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T "V M % : 4 [ Golim otherwior lndiepted. thentrion) Botiess 408 FOVIOws B this columa Sre TN g orew epencier_ for the “SHOW GIRL” AT STRAND ‘I the First Natienal special, “Shew Girl” with Alice White w! _opeged a foyr-day engagement/ at +the trand theater list night, is*net .-the @lm cemedy of the -year it at " least challenges all corners for first . -place. It's an authentic reflection of this age of jazz in and around the Great White Way of New Yeork.. It kes you back of backstage and lets ~50u see what makes the wheels of ‘the amusement profession go areund; it takes you back of the - bight club and cabaret racket and + shows you the raw, human nature, . the greed, the conflict, the love and hate and crime whieh flourish in the shadows of these whitely lighted temples of pleasure. The vaudeville program will offer fice select acts with Chase and La Tour Co. in “Around the Corner; Marty and Nacy in “Say It With Dancing”; Willie Frick and Kath- leen Pope, world's champion figure ice skaters; Boyle and Della in the comedy riot “How's That”; “The Three of 17s” in “Recollections.” On Thursday Richard Dix will be offered in his new photoplay hit “Warming Up" a remance of base- ball. Beginning next Sunday Clara Row will be éffered for four days in her greatest picture “The Fleet's In." 10 RERARILITATE FLORIDA REFUGEES Will Aid Needy Until They Are Re-tstablished West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 24 (M—Rehabilitation needs crowded the picture of émergency rellef to.4domestic day in the husricane stricken area of Flerida. While caring for Ahe immediate needs of the thousands of homeless officlals looked forward to measures reestablishing the refugees-and furn- ishing them a new start until they can pick up their own burdens. Count of the dead went on, but reliet workers sald there was no assurance the actual death tdl ever would be known. Unable to get bodles out of the flooded arca for burial, they are cremating many of them. Official eptimates variously placed the death list at 1,200 to 1,600. Additional bodies constantly are being found. Howard W, Selby, chairman of the Palm Beach county Red Cross committee said his chapter was ready formally to request that the National Red Cross take over all reltef work. He said his workers would continue through this week, but that the regl emergency period probably would end by the middle of the week. New stories of tragedy come daily from the devastated area. The Red Cross announced receipt of reports that 400 bodies of the inhabitants of Pelican Bay, a sugar cane village lLetween Pahokee and Belle Glade, had been located. This discovery, paid Schafer fixed the Red Cross' official death list at 1,200. Florida cities were speeding addi- tional supplies and personnel. Boats and trucks offffered the most feas- ible means of transporting relief to the tier of razed towns along the !+ shores of Lake Okeechobee, Clearing Highways Crews were engaged in clearing highways that have not gone under water, They were reporting the finding of many bodies. At Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, carpenters sought to repalr the damage and enable the com- munities to get back to work. Many stores closed during the past week, planned to open again. The problem of rehabilit: farms, worried mates made by Ired I Mjamli, for thc federal government| cald that the farm loss had been wpproximately $2.500.000 in Bro-| ward and Palm Beach counties, mul‘ that & minimum ot $300,000 was re- | quired to assure thut there will be 4 winter crop. “0. C. Geiger, who was dispatched into the storm area of Lake Okee- chebee by Chairman Selby, reported that he estimated the dead at 1,500 negroes, mostly laborers, and 700 white persons. He counted destruc- tion of property at 95 per cent and sald that 98 per cent of the live- | atock and poultry had perished. T~ TR [ r— PARSONS HARTFORD THURS.-FRL-RAT. MATINEE SATURDAY teeond of the Seasem “BROADWAY BOUND” Eative Orch. $1.30; Entire Balc. $1.00 L Sat. Mat, Best Seatn $1 Mesars. Shubert Present ‘THE COMMON $IN’ A New Pl by WILLAKD MACK Prior te N. Y. Premier With & well knewn cmst NOTE: This play wae presented in Long Dirmack last July wnd was the Bt of the semmer try-mt season. Seat Nale Opems Mon., Nept. 3 “The Common. in Haw TN, 7] Y. FPremiere Mon., Oct. Classes in Tap Dancing For Adults EMERSON STUDIO 162 MAIN ST, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928, FOUR SUACIDES IN CONNEETICUT Woek-End Also Finds One Mur- Accomplished . Hartferd, Bept. 24.—(UP)—Four suicides and one murder were re- ported in Connecticut over the week- end. Julius F. Ko'eszar, 22, fatally shot his fiancee, Miss Helen Szalay, 19, then took his own life with the same revolver, at Bridgeport. x Despondent because of bad health, Michael Infantalo, 73, shot himself to death with an qld army revolver at Ansonia. Charles H. Decker, 53, of Walling- ford, died while en route to a Mer- iden hospital after drinking poison. Romauldo Dibiase, 28, of McKees- | port, Pa., jumped from the rear of | a speeding train at Fairfield after he had been warned away from the back platform. He was killed in- statly, ~z !II g IYITIAT | P A ) 9 N 3 Lo, 5 [ o =L SIPOrtive SMESSIISRt Campeny. LILAC TIME AT CAPITOL Againt the thunderous back- ground of war-torn France, with fly- ing aces zooming in the air over- head and the backwash of the world's most terrible conflict bring- ing panic to the peasantry, a li'tle slip of a girl in simple frock: ki you to great emotional I brings a heart-threb here and a tear there, as you follow her through onc of the greatest romances ever told. That, in a sentence, is “Lilac Time,” Firast National's great new special picture starring Colleen | Moore at the Capitol theater today, Tuesday and Wednesday. ‘Lilac Time" is truly great, and Colleen Moore is brilliant in a role that rises to emotional heights. This clever little comedienne, who sprang to fame in the flappér, pictures of & few years ago, is justly entitled to & niche among the best dramatic act- resses of all time as the result of this great role in the picturization of the stage play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. There, will be continuous shows | daily. On Thursday the program changes and brings a double feature bill of- fering 8ammy Cohen and Jack Pen- nick in *Plastered In Paris.” The co- feature is “Lovers of An Actress.” LILA AND JAMES PARTING Miss Icc and Mr. Kirkwood Wil suspend Marital Relations—She ‘Wants to Continue Carcer, Los Angeles, Sept. 24 (P—Miss Lila Lee and James Kirkwood, play- ers on the stage and screen, have come’to a parting of the marital ways. Her desire to continue her | film carcer has been given by Miss | Lee as the cause of the rift. | i | Bridgeport, ~ Sept. 4.—(U'P)— | Jullus F. Koleszar, 22, bought some chewing gum after church Sunday, then walked into the heme of his flancee, Miss Helen Szalay, 19, shot her to death and took his own life. Police have only one theory re- garding the double killing—that Koleszar may have become angered at the girl’s refusal to elope with him. The girl and her companion were alone in the third floor apartment. Suddenly neighbors heard shots and Miss Szalay, crying “Mama, Mama!” | ran Into the apartment of a friend. She dled almost instantly from a | bullet in her lung. | Koleszar was found dead in & | | bedroom, a bullet hole in his fore- |head and a smoking revolver in his lifeless hand. | Miss Szalay was shot in the back. | | Police believe she endeavored to | | escape when her flance drew his re- | volver, FALL T0 SELL HIS RANCH | Former Secretary of Interior Wil | Disposc of Holdiugs for $800,000 ( After weeks of denylng reports of | differences the couple made @ week-end announcement that a separation, which the Holly- wood film colony had regarded as| temporary, would be made permi- pert B, Jall, former secretary of the nent. Miss Lee declared it was the|interior, recuperating in the south- | result of l\ledr ‘conm-umlp "::,!‘h 'l': west from his serious illness of last actress could he a success b spring, has announced he expects making a home and bullding d | o001 dispose of his Three Rivers, carcer. She said she could not Feh |N. M, ranch to Clay Mann, New up her work s an actress which | o L= (Bl Lt il hsd been atarted at the age of nine. | O Colorado and Texas cattle Since thelr marriage five yea el reponte 3 i | ported consideration, in- Sirkw Miss Lec were | :f:ar'«;:dk:?«:w aed it m‘mficlud:nx the steck, is suid to be ap- proximately $800,000. 4 ) rence n | P £ouplea l;l‘eflp)“flh;“‘"me“;‘?"he | “I think Mann will close the deal u‘”vh.{ Tt e 15, and Kirk, o0 the terms agreed upon,” Fall | e e ihan twico that age. *id. He maid the Tren Ritos Cattle Cirk- and 'Land company holds title t E scpara egan when Kirk- “0d P o Tiie: s-paration bex the ranch, and that Harry F. Sin- Jt | clair is the only person outside his wood left for London to play & v : cment there, d Z;‘r::|:o‘:"(:.hf:;:m;:eg nreuched home | immediate family to hold stock in although the actress often called at the company. his home to see her four year old| Since Tis return from a sani- son, James Kirkwood |tarfum near Pasadena, Calif., Fall —— | has been spending his time between Scientists Gather to the ranch and his El Paso res- B 3 dence. He appears to be much im- Discuss Fuel Work proved in heaith and hlu}lcolor in London, Scpt. 24 UP—Scicutists | good. His heart, hofever, is still from fitty nations searching for new giving trouble, he said. ® "] fuels to meet ever increasing world | “At the ranch I spend as much | demands convened here today discuss fuel problems and possibili- ties of industrial development in the light of latest knowledge. ~ One of the most important ques- tions of the conference will be the use of pulverized fuel in marine en- gines, A vast new highly efficient as “paraffin Mazout,” from Russia. The coal and lignite resources of Australia provide another of the subjects for discussion.= More than 100 lectures will be de- livered before October 6. to New Yorker. | drive from 15 to 20 miles every day. T can get over the lower part of the ranch but cannot stand the higher altitudes.” Mr. Iall does not care to discuss | politics. | “I get aN my information about politics from the newspapers,” |said, “Aside from that 1 do mot | know anything about the subject.” sugply of cheap and 1huid fuel, known is reported | PALACE TODAY IRENE RICH in POWDER MY BACK” Co-Featare HOOT GIBSON in “CLEARING THE TRAIL® TUESDAY ONLY DOROTHY MADAME 10! CROPS UNDER WATER Trebinje, Jugoslavia, Sept. 24 P —A cloudburst yesterday flooded a wide expanse of the countryside and crops were under water today. Some lives were lost. For Adults Now Forming Emerson Studio 162 MAIN * 1. P. McEvoy’s Startling Story of Broadway's REDDEST and HOTTEST Momma! ALICE . WHITE SHOW GIRL' The Gal With These—Them and Those! " VAUDEVILLE CHASE & LATOUR CO. BOYLE & DELLA Around the Corner™ m “How’s That" FRICK & POPE Champilon lve Skaters “RICHARD DIX in “WARMING UP” AWAY TOMORROW NITK WEDNESDAY ONLY JOHN GILBERT In “FOUR WALLS" TODAY TUES.—WED. MARTY & NACY De Luxe Dancers THREE OF USs " Begin: Thursday | #al ground for divorce. | tiring because of | This village challenges Drum Kl Paso. Tex., Sept. 24 (P)—Al- |, to time as possible out in the open. 1| New York — A charming famil- iar volce from afar doubtless per- haps has thrilled Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins on his way to the antarctic. Suzanne Bennett; actress, his fiancee, sang half an heur on the radio, hoping that he would hear her. He is at sea aboard thé steam- ship Southern Cross. m nent yeung railroad clerk finds it pleasant variety from his first job to motor with the young lady with whom he has an understanding. John Coolidge and Florence Trum- bull drove 100 miles from New Haven In her roadster to visit his mother and grandmother. The: went to church with Mrs. Coolidge and sat with her in the family pew. New York — The organization for the improvement of divorce laws, Just formed, intends to ask the:leg- istature to make lonesomeness a le- It believes of many decrees. Mukden, Manchuria Tough on General Chang Tsung-Chang. After being defeated in battle he could lo- cate only cight of his 2§ wives. New York — John Markle, coal magnate, will occupy alone, except for servants, a Fifth avenue apart- ment costing $1,000,000. 1t will take up two entire floors and will have 18 servants’ rooms, 24+ haths, three Kkitchens, four clevators and 26 tele- phones. Vancouver, B. C. — J. Graham Gates of Toronto is here with his motorcycle, the rear wheel of w hich was dipped in the Atlantic ocean and the front wheel in the Pacitic. He Irode it 5,000 miles from Halifax in 21 days. New York — William J. Bowen is to be paid $i0.000 a vear for life by the Bricklayers’, Masons and Plasterers’ international union. he: ‘he made president emeritus. County population here is 300 and there » 17 saloons. M- forts to reduce the number resulted in one license heing cancelled. Mullagh, County Clare, Drumshambo, Ircland —- Ir sibil- For a population of 87, Mul- gh has nine public houses. bo's record for alcoholic London — Princess Elizebeth, two year old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, has a new cow, It came from Alderney, in the Channel Islands and cost the Duke £200. Bridgeport—Julius Kolessear, shot his intended bride He Szalay, 14, and then Killed himself at the home of the girl. Cause of the shooting. was not known. | New Maven—A fire causing dam- lage of $4,000 to a Iranklin strect |house, was the indirec: reason for {the death of Luce De 1, 58, who died of heart failure fellowing the |escitement. PICK O’ THE PICTURES! he | | | ! | | A Love Romance | As Frag:ant As the Lilacs in Sprirg! Northampton, Mass. — A promi- | Re- | Leitrim, Capilst INE BURNING KISS—They had found Love too late, but COLLEEN MOORE FLASHES OF LIFE: TRAVELS 5,000 MILES IN 21 DAYS ON MOTORCYCLE Hartford—Alluding to Gov. Smith as a man that represents the organ- ixzed liquor power,” the state prohi- Lition party passed a resolution en- dorsing Hoover at its state conven- tion, Fairfield—Romaulde Dibiase. 28, {jumped from the rear car of .train {te the tracks, near Sasco Hill, was |Killed instantly as he struck head | on tracks. Fairfield—Four persons were in- jured when three cars were in crash | {ar Post road and Kings highway. Ngne wero seriously injur New Haven—The freshman Sclass t Yale will total $96 students from { 141 different stat ce, Canada, Mexico and Vene New Haven—William Fitzgerald, seriously injured, whil: taking Mr Catherine Hills to hospital trom ear- lier auto accident.. His machine wus | 1t street intersection by car | ated by August J. Mita of Mer- | nwich—Emil ¥ord, of Sound | Beach, was arrested by police as the | driver of car that killed Shirley | Trine, high school girl Wednesday. He was charged with evading re- sponsibility and reckless driving. Stamford—Alfred Albonevio, 11, a cripple, was killed, as he attempted to put stone under wheet of slipping | truck on hill, STEAMER BLOCKS BUSHFLS OF WHEAT ‘Ries Across Welland Canal in Ontario St. Catharines, Ont.. Sept. 24 (P— | Norweglan steamer loaded with pulp lay across the Welland Canal today, blocking from the sea mil- lions of bushels of wheat, Officials estimated it would tak at least to put the canal back into operation. Crashes Into Gates The Norwegian freighter Doris |crashed inte the gates here at 1 a. | m. vesterday morning when the i EMERSON STUDIO 162 MAIN ST. CHILDREN'S DANCING CLASSES 1 Begiuning Sept. 24 Tel. 613 or 1430-W Register Now! TODAY TUES.—WED. Continuous Love Never Dies! “Lilac ” ime with GARY COOPER Hear ELMER JOHNSON Sing “JEANNINE” SAMMY BCENE OF THE LAST SUPPER AeSTHE KING OF KINGS® T AT THE CAPITOL BEG COHEN, JACK PENNICK in | Dalhousie hawser hauling her through the canal slipped. The waters released by the breaking of the gate swept away the two upper gates, one of the lower ones, tore out weir on the south side of the canal and swept over the north wall. The freighter dropped her anchor when the water swept her against the side of the canal and the big flukes caught the mitre sill of the gate and tore that out. To Lose Thousands With the grain movement at its height and the canal in usc day and night officials estimated the tieup would cost thousands of dollars m HARRIET NETTEY DIES AT AGE OF 72 —— i A shock suffered Friday by Mrs. | Harriet Mettey, 72 years old, of 226 | Grove street, was believed to have | actual loss to the grain boats ulone “ b i while they are held inactive with | e¢D the cause of her death at the | New Britain General hospital this | full crews. The damage to the can- | oW | b G e al also guns into the thousunds of | \OrNing at 3 o'clock. She had been {at the hospital since Saturday. dollars. No ecstimate could he mad- | Mrs. Mettey was one of the old- as to the probable loss in Irench-Canadian residents in | marketing of the wheat Sieny Thirteen freighters, most of them | UMis ¢ity where she has lived for the | She was born in| loaded with grain were in the canal | P today, thirteen more were at Port | moved to Wisconsin on Lake Ontario waiting | 1bout 50 years age. Later she moved to get through and as many more |10 Woonsocket, It. 1. and 10 years lake steam at Port Colborne | later she came to this city. on Lake waiting to unload | Throughout her life in New Brit- their gain into the storage clevators, » lived in St. Mary's parish from where it is placed on a regular attendant at St. boats for transfer through the locks. | Mary's church It was estimated that more than| She had been making her home 8,500,000 bushels of wheat were | with her son, Harry. She le aboard the waiting flect at Port | other Colberne alone. Grain coming down | Newark 1., and during the next few days will have | Meride d three to be sent to Buffalo for shipment | Rosalie of Sherhrooke, to the seaboard many shippers be- | Que Canad lieve, | Springfield, Mas Canada funeral will he held af of her son on Grove street ¢ morning at 9:30 o'clock < will be at St. Mary's 10 o'clock. Burial whi Mary's cemetery. lute sons, Unload Cargo argo of pulp aboard the Doris was being unloaded today and | home 1t was belicved she might be pulled | Wednesd out of the canal by tonight but of-|and servic ficials sald it would be Wednesday | church night at the arliest before the canal | he in St would be open to traffic, | | The ¢ | — Nunzio F. Agnello ACH OF VIOLIN DIO 209 MAIN ST. For Annointments CALL 20093 The Welland canal is about miles long and: connects lakes O tario and Erie. It is the bottle ne through which most of the grain | of the Canadian wheat belt finds an | outlet to the sea. | SNOW IN Graz, Anstria, Scpt. 24 (P —An unprecedently carly fall of temper- | ature accompanied 1 snowf. lasting 24 hours wus reported tod 0 AUSTRIA | — | Whalesale Stadghter By Cawies ] Over Week-End Added (0 Records ’ At Police Station. | Forty-two chickens were killed by dogs over the weck-end wccording to complaints to the peolice. 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De MILLE'S KINGS ANIE MACKHERSON CAPITOL ] | House am—Boardhg (¥ Vo AsK, WHAT AM I Doida WHY,-THAT wr WELL,w UH 4 UM-M- ER, THAT 1S« AH,+To BE “TRUTHFUL, I HANE GIVEM THE IDEA P!~ 1T WouLY TAKE “THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS 0 PUT 1T oM “THE MARKET, vt AND WHILE I STILL THINK T A REMARKABLE IDEA, T CAKT ceT ANYBODY INTERESTED To FINANGE -THE PROPASITION ! e S0 T'VE DECIDED 10 DROP (T! NING SUN ABoUT MY TALKING SIGN-BOARD 2 Is -1/ oNLy APPLE “HAT RIPENED ~ oMl VOUR WHOLE HOOPLE FAMILY “TREE ! v ARV NowW Vou'RE GOING 1o “TosS T AWAY 2 wae WELL, I Dol T “THINK A PHoTa- GRAPH WouLp ——— By Ahermn T costoATSEl IP WRECK, wt BUT GNE ME NOUR “TALKIN6 i SIGNBOARD 1DEA)i AN' TL HAVE HisH FIkARce Ho‘q__‘gme MeE IDEA N 1 i