New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1918, Page 11

0 DAYS SESSION PENS IN HARTFORD ... dticanization Ts Chiel Topic. Being Given Consideration | A artford, Dec. 11.—An on conference to last two days n this morning in the capitol, r the auspices of the department mericanization, Connecticut State cil of Defense. reons from all over the state in- kted In the subject were present. ke included members of the Ameri- ation committees of war bureaus, e first formal session began this Bnoon at 2 o'clock, Stanley H. fhes of New Britain, chairman of btate committee on Americaniza- {Connecticut State Council of De- $, presidin, Mr. Holmes is to er an add entitled: “The Re- of Americanization Efforts in ecticut.” Governor Holcomb is ake the address of welcome, and jard M. Bissell, chairman of the ecticut Defense Council is to on “The Function of the State cil in Americanization During the bd of Reconstruction.” t Dunlap Smith, chief of the or- ation and information section of ield division Council of National | i se is to speak on “The National | American- jere will be a general session open | public tonight at § o'clock. | [Bissell will preside. ‘ TO GET GERMAN BOATS. § Will Never Return Ships, Brit- ish Expert Says. ndon, Dec. 11.—Archibald S. i, the naval critic, in the Daily raph says that the surrendered han warships will never again fly German ensign. He says that the | course is to distribute them he the alltes in accordance with Josses which each has suffered aintaining command of the sea. suggests that the German sub- 6s be broken up and the parts for other purposes. me Germans have expected the ips to be returned when peace clared. (ONTRACTS CANCELLED fore Wooden Vessels Will Be mpléted if More Than $200,000 Not Already Been Spent. hishington, Dec. 11.—Cancella- of all outstanding contracts for Uetion of wooden ships where ers have not spent more than 000 on a ship has been deter- d upon by the shipping board. is applies to vards on the At- e, Gulf and Pacific coasts. Con- s for 160 ships of this type were nded recently and many of these ffected by the decision, though ! under | celebration in this city and for erect- | ing a Hon. | ESCAPING lils of the board would not at- t today to estimate the number. DANCING TILL 2 A. M. Usher in New Some. han's Ball Will Year and Then o entertalnment committee of fi'iremen’s ball committee has od the services of the Kensing- berty minstrels for the evening @ ball, and this troupe of per- fers will present an hour's enter- hent. The troupe is considered oné of the best in the state. ball will ba for a double benefit frear, and not only the Firemen's on fund, but the Red Cross as- on will profit by the dance. 's full orchestra has been hired fwill play until 2 o’clock in the hing. hns have been made to make this s ball even better than it has in years previous. The usual Bam will be carried out, the en- fnment beginning at §.o’clock continting until 9, and dancing ning at 9 and lasting until 2 a. The advance sale of tickets indi- a large attendance. DES ARE CALLED AWAY FROM RUSSIA pshington, Dec. 11.—The State rtment has been advised that be- _ of the food shortage and general b of insecurity in Russia, the igh government has requested its nals to quit the country; and also | reduced its representation there nimum, With the exception of bfficials left at the legation at Pe- ad, the entire personnel of the fish legation and the consulate- ffal at Moscow now has ia. 8,000 00T AT SHIPYARD. in Dispute. J dehem 's Plant Have Itimore. Md., Dec of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding rtion, number 8,000, has re- fi to work at the shipvards. eri Anderson, manager of , says the men have made lal demands. He believes the af- the outgrowth of a strike Mon- when between 300 and 400 men fed to work mpending an adjust- of wages and working hours. Wage 11.—The day the no SNTT WANTS BE NEAR TO CR THE U. York, Deec. 11.—Co-operation penn America and Argentina, Uy in construction of communi- Ins, was urged here yesterday by Wilson, acting high financial piksioner of Argentina, at jeon in his honor at the Law He stated that there was a desire in Argentina for closer pus with North America. es- | | I | | Baltimore NEW BRITAIN DAILY PHILADELPHIA HAS CELEBRATION PLAN Be Coincident With Erecting Memorial to City’s War Heroes. Philadelphia, way Dec. 11.—Plans are for holding a big peace memorial to the men of Phil- adelphia who gave their services in the war against Germany. It is pro- posed to have the celebration exceed in magnitude the Peace Jubilee of 1898, after the Spanish-American war ended. The memorial may take the form | of a monument, an obelisk or an arch to be erected on the great new Parkway the city is now completing. Mayor Smith in his appeal for funds with which to build the mem- orial says: “The memorial is to com- ‘memorate for all time the bravery of our soldiers, sailors and marines over sea, and the patriotic self-sac- | rificing, soul-i ng services of the | women of = The suggestion has been made that the rename some of its principal | streets for noted military leaders of the Allies’ forces. Names of Persh- ing, Foch, Joffre, Haig, Aljenby and Diaz have been submitted. TEAM IS MISTAKEN FOR SMOKE. The fire department was called out this morning to a supposed fire on Main street. Officer Patrick Howley entered an alarm at 11:30 for the fire which was supposed to be in Clark’s block at 489 Main street. TWwo young women teachers in a local business college occupy a room in a tenement owned by Mrs. Nora McCue at the above addre The young women took off the automatic steam valve on the radiator in their room. They evidently forgot to put the valve back and when the janitor built up the fire this morning the steam poured forth from the radiator. Officer Howley patrolling his beat thought the steam was smoke and called out the fire de- partment. ONLY ONE DELAY IN AIR MAIL DELIVERY New York, Dec. 11.—With a single exception aerial mall deliveries be- tween this city and Washiagton were | who did not appear to have this Emperor Willilam could not | made “with clock-like regularity” during the month of November, ac- cording to a report made public here last night. A single delay of six haurs on November 18 in the arrival of New York mail at Washington pre- vented the service from making a perfect record. GREENWICH OFFICIAL DEAD. Greenwich, Dec. 11,—Wwilliam ‘White, for four years town sauditor, died in Cos Cob today, aged 70. WILL STOP WORK ON HOUSING PROJECTS ‘Washington, Dec. 11—The housing corporation of the department of la- bor is directed by a resolution, intro- duced in the senate, to suspend at once wark on all projects for the housing of war workers less than 75 per cent. completed. PORTUGAL SENDS DELEGATES. Lisbon, Dec. 11.—Four government delegates, headed by the minister of foreign affairs, have left for France to participate in the discussions prelim- inary to the peace conference. Umpire—Coach | nest Due to the ) untiring efforts of Er- Quigley of the National league off of umpires the St. Louis university has been rcpresented on the gridiron by the strongest football 1 that has been organized at the Mound City college in many years. Quigley was appointed director of athletics of the Students Army Training corps at the university last September. Quigley has not made up RUSSIAN TREATY WORK OF GERMANS (Continued from First FPage) George, the British premler, tioned any conditions last February. Germany assured me that no definite offers were received from FEngland, and I belleve this was true. Wilson Alone Is Unselfish. “England appeared to intend to crush Germany, and France showed a similar attitude. President Wilson was the only head of an Allied power in mind. bring himself to yield Alsace and Lor- raine. The police ambulance was called to the railroad station early this after- noon. bound East fainted and was medical attention. vived and the ambulance was not needed as she did not want to go to the hospital. (HARTFORD BANKER SHORT IN ACCOUNTS (Continued from First Page) ‘Washington and he would be back on his job before the returns from Wash- ington would disclose his stealings. Tuesday Chapin’s Fatal Day. Fate picked Tuesday as th€ psycho- logical minute to expose Mr. Chapin’s dishonesty. It so happened that all the Hartford banks were short of cur- rency, and Mr. Chapin could not buy all he needed to take care of the bank examiner to the Phoenix bank Tuesday and the alleged shortage was obvious to this federal official. What Mr. Chapin did with the money has not been disclosed. He lived economically it is said, and he- longed to no expensive clubs or social organizations, CITY ITEMS New Britain Nat. Bank Christmas Club open for membership.—advt. The police have receivad several complaints regarding the actions of property holders on Hart street re- garding the removal of Snow ’ from their walks. In some cases the snow and ice is never removed, it is re- ported. discharged from the army camp at Camp Devens and returned to his home in this city today. Edward Conklin reported to Cap- tain Grace this afternoon that his bicycle a Harley-Davidson, was stolen from in front of his home on City avenue, Edward Peterson of 105 Common- wealth avenue reported this morning that a box of tools valued at $40, had been taken from Waskowitz's block on East Main street. later he telephoned that he had found them in the cellar where someone had placed them to save them from damages by snow, GOVERNMENT CROP REPORTS Substantial Increases in Wheat and Corn Products Estimated ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—Final esti- mates of production of the country's principal crops announced today by the department of agriculture places the corn crop at 2,582,814,000 bushels and the wheat crop at 917,100,000 bushels. The total value of the nation's principal crops this year is estimated at $612,272,412,000 compared with $11,658,032,000 last year, basing their value on the prices paid to producers December 1. men- | A woman on the 1:30 train | taken | from the train at this city to receive ' She was soon re- | Priviate George Kolodney has been ! About an hour | 101ST MACHINE GUN MAJOR IS RETURNING TO AMERICA Hartford, Dec. 11.—Mrs. Morgan G. Bulkely, Jr., wife of Major Bulkely commanding the 101st machine gun battalion, has received a letter from her husband stating that the doctor has ordered him home. Major Bulkely has been wounded and in hospital. He went overseas last year @s captain of Company B, 101st. his mind to return to baseball next geason. He likes the college game de may devote his time to it. l HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUST SOUND COMBMON SENSE There 1s no secret in the process of seving money — it is Just sound, commoa sense. Prudence directs the way to independence—- it points to regular de- posits with the Com. mercial Trust Com- pany. Have you started an account with us? If not, come in now and open one 4 per Paid on counts. cent. Interest Savings Ac- DEATHS AND FUNERALS Mrs. Eliza Rollins. The funeral of Mrs. Eliza Rolllns was held this afternoon at her late home at 21 Black Rock avenue at 1:80 o'clock and at the Erwin Me- morial chapel at 2 o'clock. Rév. Dr. George W. C. Hill officiated and burial was in Fairview cemetery. ‘William Sanderson. The funeral of William Sanderson was held this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Erwin Memorial chapel. The pall bearers were James Cochrane, John F. Hilton, Geerge Mitchell and Alec Gordon. Rev. John F. John- stone, of Hartford, officiated. Inter- ment was in Fairview cemetery, Mrs. William Slater. Funeral services for Mrs, William Slater were held this morning in St. Mary’s Catholic church. Burial was in St. Mary’s new Cathalic cemetery. John Stevens. John Stevens, aged 60 years, died Monday in Philadelphia. He former- ly lived in New Britain, He is sur- vived by his wife, formerly Miss Ce- cilia Dickinson, and several children. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock at the under- taking rooms of the B. C. Porter com- pany. Interment will be in Glaston- bury. Miss Anna Erickson, Miss Anna Frickson, aged 31 years, died this morning at the New Britain General hospital. She lived at 25 Chapman street and was a member of | the Kronen Sick Benefit society and the Swedish Lutheran church. he leaves her mother and a sister in Sweden and three sisters in this coun- try—Mrs. 8. G. Svenson, Mrs, August Larson and Mrs. John Ahlgren. She also leaves two brothers, both in the | army, One is in France, The funeral will e held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Swedish [Lutheran church. Rev. Dr. §. G. Ohman will officiate and burial will be In Fair- view cemetery, TWO MORE NEW BRITAIN SOLDIERS ARE WOUNDED. Private Hagop Tashjian is on the casualty list today among those se- verely wounded. His address in this city was 122 Glen street and his fath- er lives there at the present time. The war buréau has no defivite infor- mation concernin him. Private Stephan Charamut is also on the list of thosa severely wouvnded. His fath- er, Jobn Charamut, lives at 32 Gold street this city.. Private Charamut was a member of Company B, 102d Infantry and has been in all the big fights with that company. He en- listed in New Britain on Juhe 29, 1917, CHINA'S AND JAPAN'S ENVOYS CROSS U. S. | Washington, Dec. 11.—Delegations from China and Japan to the peace | conference will pass through this | country on their way to Paris. The | State Department announces that both parties now are en route, and that while In the United Statés they | will be accerded formal diplomatic | courtesies. Private cars will be pro- vided for their journey across the continent. PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO BEING FUGITIVE. Lawrence, Dec. 11.—-Charles Lazzi- fame of Passaic, N. J., pleaded not guilty in District Court here on a charge of belng a fugitive from jus- | tice and the case was continued un- til tomorrow. He has been indicted for murder of a fellow- | man, Nick Viols REACTION GENERAL TO READJUST PAY OF ALL POSTAL E,\H’Lon-;s.fi Washington, Dec. 11.---Creation of | onal committee to deter- mine a readjustment of salaries of all postal employes, including postmast- ers, is proposed in the post office ap- propriation bill for 1920, reported to the House. i S. OFFICERS IN PARIS HOTEL. | Paris, Dec. 11.—The Hotel du Louvre, on the Place du Palaig Royal, will be used as an American officers’ hotel. Gen. Pershing has requested the American Red Cross to make ar- rangements to take over the hotel and run it on the American plan, GECEMBER 11, 1918, Financial e IN CLOSING HOUR Steels, Equipments and 0il Yield One and Two Points ‘Wall Street, 10:30 a. m.—Gains outnumbered declines at the opening of today's stock market but trading soon manifested irregular tendencies on moderate heaviness of such lead- ers as Marine Pfd., Mexican Petrol- eum, Studebaker and Baldwin. U. S. Steel also reacted a large fractlon but this was offset by the firmness of railway steel springs, American Car, Midvale Steel, General Motors and Stutz Motors. American Sugar aad Hide and Leather Pfd. were included among these strong specialties. Rails were dull ‘at nominal changes. Wall Street, Noon—Early selling caused Mariae Ptd., Studebaker, Cru- cible Steel and Industrial Alcohol to fall one to two points under yester- day’s final quotations, but the market rallied later, steels, equipments and fertilizer specialties leading the ad- vance. U. 8. Steel also served to | strengthen the list, rising a point | from its early low level to 99 3-4, its | best price for the current movement. | Shorts in Mexican Pétroleum were driven to cover by a sharp rebound of five points. Raile were firmer buf metals eased. Liberty bonds failed to retain yesterdey’'s rally but held above low records, Wall Street, 1:80 p. m.—Olls as- sumed greater prominence during the mid-session, Mexican Petroleum ex- tending its rally to eight points, while Texas Co. gained thres and Pan- American common and preferred two each. Metals and U. §. Rubber also made substantial advances. Wall street, close—Steels and equipments yielded 1 to 2 points in the last hour, oils also reacting. The closing was heavy. Sales- approxi- mated 500,000 sares. New York Stock Exchange cuota- tlons furnished by Richter & Co.. «aembers of the New York Stock Ex- cnange. ) Dec. 11, 1918, High Low Close 65 6314 4% 4% 91, 90 % 43% 43 477% 463 6674 641 863 8533 ve00118 1124 ..198% 197 Am Tel & Tel ....1033% 103% Anaconda Cop ... 67 A T 8 Fe Ry Co 94% Baldwin Loco .... 6% B&O ... 55% R T 36% Beth Sieel B 674 Butte Superior 21 Can Pac ... Cen Leather Ches & Ohio Chino Cop Chi Mil & St P Col F & 1 Cons Gas .... Crucible Steel Distillers Sec Erie Erie 1st pfd Gen Elec Goodrich Rub Great Nor pfd Gt Nor Ore Cetts Illinois Central Inspiration Interborough Kansas City so Kennec Copper ... Lehigh Valley ... 60% Louis & Nash ....121% Max Motor Com .. 293 Mex Petroleum ...170 National Lead . N Y Air Brake ... N Y C & Hudson . Nev Cons NYNH&HRR Northern Pacific .. Norfolk & West .. Penn R R People’s Gas ..... Pressed Steel Car . Ray CONS +.-... Reading 5 Rep I & S com Rep I & 8 pfd .. Southern Pacific Southern Railway. Southern Ry pfd Studebaker 8 Texas Oil Third Ave +.... Union Pacific .. Inited Fruit Utah Copper ... U 8 Rubber Co . U S Steel .. Va Car Chem ... Westinghouse .. Western Union Willys Overland Am Beet Sugar .. Alaska Gold Am Car & Fdy Co Am Xce ..eess Am Can Am Loco Am Smelt ...,... Am Sugar .. Am Tobacco 111% 197 102% 667% 94% 6% 55 363% 67% 1 160% 63 58 0814 47 4134 101% 5834 49% 19% 31% 152 57 98 31% 98% 4814 61 323 983 4914 6% 31 36% 36 COTTON DROPS IN N. Y. New York, Dec. 11—Cotton drop- ped $5 a bale in the market here to- day after publication of the govern- ment’s report indicating production of 11,700,000 bales. Private estimates in recent weeks had averaged 100,- 000 bales less than the government figures. COTTON STOCKS DROP New Orleans, Dec. 11.—The depart- ment of agriculture’s final cotton pro- duction report today caused a drop of between $3 and $4 a bale in most active months on the cotton futures market here. During the first five minutes of trading following an- nouncement of the report, prices fell 65 to 68 points. YALE TO REVIVE TRAINING. New Haven, Dee, 11.—With assign- ment of Col. L. A, Baird, of West Point, as professor of military sclence at Yale university made known, it is stated the Reserve Officers’ Tralning orps will be revived next term, RICHTER & CO. MFEMBERS m YORE STOCK EXCHANGE 81, WEST MAIN 4TREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN. TEL. 2040 AMERICAN HARDWARE LANDERS, FRARY & CLARK NORTH & JUDD NILES, BEMENT, POND STANLEY WORKS BOUGHT AND SOLD GOODWIN BEACH & CO. Room 410 National Bank Building, Telephone E. F. MCENROE, Manager. STANLEY WORKS STOCK - Bought and Sold NEW ENGLAND BOYS ARRIVE BACK HOME (Continued from First Page) were easier to handle emaller planes. Officers of the Canopic said the trip | across had been very rough. New York, Dec. 11.—The transport Adriatic due December 7, with 2,228 American troops on board also passed Sandy Hook today. Y. M. C. A. WILL PUT TEAM ON FLOOR Physical Director Slater Plans to Open Basketball Season on December 31. Physical Director Warren 8. Slater of the Y. M. C. A. has finally decided that the local association will put a basketball team in the field to com- pete with other teams of the state and several teams in Massachusetis who heard of the Y. M. C. A. last year. The firs practicé will be held Friday evening in the Y. M. C. A. Steve and ‘“Bill” Dudack and Step- mnian 4nd Bkater will form the nu- cleus of the team, and it is prac- tically certain that “Bddie” Beigrist will be on hand this vear. ‘‘Chief"” Larson may not be able ta play be- cause of an injury to his leg. There is a possibility of another of last year's stars returning in “Billy” Kopf, who is at the officers’ training camp &t Camp Zachary Taylor, Ken- tucky. The season will probably begia on December 81. An attempt is being made to secure a game with the Pratt & Whitney team of Hartford. Mr. Slater has written ta the Naval Reserve Team of New Haven and hopes to have an opportunity to meet that team some this season. A game may also be had with the Water- bury team. According to Mr. Slater, the pros- pects for the team are as rosy as at any time in past years, and he hopes to build up a team with a l"epum.t!oni as good as last vear's team. PORTSMOUTH MAYOR LOSES BY TEN VOTES Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 11.—Mayor Bamuel T, Ladd, democratic candi- date for the fourth term, was defeat- ed in the election yesterday by Albert Hislop, who leads him by 10 votes. A recount will be ordered by the mayor, who received 1,094 and his opponent 1,104. The democrats also lost the council in the election of Norman H. Beane, ex-Mayor Ha B. Yeaton, Curtis Matthews, Stuart Humphreys, Thomas C. Lecky, S. Frink and Wil- Jiam H. Dunn, republicans. The demo- cratic members are Andrew Barrett and Timothy J. Donovan. Dr. Martin A. Higgins, democrat, council candi- date in Ward 5 was defeated by three votes, and will demand a recount. GOVERNOR WHITMAN TATLS TO GET BALLOTS Albany, N. Y., Dec. 1l.—Governor Whitman has failed in his attempt to obtain an immediate examination of ballots cast at the November election in New York and Bronx counties. The court of apppeals has affirmed the de- cision of the appellate division first de- partment, holding that he might not have access to the ballots until after | a certificate of election had been is- sued to the unsuccessful gubernatorial | candidate. b B POTATOES BURNED IN FIRE. Engine company No. 2 responded to a still alarm at 1:05 o'clock this morning to extinguish a fire in a box car on Whiting street. Supernumary Officer Zandzain, recently appointed | to the force, was patrolling the sec- of the e¢ity in the vieinity, of Whiting street, and noticing the sparks, investigated. Fe found the box car afire and called the fire de- partment. Two boxes of potatoes were destroyed by the fire. tion The Big Store, Raphael’s Dept. Store will gladly cash your Christmas Club checks. than many | | coming direct to stations in the United British | President’s 'ommunications Must Now Go to France First. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—Beginning today, according to naval wireless ex- perts, communications from the transpott Gieorge Washington, carr ing President Wilson to the peace con- ference, will be sent to France and relayed back to this country instead of States, This has been made neces- sary by the George Washington got- ting beyond effective range of her own wireless (plant. The bhigh-powered stations on this side will be able to reach the ship for the entire voyage, but the liner’s plant is not strong enough to ensure her re- plies being received. MANY FROM HERE ATTENDING AMERICANIZATION MEETING. Among the delegates from New Britan who attended the Americani- zation couference in Hartford today are Secretary L. A. Sprague of the chamber of commerce, Francis P. O'Brien, head of the New Britain Amecricanization bureau, George P. Hart, Rev. Warren F. Cook, E. C. Goodwin and R. €. Germond. Several men, natives of foreign countries, also attended, to represent the for- eign-born nopulation of New Britain. Stanley H. Holmes is presiding at the session. PRIME QUALI Y FISH Thursday and Friday. Haddock fresh § ¢ Shore .... Ib 12(: ¥resh Chilled Herring Ib 10(: Fresh Y. T. Flounders Ib 1] ¢ Finnan Haddies Ib 18¢ Lge Chilled Mackerel 1b ‘_)SC SLICED FISH Steak Salmon 1b 25¢ Steak Cod Ib 22¢ Steak Blue Fish 1b 18¢ Sliced Halibut 1b 29c SHELLED FISH Solid Meat Qysters Pt 33¢ Open Clams pt SALT FISH Smo. Bloaters ea Salt Herring ea Salt Mackerel 1b 2 United States Food Admin- istration License Number G-08535. EXTRA Thurs., Fri.,, Specials Pork Chops Ib 33c Lamb Chops 1b Sauerkraut 2 lbs 13c Cheese whole milk 1b 37C Eggs Moh. selected dz 590 Munster Cheese 1b Lge Dill Pickles doz 25‘: Apple Butter 1b 16¢ Coffee dinner blend 8 1bs 57c Cookieg N.B.C. wine 2 dz 19C Yellow Eye Beans 2 1bs ch Tomato Catsup bot 14¢ Q:— Calf. Pea Beans 2 Ibs 29C Sound Yellow Onions 4 Ibs 9¢ Fresh Dug Parsnip 3 bs ()¢ Sweot Juicy Oranges dz 250 Lge seeded Raisins 2 pkg 250 Foy Sweet Potatocs 2 qts 256