New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1923, Page 11

NERAK'S GIPITAL WAS PHILADELPHI Great-Great-Great-Grandlather of United States Phillies D, C, June “Whether the newest Arab sta to| have ita independence recognized be ecalled by its western title or Trans. jordania or by its eastern name, Kerak, it seems hopelessly out of | touch with things American,” says & | bulletin from the Washington, D .C,, | headquarters of the National Geo- Eraphie soclety, in regard to the lnnfl‘ immediately east of the River Jordan | over which Emir Abdulla rules, “Perhaps it will bring the independent but very old country closer,” continues the bulletin, “to realize fhat its capital, now Amman, was once Philadelphia = the greats great-great.grandfather of the half| dozen or more Philadelphias, grhat and small, that are to be found in our postal guldes. Ancestor of Modern Philadeiphias “Rut it was only a mere matter of | 20 odd centuries ago that the city took the name Philadelphia from its' uew lord, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Tt lind existed as Rabbath Amman, chief | city of the Ammeonites, almost from the days of Lot, from whom the Am- monites are sald to have sprung. It was after a vietorious battle with these same people of Amman that Jephthah, according to the Riblical etory, returned to the fatal meeting with his daughter, “When ‘Transfordanin is described as stretehing from the Jordan and the Dead Sea toward the Interior of Arabla one is likely to call up the picture of a hopeless desert, But much of the region is steppe land, a | high plain supporting some flocks and even capable of tillage, Nomadism hus long held the region in its grip, however, and it is as a sort of chief of nomads'ithat Abdullah Ibn Hussein finds It necessary to rule, He holds his ‘court’ not in a palace hut in a group of tents which he moves with the seasons, Was Center of Greek and Roman Culture | “This landy now given over largely to nomads is capable of development along stable lines as is shown by its importance, After Alexander's east- ern conquests the cities to the cas | the Jordan became Hellenized seats of prosperity and cultv: the second century hefer Christ, Ptolemy Philadelphus built in the city whigh was given his name an exten- sive acropolis which In the Amman of today is only a mass of fallen columns and ruined wa “Rome's sway over Philadelphia is shown In Amman by the ruins of a huge amphitheater which seated 7000 spectators. In the sleepy eastern town of today goats hrowse among the foundations of temples and public buildings, Arabian coffee shops lean against once proud walls, and . the eastern species of the village lounger sits on overturned marble pillars. Emir Abdullah is showing some inter- est in the ancient structures of his capital, however, and is having the fairly well preserved ampitheater cleared of debris. “Amman is not accessible, Five hours by automobile over reasonably good roads through the sizzling valley of the Jordan suffice for the trip from Jerusalem to the capital. The Jordan forms the boundary line and acroes it i{s an iron bridge. Amman is only about 30 miles from the river, and as the crow flies is hardly more than 60 miles from Jerusalem. The Hedjaz raflway, connecting Damascus and Medina, runs through the town.” CABLEGRAMS ORDERED GIVEN Ward Murder Case Proceedings Be- Washington, 26— newly fore Grand Jury Today—Messages Must Be Disclosed. White Plains, N. Y, June 26.— Cablegrams and telegrams passing be- tween members of the Ward family relative to the blackmail plot which Walter S. Ward claims was at the bottom of his slaying of Clarence Peters of Haverhill, Mass, were or- dered Jisclosed to the extraordinary; grand jury Investigating the slaying, in a decislon by Supreme Court Jus- tice Wagner today. Ward had Dbitterly contested state's right to the messages ob- tained an injunction restraining the suthorities from examining them. Justice Wagner held that the injunc- | tion was not valld with r ect to the grand jury. Most of the messages in question are said to have been exchanged be- tween Ralph Ward, the confessed siayer's brother, and: their fulhvr,i George 8. Ward, president of the| ‘Ward Baking Co. One it was said asked the senior Ward for $90,000 to enable young Ward to meet the de- mands of the blackmallers. | the Ex-Priest Calm as He Sees Dummy of Victim; of | Montreal, June 26.—An effigy | Raoul Delorme, Ottawa unl\Pranyl student for whose murder his half brother, Adelarde, a former priest, is| on trial, was introduced at today’s ses- ston. | The defendant displayed little or no emotion as a dressmaker's dummy| clothed in the dead man's garments, | was wheeled into court. i Dr. W. Derome, provincial autop- eist, pointed to the dummy as he tes- tified regarding the condition of the body. The defense is seeking to show that the body did not rest for hours on the street in the outskirts of the city where the shooting occurred, before | it was found. The defense claims to | have accounted for the defendant's movements several hours before the finding of the body. 1\ MAXWELL PLEADS NOT GUILTY.| New York, June 26.—George Max- well, president of the American so- |named the BRUGES A BELGIAN CITY OF BRIDGES Has Greatest ol Its Annual Cele- brations Which Is Prominent | | Washington, D, €., June 24 Bruges, Belgium, has just had the greatest of itd annual celebrations, |hr( precession of the mest precious bleed; which, now that the Werld war Is well p has taken the proms Inent place in Belgian hearts that it held before the German oecupation | caused its temporary suspension, Of the city of this procession-=one of the leading religious eelebrations or Europe—a bulletin from the Wash ington, Dr, C,, headquarters of the National G Na As SRmiEh's Crossrouds” “If we are unfamiliar with the lan- guage of a foreign country we are likely to acept the names of its cities agymeaning nothing in particular or a8 having an esoterie significance | which we ean hardly hope to fathom, But Bruges fools us, Its name about as ecommon an origin and s about as logically descriptive as “I'here Rivers' or ‘Emith's Crossroads, cause the town from the beginning {had numerous canals and structweer | carrying streets across them it was named (In Flemish) Bridges. It is a |sort of reversed Venice, Whareas the latter is an a of sea with islands scattered in it.. Bruges is a land area cut into islands by numerous canals, In both citles many houses rise sheer from the water and boats are used for traffic, “Like Venlce agaln, once the commercial cenier of the world, fourteenth century, commercial activity had moved feom Italy to Klanderss and Bruges was then landers' greatest market, World trade came up the river Zwyn which then gave it a harbor; merchants from the four quarters of the world maintained headquarters in the city; and its bourse regulated the exchange rate for all Europe. Ghent was a Bruges was and banking The center of ly silted up in 1490 Bruges held its own. At the height of its power Bruges had a population of 200,000; now the inhabitants number about 55,- 000, Had Notorvious U-Boat Nest “Not to be cheated of a port by nature's destructive forces, the peo- ple of Bruges have built several can- als to the North Sea. The largest and most direct lead sight miles to Zee- brugg (meaning ‘the aport of Bruges'). This port and its canal and the basin at Bruges figured promin- ently in the World war. The Ger- mans developed a strong U-boat nest at Bruges from which their under- to sink many an Allled ship and to which they returned for repairs and outfitting. A tremendously strong shelter with a concrete sgof six feet thick, built over the water, stands near the Bgudges end of the sea can- al today, a monument to German U-boat actiivties. Allied bombing location of this camouflaged nest, and probably would have been able to in- flict but little damage even if direct hits had been scored. The British, however, successfully hindered the U-boat activities from ships filled with concrete were sunk across the entrance channel to the canal. Most Medieval Flemish City the old, I"iemish cities and is said to preserve in its architecture a more medleval aspect than ony of its sister municipalities. Prominent aréhitec- tural features are the church of Notre Dame and the Cathedral of St. Sauveur, both excellent examples of early pointed Gothic; and the market hall with its dominant belfrey hous- ing 48 bells, one of the most famous collections of chimes in Lurope. “In St. Basile's chapel is kept the Sacred Vial, brought by crusading knights from Jerusalem, reputed to have been the vessel holding the water with which Joseph of Arima- thea bathed the bloodstained body of Christ. This reliquary 1s carried once each year in the procession of the Most Precious Blood. “Bruges has long been noted for its woolen cloths, In recognition of the city’'s jreeminence in this field in 1430 Philip the Good of Burgundy | order which he then| Order of the Golden has ever since been ‘the This created, Fleege. |one of the most exclusive knightly or- ders.” YEARLY EXAMINATIONS American Medical Association Would Make It Compulsory For Everybody To Learn Their Condition San Francisco, June 26.—A propos- al to remove the restrictions upon physicians prescriptions for alcoholic stimulants as medicine was before the of the American medical association today. A resolution branding the method of prescribing liquors f me- dicinal purposes as an “intolera nuisance’” has been submitted to house which is the governing body of the association having a membership |®f nearly 90,000 out of approximately 150,000 in the United Slates, Physical examination of every citi- zen of the United States at least once yearly advocated by President- elect Ray Lyman Wilbur in his open- ing address at the 74th annual con- vention of the American Medical as- soclation which began here yester- day. Modern medicing is concentrating on preventive rather than curative measures declared Dr. Wilbur who is head of Stanford university. LIVES ENDA ERED. New York, June 26.—S8cores of per- physicians ciety for composers, authors and pub- lishers, entered a formal plea of not! gullty today to an indictment charg- ing him with writing poison pen let-, vers to Allan A. Ryan. sons were endangered by ammonia fumes in Brooklyn thiz afternoon when a large ammonia tank in a re- | trigerating plant exploded. hlfi" This was In the| strong rival, but until the Zwyn final- | water commerce destroyers went out | § planes were unable to find the exact |§ on its roof |8 the Bruges nest by their famous sortie | § against the Zeebrugge mole when old | i “Bruges is one of the quaintest of | house of delegates of the convention | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1923, Store Closes Wednesday at 1215 "HERE’S THE BIG VALUE LIST F Donnelly, Mullen Co. BOSTON STORE $ at 1215 Wednesday - OR TOMORROW Wednesday Specials Palmolive Soap, Special for 4 for 25c Wednesday Three Flower Travelette, Npecial for Wednesday o 23 C Woodbhury's Facial Soap, Wednesday Love Me Talcum Powder, Special for 21 c Wednesday ... i Peroxide, large size bot- tle. Special for 17c Wednesday ... Kotex Sanitary Napkixs, special for > 48(} | Wednesday .. 1. — = | I8 Bleached Cotton, 36-inch wide, no dressinz. good soft quality. [») -2%c Wednesday Size Crochet Bed . $1.69 Unbleached Sheets, size 80x90, heavy quality of cotton ...... $1.19 6000 Priscilla Economy Dresses Worth Much More 1.4 HAD NARROW BSCAPE Mrs. Cole, Tennis Champ, Tells of Car Full *Spread, hemmed .. Knocking Husband Into River and How He Barely Escaped Death. Borton, June B. E. national women's indoor lawn champion, who has arrived at home in North Andover after a trans- continental motor trip told friends to- y of an experience in Estes park, Colo,, that furnished a thrill no tennis match will approximate, She and her husband had alighted from their car, to fish in a mountain | stream when Mrs. Cole saw the car | sliding down hill toward Mr. Cole who was sitting on a log in the middle of w13 brook. Her cry warned him but he was unable to scramble to safety in time, He was thrown into the | wi eath the car which turned { upside down but managed to release himself and escaped injury. It re- quired most of the following day tae ! drag the car back to the road, and it was so damaged that they left it Cole, tennis her 26,—Mrs, 1in Denver and completed their journey | by rail = | Ars. Cole has not planned her ten- | nis itinerary for the season except ! that she will compete in the Agawam | Hunt tournament in Rhode Island starting July ¢. MEETING FOR YALE DRIVE Walter H. chairman of the committee to raise $5,000 in this city for the Yale summer camp for out- door work for Yale students in engin- ééring, which Includbs science and in- dustry, has called a meeting for Fri- day noon, at which time plans will be perfected for raising the money. The summer camp is at Bast Lyme, covef- ing a wide expanse of land and 1t is hoped that sufficient funds will be raised to build permanent dormitories and meeting halls. These are about 100 Yale men in this city from whom contributions are to be sought. Hart, Leather Girdles, just the thing for your sport rig, Special for Wednesday . 450 .l‘or;nec j\'ill:.fnnlurul col or only, Just for 59 C Wednesday . Yard Novelty Tussah Silks in the new Egyptian styles for dresses and blouses, Yard wide, Just for Wed: .. Yard 98(: Reach Cloths in all the seasonable colors and very ' popular for one piece dress- es, Yard wide, Just for Wednesday 3 3 c New Yard .. Bleached Sheets, size 81x990, for cottage and sum- mer use, Wednesday 89c Berkely Cambric, 36-inch wide. Just for 2 5 % C Wednesday . Big Heavy Turkish Tow- els with blue 25c border ........ 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Buer, Germany, June 26-—Four Germans were shot and killed and ‘!tl\roc others were wounded by Bel- | gian sentries here Sunday. | Three Germans were killed by a patrol in a section of the town where travel had been forbidden aggthe re- sult of the killing of three Igian soldiers, it is semi-officlally ex- plained. The fourth /German 4 was | killed by a sentinel along .the rail- | way. i The three persons who were wound- ed were struck by bullets while walk- |ing in the streets after curfew, By The JUMPS IN FRONT OF AUTO | ‘nrldgepnrt Man Run Down and Car Passes Over His Chest—Driver Placed Under Arrest Bridgeport, June 26.—Henry C. Oliver of 500 Summit avenue, Jersey City, was arrested here today after ;l!lt automobile had knocked down | Willlam Carttonback of Fairfield, both right wheels passing over Cartton- illm‘k'& chest and fracturing two ribs, | Police say Oliver was passing a stand- |ing trolley car, believing all of the passengers had been discharged, when Carttonback leaped from a jitney bus and dashed for the trolley car. FATFNIR BEARING CO. DIVIDEND The directors of the Fafnir Bearing |Co., met this afternoon and declared |the usual 214 per cent quarterly divi- | gena. A Herald classified ad can eclipse all of yours, | for selling that used car ‘lhould you desire to sell it. ADDRESSES BROADGAST | | !Hmllnx Receives Numerous Messages Wireless Fans Telling How They Hear His Talks. | On board President Harding's train, From | | | | | | June 26.—Another achievement I giving the president great satisfaction | |and that is the apparatus which has [been installed on his observation plat- {form and in every hall in which he 'has spoken whereby his addresses are | broadcast by radio. | Every day the president receives | |numerous messages, from New York, | Washington, New Orleans and from | |cities on the Pacific coast which have | |been sent by persons who, sitting in |their own homes, have listencd to his | |addresses, is | London, June 26.--lisperanto, the‘ universal language, is making much | headway in England among the com- | merefal classes. The British Esper- | anto aseoclation, organized in the in. terests of furthering the language in |Great Britaln, has grown by leaps and | bounds. | The association has about 15,000 active members, and classes are held in London, seven times a week. Hun- | dreds of pupils have already grad- uated from the course and readily find positions translating the language for uge on the continent, where it is now becoming a popular form of com- munication between commercial houses. LAR IN GERM f June 26.—Post cards have Germany's most popular means of of communication since the war. Figures just announced show that nearly a trillion passed through the German mails during 1021, There were 936,166,700 ex- changsd within Germany alone, 44,- 724,370 went abroad and 38,758,760 came into the country from foreign correspondents. PO Berlin, become | |a gold and gem mine. Mont. 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R 98 c Wednesday 36-inch Figured Sunfast in several patterns and col- ot v Yarad9 e Buy Themin Dozen Lots You will practice true economy by supplying your needs for the ‘en- tire summer for such values are very seldom offer- ed and are certain to appeal to the thrifty buyer. Ex- tra space and ex- tra salespeople are provided for this extraordinary sale —We advise you that you shop as -early in the day as possible. - In all this world there is said to be but o&woma.n manager of eles. / She is Miss Ruth J son of Livingston, She for« and