New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1928, Page 4

L4 New York — Ong subject of con- versation between an ambassador and & fellow voyager who was for- merly an ambassador is a third am- bassador, said George Harvey to Jacob Goul Schurman when they I Canton, O.. Jan. § (UP)—Rn'h’ Mder, the slim, blue-eyed Florida | #irl who was lifted from obscurity | D by her attempt to fly across the Atlantie, blamed “small-town gos- |, is one of the met on the steamship George Wash- ington: “Lindbergh is the best am- | went to sca in 1880 and spent his| bassador this country ever had. He|oariy years in a 500-ton vessel beat. plomats who | few ever made & mistake.” | T | Philadelphia — If all the grafting olcemert were fired, in the opinion eips” today for her arrest recently at | of Mayor Mackey, there would be no . Atlanta, Ga., on charges of miscon- | police force in Quakertown. 8o he is| duct with a minister at Clayton, Ga., four years ago. “Jt's the most terrible thing that ever happened to me,” Miss Elder, I who is here on a vaudeville tour, lam, British “Its’ a dread- | gzuest conductor, has quite a definite told the United Press. ful lie and it T were free I would £0 | opinion about the lack of [home. “You know we're the laziest|ihat she was stabbed in breast by | and fight the whole thing ou! The warrant charging Miss Elder | with “undue conduct with the Rev. Hubert Jenkins,” a young Evangel- | fst, was served on the girl flyer last /W month and she is now under $500 | bond pending a hearirg. Miss Elder wasn't angry Rather, she impressed one to overcome with what she termed it “the preposterousness of it all” to | P today | N wait 0 long before taking action?” Miss Eider asked. | “It seems to me the delay helps to | prove the injustice of it all. is “It has been more than three |1 years since the forenoon when:w (she and the Rev. Jenkins) took an | innocent little buggy ride down a southern road, but now that my | name is—1I suppose I might as well | say ‘public property’—they're trying to get moaey from me.” Miss Elder said she did not know | who was responsible for the reis- ¥ suance of the warrant which was | served by Sheriff L. M. Rickman of | Clayton. “When T first went to Clayton 1 was very young. My husband taught In a small demoninational school there. The people of Clayton first talked about me when I had my hair bobbed. They talked the way people in a village will talk. “One day a voung Evangelist, Rov. Hubert Jenkins—" londe or brunette?” . asked. *I didn’t think he was attractive,” she said, “I can't remember whether | he was dark or light for I didn’t| have any interest in him at all. “Anyway he came to Clayton to head a revival meeting. I met him at school and he and my husband and I became good friends. “One morning he asked me to g0 riding with him. My husband knew | about it for thers wasn't any reason why he shouldn’t, “But the next day the sheriff came to say that a farmer who lived down the road was telling tales about im- proper conduct. These were Jies and the cruelty of them made me sick.” Miss Elder sobbed and knotted | her lace handkerchief into a little vLall. “The sherift sald I needn't worry,” she resumed. , Then comes a three year interval “—the period during which Miss Eld- er attempted her transatiantic flight and became heralded everywhere for her winsomencss and eourage. “All this time the old gossip was Yorgotten,” she sald. “But when I ptepped from the train at Atlanta, I .saw the same old shertff waiting and Rhe pnhappy memery came back. ; “'He said I was arreated byt thpt 4t T gave him $100 he would let me ‘0. When I reached for my pocket- Book, he asked for $500, proving it ‘was & scheme ‘o make money. “Then the sheriff had the audacity to ask me to sign a paper and plead ‘guilty, saying he would have the case thrown out of court.” She didn't sign, she said, “because there wasn't anything to plead guilty to.” i ‘" “Nothing in my life has ever hurt | 0 much,” Mifls Elder declared, “and | 42 I were guilty, I couldn’t look any- | one in the eyes.” Miss Elder goes from here to St. Louis Sunday. Twelve Federal Reserve Banks Increase Earnings Washington, Jan. 5 (® — Gross earnings of the twelve federal re- serve banks decreased $4,580,000 during 1927 while current expenses increased $190.0 The federal rteserve board an- nounced that gross earnings for the year amounted to $43,020,000 while in 1926 they were $47,600,000, F penses totaled $27,540,000 for 1927 and $2 6,000 for 1926. arnings of the banks in 71 050,000 as compared with a she was Our clean thorough-quality coal helps you start the day rigit and you can purchase ft from us at a Call 684, going to give reform. as being |and summer. Now he's able to wear dent of a factory. | French strong native cigarettes. He says un- e |cel a contract for concerts, entertainment, in the opinion of the tax collector. And 80 he tried to levy tax on the Blois Athletic club for | |its tournaments. But the courts held | that tennis was just as much of B’ | | Kreisler from abroad he elucidated: were prohibited and against the law | was an increase T would be a criminal, for I must |times as many passengers and: 80 | nye and Hart street; property ad- ] | [l them all a chance to| i New York — Sir Thomas Beech- | composer, here as a“ pep at) tion in the world,” he remarked. | ‘Since the radio we have become |comber 20. | comatose. 1 foresee a generation| hich will never get out of bed.” Pittsfield, Mass. — Walter Tracy oble, 75, wears a straw hat winter toward the equator or the North ole, having retired as superinten- New York — Maurice Ravel, conductor, must have his | decision. him, ss he can obtain them he will can- Orleans, port as football and therefore ex- mpt from the entertainment tax. New York — Music with Fritz France — Tennis is an | 'HEIRS GET SHARES " OFBOOTH ESTATE Orange, N. J. — Miss Marjorie )l.‘ Sweet, petite, blue-cyed and bobbed, Each Has One-Seveath Interest in Main Street Block supports her mother and herself by | driving around in her little car after | supper and selling securities to working girls. ‘The Horace Booth estate, including rge parcels of real estate in New Britain and vicinity, has been dis- tributed among the seven heirs. A | | deed, by which the heirs transfer to | the New Br‘imln Trust Co. the Booth Block at the corner of Main and Bridgeport — Carroll R. Reed, | ity 8 o COFiEr P orted as superiniendent of public system here |- iFEEY BV € B BECC FEROTIES B accepts berth on Danlel Guggenhelm |, oo tqi0q ™ By the will of Mr. Bo.alh fund committee on elementary and | .ch of the heirs received & one- secondary acronauticcl education. | oventh interest in tfie Booth Block. Hartford — Second vietim of the |, e Booth eriate was one of the “Phantom Stabber” seen in report |ycigcr:” George C. Booth, & son, | from Miss Bertha Talmadge, 19,1 po gisuppeared from the city sev- cral years ago and who has been | pronounced legally dead, was left large portioh of the estate. F Lrother, William H. Booth, is the ad- | ministrator of his estate. The distribution of the property, according to a deed flled yesterday ternoon is as follows: i New York — James Charles, who ing around Cape Horn, is to becom: a land lubber millionaire shortly. He is making his last voyage as master of the Aquitania. ® unknown assailant on night of De- Mrs. Elinor Olsen was stabbed similarly Tuesday night. Hartford — Vilhjarmur Stefansson | the noted explorer “debunks” glam- | our surrounding frozen north in lec- | ture here. Raps geographers who ! ™ G0 o0 Gt Estate: “Deed | cram children with “misinformation | ¢ 0PRSS0 0 R w10 | which pasees under head of educa- | yurmington; corner of West End tion in America. | avenue and Corbin avenue lots and | buildings on Cross street property Btamford — Riot narrowly averted | gn the norih side of Capitol avenue by police when Izzy Cohen, New|.;q Cabot street; corner of Cabot Canaan boxer, argues over fouling | and McClintock streets. Fans threaten to mob | mq Cariton Booth, of Stamford: S The Booth farm located on Stecle | street and consisting of about & Hartford — James H. Weeks of | oros. 5 | {Stonington reappointed harbor mas To Loulse Booth, of New Haven: | ter at Stonington for term of three | property on West End avenue: cor- | YOATS, Iner of Lyman street and Hillside street; Hillside street. To Joseph C. Andrews of New | Rritain: Property in the rear of Main street adjoining property of Emile Charland, Feingold, Goldberg and Finnegan, with passway to Main ]ul HEAVY AIR T Berlin, Jan. 5 (UP)—Provisional figures on the 1927 activities of Lufthansa, German air transporta- is a passion. Returning It it play.” | play Marseilles — Kid Francis, boxer, xplained. “France {8 no place to fight, It is a great place to rest.” tion organization, were announced | today. Over 100,000 passengers undl,m.e,, 11900 tons of goods were carried. This| 7o Oltve Booth Morse, of Belling- of more than 50 ton, Wash.: Corner of Corbin ave: | times as ‘much goods as was carried | joining that of Angeline Leland on in 1926, the first year of the organi- ' Liart street; two strips of land on | zitton’s operation. During the year,| Lyman street; north side of Broad | is here for a holiday but no fighting. |the Lufthansa planes flew approxi- | strect adjoining property of Elihu “I'll do my fighting in America,” he ‘,mmely 5,500,000 miles. | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | ! Burritt Estate. Also on Broad sireet, adjoining property of Kon- stanty Skurzewski with passway over Smith street; corner of Booth and Lyman streets. To Florence B. Andrews, of New Britain: Al land on the mountain in the vicinity of Loon Lake, Plain- ville and Farmington, belonging to the estate; corner of Booth street and Lyman street with 350 feet frontage on Booth street; Booth street, east side; west side of Booth street with 300 feet frontage; south side of Concord street with 200 feet frontage; land west of the West Canal containing 2.5 acres. To Willlam H. Booth: East side of Booth street with 750 feet front. age, containing 16 lots and buildings and having a frontage on Capitol avenue; strip of land at cormer of Concord ‘street and Farmington ave- nue; south side of Cabot street; south side of Allen street, with 509 feet frontage and containing nine lots with buildings. Helpless Du'mble_ Blown Twenty Miles Lakehurst, N. J., Jan. § (UP)— How a navy dirigible with a frozen gasoline line was blown helpléssly for 20 miles out to sea whs narrated Fere todny by seven members of the fulness inally brought the ship sate- tanks and transferring it to an emergency tank, the crew managed to feed the motors long enough to return to the naval air station here: War Memories Blamed For Daughter’s Suicide Paris, Jad. 5§ M — To ghastly memories of what his daughter Xenia witnessed before she eacaped from Russia in 1920, General Dimi. tri Andriewsk! today attributed her suicide. Gen. Andriewsgl, who was once chief of staff of the Ruasian imperial army corps, said that the 18 year old girl had probably de- cided to end her suffering from overtaxed nerves. Xenia hailed a taxicab and a minute after she entered it a shot rang out. The driver called police, who rushed the girl to the hospitas but Xenia was already dead with a crew of the J-3, after their resource. CUTLER’S Our First INVENTORY SALE ® Automobile accessories and assures Nairobi, British East Africa, Jan. 5 (UP)—The expedition hunting in the Lake Tanganyika region which was headed by G. F. Getz of Chi- cago started today for the United States. During their hunt, the expedition bagged the world’s record buffslo .cow and many splendid specimens of lions and elephants. Gets said he could not recommend a similar expedition for others be- cause of the trouble arising from in- subordinate natives who accompan- ied his expedition. Among those who left for the United States were G. F. Getz, Jr., C. D. 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