New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1926, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, TYPHOON, TIDAL WAVE AND FLOOD IN PHILIPPINES TAKE 300 LIVES loss of life will be increased NOVEMBER §, 1926, cause he has been deprived of maintenance, education and support by the death of his father, was filed in district court here today againmt the Rev. J. Frank Norrls, funda« mentalist Baptist preacher, on be- half ot Elliott Chipps, 14, son of Tennis 7 to 7:30 o'clock. Gym 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock. Friday: Swimming classes 6 to 9 o'clock. Saturday: Junior classes 9 to 11 o'clock. Plunges 11 to 11:45 o’clock. Caught Under Plane, Is Rescued by Other Flier Santa Monica, Cal, Nov. 8 (#— Leaping from a speeding airplane at an altitude of 800 feet yester- day, Miss “Bobby” Chase, woman parachute jumper, became suspend- mystery that is baffling i you enjoy hilarious comedy, don’t miss this one. “Whispering Wires” is the film version of the stage-play which thrilled Broadway for two years. The New Palace policy of feature photoplays went into effect last T vt Unless otherwise indicated, theatrical notices and reviews In this colamn are written by the press agencies for the respective amusement company. ~ “FOUR HORSEMEN” AT CAPITOL An epic tale of surging passion sweeping from the wide plains of the Argentine through the fascinating frivolitics of pre-war Paris into the blazing turmoil of the German inva- sion of Northern I'rance was unfold- ed last night at the Capitol theater with Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry in the leading roles. It was the triumphant return of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” the $1,000,000 Rex Ingram production made for Metro-Goldwyn, which has been a screen sensation in New York, Chicago, Boston, Pittshurgh, Detroit and Los Angeles. Other films include the Capitol News in an Armistice Day special, “Dummy Loye” and Aesop's Iables. W. 8. Jeffs and the Capitol orches- tra have ‘an excellent musical pro- gram with the overture of “William | Tell” as o feature, On Thursday, | g Marine” serial, with Champion : Gene Tunney in the leading role Constance Talmadge will be offered | - Tuno le, | £ MhEhies| Jsonisaty Dhofonlasy also is being shown together with “The | Duchoss of Buffalo,” and the com.- |the mews recls and a sclected com- panion feature will present George edy. O'Brien in “The Blue Iagle,” a thrilling story of the high seas. Matthew Betz as the heavy. This is a picture to stand out in memory as a masterplece of acting, of heart interest and of perfect background. The companion picture presents Betty Compson in “The Belle of Broadway,” in which this screen | star has her best role since “The Miracle Man.” Herbert Rawlinson | is the leading man. This is the type of picture that gives Miss | Compson not only a chance for real acting, but also to wear at- tractively a wonderful wardrobe. She plays the part of a talented young actress in Paris who passes herself off as an old actress reju- venated. She does this, not for her own glory but because of her affec- | tion for the former star of a gen- | eration ago. The latest episode of “The Fight- THE NEW STRAND Tickets were placed on sale to the public this morning for the opening performance of the Strand theater at the Capitol theater box | office. The sale will continue at the Capitol until Thursday morning when it will be removed to the | Strand theater box office, The opening vaudeville bill has al- ready been arranged. It includes all recognized headliners including Os- car Lorraine & Co., Hubert Kinney and company in a pretentious offer- ing. Tony and Norman and others. The feature photoplay to be shown | in conjunction with the opening | vaudeville bill will be W. C. Fiel in his latest comedy vehicle, Your Old Man.” This picture was selected by the management after it had reviewed every available film attraction. “FLAME OF YUKON"—LYCEUM Remember Kenneth Harlan and Dorothy Dalton in “The Flame of the Yukon” about 10 years ago? Then don’t miss “The Flame of the Yukon,” now showing at the Ly- ceum with Seena Owen as the little dance hall queen in a rough Yukon mining camp, and Arnold Gray as the dauntless young tenderfoot and LYCEUM NOW PLAYY A SMASHING BILL RED GRANGE AT PALACE Red Grange the outstanding name of the sporting world scored a com- plete touchdown as a star of the 'n when he opened up at the New P last night in his first production “One Minute To Play. Record breaking crowds turned out to see the prantom of the gridiron expecting to see a football picture with Red scoring a few touchdowns and letting it go at that. But what a surprise they got just as soon as the story was unfolded. Instead of | a mere football game, here was a real college picture as thrilling, dra- | matic and romantic as ‘any picture ve seen in many months. And an actor they found Ited to be. | It is not too much to predict that | | Red will sopn be one of the most | | popular of screen sta | Trom the very start of the picture | when Red is seen leaving for college | | until the last sccne there is action, | thrills and romance all the 1 through. One could not posibly s through this picture without cheer- | ing audibly for Parmallce, Red's alma mater. The companion feature for this program is “Whispering Wires.” I | youre after thrills that actually make you feel cold; it you like a n's Cozicst Theater TODAY Continuous Triumphant Return By Popular Request of Rex Ingram’s Produc- ference fund of each club. tion that stirred the World six years ago and will live forever as a Photoplay Masterpiece! “THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APCCALYPSE” With RUDCLPH VALENTINO and ALICE TERRY Capitol News An Armistice Special Capitol Orchestra | Overture | “William Tell” “Dummy Love” Acsop's Fables THE NEW Home of Select Photoplays PALACE CONTINUOUS SHOWS Daily—1:30-10:30 THE NEW PALACE POLI O SELECT PHOTOPLAYS DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMS R S Tl el i, New Shows on SUNDAYS and THURSDAYS “One Minute to Play” The absolute peer of all College Pictures. A Great Picture for Men, Women and Children ATURE WART comedy POPULAR MAT:—Orch. PRIC Bal. 10¢ 20¢ EVIE:—Orch, Children 80c; Bal. COMPANION ANITA in o of the thrills you've “WHISPERING WIRES” with MAC! a9 the comical Cassidy best seen “The Horseman” ng and The Junior Paramount Stars in their picture of 1926, scinating Youth” COMEDY—CURRENT NEWS AMMY WELLS and his AMATEUR CARNIVAL Musical accompaniment by Miss Mae ‘Murphy at Austin Organ. | o'clock. Tennis T to | heals the inflamed membranes and in- | of the germs, night and judging from the tremend ous crowds that turned out yester- day the policy will be a great suc- cess. The Palace will present dou- ble feature bills always. New shows will be shown on Sundays and Thursdays. The price of admission will be ten and twenty cents in the afternoon and twenty and thirty cents at nigh. Children’s admissions will be ten cents. As an added attraction Sammy ‘Wells and his Amateur carnival will be here every Thursday night. STRAND SALE OPENS Tickets were placed on sale to the public this morning for the opening performance of the Strand | Theater at the Capitol Theater box | office. The sale will continue at the Capitol until Thursday morning when it will be moved to the Strand Theater box office. | The opening vaudeville bill has already been arranged. It Includes all recognized headliners including | Oscar Lorraine & Co., Hubert Kin- ney and company in a pretentious | offering, Tony and Norman and | others. The feature photoplay to be | { shown in conjunction on with the opening vaudeville bill will be W. C. Fields in his latest comedy vehicle, | “So’s Your Old Man.” This pic- ture was selected by the manage- ment after it had reviewed every | available film attraction. ACCORDION GIRLS. Surprising ensemble effects are ob- tained from the three accordions played in ensemble by Miss Opal De Long and her Accordion Girls, who will appear here on the evening of | Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 0dd Fellows' hall, Arch street. ! Their program is original, fasci- | nating, melodious and most unique, for the idea of an accordion en-| semble is a new one. Interspersed | with the accordion numbers will be | plano, voice and other musical nov- clties. The program, however, is much more than an evening of accordion music. Miss De Long, who heads the group, is a gifted pupil of the noted Piersantl, Chicago’s leading teacher of the accordion. In addition, she is a vocalist of considerable attain- ment, with a rich soprano voice. She is also a good pianist. Miss ~Erna Griesemer whistles, reads and does musical monologues, in addition to her major work on accordion. Miss Griesemer also appears in vocal numbers. Miss Mildred Grant, the third member of the company, is an accomplished artist on the accordion, as well as a good planist. She, too, will be heard in vocal ensemble numbers. —_— Y. W. C. A. NOTES Girl's Reserve On Monday from 4 until o'clock, the Gem Seekers club and he Beacon club will have basketball | practice in the gymnasium. Miss | Malvina Eichstadt will coach both | teams. Wednesday, November 10, the | Gem Seekers will mect at the Y. W. C. A. for a hike and weenie roast | immediately after school. Thursday from 7:30 to 9 o’clock in | the evening, the 0. 8. club, younger girls in busincss and ind try, will have a marshmallow r(mkh and social at the Y. W. C. A, All| girls interested in joining the club | are invited. Friday, No and S. 0. | | ember 12, the Pinnacle | clubs will practice bas- ketball at the Y. W. C. A. from 6:30 till 7:30 o'clock. Miss Eurith Wachter will coach both teams. A | light supper will be served at 6 o'clock for those who come directly from work. The ‘Girl Reserves from the older clubs are selling hand painted | Christmas cards. The money from | the cards will go towards the con- | Athletics There will be no more registra- tions received for other teams than tennis and basketball. Monday: Afternoon swimming classes. Tuesday: Senior plunges 2:30 to 4 o'clock. Junior plunges 4:15 to § o'clock. Beginners basketball 6 to 7 7:30 o'clock. from 7:30 to and night Gymnasium_ classes 9:30 o'elock. Wednesday: Senfor plunges 2:30 | to 4 o'clock. Junior plunges to | 5 o'clock. Senior plunges 6 to 9 o Advane- ed basketball from 6 to 7 o'clock. | ‘A THREE DAYS COUGH IS YOUR DANGER SIGNAL Persistent coughs and colds lead to serious trouble. You can stop them now with Creomulsion, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creo- mulsion is a new medical discovery with two-fold action; it soothes and hibits germ growth. Of all known druge, creosote is rec- ognized by high medical authorities as one of the greatest healing agencies for persistent coughs and colds and other forms of throat troubles. Creomulsion contains, in addition to creosote, other healing elements which soothe and heal the infected membranes and stop the irritation and inflammation, while the creosote goes on to the stomach, is ab- sorbed into the blood, attacks the seat of the trouble and checks the growth - Creomulsion is guaranteed satisfac- tory in the treatment of persistent coughs and colds, bronchial asthma, bronchitis and other forms of respira- tory diseases, and is excellent for build- ing up the system after colds or flu. Money refunded if any cough or cold is | returned to police DETECTIVE ON TRIAL Private Sleuth in New York Ac- cused of Compounding Felony in Recovering Gems. New York, Nov. 8.—(#—Charged | with compounding a felony in con- | nection with the recovery from rob- bers’ agents of $683,000 worth of | jewels stolen from Mrs. Jessie Wool- | worth Donahue, 5 and 10 cent store heiress, Noel Scaffa, head of a pri- vate detective agency, was placed on trial today. Both Mrs. Donahue and her hus- | band, James P. Donahue, were pres- | ent when a selection of a jury began. | They will both be called as witnesses. Assistant District Attorney Unger | outlined the case, explaining that | Scaffa was charged with having withheld from the authorities in- formation which might have led to | the arrest of the thieves. The jewelry | was stolen from the Donahue suite | in the Hotel Plaza on Sept. 30, 1925. | About a week later the jewels were | by Scaffa who | | sald he had obtained them after | negotiations with a mysterious “Sam | | Layton.” He sald he had paid Lay- ton, described as a go-between of the underworld, a reward of $65,000 | | for return of the gems. Tom Forman, Director of ' Movies, Believed Suicide | Venice, Cal, Nov. 8 (P—The | body of Tom Forman, 34, molmn; pieture director, with a bullet hole | through the heart, was found yes terday by his parents in their home here. Police Dbelieve TForman's death was suicide, the result of a .nervous breakdown several days ago from overwork.' Forman had been a director about six years, entering | | the movies as an actor. HIT BY AUTO, BACK HURT John Bacher of 295 Asylum street, Hartford, is at New Britain General hospital for treatment for an injury to his back. He was struck by an automobile driven by Michael Hry- onick of 22 Clark street, this city, on Main street near the railroad crossing yesterday morning, and was taken to the hospital by Officer Ernest Bloomquist, The manuseript of Charles Dick- ens’ firet literary effort—a play writ- ten by the great novelist at the age of 16—has been purchased by an English collector, Few Women Still use old hygienic methods. Charming freshness, true protec- tion, this new way ... discards like tissue TO help women meect every day unhandicapped is the object of a new hygiene. A way that ends the hazards of the old-time “sanitary pad,” that ends the embarrassment of disposal. Eight in 10 better-class women today employ “KOTEX.” Wear lightest gowns and frocks without a second thought, any day, anywhere. Five times as absorbent as ordi- nary cotton pads! Deodorizes. Ends ALL fear of offending. / Discards as easily as a piece of tissue. No laundry. You get it at any drug or depart- ment store simply by saying, “KOTEX.” No embarrassment. In fairness to yourself, try this new way. Costs only a feiv cents. Twelve in a package. KOTEX No laundry—discard like tissue Opal De Long’s ACGORDION GIRLS WEDNESDAY Nov. 10 0dd Fellows’ Hall An original, fascinating, melodious and most unique ! still down and the full extent of de | southward from here today by the Further Search of Devas-| tated Districts of Luzon| May Add to Death Toll| Already Reported. Manila, Nov. 8 ((P—The estimated | number of dead in southern Luzon | as the result of Saturday's typhoon | tidal wave and floods reached 304 today. Incomplete reports indicate the | property damage will run into mil- | lions of dollars. Telegraph wires are | struction and death not known. Latest reports show that the dis- aster was felt in the provinces of Batangas, Cavite, Laguna and Taya- | bas. Batangas was hardest hit with ximately 200 dead. A Puzzling Storm ther bureau says the ty- phoon was the most puzzling at: mospheric disturbance to hit the | Philippines since its establishment here. The changing directions taken by the storm are sald to be inex: plicable according to the laws of | cyclones. | Additional ~ supplies were sent | are yet | Red Cross which is caring for se eral hundred homeless persons in | | Batangas province. The insular legls- | lature appropriated $25,000 to aid | | the sufferers. Railroad lines in the southern | provinces still are blocked. A\’ul(b‘ ble Red Cross forces, supplemented by local civic and army ald were rushed into southern Luzon today to take toll of the loss of life and prop- erty damage. With scores missing and the cer- tainty that there has been death and destruction in the remote sections of that district, it Is probable that the | | of the worst in recent years. | rection of the Island of Samar, cut | damage | bay which is less than fifty | street. | were Although broken communication lines and disrupted railroad service | make it impossible to learn the full extent of the disaster, enough has been learned to indicate it was one Narrow Path of Death The typhoon coming from the di- a narrow swath of destruction along | its course and mushroomed out in th> southern provinces of Luzon Isiend. Here flooding divers and a tidal | wave added to the disaster and in th: towns of Batangas and Bauan alone there are 170 dead. Reports of to property come from as far north as Los Banos, on Laguna miles so th of Manila. Manila itselt was outside the storm area but wire com- munications were severed which pre- vented news of the disaster from Army airplanes were unable to make a landing in the stricken area in Batangas but flew over the stricken district and received mes- sages from the governor of the province telling of the damage done, Because of the havoc worked on the railway lines it is - xpected that getting into the storm belt with | needed relief supplies will be slow. | Fascisti Fighting Is Brought to Broadway New York, Nov. 8 (P—Excitement | n high on Broadway yesterday ien a volley of shots was fired as almost 100 members of the Fascisti League of North America were lcav- |of “Pape's Diapepsin.” ment it reaches thes sourness, gases, they | pear. package No one was | once. for few cents. ing their headquarters on forty-fifth After the shooting two men arrested charged with at- | tempted assault. They sald were not members of any anti- Fascist organization. hit by the shots. two minutes, an occupant second plane cut | held Miss Chase, the 'chute opened and she | away. CHIPPS' SON BRINGING L € | Sult asking $150,000 | becoming known here until yester- | | day ed beneath the ship when one of the ropes of her parachute caught in the plane’s undergear. rescued by a second airplane. She was After she dangled in the air for of the the cord which landed safely two miles SUIT FOR DAMAGES Rev. Mr. Norris, Slayer, Is Made De- fendant in Action by Boy. Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. X—(P)— PUT STOMACH IN ORDER AT ONCE “Pape’s Diapepsin” for Gas, Indigestion or Sour Stomach Instantly! Stomach corrected! You never feel the slightest distress | from indigestion gassy stomach, after you eat a tablet or a sour, acid, The mo- stomach all flatulence, heartburn, palpitation and pain disap- Druggists guarantee each to correct digestion at End your stomach trouble damages bc» | D. E. Chipps, whom Norris is charg- ed with having shot and killed here last July. The trial of the minister on & murder charge was transferred last week to Austin Texas, on change of venue. The petition represents that the elder Chipps earned $1,000 monthly, in the wholesale lumber business. LIMERICK FAME Teacher: Now, Johnny, what do you know about Crewe? Pupil: Please, sir, it's the place where there once was an old lady, of.—Humorist, London, PACKARD LUNCHEONETTE and SODA SERVICE for BUSY BUSINESS PEOPLE; Sandwiches of all kinds made while you wait. Home Made Pastry. Specials Every Day. The Packard Drug Company Cor. Arch and Walnut Sts. New Britain, Comn. the clock strikes eight On Thursday Night! New Britainites! Neighbors! Visitors from all New England! will witness in amazement the Glories! the Splendors! the Grand- = g‘&o e izt P e eur! of New Britain’s Million Dollar Showplace. _ Shows to Follow! Come On Everybody Come for the Time of Your Life! New Joys! New Thrills! They'll be the Talk of New England! The World’s Best program will be rendered. not relieved after taking accordi directions, Ak your druggist, ( e VAUDEVILLE * 6—STAR ACTS—6 W. C. Fields in “So’s Your Old Man” Mighty Feature Photoplay—Strand Grand Orchestra—Golden Voiced Organ. POPULAR PRICES Matinees Bal. .... 25¢ Orch. Children.. 20c Evenings Bal. ..,. 35¢ Orch. .@. 50c Resv. Sec. 60c Boxes and Loges Reserved All Seats Reserved for the Opening Performance SEATS NOW ON SALE AT THE CAPITOL THEATER Phone 1230