New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1917, Page 15

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, Overcoats, from the smart stylish coat to the big, long, warm Ulster. Overcoats in a number of different models to suit all purposes. -Overcoats for .the young fellows— for Father and Grandpa. Don’t put off buying that Overcoat —they will be no lower in price than right now. No better coats for the money than right here. 2 Overcoats from $18 to $35.00 Stein, Bloch and Shuman. NEW BRITAIN, CONK. HOGS TO END WAR AS HOOVER SEES IT Food Administrator Says More Fat Is Essential to Allies . Washington, Oct. 26.—Food Admin- | istrator Hoover said last night that the fight against the submarine would be won if the United States and Canada could feed the Allies from this conti- Snent. Ships, wheat, and hogs were the gredt needs emphasized by Mr. Hoov- er.; He said deepest concern had been caused by the fact that, in spite of high prices, this country’s pork con- sumption had increased during the war, until production had been out- stripped, a situation that must be changed. “If we discontinue exports,” Mr. Hogver added, “we shall move the efman line from France to the At- antic seaboard. Pork products have an inflience in this present world sit- uation wider than one would ordinar- ily attribute to them. The human body must have a certain amount of fats, we must increase production of hogs if we are to answer the world's craving. “The production of fats is today a - critical necessity for the preservation of these people, the Allies, and the malntenance of their constancy in the war. Every pound of fat is as sure a service as every bullet, and every hog 15 of greater value to the winning of this war than a shell.” As to wheat, the Administration said the Allies’ deficiency of produc- tion was 196,000,000 bushels, with im- ports of 577,700,000 bushels ‘required to maintain normal consumption. He estimated the aggregate American, Capadian, Australian, Indian and Ar- gentine export surplus at 770,000,000 bushels, but pointed out that lack of | shipping made it necessary for this country and Canada to bear the bur- den of meeting the Allies’ deflcit. “The problem,” he said, ‘“is thus simply one of ships. If we can so produce economies and stimulate pro- duction in the United States and Can- ada as will enable us to feed the Al- lies absolutely from this Continent and thus enable them to live without send- ing a ship further afield than our At- lantic seaboard, we can resist the sub- marine indefinitely.” | BOOSTED THE BOND SALE IN ST. LOUIS Men! It's a line as,up-to-da haven’t taken advantage Miss Florence J. Wade, youngest of the federal reserve chairmen of the women's Liberty loan committee, has | | achieved remarkable results in her | campaign in the St. Louis district, her home. She originated the plan by | which any person may buy Liberty bonds on a payment of 1 per cent. of the amount subscribed and 1 per cent. a week thereafter until the bonds have been paid for. i TEUTONS REOPEN PEACE TALKFEST | Opportunity leen by Russian Council of Workmen | Copenhagen, Oct. 26.—The Austro- | German press has eagerly seized the occasion of the statement regarding a basis of peace announced by the Russian Council of Workmen's and Soldiers’ Delegates to reopen the dis- | cussion of peace, which had been de- | clared closed after the reply to the | Pope. In this the papers follow the | example of their respective govern- | ments, which Reventlow sarcastically | said “rival Pattl in the number of | their absolutely last farewells” to | peace proposals and which “miss no | opportunity to attempt to open pour- | pariers in the hope of getting out of | the war.” The pro-peace press welcomes the statement. The Norddeutsche Allge- | meine Zeitung and the Fremdnblatt, | though criticising it because of the indefinife character of the demands, characterize it as a plain, straight- forward statement of definite peace | proposals. Vorwarts says that the points in the Russian statement which are men- tioned in the semi-official repltes ns} unacceptable, are presumably the de- | mands for plebiscites resp: ing Al- | sace-Lorraine and the TItalian en- | claves, Austria wittingly ignoring the | fact that the announced German pro- | gram for ‘‘securities” as to Belgium | is incompatible with the demand of | the Workmen’s and Soldiers’ gmup‘ for full Belgian restoration. The Vossische Zeitung demands | that Germany declare its definite soll- darity with the Russian program and { offer Russia definitely peace without | detachments of territory, leaving the | determination of the fate of Poland, the Baltic provinces, and other like | territory to the Russian Republic in order to help the Russians force an acceptance of a peace conference up- on the Allies and pave the way to | a continental alignment against Great | Britain and America, which is the as- | piration of the Vossische's school of political thought. One writer says that the all-impor- | tant thing for Germany is to get the | representatives of the various bellig- | erents around a council table and the rest will take care of itself. ESSAD PASHA MAY GO IN WITH GREECE | Placing the United States wheat ex- port_surplus from this year's crop at 80,000,000 bushels and Canada’s at 159,000,000 bushels, Mr. Hoover urged | domestic economies to increase this country’s surplus to 150,000,000 bushels. “This we could do,” he said, “if our people would eat one pound less of wheat flour a week and one pound of corn meal Instead. The farmer who wotks overtime and the consamer who economizes are fighting the submarine | with a positive and sure weapon.” 1t peace should come, Mr. Toover continued, large numbers of ships would be released and F}urn‘\(‘il.n wheat production increased. If cli- matic conditions next year are right he estimated a wheat crop in this _country of 1,000,000,000 bushels. For th the food control law guarantees hel. jmum price of $2 a bu If the war continue: b 1¢ peace should come, M sgald, “but if the war shou an end there will be no foreign mar- ket for at least 400,000.000 bus The Government must then take ov: th$ wheat and probably find a market for it at a very great loss. We should that the Government may anticipate lose from $300,000.000 to $500,000,000 on this wheat guaranty X peace ar- pives before the 1918 harvest is mar- keted.” e’J‘\.\rnln;{ to the meat situation, the | Administrator szid pork products were more vitally needed by the Allies than peef, and, therefore, it would be to the yital advantage of every farmer to hogs, adding: Wé need a keep-a-pig movement In this country.” | This photograph of lssad Pasha, ruler of Albania and leader of the | Albanian troops, was made recently | when he paid a visit to General Sar- { rail, commander of the allied troops ' | in the Balkan: Essad Pasha’s army will probably join tthe Greek army for | { and Monday. i prise | when | the home of her « the sick in the Watts family. | 1915, Wom They're our future clothing for them too. ang on Clothes Line, ‘Series and it’s just as interesting. staggering prices for clothing but not to us. Our 1917 World You're paying We of the universal habit of te as the boosting prices because we believe it bad business. Your good will in the future is worth more to us than the few dollars we could take from you now. en’s Modest-Priced Smadrtness a You'll find both doing We're Strong for the Boys customers. A FINE LINE OF LOW-PRICED FURNISHINGS A. KATTEN & SON HARTFORD ONE PRICE CLOTHING COYPANY 114-116 ASYLUM ST., HARTFORD, CT. We have strong They need clothing that will stand wear and tear, pull and push. We have it strong as can be had and with style to boot. 1017. Our women'’s line is smart—as smart as the smartest taste will dictate—yet it is low in price if you will com- pare it with other lines. * appeal to you. department. nd value ought to duty in our women’s :q'-- L_L"‘.E 3 i EXTRA LARGE BUDGET. $80,000,000 Given For Missions For Fivo Years by Bishops. Atlantic City, N. J,, Oct. 26.—The board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, in semi-annual ses- sion here, yesterday heard outlined a general budget of $80,000,000 for a | great program of work to cover five years, to be divided between the Forelgn Missions Board and Home Missions Board, The board will prob- ‘ ably act favorably on the plan at the meeting today, and all that remains to be agreed upon is the method of the financial campaign. Bishop Joseph F. Berry of Phila- delphia declared last night that the plans submitted were acceptable, and that a formal announcement would be given in a day or two. The drive is to be launched the first of next year. John R. Mott lald before the bishops the proposed calendar of the Foreign Mission Board, of which he Is a member. Among the items are | the extension of fields in China and vast territories in Indian and Africa; new church bulldings and properties | in Europe, and the rebuilding on the war-ravaged territory; for the families of missionaries. Dr. D. D. Forsyth of Philadelphia presented the program of the Home Missions Board, of which he is chair- man. The $40,000,000 here will be | apportioned for extension work in the | United States and South America. The | ! budget provides for hundreds of city missions, especially among the for- eign-speaking peoples, erdeavors in | the country districts, new church and ! rural buildings, and for the educa- tion of the colored people in the | south. Special values, trimmed hats, Sat. ; Seibert.—advt. SHE NURS iD HIS WIFE. Who Died, So Tobacco Millionaire Marries the Nurse. Durham, N. C, Oct. 26.—A sur- marriage was performed in Syracuse, N. Y. at noon yesterday, George W. Watts, millionaire of Durham, and Miss Sarah V. Ecker, | Benjamin Duke, now of New lin and pensions | York, the manufacture of tobacco. He removed from Baltimore to Durham in 1878, and was made secretary and treasurer of W. Duke Sons & Co. He is a philanthropist and has spent large sums in endowing colleges and churches. He spent $500,000 on the ‘Watts Hospital in Durham and da- nated it to the city. NEW TREASURER. Meriden, Oct. 26.—George H. Yea- mans of this city was today elected | treasurer of the International Silver company to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Frary Yale of | Wallingford. Mr. Yeamans started with the corporation as office boy forty years ago. DEATHS AND FUNERALS Mrs. Ed:nrd I;._Andrews. drews was held at 2 o’clock yester- day afternoon from her late home 152 Black Rock avenue. Rector Harry I. Bodley officiated and burial was in Fairview cemetery. | William A. Crabtree. Notice was received here yesterday {to the effect that William A. Crab- tree, who formerly lived in this city died suddenly at Bellevue hospital in | New York city on Sunday morning. | He was about 40 years of age and single. He resided in this city and was em- | ployed in Boston as manager of the i Amberg Filing Index Company of that city. On Saturday he went to New | York on business and was suddenly taken ill, passing away without re- gaining consclousness. His body re- | mained unidentified until yesterday. | Architect Walter C. Crabtree of this icity is a brother of the deceased, who also leaves four sisters in this city. uneral services will be held here 'and burial will be in Springfleld, | Mass. Joseph Skinner, The funeral of Joseph Skinner will be held at 10 o’clock tomorrow morn- ing at St. Mary’s church. mains are now at the home of his sis- ter, Mre. street. a trained nurse from Johns Hopkins | hospital, Baltimore were wedded. The bride formerly resided in Syracuse, and the ceremony was performed at married sister. The acquaintance of Mr. Watts and the nurse was formed some years ago, when she was employed to care for Miss Ecker spent many months nursing the first wife of Mr. Watts, who died in Hardly any one knew of the courtship and the wedding arrange- ments were kept a secret until a tele- | gram from John S. Hill, a son-in-law, | announced the event today. to Durham friends. George W. Watts is Durham’s wealthiest citizen and was for a long i time associated with Washington will probably join the Greek army for | Duke and his tow sons, James and | | Michael Fagan. | Michael Fagan, for many years a : resident of this ci in Hawthorne, N. Y. The remains will be brought to this city this eve- ning and the funeral will be held from the home of his brother, Henry Fagan, on Lincoln street tomorrow morning, with services at St. Ma church at 9 o’clock. The burial will | be in the old Catholic cemetery. Card of Thanks. I wish to express appreciation of : the kindness shown me at the of my bereavement, ir the death of my beloved wife; also for the beauti- i ful floral tribues. EDWARD L. ANDREWS, The funeral of Mrs. Edward L. An- | The re- James Lynch of 3 Garden died yesterday | V'S | time | LOCAL STOCKS (Furnished by Below are the cl Richter & Co.) ing quotations: American Brass ...... 235 245 American Hardware 127 130 Billings & Spencer . 95 100 Bristol Brass .. 45 50 Colt's Arms ... 70 73 | Landers, Frary & Clark 49 . 51 New Britain Machine .. 65 70 North & Judd 65 70 Peck, Stow & Wilcox 29 31 Russell Mfg. Co .. 5 300 { Standard Screw Com. 280 Stanley Rule & Level .. 410 | Stanley Works 93 Traut & Hine 55 Union Mfg. Co. ... 100 Niles, Bement Pond C. 120 135 | Scovill Mtg. Co. offered . 520 TO LOAN VESSELS. ‘America Will Allow Italy the Use of Twenty-five Vessels. | Washington, Oct. 26.—Chairman | Hurley of the Shipping Board an- nounced last evening that the board had agreed to charter to the Italian Government twenty-five American commandeered steel ships aggregat- ing 100,000 deadweight tons. These | vessels will greatly relieve Italy’s ship- | ping shortage and enable her to get | supplies she sorely needs. America has stepped into the breach because Great Britain’s in- | creasing shipping requirements pre- jvent the country from continuing to {supply Italy, and France, too, with vessels to meet their emergency {needs. Only recently the -shipping board agreed to charter twenty ves- els to France. Part of the ships chartered to Italy will’be old and some may be taken from those on the way from the Great {Lakes to the ocean. GERMANY OWNS BOND. Philadelphia. Oct. 26.—The imper- ial German government js the owner of a Liberty bond. A local attorney | has been handling funds of German estates in and about Philadelphia and )n settling one account recently he ! had a balance of $60 which belonged to the imperial German government. ! Yesterday he applied $50 of that {amount to a Liberty bond to help the | United States to win the war. LIBERTY FLIGHT. Port Washington, N. Y., Oct. 26— With a cargo of Liberty loan “bombs a big British biplane left here shortly before 10 a. m. today to make a flight from New York to Albany. — | TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION. nut street and Y. W. C. A. Friday 10-26-2, | | | LOST—Sum of money between Chest- | Finder return to Herald. \ | WANTED--Thoroughly reliable house- | keeper in small family. Phone 7 10-26-3dx 81 WEST MAIN STREET . {Richter&Co. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. vieve.....NEW BRITAIN, CONN, TEL. 2040. Every LIBERTY BOND bought makes peace | sooner and surer. Do your share. Buy Your Bond Today o Financial 'PAGIFIC STOCK DROPY TWO POINTS Features in Gains Today 1 Shippings Among the Most Active | Steel and Pig Iron Markets — The Iron Age says: Further price fixing announcements from Washington seem unlikelys Though an agreement was reached be= tween the War Industries Board and the producers in New York on Oct. 1 no new prices have been named. Thud it appears that the modification in Giovernment policy noted last week hag taken shape and the industry is ex- pected literally to adjust prices om' even major commodities. Already the Wall Street, Oct. | the outset of today’s were of the same irregular character | as those recently noted. Shippings were among the most active features at gains of 1 to 3 points and rails continued to sag, Canadian Pacific | dropping 2 points. In industrials, equipments, metals and specialties initial quotations were fractionally higher or lower on moderate trans- acticns. Liberty Bonds were in pro- | cess of further accumulation at 99.90 Selling of rails broadened in the | tirst hour on extensive offerings of in- vestment issues, notably Penna. and Reading. Shippings and industrials also reacted, U. S. Steel falling under | |104. The reversal was brief, | ever, supporting orders soon effecting ! general readjustment. Camadian Pa- {cific made up its loss; Union Pacific | igained 1 5-8; Steel 1 1-4 and shippings | advanced again with coppers and ! specialties, including tobaccos. Trad ing became listless on the rally and |gains were partially reduced at noon. | Liberty Bonds were less active at 99.90 to 99.94. ” A drive agdinst specialties in which General Motors lost 3 points and Gen- eral Electric 4, was the only feature of the very dull mid-session. stock market | New York Stock Exchange quota- tions furnished by Richter & Co., members of the New York Stock Ex- change. Oct. 26, 1917 t £ High Low Close Am Beet Sugar 76 5% 76 Alaska Gold .. 3% 3% 3% Am Car & Fdy Co. 67 66 66 Am Can e 42% 41Y% 41% Am Loco cv. 69 58 58 Am Smelting ... 85% 84 85% Am Sugar .......105 105 105 Am Tel & Tel ....114 1123% 113 Anaconda ,glgp ... 63% 62 63 A T S Fe By Co. 92% 92% 923 Baldwin.Loco ... 60% 59 60 BI& oSl 573 56% 57% IEB RGN Aol Sl 53% 53 53 Beth Steel B 843 83y 84% Butte Superior ... 19% 19% 19% Canadlan Pacific .1443% 142 144% Central Leather 73% 73 Ches & Ohio ...... 50% 50 Chino Copper .... 433% 433 Chi Mil & St Paul. 45% 45 Cons Gas ....... 89% 87% Crucible Steel 6614 66 Del & Hudson 985 92% 985 Distillers Sec 38% 371% 37T% | Briejaitn 181 18% 18% Erie 1st pfd 26% 26% 26% General Electric 1363 1313 133 Goodrich Rub 40% 40% 40% Great Nor pfd 99% 98% 991 Gt Nor Ore Cetfs. 28% 27% 28 Inspiration ...... 45% 445 45 Interborough Y% 1% % Kennecott Cop 33% 33 331 Lack Steel .... 81 80 80 ‘Lehigh_ Val Louis & Nash Mex' Petrol N Y C'& Hud . Nev Corls ........ Nor Pac Norf & West Penn R R Peoples Gas Ray Cons Reading : |Rep I & S com IRep I & S pf(l So Pac 106 % 40 | So Ry So Ry pfd 617% Studebaker 383 Texas Oil 143 Union Pac 119 % | United Fruit 120 ! Utah Cop 81 U S Rub Co .. 57% U S Steel 104 7% U S Steel pfd 113% Va Car Chem 3034 Westinghouse 423 ‘Western Union 87 2914 Willys Overland % WILSON WILL VOTE. Washington, Oct. 26.—President Wilson will go to Princeton Novem- ber 6 to vote in the New Jersey state legislative elections Secretary Tumulty reiterated today that the president would take no part in the New York municipal electiou. 26.—Changes at i - | rapidly how- | leading wire maker has approached | the mean between the two generall wire levels which have long obtained,: quoting $3.50 on nails, or 30c nearer | the $4 basis of other mills. It will notl ! bo surprising if the presidential ad- dress of Judge Gary before the Amer= ican Iron and Steel Institute in Cin- cinnati on Friday sheds some light. | . The War Industries Board has had as a primary object the securing of maximum production of ships and | shells and the magnitude of the task; {and the size of the organization it Is | building may well militate against too instituting sweeping edicts | over materials of less importance for the work of war. How thoroughly it | will be possible without authoritative { announcement or the exactions of pri- | ority orders tv secure immediately the ‘ ‘one price for all” policy is an unan- x swered question. On top of this is the canvassing now | zoing on among consumers by tho Tederal Trade Commission to ascer- tain opinions as to abrogation of cor I tracts. Concern is shown among ! dents of trade over the apparent cffy & | to secure a contract nullification or j justment feature in the proposed Poi j erene price-fixing bill, with all that | might mean in unstabilizing businc.s | remote from hasic material produc- tion, When all is summed up, the general | consumer is still in the dark. With | the increasing drafts of labor, the | minimum immigration, the overloaded transportation and terminal facilities, the fuel scarcity, not to mention the | checks likely in winter, production of ! iron an1 steel for this year, even con- ! sidering increased capacity of plants can hardly >xceed that of last vear. One authoritative estimate is that next year's total output will not be over 85 | per cent. of last year's. 1f price fixing is regarded as re- volving about finished steel prices con- sidering the immediate needs of war, | and if the agreed prices represent, as .h understood to be the case, substan- | tially the mill billing prices of Sep- tember, then average billing at the| | end of the vear would be higher. ! Much that is said of possible price | | revision on January 1, however, refers { | to pig iron as the general basing pro- ! duct, and this, it is suggested, should, in the opinion of the government, be lowered. What will likely happen to steel prices is thus a matter of conjec- ture. Transactions have established wire rods at $57 per ton, furnace coke at | $6, and steel bars and shapes at the aurced prices. In bars and structural { material, sales have been made for de- liverics cxtending into 1918; a lot of 10,000 tons of bars for the rest of this | year and the first quarter of 1918 has been closed at 2.90c in the Chica- go tcnnory and the Pittsburgh bas- ned. of pig iron has continued s furnaces have been will- to take orders and demand has far in excess of the tomnage makers felt they should ' book. This is illustrated in the case of charcoal pig iron; a Michigan com- sold about 4,000 tons on the bas 0 for grades 1 to 4 and $38 for Scotch and low silicon irons and could have disposed of a much larzer tonnage. There has been some hesitancy on the part of both buyers and sellers because the government attitude has not yet been made known on the recommendations relating to differentials, but it is now understood hat all minor matters ar to the trade to be worked out. will be a simpler process in the cace of finished ac- ing been which the € »ix iron than in t materials. 3 some coke producers continue tu show a disposition to evade selling ac the fixed price of $6 for both foun dry and furnace coke. Blast furnace (tors unable to obtain coke, are making complaint at Washington. Production is almost up to normal in the Connellsville region and furnace men assert there is ample to meet de- mands for spot delivery as well as ta | fill contracts. WANTED AT CAPITAL. Washington, Oct. 26.—Men who have been honorably discharged or retired from the service of the United States are wanted in the capi as watchmen in the public buildings.