New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1930, Page 11

“ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930. Three Elderly Sisters End Lives Because They Are Property Poor | | more skulls to their large collections Women Hold Real Estate|wnich usually repose on sheives | L outside the doors of their huts. See- | Worth $200,000 But Can- tions of the fence were charged with not Find Enough Money |the fence continued to electricity, but farmers living near heads. lose their | to Li‘e On In California' “In 1895 sapan took over lh’.‘ islands and in 1910 organized a | concerted campaign to subjugate | 3 the head-hunters Los Angeles, Nov. 21 (P)—Wash- Camphor Hunters Guarded “The head collecting habit among the savages may be charged to the tribal women folk. A native girl will not listen to the pleadings of 4 Ing ashore of two bodies in Santa Monica Bay and a leiter to Ralph Miller, Hollywood artist, has reveal kd the suicide pact of three elderly pisters, apparently penniless whil: | Suitor until his skull shelf is graced holding title to $200,000 worth of | by at least one skull, and the more | real estate skulls he con display, the greater is iz popularity among savage ‘flap- pers. Shelves with more than a were found yesterday about the time | hundred skulls have been found in the artisi, who is a brother of the | the Formosan wilds. women, received # letter informing| “Freshly severed heads must Ye him his three sisters planned suicide. | displayed at festivals and religious | Miller said the third sister was | rites. If the tribesman is unsuccess- | Jessie Miller, 60. Search was being | ful in climbing the fence or digging | made for her body. | his way under it, he brings in the Miller told police the sisters were | head of a neighboring tribesman. | property poor. In their letter to| “Guarded gates at frequent inter- their brother the sisters said they |vals along the barrier arc opened to owed $1,325 and had no way to pay | permit trading with the savages. The bodies of Ada McKcon, 65 widow and Miss Abba Miller, 63 Nov. 21— iwan, where uppressing an- ges, is the irds of the on, D. officially police arc other uprising of sav source of about two. it or meet living expenses. Savages are not permitted to enter “We had hoped to die a natural | ‘foreign’ territory and ‘foreigners’ death and have our ashes sent back |are permitted to enter the wilder- {0 Mrs, Hazzard and she would take [ness only by permission of the Jap- | them to Fairmont cemetery (Cin se police and when accompanied cinnati),” the women wro by competent guards. And even the = e s of guarded camphor hunters e at tribesmen as they enter their huts Western Coastal Zone Ts Civilized | “Japanese order and efifciency mark the civitized Western portion of the island. From the window of a railway train which runs from the il northern tip of Formosa southward o g through the coastal zone, the trav- Natives Seck Heads, AMETICADS v e ‘ciean, et viiages and | tewns, surrounded by miles of flood- | Look for Gamphor e T b ot e e tions. In recent vears Formosa has produced 25.000,000 bushels of rice 25,000 tones of sugar and 12,00 tcns of tea. Taihoku. near the northern term- rus of the railroad. is the capital of Ier . 1t is a city of 150,000 in- United | hobitants, with wide, well-paved phor imported States,” says a bulletin n the |strects frequently flanked with spa- headquarters of | cious parks and handsome govern- aphic Society ment buildings.” geed, oval-shap- large as Mary- and Rhode Island combined, off the Chinese coast of Hong- WINDSOR NATIVE DIES AT ESTATE island about a Camphor and Skull Hunting “Many of the natives arc adep tors of human skulls. They in- the eastern portion the SR isiand where camphor trees now arc E. P. Charlton Rose to § and 10 mot} art American the bulletin “During the middle of the last| century, Chinese farmers were too | stport Harbor, M Nov. 21 frequently decapitated by savages arle Perry Charlton, a pionecr The Chinese Government, which|in the and 10 cent store field, vice then controlled Formosa, built a president of the . W. Woolworth hundred-mile fence between the compi 4 director of the New New Haven & Hartford rail- wilderness and the civilized farming | York, country in the western coastal zona. road and several New England As the camphor trees within the |banks. died here last night. He had fence were exhausted the barrier | Leen operated on at Palm Beach, was moved farther into the wilder- | Fla., Jast Kebruary. ness. Natives protested by adding| At the age of 17 Mr. Charlton NEW BRITAIN RADIO SHOW And HOME EXPOSITION STATE ARMORY Arch Street ALL THIS WEEK Startling! INTERESTING! Novel! " PHOTO RADIO The actual transmission of photographs by radio in charge of R C A engineer, who sends pictures every half hour on this latest marvel of radio. See the pictures of the Governor, Mayor and other prominent people received by radio, THE “SEVEN AGES OF RADIO” Marconi's original radio set used in 1901; the elaborate Navy receivers developed soon after; other scts up to present day radio. SHIP MODEL AND RADIO COMPASS This ship shows exactly how it is controlled by radio compass —tho same method used on large transatlantic liners of today— 18 square fect of interest! WORLD’S LARGEST AND RADIO TUBES SEE THE THEREMIN Most wonderful musical instruments ever invented. Plays music by the wave of your hand, Come and try it. SEE THE HIGH FREQUENCY FURNACE Metal heated to the melting point and human hand inserted comes out uninjured! A spectacular display. * Very interesting. away as door gifts, donated FREE FREE ADMISSION .. ............. ..25¢ MALLEST Radio Sets, Llectrical Appli- Magic Chef Gas Range, all valued at more than 500, will be given ances and e Apple Sellers Win All Charity From Blind Man New York, Nov. 21 (P—Buying apples from the jobless not only drives the wolf away but it keeps the blind man poor, according to Maurice Goldschmidt With an apple stand on every corner, Goldschmidt, sightless pencil seller, says the public has forgotten him In its urge to heln the unemployed. He walks the streets ten hours daily and some- times earns a dollar. Goldschmidt tells his wife and 11 year old daughter they will have to sell their most cherisheq possessions because “you can't feed a family on either canaries or a radio. — was working for a Boston wholesale 5 2nd 10 cent store merchant for $7 week. Two years later he covering' the entire district from Boston to (hicago for Thomas C. Newell, his first employer, and with- in a short time he had opened 54 5 and 10 cent stores of his own. In 1912 the Charlton chain com- bined with the F. W. Woolworth stores and Charlton hecame vice president of the new company. He served on the war industries board at Washington during the World war and for a time aided in the purchasing of supplies in the was wAr department. He constructed and operated the Charlton mills, manufacturing cotton cloth, in Fall River Mr. Charlton was a director of the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford railroad IFirst National bank of Boston, the National Ex- change bank of Providence, R. 1., and the Durfee Trust company of Fall River. He was a trustee of the Fastern Massachusetts Railway and of Tufts college, in Medford Born in Windsor, Conn., on June 19, 1863, he married Miss Ida Stein of Buffalo, N. Y., in 1889. He was also noted for his philanthropies, one of his gifts being the sum of 800,009 fo the Truesdale hospital, Fall River. ROCKEFE Budapest, Nov land Mitchell, age for the past five years representative of the Rockefelier Foundation in Hungary, Rumania, and Jugoslavia. died here vesterday. Interment will be made tecmorrow r. W. Le- 30th Anniversary of Hira Temple; 7 Charter Membgrs at Observance Hira Temple, Dramatic Order of ;ffi“;\\f[l S i N B },[,, L) ¥onigh ot uch orabsan aelsbrat iSRS IR ST TR IR R e . years was treasurer. ed its 30t birthday a n Wn oy, i d lts 80th birthday last night o ipyore 5 now $35 members in the Vega Hall with a ceremonial 8nd |, ;510 inciuding the new members supper, at which 10 “tyros” were |'SMP € Including the new memb recéived last night Many of the templars are plan- ning to attend the national cere- monial in Cin ti in August, at | which more than 160 temples will be in the linc of march in the big parade. initiated into the mysteries of the order in a ceremony that lasted from 5:30 until the early hours of this morning. More than 150 members of the temple were present, com- ing from towns in Hartford county, New Haven, Middletown, Torring- ton, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Willie mantic and one member coming from Springfield, Mass Hira Temple is the oldest temple in w England and is the only temple in Connecticut. A plan is be- ing considercd to establish a temple in either Bridgeport or New Haven for the western section of the state, and this plan may become a reality next yvear. Seven of the 208 charter members who formed the first conclave of the LYNGH APPOINTED WATER DEPT. HEAD Made Superintendent at Gonler- ence of Commissioners order, in 1300 were present last night. These were Brig. Gen. Ed-| Members of board of water ward Schultz of Hartford, Past commissioners, at a conference yes- Grand Chancellor of New Britain, who was the first Royal Vizier of oon, agreed upon th Lynch of 11 terday aftern promotion of James M the temple, 30 years ago; Charles = £ 5 > | Commonwealth avenue to the su- Nedeau of Hartferd. Asthur B\ S00L " (10 G the lafe Smith of Hartford, who was the |JoT R B e Ay he promo- first candidate to be initiated of the ; i John Maher of 504 Stanley 08 charter foremanship to the tendency. At the eting of the hoard, be formally ap- tion of street from t assistant next e the p members Martin Schantz of Maple Hill, Charles Nor- ton Parsons of Bristol. and George T. Sherman of New Britain The officers who occupied chairs and thrones last night were Royal Vizier, William Woedward of Hartford: grand Lmir. Lester Smith | Britain-a number of yed of Hartford: secretary, Myron W. entering the cmploy o Putney of New Britain: treasurer, J. | 4. supe r me motions will The new s in Middletowr perintendant was born \d Tias arty 1t years ag A. Dolan of New Britain: Grand | steamfitter at Stanle Mahedie, Donald Hatton of Man- has been in charge of the pumping chester rap. Irving Carter of ctation of the department for sev— Plainville; Sahib. Franklyn Fair- | eral months and is credited by his clough of Bristol: deputy imperial superiors and associates with hav- prince, L. I. Siegel of New Britain. |ing a thorough knowledge of the The first roval prince of Hira enfire water system of the city Temple was the late Charles H.| Mr. Maher has been with the Bradley, who with Thomas Mitchell water department 44 years, and as started the temple in Vega hall in foreman h ed the ex- November, 1300, All regular meet- tension of W in all sec- ing of the temple have been held in | tions of the city. He is regarded one of the most valuable men in the city's employ and well qualified for his new vosition the same hall ever since. Mr. Bradle was the first royal prince of the or- der in New England and Hira Tem- ple was the first temple in New Eng- - land. Mr. Mitchell was made the first | USE HERALD CILASSIFIED ADs BI howing *TH m does w suite wi “THE r> included. EKach pi Vanity at $20.00—Tallboy at at $39.00. Mirror o1 tached from base 1o be hung on standard attached achieved by Var dresacy $135.00 DINING ROOM SUITE 885.00 ely huilt of f IFigured walnut woods. 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