'' ,T..- KBT PRESS RUH WEATHER. AVERAGE DAILT CIBCUIiATION OF THE EVENING HERALD Clbndy tonlj^t. Probably show­ for the month of Jane, 1926. ers toward morning. Sllf^tly liantteater warmer. Cooler Tuesday afters Cox^h 4 , 8 3 7 noon or night. VOL. XLIV., NO. 240. Classified Advertising on Page 6 MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, JULY 12, 1926. (TWELVE PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS DOES A BRODY, MISSES AIRPLANE VIEW OF SMOKE-VEILED EXPLOSION SCta^E TEACHERS’ PAY TUGBOAT, WILL LIVE New York, July 12. — Peter TN T EARTHQUAKES McGovern, 35, Brooklyn, Jump­ HERE FIXED BY ed from the Brooklyn Bridge to­ day. He barely missed hitting a tugboat but was rescued and T W O JA C rO R S will recover. KILL, BURN, WRECK SENATOR EDGE ANGRY Length of Senrice and Prepa­ CIRCUS IN TOWN, AT PERIL TO DISTRICT. Lightning-Cansed Blasts of Dover, N. J., July 12.— The Munitions at Navy Storage ration for Job Determine KIDS ARE HAPPY! practice of storing high explo­ sives in populous centers was Amount Our Instructors bitterly condemned by United Plant Near Dover, N. J., States Senator Walter E. Edge, New Jersey, today, after the Receive. Walter L. Main Shows'Ap­ senator had visited the stricken Kill Two Score, Shake area at Lake Denmark. pear To Be First Class; "It is an outrageous and Ten Towns, Blow a Hun­ Taxpayers In Manchester are criminal practice to store high explosives In thickly populated more keenly Interested In the sub­ Herald Newsies as Guests. districts,” said Edge. “ I have dred Millions in Property ject of school teachers’ salaries been remonstrating with Wash­ this year than ever. Under the bur­ ington for two years against this den of taxation the authorities have Alley-oop! practice and will introduce a to Skies— Greatest of The circus Is In town; If there resolution at the next session of been watching every appropriation Congress to bring about the to see In what way next year’s bud­ Isn’t a kid, or a grown-up for that abolition of such practice.” ' Peace Time Disasters to get can be cut down. This year’s matter. In Manchester that doesn’t budget Is all prepared and it will be know It he Isn’t alive to what’s go­ U. S. Arms— Search for Impossible to make any changes in ing on. the school appropriation. In a series The big parade left the Wood­ CALL SHELL BLAST Dead Precarious Task; of articles prepared by Howell land street grounds just before noon Cheney, chairman of the Ninth dis­ and arrived at the Cheney mills so that the miracle workers could see 18 Recovered. trict school committee, for The the elephants, zebras and painted AN “ ACT OF GOD” Herald, the costs of the town’s ladles. The parade itself was a good Dover, N. .T„ July 12.,-Elghteen schools are dlscubsed. Today booster for the circus. It was clean "Teachers’ Salaries’’ Is the subject. and orderly. known to be dead, between twenty Afternoon Crowd No One to Blame for Great and thirty others believed to have A performance was given this been killed, and more than 200 In­ TEACHERS’ SALARIES. afternoon and there was a big New Jersey Disaster, Say jured, and property damage esti­ crowd on the grounds and under the mated at 1100,000.000. This, to­ There Is no more Important big top to see the show. The weath­ day, as far as chocked up was the problem In connection with the ad­ er was perfect for a circus, and the The vast acreage of the Navy ammunition depot at Lake Denm ark, N. J., here is seen as one smoking field of destruction as Army, Navy Officers. ministration of the school system red lemonade sold fast. toll of terrlflo explosions which than that of the establishing of viewed from an airplane at daybreak, the morning after lightning touched off its tons of explosives. This remarkable Tonight there will be another photograph was taken by Bob Dorman, NEA cameraman, who sped to the scene by airplane from New York and rushed the late Saturday wrecaed the Naval teachers’ salaries on a basis which performance at 8 o'clock. Doors to Washington, July 12. — Federal | Ammunition Depot at Lake Den­ will secure the best results to the the main show will be open ft picture back for distribution to NEA client papers. Smoke is rising from every building in the arsenal area, while here and mark, N. J., six miles north ol community with substantial equity machinery began to revolve today 7:30. There Is a good side show there may be picked out small distinct smoke flashes of individual shells still detonating. In the Lake Denmark Arsenal e.x- here, drove people In wild flight and justice to the teacher. A care­ with the circus so there’s plenty o from ten nearby villages and for ful review of the recent literature do and see If you get to the grounds ploslon, one of the greatest peace­ hours wrought destruction on all . on the subject of teachers’ salaries, early. time disasters that has ever visited sides as shells continued to burst edited by educational experts, dis­ the Army and Navy. The Herald’s newsboys will be Herald^s Contesi Winner from the smouldering ruins. closes that their efforts have been Both the Army and Navy set In the guests of the show management JOHN W. WEEKS ARMS PARLEY This morning 218 United States directed along two lines, modified motion the processes of investiga­ tonight through a spadal arrange­ marines arrived from Quantlco, In part by two additional lines of Sees New York This Week tion to place the blame, if any, for ment. Albert Addy of The Herald Va., and prepared to enter the dan­ endeavors. the explosion, and to repair the ger zone in search for the dead In the main, teachers’ salaries will be the Herald carriers’ "chap­ DEAD TODAY OF IS A FAILURE, destruction wrought. and missing. All Saturday night have been fixed within the maxi­ eron.” Those who have not been Rear Admiral E. H. Campbell, notified of the circus privilege Subway strikes don’t mean any--*'; and he decided he wanted to see and Sunday whistling 4-inch and 6- mum and minimum set by the laws judge advocate of the Navy, was Inch shells had been shooting forth of supply and demand In relatl6n should see Albert Addy at the main thing to Sherwood McCreery, 14 Detroit play the Yankees. directed to proceed at once to Lake entrance of the circus at 7:30. B R A I£T U M O R year old son of George McCreery, of Meets Ty Cobb COOLID^HEARS and looping about from the burn­ to the length of their term of serv­ Denmark to make a survey and re­ High street. Sherwood leaves lor the Metro­ ings ruin of the arseual. ice. By and large through the port. Rear Admiral C. Bloch, chief Fearing further explosions naval country this Is the system now In Sherwood is going to New York polis Wednesday and returns Fri­ of naval ordnance, was recalled this week as the guest of The Man­ day. Arrangements have been made officials and other Investigators vogue. Speaking generally, It Is from leave and ordered to the had kept back on the rim of a two- true that the relation of one SAYS COPS WATCHED Long Illness of Former Sec­ chester Evening Herald. And, if so that he will meet Ty Cobb, 'n Gets Private Report at His scene on a similar mission. Mayor Jimmie Walker and his person. While in New York Sher­ mlle circle drawn on a two-mlle teacher’s salary to another’s Is Secretaries Go To Scene. radius from Lake Denmark. To en­ more Influenced by length of serv­ retary of War Terminates whole staff go on strike, it won’t wood will be shown the sights, and Summer Camp from Gib­ Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, ter that deadline would have been ice than by any one factor. UNLOADING OF RUM worry Sherwood. All he wants is a he is going to walk up and down cutting short his holiday at New­ suicidal. Consequently it had not l’rej)aratlon. place to eat— he’ll manage to get Coney lalcnd’s new boardwalk. port, R. I., made an overnight trip been possible to obtain an accurate Second In importabce is the at Lancaster, N. H., Near around the big city even ff the k'dsts There are lots of other things he son— *D. S. and Britain in from Newport to New York and check on the dead and missing. length and character of the prepa­ Dwyer Syndicate Employe of taxicabs stop buzzing around. will see on his visit and, perhaps will arrive at the scene today. Sec­ Recover Five Boilies. ration and the degrees of academic Tells of Landings Liquor at Last April The Herald, in con­ he’ll tell the Manchester tolks about retary of War Davis already Is on At eleven o’clock the first squa­ nature which they have received. Bellevue’s Wharf. His Birthplace. junction with the NEA Service ran ’em when he comes back. Split With France. the ground looking after the army's dron of marines entered the reser­ It Is almost generally * recognized a basebull contest for boys. Billy A trip has been planned that ■will end of it. Other officers from both vation to search for the bodies of that the longer the preparation re­ Evans, famous American League give the contest winner a chance to departments are going to Lake Den­ quired, the more recognition New York, July 12.— Testimony victims and in a short time recov­ that police of New York and New Lancaster, July 12.— John W.