New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1927, Page 3

LONDON Here’s Warning to Single Men: Statistics Show That Bachelors Die Sooner. Statstics Show Bachelors Die Sooner London, Aug. 13. (P—Married men live four years longer in Eng- *land than bachelors, it was stated before the Associated Bodies of Life Assurance Actuaries. According to Professor G. M. Rob- ertson, distinguished British medi- ~co-psychologist, insanity 1is three times as prevalent among single men and women as among mar- ried men and women. The organization officlal went on record urging everyone to marry before the age of twenty-five. English Have Various Names For Huckleberry Huckleberry Finn would have beqn Whortleberry Finn if he had befn born in Devon or Somerset. In Surrey he would have been Hurts Finn. Bilberry Finn would have been his name in Hampshire. Up in Scotland he would have been Whinberry Finn. The little blue berry, which is so much relished in pies the world over, changes its name with fits geography. Buckingham Palace Gardens Closed Buckingham Palace gardens are almost unknown to the general public. This is because of the diffi. culty of getting permits to view the famous shrubbery. In Queen Victoria’s time it was comparatively easy to gain access to the grounds surrounding the palace. But King Edward took the view that the palace was his “town house” and therefore a place of personal privacy. Windsor Castle, on the other hand, is considered to | be state apartments and is more or less open to the public. King George has made the privacy rule at Buckingham Palace even mcre striet. Tondon Resents Joke At Prince of Wales Milton Hayes hit a snag in the new revue “Shake Your Feet” when he cracked a line about the Prince of Wales which did not appeal to the audience, = Hayes was doing a “slly ass” monologue of the type which has | won him favor in the music halls. He remarked that the Duke of York bought a perambulator at a recent exhibition as a hint to his brother, the Prince of Wales. The audience not only did not laugh, but it booed the actor un- mereifully. Even Will Rogers had to tone down his remarks ahout the Prince of Wales when he was performing in London. King Gives “Y” Camp | 01a Romag Stone | Through the courtesy of King | | This French Farmer Demand ! ' plane That H | Attaches Airplane That Hit His Cow | Paris, Aug. 13. (A—An airplane | collision with cows has caused a ‘rench judicial comedy in which men and a farmer are at odd At Dunkirk the London-Brussels | 2ir liners with ten passengers aboard | came down in a clover field and ran into two cows. The farmer had to | have the cows killed. He promptly _drew up a bill of expense. { Besides the two cows he added | the item of one ficld of clover znd | presented it to the pilots. The pilots | ued and wouldn't pay. The farm- er went oft to the seat of justice and eame back with a court officer | and a writ of attachment. The air- | plane owners finally had to put up gecurity before the indignant farm- er would let them board the m: | chine and fly aw | e i Boys On Boulevards Going In For Batiks Men's batik hats with batik gib- bon streamers are being introdveed te Paris by male mannequins. The first of them appeared at | the noon hour at a cafe near the Theatre Francais. Frenchmen take the batik head-gear calmly. They find the streamers flutterinz to the shoulders ‘eccentric” but | rot objectionable. As for the mul-‘ ti-colors, bright head-wear has been | worn by respectable French citizens ; for 5o long that a mixture of colors | seems a more or less.natural devel- | opment to the Frenchman. Paris Has Street Of Cubist Homes | Modern cubist houses lina one | little streat in Paris. This art rcve- Jution has been marked by formal dedication of the lane as “rue Mal- let Stevens,” the name of the archi- tect who huilt the homes. The new houses, only a dozen of‘ them, are in Passy, the good resi- | dential quarter. They stand out like lighthouses among the ancient, clas- sic chateau-like homes of the rich | and aristocratic around them. The voung art world here is exeit- ed in its praise. Some of the more conservative lament the era of geometry in art but are not sur- | prised that people rushed to rent or buy the places. Cubes are the keynote of the houses. They are built of reinforced | oncrete, lined with hollow til Parts of the second and third fories are set hack In terraces. The ines are broken by balconies, cov- red recessas and windows of un- :sual dimensions, < rench Baby Band \Wins High Praise | Ninety orphans form a brzss band + hat has won much praise at many ¢ ‘ublic ceremontes. ti The children, some of them nc rigger than the horne they blow, }’“‘9 from five to ten vears old. They have bheen trained in the Saint Georges-de-Lille Orphanage by good | ~conductors. ——|PARIS | subject the George, the international Boys' Camp of the Y. M. C. A. in Wind- sor Forest has a direct link with the Roman Emplire. Its site was marked with a stone given by His Majesty. The stone is from a collection of Roman and Corinthian -ruins brought from Tripoli in 1825 by King George IV and exhibited at the British .fu- seum, London Enthusiastic Over Gardening A garden competition held the Evening Standard brought 12,000 competitors, each with flower garden at home. by out a The gardening craze has reached , its peak in London. Nearly every clerk and office worker in the city rushes home from work to put a few touches on his garden. Experts say there is one flower and one friiit that flourishes better | in London than anywhere else. They are the carnation and loganberry. Phonofilm Prompter Has Ditficult -Job Bernard Shaw, and- her husband Lewis Casson, have been a speaking film out of “St. Joan Miss Thorndike carried “St. Joan" to success on the London stage. “The problem of prompting be- comes very acute in the speaking films,” Casson says. “The actor Sybil and manager, making | who dries up and loses his lines is a great tragedy when he is speak ing at the same time a camera is registering his - acting. Of course trained actors do not actually dry up very often, but and hesitation is magnified so much on the phonofilm that it is almc t enough to destroy the illusion.” Casson thinks the speaking film has an interesting future but he says experiments with “St.. Joan" have not advanced far enough to make it certain that the film will be released for general use. Drinkwater And Ervine Disagree On Criticism John Drinkwater and St. John Ervine have locked horns over the Drinkwater declaration that no practicing artist should pass adverse judgment on the work of his com petitors.” Ervine, dramatist dramatic critic, say: Heve Drinkwater is serious when he makes such a statement. Ervine says Drinkwater has criticized con- temporary poets, in spite of his pronouncement. Pocts, in the opin- ion of Ervine, are better qualified to criticize poetry than non-poets are, just as dramatists are better qualified to criticize plays intelli- gently.- Ervine says most of the criticism of novels is done by nov- elists, and rightly so. as well as he cannot be- s Damages: Attachés Air- it His Cows. Dressed In white, with assistants to hold the drums, and straps to help support the larger instruments, the band is a feature wherever it goes. They won much credit when they played before a musicians’ meeting. Diagnose Disease From Drop Of Blood Tt is said to be possible to diag- nose certain diseases by examining a drop of blood serum from the pa- tient. Such {s the contention of Doctors Douris and Mondain, as set forth in a paper which Professor d'Arsonval read to the French Academy of Sei- ences. A drop of serum from which the red corpuscles have been removed by centrifugal action is placed upon glass and evaporated by uniform application of a heat of 40 degrees Centigrade. This causes différent patterns to appear, according to the nature of the serum. It is from these patterns that Drs. Douris and Mondain believe that they can tell the nature of the | disease from which the patient is suffering. A normal serum gives an image recalling the section of a lemon. In the case of a cancerous pattern is irregular, leading the discoverers to draw a parallel with the cellular which characterizes eancer, and permitting. they belfeve, the diag- osls of a cancerous state hefore the growth has developed | “Father Of Wireless’ Paid 875 A Month Edouard Branly is cited by papers as typifying the strugsle of French sclen to work under miserable conditions. Branly is in- ventor of the condensor. Fraice calls him the “father of the wire- less.” Branly has as his only assistant in a ramshackle “laboratory,” an ed woman who ekes out a living doirig extra hours of housework in other homes. This maid work, is now the ientist's “Lab- oratory Chief.” She was intelligent and the professor trained her in his work. For 50 vears Branly has worked under these conditions, drawing a salary of about $75 a month as jro- fessor and supporting his family by occasional practice as a physician. These facts are told by French pa- pers as lllustrating the need to pay well men who give their lives to sclence. ALL WRONG Fair One: Now before we start this ride, T want you to understand that T do not smoke, drink or fiirt, T| visit no wayside inns, and T expect ‘0 be home by 10 o'clock. Young Gallant: You're mistaken Fair One: What! You mean that 1 do any of those things? Young Gallant: No, T mean about starting for this ride.—Answers. Thorndike | they hesitate | anarchy | news- of all| NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927. BERLIN German Capital Newspaper Declaring They Condemns Beauty Contest, Are a Nuisance. Berlin, Aug. 13. (M—Beauty con- tests are described as a nuisance by the Berliner “Tageblatt.” The “Tag<blaft” calls attention to ja Berlin publishing house wkich "in a circular has announced a beau- ty competition, at the same time asking people to suscribe to fits weekly magazine, It publishes the question, “Who are the six most teautiful women of Germany All persons are urged to cast thier vote on this question and are advise to full name and addrv3 of every | vwould-be movie actres: Wl be ud- ded in a spectal cutline for each nicture published in the magazine. | The circular says the magazine will prove a valuable reference sheet and study for the film trade. Weeks' Vacation Costs 36 Cents For 36 cents a week even the poorest of Berlin children can en- joy a vacation in one of the numer- | ous forests around Berlin. The city has set aside a large number of so-called “vacation rec- the city. Every morning the chil- dren assemble at the school nearest heir home recreation grounds by rail, elevated or street car. They are furnished cocoa or soup on arrival, lunch at noon and coffee and cake in the fternoon. The weekly fee includes car fare and meals. If two children from the. same family attend, the second is charged half price. Additional children ar accepted free. . “Der Montag” Publishes Historical Odds and Ends A list of historical news publisked by “Der Montag” states That as late as 1739 a slight-of { hand artist was put on the rack in craft. That in 1799 complaining against the government was punished in Denmark with two weeks in jail on |@ dict of bread and water. | That when a Colonel Schumacher 1 offercd the first coal for sale he was threatened with arrest “for l.av- ng fraudently attempted to black stones for fuel.” He managed I'to escape by the skin of his teeth. That the exccutioner of tha last Prince-Bishop of Bamberg prided himself on having executed individuals. The executioncr died in 1805, School Vacations Bring Rush Of Air Traffic More than 2,000 airplanes started from or landed at the Tempelhof ving field in June, They carried 4 passengers and more than §7 tons of baggage and freight, besides reation grounds” in the woods near | and are taken to the | Poland until he confessed to witch- | sell | 1,600 | ions of newspapers. More than 45,- 000 persons visited the airport dur- ing the month. School vacations began July 1. On that day and the two following al- | most every place in the Luft- Hansa's air fleet was sold out. Traf- fic was especially heavy on the lines to the seacoast and the spas. | This service has been extended so that a great number of resorts on the North Sea and on the Baltic can [ now bd reached direct by air—also | look up the entries as they appear | many resorts in the Riesengebirge, | iin the periodical. | Candidates are informed that the | | the Harz, Thuringa and in the Black Forest. | Roe-Kid Coats Raise Storm Of Protest Roe-kid coats, advertised by sev- eral firms as the latest thing ‘n - o- men's fashions, have stirred up a | hornet's nest. Parliamentarians, hunters, sports- !men and numerous nature lovers | have joined in protest against “such a gross nuisance, cordemning young deer only a few weeks old to brutal slaughter to satisfy the passing whim of certain women." It is alleged that if the fad he- comes. popular it will menace all German game preserves, for the conservation of which so much is | being done, since it will mean the “wholesale butchery and ultimate extinction of all young deer."” Inspired by the German Associa- tion for the Preservation of Game and the German Chamber of Hunts- men, all parties of the Reichsteg, with the exception of the commun- ists, passed a resolution demanding | “that the Reichstag adopt measures prohibiting the manufacture, adver- tising and sale of all articles of wearing apparel made of roe-kid skins in all the German federated states.” Policeman Becomes | Scenario Writer Police Inspector Ernst Engel- Uricht has tendered his resignation to the Berlin chief of police to be- | come a scenarlo writer. Some time ago Inspector Engel- brecht attracted considerable atten- tion with a number of serial novels in a radio periodical. One of the foremost German film producing companies engaged him a play- wright. Berliners Object To Horseman's Spurring A Bedouin horseman at the Berlin Zoological Garden caused a | public demonstration recently. He | dug his spurs so deeply into his stced that the animal dripped with blood. A storm of protests was hurled at the rider. The performance term- inated abrupfly in a pandemonium of shrill whistling—which in Ger- many is always a sign of severest disapproval. DUNWORTH ANXIOUS T0 EXPOSE FAKIRS Spiritualists and Fortune Tellers All Frauds He Says There is no such/thing as genuine bic phenomena, and all gelf proclaimed madiums are fakirs, ac- cording to I'rederick Dunworth of New York city, who has made a study of spiritualism for the past 256 years in connection with his sleight- of-hand work. Mr. Dunworth, who was present at the Connecticnt Chantanqua assembly held at the Plainville camp ground during the i past two weeks, that every medium and every trick has been exposed. Spiritualism began with the [sisters, Mr. Dunworth says. These | girls produced strange rappings and convinced their mother, who was a superstititious woman, that noises were of supernatural ed up by an exploiter and were taken on a tour, haffling all ef forts to catch them in any sort of I trickery. Before she dicd one of the ers confessed that they had made |the noises by snapping their toe { joints, these producinz the “ghostly knocks.” The sisters were followed by the Davenport brothers, who ailowed themselves to be tied in chairs with in a curtained space, from whicl { sounds of banjos, bells, and other instruments then procecded. Trick ! knots wwere -responsible for the Dav- psy says |10 slip in and out of their bonds at | il i Build Up Cult Then came a from this country gradually the cult wa American Scientific s { nd abroad, and I i prize of 10 for anyone who could i built up. The produce undoubtedly genuine phenomena. Th won, for every seeker has been ex- posed as a fraud. One claimant, a Mrs. Thompson, refused to give her | j seance when she was not permitted to hold it in her own quarters and { gave a private one for a number of {those interested. She produced ectoplasm. What ectoplasm is sup- posed to be Mr. Dunworth has never | been able to find : Thompson produced wraith which floated about the room. One skeptic in the group bit into the ectoplasm, and he bit Mrs Thompson. When the lights went on he had in his mouth a picce of cheesecloth treated with luminous paint. The Jatest prominent medium has been Margie, the wife of a Boston doctor. She vouched for by J Malcolm Bird, a member of the scientific society, but Houdini expo: ed her completely and Bird asked to withdraw from the society. Belief Growing Since the World war spiritualism has grown rapidly because of the hope of surviving relatives that they might be able to communicate with those who were killed in the con- out, a but Mrs. / Fox | origin. They | enports’ success, as they were able | cucession of others | ety offered a | s prize has still to he | luminous | | flict. They are too willing to believe {and fall into the traps prepared by | mediums for the credulous. The | spiritualists have a “Blus Book,” Mr. Dunworth says, containing the names of all those addicted to the cult. By this means a medium arriv- ing in a town can send out circular letters to all the spiritualists in the Iplace and be sure of an immediate response and a tidy profit. As a typical example of the things “revealed” by mediums, Mr. Dun- worth spoke from his own experi- He attended a seance in rooklyn, and the medium singled |nim out immediately telling him | that he had two contrels, a Hindu and a Mexican, who were trying to place the letter “J” on his back. The “J" was supposed to be the initial of | some dear one who had departed, but Mr. Dunworth has never been able to recall who it might have |been. He was then told he would | receive good news from Jersey, wounld make a trip to FEurope, would | have business below 34th street, and was standing on the third rung of |the ladder, His office being on 42nd street, he quite naturally has had business below 34th street, but the other predictions have not come true, and “if the dead could talk to ins” he s ., “they certainly would tell us something more valuahle than that we were standing on a |rung of a ladder." ence, Some states have taken action against “fortune telling,” but |piritualism s only an aggravated | form of this and goes on unchecked, |ne savs. Throughout New York |state the cult is particularly strong, |and thefe are many groups with names such as the “Lotus Blossom' |and othars which. according to Mr. | Dunworth, actually reveal much of |the character of the societies. The main difference between mediums and the banned fortune tellers, | claims, is that the mediums charge | vastly more for the same thing. Slate Writing Regarding slate-writing, a major | feature of spiritualism, Mr. Dun- worth has much to sy and show The writing can easily he prepared = the subject is waiting in the entry room and placed on a slate which is substituted for a blank one previously examined by the credu- lous one. Another method is the use of black ecards which cover writing and look like the surface of he the slata, then are dropped and re- | the “supernatural” writng. E ceit and bring their own slates are tricked, a temporar; o shortly {asked, a plausible answer written by | an assistant, and the original then | slipped back without the knowledga | seeker realizing that it has been [gone. Tt is all fakery, according to the New York man | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has taken {up spiritualism largely from | pecuniary motives, Mr. Dunworth | believes, On the other hand, he con- | siders that Sir Oliver Lodge is sin- cere in his belief but thinks that he | has been dupea. Medical authorities recegnize that |1t is a distinct advaniage to health to be 10 or 20 pounds overweight between the ages of 20 and 25. Sub- normal weight {s ‘more healthful later in life. the | ven those who seek to avoid de- | substitution be- | after a question is | IPORTUGUESE PLOT QUICKLY QUELLED Gonspiracy to Overthrow Gov- ernment Quashed London, Aug. 13 (P—An abortive )J'!H\\rl to carry out a.coupe d'etat ;againsl the Portuguese government | was made yesterday, but was quash- ed by prompt government says a Reuter's dispatch from Lis- ibon. The government was describ- ed last night as being master of the situation The dispatch says that was claimed yesterday that an over- | whelming part of the army was sup- {porting the government, which was {confident that it would be able to |take measures for the public safety. All the ministers and commanders of {all mil [to be united in defence of the exist- ing regime. Portugal has been the center of many revolutionary movements in recent years. The most important it |present chief executive, General |Carmona, occurred last Febuary, | when there was considerable fighting |in Lisbon and Oporto, the revolt be- ing crushed. Since then there have been reports of minor movements and plots, all {of which have heen unsuccessful. A | revolutionary movement in north- |ern Portugal was reported quelled carly in June, but the Portuguese [ Ssvernment o daya ates declared | that the reports of disturbances were unfounded. On July 6, 13 Portu- action, | ary garrisons were declared | revolt against the government of the | guese were imprisoned for starting a revolutionary movement, while on August 3, a large basket containing 33 bombs of various dimensions battle with four men who escaped. OLD STEAMER BURNED Sylvia Was Formerly Used Between Springfield and Riverside Park — | Fireworks Caused Blaze, Springfield, Mass, Ang. 13 (UP)— | The steamship Sylvia, used until two years ago to transport passengers between Springfield and Riverside park, Agawam, was burned to the water's edge at the park yesterday Though the owners estimated the loss at_only $10,000, it was id this was only a fraction of the craft’s | original cost | The Sylvia was the largest vessel on the Connecticut river above Har ford. Sparks from a firewor last night were believed started the fire, which had smouldered several fore it was discovered s display to h apparently hours be- Bridgeport Fishing Boat Badly Damaged by Fire Providence, R. I, Aug. 13 (P The 65 foot fishing schooner Blanche, of Bridgeport, Conn., was damaged by first yvesterday as she lay. at anchor in old harbor, Block {Island. The four men in the crew ‘flnd Captain Robert Wakelee, as- {sisted by men from the new Shore- ham coast guard station, brought the flames under contrcl Captain Wakelee, who said the damage was |more than $2,000, jumped over- [pboard when his clothing became ignited. He swam to cafety | THE MERC was seized by police after a p|slol| NONEW TRIAL IN LEBOUEF GASE Louisiana Judge Declines to Allow Appeal Franklin, La. Aug. 13 UP—Mrs. Ada Bonner LeBouef, mother of four children, and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, 55, the father of three chil- dren, and Mrs. LeBouef's alleged over, vesterday were sentenced to die on the gallows for the murder of James L. LeBouef, husband of the convicted woman Both Mrs, LeBouef and the physi- cian received ths verdict calmly, and oth declared they had nothing to say before imon pronounced of the execution rnor. ad her hair bobbed rda nd s her first public appearance with her shorn tresses. James Beadle, the third of the trio urday of murdering Le- . was given a life sentence on “ednesda The sentencing of Dr. Dreher and Mrs. LeBouef, followed a long argu- ment and presentation of affidavits in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a mew trial for them on the basls of alleged new evidence, LeBouef, superintende Morgan City plant of Louisiana Public Utilities company. was mur- 1 the night of July 1 while boat riding his home. His body, weighed down with angle irons and with two shot gun woundsAear the rt. was found five days later in Lake Palourde. The 'date set by the will be of the Ger nea You’re going to be invited! IA TRUSTCO. & W BRITAIN oy COMMITTEE LIKES RUTHERFORD PLAN Lessening Restrictions on New Fireproof Roofing Adopted Building Inspector A. N. Ruthers ford's proposal to lessen the city's restrictions against non-fireproof roofing was approved by the ordi- nance committee last night in the face of criticism by the National Board of Fire Underwriters that the vpresent ordinance is not sufficiently strong. In its survey of the city, the un- derwriters’ board ecriticized the building department’s code because fireproof shingles are not required throughout the city. Inspector Ruth- erford leaned to the view that gar- ages outside the fire limits should be allowed to carry wood shingles since dwellings do and his amend- ment would allow houses and acces- sory buildings to have uniform roof- ing. A recommendation to restrict parking from the west side of West Main street between Main street and the Capitol theater was laid over to a future meeting as no one appeared in opposition. A pure-food ordi- nance requiring handlers of edibles to submit to physical examination was not acted upon as Health Super- intendent R. W. Pullen was unable to attend the meeting. Alderman D. L. Nair's ordinance to restrict the sale of fireworks was also held over to a future meeting as the alderman wishes to obtain data relative to ordinances in force elsewhere. PARDON US, BUT—MAY WE TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT OUR NEW 7.STORY BUILDING? Why Are We Putting Up uch A Big Building, Anyhow? Why do they have traffic cops and signal lights? To handle the crowd. Down in out little old home we have been falling over one another trying to serve out 23,000 customers. So many people liked to bank with us that we had to shove important departments upstairs in_dingy hall rooms where you almost needed a search war- rant to find your way about. Soon, in our new home, you'll find all our depart- ments right at hand on our spacious main floor and in our basement. In 12 short years we “just naturally growed” into a firre, big, new home. We're going to open it shortly with a big House- warming Celebration. Bear that in mind. 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