New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 2

ADIES AID 1S " ANNUAL ELECTION Newinglon Church Socity Names Mrs. Cogswell President Newington, Dec. 20—The annual meeting of the Ladies’ Ald society ‘was held yesterday afternoon in the Congregational parish house. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. T. H. Cogswell; vice president, Mrs. Charles Luce; treas- urer, Mrs. Lena Osborne; secretary. Mrs. E. P. Schmidt; sunshine work. Mrs, Jesse Stebbins: home mission- ary, Mrs. Charles Luce. The next meeting of the society will be held Wednesday, January 2. Will Preach Sunday Rev E. L. Tkenberry will preach at Congregational church Sunday morning. Speclal Christmas music will be rendered by the choir. The Christmas entertainment will be held in the Congregational church Thursday evening, December | 27, at 7:30 o'clock. The following program will be given: Opening number, “Silent Night™ by Miss Tsabel Gray and Newington Girls® club. Recita‘ions, The First Christmas, Carolyn Benson. A Good Thing to Remember. Frank Eddy Sing praises, Ruth Willlams, There's a Song in the Alr, Stod- dard Belden, Pantomime. The Queen of T\'l\'l Merry Christmas, Dorothy Trask. r Not Out of Joint. FEstelle Haves. Beecause Tt's Chrictmas, Robert Schmidt. My Song, Jane Carlson. Song. When Santa Had the Rheu- matiz. the Friendly Tndlans, A Change of Time Natalle Russell | A Note to Sanfa. Roxy Forbea, Salabrate Creemus Da Merjcan Wav. Perry Schmidt. Pageant, The Christmas Choeir. Gandnight. Doenald Woodruff, Santa Claua will present candv| and gifts to the Sundav sehool chit dren after the entertainment, Gommittee in charge, Sehmidt, Mra. Stebbins and Pond, Angel Mre The Ladiex anxillary of Newing {Friday afternoon, Dec, 21 at 2 {bureau will be the speaker, her sube |one is welcome, ‘\'llued at $1.000.000. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928, on Grange will meet in Grange hall WILS 0 FIGHT WITH LUIS FIRRO Arrives in Virgin Islands, Going to Trinidad St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Dec. | 20 P—Harry Wills, the pugilist, and his manager, Morris, passed through here today en route to Trinidad to fight Luls Firpo. a'clock. The second demonstration under the auspices of the Farm Bureau will be given in the Grange hall Friday afternoon December 21 at 2:30 o'clock. Miss Elizabeth Mac- Donald of the Hartford c. unty farm ject being “Home Nursing.” Every- Mrs. Frank La Corse of Hawley street is confined to her home by iliness, Nancy Moody of Hawley street is confined to her home with a severe case of bronchitis, ‘The news like a voice from the ! past that Harry Wills has bobbed up | in the Virgin Islands on his way to “Narcotic Queen” { Bull of the Pampas" caused consid- ! erable surprise among boxing fol- | | lowers who have come to look upon this pair of top notchers of a few ! Iyears ago as definitely out of nm‘ heavyweight picture. Firpo Heavy ; Tirpo is understood to have been | {accumulating weight in idleness since he returned to Argentina some |time after being knocked out by Jack Dempsey in their memorable battle in 1923. In 1924 Wills met and defeated Firpo at Boyle's Thirty Acres, before a crowd of 75,000, 1t was learned today that Wills is | | one of several well-known boxers in- | , vading South America for a boxing “elimination tournament” being | sponsored by Jose Lectoure, Buenos | | Aires promoter, who was in New | i York two months ago seeking talent. 1f Wills andggirpo meet, it is under- | | stood turthe®. it will be in Buenos | Aires and in the fioal round of the | tourney as Firpo has been accorded ' | the opportunity of meeting the man |who successfully fights his way | through. | Roberto Roberti s to go to Bucnos ‘ “Queen of the dope ring.” police ' Alres from Italy for the bouts while called Mrs. June Boyd after she was Harry Fay, an American heavy- arrested in Chicago in a room stock- | Weight, was on his way there for the ed with heroin, coomine and oplum |same purpose when the Vestris sank She is shown |and he was rescued. The South | here after being taken to New York American boxers, Campolo and Fer- |City to be questioned regarding op- | rarra, also are to be in on the free- | {eration of the narcotic ring and |for-all. Paulino and Jack Renault | |anything that she might know about |are now in South America and | the murder of Arnold Rothstein. |scheduled for a fight In Colombia. Mrs. Boyd, Chicago agent of Joseph | Although the cable refers to Wills® worth of drugs were found, proved |state athletle commissfon stil has | a willing witness before the grand | Paddy Mullins listed as pllot of the | Jury. !once “Dark Menace." | Station J.O-Y broadcasting... tune in with a Renge hes o RED WHEEL H nationeof thess fo harmonise with any decorstive oscheme. I City Coal & Wood Co. Tel. |aavt. {a battle with the one time “Wiid |advt City Items Tt you want ta see his Xmas smile make sure to give him Mozart cigars —advt, James Connelly of Chestnut street lis home from Catholic University, ;\\'umnmn. D. C., for the holidays. Good coal makes warm friends. 21— Mrs, James H. Riley and son. | Frank, of South Burritt street, left 'last night for Montreal where they will Riley’s |0 funeral of Mrs. John R. attend the brother-in-law, 1. Tt you want to see his Xmas smile {make sure to give him Mozart cigars —advt. Good coal makes warm friends City Coal & Wood Co. Tel, 217.— Xmas Greeting Cards, % price, | Axelrod's, Broad, cor. Washington. —advt, ' Congressional Bob NEA Washington Bureau Here's the first bobbed head in eon- gress. Mrs. Mary Norton, demo- |cratic representative from New Jer- |8ey, has lost her locks to modernism Mrs. |Unger, in whose baggage $2.000,000 j manager as “Morris” the New York land now they're shorter than those |of many a male legislator. . 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RED WHEEL m‘ Gas Ranges New Britain Gas Company —_— |18 being made | Aftervard ‘| cation. GIVES UP FORTUNE BUT HOLDS DEALS Chemist Prelers Education ol Youth to Gaining Millions Pittsburgh, Dec. 20 P — An ex- traordinary career of an American chemical engincer is brought to: light here by the news that oll into coal in Kan- sas. H For the coal discovery is the second achievement in this career to attract international attention to a husky, optimistic former col- lege football player who is making | his main job the teaching of ideals to college youth. | Tn the pursuit of such an am- bition he gave away a few years ago an opportunity for one of the largest potential fortunes that a| youngster might hope to achieve. He is Dr. Walter F. Rittman, pro- tessor and h(Ad of the department of enm ~ “ine at Car- | negis Institute of Technology In 190s it 1944 Dr. Rittman, {then known as “Ritt,” was a tackle | football team. end for! Ohio State he played where he graduated on the Swarthmore, | with the degrees of mechanical en. berculosis Relief society and the | gineer and chemical engineer. ' Having had to work for his own college education, he set out to re- | pay in an unusual way what he re- | gards as a debt to American edu- | ‘While still a young engineer xn| \/\/\/\/ jeven in the already fabulous raga land a program of the gouvernment service, he was one of the several men who de- veloped the famous “cracking processes,” wherein the amoudt of gasoline obtainable from crude oil was greatly Increased. Theso processes became “gold mines” of oil profits. Dr. Rittman gave away free to the ofl industry all kis own cracking patents, and his explanation is simply: “I had ideala” His friends say he still holds to these as too gnod to lose, and that he is teaching now for the oppor. {unity of passing along to young men a rough-and-ready oil experi. ence mixed with practical ideals. Dr. Rittman invented the mak- ing of coa! from oll to get rid of small wastes {n a big refinery. It was one of the steps that acien. tirts name “the development just around the corner,” a small change in an old and familiar process, but cne leading to astonishing results. His coal, smooth and shining, near- 1y as clean to the touch as anthra. cite, holds 45 per cent volatile sub. stances, and already large scale experimenta are under way to turn it into pulverized fuel. Relief Society Party For Children Friday Children of tuberculous parents who are being treated under the aupervision of the New Britain Tu- {health department will be given their annual Christmas party tomor- {row afternoon in G. A. R. hall Santa Claus will be present, in per- son, to distribute gifts and dainties entertainment will be given. HEADLESS' WON SCARE RLIPINOS Thousands Mark Front Doors With White Crosses Manila, Dec. 20 —Fear of three black-robed, headless sisters, who, superstition says, are spreading death in Manila and its suburbs, has caused thousands of Filipinos to mark the front doors of their homes with white crosses. The story of the headless sisters, who are called the Tatlong Marias, or Three Marys, began to circulate & few weeks ago. It spread like wild fire, and today fully 76 per cent of uuunmmmdm Enl more mm-uun. and also more serious, is a superstition dis- 'ased in a vecent Philippine eon- stabulary report from Davao, Min- danao, in the southern part of archi- pelago. ‘The report said that a Chinese store owner and three sons had been killed by pagan mountain tril superstition that & buried with the han dered persons in paradise. Nichols Wants to Annex Cambridge Boston, Dec. 20 (UP)—Basten would annex the city of Cambridge under a plan proposed by Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols in a letter to Mayor Edward W. Quinn of Cam- the homes in and around Manila are | bridge. marked with crosses. According to those who have placed the crosses on their doors, the sisters are making nightly calls, and the person who answers their knock at the door will be stricken with a fatal illness. But, if a white cross is upon the door the sisters will pass that residence by, Most of the crosses have been drawn with white chalk, but some have been painted and a few have been made of flowers, The crosses range from simple to elaborate. |Some consist of just two straight Others have been executed | | mission of five studying and thresh- lines. artistically and with much care. The story of the ‘hree sisters has had the effect of curbing neighborly visits in the evening. Fearing that they might find the dreaded phan- | toms on their threshold, people an- swer knocks at the door after night- The letter suggested that Mayor !Quinn appoint a commissioner of five to confer with a similar com- mission representing Boston. “It {8 my opinion that drire of sentiment is distinctly in favor of the greater city, impressive not only as to its size, but more effective in the. management of its own oen- cerns and in its ability to promete its own civie and commercial wel- ifare,” Mayor Nichols wrote. Commenting upon the proposi- tion, Mayor Quinn said: “I have no objection to & com- ing out the matter, but the citisens have something to say—by referen- dum.” Buch a merger would {ncrease Boston’s population by more than 120,000, NN N\ e § STORE Yo, ) Nowhere in town will such an assortment o useful, practical gifts as at these Xmas Shopping Headquarters and on such Liberal Terms of Payment' men. 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