New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1927, Page 10

MARTY JENSEN IS LIKEABLE YOUTH Second Prize Winoer in Dole Flight Popular San Francisco, Aug. 18 (UP) — “Marty” Jensen, who flew home to| Honolulu in time to collect $10,000 | for finishing second in the Dole derby, is a likeable youngster who became immensely popular while in the bay region awaiting the take-| off. Jensen is the youngest son of a| Norwegien-American family of | Jamestown, Kans. He left his gar- | agd in Sioux City in 1819 to enlist in the navy, eventually going m“ San Diego, Cal., where learned | to fly. | He became a commercial pilot al‘ the expiration of his enlistment and married Marguerite Hannagan of Los Angeles. The flier “‘barnstorm- | ed” about the country, visiting county fairs to hand out thrills| throughout the west. Jensen, now 26 years old, to Honolulu early r, fiving | in the inter-island service was selected as the flier to represent Honolulu in the Dole race and wife managed the campaign for funds for the flight Of clean-cut features, Jensen is bronzed and healthy looking. He smiles easily, his ite teeth and clear eyes flashing good humorous- ly. Jensen flew a plane built at the Vance Breese plant | he Courtney May Fly i By Way of the Azores Southampton, Aug. 18 (A—Cap-| tain F. T. Courtney, whose proposed flight to New York by way of Ire- land and Newfoundland has met with a s ession of difficulties, is now credited with a plan to try the trans-Atlantic route via the Azores.| His present intention is said to be | stolen August 6 and J. Bernstein of | to hop off on this route at an early| date, possibly tomorrow. | Captain Courtney was advised by British weather experts that con tions on his proposed northern route | i rath- | were tending to become wor: or than better, so, after visiting Lon- don today and conferring with mem- | bers of his crew he was reported to | have decided on the change. He| was understood to have abandoned | Valentia as a hopping off place. | Taking the southerly route would | call for a halt at the Azores for re- | fueling. | Tailors and Dyers Would Make Prices Standard New Haven, Aug. 18 (P—A move to standardize prices in the clean- ing and pressing business has been instituted by the New Haven retail | Cleaners, dyers and tailors associa- | tion, which has voted favorably on | the recommendation of a commit- | tee to charge a minimum price of $1.50 for cleaning and pressing men's suits, it was disclosed today. At present there are ¢ ning tablishments charging as low as 80 | cents and others charging as high .as $2, it is claimed. The cleaners’ | organization formed six weeks ago | and now boasting a membership of | about 130, is seeking to eliminate | cut-throat competition which has caused the varied prices, members | declare. Officers of the association said that the new price arrangement | will go into effect September 1. An attempt to get every cleaner in town to line up with the asso ciation is to be made next week. The cleaners say that the new price scale will not prohibit charg- ing more than $1.50 for cleaning and pressing but will merely fix a minimum price. | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | FOR BEST RESULTS | Lucky TiIGER Stops Falling Hafir. Cor- rects dandruff and scalp ecze- ma. Monsy-Back Guarantee. Whyte-Fox knocks pimples. Try it. At Barbers and Druggists ore POLICE FASTENING WEB TIGHT AROUND AUTO THEFT RING (Continued from First Page) companied by insurance company in- vestigators, was on Elm street and saw two men trying to arrange the purchase of an automobile at a salesroom 1 car which, police found to have effaced engi num- bers over which new numbers had been stamped. They were taken to the police station and questioned, but insisted that they not guilty of any offense Four Cars Recovered in Meriden Yesterda in Meriden, four cars were recovered in the possession of Willlam Maier of b Broad street; Mrs. M. S. Briggman of 141 West Main street; Alphonse Birnier of 7° Park street, and Peter Zelick of 199 srove street. Mr. Maier bought two cars direct from the local r is said, returning one other to Mr: the y, was was bought hy Maselli of 118 Har iden, the latter having given a in exchange for the car. Mr. Bir- nier, it is said, bought his car from the local man. According to the au- thorities, the Meriden purcha acted in good faith and were with- out information of the allegad thefts. All the cars were Fords. One of the local men was employed on a sewer construction job on Broad gstreet, San Francisco. | Meriden, and in this way is said to| have found the market for the cars The local police said today that the cars recovered were stolen from Mrs. Lulu Clark of 17 Canal street, Plainville, on July 30, from Lake street, this city; Louis G. Burton of Burnside, from Atheneum Squa Hartford, June 26; Joseph Mascia of 29 Crown street, Bristol, from Lake street on August 7: Harry Ro- dini of 127 Wilcox street, this city, 1106 Stanley street, this city in Hartford. The was in possession of the local men at the time of their arrest, accord- to the police. The police have been unable to learn what n was made of all t markers. One s found in a sewer and it others were thrown away stroyed. or de- Sergeants Patrick J. O'Mara and | Thomas J. Feeney of the local poli department handled the investigation in this city. They had the cooper- ation of the Meriden police and in- surance company investigators. It was said this afternoon that a part of a motor taken from the two men | 1 to have been stolen. The “LINDY" TO DEDICATE PORT. Kansas City, Mo, Aug. 18 (UP)— Charles A. Lindbergh left here this morning for Chanute, Kaneas, to dedicate a new airport there. Lind- bergh will fly from Chanute to Wichita later this afternoon. FRESH FISH Cod Steak Boston Blue Steak Haddock Flounders Silver Bass Porgies Mackerel Round Clams. 112 Plenty of Parking | 1 next c/eam}zg Jay Before you go through anot hot and dusty le wit and let us tell you ou can make this tas| show vou the Greater Hoo g “Positive Agit cmonstrate how this remark- her day of h summer i r rencwned Hoov k a simple about the new popu ver, Easy terms if you desi ion.” Liberal allowance for v Appraisal w | Gained 28 Pounds Bristol man’'s car believed | Little Necks, Soft Shell Crabs, McKnerney Fish Market ARCH ST. rour old thout obligation. DOLE RACE WINNER 1S DARE-DEVIL i“Mt“ Goebel Often Thrilled| ! Movie Fans San Francisco, Aug. 13 (UP)— “Art” Goebel, winner of the $25,000 | Dole prize, is a “dare-devil” of wide | ors. | A native of New Mexico, Goehel 1 years old. After starting as an athlete at the University of Colo- rado, he went into the army in 1917 |as a rifle Instructor and emerged 1919 as an aviator The Hollywood movie lot knew an automobile race driver | flyer. He has flown in han a dozen pictures and has in commercial aviation from coast to coas | When he Dole race, coast from hat hows the st When his haged in the ta iown his stick and letting the plan fly by itself, climbed out on the wing and hung over the running gear until he had ired the | break | @ been Go “Woolaroc” Is a travelair Smith-Bronte f READ HERA e One Skinny Man “Feels Like a Real Man Now— 1 Thanks to McCoy's That's just what one man wWrote from Atlantic City and thousands of men and women know by exper- fence that McCoy's Tablets, known the world over as the great flesh producer do put on flesh where flesh is most needed It doesn't take but a few weeks for hollows in cheeks, neck and chest to fill out and what a change | for the better this will make in your personal appearance And besides looking better you'll {feel better for in McCoy's Tablets is a combination of health building | agents that increase strength and bring vigorous health to weak run- | down nervous men and women. McCoy takes all the risk—Read | this ironclad guarantee. It atter tak- [ing 4 sixty cent boxes of McCoy's Tablets or 2 One Dollar hoxes any thin, underweight man or woman doesn’t gain at least 5 pounds and | marked improvement in health— vour druggist is authorized to return the purchase price The nz cCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets has en shortened—ijust | ask for McCoy's Tablets at any drug | | store in America. Block Island Swordfish Halibut Salmon Genuine Blue Filet of Sole Butterfish Eels Steam Clams, Lobsters. Scallops, Space at All Times. AEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1927. NURSEINU. 5. 18 RELIEF DIRECTOR Has Chargg of Work in Distant Countries Washington, Aug. 18. (A—An American woman sitting at her deck in Washington “travels by mail They wanted to turn in | experience and a variety of endeav- | only, yet she sends the healing pow- | er of the United States to the sick and needy in the far corners of the universe She is Miss Clara D. Noyes, na- | tional director of the American Red daily of the Cross nursing service. Her mail comes from all parts world. A large poster in Bulgarian char- acters announces a course of lec- tures to be given in Sofia by Miss Hazel Goff, the American directer of the School of Nursing. A line states that Miss Goff will speak in Bulgarian t comes a letter from a Red 5 nurse in the Philippines, who tells of riding through swamps to isolated parts of the islands upon he only conveyance available that !is suitable for such a trip—a water buffalo. Miss Theda Phelps writes from Ghazi, Aintab, Turkey, that <he is having difficulty persuading | cuperstitious natives to accept med- ical aid, and Miss Helen Porter writes from Greece. the director of nursing passes rap- 1dly through many lands. The broad desk at which Miss Noyes sits is a key-board contact- ing nurses in all corners of this Thus, by mail, | country and nursing organizations in a score of countries abroad. Miss Noyes was asked recently it she was not “awfully busy” dur- ing the Mississippi flood. She re- plied: “Why, no, not any busier than usual. All I do {s press a button and things happen.” There are 196 State and' local nursing committees in the United States, operating under National Headquarters in/ Washington and the branch offices in St. Louis and San Francisco, with a total of 45,- | 000 Red Cross nurses listed. Of this total 29,000 listed as “active™ would be prepared, it necessary, to follow the army to any part of the world or to serve in a remote sec- tion of this country. The room in which Miss Noyes works is crowded with mementos of the organization, many of them souvenirs of- war days in France. On the walls hang portraits of nursing pioneers, uniformed for service. One is of Florence Night- ingale, “the Lady of the Lamp,” whose work In the Crimea estab- lished nursing as a profession. An- other is of Jane A. Delano, organ- izer and first chairman of the na- | tional committee on nursing of the | American Red Cross, who died in [ *he fisld during the World War, ;Housewives Take Walk Of Ahout 8 Miles Daily | Boston, Aug 18 (®—The average housewife walks eight miles a day in doing her day's work, according to the survey made here by the Na- | | tional Foundation of Foot Health. | The foundation survey showed | that the number of trips the wom- !an housekeeper makes up and down | stairs during a day would | than equal climbing to the top of the Boston custom house tower— approximately 30 stories. fof | Airways, more | PLAN T0 ENLARGE AIR MAIL NETWORK Bids on Three More Routes Are Requgsted three additional contract air mail routes, which will add almost one thousand miles to the growing net- work of mail fiying airways of the country, were opened today by Post- master General New. For the service between Atlanta | and New Orleans via Birmingham | and Mobile the bids were: St. Tammany Gulf Coast Alrways, | Inc., New Orleans, $1.75 per pound; | Flynn, Washington, Aug. 18 (P—Bids on | championship fight with Gene Tun- | Feder‘| R‘dio Su” ney, September 22. $ # the License Violators Dempsey and Estelle left Washington, Aug. 18 (UP)—The crack Los Angeles limited at the Oak Park suburban station to avoid |federal radio commission today in- voked its right to bring criminal the crowds which were waiting for him at the downtown station of the |Proceedings against radio stations violating license restrictions. Northwestern railroad. Estelle has g “ B It asked the justice department ta bean G- a0 Mok wished ¥ o] e el Loliiiil whasoniiong everything possible to eliminate ex- cltement tor Ter, o clminate €%\ siation KWKH, Shreveport, La., o : allegedly operating with greater The former heavywelght - cham- |2 ; plon and his wife were met by Len X’;‘;’;‘:,‘“"‘ mowes Ly specifon l ta Dempsey's ‘manager, and . were taken to downtown Chicago @ by motor car. Your Good Name Dempsey sald he was preparing Enables You to for an extensive interview this afi- BORROW HERE UP TO $300 NO PLANE IN WATERBURY Waterbury, Conn., Aug. 18 (P) — A check-up of this city and sur- rounding towns discloses no signs of a wrecked airplane, despite reports Louisiana Airways, Inc., New Or- leans, $2; Pitcairn Aviation company | Philadelphia, $2.47; Embry- | Riddle company, Cincinnati, $2.91/ and Arthur E. Cambas, New Or- leans, $2.95 | Bids on the route between Cincin- natti and Chicago via Indianapolis | were: Embry-Riddle company of Cincin- | nati, $1.47 per pound, and Central Inc., Indianapolis, $2.48. For the daily service between St. Louis and Memphis bids were: | Robertson Aircraft corporation, of Anglin, Mo. per pound. | - - | ; | Dempsey Arrives for | Training in Chicago | Chicago, Aug. 18 (UP) — Accom- | panied by his wife, Estelle Taylor, Jack Dempsey arrived in Chicago | today to start training for hlsi Maple Takes a Part In Watkins’ from Prospect and Naugatuck that a low-flying plane, apparently in distress, was sighted last night at about 9 o'clock, and that another unidentified plane flew in that vi- cinity at 10 this morning. WANTED Metal or Silver Plated BOUDOIR LAMPS CANDLE STICKS SALT & PEPPER- SHAKERS or Any Other Novelties SUITABLE FOR $1 DAY SALES Quantity No Object LOUIS BATLIN 314 Bowery New York City We require no indorsers, neither do we subject you to any embarrassinz | investigation. We usually can hand | you the MONEY IN 24 HOURS | You can have all the time necessary' for repayment and pay only for the actual time you have the money. TWENTY MONTHS TO PAY On $ 80 You Pay $ 4.00 Monthly On 120 You Pay 6.00 Monthly On 160 You Pay 8.00 Monthly, On 200 You Pay 10.00 Monthly'’ On 300 You Pay 13.00 Monthly Call, Write or Telephone 4350 THE MUTUAL SYSTEM Room 112 Professional Bldg. 81 West Main St. Opposite Capitol Theater Open 9 to 5 p. m.—Sat. 9 to 1 p. m. Store-Wide Semi-Annual Quaint mafile butterfly tables, suitable for occa~ sional use or to place against a chair or daven- port as an end table, have 24x33 inch tops, when closed. Regul 15x24 ar $21. These spool turned beds, as sketched, come in maple in full size. particularly adapted ceiling rooms. $48.50. striped in black each top. 22-inch arycleaning dirt than even the res iced model. cleaner, The Spring & Buckley Electric Co. 75-81 CHURCH STREET TEL. 2240 tops. Regular $27. chairs with three seats, Regularly 31 $9.98 Regular Curly maple tip tables have graceful snake feet and are with a small black silhouette on Charming ladder-back side The low ends are to low l F you were one of the many who visited our new Maple Furniture Shop within the past few months you will be in- terested to know that Semi-Annual reductions have also been made in this section. To those who have not as yet found this Graceful Colonial wing chairs have light lines in keeping with their origin- als. These chairs come in a choice of four cretonnes with pleated valances around their bases. Regu- lar $55. 3 -~ Full size Salem chests made of maple and birch have highly figured maple fronts and old brasses. Exactly as :g%tched above. Regular delightful department, we might say that here are shown all our authentic Colonial reproductions in maple, cherry, chintz, wrought iron and glass! Here you will find the unusual in odd bits of furniture—pieces you would naturally expect to find at Watkins—now marked at Semi-Annual Sale prices. Whale-Oil Bridge Lamps round A new lowboy comes in Maple and Cherry You will thrill at this perfect gem! Tt is made of maple old manner with brass tear-drop Every detail has been Regular $883, $73.50 drawer pulls. copied perfectly. slats come in antique maple fin- 1sh with hand woven splint 2 and cherry in the Fashioned after the old whale-oil lamps, these electric bridge lamps have brass oil bowls mounted on their wrought iron arms and are fitted with paper-parchment shades ,............... $6.95 This is a particularly de- lightful model, made small so as to fit into our typically small Colonial homes. Honey maple finish. 54 inches tall. Regular $145. $122 = These quaint foot steols hark back to the days of open fireplaces, wing chairs and draughty floors. Made of maple in antique finish. Regular $5.50. $3.50 WATKINS BROTHERS, I SOQUTH MANCHESTER, CONN,