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KW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1928, R CARELESSNESS IN PIRE DEPARTMENT IMPANY r 0 o n The gos-slp that a laun.dress learn: And a darned good ros. New Britain Herald HERALD PUBL | | ... FactsandFancies A BY KOBERT QUILLEN ssued Daily Al8ued Dally (Buntay Excapted) - ’ w | man P o incorreetly ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES L Th SHING C wage she ntto fine a fire fire | Sl fow statues are mistake | 1o rs At erected o e By CHARLES P. STEWART SN it or near Entered o a cluted Press. Member Audit Barean of Circulntion " a shes news; MORTGAGED HOMY AND PROGRESS the surprising diseovery that here are more homes plast with mortgages in certain states, cluding Connecticut there a debt-free homes. The res denote 61 per cent of the homes ownad in Cennecticut are mortgaged, being toppad by enly one other sta Jarses New which has 62 per figures are: New York, 52 Massachusetts, 57 per cent Island b1 per cent fota, 53 per cent. The statistics compiled and North bending company homes oecupied by They show that the average of mort gaged homes throughou country totals 42 mere than half the the The fact that the higher ratio of to their owners. the entire so0 that ome through- per cent, out country are free of deht mortgaged homes are lo 1 in the east does not indl of cate a ifack prosperity extravagance in home These states are regarded progressive sidents of th. manifestatic they homes would xplair lifference the follow ng observation to stati, of considered blot have and t the I for per cent; in only seems portionate eumb Alabama o have number ed homes. A large number and atruct year, Struction are being secured apartments man and n safe to build rowed gages mort hay latter ar LAST THI A TRIBUT}H NEW HAVEN TO raiiroad efficier York pares from raliros during som Sne it Ha CITY AND New OF NEW HAVEN LEGISLATURE The J..C. says the pa- ¢ Now Haven witk is utterly exhausted challenge to t 114 be ac {iveslnt portunity.” says the tion should be N from gagements of Mr. An Mr T pastimer N usiness ¥ S STATE 01 NOT YL TRADF ANORMATL abou tto he prepared te ot be s ed guest at a DEVENSE DAY AND OTHER HOLIDAYS n honor of Gener rement (‘anada Reports Greatest ; Activity in Building .., only useful no art for &N needs training is critic thinks the people beging with | Don't pack your sense of humor | place heading ) Tolay. fer the Twenty Years elle and AV forests are 100 might ter wha loesn't in his eye The 5 got thing thin g about the make grass those who Nordics trol of things, let's hope they tolerant of No the neutral on whic one for something. to whitth can Mars when something ay for consider good citfzen a year + counting the $10 that am would win, “Yeah “but T'll something the Qbservations On The Weather 25 Years Ago Today From Paper of lnat Date Ce Griswold Electric evening of Lan Ve u The Governess | This is the Gov.er-ness you see; n o 8he's here be-cause, 'twixt you and | me, [ 4 | No home that knows the pro-per Would send a child te pub-lic Folks, wh en you away too, | For it you use it every day Fishel ing to grow a Heller made m Who's Who—And Why “I thouglt store “1 started lave it off." you were to, vour furs but The Duffer's Reyenge Smith Angus y H tessional Ruled like a czar at the Meadow- K Macligger. mere club, Go, Striving to rise Angus gave lessons (twelve-fifty an fers came 851 onal, lub. hour) Harrie and green, out nd nan Poure Mon q Keep d words like humbly 181 yor his e dor errors e the golfing pro- n' trenches! r heid atill with Hac springs in yer-r neck? That gr-rip might be fitter's wr-renches, e We But n ot fine ve n Just Ie look a ma wr-r hi K o' tha look at t course v Did aviowa pivot ? numbskuli! Y Sliced ere \a at t hae t w div he ye Ye ye MacJigger, fternoon orst ad rubber 1 to pl of swo rn fter loon topped ) point arty ed b verbiage (His -rol lot there was ! b s8ic v scventeen ber- ee ot , that's a ball! traps that re one 1g¢ r 10t rics diminished), “Mister MacJigger, may 1 be per- o To ask carded 1 t Reve ur Were you Y Itober internal Williams: internal, isn't Rober i're te dis ta: e o half- in ub wit To sp ted when we p eontract made! saving 1. or you learn how han little red yle had otherwis when was finished n 1 that ace ad to cour hopeless! rotten!" from the a rage, h this Anc chooi? Wi You're awfu you to pass that You're Undernecath "My wife case. “No. is external.” A Paint and powder investigaiod sk has a ““Nonsense! it's exterr in the gotten! clegant ill-fated ol hat for rotten!" scrious ¢ ¥ trout The a ~Elizabeth G. Duffy For Iicing So Conservative kissed her Vivian row ar Bernic W di “He sh L | should Aren't We ANl? ich u t o loaves A luture The f{am idre asked tr girl “We iy chu ound host W 1 rful sermor 101 11 on nk nig. for crime is un- | The moths will never bother you! go- beard and hoss your she to bim, a dreary pro- from the ranks of these on cach bowed bhean tHat's a gowf-club! Ye're not yo useful on gas- And never the lis- why no- the the 'pers he ot hal embered school. | To mix with be Naught less than a ca-lam-i-ty, | Some-times a Gov-er-ness Is fired | When Ma finds how much she's ad- mired! com-mon folks would | Byron Wolford A Feeder ‘Were there our ship?" “Yes, one Scott stow- ways on Hardy: table.” any at our “elix Schuler The man who borrows a good hook displays better judgment than the man who lends it. (Copyright, 1925, Reproduction Forbidden) MANY AFFECTED IN ] DIVORCE SCANDAL counte- More Than 100 “Freed” in R. I, Now Married Abroad Providence, R. I, May 19.—-(AP) Effects that will be felt by people now living far from the boundaries of the United States will result from Aleclosurcs of the operation of the Rhode Island divorce mill when the cases against Leonard W, Horton and Francls P. Dougherty are brought to trial in ahont two weeks, Attorney General Charles P. Sisson promises Many Thving Abroad attorney general specifically of a New The cites the cas teacher why securcd a divorce here through two fake witnesses and gave false testimony herself. She is now remartied and is living in 7 Many of the 100 couples that the attorney general says were {llegally scparated through the machinations of Horton and Dougherty are now remarricd or living abroad or both reconvened March rned 26 indictments yesterday against Horton a Dougherty for conducting their di- vorce mill in Rhode Tsland courts with headquarters at the Hotel Tm- perial. New York city. Horton s «afd hy the attorney general to have boasted that he was getting $2,000 for every divorce he fraudulentl secured for non residents of state. Horton is being held in $50,. 000 bail and Dougher in $40.000. Both have been committed in lieu of hond secret Indictments Seven seeret indictments have against non-residents of Tsland said to be as deeply 1 in the conspiracy as the orneys. Attorney neral in that the de- these are isserts there is not a iera. They are prin- witnesses, it is Rhode imylica two a Sisson fendants in | Yorkers, but cayer anong t cases false under- stood. Asked whether any persons involved in th had prominent, Mr. plicd that he recognized were widely known, but f them were poseessed of efforts of illnstrious divorces have in the bud, he pointed Alsclosures attending procecdings Putnam San- author; Minta former wife of 200 were Sisson r none who that n wea been nipped since the the fr ed here Nina Wileox derson, well known E. Durfee Arbuck the film comedian, and Fay Mantell FEisenberg of New York More Scnsations Likely divorce a ser- miracle fishes, was being cting some Fun Shopper E Mra G W The Editor's Gossip Shop Shaking Out the Ashes n are m ur salesm ont id the sales man Furniss. and Bl ot of tion sermon Furnise ge expert cy The Social Primer The Ma jame Laundress & insor 18 W, Sisson declared that further Ievelopny nts y be ex the divorce mill procecd ations of other nitorneys nd Dougherty are itinized. The ultd mate result may be a complete revo- ution in the method of granting di vorees in Rhode Tsland So far, the system has presented sle 1o those who sought strict laws of othe ns wers cha th nejt present. The r statef sworn to before a and read In er petitioner nor re- rositions cery 1 impounded. Collus thus made easy and practically un- ctible newspapers conld not depositions after they were was Wit se8 b ourt rooms at however, and during di- as as it has deposition impossible volume of husiness orce sessions for every virtual cen, publicity heen Ty read has were Frovi- alene hande n 10 days. Of th 4 ! argest number iind by Horton as and Dougherty in 10 days in verior granted court v of record a8 attors 11 Grounds For Divoree 1o Tsland offers a wi ivo provide oss m ipar runkenness originally void lietion ar iving sep habitua! marriage drug ad- dead. Ne- nd vears, ory and extreme o ground, have charges. leponents has been unques- grounds Two years con- prior to the enter- a purely tec! most Testin nica d k courts as in respect to ength of residence tinuous residence {ing of a divorce petition is the tute res e requirement, and the supreme court has stringent opinion interpret- to the maintenance domicile preceding the state down s to mean unintercupted of fwo years immediately late ¢ Has Comedy Angle. Too Horton and Dougherty are said teo York schoo! | New | and | sta- | handed | for | They have been filling the largest auditoriums NEA Bervice Writer Washington, May 10, ~ Herbert | | Quick, the writer and ex-member | of the Federal Farm Loan board, who died recently, was even more | interesting face to face than in his extremely {nteresting books, I had n office with him for awhile rl‘lr~1 ing his early days as a lawyer in| Towa, was his secretary as mayor | of Bioux City, and he took dinner at my house, here in Washington, | | not many days before his death. He was just starting to write his memoirs, Indeed, he came into the capital, from his home at Berkeley Springs, W, Va., to talk over with me some of his adventures in which | had a share. | Quick had known no end of cele- | brities and eecentricities, had had | la hand in a lot of important and unusual happenings and told his ex- | periences in the queerest way. He | { Jooked at them from an angle all| Jmu own - not a bit like any other | angle. At the proper age for it, he had had infantile paralysis which left { him, not crippled, but with a no- ticeable peculiarity of gait, Infantile | paralysis, he contended, was a very valuable thing te have had —— it greatly strengthened ang improved the inteliect, provided the patient | Hived. He didn't say that nobody Lecame | great who hadn't had it, but he did insist that practically everybody who di4 have it became great. Or| porsibly only the potential great were subject to it. He wasn't sure | i was very proud of the that crooks and criminals of ever) variety had an instinctive lking for him, It was true they brought in contact shady saloon men, dive Keepgrs gamblers and miscellaneous " characters in town during the pc ried of his Sioux City mayoralty~ and they were pretty plenty ther then == ang every one of them too to him at first sight, did anything | did. He wan with all 1the It wasn't that he win thelr kindly regurd. Thi simply gave it to him un: Even when ho closed them up spoke well of him just the san He didn't ltke crima, he sald, I he condoned a reasonable amoun! of vice. WIithin bounds, he ex plained, though reprehensible, h consldered it the viclews indivi) ual's own affair. the Probably this attitude was wh endeared him to the liberal slement It didn't endear him to Puritans however, and one term as mayor was Al he got out of threa candi dacies — and the first one, bofor: the literal-minded better part o the citizenry had found out wha Kkind of character they subsequent Iy thougit he was. His humor wis too subtle for much suceess in poif tes Welh A8 T say, T knew him well. | think this is the sort of eulogy he'd like. And TI'm sorry the world will never see his memoirs, | ; 1v¢ run against snags. Municipal | arks, automobile show rooms, play. |grounds and vacant lots have bren given as permanent legal domiciles of petitioners. 1t was the newspaper disclosure | |that the Rhode Island residences of Mrs. Sanderson, Mrs. Arbuckle and | Mrs. Eisenberg did not meet this re- quirement that resulted ‘in the va- cating of Mrs. Sanderson's decree, 1o enforced withdrawal of Mrs. Ar- Uickle's plea after a preliminary de- ad becn granted, and the striking of \Mrs enberg’s case from the calendar, with subsequent (grand jury investigation of perjury charges, last year, cree FINAL TRIBUTE T0 FAMOUS GENERAL {Funcral of Nelson A. Miles Held | at Washington | — | Washington, May 19.—(AP)— Washington stood with bowed head today to express the nation's tribute to one of its great military heroes Licutenant General Ncison A. Miles, President Coolidge arranged his fajrs so that he might occupy a place In the funeral cortege, sig ing the country’s reverence for memory and achievements of the mous campaigner, To the military service, loved and served so faithfuily by him, was the general's body entrusted for the last | march to Arlington national ceme- tery, there to repose heside the hody of his wife and among his com rades of three wars sleeping {beneath the grassy slopes A troop of United States cavalry, an arm of serviee which the general led 8o well in wresting the frontier from the In asgembled at the residence to cscort the caskct to St. John's Episcopal ch, where the simple rites of It were prepared by Rev. The solemn ending at under on y- the ta- now the stern ans, Jolinsto cemetery constricted followed Robert march to the the mausolcum s direction, remonies the genera progr Six glistening cted to draw and officers of the avmy. T werc desig 1 to Surrounding the | m of er hinck the he were son, horses marine corps page beside them gadier Gen- com- trict of Washing- cscort of honor. histo {eral Sam mander of ton, formed tie Nine in t pages the deeds son of another with Dennis 1 hief of staff of the army; Seott, Oswald E Frnst Chem, Harry T. Allen and M. Black; Rear Admiral Baird, Brigadier Generals F J. MecClegnand and Joh A ston and Truxton Beale, ate Major General Beale. President Coolidge found hi: n in the procession with sers of the general’s family immediately casket the World war the life of ( ? nation fi nscribed with Mile and the e right Major acting Hugh John L, Wil George 1ward John- f the commar beside those of Genera to marct Generals am son ¢ po- mem- and his associates behind the flag-draped Veterans of conflict the in ieral | Miles was {socirtics, ! satlors ! | Ayres saw her Miles in which he took no aetive part, mingled with veterans of the Civil war, Indian campalgns and the Spanish war who were there to pay homage to their former leader. Patriotic and veterans' organizn tions placed In the procession in- cluded the military order of thr Loyal Legion, of which General selected commander-in { last year; the Grand Army of Republie, Indlan war veterans™ United Rpanish War vet- erans, Military order Veterans of TPoreign Ware, Amerlcan Legion and Jrames of the Loyal legior At the south gate of Arlington a battery from Fort Myer stood ready to greet and honor the hero with a lfeutenant general's salute of 15 guns as the cortege moved with measured tread toward the waiting tom Thers the farewell service for th dead was in the hands of the mili- tary. Tewelve rifflemen in zlistening cquipment awaited the signal to fire three volleys over the grave and an army buglar waited to sound taps LONLIEST ISLE IN THE WORLD ——————— May 19. — The loncliest world is Tristan da Cun Atlantic, says Rey just re- two years the London, isle in th la in tl Martyn Tt who turned after nding as a missionar) During that time he received news from the outside world, as no ship stopped there except the one v e returned south EOTS, sp no island are 140 inhabl 1 related.” he says, flve different Women predominate, owing fact t names, to the men we il were drown half-colored and 3 They are loyal 1o Britain and asked 10 our Edward, i1 honor Prince of Wales. Th nhabitants rar:ly sec meat a ! 1siness 18 carrivd on by ba All marriages riormed man. Agaifist Brother ing ship speak nam of the are b by o T¢ wny of Mrs. Marie Ayres of Chicago may be responsil for sending Her brother [ a wouaded and shell-sh the gal brother war veteran, to seize and stab their father to dr will be a witness for the s A Rare Treat Awaits You Lady Christabel Pankhurst - of the Royal House of England and | Court Baroness Leja Te de Torinoff of the Royal House of Russia Will speak at the People’s Church of Christ treet Wednesday and Thursday at 3 and 8 p. m. | in New w York cit; Stirring Messages — Inspiring Sermons Admission Free 3=