New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1921, Page 9

N E W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1921. — e E— France ‘To By FRANCIS H. 81BSON, Vice President Guaramty Trust Gompany of New York. HE vigorous efforts of France © regain lher rightful place tn the mar- kets of the world have so far succeeded that tn the first nine months of 1920 the adverse trade balance of Fregce had decreased 36 per cent, as compared with the same peried in 1919. Much of the credit for (his must go to a number of orgaatzations formed to promote foreign trade. The most important of these or- Senisations 18 the Association Na- tionale d'Expansion Economique, a nationa) organization of French in- @ustries, which inctodes a1 the tm- portant manufacturers, trade asso- ciations, Insurance, banking, ship- ping and raflways. Its administra- tors and directors inciude the lead- ing men of France. It pudlishes a yearly Index of French Production (In Freach, Baglish, Italian, Spanish and Pertu- guese), which not only gives a sur vey of all the industries of France, but contains comprehensiv ts of its members in ench industry and rainute detalls of the lines of goods and other data. France 1s the richest country In iron ore in Burope, and the United States is the only country in a po- m— to challenge her fot the lead- wvosition n the iron fleld. With xtend Its Foreign ‘Tra thé restorntion of Alsace-Lorraine, French ootpnt will be forty-five million tons of iron ore a year, of which seventeea million tons will be available for export. The successful organization of the export trade has now been brought about by the Comptoir Siderurgique de France, which has absorbed the Comptoir de Poutrel- les and the Comptoir d'Exportation des Produits Siderurgiques. The large forges of kteel works, by means of a combination known as the Committee of Forges, are secur- ing Increasing’ interests im fron mines, water power, coke ovens and mechanical engineeriag shops. The Syndical Chamber of the #gents for Export Trade is a recent combination of all the leading agents of foreign manufactarers. They are In constant touch with the Paris commission and export mer- chants for the sale of products in- tended to be exported. Then there is the Nationnl Committee of the Counclllors for French Foreign Trade, the Chamber of Commerce for the Export Trade, the Society of Encouragement for the Export Trade aud the Norman Committee of Encoutarement for the Ferma- THE WHARVES AT ALGIEAS - THIS AFRICAN CAPITAL IS NOW ONE WAY AT TANANARIVO CAPITAL OF MADAGASC/ TAN BARK AND GRAPHITE| AMONG CHIEF EXPORTS OF THIS ISLAND COLONY OF THE FINEST PORTS N THE WOALD. tion of French Agents Abroad, at Pulals des Consuls, Rouen. In the “comptoirs,” or central selling organizations, such as the Comptoir for the FExportation of Metallurgical Products, Which ex- ports rails aud their accessories, ties, girders and channels, all busi- Iness is obtained by means of es- tablished agencies in various cities. There are also axle and car, spring comptoirs. There is an as- sociation of manufacturers of loco- motives, which fites the price on the various types, orders being ap- portioned among all the manufac- turers in propertion to their output. That asseciation hat had a success- ful career for twelve years. There is also a railway muterials syndi- cate. The Office ‘Nationale du Com- merce Exterior is an official organi- sation deveted excluslively to foster- ing French foreign trade. The Of- fice Natiomale was formerly sup- roorted by a subvention of the Paris hamber of Commerce, but has now $ecome a public departiaent, with fgnds provided by the Ministry of Commerce and by private trade or- ganizations. The French commercial attache; GRAND LIST IS RGER THAN EVER ontinued from First age.) Tenants Notified. ePous reports have beon heard sasod rents, necessitated the say, by the boosted taxes, increases proportionate to the of advance in property val. be declared, repts will increase han 560 per cent in a pgreat stances. Realizing the rutil- asking for abatements several ¥ owners have already notified nants of their intention to up rents, it is said Assossors’ Last Hst propared by the board of and from which post cards o botifying property owners oswed valuation for the same list from which the taxes for the next fiscal year will be collected. In the opinion of those who prepared the lists, there will be little grounds upon which abatements or reductions can be asked while the list has been carefully checked and rechecked to guard agninst any mistakes. There wifl, undoubtedly, be some unavoid- able mistakes which must be recti. fied before the list can finally be sub- mitted for acceptance. Effect on Other Taxes. Questions concerning the possible influence the new grand list of the eity will have upon determining lhe‘ state and county taxes to he paid by | New Britain have been rife since the | receipt of post cards announcng prop- erty valuation increases. It was explained today that the county tax is set pro rata among cities and towns and will probably be in no effect at all.] The state tax is set by the Board of Equalization, meeting in Hartford, which takes into account the ‘value” of a town. Ifi ali prob- ahout sources. stitution of estimated 0. ablities tho new grand list will have night at 7 a declded effect upon the determina-; necessarily be so. of Equalization an increase of a town's re- though it will not However, the Board will scarcely ignore 75 per cent in Foresters' fair, Foresters’ hall, Ber- lin, Jan 21 24, 25.—advt Fred D. state Y. M. C. A, retary, will speak at the local in- this evening A meeting of the board of public works will be held tomorrow evening for the purpose of drafting a budget cxpenses for next H. C. Noble has zone to Florida for the remainder of the winter. Howard Platt and family have gone to Aikin, South Carolina for a few months The Star of Good Will lodge, No. 9, & of B. will have a meeting to- o’'clock Following the entertainment will be year. eting an service at present covers the fol- lowing countries: United Kingdom, Holland and Belgium, Germany and Aunstria-Hawgary, Scandinavia, Russia, Spaln and Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, the Balkans and the Levant. In addition to these commercial attaches and agents, there have been established a number of com- mercial bureaus. There was recently formed in Paris an organization called the So- ciete Russe et Francaise pour le Commerce, I'Industrie et les Trans- ports, with the object of reorganiz- ing French commercial, industrial and banking enterprises in Russia MAN FOUND MURDERED Body of Springficld Ttalian, Shot Head and Stomach, Found in Yard, After Party. Sprincfield, Mass., Jan. hullet wounds through cstomoach was found in the rear of house in arc sceking Giovanni Scarfo, night in Salvatore and not far the body of Barbieri The two men are said '\h(‘ party together abouc tening b the of Mr in the where found have left o'sleck. - last b rect FIGHT A BLOODLEF DUEL Argentine War Minister and General which have been affected by the war and internal disorder. The Levant was formerly one of the best territories for French com- merce. Before mercial transactions ameunted to more than 3%0,000000 francs a year, and French financial interests in the Levant are considerable. The French Ministry of Commerce has recently established the Bureau of the Levant, with branch offices at Alexandria, Cairo, Beirut, Athens, Salonica, Constantinople, Smyrna and elsewhers In the Near East. In spite of many handicaps, French foreign trade during 1919 made great strides. Among the the war the com- | NEW RAILROAD BRIOGE IN INDO-CHINA- THIS COLONY HAS RicH MINERAL AND AGRI- CULTURAL RESOURCES. principal classes of merchandise ex- ported from France were the fol- lowing items: Silk goods, 6,013 tons in 1919, compared with 6,175 tons in 1913; wines, 135,687 tons in 1919, compared with 190,880 tons in 1913; cotton goods, 34,560 tens fn 1019, compared with 55,355 tons in 1918; paper and paper procducts, 31,3584 tons in 1919, compared with 49,545 tons in 1913, Rubber manufac- tures actually increased from 6,830 tons in 1913 to 11,163 tons in 1919. Colonial France—an empire sec- ond only to that of the British Em- pire—includes, #irst of all, the group of African coléenies-—slgeria, Tunis, Morocco, Senegal, Upper Ni- ger, Ivory Coast, Guinea, the Su- dan, the Sahara and the Ceongo. Then there are the Krench posses- sione scattered throughou? the re- mainder of the world—the island of Madagascar, the vast Indo-Chinese emplre, New Caledonia, the Antilles and finally St. Pierre and Miquelon, in the neighberhood of Newfound- land. In 1913 the population of the French colonies was 50,413,522, and their tofhl forejgn trade 3,243,067, 096 francs. Merchandise handled at French colonial ports amounted to 1,750,000,000 tons. The popula- tion of the colonies, therefore, ex- ceeds that of France, and their for- eign trade is equivalent in value to one-nfth U France. °* Befere French in materials cf tries and French and raw France are Tea and & Guadeloupe, do-China ;-ct Martinique tinique and and paim oll in' ca; almonds, i |and wood in F | and Indo-China; tal | Madagascar; char salt and gold in ca; iron in Indo-Chfl French West Africa and copper in Indo-China an in Madagascar. Algeria hides and skins (sheep an It has been said of Co: that it is simply a vast ri§§ tion. Nickel is preduced in G¥ New Caledonia, the latter ing the largest producer in the world, with an outj 000 toms. ' French West Africa, prises Senegal,- Haut-Senej French Guinea, the Ivo Dahomey, the military the Niger, and Mauretan an enormous tract, 1,840,000 square miles, popuiation ef about 00 1917 the tetal commeres West Africa amounted. 471 francs, of which were exports, principalty cotton, jute, agave, sizl, fee, tobacco, rubber, palm woel and wax. There 8,000,000 head of cattle West Africa, while thaj wealth includes goid, i In 1016 1,826 ships ent: West African ports. It has beea estimated French colonies, not geria and Tunis, arve o porting anmusily 2,000 foodstuffs, 400,000 ton (peanut ard pahn oil, @ tons of rubber, cotton, nping bark, raffia, etc., ai tons of mimerals. One n meters of timber are cuf in the French colonies. Algeria pessesses iron, § mercury, cepper, antimo With a population of five millions and an area square miles, Alegerian taled 1,334,000,000 frane chiefly yines, fruits, tobac barley "gnd wool. amounted to 943,000,000 # giers, now one of the fin the world, handled in ; { valued at 475,158,000 1 {nig, with an area of 50,0 wmiles and a population 2,000,000, exported graf minerals, crude metals, © cals, wines, fruits and seel tal value of 129,549,200 f: imports of Algeria and chiefly clothing, llnea, and coffee.® COLORED in 24.—The hody of Pietro Barbieri. aged 24, with the head and the Italian quarter of West Springfield ecarly today and the police who wifh Barbieri was a guest at a chris- home Solitario from was to iyear, will be substantially the tion GIRL MAKES RECORD TRIP "~ shall of what the city pay, furnished by local talent Colonel B. Nelson of New Yoik, conducted the morning services at the Swedish Bethany church yester- day. A collection was taken for the starving children of Europe. The Philathea class of the Metho- dist church, will hold a meating and supper at the church this evening. Centennial lodge, A. F. and A. M will hold its annual mceting this eve- ning. St. will at 7 Klar, The Stanley Works through the Camp Real pany, a two-family house at Russell street to Mrs. Mary & Lord. Tony Kickamor was struck by 3 Jitney bus on Arch street yesterday afternoon, sustaining a slight cut the head Whe special communication of Centennfal lodge, A. F. & A M. scheduled this evening, has been post- poned until Wednesday, February o The communications on this date will be at 6 and 7:30 o'clock. Ann Society ot St. Pcter’'s church meet at the church tonight and 80 will go to the home of Mrs. sold today, Estate com- No. 73 on TO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION A R T e ———— Fiela Buenos Aires, Jan. z4.—A bloodless pistol duel was fought this by General Valle, a commander in the Argentine army, and Minister of War Morcno, who resigned his post vester- day a result of statements pub- lished by the general. Each duelist fired one shot, went wild. THREE DROWNED TE Scranton, Pa.. Jan. 24 ing the ice in the Paupack river near Hawley yesterday to sce whether it wag thick enough to cut for storagze, three men were drowned when the ice gave way beneath them They were Ernest Kahleis and Rudolph Ka- hleis of Hawley and Byron Tuttle of Wilsonville. Mcet on of Honor which LUMBING SHOP ENTERED. George A. Rapelye, reported to the palice today that his plumbing shop lat 91 West Main street, v entered ;mmeumn between Saturday night and this morning. A small time clock | was ali that is missing. afternoon | THEATERS T0 AID DRIVE Special in Lyccum Theater on Morning for Hoover Relief Fund. Plans are being completed in at the Lyceum theater on a ‘Buropean Relief fund. The given this fund. S. Z. Poli of Haven is the state chairman of aff: this cit: is the Operators, stage theater attaches ha willingly U | sented to give their time for cause and the superintendents schools all over the state in ice-chaiyman. nds and e the shows, to school duced prices. AMr. Salvini has not cempleted plans | for the pictures which he will show in New Britain but he stated that he | was trying to procure one which would interest all of the children. In [udrhlinn to the picture program he § Will have a concert singer. ' Manager Salvini was in New Ilaven vesterday perfecting plans for the show. D. OF . ENTERTAINED Local Organization Joins with Bristol Circle at Annual Banquet and In- Stallation of Officers About 100 members of Isabella ‘cir- cle, Daughters of Isabella, which is the local branch of that organization, attended a banquet and joint installa- tion of officers with Palos circle of Bristol, yesterday afternoon. The af- fair was held in Red Men's hall, Bris- tol. In addition to the local delega- tion. the assemblage included about 200 members of the Bell City circle and about 3D guests. Included in the latter group were the officers of Palos Council of the kn ts of Cos lumbus and-a num iz s children at Performance Will Be Given Saturday this city for the special show to be given Saturday morning for the benefit of the Hoover entire proceeds of this perforfmance will bhe New the Air and Benjamin G. Salvini, man- sing director of the Lyceum theater, other con- this ol are help- ing by allowing the sale of tickets for re- " SUES FOR $600,000 Pine Ridge Coal Co. of Detroit Seeks Amount From Bridgeport Coal Company. RBridgeport, Jan. 24.—One of the rgest damage suits ever filed in the | civil superior court here was record- cd@ today when the Pine Ridge Coal o of Detroit, Mich.. filed an action . for $600,000 damages against Archi- bald McNeil and Sons Co. of this a { The suit arises over an alleged breach ior contract in the purchase of coal. Two Local Concerns Announce Cut in Wages Notices were posted about the yard and offices of the New Britain Lum- ber company last week to the effect that a slight reduction in wages would went into 1 Woman Used Pawning Baltimore, Helen L. Wild different color pawnshops to cles valued at according to inj the police todal husband, Carl B Braid of lLond many robberi Wilder has s wife, and been found. I reddish brown to the pawnshg various descri who pawned described as bl haired, light b haired. SAGH New Britain to Thold a m be made. effect today. A notice was bulletins at the P. & F, ning this morning. N ¥ This reduction also posted on Corbin fac- tory that a ten per cenf cut in wages would take place in that plant begin- e February 12, St. Joseph, Mi principal speal ing of the lod evening of this Vice-President will be present. MOL B the N