New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 2

RICH DIAMOND AREA FOUND IN_ AFRICA | ! Described as Most Unique Bl Dorado in Gountry London, March 2 (@ — Most dia- mond dealers were confident today that the discovery of & o in South Africa would not affect t price of diamonds. Details concerning the magqualand, in northwest C ony were related in the Africa assembly at Caperown ) day. Minister of Mines F. W. B described is as an Lldorado, unique in the history of the country. He said he had picked up in o hour diamonds valued at £600, (3 000), Experts were announced have taken diamonds v £160,000 (3700,000) in 2 few weeks hand picking from one hundred claims owned by the government., The area contains 30,000 claims. “It is the biggest diamond ever discoverad anywhere” a Sir Davis Harris, assemblyman from Kimberly and tor of Debbeers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. 1t was considered probable in Lon- don that many dealers determined the effect of this new supply on t} market last December whe South African government o nounced the discovery but did not make public the richness of the ficld, At that time it was stated that the area would be worked in interest of the state. This dir taken liere to mean tha a close watch would be kept on 1 output and provisions made to pre- vent the market from be swamped, Minister Beyers, in announcing that the government intended to de- clare the entire area state diggin, was held today to have confirmed this view. He said it was unthink- | able for the government to do other- wise since this would mean forcing very large quantities of diamonds on the market and that was most unde- sirable, The government will employ a large force of diggers and control the output. BODY OF BOY IS TAKEN FROM INDIANA RIVER Was Bound With Heavy Wire—Sec- Eight Days. Indtana Harbor, Ind., March 2 (M—Bound tightly, by heavy wire and fished from the muddy Indiana Harber ship canal within eight da | of each other, the bodles of two well | dressed boys, lay unclaimed in & mergue today as the police puzzled over the manner of their deaths. The first boy was found February . While police were investigating identitication ciues in Illinols and lust night, a bridge tender the second body floating mal, about a mile from first was located. An dewn the where the wutopsy revealed that the eecond boy then thrown into the canal, Drown- Enjoy the It has $1Q on $2 weekly beauty tone volume ApE SRR Terms: had been beaten and strangled nnd ing was given as the cause of d'd(h in the February case. Convinced the two had been slain, the police suggested two possible mu'nrx One was that the boys were attacked by a moron, bound and tossed mto the water. The other was that the parents or guardians, tiring of the responsibilitics of parenthood or desiring to gain an inheritance, tossed the boys into the muddy waters. No report of missing chil- dren have been made in this vicinity, Scores of persons viewed the body of the first boy found but none identi- fied him. To satisfy themselves that no other bodics are in the caual, the police planned to drag it for mor than a mile today. Beeause the two hodies bore strik- ing resemblances to each other and were dressed alike, police and count coroner b e them to be brothe ppare a mily in casy circumstances. G00D-BYE HORSE Equines Being Replaced by Motor Tractor in British Army, Official Statement Shows. March 2 (P-—The the horse in the tractor Brit- London, is replacing ish army. The official statement of the 1928 army estimates stresses that the continued development of mec anizing the ser which has long been in progress, and inti- mates that application of the ex- perience gained in training maneu vers regarding mechanical equip- ment will be further utilized. The rst line cavalry transport will bs put on a more mechanical basis. “onversion of two cavalry regi- ments into armored car regiments, but with reduced strength, is con- templated. Al the medium artillery is to he mechanized and experiments in t mechanization of other artillery units 15 to be continued. The num- ber of tanks, armored cars and such vehicles for all units will be increased “as funds permit.” Economics in personnel are to be ted. There will be 13,000 Jess men {n the 1928 army due to the reductlon of troops in China, the Rhineland, Bermuda and Sierra 1 revision of road. Leone and to a gener: forces at home and a Chicago Jury Convicts Doctor on Murder Count Cihcago, March 2 (® — The judgment of 11 married men and a widower started Dr. Amante Ron- gettl on the way to the electric air today for the murder of Lo- retta Enders, a 19 year old girl, by s 'an 1llegal operation. The penalty, said to be the most severe cver recommended for a criminal operation, was reportad 'last night after the jury had de-! liberated three hours. Dr. Rongetti, his trial one of bit- ter strife and marked by charges of intimidation of state's witnesses appeared dazed when the of guilty and the recommendation of death by electrocution were read. | Rongetti's lawyers asked for a new trial. immediately wonders of the air with everything you want in radio: distance selectivity economy delivery Victrolas dict | The Magic of Entertainment NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1928, T |been since last December 11 and with Dr. Justin E. Hayes, her per- |sonal physician, made a brief ex- ammnuon of the aged sufferer. Mrs. Goodhue originally was h.mcken with influenza. Her condi- [tion seemed good until recently. |Dr. Hayes declared last night that “ : she was failing slowly due to com- Burning Ilurder" Mystery Far vications ncidentar "o ner - ad- |vanced age. me smvd | Mrs. Coolidge spent two hours at |her mother's bedside in the aftbr- {noon and another later in the day. New York, March 2 (P —Investi- | Between the two visits, the aged gation into the burning to death of |[Woman enjoyed a refreshing sleep, aret Brown near Ber- [hospital attaches reported. Felruary 20, cen- | John Coolidge, a student at Am- E today with police |herst college, came to Northamp- sccking Louis Clement, a chemist, |ton or questioning. mother and Mrs. Police made it clear they had no lhcy drove him back to college. 1;";';’;‘ Sk et MILLER DIVORCE STOPS COLBY GETTING FREEDOM ng. but they said they were seeking French Courts Tightened Up After Clement, who was known by the title doctor,” because his photograph re- | sembled that of a man Miss Brown | tad pointed out as her flance. Mrs. Emily Miller, a friend of the dead woman's and the only person | known to have seen her in company | Pickford and Wife Were with her fiance, said while she was not positive the photograph resem- | Eeparated. March 2.—(®—A divorce bled the man she knew as her! Marilyn Miller, musical | Paris, friend's acquaintance, M 3row nd’s acquaintance, Miss Brown | ooope.d had told her sometime before she was killed that she was cngaged to marry a “Dr. Clements" or Clemen, The man sought is the same “Doc- tor” Clement who was Indicted in 1928 charged with defrauding two women out of 00 in connection {with an alleged gasoline substitute. | that the divorce mills of Paris today grind a small grist of American di- vorces. 1t was held largely re- sponsible for the failure of Bain- bridge Colbhy, former American secretary of state, to break his mar- riage ties. This indictment was quashed later., & Ao bolice also were seck. | When Miss Miller came to France St old, of | 118t summer to obtain a divorce N, Y, for questioning in con- | {fom Jack Pickford, ecreen actor, [she was quoted as having remarked ction with the murder. Sicgal has | been sought by Bayonne, N. J. police | that & divorce was easily obtained {n sinee December when he jumped a | France. Despite comment she was granted a decrec a few months later $2,000 bond after his arrest on a ply with the laws of that country as well as the laws of their home states. The Vergailles court in refusing to act in the Colby suit emphasized how literally the law could be taken. 'MRS. COOLIDGE BACK o e, the United States and thus was not fashionably. [1s in Northampton to Watch Over under the jurisdiction of the court, The court, therefore, declared itself Falling Health of incompetent, ! Aged Mother, T e STARTS WORLD TRIP Copenhagen, March 2 (UP) - Palle Huld, 15 vear old boy, star last night on an attempt to circle Northampton, Mass., March 2 #) —~Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the president, was installed in her oll | 2 £ the globe within 48 days, usin, home on Massasoit street today, so : L) [that she might be near to wateh foibe “id traine — th illlien o0 over the failing health of her 78 poge ung 1o airplanes. Huld will year old mother, Mrs. Lemira igo by way of Glasgow, St Johns Goodhue. | Newfoundland; Vancouver, Yokohi- She arrived from Washington 'ma, Mukden, Manchu Siberia vesterday accompanied by an old and Moscow. The trip i$ financied friend, Mrs. R. B. Hills of this citY, by the newspaper Politiken, in honor ‘and Lieut. ommander Joel T. of the 100th anniversary of the birth Boone, White House physician. of Jules Verne, who conceived what The latter visited th 'hospital where Mrs. Goodhue has |world in §0 da The New 365 Main Street Pianos comedy actress is attributed the fact | last night to dine with his making the year one of the four Hills and later |banner years in the history of the | | | | ‘was passed, wh 000,000 pound: | pounds from the crop of 1925. Thus | !their production within the last two | “harge of defrauding Mary Kula, a| 1-0uis Barthou, minister of justice, | domestic, out of $1,500. He is want- noted that widespread comment in ed by the police of Guttenberg, N, J., America on her was unfavor- lon & similar charge. able to France. He immediately is- The police admitted their only Sued & strict order that in court reason for secking Sicgal was be |1hroughout the country the law must * | cause of his record for preying on |Pe complied with literally. Jurists women. were warned that any judge disre- “Doctor” Clement 1s described as |8arding this might be placed on the labout 5 years old, 5 feet § inches in retired list. height, weighing 180 pounds, high Judges began informing petition- |foreheud and noticeably high cheek |ers that it was just as easy to ob- |bones, long tapering fingers, well [tain a divorce in America, and kept, and unusually small fect, He | cheaper. They pointed out that in wears pinee-nez glasses and dresses | France plaintiffs would have to com- Dickinson 'then was the dream of circling the twater Kent Including Atwater Kent Electric Set, Cabinet and Built-in Atwater Kent Speaker. Henry Morans & Sons |stems, trimmings, and scrap, INCREASE EXPORTS OF U. 5. TOBACCO Leaf Passes Half Billion Mark in 1027 BY GEORGE H. MANNING | (Washington Bureau of the . Herald) ‘Washington, D. C., March 2.—Ex- ports of American leaf tobacco passed the half-billion mark in 1 American tobacco industry. A total of 506,000,000 pounds of American leat tobacco, not including were | sold to foreign markets during the vear, bringing $189,000,000 to the United States industry. This is the heaviest exportation of | leaf tobacco since 1924, when ex- ports totaled 546,000,000 pounds, | valued at $163,000,000. In 1919 and again in 1921 the half-billlon mark n exports amounted relpecu\-l) to 776,000,000 and 515,- Crop Declines, Price Goes Up | United States production in 1927 amounted 10 7,832,000 pounds, a reduction of 60,000,000 pounds from | the crop of 1926, which also repre- sented a reduction of 19,600,600 American growers have decreased | vears by 139,000,600 pounds, with he net result that they received nearly 4 cents per pound more for ! the crop of 1927, The average price paid to growers in 1927 was 219 cents per pound. Owing to the accumulation of Brit- ish Empire tobaccos in Furope and | are in-| Canada, further reductions ens and removes burned-on greue and dirt—in a n!fy. Contains no grit, s0 cannot scratch en- amel. You can get Oakite from any grocer. A little Oakite loos ; i O IO OB e DB BIDID DB BB or0” e “Cleans a million things” Electric NO BATTERI NO ELIMINATOR:! Tess Tubes Radios 1560,000 pound: |increase as compared with the 1926 ! | ports. European markets took ‘Huston Thompson’s { The cumbent upon American growers if they would avoid future price de-| clines, the department of commerce | warns. Moreover a concentration on ! quality is far more likely to produce | grades less susceptible to foreign | substitution. The brunt of European competition of American tobaccos | today is being borne by the law grades, especially the low grades of | dark tobaccos. Production of Types The following amounts of the var- | ious types of tobacco were produced | in the United States last year: Bright flue cured, 692,013,000 pound burley, 209,783,000 pounds; dark fired Kentucky and Tenessee, 90,-| 673,000 pounds; dark Virgina, 39, | Maryland and Ohio | export, 27,026,000 pounds; Green River 26,640,000 pounds; one sucker, | 15,508,000 pounds; cigar leaf, 136, 9,000 pounds; miscellancous, _ouisiant, 400,000 pounds. The only types which showed an | production were bright flue cured, of which 564,488,000 pounds were produced in 1926, and Maryland and Ohio export, of which 26,640,- | 000 pounds were produced in 1926. Kurope China, Australia, Japan, | land Canada absorb 92 per cent of | he United States leaf toba o ex- 2 per| cent of the 1927 exports from the | United States. The United Kingdom | is the world's greatest importer of | tobacco, as well as of American to- | bacco. Germany ranks second, and | Australia third. Consumption of to- bacco is increasinng in all these im- | portant markets. | xportation of Kentucky and Ten- | dark tobaccos decreased last | r, while for the first time a mar- | ket for burley was developed in | Europe, 14,000,000 pounds being | sold there. ame | Entered Against Smith’s Bismarck, N. D, March 2 (® ——{ name of Huston Thompson, | — former federal trade mmmisfloner.‘clos«d No petition for Senator has been entered against that of \Reed of Missouri was filed. Gov. 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