New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1928, Page 31

MAY HAVE SKATING IN CITV’S PARKS Park Board Will Discuss Flood- ing Public Grounds The question whether or not New Brtain children will be given an op- portunity for skating under muni- cipal supervision this winter will be decided Tuesday evening when thel board of park commissioners meet. The question of flooding Willow Brook'and Stanley Quarter parks for skating purposes, will be one of the features of the meeting. Wal- nut Hill park wading pool will be frozen over as usual. Commissioner Arthur clerk of the board, who recently made an investigation of the pro- posed improvements at the Spanish War Veterans' memorial, will re- port. While Mr. Berg does not state what his report will consist of, it is understood that the expense will be greater than expected. veterans are reported as fully ap- proving of the proposed recommen- dations to be made by Mr made by Mr. Berg. 300 ATTEND DINNER. OF TRAFFIC BUREAU (Continued from Page 29) E. Berg. due to the magic of transportation.” ys Tribute to Burritt Dr. Bdgar S. Barney, secretary and gencral passenger agent of the Jludson River Day, line, reviewed some of the highlights of a recent tour of Europe, and paid a glowing | tribute to the memory of Elihu Bur- | ritt, “the Jearned blacksmith,” com- paring his life and work with that of George Stevenson, who was the first to operate a locomotive suc- | cessfully, stating that both men, il-| literate as they were in the earlier days of their lives, determined to seek knowledge and through hard | and consistent work reached the lighest rung of the ladder of suc- cess and international recognition. The final speal was John H. Goss, vice president of the Manufacturc iation ‘of Connecticnt and of the Scovill Mfg. ‘0. of Waterbury. He nd manufacturing conditions England and cspecially in Connectient and spoke at length of (he need of cooperation between the as manufacturers and the traffic man | improved conditions in the fu- As to present condition exist- ing bhetween Connectient manufac- turers and the New Haven road, Mr. Gioss stated that they were excep- tionally good, that through frequent | getfing together of representatives of | bioth parties much has been accom- vlished, but that there was still more fo look forward to,* and in closing appealed to those present to endeavor to make extsting conditions still better, John Coolidge Present At one of the reserved tables fn front of the main table sat a young tor ture. Special For The |1 r of the evening | described the | man in company with.mea much older than he, quiet and composed. His identity was easily reeognized #nd word spread about the large gathering. 1n a short time every head turned, while men from dis- tant tables stood up to get & glimpse of the most recent acquisition of the “New Haven” road. The young man was John Coolidge, son of President Calvin' Coolidge. 'HORN 170 AID PLANE ' 0 LAND IN FOGS | Tests Mude By Victor Talking Ma- chine Company Said to Be Successful Camden, N. J., Dee. 7 (P—The second of a scries of tests on a de- vice designed to make safer the landing of aircraft ‘n fog was pro- nounced a success today by officials of the Victor Talking Machine Co., at whose plant the test ,was carried out with the aid of the navy dm- gible Los Angeles. The new device, called a “super- | directional horn,” was developed by sieutenant R. C. Mayer, a member |of the Los Angeles crew, and S. T. Williams, of the Victor company. It | consists of a series of units, operated |by vacuum tubes, which are said to permit the reception of aircraft of directional signals [tield. When perfected, the appar- |atus is expected to emable the navi- |gator of an aireraft to discover, | through differently pitched signals, t*e compass points of a fog-en- veloped field: ILventually, it was stated, the direction finder, will sup- plement the radio beam. The giant Los Angeles was'the re- ceiving medium in the test yester- |day while the signals were sent from {the roof of the Victor plant. The horn, 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, was connected with a microphone and attached to a record disc. Sev- |eral musical selections and oral | grectings were sent upward while the dirigible soared from 3,000 to 110,000 feet away. Each time the ing of 4 “blinker” on the Los | Angeles indicated that the music and | messages had been received. |Dig Up Old Law to Prosecute Blymyre York, Pa, Deec. 7 (UP)—An old Pennsylvania law against “pow- wow"” doctors has heen dug up to | prosecute John Blymyre, 28, charged ‘uyllv the murder of Nelson D. Reh- meyr, 59, District Attorney Amos {Hermann has announced. | Hermann said he was studying the 1w 1o see if it applies to Blymyre's | Rlymyre is charged with killing | Rehmeyer hecause the latter would not surrender a lock of his hair to hreak a spell Rehmeyer was believed 19 have cast. The hair, if buried |<ight fect under ground behind the ‘ hicken house, would have broken the spell, Blymyre believed | Riymyre is an bereditary pow {wow practitioner, the art having {been taught him by his father, who received 1t from a long line of an- [cestors. The father, Emanuel, and [the mother appeared uneoncerned |over the charges against their son. | They believe he was justified by the | practice of his art. SATURDAY 7.95 $1 Per Week Famous ‘Quality Brand’ % 4 Piece Percolator Set. Beautiful—superbly fin- ished. An amazing Electric Percolator that never boils nor spoils the coffee—never over- flows. Brews 9 cups of delicious coffee right at table—in record-break- ing time. Patented valve pumps water six to elght times faster than ordinary percola- tors. Standard cord and plug included. Sugar and Creamer beautiful in design—an ornament to the fable. Round tray, satin finish, with Eb- ony Handles. The Ideal Gift for for Christmas from a landing | NEW BRITAIN BAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928 OUTLINES GAREER OF NEWSPAPERMAN ing of High-Y Club Youngsters belonging to the High- Y club had an opportunitly of car fully scrutinizing a neyspaper man last night. The meeting took place at the Y. M. C. A, and the speaker was Ernest R. Dechant of the Herald. Atter a few oratorical flourishes of remarkable refinement and polish —accumulated from attending sev- eral hundreds of banquets and sev- cral thousands of luncheon club gatherings—Dechant related a mess of experiences, some of them grew- some, some laden with humor, and others denoting a sophisticated low- down on the idiosyncraies of this thing called life, The speaker was introduced hy a fellow worker, who utilized the op- portunity to relate some of the se- crets of Dechant's past. After these “few introductory re- marks” by the introducer, Dechant arose to remark how embarrassed he felt—and admitted there had been jonly two occasions in his life when he felt worse. 300 Main St. GIFT FOR any purse. SEE Full Line of SILKS — WOOLENS CURTAINS — Herald Reporter Speaks at Meet- Then he opencd fire | BLOOMBERG’S SECOND FLOOR WHY NOT A PRACTICAL Dainty and Attractive Table and Luncheon Sets In a wonderful variety of new holiday patterns, at prices to suit LARGE ASSORTMENT TOMORROW with a long list of reminiscences which kept the interest of his hear- ers at high tensicn. These reflections included streets that fell into coal mines in Pennsyl- vania, deaths of miners and break- ing the news to widows; attendance at riots and shootings by the con- stabulary, who he said never shot at anyboedy unless somebody else shot first. In Philadelphria, he said, he once lattended three banquets, in one eve- ning. The first was in a grand, silk- stocking hotel where the mayor was supposed to have been the star |speaker but could not attend be= cause of “pressing business;” at the second, in a less polished place, the mayor could not attend for the same | reason; at the third in the rear room | of a saloon the mayor was found with his feet on table and sur- |rounded Ly the jovial fellows of a| political club in the midst of a ban- quet of wieners and beer, In that city he also attended an | indignation meeting of colored citi- zens in a Methodist church, the ire being caused by opposition of white citizens to Negro policemen along “the Main street of Africa.” Noth- ing worth printing resulted until a hop remarked that “the white gentleman from the North American doesn't scem to think our meeting important enough to take notes, Now I'm going to say something he'll take down, and it is this. If the white persons want to go to a place where they will find no Negro policemen let them go plumb to Hell, where Leonard Bldg. CHRISTMAS OUR DRAPERIES A AT RN T =i~ - o] was noted | paper man will not bhe emecuted at and fuel | present because he is The Nations) wm.-r- nalists also decided to taky gotion in the case anc summoned Audibert to appear before the disciplinary beerd 'Mlh 2 view to his expulsion from | the association. 7 Die in Auto Crashes In During Week Hartford, Dee. 1 (UP) == !wt*, persons were killed in automobil ‘accidcnfil in Connecticut during the week ended December 1, according {to an announcement by the state | motor vehicle department. Three of the fatalities occurred there ain’t any.” one. The things of horror he had wit- nessed would be nearly unprintable | in a journal having regard for the sensitive emotions of readers. Some of them made the boys gasp. But these were interspersed with humor. ous episodes and much wit, and tuken by and large, hind and fore. most, Dechant gave a capital exposi- tion of what a hard-working, con- scientious expositor of journalism calls “all in the day's work.”—G. H. John Elated at His Academy Election Boston, Dec. 3 (# — Election to the coveted membership in the Royal academy in London today found Augustus E. John, the Brit- ish portrait painter, surprised and elated. John, who has been in New Eng- land eince last August doing pic- tures of Governor Aivan T. Fuller, members of the governor's family {and, a few others, said the honor Wwas almost unprecedented since he had never exhibited at any of th academy shows. “It is a great compliment, which has been almost forced on me, but which I shall feel honored {o ac- cept.” John's election was at London yesterday. iS. S Adlms Reported Slightly Damaged | London, Dec. 7 (M — A llo)da dispatch from Alexandria says that the steamship President Adams, now on a world tour, was damaged somewhat yesterday entering port, but had resumed her trip, after re- pairs, for Naples and Geneva. bilge plating. Leakage only in the engine room tanks, (The President Adams sailed from New York on a world cruise Sep- tember 13. After touching at Japan, China, Indian and Colombo she ar- rived at Suez on December 3 for Mediterranean nerts and New York and Boston). 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