New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1930, Page 12

LEGGE MAKES NEW DEBENTURE ATTACK Pleads for Reduced Wheat Acre- age as Problem’s Cure Detroit, Sept. 19 (UP)—In a speech before the Mortgage Bankers’ Chairman NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930 Autos Blessed at French Shrine Increasing as Crash Toll Grows| | holy water is sprinkled as each car is driven past the celebrant. The Saint Christopher plaque, seen in a car, is but a modern ver- sion of the cloth scapulary worn by devout travelers in olden times. Americans who come to Paris are usually amazed at the speed with which cars are driven through the | streets of the city, and taxi drivers | | especially are noted fer their antics. But as like as not the hard-boiled taxi driver shrugs his shoulders as he wondrously winds his way, = for his car is in the care of Saint Christopher and he has faith. FASHION REFLECTS FIRST PAGE NEWS Russian and Indian Influences Felt in Winter Styles Paris, Sept. 19 (A—Page one news has its reflectien in the in- fluence of Russia and India on win- dressmakers ‘and fabric makers that India hand blocked prints are rich in color and appropriate for reproduction in silk and wool fab- rics. Dressmakers are using many va- rieties ¢f India and Persian prints for blouses and for the tops of sport dresses. Occasionally sport jackets are lined with printed silk or wool to match an India print tunic or fop. India print tunics are largely limited to sports wear so far. They have been nicknamed Gandhi tunics and Paris expects them to track waiting for an express to pass |so he might resume work Johann Brod member of a section gang bed, had his nose broken and five | teeth knocked out by a bottle | thrown from a window of the train | by a passenger. Hospital treatment Was necessary. Russian lines and stiff rich metal brocades that are copies of old Russian fabrics characterize a few of the most distinctive winter eve- ning wraps. = These ~are velvet Lned in rich glowing colors or ed with the same materials as the evening dress and bordered with | ermine or sable. The Russian-type wraps have open sleeves, slit to the elbow or wide bell sleeves cut to points on the under side. NUAL BASIS Rhoslwyn, (Monmouth), Eng. I'Sept. (UP)—William Hughes wille ed to his wife $500 for each com= pleted vear he livail after the date ot his marriage. HIT BY BOTTLE Salzburg, Austria, Sept. (UP)— Association of America, Alexander Legge of the federal farm | board yesterday challenged as un-| suitable and unworkable the so- called debenture plan for bolstering the wheat market. He reiterated his plea for re-| duced wheat acreage, and ddded the | suggestion that farms of less than 3 300 acres were unsuited to wheat or 5 = i other small grain production and| s | g Y R . . Mo Sage-Allen’s September Events to produce efficient farms. HARTFORD ter styles. have a big style future. Tunics, coats adapted from the Cossack, astrakan round turbans, and wide belts pulled in snugly all testify to Parisian consciousness of things Russian. Gandhi’s campaign has reminded While standing beside the railway|USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | | 3 | CAMEL RACES ON TRACK | Prague, Sept. (UP)—Within the | near future camel races will be in- troduced as a “Coney Island fea- |ture” in Prague's largest amuse- | ment park. Work on the race-track | was begun early in August. The debenture plan opposed by President Hoover, is to be revived in congress this winter, according to Senator Brookhart, republican, Iowa. Lesge said the American wheat surplug had increased every year for five years, “but that the popular proposal for dumping such surpluses on foreign markets must be discard- ed as self-defeating and impractical.” “It is also clear,” he continued, that all such methods will not cope satisfactorily with persisting over- production; the remedy for this is| to be found in contraction of exces-| sive planting, culling of herds and | cutting out of unprofitable orchards and vineyards. | “The outlook for world production of wheat and competition in world | wheat markets is such that very few | ot our wheat farmers can expect 1o | Pari phoduce wheat for export at a| biles profit the next few years, and even | these would gain more by partici- pating in a movement to work down | .pt. 19.—Reckless driving our wheat acreage to a point where |and traffic tangles are increasing | we shall be substantially indepen- [annually the popularity of Saint| dent of the export market.” Christopher, the patron saint of accidents | travelers. H As the record of road Gleaml§ Castle Most o [mounts, so does the number of Mispronounced Name | reverential requests by owners ot London, Sept. 19 (UP)—The name | vehicles for blessing and protection of Glamis Castle where the Duchess | from harm in the name of Saint of York was in retirement, is said | Christopher. to be the most mispronounced word This ceremony is taken seriously heard these days in the United|in France, and somewhere on the 5000 Pairs of Silk Hosiery Chiffon and Semi-Service French and Pointed Heel $ 1 pair (Usually priced to $1.95) From the Maker of the Finest Hosiery in America FERFRFRILLES EFINLEE LS BRNABEWALE F LT 1 ST HONE RGN v FE Abbe Thuault of the Church of Saint Christophe-le-Jajolet. near standing in front of the status to the saint and blessiny automo- s they pass. | FErREaE BY MINOTT SAUNDERS | may be seen drawing their scooters | § before a priest in solemn worship. 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Much of the confusion, some say, is due to the fact that Shakespeare | majority of card, usually on the in strument board in front of the driv. er, may be seen a Saint Christopher staggered on and finally reached the other shore in safety. Then in his cxhaustion he saw that he had been CARAVAN SAHARA MOCHA DIANA ELEPHANT SKIN MANILLA PARK LANE PLAGE MOONLIGHT in “Macbeth” wasn't too sure of its prounciation. It has been variously pronounced “Glammiss” “Glamme” “Glams” | but the correct pronunciation, au- thorities maintain, is “Glarms.” plaque, a metal disc bearing the carrying e Christ-child. image of the saint. This indicates| Hence he became the patron saint that the car has been blessed and of travelerz. that the spirit of Saint Christopher Annual Blessings is watching over it | Tvery summer thousands of cars |} 3 o : N - iy . ! 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