New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 17

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Shades, Saturday line Fine Quality Damask, .75¢ Twill Flannel, all colors 20c Unbleached Sheeting, 36 in. wide . ...10c to 12l5¢c Large Size Army Blankets $3.98 each One Lot of Boys’ Pants $1.25 pair Barker Brand Collars. . 20c of Window $62.00, for 8x10 Grass Rugs. Wool and Fibre Rugs, $1.00 value, 1 Axminster Rug, value $17.00 Keystone Granite Rugs We Sell McCall Patterns. N l RUNNING DOWN CLUE New York Policeman and Insurance Representatives on Trail of Stolen Cars in This Vicinity. A Jetective from department of the New York police, anied by three insurance ad- justors arrived here this morning, to commence an investigation, resulting from information recently secured oncerning stolen cars. Soon after the arrival of the men, Detective Ser- ceant A. J. Richardson accompanied them from the station, and up to press time this afternoon no information was obtainable regarding the result of the mission. cently in the automobile New York, the police arrested several men, who are be- lieved to be at the head of a ring operating in the stealing and distri- bution of automobiles. Several of the cars are said to have been shipped into Connecticut. One of the men had in his possession the name of a well known local man, who is the owher of sevzral machines. Indications point some sensational developments within the next few days. SUES FOR $2,000. Tony Trosk, has brought suit against Gerasin Riss of Tolland coun- ;, for $2,000 on alleged default of payment of a loan. Property of the defendant will be attached.. Lawyer A. A. Greenberg will represent the plainti COMMISSIONER SWORN IN. Elmer B. Stone, the newly appoint- ed member of the board of fire com- missioners, was sworn into office this morning by City Clerk A. L. Thomp- son. J. S. ARMY CHANGES. General Morton Gives Way to Gen. Bailey at Fort Howard. Washington, Aug. 19.—Orders were issued today retiring Major Gen. Charles G. Morton from command of the third corps area at Fort Howard, Md., and assignifis Brig. Gen. Charles' J. Bailey, now in command of the seventh division at Camp Mead, Md., as his successor. Gen. Morton will report to Gen. Pershing 1t the expiration of a leave of ab- sence for assignment to duty as yet not specified. BERGDOLL IN SWITZERLAND. More Complications Over Prize U. S. Draft Dodger. Geneva, Aug. 19.—Grover C. Berg- doll the American draft evader says the Thorogovie Zeitung today ar- ri\ ed in Constance from Munich three ago and now is stopping in a hmcl at St. Gall. Bergdoll came from Germany to avoid extradition to the United States, the wspaper asserts. He has an American passport, it adds and now is perfectly safe from extradition. Deaths and Funerals. Mrs. Edmund Dillon. The funeral of Mrs. Edmund Dillon will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at St. Ma church. The burial will be in St. Mary's new cem- PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. King have returned from a trip to San Francisco, where Mr. King went as a delegate to the Knights of Columbus convention. Mr. ad Mrs. Bernard Skinner of New Haven are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Betty Ger- trude, born recently. 3 was formerly Miss Betty Olson nf this 2ity Miss Irene Noble, izte Dr. H. D. C., is the guest of Mrs. of Emmons Place. | Mr James F. Kifson leave tomorrow Pitsford, Vermont, for a two weeks' stay. John Egan of Court street left this raorning for Franconia Notch in the White Mountais, where he will play th an orchestra for the balance of e season at Peckett's, on Sugar Hill Word has been received from Mrs. T. Baker of 4490 East street, who Hot Springs, Ar stating her health is much improved. CITY ITEMS gine Company, No. [to 24 Webster Hill this {extingnish a slight blaze. The Brotherhood of the Bristol | Swedish Lutheran church was enter- ined by the local Brotherhood at the edish Lutheran church in this ci t evening. A program was carried out and refreshments served. Morning services at the Luotheran church will be this Sunday William Furman of Elm Hill report- ed to the police this morning that his bicycle was stolen vesterday afternoon at the State Trade school. i There will be a meeting of Loyal Order of Moose at their hall tonight. Report on final arrangements for clam bake will bé maded. daughter of the B. Noble of Washinston, S. H. Wood E to 2w called fternoon, to Swedish in English NEW BRITAIN "DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 'HAS GIVEN LECTURE NEARLY 6,000 TIMES ’.World’s Most Famous Lecturer Was Also Here 50 Years Ago Yotngz men and women of this city who would like to pecome rich will have the opportunity of being told how to do so tonight by a man who hai earned and given away mora than $9,000,000, telling how to accomplish this in a lecture which he has given almost. 6,000 times in all the civilized countries in North America, Europe, Asia; including the Japanese Islands, Africa, Indm Siam, Turkey, Jeru- salem, Abbysinia, etc. Rev. ell H. Conwell, pastor of the Baptist church in Philadelphia, with a congregation of 3,000 members and president of Temple university, in that city, the moest unique educa- tional institution ond the only ona 19, 1921. — Globe Clothing House .-. ANNOUNCING FALL HATS of its kind in existence, which has educated 110,000 boys and girls in the past years and will open in October, this year, with an enrollment of 10,000 students, 1s acknowledged as the highest salaried minister of the gospel in the world. He started as pastor of his present church at $800 a year and now is paid an an- nual salary of $18,000. His famous lecture, give in for the his own church October 6,000th time, has earned, ac- cording to figures of students in Tem- ple university, $9,000,000 in the 50 vears he has been delivering it. Al- though he takes his subject *Acres of Diamonds,” he adapts the lecture entirely to local conditions. When seen in his room at the Hotel Beloin this morning he said: “It's purpose tonight will be to tell poor young men and women in New Britain how to get rich, if they want to do so.” “There are fewer cities that I know better than I do New Britain,” said Dr. Conwell, with the statement that he has been here numerous times in the past 50 years. His lecture here 50 years ago was rendered in the Methodist church. In Philadelphia, where Dr. Conwell will deliver his lecture in his own church for the 35th time at the an- niversary in October, 2,000 tickets already have been sold at §$5.00 each. Every cent of this lecture money, whether received at his own church or on the chautauqua platform, is given to help some poor boy or girl through college. The money he gets for tonight’s lecture will help a one armed newspaperman in Los Angeles to get an education. “I get more satisfaction out of my money spending it that way than I could in spending it any other way,” said the famous lecturer. Temple university, in Philadelphia, which graduated 7,200 students at the close of the term last spring and will open this fall with 10,000 is a voca- tional institution, whereby poor bovs and girls from everywhere in the United States can earn their own way through school. They are required to have high school educations be- fore enrolling. They are provided with work in the city while learning. Law students get work in lawyers’ medical students go to city Is or physicians ‘offices, en- zineering students to"the places where they can learn and earn at the same time. They spend their evenings working at these places and earning their living expenses and g0 to school Before entering the ministry, at the Dr. Conwell worked several rears on the New York Tribune and later was editor of the Boston Travel- v vigorous for his age. 79, but is accompanied by two trained nurses at all times. “You see,” he remarked to a Herald representative with his famous smile, “I am pretty well grarded.” POPULATION IN INGREASE Gain of Approximately 48,680 Since August 1896—Just Quarter of a Century Ago. During the past 25 years, the city of New Britain has grown from a population of 10,636 to its present size with 59,316 persons living here That makes an increase of exactly 48,680, making an average gain of some 1,947 inhabitants in each suc- ceedling year. When the new city made on August 19, Price, Lee and company, been an increase of 797 more than the previous year. The name of Johnson took the lead with a total of 188 to their credit. The Smiths however came a close second with 115 in the book. directory 1896, by the there had was WANTS LAW OBSERVED Cox Appeals to Crowd Not To Make Disturbances. Gov. Boston, Aug. 19.—Governor Cox to- day appealed to the people of Ware- ham, where three Cape Verde negroes have been arrested for an attack on a young white woman, not to let the mob spirit rule. He urged that they have confidence in their court and prom- ised that the whole power of the com- monwealth would be extended to pun- ish those guilty of so artocious a crime. STILL AFTER 'EM. Government Men Are Checking Up Rum Smugglers. Detroit, Aug. 19.—With the an- nouncement here today that U, S. Cus- | toms authorities will station at secret points along the Detroit river to check up on liquor boats coming from Can- ada the activities of rum smugglers were believed on the wane. POSTAL CLERKS FIELD DAY. Members of the clerical staff of the post office will attend an athletic field day of state postal employes to be held at Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport, Sunday. The members of the local office cansed a riot at New Haven last vear when they attended the outing and cleaned up almost all the prizes without difficulty. They are in there with the figzht now and expect to re- peat again in the Park City so 'tis rumored. New Styles—The Choice of the Market $3.50 na $4 which he will } NO NEW EVIBENCE [WOMEN AND MENIN PUTNAM&Co. Member New . York Stock Exchange Successor to Richter & Co. 31 WEST MAIN STREET, NEW BRITAIN, CONN STANLEY R. EDDY, Mgr. TEL. 2040 We Offer: Hartford Electric s Due September, 1939. Price on application. G. JUDD W. T. SLOPER JUDD & CO. 23 WEST MAIN ST., NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT Investments, Local Stocks Telephones, 1815, 1816 Will Buy AMERICAN BRASS STOCK IN MURDER CASES| MASS. LYNCHING MoB| (Continued from First Page). Prosecutor Promises fo Act in Burch and Obenchain Trial mained outside the jail nearly an hour and a half, still threatening an attack while Sheriff Rosenthal, Chief War- der‘. Boland and the three others stood guard with shotguns. There are ten prisoners in the Barnstable jail. Usually two men are considered sufficient to guard it. Last night, because of the Wareham inci- dent the sheriff personally took com- mand and augmented the force to five. Today more guards will be add- day. ed, and Sheriff Rosenthal intimated Obenchain, attorney for his former|also that he might ask for state wife, Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, in-}troops to help him. The second regi- dicted with Arthur C. Burch for mur-|ment of field artillery of the Massa- der in connection with the shooting has | Chusetts National Guard is stationed steadily maintained that the innocence|five miles away on its summer en- Los Angeles, Aug. 19.—Any evidence warranting another a would be act- ed upon promptly Malcolm McLaren, chief investigator of the district attor- ney's office said today in commenting on Ralph Obenchain’s statement that the man who killed J. Belton Kennedy here August 5 would be in jail by Sun- @Thomson, Tenn & Co. NEW BRITAIN New Britain National Bank FEldg. Telephone 2583 DONALD R. HART Mgr. HARTFORD 10 Ceatral Bow Telephone Charter 5009, We Offer: Landers, Frary & Clark Traut & Hine Prices On Application. of the defendants would be established through the apprehension of another person. McLaren said the only desire of offi- cials was to see the slayer of Kennedy arrested and convicted, but he added that ‘‘any theory of the case must pro- vide for Burch and Mrs. Obenchain; the facts show too strong a case against them to be disregarded.’’ Coincident with this statement it was announced by Deputy District Attorney Keyes that the prosecution had examin- ed two new witnesses late vesterday. Mr. McLaren said that while his of- fice had been working on the theft of an automobile on the night of the mur- der and later recovered at Santa Mon- ica, he considered the automobile and the thief had been eliminated as a per- tinent factor in the case. It was believed at first that the man might have been one of two ‘‘foreign- ers’” whom M Obenchain told author- ities had brushed by her in the Beverly Glen shortly after the shooting of her fiance. WILL NOT APPEAR Suzanne Lenglen, French Tennis Star Has Sent Word to Boston That She is Unable to Play in Tournanient. Boston, Aug. 19.—Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis star, whose formal entfy for the national mixed doubles tournaments to be played here next week, was received vesterday by offi- cials of the Longwood Cricket club, sent werd today that she wouid not be able to participate. A message recelved by Edwin Sheafe, president of the Longwood club and local representative of the U. S. Lawn Tennis association said Mille. Lenglen’s physicians had for- bade her to play in the tournament. She had been entered as a partner of Wm. M. Johnston of California. LOCAL ATHLETES ENTERED. Five New Brnam Men To Compete In State Championship Events. New Britain will have five athletes entered in the state championship track meet to be held in Bridgeport tomor- row afternoon. Edward B. Hunger- ford in the mile, Armond Landino and Robert Peplau in the broad jump, Na- than Abetz in the shot put, and Ger ald Hannon in the high jump are the local athletes entered and the events v are entered in order. It A. A. U. meet and open to all members from the state. Inasmuch as it is for state championship events, a larger number of New Britain boys were not entered as they were not ready to meet the fastest from other parts of the Nutmeg confines. VETERANS TO DINE. Members of L. D. Penfield camp, Sons of Veterans, will attend a dinner to be held at Momauguin tomorrow af- ternoon. Frank H. McGar of 86 North First street, Meriden, is in charge of the arrangements for the affair. A number of New Britain men notified the man in charge that they would be in attendance. JR. ACHIEVEMENT RALLY. A Junior Achievement Rally was held | this afterncon from 2 to 5 o'clock at the old Burritt school grounds. It was the fi attempt of a rally of its kind in this city and was well patronized Donations of cakes, cookies, etc., were made by lecal friends. campment. Held in $15.000 ™ail. Dies and Gomez were hcld in $1 000 bail each yesterday and Andrews was to be arraigned today. All three have been identified by Miss Gertrude Butler and William Eldridge as the men who held them up and criminally assaulted Miss Butler at Buzzards Bay early in the week. Chief Warden Boland said the crowd today came within ten feet of the jail- Among the women he saw several not more than 20 years of age. The three negro prisoners are being kept in separate parts of the building. Guard Increased. Sheriff Rosenthal announced later that he had increased the jail guard to 15 men for tonight, all armed, to defend the institution against possible assault. He said he did not mtend at this time to call for troops or stat. police and did not expect to remove the prisoners elsewhere. “We expect to take care of the sit- uation right here,”” he said. Quiet prevailed dyring the forenoon. State Police Called Out. Boston, Aug. 19.—Ten members of the state police patrol have been or- dered to proceed from Camp at Fram- ingham to Barnstable, where a crowd early today attempted to take three prisonars accused of assault upon a white girl from the jail. The men will g0 over the road in motorcycles. Public Safety Commissioner Alfred E. Focte said the men would be used to assist in preserving order but the main purpose of their going was to search for an” automobile alleged to have Leen stolen and used by the trio in the assault. JOBS GIVEN 110 MEN Workers Will Report Monday Morn- ing—Knife Wielder Applies for Job But ¥s Turned Down. The municipal employment bureau assigned 110 men to street and sewer construction gangs with orders to re- port to their respective gangs Monday morning, following receipt of a on from the board of public for that number of men. Among those who called at the em- ployment bureau this morning seek- ing employment was “Number 295 the laborer who went after Foreman George Vater with a knife and was discharged vesterday for his act. He was notified that his services are not desired by the city. One of the men blacklisted yester- day following an expose of a scheme for duplicating work tickets so that one assignment could be extended to provide work for several men, also called and asked for a job. He re- ceived a similar answer. COHEN TO OFFER EVIDENCE Trial of “Jennie T Postponed Until Later, New Haven, Aug. 19, fore the federal commission of 19 men arrested in the Jennie T. liquor land- ing case set for this morning was con- tinued until later in the day in ab- sence of Assistant U. 8. District At- torney Cohen. Counsel for the men it had been agreed with Mr. Cohen that a transcript of the evidence given in' the city court should be offered and Mr. Cohen reserved the right to offer evid ence, A hearing be- wamm $5-00 JOHN P. KEOGH Member Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York. ‘Waterbury Danbury Middletown NGLAND UNABLE T0 MAKE CONSESSIONS (Continued from First Page). simetimes sulky, sometimes savage, which make so many chapters of British history painful reading, mis- understandings between these two peoples who ought to live in peace and harmony, even in affection, to- gether, should be brought to an end. “In spite of the disquieting facts, I hope 1cason will prevail even over logic and that the Irish leaders will not reject the largest measures of freedom ever offered their country and take the responsibility of renew- ing a conflict which would be robbed STOCKS BONDS Direct Private Wire to New York and Boston. Bridgeport- New Haven Springfield G. F. GROFF, Mgr.—Room 509, N. B. Nat’l Bank Bldg. — Tel. 1012 of all glory and all gratitude 1 overshadowing horror.” MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage have oeen taken cut: uel Alpert of Gilbert' Haven, and Miss Frances M. pack ot 75 Hawkins teacher; Clayton G. Smith, a @iv: of 320 Main street and C. Lo Fiske of 935 Elm street, New Haven, a widow. licenses Attorney S avenue, Schu- . a school MOOSE GO CLAMBAKING. The local members of the lodge of Moose will attend thei annual clambake at Elliott’s Grove in Plai ville on Sunday afternoon. Plans have been in the works for wee to make this a huge success in order that the affair may ome a regular annual event. The committee in charge reports a larse number going. 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