New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1921, Page 14

13 JARDING'S DAD, 77, Is 62 and Has Been in His - Office 8 Years 3 Marion, 0., Aug. 11.—Marion today. § congratulating Dr. George T. ing, father of President Harding n his marriage yesterday at Monroe, lich., to Miss Alice Severns, his tenographer and office attendant for \last eight years. 3 | Scores of surprised townsfolk today Psonally tendered best wishes to the ble physician and his bride, [Both of whom are well known by the majority of Marion residents. Efforts to keep the marriage a Secret were to no avail, although not until after the couple reached Marion last night, six hours after Frank T. Knowles, a Presbyterian minister at Monroe had pronounced’ them man angd wife, did Mr. Harding admit that e had become a Benedict. In Toledo ‘& féw hours previous he curtly told permen that he \and Miss Beverns had not been married. Later . explained that. the thought it was ‘mome of their business. e Story of Elopement . Arriving at the station here last ht, Dr. Harding and his bride hur- FYIng to catch a trolley car, were met [ By two local newspapermen who of- d ‘congratulations and transporta- ‘tion in an automobile. THey accepted | He said that Miss SeVerns and he | left’. Marion together ' Wednesday morning and went to Detroit.. “We ‘were refused a license in Windsor, . Canada because we were not resi- | dents,” Dr. Harding said. . “We spent Wednesday night in De- ftroft at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis V. Sanborn who are relatives of line. They accompanied us to Monroe we were married shortly after “I know I am not to be lone- le now” he told the newspapermen. f . At the dbctor's suggestions Mrs. ing was taken home. He then to be driven to his home four qusres away. 0 President Notifled First official announcement of the ifriage was telegraphed to President late last night by an em- of 'his newspaper, the Marion e . I¥. Harding who is 77 years .old Been a practising physician in for 50 years. His bride was Marion county 52 years ago. father, Oscar Severns was one pioheer settlers . of Marion . He and his wife died several m!gr Harding has five living Iren. first wife died 11 years FSori in b OF FORMER WIFE Ny §momm to, Help Woman Ac- o, Aug. 1Z—Rath R. Oben- s speeding to Los Angeles, hop- +Be may be of use to his former Madelynn Obenchain, held’ in Aection with thie murder of Jobn Kennedy. . . Rev. W. A. Burch, of Evanston in on the way to the coast. He g to his son, Arthur, who is with Mrs. Obenchain:/ Madelynn obtained a divorce from Obenchain last year that she might miarry Kennedy. She brought against “her husband a charge of infidelity which she now admits was untrue. He 4@id not deny. it, saying he wanted her | to get the divorce if it would give her " happiness. " Obenchain received from his former | wife' yesterday a telegram saying: F ‘Wire me at county ail if you can comieat once. Will be. indicted in - morning. Don’t worry.” '~ *“I.am not going because I ' promised,” Obenchain said. “I am ~ going because I believe she is innocent and Dbecause: I may be able to help her, The fact that I am a lawyer means nothing in this regard.” is b1 Los Angeles, Aug. 12.—*“An indict~ ,ment charging murder was voted yes- - terday againgt Arthur C. Burch, held in’ connection with the slaying . of ' John. Belton Kennedy,” on the night of August 5, when a charge from a otgun was fired into the back of An indictment also was voted against Mrs. Madelynn Obenchain, Who was with Kennedy at the time of the shooting: Fifteen persons were examined by the grand jury. Search for the shotgun with which i it is claimed Kennedy was killed con- tinued today. Failure to - find the ‘weappn was described by. investiga- tors as the “only weak point of the TO BE LIFE GUARD. Victor Berner, graduate of the New has saving Britain High sc¢hool in_ June, passed the government life tests and expects to be assigned a po- sition-soon. - Because of the near ap- proach of the end of the aroynd here, south, possibly Florida. Says Pile Remedy Worth * $100.00 a Box “ have bad itching piles ever sinc my earliest recollection. I am 5 STOWAWAY IS HERE Found on iep—p&i;Enmuté ‘o ‘Taly—Arrested High in Air ! Rome, Aug. —The German | Zeppelin “Bodensee,” sister-ship jof the “Nordstern” ceded to France as a war prize ,has arrived in Italy after an air voyage from Friedrichshafen direct to Rome, a distance of 600 miles, which she covered in 12 hours. A stowaway in the form of a German tourist, begoggled, carrying the cus- tomary German camera and binocu- lars strapped over his shoulders, suc- ceeded in making a cheap trip to Ttaly airwise. The German’s name was Walter Kron and when discovered by the Italian crew who had charge of the Zeppelin, he explained that his pur- pose was to get a free trip to Italy. He was thereupon placed under ar- rest in mid-air and when he arrived in Rome was handed over to the military police. The “Bodensee” before landing at the hangar at Ciampino, just outside the city, circled around Rome where all the, inhabitants could get a good glimpse of the latest Italian prize of ‘war. It glided gracefully in its course and made less noise than its type generally does. It is 400 feet long and is driven by four, motors of 260 horse-power each. It has a lifting capacity of 10 tons and can make 80 miles an hour. The ma- chine was built for commercial pur- poses and is equipped to carry 22 passengers. DIPLOMAT HONORS | WOMAN IN CONGRESS Speaker Pro Tempore vGets Roses » - From Pern Washington, D. C., Aug. 12.—When Representative Alice Robertson pre- sided over the House recently during adoption of a resolution authorizing the United States to participate in the 100th anniversary of Peruvian inde- pendence, Ambassador F. A. Pezet of Peru sent to the first woman who has ever swung the House gavel a great bouquet of American beauty roses. Republican leader Mondell stopped proceedings in the House to spread in the récord the official letter ‘which accompanied the flowers for Okla- homa’'s woman member. “My Dear Congresswoman,” Am- bassador Pezet wrate, “For the first time in the annals of history a lady representative in the parliament of a great nation beame speaker pro tem- pore, the motion under debate being the passage of a joint resolution of the Senate and house of representa- tives of :'the United States, authorizing the president to appoint a special mission to represent the government and people of the United States at the celebration of the one hundredth an- niversary of the proclamation of in- . dependence in- the sister republic of Peru. “As the representative of the Peru- vian government and nation in this capital 1 wish to express, to you on this day, my gratification in that the first event of a lady presiding over one of the branches of the legislature should have coincided with the taking of a vote in reference to a participa- tion in my country’s celebration. I wish in the name of the Peruvian government and people to present these flowers to you, bound with the colors of Peru, as'a token of our re- spect and admiration for the. great American democracy, the beacon light which guides the other free nations. of America. “Very sincerely yours, “F. A. PEZET, 5 “Ambassador of Peru.” BANNIGAN SUED. Connecticut Legion News Publisher Takes Action Againt Hartford Man. Hartford, Aug. 12.—A $325-bank account of National Vice-Commander Thomas J. Bansigan of the American Legion, at the Fidelity - Trust Co., was attached vesterday - by Deputy Sheriff Henry M. Barnard in a suit for $350 brought by Avery D. Too- hey, publisher of the “Connecticut Legion News" to recover payment for private advertisements alleged to have been contracted for by Captain Bannigan and not paid for, according to the ‘papers. 2 Papers were also served on Captain Bannigan at his cigar store. The case is returnable August 29 in the city court of New Haven. Sheriff Barnard intended to attach $350 of Captain Bannigan’s bank account, he said, but found only $325. season his appointment will probably be to some beach in the e 3 NOW THE AERIAL | SEES RISE OF ANTI-BOLSHEVISTS Predicts Fall of Present Regime New York, Aug. 12.—Gregoire Alex- insky, a former member of the Ru sian duma now in Paris, in a letter to a prominent’ New Yorker ‘whose identity cannot be made public, says that a strong anti-Bolshevist organiz: tion;has been set up in Constantinople in anticipation of the fall of the Lenine-Trotzky regime ' which, the writer, declares, is “imminent and in- evitable.” Two events, the revolt at Kronstadt on Fedruary 26, 1921, and the es- tablishment, by the Constantinople organization, of friendly relations with the anti-Bolshevist government at Vladivostok, he said, are of particular significance. The clouds over Soviet Russia, at first no larger than a man’s fist, Mr. Alexinsky writes, have now grown to the proportions of a serious storm. “All the information which reaches us from Russia,” wrote Mr. Alexinsky, ‘‘proves that the power of the soviets is shaking and that the government of Lenine is nearing its end: We anti- Bolshevists have, meanwhile, done much to unify our forces. The strong- est organization we have created, the Soviet- (Conseil) Russe, is located at Constantinople with the following of- ficers: President, (ex-officip) General Peter Wrangel; Vice- President, Pro- fessor Jean Alexinsky, & Socialst- Populist and former member of the iuma; second Vice-President, M. Moussine-Pouchkine, a Moderate Con- servative ‘and former member of the duma; Secretary, General Lachkevitch, a cadet and former member of the duma. 1 “The Soviet-(Conseil) Russe is‘com- posed of representatives of the Rus- san parliamentary committees and the Russian academic groups in foreign countries, the municipal assemblies ‘|and the zemstvos. Three political dele- gates of the ti-Bolshevist army staff are also members and include Mons. Choulguine, a. Cgnservative; Prince Doloroukoff, a cadet; and myself, a Social Democrat. The Cossack forces are'also represented by three com- manders.” - The program of the Soviet-(Con- seil) Russe, Mr. Alexinsky said, pro- vides that after the overthrow of Bol- shevism' “all Russia people, without distinction of class, religion or nation- ality, wiil-be-free-to make their choice regarding Russia’s . government and constitution and the peasasts will be recognized as owners of the land they cultivate.” Other provisions include the “re- sstablishment of productive work and of th econbrnic ‘forces: of Russia through conferences between work- ngmen’s committees, the factory managers and the government. There will be no vengeance against those who “through fear or mistaken judg- ment” bave served in the Communist administration or in the Red army and a general amnesty will enable all to help in “the building of New Rus- sia.” All natlonalities composing the|Weather was general, and less than| present state, Mr. Alexinsky said, “will have equal rights and religious and versonal liberty guaranteed to them by law” and will be given the oppor- tunity for “free development in their local and national aspirations.”” Tha Conseil’s function, it was said, will be to manage al political and civil affairs, leaving military matters entirely to-former officers-of-the anti- Bolshevist forces. At present, Mr. Alexinsky wrote, the Conseil is backed by the remnant of the Crimean army, 40,000 to 45,000 men and the commit- tees of the refugees in the Balkans, representing 20,000 other Russians. —_— LEAVES GERMAN CAPITAL. Pasha’s Murdered Acquitted, So Bul- o garian Premier Departs. Berlin, Aug. 12.—The acquittal of Suleiman Teilirian, the Armenian murderer of Talaat Pasha, the war- time grand vizier of Turkey, has prompted the former Premier Rados.- lavoff of Bulgaria to quit Berlin, where he has resided since the ar- mistice. 1 “No former statesman’s life is safe In Germany since the Armenian has been acquitted,”” declares Radosla- voff, who considers the German court’s verdict as “a dangerous in- centive to the primary instincts as they prevail in the Near East and the Balkans. LEGION MEMBERS LAND. 250 American Visitors Disembark at Cherbourg This Morning. Cherbourg, France, Aug. 12.—Mem- bers of the American Legion, 250 in number, headed ' by Major John G. Emery, commander of the organiza- tion, landed here today from the steamship George Washington. The Ameéricans were received at the city hall by the mayor, who served lunch and then they marched through the decorated streets to the station. Their train is due in Paris at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon. SUSPECT HIGHTOWER OF KILLING PRIEST Former Membier'(;i Russian Duma San Francisco Police Expect to Make Arrests Today San Francisco, Aug. 12. — Search went forward today tor, two persons, & womun and a man, who are believed to know how the body of the Rev. Father Patrick Heslm, Catholic priest came to its shallow grave on the deso- late coast south of San Francisco late Tuesday night. The man is as yet un- named. the woman is called Dolly Mgscn, mentioned by William A. Hightower as having given him the information on which, he based his successtul search for' the . priest's body. j 5 Police officers frankly said they be- lieved that in Hightower, held in the l_1all ot justice here, they had the ma- Jjor character in the affair and indi- cated that filing of formal charges against him was imminent. 1 “I—I_ightower is a very cool, calculat- ing individual,” said Dist. Attorney Franklin Swart of San Mateo county in a statement. ‘“He has an inclina- tion to'be ‘smart’ and appears to think he is putting it over on us. T think we shall break him down soon.” Hightower, according to Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson, when asked why he did not first go to the police with his information about the body instead .of to the residence of Archbishop Edward J. Hanna, replied that he was out after the reward that had been offeréd and that he believed if he went first to the police, they and | not -he would get the money. Captain Matheson said he did not believe that Hightower was the man who~ called for Father Heslin and tooks -him away under pretense that he was to visit a “dying man.” ‘“We expect to locate that man and have him under arrest before Friday night,” he said. WEATHER POLICY PROVING POPULAR Baseball Magnates Insure Against Storm Lss New York, Aug. 12.—The British custom of taking out weather insur- ance has acquired a strong foothold in the United States. [ Five major league baseball clubs this season have thus safeguarded themselves on all their Saturday, Sun- day and holiday playing dates, while many minor league magnates are similarly protecting their excheqyers. More than $1,500,000 was under- written in rain insurance for the last Fourth of July, it is estimated. Fair $100,000 was paid policy holders. Labor Day is expected to break the July Fourth record. A British company underwrote a $750,000 rain insurance policy for Tex Rickard as protection against finan- cial setbacks which the elements might have caused on July 2, the day of the Dempsey-Carpentier bout. The premium.of this.policy was reported I to have been $75,000. Colleges .also have begun to insure against rainy Saturdays during the football season, and state and county fairs are likewise taking up the prac- tice. Underwriters report that horse racing promoters and owners of boats used for holiday excursions are their bigger clients. In the winter they in- sure ice skating rinks on the tempera- ture remaining below freezing. Summer resort hotels insure them- selves against bad weather over week- ends and department stores ‘do the same. thing for days on which they have advertised sales expected to at- tract particularly large numbers. of purchasers. The insurance companies charge premiums ranging from 2 1-2 to 25 per cent. of the policy and even high- er in rare instances. Rates are based on the average rainfall in any locality over a ten-vear period and on the month in which the event insured is to take place. ? METHODIST DELEGATES. Conference Will Be Held In London On September 6 - 16. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 12.—Bishop Frederick D. Leete of this city has an- nounced the names of five additional delegates from the Methodist Episcp- pal church to the Ecumenicol Con- ference of Methodist churches to be held in London, Sept. 6 to 16. They are Rev. W.H. Hickman, Terre Haute, Ind. Dr. S. F. Kerfoot, president of Hamline -university, 'St. Paul, Minn.; Prof. 1. J. Peritz, Syracuse university; Dr. A. E. Smith, president of Ohio Northern -university, Ada., O.; and Rev. C. ¥. Wade, Greencastle. Ind. i i IZ00LOGISTS SEEKING ANIMALS ONCE MORE Replenishing Zoos Now Seems Prosperous Business ‘New York, Aug. 12.—Zoolssgical gardens the world over, after letting the wild animals stay in the wilder- ness during the war, are emulating Noah again. From 1914 to 1918 men were so engrossed in trying to capture one another that they quit stalking irrational animals. The zoos suffered. Many animals died, and there were no replacements. The business of replenishing col- lections of plain and fancy beasts has been undertaken on a-large scale this year, however, and with great success. Some of the exhibits in the United States are more complete than before the war. | The New York Zoological garden not only refilled its own cages and corals but lent a helpiig hand to similar institutions i Europe. They even sent a shipment of dnimals to a zoo in Africa. This seemed like carry- ing ol to Tuxpam, but Dr W. T.| Hornaday, the director explained that the collections sent to Africa includ- ed specimens unknown in the wilder- ness of that continent. Non-combatants housed in the zoos of Antwerp, Paris and London suf- fered considerably in the lean wa: days. Lions and mice lay down to- gether—and died. Elephants and mocking birds together faded from their metropolitan environment. And there was none to take their places, for the ships from Africa brought nothing willc+ than Senegalese troop. ers, and those from Calcutta an Singaport carried only such animate and inanimate things as would help the Allies carry on. So when the war was over there was a shortage of caged animals. The allies having captured ' Germany’'s goat, now set about to acquire her other zoological possessions.’ Before the war Germans had almost mon- opolized the wild animal trade of the world. German colonies in South Africa and elsewhere had yielded many of the birds and mammals and reptiles to make a “sight” in zoos of cities and circuses. Most of these Germans are out of the business to- day, and their old collection grounds are not what they used to be. Competition among collectors and buyers of animals is keener than ever, land' prices have gone upuward, the general increase averaging 40 per cent. or more. The Japanese have developed a sudden taste for watch- ing wild animals live a tame life, and I have opened 14 zoos in the last two years, Dr.. Hornaday said. This has injected more spirit into the compe- | tition for collections. Rare and beautiful birds are ex- tremely high priced nowadays, due to the large increase in private aviaries, he said. Tens of thousands of birds, he added, are.being brought to America by Chinese sailors shipping into San Francisco and other Pacific ports. One man reported that at least 5,000 canaries were caged aboard a steamer which recently landed in America. PASSION PLAYERS LOSE OLD PRIEST Oberammerganans Protest Pro- ductions of Cheap Films Oberammergau, Aug. 12.—Through the death of Father Schroeder, who has been the priest in charge of the Oberamamergau village church for 32 vears and the most zealous supporter of the traditions of the Passion Play, this little village has been much sad- dened just at the time when prepara- tions for the production of the Pas- sion Play in 1922 are under way. The first texts of the Passion Play were prepared by priests and monks from the Ettal monastery and re- peated revisions have been made by the clergy in the past 300 years to adapt the production to changed con- ditions and improve its literary char- acter. Father Josep Alois Daisenber- ger is chiefly responsible for the text which has been used now for many decades, and which the recently de- deased priest, Father Schroeder, pro- tected against efforts of many schol- ars, who sought to interweave it with modern ideas which appealed neith- er to the Oberammergau actors nor their devoted priest. Commercial producers in several other German cities are offering re- ligious plays which they advertise in such a way as to give the impression that they really are the Oberammer- gau Passion Play. One production which is being given this year openly announces that it uses an old Ober- ammergau text. Motion picture the- FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS | , On Your to keep in touch home. Have the While you Herald’s staff of when you are at the paper mailed home 18c a Vacation “"Whether you are at the shore or in the mountains, you will want with the folks at HERALD Follow You are away the reporters will be on the job and you can get the New Britain news daily as you do home by having to you. Sent by mail daily, the sub- scription price is the same as at Week Send in your order before you leave for your vacation. aters are also offering so-called Ober- ammergau films. These . productions are extremely distasteful to the - Oberammergau peasants, who have never produced the Passion Play oulside of their own village and have never allowed their productions to be filmed. > William Rutz, the burgomaster of Oberammergau, has . just -issued .a tatement warning the public against imitations of the play which the Oberammergau peasants have given every 10 vears for three centuries in fulfiliment of their ancestor’s vow to do so in expression of their gratitude to God. for the deliverance ot the vil- -lage from the plague. ‘WOULD SAVE HOUSES. Movement on Foot to Preserve Adams’ Home in Quincy.. Quincy. Mass., August 12.—A pro- posal that land upen which stands the birthplaces here of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, second and sixth presidents,'be cut into for a street widening project, brought -out || protests at a public hearing. “As well cut a street through the center of Mt. Vernon to save a few dollars as to cut off any of the land of the Adams homesteads,” Charles Francis Adams, 2nd, treasurer of Harvard university, skipper of the America’s cup defense yacht Resolute, and a¥lineal descendant of John Adams, deelared in'a letter to the city officials AGAINST GOLD YEN. Chinese Foreign Office Opposes Intro-- ductiop of ¥ap Coins.. Peking, Aug. 12.—The foreign of- fice has protested to the Japanese le- Zation against introduction of the gold Yen as the standard currency for all transactions through the Dai- ren Produce Exchange, notification of which was recently issued by the government of the Kwantung penin- sula. The innovation is said to be opposed by several Japaese banks in additior to Chinese business interests generally; but buyers of Manchurian oroducts for shipment to Japan are strongly in favor of it since it- means a' notable saving in exchange. The Chinesc protest alleges that the change will mean a loss to all Chinase dealing through the Dairen exchange. : (GENERAL JOFFRE { | WASHEARTY EATER But Relwsel Champagse With German Mark on Baftle Paris, Aug. 11.—The la&st ‘war reminiscenes to be printed @re those of the ‘chef” wko presided Bver the destinjes of the French Gengral staff during the Battle of' the e and who prepared the simple but#bundant menn that Marshal, then (General, Joffre sat down to at very frregular hours. | It the chef's culinary accomplish- ments were not superior to his literary talent then one pities poor ‘General Joffre and it must have beenfa relisf to the Commander-in-Chief to leave he mess table and return-to the battlc line. 1 “During the battel .of the Marne™ says the chef, “the General pit away enough? food to feed three ordinary men.” Then he adds naively: *I hope, Monsieur le Marechal won't mind, what I say about the General” One of the most amusing ipcidents related by the chef is that ¢n Sep- tember 12, when it became cléar that the enemy was in full flight: north- ~ard and that the battle wWas won, congratulations were in orderand he received instructions that the menu for the diner should be as mich of a | hanquet as his raw material would permit. Jus* as the meal was about to be dompleted a British automobile came up to headquarters with a basket of champagne as a token of comsratu- lation to the French staff. It came from a British-uit “in liaison’ The chef was just getting ready to serve it when he noted that the bottles bare a German mark and he informed the officer of the fact That worthy for- bade him to serve the champagne to the staff and ordered him to throw the bottles away. “We did,” says the chef, “but only the next morning, and they were empty.” If It’s Just the Same to You, Popi Now TUERE'S No USE IN CRYING TAG/ REMEMBER. THAT AN ANGEL WILL STILL BE WITH vou NOW WHAT'S BY BLOSSER PoP, TD RATHER NoU TooK TH' ANGEL AN' LEFT TH' years old and have suffered terribly. I nave tried many remediés and doc- tors, but no cure., About 8 weeks ago I ssw your ad for -Peterson's - Oint- ment. The first application stopped all itcking, and in three day§ all sore- 8. 1 have only used one box and < er I am. cured. 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