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New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
MARRIED 55 YEARS
 WIFE GETS DIVORCE
Saves Estate for Son by Delay
 in Court Action

1n orIcr to save her fa'hor-in- laws estate for inc benefit of her son, Mrs. Lena N. Atkins of this city delayed peIi'ioning for di- vorcc for more than 41 years after hor husband deserted her, it dcN"l- oped in superior court yesterday when she sought q decree before Judge Edwin C. Dickinson. A di- vorce was granted.
 Frederick |. Atkins of New Britain married her 90 y ITS ago and the petitioner told the court that her husband would lot work. She stated that after they had been elected from three tenoments in the north end of Hartford. hc h.cam" tired of the racket" and left her November 19, 1888. They had fonr children, one of whom is living, II" is a son. 45 years of age. The youngest son committed suicide. She Was married to Atkins January II, 1878,
 Mrs. Atkins said that the money was the reason for the long delay in pctitioning for a divorce, because her husband had saii that if he
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
French Buy Motors
 But EmegO Batlltubs

Batbtubs are less desired than automobiles in France. So the mas ter plumbers have ascertained through their official organ which conducted an Investigation of the use of sanitary facilities and pub lishcd the results under the title Of "A tour of France through the sewers"
 While automobiles are increasing, the plumbers lament that there are entire departments which do not have and do not want running wa ter, sewers and the sanitary facilities that go with them. The official re. ports cover 3S,o00 communities and indicate that the prospects Of mak- ing the Saturday night cleanup a measure rather than q hardship are not encouragng.
 What is lacking in France one Of the plumbers officials IS quoted as saying, lis authority to improve hvsienic conditions. "The masses aren't educated, the townsmen won't make the necessary financial sacri- fees and the taxpayers 1rotost against the cost of any progress in sanitation
 Paris and the large cities. o' course. have bathtubs and sewers but even In the capital there arc districts where sewers are lacking and there arc only septic tanks.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
WEALTHY WOMAN IS
 OFF ON LONG TRIP
prontinucd from First Pagc.)

Eulawayo. Shc suffered 3 sunrtrokc
 hut 1t is understood here she has
 resumed her iounrcy.
 Thc International League Of
 A,iators on January l6 awarded,
 for the first time. an international
 trophy for women flyers, Lady
 Bailey being the recipient. She was
 chased as tho "outstandiug woman
 aviator Of 1921."
 Lady Bailey was horn in l19e and
 was the Honorable Mary Wostenra.
 daughter Of the fifth Lord Koos-
 more and sister of the present lord. She is Sir Abe's second wife. She married him in 1A11.
 In 1926. Lady Bailey began flying. She flow alone after ten hours Of In struction and shortly afterwards took pilots certificate. She was a passenger when Lady Heath the Mrs Elliot-Lynn. in May, 1927, climbed to an altitude of 10000 feet, sotiing q record for light planes. On
 another occasion Lady Bailey and I.ady Heath raced against one an other at the Birmingham airdromo, 1 with three men also competing, and i .ady Bailey was inc winner. Lady i Bailey flew alone from London to 1 poncastcr to sec the St. l.eger horse i race. She vas the first woman 10 fly | across the Irish sea alone.
 1 Lady Bailey has had many es. capcs and once was Nhacke5 on the i head by a. ~hirlIng propeller e' i SIaCIanc airdrome, London.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Nmo,le Fad Grows Tn German Capital

Every fourth inhabitant or Ser lin wear. eye glasses, an inquiry among opticians at the national cap ital reveals.
 Not all who wear glasses, how ever, need them, say the opticians. There is an increasing demand for monoclos on tho part of fadd'sts who wish to initiate the fashion prevalent In pre-war days among young officers in the army. These monocles are often mere pieces of plain glass. Far from improving the cycsight, they gradually depreclate it, says the opticians. Women. too' are taking 10 the monocle idea.
 Thon there arc the women who, In the hope of making themselves ob- iects Of interest, carrt 1orgncttes which they raise to their eyes either To foign embarrassment or to stare | in a manner calculated to disconcert | the person facing them.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
POincare Wins Debates By FOrrsceiny Attacks

Premier Poincare has been emaz- ing friends and enemies alike by the crushing quality of his replies in parliament to all sorts of trick questions and studied traps laid for him by the opposition.
 What he does. those on the inside say, is 10 anticipate every question, foresee the nature of all attacks. and prepare q careful answer for each.
 Recently, when he spoke for eight hours on finance he had two piles Of papers before hlm. The first con sisted of documents used ill his long speech and the second was the group of answers 10 possible q attacks. Whenever an opposition orator inter -ected some remark the premier fishci out his answer, where were ,narshalled figures and documentary proof. and effectually settled the question.
 Tn this instance, he -estimated his enemies. True 10 his reputation as a great lawyer, he for"saW all th" attacks and had a comfortable supply of answers left over, unused
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Cat Starts Suit
 Both Sides Win It

Started by q Ca', a quarrc! that upset a Paris street for a year. has been neatly settled by Solomon- like judge.
 rusev. it soems. ran away from Madame Spisna last spring and took refuge in the cellar. Madame Spirna descended 10 get pussy by inc way of a private stairway Of Madame. tho concierge, without so much as asking her. whoreupon the con ciorgc, Madame Bernard, with angry motions Of her broom and dustpan, locked her in the cellar.
 Then appeared Monsieur Spigna, alarmed by cries for help. He hit Madame the concierge on inc nos", so the irdge was told. shc having in her hand at tho time one large knife ample for anything she may have contemplated in the way Of quick and sudden justice.
 The judge, after hearing two lawyers. two a1versarics. their fam iiios, friends and all the nolghhorS decided that ev' ryhoJy was wrong except tho cat So he awarded tho concierge one dollar datnaG EOS against Monsieur Spigna and he gave Nor sieur Spisna one dollars damages q cainst the concierge, nhercat every ono was satisfied, each having on | his or her particular suit.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Film Productions Show Treatments Of Cancer

Extirpation of cancerous groHths by means of the galvano-cautery in- stead Of the scalpel, was demonstrat- ed with the aid of series of suc- cessful film productions by Professor Franz Keysser, ~ell-known surgeon of the Jena University Hospital. be- fore a large audience Of physicians.
 By substituting the electrode for the knife, Prof. keysser explained even such plicatcd cases in which the cancer tissues are too deeply seated for the knife became accessible to the surgeon. Moreover he was inclined to consider an ex- cision by cauterization more thor ouSh than that with the knife.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10

as seemed probable until the present fall.
 Al Ashland Pa, extra workers were needed to keep the rail lines from the coal mines to tho breakers clear. At Pottsrille the snow caused suspension of work in some of the mines.
 The storm brought liberty 10 sov- oral denizens of the zoo at Sault Ste Marie when the drifts piled so high they were enabled 10 walk over the tops of the fences. Several bears and wolves escaped in that way.
 Forecasts over most of the east today promised clearing skies and continued cold over the week end, although warmer temperatures and probable rain were also expected ill some sections.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Famous Polish Artists
 To Appear Here April II

The Poles Of New Britain will have the unusual opportunity 10 hear one of inc premier Polish tenors in this country at a musical review which will be held at |. M, f. X E. hall on April II. Joseph Kallini of New York, famous oper- atlc singer on both the American and French stages, will be the artist. The program will also include onc of the premiere Polish danseuses of this country ill the person of Miss Itokadja l[lementowicz. who has al- ready made an excellent impression cn Broadway in many musical shows. The program will include w. OchrymoNicz and Miss T. Wandycz, well known Poles all over this coun- try for their rendition of Polish hu nor.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
IaIis NsIrrnizesI Lady Macbeth "Iohls,I Haired Ilanuit'

Machath doesn't take nearly so kindly to modern togs as Hamlet does. And Lady Macbeth-vell she becomes a very ordinary bobbed- hair movie yamp urging frail men on 10 murder. Iu short Macbeth brought up to date Is a poor rival Of srnrcs Of murder mystery plays which arc noH running in London.
 Kits. khaki. cocktails, kiInonoe md cigarettes make a. very etra Dse com mbinItIon with the lines of the Bard ot Avon. even If the lines be spoken with 4 very modern turn and robbed Of most of their poetry.
 Miss Mary Mcrral, who is the Lady Macbeth of the up-to-'he-min- iite Sir Barry Jackson production or Macbeth" wls described by one critic az an American bobbed hair cd bandit
 "An indifferent Shakespearean performance clothed with ludicrous inappropriateness. is the way one London critic disniHses the per- formauce. Still playgoers. and some critics. admit the experiment.. which Sir Barry Jackson calls 1t. ls Interesting.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10

Berlin, Mar. 10. P--When a clock strikes as hlgn as l5. 1t IS ordinar- ily assumed that there IS something wrong with Il.
 This IS no longer so in Freien- walde, BrandenhUrC. The clock III the tower of St. Georges church there not only has been equipped with a dial running up 10 "4 but the striking mechanism has been altered so that the clock strikes up to o4-twenty-iou times at mid night.
 The 14-hour system 1as intro duced for the German railways and post office, but F'reieuwalde IS the first place to accept all the conse- quenccs of t.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Eastern Collegiate
 Loop Ends Tonight

Now York, March 70 hP1 --- The eastern intercollegiate basketball season will close tonight with Prince ton and Pennsylvania engaging ill 8 championship struggle at Philad del phia.
 The Quahcrs already have an edge on the title pursuit and need only 3
 victory tonight 70 definitely clinch
 the cham pionshIp. The best the
 Princeton outfit can hope for is 10
 lie Penn by winning tonight and thereby forcing T playoff.
 Tenn has won seven -ancs and
 lost two and Princeton has won six and lost three.
 Dartmouth and Cornell play al Hanover, \. IT,, 10 decide third place. They are tied al five games won and four lost.
 The other league members, Yale and Columbia, meet on the New York battle-ground 10 close their schedule.
 Joey Schaaf, the sharpshooting guard on the Penn quintet. will en- deavor to gain additional laurcls in individual scoring. aiming al four
 more doubledcckcrs to break the present field goal record of 43 in the league, established by Orson Kinney of Yale in 1918. Schaaf recently set a new point scoring mark. He has q total of ] 29 points 10 date against tho former standard of PH mad" hy sammy Iits Of ] ale III l2-4.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10

team the hardest fight if had ex- which had ran up 10 a total of 1 Sn straight wins. New Britain held the wonder team scoreless In the third quarter.
 In 1922, WIlby High school of Waterbury. WIS leading the local High school basketball team hv q basket when New Britain called tino out with ten seconds 10 go Confidence WIS shown in 9 sub. Howard Eolsar, who vas put in tho game and hc justified tho captains strategy by sinking 3. perfect basket in two seconds New Britain cam" back 10 win lhc game in the over time period.
 In 1895 3 New Britain baseball team went to NduGatUck without tho semhlencn of , pitcher on the squad The locals took inc lead in the first inning and, led lv wonderful pitch ing of q dark horse named Carlson. who was untno1 10 many mem l'' I~ i1 ifLC l'd III, Iflt3tffl lHf Tulf- her tow ners after q brilliant game. These are only 3 few Of the ex- anples that prove that tho teams
 produced at the High school arc fighting outfits and remain so even in the face Of certain defeat. Most
 Of inc incid en's quoted above show that a team ia never defeated fill the last whistle is blown and there l is always that last remote chance 10 pull victory out Of fire.
 Had the High school teams quit 1 in their games they would never i have won. A croNning touch 10
 the fighting spirit Of the High school 1 and its coach vas shown two weeks ! ago when the basketball team, 1 trailing by II points at the start Of 1 the second half in its game with | the New Haven High team. came l back 10 score q sensational but
 hard earned victory.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Wearing V:ing No Proof Of tuuaCcmfSlt

London-'keepinE company TOT ten years with young woman ana giving her 2 ring which she wears on her engagement finger, do not constitu'e grounds for breach of uromjsc damages unless there be more definite proof of an actual promise Of marriage, so Justice Hor- ridge ruled in an action brought by Miss Edith Kay against Henry Fran cis Fry.
 Miss Rays only documentary eNi- dcncn was 8 single postcard Fry sent her when he was serving win the British army in Belgium. That bore the inscription from your fu- turn husband.' But frys failure 70 write anything further. and the in- ability Of Miss Kay to produce Wit nesses nho could corroborate the en- eagomcnt moved the judge and jury 10 dismiss the case.
 Justice Horridge said women wear rings so indiscrminatcly on fhelr cnrag cement, or third finger. that ring on that finger is no proof or engagement unless there be evidence to shoH it was given as an engage Went ring.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10

t;l3s-ow, Scotland, Mar. 10. W'-~ Simpler and cheaper grouse shooting is now promised for Americans who Ilko to come ever to Scotland 10 be . gun" on the Scottish moors.
 Quite a number Of Americans lease Scottish shootInss ny the year which costs them considerable, but it s interesting news hero 'ha' transatlantic steamship companies have arranged 70 lease q. large nun her Of grouse muors 10 he let 70 Americans for tlle shooting season only.
 The new plan is disigned 10 make grouse shooting available for larger numbers from the United States vho will, by this system have no further responsibilities regarding ,he property than 10 take posses zion for the few weeks during the shooting season.
 The shooting areas are not con- fined to the Highlands, but include ihe Loplands where there are number Of properties which have al ready been leased 10 represe Of the steamship companies,
 The Duke of A'holl and Lord Ar lie have leased their vast estates to inc Cunard company winch has also an option on the Cameron Of Loch- oil's fam ous AchnacarrH shooting Tn 1npernoSs as well as Murray Guih- rie's Torosay shooting tract on the Island of Null.
 Shooting lodges, servants, linen, keepers, dogs and everything appor- taining 10 the sport may b" inclUd- cd in the sporting rights lease. so that Americans coming over for the grouse season will hn ho'Nor"d fy nothing more than their personal baggage and guns.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
FIGHTING SPIRIT
 STRONG AT N.B. H.S.
Last Moment Effort Has Often
 Made Victory Possible

Since 1920 there have heen many exciting events in games played by the Nec Britain High school and alumni like 10 recall them because they prove that the local ]llEh school teams have a fighting spirit.
 In 1920. after trailing i2 to in the sixth inning, the High school baseball team rallied to tie the score in the ninth inning. Dixie Griffin s.rode to the plate with the baseS full and proceeded to knock out the first home run Of his career. The opponent was South ManChes- ter High.
 In 1921. nitl, few seconds 10 go in a. football game with Merldcn High and the rain coming down in torrents, the local team attenp~ ted a daring feat by trying a drop kick with the field a sea of mud. "Dave'' Mahoney booted perfect goal and brought victory to the To- calls.
 Tn 1921, with the score tied and four seconds 10 go, "DiAie' Griffin received the ball just as tho final whistle blew and ran 50 yards for a touchdor 10 defeat the fresh men team Of Storrs college.
 In 1920, Hal Beagle. unknown by most Of Ins school mates. proceed cd to knock out eight home runs during his freshman year at the school.
 Tn 1923, with the bases filled and New Britain leading by one run over their ancient rivals from Hart ford, the heaviest hitter on tho Hartford team strode 10 the plate in the ninth inning with two out Gray, who had been hit success fully ny the last five hattcrs, pro ceeded 10 strike out the sIugSer with three pitched balls. Tn 1923, with New Haven High holding a l2 70 Q lead over the To- calls and five minutes to go the Red | and Gold team rallied to score two sensational touchdowns. Grip scoreG the winning touchdown by dash'ne sn yards across the line with br' 10 seconds to go
 { Tn 1922 the Collegiate Prep. base hall team came 10 Now Britain ~Itf 2 record of l6 straight wins while the locals had yet 10 win game 1T 1 five starts. An inspired team startled the sporting world by cop. ping a , to win. the climax of the game being Dixie" Griffin's dar' 1 ing steal Of home with the winning run.
 Tn 1921. Rogers High of Rhode Island. recognized champions 0. New England and undeteated. camt to this city to clash with the loca bask etball team. They went back tt Rhode Island with q 3 to 10 defeat They were unable to score a baak a in the first half and scored only two baskets in the entire game.
 In 1923, a Now Britain High bas krthali team wont 10 r1sSar~. x. ]. and gave the FAlsaic HiSh .schoo
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Germany Loses Empirc Relic

With the tearing down of the Berlin Colonial museum, as decreed bv the citys council. Germany loses another relic Of her one-rme 1m- perialIstic greatness.
 The round building, familiar to many American tourists arriving at the adjoining Lehrter railway sta ton from Hamburg or Bremen, was originally constructed for a panor- anna memoralizing the Austro-Ger- man battle of kosniggraetz in 1s6t. but was subsequently, turned into museum of mementoes recording the development 0. German colonial possessions.
 AS 1t. squat-like structure Is con- s!dered objectionable and as 1t has not been found adequate for other exhibition purposes. it will now be raZed.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10

century old was disclosed to those uninitiated in stamp lore by the re- ports of sales in the stamp market. here, on mail sent to the proNinccs $ by balloon from Paris when the city was besieged by the Germany army in 1870. They were ordinary stamps but on envelopes especially marked.
 We'll before the war, Germany, Switzerland, the Argentine and sweden had special air issues, al though France still uses the regular postage stamps for air mail.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Provides l .aSr IOr Aged lIT-r~

Edmonton. England Eurinc up old and rorn out horses and per sonally seeing them bumanely de- stroycd or found good home where they do light work. is the spar time occupation Of Miss Hayes, school teacher Of this town.
 Already 5000 horses and donhcys have passed through her hands and last year she spent sl5,560 in buy ing 4OG horses.
 Miss Hayes says she often saw lame and emaciated hOrses being worked in 'ra streets and inquired what became of them. H"arjrE fhov rcre often cold ta dralc"= and worked harder n the country or
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10

could get q divorce he would marry again and have another family. In that event. she quoted him. the es- tate would be distributed among the Chlldrt n of his second marriage and the shares of her children WoulI be proportionately smaller.
 Joseph G. WooIs rcprcsentcd Mrs. Atkins.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
o,Iud Life l lnfrarablf In Foreign Legion

Gibraltar-Charlca Edward Jacks and Alfred George ttnrur rDts, two Engllshmcn who arrived here after necap.ng from the French Foreign Legion m Morocco. say 15 per cent of the mon in the Foreign Legion gre Germans. The two i.ngIishucn fpunl nCn uuhear1blr on tholr pay c' frc sous. or atout one cent q day. They vcr" prunll"s.a -'N"n 'h"y escaped iut were hcfrleudrd hF Arabs and managed 'o trad" 'hpr hits for food and money enough to rct them to TarEror.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10

Those Who Would Hunt Scottish Grouse Now Find Sport
 is Not So Expensive

sent abroad 10 be slaughtered, she started buying them with the help Of friends. She keeps several in her own stable and cares for them her self.
 50 well is my work known she said, that many people let me kno" when their horse is getting past work and I buy it. Of course ] could not do this without the financial help of friends
 Miss Hayes is known locally as "thc horses friend.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
So<.tal Distinction Abolished Al Pnlssian Function

Scrub women mingled with titled departmental chiefs, and office boys with ministers of state, when the Prussian minister Of the interior, Albert Grzcsinski, recently opened his official residence for a recep- ton to everybody employed in hls ministry.
 It va, the first time in the his tory of Prussia that so democratic q reception was given by member of the cabinet. Heretofore tho pal ace in which the ministry or me interior is housed has been tho scene of many brilliant functions, but these were always given in honor of outsiders. Grzc sinski for the first time afforded the mon and women associated in daily work in tho de- rartmcnt an opportunity Of meeting
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
SiS7,S7O,7O0 Valuation
 Put on Western Railroad

Washington. March 10 Pe-A fl- nal valuation of s4S7,S70,100 for the Chicago and North Western railway as of June 1917, was fixed today by tho interstate commerce commls- sion.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
Air Stamp Collecting Ia phiiatcly's Latest

Air-stamp collectors are the ne" specialists of phila'ely. They have little periodical of their own Tn Trance md an active market is run ning up prices not only for the nc" but for rare old issues.
 That air mail stamps are halt
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
SEAbOARD
 SWEPT BY STORMS
tC'ontinued i from First faEo)

unofficial estimates placed at 10 inches. and at GlolerSYlllo m up- state New York, where there was foot.
 Trains were running from 'eW minutes to hours behind schedule and many highways were b'ocked. several bus lines in New >ork, Pennsylvania and New England were forced 10 discontinue serVlcc through the night, when the roads became impossible from the high drifts.
 The Great Lakes were whipped into hugo waves, in some sections inc water golng over entertainments onto highways and into the cellars Of lakeside homes.
 Costly In Canada Dispatches from Toronto, OHt.' sa i'd tho storm there was the most costly of the winter, trains running behind schedule, many autos ahan- ,JoncJ in h1ge drifts along the high wsys and vehicular traffic III the country practically at stands'ill. A l wind Of 1o miles an hour and D snowfall of 6 inches was recorded | In New York city a four men snow fall, the heaviest of the winter, | came as T boon 10 tho Unemploye9. | From six thousand to "ight thou sand workers were added to the street cleaning force of 5000. Tn 1 Manhattan Island the high tenperd- ture turned the snow into water and slush, but in outlying sections drifts were piled high.
 Aids unemployed
 The snow in New York city al though if aided the unemployed came as a blow to the street de- partment economy program. The To- tai of Sl,000,000 spent already was expected to be materially increased before the streets had been cleared. The snow bill in 1996-27 was s2.- uno. nno. and II had been hoped That sum could bc cut lu hall thl1 i'ar.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
BERLIN Tower in St. Georges Church in Brandenburg Goes On Rampage and Strikes Twenty-Four

socially.
 The undersecretav Of his min istry pr. Wilhelm AbeSS. thanking the minister on behalf Of the staff. pointed out that nothing could more .trikingly illustrate the difference between the old royal Prussia and the democratic Prussia of today.