New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1928, Page 11

NINISTER ABSOLUTE DIVORCE Rev. R N. Gilman Awarded Decree in Superior Conrt Rev., Raymond N. Gilman, pastor of the Stanley Memorial church of this city, was granted an abaolute divorce from' his Russian war bride, Irene Poroshine Gilman of New Haven, by Judge Newell Jennings in superior court yesterday. The di- vorce was granted on the grounds of desertion, Rev, and Mrs. Gilman were mar- ried in 1920 while doing Near Bast Relief work in the Caucasus. Mr. Gilman was in chrge of the Near East Relief station there. He was as- sisted by Miss Irene Poroshine, who with her mother, Mrs, Helen Pago- shine, the latter the widow of a former Russian gencral on the staff of the grand duke under the late Czar Nicholas, were refugees from Russia during the revolution, They fled to Tiftis in the Cau- casus, where Miss Poroshine, who was a highly eeducated woman, act- od as interpreter and also taught several languages, including French, English, German and Russian. It was there that she met Mr. @ilman and went into Near East work as his interpreter, and secretary. On August 12, 1920, while still in Tiflis, they were married. Mrs. Gil- man came to America with her hus. band. Following the latter's gradu- ation from Yale they came to New Britain in June, 1922, when Mr, Gilman became pastor of the Stan- ley Memorial church on East street. In October, 1923, Mrs. Gilman and her mother went to Nbw Haven, ap- parently on a vacation trip. They never returned. While incompatibil- ity is said to have been the actual cause of the desertion, difficulty on the part of the women in adjusting themselves to the change in their living conditions is said by friends to have been the real reason. The couple signed a separation agreement on July 29, 1924. This agreement, inferring that the divorce was mutually desired, was the only hitch in the divorce proceedings, ac- cording to Judge Jennings. Observing that the only compli- calion in the case is the existence of a formal written agreement, the Jjudge said: “I find from all the evidence that this agrcement was merely one of the many efforts made by the plain- tiff to secure the return to the nor- mal of the peculiar psychological condition of his wife and her return, This effort like all the others, was not successful. I find that the deser- tion contemplated by our statute is a fact and that the plaintiff is en. titled to a divorce on that ground.” Mrs. Gilman did not contest the action, The divorce took effect yes- terday, Mrs. Gilman was aware last evening that the decree had been granted, although her husband did not know of it until informed by the Herald today. Both expressed themselves as happy that their troubles have been concluded. Al- though the decree is absolute and gives each the privilege of marrying again, Mrs, Gilman does not resume her maiden name, but retains the name of Mrs. Irene Gilman, Mr. Gilman has been remarkably successful in his church work here, | and although it is his first pastorate | he has added between 200 and 300 | new members, and has been {influ- ential in having the church become self supporting. The officials and active members of the church, know- | | | | Today, and every dgy, a lot of women count their time to suffer. As regulag)y as the months come 'round comes“pain that is borne in silence. “It's Nature,” women say. But it isn't! ‘Women who have always had the hardest time, have no pain at all from the day theggdiscover Midol. Midol fs the spccial preparation of specialists, and is not a narcotic. It does nothing to the menstrual process. It does stop the pain—in five to seven minutes! So it is only e€ommon scnse to use it. And it costs just 50 cents, at any drugstore in tiny carrying case of aluminum, ~ DO NOT WAIT until you are conscious that you have cyes. @ur eye examinations and lens corrections give you wision without mental effort. WE PLEASE PARTICULAR PLEOPLE Henry F. Reddelt Optometrist Raphael Bidg. 99 W. Phont 1185 ischool. There will be a preliminary |encounter between the Trade school ing the circumstances, have given the pastor unanimeus approval of his divorce actioh. Mr. Gilman is a former president of the Hartford County Sunday school assoclation, is chaplain of Eddy-Glover post, American Legion, and is active as a committee chair- man in the Lions club. s DOROTHY DONNELLY PNELNONUA VIGTIH New York Woman Was Author of “The Studeat Prince” New York, Jan. ¢ (P—Miss Dorothy Donnelly, actress and play- wright who probably was besat known for her adaptations— of “Blossom Time” and “The Student Prince,” died early today. 8he was 48 years old. Death was due {0 pneumonia and nedritis and occurred at her mid- town apartment. ° Miss Donnelly, a daughter of ‘Thomas Lester Donnelly, managgr of the old Grand Opera House in New | York, and Sarah Willlams Donnelly, an sctress, had a successful stage | career before she devoted herself to writing. During the World War Miss Don- nelly served overseas as an enter- tainer and after the armistice direct- od thg third army stock company at Coblenz. Miss Donnelly for the last twelve years devoted her time to play writ- ing and the staging and management of plays. She was_the author of “Florabelle,” with Cdsmo Hamilton; “The Riddle Woman,” with Char- lotte E. Wells; “Fancy Free,” “John- ny Get Your Gua,” and “Forbidden,” she also wrote the book and lyrics for “My Maryland” now playing on Broadway. Indian Boy Reported Killed by Punishment Hotevilla, Ariz, Jan. 4 (UP)— County officlals and G. M. Miller, Indian agent at Polat are expect- ed here Friday to investigate the as- sertions of Thomas Takala, Hopi In- dian of a reservation here, that his 10-year-old son died from injuries received in school room punishment. Takala went to Holbrook today with the announced declaration of filihg a complaint against Anna Ring, a school teacher. He said his son suffered injuries to his spine when shoved against a desk by the teacher and that he died early in December—four days after the dis- turbance in school. Youths With Stolen Car Held in Meriden Mertden, Jan, ¢ UP—Two Bpring- field youths were arrested by the Meriden police early today on a charge of theft of an sutomobile in ‘ Springfield. The men are Arthur Frost, 22, of 459 State street and Albert Perreo, 18, of State street. Two girls accom- panying the youths were also appre- hended. They were June Fairfiela, 18, of 134 Middletown street, Spring- tield, and Dorothy, Thompson, 16, of Shillingford street, Springtield. SMOKING NOT CONDEMNED Philadelphia Forum Interested in Agnes Royden’s Habits, Philadelphia, Jan. 4 P—8o far as the members of the Phllndelphll‘ forum are concerned, Agnes Maude | Royden, noted English woman preacher who is scheduled to lecture | before the forum January 18 “al .4 goute in some places, particu- go right on smoking.” That was the comment of Willlam K. Huff, execcutive director of the forum when asked whether the can- | cellation by socleties in Boston and Chicago of lectures by Miss Royden Lecause of her reputed smoking of | an occasional cigarette and her views on companionate marriage would have any effect on her en- gagement here, “She is one of the greatest women of her time,” Huff sald, “and such things certainly will not interfere with bringing her here to speak.” Miss Royden is scheduled to land in New York today to start a three month lécture tour of the United States. MILLIONS TO BE SPENT Boston and Maine Rosd Will Use $6,010,000 on Railroad. Boston, Jan. ¢ (M—The Boston and Maine railroad will spend $6,- 010,000 in 1928 to make permanent the emergency reconstruction by which the railroad resumed.service after the disastrous November floods and for other improvements to the right of way, it was announced to- day by President George Hannauer. | The program includes 92 bridges which represent an aggregate of $2,- 050,000, o2 which one quarter is for permanent replacement of structures washed away. With the exception of a single small summer resort branch, every mile of the 946 miles of main and branch line affected by the floods has been restored. NEW TEACHING METHOD Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 4—(UP) —A radical move in teaching has been made at Harvard university with the adoption of the new “read- ing system.” B From-now until mid-year examin- | ations on January 19 there will be no classes in any courses, and the | students will bc expected to do a lprge amount of reading without any supervision from the college. A similar plan will be tried during the last three weeks in May. TO PLAY SIMSBURY On Friday night the New Britain State Trade school will meet the Simsbury High school quintet in a Farmington Valley league basketball game at the local Senior High seconds and the Trade school Inde- pendents. MR§. GOODHUE FEELS BETTER Northampton, Mass., Jan. 4 P— Gradually regaining strength, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, 78-year-old mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, soon will be | able to return home from Dickinson hospital, where she has been {1l with influenza for nearly a month. AUTO PRICE WAR ON Willys- Overiand Company An- mounces Cut That Undersells Henry Ford’s Model. New York, Jan. ¢ P—The long looked for price war on the Inw-1 priced automobile seemed a reality todey wtih the announcement of a Whippet convertible coupe at $5 less than the corresponding model Ford. A week ago, President John M. Willys of the Willys-Overland con- cern, manufacturers of the Whip- pet, announced that the company was in a position to make another reduction if it was necessary to meet Ford's prices. Another announcement Sunday of cuts of from $10 to $50 in the prices of the new and larger Chevrolet cars discounted the statement of officials of automobile concerns that the new prices “aro not to be construed as indicating a pridge war.” Another price reduction was made known today in the higher-price tield when cuts of from $500 to $700 were announced in Packard cights, Detroit, Mich., Jan. 4 (UP)—The Cadillac Motor Car Company has an.- | nounced five new models of the La- 8alle car at reduced prices ranging from $2350 to $2875. The company said production for 1927 was 25 per cent above the previous year and that an increase of 25 per cent in 1928, was anticipated, GOLD WAV SEEWS FIVALLY BROKEN Whole Gountry Emerging From Sub-Zero Temperatures Chicago, Jan. ¢ M—The greater part of a nation today was coming slowly out of the anaesthetic of low temperatures which since New Year's Day have extended their chill | as far south as the Mexican Gulr, Fewer fatalities were reported yes- | terday, although sub-zero tempera- | tures were not uncommeon through- | out most of the north and middle west. Bixty deaths attributed to the cold and the snow have been report- | ed from widely spread sections of the country since January. Temperaturcs generally were sev- eral degrees higher last night than | */27¢d that the youth if found in. on Monday. Duluth was the coldest place in the United SMtes, with 8 degrees below zero reported at 7 p. | m. last night, although White River, Ont., had 22 degrees below at the same hour, In both cases, however, the readings were higher than for the previous day. ~ The great rotary plows and cater- pillars which are kept in readiness by most of the northern tier states| AN affidavit asking for the delay during the winter were doing 24 hour shifts, bucking drifts and cut- ting lanes for motor travel over the network of state highways. Snow was piled as deep as &0 inches in northern Michigan. Sheriff's officers from La Crosse, | The affidavit also cleared another Wis., found Mrs. Maric S8auer frozen | point which has been the basis for to death under a bed at her home on French Island, where for years she has lived in seclusion. The men had to fight their way through a dozen dogs, pets of Mrs. Sauer, who were with the body when the ofticers broke down the bolted door. Though the cold had lessened ap- preciably, temperatures in many parts of the country stood several degrees below freezing. Suffering larly Ohio, and the south, thé latter section being less prepared than the rest of the country for the unex- pected mercury dropping. Heavy losses resulted to truck farms :nd | fruit growers in the south and on .cattle ranges in the Rocky Mountain | areas and in Canada. | DEVOURED BY WOLVES Vienna, Austria, Jan. 4 (#—Neue Frele Presse publishes an uncon- tirmed reuort that eleven peasant girls of the Czechoslovakian town of Maramoras Sziget were devoured byw wolves when returning from a neigh- boring village through the forest. FI00DS IN MACEDONIA Athens, Greece, Jan. 4 (P— Bevere floods are reported in the Struma valley in eastern Macedonia. | mother-in-law, with an axe last HICKNAN MAY BE AGAIN INDICTED| Thoms Murder Witnesses Are Galléd Before Jury Los Angeles, Jan. ¢ UM — While defense forces began gathering wvi- dence to support William Edward Hickman's plea of not guilty by reason of insanity to the kidnaping and alaying of little Marian Parker, the question of voting & new mure der indictment against the youth today came before the county grand Jury. 3 Witneases who had been ordered to ‘appear before the grand jury yesterday in the investigation of the shooting of C. Ivy Thoms Raesehill druggist, in a holdup which Hick- man snd his 16 year old acoom. plice, Welby Hunt, have confessed staging, were asked to return te the jury rooms today. The district attorney announced he would ask that a murder indict. ment be voted against the youths in connection with the death of the druggist. Although the bullet which fatally wounded Thoms has been identified as the same callber as the pistol carried by Hunt in the hold- up, California law holds each of the persons involved equally guilty. Hickman's plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity" was made when he was arraigned yesterday on iun. dictments ’charging him with the kidnaping and murder of the Los Angeles school girl. The move fore. casts a long court fight in the tempt of the youth to escaps the death pepalty which the presecu- tion frequently has declared it would demand. A recently passed California law divorces the hearing on the de- fendant's sanity from the actual trial. It he is found to have been sane at the time the crime was committed, his attorney may then interpose the plea that Hickman s insane at the present time, Legal authorities differ somewhat on the interpretation of the new California law as to the procedure should Hickman be declared insane at the time of the kidnaping and murder but be held sane .at the present time. Superior Judge Fricke, who, while chief deputy district attorney, had charge of all insanity cases, de. sane at the time the crimes were committed, would be sent to astate Hospital and it later declared to be sane would walk out a free man, The insanity hearing was set by Superlor ‘Judge Carlos Hardy for January 25, after he had denied the plea of Hickman's youthful attorney, Jerome Walsh, that the case be de- layed for 35 days. would be based on the testimony of Loyhood assoclates and would delve deeply into his family history. The attorney sald many witneases neces: sarily would be brought from Mis. sourl, Arkansas and Illinofs, numerous rumors in the case. When Hickman pleaded guilty and was paroled on a forgery charge last summer, his mother swore he was not yet 18 years of age. The affi- davit, however, gave Hickman's age as 19 an age that would permit the inflicting of the death penaity under California law, KILLING NOT UPHELD Indian Who Slew Infirm Mother-in- law Gets Life in Prison. Detroit Lakes, Minn., Jan, ¢ P— The Chippewa tribal custom of slay- ing the aged and infirm has falled as a murder defense in the Palsfuce court. A federal court jury yester. day convicted Alex Jourdan, a Chip- pewa, for slaying his 90-year-old March, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment, Jourdan pleaded that his mother- in-law waa old, blind and feeble, and that a custom of his tribe preacribed that such persons should be hurried on the journey to the happy hunting grounds. 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The Resources of this Bank on December 31, wztmnubflomn T Vi 1. U.S. Govecament Securitis at par or less. ... $1,403,250.00 2. Bonds of States and Municipalities, high grade Reilroad Bonds, Public Service Corp. Bonds and other Bonds all of first quality, at par or B o cnnan cvesssrnssse. 136375709 s il B i ficon il st average, largely secured by collateral, inched- ing $450,000 on call in New York 373345250 j S Stock in Federal Reserve Bank .. New Britain National Bank Building and Fix- tures, assessed valuation $355,000 our book 254,994.10 Cash (gold, bank notes and specie) and De- posits in other banks returnable on demand. . 1,724,397.53 Total Resources . . cevvensivisnsennee. $8,506,852.02 This Bank owes to depositors and other Banks. ... 7,365,753.82 This leaves a guarantee fund of .. .. ceees $1,141,098.20 upon which we solicit new deposits and retain those which have beea with us for many years. Make this your bank. ’ BRITAIN NATIONAL .BANK MEMBER FEDERAI. RESERVE SYSTEM