New Britain herald., 1926-10-02

| IS participating in sporting classic, because his dying mother wished it, | does not drink, smoke or chew. Mrs. Hornsby asked her son Rogers to avoid temptation when he started in baseball, and he has. The revel- ation comes from H. NJ. Finley, who helped find the star in the bushes. New York - As the result of a talk by Gene Tunney, boys at an or phanage have decided voluntarily not 10 smoke. Cardinal Hayes told about this when the champion visit ed him. The prelate believes the boys of the whole country look to the champion as a good example, and that he will not fail them.
 Washington - Mrs. Bucky Harris had an appropriate wedding cake. It was topped by little statue of the groom in uniform.
 New York - Some of the piles of cash that MT. Cold Cash Pyle ex- poets to make with Suzanne, Mary and Winnie are going into the cof- fers that MT. Landis controls. The tennis impresario bought box at the Yankee stadium for the world series. Suzanne and Winnie have been practicing for their pro debut by foX-trotting.
 Joplin, Mo. A great discovery
 in Criminology has been made by l.. A. Dillon, merchant. Perhaps it was suggested by the Nebraska diet for prohibition law yiolators. Any how Dillon has wired the police of 50 cities that the way to make crook confess is 10 keep him in cell hungry for two days and then make him watch 20 policemen eat square meal.
 New York-Special permission has been given by federal authorities for Earl Carroll to go to Europe. His bail was doubled to s1o,o0o and he promised to return upon two weeks notice should matters relat- ing to his sentence for perjury about his bathtub party make 1t necessary. His appeal is pending.
 Moscow-Because rats killed baby in a hospital. woman physi- clan and two nurses have been sent to jail. The physicians defense for failure to treat the baby was that it was doomed to die and she was about to make a major operation on another patient.
 New York-Mrs. Consuelo Van derbilt smith. young bride, is one of the richest women in New York. so far as personal property, exclusive of securities. is concerned. Her holdings are listed by the city at half a million. Gloria Swanson is rated at s1OO,00o, perhaps because of her jewels.
 The movies, however. thrill one little rich girl. Doris Duke, who will be worth s100, ,00O.00 some day, was delighted when she saw them for the first time on the Aquitania on which she returned from abroad in charge of q governess. She is the 14-year- old daughter of the late James Buchanan Duke.
 Romc-When Austen Chamberlain takes a voyage he has the radio re- moved from his yacht. It's the only way to have true tranquility, he says.
 New Tork-Friends of Margaret Matzenauer, opera singer, are unable piest woman in the world. She has lost 50 pounds. Dieting baths in Germany and massage did it. f
 Another happy woman Of the stage weighs 1S0. Lillian Newell, who needed at least that weight to qualify for a job in revue which depicts in one number old-style girls. is to marry Charles Rome. a wealthy realty operator of Phiadel- phia.
 London-Everytim another in stalmcnt of the latest novel of H. G. Wells comes out there is another sensation. The latest is the charac- terization of King George as "a worthy. conscientious and entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son Of plump old Edward VII" The au- thor insists he is not responsible for the opinions of characters in the book.