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New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
WIFE SAYS SHE HAS AN ALIB| FOR kN0wL7o|V
Believes Husband Innocent of Staying School
 Teacher !,
cambrids., Ma.s., April . N

Cambridge. Mass.. April . N
 "A special session of the Mid
 dlesex county grand jury was
 called here today to consider the
 case of Frederick HinmaA
 knowlton of Birmingham. held
 for murder in connection with
 the death of Miss Marguerite I.
 Stewart. teacher at the Beverly
 School for tho Deaf. whose bat
 tered body was found on the
 highway at Concord last Fri-
 day morning.
 Knowlton was arraigned in
 the Concord district court yes
 terday. pleaded not guilty and
 waived examination.
 In addition to the police of-
 rcials who investigated the
 case. the witnesses summoned
 included attaches of the Beverly
 school and relatives of the dead
 girl.
 Cambridge. Mass. April 6 UUP)- The wife of Frederick Hinman jr.. Birmingham busines man. claimed today to have "a complete alibi' for her husband. who is alleged to have slain hie girl friend. Mis- Marguerite l.. Stewart.
 Mrs knowlton. mother o{ three children. declared she could account for the suspects whereabouts last Friday, when the Beverly school was murdered. and also on the previous night. when knowi- ton Is alleged to have kept . date with the victim.
 His wife's loyalty seemed to be only consolation today BE the authorities continued weav- Ing the web of circumstandal evi- dence around the ex-soldier. son of one of Framingham's selec:men.
 In East Cambridge jail. knowlton awaited next Friday the 18th. whea he will be given a hearing in Con- ,ord district court. He had pleaded not guilty to 2 first degree murder charge when arraisned yesterday.
 Meanwhile the Middlesex county grand jury prepared to meet ia special session today 10 consider the ,ase against him. District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell had announced he would ask the grand jury to in- iict the suspect for hrst deSres 
 State detectives. working OQ4ftly 'ince Mis- Stewards body was DoUnA beside the Cambridge tufnpa0s e Concord . week go tea1oA2 aa-
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New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
WELL RECEIVED

Rome, April 6 (UP)-OfYicial re- ports from Cairo said today that Cn- dersecreary Bolzon. who is privatel visiting Egypt. was we'll received by the Italian colonies. He was re- ceived in audience. by King Fuad and Lord Lloyd. British high com missioner in Egypt
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
68 MILLION ASKED
 FOR CONSTRUCTION
Budget Bureau Recommends 9S
 New Federal Buildings
TWO FOR THIS STATE
Two Million For Hartford Post or tice and S1,s00,OOO For Bridge port Included in Measure Re ported Today.

Washington, April iP,-ln a final report to congress on public building construction for 1929, the budget bureau today recommended erection ot s federal structures throughout the country at cost not to exceed s6S. 900, GOO. about one half Of which would bc appropriate cd at this session.
 The recommendations were made n compliance wi.h the two public building acts authorizing the ex- penditure Of S2Q,oo0,0oo annually outside ol the District of Columbia until S.o0, oop, oo0 is consumed
 The recommendations include:
 Chicago, post office and other federal offices, Sl4,25o, ,0no limit of cost, with S3Qu,u00 to be available this year.
 Pittsburgh. post office and court house. S6,4@5,ooo limit. s3no.ooo available this year,
 Boston, post oft,c" and court house, S4..5o,ooo limit, s2u0, ooo this year.
 New York. court house, s@, @,00o, ,oo0. cost limit. s.,ooo. .ooO available this year. New York, post office, B. oop.ooo, cost limit, s2,ooo, ,00o avail able this year. Brooklyn. post of flee and courthouse, S2,700,0 0pU limit, S1oo, 900 this year.
 Trenton, x. j., post oflicc- court house, S1.i35,ogo limit, SSoV,ooo available this year.
 Springfield Included
 Sprins siield. Mass, post office courthouse sl,450,oo0 limit, sG0o.- ooo this year, Hartford, Conn. post office cc-courthous,, S@.Nuo,00o limit, s7oo0oo this year Bridge port Conn, post office, sl2oo.o0o limit. s7oo,o00 this year Portland. Me, post office, sS5o,ooo limit, s.25,- 100 this year.
 Manchester. New Hampshire, post office, sloo.ooo limit. s16o.0o0 this year, Houiton. Maine, inspcc- lion station, S65. .0UU limit. S10.5n lhis year. Hichgate Springs. Nt., station. S6u. .Nn0 limit, Sl.- 5oo this year. Fort FairfeiI .,AA&I station. sGsyo' Yinlf 1estl 5oo thus year. '
 Belcher Falls, Vt. inspection sta ion. s5i.0G limit. S".n0o this year. Alburg, Nt., inspection station. S56.- 100 limit, s2.ooo this year, Woon- socket, E. l., post office. s165. ooo init, s15. .ooo this year Titchhurg. Mass. post office. SiG0.o0o limit, s1 S.ooo this year. Hayerhill. Mass, post office S25o,oo limit, $50, 900 his year.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
PLAN INVESTIGATION
 OF NEW BANKING FIRM
EIbridge M. Wightman States He Declined Offer
 as Member of Board

Hartford, April 6 CUP)-The status of the National Association Investors. Inc, which was refused q banking license by the sate bank ing commission. was still in doubt today.
 After a conference with Bank commissioner Leslie E. Shippec. States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn said hr planned an investigation of he concern but had arrived at no conclusion regarding it's validity as ;l bank.
 Former lleutanaut- Governor Cliff ford E. Wilson of Bridgeport is president of the National Associate ed Investors. X circular issued by the company ir connectipa with stock offer lists as ''dirckhprs 10 he elfots cd Frank r.. Ucaly. former attor- ney general: ElbrIdge NJ. Wightman New Britain factory executive; Vic Tor T. Anderson, Danielson mill treasurer: and Floyd F. Armstrong. Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- cy professor
 lIcaly and Wightman were under stood 10 have declined the office.
 Elbridge M. Wightman, vice presi- dent and secretary of North & Judd Mfg, Co.,, of this city, was reached today by the Herald at his home, 1S2 Fern street. West Hartford. MT. Wightman said that he was in- Nlted several weeks ago to become a member Of the board of directors of the National Associated Investors Inc, but declined the offer as he was not interested.
 The National Associated Investors. Inc. has sold many shares of it's st ock. as we'll as other stock, to Ne" Britain residents,
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
HITS DYNAMITE WITH AXE

Rochester. N. H.. April 6 (UP)- Bert Hayes, 14. knows now what happens when one hits dynamite with an axe. He is in a hospital today with injuries received when hetried it yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
 VALUABLE DOG IS
 CAUGHT IN TRAP Canine Discovered After 55
 Days Absence NEARLY STARVED TO DEATH
Bridgeport Animal Had Eaten Every Bit Of Grass and Brush Within Range of Trap-ForeTMw Torn Away.

Bridgeport, April s Rt-Gripped by the right forepaw and left back leg in the jaws of two steel traps which had held her captive In the James Kellogg woods in Aspetuck district of Easton. Goldie. a prize three year old collie missing for fifty-five days. was recovered alive last night. The dog belonged to William Wakeman of Easton and was discovered in the trap by . farm hand. It cannot be determin- cd how long the dog was in the trap but it was nearly dead from exposure and starvation. Every bit of grass, brush or edible material within yard of the place where Goldie was held had been eaten, and one forepaw had been torn away in an efort to reach grass beyond that distance.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
NEBRASKA IN GRIP 0F FIERCE STORM
Snow Blocks Traffic. Phone
 Wires Are Down
WINTER HAS FLARErBACK
Radio Broadcasttng Stations Being Csed to Relay News from Storm BlGkaded Centers to Other Parts Of Country.

Omaha. Neb.. April 6 Lp-(By radio to Kansas City)-A heavy snow, which bore down telephone and telegraph wires and blocked street traffic, isolated Omaha from the outside world this morning.
 With wires broken over a wide area. the Associated Press resorted to radio, dictating this dispatch from WOW the Woodmen of the World station fin Omaha, to WDAF, the Kansas City station.
 This vicinity was the center os a storm that extended eastward into Iowa. Temperatures were a degree or two below freezing.
 In Omaha street cars were delay ed by now on the tracks and scores Of automobiles were stranded in deep drifts.
 Trains were delayetd not so much by the snow as by the difficulty in dlspatching orders by wire.
 Chicago. April Rp-A heavy wet blanket Of snow covered Nebraska today. putting telegraph and tele- phone wires out of commission, de- laying railroad and interurban trains and blocking the highways.
 The fall Of snow was five inche, deep, according to the weather bu reau here. with moderate to fresh winds and temperature 50 to 40 de- grees.
 The storm hit the central west Ia st night after moving northeast from the Texas Panhandle. accompanied by thunderstor and, in some places. snow. Parts of Iowa and northern Missouri are expected 10 get some snow today. Points farther east will receive rain, the bureau said.
 Advisory storm warning was is- sued for Lake Michigan shipping.
 Temperatures rather low for the season. was the weather bureau promise for most of the Chicago forecast district. with precipitation general. Snow was forecast for up- per Michigan, Wisconsin, Northern Missouri. Minnesota and Iowa.
 Missouri and kansas were promis- cd fnceeins temperatures tonight.
 Meanwhile the east and east cen tral sections continued to enjoy un- seasonabIy high temperatures, with the northwestern thermometer re- cording reasonable leadings. The @outh has had heavy rainfalls at many places along with thunder storms.
 Des Moines. Iowa, April 6 (UP)- Storms and high winds which have isolated Omaha and Western Iowa. were steadily growing today A. T. Abbott. superintendent of the Iowa division of the Rock Island railroad, told the United Press.
 Abbott established communication with Council Bluffs by way of Perry, Iowa. and railroad officials at Coun- cil Bluffs reported the situation as extremely serious"
 Abbott said all communication over railroad telegraph lines be- tween Atlanta. Iowa. and Omaha had been cut of.
 Train service was irregular through the storm swept district.
 Washington. April 6 tuP)-South- east storm warning were ordered displayed by the weather bureau to- day from Pensacola to Tampa, Fla. A secondary disturbance of the Louisiana coast moving northeast ward 10 cause strong southeast winds this afternoon and early tonight, was
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06

Washington. April 6 (uP)-South- east storm warning were ordered displayed by the weather bureau To- day from Pensacola to Tampa, Fla. A secondary disturbance of the Louisiana coast moving northeast. ward to cause strong southeast winds this afternoon and early tonight, was noted,
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
 MERCEDES GLE|Tz SW|MS GIBRALTAR English Typist Is First to
 Cross Strait HAS MANY WITNESSES
AccOmplishes Record Journey Through Water 27 Miles in 12t. Hours-Star.ed In Europe Ended In Africa.

Gibraltar. April tP' T lrgrs ph- ing from rarifa, Spain. this morning Mercedes Gleitz, London typist an nounced that she had sNum the Strait of Gibraltar yesterday, Miss GleitZ stated she started about ten a. m. from the Spanish side and crossed the - mile stretch of water 10 Morocco arriving there at night. She returned to Tarifia later.
 She statcd she was accompanied on her swim by many Spanish wit n"sses. She will leave for England this afternoon. Miss Gleitz and Miss Milie Hudson, another typist from London, both arrived at Tangiers, Morocco, last December to attempt the first recorded swim of the Strait of Gibraltar. Miss Gleitz made thre" unsuccessful attempts during De- cember and January. Miss Hudson failed on her first attempt and later abandoned her intention to swim the Strait.
 On October : Miss Glcitz was re ported to have swum the English channel on her eighth attempt. but Amateur Swimming Association Of England refused to certify the sN6n because no newspapcrmen or oiti- cials of any swimming club were aboard the boat which accompanied her. -g
 Shortly afterwards, Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan exposed her own hoax" swim of the channel. Miss Gleitz soon announced she would repeat her performance as "a per sonal vindication and for the honor of women swimmers
 On October 2l, she made her at tempt Of a "vndication" swim starting from Cape Gris Neg, France, She was taken almost unconscious from the water when eight miles off Dover, England.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
Get Dispatclles.

London, April ( Dispatches day said that Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London typist. accomplished the first recorded swim of the Strait Of Gibraltar in 12 hours and thirty minutes.
 near Tarifia, Spain. yesterday morn- ing and came ashore at Punta Leona. near Cueta, Morocco, at 9:20 last night.
 Conditions were excellent. The swimmer returned to Tarifia by boat and received a tremendous ovation.
New Britain herald., 1928-04-06

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
Beatrice Fairfax COunseIs LOUe!Orn

know what I want to do and
The thought is driving me mad.
Won't you give me your good
counsel? Could I continue go.
ing with the girl and be, happy2
Would our married life be dark.
ened with this specter? Or would
it pass into oblivion and allow
us to dwell with happiness only?
These questions are always be-
fore me and ! would be thankful
for the advice of one with your
knowledge OF life's ways.
A NAN.
The questions you ask. my
friend. are questions you alone
can answer. It Is hard, know.
when one whom you in your
thoughts have idealized fails from
her pedestal. But 1t is well to
remember you are marrying, not
the girl your sweetheart was at
the time she made her mistake.
but the woman she has grown 10
be. Not what she was yesterday,
but what she is today, counts.
She may, indeed, have risen ION
stepping-stones Of her dead self to
nobler things."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
Jeritza Tells How to Keep Young and AttructiUt

rest you II your york keeps you
indoors bent over q desk. At any
rate. try to spend few mo-
ments outdoors. breathing deeply.
before you 90 to bed.
You need play and plenty Of it.
good times to vary your work
Go on hikes. play tennis. enjoy
the outdoors. Visit the theater
and opera, join club that will
give you . pleasant evening once
every week or two.
In the morning. before your
bath turn on your radio and
prance through few exercises.
like the one am about to de-
scribe. They viii awaken you and
start up circulation. hen you
will enjoy the day more because
you will feel tIlFough1y Ill.
Lie on the floor On your
stomach with your feet held
firmly down. Without helping
yourself with your arms, lift
your body as far backward nom
the waist az you can. Do this
exercise slowly. not more than
five times at first. Next. keeping
your body flat on the floor. lift
your legs as far off the floor
as you can, pointing your toes
outwaId. Repeat this movement
five times.
Eight hours Of sleep nightly.
plenty Of work and fair amount
of fun and relaxation viii help
keep you young. and attractive
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
CONTAINERS
IN COLOR
Nv Hannah Wing

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YFlHE present-day interest in cheer
y ful kitchens has created !
demand for food containers that
are attractive and useful. Proper
food containers for rice, cocoa,
cornstarch, cereal and similar
foods are worth every housewives
consideration, for they help to
make the kitchen both efficient
and sanitary. The best containers
keep out insects. do not absorb
grease and are easily. cleaned
and handled.
Tin containers In enamel to
harFnonize with the color scheme
Of the kitchen are cheap light
and unbreakable; but they have
two disadvantages--they may rust
and, because they are scanned, are
less easily cleaned than some
other kinds OF containers.
Earthen and crockery food con-
tanners are among the best look.
ing containers on the market to.
day. They are made In many
colors and attractive designs. and
may be bought in sets. They are
easily cleaned, although, like tin,
they hide the contents.
Glass containers have the great
advantage of showing their con-
tents and allowing the housewife
to tell at q glance when her sup
ply is getting low. They may be
obtained in various sizes. prices
and shapes. are sanitary and nom
absorbent and, though they do not
add color to the room. they are.
attractive in appearance. Labels
are generally not necessary on
glass containers, but for foods
which may look alike black let
tering or paper labels are useful.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
How to Win It Is
Often a Hard
Il Problem

Pehaps mine has been the ex.
ceptional experience. but / have
only known one step-mother who
treated her foster.children I'M
kindly, while in the many other
cases which come to mind, the
children have been brutally re-
sentful Of the women who have
tried best to mother them.
~ 1T is undoubtedly a natural re-
action. an unreasoning. elemental
off-shoot OF grief and sense of loss
which generates the feeling that
IT, they cant have their own
mother they refuse to have any
ut all.
Il know q woman, WHO is to my
mind, drawer and finer than any
heroine who ever went into battle.
Physical dangers, physical pain,
can't be compared with the mental
torture she endured at the hands
OF an S.year-old girl.
On the first day In her new
home. the woman seated herself
IN chair In the living room.
Running in from the porch. the
little girl stopped dead still and re-
garded her with cold fury.
You get right out or the
Chair!' she ordered. her eyes blaz-
ing, That's my mothers chair
and you can't sit in itr'
The woman was astoundsd, but
rose with no trace of surprise or
anger. "Of course, IL you don't
want me to sit there, ! won't" she
replied. but, do you know some
thing" The anger faded from
the child's eyes to give place to a
hostile curiosity. The woman con.
finued: Yesterday when the furni-
ture was brought up here from
nv apartment. the men carried
tiny rocking chair up into the
attic. Do YOU know whose chair
IL was, a long time ago." The
child shook her head indifferently.
"It was nv mothers" went on
the step-mether, "and think 1t
would just about fit you. II u
will, we'll bring tt down and you
may have it for your very own.
\ Let's 60 up and look at It. Sne
reached for the child's mana as
they climbed the stairs, but II was
angrily jerked away and me Tip
was made in silence.
To say that this one lactlul
and loving solution OF one tiny
problem made the rest easy Wouiu
be to. exaggerate, for the chnu
continued to be resentrm. onlV
-thawing out once in wnhe
then retiring into her Icy sneh
Of hostile criticism more IirnsS
!. Last year the child, who Is
now a young girl. came home
from boarding school and smoked
The woman regarded her sober.
", and tears came to her eyes
.,rWhy, mother" exclaimed the
girl, ''alI the girls smoke. l.
Isn't wrong"
Perhaps not replied the. wo-
you while your conduct is stu
my responsibility. ] shall fee
as though / had failed yout
= mother, somehow. Wait a few
more years until you can setter
1ieeide what you want TO do
about it."
= -" as though I had failed your
mother, somehow" You who are
considering being mother to
another woman's child. stop and
sask yourself ii, into the role Of
mother, you can take as big an6
unselfish, as beautiful spirit as
that OF my friend. Ii you can,
YOU, will find exceedingly grea1
t happiness at the end. just az
she has found it. in the con
Scious and lasting alteration OF
the little girl who began their
. life together in anything but
q spirit Of love.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
RECIPE FOR
SHRIMP

How many people eat shrimps
only when they are "out?' II
you haven't tried to prepare them
often, this recipe by Dorothy
Kirk in October McCall's Magazine
will give you q new thrill.
Shrimp Creole
2 cups shrimps, canned or
freshly cooked
2 tablespoons butter
2 slices onion. chopped
II teaspoon salt
Is teaspoon pepper
n teaspoon paprika
u cup fish stock or water
1 cup tomatoes
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
4 cup chopped olives.
Cook onion in butter until
brown. add flour. salt. pepper.
paprika and the stock or water.
Cook until slightly thickened. stir.
ring constantly. Then add to-
mato. parsley and olives and al.
low to cook very slowly for about
IS minutes. Serve around mold
or boiled rice or with spaghetti
mold
To cool jellies quickly in hot
weather. place the mould IN
basin Of cold water to which a
handful each of salt and washing
soda have been added.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
FASHIONS
FANCIES

II you answer the can of the
golf links be sure to wear one OF
those tuck.in sweaters. Very good
looking plated skirts with yoke
top come, with them and the re.
suit is extremely smart.
The ugly duckling becomes the
beautiful swan now that rubbers
come in attractive colors. with
bright patterns for decorations.
They slip into a little rubber case
and are small enough to carry in
your purse.
Sport Scarves Simmer in the
Spotlight, for metal cloth of multi
colored hues is the latest medium
for this ever-present accessory.
When worn with the new metallic
sweaters they are extremely effec.
tive.
Shoes still have the blues, as
far as fall modes are concerned.
The dark blue kid prevails, and
is generally combined with suede
in some fashion. A good and in.
dispensable model for autumn
comes in a one.strap pump In
kid, and is trimmed at the side
with an insert of blue suede.
SiIve stock scars sky high
whua one wears all manner OF
silver accessories for the eve.
ming. A three cornered scarf OF
scintiIlating sequins, bag OF
silver kid and rhinestones, and
chic little turban OF silver lace
hound with silver kid would set
or any >V~ning frock Ia dazz
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
By Maria Jeritza
Prima Donna Of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, One Of the
Most Beautiful Women
- IT, na~


Of the Day
There is joke in the Navy
which / shall venture to repeat,
because it brings out . point /
wish to stress.
"Knockoff work and carry pig.
iron." is this joke Of the jolly
tars.
Many q woman has an idea
that she ID relaxing when she
closes her office desk and rushes
home to cook dinner for herself
and possibly Others eThena she
rests from cooking by washine
dishes. Next comes recreation in
the form Of her laundry. which
she washes. and her tiny apart
ment put in order. and reports for
work at 9 o'clock at the office.
This young woman-Jiu, let US
call her-wonders why she is
not looking as fresh and fit
as she should. She wonders
why she Is not advanced an rap
idly as she would like at the Of.
flee. She realizes vaguely that
she Ii growing irritable and hard
to get on with. The young man
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
A Question OF Morals


DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
For eight years ] have been
going with a man who In forty
one. am thirty.
He has never lived with his
wife since ] knew him. He has
been promising to get divorce
and marry me. all this time. The
last four years j have begged him
to go ahead anad get his divorce,
and to please me he saw lawyer
twice.
am not working at present
and would like to go to the
beach for the summer. / told
him If he did not mean to be
any more to me than he is now
/ would have to find someone
who would marry me, make me
a home and make us both happy.
That makes him angry.
What shall do-wait, maybe
In vain--or find other friends
who may be more serious.
+ HOME LOVER.
BY all means go about with
other friends. who are unmarried
men and so are free to offer you
honorable love and marriage. A
married man has not q moral
right to offer attentions or be.
come engaged to another woman,
and legally. he belongs to his
wife until he gets his divorce.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-20
FREEZING
FRUIT

To make a frozen dessert, try
freezing canned fruit in the can.
Pack it in finely chopped ice and
salt. three parts ice to one part
salt. Cover the can completely
and let 1t stand for three or four
hours. Remove from the ice:
wipe dry and open carefully.
Wrap cloth wrung out of hot
water around the can to loosen
the frozen fruit. Serve it with
whipped cream.