New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 3

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MARKLE PLANNING BENEFIT SCHEMES Plans Foundation to Promote| Maoy Worthy Ends New York, Ieb. 4 (P—Legislative plans for the establishment of the John and Mary R. Markle Founda- tion today were viewed as another | step In completion of the Markle philisiphy that surplus wealth is a public trust. | Production of the “advancement | and diffussion of knowledge among the people of the United States” and ‘the general good of mankind” are| given as objects of the proposal in a bill providing for the establishment of the foundation, introduced in the| ure at Albany vesterday. . Plerpont Morgan, Junius S. rgan, Jr., Morgan J. O'Brien, | his wife's love for vard Prosser and Edward M. Rob- | inson are among the incorporators. All are millionaires. The exact purposes of the founda- | tion and its ultimate resources are not revealed in the bid, and Assem- blyman John P. Nugent, who. intro- | duced it, said he knew no more of | the foundation than the information contained in the bill. | The bill authorizes the foundation | “to receive and maintain funds, to ald schools and colleges, to advance | scientific research; to provide shel- | ter, the necessities of life, financial | ard medical assistance for those| destitute and in want, and to pro- | vide hospitals in New York state, | the United States and torelgni countries.” S The foundation is the latest of several immportant phinanthropic movements by the family of the mil- lionaire coal operator. Mr. Markle began his career by assuming full charge of his father's business in the northeastern Pennsylvania sn!hra—: cite fields. | Mr. Markle ended a $100,000 drive | Albany for a dormitory for home- s men, by donating the $100,000 at | luncheon opening the campalgn| ¢ November. A library at Hazle- | Pa., stands as a memorial to his at His philanthrople work is in ac-| cordance with his previously ex-| ssed view that wealth, beyond el n's necessary living expenses, | ould be regarded as a trust andf applied to the benefit of mankind. Mr. Markle began to retire last| mber, ending 50 years of acu\-‘} . He disposed of his majority| ckholdings in the Jeddo Highland | Coal company and the Jeddo Supply | ;ompany for $5,255,000 in bonds. His fortune was estimated at several times that figure, T S | Hopes to Discover | New Lands to North Detroit, Feb. 4.—A— An Amer- fean flag with which Captain George H. Wilkins will claim for the United | Sates any land he may find in his tion into the “Arctic blind | " was presented to the flyer last | ht at a farewell reception given | the Detroit aviation soclety. Wil- will leave Detroit Saturday for Alaska to make preparations for the | flight this spring. You have a Radio with six exclusive developments that provide unusually superior reception Selectivity Wide Range Easy Tuning Volume Tone Quality | Wesleyan. VICTROLAS By The Associated Press. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927. FLASHES OF LIFE: LOVE TEST IS 5 SUCCESSFUL, DIVORCE CASE ENDS | Peace Hunt is of the opinion that | New York—There's been a happy | March Bertram deserved it. H. T. ending to a test by Richard L. Lan- | ning wealthy real estate operator, of | him. Sued for | separation he averred that he sin- cerely and truly loved and adored his | | wife and that after a dispute over | thelr apartment he had left her as a test. Now the sult has been drop- ped and they are leaving for Ber- | muda. Mrs. Lanning was a Russian | | countess. ‘ London—The new Lady Ashiey, | the former Sylvia Hawkes, of the | chorus, must get a new wedding | ring. At the ceremony the one Lord | | Ashley had provided was too small. { She had to carry it in her hand. Parker, high school principal, made Bertram remove his chewing gum. Bertram objected and was | punished. Then he quit school and prosecuted Parker for assault. New York — Mary Browne is to open a millinery shop in Cleve- | nd with the $20.000 she made | barnstorming with Suzanne, Jerusalem — Sclentists are make an investigation of the ture and origin of Manna. Hartford—Doubling width of road between New Haven and York, most important part of high- | way department’s task, says report New York—There is more real | good and wisdom in-a paragraph of | Will Rogers than in a whole volume of the Congressional Record, in the opinton of Charles Milton Newcomb, | who used to teach oratory at Ohio Ormond Beach, Fla.—Holding an | umbrella to protect John D. Rocke- feller from the sun on the links Will Rogers had the nerve to ask whether the price of gasoline went up every | time he lost a golf match. | Denver—Motorists are having a fine time because of newspaper com- petition in giving away gasoline. The latest offer is four gallons of gas | for each want ad costing as little as | 25 cents. { New York—There's a new Amer- | ican record for the price of a work | of art. Rembrandt's portrait of his | son Titus has been bought for $270,- | 000 from the collection of the late C. C. Stillman by Sir Joseph Duveen who sold the picture a few years ago for $105,000. The highest pre- | vious price at an auction in this country was $137,000. Denver — Every nation in Eu- | rope with the possible exception of | Spain wants to thrash the hide off | Uncle Sam, in the opinion of Gen- | eral Peyton C. March. Spain tried it once. = New York — Dr. Harry Emer- | son Fosdick thinks he has married | “the best girl in America.” He so | referred to his association with the | Park Avenue Baptist church at a dinner of John D. Rockefeller's Bible class. | Hopkinsville, Ky. — A male charmer has won a strike agalnst feminine wiles. An eight year old played hookie because teacher | made him sit with girls and they | wrote him notes all the time. His | seat is to be changed. | | Glasgow — Girls at Glasgow | university wish to shuffle off the mortar board hats worn with | academic gowns. They would adopt the beret, which they think is just | the Scot tammy with a French name, aylor, Mo. — It is tough for a | fellow to be slapped right in front | 10{ his best girl, but Justice of the | of Commissioner McDonald recommends 100 foot rights-of- in future trunk lines. New Haven—Austin Eugens Pearl, 75, who, although a democrat in a republican town has held every town office but clerk, dies ‘Willimantic—Hote! Corporatio sues men alleged to have subscribed toward erection costs and not paid for stock. Danbury—Original Union Lodge, Masonic, grand lodge of state by to be returned to lodge. charter antedating of Bristol—Fifteen hundred Red Men | meet in honor of Robert T. Crowe, Great Incohonee of United States. Bristol—Old Timers' Night turned |can do during by Elks into reception for Past| Exalted Ruler James L. Murray, | who is given $700 purse on first ap- | pearance since injury over two years ago. Fartford—Prociamation designa- ting February 15 as “Maine Me- morial Day” lssued by Gov. Trum- bull. | | all he| sessions | Gov. | Hartford—Governor has legislative without making speeches, | Trumbull eays. Middletown—300 cdme to town to juntor young women participate week-end Marine Base Growth Washington, Feb. 4 (®—Uncle Sam has a warm spot in his h largest marine Dbase, co, Va.,, and hopes to see fit and prosper. approval of the navy de Representative Coyle, of d congress to it 5,000 to improve increase the facili- ti at th : one regimental group of s, $850,000; three store- $225,000; commissary, bak- cold storage and ice plant, )0; diseiplinary barrac! motor transport storehouse an repair shop, $100,000; power hous 0; apartmer 0,000; and im s and distrib 0. . ery, Strictly $1.00. Rus pring Is Near We are showing in our window some of the advance styles that will be worn this Spring. Besides, we have all the newer shades in hosiery to match these shoes. The W. G. 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