New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1928, Page 9

ROGERS MYSTERY BAFFLES POLICE Prétty Louisville Woman Dis- appears From Her Apartment Louisville, Ky, Nov. 28 UM—The Rogers case—a mystery in which McDowell Rogers, pretty young widow, vanished frem her apartment in the fashionable Cherokee Park residential section on the night of October 7—contin- ued to baffle police today gs detec- tives resumed an investigation which has been under way for weeks. Ofticers who have exhausted themselves in investigating a mul- titude of rumors and reports, are awaiting the result of a chemical ex- amination of chalky substance scraped up in the furnace pipe lead- ing to Mrs. Rogers apartment. Inves tigators think this substance may be the remains of incinerated bone. Thought Slain In further support of the belief that Mrs. Rogers was slain and her body disposed of in the apartment, officers have delivered two furnace grate bars and a wrench, found in the basement of the apartment, to a chemist. The bars and wrench bear marks. The chemist has been asked 1t they are blood stains. A report current recently that Mrs. Rogers had ended her life be- cause of a reported estrangement with Hal Harned, banker of Dawson Springs, Ky., was strongly denied yesterday by the latter. Harned, sn old friend of Mrs. Rogers and her family, is the last known person to have seen Mrs. Rogers before her disappearance. Lights Failed Harned called at Mrs. Rogers' apartment on the night of her dis- appearance. While preparing to leave, Harned said the lights in the apartment suddenly failed. Harned &aid he offered to investigate wheth. er a fuse had been blown, but Mrs. Rogers dismissed him after declar- ing she would attend to the adjust- ment herself. Police have found no one who has seen the young widow aince Harned left, although a taxicab ari- ver reported having driven a woman answering her general description to the Union railway station,~about the time of her reported disappearance. The chauffeur, who was not certain as to the exact date, said the wom- an appeared “highly nervous and worried. and read two letters while en route to the station. The chauf- feur said the woman remarked that “this is a troublesome world, isn't it?" after reading the letters. Table Set Mrs. Rogers was missed a few days after Harned’s visit, when friends and relatives went to the apartment and found it unoccupied, but with the table set and remnants of a meal still on the plates. Mrs. Hogery' traveling bags were unmo- Jested,; where she had left them up- #n returning from Chicago, and her effects were in place. Philip Haynes, negro, who was empleyed as janitor at the apart- at the time of Mrs. Rogers' disap- pearance, has been in jail several days “on an old charge,” and has been subjected to a severe grilling by officers. Hardware Activity Is Just About Average New York, Nov. 2§—According to reports from important market cen- ters, the general condition of the hardware trade Is active and staple lines are sharing the healthy de- mand with holiday lines, Hardware Age will say tomorrow. Reviewing the year's business throughout the different territories it 18 evident that 1928 will surpass trade in 1937. Western sections of the country are reporting agricultural conditions to be very favorable, and that farm work is far In advance of recent vears. This, of course, lends optim- ism to the buying public and Is ex- pected to reflect itself in stepped up consumer demand throughout the winter months. Guns, ammunition and traps are steadily in demand. Weather conditions have permit- ted the building trade to progress rapidly and the industrial situation is normally satistactory. Prices are very firm and tend to- ward advances. Collections are still slow. BRITTEN WANTS JOINT HEETING Desires U, S, and England to Have Naval Confab ‘Washington, Nov. 28 (®—Chair- man Britten of the house naval af. fairs committee, thinks he has a plan that would help the United States and Great Britain to arrive at an understanding on the equality of sea power and naval problems generally. Cables Baldwin In & cablegram to Stanley Bald- win, British prime minister, Mr. Britten suggested that members of the house naval affdirs committee and a committes from the parlia- ment hold a joint meeting in Canada after March 4, and discuss equality of sea power between the two coun- tries on all classes of war vessels not affected by the Washington arms conference. The committees would report the result of the discussions and recommendation to their gov- ernments after the fashion of the inter-parliamentary union. Representative Britten said that that his proposal came about be- cause of a statement made by Pre- mier -Baldwin on November 13 in which the prime minister was quoted as saying he believed that more fre- quent personal discussions between American and British representatives would lead to better understanding and feeling. Genuine Regret “Where there is so much genuine regret among the peoples of Eng- land and America over the failure of the last Geneva naval limitations conference,” Representative Britten said in his cablegram, “surely some way should be found for a meeting before 1931 when the five leading naval powers will assemble at Wash- ington. “I will respect your personal de- sires in connection with these sug- gestioni In a ement issued yesterday, Repr ive Britten said the fail- ure of past limitations conferences had been attributed to military men and that while he personally did not think they were responsible, he would prefer to see both committees composed of non-military men. He declared that this country's naval policy had never been com- petitive but had always been de- fensive. “We have actually been backward in promoting true national defense,” he declared. “American people favor general armament reduction, but only to a limit of national safe- ty." / He asserted that England and America should lead the way toward naval limitation and a peacetul un- derstanding on the seas. ‘The deepest producing oil well is at Rosecrans, California, 7,591 feet in depth. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WED) AGE OF WONDERS S YET T0 COME This Is Opiion of Genin ol Motor Industry Detroit, Nov. 28 (M—One of the most widely known automotive en- | | gineers the automobile industry has developed is a firm believer in the theory that science has not yet be- gun to produce its real benefits to mankind. He is Charles F. Kettering, vice president of the General Motors Corporation and president of its re- search organization. “The wonderful age is yet to come; we are merely crawling along, groping for the truly wonderful thing that the future will see.” Such is the belief of the man who gave the automobile industry its electric self-starter, an electric light- ing system and scores of other im- provement, Kettering, an inventive genilis who purposely tries to “keep himself 10u per cent dissatisfied with all auto- mobiles all of the time,” tells asso- clates: B “Do not introduce the dangerous mental state of completeness into your organizations. Let our men keep open to change—steady, regu- lar development.” Kettering was a farmer boy, whose consuming desire to “know why” made him so valuable to his organization that his life has been insured for millions in favor of the General Motors Corporation. It will mean that his work will go on after his death. He is in charge of all research work of the corpora- tion. ‘Thoroughness is second na- ture with him. His greatest inter- est is in inventions that will save labor. In his “look into the wonder zge of the future,” Mr. Kettering se radium playing an outstanding part. “The kite string of future develop- ments is the progress already made in experimenting with radlum. You have noteced a steam hoiler when the pressure gauge was 300 pounds and you thought it was high p sure. But possibly few think of this other example of pressure. I open this knife blade, which has a tensile strength of maybe 100,000 pounds to the square inch, holding it to- gether. “In radium, the pressure acts the reverse for some reason, and it ghoots out with a pressure equiva- lent to the strength of the radium itself, which Is equivalent to more than 100,000 pounds per square inch. In that property of radium which shoots out particles, we have the forerunner of some of the spec- tacular things that will be done to- morrow.” Kettering was born on a farm near Loudonville, Ashland county, Ohio, August 29, 1876, and was ed- ucated in the country district school, Wooster, Ohio, Normal. He was graduated from Ohio State Ui sity in 1904. 1In 1928 the University of Michigan conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Sciences. He conceived the idea of an elee- tric self-starter for automobiles while employed by the Mational Cash Register company. He per- fected the device in a barn loft at Dayton late in 1910 and it was given to the world the next year. Fall River Primaries Bring Out Heavy Vote Fall River, Mass, Nov. 28 (P— Former Mayor Edaond F. Ta™pt, with 14.488 votes, and J. Edwarl | Lajole, with 8,895, 1ed in the may- |ora1(y primary count today and will REG.U.8.PAT OFF. oppose each other at the polls mext month. The election yesterday brought out the heaviest vote in the listos of the city at a municipal election With 34,000 persons casting ball in a total entollment of 42,000. The ballot was the longest on record. There were 116 candidates for vari- ous nominations and it was not un- til after § o'clock this morning that results in the seven cornered mayor- alty fight were known Mayor W. Harry Monks was among the losers. Talbot and Lajoie carried their re- spective slates with them. Policeman Loses Badge Third Time Westport, Nov. 28 (M—As the re- sult of an accident on the Post Road at Fairfield on Monday afternoon in which Frank Drozlek of Bridgeport received a fractured skull when a truck he was eriving was struck by un automobile driven by Police Or- ficer Charles J. Quigley of Westport, the latter was stripped of his badge and suspended from duty for the third time within a year by First Selectman King W. Mansfield earty | today. 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