New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1919, Page 5

* ENEMY WEALTH PAYS| SOME OF EX-SERVICE MEN WHO ARE MILLION IN TAXES AIDING SALVATION ARMY CAMPAIGN for the acid-distressed | | —~—"" stomach—try two or three \ K1-MOIDS €. L. PIERCE & CO. / after meals, dissolved on the tongue—keep Ml_l_E GA{LI-EUHGH your stomach sweet— 5 \k try Ki-moids—the new aid io digestion. MADE BY SCOTT & BOWNE MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION -~ Custodian Collects $1,634,639— Administrators, $700,000,000 Washington, D. C., May 20.—En- emy-owned property valued at G5 proximately $700,000,000 was taken | over by the alien property custodia was directed by A. M 1 Palmer, | | office during the sixteen months it | | now United States attorn according to a report of that official covering his tenure of office from his appointment in October, 1917, to February, 1919, inclusive The number of s rate trusts he- ing administered by the office the | time the report was made was 6, | Miss Elsie Gordon Tells How Cuticura are a perfect reproduction of a glorious voice. | o | aggregate value of | 5. About 9,000 of | l dH P' Th able yot h her IN casos were covered by reports in ed Her Pimpl hey enable you to hear her II e e L L Hea Pes YOUR OWN HOME tomorrow reached the stage of valuation. It | wag estimated that when the entire | number of trusts reported were | opened on the hooks and the read- justment of values consequent uposn ; » appraisal were completed, the total | of enemy property in the hands of the custodian would he $700,000,000. The amount of government funds | expended during the sixteen months | was approximately $1,000,000. Thus | { “Itching and eczema started on my foot due to the heat of my blood. It itched so that T could not sleep at night, The eczema started in scales on the side near the ankle, and spread to the sole, and when I scratched, my foot got sore. 1 had to wear white stockings and low shoes all the time, or I would not be able to work. I read an advertisement for Cuti- cura and I decided to try them. I used one cake of Cuticura Soap and part of a box of Cuticura Qintment when I was healed.”” (Signed) Miss Elsie Gordon, 21 Waite St., Spring- field, Mass., July 26, 1918. Once clear keep your skin clear by using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for every-day toilet purposes and Cuticura Talcum to perfume. night and for all nights to come. Two of her finest records. Barbiere—(A Little Voice I Hear) .... No. 74541 Lucia—Mad Scene .. No. 74509 We invite you to hear these and her many other fine selec- tions. the cost of administering nearly i 000 trust ites of a total value of | $700,000,000, located in ever: in the Union and in the insular pos- sessions, was only about one-seventh | of one per cent of the principal of | the trust estates for a perfod of six teen months, a record of cconomical | administration never approached by | any trust company in the world i h ate C. L PIERCE & COMPANY 246 MAIN ST. 1117-2 @M o MO D o= EDWIN R. CURRAN. The most famous Prima Donna in the world sings in Hartford tonight. ® Administration Costs Nothing. In a sense, the alien property cus- | todian’s office has cost the govern- | ment nothing, for through its activi- | ~ ties unreported and concealed in come and excess profits taxes amount- | ing to $1,634,539 were collected | g v Eht e, from corporations and other taxpay- | RAYMOND FROST. ers controlled by the enemy. Had i not been for the activities of thi office and the close scrutiny of the affairs of all corporations with which the enemy had any connection, it e JOSUERECARROLL is not likely that any of these t would have been revealed to the ernment or collected by it amount thus collected is more than 60 per cent greater than the entire cost of operating the affairs of the office Wherever possible, after taking over enemy corporations, the alien ' property custodian made them a of the country's war machine. resentatives of the office were in- » structed to give the government first call on products of these corpora- tions, and many of the most impor- tapt articles needed in the conduct | of the war were partially supplied in this way. When the armistice was | signed, the alien property custodian was supplying the government with magnetos for aeroplane and automo- | Sample Each Free by Mall Address post-card : “Cuticurs, Dept. B, Boston." * Sold ever: Soap e, Ointment % and Bc. Talcum 25¢ C. L. PIERCE & CO. bile motors, cloth for uniforms, medi e ¥ . N cines, surgical instruments and dres: g . TR ings, telescopes, enginecring instru- | N e N : ments, essentials for the manufac- 3 R eI . at W ture of gas masks, glycerin for high A i 2 explosives, and various other prod- were seized were running 100 per cent capacity on war supplies, th H Instead of being a mere conserva- LEO%D LINTON. HAROLD MALONE. GERALD CREAN. or ithe price tor of enemy property, the alien " — property custodian’s office was made a fighting force in the war. Ge many very promptly recognized this, | as also that her economic existence | on this continent was being destroyed, ( 8t the Knights and made bitter protest through offi- | o'clock last evening, the Sal- im Army told w the money to be . campaign and asked every citizen fn (ArMY tol ‘]}” R snlcathusiasilc | BISSUNE | iew Dritain bo ontrlbuts e the | aiC] 7 e e . tributions, he said, will be used sole- of Columbus hall at | worthy cause. LR i Ypsanas s Iy for work in this country ton was the first Rev. Henry W. Maier, who recent- Following ident I 1 channels. Of this protest, Mr. | vation Army campaign in this city RIS o [ e Ife outlined || rofurned from France, ecmpha- r y e the s for the drive and ex . 2 S e 5 Ll il ) | started in earncst today he drive | l‘““("\?' th Siefen fesy Hl“ sized {he important work that is ‘ i sldiers h he cards are 4 o e s Germany's Plans Spoiled. | is being carried on by soldiers and } ¢ 9 10 ch Are 10 heing done by the Salvation Army. f all the organizations in social service work in | nce, the Salvation Army is the only one which escaped criticism. the quota fixed for New Britain is $12,000 Mayor George A. Quigley. Presi- dent Ernest Pelton of the chamber of commerce, Itov. John T. Winters of St. Mary's church, Rev. Henry W er of the First Congregational urch, William 1. Attwood of the N Britain Trust company and En- sigh Blocthe of the Salvation Army were the principal speakers at the evening About 150 ex- ¢ service men were present at the din- Plans for the week's campa The basis estimated, he ' jo saia that per cent of amount given | ., in the United War Work drive. This | perecentage eliminates the districts of Berlin and Plainville. I e, moremiel G fepme S @i Rev. John T. Winters related some | pleted this morning. Twenty-fiv of the stories he had heard con- | <. consisting entirely of soldiers cerning the splendid work of were selected to wage the campaign Salvation Army in France. He in this city. Two teams, from the the soldiers to devote all their e Tiks' club and the Kenilworth club, the campaign a success, have also offered to help make the Bloethe of the Salvation qrive a success “When it is recalled that Ger- many's great hope for the future lay in the industrial conquest of this con- tinent—a conquest which she be- lieved in 1914 she was in a fair w to accompl it will readily be seen with what dismay her financial commercial interests must » viewed the sudden and direct offen- sive which was designed to forever | loosen the grip which she had ob- tained upon American industry and ! commerce.” | = Mr. Palmer predicts that American ciom citisens whose property has been | Were outlined and cards were dis- taken in enemy countries wiil present [ fributed. - i T S theiE clalmsSforallowance kto iinis | W {everiQlis SV InLEs San o R government, which will sce that they | Mocting and made the opening ad- re properly reimbursed. 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