New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1919, Page 9

~ @%mmwm@m@mfi#m&@@s@#@m@@@@@m@@@@m@fi@@@@g SHHOCELELELIER ED THIS WEE MAIN FLOOR. $4.50 to $6.50 Gifts, Comfy Slippers "Make ¥ine Gifts to man, wo- man or child. for women in blue, phk, rose orchid and biack. High C(at Comfys and Felt SHppers with leather soles and plush trimmed in rose. blue, orehid and Jlavender, at $2.50 and $3.00, Feft Juliets in dlack and grey Tur trimmed at $2.00 pair. Misves’ and Ohikdron’s Comfys ia blue, grey and brown, $1.25 to $2.50, GOEIIBIBLLDOBLILBEISLE0LES & 1S THE NEWS OF A FRESH WORK, CONSISTING OF GUEST TOWELS, SCARFS AND LUNCH CLOTHS. NEW PIECES JUST OPEN- . EXQUISITE GIFTS QUICKLY CHOSEN AT OUR LINEN DEPY, (Now NEW ' BRITAIN DiAiLY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919, Business Hours Lvery Day, Ircluding Saturday, 9 A. M. to 6 P.:M., IMPORTANT TO THE GIFT SEEKERS PORTO RICAN FILET HA ARRIVAL OF THE LOVELY The Guest Towels ave of fine quality I4nen with handsome borders of hand drawn Filet work. sized 15x24 inches at $2.25 and $3.00 aach. 18x33 for $4.00. Handsome Scarfs for dresser or buffet with hand drawn Porto Rican Stze 19x45 inches, frém $4.50 to $11.00 each, Size 19x54, Fine Lunch Cloths in Porto Rican hand drawn filet, 36 inches square for $10.00 each. for $1430. The 5¢ inch for $16.50. Naupkins to mateh at Christmas Silk Ones fof Women of the famous “Phéenix” make known for quality and wear, in-black, Havana, white, and fawn, with lisle heels and toes, in Xmas box for $1.35 pair. - $1.88 a pair for “Phoenix” Silk Stockings with back seam. Oth- ers with full fashionad sole of lisle and back seam for Hxtra fine “Phoenix™ Stockings with lisle soles, heels, toes and full fashioned foot and leg for $2.00 a Dpair “Phoenix” Socks for Men—A. in black, white, Havana, navy, tan and toes 90¢ a pair. Finer grade feet and back seam for $1.75 a pair. RECEIVING ALl DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF US. Lol Lol ToteTodele fofegedegedagatetedode R hatatefotoretetedetotelototela] $14.50 dozen. 2 ke 5 ) - & i Il I ! ! ND DRAW Section) Fowels Wilet, size 20x36 inches, from $5.00 to $12.50 each. The 45 inch Choice pieces for Christmas SVLVELTBL VLDV VLGB LOTHLLE & & & & @ & & ko4 & & & % ot & & Stockings so well .olive, brown, $2.05 pair ull and complete line of Silk Socks and grey, priced with lisle heels for $1.85. Full fashion with lisle Aisie A, Main Floor. PROMPTLY & egcdetoteloted _ BERLIN NEWS BERLIN SHIVERS INGOLDEST WEATHER Degrees Below Zero IOWEST POINT THIS VEAR ¥ire Nearly Causes Loss of Home Through Oil Stove Flame—Post Office at Last Finds Home—Other T ! “News of Berlin. The coldest weath experienced this year sitruck town last night sending the smercury to 12 :degrees - below xero, 5 morning. Considerable construction work in progress about Aown is at a standstill owing to the extreme cold. Ii was reported this morning that the yard gang at the Berlin Construction Co. had to leave off“work for the day on account of the extreme temperature. One of the Polish residents, A. Lewisky in South Berlin nearly lost this house last {ight by fire from a de- fective olistove he had placed in the vellar to prevent his vegetables from freezing. The family retired for the night leaving the oil stove on full bRst. About two o’clock the head of the family awoke to find the room partly filled with smoke and remem- bering - the oil stove he ran to the cellar 1o find the stove all ablaze, the flames almost reaching the ceiling ‘which had begun to smoulder. He micked up the stove and threw it out- doors geiting badly burned about the hands in the act. Several palls of witer stopped the smouldering ceil- fng, preventing what might have feen = serious fire. Hearing on Estate. =state of Mrs. Lucy Northrup before Judge Gaffney at the probate court at 9 o'clock in the foremoon, Decom- jber 22d upon the petitlon of Miss Mignie Kelsey. \ May Move Office Shortly. The Berlin post office will be moved immediately upon advice received from Washington permiiting such ac- ion, it was announced today. It was tated that no opposition to the Flan- ery site has developed, making it cerfain that the new location would be on the old hotel property. Post- ‘master Barrett said today it was through the courtesy of Major Frank 1. Wilcox that the Flannery place had heen secured for the office. Major ‘Wilcox is the owner of the property, ‘having recently acquired it from Dan- il Flannery a few months before death. When Mr. Wilcox heard o [the trouble Postmaster Barrett ex- perienced in obtaining a location for the office, he tendered the use of the Flannery place as a new site. Hxams Held. The examination for the position of postmaster at the Berlin post office was held yesterday wmiorning at the There will be a hearing upon the | New Britain post office. Acting Post- master Barrett was one of the can- did3tes who took the examination. Realty Transfer. The Jennie Robbins estate has sold to Frank P. M. Cormack the lot known as No. 20 in the Kensington district. Assessors Complete Kensington. The board of assessors have com- pleted their reassessment of the Ken- sington property and now are working on FEast Berlin real estate. They do not expect to spend more than_ two weeks thers it was announced this morning. As soan as the whole town has heen assessad taxpayers will be notified of ‘the increase over the as- sessment of 1918. It is claimed that] the reftssessment of the town'property will ‘tnéan 73 to 100 perwenti.inporease for each taxpayer. . The program for the public meeting to be held at Foresters’ hall ¥riday evening has been announced and is as follows: Piano duet, Melody in B, Padarew- ski, Mrs. H. H. Damon and Mrs. S. A, Fiske; welcome on behalf of Emma Wijlard Hart chapter, D. A. R., Roger M. Griswold, M. D.; songs, Dio Po3- sente, Faust and Gounod, August Klein, Theron Hart, accompanist; folk songs, victrola; address, Daniel Ra- dom; songs, M’appari, Martha, Flo- | tow, Mrs. M. B. Yaw, Frioh Teske, ac- companist; piano solo, Scherzo in B flat minor, Chopin, Theron Hart; solo and folk songs, victrala; address, A. Rosario Giamio; songs, (1) Prologues (Pagllacct Leoncavallo (2) Caro Mio Ben, Glordani, Mr. Kleln; songs (1) La Donna Mobile, Rigoletto, Verdi (8) Vesti la Giubba, Pagliacci Leon~ cavallo, Mr. Teske. East Berlin Items. The regular weekly prayer meeting aof the Methodist church will be held this evening in the church parlors. Cyrus Root of Washington is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Lena Root, over -the week-end. Fifteen workmen arrived in town for employment with the Connecticut Metal Chemical company, but could not find accommodations. Tne cor§- pany provided temporary quarters in the company office until other accom- modatjons can be found. Berlin Briefs. George Sage is having his orchards pruned. Expert tree surgeons from Hartford are doing the job. A touring car was stalled on Berlin street this morning on account of a freeze up. A water pipe had burst, letting out the water unknown to the driver. The engine overheated and something gave way. David Kearney of Portland is spend- ing the day here with friends. Kensington Items. The expresses are running from 40 minutes to an hour late today due to the extreme cold weather. George Baldwin is unloading other car of coal. Miss Martha Grandstand of New Haven is spending the week-end with Miss Kllen Johnson. Mrs. O’Brien Replies. Mrs. James O'Brien, wife of James O’Brien, who was arraigned before the Berlin court took exception to the ar- ticle as printed in The Herald of last evening. Her letter follows in full: “In regard to the statements on the O'Brien case which appeared in the Berlin News of the Herald last evening, and which false, the -~ truth 1is hereby known “Mr. O'Brien has not contributed to the support of his wife since early in September. She had notified him several times since then to do so, but got no result. When all resources failed, his wife, Mrs. O’Brien, placod the case in the hands of the law, and not his mother-in-law, as was stated last night, whom this case does not concern. The $7 he had been giving teward his wife’'s support would not pay her board, say nothing of ‘sup- porting the family.’ It was not too much mother-in-law on his part, but too much sister-in-law and mother- an- were made in-law on the wife’s part, which has day yesterday. y second ‘time in'‘a Year. he has ap- New Britain ! brought about the present conditions. Mr. O'Brien enjoyed such an extend- ed vacation to Atlantic City previous- Iy that he has insufficient funds to re-establish'a lome at present. So Judge Griswold gave him 60 days to do 30 and to pay the small sum of $4 in.the meantime. “If Mr., O'Brien is a long-time resi- dent of the town, i takes him a long time to learn the law, as this.is the I Ppeared in court under this charge: “The correction of this falsity is requested By his. wife, Mrs. James O’Brien, who, before her marriage, was Mary Dowling, of Cromwell, and who has been employed for the past 18 years at the- American Paper Goods company in Kensington. The author of the statements of last eve- ning is either a politician seekihg to hold the good-will of ‘men that have entitled themselves to an interest in this case or are those who are vio- +lators of justice. “Please copy in the Berlin News of 'the New Britain Herald. “MRS. J. O'BRIEN, “Kensington, Conn.™ ABOUT BRITISH COLONIES London, Dec. 17, (via Ottawa: Discussing the, future of the empire ‘with ‘special reference to the assertion of Gen. Smuts that ‘“‘the British em- Pire ceased to exist in August, 1914,” the Manchester Guardian says the statement in such a .condensed form is “startling” but perfectly true as a direct means of driving home the fact that the changes wrought by the war in the status and relations of the do- minions have rung the death knell of such concerted aggressive imperialism the South African nationalists fear.” The ,Guardian proceeds to argue that Downing street’s authority in the dominions is now ‘“reduced to a shad- ow “In the new relationship on which the British people are embarking,” the | newspaper concludes, “the noed for common counsel and advice . will be even greater than before but it will be a conference between nations of equal status in a sisterhood.” | | CUBAN SENATE APPROVES Little Jsland Republic's Senate Satis- filed With Terms Imposed on Ger- many—House to Receive Pact. Havana, Dec: 18~—Approval ‘of the treaty of pedce:'with Germany wi unanimously voted by the Guban ‘sén- ate last night*"The paét dannot’* hoe brought before’the house before Jan- uary ‘19, when the Cuban congress wil] réconvene following the Christmas | holidays. 8trong opposition is express- ed in the house, where a number of representatives, especially liberals, oppose its consideration until final ac- tion is taken on the treaty by the United States enate. { COAL INQUIRY CONTINUED ndianapolis, Dec. 18.—Investiga- tion of charges of conspiracy against miner and operators to limit coal production in violation of the Lever | act, were continued in federal court today. The federal grand jury sum- moned by U. S. District Judge A. B. Anderson was in session most of {he l [ pointed | PLAINVILLE NEWS TEAGHERS GRANTED SALARY INGREASE Raise of $270i7] 2 ?ear Given to All Instructors NO DEBATE ON ISSUE [Expected “Stormy Session” Pailed (o Develop Because Need for Moré Money Realized—Town Meeting Soon—Other News of Plainille. The school committee held a meet- ing last evening and voted to rocom- mend an increase of $200 por annum for each teacher at the grammar school. The recommendation will be the basis for action at a special town meeting which will be held soon to consider the adisability of making an appropriation to caver the amount of the increase. The meeting was expected by the townspeople to be a stormy one,. feat- ured- by arguments. There was little debate, however, the school board members feeling obliged to make the recammendation in order to hold the teachers, and to continue the school sessions. The teachers were repre- sented at the meeting by a committes of three, consisting of Misses Traver, Mabel Styring and Inez Gladwin. Sglectman William J. Johnson stat- ed that a special town meeting prob- ably swwould be called for Monday, De- cember 29. No officlal notice of this meeting has been posted. 'The amount of the increase will total about 54,000 as thers are 20 teachers at the school and each one demands an increase of $200. In case the de- mands of the instructors are granted it will necessitate a change in the grand list of the tax budget and will mean that the assessors will have to change their estimate of the tax rate. Chimney Fire, The fire department was called out at 6 o’'clock last evening to answer an alarm on Farmington avenue. It was a ohimney fire and was extinguished with chemicals. The men were loud in their complaints about fires in such weather. This was the first alarm turned in for several manths. Knight Addresses Brotherhood. Harry C. Knight of Boston address- ed a meeting of the Brotherhood of the Congregational church last eve- ning. A large audience of men was present at the meeting and many of them were ndn-members of the Broth- erhood. ! Mr. Knight vice president and general manager of the Southern New England Telephone company and his talk was on “The Personal Relation- $hip in the Telephone Business and Tts Impartance to the Public.” The, object of the address was lo demonstrate the methods used by the Telephone company in eliminating unrest and discord from its business organization and to show how the same methods may be applied to other lines of business. A discussion of the points empha- sized by Mr. Knight was held after hie had concluded his talk. A social hour followed and refreshments were served. It was the first meeting of the Brotherhood held in several months. May Be Asked to Contribute. Local members of the 26th (Yan- kee) Division who served in Com- panies I, ¥ and D of the old National Guard are expecting a communica- tion from YD headquarters in Hart- ford or New Haven relative to contri- butions for the building fund which has been inaugurated in Boston, the general headquarters of the division. Plans have been made by leaders of the division to raise a fund of 200,000 among the members of the division and their friends. It is planned fo purchase a bullding in Boston and. remodel it for use as headquarters for a YD club house. Ex-members of. the unit in all cities are being notified of the plan. Morton After Rasutus. An advertisement stating that a wild Rasutus had escaped from the | American Legion carnival sideshow | appeared in the columns of The Herald a few davs ago and caused much mystification among the towns- people. Ired Morton read the adver- tisement and thereupon planned to catch the anjmal and return it to the carnival committee and, incidentally, to collect the reward offered for its capture. Fred tooi a day off for that purpose vesterday and was seen nt various times throughout the day searching in out-of-the-way places for a strange animal which might be in hiding. He was greatly disap- last evening when Dr. Frost informed him that the object of his search was again fe in a cage at the carnival headquarters. Low Temperaturcs Noted. The mercury took a drop last night which was lower than any vet noted here this yvear. At midnight the ther- Fmometer registered five degrees below 'zero in the center of the town. This morning it hovered about the zero mark. Many stories were heard thig morning from farmers living in outly- ing sections of the town. and some of them outrival Dr. Cook. Ananias, Baron Munchausen and other mem- bers of that fraternity. Truck Turns Over. A large truck tipped over into the gutter at the side of the New Britain road at about 3 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon. It is said that the machine is owned by a Hartford fruit dealer. The truck slipped down to the side of the road, and a sudden swerve caused it to turn over on its side. The ser- vices of a wrecking crew from this town were needed to right the truck. Briet Items. George Livingstone of Pemj\street | | | i 1 | received underwent a morning at St ford. Miss Grace serious operation this Francis’ hospital, Hart- Pons is confined to her lhiome on Church street by illness NOTIC —Just in time for Xmas sho ving; my stock is still complete. This store will be open until o’clock, starting tonight, until after Xmas. Do your shopping here and do it early. Beginning Satur- day we will give a handsome art calendar to each of our customer L T. Birnbaum. 12 Razzutus Found. Two professional elephant hunters from New York have captured the Razzutus and returnad it to the Amer- ican Legion for their carnival January 1, 2 and Advt. Maple Hill The Maple Hill Literary socicty has an invitation from the Hearthstone club of Hartford to at- tend their meeting Monday, December 22. Professor Wetzel of the Theo- logical seminary will be the speaker. The meeting will be held in the junior room of the Center church parish house at 0 o'clock D. K. Perry has been conlined to his home the past week Dby illness Burritt Root, a student at the Northeastern college, is spending the Christmas recess with his parents. The funeral of Donald McKay who died at his home in Hartford Tues- day night was held this morning at 11 o'clock. The burial was in Port- land. - Mr. McK: leaves a wife, formerly Miss Lucy Smith, a son, and mother American Legion Has Made De- termined Efforts to Aid Soldiers Injured in Great War. Washingtion, Dec. of the American Legion returned home today after three days spent in out- | and | insurance organization | considered necessary for the needs of | lining to members of officials of the war bureau legislation congress risk the the ex-service men. Resolutions were adopted calling upon congress for early action on all measures affecting former service Relief for those who have not, id, received justice through the administration of the insurance and compensation regulations also was requested In a summary of their recommen- dations, the delegates urged immedi- ate passage of the Wason and Sweet bills, the consolidation of the bureau of war risk insurance, federal board for vocational education and the pub- lic health service, modification of in- surance regulations, wider applica- tion of vocational training and more liberal pay for the students, im- provement of hospital facilities and granting allowances for total dis- ability to tuberculosis patients. MOTHER CANNOT TESTIFY Murs. Blake in No Condition (o Appear Before Inquest Boavd Probing Her Son's Death. Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 18.—Murs. | Iisther Miller Blake will be unable to testify tonight at the inguest into | the death of her five vear old son, James M. Blake, Jr. Physicians announced this today after examining her in a hospital here. Mrs. Blake is a prisoner at the hospital charged with murdering the boy, a mute, whose body was washed up on the beach under the walk in Ventnor last Sunday. “Mrs. Blake is in no condition to be removed from the hospital” said County Pt ian Louis Souder. Sixteen witnesses including James M. Blake have been subpoenaed for the inquest. DEMPSEY DISCHARGED IFormer Superintendent of New York Railway Company Freed — Jury Can’t Agree. Yo Dec: 18 The preme court jury before which John J. Demps former superintendent of the New York Consolidated Railway Co., was tried for manslaughter in connection with the Malbone street tunnel wreck in Brooklyn a vear ago when more than 90 persons lost their lives, was discharged today when it re- Mineola, N su- ported it had falled to agrec upon a verdict after deliberating 23 hours. On the last ballot seven jurors voted for conviction with a recommendation of clemency and five for acquittal. it was said. REV. MURRAY Rome, Dec. 17.—Rev. John G. Mur- ray, chancellor and secretary of the diocese of Hartford, Conn.. has been appointed auxiliary bishop of Hart- ford and titular bishop of Flavias This appointment will be announced at a public consistory to be held tomor- row. Do your Christmas sho trical goods, Chinaware, Cut 18-tr | I | CABINET board- i HOOSIER and a small payment each week thereafter. Don’t let this opportunity slip. A HOOSIER makes one of the most lasting and practical gifts and will prove to you why over a million women say they house without one, FLINT-BRUCE (CO. 103 Asylum Street Phone Bushneli 479 | A Hoosier Prolongs ‘Life and Makes it Happier. BIGGER FORESTS URGED BY GOVT. 18.—Delegates | States and Cities Must Also Help in Preserving Country’s Supply of Trees. Washington, Dec. 18.—A larger It Stands to Reason that the Is just what the housewife wants, for it certainly has kept us on the jump filling ordes have to do is to make a small deposit when you order ! i | program of public acquisition of for- ! ests by the federal government, states and municipalities and protection and perpetuation of forest privately owned lands\which may not be used better for agriculture, rec- growths on all ommended in the annual report of the forester of the department of agri- culture. This policy is made necessary, veport said, by the supply. The rate of depletion of the forests is more than twice what is being produced by growth in a form serviceable for purposes other than firewood. “Already the supplies of all greal eastern centers of production are approaching exhaustion, with the ption of the South,” the report said, nd even there most of the mills not over ten to fifteen supply of virgin timber. The southern pine is being withdrawn from many points as a competitive factor and its the ninishing timber through state agencies. NEWSPAPER SUPPRESSED Dublin Freemen’s Journal Closed Be- cause of Its Attacks on the Irish Gove Is Statement. nment, London, Dec. 18.—/The real the Dublin Freemen's Journal was suppressed is given & Dublin dispatch to the Herald, the organ of organized labor. The dispatch says that the raid upon the piant was not made because of the newspaper's al- leged interference with the recruifing of special constables, as was stated in parliament, but as a result of the newspaper’s aftacks upon Irish ad- ministration. | It is asserted that the Journal alleged certain known crim jnals were allowed immunity from prosecution because the government was employing them. The correspond- reason why in 7 ent says it is firmly believed that De- tectives Downing and rton, who were slain in Dublin recently, were shot, not by Simn Feiners but crim- inals f the vilest type, whose identi- iy is known to the government, but who are left untouched because the Castle wishes the murders to be af- tributed to the Sinn Fein' This charge, he says, is “‘not made without evidence,” adding: the subject of a hearing on Frida Plainville, Conn. the ' vears | place taken by western timbers. This inevitably results in added freight charges., which the consumer must pay. The report suggested that.the fed- ! eral government work primarily i | “Men of sober judgment accuse the Castle camarilla with preparing a foul political crime similar to that com- yin mitted in 1798 | ) i ! Dublin, Dec. 18.—Owners of the Freemen's Journal, seized and sup- pressed by the military police on | Monday. applied to the chancery | court y erday for an interlocutory | local weather burcau said today w pping early at Rvder’s. We have a full line of (.E-)lass, Flashlights, Toys, Pyrex oven-ware, A Cards and Booklets, Ingersoll Watches, Sleds, Ever-sharp Pencils, Stationery, Ete. RYDER'S STATIONERY STORE ’ ¢ px; KITCHEN Tio get one all you couldn’t keep N0 ACTION YET Supreme Council Still Discussi What Germany Should Pay fo Scapa Flow Fleet. Paris, Dec. 17.—The question the compensation Germany shoul make for the sinking of the Seap: Flow * fleet was again before th supreme council today. Louis Lou cheur, minister of reconstruction, ang Georges Leygues, minister of marine of the French cabinet, made report on the discussions that had take place between the Allied and Germa experts over the compensation prob. lem. Several propositions wese pre sented to the council but no definit decision was reached One more boundary question wad settled by the council today when if delineated the frontier hetween Ga. licia and Bukowina The council met at the Trench) ministry of foreign affairs with Jules Cambon presiding in the absence Premier Clemenceau Chancellor Renner of Austria, ing secured action by the council the relief of the Austrian people, leave Paris this evening h AU REVOIR, EMMA - Goldman and Berkman Have Trunks Packed and Are Ready to Start fors “Dear Old Russia. New York, Dec. 18.—Emma Gold« man and Alexander Berkman haves their trunks packed will vy cloth— ing and canned goods and are readys 1o be deported to Russia on five/ min- utes’ notice, Harry Weinberger, their couneel, announced today. Miss Gold- man has one trunk and two handbags, while Berkman has three grips andy one trunk. “They expect the keep its promise to deport wee said Weinberger. No orders as to when or send the pair to Russia had been re- ceived today at Ellis Island whera they are detained, according to Byron H. Uhl acting commissioner of immis= gration, but he notified all thé anarchists held at the island, numbers Ang more than 80, to he to leaves the country at any MONTFAUCON MONUMENT Preserved 10 government ta them this how tak Historic Ruins Will Be tax Commemorate American’s Famous Battle, s, Dec. 17.—Monifaucon Hill img the Argonne on which are hundreds of graves of American soldicrs wha fell in battle in September Oc- tober, 1918, may be made a historicak monument by the French government, It is expected that the ruins of village of Montfaucon which surs round the top of the hill will be their present condition to furthem commemorate the work of the Amers icans during the great stru COLDEST DEOEMBER 18 IN 50 YEARS IN NEW YORK, York, 18.—Officials of the s New Dec injunction fo restrain the authorities | the coldest December 18 in 50 yeavs. from continuing to suppress the | Little relief could be expected from newspaper. This application will be | the cold weathe: fore tomorrew, they added. ‘lec-~ Calendars,