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ll- 0 il' lmll lll|-| S nl“l I “ “OLD HOME WEEK"—CAPITOL, Comedy, action and romance are ingenlously combined in “Old Home Week,” the new Paramount produc- tion starring Thomas Melgha which opened last night at the Cap 1tol theater. , “0l1d Home Week"” is something more than mcrely a vehicle for the exploitation of Mr., Melghan's ma netle personality and undenlable hi; triotic abllity, It is a graphic rep- resentaton of the small town in all ite glory. The Keith vaudeville show on this program will have five excellent acts to offer. Topping the bill is the Mor- ton Jewell Co., who present “A Vau- deville Mosalc."” Others include Reed and Ray in “The Bull Fighter;" Stanton and Adams in “Off For Lon- don;” The Texans in “A Study In Rope-Ology.” and Carl McCullough, the popular Broadway musical com- edy star in “Bright Bits of Trav- eaty.”” The shows and music are con- tinuous daily and “Eppy” will be heard in new organ music. laythings of Desire”—Lyceum, “Playthings of Desire,” which op- |L..I. U, “f'!'l |I!l| i (-o/ ! clude Mary Thurman, Mahlon Ham. flton in the role of the Indlan guide, Lawford Davidson and Dagmar Go- dowsky as the snappy little carabet dancer. B For the last half of the woek the Lyceum has arranged a bill that brings Johnny Hines in one of his greatest comedy dramas, ‘“The Crackerjack.” HE TRAVELED OREGON TRAIL Back in 1861 this frontiersman, Ezra Meeker, drove an oxen team and covered wagon over the old Oregon trall, crossing the continent, ened last night at the Lyceum, held the spectators in exclted suspense from opening to the last fadeout.! The story of a sensational soclety di- voree case, Involving a financier, his wife and a French-Indlan guide on| thelr North Woqods estate, makes thrilling motion picture g materoal, | full of unexpected twists ahd sensa-| tional incidents. The sequence 1/ handled in a masterly way, especlal- | Iy whera the heroine is whirled in a| canoe along a torrential river toward, the falls, It Is the sort of acting that holds anybody on edge. Estelle Taylor, wife of Jack Demp- ey, has a role of dramatic tensity and others of note in the cast In- CAPITOL Tommy’s Back in His Greatest Photoplay Today—Tues.—Wed. Auouu ZUROR s ESSE L LASKY musemn THOMAS | MEIGHAN“' o | Keith Vaudeville| MORTON JEWELL (0. THh TE\AVS | \TON & ADAM'S* CARL McCULLOUGH Continuous Shows & Music || Thurs. See the New Serial “Sunken Silver” LYCEUM) NOW PLAYI? “PLAYTHINGS | OF DESIRE” | | | | It | With (dack’ Dempsey’s Wife) And MAHLON HAMILTON Story Based on the Famous New York Stillman Divorce Case ESTELLE TAYLOR 1] | IL | LADIES' MATINEE This Coupon and 10c Will Admit Any Lady to Best Seat, New Britain 2 5 Thur,, June iEE SOMETHING NEW, INAL, COLOSSAL. BERTS' FIELD Jckets on Saly Show Usy 8t Crow ell's Drug Store, 83 W. Main St. {This bill was ot | suicides is high fn Japan compared ‘lomnn lotion into the skin at night. | wrinkles, tired lines ana crows-feet | vhroat ‘s\) ft, clear and fresh, | skin. |since it acts best immediately after |prepared, fighting Indians from behind corral- ed. wagons and. overcoming terrific obstacles. He was then 21 years of age. Now he's 95, and he is the sole surviving Oregon trail hero; that is, he is the only person alive who crossed the trall as an adult. He is the last of a race of heroes I8 Ezra, and he's a feature of Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch Real Wild West and Great Far East, coming to Vib- berts field, Thgrsday, June 25. | SIGNS “RIPP! R flth' | Hartford, Conn, Gov. Trumbull| signed the Bridgeport “Ripper” bill {in_{its engrossed form, although on| June 1 he signed it in the original. bitterly opp{ased i | the general assembly by 'both | Bridgeport representatives and two the city's three senators. It places the control of local taxation | in the, hands of a commission to_ be | appointed by the goverpor. | More Women Suicides | okyo. ~— Suicides in Japan !0«‘ taled 1,220 in 1924, Of this num- ber 664 were men and 556 were women. The percentage of women with most countries of FEurope,| where men wHho take their own lives outnumber women' by 'three or Lemons Tighten Wrinkled Skin Squeeze the juice of two lemons in a bot- tle containing three ounces of Orchard White, which any druggist will supply for a few cents, shake well and you have the very mild- est anti-wrinkle lo- tion to tighten re- laxed skin, erase fine ines and eradicate crows-feet. Massage thls sweetly fragrant By morning most of the - tell:tale |are smoothed out, giving a more youthful contour to cheeks, - chin, | It ledves the skin velvety | 2 Beauty experts use this astringent | otion for enlarged pores, “also to bleach and whifen " sallow,: tanned Mix this harmless lotion yourself OF HIS YOUNG WIFE Liquid - Gas June 15 (A— Los Angeles, Cali The district attorney's office here announced - last night that Dr, Thomas Young, a dentist, has made complete ‘confessidn that he killed his wife, Mrs. Grace Young, soclety matron and administrator of the $1,000,000 estate of the late Patrick Grol orice- known as “The Olive King." She was Grogan's widow, The ‘statement from the district attorney’'s office quoted ‘the dentist to the effect that he killed his wife with llquid gas at their Beverley Glen cabin, near here, last'February and threw her body in a cistern be- neath the cabin, which he sealed with concrete a few hours later with the assletance of Patrick Gro- gan, Jr., 18-year-old heir to the Grogan fortune, Late yesterday Dr. Young was taken to the undertaking parlors where his wife's body lay. “You know her, don't you?" he was asked by a detective. “Yes sir,” he replied as he col- lapsed in the arms of the detective, the first sign of emotion he. had shown since the grilling began last Friday. “I am. glad ehe is dead,” he re- marked when he regained his com- posure, “because T am free. Then he. described the crime in detail, ‘ “We left my house and went to a cafe,”” he sald, “and T gave her something. We then gent to the office, got a bottle and got ‘lit' up. I put some liquid gas in my pocket and we went to the Glen, On the Lo Angolcs Demlst Gave Her NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1925, CONFESSES MURDER COLOR CUT-0UTS SPIRIT OF HELP |y oo STARTS CHURCH Two Negroes Organize House of Worship Minneapolis, Minn.,, June 15 (P —— About one year ago two negroes, one a cook and the other a waiter, both old and honored emplbyes of « rallroad operating trains between Minneapolis and Chicago, sat down in the dihing car for a chat between meals. Ou fot the conversation has grown a church project, described by E. H. Rasmussen, executive sec- retaryqy Minnesota Baptist conven- tlon, as “a unique and most worthy | movement,” The men are E. L, Fuller, pastor, and G. L. Jenkins, deacon, of St.| Anthony's Baptist church, one of the youngest but one of the best patronized of the local negro churches, Fuller, to make the plan possible, sold his home ‘in a good | residence section of Minneapolis and hought a house in a less desirable | location, part of which is being used | as a cHurch, | Fuller told Rasmussen that “it just happened that Jenkins and I| had the same idea at the same time, to get into something to help out | our people.” Kuller, a native of| Towa, sald in his travels he had no- ticed that the members of his race who left the south to settle else- where, ‘“seemed to lack apprecia- | tion of what the white man is doJ ing for them.” | The main object of the project is | not 8o much to cater to those Who | This is the beginning of the last already have religion and appreciate | week of the story of “Aladdin or their surroundings, as it.is to guide | the Magic Lamp.” I you have been the, newcomers from the south to| saving these paper dolls you will adjust themselves to their northern | soon have the whole set with which abodes, to act out the famous story. | Fuller and Jenkins, so far as pos- ¢ .8 . THE MAGNIFICENT CASTLE | age of carbon monoxide In the blood | thelr garages are well ventilated, ‘They should avold exposure to car- Then comes a collapse, tollowed h” lons of alleged alcohol in eanm. nconsclousness, and fnally death, | he car had been run against ‘s bon monoxide und, where it 1a nec-| The dangerous fallacy that the|street hydrant, There two men casary to come into contact with it,(atmosphere in a closed garage ls |In it who fled. A warrant was {s.' protective equipment should be|safe as long us an automobile en-|sued for the arrest of the owaer of provided, gine continues to function, hnnmm car, Amella Pausa 174, ¥rank. A victim of the gas should be|been disproved by tests. A dog Was|lin street, New Haven, taken into the fresh alr soon as| placed on the front seat of a tour- posaible. If the breathing haa|ing car in & closed brick garage, BT SRR 0 £ ;3 5% s PETITION FOR PLAYGROUND, Bridgeport, Conn., June 15 UM~ Twenty-four school children have slgned a petition which has besn | presented to the mayor and the com. mon councll, asking that the efty purchase land on the east side for the construction of'a playground,’ stopped, artificlal respiration must be supplied. For this purpose pure oxygen can be used or oxygen with five per cent carbon dloxide, to be glven for about 20 minutes. The pa- tient's limbs should be massaged, to restore and increase circulation, and the body should be kept warm, The vietim must rest, avolding any exertion whatever, | Carbon monoxide is doubly dang-| and the motor was allowed to idle. | After 20 minutes' operation the ani- | ma) lost consclousness, At that time | the air showed 1.3 per cent carbon monoxide. The engine was allowed to run untll it stopped from lack of alr at the ond of two hours, when | the percentage of gus was 2.1, enough to cause instant death, This incident the experts cited in | to9 impress motorists that they w order imp 1 h th )‘No More Dandruff erous, the experts say, because it|should not permit their motors to ls hard to detect it in the air. It|idle in the garage while they re- (ks has no odor and is tasteless. Symp-|turn to the house to obtain some| The sure way to abolish dandruyf forgotten article, R WRI( Kl D Conn, June toms are readlly found, however. A slight case finds the victim suffer- ing from headache. As the percent- 15 to destroy the germs that cause ft | To do this quickly and safely ther |18 nothing so good as Parisian Sage~ 16.~The the best hair and scalp treatment neMm « Meriden, | | increases the headache becomes polics this moming took charge of | Stops itching scalp and falling hafr more severe. The victim's legs wreeked automobile on West | Ask any drugglst for Paristan Sage weaken and respiration increases. |Matn street in which they found 50 |It's guaranteed 'OUR &gleep will be unbmken L by mosquitoes if you use sible, are working under the guld- ance of state Baptist headquarters. | Other negro churches have indorsed | way out she went to sleep. “When she went to sleep 1 gave | her gas until she quit breathing. | When Aladdin heard that the Sul- tan had consented to his marriage with the princess he could hardly Flit spray clears the house in a few minutes of mosquitoes and disease- Flit did not stain or injure the most delicate fabrica. Then I got a wheel barrow, loaded cellar T put cotton into her nose so she would never breath again.” The next day, the confession says, Dr. Young took Grogan to the Glen home and at night the boy un- knowingly mixed the concrete to cover the body of his slain mother at the bottom of the cistern. Young said he poured the mixed concrete in the crypt and smoothed it over with a long pole. At the conclusion of the examina- tlon, Dr. Young went to the eabin invetigators in getting any evidence they might want. Mrs. Young suddenly disappeared February 21 last. She was promi- |nent in ‘Southern California affairs and after ‘her disappearance Dr. Young employed detectives to search for her, While expressing the belef that she had gone to Paris to ‘ob- tain a divoree, The Young cabin is about a mile | and a half from the cabin in which | J. Belton Kennedy was slain four years ago. Tried to Fool Friends New York, June 15 (A—Dr. T. W. Young of Los Angeles, who has con- fessed that he slew his wife, tried to keep up the masquerade that she had vanished unaccountably by | writing letters of inquiry to her friends, Mrs. Sigurd Nathan of Brooklyn disclosed today. Mrs. Nathan, friend of Mrs. Young, exhibited two porting to come from Dr. Young since his wife disappeared. The letters. made inquiry as to his wife's whereabouts. Dr. Young even, addressed two typewritten Iptters to his wife ~in care of Mrs. Nathan. . Patrick Gro- gan, the slain woman's 17 year old son, ‘also wrote his mother in care | of Mrs. Nathan. Young's first letter letters pur- received ' in to, “Grace” as a “wonderful wife"” and-a “deyvoted mother to Patrick.” This letter sald that Mrs. 'Young | had disappeared on the night they ‘“had motored out to the Biltmore.” While Young went to park the car, the Jetter said, ably left by another door and that is the last T have seen of her.”” The |second letter received by Mrs. ‘Na- than some two weeks later told how happy the Youngs had been in their new home. Mrs. Nathan met the slain woman years ago and later they made a trip to Honolulu. The United States has a’YmI(N‘d 2,000,000 immigrants in the last four | years, her into it .and wheeled her into the | Dr. | home, where he offered to assist the | | March, Mrs. Nathan etated, referred | “Grace unaccount- | | the project. | contain his joy. He commanded the | lamp genie to bring him the most magnificent clothes he' ceuld, also &| handsome horse for him to ride‘) upon. The sultan was so impressed by| the noble looking young man that| he would have gladly married him | to his daughter immediately, but Aladdin said, “I must first build a castle where we may live. For this | purpose 1 beg you to give me a plot | of ground.” Then Aladdin commanded the | genie of the lamp to build him a castle twice as large and twice as kandsome as the sultan's and im- mediately it was done. (Here is the magic lamp and fits | wonderful genie. Color them grey, | shading from a very dark grey at| the head of tha genie to a very light grey for the lamp). (Copyright, 1925, Associated Edi- tore, Inc. ] SOUTH AMERIGANS TOHAVE EXHIBT \Artists Wil Show . Their - Work at Los Angeles | e | ‘Los Angeles, June 15 (P—Five| | hundred ofl paintings and etchings | by leading contemporary artists of |North, Central and South America [ will be brought together here for a | three-month display when the Pan- American exhibition opens Novem- ber 3, this year, at the Los Angeles museum. The exhibition, in which paintings by artists from Canada and the | | | | {United” States of North America, | |Mexico and Panama of Central {America, and Brazil, Argentina, WARNING ISSUED st o i 0 AUTO OWNERS ‘r"prosflmallon in this country since | et i ses 2%‘::‘;‘;"': “::,; How to Avoid Deadly Carbon! Monoxide Fumes |'markable exhibit in the | Pacific International L(pn‘l(lon at | san Francisco. Paintings h* Diego Rivera, of ‘Mexlcu, considered by art critics as | | | Voicing a warning against |one of the greatest living artists: | tna geadly eftects of carbon {Juan Charlot, also a Mexican paint-| monoxide gas, present {n the er, and Manual Vega, a Cuban, one| exnaust of automobiles, the |of the younger Havana painters,| ('nited States Bureau of Mines | will be_exhibited, | { A few portraits by the late John | Singer Sargent, American artist, will | | be part of the exhibition. | Other .prominent North American |artists whose canvasses will: be sets forth the following general rules: Never run automobile engine in-closed or poorly ventilated garage. Never work under machine |shéwn ‘are Frederick Carl Frieseke,| with motor running even in |Karl Anderson, John E. Costigan, ‘ open air. Mary Cossatt, John F. Carlson, T.| Never close all car windows | W. Dewing, Daniel Garber, John R. \ with engine running, even in | Grabach, Robert Henri, John C.| open air. It is not true that the air in a closed garage is safe 8o long Johansen, Leon Kroll. Ernest Law- {son and Elmer Schofield. | | Immediately following the close as a gas engine continues to run. inr the exhibition here, January 1, Move a victim of carbon 1926, the Latin American section monoxide poisoning into the | will start on a tour of the important | open alr; supply artificial res- museums of the United States, and |the North American section will be | sent to the capitals of Latin Ameri. | ca. piration; give him oxygen; mas- sage his limbs; keep him warm and qfifet. Pittsburgh, June 16 () — With | Honorio Pueyrredon, ambassador [ hundreds of thousands of automo- to the United States from Argen-|hiles Deing put into use in the |tina, has accepted an invitation to| United States during the summer |8peak at the opening of the exhibi- | months, United States Bureau| | tion. of Mines gas experts, stationed at Pittsburgh, have again sounded a| ‘wnrmng to the motorists to exer- cise caution to prevent serious sick- ness and death from the deadly ‘ Read the Herald classified ads for instruction. Her One Reckless Hour When Dolly, an: orphan, went on the stage at the age of seventeen, she was about as ignorant of life as a girl could be. Tobe sure, the star of the traveling Gompany she had joined told her & thing or two—but Dolly was utterly unequipped to cope with the moral peril she faced when home sickness and loneliness led her blindly to- accept the attentions of a perfect strang- er in a Kansas town. That experience taught Dolly a les- 500 she hay never forgotten. ‘The details will hold you spell- bound. Dolly tells them under the title “Playing With Fire” ~oneof 18 absorbing features in July Troe Story M.-gazine. Don’t miss it. At all newsstands 25¢ 1t For the first time in ten years the London Zoo has man- uged to secure a specimen of the Tamandua ant- eater, an xtremely rare animal. He is di | tongue . with, which he can scmp up hundreds of ants at a swoop, and-by his prehensile tail . A Rare One gax from motor exhaust, carbon | monoxide. The gas experts at the | bureau, R. R. Sayers and W. P. | Yant, point out that the widespread use of motor cars in the summer time naturally means many repair | Jobs on motors, and it is while| working on automobile machines in closed garages that many carbon | | monoxide fatalities. occur. These experts, who delve into the | mysterious of the deadly gas, have | a list of “dont's” for motorists, as| well as a list of “remedies” when the “dont's” are disregarded by | careless automobile operators. The “dont's” include; Guard against running an a mobile engine in a poorly ventilated | or closed garage, Do not work under a machine with the motor running, even | though it is in the open air. Sitting in a closed car with the | engine running Is dangerous; al- | | ways have the windows open Persons wishing to avoid this | dangerous gas must see to it that | THE | Harvey & Lewis | CO. 85 Main St. | New Britain, Conn, OPTICIANS Goggles- Glasses istinguished by his long gticky Bascine AlanWRTER A el i A Scientific General Insecticide n!em‘nu. il niz:m result of Mfin:' Kills Household Insects chemista, More than ™ formulas were Fit_spray also destroys bed tested on various household insects be- " roaches, ants, and insect fore Flit was finally perfected. 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