New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1917, Page 5

« 0 q ' s NEW BRITAIN LCAILY HIRALD, MONDAY. NGV—MBER 12, 1017. = We have on hand 20 cars for each one of our stores for immedi- ate delivery. No cars will be held for future delivery. Neither do we guaranteo prices, as it is difficult to foresee the future. l 8o as to prevent any dealers or speculators from buying these cars we will scll only one car to a e Is the News that Flashed Over the Wire from Washington able to purchase a Ford Car for the duration of the war FORD STOPS BUILDING PLEASURE CARS Will Use Plant to Build Aeroplanes and Other War Necessities— Means Big Saving of Chrome Vanadium Steel. (Bpecial Dispatch to the Republican.) ‘Washington, D. C., Thursday, Nov. 8.—Henry Ford will build no more pleasure automobiles until the war is over. He will de- vote his entire plant to the producton of war necessities, such as tractors, ambulances, aircraft engines and shells. Through his per- sonal representative, C. H. Wills, he recently offered to discontinue absolutely the production of pleasure cars and under the head of “pleasure cars” fall the ordinary runabouts, touring cars and small commercial trucks which his plant has turned out by the millions. chrome vanadium steel a year. All this steel will now go into war work. Henry Ford has offered voluntarily to do the thing which the au- tomoblle manufacturers of nearly every nation at war have been compelled to do. In Germany soon after the outbreak of war the use of a specified list of raw materials for anything but war work was forbidden. This list included steel, copper, leather and all other commodities useful in war. Manufacturers not merely of automo- biles, but such things as pianos had to turn their plants at once to An industrial meta- ORD STOPS BUILDING PLEASURE CAR INCLUDING RUNABOUTS AND LIGHT DELIVERY CARS And if this plan is carried out it means that several thousand citizens of the United States will be disappointed in not being It means that those who find it necessary to own an automobile will be compelled to pay hundreds of dollars more for a car that will not give any better, if as good ser- vice. This will be a great disappointment to thousands of farmers and men of moderate means who cannct afford a higher priced car. It willbe a hard blow to us from a business standpoint as we have just put into operation eleven retail stores in northern Connecticut, BUT WE STAND READY TO DO “OUR BIT” just the same as our friend and benefactor, HENRY FORD. =8 We guarantee the Public that we will maintain large Stock Rooms in the towns in which we have branch stores so that Ford Owners will have the best possible territory. Tel. 1513 WOMAN WASHLINE STRIPPER FINED 10 Keeper of Mouuv;iu Grove “Speak Fasy” Assessed $50 1 AR TN | Katie Shupmis, charged with theft, of clothes from Mrs. Michaels, of 47| Olive street; Mrs. Baker, of 619 Spring street, and Mrs. Curtin, of 231 Elm! street, was flned $10 and given 30! in jail on each count by Judge The arrest was made by Pergeant Hart and Officer McCue, who have re- ceived comnplaints for the past four months. The three women each swore that the clothes belonged to them and that they were taken oft their lines some time ago. Mr Bakcr testified that her name was stamped on all her clothes and th: they were taken about last M They were valued at about $3, stated. Mrs. Michaels testified t her clothes were taken about thre weeks ago and that she told Sergo: Hart the same evening. Mrs. Cu clothes were taken from her line three wceks ago tomorrow, she the court. Sergeant Hart testified that he vis- ited the defendant's home and found the goods in the bedroom along with articles from Landers, Frary & Clz and several other factorics He said that the officers asked her where she got the goods and she told them that she bought them. Later she admitted taking them off the Jiner. L Officer McCue took the stand and said. “T received a complaint a few months ago. We visited the house | for something else but discovered the | goods in the bedroom along with the stuff from the factories and a bench that had been stolen,” ( The accused, who pleaded raid that a man by the name proke a chair in her house and went. out-and got the bench for her. She swore that she bought the clothes saying “these things I bought a long time ago. I have no money to buy them now.” Asked how the woman’s | name came to be on one of the ar-| ilcles she said she didn’t know where | it came from. One of the shirts that was taken from the line, she swore, belonged to her son. She was asked about $70 that she had at the time of her ar- rest. This money she sald came from | A woman she had brought to this country. The police are being complimented on their clearing up of a mystery that has wogried a large number of Wo- men. * &!:n-uh Dew. It cost Fremk Schardl just $50 and tal guilty, f Joe i customer and he must show that he resides in our = Ford’s plant Mr. Ford’s patriotic offer was accepted by the government with the greatest gratitude. which is needed vitally for shells and aeroplane engines, has caused the greatest uneasiness among the men responsible for through on time our program of industrial The shortage of chrome war uses in peace time approximately preparations. 200,000 vanadium steel, putting Mr. tons of the production of shells and other munitions. morphosis was produced in a surprisingly short time. German official figures indicate that more than 90 per cent. of the industries of the nation are engaged in war work. States is to carry the industrial burden of there must be ‘a similar though less radical turning from non-essential to war work. Present Prices for immediate Delivery: Runabout $345, Touring Car $360, Delivery Car $445 the * All Prices F. O. B. Factory We Operate Eleven Stores COL. HOUSE HEADS AMERICAS WAR COMMISSION IN PARIS CONFERENCE Col. E. M. House is chairman of the " American war commission that has | been sent over to attend the confer- ence of the allies in Paris. He will of an intoxicating nature yesterday. Officer Hayes testified that he went with Officer Richardson and several other officers to Mountain Grove in the afternoon upon the complaint that booze was being sold there. The officer ordered a beer, Officer Lee a beer and still another officer bought a whiskey. Officer Litke paid for the drinks and the arrests were made, the witness stated. Officer Richardson said he went to the grove and that drinks were being served from a barroom and that an investigation showed a quantity of beer and whiskey stored away in the cellar of a nearby house. Tries to Save Accused. Charged with assault on Koslowski, Charles L. Michael Champewitz costs for the privilege of selling drinks l was fined $7. He pleaded guilty. The act as the spokesman of President Wilson on questions pertaining to the general policies of the conduct of the war. The commission already has ar- rived in Europe. assault took place Saturday night al 11:20 o’clock. The officer who made the arrest stated that he saw the de- fendant strike the plaintiff. Koslowski took the stand and stated that he went to the defendant’s home and that he had some beer and that the defendant was seeing him home. “He didn’t strike me. I fell . myself,” the witness told the court. The def¥mdant denied that he hit him. Proscutor Klett brought out the fact that Koslowski had secured bonds for the defendant and that the matter had been fixed up between the two of them before they appeared in court. The officer was recalled to the stand and swore he saw the defendant E‘EVERYBQDY HAS A GOOD TIME IN THE NA war Henry Ford has shown the way. Today the If. the United successfully of industry =23 service, as heretofore. i ELMER AUTOMOBILE CO. 22 MAIN STREET, NEW BRITAIN VAL CLUB bravery in transporting munitio; under heavy bombardment in the | cent French offensive on the Ch des Dames. Mr. Lamont also recef ESTABLISHED FOR OUR SEA FIGHTER ABROAD i iics. 3 asiont s ecsive : ig;gi:-: g e Interlor and exterior views of o United States Naval Men's club lo- cated abroad. Here the men get up their own acts, or if they miss the trenuous exercise of the warship iere are horses, punching bags, row- ing machines and other apparatus to keep them in trim till their leaves are up. strike Koslowski, knocking him to the ground. | Sentences Suspended. Judge Meskill in three suspended judgment | Delvestau Veato, charged with driving a team without lights a half an hour after sunset on the streets of New Britain; A. E Bergston, who pleaded guilty to vio- | lating a city ordinance by parking his car in a forbidden place on Main street, and Joshua J. Davison, of Springfield, who failed to have the | number on his car properly displayed. | Each was given a warning and let go, Morris Freedman, charged with driving a team without lights after| 'sunset, pleaded guilty and was fined $3 without costs. Fatsy Rose drove cases a team Saturday evening without lights and was fined $8 and costs. Hardware Thieves Jailed. Nicholos and Bruno Furattea, charged With theft of leather, hard- ware and gloves from the P. and F. Corbin Manufacturing company, were each sentenced to four manths in jail. Officer McCue testified that he and Detective Righardson visited the men’s home and found the goods there. Detective, Richardson said that he accompanied McCue when he went to the house and that the goods were found there. The accused, who pleaded guilty, said “that the gloves came from Pennsylvania. Asked what use they had for all the gloves, they stated that they worked in the coal mings and that they came in handy. They bought the gloves, they stated. The goods were valued at $20. H. S. Panis, gullty of riding a bi- cycle without lights, settled for $3 without costs, and Frank Hube, charged with violating the vehicle law, received a similar fine. Hube drove a motorcycle with side-car at- tachment not marked as required by law. AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE GIVEN MEDALS Their Bravery While Under Fire Caused French Military Officers To Give Decorations, Soissons, France, Nov. 12.—Thomas Lamont and Harry Thompson, both of New York, were decorated. today with the war cross with palms for ly military distinction in the Frenc] army. ] The automobile transport whig] Mr. Lamont and Mr. Thompson . driving was struck by a German shel Mr. Lamont’s left hand was ne blown off, and its amputation & necessary. He also received other vere wounds. Mr. Thompson wounded badly. R. T. Scully, a Princeton gradu and leader of the camion section, al recelved the war cross for his actl in binding Mr. Lamont’'s wounds ag rushing him and Mr. Thompson to hospital. His action probably sav Mr. Lamont's life. All three men are members of American Field Service. B ARRANGEMENTS MADE] WITH NETHERLAND Dutch Ships Tied Up in American Wi ters Will Be Made Available For Allles. An Atlantic Port, Nov. 12.—Indie tions that a satisfactory arrangeme | has been concluded between Amei | can and Netherlands government off clals whereby the more than 1 Dutch ships, which have been tied in United States ports for seve! | months, will be made available #¢ | use by the Alliles were seen today } an announcement of the salling | week of the first of these ships. Wi§ a cargo she is enroute to South Am ica, her articles of release requiriy that she return with freight to American port. The charter was ranged in London with the perm!ssi of the inter-Allied chartering co: mission and the approval of the U. shipping board. Neutral vessels lyi: idle in American ports are estimats to represent from 300,000 to 400, tons. DECIDES AGAINST. English Miners Vote, By Three One, to Stay at Thelf Work. London, Nov. 11.—An impos section of British labor has given | decision in favor of continuing war until the victory is attained, T South Wales mining area, sometim i called the storm center of British dustry has been balloting for sev days past on the question wheth |strike if the government pr 'with a scheme for ‘“combing more men of military age foyg in the army. By a majority: to one the miners havg against the strike. ‘! The polls of a few indl i have not yet been returnel ly 120,000 votes from a scl tricts have been tabulated give a majority against the | The outstanding districts cax 1ter the result.