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NOLOUD SPEAKERS AT CENTRAL PARK Natfonal Broadcast~of Legion Not Heard in Public Due to a miscarriage of plans in connection with the nationwide broadcast of the American Legion program last night, there were no loud speakers placed at points about Central park. nounced was not explained today. members of the auxiliary gathered at the Legion home on Washington | street last night and enjoyed the | program as it was directell (rom‘ Boston, the scene of the coming na- tional convention. For an hour and | a half, programs of speeches, war time songs and a sketch depicting | the winning of the country's free- dom and its defense in the world | war, the gathering listened arnest- ly to the various numbers. 76 Stations in Program Boston, Sept. 19 (UP)—American | Legionnaires throughout the nation | last night heard tribute paid their organization via radio stations over §,000 miles of land wires in a broadcast ~ preliminary to the Le- gion's national convention Here next month. A rumble of drums from Faneuil Hall, “the Cradle of Liberty,” open- ed the program, which closed with “Taps” and the singing of “The Star* Spangled Banner” by Mme. Schumann-Heink, who gave a son to both the United States and Ger- many in the war. As Taps e e wept and tears fell on two gold stars she wore on her bosom memory of her sons. Originally the program had called for Taps to be sounded by a bugler at Belleau Wood in France but the aurora horealis prevented the at- tempt and the solemn notds floated | into the air froms New York. “Peace but preparedness” appear- ed to be the keynote of a long list of speeches from governors of states | and military officials as city after city throughout the country was | heard. Sccretary of War Patrick J. Hur ley, speaking from Washington, said the American policy was “traditio ally opposed to large standing arm ies in times of peace.” “Citizen soldiers have won eve war in which our republic has en- gaged,” he declared. “They have paid dearly in hardship and in blood for their victory. They. paid: the | price largely because they went to war untrained.” Gen. Pershing Speaks WhatyNational Commander O. L. Bodenhammer termed the surpri of the evening was presented when General John J. Pershing, address- ing briefly his former soldiers. “I am glad” he said, “the vet- erans are performing their duties citizens in the same efficient ma ner in which they performed their | military duties during the war.” FTom Portland, Me., to Portland, | Oregon, the broadcast continued in rapid-fire fashion. Governor Frank | G. Allen welcomed the Legionnaires to Massachusetts. Governor William | Tudor Gardiner reviewed the hi | of Maine. Governor A. W/ Norblatt | deljvered atwo-minute eulogy of the | great northwest from Portland, Ore. | Governor Dan Moody reminded his listeners that Texas was the largest [ prigain either on their way to Boston | or on the return trip. state in the union. Then “taps” and the national an- them and the broadcast ended. oy City ltems N The Gua¥d of Honor society of the Sacred Heart church will hold a regular monthly meeting tonight at 7:30 at their clubrooms at the Sa- cred Heart school. James Br Connelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Connelly of 356 Chest- nut street, has left for Washington, D. C., where he has entered George- town Law school. Burritt Grange will hold a regu- lar meeting Saturday evening at § o'clock at Junior O. U. A. M. hall. The lecturer’s hour will be in charge of Past Lecturer Florence E. Alden. Buy New Typewriters Foj N. B. H. S. Pupils Within the next few days, 25 new typewriters will arrive at the local Senior High school to relieve the present crowded conditions in the typewriting classes. ‘ Many pupils just Beginniog type- writing have been forced to wait two weeks before starting their work because of the lack of a suf- ficient number of machines to en- able more classes to lc formed. One of the classrooms has been cleared of desks and this will be used as a typewriting room when the new machines arrive. The pu- plis who have been help up in their work will be credited and their a signments shortened so as to per- mit them to finish their work on schedule with other classes: Royal Areanum Planning For Winter Activities New Britain council, Royal Ar- canum, opened its fall and winter program last night in Red Men’s | hall with a rehearsal of the degree | team and dis ion of plans for a membership contest to be started on | October 1. The council plans to make several visits to councils in Hartford, Meriden, Bristol, Water- bury and Middletown during the winter, and also to entertain the councils from the above cities at the lodge room here. New Britain council will try to add 30 new mem- bers between October 1 and January 1 in the national drive for 100,000 new members. BOWLING IS BENEFICIAL The failure to carry | through the plans as originally an- | | Garlana, More than 100 Legionnaires and|and {sea photography and NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930. "3 State Normal School Arranges Winter Entertainment Series A series of entertainments will be given at the Ctate Normal school this year under the direction of the faculty and students. Prepared es- sentfally to give the members of the school a contact with the finest po: sible outside talent, noted write and fecturers have been secured to appear on this year's program. Friends of the school and the gen- | will be invited to attend | eral public either group. The first single numbers eor the entire speatfer will be Hamlin famous American author lecturer, Many will recall his | most. \mm“)ul boak, “A Son of thw | Middle Border.” N exponent of the middle tory and romance. He ha soially acquainted with a number | of, leadgrs in h\flnturw and art. |among these being Olfve Wendell | Holmes, Willlam Dean Walt Whitman, James Whitcomb Riley and Theodore Roosevelt. His | subject for the evening of October 2 is “Roadside Meetings with Amer- ican Authors.” “Beauty and Tragedy Sea he title of an lecture by the originator of under- motion pic- tures, J. E, Williamson on Thursday, November 6. With the use of a marvelous invention he has been able to d ocean and Howells, | ith the aid of camera hoth motion an? still picture, Mr. Williamson is giVing te world a re- markable record of his adventures under the sea. A different type of program than has-appeared on the Normal school stage will be (that of Miriam Mar- | mein, interpretive dancer. Miss Marmein has some exceptionally fine | comments from reviewers in many of the large cities. Her dances ran in mood from the dramatic to the humorous. Among the best num- bers on her program are “The Ship.” “The First Kill,” gyptian. Dance” and in the satiric dance caricatures “His Majesty—The Chef.” Under the | illustrated | end to the floor of thel , A fourth number of outside |talent will be presented and it is !probable that a group of students [will put on a number bringing the |total to f George F. Howe, chairman of the committee, in discussing the pla said that he felt the program was exceptionally well rounded, giving a [variety which shoula inte a large number. “Last year we did not come out as well financially as| we had hoped,” Mr. Howe id, “but we are contintiing because wé | |feel that we have something to offer the students and public which |educational and interesting. We feel {that the normal school should play a part in thedife of the community |and that the people of the hould be allowed' to enjoy |things with as. Many people from New Britain go to Hartford to see |and hear programs which are not |one bit better than we shall be abls |to offer them. The ideA that the normal school is too far from the ‘\clntcr is a fallacy, buses run direct- |1y past the door now, and it is not nearly as far away as Hartford. | “We found last year that men Illlm a good lecture. When Count 4Von Luckner spoke the audience twas composed of a large number of men. We have a man this year who will appeal just as strongly as the count.did, Mr. Williamson, with his motion and still pictures the, whole program is designed | prm'«l to a wide variety of inter- {ests.” Miss of the normal s Dehan and Mi; students; Miss Graham, chdol; Miss Washburn, |school; .and Miss Foberg, school. 5 Althoughl the price of tickets to |thes entertainments is not as yet {known definitely, it is a {that it will he substantially {than those of last year, it was said \today. }ml\h"\‘, are: | Miss Pint | faculty; M hool Camp Stanley Vance CERTIFICATES NEEDED FOR A. L. BOSTON TRIP Legionnaires Must Be Tdentified Be- fore Obtaining Special Fare Rate to Convention. Members of the American Legion in this city who are planning to avail themselves of the one-fare rate to | the national convention at Boston st obtain identification certificates. These can be had by application to the adjutant of EddysGlover post Road signs were received at Le- gion headquarters here last night | |and these will be placed on all |hn‘ roads leading into the city and out of the city towards Boston. They are in the form of arrows. Automobile stickers have also ar- ved and Legionnaires wishing the Eddy-Glover post rooms. Delegations Coming Efforts of the local post to have a western or southern dejegation stop in this city en route to Boston, have been fruitless hecause, of the fact that the railroad schedples Will re- quire them to travel through this territory during the night. However, there are ber of - automobile planned and it is cral will be entertained , tours being ected that sev- in New Eddy-Glover post Drum and Bugle corps will rehearse tonight at the post rooms. A large attendance of spectators is expected to attend the | outdoor rehearsal at Willow Brook park Sunday nYrning at 9 o'clock. to | | obtain these can do so by calling at | a large num- | TWO RE Hartford, Sept. "EIVE PINS | 19 (A—Two men £ their New Ha ‘en failroad today were the The men, George W. Deacon of st Hartford, anad John L. Sulli- {van ,were rewarded in the presence | of a group ofofficials and friends | yesterday. It was explained that the | pins should conferred some time ago, | failed to show they had’been in the service 50 years. Only when they made applications for pensions did it become known. At the time of their retirement, Sullivan was a jan- itor in the Hartford station and Deacon an enginee: have been i WO | Hartford, ney general ha APPEALS FILED Sepf. 19 (A—The attor- been advised of two appeals from rulings of the state highway commissioner, John Mac- Donald, by property owners in Nor- wallk, in the taking of lands for the Iteration and relocation of the Nor- wafMk-Pound Ridge road in that sec- | tion. Norma Pearl Byington and Frank H. James have appealed. | INJURED IN FALL Belgrade, (UP) — While | climbing tour in the Mrzli Moun- tains near Studenac the Jugoslav mjnister for /forests and mines, Dr. | Abton Koroéhetz, ‘fell ang, was ip- {jured so severely that medical at- |tendance was nec | | | TWI | Chertsey, Eng., (UP)—One of the oldest twins in England, Mrs. Phila- id-’*l\')hi:x Jane Cowland, 80, died here. on a ALL DRESSED UP When Hanford MacNider, new United States minister to Can- ada, called on Viscount Willingdon, governor general, at Ottawa, he wore his full-dress'army civilian clothes ordinarily worn uniform instead of the formal by American diplomats. It was recalled at Washington that the last American minister to ap- pear in uniform, in 1885, drew partment, are sho a reprimand from the State De- Viscount Willingdon (at the left) and MacNider wn here, ? is | CLASSES AT NIGHT city | good | In fact,! to | The other members of the com- | Hendricks and | Par- | certainty | lower | who have given more than 50 years | lives in the employ of the | nd possessors of diamond service [ but that the records | | | | ! | | | | | open jets. S — Convicts Graduaté But .Get Diplomas in Cells San Quentin, Cal, Sept, 19 (P) —Graduation exercises for 657 students of everything from the three R's to civil engineering and || forgign languages were observed here with due solemnity. | The students were praised by || instructors, but for once, nothing was said about the graduates go- ing forth to take their place “out in the world.” Diplomas were not presented immediately. This part of the ceremony was postpened until the recipients, all conviets at San Quentin penitentiary, returned to their cels. gea S e ) AT TRADE SCHOOL |ing in th Registrations for Day Workers; to Be Made Next Week Registrations for night classes at | |the state trade school will bé made | Monday and Tuesday evenings from 30 to 9:30 o'clock, according to announcement today at the-local school. , There will be classes in architec- tural and mechanical drawing, ma- | chine work, masonry, automobile re- | pairing, printing, electrical work, shop mathematics, carpentry, blue printing and reading, cabinet mak- ing and plumbing. The classes will be under the Smith-Hughes plan of trade exten- | sion under government aid. Boy who wish to enroll must be 16 yea of age or over and must be employ- | ed days in the trade in which they enroll. Classes will he held Monday and | Thursday of each weeky If suffi- | cient interest is shown, additional classes will be inaugurated Thurs day and Friday nights, Clas in mathematics will meet Tuesday and Thursday nights, to ,H‘Mlmmml\\r‘ those in other trades who wish to take one night eagh week in this subject. Applications should be made early as possible. Tnwpas r school has had a large w MOTHER BELIEVED GHILD’S MURDERER | Pair Found Dead in Gas Filled | Summer Cottage Hingham, Ma Sept. 19 (UP)— The bodies of Mrs. Ida Demond, 45, of Rockport, and her daughter, Martha, 12, were found in the gas- | filled kitchen of their cottage here late yesterday. Police believed the mother had murdered her daughter and thén committed suicide. The victims had been dead since early Tuesday morning, Medical Examiner Gilman Osgood of Rockland started. Harry Demond, Waltham manu- facturer and husband of Mrs. De- mond, notified police yesterday that he had received a note from wife telling him she was going to | Kill herself. Demond's information resulted in the discovery of the | bodies. The daughter was seated at a table, her head resting on her hand. She wore pajamas. The | mother lay on the floor fully clothed. | Gas was escaping from five “ide‘ A. W. Osborne, real estate agent, told police Mrs. Demond had rent- | ed the cottage from him on August 1 for occupancy the last three weeks in September. At that time, he said, she had insisted the cottage be equipped with gas. Mrs. Dorothy Allen, a neighbor, | said she saw the lights in the cot- tage turned on Tuesday at 2 a. m. | At 4 a. m._they went out, she Demond said his wife had been | under observation at the Boston | Psychopathic hospital at one time. Boys’ CTlfi) Drum Corps Plays at Exposition New Britain residents who at- | tended the competitive drill at the Eastern States Exposition in West | Springfield Thursday report that the 18 members of the Boys' Club Fife and Drum corps of New Britain un- der the direction of Peter McCrann | performed excellently. The corps was | but one unit among the many com- peting this week, and prizes will not be awarded until tonight. The three winning groups prizes of $100, $50 and $35. Connecticut contestant pecially those from New Britain | were prominent among the prize Winners anonunced last night at the Eastern States Exposition grounds. | In the Junior Achievement compe- tition Millie Leavitt of New Britain won first place in the braided rug | exhibit. The rugs offered by the See More club of New Britain won first place in the hooked rug dis- play. The club also won honors in | the crocheted rug competition., i A sleeveless sill dress made by Krawiec, New Britain, won sec- class. A third place | aken by Anne Regan of New ain, who offered a dress with | smocking. | , The orchestra of the New Britain Boys' club, under the direction of Dwight Skinner, was among the four Connecticut orchestras in the junior mhusic festival, which continues throughout the week. and es- MAN HELD IN FIRE PROBE Darien, Sept. 19 (®)—Raffele Vin- canzo, Noroton cobbler, today is be- ing held without bonds pending a police investigation of the fire which last Sunday night did damage of $10,000 to the Bauer black, a busi- ness building on the Boston Post road in the Noroton section of Dar- ien. Vincanzo is the tenant of the store in which the blaze originated. Putting their toys into the water they discover that some things floaz and others do not. Fea. Sk | biogra | made” |out a | when, as | Five Po; nis | said. |} Capone, ““Self-Made’” Man, Subject []lVISI[]N CHANGES Of Biography By | Newspal"?r Man BY NEW HAVENROAD | York new f the Sept. 19 (UP)—Among fiooks came| The biographer, Fred D. Pasle was the |® Chicago newspaper man, reveals | 2mong other things that Al is pa a self-| ja] to both Rigoletto and 1l Trova tore, although Aida is his favorite; 1t story—the tale | that he prides himself on his abil- of a n who battled his|ity as a spaghetti chef; that govern- way upward against great odds in|ment agents estimate his wealth at the big c determined to carve|320.000,000; that although his | His “human weight is excassive, he is agile as a thus revealed, the Chicago panther when in action, and that leaget emerges as when a fellow gangster dies, he lets ure, almost nis’ beard g until after the | funeral as a token of grief. Glamoroud" as the Capone 1s been, however, one is r that the path of success is with hardships. On one oc when Al discovered a plot to put arsenic in his soup, he is quoted as ing: “If T had known leader. | all which ‘Waterbury Jone Absorbed' by Hartford—0'Hanley Transferred New Hav from the g s today phy of Al Capone, man is o young n “suc , Sept. 19 (UP)—The New York, New Haven and Hartford nilroad today announced ment of the Old Colony & bury divisions. The change does not on those lines but control to another olis 1 Water- affect transfers in eact service merely of the point nd Luck.” “Rag- “Sink or Swim.” is unfolded in detail from the time 1 obscure hoodlum in the gang of New York, he jonrneyed westward to seek his for- tune. In the end he is seen bask- sunshine of his mag- career | . The Hartford division over the Wa ry Boston will control the division, whick he Torrington Simult nounce what 1 “d*u arl A. Mitchell | pificeng Florida estate, having lived | sending myself into in Chicago, I|tendent, will } to the' of 32—far past the life | never would have left the Five |of the Boston div A, of the average gangi Points outfit.” Midland division supe | will Capon claborat il division ol G re LEML Adquarte he ! ously several railroad personnel Ha |become superintendent at Hartford. Konald O'Hanley, superintendent of the Waterbury division, becomes su- intendent of the Midland division, . McKay, superintendent of > Old Colony division, will be transferred to Providence. Astley niendent of Boston division, H. A. May- n, superintendent of the Provi- division, will be assigned ly 1o other duties, the ouncement said. O'Hanley Widely Known Here ald O'Hanley a wide ac- quaintan “nanufacturers and city, which is part Waterbury di sion, n in New Britain attended many 1in Traffic supe an among shippers in th of has occupied on the Water- popular 1s been nch farms rms in th: 0 acres. 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