New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1917, Page 10

¥ OFFICIALS IV DUIGK RICHES PLAN ! n&m compafly and About $1,000,000 Are Gone v York, Aug. 29.—City Chamber- A Maltbie, Commissioner Martin of p Board of -education ,and other city jetals were- caught, it was learned day, in the collapse of the Tax company, Whose president, Wil- m Lustgarten, left suicide notes for wife and four of his associates la creditors before disappearing, as- ng them he wouvld jump into New irk bay August 16'or 17. The police got a tip that Lustgarten ized $200,000 on tax liens just be- writing his farewells, and on his to South America, [he police also learned trom a clerk | in Lustgarten's office, No. 68 William street, that circulars and other litera- ture of the company were destroyed six days ago. No reason was given. The company held out to investors a promise of 7 per cent. returns a year. It is now asserted that for a year or 8o it had not earned 2 per cent. on some af its tax llens, while others were being ocarried at dead loss be- cause the property covered by the lien was unimproved and the company had bought it in to save the lien. The amount of the failure may ex- ceed $1,000,000, it was estimated last night. This was based on disclosures that an unknown number of the tax liens, supposed by those who invested in them to be still in existence, had been cancelled hy payment of the averdue taxes by the owners of the properties. Receive Company Certificates. Most of the men and women Who put their savings into the tax liens re- ceived merely one of the company’s certificates. They did not get the .tax lien, although they had bought ft. Lustgarten's explanation was that it was necessary to keep the lien in the company’s flles to be handy for cancel- lation in case the awner of the " TIRE SALE | All First Tires 28x3 30x3 30x3!4 Plain Clincher 31x4 31x4 Plain Clincher 32x3i4 Non-Skid 2 D. 33x4 . Non-Skid 2 D. 33x4 Plain 34v4 Non-Skid 2 D. .. 34x4 34x4 36x4 34x415, Non-Skid 2 D. 35x4)5 Non-Skid 2 D. o N = DN G2 U3 = e B 32x4 36x4!, Non-Skid 2 D. 37x4!, Non-Skid 2 D. 35x5 37x5 Non-Skid Clincher Non-Skid Clincher i 30x3l, Non-Skid Clincher Non-Skid Clincher ; Blaini 2/ Dosse e Non-Skid Straight Side . Plain Straight Side 35x4!, Non-Skid StraigHt Side . Non-Skid Straight Side . 36x4!, Non-Skid Straight Side . Non-Skid Straight Side . Non-Skid Straight Side . Reg. Price Sale Price .$13.30 $10.00 13.50 10.50 ...1745 14.50 ....16.70 13.45 . 26.75 21.50 25.55 20.15 20.50 16.20 28.35 22.90 27.30 21.90 28.95 23.00 . 2785 22.00 28.95 23.00 SIS 24.35 39.45 31.35 41.20 32.25 41.20 32.25 27.25 21.90 41.85 33.05 41.85 33.05 43.55 34.50 47.00 35.50 49.80 39.25 FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. These Are Real Bargains. Adna F. (TEL. 961) Johnson 159 MAIN STREET property paid the taxes and redesmed his title. One of the investors whom Lust- garten flattered by presenting him the liens instead of the certificates, disr covered, after Lustgarten vanished and the concern was forced into bank- ruptcy, that his certificates covered vacant lots suitable for goat pastures. The experts on the company's books have been unable to discaver in, h'r many ways Lustgarten mingled e funds of the Tax Lien company with those of other corporations. The holders of Lustgarten’s certificates have been unable to learn how many of them are actually backed by the ariginal. liens. Lustgarten’s wife talked yesterday at No. 68 Willlam street with Frederic C. Leubuscher, ane of the receivers of the company. She said she had not heard from her husband since she re- ceived his suicide note ,and had no idea of his whereabouts. - An effort will be made today Hy tHe creditors to find out whether the cer- tificates are worth anything like par value. Some af the creditors who ap- plied at the company’s office were as- sured they might receive, ultimately, 70 cents on the dollar. There are about 100 holders of tax liens or cer- tificates, their claims ranging from $1,000 to $100,000 apiece. FUTORE OFFICERS COMING FRON RANKS No More Will Be Accepted From Civil Life Washington, ' Aug. 29.—Enliated men of the National Army will re- ceive every opportunity to fit them- selves for commissions. This is in line with the fixed policy of the govern- ment to take no more officers or of- ficer candidates from civil life after the second series of officers train- ing camps, now in progress, has beem completed. . Thereafter all additional officers needed will be found in tha ranks of the various branches of the | war army. To carry out this plan it has virtu- | ally been decided to establish an of- ficers’ school at each of the divisional training camps. Men from the ranks who show special qualifications will be sent to these schools. With staffs of French and British officers of ex- perience on the firing lines on duty at each camp as advisers, an unsual opportunity for lecture courses will be presented. The divisional officers’ camps wiH make the third series of such camps arranged by the war department te provide men to command the enor« ous forces being raised for the war. No line commissions will be granted to men from civil life after they are started except that a few men who were denied admission to the other camps through loss of their orders in the mail or some other mischance, officers, specialists in various details of trench warfare, may be given as opportunity in the third series. Foreign Experts As Advisors. A group of French or British army will be attached to National Guard and National Army camps under plans worked out by the War Department to expedite ROADSTER Speaking of Economy Saxon Roadster owners continually report’ operating charges of but 3 cents per mile Saxon Roadsters for the use of its New Eng- land salesmen. One salesman writes us he now covers his Do you realize you can gain all the advant- ages of motor car ownership for but little more expense than your present cost of car that motor-car ownership today is productive economy? efforts count most heavily, you must use every possible time-saving in- fare? 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Roadster pay him a time dividend of 400 per towns in just one-fourth the He can He has multiplied his He has made his Saxon do the same for you. Saxon Roadster starting and lighting system, and demountable 0. b. Detroit. “Six” Sedan $1,325. training troops for special conditions they will meet at the front. Prob- ably eight or ten will be assigned to each of the thirty-two camps. The foreign officers will not come in direct touch with the American troops. The training will be done en- tirely by the American officers of the companies, regiments or brigades, but the American officers will have the oppertunity of consulting with their foreign associates who have had actual experience at the front with control of artillery fire, bombing at- tacks, machine guns and co-ordinat- ing movements of infantry units in attack or on defensive operations. To Disband Great Army, Secretary Baker pointed out reply to a question as to whether the European divisional army organi- zation adopted or the war would be continued after the restoration of peace, thet with the exception of the officers of the regular army and a few men of the old regular enlisted force, whose enlistments may not have expired at that time, the entire war army Wwill pass out of existence. There i8 no provision of law for con- tinuing it beyond the end of the war. The question of establishing a con- tinulng military policy of universal service has been debated to some ex- tent recently. The impression pre- valls among many members of Con- gress, however, that is would be un- wise to take up this question now. If the war is long it may become necessary to provide for the registra- tion of new classes which reach. the military age of the selective draft bill each year and possibly also to exempt men now registered but who may pass beyond the maximum age limit before the war ends. Cot. Littell, quartermaster in gen- eral charge of cantonments, was not informed lagt night of the order re- ported to have been issued by Gen. Bell, instructing officers not to go to Yaphank today as originally scheduled because the buildings would not be ready for them. Col. Littell is satis- fled that the construction company will rush work so the cantonments will be ready. AUSTRIAN RETREAT TURNED INTO ROUT Emperor Charles Sees Troops Flee Before Italians Washington, Aug. 29.—The Italian embassy has received from Rome fur- ther dispatches relating to the pro- gress of the offensive against Aus- tria, saying: “The clear sight and superiority of the Itallan command are more evi- dent daily. “The enemy, now in rout on the high plateau of Bainsizza, attacked and pushed back on the eastern sidc of the Carso, is vacillating under the continuous assaults and is trying to escape, leaving behind him great quantities of foodstuffs, guns and war materials of every description. “The correspondent of ‘The Tri- buna,’ describing the conquest of Monte Santo, says that this success crowns all the series of works anfl efforts since May on the Vodice and on the Sella, jolning the Vodice to Monte Santo, where the Italians for three months were subjected to an ihcessant fire. “Before the offensive of May Monte Santo was a part of the Austrian de- fensive organization of Bainsizza Pla- teau, which is situated between the Isonzo and Chiapovano valleys. The enemy attempted to bar every pos- sible access to the high plateau by establishing formidably fortified lines resting on natural fortresses such as Vodice, Monte Cucco and Monte San- to, constituting a great defensive bar- rier of the Valley of Prohot. “When Vodice fell to the Ttalians the Austrians withdrew the barrier on the line Monte Santo-Krobilek. Today, after the capture of Monte Santo, the chief immediate advantages obtained by the Italians are the destruction of the barrier of the Phohot Valley as a path to the Bainsizza Plateau, the freeing of the Gorizia zone of Aus- trigns—who theretofore had been able to fire upon the city—and the isolating of the Velikivrid from the $an Gabrielle and San Daniele hills. “The morning of the 24th, after a very intense bombardment, the Ital- jans progeeded to the assault of Mon- te Santo in two colamns, one coming from the Vodice, attacking Monte Santo from the northern side, taking a line of enemy trenches and reach- jng the summit, the other column climbing the mountain from the west- ern, or frontal, side. After two hours the two columns met on the summit, where the church and monastery, which were built in the Middle Ages, were already in ruins and full of corpses. The Italians passed on and through the Austrian .obstructions and into their caves, capturing them. These positions were well supplied with arms and materials, which the Itallans captured, together with many wounded men. “The victorious Ttallans then de- scended to the Valley of Gargaro, clearing it of the enemy and taking many prisoners and a considerable quantity of booty, “The new Austrian line is indefinite, and it is uncertain how far they re- treated, as thelr retirement was & genuine rout. “The latest Austrian newspapers are describing the great battle on the Itallan front as witnessed by Aus- trians, On the 324 Emperor Charles. esoorted by the chief of staff, was present at the headquarters of Gen- eral Boroevic, inspecting the Austrian positons on the plateau of Tarnove and the chief fortifications of the Carso, Emperor Charles was greatly impressed by the grandeur of the bombargment and by the lirresistible advance of the Italian soldiers. 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SAYS BISHOP BARRED NATIONAL ANTHEM Organist at Cathedral of St. John the Divine Forced to Play Censored Program. New York, Aug. 29.—Did Bishop Greer order the organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Dinvine to stop playing “The Star Spangled Ban- ner?” And if he did, why? Those are the two questions the Veterans of the foreign wars, who are now in con- vention here, are anxlous to have answered. At the session of the Veterans, held yesterday, Willlam Voorsanger, of Pittsburgh, stated that he had investi- gated the report that Bishop Greer had issued such an order in May. He said he had learned that the bishop was out of the city, but a man at the cathedral who had described himself as the curate had declared that it was a fact that the bishop had iasued | the order because ‘“the playing of the anthem created a sentiment for war to which the bishop is opposed.” Act- ing on the report of Mr. Voorsanger, the Forelgn War Veterans sent the following telegram to Bishop Greer last night: “This organization, consisting of war service veterans, in convention assembled at the Hotel McAlpin, has before it a report that you instructed your organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Devine to desist from play- ing ‘The Star Spangled Banner. Please advise your reasons for so do- ing by wire at our expense.” The complaint which set under way the investigation of the Veterans of the Foreign Wars was made by two members who belong to the congrega- tion of St. John the Divine. Their names are withheld. Albert J. Rabing, commander in chief of the Foreisn War Veterans, declared that he felt this was no time for any one to throw cold water on patriotism, ‘‘When so meny men are taking up arms in defence of their country,” he maid, it does not be- come Bishop Greer or any one else of‘ Menmte Dosso, Faiti and Conca Bigha, then under Itallan fire. which | tranelegmiod them into volcanoes, | edly Inspires” to stifie the patriotic impulse which “T-e Biar Spangled Banner' undoubt- One Cent a Word Each Day Pays for a Classified Adv. in THURSDAY | AND | FRIDAY T HE MARKET the zlerald. You Get Results That’'s What You Want. Fish HICA b ol FRESH SHORE HADDOCK ............Ib 80 SWORDFISH,SolidMeat..............lb24c SALTCODFISHPIECES...........‘...lb18c Cod Fish Stedk ... ./ Cape Butter Fish ........l1b Fancy Salt Herring . .. .2 for » 18¢ 18c 5¢ SLICED BEEF LIVER .. 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