New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1919, Page 2

AMRF z PERSONALS. ™ ‘EHAMBER TAKES U[ T "‘A’ You'll like 4‘5‘* T " R Local Orgamzatmn Considering Proposals by National Chamber This movement is Rotary-Oscillating and Vibrating combined—all three one sewing Burdick and son, machine, and it is only found in 3 movements in Mr. and Mrs. E. J Itussell, of Stanley sirecl, have turned from a vacation spent at Boston beaches and with Mrs, dick’s people in Gardner, Mass. re- the Bur- Mrs. James Grace and daughter of Bridgeport are visiting with Mr. ahd William Grace of South Burritt street. Miss Girace is a member of the board of health of Bridgeport. ST. MARY'S PROGRAM Interesting referen- legislation o~ (2 As a recent dum on of the railroad chamber of given to New chamber of result remedial DON'T SCALD YOUR the nd make them HANDS rough wash- issued by national red and commerce and Britain g dishes when vou can com- rotect them with a positively | through the local pair of merce, the following program of rail- Hot and injure rubber loves road legislation has been adopted and will be recommended to the commit- sell. them sach as we water they do the lannot penetrate ot stick, Schedule of Baseball draw or We sell a guar- In ateed hot water bag of rubber, rub- | of ler douches, support of of government ownership it is import- the national chamber. determined the country in plan most | tee of . N ¢ ASK YOUR DEALER ensitive skin. also view of the attitude Games anged for Ensuing Week unions of tant for it alled the labor —Tennis Tournament Results, With the Campaign at machine in the home is very impor The savings that it you Sewing hand, a that to make on your ask you ROOU sewing ete. the so- Plumb s " famiiy can own. The following games has heen arranged by of hasecball Arthur schedule enables home pays for it in a rt time, there- cost of sewing days of living we THE Dickinson Drug Co. 169-171 Main Stree! Tricotine and Jersey Dresses —Beautifully tailored—smart- ly designed— selected with care and judg- ment. THE Luke Horsfall Ca. HARTFORD “It Pays to Buy Omr You'll want to take a good Camera with you. We have a full line of Kodaks and Brown- des in stock. Stock up with our fresh Eastman Speed Films and you will see better results. Developing and printing a spe- cialty. The Miller-Hanson Drug Co. 30 CHURCH STREET New Britai Conn. CITY ITEMS. Smith Bus. advt. Engine Company ut last evening by laze in Luke armington avenue. Miss Anna Swanson of reet underwent o t the Hartford hospital. The decoration committee of the lelcome Home celebration meeting jas been postponed from this evening t 8 o’clock until Thursday evening af o’clock, owing to the chairman, G . Dyson’s absence from the city Smith Bus. school opens Sept advt. school opens Sept. No, was called a still alarm for a Sinskie’'s dump on Pleasant serious operation STRUCK BY AUTO, Brown, of 55 Ouk street strick by M. J. David ged nine years enney’s automobile, driven by elius Keough Jast evening about 0 o’clock on Hariford avenue. Ke- ught was driving the car in a north- rly direction when tke Brown boy ttemptad to cross the street. Keough ade & sharp turn of the wheel, but the side of the car struck the hoy nocking him down. Dr. G. H. Dal- on attended Brown and found«no In- urfes. The accident happened in zont of 90 Hartford avenue. was Cor- ant that chamber of comméree actively support the ascertained opin- the natfonal chamber on this every ion of subject. The following by the chamber of United States: The chamber of commerce of United States urges urged of the legislation is commerce the Corporate Ownership and Operation, Adherence to the policy of corporate ownership and operation of the rail- roads under a comprchensive em of government regulation. Prompt Return of Roads to Owners. Return of the railroads to their owners as saon as remedial legislation ran be enacted and no extension of the period of government operation unless and until congress shall have found it impossible to enact the re- quired legislation within the period possible under the railroad control act. Consolidation In Strong Competing tems. the railroads, in the public interest, when so declared and as approved by public authority, to consolidate to such extent and in such manner as may be nec ary to en- able the existing railroads to unite in a limited number of strong competing systems, so located that each of the principal traflic centers of the countr: shall, if possible, he served by more than one system. Corporations to Be Subject (o i United States. That railroad companics engaging in interstate commerce be required to change from state to federal corpora- tions, with suitable provisions in the act of congress providing therefor that Permission for the several states shall retain the power of taxation and police regula- tion of the railroad properties. Federal Regulation of Capital Ixpen- ditures and Sccurity Issues, That the interstatec commerce com- missian, or such federal agency as may be designated by congress, he autho ed. to | s upon the public necessity for expenditures of capital in excess of a stipulated amount by carriers engaged in inferstate com- merce, and to determine the amount and to regulate the other conditions of the issuance of securities to obtain the funds required to cover authorized capital expenditu that a railroad applying to the federal agency for au- thority to make capital expenditures, or to issue securities, be required to file with the proper authorities of the states in which the railroad is located, copies of the original petition; and that the federal agency be required to notify the state authorities of the hearings upon the petition, in order that they may advise the federal agency as to actions they favor. Federal tegulation of Interstate Rates Affecting Interstate Commerce, That the interstate commerce com- mission be given authority hy statute to regulate interstate rates, wuen those rates affect interstate commerce atemaking by Interstate Commerce Commission. Enactment of a statutory rule pro- viding that railroad rates and fares authorized by the interstate commerce commission shall he designated to vield the railroad companies, in each of the traffic sections that shall he des- ignated by the commission, aggregate revenues which will provide (after allotment has heen made for renewals and depreciation) such net return upon a fair value (determined by pub- lic authority) of the property devoted to the public use as will be sufficient in amount to enable the carriers to ob- tain at reasonable cost the capital re- quired to furnish the public with ade- quate facilities and efficient and eco- nomical service. Creation of Federal T “ansportation Board. Creation of a federal transportation board whose general duty it shall be to promote the development of a na- tional system of rail, water and eco- nomical use of all the facilities, in- cluding tracks, terminals and transfer facilities, of steam and electric road waterways and hard-surface high. ways. NEW ASSISTANT APPOINTED N. S, Franklin Becomes Assistant Su- perintendent of Conn. Light and Water Co. in This City. B. . Gardner, superintendent of the Connecticut Light and Power Co., antiounced today that N Franklin has been appointed assistant superin- tendent of that coripa Mr. Frank- lin has been with the’ Westinghouse IZlectric for eight years at Pittsburgh, in their testing, engincering and sales departi For two years he was commercial nower engineer with the i.ehigh Navigation Ilectric company, and for two years district manager and assistant to the general commer- cial engineer for the same company located at Allentown, Pa. Mr. Franklin is delighted with the idea of iivirg in one of the New Mng- land towns again, as he is a graduate of New Hampshire colleze and since leaving college Leen’ located in ents has ll'unlls)'l\zmm most of the time. Pilz. supervisor of the playground for the entire week Tuesday — 30 o'clock, Police team practice, 6:45 o'clock Diamond No. 1. Russell Mfgz. Co. of Middle- town vs. Annex; 7 o'clock, R. & I. girls 1 Fafnir girls, Diamond No. 2 Wednesday—2:30 o'clock, six week- Iy athletic meets for boys and girls; 2:30 o'clock, Police vs. Business Men; 7 o'clock, S. . & T. Co. girls vs. N. & J. girls, Diamond No. 2; 7 o'clock, Anchor Brand league vs. North & Judd. Two teams, Diamond No. 1; 7 o’clock, Diamond No. 3, Jews vs. Irish Thursday—2 Girls' baseball o'clock, Mary's Mary's 30 o'clock, Roys' and lengue games; 2:30 Police practice: T o'clock, St. Athictic club (girls) vs. New Departure. Iriday—7 o'clock, B. girls v& Traut & Hine girls. Diamond No. 2 T o'clock, Anchor Brand league vs. North & Judd. Two teams. Diamond No. 1; 7 o'clock, 8. R. & Co. girls' practice: 7 o'clock, Fafnir Bearing girls' practice. Saturday * 2:30, Hardware City leagile championship, best two out of three games to decision. Company M. vs. Crescents: Church league, two games, 2 o'clock; 2 o'clock, St. Paul's, (Kensington) vs, Royals. In the tennis tournament for boys vesterday Clement Grace defeated Barney Clark in two straight sets 6—1 and 6—0. ONLY MINOR CASES ON POLICE DOCKET Machine Wet Spots Are Still to Be Found About the City—Two Drunks Taken Into Custody Over Night. At the session of police court this morning Patrick McLaughlin - was fined §5 and costs for breach of peace and drunkenness by Judge James T. Meskill and he was also placed on pro- bation. He was given a severe repri mand by the judge, who promised Mc- Laughlin a free trip to the state farm should he get drunk again. Judgment in the case of owski was suspended by kill. Kanowski was charg having appeared in court when sum- moned to do so on July 23. He stated that he was present at the trial and when he saw several of the people leaving the court room he also walked out fine of $3 and costs was imposed by Judge Meskill upon Bdward Jones who was found guilty of drunkenness. Jones was arrested by Officer Tierney about 12:30 o'clock last night. John Kon- Judge Me ed with not PUTS SHOE I ON PUBLIC, Boston Says Hoardi Is Cause of Witness in One Advance. Aug. 12.—Henry B. Endi- Richard 11. Long, shoe man- ufacturers, and two representatives of local retail shoe testified yes- terday at a grand jury investigation of the causes of the high prices of shoes, bezun by District Attorney Pel- letier. Other shoe men will be heard today The Boston cott and stores, district attorney's that one witnes: cost of labor and materials, transportation, and undue the public had all combinead the present situation. ulation going on in the shoe market, it was declared, was by the consum- ers. Many persons, the witness said, appeared 1o be buying shoes in an- ticipation of an advance in prices, thus tending to force prices up. Elimination of the jobber as a means of reducing costs was imprac- ticable, in the opinion of another wit- ness, hecause, he said, many retailers had not the capital to keep a hig stock and must have recourse to the jobber. office asserted that aid the poor buying by to create The only spec- NO UNTON FOR POLICE, Boston. Aug. 12.—Pelicc sioner Edwin U. Curtis der yesterday forbidding the police force to tion outside the posed of Comnuis- issued an or members of join any organiza- department “‘com- present or present and past members of (he " excepl posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Spanish War Veterans and the Amer— ican Legion. The commissioner that the men could not fulfill duties properly if they were orders from any ide o Althouzh no specific mention of labor unions was made in the many members of the departinent interprei- force said thein subject to out zanization order, ed 1t as designed to prevent affilintion of policemen with labor organizations, SEAPLANES CAUSE FI Ang SCARE. Three sea over this scction fire among he noise ham, planes which vesterday come of the old of the motors was mistaken for the roar of a chimney fire, which in the days of open fireplaces made a what similar that of an craft engine caused scare residents, ome nose to air- I west Chief Discussion Will Pertdin to Ad- visability of Purchasing Government Food. will The officials be engaged in one of the most city this evening active mectings held in this city in me time, and matters of much importance to the will be mectings of the public discussed at hoard of health at § o'clock, the cammon council and board of fire the of public works at 8 o'clock Quigley from commissioners and board Mayor George A. is in re- ceipt of a reply Mayar Gillen of Newark, N. J employed in regarding that the system city in distributing the food, purchased cently, government re- which he will read to the coun- cil tonight. The reply states that in that city churches and firc stations were used as distributing agencies, which is the same plan as was thought of by Mayor Quigley several dayvs ago and shauld ihe city officials buy foodstuffs the mayvor feels that this plan will probably be used. Dugald McMillan, the prominent local mer- chant, notified the mayor yesterday he is willing to establish a store in the basemen( of his husiness Main street if the city decides to han- dle the food. F. J. Atwater, traflic manager at the American Hardware corporation offered his services to su- pervise the shipments of the food to this city. The mavor annaunced last evening that from all indications the public is surely in favor of having the city handle the food, and many are willing to offer thelr services to relieve the present high cost of living. Temporary relief in the sugar situa- tion came last night when one carload of sugar arrived in the city and the Grocers and Butchers' association is attempting to trace the other carload, which they fear was not meant for New Britain. The association will dis- tribute the sugar some time today and every grocer in the city is expected to have at least ane barrel of sugar be- fore tonight. place on T MILLS SOON TO CLOSE, CA} Only a Few Men There Awaiting ries of Demobil Aug. 12 Washington to putting soldiers through the Pre- imi ration. Mineola, —~Under orders from work of speed up the veturned from overseas Colonel R. R. charge of Camp Mills, was able yes- terday to send 7.4 enlisted men and 58 officers to camps near their homes for demobilization. It was announced that the last of the men at the camp —824 enlisted men and 340 officers— would be able to leave today, com- pleting the work of demobilization so far as Camp Mills is concerned and the camp. virtually closing A considerable number of men will be needed at the camp, however, to look after the buildings and the stores in the warchouses, and has been decided to retain 864 men and 262 officers from the quartermas- ter corps, the motor corps, and the 13th Infantry. These men will be gradually sent away as the need for their services ends. sanitation process, Pickering, in ROOSEVELT NOT Shows Tittle Interest in Talk of Lieu- Governorship. Bay, L. I, Aug. 12 rumors that Licut. Col oosevell might become a for lieutenant governor in apparently has thought it DISTURBED. tenant Oyster —Despite Theodore candidate 1920, he not much of Last Saturday he attended a bake of the republican organization of Nassau County, and among those were Francis M. Hugo, sec- state, whose name has heen more than that of any one nomination for governor. licutenant colonel was asked last about the probability of a fugo and Roosevell. e and said: setting of eggs hatehing.” clam- present retary of mentioned else for the The evening ticket of smiled “That way from seems a long FFOR AUTO I PRISON HTE Who tron’s Car Sent to Sing New York., Aug. 12 ton of 331 West TForty-ninth street was sentenced yvesterday by Judge Mc- Intyre in general sessions to serve two and four months in Sing Si had pleaded guilty to grand the sccond degree was employed as a clean 169 ISast IFifty-first, automobile belong Cleaner Borrowed Gar Sing. George Thorn vears after he larceny in Thornton or at a rage at street ing to Iie took an Mrs. Josephine Riola of 76 Jorty-cighth street from the and was arrested at 13 d Seventh avenue. 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A “It is imperative that the gain in moral standards made in the United States during the war should not be lost,” said Dr. I “and that weaknesses that have become evident in dealing with the social evil should be corrected when government pro- gram i applied to civilian wc rk Law enforcement, sex education and in- creased provision of supervised ational facilities are the (hree impor ant factors 1o be considered.” Octoher wrker, reere- NS MARNE BRIDGE. General Howze Lays Cornerstone of Structure to be Built:by Amcericans. Chateau Thierry, France, Aug. 12 (Associated Press.)—Major Gen ert 1. Howze vesterday laid the stone of the new bridge constructed over the Marne river raised by the the Itelief of for which were Society far France funds American Devastated The old bridge was American 3d division on the May 31-June 1, 1918T. to stop the German thrust toward Paris. The im- pressive ceremony attended by Brig. n. F. W. Sladen of the 5th di- many other American offi- Maignetea of the French notahilities and the entire Thierry blown up by the night of was vision, and cGn army, local pobulation of Chateau BIG Vienna There vesterday The crowd demanded Austrian war pr ‘where the men dying by hun dreds daily.” The demonstrators said that their only hope the United States, saying that America fed their children in a Christian way, and would now save the husbands and sons. DEMONSTRATION IN VIENNA, Aug. 12 big before (Associated Press) meeting of protest the foveign office. the return of from Siheria was a oners was Rob- | THE BIG FURNITURE STORE | | first which is to bhe | ANDREWS & CO. New Britain, Ct. SHIRTS 486 Shirts have been added to our sale and the prices revised— some as low as $1.45. Those who like our $2.50 collar attached Shirts—the next lot will sell for a dollar more. Wilzgon's SAVE ICE! 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