New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1920, Page 11

Financial WAL STREET STOCK EXCHANGE REPORZS| "Wall street, 10:30 » ™-—Aside from ofls, which were j=iined to for- Weit part of their stantial recov- ©Fles of the previou- session, prices at the outset of tod=''® Stock market were irregularir DIEher. Within the first half hour £0in8 of 1 to 234 points were regisered by Atlantic Gult, American Sugar, American Can, Gen eral Klectrio, Sloss-Sheflitld steel and seversi of the popular specialties. .-:”- were mixed and equipments also ted an uncertain trend. The pos- sibllity of & money flurry arising from the ¥'s heavy tax payments made wnders more than ordinarily cautious. Close—Call money eased to 6 per cent later But failed to stimulate the market, leaders among oils, steels, equipments and shippings making fur- ther rocissions. The closing was heavy. Sales approximated 850,000 shares. (New York Stock Exchange quota- thns furnished by Richter & Co., mambers of the New York Stock Exchange.) Low 294 40 High 30 5o Close Allls-Chalm Mfg = Am Beet Sug Am Cun 2 Ah Car & Fdy 123% Cot Oll .... 17% Am H & Leath .. 7% wm Loco Am Smelt & Ret Am Sug Ret com Am Sum Tob 0% Am Tel & Tel .. 08% Am Tob .. JA14 Am Woel .. . 63% Apacon Cop .... 37% Ateh Top & 8 F 813 AL Guif & W1 ..110% Baldwin Loco .. §0% Balt & Ohlo 33% Heth St B . 63 Bkiyn Rap T ... 10% Can Pacific L1138y Cen Leath Ceo 3T% es & Ohilo. . 7% Chit Mil & St P 28% Chi Rk Ist & P 263% Crile Cop . e % Chino Cop . 18% Col F'l & Iron... 27% Con, Gas ... 794 Corh Prod lll! 68 % Cruetble Stel u 863 Cuba Can SBug.. 20% -#haicott-Johnson 53 % Brie ....o. 13% Frie 1at pfd . ... 10% Goaston W & W. 23 Gen Electric ...I:nu Gen Motor ..... 14% Gogdrich (BF)Co 16% Gt North pfd N ™Minols Cen .... S4% Insp Copper . 30% Int Con ... 3% Int Con pfd. 10% Int Mer Mar.... 12% Int Mer Mar pfd 497% In Nickel 3 L] 1% 80 8015 1074 871 32y 61% 10 12 365 | broken, 49 37 16 501 542 164 30% Ktly sptd T Kennecott Co Lack su Lehigh Vv, Mex Pq° | 311 ) Midv,.pq ...... xu: ceee BB% L 168% Mis4ir Bke 2 85% SY Cent ...... 70% N YNH&H 11% Norfolk & W 98 North Pac ...... 78% Pure O1l [ PanAm P& T .. 9% Penn R R ... Plerce-Arrow Pittsbu Coal Pressed Steel Car Ray Con Cop ... Reading Rep 1 & 8 . Royal D, N Y Sinclair Ol Refin . 2 Southern Pacific Southern Railw Studebaker Co Texas Co Texas & l.lcmr . Tobacco Products Transcont Oil Union Pacific United Retail St U 8 Food Prod . U 8 Indus Alco U 8 Rubber Co U 8 Steel ..... U 8 Steel pfd Utah Copper . Va Car Chemical . 81 Willys Overland [ LOCAL STOCK MARKET TODAY Bid Asked 118 100 138 90 Htd Electrie Luhx .o Tel 23 DBristol Brass 60 Dillings and Spencer Colt's Ari . Bagle Lock Landers ¥ Lander's rig Niles-He-Pond com North and Judd z ow and Wileox Works : rd Screw Mtg Co Hine Ce - Heovill Traut and on Mfg Fafnir Hart and Cooley . CLEARING Exchan " Balanc SAVED FROM A HOUSE REPORT. » .. $870,62, $ 76 RY SEA. Passengers on Portuguese Packet Res- oued When all Seemed Lost. New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 15—De- liverance came today to the Portu- guese packet Berina which had tugged at her anchors through the night al- most on the Dumpling Rods off the Dartmouth shore while her crew pumped for their lives to keep out a rush of water and 64 Brava passeng- ers huddied in the hold on their knees in prayer. Her bowsprit was the forémast split and her sails were torn to shreds by the gale before a tug boat Dpoked past the rocks this morning and towed her here. The Serina was bound from the Cape Verde Islands for New Bedford. 15, 1920. BOYS' CLUB NOTES Basketball Game at Club Gymnasium Evening—Other Plans for This Coming Events, Tho Junior Basketball team of the Y. M. C. A. will play the Boys' club team, at the new gymnasjum at $:15 o’clock this evening. Superintendent Marshall Cook has made arrangements to have the Land- ers, Frary and Clark Girls basketball team, and the P. and F. Corbin girls team, play a game at the club gymna- sium, Monday evening, December 20. As a headliner, the Busy Bee team and the local Pyramids will clash. Mec- Keon's orchestra has been secured to furnish music. Dancing will be en- Joyed after games. Tickets are selling for this event and can be purchased at Boys’ club. The proceeds of game will be used for the needs of the gym- nasium. The Boys' Club band will play at the Burritt Grange entertainment which is to be held at the Grange Hall Sat- urday night. Plans are also being pre- pared for holding the annual Chist- mas Social. An appropriate program will be presented. It will be held Wednesday evening, December 23, at the Boys' club. All parents have been cordially invited to attend. It will commence at 7:30 o'clock. SEEK MISSING GIRL Chiristian Science Church May Have Commit- ted Suicide, Friends Fear. Boston, Dec. 15.—With every effort of the police to find a trace of Miss Maud M. Daniels, former secretary of BE. A. Merritt, director of the Christian Science church, futile, the belief of friends of the girl, who has been missing for sixteen days, that she might have committed suicide Secretary to Director of changed today to a belief that she ; may have met with foul play. It has been disclosed that on Thanksgiving Day, although she had accepted an invitation to dine with her landlady, she telephoned that she could not do so; that she dined at a down-town restaurant, going sub- sequently to the theater and then to the home of a wealthy woman friend in the Back-Bay. It is also known that for a week before her mysterious disappearance she had been spending much time with this woman- Investigators are now bending every effort to identify the person with whom Miss Daniels had Thanksgiving dinner and with whom she attended the theater. They are also trying to estabMsh the identity of the Back Bay woman. - OPPOSITION IN SENATE. Washington, Dec. 15.—Evidence ot opposition to the senate resolution to revive the war finance corporation were apparent today at a hearing by the house committee on banking and currency. Fear that in_its present form it might compel the government to make additional loans to Europe was expressed by committee members and Chairman McFadden, Penna., said he was anxious to avold any such posaibilits. | i CITY ITEMS Removal sale at Besse-Leland's. —advt Dunhill pipes—Wilson's.—advt. Isabella Circle, Daughters of Isa- bella, is planning a sale to be held in the store formerly occupicd by Rap- elye on Main street. The affair will be held Friday evening. Ladies’ comfys. All colors. Reg. $2.50, $1.65. The S. W. Menus Store.— advt. Albert Root of Brook street was removed to the New Britain General hospital yester to have a minor operation on his leg. The Good Mothers Sewing club wil meet tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. A. H. Griswold on Lyons street Alll members are urged to attend as this will be the last meet- ing before the hoildays. “Say It With Music” at Morans’.— advt. Antonio Sierorol of Simsbury and Brandia Cantos of 35 Chestnut steet, have taken out a license tq marry. Both are Spaniards. Join New Britain Xmas Club.—Advt. The salary committee of the com- mon council will meet this evening at 7:30. Salary requests will be re- ceived at the meeting at 8 o’clock and will be referred to that committee. Cigar, cigarette and tobacro humi- dors—Wilson's.—advt. Alderman J. F. Gill has drawn a petition for presentation to the com- mon council this evening, having for its purpose the widening of Park street from Main to Stanley streets, a distance of two and one-half feet on each side. “Say It With Flowers’ at Morans'.— advt. Jacob Hockman was arrested today, charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper markers. Ivory Xmas gifts at Henry Morans'. —advt. A son was rn to Mr. and Mrs. John Callahan’of 115 Clark street last evening at the New Britain General hospital. Watch Meshken's windows for as- tounding prices.—advt. More than 50 took part in the “45" tournaments at the Tabs’ building last night. Winners will be given turkey awards next week. Plenty of ties for $1—Wilson's.— advt. National Bank VETS PICK TROLLEYS. At a meeting of A. G. Hammond camp, U. 8. W, V. last evening at state armory, a debatq was held on the fol- lowing subject: 'Resotved, that it would be more beneficial to the city of New Britain to have the trolley system remain and ‘Jitneys' aholished than to have the trolleys go and the ‘Jitneys’ remain.” The affirmatiive side was declared the winner. ADMITS MANY BURGLARIES Epringfield, Mass., Dec. 15.—Georgo Guyott, aged 29, arrested last night by state dettctive D. J. Manning at the Massachusets—Connecticut line con- fessed to a series of hall a dozen bur- glaries in the town of Longmeadow, covering a period of Aine months in which goods, mostly jeweiry to tha valuo of more than $5,000 was taken. = --Qur Christmas Club for 1921 is open and we cordially invite you To Join— The New Britain Trust Co. has added this Savings Club to its already many departments, so that you may transact ail your business in one bank. Many have already joined and we urge you to make the start also-as little as 23c per week-up to $10° a week and you will have a check coming in next Christ- mas which will bring joy and happiness GRACE IS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY TODAY President of Bethlel Steel Com- | Member New York Stock Exchange 31 WEST MAIN STREET, NEW BRITAIN, CO TEL, 2 _pany Invited to Tell About Ship- ping_ Board Activities New York, Dec. 15.—Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem | B Steel company was invited to appear today before the joint legislative committee investigating the building situation here, to answer charges that his company was withholding con- struction steel from builders employ- ing union labor, thus forcing up con- [ struction costs. Whether officials of the U. S. Steel Corp. and other companies mentioned as having a similar policy would be asked to appear could not be learned. Paul Starrett, president of the George A. Fuller Construction com- pany and Louis Horowitz, president of the Thompson-Starrett Co., testi- fled yesterday that they had been compeled to turn their steel erection work over to the iron league erectors’ association which operated on the “apen shop™ policy. Both testified they had appealed unavailingly to Mr. Grace and to Mr. Charles M, Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Corp. for the privilege of purchasing steel direct from the mills and erecting it themselves. ELECTION OF OFFICERS - Daughters of Castile STANLEY R. EDDY, Mgr. 50 North & Judd 75 New Britain Machine Hold Annual Officials For Meeting and Elect JOHN P. KEOGH Member Consolidated Stotk Exchange of New York. The Daughters of Castile held a meeting at the Knights of Columbus | STOCKS hall last night, and the following of-! | BONDS ficers were elected for the ensuing vear: Grand Regent, Mrs. James M. D Private Wire New York to B G. F. GROFF, Mgr.~Room 509, N. B. Nat7 Rank Md Coming Year, ] i | i 1 Hallinan; vice grand regent, Mrs. Alex Bonefant; prophetess, Miss atherine | Ralph; recording secretary, Miss Ber- | tha McBriarty: financial secretary, Miss Margaret Heskin; treasurer, Miss Anna McBriarty and sentinel, Mrs. Mary Erwin. The club also made plans for holding a Christmas social. This social will be held at the hall at the next meeting which will be Dec. 28. An appropriate program will then be carried out. HEARINGS ON IRELAND £3 WEST MAIN ST., NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTIOUT Investments, Local Stocks .'Deleplwnel.) uxg North & Judd Fractional Warrants Adjusted WE OFFER SFANLEY WORKS England Expected to Give His Views ‘Washington, Dec. 15.—Laur Ginnell, former member of the British parliament from Caunty Westmeath, Ireland, and Miss Ruth Russell of Chicago were expected 1o testify today at the resumption..of hearings of the commission of the committee of 100 investigating the Former Member of Parliament In] HT). Irish, guestion A Slc message today said two eve witnesses of the slaying of Thomas MacCurtain, predecessor of Terence MacSwiney as lord mayor of Cork left Sunday on the steamer Carmania to testify before the commission. The witnesses are Annie and Susan Walsh, Mrs. MacCurtain CHRISTMASMON To theFolks in the Old Co MONEY ORDER, DRAFT OR CA GEORGE A. QUIGLE 297 MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN, CO! sisters of DEAD BROUGHT BACK i Bodies of American Solders | Arrive at New York New York, Dec. 15.—The largest shipment of American war dead to be returned on one ship—2,479 bodies— arrived here today on the army trans port Weaton from Bordeaux and St. Nazaire. Awaiting the returned American dead at the army base was a long row of tressels and 2,479 new Amer- can flags. With one of these flags, each casket was shrouded as it was lifted from the ship hold. 2179 TO PLAY AT MERIDEN. e Nutmegs eleven will play at Hanover Park, Meriden next Sunday afternoon, opposing the All-Meriden eleven. The locals will meet at o’clock tomorrdw evening at Ukrairinn hall for practice. |LouIS PERLYSKY AUDITS ACCOUNTING SYS INCOME TAX REPO Room 306 Pilgard Buil Hartford, Conn. Telephone Ch. Th Savings Bank of New Britair A MUTUAL BANK Began»Business in 1862 Surplus and Undivided Profits $868,635.13 Assets $13,798,567.77 178 MAIN STREET We are to your home and kiddies. open every night this week. Yours for a Merry Christmas NEW BRITAIN TRUST CO. Deposit in This Bank Your Christmas Club Checks 41/?% Interest Open 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Monday Evenings 7:30 to 9 Saturdays 9 to 1