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' NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1921. '
DRITISIIER lflM.lt
OF SCULLING CHI
Bereslord Defeats Cilmorc-Other
.. Oljmplc Rowing Matches
9t TM a sen-lata) ff'W-
Arfenteml, France, Julf Tlie
infl at'llla rM In Hie Olympic row.
Inf championship osy l
Jar Beresrer4, Jr., of Ores! Krltaiii,
rfereatinf W, K. Oarrett Oilmnre of
rhH4iplii, hi Aroerusn rltel.
t.rH (Ai tup
Phlilphii, July II. Tha MitH
f Jack lleresfaM, of Grat llrlialn,
in Ihe Olympic inln roainf vnt,
tarrM ith it possession of Ihe Phtt
llphl o4 challenge cup eml'ienta
lie ef the amateur aculllnc t'hsnipion.
hip of the or lit, II as held ly
ra ul Ceiteilo. i'hlUiiphle. ho n
It frem V. K. llarretr tlllmore. riH.
Oolphia, on lha rVliuylklli rlvr here
en May M. In lha Olympic iryoma
here en June 14, Ullmora defeat
t'neiello for lha hennr of representing
lha I nltel fllntes In th tlnflra event
t Arenteull.
Tha gold challenge cup was euh
f rihoil for by rhlMetphla roln(
nthuslasta and prewnteil to Jai'k
Kelly, rhllaiel'hla. when he won ihe
Olympic aingleg event In l!:o. He
retired from singles competing and
tha cup was won by Walter M.
Hoover, Duluth, who waa challenged
and defeated by Oilniora laat year.
7 ha rulea for lha cup are that It must
go to the winner of the Olympln event
hut tha possessor can he rhallenfed
for.lt by any amateur In the world on
in montha' notlc.
FIREMEN FATALLY HURT
hail I Ui fciive-l ut lMif
and Ilia i-na inrwa Iwlay In
lannM-Hl Hum Ulan,
kitiiM City, July I?. To Bremen
era family Injured. etveral ether
liurt and lite nro( r known la
list been burned la dtih In an
ploiion and lire whlrli early loday
f'rked a lar nt apartment lUIHI
mi ill s mil"! "Iimi't.
The HreniHii, Karl iUriey ami
John llaydeu, n plniitj lw-neatli a
fallllif Hull, Hm other firemen
raugllt under the wall wre taken to
hospital) lure H la mid Ihejf will
riotr. The l.o.lin of Hie hie
tHgroee hate Ixeii rnotered. Mne
others ara miuiui. , I
CONFESSES SLAYING
OF MAJOR M'LEARf
Murdefcr Taking Aotborities to
Body's Hiding Place
rtsieigh, V, C, July 17 Mortimer
II, King, who haa algned a eonfeeslon
thai he and auoihrr man killed Major
Huniuel II. Mil.ery of Ihe roast
artillery rmpa, waa laker) today' la
IIih tielnity of Cheraw, H. C, lo end,
wild reow-ry of the hudy, Ihe iiinh
lery thai haa at'sorhed federal, mill-
Tha fire, it la beloved, w.a a.arlH 7,r' " 'B " : . J' ,J' ' d
Ilia automobile waa found July 4 I'V a
farmer near Canton, where II had
been accidentally ditched lha day ta
fore, but he walled until July II be
for notifying lha Aahevllle CltUea.
In an effort Is determine ta owner,
altlp. Meanwhile, tha governor a of
1naa, lha major a nalla alata, and
of North and Pouth Oaroltna, had
beoeina Interested In Ihe riu and
Idemllieatlan ef lha machine aa Ihe
mlaeing offloer'a gava direction to the
Intenelva aearch which culminated
in tha coufeaalon,
on Ihe tint floor,
CHANGE IN ROLES '
NOW SEEMS LIKELY
Democrats Want to Avoid Further
Convention Troubles
By Tlit Ai?ltte4 Pri,
Argenteull, France, July 17.
Switzerland won the four-oared race,
with coxawatn, In the Olympic rowing
championship, contented here today.
Tour oared, with coxswain: Bwltxor
lund, flrut; France, second; t'nlied
. Rutea, third; Italy, fourth;, Holland,
fifth. Time 7 mlnutea IS i-8 aeconds.
Talr-oarcd, without coxswain, Hol
land, first; France, second. Time
minutes ID t-6 aeennda. - The British
entry was scratched.-
Americana Defeated
The American four-oared crew,
with coxswain, met defeat In tho final,
which waa won by Switzerland. The
Swiss combination, after trailing last
In a field of five, rallied at the half-w-ay
mark and proceeded to win by
a length from France with a final
spurt, the Americnna just falling to
land better than third.
Holland won the championship in
the palr-oared event without cox
swain, outlasting the French for vic
tory by half a length. The British
pair withdrew at the last minute.
V. S. Comes In Behind
In the four-oared event, with cox
swain, the Americans led for the first
BOO yards, but Holland shot out In
front at the halfway mark, with the
United tSatcs holding second place
and Ttaly, France and Switzerland
trailing In the order named.
The Swiss spurted and took the
Ipad at 1,600 yards, while the French
; issed the American combination, the
crews flashing over the finish line In
this order.
Holland made it a four-cornered
battle until' the crews were within a
hundred ' yards of the finish when
one of the Hollanders caught a cramp,
enabling the Italians to take fourth
place.
Under the Olympic scoring system,
Switzerland and Great Britain were
1n the lead for tho regatta honors at
the end of three events with 14 points
each, while Holland had 12, France
10. and the United States was in fifth
place with nine.
The United States met its e-second
straight setback a stunning upset
when .Tack Beresford, Jr., the British
champion, defeated V, E. Garrett
Ollmore, the American crack, by two
lengths in the ' single sculls event.
Beresford, who had been decisively
beaten by the American star in the
trials, took the lead at the halfway
mark and pulled away from hla rival,
who appeared to be rapidly tiring and
lacking the go for a finishing spurt.
Bull of Australia, who led at 600
yards, dropped far back at the three
quarter mark and Schneider of Swit
zerland finished third, several lengths
behind Ollmore.
The United States won the doubles
aculls event. Houble sculls: United
States (Jack Kelly and Paul Costel
lo); France, second: Switzerland,
third; Brazil, fourth. Time 7 minutes
46 seconds,
Switzerland won the palr-oared
race, with coxswain.
By The A.'itei I'rus,
Chicago, July 17. Concerted action
by niembera of tho democratic nation
al convention from a .number of west
em and southern sluice In an attempt
to make both tho unit rule and two
thirds majority Inoperative In fiiturb
national conventions haa advanced to
day to tha stage of formal Interchange
of views on the aubject, a member of
the committee revealod.'
A commltce member from one weat
em state haa prepared a declaration
for submlsaion to the proposed meet
ing of the national committee at
Clarksburg, V. Va., early in August.
Under this resolution, tho commit
tea would declare both rules contrary
to democratic principles and recom
mend to the various atate bodlea that
alt plans for tho convention of 1928
and thereafter ba calculated on tha
basis of majority rule on the nomina
tiona and with every delegate free, so
far as binding party rulea are con
ccrned, to vote hla own preference.
More than a fourth of the com
mlttee members have assented to the
proposition since tho national conven
tion adjourned a week ago, a leader
in the move said today. Additional
members have been sounded on the
question and have promised to assVt
In bringing the proposed resolution
before the full committee.
Thomas B. I.ovc, national commit
Iceman from Texas, W. W. Howes of
South Dakota and Clyde Herring of
Iowa, are understood to have taken
the lead in the move with a primary
Mew of making a recurrence of the
situation which developed in the re
cent convention unlikely.
Advertising Convention
Will Next Meet in Texas
By Th Associated Trees.
London, July 17. The general ses
sion of the International Advertising
convention today adopted a resolution
approving the choice of Houston, Tex
as, as the site of.tha 1325 convention.
The general session also confirmed
the nominations made by the board
of club presidents of I.oii B. Holland
as president and Jesse It. Neal as sec
retary treasurer of the Associated Ad
vertising clubs of the world. They are
the present Incumbents of these posi
tions.
JAPS RUSE TARIFF.
By Tli Assn. luieil Press.
Toklo, July 17. Both houses of
the imperial diet today passed the
government bill raising the tariff on
about 250 articles classed as luxuries
to an ad valorem duty of 100 per cent.
Carolina.
Tha rnnft-aainn, made public late
last night It Canton, N. !' 'hut
King and hia companion, whim
name was not divulged pending
search for him, had killed Major
McLeary July S. and hidden hla body
near Cheraw, wliern the officer had
given them a lift In hia automobile.
Tho motive, it stated, waa rubbery,
and the finding of one of tho major's
shirts In Klifg'a homo near Canton
yesterday was described aa bringing
about Ihe confession after he lind
convinced Investigators last Monday
that he had nothing to do with tho
crlmo. King also was quoted as ad
mitting he waa a dean-tor from both
army and marine corps.
Major McLeary. en route from Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas to Fort Moul
trie, S, C, to which ho had been
transferred, toft llaleigh for Colum
bia, S. C, July i, and a search for
him was begun when he failed to
call for money at the latter city for
which ha had telegraphed whllosliere.
Prosecution Denies New
Story of Loeb-Leopold
Chicago, July 7. Stories that N
than Leopold and Itlehsrd l.oeh, eon.
fesed kldnapper-aiayera of Kobert
Franks, first .planned to niaka their
fathers' or l.ofch's It year old brother
i he victim, hava been characterised
by Ihe prosecution aa propaganda de
signed lo further lha Insanity theory
of lha defense.
Tha prosecution contends that Ihe
boja were normal, healthy , and well
educated and expecta to Introduce evi
dence In support of that contention at
their trial, scheduled to start August
fixkd i i'Xn asrmxt
Wilbert Veley was fined IV and
costs -when ha waa arraigned In
police court this morning qyi a charge
of assaulting Walter 7.sk of John
street, He was arrested early this
morning after an Investigation of tha
assault by .-Patrolman William A.
Doherty. w. .
According to Ihe testimony In court.
the two men had an argument at a
houso on John street and Zak lafj
before the argument was settled.
Vcley la alleged to have gone out
looking for hint to finish tha argu
ment and when ho found him, Is al
legeed to have atruck struck Zak.
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AN
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Years of Furniture service to the people of New
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us to larger quarters as one of the leading estab
lishments of our kind in the city. ,
Business has increased in volume to necessitate re
modeling an entire building where we will serve
you with the best that the country's furniture mar
kets afford.
In a short time we will be pleased to announce
the opening of our new store at 381-3S3 Main
street.
At that time we will also announce the extraor-,
dinary values we have placed aside for our grand
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Watch and wait for this announcement for you will
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JOHN F. MEEHAN
COR. UNION AND CLARK STS.
PROPOSED R. R. MERGER
tread of Soul hem PaHfie Wscluses
. Reason for rropisMl l.rutiplng of
Two Other t.ncsi. j
Tucjon, Aria., July 1?. Speaking!
here laat night, President William j
Bproule, of tht. Southern Pacific Hall
way, gave a re.sume of the proposed I
merger of the Southern pacific and
F.I Paso and Southwestern linilroads.
The rrsson the nirrger tn helng
pushed through hy the .Southern Pa
riftc, Mr. Kproule explained, was that
i"mo lime epn, s srrlrs of tentative
(fi-oupinsv, of large railroads through
out the country was mad'.- hy the In
' t.,-atate cninie'rcf i-niomtssion snd
fijt the Southern Pactnc, the KIPsso
end Sothw.-otern and the I lock f
' 'i.nd ; ?tem w ere placed in one of
those crone.. Confident that these
groupings unuld Fonm day be. en
forced by sprrl'al l-gwlallnn, the
Sniithrn Phciiic company, he m4,
hai snllcipatd the motemenl and In
order to aci-noipitj.ii the merger in a ;
businewlike snd sitieifactory way. ba.s
entered into voluntirj negoiiatlons :
with the Kire.so and Souihwsiern j
company lo do thK
"Another reaenn,'-' he Mid, "why!
the Southern Pacific want to go!
through with this merger is heeaiise i
It Is now compe'lng nith railroads I
that, bme a through line to the tlreat I
Lakes snd middle. estern cities to!
the Pacific coaet. W too want to be j
aNe to say that our llnea extend to
CMrsgo from Sun Francisco, and this
merger snd a ppsribl merger with'
t!t Foek Island system l'l msk It i
(oMibla for us to lay that." '
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