New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 2

VOLUNTEERS AID VISITING NURSES Women Assist at Well Baby Conferences Held Weekly The Visiting Nurse association is assisted weekly in its well baby work by women of the community, who give their services to aid the nurses in the management of their | conferences. They take the histories of the new babies as they are admit- 2d, record the weights of all the \abies and in general keep the con- crences running smoothly by their management. Such service cannot be to ohighly viluated for it makes for greater ficlency 1n the well baby work. It “loases the nurses from secretarial iuties to perform their function of caching the prevention of illness, ind places thelr whole time at the -ervice of the mother who brings \er baby to these conferences. This vear Mrs. Noah Lucas and \irs. William E. Parker have secur- ~d th: volunteer assistance of Mrs. Henry Hine and Mrs. Samuel M. Da- vidson at the Ellis street conference, Mrs. Sherrod Skinner and Mrs. Har- old Tayntor at the Center street con- ference, Mrs. Walter Murdock and Mrs. John Whittaker at the Wash- ington street conference, and Mrs. Richard White and Mrs. William lart at the East strect confercnce. VAN LEAR BLACK OFF O ANOTHER FLIGHT balumore Sun Publisher Leaves For London to Fly to Capetown and Return. New York, Dec. 28 (#—Van Lear Plack, publisher of the Baltimor sun, will leave for London on the Vajestic tomorrow to complete his | unfirished fiight from London to | Capetown and return. | He has bought a new TFokker ylane, of the same make as the one n which he flew from terdam to the Dutch East Tndies, via Indin, in the summer of 1927, He will take the same pilot who guided his sev- oral European and African trips in the last few years. On May 14 last Mr. Black started on a flight from London to Cape- town, but abandoned the flight at Khartum, in the Sudan, because engine difficulties. Whon he returns to London from Capetown, Mr. Black expects to fly to Tokyo and return, and then bring his plane to America. From Baltimore he pluns a flight to San Francisco, 10 be followed by a tour of all Routh American countrie: His Afying schedule will embrace most of fhe vear of 19 EYE WILL BE DRY ONE P’rohibition Chief in Boston Says He Has Devised Plan to Foll ! Drinkers. Boston, Dec. 28 (UP)—Boston- ians speculated today over an an- vouncement by Jonathan S. Lewis. prohibition administrator for New tngland, that he had devised a plan which should insure a “dry” New Year's even in this city. Beyond hinting that it was sorge- hing entirely new in the way of en- ‘orcing the prohibition law, Lewis Jeclined to discuss the details of his plan. “If we let the fellows we arc snow what we are going to do. how ire we going to catch them?” he in quired. “I believe in having the ump on the other fellow, so Wwe arc s0ing to try and se the liquor law violators this year. “T don't promise any tour of the district with a blare of trumpets; neither do I s> that we will sit quiet and twiddle our thumbs. We'll be on the job at just s many places we can cover.” after whirlwind Son of John Straton Married by Father g 28 (A—Warwn S . son of the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, 12uth Stokes Cater were m i ight in Calvasy Baptist « The ceremony was performed b bridegroom’s father in the p of about a housand friends Miss Cater is a daughter and Mrs. William B. Cater of Doug taston, Long Tsland Her ring was a composite of t1 rings of two of her mothers and was wo: er and passed dov last night as the t rer family to wear it. Bagenocl: MRS. SHERROD E. SKINNER MRS. HENRY C. HINE, JR. MRS. SAMUEL M. DAVIDSON MRS. WILLIAM HART MRS. RICHARD WHITE MRS. WALTER MURDOCK Insull Forms Huge Investment Company Dec. 28 tment Chicago, (P—TFormation of an inv company to he ull Utility Tn 000 was announ tmuel Insull, publi corpord- compar Utilities comp Pub Serviee Bri Mrs, old st her e t Rock 1« dlers, e —— PHONE 1603 new organization vhich in turn owne Insull on. ompany, of Ltd., OLD RESIDENT DIES mfield, Mass Waitsyl Crumb, resjdent, arly river. where her am Collins, a 1 World war 1 G0 pairs of ¢ Dee 97, the town's died last night ars she lived for a time in the st 28 n - 1 Law- grandfather, volutionary sol Trs. Crumt s for sol- LANGLEY NATTER 1S P TO FANLY Husbaod Won't Oppose Wile for | Congress in 1930 | | Pikeville, Ky. Whether former |John W. Langley or his wite, present representative from the 10th | Kentucky district, will make the race for congress in 1930 seems to be a | question to be decided in family counsels some time before the cam- paign opens. Mrs. Langley issued a statement from her Washington office today Genying published reports that she had decided not to run again. Mr. Langley told inquirers at his home here today that he had not decided. “But we both wont run at the same time,” he added, and he laughed when it was suggested that | | woman suffrage might result in hus- |band and wife fighting each other at the polls. “There will be none of that," he said. Not At Home Mr. Langley <aid the recent state- | ment from him that Mrs, Langley who was elected to the 71st congress | |1ast November would not run again was not exactly in accord with the facts. He though some friend who |gave it out had not understood his |entire meaning over long distance |telephone. He was emphatic how- |ever, in denying that on the oc- caslon of his recent pardon he had | authorized the statement that he {woyld not again enter politics. He {sald Mrs. Langley was not at home today. Mr. Langley represented the 10th | | district for years but resigned when {he went to Atlanta federal peniten. | tiary to =erve a term far conspiracy to vislate the prohihition lawe thongh he had been reelacted while his anneal was nending. Mrx. Tang- ley then was elected to fll hin terr and wns reelected last November for the full term. Roth are renublicans in a district that for years has sent a reoubl can tn congress, thangh sha in the Aaughter of & former democratic congreseman from North l?lrolhm.1 [Af~han Kine Willing | Ta N3t in Wavar af Can London, Dec. 28 (UP) — King Amanullah, of Afghanistan, is re- | ported willing to abdicate In favor {of his 16 year old son, Hidayatullah, | dispatches from the Daily Mail's | correspondent at Lahore, India, said | | today. | Continued disorders throughout |the country lasting more than two {weeks caused the king's decision. | The disorders resulted in displeasure {on the .part. of tribesmen at the king's attempt to westernize th: country. : No ofticial confitmation of the ab |dlcation report has been recelved i here, Kabul, the capital, was quiet, th Daily Mail's correspondent added, while loyal troops were pursuing rebels into the hills. |German Labor to Work | In France on Contract Berlin, Dec. 28 P—A Germa |group of building contractors ha: | obtained contracts in France on th: reparations account amourting tc | 45,000,000 marks (approximately | $10,800,000.) | About 1,600 German workers wil be employed on the undertaking: which, include construction on new quays in Bordeaux, power station lin the Pyrenees, improvement o Scine harbor, canalization project |on ihe Rhone river and changing o the course of the Alpine river at Verton. The German workers will have their own canteens, ath’ :tic ground« lospitals, theater and barracks. Two Start Out to Break Endurance Mark Elcentro, Calif., Dec. 28 (UP)— John Guglielmettt and Charler Iiocheville started from the Imper tal airport at 6:57 a. m. today in ‘;.n attempt to break the world's en | durance record with their single | motored Albatross airplane. The craft got into the air with {out difficulty with 650 gallons of Dec. 28 P— Representative the ! company of Northern Illi- gasoline and 23 gallons of ®il. The Albatross must stay up 66 hours also will | and 26 minutes to break the exist- r Incuil, Son and company, | ing sustained flight mark FIND STRANGE FROG ! Chicago, Dec. 28 (UP)—The world’s most precoclous frog, one that emerges directly from the egs as a froglet, omitting entirely the tadpole stage through which other members of its family pass, has been found in Bermuda by the Crane Pa. cific expedition of the Fleld museum Unlike most creatures of its lowly in the animal world, the mother frog of this species shows great devotion in guarding its eggs until hatched. state We'll do a few letterheads with the same thor- oughness as we'll print 100,000 hooklets. Size does not alter the rigid rules of the Adkins system of printing—large and small jobs share alike. Over 57 Years of Continuous Service Adkins Printing Company Printers and Stationers 66 CHURCH STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN. in 1927, and $12°.1 Insurance Rate Hearing Is Again Postponed Boston, Dec. 38 (UP)—The long- delayed hearing of four petitions seeking & review of the findings on which Acting Ifsurance Commis- sioner Arthur K. Linnell based the 1929 rates for compulsory automo- bile insurance, was again postponed by Bupreme Court Justice Plerce to- day. all petitioners could not be present this morning, and he- cause the court desired to consider all the petitions at the same haar- ing, Justice Pierce postponed the hearing until January 8, when Jus- tice Waite will preside. The petitions, similar in effect, were filed by Rep. Elmer E. Spear of Everett, Frank E. Whitman, chairgan of the Winthrop board of selectmen, Eugene E. Carman of Somerville, and the Boston associa- tion of casualty insurance. City Attaches Property In Action Over Taxes Claiming $873,48 due on taxes for 1! > past thi-a yes= t(he city of Now Brit: 'n brov Jht actica ‘1day agsinst Mrs. Lucy ‘ower: thro' gh Attorney F. J. Fatoy sceking ‘1, 00 dvmages, and att- hed property o the de- fe¢ . locat 1 on Hamilton, Stanley ard Bov’'" streets. "he city claims that the defendant ov-a $621.69 'or taxes due July 1, 192R; $123.63 Cue on "~ ~ me date on ‘" e corres- peading date in 1928. Constable Fred W' 'kle served the papers. 1§ ALWAYS PREPARED Philadelphia, Deec. 28 (UP)— Louls 'Threleno believed in prepar- cdness againat burglars. He hid a shotgun behind a pic ture frame with an automatic de- vice to shoot anyone who oOpened his door. Then he went out and came back to see if the apparatus would work. It did. Hospital authorities sald today they may have to amputate his left arm, punetured by gunshet. The Willett 300 Main St. Leonard Bl —Second 1.0, 58, HAPPY ATCHRISTHASTIOE Celebrates at Winter Home at Ormond Beach Ormond Beach, Fla., Dec. 28 P— Around a Yuletide tree, brought from the northern’ woods, Johu D. Roekefeller, fir., gathered some %0 friends and neighbors last night to hold his annual Christmas party, at the Casements, his winter home here. No one except invited guests was allowed to enter the grounds. Passersby on the street heard the Joyous sounds of Christmas carols in which the aged magnate joined with his friends. ‘The company was received In the brilliantly lighted .iving room where the decorated tree lifted {its light- {spangled branches to the ceiling. , Mr. Rockefeller, dressed in a dark blue sult, was seated near the tree about which were piled presents for all, Quartet Sings From a balcony above the Hving room, half hidden by large clusters of flowers, a quartet sang “Holy Night,” and “Oh. Little Star of {Bethlshem” and others of Mr. Rockefeller's favorite carols. Final- {ly the hymn books were passed around and everybody foined n the songs, The magnate kept time to the music drumming with his fin- gers on the arm of his chair, Then came Ranta Claus, a huge pack of toys on his shoulders, pass- ing the trinketa to both young and old. After Banta had distributed his burden, Mr. Rockefeller gave out the more exprnsive gifts that were stacked/ahout {ha tree. | Refreshmenta were served on a |.Innu-,d-ln perch that had been lave Corset Shop Take Elevator dg. Floor— Where Service and Quality can be had without extra charge, We specialize in Corset Fittings, Special attention given to Surgical Fittings. Exclusive line of Children’s Dresses, age 7 to 14 years. ishly decorated with poinsettius and othér Sowers and evergroens. Private The party ended Mr. Rockefeller bade each of his guests good .ight, expressing wishes for a happy Now Year and future health. The guest list was not made public dut thees precent included many ef MNr. Rockefeller's closest friends of the town. Three watchmen guarded ap- proaches to the home while a foot- man stood by the door. They had orders not te allow newspapermen or photographers on the place. Massachusetts Onion Crop Is Disappointing Boston, Dec. 33 (UP)=—With acreage cut from 4,550 acrés in 1927 to 3,800 acres in 1933, the Massachusetts onlon crop was “very disappointing” this year, according to a bulletin issued today by the New England crop reporting service. Bots made falr yields but exces- |sive rainfall caused early blasting 'of seed onions and poor yleldn were obtained. The average yleld for the two classes were 240 bushels 47 MAIN ST. 1,343.0 429,800 bushels the five-year aver- age Production of enions in the late states is ostimated at 13,888,000 bushels, compared with 14,343,000 last year and 1 000 the five. Gastonla, N. C., Dee. 38 U], W. Vanderburg, & farmer, his wife and three of their children, were killed and their bodies hurned sarly today in their home near the town of Dal- las, five miles from here, A 17 year old son of the seuple is held in the Gaston ocounty fail suspected of having slain the five and set fire to the home in an effort to hide the crime. 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