New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 10

SL.OW RECOVERY OF FRENCH INDUSTRY White Goods Manufacture Retarded ! By Shortage of Flax, Due to Russian Isolation. Armentieres, Dec. 29.—Recovery of the white goods industry in France } from the blow dealt by the war has been retarded it is said here, by the shortage of flax, due to the olation of Russia, the e of supply. | Notwitastanding of raw ma- terials, howeve which before the war mills aployed raore than 30,000 e district around TLille, growing in rebuilt facto- work in ¢ 1,500 p i with | three mills here 16,000 employed compal 1914, in \ to information given the co entt oftthe" Associated Press thasgconrse his governmen se, was stated, is linen or cotton shee: . other two plants is at’ intermittent periods of.these and copper fixtures with the re that the mills are forced to resort to malkeshifts to get ric energy. In Armentieres alone,. when the Wwar broke out, there wer 10,000 Joeme and spinning machin Most 6f #hese were carried off by the Ger- mans and, the rest were stripped of their Yaluable parts or disabled. Gov- érnment statistics say the linen in- wustry as & whole has resumed oper- ations on one-third of the mills' but ith omly a little more than six per gent of tha pre-war force. Officials expross confldonce that the manufao- tire of white goods will be at full g»tput withifi two or three years. MAY ELIMINATE ' RUBBER GAS TUBES New “York Oity Authorities Are f‘\mnmmmg This Step to Prevent ‘ Deaths from Asphyxiation. _idNew York, Dec. 29.—Steps to save life by forbidding the use of rubber g&s tubing are contemplated by the city authorities, it was learned today. @ the result of disclosures by the ledical examiner’s office that most of the city’s aceidental asphyxiations in cpld weather are due to leaky rubber (bing connecting pipes with gas jeaters, an ordinance has been intro- ueed in the board of aldermen re- uiring metal tubing or pipe to be ysed. Forty-six accidental deaths from gas occurred in New York City dur- ing November last and 43 in the cor- tesponding month a vear ago, the figures being more than doubled with the arrival of winter. Medical exam- fners found that tubing was the cause in three-fourths of the cases. In many instances the rubber was worn by use 8o that it leaked and gas flooded the housc while the family was asleep. Sometimes n member of the house- Hold steps upon the tube inadvertent- ly and shuts off the flow of gas for an instant. Then he retires and the gas flows on without igniting. THIEVES REAP $25,000,000 CROP This Ts Fistimated Loss from Thefts ! o New York in 1819; 30 Per Cent. & Greater Than Tast Year. Mew York, Dec. 29.—Criminals, in 10,000 separate thefts, robbed the people of New York of cash and ®oods amountiog approximately to $25,000,000 during 1919, according to ihe New York Tribune today. The estimate was given to the Tribune by officlals of 32 burglary insurance | firma in the uity. The insurance men | s2y the year just ending has been the E in.their history, The of robberies increased by | more than 80 por cent. over last year and the value of the goods stolen was American Said Pi that PITTSBURGH WOMAN NEW 20, 49, BRITAIN DAILY: HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER THERE ARE MADE FIRST MASK| St. Thoma to Have Discovered { —United State these new pos Charcoal as Poison Gas irnot undes Absorbent. ed by the nat Cha-Cha India ttsburgh, Dec. is claimed e fl coat when the the first g seciiDon Sa e the use of ¢ o 0 in the sh of hi, For some m the at- principle which in ac- in Islander beli s AND styLEs. | Hill Montague Asks Aid For Starving Refugees ountr. operation in thousgnds equesting their co- g the “hundreds of ng refugees in west- was announced t Relief, formerly t commit for Armeni yrian - velief. Mr. Montagu was endorsed by Willlam H. and the fashions affect- ives. Why a negro or n should wear an, over- the Take nometer stands at ies them. son, the native re? in wearing ng 1919, Indians Wear Coats at 100, New York, Dec. 29.—Letters 4 mailed today by Hill Monta Virgin Islands, Dec. 29. | gy g0, Sl For Colds or FERERRECE soning | National —Fraternal Influenza and as a essions of Unecle Sam to 9,000,000 lodge me Preventative s axative ery article of clothing he can la B valuable to tho| Jands on. All American holidays aye | Tt Henry Morgenthau, former am- @ino the s of Ditte.| now celebrated by the natives, who | Passador to Turkey, and others. S . : % spend the day parading about the 7 burgh 1ent is made at the | SPeRC o i a - (V111]] Mellon insti SHe streets, some of them wearing over-| Mat ance at Bu hall. [{] of the director | COats, capes, two or more pairs of Band of nire New, i onnection with the | horns of cows or oxen attached taithe : g s e jend just in front of the ears. - N reo le Look for this signature at that time, early : speared on the battlefields | === == — | ervous p When the principle w: | should use KALPHO andbserve its mag- Jished, the institute de- | ASK FOR and GET | fcal effect in the treatmnt of nervous- Garner designed and = y ! mess, insomnia, brain ag, irritabiii 2 4 oVE” masks of the can | s mental exhaustion, neyous headache, . . and i loss of memory, et¢. ALPHO acts on on the box. 30c e handed over t The Original - the brain, nerves,muscléand blood cells; empl ment. fel search, died a yvear ago. Boy by Tu belie Auto: been monton, N. J., the experimen conduc E rner, the an important natural became interested her husband trousers and a chief about th | auently adorn h o oi company h Malted Milk i 'or ‘ants and Invalids | A‘viia l!:‘ifnli::n And’ Sobatitetes [ Danzin red bandana handker- un- Also they fre- with the e neclk. themselves rebuilds wornout nerve issues and is in- dispensable to all ment} workers. Con- tains no harmful nor hajt-forming drugs. At druggists $1.00. Rfuse substitutes. [ of the experimental d all apparatus that had been oyed were supplied to the govern- Mrs. Garner, whose husband iy low of the Mellon institute of re- NOT “BILLY” DANSEY Found \ in Oklahoma Identified Real Mother Over Telephone, Okla., Dec. 29.—The boy | ved by Chief-of-Police Robert n, of Collinsville, Okla., to have missing ““Billy” Dansey, of Ham- is not the Dansey boy, according to a statement last night by Chief Auton and Chief-of-Police Charles Allen, of Tulsa. i The Oklahoma boy’s mother, the ' police say, telephone vesterday she declared the boy had neve: tograph was sent to Mrs. Dansey. 1 STRIKE FAILS FOR SYMPATHY. Ca, railway men and dock men called I the ber, lack Barcelona, Dec. T have joined the butchers’ strike and, in consequence, the city was without either meat or fish today. lives at Bristow. conversation with In a them r been East. However, his pho- petown, Dec. 29.—The strike ol Federation of Trades on Decern 17 has been called oif because of | of support. FISHERME} RIKE, TOO. 29, —Fishmon, CASTORIA Always bears o 2R Signature of 4 1 For Infants and Children Use For Over 30 Years s entered the CEmene s The W. 29 WEST MAIN ST. HAVE YOU This is an urgent warning We urge you to fix-up you: fire insurance on the basis of present values and to mezt present needs. We urge you to take out gn adequate amount of insur- ance covering your home—your buildings—your furni- ture—your factory—fixtures—your stock of merchandise. The cost of fire insurante has recently been reduced 10%. Telephone 131 or call (m us. We will give you valuable \ information. almost doubled. The principal losses, as itemized by | Ahe Tribune, are: Silk industry, | '$2,000,000; furriers, $1,500,000; | truckinng firms, 31,600,000, and jew- elors, $1,000,000. 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