New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1917, Page 13

gy NEW BRITAIN DAILY, HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1017. SEEKS REVENGE FOR LOSS OF HIS MONEY Clothing Dedler Wounds Cotion Man and Commits Suicide New York, Feb. 9—While Sol Fried- van, a rich cotton dealer, was in a com on the second floor of his home S East Eightieth street at 6:30 o'clock last evening preparing to re- ceive guests for a large dinner party, Tialie P. Cantrell, president of the Cantrell Clothing company of 3 West Ninetieth street, obtained access the house by representing himself as e business associate and fired three elhots at him from a revolver. Mr. Friedman was wounded in the fleshy part of the right breast. trell then committed suicide hy send- ing a bullet into his brain. He has alleged that Friedman was responsible for heavy financial losses, and once caused him to go into bankruptey. Friedman was not seriously hurt and talked with relatives and several of his guests after the shooting. To to | Can- | Coroner Riordan Mr, Friedman made this statement: “Cantrell had been following me for some time. He appeared at my country home and wanted me to give him a place, saving I aidm’t treat im right. He said 1 made him lose money. He had called at my house here several times and each time had been refused admittance. The serv- ants had orders never to admit him, | but he eluded their vigilance by shav- {ing off his moustache. The servants did not recognize him with his lip cleanly shaven.” g Information obtained by the cor- oner revealed that Friedman had for months been in fear of an attack by Cantrell, and had even provided him- melf with a bodvguard from a private detective agency. He lived alone in the big house, it was said, and be- cause of the dread that was hanging over him had given strict orders to his servants, describing Cantrell to | them, and demanding that they exer- cise the greatest care before admit- ting any one of whose identity they were not positive. That was the way matters stood { shortly after 6 o'clock last night when @ telephone message was received by Mr. Friedman announcing that Mor- rel Weil, credit man for Mr. Fried- man’s Chicago office, would call upon him. Promptly at 6:30 o'clock the butler brought Mr. Friedman a great { houquet of rosesand a card bearing The Gurran Dry Goods Go. | ror——————— OUR BIG CLOSE OUT SALE OF — HOUSE-— FURNISHINGS still continues. Wonderful bargains as we must turn the stock gardless of what it jals. And the prices ‘ elsewhere. We can show you extra good values for 89c to $9.98. window for display of models. “Special Attractive lifie of New Spring Skirtings at our Dress Goods Counter, 40-inch wide, 39 Cc LA s B SPECIAL TOMORROW IN SHEETING 10-4 Bleached Sheeting, heavy weight, cloth that is worth 39¢c. Special at, yard .. .. o Special in Skirting Flouncings and baby wear, 27-inch wide Swiss edges, fine patterns, worth 50c yard. Specialat.................. Only 50 pieces at this price. EXTRA SPECIAL FOR MEN Men’s Negligee Shirts made of fine percale, in all sizes. New patterns, $1.00 value. Speecialal - s B A A BIG RIBBON SPECIAL 200 pieces of Fine Silk Ribbon, good width and all colors, 29¢ value.. Special at . .. EXTRA SPECIAL IN BED SPREADS Extra Large and Heavy Crochet Bed Spreads, worth $2. Special at . .. .. SPECIAL IN TABLE DAMASK Bleached Table Damask worth 59c. Special at,yard ..................... OUR COAT AND SUIT DEPT. hds a few Coats and Suits to close out at less than cost in Fine' Wool Fabrics. All of the latest models. Silk Plush Coats to close at cost of ma- terial. We are now showing a Women’s Shirt Waists in the most artistic models of the day, in all the new mater- l]flr. Weil's name, and was instructed by Mr. Friedman to “show Mr. Weil upstairs.” He was surprised that Well was in town, and thought the gift of flowers somewhat unusual, but in his hurry had no time for doubts. A moment later the butler opened the door softly and announced “Mr. Weil,” Mr. Friedman turned, his hand extended and a smile of wel- come on his face. Then he recog- nized Cantrell, despite his clean shaven face and backed into a oorner. The butler had hurried away before realizing that anything was wrong, For a minute, according to Fried- man, there was silence, and then said: “I don’t want to talk to you.’ Cantrell muttered something about his financial treubles, and Mr. Fried- man, satisfied that' he did not mean to make trouble, walked over to the door, opened it, and motioned for Cantrell to leav: As they stood in the doorway Cantrell turned on him with an oath. : “You've ruined me and swindled me aut of thousands of ‘dollars,” he shouted. At the top of the stairway is a secret door leading into a room where Mr! Friedman keeps private papers. As he saw Cantrell reach for his hip-pockeet he pulled open the door, and setting inside was able to slam it Shut just in time, Cantrell fired three -times through the door, and the ~secand bullet hitting Friedman. Then ' he shot himself just as the butler and some of the guests ran up the stair- way. A second revolver was found on the floor near the body,’but none of the cartridges had been exploded. The police found Friedman lying on a couch in the second floor room surrounded by guests and servants, while a dozen others who had come in the long line of limousines parked in the street were gathered in the parlor on the first floor discussing the shoot- ing in excited voices, _An ambulance was summoned from: Flower hospital and the surgeeon said that Friedman’s vound ‘was not” dangerous. \ Coroner Riordan searched Cantdell’s body and found a letter addressed to his wife. The coroner would not make it public,” but said-that in’it Cantrell had hinted that he was ‘going to set some of Friedman’s money or his life.”” It was learned from the coroner that about two years ago Friedman and Cantrell differed about business, and that the bankruptcy proceedings which caused Cantrell financial losses were inetituted. From that time, it was said, Cantrell had been hounding Friedman with demands for money. Friedman is said to have made millions as a cotton broker, and is now head of a cotton goods house at 12 West Third street. Cantrell's com- pany manufactyred raincoats. His home was at 247 East 18th street, Brooklyn. into Cash at once re- cost. . fanciful line of. are much less than (See our South 29c 29c ENGLAND FAGING A LABOR CRISIS More Than 6,000,000 Will Be Thrown Out of Work - London, Feb, 9.—Labor and capital have joined hands to work out a scheme for reinstating in civil em- ployment after the war the men now employed in the field or in munitions factories. The number of persons now on government payrolls who will be discharged after peace is declared is from 6,000,000 to 8,000,000, seven- eighth of whom are men. This rep- resents nearly half the wage-earning population of the United States King- dom. Demobilization may extend over severa] vears. The process will prob- ably begin with the munition work- ers, many of whom are liable to dis- charge at short notice. Army dis- bandment must proceed slowly, and, unless normal conditions are speeded up, will be very gradual. The employers decided to combine with Yabor in working out this indus- trial reform scheme after the labor men through the joint labor commit- tee on labor problems after the war had formulated a list of concessions for the men. This committee is rep- resentative of all the big labor organ- izations in the country. 79¢ - 19¢ - $1.49 " 39¢ i The committee urged that the gov- ernment should make workers in mu- nitions and other war trades the same kind of provision as has been already promised for the discharge soldier, in- cluding: A month's leave on full pay, free rallway ticket to any place in the United Kingdom, unemployment benefit available for a year, and or- | ganized facilities for obtaining fresh employment, This action led to the meeting of leading employvers' and heads of the big trade unions. It was realized that if the huge task of getting men back to their old places after the war was left to the labor exchanges a collapse was threatened and trouble sure to follow. The meeting, therefore, re- solved that it was necessary to cre- ate a special organization consisting mainly of representative of employ- ers and trade unions. Its action s taken seriously not only because the meeting was presided over by Fred- erick Huth Jackson, one of the gov- ernors of the Bank of Enghland, but because of the representative char- acter of both employer and employed. The first requisite laid down in the resolution in the resolutions passed is “the cordial and whole-hearted co- operation of employers and employed” in any scheme for dealing with the labor problems. " The substance of the resolutions were: That powers should be ob- tained from parliament to set up with- out delay a Central Statutory Board to regulate and supervise (a) the re- instatement in civil employment of the present forces; (b) the settlement in normal employment of civilian work- ers now in government or controlled establishments; (c) any general redis- tribution of labor arising out of the war. GIRLS IN SCHOOL OR AT BUSINESS who are delicately constituted, who have thin blood or pale cheeks, will find in SCOTT’S EMULSION a true tonic and a rich food to overcome tiredness, nourish their nerves and feed their blood. Start with SCOTT’S to-day—and say “NO” to substitutes. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J. 16520 MILLION TONS A MONTH FOR U-BOATS Submarines Living' Up to Expec- tations in Commerce Attacks Washington, Feb. 9.—Germany's ruthless submarine warfare, continued with the success of the last three days, would destroy within a short time a great part of the world's merchant tonnage. Officials here estimated on records for the three -days since the expiration of the time allowed in the German proclamation for. ships at sea on February 1 to get into port, that vessels were being sunk at the Your Liver has important work to do. Un- der favorable conditions it does it well. If sluggish, relieve it with BEECHAMS PILLS Sale of Any Medicino in the World, werywhere. In boxes, 10c., 25c. rat® of nearly 1,000,000 tons a month, the amount German naval authorities set as neeessary to starve the RBritish Isles. At that rate it would take just four years to destroy the tonnage of he entire world-—48,000,000 tons— it all the world's ships ventured into the war zone. Reports from Llovd's Shipping Agency put the tonnage sunk on Feb- ruary 5, 6 and 7 at about 85,000 tons. The world turned out in 1916 less than - 2,000,000 tonnage of merchant vessels. . During the yeay the QGormans sank a trifie,more than that, making the net loss inisworld’s shipping about 11 per cent. 3 i Ship manufacturers lied and neutral countries work on merchant ships. have heen standardized, and it most impossible to have made an where a ship of special construction. The British government is having built great stecl cargo ships, all alike. and of the simplest conktruction. The yards are busy night and day on their construction, and, they are off the ways, keels will be laid for more. There are no figures to' show the amount of tonnage constantly on the seas carrying goods to and from the British TIsles. United States customs reports show that about 1,500,000 tons clear ‘from American ports every y in all fhe al- o rushing Ve the figures are misleading. About the same amount of tonnage arrives monthly from European ports. Of the 48,000,000 tons of merchant ships in the world Great British owns about 20,000,000 tons. The United States is second with a little more than 6,000,000 tons, of which 2,000,- 000 tons is in lake and river trade. In American ports there are” ninety-five German merchant vessels of 500,000 tonnage which put in for haven at the outbreak of the war. THE SEF T GIRL AGAIN. Work on Munitiens Lures Her Duster. York, Feb. 9 Be 1se the probleni is zrowing steadily a surprising number of private houses will remain ciosed this season, and the former occupants will spentl « greater part of their time in the country or in hotels. The continued warm weather last Autumn kept peo- ple in the couniry later than usun and now that they have returned fo the city they find that domestics can- not be obtained. The demand for servants ceeds the supply, and the sponsible. Girls who did housewor have been lured from this sort of Iz bor by higher pay in munition fac- torles and other factories expanded by the war demands. ~“Many girls who made $7 and $8 a week ~and their board with private famil have places now for from $12 to $17 a wee They are able to have more of the time to themselves. and in many in- stances their lunches are provided t their employers. Employment agencies report that never in their history was there such a demand for domestics before the holidoys. The shortage also applies to nurses and governesses. Men have re- cently been emploved to wheel baby carriages by families whose nurses From New vant worse, se far war is had left them for higher wages in fac- | tories. The hotels on the upper west side and in the residential sections have been most affected by this de month, but, as some vessels clear twige 1" OME | mand. 2,859 exc CROWD! They saw oston beat Breoklyn in the World Series. They saw the Red Sox reach thegoal ball teams strive for. To make the series:a success it took— 4 umpirés, 5 games, 40 players, 244 baseballs, 413 yards of gum, 5,279 pounds of popcorn, ©3,471 bottles of pop, 111,116 score cards, 850,303 peanuts —and 1,019,415 cigarettes. It was easy to see. what cigarette was most popular with the ‘fans.;-:.N D, S o B It was Mecca, of couise, “th\é\géa]‘ of | all cigarette smokers\Atxa,hy_‘g;}rfig 0 ‘1 mine when the time comes. A CLEAR COMPLEXI Ruady Cheeks—Sparkling E; —Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Well-Kno Ohio Physician Dr. F. M. Edwards for 17 treated, scores of women for liver | bowel gilments, During these year | gave to his patients a prescription n i of a few well-known vegetable i | ents mixed with’ olive oil, naming tH Dr. Edwagdst{Olive: Tablets, you know thef bY 'their ofive color. These tablets are wonder-workers the liver and bowels, which cause a n mal action, carrying off the waste poisonous matter in one’s system. If you have a pale face, sallow lo dull eyes, pimples, cpated tongue, hed aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all of sorts, inactive bowels, you take d of Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets nigh for a time and note the pleasing resul Thousands of women as well as take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets—# successful substitute for calomel—nd and then just to keep in the pink of co dition. 10c and 25¢ per box. All druggis| ( | i | | i | i | l NO GUARANTEE FOR SUNDA | Free Will Offcring Will Be “Billy i Share. York, Feb. 9.—No guarant] ‘0[ financial reward has been made | Billy Sunday in return for his agrel ment to conduct an evangelistic can | paign in New York, according to official announcement made b; { William A. Sunday Evangelistic sociation of New York City. I No financial guarantee or promi { whatsoever has been made to Mr. Sug day himself. The matter of comp sation for his services will be taki | carc of through offerings at thé olo "nf the campaign in such manner | the finance committee may dete i New t! ited fans you go to you will find the men around you smoking Mecca. Mecca is sold by the billion. This popularity has been earned by real merit. Mecca cigarettes were made to order for real men. Smokers wanted a cigarette combining the flavor of Turkish tobacco with the character of Ametican. Mecca was the answer. Mecca is a real man’s cigarette. Mecca cigarettes are on sale at all baseball games—and wherever cigarettes are sold. Try Mecca yourself today. See why Mecca is the goal of all cigarette smokers, , handy slide box 5c for 10; in the oval foil 5 p?cyagelz/l(ltl: fc} 20’.’ ‘ Yy JHE SKYLINE OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF MECCA T The Players’ Share— of the World Series this year was $162,927.45, or 32,585,490 Meccas. That many Meccas :re sold every three days. In the