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New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
CONNECTICUT LAW
 ARGUED BY HUGHES
Former Secretary of State Alp.
 pears in Superior Court
BY GEORGE II. MANNING tWsshiugton Bureau Of the N. B. HerAld)

tWashington Bureau Of the N. B. HerAldl
 Washington, D. C., March 13--- Former Secretary of States Charles +. Hughes appeared before the su- prema cour, of the United States yesterday and presented arguments n support Of Connecticut's success ,~ion tax law of 1928 which is being contested in the case instituted by William H. Blodgett, state tax con- missioner, against the executors 0f he estate Of the late Robert B. ilirsch of Stamford.
 The Connecticut courts held that Section one Of the 1923 law pro- iding that all property owned by a rosident of Connecticut at the time of his death is subject to the suc- cession tax.
 At the time Of his death in 1924. TIirsch owned certain government securities and cash which were de- posted in New York banks. This property vas subjected to the trans fer tax in that state and later an at tempt was made to collect a success sion tax in Connecticut. The Connec- icut courts held that the levy Of the succession tax was in conflict with the federal constitution. Because of the importance of the question in yolyed. the state Of Connecticut passed a special act authorizing the employment of counsel to test out he act in the supreme court, Mir. Hughes was retained for this pur- pose.
 Among other things. Mr. Hughes pointed out that if the decision Of the state court is upheld, Connecti- cut will be required to make large refunds of taxes collected in other cases since the passage Of the act.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
PARSONS THEATE.R

In his American farce, Tho Baby Cyclone" which is coming 10 Par sons theater, Thursday. Friday and Saturday, George NJ. Conan has suc- ceeded in building q story that is perfect in it's continuity, though the original incident or basic thought, of shallow foundation. This in itselves proves the genius of the author. and it is his ability to take an ordinary occurrence Of everyday life and fit it into story that all will recognize that has brought George Conan to the exalted position in the theater that he enjoys today The original cast will be seen here. headed by Grant Mitchell.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Political Prayer Day
 Called for Illinois

Chicago, March l3 P-Anoth~r Jay Of political prayer" similar to that observed in Chicago last Wed nasday, has been designated for statewide observance by the recent ly organized Methodist board Of public morals for Illinois
 sunday, March D. Was the day fiNed by the board for prayer and pulpit discussion of the political sit nation in the state. In its resolu- ton setting the day, the board urged Methodist ministers to devote parts Of their sermons 10 q plea for united front for good government. with q special view to t larg. 'hurch vote at ihe April n primar- I.s and the November election.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
DON'T STARVE
 TO END FAT

Few succeed without harm. Try the modern way, embodied in Marmola pre- scription tablets. People have used them for 20 years millions of fboxes of them. The results are seen everywhere.
 Marmoia contains a gland element which helps turn food into fuel and energy. The formula appears in every box, also the reasons for results. Thus you will know how the changes occur without harm.
 All druggists supply Marmola at q a box. Go start 1t now. Take four tablets daily until weight comes down to normal. Do this because of the new beauty and vim which Marmols has brought to 50 many, for 50 long.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

WILLIAM BOYD" AT LYCEuM

For the last time tonight the Lyceum theater offers TWO very good entertaining pictures. The main at traction offers William Boyd in The Yankee Clipper" One Of the greatent sea dramas seen hereabouts in a long time. The others well mention are Elinor Fair. Junior Goghlan and many others. The companion feature offers Viola Dana in That Certain Thing" A comedy with as many laughs as there are stars above. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday com- piete, change of program. The chief attraction offers Vera Reynolds in The Main Event with great cast O, stars consisting only of the best such as Vera Reynolds. Charles De laney. Julia Faye, Rudolph Schild- kraut and Robert Armstrong in q thrilling fight picture with 9 great punch. The companion feature offers Johnnie Walker with a great cast in Bare Knees" Wednesday, Mite as always is .''Elanket Mite"
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
WOMAN, AGED 70, ENDS LIFE
Henrietta Brrnnet Drinks Poison at Her Home in SOuthtnEtOn-~is- ter Unable to Explain Her Act.

Southington, March l3. - Miss Henrietta Brcnner, 70. committed suicide by drinking poison at her home on Auckland street yesterday afternoon. She had been in excel lent health. according to her sister, Mrs. Frank Morse. and no explana- ton for Miss Brenner's action could be offered. She was found dead in bed with the empty bottle nearby, and Medical Examiner William r. Nagle said the poison was taken with suicidal intent.
 Miss Brenner had been a hair dresser and was well known throughout the town. She Is survived by her sister. Mrs. Morse, Funeral arrangement are incomplete.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
HUNT FOR klNkEiD

Calshot Airdrome, Eng. March i3 JP)-Divers today desccndea i'll an attempt to recover the bod2 of Flight Lieut.. s. NJ. kinkead, wi sacrificed his life in an attempt { bring the air speed record to Eng land.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
BRISTOL NEWS
(Continued from Page Ninel

the Masonic temple tonight. Mem bers Of Brock Barnes post. American Legion. will be the guests at meeting of the ladies' auxiliary in Legion hall this evening. Louise Sirulo, Elizabeth Smell, Anna Schissler. Lucy Perugino, Wen clka hawaSki, Estelle Samothe, Mary NJ. kirchgessuer. Bcda Sten- strom, Mrs. John Rosinus, Mrs. Fred Peck. Mrs. Mercedes Cook. Mrs. AleNina Choiniere. Blanche | Choinere, Cecelia Choiniere. Mrs Julia Graham. Mrs. Nellie Sweet. Mrs. Sophie swenton. Mrs. Catherine Lourie. Dorothy Wheeler. Nette 1 Wheeler.
 Certificates in mechanical draw ing: Earl Atwood. Dante Follandri. Hubert Coe, Daniel Barker, Joseph Chlupk. Rhonaldo Dubay. Frederick Y. Adams Maurice J. Defosses. Stan ley Elovetsky, Alfred G. Haag, John , Gromoshak, Charles K. Stotsz. Allan w. Violet. Thomas Peace, Clarence II. Fiedle, Walter Spad djinsko, Earl , Blaskey.
 Nutrition Specialist to Speak Miss NJ. E. Dakin. nutrition spo- cialist of the Connecticut Agricultur- al college. will be the speaker at a meeting to be held at o'clock next Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Charles Hotchkiss on Brook street
 Nctghborilood Prayer Meeting The weekly neiShborhood prayer meeting will be held at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at the home Of Mrs. Henry R. Wilcox of 6g Wood- land street. Mrs Wilcox will also lead the meeting.
 Opening exercises in the novena to St. Joseph were held yesterday at St Joseph's church. The novena will continue uutil March 18th, the feas, Of St. Joseph, with services each eve ming at 1880 o'clock.
 Funeral of F1d Young
 The funeral of Fred Young, s4. of New Britain. who died at the Bris- tol hospital Sunday night will be held at o'clock Wednesday after noon at the homo of his daughter, Mrs. Harold Reichelt on Pennington avenue. this city. Rev. Hubert D. Jones. pastor of the Prospect Meth odist church, will conduct the service and burial will be In the South End cemetery. Southington. MT. Young was born in Pickncy- vile. H.. February IS, 1864. He settled in New Britain in 1888 and has since resided in that city. For 2S years he was employed as a meat cutter for Gaffney Brothers. New Britain. and for the past ten years was in the employ of the Russell and Erwin company Of that city.
 Surviving are one daughter. Mrs. Harold Kcichelt of this city: two grandchildren. Lois and Marcia Reichelt, also of Bristol: two broth CTS Henry and Jacob Young, and one sister, Mrs Louis Berg, all Of Illinois.
 Red Mc1, 10 Meet
 A IlItftlllE Ol NOlil pouilCc lb', l. 0. E. M. will be held at s o'clock this evening in the wigwam on Pros pect street.
 Setback Tournament
 Ethan lodge, Knights of Pythias, of this city and the Washington L. Morgan lodge of New Britain. will engage in the third sitting of a set back tournament in New Britain this evening. Members of the Hard ware City lodge are now leading the Bristol Knights by small margin.
 Autos Collide
 A truck owned by Redman and Larson and pleasure car operated by Joseph A. Morin of Is Center street collided early last evening on Pennington avenue. The truck was slightly damaged. Eagnar Larson.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

operator Of the truck and Mir. Morin appeared before Prosecuting Attor- ney Robert J. Stack this morning and agreed to settle the matter civilly.
 Appeal From Assessment
 An announcement was made to- day by R. H. Beamish. president and treasurer Of the Bristol Grain and Supply company of North Main street that an appeal would be taken to the superior court at Hartford be- cause Of what he deemed the un. fair assessment Of the company's property by the board ot assessors in the preparation ot the last grand list, completed in February. The amount shown in the grand list for land and buildings total $1os,o0o and for stock. trucks, furniture and fixtures. etc. $c3, 900.
 Mfr. Beamish contends that the Grain company property is assessed at higher rate than property across the street, whereas property on the opposite side is worth more because of the fact that most pedestrians travel that side of the street. It is the contention of the board of asses sors, however. that land on the west side. where the Bristol Grain com pany buildings are located. is more valuable because of the ayailab able sfdetracks facilities. This argument, Mir. Beamish argues is unreasonable. because his firm Is obliged 10 pay rental to the railroad company for such service and in reality the Grain company is paying double taxation on this basis. The land value Of property owned by the Grain com pany Is placed at s35o front foot by the assessors
 It Is Mir. Beamishs plan 10 get other adjoining property owners to join with his company in bringing the matter before the courts, Mir. Beanish as head of the Grain com pany, has also offered to sell the property at price considerably lower than the valuation placed on it by the assessors. The outcome Of the case will be awaited with inter- est by many property owners, par ticularly in the business section Of the city
 Police Court Jimmy McLarnin. who became famous in pugilistic circles overnight as a result of his one punch knock out over Sid Ferris in Madison square Garden recently, has not hing on Thomas Stinchon. Jr., Of Wil- oughby street. who accom- plished the same feat In an unadvertised street fight last night, The victim last evening was Albert Coulomh Of 35 . this morning with a badly discolored optic
 According 10 Coulomb's state ment to the court, he was met at the gateway of the F.. 1ngraham company plant on North Main street at s o'clock last night by stinchon who without warning struck him and knocked him down. Stinchon. however, claimed that he struck Coulomb after the latter had raised his hand and thinking he was about to be struck, he let 20 with a hay maker, which reached it's mark un- crrinely. He claimed that the trou- hle was all started by disparaging remarks made about his brother by Coulomh.
 Stinchon was found guilty of as sault and fine of g and costs was inDoS.1 ky Iuiyr William | Malone.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
SNOW BLOCKS TRAFFIC

London. March 13 tUP(-Great snowdrifts blocked traffic in many parts of England today in the sec ond vicious cold spell Of the win ter.
 Five deaths were reported and villages in North Essex and West Morland were isolated. omnibuses were abandoned.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

Wildwood, N. J-A coast guarG officer was mighty curious as to 8 hellograph message flashed over th- sad sea waves: T love you, Daddy. daar.' Suspecting r might be rum runners code, he questioned Mrs Arthur Blevins, who was out in a little boat busy with her vanity bag. mirror and the suns rays. She eN- plalned that she was the bride oF an engineer on T liehtship in the ottins, that regulations prevented women going aboard.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
FLASHES OF LIFE: l27 CARAT DIAMOND
 COSTS PEGGY JOYCE ABOUT S30O,00O
,y fne Assa -lared p.,ss.

Ky the Assa lated PUsS.
 New lork-Miss Elisa beth Wyatt. whose social position is of the highest-she is descendant of the Van Rensselaer, tamlly-is d pro- fessional dancer. She made her de but in January and is now on tn road i'll the ballet or a musical comedy, refusing an allowance and living on what she earns.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

Barnet England-Bishop Furs. ot St. Albaus. six 1crt. four. is wor- ri"d over television. His bath is tho only place where he can obtain real privacy now and he views wi'H trepidation the day when his ablu- ions will be reelected on the screen n New York.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1a UP)-Captain Dcwhurst and q local physician. flying to- gether, were killed when their air plane crashed at Harrismith
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
VETERAN DIES.

Florence, March 13 UPl--Paoio i'rucher, S4. a veteran Of the Mediei Del Naseello expedition 10 Sicily in lS60 is dead here.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

New York-The newspapers give a trm Of jewellers as authority for the statement that Peggy Hopkins Joyce has bought a 127-oarat dla- mond for which she paid by a check for sS00.000, IL ts descrlbeI as the largest blue diamond in the world. more than an inch suuare. and it IS set in a necklace of plati- mum links eucrusted with small diamonds,
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
2i Dlt, IN WRECK

Colombo, Ceylon. March 13 lP'- IWenty-one persons were killed to- day when a. passenger train collided with the Gallo-Colombo express nea,
 halutarai. Tho engine and several coaches of both trains were wrecked.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

New York Trader Horns pau- lShers say Inc is now receiving S4 GOO a week in royalties. A year or
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

Glasgow-Mlss Olga De La Barra, 22. first foreigner 10 receive the de gree Of doctor Of philosophy from Grasgow university has been ap- pointed Chilean yice-consul for scotland. Her father is the consul The Chilean government appointed her because she made good as her fathers substitute when he took q vacation,
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

so ago he Was elIng out an cNis- tence by peddiing tinware.
 Hartford-Measles and whooping cough show increase in state but other communicable diseases drop ped oh during past week, state de- partment of health reports.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13

New York-No takers are oxpecr- cd, The American Master Hair Dressers' association offers s5uao to the American girl who proves that she is surprisingly beautiful and got that way without cosmetics or ot her aids
New Britain herald., 1928-03-13
Reviews of Current
 Theater Offerings
Mir. s. z. Poll Presents THE POLL PLAYERS
FtdtuIlNR FRANK LYONS and RUTH ECGEN7

SEVENTH HEAVEN" Play tn Three Acts by Austin Strong Staged and Directed by Jay Ray
 Cast of Charartara
The Washington times., 1928-03-08

A man IN q deserted CLUB
library is something like the
amateur who feels he must scrib-
BILE on paper. There are so
many easy, plant chairs avail
able that he is sore distressed
to choose that one wrich, stub
bornly enough, seems quite not
so comfortable as those two
vacant ones elsewhere. His
peregrinations would shame the
Minnesota Shift and 10 o'clock
rings before he has settled to
the first chapter of his book.
"A gentleman named Arthur
Ridley is a playwright of substance
and practical kidney. Mr.. Ridley,
an Eiglishman, once wrote a play
called 1.-THE Ghost Train 1t had
a profitable run in England and
Mr.. Cochran did it with his Ma
tional Players two seasons ago,
labelling it "a success d'estime"
which, in tie vernacuIar means
"a turke :"
Now, Mr.. Ridley. his bio.
graphers learn, is not a railroad
man, never has been and such
traffic as he has had with the
muleteers of the quantity called
Iron Horse, has ben restricted to
riding on given route or to writ
ing pieces to the Westminster
Gazette about the congestion in
the North Liv ,rpool yards.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Ridley has
written three more plays about
railroad trains and one of them,
THE Wrecker," is extant in New
York. A first-nighter, exiting
from this piece. exclaimed, Take
that guy toy railroad tr. in away
from him and he'll never write
another play"
Doubtless, Mr.. Ridley's ears
burned but he probably opened a
window of his winter lodgings on
the Riviera and let the Mediter-
ranean C )ol ~ off.
Convinced by evidence on every
side that playwriting is pretty
much a. IT. - fact business,
I intend to get around very soon
to dramatizing that steam shovel
on upper Fourteenth Street.
y Il y
Quite a. few fnest burghers
with $4.40 in tn pockets have
inquired as to t reason Zieg-
fields Three Musketeers" could
not have finger here two weeks,
inasmuch as the week following
the engagement was given to
The Washington times., 1928-03-08

The first public concert of the
Y. w. C. A. Glee Club Of Washing
ton will take place next Tuesday,
March 13, at p. M, in Barker
Hall, in the main building, Seven.
teenth and K Streets, under, the
direction of INNOCENT B. Ireland.
music secretary of the local asso-
citation. Miss Ireland, who was
formerly director of music for the
national convention of the associa-
ton in Milwaukee in 1925, will
again this year direct the music
at the Sacramento convention.
Miss Marion Holmes, soprano,
of New York city, will be the
guest of the artist on next Tues
days program, singing as one of
her numbers, The Jewel Song"
from Faust.
The concert is for the benefit
of the club fund for choir robes,
and the committee in charge has
placed tickets at IS cents each, at
all Y. w. C. A. centers in the city,
as we'll as at the X Street building.
The Washington times., 1928-03-08

housing a repeat showing Of the
film, 1.-THE Kin of Kings"
Booking problems enter this
discussion to some extent but the
primary reason il that Mr.. Zieg-
field can get $3.50 in Boston for
his show as against $4.40 in Wash
ington. You are enlightened fur
Their that the | st seats in New
York will command $3.50 at the
box office and Lord knows how
much If the tickets find them.
selves in the hands Of agencies or
scalpers.
New York is an intellectual
kaleidoscope. 1t turns thumbs
down on a PATRIOT" Deep
River" or a Robert E. Lee" and
takes to its ample bosom an
"Abie's Irish Rose" a Lulu
Belle" or a Shanghai Gesture"
Just now the vagary of the mo.
ment is to stand two rows deep
to hear Eugene O'Neill's rebel
lion against theater convention,
Strange Interlude." The per-
Torrance begins at Sis, declares a
recess for supper at and con-
tinues until II p. m. There are
nine acts, and the standees in
variably stick it out.
Bit by bit. the facts about
Jeanne Eagles new play are COM
ing out. The name of it is Ca
rita" and the author is a new
and youthful playwright. His
po.raa {. VXyilliaV11 n.,p4;C ~ &c
a recent graduate Of the Columbia
School of Journalism. His play is
laid aboard a Spanish pirate ship,
and Miss Eagles role is that of the
pirate leader, thus necessitating
male attire. The period is the
middle of the seventeenth century.
Mr.. Dubois Is also the author of
a play called Concerning Mar
guerite," which Charles l.. Wagner
once announced. 1t is a modern
version of an old French play,
which Lester Wallack produced as
long ago as 1860 under the name
OF 1.-The Romance of a Poor
Young Man"
A gang of newsboys scrambling
for pennies tangles no swifter
arms and legs than those maturer
folk, mostly women. who wait
outside the stage alley at the
National Theater for Lenore
Uric to come out. Miss Uric
invariably carries a bunch Of
red, red roses and these she
filings at the crowd. There is
shrewdness in this beau geste. for
in no other manner can she open
up a path to her cream-colored
Packard at the curb.
Miss Uric has years to go be-
fore worry over a diminishing
pubic nantes her brunette
brow. Her career now is in
vivid bloom. and alongside Indy
even she would be no side at.
traction.
Sid Houston Henry Hull was
the original Mister Man in Lulu
Belle. The last time l paid to
see a side show the price was
10 cents. Perhaps You are right
about the twO-hit tariff now. 1.-The
Cherry Orchard" you mention is
not the roundelay my baritone
mas OFTEN pummelled but the
tragedy by Tchekov. now sub
uniting TO revival in New York.
why not bother Frederic J. Has.
KIN for A change?
The Washington times., 1928-03-08
Sylvia Lent Today

A Washington artist-Sylvia
Lent-will hold an important place
on tomorrow's amusement calen.
dar. The young violinist is sched-
uled for a single appearance at the
National TheateF at 4:30, when
she will be heard in a program of
very unusual and modern works.
Since her recital here last sea.
son, Sylvia Lent has been abroad
in the land adding a wealth of
glory to her already enviable rep.
utation of 1.-The finest musical tall
ent of young American woman
hood today" Her most recent en-.
gagement, with the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra. under the
direction of the gifted Verbdug-
CHEN, was one Of unquestioned
SlIccpSa
The Washington times., 1928-03-08
La Jerit "a, the
Beau { us,
ReciteS

The blonde and beauteous Maria
Jeritza sailed to vocal glories in
one of her most charming moods
at Polls yesterday, in a recital
under the management of Mrs.
Katie wilson-Greene.
Her hair a little fluffier than
usual, her smile something of
heavens own.a her voice in 4 rare
state of emotional flexibility,
Jeritza opened her program with
that exquisite "Pleurez mes yeux"
(Massenet) e.om lie Cid"
Though her art is ever present,
and the sensuous ensemble Of art
and woman. make of her a fas.
cinating song siren, rather pre-.
ferred her Beau Soir" (Debussy),
"Song of the Lite" Korngold
from his opera, "Che Dead City'),
and ."Cacilie" Orchard Stratss),
to he: brilliant Suicide" Pon.
chielli, from his opera LA
GiocondaD, certainly her. most
impressive number.
The intimacy of her voice, and
her ability to split musical in
finitives in delicIc:es of shading
are more amazing with each new
hearing of Jeritza. / regret never
having heard her in "Turandot."
: OF her remaining numbers, most
of hem came under the PRO
gram" classification. And she
piled up encores with outstand-
ing generosity, including ''Elsa's
Dream (Wagner, from Lohen-
GRIM
John Corigiliano, accomplished
violinist, assisted the magic
Maria. His tone is excellent; his
technique gratifying. Especially
fine were his Spanish Dance"
(Granados-Kreisler) and Song of
India" Rimsky-Korsakof), an en-.
ooro Fl Y
The Washington times., 1928-03-08
Meighan Finds PLAY

Thomas Meighan, who has not
acted since the completion % his
latest Paramount picture. The
City Gone Wild" four months agoH
is due to plunge again into pro-
duction Immediately.
While Meighan was in New York
in search, of suitable vehicle, his
director, Lewis Milestone, called
him by long distance tel phone to
give him an enthusiastic account
of a new story he had just found.
The star promptly started for
Hollywood to begin work.
The picture will be produced
under the auspices of Howard
Hughes. but it will be released by
Paramount.