New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 13

WHITE HOUSE HAS THREE XMAS TREES Goolidges o Remain at Gapirol? for Holidays Washington, Dec. 24 (P—A wet | OltY Daylight Chain Broadcast A radio program of decided nov- will be presented Christmas Christds instead qf a white one is|Day from 3 to 4 p. m. Eastern the best the weather bureau can sce for a large part of the country to- morrow, although Santa Claus may find plenty of snow for his big h tonight in the Rocky Moun- | tain and upper Mi and some other sections n vored with merely cloudy . Increasing cloudiness will b ot of Washington, but hund the capital's “leading citizens' be bothered about that. sleigl be fa- won't urgent at this time of if not mot of the nation's ex ers and legislators have hurricd to spend te scenes. > President and Mrs. who, with their son, John, from Amberst, will celebrate mas in the White Iouse, Vice ident and Mrs. Dawes will be at Speaker and and idge, home Ch Pres home in Evanston, Ill., Mrs. Longworth in Cincinnati, Secretary Mellon in Secretaries Kellogg and Wilbur will spend Christmas with their sisters, the former at New Bedford, Mass. ppi regions | gan | special wire, and there » | network. Having { heard the call of home, p’\r(v‘uhr.\" concert. Christmas in more | Cool- | Pittsburgh. | and the latter at Wayne, Pa., while | Secretary Work will be at the hom of his daughter at Evanston. Secre- tary Davis who is ting his father on his seventy-fifth birthday Sharon, Pa., tos , will be back to- morrow, however, to enjoy the day with his wife and five children. | burgh, | Chicago; at | K For the thousands of government | employes and those in other pursuits who regard Washington as home, numerous plans have been made, The Christmas Eve fest s will start at 6 o'clock, when President Coolidge will press the button that lights the big community fir just south of the treasury, near the ‘White House, and later the choir of the Tirst Congregational church which the executive and his wife at- | tend, will carry out the eustom of singing carols in the White Ifouse grounds. Special programs also have Deen arranged hy most of the city churches and various organizations have prepared to spread joy among the unfortunate. Within the White House, trees have been arranged biue room for the Coolidge and their gue C ompuacv Indictment I<10m 1924 Is Dismissed J.. Dec. 24 (P — indictments a inst Mrs. Susan 0. Simpson Tucker, 52, and her 17 year old husband, Burton . Tucker, whose marrfage in 1024 Jeceived wide publicity, were nole- prossed here yester Tewis J. Hanson, assistant prosccutor, ‘told Judge Robert V. Kinkead that the évidence against the couple was in- sufficient for convictions. The boy's parcnts had charged. After the marriage, that he been kidnapped and after inve gation the couple were indicted for conspiracy to defeat the marriag: Jaws of New Jersey. They lived for a while in Pasadena, Calif. TRay- mond T of Hoboken, cour for the defendants, announced t he would give a certified copy of Judge Kinkead's order as a Chris mas present to the Tuckers, who wow live in New York. Red Cross Doing‘lzs Work as Santa Claus Washington, Dec. 24 (P—As an agent for Santa Claus, the Ame 4 Cross tomorrow will Christmas pre financial of their homes to 500 Florida hur- ricane-stricken families. Of 22,904 families which appealed to the Red Cross for relief after the hurricane last September, the three in the family c.\ | Sunday night features. symphony orches- | Standard Time. Se of the National Broadcasting com- ny are being employed for th broadcast of a ght musi- cal program. The program, an or- recital, wiil be road t in Cincinnati, carried to New York by put into the enteen stations Three distinguished o They are \dnhvh H. mat, concert organist and compos- Lillian Plogstedt, nationally fa- d Johanna Grosse, cellent radio work hs her universal popularity. This broadeast will mean a coverage of the larger part of the North American Continent, since the pro- gram is to be relayed to stations on the Atlantic seaboard, the middle-west and as far west as Kansas City. The hookup will in- clude! WEAF, New York; WEE Boston; WCSH, Portland; WT Worcester; WJAR, Providen WGR, Buffalo; WEI, Philadelr WRE, Washington; WCA WTANM, Cleve WOC, Davel KSD, WSAT, won for Minngapolis; o and WLW, Cin- Christmas gift to the radio And it is a ill be giv- of Powel Crosley, audience of Americ novelty that the concer! i innati on the famous W studio organ which has been during the past two years by radio listeners all over the country, and even in far-distant lands, on the nightly programs which come from this super-power station. But the speeial Christmas program over, the entire chain will carry the beau- tiful tones of this costly instrument into the home of pr ally every receiving set owner from the At- lantlc to the Rockies. WTIC's New Remote Controls Hanford §. Billings, manager of WTIC, Hartford, announces - the opening of a new remote control and a schedule of broadeasts which will again bring that station on the alr on Sunday evenings. The new state theater, which is heing rushed to completion for its formal opening on Christmas Day will be wired, and on December 26 willt broad the first of these The theater's w heard twenty-five pi | v be picked np from anywhere in | trots—that were considered just the whose | 1165 throughout | | | the ever-popular | tra_under the direction of Bert Wil- | ents in the form of | awards for tha rebuilding | el ganization announced today, 16,0001 representing approximately 60,000 individuals, In this work, the Red Cross has tributed a fund of more than $3,- 000 the assistance being directed chicfly toward the rebullding of homes and the providing of shelter and clothing. About 600 famili are being rehabilitated each week, and the undertaking is expected to be concluded in about 10 weeks. have been rehabilitated. | m scheduled the first broadeast. WTIC, also for announces’ the open- WEST NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, ]926, ing" of & new remote control in-the | Fiala has been an explorer, both in | ic events ever recorded on the pages | York, Thursday evening. December | 0, will be broadeast thro Gimbel Bro! ning ! dance following the concert will also | Pl restaurant of Brown, Thomson & Company's store in Hartford, from which it will broadcast a program of luncheon music each Tuesday and Thursday noon. The first pro- gram will be broadcast on January | 4. 1 The Travelers station has twenty- Brazil, The eleventh concert of the Bal- kite Hour with and the New York Symphony Or-| chestra, to be broadcast on Saturday evening, January 1, at 8 o'clock, in- | stead of 9 o'clock the one controls in or near Hartford, | through WEAF, and a feature George Gersh- from which it is able to pick up|tions, will talk and music to present to its vast | win, famous American pianist, soloist of the evening. Mr. rosch has arranged American program for presentation | on New Year's Gershwin will play his famous “Con- D certo in F,” accompanied New York Symphony Orchestra. |p. For one-half hour, beginning at | on Tuesday audience. The station’s remote con- | trol at Yale University some forty | miles. from Hartford is one of the most elaborate and up to date cnn-i trols operated by any station. From this point material for broadcasting New Haven and relayed to Hartford. 01d Time Dance Tunes Old time dance music will be heard over the air from WBAL, Paltimore, on New Year's Eve, Dance tunes—waltzes and fox nappiest sort of dance music in the days before {he Charleston came | info popular gaver will feature this | New Year's ve program wirich will be broadcast by the WBAL Dance Orchestra, John Lederer, con- ductor, from 11:30 to 12:30 o'clock, stern Standard Time. Those who dial WBAL at that period will hear out of their loud speakers a dance program that will include “Margie,” “The Love * “Three O'clock in the Mornin “Linger Awhile,” “Whispering,¥ “I'm Forever Blow- ing Bubbles,” “Mammy” and others that were highly popular several asons ago. Jack Little at WOO | k Little—and who has ard of the famous radio en- tertainer—arrives In Davenport on the Monday following Christmas, 2nd will be heard from station WOC during that week, with a bagful of | new song h Wanted: Jeeland Announcer When KDKA, Pittsburgh, resumes | s special program for the Tar, North dwellers on Christmas night, | there will be a shortage of an- | r.ounct i The gram will he me. But none of KDF s staff speaks Teclandic, and none of the Pitts- | hurgh colleges offer a course in the | mother tongue of Norsemen. With the aid of a phonetic guide, mayhap Swedish-Norwegian Danish speaking announcer can be | found, whose rendering of Iceland- | ic will be intelligible to the natives. WEAF News Notes Weber and Fields, noted dians, who will be remembered as participants in the four-hour pro- | gram which inaugurated the Nation- al Broadcasting Company heard on Monda November 15, together with | Van and Sx‘hm‘k‘ will participate on - Tuesday night | | | | ture of the Christmas pro- | ages in Icelandic. | next, in WEAF's program, begin- ning at 9 o'clock. “Shipwrecked At Night On an | Tsland of Ice,” will be the title of a talk packed full of the dramatic, | to be delivered before WEAF microphone hy the famous explor- er, Anthony Fiala, on Thursday eve- | ning, December 30th, at 6:45 o'clock. | G G O S S I R R R R R R R CHRISTMAS GREETINGS From VOLZ, The Florist MAIN g come- | 7:30 o'clock, December 28, WEAF will broadeast | a presentation of the events cerning the Emancipation mation of Abraham Linceln, is one of the most important histor- | College at the Hotel Plasa, ‘Walter Evening. the Arctic and in the jungles of |of American history. The radio pro- | gram is one of the serieg known as Damrosch | WGY, Schenectady, ing Company’s WEAF as the ning New Y 1927. 'The from WEAR sual hour, | ain of sta- s Day, programs as| Dam- a special all- | tioned below WG George | sdays: 9:00 to 10 m. , 9:00 to 10:00, m. Thursda midnight. Irida evening, | 10:30 to 11:30 p. m. to 11:00 p. m by the con- Procla- which | gl8e and Wednesdaya: 10:30 to 11:80 11:00 p. 30 . Saturdays: “Great Moments in History."” WGY Joins Chain will become a member of the National Broadcast- Red Network, with key" station, begin- January 1, emanating 10:30 to 7:30 to m. to to 9:30, 8:00 Williams College Concert The concert to he presented by the musical clubs of Wi station, heginning at 10:30. lust year, during the following | p hours throughout the evenings men- 3 will be broadeast by | friends of his experiences in land and to bring them a me for the ¢ Andy Donaldson will be carried | e out in precisely were the him to the studio and will exercise her wiles in getting the old man to Vear's stos Century The be pla ved 1gh WGBS, ers, New York, begin- at $:30. The music for the out from the Gimbel New York Old Man Donaldson these And Old Man Donaldson, who was a at favorite with WJZ's audienc will return to the micr '" Orkm]h Thurs to tell hi aptatior radio pres the Silent regular W, New Year. This broadeast| on {1 mber 3 will p peci will, vounger ge lights on q the s as former broadeasts by this pected adventurer. His hter Joan will accompany Iy his experiences. He brings to | been arrar lio audience a special New a the plot which is laid rs in in Scotland during the Eighteenth|1800. part of Andy the ated in the preg New Year's Fye, : evening of nt a program of appeal es- of cours mental Beginning with the crowds on New Year's Eve waiting for the chimes of the Old Trinity chureh, the program will carry the radio audience through the next day, as celebrated in the good old days. The old custom of New Year's calls will vy Donaldson stories \vuh‘l be faithfully portrayed with many La Prade, who also| of the musical selections current with ( Davis in the | during that festive season. of screen scenarios for | Yalie OF ‘( orbin Screw Corp. Girls Sie “mettrl T provide Seven Dinners 1900 | The Corbin Serew Corp. Office T et A Girls' club is donating the usual o'clock, W Christmas dinners and through its | helpful cooperation seven needy | families will find Christmas Day & ppy one. onaldson will | . Davis, who | in former | as collabor- | aring and writing of | entation in t¥ Drama” % serics, De- at §:00 AT Yorkers. This to the [ha nerat h its side quaint and forgotten th Carolina taxes gasoline five York. The program has cents a gallon, Lesides taxing soft nged by to | drinks, smoking and chewing tobac- ¢ | co, theater admissions, ammunition, v, and promisory notes. cus- To the right is sketch- ed the Cherry and Chintz furnished liv- ing room exhibited in the Connecticut Build- ing at the Sesquicen- tennial. sketch of the exterior of the building which was a miniature repro- duction State House at Hart- ford. Below is a of the old THE PIECES ON SALE Pair §-3 Colonial Cherry Beds .. ¢ Chairs, fiddle e each §t 1 Cherry Chest of 1 1 Cherry Dressing Table 1 Rush Seat Cherry De 1 Cherry Night Stand . Pair 3-3 Hair Upholst vers . nch ‘air 3-3 Hair U 1\)\01&1-"" d Inne Mattresses o 1 Cherry Ladder Back Chair 1 Cherry Tressle Table, 1 Chippendale So Pair Silhoucttes . 1 Oval Top Spoon Foot Chintz l'v»'hmu..ml Chair 2 Painted Wall Rack . Table Lamp v Hammered Steel Bridge Lam \‘My;-pv-\nf:»l‘- Sofa in Georgian \\‘nz Chair in Georgian Velvet Martha Washington Chair Denim £ Wood Seat Windsor Arm Chair ecach § Wood Seat \\md\m Side Chairs cach 8§35, from the Connecticut Building at the Sesquicentennial On Exhibit and Sale December 27-31 0 ca Historic ravan from the Orient was ev quarters than the big van that br ings of the Connecticut Building at P bration. Letters and phone calls ask prices and when they would go on sa announced some Many wished to 1 ime ago that we wou serve certain piece in order to give everyone an equal op His The furniture used in the Connect frqm our stock with especial thought versary. I)e(‘m"ltin;z De were | the fine old wing ¢ It was taken to Philadelphi »artment. Both the f later especic lly commended by D Sesaui Exposition. In the Main Hall we placed Chip hairs and Martha Was Hartford Saxony rugs in good copies could he occup state officials. wood arm ma other chairs of in cherry with edroom in ol Y distinouished vi are.of unusuel historic value, Then came the task of furnishin ied by the Governor o The living room was le sofa, upholstered i the pm'iod of 1776. Th twin heds, old fashion pine. This suite of rooms and these pi itors to the Conn In our Pieces er more eagerly awaited in certain ought back to Manchester the furnish- hiladelphia’s Sesquicentennial Cele- ing about these historic pieces, their e, have kept us busy ever since we d bring these things to Connecticut. s but, of course, we have had to refuse hortunity. tory icut Building was carefully selected o its appropriateness and the anni- a and arranged in the building by our urnishings and their arrangement r. Wilson, Acting Director General of sendale sofas, good reproductions of hington chairs, together with some of oriental designs. ¢ the living quarters so that they f the state and his family, and other urnished with a quaint old fashioned n glazed chintz, a big wing chair, and e Governor's bedroom was furnished ed chest of drawers, ete.; the other eces were actually used, as planned, ecticut Building and in consequence opinion, their value will increase with 4-6 Colonial Pine Bed I Pine Chest of Draw Pine Mirror with blue Glazed Chintz Upholster Ghalr Ladderback Finish i 46 Hair Uphols 4-8 Hair Mattress 3 Kenwood Wool Blanke Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet and blue, Hoosier \\H\rl\m and blue, Candlewlek Bed Spreads (2 3-3 1 4-6) > fx9 Hartford the vears. W tennial in 187 How to dispose o een our problem. T bo has not seen or heard of some piece secured at the Cen- 7 Owners of such pieces still prize them highly. such potential heirlooms in an equitable way has his is what we have decided to do. We greet you this Christ- mas Eve \vlth the song the shepherds sang “Peace On Farth, Good Will Among Men.” Nothing that we might say could convey the real Christmas spirit as well. We also hope you will have ‘a happy time with your loved ones and that there will be presents and pudding more than enough to go 'round. cor Toudair rush seat chair, Pine Ixhibit and Sale Begin Monday Morning The entire furnishings have been set up in the suite of rooms on our third floor as nearly as possible as they appeared in Philadelphia and, so ar as we can see, show little if any wear. Each piece has becn marked at a very attractive price, roughly about one-half of what it would bring in our regular stock. The Exhibit will be open and the pieces sold, ing, December 27th, at nine o’clock. Needless to say there are no duplicates excepting when pieces were used in pairs at the e exposition, so those who come first will have the advan- tage of the largest selection to choose from. WATKINS BROTHERS, Inc. SO. MANCHESTER, CONN. red Chairs, oak cach 1, i cach ired rach § Axmin each gray Rugs, beginning Monday morn- ) Tartford ster Rugs, in plain taupe.. ® Rattan Couches .