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New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
AVIATION FIELD
 IS GIVEN BOOM
Major Freeman Strong Advocate Of Developing Air Travel

Suspended over Hartford, the ocean near Boston In sight, the ocean near New York in sight. Springfield right next door and New Britain almost too close to be seen, 10000 feet in the air and the coun- try visible for hundreds ot miles. This is picture pointed out from his sirplane by Major Talbot o. Freeman, chief aviation inspector for the state of Connecticut who spoke at the joint meeting of civic clubs at the Burritt hotel today,
 Members of the Rotary, Kiwanis. and Lions' clubs, Chamber of Con- merce and common council were present. as was Mayor A. M. Pao- nessa. The subject under discussion was the propoed aviation field in New Britain and, judging by st0te- ments made on all sides afterwards, aviation and its future In this city has been given strong boost.
 In discussing Major Freeman's talk, Mayor Paonessa said: New Britain has more airplanes than any other city In Connecticut, why
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
shouldn't we ha{e a held Yo

shouldn't we have . field '"
 Major Freeman pointed out among those present Lieut.. Carl Dixon of New Britain, who first distinguished himself during the war by a non stop flight from London to Cairo. He explained how tying is safe in Q safely handled aIrplane and that trick flying. dipping. etc., are en- tirely unnecessary,
 He explained that there Is no feeling of seasickness, unless a per- son runs into bumpy air currents, and told some stories of the speed Of planes. He said 1t is easier to crosz the English channel in plane than to go to New York from New Brit ain by rail.
 His Busy Day.
 He told how fN and friend played IS holes of golf in Farming. ton one morning, motored to Hart ford, left Brainerd field at 12:50 landed in New York at 2;10, had tea there, left New York at o'clock landed in Hartford at 5.10. motored to Pennington and had dinner there at I o'clock. He said he has flown from Bristol to Hartford in sever minutes. Planes fly between Boston and New York in 55 minutes. A trip made recently from Boston tc New York and back with a sever minute stop in New York took two hours and IT minutes.
 Pulitzer speed planes, he said average 243 miles an hour, so fas that spectators cannot hear thu noise because the planes travel fast CT than sound waves. In fact he said they travel as fast as the old fash toned black powdered bullet.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
Whines of Pet Dog Save
 Life of lis Mistress

Syracuse. N. r., Oct. 29.-Whin- ing and growing of a pet dog are credited by Mrs. John Clary, of this city, with having saved her life ear ly today, when an unidentified man set fire to the rear of her house. The dog awoke Mrs. Clary about 8 o'clock, and she got up to investi- gate noises which she heard in the kitchen. As she opened the door. smoke and flames drove her to the front of the house
 The man believed responsible for setting the fire stood in the shadow Of a tree, until neighbors were awak- ened hy Mrs. Clary's screams and then fled. Damage to the house was slight.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
SOME ARE UNDERpAID
College Instructor Says Many Law yers and Ministers Get Only One third of What They Are Worth.


 Many lawyers and ministers in this country are not getting more than one-third of what they are worth simply because they have never learned to reflect their mem tai attitude upon m audience, ac- cording to O. statement made last evening by Professor John W. Wet gel of the Hartford Theological sem mary and the Columbia university. Professor Wetzel spoke to gath ering of 33 men at the Y. M. 0. A. In connection with course in con- vincing speaking the "Y" has start ed and which Professor Wetzel will teach. or the 33 men who heard him about 20 signed up 10 take the course which will run 16 weeks. In opening the meeting the in- ''structor told his hearers that a course In public speaking is not de- stined alone to make platform speakers out Of the students, but to make insurance men more con- vincing, salesmen more able to pre- sent the advantages of their pro- duct, and to teach all how to think on their feet. to think quickly and talk convincingly and intelligently and without embarrassment.
 He outlined the course and gave A few preliminary instructions. The first session of : the class will be held next Tuesday evening at the ". M. c. A. at 7:30 o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
TO HAVE CANDIDATE

Hartford, Oct. 29.-The republican state central committee meeting here today voted to hold the special state convention in Hartford November A and 25. A nominee for the unexpired term of the late Senator Brandegee will be named at the convention. Primaries and caucuses vii be held November 14 and district conven- tions November IT.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29

Have you ever watched your father shave? Does he try to keep shadows away by turning his face this way and that? Or can he shave comfortably and easily with a smile on his face like the man In the second picture? Shaving is really the best test of lighting in bathrooms. A man slaves each side of his face and under his chin. and if he is to see well, he needs a light on each side down low enough to light underneath the chin.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
FALL RESULTS FATALLY

Baltimore, Oct. 29.-Frank A Bonsal is dead as the result of pneu- monia following injuries received in fall from his horse during a fox hunt twelve days ago. With J. Am prose Clark of New York, MT. Bon sal was master of hounds of the Harford hunt, and was riding with them when his horse failed to clear fence. In the fall he suffered a fracture of the shoulder blade and pneumonia set in three days later He died yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
Jazz Talk Alarms

New York-"saxophone English is working havoc with the mother tongue" Otto G. Van Campne, teach CT of self-expression, told the Rotary club here. When person says 'Whadja say?' and 'Whatcha got?' and calls a bird a bold it's time something was done" the speaker declared.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
CLERGYMAN GETS CALL

Torrington, Oct. 29.-The Torring- ford Congregational church has ex- tended 8 call to the Rev. Elisha Sawyer of Seymour to become pas tor. The Rev. Hawthorne Jones recently resigned from this pastor ate to accept a call to Mansfield Center.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
Miss Catherine E. smith

Miss Catherine F. Smith, IS, daughter of Frank l.. and Catherine Clark Smith Of 467 Park street, died at her home this morning. She leaves a brother, James and several aunts and uncIes. She was employed for several years as a stenographer at the Citizens Coal Go. Funeral arrangements, which are as yet in- complete, are in charge of John Tarrant.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
LESSON N0.8 I LIGHTING THE BATH ROOM

find 1t necessary to take the bulb
 out of the light to connect her
 electric iron?.
 If she does. she probably does not curl her hair in tho evening,
 because many bathrooms are light,
 ed by only one fixture. And if your bathroom has two fixtures,
 and sister. uses one for . curling iron, then she must twist and turn
 her head because she cannot sss we'll when only one is used for lighting.
 That curling iron of sisters Is just one of the handy little elec-
 tric appliances which should be provided with an outlet of their |own---a convenience outlet 36 inches or more above the floor, GO that I good lighting is always ready when it Is most needed.
 LIGHTING THE SUN ROOM In the sun room we usually want | ceiling fixture to give us
 general lighting and to flood tho
 whole room with warm, soft light and an atmosphere of cheerfulness;
 we also peed lighting from portable
 lamps fer reading or sewing, CT as
 decorative spots of light and color
 around the room. Do you se- member the lesson which told how to light the living room1 It was
 much the same as this, for the sun
 room or sun porch is really an-
 other living room in most homes. In the sun room, however, the furniture and decorations usually
 require lighting fixtures which will
 look well with wicker and cretonne
 and which will make the sun room
 feel like q sun room even after dark.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
Protests Pouring in
 At Revenue Offices

Hartford. Oct. 2s.--Business in the income tax department of the inter nal revenue office here today shifted from the handling of the applica- tions of those who wanted to see tho tax reports of others to the consider ation of the protests of those who objected to the publication of the income tax by any payer. The pro- tests are beginnig to come in strong and directly to the point. There are telephone protests from those who want to know, in sarcastic tone if it will be ''"e nssary for them to appear in DO orc their protest will be givo There were personal ca who wanted to tell C. on In person what they f |, but the collector is con- ii J home by illness and they we .,aed to tell somebody else. And there were letters in the morn- ing mail that showd that few peo- pie of prominence are beginning to feel that the government is going altogether too far into their private business.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
Dpaths
Frank Geiger

NNiSNi
 Frank Geiger, 1, son of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Geiger of 11S Rockwell avenue, died this morning at his home of diphtheria. He is surviv- ed by six brothers and sisters, The funeral was private and was held from the home this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery,
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
CLEARINGs AND BALANCES.

New York-Exchanges, 753,000,- 900; balances, 78,000.o0O. Boston Exchanges, 6S.O0O,O00; balances, 24,000.000.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29
TltstpraIs
Mrs. Frederick W. Berg

The funeral of Mrs. Frederick w, Berg was held this afternoon. Serv- ices wer- held at the home at l92 Rhodes street al o'clock and at the Erwin chapel at 2:30. Rev. M. W. Gaudian officiated.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29

U. S. TREASURY STATEMENT. U, s, treasury balance, $340,34S, 763
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29

There were no windows in ancient Greek houses
New Britain herald., 1924-10-29

Seventy-four years married and never a quarrel
 That's the record established by s. B. Cobb and wife of Holdridge, Neb., who have celebrated their seventy-fourth wedding anniversary. Cobb Is s7. Mrs. Cobb is 9s. They have four living children whose ages are =, 6S. 64 and 6l. They have 2o grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and two great-groat- grandchildren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-03
Jugoslavs Are Creating New Capital the Banks of
BY FRANK C. CARPENTER.

BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
BELGRADE.
For to admire and for to see,
For to be'old this world so wide
But couldn't drop it il tried"
AM again in Belgrade. visited
the city thirty-five years ago.
wheE I came around the world
from east to west on a sort OF
honeymoon tour, and I stopped here
again twenty years later with my
wife and daughter on my second long
tour round the globe. In both Of
those trips l came from CONSTANT
nople. This time 1 have come from
the north, riding on the train nine
hours from Budapest. the capital Of
the New Hungary. to this capital of
the new Kingdom of the Serbs.
Croats and Slovenes, or, as it is
called, Jugoslavia.
When I was here last Belgrade was
2 dead town of sixty or seventy thou
sand people. 1t was a second-class
opera bouffe show. the capital Of a lit
tie kingdom that was always quar-
reling with it's neighboring princi-
palities. the tro-Hungarians over
the way and the Turks, who for hun
dreds of years had held the Serbian
nation under their sway.
The kingdom was then independ-
ent, but Austria Hungary came right
up to its borders. At this point the
Save and the Danube rivers come
together. They throw their arms
around Belgrade, much as the Monon-
gahela and the Ohio throw their arms
around Pittsburgh: and on the other
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Lamp Shade Industry.

TT appears that a little less than
= 100000 tons Of sand is used in
the United States annually in MAX
ing glass. The actual manufacture
Of glass is carried on chiefly in the
cities of the natural gas regions, and
the process possesses features Of in
terest to everybody. Natural gas Is
ideal for heating tho great pots which
often hold thousands OF pounds of
materials requiring very high tenn
peratures to reduce them to molten
glass. New York manufacturers are
content to manipulate tho glass that
comes from these producers. Not the
least interesting of these are the
makers of bent glass lamp shades. OF
whom there are a number in New
York city.
In the process of .making these
shades the glass sheets are first cut
into identical sections to At the dome
or shade being made. This is done
by hand with a glass cutters wheel
tiny wheel of the hardest temper
and sharpest edge.
The out leaves Of glass are taken
| to tho freproof brick furnace. which
is about four feet square inside and
Is fitted with three roaring gas burn
ers. The flames from these burners
curl against the oven top and are
reflected down toward the confer. In
front Of the furnace on a table are
arranged a number OF molds resem-
bling hugo metal flowers a foot and
half or more In diameter. Ono of
the segments of glass is fitted into
each OF tho petals Of these grotesque
blossoms, the size. shape. curvature
and number Of petals on each mold
| corresponding to the pattern of a
particular lamp.
When a plate OF glass has been Mt
ted into each OF the molds tho swing
Ing iron curtain, which serves as a
door to the furnace. is raised and the
furnace man picks up the mold with
a long handled prong and sets it on
, small circular platform In the oven
floor. When the door is dropped the
platform begins to revolve, SO that
! every part of the mold Is subject to
the same heat After three or four
minutes in a temperature OF 1900 or
| 1.600 degrees the pieces OF glass
soften and drop Of their own weight to
: fit the mold's concave outlines. II
is set on another table to cool and
the next mold is placed in the
| furnace.
The manager OF ono of tho COM
ranies Is planning to install an end
less chain that will carry the racks
into the furnace. turn them about
for the proper time and carry them
out again. BY this means he hopes
to increase the output and decrease
the labor cost. Tho present system
has increased one mans daily out
/ put from $50 to 400 pieces OF glass,
the limit when each piece was bent
separately under a sand blower. to
I 500 or 1.600.
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Dance of Today Has an Influence Upon the Styles of T

moro with the present generation
Of young men who rate girls first ac-
cording to their ability to dance.
This is a fact that has much to do
with tho fashioning OF women's
clothes. Women are As exacting in
the finish of the edge Of a skirt as
In the line Of the neck. They are
as eager to have a frock becoming
to their ankles and feet as to their
faces-if you can use the word In
that connection. And from thinking
the back of the frocf Is an unimpor-
tant as that OF paper doll they have
como to look upon 1t as Of quite
as much Importance as the front.
Copyright, 1924
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Belgrade Has Been Marked WrUnimnd
bodybuilding Materials and
e-AtN ton Tzaisa- Pressan t al

cations. It was a fortress Of great
importance when the Turks overran
Europe, making their way az far
north as Vienna, and just about four
hundred years ago it was captured
by one of the sultans., For centuries
the people were under the Turks, and
1t was less than fifty years ago that
they became Independent and made
Belgrade their capital. Indeed. the
Turks did not evacuate the fortress
OF Belgrade until after the close of
our civil war.
The old Notifications still stand.
They are huge forts made OF brick
and earth with a wide moat running
round them, browning the point
where the Danube and Save come to-
gether. There is q park in their rear,
and it was from its promenade that
photographed them to show the
she'll holes of the Austrians. I did
50 unthinkingly, and for hours there
after feared might be tapped on the
shoulder by one Of the fierce Serbian
policemen and put in Jail as a spy.
But perhaps no one saw me. At least
so far I am safe. It was on the high
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roadway o: which was paved with
wood blocks and laid down by Rus
sian workmen as a present from the
Car Nicholas, after whom it is
ramed. 1t has wide sidewalks walled
with fine stores, and the whole makes
a good promenade. At 3 O'Clock The
traffic policemen some of whom are
armed with muskets. shut off all car
riages and cars from this part of the
city, and the people walk back and
forth just as they do in the Gale
Florida In Buenos Aires and in the
Ouvidor in Rio de Janeiro. During
these hours the women wear their
fine clothes. Nearly all have bare
arms and necks, and the throng is a
gay one. The actions on the street
are more lively than those in any
other of the promenades of great
cities. These people do not loiter
or stroll. They walk as though they
were going somewhere, and their
movement has determination and a
swing I have not seen other,wheres.
Even if an article. is Signed. and the
man who wrote 1t denies that he did
SO, the Jail editor will affirm that
the work was his, and when the gov
eminent orders his punishment he
goes to Jail without question. After
serving his term lie is taken back on
the staff TO await "A second offense. [
am told the government never goes
back OF the statement of a writer
alleging that he was not responsible
for an article attributed to him.
Carpenters World Travels Copyright. 1924
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upon which I have letters of credit.
has a counting room of mahogany
with heavy brass holdings running
around the base and edges Of the
counters. Upon all the counters,
which extend for a hundred feet or
more around the rooms. is heavy
plate glass. and when I sat down at
the long mahogany table in the court
of the bank I found it's top also
glass plated. This court was lighted
by a great dome OF glass. and the
bank equipment was one which
would have attracted attention almost
Any "here. s- 4.
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THE population OF Belgrade has
= just about doubled since the
world war. 1t had something like
10000 in 1914. 1t has about 10000
at the present, and II promises to
grow right along. Before the war
Belgrade had only Serbia, with q
population of about four millions, to
draw from. 1t was the capital Of a
kingdom Of about the size of Indiana.
Now 1t is the capital of a land more
than twice as large as the state of
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New York, with a population over
twelve millions.
Tho country has half dozen Az.
ferent races, and the people on tn.
street come from all parts of the
kingdom.
During my stay have met a num-
Der Of the newspaper men Of Belgrade.
They are bright fellows, many Of
them speaking several Languages.
Two of the men I have talked with
are graduates OF Oxford. and a third
has studied at Cambridge. Nearly
every reporter speaks German or
French, as we'll as most OF the poly
glot tongues Of this polyglot nation.
They tell me their newspaper circu-
lations are small, the largest in Bel
grade having only about 10000 per
day. There are small papers scat
tered all over the country, and many
party organs and periodicals of one
kind and another. The wages of
newspaper men are low, the best
writer's getting from ten to twelve
dollars week, and the ordinary re-
porter much less.
One of the lowest paid men on each
journal is the Jail editor. He re-
ceives a retainer or fixed salary Of
one thousand dinars, about ten dol
lars a month, with a present after
he comes out OF Jail proportioned to
the length OF his stay. The jail edi-
tor assumes all responsibility for
anything that appears in the paper.
The best place to see the crowd is
on TEaritsa street from S till 9 in
the evening. This Is a part of the
main highway through the city, the
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side OF them, to the west and the
north, lay the great Austro- Hunga-
rian empire, rich and powerful. ag-
gressive and domineering. 1t rather
despised Serbia, imposing all sorts Of
trade restrictions, hindering commu-
nications, and doing everything to
exalt Budapest and Vienna.
The Belgrade OF today Is live. ag-
gressive and becoming. 1t Is the capt.
tai of a country eight times as large
as Massachusetts,, and of a people
one-tenth as many as those who
claim allegiance to the American flag.
The city has been reborn. It Is now
stunning of its old clothes, ragged
and worn with the age OF almost two
thousand years. and putting on the
capitals of Europe.
I am writing this amid the din Of
the new building operations. Tire
sound Of the hammer and saw are
competing with the click OF my type
writer, and the rattle of the concrete
mixer and the chug-chug-chug of the
steam riveting machine fill the air.
But first let mo say q word about
the old Belgrade. You know where
1t lies. 1t Is about half way between
Constantinople and Paris. on the edge
of the bread basket Of Europe. sixty
hours by fast train from London and
perhaps about the same time from
Constantinopie.
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BELGRADE has always been a cap
ital of some sort or other. In the
time Of the Romans 1t was known
as Singidunum, and had its FORTH