New Britain herald., 1926-08-18
FLASHES OF LIFE: GENERAL ELECTRIC
 PAYS WELL FOR GOOD SUGGESTIONS
By the AssncIated Press

f & > W AAAAAA \ SAN ! By the Associated Press 4s !. New York Fifty years agr Adolph S. Ochs was setting type at 1; Knoxville, Tenn. Now he owns the New York Times, which has an an- . nual gross income of S25,000, ,O00 As a memento of this 3Oth anni- versary as publisher his composing room has just presented him with an engraved silver printers stick. Chicago - If somebody offered
 Miss Wills 100 grand to turn pro, , as Mir. Pyle did to Suzanne, she'd do some serious thinking. But fair
 Helen, homeward bound, isn't thinking of emulating the marvel
 lous mademoiselle, yet at least.
 She has had no offers.
 Schenectady, N. Y.-It is profit
 able for any employe of General
 Electric 10 make a good sugges-
 tion. This year the company has
 paid s22,6o2 for 2,172 ideas in
 amounts ranging up to $500.
 New York - Smiles worth s25.-
 900. Hiss Hannah Gruber. 21,
 whose charm as a child of 12 at
 tracted pr. Howard Louruain. has
 q legacy under his will He re-
 moved to Chicago when she was in her teens.
 New York - Gloria Swanson re-
 gards her marquis as genius.
 Hes back from abroad with a fan
 that he is going to manufacture
 for cooling hot air and he expects ! to make a fortune. Gloria heard
 all about it when she spend the
 night aboard the Olympic because
 the maruqis could not land when l the boat arrived.
 Paul. Smiths N. Y. A big i cherry pie from Traverse City.
 Mich, has come for presidential consumption. It is 30 inches in di-
 ameter and four inches deep and contains 5000 cherries. Hurrying motorists who brought it were stopped by Canadian police - not because of the pies ingredients, but because they were speeding. Holyoke. Mass. Big mush- room found in Indian Hollow. It is 1-2 feet round and weighs six pounds. As yet it is uneaten, but the owner says another found near it made a fine meal.
 Boissy La Tiviere, France - Delegates to an international pa c1fist congress seem to be revers- ing the usual order of things. ] Women have ankle length gowns and men are showing their knees. { They wear shorts and nothing at all below them.
 Paul Smiths, N. Y-Mrs. Cool idge has a new neck piece of Adirondack red fox,
 Toronto Beauties seeking Miss Americas crown are going to have stern Canadian competition at At lantic City. So handsome is Miss Toronto that crowd pushed right through a plate glass window 10 get a look.
 New York - Reports that he is to marry Frieda Hempel. singer, amuse August Heckscher, elderly philanthropist Anticipating he would be asked amusing oues- tions' on his return from abroad he had ready a statement which concluded: Kindly permit me to stand on the personal privilege do- main of silence. particularly where a lady's and gentlemans private friendship could not be of any interest to the reading pub lie"
 London Take it from Will Rogers, if Miss Barrett swan the channel, the English would have said she waded it. She is six feet. three. Will regards himself as a greater guy than George Bernard Shaw John Bull let Will speak over the radio, but bars G. B. S.
 New York - Desiree Tabor, star of The Great Temptations" has 'uccumbed to Cupids allurements. She is to marry Colonel Allenby of the British army.
 Geneso, N. Y. - The dads of all he twins in town are horse doc .ors. One has two pairs of boys. he other pair of girls.
 New York No need to be 'fraid of d fellow with a protrud ng jaw. It does not mean courage. put simply that the possessor was prevented from sucking his thumbs while a baby This revelation was made by a dentist at the ortho- lontic congress.
 New York It's : to 3 that Rene Fonck will fly from New 'ork to Paris. The odds are de- uced from insurance against 
 Hartford - Red Chapman out olnted Eddie Lord in l2 round