New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1926, Page 5

OPEN HOUSE AT ‘¥ ONNEW YEAR'S DAY! | tion of & health center in Jerusalem, | Special Programs With All De- partients in Full Blast On New Year's Day the Y. AL C. A. will have an open house. Both the scnior and junior departanents will be opened the entire day Spe- clal programs are being armnged. In the afternoon there will be & bowling touurnament for men of the senior department and their friends. Boys' Frolic In the morning the gymmasium will be given over to u froli for the boys. A large program of games and stunts has been arranged by the physical department. Basketball At Night In the cvening there will be & Strauss Gives Quarter Of Million Dollars | New York, Dec. 27 (P) — An-| nouncement of the donation of $250,- 000 by Nathan Straus for the crea- was made today by Mrs. Irma L. Limhetm, national president, at the third amnual conference of Hadassah, |ithe Women's Zionist organization of » America. One of the features of the health center, the first of its kind in the Ncar East, will be a milk pasteuriz- ing plant such as Mr. Straus estab- lisked and maintained in this city fo' many years. (OPENING JAN. 17 OF ~ WAR SHAFT BIDS Gommittee to Consider Contract on That Date basketball gama between the Hart- | ford Rubber Works, leading team Dl{ the Hartford Industrial league, an the local “Y” team. Some tumbling acts will be put on before the game. Dusty Leaguc Basketball Tomorrow cvening there will be two games of basketball between teams of the Dusty league. The first game between New Dritain Machine | and Corbin Screw; the &econd be- tween P. & 1. Corbins and Russell & Erwin, There will be dancing after the games. Bible Class Rev. William H. Alderson will speak at the weekly meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Bible class on Thursday evening. His subject will be “The Social Evil.” Program For the Week Monday—The bowling alleys Wil be reserved from 7:30 p. m. on for the DeMolay. The Daniel Boone Pioneer club will meet in the boys' department at 7:30 p. m. The phy- sical department will conduct the following classes; junior class “A” 4:15 p. m.; younger business men's class at 5:15 p. m.; intermediate | “I” pillar, Martha Attwood, metro- | Herbert E. Erwin and Mrs. Erwin, class 7 p. m.; senior clas 8:15 p. m. classes for beginner in fencing and | be onfined to her bed for several | Mr. and Mrs. James B. Thomson on boxing at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday—Girls' basketball com- mittee meeting at § p. m. The edu- cational class in public speaking will | foired a ligament has been_torn. | Theotlore A. Greene, pastor of the meet at 7:45 p. m. The friendly In- dian club will meet in the boys’ de- | partment at 4:30 p. m. The em- ployed boys' brotherhood will meet in the boys' department at 7:30 p. m., after the meeting they will use the bowling alleys. The physical de- partment will conduct the following classcs: morning clase at 9:30 a. mJ; junior “B” class at 4:15 p. m older business men’s class at 5:15 m.; employed “B” class at 6:30 ¥p. m. The gym will be used from 8§ p. m. on by the Industrial Basket- ball league. Wednesday—There will be a com- mittee meeting to promote the In- dustrial Girls' Bowling league at b p. m. The physical department will conduct the following classes; church group * : unger busi . m.; inter- life saving ness men's mediate ¢ —Red Cross and Y. M, & .\.4‘ The Y. M. C. A. Bible elass will meet at 6:30 p. m.; there Wwill be a meeting of Boy Scouts at 7 p. m. DBefore the meeting they will have a supper in camjunction with the Bible class. The following classes will be conducted by the physical department; church group “B" class 4:15 p. m.; older busi- ness men's class 5:15 p. m.; em- ployed boys' class 7 p. m. Friday—The physical department will conduct the following classes: junfor “A” class 4:15 p. m.; younger business men's cl 5 p.-m.; em- ployed boys' class “B” at 7 p. m.; senior class 8:30 p. m. Saturday — Open house. Boys’ frolic on gymnasium in the morn- ing. Bowling tournament in the| afternoon. p. m. Dean Swan Has Not Yet Resigned From Yale New Haven, Dec. 27 (A—Although Dean Thomas W, Swan of Yale law achool has been confirmed as a Basketball game at § Judge of the United States circuit | court, for the second district he has not yet notified the university offi- cers as to probable date of his resig- nation as dean. A committee has been made by the corporation to meet the situation which will devel- op with a vacancy in the office and & task before it will be the recom- mendation of a possible successor of the dean. Used by Moonshiners Steubenville, Ohio, Deec. 27 (B)— FEnterprising moonshiners converted dressing-rooms at the high school football field into an elaborate dis- tillery until surprised by a police raid today. They found a 50 gallon still in operation as well as much finished | product. The dressing-rooms had been locked up at the close of tha gridiron season but the distillers had broken into the place through a win- | dow and operated it for five weeks, unmolested. 3 Discouraged? Skin still rough, pimply, clogged, after trying so many remedies? Then begin today to use Resinol Ointment. You won't have to wait to know that it is healing your trouble. The first application usually stops all smarting and itching and makes the skin look healthier. Its continued use for a rea- sonable time rarely fails to clear away the disorder entirely. Free May we send you a free smaple each of Resinol Soap and Ointment? Write Dept. 60, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. Bid for construdtfon of the World War memorial shaft in Walnut Hill park will be received by the com- | mittee up to nogn, January 17, Sec- retary Joseph G Andrews announc | ed today. The Dids will be opened at that hour ankl, if found advisable, contracts will ‘be entered into. Copies of the plans and specifica- tions may be, had by contragtors at | the office of ®he park department or at the New 'York offices of H. Van | Buren Magggnigle, architect. | Estimates on the cost of the shaft | vary betwhen $120,000 and $140,000. | The city Mas appropriated $165,000 | which intludes cstimates for con- struction,/ grading, architect's fee and estaflishment of a fund for the care ot %he monument. Martha Attwood, Opera { Singer, Is Injured New® York, Dec. 17 (#) — Injured when a taxicab in which she was retuying with friends from a Chrifmas party ;rashr}d into an polBan Opero Company singer, will i days. | MMiss Attwood suffered a painful |infury to her left arm, and it is |/ In the cab with ith Miss Attwood ras Allessandro Alberini of the 'Boston Opera company, who suf- jfered a twisted knee, and others | Awho were uninjured. sPawtucket Firemen Have | Two Bad Fires at Once Pawtucket, R. I, Dec. 27 (P — All available fire apparatus was | called out this morning to fight | simultancous fires in separated dis- |tricts. Tn a downtown blaze the building and contents of the Crown | Confectionery company were de- royed with §20,000 loss, and two adjoining buildings damaged to an | undetermined extent by smoke and | water. A fire which swept a two family | | cottage in the residential district drove two families into the strect. The weather was biting codd. ' Maine Central Rai.l;oad Reports a Good Surplus {spite a loss of four per cent in passcnger rtevenue, as compared {with the same month last, year, the | Maine Central railroad today re- | ported a surplus after charges for | November of $180,360. This was 1$28,595 greater than for the pre- | vious November, brénging the total |surplus for the 11 ‘months of 1926 {10 $1,207,464. This amount exceeds by nearly $165,000 -the surplus for {the same period in 19 |Robbers Take $800 From | Collector and Auto Also | New York, Dec. 27 ) — Two | robbers, one a Negro, followed an Atlantic and Pacific Tea company | collector into an A. and P. store in {Second avenue today, took 00 [from him, emptied the cash regis- {ter and pockets of two clerks af {3200 more, padlocked the fromt door and escaped in the collector® | automobile. SCIF New Haven, Conn., Dec. 27 (A1— A year ago the scientists at Yale for | the most part played the part. of | hosts of other scientists here for the | annual conventions of many sewen< | tific bodies in which many of the Yale scientists are in Philadelphia where the conventions are ‘being held. | | ON DANCE COMMITTEL Thomas J. McCabe of thix city, a | member of the freshman glass at | Catholic university and a msember of the class football team, hems been | sclected as a member of the comit- | tee in charge of the annuaj Christ- mas dance which is to ba held at Hartford club Wednesday evening. The affair is sponsored by the Con- necticut club of Catholic university. 'LINER BADLY BAYTTERED Cherbourg, France, Det. 37.—(@)— With several hatchways crushed and | iron ladders twisted by heavy seas, the British Steamship MMnectonka, which lett New York ,December 18, for Cherbourg and Lendon, arrived | off here tcday. The Mimnetonka was | a day late because of a heavy storm encountered at sea, CHICKEN HAWK KILLED Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 27 () — A huge chicken hawk, which has been preying on pigeors in the down- town section of the city for several days, was shot ‘today hy Frank Guenther, chief gmard at the coun- ty jail. The bird *was roosting in a pigeon cote on the jail tower. The {hawk had a weng spread of four feet. DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL Bridgeport, Conn.,, Dec. 27 (A— Mollie Flahergy, 20, of this city was fatally injured on December 20, in an accidental ‘manner, Coroner John J. Phelan geclared today. Miss Flaherty was struck by an automo- | bile operated@ by Milton W. Macau- lay. She regeived a fractured skull |and died two days later at the hos- ) pital. &n Portland, Me., Dec. 27 ) — De- | | notable discoveries of the yeamtars | made known. This year most & the | N W bBhidiala Dodld NEW LOADER USED T0 GART OFF SNOW (Speeds Up Work of Clearing Streets, City Finds | Foremen of the department of | publie works expected by nightfall |today to have completed the work {of snow removal after three days and two nights of work which will |result in an overdraft of approxi- mately $1,000 in the snow remova} |fund. The absence of money specifically appropriated for thii work will not | necessary cause a departmental def- icit since transfers from other ac- |counts wil be permissible within 60 |days ot the close of the fiscal year. The storm was almost as great as that of two weeks ago. Beginning |with a fall of sleet at 1 o'clock Sat- |urday morning, it turned to snow |later and continued almost uninter- (ruptedly until Sunday afternoon. |8Six' plows were put to work Satur- The clty has also engaged a load- |ing machine owned by Arthur H. (Harris and use of this contrivance |has greatly speeded up the work of clearing snow from plowed streets. Streets leading from fire stations, two entrances to the New Britain General hospital, and bus routes \were given fire preferences with the |more extensively used arteries of |traffic next and thelr tributaries [lastly. \MISS ERWIN BECOMES . BRIDE OF MR. THOMSON Daughter of Postmaster to Wed Sanford K. Thomson at House | Ceremony This Afternoon. I The wedding of Miss Gertrude { Erwin, daughter of Postmaster |and Sanford K. 'Thomson, son of Forest street, will take place this | {atternoon at 4 o'clock at the Erwin | residence on Forest street. ev. | First Congregational church, will officiate. Mrs. Bdward Hall Christ will be matron of honor, and the brides- | maids will be Mrs. Robert Silsby of | Berlin, Mrs. Robert Johnston nrk | Schenectady, N. Y., and Miss Geor- | gia Thomson, a sister of the groom. | With the exception of Miss Thom- son, the attendants were classmates of the bride at the Beechwood school in Jenkintown, Pa. Edwara Hall Christ will be best man, and the ushers' will be Henry Wheeler and Robert Silsby. Mr. Thomson was graduated from Princeton universlty in 1922, The couple will make their home in Newark, N. J., following a wed- | ding trip. British Fox Hunters Have Two Bad Blows | London, Dee. 27 (A—Huntsmen seeking the elusive fox have been ! | dealt two severe blows, by a court ruling and an incident in the fleld. Members of the Cheshire hunt were held up by Thomas Vaughan, owner of Fullyhurst Ilarm, near | Nantwich, who refused to allow the | hunt to procced on his property and | challenged any member of the field |to fight him. Hot words followed, | but there was no fight and no more | hunting. This is a rare occurrence in England, where fox hunting has been carried on for centurles without |interference by the farmers. | 1In the court case an Injunction {was issued restraining Henry W. Selby-Lowndes, master of the East | Kent hunt, his huntsmen, whippers in and other servants from riding or {hunting over the Wadden Hall |Farm. The complainant contended |that despite warnings the hunters had ridden over his land repeatedly, breaking down gates and frighten- |Ing the pedigreed cattle. England and America Exchange Theater Ideas London, Dec. 27.—The American theater is being anglicized just as |much as the British theater is be- | coming Americanized. Giving this | assurance in an address Ian Hay, {novelist and playwright, also assert- |ed that “actors and actresses in America are crying out for a censor { who would save them from some of [the parts they lay, and from the lines put into their mouths.” “We have comparatively few emo- tional actors,” he continued, “be- | cause we are not an emotional peo- | ple as for English and American | actresses, I can only say that at the top of the three in either country will be found about the same degree of beauty, talent and excellence. “Two things can be said about the i American actresses, first, there is an inexhaustible supply of them, and secondly, they mature at a much | younger age than ours do.” Germany’s Population Showing an Increase Berlin, Dec. 27 (A—Germany's | population is increasing through a |decrcase in the death rate despite a big drop in the birth rate, Figures from the Prussian statisti- cal bureau show that the German | | birth rate 50 years ago was 52.6 per | | thousand, as against only 21.3 today. | {On the other hand the death rate, | |due to improved sanitation and the |growth of medical knowledge, has | dropped from 26 per thousand to 12.6. Despite her enormous loss of life |in the World war, the bureau says, Germany now has a greater number | of workers than in 1914, ROBBERS GET $650 Providence, R. I, Dee. 27 (@) — Yeggmen early today drilled a hole | and ripped off the door of a safe | in the drug store of Caesar Ro- mano, 267 Atwells avenue, and se- cured more than $650 for their trouble. The loot represented three days' receipts of the store. This is the third safe break reported to the local police within a week. | | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Raphael’s Department Store AGAIN ANNOUNCES TheBiggestSalein Qur History AN IMPORTANT AFTER CHRISTMAS SALE TURN YOUR THOUGHTS FROM GIFT BUYING TO PERSONAL AND HOME NEEDS Oft Everything in Our Big Store FOR 5 DAYS ONLY $100,000 Dollars Worth of New Smart and Clean Merchandise at 20% Off the Original Low Prices CHARTS THROUGHOUT THE STORE WILL SHOW YOU JUST HOW TO FIGURE OUT THE 20% DISCOUNT. A STORE IJKE QURS THAT SEL'S FOR CASH ONLY, CAN AFFORD TO MAKE SUCH A DRASTIC MARK-DOWN. 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