New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1920, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1920. L7 AN N 13 to 19 YEARS. FASTIDIOUS ML THE JUNIOR ¢ £S THAT PLEA THI 1,200 BRAND NEW DRESS in some fifty linenes, soisettes, suitable for school or street. $1.98 to $7.50. ZAS MOST LR T T AT T T R R T L aried styles and Sailor Dresses, one, DAINTY FROCKS of linen, and batistes selling line of new styles in Coats for serge: ilks, irls of EASTER FOOTWEAR ‘Women’s New Pumps of black kid, or dull calf, plain and with short tongues, offercd at $8.00 to $12.00 pair. colors, Patent Colt Pumps with Louis or baby Louis heels, priced at $8.00 to $12.00 pair. Very Smart are the tan Hussia Tongue Pumps, with turned soles and Louis heels. our surprise you. Black Kid Pumps with large beaded buckles, hand turn soles, Louis heels. 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NEW SPRING FURS The smartness of your Spring attire will more deeply emphasized lovely new Fur We offer choice at prices so moderate they will See what Stone Marten, Mole, Squirrel, Fitch, Jap Sable, etc. in open scarf effects or animal chokers. $25.00, $29.50, $32.50 up to Women's Wear Section, dAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVEKRY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN DEPEND ON PROMPILY 2 RECEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PURCHASED OF US. BEBLHLHLHLLHLVHIGHVIBEILLBTES / oI AND MAKE WILL three piece A full DEPT. in latest styles and stal be by the wearing of one cf Nec kpieces. we are showing in Fox, At $15.00, $125.00 - cach. In one floor up. © Lot fotedagelolotels] BERLIN NEWS that the children attention, and the makes it be given necessary prompt x5 PITIFUL GASE 13 BROUGHT TO LIGHT case, informed Dr. Griswold that at least five days’ notice would have to be given before any attention could be given. The children dinnot be put in the almshouse as there a state law that prevents their admittance. The county home will npt take children age report no more room for new ses. The Swedish orphanage was rilarly filled up. As a last resort Selectman Griswold alled the matter to the attention of the officials of the New Britain town house. In the meantimen the oldest the children, a 9-year-old girl, is keeping the little family together. Back on Job. James -Wrenn, who has been in Ire- lund to claim the estate left by a de- ceased uncle, was back on his job this morning on the Berlin line. His many friends were glad to see him again after his trip. Robert Murray, onc of the regular motormen on the | local line, was off duty today. toads Are Muddy. With the warm w her of the past few < the frost is coming out of the ground, leaving the reads in a muddy condition. Fortunately there are few dirt roads in the main lanes af tray The [Bust Berlin road i vast expanse of mud and water, due to the rock foundation, the mud is only on the surface. Thé Matta- besset is beginning to rise, owing to the melting ice and snow, but it is not thought that it will reach its former height. Wdow, Mother of Si, in Critical # Condition at Hospital SELECTHAN OFFERS HELP Difficulty 1'ound in Furnishing Tem- of porary Home for Children—Mem- bers of Grange Plan Big Carnival to Purchase Needed Supplies. \A pitiful case has been brought to | thé attention of the local town offi- cidls, the case being that of a widow with six children, the oldest heing but nine years of age. During the influ- enza cpidemic of a vear ago the fa- ther of the family succumbed to the ‘disease, leaving nothing for the care of the family. The mother is now in ihe New Britain hospital seriausly ill with pneumonia with but litile chance of recovery. She has been licing in a { - tenement with another family on the Beech Swamp road. The two familics live in three rooms comprising the tenement. In order to make a Been working at the Irentice Manu- turing company but the strain o @ork and the carc of the children has been too much for her, making her -eptible to the ravages of pneu- A grant from the state under the widows' pension fund has been se- cured for her. and Selectman R. M Griswald assured her that if shc would stay home und take care of her chil- | dren he would see thal she had suffi- cient money to maintain the family. # Appeals to the s charities com- niission and the state ajd hoards have led nothing, Selcctman Griswold | ", #aid this morning, varicus excuses be- | ing given when they were approached on the matter. The moth iline: 1y Grange Carnival. The ladies of the Berlin grange have completed preparations for the fair and curnival to be held in Grange hall April 15 and aniza- tion is in need of n . furniture and numerous other items of equip- ment which the women members of the grapge propose fo furnish with the procecds of the carnival. Joscph Sperioni. living she has The death of John Berlin, occurred yesterday where he was employed thaw Construction building of a plant parture company. According to rc port, he was pushed off the building by a hoisting machine and sustained a broken neck. | East Berlin Items, ' . M. Dressel. formerly in the = | plumbing depariment of the Ntanley HERS DG TH‘S__ | Rule and Level company of New MUT 2 j Writain, has_purchased the plumbir e Wusiness of Edson Bowers and took When the Children Cough. 'lvu. cssion today. The old blacksmith Rub Musterole on Throzats i | Sperioni, of in Meriden. by the Aber- company in the for the New De- shop on the estate is to be rcopencd. it is reported. Four grand Knizhts of at the local buffet lunch was served s a social. al local young men have {aken to form an orchestra and the rehearsal is expected to e held within a week. Tomorrow ecvening an celebration will be held in K. of hall by the local lodge. Many invi- tations have been sent out and a la attendance is expected. Berlin Briets, Grange Sewing circle met at home of Miss Anna Réed, of Sur lane, this afternoon. The meeting w: in the nature of a surprise, as Mi Reed, who has been ill for some time, | has sufficiently recuperated she can again meet her friend Mrs. Burritt Ripple is confined to her home by illnes 5 Walter B../Hart, who has been con- fined to his home for several wee! lodge officers Pythias werc lodge last of the entertained evening. A after which No telling hov may develop into crour « then's W you're g you have a jar of Musterole at hand to ef mpt, sure relief. It does not blister. As first aid and a cert remedy, Musterole is excellent. Thousards of mothers know it. You should keep 2 jar in the house, ready for instant use. 1t js the remedy for adults, too. Re- lieves sore throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis, croup, stiff neck, astbma, neuralgig beadache, congestion, pleurisy, rheu- matism, lumbago, pains and aches of back or joints, sprains, sore mu: chilblains, frosted feet and colds ¢ ; chest (it often prevents pneumonia). 30c ;nd 60c jars; hospital size $2.50. anniversary " the so that 5| | ! state commission, when advised of the | i under 4 vears and the Polish orphan- | |8 with is gain. pneumonia, able to be out Items, A. and B. society whist wa attended last ev ning. prize. winners were: J. Tarditti, cigarette case; George Garrity, collar pin; Katherine Corr, of knitting needles; Agnes Corr, auty pin. Senator Kensington The Y. Claude W. Stevens and George F. Dodd, of Berlin street, are attending the republican state con- vention now in session in New Haven. NOT AMERICAN WOMAN, ts Sir Geddes’ Wife Was Never Naturalized. London, March 24.—Lady Geddes, the wife of the newly appointed Brit- ish ambassadaor, is generally spoken of as an American woman. This, the Pall Mall Gazette points out. is incorrect. Lady Geddes was born in New York tate and educated at Windsor, Nova otia, but she is the daughter of W. A. Ross of Belfast, who spent much of his life in America but who. the paper s, was never naturalized. land and Lady Geddes were in 1906 and have five chil- British Press Insi Sir Auc married dren. CANADIAN DOLLAR UP. Quoted at 90.80 Cents 'Today, Which is New High Record. New York. March 24.—The Cana- dian dollar was quoted at 90.80 cents, a new high in the present upwared movement, at the opening of the for- eign exchange market here today. The English pound sterling was quoted at Franc checks sold at the rate 7 for American dollur up 45 cen nd lire checks at the rate of up 40 centimes. German marks cents cach, GILHOOL Buffalo, N. Y March fielder ¥Frank Gilhooley, last year with the Boston Red Sox, has signed with the Buffalo International league team, Owner J. J. Lannin announced today. Just Yellow Mustard for Backache, Lumbago Grandmother's old mussy mustard plaster or poultice generally brought relief all - right even in the sever- est cases, but burned ana tered like blazes, “Heat eases Pain” reduces the inflammation and scatters con- sestion but you'll find that whiie Beay's Mustarine, llow mustard and other pain destroyers just as hot as the old fashioned p it is much quicker, cleaner and more of. fective and cannot blister. It's a great external remedy—just rub it on wherever aches, pains, in- nmation. congestion or swelling e , and in a v few minutes the relief you have longed for surely rives because “‘Heat pain.” nd 60 conts at drugg or by mail, 8. C. Wells & Co., Lel{r“»y, i BEGY'S USTARI N THE YELLOW Bo 24.—Out- made of true NE 1 PIAINVILLE NEWS. ANTICIPATE BOOM IN BUSINESS HERE Industrial Expansion Promised in Several Lines LOGAL FACTORIES MAY BUILD| Newly Organized Contrs y Out Program—C. W. Root Oritically 1l | cting Com- pany Will Carr Extensive —Hearing on Tracking Tonighn( industrial expansion in co-ordination ~with a building ! boom is promised in Plainville this spring. The prospects at the open- ing of the vear are indicative of one of the most prosperous and progres- sive years in the history of the town. Herve J. Brault has left the eci ploy of the Standard Steel & Bearings | company, where he was employed af | construction engincer since the fae tory was located here, and it is Te- ported, plans to take into partnership with him in the hardware and con- tracting business, his brother, Rene Brault and William Dunham of New | Britain. The company is already negotiating for the job of construct- | ing a three story block on Broad street which will contain a store and | several tenements. There is a current report that the Trumbull company plans the erec- tion of nearly a score of houses, the work to begin within a few months. John H. Trumbull, president of the concern, recently stated that the’ company has planned no extensive building activities, but will simply carry through to completion the im- provements on the office building. It is said that the lack of housing ac- commodations for employes will soon make building operations necessary. There are unconfirmed rumors to tiie cffect that the Standard Steel & Bearings company will begin opera- tions on another factory building dur- ing the spring months. Little cred- | ence is given this report as the company doubled floor space by the erection of building last fall. The Neri block will be completed | next month and will house several of the oldest established businesses in | the town, among them that of I J.| Birnbaum, who has been in the dry zoods business in this town for near- Iy 20 year Thé Plainville market will also occupy a store in the new building. Daniel Collins will his lunch room from its present location in the Russell block and will open a first class restaurant in the Neri block The Neri store, which had what was practicallly monopoly on the candy and fruit business here for several years which is one of the oldest stores Business and its a new in Plainville, will be located in the new building. These vacanc West removals will- leave several in the other Mblock: on Main street and in Central | cent. | paid remove | and | Square and one on Whiting street. It is reported that the vacancies will ex- ist only for a short time as in demand by other business men. Some of the old stores will house new business enterprises which will pete with the etablished busines Plainville. Trolley Hearing Tonight. Superintendent F. L. Beardsley the Connecticut company will this evening with the members board of directors of the Plainville Susine: and Improvement asso tion for a comference relative to the matter of laying double tracks from the Trumbull Electric Sharp’s station at Electric I"ollowing the announcement of the forthcoming hearing the matter be- came the subject of conversation in all public meeting places and the hopes of local patrons of the trol- company have been raised to the | ~hest point of expectancy that the Connecticut company will decide fav- orably in the matter, 1 The opinicn is advanced that company has obtained cnough money from the zone system to make it pos- sible to lay the { without any strain on ihe compan treasury. Superintendent ardsley’s statement yesterday was in opposition to this be- | lief when he stated that, in his opin- ion, the company has nol money enough Lo carry ont the proposed im- provement. Many local patrons also that if the double track were laid and the delays resulting from the present conditions eliminated, the commuters would adopt a more favorable attitude toward the action the company in forcing the zone rates upon them. Plainville manu- tueturers are sreatly interested in the which, if carried through to sful completion. would greatly conditions at the factories. The workmen from New Britain are late nearly every day and the manu- facturers are certain that the laving of double tracks would climinate de- and chaunge this condition. Root Critically TIL | C. W. Root is critically ill at his home on Park street. Mr. Root has been ailing for the puast few wceks. This morning he wus resting more comfortably than early last evening, but it is reported t his candition com- es in of | meet of the the | ks believe were of matter, w sucee improve they are | ! placed 1 kerris Point, advic still serious, and his death is momen- tarily expected. Daylight Saving Question, Local people are puzzled hy the possible results of the proposed day- lizht saving in certain cities in the state and are wondering what will be dane to avoid a great mixup in train and trolley schedufes and in freight shipping. Citizens who have given the matter considerable attention feel that the | result of a plan if carried out ind cidually by a few citics could be opiv i indescribable confusion. A vast pro- gram of wark would have to be laid out, is is said, for someone would have to fix schedules for trains and trolleys at all connecting points. The manu- facturers would suffer, prabably to a ater extent than anyone clse, use the confusion would hold up shipments of material and finished products. Those interested in the question feel that the. state public utilitics commission has no jurisdic- tion in the matter of daylight and that the fixing of a Jaw should ne left in the hands of the federal govern- ment. Brief Ttems, John H. Trumbull and Edwin H. Hills are the Plainville delegates at the republican convention in New Ha- ven. Mr. Trumbull has been nomi- nated for membership on the state central commttee. The mission study Church of Our Savior evening at the rectory. There will be stations of the crass at the Church of Our Lady of Mel Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. FOR SALE—Four bedroom suites, of meet class will this li- brary table and chairs, combination | M. Freeman, i 2-3dx | range, odd pieces. Washington St WANTED—A voung the ages of 16 and drug busines Store, Plainville, P man 20 tof learn Byington® Conn 3 NEW PLAN TO AID VETERANS OF WAR hetween the American Legion Delegates at Wash- ington Will Present Ideas to Congress. Washington, March 24.—Repre- sentatives of the American Legion had readd today for presentation to the house ways and means committee a new plan for soldier relief embrac- ing provisions for land home building aid. vocational training and payment of adjusted compensa. tion. The proposal is a substitute for the original bill explained to the com- mittee earlier this month by Com- mander Franklin D’Olier and Thomas W. Miller, chairman of the legisla- tive' committee. The four fold plan carrying new rates of compensation was approved last night at a meeting of the executive committee. Under the bill land projects in all states would be available to former | service men and credit at the rate of $1.50 for every day of service together with a loan at the rate of 4% per interest would be authorized. Compensation at $2 a day would be those who desire to acquire homes in city or country sections. Vocational training would be ex tended for a time equivalent to serv ice in the army or nmavy and com- pensation at $1.50 a day would be paid. Adjusted compensation those who do not desire to parti pate in land projects home building aid or vocational training would be paid at $1.50 for each day of service, | to be available within a the passige of the bill by gress. Iormer service men would have ten years in which to file applica- tions exercising one of the four op- tions. ear from the con- PEACE LOOMS UP. Hamburg Strike Will End When nerals Are Held. being Hamburg, March pugen.—Order is via Copen- maintained | here by patrols of workmen and the i security police and it is announced the strike will cease after victims of recent fighting in the city have been buried. Admiral Muerer who has been under arrest for several days was released today. Non-commissioned officers and sail- ors who arrested high officers of the fleet announce the latter must be held until the naval personnel can choose its own officers and threaten that if this course is not followed naval units will disband and disperse. In the meantime the navy has been at the disposal of the Ebert overnment to fight the revolt of the extreme left, if nece: ry. U. S. SHIP I London, March steamship Rock I riously reported a aged in collision Iroquois off France has BEACHED. 4 The Ameriecan nd Bridge, pr having heen dam- with the steamer Ushant, northwestern been beached ncar Pel- s from the ship to- day said. The damaged vessel is said to have a hole in her hull amidship and is awash for half her lenzth from tlie stern. Tuzs are attending the ves- sel SAVE ALL YOUR JUNK PAY 4 CENTS A POUND FOR RAGS Also buy Second-hand Furniture. L. ZELDES 138 OAK STREET Tel. 589-23 Call 7 and 8 a. m. or after 7 p. m. How much ache can a wom- an's heart cendurc before breaking? to the understand term “‘the Ir you v what a libel weltker sex” is, see Someone Must Pay LYCEUM THEATER be- | saving | the | | ) more | settlement. | for i 'NAVY DEPT. IN BAD WAY AT BEGINNING Captain Laning Tells of In- elficiency During War March 24.—Virtual chaos existed in the navy department at the time the United States entered the war, Captain Harris Laning, chief of the bureau of testified today before investigating committee. Captain Laning said no one knew what to do after a plan of action submitted by the bureau of opera- tions had been disapproved and that of the made it of really Washington, as- sistant navi- gation, the senate the “personal characteristics secretary of the often to get approval important policies.” Whenever a plan or policy was | presented lo the secretary he almos /invariably dclayed action on i Captain Laning declared. “The personal interest he | @ll matters.” continued the witness, | “absorbed so much time that he | never had much left to zive to the important affair: When important policies and plans | were submitted to Sccretary Daniels, | the captain d decisions would be | ziven to leave the papers for ‘‘con- | sideration” and usually these instruc- tions meant the matter would not be heard from again until the office in- terested looked the papers up and | then frequently the papers could not { be found. | “Conditions finally became so bad” the witness said “that officers used cvery means possible to put their plans and policies through without obtaining the reéquired aushority. Amazed At Success. i “I"was and still am amazed that the navy was able to accomplish the remarkable work it did, but it is certain that what it did accomplish could have been done much more | auickly and efficiently if we could { have had a plan from the start.” i Captain Laning said many officers found this condition to be true and he | offered to furnish the committee the | names of other officers who he %aid would corroborate his testimony in | this respect. The witness said that at about the { same time the United States declared { war the office of chief of naval opera- { tions had prepared a plan outlining how the navy's first efforts should be directed but that it was disap- proved by the department with the result that when a plan of operations was needed the navy was without one. Captain Laning also told the com- mittee that the various units of the department could make mno coor- dinated effort to carry on the war for Jack of a definite general plan; that the fleet was not ready for operations when war began and that in the | vears immediately preceding 1917 the department did not take an attitude toward legislation and policies that would have prepared the fleet. Public Was Misled. Captain Laning said that prior to 1917 the department gave out “such glowing accounts of the navy and its splendid condition and efficiency that few if any outside the { navy realized the true condition.” | The witness said he did not c: | cize the department’s policy as building but always advocated creased number of ships. Secretary Daniels, he said based | his ideas of the navy's fithess on the total number of ships rather than on their condition or whether they were properly manned for war. Captain Laning asserted that while in the spring of 1917 only about half the navy's ships had even peace time crews and that naval officers general- ly conceded that the greatest need of the service fhen was men, the de- | partment went on record against any increase in personnel. “As for material conditions in the fleet when we entered the war” the captain added, “it was found that it would take over 100 days to get all battleships of even the active fleet materially ready for war.” The dreadnoughts, he said, wore not sent to the yards for repairs until sev- cral months after the declaration of war, navy { impossible took in i Just iti- to in- Lack of Big Shells. Before the entry of the Uinted States into the war, efforts were being made by the bureau of ardnance to oblain Secretary Daniels’ approval to contracts for 1l4-inch shells for the dreadnoughts Captain Laning id. After war was declared this effort was accelerated, he said, and in a letter of April 1917, prepared for trans- mittal by Admiral Benson, then chief af operations to Secretary Daniels, it was pointed out that should the six dreadnoughts having 14-inch guns ex- pend their supply of shells in battle there would not be enough in reserve to refill their magazines and none for threc more dreadnoughts then nearing completion “Without shells for zuns battleships are worthl the letter said. 1ot only cannof defend themscly (& 101 tight to save the count Ten days later Captain Laning tes- tified this letter was handed back to him “to see if there ig any change in (he situation.” No contr shells liad been placed he declared. Later he said the shells were ordered REACH AGREEMEN March 24.—Euszgestion scale committee of op- miners of the competitive soft coal field meet Mon- day in New York to draft i new wage sement was made in a telegram today by John L. Lew presi- the United Mine Workers of Lo Thomas P. Brewste of the operator: MAY Washington, the joint and that erators éentral ag sent dent of America, chairman ot scale i QUIGLEY-I'MAHON RALLIES CONTIN | Each One Speaks at S. R. & | Factory Today George A, Quigley, secking elects for a fourth term as mavor gave fiery address before a gathering about 500 people this noon at a r4 at the gates of the Stanley Rule 4 Level company. As at the Landers, & Clark yesterday noon, Patrick a rally compd S. McMah who is opposing the mayor, again rived early and gave a talk in wh he scored the Quigley administrat. ! and remarked ‘“We have a $700,04 000 corporaiion and a five-cent maj running it.” Frary What's in a Name. | The mayors car arrived at the B | 0% “P. 8 mediately ceased his anti-adminis | tion talk and met the mayor wit] cordial welcome. “Hello, Pad the mayor saluted, to which “P. replied, “My name is Patrick and Paddy or P. S Quigley No Quitter. i In commencing his rally the m saild: “As I told the others at meeting yesterday noon, I did have any intention of running for office for the fourth term but ( Almighty hates a quitter and T wo not quit under the fire of such md Evidently the mayor referred to hotel proprietor. “Critics say the Quigley administration has 1B a failure,” he continued. “In 1 the city of New Britain owed $3,0 000 and 1920 statistics show this d has been reduced $80,000. Bes this we have faced the expenses| erecting schools, slaughter houl sewers and water mains, which really a million dollar asset to city. With aH these accomplishmd the administration knockers point out the failures which tf preach about from curbstones,” mayor asserted. Opposition Only Personal. “The opposition to the Quigley ministration, as I have said beford purcly a personal matter,” he “When one is elected mayor he d not step into a water-and-milk and as soon as he starts to rem unqualified men from their offices makes enemies of them and it these men who try to run down administration.” Taxing Discussed. Speaking of the present over the taxing svstem and the rates for the city the mayor one cannot blame the city for increases. This is an economic q tion which all places suffe mayor said that there is no red for agitation against the present g ernment of the city and the ( people who are tryving to pre things from going on as they hav the past are “curbstone knocH and disgruntled office seekers.” making this statement the ms was interrupted by Mr. McMahon kept on with his talk. McMahon Opens Fire. In taki.g leave Mr. McMahon the mayor good-bye but urged crowd not to disburse as he wig “to have a few words with then they had time.” McMahon with his anti-adn tration talk opened fire about 1 o'clock making charges that M4 Quigley when seeking office ago promised many things hasn’'t made good one of his pr| ises. He comes out at all these tory rallies and tells vou about police and fire departments and good dcmocrats such as Frank Hj and P. F. King, the police comy sion head. They built a barn $20,000 and then they had to all the cows McMahon asserted. “If I can’t show the people W the city government needs bef] ment and where it is not satisfact] then T am willing with the res! you to go on living the same ANl the statements I make and f] that I tell you, I can stand in N of and I will back them anytidg he said. Wants New Commi “What we want is a new comd l ion which will be conducted Wb: men and not one,” McMahon § referring to the board of assesd ““The thing that we must do is to out cheap politics and we will able to run the city on a 10 mill rate.” street gate about 1 agita Bullding—Reparing. LEAVITT & HAYES, INC. BUILDERS IN WOOD, BRIC! STEEL AND CONCRETE. Repairs of all kinds. 8 Court St. Telephcnes w Britain. Conn. FOR SALE TWO-FAMILY HOUSE on West Main Strect SIX-FAMILY NEW COTTAGH Plainville DEWITT A. RILEY Insurance—The Service ! National Bank Building FOR SALE house and barn. Price $2,800. Part cash. Robert B. Whit Real Estate and Auctioneering] Booth’s Block S Cluse to o EE