New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 16

JEWELRY VALUED AT $180,000 IS SEIZED Fifth Avenue Jeweler Is Defendant In Action of Replevin ‘Brought By Wanamaker Firm. New York, July 24 (P—Jewelry valued at $480,000 has been seized from Harry Winston, of 527 Fifth avenue on a writ of replevin obtain- BRITISH FIRN 00 * GENT IS MISSING Pilkington and $133,000 Dis- appear Simultaneously | | New York, July 2¢ UP—Police to- day asnounced they are seeking Willam H. Pilkington, lecal repre- sentative of a British cotton convert- ing firm, who was indicted last week in connection with the disappearance of, $152,000. He was last reported in"Vancouver, B. C. | Pilkington, who was emploved by | Joshua Hoyle and oSns, Ltd, of Birmingham, Eng., disappeared on Jume 13. He was last reported in Vancouver, B. C., a week ago when he, his wite and two small sons. with whom he formerly lived in ed by the firm of John Wanamaker, Sheriff- Culkin announced today. The jewels were sent for inspec tion from the New York and Phila delphia stores to Mrs. Maria J. Les- lie, said to be a Philadelphia so- ciety woman, and Wanamaker has | L rought suit to recover them. It was asserted in an affidavit sub- mitted in application for the writ of seizure that Wanamaker repre- sentatives called on Mrs. Leslie at the Hotel Roosevelt on June 29 and | discovered that she had disposed of | Clara Jacobo is the jewels to Winston for §$63,000 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1928 OPERA ALSO DOES WELL FOR WOMEN Aids in Glorifying American Girl New York, July 24 —America is raising her own song birds. It must be somewhat distressed for imported nightingale to watch the domestic variety wing their way | into the Metropolitan Opera, once considered almost sacred to foreign voices. But the fact remains that of the six new women added to the opera company this year, four are | native talent. Pear! Besuner, sopra- no, and Grace Divine. mezzo sopra- | |no, are from Cincinnati, Jane Car-| rcll is from Louisville, Ky, andi from Lawrence, | | Mass. |sustained when struck in the FIGHT ENDS IN COURT Patrick Moynihan of Waterbury Re- covers Costs in Suit for $10,000 Brought Againt Him. Waterbury, July 24 (®—Patrick Moynihan, superintendent of the Brookside Home, a city institution, was awarded a judgment to recover his costs in a $10,000 cjvil action brought against him in superior court by Dr. Joseph E. Slavin in a decision ‘made this morning by Judge Edward M. Yeomans. Dr. Slavin sought damages for injuries face by Moynihan at a clambake held at Lake Quassaupaug in September, 1916, by prominent democrat leaders of the city. Moynihan had a counter claim but the court could not find that he had suffered sufficient dam- age to recover a financial award. In the course of the decision ren- dered by Judge Yeomans, the court expressed the opinion that the trou- City Items Members of Hertha lodge, D. O. H., will spend Thursday at Lake Compounce, meeting at Central park STATES TAKE UP EVEIGHT TESTS 22 | Anxious to Rule Unsale DIYErS e vecara st e operstors ticsnse of Howard Prout of 61 Majn street. Ofi Rflafl A son was born at New Britain General hospital today to Mr. and Mrs. George Lynch of 132 Kelsey New York July 24.—States and |street. cities are co-operating to keep off the highways all drivers whose vision is regarded as unsafe, reports the Eyesight Conservation Council of America. The council's aim is to require “safe vision” of every driver in the country. “Previous surveys made by the council have revealed the prevalence of defective vision among all classes of the population,” says the coun- cil's general director, Guy A. Henry. “It tures or officials of the majority of the states have not designated stan- is regrettable that the legisla-"' A son, Robert Nelson Peck, was {born July 21. to Dr. and Mrs. Eu- gene C. Peck of New London, for- merly of New Britain. Shirley, one of the twin daugh- ters of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Atwater, is ill at her home on Arch street. Eintracht lodge, O. D. H. 8., will meet this evening in Odd Fellows' hall. ing of the Lions' club today. No bus- iness was transacted although the club held its regular Tuesday lunch- eon. { There was no speaker at the meet- | Meriden Stabbing Affray Is Aired Before Court Meriden, July 2¢ UP—James Cars- betta, ¢4, of 169 Grove street and Salvatore Carabetta, ¢1.0f 40 Gracey avenue, were bound over to the perior court by Judge T. P. Dunne in police court.on charges of as- sault upon Frank Carlino of 373 Grove street, with intent to kill. Bonds in each case were fixed at 127 MAIN ST, (Opp. Arch) ~$11.98 kP All our Plain, Printed Chiffon, Printed Silk and Georgettes. Reg. price $16.75. 41,800, The Cazabetta brothers were ar. rested ‘after Carlinto was shot and stabbed near his home on the aft« ernoon of June 23. Claiming ~ that ' Carlino had wrenged the wife of James Carae betta and threstened to carry ouf similar aims ageinst his 13-year-old daughter were-made by Attorney Daniel J. Danaher, representing the defendants, who invoked the un« written law as his defense. PHONE 1409 - » Dr. Franklin R. Coombs of this city has been re-elected for his sixth term as chairman of the Connecticut | Board of Naturopathic Physicians. Jack Gordon, cardologist. will en. tertain members of the Kiwanis club | tomorrow noon. Rev. Dr. John L. Davis, formerly of this city, will preach at Short Beach, August 12, at 10:45 a. m. President E. A. Krause of Every- man’'s Bible class is interested in getting up a delegation from this ‘Yonkers, checked out of a hotel. De- tectives said they had learned that the family's destination was presum- ably Japan. The jewels from the New York | | store consisted of a $100,000 dia- {mond brooch, a $50.060 pearl rope necklace, and two diamond rings. | Ny S The shortage in the firm's accounts | The gems from the Philadelphia |1 having a good voice No “pull”| was discovered early in June. Pil- |store wers a $110,000 necklace of [P0 foreign-sounding name, no repu- Kington, who had started on his va- |73 pearls with a diamond clasp and | fation Anyone can receive an audi- cation. +isited the office on June 13, |a diamond ring holding a square |tion by asking for it and making | but on seeing accountants at work |emerald. {an appointment. It's as simple 28/ on the books, he left hastily, the po- | Deputy Sheriff Lanman made the |that—easier. actually, than crash-, lice said. seizure. He went to the office of |INg the musical stage | He came to this country six years |Winston's attorney with two checks| AR Opera engagement. too. means ago from Manchester as a salesman |from Wanamakers, one for $63,000, | mORey in the bank In her first | for the Hoyle firm, and was later |the amount Winston said he paid for [Year in the Metropolitan, Marion chosen as its American representa- Talley. the pride of Kansas City, | dards of visual acuity for motor | drivers. A few states have adopted cyesight requirements with sig- | nificant results.” New York and Connecticut, for example, are weeding out the unfit in this way. Henry points out. So is Washington, D. C., which is con- sidered relatively the safest of the! larger American cities. Don't Need “Pull” American girls have learned that the way to Metropolitan success lies All our Bathing Suits. At $4.9 Regular price $5.75. New Bathing Suits for Children. New Sun Suits for Children. 89 Full Fashioned Hose, white and colored, At C Regular $1.00. 3 sl Knitted Vests, sizes 36 to 44. At for Reg. price 39¢c to 45¢ each. All Rayon Step-Ins. At 79C Rerular price $1.06. |Ple which undoubtedly started in a friendly manner should have been settled in some manner and not brought to court. He further finds that Dr. Slavin, | a much younger and more powerful | man that Moynihan was apparently the aggressor in the scuffle. The court further find that Moynihan smm;( sdlmn in the face apparently | " po( 30 L ence in New York. in self-defense as the evidence of- ) 2 ; tered showed that Dr. Sacin walked | CHarles A Hamnett, commissioner = | of motor vehicles .urges all other towards Moynihan as the latter left | j13005 to adopt imcHE e’ New a cottage in which the two men|yerk now requires 50 per cent of o D |the gems, and the other for $50.000 | tive. A visit to the Pilkington home The lawyer took Lanman |earned some $100,000 in concert in Yonkers showed that the fur- nityure had been removed. Some had | been sold to neighbors of the missing | family. At the Hoyle office it was said that | auditors were still working on the| books. ‘The alleged thefts are be- lieved to have covered a period of at least two years. Pilkington is 28 years old. He was-indicted last week | by the New York county grand jury. | | HOOVER WILL MEET GONG. TILSON IN CONFERENCE TODAY | given “profit.” te Winston's jewelry store where |tours and royalties from records— Winston agreed to accept the checks |all because she made “The Met." and produced the gems. Lanman AR engagement carries with it a then seized the jewels and retaine] concert prestige that is worth many the checks. Detectives of the head- | times the salary that goes with the quarters staff had followed Lanman |opera engagement. to the shop and waited outside in| Which brings up the thought that case there was any trouble, | what America pays for is not neces. | - | sarily beautiful actresses but beauti- ful voices. lndepende‘l!t Icemen - | An engagement in the Follies is To Wind Up Business aimost equivalent to a rich husband, Notice of an agreement reached or even a title. But an engagement by the majority of the directors of |in the Metropolitan means that the the New Britain Ice corporation and |singer doesn't need a rich husband the White Oak Ice Co. for the ter- |The life of the musical comedy star | mination of the companies has been |is short, at best, for the tired busi- The statement avers that the [ness man likes new faces—and likes stockholders of both' concerns haveé [them young. He is more critical of agreed to the proposal and a re- |anklesthan of arias. quest that all claims against them No Weight Worries be filed before December 1, 1323 to | Although the year's crop of sing- | Mortimer L. Rhodes, wWho with Irv- fers is very easy to look at, the ing S. Tinker of New Haven, forms | grand opera singer is allowed con- a majority of the directors of the |siderable latitude in the matter of (Continued from First Page) the senate during the past two se slons of céngress due to filibusters. While Mhis offictal homecoming | celebration is to come later, Mr | Hoover received an impromptu one | at his home last night which prob- | ably gave him as much if not more genuine delight than any he will re- ceive In his home state. It was stag- ed-by the twelve hundred young men and women students attending | the Stanford university summer school | Téwn Folk Watch While hundreds of town folk look- ed on from a nearby hill, the stu- dents cheered the presidential and sang their college songs in his honor. The candidate and trustee of Stanford told the students that every man would rather have a re-l ception from his own college men |New Britain Ice corporation and.|beauty. A comfortablye robust fig- with Tinker and John W. Cooke, who |'ure is almost taken as a matter of form a mafority of the directors in | course, since s0 many of the finest the second company. singers have been in the heavy- The termination of these two com- | weight class. panies is another move in the merg- Taking on 10 pourds does not ing of all smaller companies into|jeopardize the career of an opera the fce chain which now dominates |singer as it does an actress. The the business fleld in Southern New |starvation diets and the rigorous England | exercises that the Broadway stars | accept as a part of their obligatton | to the public have no terrors for “these singers of the elect. | Age is not the arch enemy of the ‘ FR[]M [;UST“M BY opera singer that it is of the chorus cutie. A good voice is rather to be chosen than dimpled knees and ba- by stares. Scats At a Premium The Metropolitan remains the one The Butter-and-Egg Man with his roll can buy the best seats at the theater, but he cap't buy his way into the Golden Horseshoe. Those (Continued from First Page) stronghold @f the old time “class."! had engaged in a scuffle about 20 minutes before. Coroner Investigating Accident in Bridgeport Bridgeport, July 24 (A—Corner John J. Phelan hegan an'investiga- tion today into the accident in which Archie Cranson, 35, of Stratford was injured at the Crane Valve com- pany plant on Saturday. Crancon is in a critical condition at Bridgeport hospital and not expected to live He is thought to have been thrown {against a beam by the hook on an elevated rail ear used for lifting and hauling in the factory. In steamship terminology a gale blows 60 miles, a storm 70 miles and |a hurricane ‘80 miles an hour. G. F.?..fi g Co. L ] Open All Day Wednesdays normal vision of every driver. Pre- viously it was 40 per cent. Nearly | half a million applicants were ex- |amined in New York last year and | thousands had te have their sight | corrected. In Connecticut, out of 42,500 ap- plicants taking the eye tests. 2.200 had to have their vision corrected | before they could have their licenses. | Licenses were refused to 70 because | their eyes were so defective as to ! handicap them seriously as auto | operators. i =S | CHILDRE HOME OUTING | About boys and girls from the | Klingberg home will have their an- | nual outing at Hammonasset tomor- row. Dinner will be served on the | pavilion. 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A&P TEAS ARE PERSONALLY SELECTED AND BLENDED WITH THE UTMOST CARE BY OUR OWN EXPERTS and women than from any other |a8 his campaign shapes up. intends body of ten and women and that |10 Seek the advice of various men he appreciated the reception. |2nd women of prominence in the Mrs. Hoover joined her husband | demacratic party. although he is ex- | on the front portico of their home | Pected to adhere to his policy of con- while their dinner guests looked | Serving his energy and resting by not | down upon the scene from vantage | clogging his engagement book with points on top of the houses. | conferences, —_— To Talk to Ritchie | Death Penalty for Slayer |, 12 fin niek b oxpects 1 enis | Of Obregon Demanded | of Marviana | over the situation with Gov. Ritchie | The conference is he- Mexico City, July 24 P—Jose De | ing arranged at Smith's suggestion, | So, as a social and a business pro- Leon Toral, who shot to death Gen- | but the time and place for it have pesitioh. there's no better goal for eral Alvaro Obregon was himself an | DOt been determined | a go-getter with a golden voice than irresponsible victim of superior in- | Director Gatti-Casazza’s little group tellects, in the viewpoint of the of high priced singers. Agrarian political body. For that | reason, said Aurelio Manrique, spokesman for the party, his death through a report of Rear Admiral coveted seats of the mighty are harder to get than seats on the stock exchange Likewise, too, the Metropolitan retains its pomp and elegance, and its opening night is the important social event of the season. 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