New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1930, Page 11

Young Raskob’s New Haven Finacee Denies Hers Is Cinderella Romance 1 An artist's sketch of Miss Minerva Aaronson, the young New Haven, stenographer who is engaged to marry John J. Raskob, Jr. New Haven, Sept. 26.—When John J. Raskob, Jr., first began calling at the Aaronson’s modest apartment in the equally modest neighborhood here, it was 16-year-old Minerva who raced down the long stairs of the two-family house to admit him. But it was her elder sister, Esther, who received the financier’s son and went with him to shows and college dances. If that sounds like the beginning of the “Cinderella romance” that some sensation-seekers refer to in connection with the recently an- nounced engagement of young Ras- kob and Minerva Elaine Aaronson, don’t mention it to his flancee. Her large dark eyes flash with indigna- tion when she jrears the story of how the “kid sister” of a poor Jewish family won the heart of a prince of fortune whose father had been knighted by the Pope, ’ Even under the stress of a heated denial, she speaks in a low, cultured voice: “There was nothing ‘Cin- derella’ about ft. That was years ago; he just came to call, a few times. Do you think I care whether he has any money? We're both working, aren’t we? “Religion doesn’t matter. If our families don't object, we certainly sheuldn’t. We've scarcely even talked about it. And it isn’t any- body's business, either.” How Romance Began John Raskob, Jr., was a freshman at Yale when he .first knew the Aaronsons. There was no romance between him and Esther, which she proved by marrying Bernard Kop- kind, a lawyer dnd Yale graduate. Meanwhile, however, Mfherva hadn't been moping in any chimney corners. Both she and her sister were as pretty and popular as any of the young society folk in town. Their father, the late Abraham S. Aaronson,"had been a prominent New Haven lawyer, city attorney for Ansonia, and had served several terms as a state representative. Young Raskob was well along in his course in administrative engi- neering at the Sheffield Scientific school when he began to go back to the apartment on tree-lined Sher- man avenue, this time to see Min- ervh. She had graduated from New Haven High school in 1927, was an expert stenographer and had | gone to work in a brokerage office. “Jake and Minerva” TFor awhile it was just the regular sort of college “case.”” There were dances and movies and fraternity parties. Campus friends knew them, always collectively, as ‘Jake and Minerva.” Then there was the mat- ter of Raskob's fraternity pin, col- legiate symbpl of a betrothal, though often a sectet one, when accepted by a girl. Anyway, the jewelled emblem of Theta Xi disappeared for a time from Raskob’s keeping, and to campus gossipers the inference was obvious. Deniels were issued by everybody concerned, but the ro- mance prospered. Raskob brought saddle horses from his father's es- tate in Maryland and the two often rode together. This last summer, following his graduation, Miss Aaronson spent her two weeks' va- cation at the Raskob summer home near «Centerville. A Publicity broke over them with bewildering suddenness when the engagement was formally an- nounced. Both refused interviews and even fled the city for a time. Back at her typewriter in the of- fices of Boardman & Co., Miss Aaronson’s employers interrupted busingss matters to receive, and curtly dismiss, her many callers. May Keep on Working NYou'd think,” she said, “that my fiance, instead of his father, had a lot of money and was chairman of the national democratic committee. I'm trying to hold a job here, und I'm interested in my work. I'm go- ing t6 keep right on wroking until we're married. That may be in the spring and it may be a little later. Our plans can't be definite yet be- cause Mr. Raskob has just® started his new job in Bostén.” As a matter of fact, Miss Aaron. son implied that she may continue working after marriage. lots of girls who do,” she said, “whether it's necessary or not. A girl who has worked for some time often finds that outside interests are necessary. do with it in My case, perhaps. But that story about having $2,000,- 000 settled on us i{s absurd, of course. We're going to live just like any other young couple. We wouldn't have it any other way.” She isn’'t quite clear about just what young Raskob is doing with the firm in Bbston. “Why, it's some sort of position,” she ex- plained, haltingly. ‘‘Something quite technical, I suppose. He's an engineer, you know.” Their future place of “residence also is Bn the indefinite list. Tt will be, she supposes, “just a modest little place that we can afford,” per- haps in Boston, or wherever Mr. Raskob is employed. No Religious Disputes The differences in their family religious beliefs conc®n her ot at all, said Miss Aaronson. “That is sSimething that must be dstermined by the feeling in one’s heart. When people dared to talk about an ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’ affair, we scarcely knew what they meant, for there never has been a bit of fiction on that score. : “We haven't talked about it, nor avoided the subject either. It just doesn’t count, especially when our people have been so nice. My mother announced the engagemeént and Mr. Raskob, Sr., approved it. “Everybody wants to know what kind of a ceremony we will have. I really don’t know, and I certainly don’t care.” Miss Aafonson is of medium height, lithe and graceful, with fair skin tanned by a summer out-of- |doors. Her hair is brown, wavy and is 4growing out” after a bob. The entire cost is cover paid balance. There charge. 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She lives with her mother, Mrs. | Elizabeth Aaronson, and her younger sister Helen, now 16. There she has had plenty ‘of epportunity to learn the duties of domesticity, and perhaps her most heated resentment was directed against the report that she didn’t know how to cook. “Nobody who ever came to my house said that,” Minerva declared. “I can cook, and pretty well, too.” SIX HELD FOR RUM Girl, 19, Tells Sherifl of Alleged | Drunken Qrgy Paxton, 111, Sept. 26 (A — Five young men and a young woman were held in the Ford county jail yester- day on charges of “‘malice and mis- | chief” following an alleged liquor party in a church near Ludlow early Sunday morning. Sheriff Curtis said that a 19 year old girl, arrested yesterday for dis- orderly conduct, related the facts | to him. Two young men reported to {have been wiin her yesterday es- | caped from officers by catching a |freight train. They were captured | when the train reached Ranville. 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