coat and shirt. But bis condition may have been inspired by a desire to display a remarkable shirt, with huge alternate stripes of pink and \vhite, collar to match.

The dander of Seratpr Arthur Gould of Maine has risen some- ’xhat with the attempts of Democrats to oust him from bis seat, but be claims to maintain a sense of humor.

Once, says Gould, there were a little girl and a school teacher. The teacher asked the 'little girl what h «r fa th er rtlrt fo r a Ui^Ina.

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“ Does he work as a laborer or Is ̂he in a scientific occupati* n?” was the query. i.

"Well, r guess he s k.nd of sclen- % tific.” was the reply. f

“ Well, what docs he do?” de • n anded teacher.

"Sh-h-h-h!” said the «lrl. "He'| l^res wormholes In antique furni- * ture.” j!

Well, Gould says his Democratic e opponent in the Maine election k tried to bore wormholes In his ̂charactei; aud that now he’s *lnd- ̂ing a lot more wormhole borers in I Washington. 3

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More than half of the SO.OOti'Se refugees installed in the rural dl8-| trlcts of Macedonia already are|.Bair>«nnnnrt

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MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 1920.

The World’s Religions

Bent for Poetry Gave Birth to Myriad Gods

TUis is the second of a series of six t articles by .1. W. T. Mason on tl>e world’s reliKions. Tomorrow: Zoronstrlnnism.

BY J. \V. T. HASON

Author of “ Creative Fi-ecdoin” (AVritten for NEA Service)

The ancient Greeks were so highly gifted artistically .'.ml poetically that they tried to endow their religion with these traits and brought their gods down from heaven to earth for the purpose. I

The result was disastrous to the gods and their human worshipers as well. It is a sound Intuition that causes mankind to enshroud his idea of the godhead with mystery, ; for spirit, judged from the human standpoint, is not easily explicable and can better be taken rn subconscious trust than self-conscious rea- son. !

The Greeks, however, planted their deities on Mount Olympus near at hand and proccec.ed to give ; them human traits, vile and good, indifferently. Zeus was the absolute monarch of Mount Olympus and under him ruled alt manner of gods and goddesses acting like erring ireu and women ,in their various spheres. i

Poseidon ruled the sea; Aphrodite directed the love affairs of mortals; Artemis was mistress of

'the chase and wild nature: Pallas Athena endowed her favorites with wisdom and taught them how to win peace and prosperity; Ares encouraged war; Hera, wife of Zeus, was goddess of woman’s life, and scores of other major and minor deites were identified by Greek't with every phase of existence.

I>t*pcnd On GodsThe result of this multiplication

of gods.and goddesses who mingled with humanity, showing affection for some and hatred toward others, was the failure of the Greeks to develop a high standard of utilitarian progress. They depended on the dwellers of Mount Olympus to help them in all things-

Homer’s Iliad is filled with stories of Interferences in the war between

the Greeks and Trojans by gods and goddesses. Indeed, the war Itself was little more than a struggle between the deities who used the mortals on the plains of Troy as their playthings.

So it was with all tho, affairs of life. Olympus worship among the Greeks was not a purlfled realization of spirit. It was service per- formed for the purpose' of gaining j rewards on earth through omnipotent favors Ifom on high.

Debaseiiieiit Its Fruit It is ah\ays debasing to humans

to practice such a chit. Instead of encouraging the Greeks to develop their abilities as producers of material things. Olympus worship caused them to rely on slave labor and to lie and cheat in trade. The Greeks were notorious throughout the Mediterranean for treachery and dishonesty.

i Some Greeks ceased to grovel be- fore Mount Olympus for material help, feeling strongly the need for

! an element cf mystery in religious ' matters. They developed several

communkles of worsh’pers into ̂which converts could enter only after a seci'et initiation, apparently desi.gued to mark the.n off from the non-worshipers and impress them with the importance of the doctrines that were explained to them.

Worship of Dionysus The best known of the secret

mysteries concerned the worship of the god Dionysus: and so well kept were the dionysiac rites that it is by no means certain to modern investigators exactly what Dionysus represented or who he was.

Some think he was originally a deity of India whose worship spread to Greece. But, according to Greek mythology, Dionysus was a son

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MANCHESTER EVENING HBRAU), WEDI^SDAy, DEC. 29, 1 9 ^ySBB

LEONARD'S AOBI FAILS TO MAKE

AN IMPRESSIONItiH t Carefnliy Prepared

Statement Which Tends to Show Readiness of Re-

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The year 1926 was a tough one on the bike riders.

There were only two champions who were not toppled from their thrones. Cecil Walker, Australian star, won the allround championship of America for the third year in succession, while Eddie Merkner of Chicago won the amateur road championship of America for the second straight season.

All the rest were beaten.

MMJOE WILLIAM*

Fresno, Calif.i D*c. 29.— ^Beset on all Bides, Hubert “ Dutch” Leonard, former Detroit pitcher, today had. broken his silence long enough to hurl soma confounding statements at whoever is willing to listen— and even perhaps to those who are not.

Branded as a “judas” , among other things, for the part he is charged with playing in the ousting of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker from onganlaed baseball, Leonard hurled his broadside and today had relapsed Into silence again. But the echo asks the question:

“ What about that ?20,000?” Leon^fd hotly denloB that he

ever received such a suin for turning the now famous “ letters” /oyer to the American League, to Judge Landis or to anyone else.

In a carefully prepared statement, Which Intimates hls silence may give way to further outbursts, Leonard declared that the Detroit Club had paid him money— not for any “ letters'’— but fdr salary due him for the whole of 1922, 192S end part of 1924.

Leonard declared he surrendered the “ letters'' to baseball authorl ties some weeks after the settlement In question had been made. He said this action was due to the fact he had been convinced that he owed It to the Detroit Club and to the baseball world to do so. Leonard also said that ho was told that this could ba done without creating publicity. ,.T

In concluding. Leonard said: I do not, at this tlme,deem it for the best interest of baseball world in general to go info this-or any other occurrence at any great lei^gthor detail." . . . . .

Leonard lias plainly indicated that the next move is to be made by'" someone else beside himself— he also indicates that he has a rebuttal in readiness.

NO CREDIT DUESQUAWKLEONARD

' !RHy Evans Says Squealer s

J^cdons Reflect No Credit To His Name.

How much is Babe Ruth worth? If you had him on your lollypop nibbling squad what Would you pay him in money, .marbles, chalk or used razor blades?

BRISTLING BATTLEShvm O T O K ^

The Babe has Indicated a diplomatic weakness -for 5150,000 and no questions asked.

Colonel Jacob Rupert has taken the matter under advisement. He says he Is open to reason butcau see no reason in this.

Rich Idlers, sons of

It Is a difficult matter to reason with a club owner when ^he subject concerns salary checks for the hired hands.He’d rather pay them off in cheers.

i' b ia t f i l e s u it sDetroit, Mich., Dec. 29.— TyUobb was due in Detroit to confer with hli attoruey J. 0 . Murfin, former circuit court judge, as i.o the egaot procedure the two will make iB an effect to remove whatever stigma haa been placed on Cobb by dlsclosurea made by Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, high commis- eioner o f baseball. . , j*

An unconfirmed report had tt that Cbbb will bring ruit in the United States Court, claiming he was damaged as a result o f testimony published by CdmmlsBloner Landis, linking him with an alleg- ^ crooked baiebaU game played In Detroit, September 25, 1919.

Cobb and Tris Speaker, the latter also named in the scandal by Judge Landis, will file independent damagi suits, if such action is decided upon, according to report.

Cobb's friends declared that ho haa decided not to associate him- leK with a third major league in any capacity.

^ By Billy Evans

“ Dutch" Leonard, Who ently furnished all the evidence in the present baseball -scandal, ii^ volvlng Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Joe Wood, has done several things in connection w,lth the affair that, certainly do not reflect credit upon himself.

He waits seven years before presenting the facts in the alleged fixed game.

When he finally presents these facts, he confesses that he was in on the transaction, which is far from complimentary.

Prompted by an qnmlty that later sprang up between himself and Cobb and Speaker, a personal score, he uncovers the now mouldy evidence.

Development of Case The story Is that . e first tried

to peddle the facts in the case to several big newspapers.

Failing in this, he finally got an audience with Frank owner of the Detroit ball club, on^ of the teams that figured in the happening. Pursuing the only proper course, Mr. Navln took the matter up with President Johnson- of the American League.

All the time it is understood that Leonard had his price before ret Vdaling the facts in the case.

Tho next move was consulting with the legal counsel of the American League, Mr. Killilea who says he completed the deal that resulted in the evidence being turned over to him. He names no price.

Where Leonard Fails If true, what a nasty mess from

beginning to end and what a peculiar part Leonard has played throughout the entire affair!

Money first tempted him to bet on what he alleges was a crooked ball game. Then, later, after falling out .with the players he insisted were in on the deal, he lets a matter of seven years elapse before he comes through with the so- called facts In -the case.

Asked to appear' before the men he accused, Leonard declines lu a most emphatic manner,

It is reported that he still has valuable dope that he has failed to disclose bearing on the case.

,.The Babe presents a curious proposition. He the most valuable turnstile asset the eight clubs have. He makes a lotta o jack for all of them.' Yet only one of them pays him.

This Is all wrong, like rain at picnics, poison in coffee cups and cowcatchers on airplanes.

CHAPTER ONE.T « t'p p o «5E if I were a fancy writer I could draw word pictures that

blood and thrill the heart of every mother's son of you. SSmnSe” Z m S t call it. Romance and co lor-h u t to me it was

^^^Rlngs pitched stealthily ^ihe aristocracy of early New York and New England, dodging the brass buttons and blue coats of

Wenty. thirty forty and fifty round^ Men, real he-men witk hearts

oaA anrmuscles of s^eel. Jabbing, blojsking. cov- erina lashing out with sudden spurts, backing a S y ’ caglly t Plgbts on dirty black bSTges under fS^^BtSSner stars® Hurried fights and all the thrllis t ^ t make this game the greatest in the

^°/w }sh I could do jutslce to this and to the original Jack “ WtTowmuscular gods of the ring. ^and then and my grammar isn t so J; member I’m doing tke best I can, for my heart is

.0 Oh. 0, ,ho protuorttowns in the ^ ® N ^ C ork , Ireland, , ̂Bangor. Me., where my1866. I came to America ” S b r W g e . Mass —

in m 9 ; e moved to the famousand

Fourteen

It’s one reason why Colonel Jacob has to put perfume on hls hot mince pies these days.

And when he looks through rose colored glasses all he sees are packed stands in the wven other cities distilling alien box office gravy.

The Colonel has more than one bunion festooning his off-season dilemna. The Babe autographed mpre than 2000 Yankee balls last season and gave them sway with a free and democratic bapdv

“ It costs me more to keep that guy in fresh autographs,” laments the Colonel, “ than most of the magnuts pay for a whole outfield.”

The Babe’s present drag-down is 51000 every week. What he wauts now is 5 2 0 0 0 . a week with taxi fare, and porter tips tossed airily in.

The Colonel thinks this Is fair enough. Instead of paying the Babe 51000 every week he’s willing to pay hlni 5 2 0 0 0 some weeks.

IRAY KREMER TOPS NATIONAL PITCHERS

Making .exceptions .of Dried Prune. Week, Laughter Week, Shave-iour-Owq-Neck Week, Be Kind-to-Canaries Week, etc, etc.

They’re going to give a benefit for Sam Langford in New York. The Boston Tar Baby once gave, his own benefits with , IdTt hooks and right crosses.

But that story of Sam going Into the shoe-shining business is all bunk. It’s too late for him to learn any new foot work.

WILLIAMS MA?' HFTFOB PAN HOWMPIT

The signing of Dan Howley M manager of tbe St. Louis Browns probably will give Outfielder Ken Williams a new leas® on me.\ Waivers recently were askeA On Williams, who only a few years ago was sharing homeron honors with Enth. Lart year he slnniped badly In the fiSd and at the bat.

y ^ en Howley was Cobb’s assistant at Detroit Williams was one of the best hitters in tbe American Leagne. The new manager of the Browns remembers him only as such and no doobt win want to give him the once over himself before sending him eljmhere.

STRONG B 0 » CARDEKPECr

ATCHENEYi

• AYOR TWIFSECOND DELAY IN "SH IFr”

ot Broowjn .nd rtl fra y , lurty little Micks (rom all Ire- tepd, It ..e ^ a lly?? on Ike Jaw sot me solos

ona I b“ eame aotte e t okot s e ^ oia P .aay Gar-

was one of the best fighters I ever saw. Naturally good. My size, age and weight. - oqi hi«y flaht of my life. It\ls still

how*^ur pudgy little ^Wemjsf agaln

S ed ^ ^ '^ w e kept t?at every night, a gruelling pace, for FIVE

^*^?n the sixth night Garrity failed to show up and I was accepted as champion of the block! *

Edlfor’s Note— In the next chapter MeAul^^^^ f̂m®nnd\ow Dempsey

When Jack Graney was starring with the Cleveland ball dnb, he aL ways wns the life of the party. A mighty fine player, he ^Iso was a valuable assqt to the club, because of his temperament.

On the long training trfps in the spring, there never was a dull moment when Oraney was a member of the Cleveland team. It was the exception when a day passed without one ot hls copyrighted laugh stnnts.

In the heat of a pennant race, when the nerves of the athletes were worn to a frasslOi it whs Graney who relieved the^^tension.

It always was. fair weather with Jack. He was an optimist who could see good in ever^hlng. He lookedon the humorous rather than the 1 _ , - j ** t «■ nserious side of life, tbe good rather f orW&Yd TARS KlllC luAy D9 than the had. '

Defends 'SpeakerJack Graney was with Cleveland

In 1919 and played left field In the game which "Dutch" Leonard alleged was framed.

Meeting Graney .pn the streets of Cleveland, a few hours after the alleged scandal was made public, I asked him what he thought of the charges."They are nothing short of ridicu

lous.” be replied. “ No one could make me believe Tris Speaker figur ed in such a deal.

“ I played for years under Speaker. He was a tough loser, always wanted to win. Why, he played as bard in an exhibition game as a regular sontest

'A lot more conclusive proof

Next Wednesday’s lonnam ent Bids Fair

Retnmed to 1925 FormA^o.

New York, Dec. 29.— Abolition of the huddle, the restriction ot the shift, a new rule to cfaver the forward passes and other changes In the fpothall code will be discussed today at the annual meeting of the American Football Coaches Association, Such recommendations that erokmado will he passed on to the football rules committee for consideration. „ ,

At tbe same time, the National Collegiate Athletic Association will

Edlfor’s Note— In the nexi onaptci « Dempseythe original with the sensational Ed Me-

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Rosmlerg Can’t Make Wb^Willi Balloon in Each Hand