New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 9

ATERS \?‘. k./ reviews In thie eoluun are Writtes by pres agencies for the respective amusemest company. s fl !l li ~& S LAURA LA PLANT \\'lllum Boyd in AT CAPITOL | GREAT BILL AT STRAND e Cop’ will | Tonight is the tast showing at th B T00 a0 DD s et ol e and Capitol, where it has been pleasing | Rence Ador movie fans since its opening last photoplay feature par excellence Sunday. | On Thursday the entire program A melodrama of the highest changes and brings “Jazz Mad® as order, it depicts the trials and | the feature photoplay with five new. tribulations of the guardian of th: acts of entertaining vaudeville, law in the underworld scctions of | Romance New York. Its theme is powerful | “Jazz Mad, and real entertainment is to be had |ving J Hersholt, ion Nixon in seeing “The Cop. and George Lewis provide the Beginning Thursday the program |mance and Hersholt the acting. changes and brings a double feature | The picture can be ranked among show that will be well liked. Top- | the best that have shown here this | ping the program is vhamnng")wr laura La Plante in her new pic-| The vaudeville show is headed by | ture, “"Home James” a comedy |Joe Niemyer and Co. who offer scream. The co-featurc offers| Broadway flash of Song and new Adolphe Menjou with elyn Brent | dances, and the other acts are all in A Night of Mystery,” a roman- | Suaranteed cntertainment. tic melodrama with an unusual | DBeginning Sunday night for plot that will hold interest to the Mays Greta Garbo will b very end. in her new production, “Road House.” that startling ex. | 1eTious Lady,” in which she is cqst pose of modern sons’ und daugh. N a role snarer of men and ters' doings after midnight in th: Bas Conrad Nugel in Nlmmn innocent appearing rural taverns, will be offercd for four days begin- ning Sunday with Lionel Barrymor and beautiful Maria Alba. Iriday night will be merchants' gift night. ‘ HAVE BROKEN mmsns S, Minister John Gilbert e in “The Cossacks, ani Universal picture star- featured “The Mys- of a ‘WILL NOT MEET THE DEMANDS OF RANSOM h Government Won't Net Pre- | codent and Free Political Captives . to China Says Their | who Are RKidnaped. Government Has Not I,\u'lm!t‘ll‘ Athens, Au Property Belonging o Americans, | ECVCrnment Jast night {order not to set w Shanghai. China. Aug. s (P —John | ecided not to pay any ransom for Van A. MacMurray, American min- | the political candidates who wert ister at Peking, has sent a note to| Kidnaped in western Macedonia, the nationalist foreign minister call-| One of the two wen taken by the ing attention to the failure of the | brizands, M. Milonas, former und nationalist government to fulfil | SCCretary of finance, was released by promises made on several occasions | the band Monduy at midnight, He to evacuate all American property | 1F'¥ing to collect money to ransom by soldiers and othery Jis companion, Constantion Melas, a and to prevent further such occur- [ OFer depuiy for whom the bandits rences, liad demanded 365,000 The note says that Milonas said that neither iad ises by the nationalist abuscd by the brigands al only a portion of such they had been threatencd wi Hae heen evatunted. 1should troops' attempt a . He tional property {usscrted that the Kidnapping — was e e for a political motive bt declined Biwiee. ik diota’ inetanses 1o explain further until Melas is li- American church mission and cathe- | rated. dral, the consulate at Nanking, the| Both men are American Presbyterian missions and | [1AMent in the properties at Hsuchowtn, Tsining | ["t1day m the | and Shuntchfu, which arc occupjed | 000 cam: | ttrict y-Lhs Gl with Primg | izelos Greeee, N (R T 1 that in occupird cen ough ' death spite prom- government properticsy ind cven addi- has heen seized rese the widates for par- irus district g in th Lpirus dis- mpanioning Minister Eleuthrios Ven lnterlotl\mg Loans Have Been Revealed 37 Pelsons Are Held St. Lonis, Anug. 8 (& —Interlocking B‘- Pohce in Me ICO loans, cach of $1.000,000 or morey | e “or LS T RERIOT between Roy (. Toombs, president | ‘1”‘”_ 3 ERnned. (ohis of the International Life Insurance | . narsons, Shaliding: Gwo. Catliolic Company, and persons interested ""pn.m hiad been arrested and are the Great Southern Life Insurance [Jrioif 106 CEn ARTesicd and are Company of Houston, Tex., were re- | CRE M O Vealoll Meng | ral Alvardo Obr The b D lien It we nnounced that Greenwood, president e s hafl Areoatel Caalos reat Southern Company 19 | hion, manavilly - called O gos St. ilouls ito. confer: with = tro. He is said by the authoriti terested i the re-organization of |yt 5 S satadl avith the International Life Trejo in the bombing of the chamber Greenwood's purpose s to protect | or danities in Mav, the value of the International Lite | police are still secking stock, a larze block of which connection with the statement holds as sceurity for a $1.000,000 & & Hison Dol Olitieants loan made to Toombs last Septem- n, that he borrowed the zun for ber. The stock is now threatened Killir rom Trejo. With loss in value through alicged removal of $3.500,000 bonds from the International company’s ussets. Foonibs borrowed the money from Greenwood at the time Toom & balance of more than 1,00 to pay on the $3.100.000 purchasc price of the Internutional Compuny acquired in June 1927 from W. K Whiteficld and associates, Bndgcport ‘Man Held b By Pittshurgh Police ™""""" Pittsburgh, Aug. 8 (—John Lu- of Brideeport, Conn.. was held for court here vesterday after John Scaffa of Braddock had testi- fied that Lucas was onc of three men who defrauded him out of $3,- 000 last_May. through a “moncy- making” machine. Lucas was ar- rested Saturday at Bridgeport and police arc secking his alleged ac- complices. n also of came thoke the New Havén Theateflr Gets New Haven, Aug. §—J. Henry Roraback and Clarence G. Willard, chairman and sceretary of the re- publican central committee, acti as a committee to select the place for the state convention, have decided on the this eit The [] state convention will be on and 7. l\\l 1GHTS Aug. s P—Biily who breezed out of North few years ago with a him the ring so- Fargo Express” has Petroll ko d 1] briguet of juit the 1 come w welterweight, his manager Hack Hurley, has announced, Hurley said Petrolle had been un- (ble 10 olitain matehes in the ligh FARIY e division and thus was MEAVE SAxice K competition Mich., Aug. 8 (UP)—City | oy Treasurer Wagner painstakin counted the coins J. M. F thrown upon the count: thousamtl, three hundred fifty 60." drooned Treasurer Wagner, “the amount is correct.” Harper had paid his taxes in pennies and the bag he carricd into the of- fice weighed nearly 23 pounds, spet won The T omipelled to unong the heavier Adrian, AN IS IDENT m W WO The Biroad street apparently in an insane condition by the police yesterday morning and whose identity re- nained a mystery up to the time sh was taken to the Norwich hospitat Bas been identificd as a Plainville wonuat She has been confined 1« an institution befor HOLD SWINDLERS Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 8 (U'P)— Samuel Bakos, 25, and Frank Weres, 26, were under honds of $500 cach here today charged with swindling up regulations for international Steve Hula by telling him they | trade. At Hamburg, dealers collect would train him for a boxing match rags from all parts of Europe for with Gene Tunney or Jack Dempsey. | shipment abroad Rag dealers from all parts of {he world met in Paris recently to draw FRIDAY ONLY Don’t Miss It —PALACE — | TOMORROW ONLY Your Last Chance To See TUNNEY- HEENEY FIGHT PICTURE ——— e v S JOTEPH M.SCHENCK presents HERBER BRENON'S Samd FLL TODAY | | s sl s ! CARMELMYERS ) MONTE BLUE in “BRASS KNUCKLE:! Co-Pals in “Peril” and good acting feature | tour | dent it had | nationul clection on | nd had | that | issination of Gen- | Mannel | Republican Convention | Hyperion theater in | ghtweight division to be- | 0 was picked up on; NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNBSDAY. AUGUS'D 8, 1028, FIREMAN IS FINED FOR MAKING ERROR Assessed Two Days 'Pty- Routine Business Taken Up \bers of the fire commission at r meeting last night went on ord as tuvoring the practice of a previous board in fining firemen two days pay when they are respon- sible for an incorrect reading of the alirm tape, and this penalty, |wmounting to 313, was assessed Capt. John Connolly of Engine Com- pany No. 6. Capt. Conyolly directed his com- pany to box 119 when an alarm came {in from box 219. He reported the {incident to Chief W. J. Noble who referred it to the commission for {action. The vote to penalize ti [captain was unanimous. | The board also voted favorably on {an ordinance provisionally adopted |by the ordinance committee of the |common couneil, increasing the {storage of fuel oil from a 61-gallon |maximum to a 180-gallon maximu A request for this change was made | by oil burner companies and was r |terred by the common council to t {fire_commission and the ordinan | committee for consideration. John Kunz who acted as superin- |tendent on the No. 4 station altera- [tion job until the work went on a ontract basis and who tigured in a wther warm disagreement with the »ourd, submitted a bill for $40 for limplements furnished — on the job. he bill was not itemized and mem- |bers of the commission characte lized it as a “spite bill” It was |voted to refer the bill to Chairmaa | {Jumes J. Butler for act and he | will confer with Mr. Knuz. Clerk J. J. Keogh reported that funds for the alteration job are | practically exhausted and work must | |stop. The original estimate for the alterations was about $10,000, The council made two appropriations to- | taling $7.500. making no provision | for the balance. | The matter of periodic shifting of | men in the department was dis- cussed but no action was taken. 1t already been decided that ecap- | tains and ficutenants will change shifts within their own companies on October 1. Application blank supplivs haying Leen exhausted by the rge number who have applied in the past few months, Clerk Keogh was instructed |to have an additional number pre- pured. The new blanks, in addition to calling for information obtained through the form heretofore in use will inquire as to the police record of the applicant and whether he has previously applied. An affidavit to show that the applicant is a citizen and voter will also be contuined in the blank. ANNIVERSARY | There will he a meeting of the | [ members of the N. B. Turner society | [at their club room on Arch strect | | this Thursduy evening in commem- |ovation of the 150th birthday of [ Lndwig Jahn, the founder of Ger- I man gymuastics. Appropriat drcsses will be made on the oc [ Also interesting news in reference to | the German Turnfest held in | logne, July 22nd to 31st, is expected to be received, A profitable evening ‘ls in store for the Turners. TURNERS' the || Younger Set Do | After Midnight {| WHILE PARENTS SLEEP! ? Flasks on the Hip! | Petting, Necking and Danc- ing away the wee small hours in the haunts of the .lazz || Babies! WHO IS TO BLAME? EE — “Road House” will A Picture that thrill and amuse evers member of your | At the | caPITOL BEGINNING SUNDAY SAY DU PONT | PONT WILL QUIT GENERAL MOTORS New York Paper Asserts He will Resign As Board Chairman With. in Week. New York., Aug. $ (#—The New York Amecrican says today that Pierre Samuel Du Pont will resign chairman of the board of direct- ors of the General Motors corpora- tion hefore the end of the week. Mr. Du Pont was reached by the American last night at his home in Wilmington, Del. The financier said he did not feel able at this time cither to confirm or deny the report of his resignation, but added signifi- cantly: "I have nothing to say at this time. I will make an important statenient to the directors of Gener- al Motors at their meeting in New York on Thursday afternoon and the ent will be given out when American says that the re- ported resignation of Mr. Du Pont is not dissociated from the resigna- tion of his friend and long-time as- sociate, John J. Raskob, who retired as chairman of the finance commit- tee of General Motors to take charge of Gov, Smith’s presidential cam- paign Body leg to Arrive In Time for Funeral nna, Aug. 8 (B-—Belgrade dis- ches say that the assassinated editor whose death was blamed on the dis turbed political condition tiberately delayed by Croation rail- way employes who ran the ca ing the body onto a sid When the body 4 to arrive in time for the funeral yesterday, an \ | investigation discovered it on a re- mote siding at Vinkovitchi. The funeral will e The authorit have punish severely those the Record Pl‘ice Paid For Saratoga Colt Springs. N. V., Aug. § 1 price of $75,000 was promised to responsible for n unnamed | yearilng colt by Whiskbroom 11, of Pavement, a daughter Gold The colt Cushman, in the I Burt and Ias) condue named out of All was bought by €. V. 1 listed as chief stockholder stland Farm syndicate. for the buyer Tipton Sal “d the sale woman. which an un- Company acted for Pick o' the Pictures! ‘TONIGHT ONLY WILLIAM BOYD in “THE COP” The Charming Star Laura La Plante “Home James” A Comedy Scream! Co-Feature with EVELYN BRENT A Fascinating Drama! THURS,, SE! +HT ONLY ILBERT —in— “THE COSSACKS™ Great Vaudeville Show FRL, SAT. For_Those Who Do—and Those Who Don’t— Love Jazz! ‘JAZL MAD’ Sarring Jean Hersholt with Marian Nixon and Geo. Lewis Great Entcrtainment LECT VAUDEVILLE JOE NIEMYER & CO. in “SAMPLES” Yeomans and “Lizzie” “ALPINE SPORTS” STARTS a Musical Comedy Teslic and Wright JEROME MANN Greta Garbro g, wymieu. Lady” funeral of the | Hristovitch, | held today. | president of the 'Far from criticizing the governor capable of being I thought he showed his courage than at present. and straightforwardness in standing| “’ nquestionably firmly by views that he was not dis- | matter of fact, the posed to modify merely on grounds sage forced the of party expedienc 1 understan: tmpaign that the convention had adopted it his stand was platform with deliberate purpose | with the program o 1(1) to satisfy those that think that|or the intention prohibition is a desirable thing in | committ itself (2) to.convey the. impression | alrewdy that democrals regard the law as| raised « D DECLARES SHITH FORCED THE ISSUE Shaw Says Democrats Tried to| Koep Probibition Out New York, Aug. § ®—Dr. Alberi 8haw, editor of the American R view of Reviews, in a letter to Sen- ator Key Pittman, of Nevada, made public yesterday said that Governor Smith ferced the prohibition issuc into the mational campaign after the democratic platform builders had done thelr best to keep it out by merely pledging their party to en- forcement. 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