New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1928, Page 5

L ] Miss Bassette and Miss Goodwin Entertain--Small - Gatherings Fill the Week. = A very attractive summer party was given Tuesday afternoon by Mias Ruth Bassette and Miss Corinne Goodwin at the Bassette home on Emmons Place in honor of Mrs. Harold Bassette and Mrs. Hubert Williams, two recent brides. Mrs. Bassette was Miss Dorothy Hart before her marriage and Mrs. Williams was Miss Harriet Reynal. ‘There were eight tables of bridge and the prize awards were made to Mrs. Sturman Dyson, Mrs. George Coit, Mrs, Lucian Stevens, Mrs. Har- old Pvc{ and Mrs. John Pelletigr. Tea wrd served in the vine cov- ered terrace with Mrs. Wilbur Gil- bert, Mrs. Johnstone Vance, Mrs. Bennett Hibbard, Mrs. Eunice H. Hildebrandt and Miss Elizabeth Gil- bert assisting the hostesses. . The annual summer picnic of the New Britain Musical club was held Monday evening at Hart's Pond. Dancing followed the dinner. ... Miss Kathryn V. Roche, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Roche of Lake street, celebrated the sixth anniversary of her birthday last Sat- urday afternoon at her home. PP Miss Sally Croll of Sheffield street entertained at bridge Monday evening at her home in honor of | Mrs. Maurice Tepper of New York | eity. Miss Evelyn Zucker and Miss Elizabeth Rubin won the prizes. .. Mr. and Mrs, Dudley Walker of | Monroe street gave a small dinner party Thursday evening. “ .. Mrs. Arthur Berg of Highland street gave a'J :pper party Monday evening for Mrs. Emma Berg. e Robert C. Vance was given a hachelor dinner lMonday evening at the Elm Tree Inn, Farmington, by employes o. the New Britain Her- all. Mr. Vance will be married this afternoon to Miss Dorothy Story of Arlington Heights, Mass, in New York city at the “Little Church Around the Corner.” .. Miss Wanda Libold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, J. Libold of Allen atreet was the guest of honor at a | miscellaneous shower given Thurs- day evening. Her marriage to A. Kowalewski of Bristol will take place Monday morning at the Holy Tross church. Miss Libold's brether, Reverend Libold of Duluth, Min- nesota, will perform the ceremony. ¢ . e Miss Bessie Dubowy entertained three tables of bridge at her home on Smalley street Thursday evening In honor of Jeannette Zaron of Bos- YES EXAMINED Frank E. Goodwin Eyesight Specialist 327 MAIN §T. TEL. 1905 GLASSES FITTED | perpetual appropriations for 4-H [ club activities. . Strides Taken Great strides were taken in the ton. The Misses Evelyn Zucker, Sally Croll and Anne Gourson were awarded the pri; . . Mrs. Charles Derlin of Market street was the guest of honor at a surprise party given Thursday aft- ernoon by a number of her friends. . s . Mr. and Mrs. Howard Humphrey of Shuttle Meadow avenue gave & dinner party for sixteen last evening. Following the dinner they took their guests to the Bond roof for dancing. 4-H GLUBS TO AID FARM INTERESTS Boys and Girls Plan to Help Agriculture Washington, July 7.—(P—Tulfill- ing the vision of a man whose name they may never hear, delegates to the second annual national 4-H club boys' and girlg' camp are go- ing home with a plan to pledge the “hearts, heads, hands and health” of six million rural youngsters to a higher type of agriculture. Thirty years ago an lllinois far- mer, Will B. Otwell of Macoupin county, offered free seed corn to every boy and girl who promised to compete in crop production. It was his third attempt to get the local farmers’ institute to interest the youth in farm and home im- provement, Five hundred respond- ed but few knew that was the awak- cning of 1 new national movement— the birth of the 4-H club theory. spread to Texas Quickly the idea spread to Texas, Towa, Minnesota and Ohio. It was a mere suggestion of club work as it is today, but “junior contests” developed in etill other states, par- ticularly in the south, and by 1911 enroliment in corn clubs had reach- ed 54,362 and hundreds of other bovs and girls were working with | cotton and various projects. The next year congress appropriated funds to | help the department of agriculture and state agricultural colleges in the | cooperative promotion of boys' and | girls' elubs. Then, on July 1, 1914, the Smith-Lever act went into effect, creating a federal system of agricul- tural extension work and providing next few years. nation joined in Towa boasted clubs in each of its 99 counties, and New Hampshire | employed a state club agent. Men were employed as county agricul- tural agents in a total of 2,191 counties and women as home dem. onstration agents in 950 counti cach combining boys' and girls' club activitis with their adult work. One hundred and fifty-one countics employed _an _extension | agent to work exclusively with the youth of rural districts. Every state in the | club promotion. | <2 CITIES DOUBLING Beginning July 1, or when- | | ever terms of the act are accepted by the states, a total of § 1ble to each state and | with an | be divided | fiscal year fol- | lowing. Eighty per cent of the money | the salaries ofl | tions MISS CLARICE PAONESSA agents. he made a to the te dditional among tl will e extension selec Demand Not Met But the demand had not bheen fully met, and the seventieth con- gress passed the Capper-Ketcham | bill providing more funds and au- | Let Us You | with a total of 619 | ral boys and girls w. new legisl. [to “every and g There a there a America., bilil used 10 pa additional v itor, of Hawaii, 0,000 to each rem agricultural 14,188 Clubs are 44,188 clubs more th Realization of the second 4-H camp. That is why the delegates, 'nsion 000 will 1 who wants it the informa- |tion that state |and the federal department of ag- . |riculture have for their use.” colleges already, poss| two | boys and two girls from each state, Your | Floral Problem: | VOLZ THE FLORIST West Main St. WE For both men and women. Suede shoes steam-cleaned, re-shaped or converted to smooth leather finish. White satin slippers dyed to match dresses or hosiery. Tan shoes re-glazed and newness. Gold and silver sli E. M. \X?ngl:é:(:ompany 46 CHURCH STREET | 2 STATE ST., Harvey & Lewis Bldg., ( 2 “Manning Brothers, Agents, 211. Main St., New Britain = SPECIALIZE Shoe Cleaning and Dyeing rs refinished. Novelty shoes of all kinds carefully cleansed. Our service includes the rebuilding of run-down shoes —making them look new and serviceable for another long |tal output of newsprint was 57 {tons and shipmenes | the Canadian Pacific Phone 3700 IN re-shaped to bring back Hartford, Conn. Basement) all champ them a corn, ions in home in the Canada than 16 t first quart Paper 1 y and ) first q appro t mates. & | e Carthag ) Jrianon i Increasing Newsprint Output | players | Montreal, Que., July 7 (P—Cana- |showed nearly four times as many | ¢ dian newsprint mill produced more | players ons of news er of 1 nills made 87,843 'more newsprint in Janua 816 ailway esti- | teen personal attain- | v : | ment and leadership, are leaving the | ship ] [e] | khaki tents that for six da p | Washington's monument Kk | faith with a man who had vision and | gave shadow of | have year to °p tons hru- | arch than they did in the | ball, 14, er in 1927, an increase of |ley ball, 6 ximately 18 per cent. The to- |and soccer, 3,493. 647 | tons, RECREATION FUNDS | municipal recreation in 1 trasted with $19,200,000 in 19 $9,317,000 four years be vealed in the annual ye recreation statistics for the United | States and Canada published by the yground and Recreation asso- re- I 712 members, but | ciation of America. n six million ru- | of club age in | for the purchase of land, buildings the s was the key inspiration of Nearly half the 1927 outlay was land permanent cquipment. Bond issucs for recreation from to 1927 inclusive totalled $47,- 48, including $11,960,200 last The number of cities reported cational facilities under leader- e from 505 in 1922 to 815 in Oo fthe latter numbe round supervision of | 1927, | recreation. Baseball on public diamonds is | falling behind the pace of growth of | some other sports. Krom 1924 to | 1927 the number of baseball players doubled, tripled, while bascball. The number of | tcams in the six most popular mu- | nicipal sports last year were as fol- | lows: playground ball, 16,129; base- basketball, vol- 79; 4,901, 3,0 horseshoes, Of more than twenty-five million spectators at municipal sports, fif- million attended igamr’s, LeWitt's | Will be found all the © latest sterling and plat- ' ed patter: ns suitable | for the modern bride. | Let us show you them. r \ 299 Mal Up1 She is the daughter of Mayor A. M. Paonessa and I\lrs.l Paonessa of Stanley street. Now Spending 82 Million Dol- agents, men and women | in fair and just propor- | lars @ Year Warburton, federal direc- |tor of extension work. believes the [ New York, July 7.—®—An ex- ation will make available penditure of $32,191,763 for farm man, woman, boy | r bhook of 321l but that of playground ball | basketball | Last year 249,214 enrolled | rint every (in playground ball as against 219, 1 - | Washington atreet school. The sum- minute of the working day for the|299 in baseball translating from Polish into English | Tennis eourts increased by 123 and swimming pools by 147 over the 1926 totals. Enthuslasm for golf hit the municipal pocketbook to the extent of 69 new courses last year. Children's playgrounds and base- ball diamonds, however, are not in. creasing rapidly enough to take care of the child population, accord- ing to the Playground and Recrea- tion association. No city has enough playgrounds, and the lack of base- ball diamonds is blamed in part at least for the relatively slow growth of baseball s compared with some of the other sports, The insufficient | number of playgrounds helps to ac- count for the incre: of children at play in city streets, says the association. Model mircraft construction and flying, & new activity on public playgrounds, was re ported last yecar by 13§ communities. MARITAL RELATIONS ARENOW APPROVED Suits Dismissed Against Indian and His Wife marital and financial relations of Jackson Barnett, known as the world's wealthiest Indian, and his white wife, again have been proved by a federal court. Another of the serics of suits in- stituted by the government since the elopement of the couple in 1920, was dismissed here yesterday by Federal Judge Pollock. The action grew out of the distribution in 1923 by the interior department of about | $1,100,000 of Barnett's fortune. Mis. | Barnett reccived $550.000 of this fund and a like amount went to the American Home Baptist Mission so- ciety of Oklahoma. While the money given the Mission society was returned to the Barnett estatc held in trust by the government, Mrs. Barnett allowed to retain her share, In the suit here .the government sought recovery of $160.000 attor- neys' fees paid by Mrs. Barnett. The defendants, Harold C. McGugin, Walter §. Keith, C. M. McGugin and the William McGugin Tnvestment company. were charged with receiv- ing the fee under a contract calling for 25 per cent of the money they could obtain for the white wife from her husband's estate. Judge Pollock held that Mrs. Rar- | nett had a right to marry the In- dian, that his wealth from oil leases jwas obtained legally, and that the interior department had sanctioned | Barnett's gift to his wife. Soon |after the marriage of the couple in Coffeyville, Kans., the government started proceedings te protect the {interests of the wealthy Indian, An ‘fll'i‘"\pf to annul the marriage on |the ground Barnett was kidnapped and married | unsuccessful, | ap In a statement made when it was filed against him H. C. Mec- ;Gugin said he had offered to trace | ‘all the money received as attorneys' {fees from Mrs. Rarnett, and that | | funds paid to his firm were due for | ,services in connection with the ex- ,tensive legal proceedings growing | out of the estate ltigation, Throughout the court proceedings, Barnett has centered his interest in lis cow ponies cows and “piga” at his farm in Oklahoma, and at his home in California. Public knowl- edge of his fortune, like his age, is | somewhat indefinite. The value of | his properties has been variously |estimated at from two to five mil- {lion dollars, while his age recently was announced as “about §0." | Polish Summer School i Has 700 Registration Approximately 700 children have gistered for courses during the first summer session for Polish chil- dren made possible by the Holy T0ss parish and the board of edu- cation, which will be held at the Ire mer session will start Monday and !will continue through July and i August, each day from 9 to 11 {n | the morning. The services of six nuns from | Ramsay, N. J. have been engaged for the purpose of teaching the Po- lish children Polish literature and history. The routine will consist of | and vice versa in order to epable the voungsters to better their knowledge of both languages. The previous report that religion or religious sub- jects will be taught was erroneous and it was pointed out that no sub- Jjects of a religious nature will be taught. The scope covers only the study of both languages and trans- lations. ing death toll | Fort Scott, Kans, July 7 ®—The ' against his will was | the | {tioned in the French Chamber | { ‘NAN OF MYSTERY Wealthy, Plays Lone Hand By JOHN O'BRIEN United Press Staff Correspondent. Paris, July 8. (UP)—What is Fu- rope’s “Man of Mystery” going to do next Sir Basil Zaharoff, the man of un- !told millions, about whom so little {18 known that nobody can say for certain what is his nationality, has not appeared in the public prints for months. That is a record for this extraordinary personage who for the last 40 years has been the moving spirit in many of the cvents that have made history. Since the death of his wife, whom he married after a love affair which started in his boyhood, Sir Basil Zaharoff been living in Monte Carlo. Mind Is Locked Chamber Some time ago several Paris ncwspapers published simultancous- Iy an identical photograph showing the old man—he is well over S0— basking in the sunshine on the ter- race of the Casino. The caption un- der the photograph was also identi- cal. “What is h= planning?” For it is inconceivable that this man whose financial _interests fouch overy country in Europe should re- nain idle. Born 80 or more years ago, in Turkey or Asia Minor, presumably of Russian and Greek parentage, he came west at an carly age with an inordinate ambition and wn- bounded energy. Nobody outside himself and a few intimates ever knew exactly how he got his first start toward the colessal fortune he now possesses. All that is known is that it came from the sale of a tre- mendous amount of arms and mu- nitlons for the British firm Vickers, Maxim. According to rumor the sale was made to Spain through the good offices of a charming Spanish girl whom young Zaharoff had met in a train and with whom he had imme- diately fallen in love. In any case the sale gave him a commanding position in the great British arms factory, of which he eventually was to become the owner. As for the girl who had this part in the carving out of a career, she was then marricd. Zaharoff waited patiently. In 1924, after nearly half a century of waiting, he married her in a chateau out. has | side Paris. She was the daughter of a governor of the Bank of Spain and by her marriage was the Duchess of Marchena, her husband being a cousin of the King of Spain Has No Nationality At the time of the marriage it was announced in Madrid that Za- | haroff took the title of Duke of { Marchena, which makes him @& | Spanish grandce, a subject of Al- fonso, with the right of talking to the king without removing his hat. | Then he is an English baronet and {2 member of the Order of the Bath. That would appear to make him a British subject. When the minister of finance, Lucien Klotz, was ques- in July, 1918, a8 to how Zaharoff, os- tensibly a foreigner, had received the insignia of grand Croix of the Legion of Honor through the minis- try of the interior, M. Klotz replied: “M. Zaharoff {s I'rench.” He de- clined to go into detail. Blamed for- Many Wars As a matter of fact, Sir Basil Zarahoff never had a nationality. He is the cosmopolitan par excel- lence. Apart from his love affair which gave the tone to one side of his life for a long time and certain interventions in military affairs in RIDDLE T0 EUROPE (Sir Basil Zabaroll, Vastly| the Balkans it would appear that he has thought of mothing except amassing wealth, For what object? His enemies, and they are legion, are not slow to accuse him of all kinds of enormities. To believe them Zaharoff was responsible for all the wars that have devastated Europe in this generation, from the Greaco-Turkish war of 1897 to the Balkan wars and side issues in the Necar East of the great conflict of 1914-1918. Of course it would be easy to demonstrate that one man could not possibly be behind all that tur- moil and slaughter. 1t is certain that Zaharoff was and probably is interested finaneially in a hundred or more of the biggest banking, in- dustrial, shipping, prospecting and manufacturing companies in Eu- | rope. He has a controlling interest i munitions factories in half a dozen countri Now Monte Carlo | He is now iiving in Monte Carlo and according to apparently well founded reports, the reason is that Ihe has found a way to control | that little semi-independent state | through his manipulation of the tunds of the Societe des Bains de Mer in which he had invested lurgely. Some years ago there came up in the French parhament an in- terpellation regarding a secret treaty which Clemenceau is said to have signed, fiberating the princi vality of Monte Carlo of its dutie toward France as suzerain. s, has taken the ple 's mind of the great dream which he nursed for years, the founding of a new, great Greek Empire extending from Athens to the Taurus. His friend, Lloyd George, backed him in that but Mustapha Kemal had something to say about it. It did not materialize. After that Sir Basil Zarharoff left England where he had made home for many years and settled in France. He purchased outside Paris the Chateau of Balincourt which had been the property of the Baroness Vaughan, morganatic wife of old King eLopold of the Belgians, and it was there that he was mar- ried in 1924. His happiness did not Riviera. She died at Monte Carle in February, 1926, less than a year and a half after the marriage for which he waited nearly half a cene tury. Since then he has been in retirement. CHICAGD MAY BE A SECOND RENO But Not by dJudges Lynch and Sabath Chicago, July 7 (A—Chicago is not to become a Rialto Reno if Cir- cuit Judges Lynch and Sabath can prevent it In the court room of cach of these iudges yesteday an actress' suit fo divorce was dismissed. The petition of Miss Audrey Maple of “Sunny Days” was ruled out for want of she was not INinois, Mrs. Helen Cressman Carr's peti- tion to divorce Alexander Carr, who was featured in the “Potash and Perlmutter” plays, was dismissed on her own motion. Judge Sabath had withheld action in the case pend- ing an investigation to learn if Mrs. Carr was entitled by a year's resi- dence in Illinois to sue here. Mrs. Carr claimed to have lived in Cook county (Chicago) four years. Charges Desertion Maple's action a legal resident of | Miss against * on-mw DINR- CAN |\ BORROW THAT DARLING~ WAT BOX OF Five Schooner Rigged Yachts Have Set Sail New York, July T (M—Following their four small sisters who set sail for Santander, S8pain, a week ago, five schooner rigged yachts, major division of the ocean race entries, start today for Spain on their 3,055 mile voyage for the King Alfonso cup. The start is set for noon off Ambrose lightship. Aboard the Elena, one of the favorites to win the race, will be three women. They are Mrs. William B. Bell, wife of the owner, Miss Helen Driscom Bell, her daughter, and Miss Marion Walters, all of New York. With Mr. Bell they com- M. C. LeWitt Jewelry — Silverware in Street Flight < prise the amateur crew of the craft. —_— BUMPER TURTLE HARVEST Douarnenez, Brittan, July 7. #— Breton fishers are making a rich haul of turties, apparently driven off their course in tropic seas, and washed by strong currents to the shores of France. One ketch trawling for mackerel off the Ar- men lighthouse brought up a su- perb apecimen eight feet long and weighing more than 750 pounds. Another weighing 600 pounds was caught by a smack from Audierne. MORGAN DEAD Kansas City, July 7.—M—A dis- patch to the Kansas City Star from Morgan, widely died at his home there this morning. Rogers, Arkansas, says that Tom P. known humorist, “riL QD CAREAIL —eTc~ —ETHEL— his | last long. The Duchess of Mar- chena was in poor health and she | and Sir Basil went to live on the equity when Judge Lynch found that | Geoge K. Griffitha, New York Lroker, charged desertion. Mrs. Carr, formerly a film and bathing beauty. asked a divorce on the same grounds. In the past several months Chi- cago courts have issued divorce de- crees to several well known act- resses, Fanny Brice and Helen Men- ken being two of the better known names that have appeared on the court records. Jeanne Eagels, star of “Rain” and *“Her Cardboard Lover,” has an action pending now against Ted Coy, the one time fam- ous Yale football star, whom shs accuses of cruelty. At the time the bill of Miss Eagels | was filed Judge Sabath said there | had been criticism—*Perhaps just | criticism” that Chicago was becow- ng a popular place for actors and actresses seeking divorces. In some ases, he said, the legal residence uf | parties involved has been ques- | tioned. He said that the courts { were making every effort to satiefy | themselves of the plaintiffs’ right to sue before any decrees were en- | terea. 'WORLD CURRENGY 15 BETTER NOW .| Situation Shows Improvement ' Labar Conlerence Hears | | Geneva, July 7, P—A definite im- provement in the currency situation | is the first outstanding fact in the | economic and financial recovery of | the world, savs Albert Thomas, di- rector of the international labor | burcau, who made a detailed report |on international conditions te the |international labor conteence here, Mr. Thomas, who was a member of the French cabinet during the | war, said he thought French cur- | rency had already been stabilized in | fact and that practical or legal | stabilization was also effected in Ar- gentine and Brazil, 1s Reforming of currency Evidence reform scemed to him to be found in the | reconstitution of savings, the re. ;onflning of credits, increased finan- | cial balances and lowering of inter- | est rates. He remarked | total loans placed in United | States, Great Britain, the Nether- |lands and Switzerland by rious countries had risen from 81,85 000,000,000 in 1924 to $2,451,000,- 000,000 in 1927, Nevertheless Thomas emphasized that the economic situation is still difficult in & number of countries, almost reaching the stage of crisis in certain cconomic fields. The dif- ficulty in adapting buying power 1o producing power—as witness the situation in the coal industry in Europe, which s suffering from over production. Thomas belleves that the problem is in finding means of bringing the market's power of absorption into line with the pro- | ductive capacity of men and ma- | chines. that the the DREDGE HARBOR FOR TIN Plymouth. England, July 7 (@— A London firm of engineers plans, with the approval of the local gov- ernment, to dredge the inner harbor of Falmgyth for tin. 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