New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1917, Page 11

NW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, You saw what we did at our former sales—now we have sawed off alarge portion of the price on our Winter Suits and Overcoats. $15 Overcoats now . . . .$12.00 $18 Overcoats now . . . .$15.00 20 Overcoats now . . . .$16.00 $25 Overcoats now . . .$20.00 $30 Overcoats now . . . .$24.00 Suits same way. Special Raincoat Sale, reg. price $5.00 to $18.00, now $4.00 to $15.00. - (CLOTHIN .. City Items the rents Today is your water —advt. 2 Goldenblum Millinery Co., 188 Main announces last call on sale of Velvet hats, 49c and 89c, values up to' $6. ——advt. last day and save to pay interest. - Daly Council, Knights of Columbus, will hold a whist tonight in the coun- cil rooms in the Hanna block. There will also be musical entertainment. < Rev. William A. Harty Lranch, A. 0. H., will have a special meeting at 0 o'clock toniget to take action on e death of James A. Duify. The annual three-night's bazar of St. Anne’s society of St. Peter’s parish will open tomorrow night in St Jean de Baptiste hall. The proceeds _will be for the benefit of the parish. sEdward L. Janswick, the East Main “street druggist, is suffering from broken ribs as the result of an auto accident on Main street vesterday. Warren F. Roche, who has been %mg.me mid-year vacation at his m- Bassett ‘street, will resume studies at St. Bernard's college in ester, N. Y., next week. e condition of Mrs. Natalina Ba- who attempted suicide by tak- " bi-cloride of mercury on Mon- y is reported at :the ital:to be good. Her récovefy.Yh expected. : son’ was born. today %o 'Mr. ang 8 Maurice Johnson of" 60 ' Vine Motrer _and scn are doing 113 I8a Weisberg today transferred property on Wilcox street to Louis e Atilio Delafelicie. ¢ marriage license was granted to- to Louis Schreiner of 208 Arch t and Miss Josephina Rogan of isington. e health board quarantined a cdse of diphtheria on Booth street thia, afternoon. R A, G. Cohen has sold Dodge cars t#/B. Goldberg, S. Kaplan, E Mesh- kin, Dr Edward Dray, A. E. Luff and J, E. Oughstrum. SWilliam P. Ibelle and family of rizgh Stanley _ street left today for 108 Angeles, California, via New Yerk, Washington and New Orleans. They will make their home in Cali- fopmia. Fhe annual meeting of the Masonic Tgmple corporation will be held this eveming in Masonic hall. This is the most Important meeting of the vear as offiters and directors will be elected ‘2 report of the campaign commit- 1T be received. In the case of Joseph Gold vs. Mor- /Bchupack, scheduled for trial be- p¢ Judge Lucian Burpee in the su- or court this morning, the plain- #iff withdrew the cause of action be- fore court. The suit was brought against Mr. Schupack last summer, . Gold alleging that a commission 8 due him for the sale of property. Judee Bernard F. Gaffney represent- ed Mr. Schupack. DESCRIBES LAURENTIC'S LOSS ain Norton Says Two Explosions & ccurrad Soon After Leaving Port, Be Says at Inquost, London, Jan. 31, 2:59 p. m.—Cap- tafn. R. A, Norton, who was in com- mand of the Laurentic told the story of the loss of ship at the coronor's inquest ‘today over the bodies of seventy-four men of the crew, held at an unnamed cit; *The vessel left port at 5 o’clock on he afternoon of January 25, carrying Jgomplement of 470. At 5 I was the bridge when a violent ex- sion occurred abreast the foremast off the port side, followed twenty éconds later by a similar explosion breast the engine room on the port Nothing was seen in the water T to the explosion. The ship was faming at full speed ahead. No | to the attention of All efforts by tHe United States coast guards and the quartermaster’s department of the army to save the army transport Sumner from plete loss have been abandoned. vessel is now rapidly breaking pieces in Barnegat's shoals plain view of Barnegat light. com- The to within The hconstant strain of the pounding seas has already broken here in two, and the parting of her hull is visible from the light and from Barnegat . City, N J.- The Sumner went aground heavy in fog on the night of Dec, a 11 \All Efforts Abandoned 1o J‘av E The Transport Sumner, Cast Ashore while carrying 299 passengers from the Panama canal zone to New York. The passengers included army officers, troops, ‘civilian employes on the canal and their wives and families. The transport sent out an 8. O. S. ¢all and several steamships in the vicinity re- sponded, together with the coast guard cutter Mohawk. Efforts of tugs and wrecking crews to drag the vessel off the shoals failed, and the next day the passen- gers were taken off and sent to New York by train. None suffered injury. The tug Resolute of the Merritt-Chap- man company tried several days to pull the Sumner into deep water but gave up the attempt Dec, 28. The quartermaster’s department en- tertained hope that some part of the vessel might be salvaged until a few days ago it was seen that the en- gines and interior equipment of the transport are ruined. The Sumner was formerly the col- lier Cassius, but was refitted in 1900 at a cost of $700,000. She carried troops to the Philippines in 1900 and returned three years later with the bodies of 171 soldiers who died in the islands. She took 665 American refugees from Vera Cruz to Tampa. TRYING T0 TRACE LEAK 10 RELATIVE OF THE PRESIDENT (Continued From First Page). been a Smith, Jones or any one else provided we were convinced members | of the firm were clean men.” Until the Connolly firm opened, Hutton said, his firm had no Washing- 16n representative. The witness also insisted that he had no knowledge on December 20 that a note was coming flom Presi- dent Wilson. N statement that the connection between his firm and Connolly & Company was dent Wilson's brother-in-law. “I want to say,” he said, “that we did not take the acount of Connolly & company because Mr. Bolling was President Wilson’s brother-in-law. It would have been the same if he had Connolly Message Alone Correct. Representative Bennett developed through interrogating Hutton that the telegram Thompson & McKinnon of Chicago sent to their branch at Qsh- kosh, Wis., on the afternoon of De- i { 4 not made because Bolling was Presi- I )tlonal guard are entitled to the high- est crédit,” Gen. Wood said. “We are attacking a vicious and indefensible jsystem. I am equally strong against | the volunteer system.” Gen. Wood said he had entertained | the same opinion when chief of staff ‘and he believed, Major Generals Witherspoon and Scott, his successors, took the same view. CLAIMS LANDINO GIRL AS DAUGHTER Pia Says He Married Her Mother in Glastonbury Contending that the nine years old girl in the home of Joseph Landino of 62 Trinity street Enis and determined to gain posses- sion of her, Anthony Pia of Rocky Hill has consulted the authorities as to the-proper procedure and an- nounced his intentions of taking the 'proper legal steps. can be established, has not been .as- certained, as thus far, he has been un- able to locate the record of his legal marriage that, he claims, took place in Glastonbury more thah nine years cember 20 advising customers to sell on account of the coming peace note, was traceable to Ellis' message. Ben- nett called the attention. of the witness to testimony by newspaper men in ‘Washington that Secretary Lansing, in telling them the note was forth- coming, “had given them an impres- sion as to its contents exactly oppo- site to what it really wa; “The only substantially accurate forecast of the note which has coms the committee thus far,” said Bennett, “is the one sent to you by Connolly. How do you account for that? * “I don’t account for it. to Connolly,” said Hutton., NATIONAL GUARD SYSTEM VICIOUS That's nup So Says Gen. Wood at Military Service Hearing Washington, Jan. $1.—Major Gen- eral Wood, questioned by Senator Blair Lee today on the mobilization of the National Guard for border ser- vice, before the senate sub-committee on universdal military service re-as- opinion that the National a vicious and in- system, “but ad- mitted he included in the word tem* much of the war department’s share in the mobilization. The government arsenal’'s method of equipping state troops had com- pletely broken down within ten days after the call was made, General Wood said. This was not the main fault he declared, as even had sup- G defensible ts were showing, “1 ordered full speed astern, fired a | et,; gave the order to turn out | U ®ats and tried to send a wireless all for help but found that the sec- nd oimloslon ‘hdd stopped’ the dy- 1o/ | plies been ready, the men would have been untrained. . The officer could see no hope that an effective force ever could be built up except under exclusive federal control, divorced wholly from the stat: government. “The officers and men of the na- ago. He has found the record show- ing that a license was taken out but none has be#n found showing that there was a ceremony. Authorities whom he has consulted are of the belief that Anthony and pretty blush- ing Angelina Musso, strangers to American customs, were of the opinion that it was a legal ceremony when they swore to the statements in the license at the Glastonbury town clerk’s office more than nine years ago. Pia’s efforts to gain possession of the child is one aftermath of Mrs. Annie Landino’s tragic death last week, a victim of oxalic acid pois- oning, according to the medical ex- aminer, taken by mistake. Accord- ing to Pia, he and Annie were mar- ried more than nine years agd and little Enis was a result of the union. Yor five vears, he told Capt. T. W. Grace at police headquarters today, they lived happily together. Four vears ago, according to his story, she left to go with Landino and took the child with her. He supposed that his marriage to her was legal but, according to his admissions today, he feels that he may have heen mis- taken and thought that the issuance of the license was a legal ceremony. According to his story, he has made a long search in an attempt to locate the certificate but has been unable to do so. Telling of the supposed mar- riage, he said that his supposed bride was under age and the consent of her father was necessary. He supposed that when kis father-in-law went with them it was for the purpose of giving away the bride. In the possesion. of Anthony is a certified copy of his ‘iaughter's birth, showing that a daughter, Enis, was born to Anthony Pia and Angelina Musso in Glastonbury July 22, 1908. The record is certificd by Registrar i of Vital Statistics Fred R. Curti return was signed by H. B. R M. D. TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFI years ? lo- WANTED—Boy about sixteen of age or over in main office o cal factory. Address Box Herald Office. is his daughter | ‘Whether his claim | KIRCHWEY LEADS IN MOVE TO UNITE ALL PEACE ASSOCIATIONS GEORGE W .HIRCHWEY TRYING TO WORK GAME ON MERCHANT | Stranger Unsuccessfully Attempts to Get Check Cashed at J. M. Hal- linan’s Store. The old moss-grown ‘game” with clever crook, unsuspecting merchant, mythical order and phony check was tried in New Britain yesterday but not successfully as empléyes of the J. M. Hallinan Inc., store at 142 Main | street were “from Missouri.,” It was about 4:30 in the afternoon when a | well-dressed and glib-talking stranger | entered the store and asked relative to wholesale prices on ice cream and | other delicacies. He pretended to be representing the Prevocational school teachers in buying refreshments far a reception that, according to his story, was to have been held last night. Securing prices, he left, but only to return at 6 o'clock with an order amounting to $10. Because it was too heavy to carry, he ordered it sent and offered a check for $18, drawn on a New York bank to ‘“cash” and signed with the name “John Leland.” Information was given that checks wera not taken in payment from un- identified patrons and he hurriedly left. Telephone messages gave the in- formation that no scheduled recep- tion was to be given at the school. Detective Sergeant Samuel Bamforth was notified and is on the trail of the check-passer. He Dbelieves hjm to be one of a type of crooks that make periodical visits to practically every city and town in the country. Following his failure to negotiate the paper, it is believed that he hurried- ly left the city. He is described as 1917. (] 416 ASYLUM St. HARTFORD. A518 and $20 MEN’S SUITS Now ..$14.75 Financial STEEL NERVOUS; MARKET 1S UPSET Financial Statement on “U. §$.” Fails to Send Stock Up Wall Street.—The market opened with numerous gains ranging from fractions to a point, but prices soon fell back on heavy selling of the lead- ers. TU..S. Steel was the pivot around which dealings revolved, soon react- ing from its maximum of 113 5-8 to 112 1-4, suggesting disappointment in vesterday's extra dividend. Shippings and motors were conspicuous in the abrupt setback at recessions to 1 to 3 points with heaviness in Central Leather, Industrial - Alcohol, sugars and some of the rai Canadian Pa- cific lost 2 points’ with one each for Reading and St. Paul. Steel rebounded to 113 1-8 during the first hour, its course being typ- ical ‘of other prominent issues, but | Distillers Sec | Louis & Nash {Rep I & S com .. being between 35 and 40 years old and to weigh about 140 pounds. all rails were not well sustained. Deal- ings fell away after the first selling movement, traders showed. little dis- position to make fresh. commitments, while public interest was negligible. Towards noon the market pgsumed its early activity with increased strength and coppers shared in the general rise. Bonds were lower on large scales of foreign issues. “Further irregularity was shown in the dull business of the early after- noon steel again reacting with pres- sure upon specialties and representa- tive rails. Utah Copper alone = dis- played strength. Close—Weakness in Bethlehem Steel issues and the strength of Utah Cop- per were the contrasting features of the active final hour. The closing was heavy. Sales for the day were estimated at 700,000 shares. New York Stock Exchange quota- tions furnished by Richter & Co., members of the New York Stock Ex- change. Represented by E. W. Eddy. Jan. 31, 1917 H®&h Low Close 893 87 873 88 88 88 67% 67 67 28% 28 28 48% 4Ty 47T% . 763 T4% 75% .1073% 105% 106 iz 110y 110% 1263 1265 815 8214 1043 104% Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Beet Sugar Ag Chem .... Car & Fdy Co. Ice . Can Loco .. Smelting . Am Sugar .. . Am Tel & Tel L126% Anaconda Cop 8334 AT S Fe Ry Co..105% Baldwin Loco . 66% b53% 54% B & O 80% 80% 80% BRT . 1% 6% Beth Steel . 395 401 Butte Superior 48% 49 Canadian Pacifi 159 160 Central Leather 833 Ches & Ohio . A 627% Chino Copper : 55 Chi Mi] & St Paul. 8714 Col F & I 46% Cons Gas .... 131 Cruciblé Steel 615 26% 3034 45% 168% . 50 .161 86 63 55 887% . 4T% A8 . 62% L 26% 313% . 45% 170 Erie Erie 1st pfd General Electric Goodrich Rub 5934 Great Nor pfd ....116% Gt Nor Ore Cetfs. 36 Inspiration ... 57% Interborough 15% Interboro pfd .. 6814 Kansas City so ... 24% Kennecott Cop 457 Lack Steel 84 Lehigh Val 7% 281 531 L1004 Gl Max Mot com Mex Petrol N Y C & Hud .100 % Nev Cons 241, NYNH&HTRR42Y% N % Ont & West 26% Nor Pac .108 Norf & West .1361% Pac Mail 8 § Co. 21% Penn R R 57% Pressed Steel Car . §13% Ray Cons 263 Reading 00 TT% 10314 = 97 32% 69% 106 229% & Rep I & S pfd So Pac So Ry . So Ry pfd Studebaker .. Texas Oil Third Ave : Union Pac United Fruit Utah Cop .. U S Rub Co U S Steel U s Steel pfd Va Car Chem Westinghouse Western Union Willys Overland LOCAL STOCKS 113% 120% 36 36% (Furnished by Richter & Co.) The local market has been very quiet today. Sales of Bristol Brass have been in the neighborhood of 71% and Stanley Works at 105. Scovill is up about five points and is quoted 590- bid, with sales at 59 American | Richter&Co. 'MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 31 West Main Street, Telephone 2049 City Hall Building | 100 shs American Hardware 100 shs New Britain Machine Co. 100 shs Union M 100 shs Landers, anufacturing Co. Frary & Clark 400 Landers, Frary & Clark Rights Brass hag been reactionary, opening at 330 ex dividend and sold down to 327. Below are closing quotations: Am Brass ...323 327xd Am Hardware 136 Am Silver 32 Billings & Spencer 110 Bristol Brass . 72 Colts Arms . 810 Eagle Lock Co . x 90 Landers, Frary & Cla 62 N B Machine . . 110 North & Judd - s 88 Peck, Stow & Wilcox .. 32 Russell Mfg Co ...... 320 Standard Screw com ... 410 Stanley Rule & Level .. 445 Stanley Works .. 195 Traut & Hineé . 70 Union Mfg Co . Scovill Mfg. Co. Niles, Bement-Pond Marlin Arms . (Furnished by Frisble & Company.) The local market has been very Guiet today, with slight changes in prices. American Brass is selling to- day exdividend in the neighborhood of i T The prices at 2:30 were: Bid 325 135% Asked 327 136% 72 American Brass American Hardware Bristol Brass Colts Fire Arms Landers, Frary & Clark New Britain Machine 107 North & Judd 87 Scoville Mfg. Co. . Stanley Works Union Mfg. Co. . HEAD OF U. OF MINN. Northampton, Mass, Jan. Marion L. Burton professor of Smith college, announced today that he has accepted the presidency of the Uni- versity of Minnesota, which had been tendered him by the board of re- gents. “I have teldgraphed my ac- ceptance,” Dr. Burton said. MEXICO FOR MEXICANS. All Property Must Be in Name of Cit- izens. Quetero, Jan. 31.—Delegates to the constitutional assembly which cluded its labors last night, assem- bled today and signed the constitution on which they had been working for two months. The ceremony was at- tended by great gnthusiasm. Many of the articles are based upon the theory of keeping Mexico for Mex- icans. Under the new constitution for- elgners must renounce allegiance to the countries whence they come to ac- quire title to real estate in so far as foreign citizenship concerns such proverty. Another provision of the new con- stitution provides that all clergymen must be of Mexican birth They are | prohibited from teaching in the pub- lic schools. At 4 o’clock this after- noon there will be a brief ceremony | which First Chief Carranza will sign the constitution. The foreign diplomats have becn invited to attend. NO CHANGE ON ARMED SHIPS. ! ‘Washington, Jan. 31.—-Various re- | ports of developments in the armed ship issue were met by the state de- partment with a long line of vlgorol{s denials, the whole effect of which is to represent the situation as abso- lutely unchanged PNEUMONTIA CLATMS TWO, 31—Dr. | 'years of age, of Bristol, and Wilb; Evans, 63 years of agg of 28 Chur street. Mr. Evans had a sister livin in Plantsville, but nothing is know of Dioni's relatives. " MERIDEN STRIKERS RIOT | March to Freight Yards Armed Wi Clubs and Crowbars But Arec persed by Police. ‘ Merideh, Jan, 31.—A clash betwet the striking freight handlers of tI New Haven road and the memb: brought here to take their places o cured here today but the poliof quelled the disturbance before an serious rioting had oceurred. A group of strikers, armed = wi crowbars, clubs and other weapon marched to the vicinity of the¥freigh yards, bhut the authoritigs wery warned and a force of police wa rushed to the scene. There was som throwing of stones and other mi before the arrival of the police b no one was injured so far as known| Four arrests were made. ‘ It developed later that Policeman | John Crusty and two railroad detec | tives on guard at the freight yardd | had a hand-to-hand encounter with | the strikers. Crusty was slightly in. | jurea on the hand by a blow from club or other weapon. OFFICIAL BOARD MEETING. | Methodist Church Members to Discu Assistant Pastor, : H The official board of the -Trinitj Methodist church will meet Friday| evening at which time the matter o securing an assistant for Rev. War- ren F. Cook will be discussed. | Another important discussion will | be held, relative to the purchase of & inew organ. Several prices and plan i have been received by the baard, and they will be explained at the xn:l.l‘n‘. | DEATHS AND FUNERALS. con- | Mrs. Thomas P, Martin. } The funeral of Mrs. Thomas P, | Martin, wife of Thomas P. Martin of | 14 Hungerford court, was held at 9 o'clock this morning from St. Jo- seph’s church with Rev. Patrick Daly officiating. There was a large at= tendance and a wealth of floral | tributes. The bearers were Frank, | Cornelius and Patrick Martin, Neil ! Murphy and Thomas Brennan. John Heslin, William Skeen, Howard Ben- nett, John Houlihan, Dennis, Mc- Kenna and Raymond O’Connell werg the flower bearers. The burial was in St. Mary's new cemetery. 1 Card of Thanks. To our friends and neighbors ‘Wa. wish to expross our most heartfelt | ! thanks for the many expressions of ‘mpathy extended ot the time of the ‘death of our beloved son and brother, Max Behnke. We would think in an especial manner those who sent flow= ers. MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM BEHNKE, and Family. e e e e e s, The GITY SAVINGS BANK MIDDLETOWN, CONN. Pneumonia claimed two \‘ic?lms at the New Britain General hospital to- day They were Salerino Dioni, 62 is paying four per centum interest on all deposits. Will open accounts by mail in amounts from $5 to $3,000, Deposits solicited, National Bank Building . Telephone 2010 FRISBIE & CO. Investment PEARL STREET -:- F. W. PORTER, Lo 36 Securities :- HARTFORD cal Representative.