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NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921, WhySilkwormsWork Better WhenTheyjre Dru ) used by those who want the prohibition law modified. The professor says that only an infinitesimal portion must be fed to the silkworms, otherwise they will be- come quite blotto, 50 to speak, and arrive at no good end; but by doling out the stuff judicially he has caused his silk- worms to eat 60 per cent fewer mul- berry leaves than sober silkworms. Silkworms never have gone in for a varied diet. They will eat mulberry leaves, or they will eat nothing at all, but will sicken and die. And the cost of the silk depends largely on the cost of labor and material required by Japa- nese, Chinese and South European farm- ers in producing mulberry trees. Cablegrams from Tokio do not say just how the professor accounts for the loss of appetite after partaking of the sake, and the silk producers of Japan are not asking any questions along that line. All they want to be assured of is that his findings are correct before they start making topers out of their silk- worms. Incidentally, the most solemn of prohibitionists need not be uneasy LOYE SHIP AGAIN STRANDS After Two Trips to Altar tn Mexico Wife Wants Second Wedding Declared Null. The story of a Connecticut couple who received divorces in Mexico, and after living under the spell of single blessodness for a time, met each othe? and were re-married in Mexico, and who -are now seeking to break their marriage vows in their native state, will be brought out at a suit in Superior court in Septem- ber. Ella Pgrsons Korfmann, the wife and plaintift, is asking for nullifica- tion of the marriage contract, through Attorney Thomas F. Mc- Donough of this city against Paul Korfmann ot Hartford. Mrs. Korf- mann is a resident of Hartferd but is a native and former resident of this city. The plaintiff claims the defendant withheld certain facts and &s a sult the marriage contract was fraddulently entered upon. In addi« tion to nullification of the marriage the plaintiff seeks the right to re- sume her maiden name. Royal Arcanums Meet For Golden Jubilee Beattle, Wash,, July 27 (UP)— EXGELLENT GHANGE FOR NAVAL PARLEY (Continued From First Page) in his mind. The Japanese pro- fessor merely says that' the silkworm' eats less mnder the stimulus of aleohol He does not say what eventually happens to the silkworm, bgt it may be disclosed right heré that the un- fortunate worm’ digs in short order. The life of a silkworm is brief at best, so it ni(ln as well be merry. Silkworms are grown from egg sheets 15 by 26 inches in size, and in the sixteen or seven- teen days between hatching and spinning, the 225,000 worms from a single sheet will reqyire about a ton and a half of mulberry leaves. In parts of Japan, and in South China, the growing of mulberry trees and the picking of the leaves conmstitutes the main and, in fact, the only industry. In South China, trees are forced to yield seven, eight and nine crops in a year, and each crop means another gen- eration of silkworms. Whole families move out to mud houses in the mulberry LITTLE rice wine, now and then, A_ is relished by the best of silk- worms, a Japanese scientist of ungquestioned probity has just informed the world. What is more important, the wine makes them fat and vigorous and full of ambition, keeps them contented with their lot in life, and reduces their ap- petites so that wine-bibing silkworms eat fewer mulberry leaves than silk- worms that are total abstainers. And what is most important of all, to the girl who wears silk stockings or what- not, the fewer mulberry leaves a silk- worm eats, the more economically he produces the silk which is his reason for being, and the cheaper the finished pro- duct should be. The learned Jap has been experiment- ing with alcohol and silkworms for ten years, and his findings are regarded as of great importance in his native land and in other silk-producing countries. The rice wine, or sake, Japan’s na- tional drink, is not particularly a “light” wine in the sense in which the phrase is pan vonld be authorized to build, but that the conference would ad- journ consideration of the tonnage of other types of cruisers. This would mean, say American circles, that no total tonnage agree- ment would be reachedon cruisers, but merely upon those auxiliary warships—submarines and destroy- ers—in which the United States just now possesses superiority. It is regarded as doubtful whether the American delegation would accept such a proposal, chiefly because it is felt that it would tie the hands of the United States in the con- struction of 10,000-ton crulsers. Bridgeman’s Statement London, July 27 (® — W. C. Bridgeman, fire lord of the British admiralty, and Viscount Cecil, left for Geneva this morning to partici- pate in a resumption of the naval conference there. They had been in London a week, having come from Silkworms feed- ing on mulberry leaves, patches during the season. Some farm- ~ the exclusive diet of which they ers have to take to boats to get out to eat much less when nlx'lldy pick their leaves, paddling through the drunk on sake, or Japanese rice narrow canals that separate the fields. wine i Geneva to place before the cabinet a report on the status of the naval parleys and to receive further in- structions for their continuance. Before entraining Mr. Bridge- man said: “We shall finish our work this time, one way or the other. We are going back after long discussions with the cabinet and I think the position is clear. The government thoroughly discussed the whole situation, and the position of Great Britain remains fundamentally un- changed. I can only say I have just as good hope for a settlement as when we came back.” Lord Cecil remarked: ways hopeful, but I read the po- sition as unquestionably critical.” The delegates are due in Geneva at 9 o'clock Thursday morning. DUCHESS GIVES UP in Bridgeport New Haven, Conn., July 27 (®— The Duchess of Torlina, who was| Elsie Moore, of Greenwich, today re- nounced her Itallan citizenship which came with her marridge and | was made an American citizen by | Federal Judge Edwin S. Thomas sit- ting in the district court. Nine other pergons were admitted citizenship at the same time. The duchess bggan an action for divorce | from the duke in 1926 and phases | of it are still pending in the *!up»rior court for Fairfield county. One of | the last contentions of the duke was that his wife may not sue him in an American court as she was an Ital- ian by citizenship. The duchess in her application for American citizenship said she left Italy on July 12, 1925, and ar- rived in New York on July 27, 1925. That there were domestic differences became known after the duchess was | on a visit to her mother, at Green- wich, Conn, in 1925. The action for divorce was in the court in Septem- ber last and is still there. RETURNING TO MOSCOW Peking, tremist natioralist faction at Han“ kow, will return to Moscow within a few days, consular advices from Hankow sald today. OAMOUFLAGE EXPERT DIES London, July 27 (UP)—Solomon J. Solomon, the artist who devised camouflage for the British army during the war, died today of hehrt | disease after a long illness. “I am al- to | July 27 (UP)—Michael | Borodin, Russian adviser to the ex- | DEFIES GUN, USES FIST ON GUNMAN \New York Cop Wields a Wicked Wallop New York, July 27.—Patrolman | John Zahn hurried into Moses May- | cr's pawnshop at 127 Eight avenue | last night to find Mark Appel, the clerk, with his hands stretched | !above his head and a young man| |facing him with a pistol. As the ' patrolman entered, the young man, | Peter Howard, 22 vears old, of 408 | West Eighteenth street, wheeled and | [TALIAN RIGHTS Bgain Assumes U. 8. Citizenship. | 8lared at Zahn. or I'll kill you,” he said. Zahn stood still. The young man’s pistol was pointed straight at him. Zahn stalled for time. When the pawnshop proprietor had told him of the trouble in the place he had said nothing about the intruder hav- ing a weapon. If Zahn had known | pistol drawn when he entered. Now it seemed too late. The pair eyed each other, the |young man tense with nervousness, | the patrolman eager for his chance. | Suddenly Zahn reached back for his | own pistol. He grabbed it and pull- ed. It caught in the holster. The young man's fingers moved | nervously. in the trigger of his weapon. Zahn did not pause. He swung his hand free from his hols- ter. He stepped forward. With How- | ara’s pistol still covering him, Zahn | scorned the danger and strode across |the floor. Before the young man | could do anything, Zahn delivered a | crashing blow that struck Howard the point of the jaw. Howard It was a clean jon tottered and fell. | knockout. Prisoner Quickly Revives Howard was revived in a few min- utes and was taken to the West Thirtieth street station where he was charged with felonious assault and attempted robbery. He kicked another patrolman in the shins while being questioned and more force was needed to subdue him. Michael Collins, the injured pa- {trolman, was kicked so badly Howard that an ambulance doctor | was called to treat him. As Howard | was being led away to a cell he turn- {ed toward Zahn, who was standing near by, and called out: ‘I'm only sorry I didn’t Rill you and make a clean getaway.” While this was going on detectives were receiving the story of Mayer, the pawnbroker, who said early in the neighborhood youth whom he knew for a number of years, had run into “I know you Zahn. Stick 'em up! of this he would have had his own | by | that | evening Howard, a | the shop and for no apparent rea- son had struck him a severe blow in the abdomen. When Howard de- parted, Mayer told Zahn, whose beat took in the pawnshop, which is near Sixteenth street. Mayer asked Zahn to be on the lookout for Howard. Gives Alarm to Policeman Mayer said that he was in the rear | of the shop not long after this when Howard returned with a fully loaded 1pmol #nd made the clerk throw up | his hands. Mayer slipped out a back | door, ran down the street and told Zahn, but neglected to mention the i pistol. It was then that Zahn got | |into action. i Howard's mother went to the po- | lice station later in the evening. Mrs. I Howard and her two daughters have lalways borne an excellent reputation in the neighborhood, and when the jdesk lieutenant told her of the charges against her son she almost | collapsed. “I guess he must have been drink- {ing,” she said of her son. “It looks that way,” said the lleu- tenant sympathetically. Identity of Would-Be Suicide Is Established Stamford, Conn. July 27.—The identity of Stamford’s mystery man has at last been solved. The |stranger Who put two bullets through his own head in a hotel here several days ago admitted to |the police today that he is Willlam C. Milligan of New York state. He said that he was selling house- hold goods from door to door and | had become despondent and deter- mined to end his life. Although still confined to the hos- pital, Milligan is out of danger and will live. Matilde Serao’s Body Now Lies in State Rome, July 27 (UP)—The body of Matilde Serao was transferred from the Serao hoeme to the church at Vittoria today, where it will lie in state. The body was followed by the dead woman's four sons, Paolo, Antonio, Carlo and Michele. Large numbers of the local popu- lation were in mourning, demon- strating the place the dead woman held in the popular mind. Signora Serao was an imposing figure throughout Italy. The Duchess of Aosta sent a message of condo- lence and Pietro Fedele, minister of public education, sent the following meseage: ‘“The death of Matilde Serao is a heavy loss to Italian literature to which she gave pages which will live forever.” Gabriele D’Annunzio also ‘tele- graphed a message of ec~ndoience to the sons of the dead writer Other messages were received from numerous prominent persons. FLIGHT POSTPONED Unfavorable Weather ’Prevents Blg Dirigible From Making Trip From New Jersey to Boston. Lakehurst, N. J., July 27 (®—The RS-1, semi-rigid army airship, was fueled today in preparation for a flight which Lieutenant Colonel John E. Paegelow, commander, said would take the vessel over Long Island. The alrship which is the largest in the army service, arrived here last night from Bolling field, Washing- ton, with a crew of 15 men and five passengers, When the RS-1 was berthed in the naval hangar three distinct types of airships were under one roof for the first time in the history of aviation in this country, according to officers. The giant dirigble Los Angeles, pride of the navy, and the J-8 non- rigid naval airship, rested near the army ship, Reports of unfavorable weather conditions along the New England coast caused Colonel Paegelow to call off a proposed flight to Boston today. Phil Ball Said Not Likely to Buy Club Milwaukee, Mis, July 27 (P)— Rumors that Phil Ball, owner of the St. Louis Browns, might purchase the Milwaukee American Associa- tion team were discredited today by Henry J. Killilea, Milwaukee attor- ney and adviser of Mrs. Otto Bor- chart, owner of the club since the death of her husband. “There is nothing to report,” Mr. Killilea said today. “Phil Ball has enough trouble with the club he nowhas, the Milwaukee club will not be sold to outside in- terests. When it is sold it will be to Milwaukeeans."” Coast Guardsman Saves Child From Drowning Hampton Beach, N. H., July 27 (P —Surfman Jeremiah Murphy of Lawrence, attached to the coast guard station here, today rescued Vernon Dennett, 9, from the ocean las the unconscious child was being carried out by a stong undertow. Murphy heard the screams of Mrs. Dennett who did not become aware of the danger until her son was already beyond the breakers. He be- gan stripping off his clothing as he raced down the beach and kicked off other clothes as he swam to the spot where h the boy had sunk. Mur- phy dived, found the boy and won | his way back to the beach where others of the coast guard crew re- ‘S\lsl‘ltaled the child. ‘{RIZAD THE HERALD CLASSIFIED Newest Shoc ] - NN AN N BOLTS START FIRES- IN FURIOUS STORM (Continued from First Page) Edward Kiely finally ~stralghtened out the tangle and made room for Deputy Chief Eugene F. Barnes to proceed, Stanley Quarter Barn Destroyed John Beharrel, aged about 21, was treated at New Britain General hos- pital early this afternoon for a pain- ful cut on the right hand, sufféred while fighting a fire that destroyed a barn filled with hay at the Maple- croft Farm in Stanley Quarter. Lightning struck the barn and it burst into flames which the pelting rain could not extinguish and at 12:54 o'clock Co. No. 7 of the fire department was called. Attaching the pumper to a well on the premises, the firemen pumped water onto adjacent buildings and saved them. The well was pumped dry in the process, but the purpose was accomplished. The barn and ‘its contents were totally destroyed. Thomas 8. McMahon ' formerly owned the farm. Attorney P. F. Mc- Donough is the present owner. Bristol Feels Storm’s Full Fury (Special to the Herald) Bristol, July 27—Bolts of light- ning, peals of thunder and a cloud- burst terrorized Bristol shortly after noon tdday in what was declared to be the worst storm in this city in many years. After a sultry morning, the storm broke with fury about 12:10 o'clock this afternoon. Lightning forked its way out of the clouds and the pop- ulation was stricken with awe. The sky became inky black, relieved only by the orange colored bolts which sprinkled down in different parts of the city. 3 Pedestrians were forced to flee. Streets were quickly deserted. The Meadow street section was flooded watr standing 18 inches dep in front front of the Central fire station. The few pedestrians were forced to re- main out found it impossible to proceed along North Main street farther than North Meadow street because of the deluge. Streams of water churned down School, Main and North Main streets. A barn on Wolcott street owned by Frank H. Woods was hit by a bolt of lightning and burned to the ground. Squad A and Engine Co. No. 1 responded to a telephone call for help. The loss is estimated at $1,500. Trees in front of the Eagle meat market on Stafford avenue, the Josolowitz property on Main street, on Bellevue avenue, King street and Broad street, near Emmett street, hven Twins were felled. - Whether they were toppled over by the gale or were hit Ly lightning is not known. A large tree in front of Joseph Terrien's place on North street was stripped of its bark by the lightning. The North creek, which flows from the northern section of the city and empties into the Pequabuck river, raged over its banks at sev- cral places. Electric lights were out of com- mission for about 16 minutes and approximately 200 telephones were rendered useless. Experimental Seadrome Plans Are Completed Philadelphia, Pa., July 27 (UP)— A step forward in transatlantic fly- ing was accomplished when plans were completed for the first experi- mental seadrome, it was announced here today. The Armstrong Seadrome Devel- opment Company, headed by Ed- ward G. Armstrong, chief research engineer for the Pupont De Nemours Company of Wilmington, Del., have called for bids on the new structure which will be anchored 550 mile: at sea, where the ocean is three miles deep. The drome will be 250 feet square and will contain quarters for observers, meteorological station for transmission of weather reports and apparatus for the study of winds and waves. HELD FOR TRIAL Stamford, Conn., July 27 (P— Martin Ruggiero, 25, of this place, was bound over to the superior court under bonds of $5,000 today on seven counts of obtaining money un- der false pretences and forgery. Rug- giero was arrested by Stamford po- lice in Mount Vernon on July 15. Louise Pascale, 17, testified that she had drawn three of the seven. Airport for Lowell Is Now Being Planned Lowell, Muass., July 27 (#—Plans for the formation of an airport corporation for this gity, to include the development of a modern air- port on a 100 acre tract of land in South Lowell, were announced today by General Butler Ames, President of the Heinze Electric Company. The land to be used was formerly papy as a -proving ground. Con- paly as a proving ground. Con- gresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of this city and Mayor Thomas J. Corbett will lend their aid in the furtherance of the project. “ Husband Takes $600 and Disappears From City The police were asked last even- ing by Mrs. George Marden of 67 Smalley street to locate her husband who left for the bank to make a deposit Monday afternoon and did not return. Mrs. Marden said she learned that instead of making the deposit, he withdrew $600. She could not account for his disappear- ance. She said there are four de- pendent children in the family. ENDS LIFE UNDER A TRUCK Garfleld, N. J, July 27.—Joseph Kisch, 61 years old, dled in St. Mary’s hospital at Passaic yesterday from injuries received this morning, when, witnesses say, he dived be- neath the rear wheels of a truck. The police are holding Joseph Butler, driver of the machine, on a technical charge of manslaughter. No motive for the suicide has been learned. Kisch had been employed by the Garfleld worsted mills since August, 1926. He 1s survived by his second wife and three sons and daughters. More than 2,000 Royal Arcanums arrived in Seattle today for the order's natjonal convention and golden jubilee. Governor Roland H. Hartley, Mayor Bertha K. Landis, and T. J. L. Kennedy, grand regent for the state of Washington, welcomed the lodge men when the first session of the five day meet opened in the Olympic Hotel. Harvard Student Makes Record Mountain Climb Estes Park, Colo., July 27 (UP)— Reaching the summit of Longs Peak in two hours and 37 minutes and descending in one hour and 57 min- utes, W. R. Driver, Jr., a junior at Harvard University, established a new record for scaling the peak. ‘The old record made by Paul Nes- bit, a guide, in 1924 was two hours and 43 minutes. Driver's home is in Milton, Mass. Towers Not Interested In Sposato’s Charges Chairman Reginald Towers of the board of public works has expressed slight concern over the claims made by Foreman James Sposato of the city storeyards who linked reports that he is to be discharged with claimed threats by a politiclan to “break” him. . The chairman de- clared he has not given a thought to formal charges of {insubordina- tion. De Valera Has Received Many Threatening Notes Dublin, Ireland, July 27 P— Famon de Valera, following the as- sassination of Vice-president Kevin O'Higgins, received numerous threaténing letters and the Irish F'ree State authorities have placed him under police protection, it was learned today. A plainclothes man accompanies the republican leader everywhere. The only news that regularly saves you money YOU may be interested in the baseball scores—in the politics of the werld—in the latest dlscoverles of science— But you are not half as much affected by such news as you are by the welfare of your own pockethook; the comfort of your shoes, the price of the phonograph or radio you want. LONDON. I ORD RUTHVEN'S twin daughters, That was about six months ago, and at the time the elderly ladies who sub. stitute for Mrs. Grundy in English so- ciety thought that the incorrigible Ruth- vens had done their worst. ‘While their latest exploit is laughed at and applauded by the younger genera- tion, there are people in London to whom it typifies tragedy, the decay of class distinctions, and the ruthless betrayal of the British aristocracy by its own members. Lord Ruthven, when his daughters, “went mannequin,” did not join in the general outcry. He understands the charming and original young women al- most as well as if he was not their father, and he seemed very much amused by their capers. Friends say that he will be equally reasonable now that they have taken to the danc- ing stage. Not that it would do him much good to be otherwise., The twins know what they want when they want it. The Ruthven twins visited Amer- ica in the winter of 1925-1926. They were in New York for a time, and then made trips to Washington and points further South. On their mother’s side, they are descendants of Sir Curtis Lampson, who once was a New Yorker, but became a British subject. That’s why advertising news deserves even more attention than sporting or international news. The ad- vertisements keep you informed of all the latest com- forts and conveniences that can make your daily living more delightful. They tell where to secure the best; how to save money; how to lessen work; how to have a better home, better food, better clothes, more luxuries. who make it a point to give Lon- don something new to talk about at lJeast twice a season, have definitely abandoned their “amateur standing” as dancers and taken jobs in a cinema theater in Manchester. Until they get tired of their latest hobby, they will appear professionally in the high-class “two-a-day” houses in all parts of the kingdom. Society may like it, or do the next best thing, the girls say, but in the end society will probably like it. Society is by this time rather used to forgiving the Honorable Margaret Ruthven and the Honorable Alison Ruthven for out- rageous departures from precedent. The blue-blooded dancers made.a hit in their debut, according to word from Manchester, and several musical comedy pro- ducers of London are con- templating making the girls an offer before the autumn season opens. The twin Honorables wore dresses of some shimmering, silvery material, cut low at the neck and high at the knee. Their performance was the ordinary vaudeville per- formance, only done better than it usually is. That it was not a classic dance may be gathered from the press reports, which say that the young women cart- wheeled off the stage as the climax to their act. The dancing daughters of Lord and Lady Ruthven, the Hon. Margaret on the left, and the Hon. Alison on the right _ You can’t keep up with the daily news—the kind that affects you most—unless you read the advertise- ments. They are the chronometers of local time. You'll find it highly profitable to adjust your living by them. Advertisements are the only news that really save you money—read them all New Britain Herald OVER 14,000 DISTRIBUTED DAILY The Herald is the Only Newspaper in New Britain With An Audited Circulation - For two or three years the Misses Ruthven have been known as among the them seriously. Not even after they be- came mannequins in a dressmaking es- tablishment and began parading the lat- est gowns before dumpy dowagers and brewers’ widowss been threatening to professi e their talents for a long time, but nobody took