TWO
NOMINEE HAPPY i
OVER PROSPECT
FOR CAMPAIGN
j
Roosevelt's Big Worry Ended by Al I
Smith's Statement. Jouett Shousc j
to Aid in Campaign. New Yorki
Governor Beams as Leaders Assure!
Him Their Support in National j
Campaign. j
Albany. X. Y.?Governor Roosevelt |
is now a happy, confident Democratic j
-nvpxideutia! candidate.
The big; "worry of the Kooseveli j
camp, whether or not former Gover-i
nor Smith would support the gover-j
nor s c?*n'dtdacyt hud beer erased jjv
the '"Happy Warrior's" announcement
lost week that he would support the
party.
Jouett Shouse. Smith champion in
pre-nomir.ation days, whose candidacy j
for trie convention chairmanship w&sj
crushed by the Roosevelt forces in the j
drive to victory, wired "Hear Frank' j
that he'd do ail he could to help theRoosevelt
garner ticket. And late last j
nigh: came word from Cleveland that '
Newton D. Baker, "dark horse" can-!
didate-at the convention, was backing
the trover nor. '
Capital Hi!? was pondering whether
the famous "A! and Frank" friend-:
chip would be patched up now that!
the party battling is oyer. The former j
governor gave no hint as to that in i
New York, and Roosevelt said just!
thirteen words after reading the J
r^v-r- Smith MianuTihejTrtpnt; * Governor 1
Smith's statement confirms my con-!
fide nee that he would support the j
Democratic party."
French Submarine Sinks;
Sixty-six Lives Are Lost
Paris.?The French submarine
Tronictnee. with 73 men aboard, sank
off Cherbourg Harbor Thursday. Seven
men were saved.
In addition to the crew the ship:
was carrying seventeen engineers and
other worker^- not permanently assighed
to the vessel.
The ministry of marine issued this
Statement describing the disaster:
"'The Promethee y as making a trial i
trip oh the surface. .Suddcr.lv she I
sank in a depth of about 25 fathoms, I
7 miles north of Cape Levi. The cause '
e. .acci den t Was not determined ."j
- -^r-he? .-;??"? ?n ?| 7 me .TihBniwiuwiS;;
kfL __ _ ~ -r-nt out "hir the avaiiabSe sa!vage ves^;
sols and A vim irai 51 a i iTwit v
l!;c direct:c.n _ui7Ab<> .moratiions. Naval
planes W6T<? brought into service, but
flying conditions were bad, making
a search from the air difficult.
The Promethee is one of a class
Of 1,38-1 tans stnrfflco (liofi)aocmcnt.
She is 302 foot Jong with a 30-foot
beam. Her consists of o.m
o.y-inch gun, one 37 iYiihi???L?.:i gunT,
one- machine gun, eleven 21,7-inch
torpedo tube s, including two sets of I
revolving tubes, one fore and one \
a?t. j
The type was not particularly successful
on trials. Two of the Prome- J
thees uster ships, Vangeur and Re-',
doubtable, made a cruise to the West j
Indies in 1&30 without mishap.
The Promethee was ope of five sub-:
marines in the 1927 building pro-!
gvani.
SHR1NERS* LIQUOR IS TO BE
TESTED AT SAN FRANCISCO,
Sar. Francisco.?Shriners attendj
.v. annual .Shrine convention
here -July 2G-28 need have no worries
regarding the safety of ?au Fran-1
c?5vv i reiresnments."
Br. J. C. Geiger, city health offi-1
eev announced Saturday that his office
will gladly tost all liquor the'
Shrine nobles bring to it during their J
'stay here.
"It takes about ten minutes to de-'
termine the fitness of liQUor for.
drinking purposes," Dr. Geiger said.
"Of course we have to report ail
tests to the prohibition department.
But the convention will be over before
the necessary clerical work and
reports can be filed."
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SECOND INSTALMENT
SYNOPSIS?Johnny Breen, 16
years old, who had spent all of his
life aboard a Hudson River tugboat
plying near New York, is
tossed into the river in a terrific
collision which sinks the tug, drowns
his mother and the man he called
father. lynorant. unschooled, and
fear driven, he drags himseii
ashore, hides in the Irleudly dark
ness of a huge covered truck?only
to be kicked out at dawn?and into
the midst of a tough gang of
river rat boys who beat and chase
bins. He escapes and. exhausted,
tumbles into a basement doorway.
Later, he hears the trap door
slammed, a padlock snapped down,
and he is trapped.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
tlBecka! Be-ckal"
"Yes. Pa."
VII you shud dc vawter off?"
"Paps, it iss c
"Yot you dell me, Becka? Id don*
run? I heart! id. Do vot I told yon
vill you?" Chanoon Lipvitch hobble
back through the basement, to th
rear of the room. He shuffled, hi
feet at an angle, his bearded fac
assuming an air of comical severity
It was an occasion and Channon Lis
vitch. certain of his urour.d, dele:
mined to correct his daughter. Co:
versa lion. 'r. the rear 1 i vi ng-sleopin
room, came to a stop; the loud voic?.
quieting which the splash of run n in
water scur.ded from without. "Syou
told it lies to me on Shabbas?
He bristled, but Beckn. more volub
i than her father, instantly replied.
"IPs in back, Pa. Don't be so su<
j dent with calling me a liar. It's i
1 the house in back. I hear it splasninj
like you."
But Shannon Lipvitch was righ
Water was splashing, if not in the
apartment, the!! near by. Ila. he wi
light; his ears were not. stuffed u|
Wat* r taxes were ever in his mir
\yhon faucets flowed. "Veil." be sab
"shud id off, vy donh. you? Dell nn
who is making such a splasch c
Shabbas?" He was a strict man \vi;
! his family?in the presence of vis
gijjgted as she cl i med~Througn a~rv<
JwiiicioW" oftnb Lip* *1
i living. sleeping, eating room in bac
J of the clothing emporium?new ai
second hand. She had to make a hi*
Istvp. a very high step, for they wei
!on the basement floor, and the sil
[were high. Her skirt was tight ar
uSESf? vfir"Tilt'Ci as she stretched or
leg through the window, the oth<
I was uncovered far above the knet
i a plump sMpely leg.
Beckn, standing on tiptoes, h<
skirts lifted unnecessarily high, pee
c-il across the narrow area betw.ee
the buildings. Through a broken wii
dow pane she saw a boy splashin
over a rusty sink, under a tap of rui
ning water; He held a piece of hai
yellow laundry soap and was worlds
up a lather; his hair and facn wei
streaming wet. The boy caught
glimpse of her, his eyes were wi<l
with fear?blue eyes. She Smiled :
him. Then she turned hurriedly, he
skirts up over her knees?her stoel
ir.gs were new and she made the M
of the occasion. Breathlessly s'a
jr.mped down into the Lipvitch livin
room. "It's a boigler," she aecisree
almost fainting. Tremendous excitf
ment prevailed in the Lipvitch hem.
"Qmck, Papa, quick." Mrs. Lit
viteh and Mrs. Yartin were urgin
and helping the reluctant Lipvitch t
the window. Suddenly the wate
stopped. Lipvitch, 111 the area, cangh
a glimpse of a boy's face at the bro
ken window. The little man, h
was a head shorter than his wife
struggled to command his voice. H
did not look formidable- in his blac!
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silk skull cap. His features worked j.
; convulsively.
"Vot iss! Vot iss!" He exclaim;
excirediy. The bo> looked harm.'{frightened.
**Vill you ccme oiuUV"
Lipvitch screamed. "Or if vou don'd,
|I?I?call police!"
"Papa, it's eniy a buy." Beeka v..; !
again climbing through the window.
-'Here, boy, ioisc- out to tie." -She
ivipptd and rattled the weathered ,,
sash.
Id's nu\ u boy. Only a bey," W>
Lipvitch announced. as it terribly ,ii-- -'
appointed. He greeted Johnny with a
smile, and held out a scrawny hand I f
to the strong fist of the boy who '
leaped up without effort, a lagged,
desperate waif with wet hair and
shining eyes. But C'rannon Lipvitch
was triumphant. He had proven himself,
with the help of circumstances.
Before one's family and friends bravery
is a virtue.
The Lipvitch Clothing Emporium?
\\ew ami ISecoae Jtian?*"?-was no:
d unlike 'he barge Cavalier, in shape, '
11 at least.
4; Jt was a nice little business, buying: 1
0 and selling. In the back, branching
Jfr.im a dark, narrow hallway with a
j splintered pine floor, were the work i n
rooms lit by naked yellow gas jet- ;
and crowded during ten hours of the
day with operater> on pants and vc \
Lipvitch took in piece work on
R less difficult parts of manufcctun . "
15 hiring his help from the tenement-'
'R ? f the street. His stock did not spoil,
he bought cheap and sold at a profit. ^
; en when protesting with yehehier.ee
1? 1 hat his loss was great. Back of the
two work rooms came the kitchen.
1- small and datk, opening to the livr v
n room in the rear. At one side of this. '
back of a sink, to save plumbing, \va- 1
tiie bath room. And the back room, 1
t- She home of the Lipvitch family, 1
b* where they entertained their friend?.'.
li> ate their meals, ar.d slept, stretchedj '
? the full seventeen feet from part}
d wall io party wall. Here father, moth - 11
or, Bccka and the twins, Muriel and;l!
Constance, the latter just able
h walk, were sheltered.
? In the living room there were
i" beds, covered by colored spreads by \
{day an.? shoved against the wavy fa'
id from the night air. Bccka and
uTt\yins" aicyV ir.>.
v,. c T.?nvitu?h noennied the OVht r. 1
hj Willi the advent of Johnny lire en. a
?d'cot, from a nearby second hand stOic,j1
fh was placed beneath one of the win- j =
re Hnvvs
Is Ohannon I.ipvitch, like the heads
id of many families preponderant on the
10 female side, felt himself ovcrshad>r
owed by the plowing impudence ol
- i Becka added to the volubility of Mrs.
i Lipvitch. A shrewd general in a trade
:y he was limp in the hands of his wife
r-iand daughter. To him trade wn; art;
n-it was life, and life depended upon
l- the teeming, crowded, multitude who
ig swarmed and squirmed in the al-l
r- leys cf the town?it was a good place,
d this city, so fuii of customers always
g close at hand.
e On the Saturday afternoon of j
a Johnny'? introduction to the city his
In reception in the back room of the.
i- Clothing Emporium took on the piu-|
r portions of an event. Johnny's story,
c-j given amid greedy mastication of!
it seed rolls ar.d gulps of tears and hike-'
ic ;waim coffee, thrilled the company |
g I with a sympathy grown quick through j
i, the age- long persecution of their j
race?a sympathy lending to rnonu-1
?. mental works of charity within the
>- city,-Tears coursed down, his cheek* |
g as he repeated, "My mother is j
it drowned, my mother is drowned!"
v The "oy, oy, oy." of Mrs. Pipvitch
it and Mrs. Yartin punctuated the slo
ry. Mrs. Blnmgren, with large, wone
dering brown eyes, cried in sympa!,
ihy, whale Becka dried his clothes
e and sewed on buttons,
k "You are staying by us, now,"
Becka spoke to Johnny, smiling, her
_ face close to his. Tears welled in his
eyes. He was terribly tired; kindness
cui through him like a knife.
Jdhr.ny slept on a cot in the corner.
He drifted off into oblivion, exhaustion
and exaltation crowding back the
events ol the previous day and right
Days of bewildering complexity followed
on his establishment in the
family of Channon Lipvitch, as a cou|
sin ftuid the farm, for so El Van Nes1
ser, a Malaraud, advised. Slowly the
river dimmed. Johnny Breen learned
of synagogues and rabbis. He thought
; the whole world consisted of the river
and the Ghetto, nothing else. Becka
became a dominant force in the direction
ot nis emotions. He taut out
of his clothes, his strong body never
. tired. He could lift Becka high up so
she might reach the top shelves in
the shop; she was often needing things
there, and then, suddenly, he reluseri
t to lift her, but climbed up himself
jand found nothing.
I John had achieved a prime requisite
for world!v .success Hp wsc
'known four and five blocks away as
' "Fighting Lipvitch.'' He became a
celebrity, nothing less, elevated above
;the boys on the street; on a par, in
| fact, with young men four and five
years his senior in point of age and
m decade beyond bim in worldlv lore.
The Grogan Gang, out for revenge,
cruised the Ghetto. John Breen. with
brass knuckle dusters m nis pockets, r-j
a reckless light in his eyes, fought
when there were no more than two
or three, and took to his heels before
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gang. He rather liked fighting, it
tided t his popularity. He began to
bsorb the philosophy of the Ghetto.
r,e kindlv brotherhood ?f those who
ve within the pale. He also absorbed
tremendous stock of self-conceit
nd confidence. Once he hit a rash
oung man such a terrific crack, the
low landed or his chin, that the
ietini lay for a half hour unconcerns.
The story grew by telling and
e fame of John Sreen took on addd
stature.
Fighting kept his mind alert and
iatie him wary, while d'jn thoughts
i things beyond the tenements, of
ide avenues and great mansions,
rossed his consciousness in dreams,
ohn learned that millionaires were
: the city, powerful, kindiv. and iinleriselv
rich, Jccking nhout for wordy
*r? of Israel. He suspectd
that miles and miles beyond them
?y \a.-t rcrritoried v.n^vplored.
-V month in the Clothing Emporium
- Xew arid Second rland?found
chn Bree.n part of a routine that
r.cludcd every phase of the bttsis.~.
that is. every phase of it bu<
he receipt of wages. John lay awake
7 night reviewing the hitter struggle
nd worked the harder by day. He
rose at five-thirty, an hour before
Jpvitciv and in the dark, murky
oom h' slipped or? his trousers, and
:?n <=K?rt in nrind. wr-rt to the lit
ered tub.
In those mornings John worked
ard and fast to got oiS on the street
r.d then he idle) about until the comng
of L'pvitch. The street was an
ndletis show, a constantly changing
apestry with iiuman t'iguve? hung on
raines of brick.
As the mornings followed each othr
and his fany expanded, John Breen
t a wary eye for ruffians trudging
a r.d from the river. His stay at the
'lathing emporium became more anc
l ire perilous The Grogau Gang wa
laying" for him. He avoided tin
iver front and kept away iYoju t?y
Jowery. Once, on a Saturday Might
Hiking with Becka, arm in arm ant
leep in the mysteries of river lore
or John told her everything he conk
t member, he was suddenly confront
d by a crowd of toughs.
"That's 'nr.! That's tha fightin
ykel"
Set on from front and back ho wa:
inmercifully beaten, kicked am
iidliled. Becka, screaming, ran t .* th?
oriier crying, "Moidgr, perlice
noider! perlice!" Her screaids wer*
ieard for a block and a cop, proy:
16 itiolly near, rushed to the seem
n time to save .tohn Breen fron
ompelte annihilation,
r. t'-TI *1 him enrneiLhiv
c-me, a bloody battered gladmim
ifectwi ~w?c- his
W*- cats and bruises, and go
aw beefsteak from Mrs. Yartin to
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doing: Court t cylinders
America is saying: 'SIX!
America counted cylinder
six is the ideal number
price! No more, because
cylinders is bound to cost
upkeep. No less, becau:
number of cylinders you <
avoid undesirable effects (
A six, as Chevrolet buil
medium between two <
motor car engine in Am
little lor gas, Oil and upltc
built-in smoothness frc
05 or 70.
Because of this smoothnes
the whole car is so solidl
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jhis blackened eyes. She sat on his?
! couch and cried over him. carc&et!'
i him. her hero.
And so the months went by in a:
smother of smell? nnc: chatter and ?
I continuous struggle.
As the summer waxed to it. full-j
.est heat and high humidity thickened
the air with oppressive damp, the
Upviteh family moved out of their \
j back room into the rear area of the 1
j tenement. Here, with their mattresses
close together, they lay gasping
through the nights. John, prone on
his back, gazed upward on clear nights
; at a slit of heaven. Frequently domestic
arguments sounded back and forth
! down crcowded light shafts and weird
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Though vacations sc
the Telephone
Vacation time is here and s<
be scattering to various pi
Some will go to the scashoi
on week-end motor trips;
vacationists will keep in c
I friends hack home bv telcpl
People are fast learning
,-ure of iheir vacations and
tiome when they call back r
The cost is small. To n
I day stalien-to-station rate
60 cents; 100 miles, 05 cc
the evening and night pcrh
Southe
T^lenhcRs 2nd T
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THE Si
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car, do as America is Free Wheel
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No more. No less!" tures. Be c
s and concluded that lead and mal
for a car of lowest a Chevrolet
: an engine with extra expect the si
more for gas, oil and satisfaction
>e six is the smallest entitles you.
an have in a car and ah price* i. o.
>f inherent vibration. Lo" d?,iy"
d3 it, is the happy
ixtremes. No other a mm
erica today costs so [V I Jt
cp. And it gives you
im 6 miles an hour to N
s?plus the fact that For I
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ids up. It's a good, ond D
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luutice fyfAVli' '''* * '"''"'u oa lit *i vi ted
through the hot nights amid the
close incest of the city slums.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
$25.00 REWARD!
It is ordered by the Board of Education
that a reward of $25.00 he given
for evidence sufficient to convict
any person or persons of the wanton
destruction or damage to school property
of the county?provided information
as to the kind and extent of
such damage shall first be given to
the Board of Education or county
-.jpgv^inniifoiit.
SMITH HAGAMAN,
County Superintendent.
sssiMli
atter the family
keeps them together
)on thousands of families will
ices to spend their vacations,
re, o'hers to the mountains or
yet large numbers of these
lose touch with relatives and
lone.
that it adds much to the picathc
happiness of those left at
it regular intervals,
lost places 25 miles away, the
is ubowi 25 cents; 75 miles,
nts; 150 miles, S1.00. During
ads, rates are much lower.
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re your next low-priced car a six?
1 Six.' Unless you do, you can't
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b. Flint, Mich. Special equipment cxtro. .
red prices and easy C. M. A. C. term*.
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