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its affairs more etly with ¢ hibitors threughout the country l A divect and fat-footed deflance of | . . My, Hays and the motion picture pro- | e @ dueers and distributors was said by | m the Times to be Mr, Fairbanks' plan Jt was when asked about this that INCORPORATED he declared Mr. Hays was not the “moral uplifter of the movies." “Mr, Hays has nothing whatever to do with the art or morals of the| motion ploture industry,” asserted Mr | Fairbanks, “He is simply the hired intermediary or ‘Axer’, He has done | N S . H wonderful work in straightening out | . t | the censorship tangle but that, and | ew pflng a s only that, is his function. p “When Mr, Hays was here last 4 U month, I told him the public ought to | \ f i be informed that ‘moral uplift’ was not his true role, “1 admire his ability and admire him as aman but T believe hia true tatus should be made known." ! { ! . ¥ 3 New Hats have arrived for Satur- ® COIumbla GrafonOlas fi%}gfi%}?fi?fiéfi?&?fig ; day, and can be seen on display in At Big Money Saving Prices plotgres bt enly of the moner (o be the store and in the windows, made from them, NEW MODEL F-2 v $100 due to the fact that the sentries and | Our Stock is Complete in Styles To Suite Everyone—In All Finishes |§l patrols were under orders to fre Jote} ; the air and only shoot t - |the crowd refuse to break up. New y New Hats TO Match Your Furnit“re Whenever and wherever the French | hofy §. Veilings rifiles spoke, the populace uamperod‘ ALL THE LATEST NEW PROCESS COLUMBIA RECORDS tocorer e e dampered | 25Cy DOC $3.75 the bellicose ardor of the German| Hats of Straw Cloth, of Straw ']UESSE”]"RF M"B | = Braids, of Embroidered Silks, of SAVE f WHRINURE P ol ™ ' Many Shots Fired But No One In- . $40 to $100 jared-Long SEr_qggle Seen | SE Do, Biuce o By |EEEET] @ y " h vhen French Weekly Payments. Every Machine absolutely :.'."'.f, ':n; ::'f:nlrfl):"p:trlrl: n':.';:a( Val alues ht Duesseldorf | Columbia features. T ate e A, | : $6.50 to $8.50 Two Germans were reporied wound- X 3 X Com~ early to assure delivery for Satur- od during the course of the distur-| day. Now is the time to complete your home bance which started early in the | ;Wi ovening when a mob celebrated simul- | ot oas “eekly payments. How can you taneously the return of Fritz Thys- | be without one of these beautiful Grafonolas sen and a two hour protest strike. That more persons were not hurt was | new and fully guaranteed. With all the new the streets. At midnig was outwardly calm. patriots, ! D D D) S T D DD D DD 33 Reinforcements Rushed. $2.95 The French, however, are under no | $2.95 BLACK ALL SILK ; illusion as to the seriousness of the [ A " | ¥AN RAALTE ALL d i | Q! ‘IOb n A A nd rews & Co T oo Mot SILK STOCKINGS Woolen STOCKINGS s L4 raine. Martial law may be declared Cordovan African Discontinued Numbers [} immediately should there be any .\t-l l 0 ° l a . 4 7 tempt to repeat the manifestations of 3 5 H $ 5 132 MAIN ST. Columbia Headquarters New Britain [[J]|is= evnine. : ostery So e e et | e Otls Shblbeidtontt:of Wool — road strike is still vr'rroru\h‘;, $1.49 and Silk an;i Wool Stock- 2.95 KAYSER and : — st s, s Bake - oss i - DUPLEX CHRANOIE ings have been greatly VAN RAALTE GLOVE garrion’ and_removing a moderating| whole reparation problem before an|®o™ that Duesseldorf and Essen are SUEDE GAUNTLETS reduced in price—some SILK STOCKINGS TR“[]P wlTHI]RAwAL influence upon the policy of the Paris| international conference at which or. [the main hotbeds of trouble. A seri-| Broken sizes to cost and others at less Discontinued Numbers i b government, but would probably de-| ganized lahor would be represented. | oy ”:;’;L‘;"gmfmf‘:’;:a::: Svered $1 00 than cost. $2 19 . stroy the entente as well as cause in- g Burgomaster Luther and showed him v 8 D D D D | jury to British commercial interests | | for the control of the German export military map of the city on which‘r !licenses would pass to the successors were four red circles designating the | sy vy location of the French and Belgian | < D |of the British garrison. [ i i i Watchful Wi 2 forces. Cablflet DWlded 0|l Fl‘eflfih POlle‘ Th litic (I i i e 3 ‘; *“Tell your people they must refrain| The offer closed at 3 o'clock yester-{ican Legion, upon his visit to this A e political writers this morning | from any aftack upon our troops or|day afternoon. city on Saturday evening. The com-| Hartford, Jan. 26,—Captain Dwight « —— mander is a member of the Elks. He|A. Pease of Hartford is appointed NEW CAVALRY OFFICER. we shall open fire upon the rest of | will be met at the Central Junior High ptain of cavalry and assigned as the city,” said General Fouanier to { ELKS To ENTERTAIN school auditorium by a number ur’m-rumn; officer for Troop C, first = | Blks and escorted to the Elks' home | separate squadron, in orders from the general's office. He will |on Washington street, where he will | adjutant National Commander Alvin C. Uwslcyf be entertained. b4 |command this unit when organized. The committee in charge of the re- |1-cut. A. Stewart Gray of Hartford sitioned for the French officers. | 5 ek | | Will Be Tendered a Reception Fol-| o “0 10" e ainment is as fol- |13 appointed first lieutenant of cav- Tows: Exalted Ruler John W. Lockett, | alry and assigned as recruiting officer Ernest N. Humphrey, Judge B. F.|for Troop C. |Aid not venture to predict the cab-| .-Lal]o]‘ [s Oppose[l [Inets decision: _ Some, however, | . hazarded the suggestion that in view| : H | 7 | the burgomaster. | of the complexity of the situation :AndLDenles e ]S Ffll‘ce [0]‘ “MOl'al,' The [s)ue:soldorf disturbance cen- | London, Jan. 26, (By Assoclated |the divergent opinions Bonar Law . ; |tered ‘ around the Brieden-Bacher Press).—The occupation of the Hheywould idsdlds jo: do nothing. st prea- U l]t i OI Fflms |hotel which has been practically requi- and the question of maintaining or ent and would await developments. | withdrawing the British Cologne gar- }1\; any rate, it l\\'ns nIo‘l f‘xvlv‘cted :’h:l‘ French Are Calm. " s 4 the chief |the government would make a defi- ::;::q\\n.frr;“:nll;l;:t:n:( ‘:h:ofullpme‘np | nite announcement. Hl,los ‘:‘“g:]“’ Jan. 26—Will H. Havs, '\m’ggfi :::-‘Tm?fig':}:; flr::.lcl?s "::\;:5; loging ‘Addtess: atinior Hgh, s 4 | " " ¢ _ | titular head i ing of the cabinet today. | The diplomatic expert of the Tele- | jugtry s m,”fl;;‘lfd’;‘]"”;gel:"':f"e “}':r [ipon them. One colonel disarmed his| Plans have been completed by the | Gaftney, W. I Delancy. Harry C.| - While it was believed that the re-|graph, discussing the government's| fiims® and draws his yearly salary of aide de camp who had drawn a re-| New Britain Lodge of Elks for a re-|Brown, Dr. Henry Martin, John C. Mustard plasters will not blister it e e uvanees givon o Lord Crewe | dificuity, says the views of Washing-|g150.000 in that capacity and 1 ngt| oy 2nd Was ready to fire upon the ception to be tendered Alvin C. Ows-| Loomis, I J. Murray, Thomas I the white of an egg is used in thelr at Paris had been arcogtrd as re-|ton and A'morkian opinion are gener-|the “uplifter of the movies,” Douglas cr?.w_d. ; ley, national rommandr'r of the Amer- | Jackson and J. M. Finnegan. | preparation. ) moving the likelihood of the recur-|ally received with the closest atten-| fairbanks, motion picture star has de- | You wait for my orders before! rence of such Inclrl('n\‘u as the Lazen- |tion here. | clared, according to the Los Angeles shooting,” the colanel told his alde, auer expulsion, it was said that the Labor Is Opposed. Times. The latter reluctantly obeyed, but whole situation was causing the gov- British labor organizations are plan- Mr. Fairbanks made the declara- muttered: “You will never make anything out crnment increasing anxiety and (hat;nlng a campaign against the Ruhr oc- | tion, the Times said today in an inter- {he time had come when in the opin-|cupation and arranging an interna-|view in which he commented upon|°f these people unless they féar you.” | jon of some of the cabinet members tional protest against continuance of | his hope of banding together the stars The sentiment of this subaltern evi-| the whole question of the British at-ia situation which they are convinced|of filmdom under a ‘gentleman’s dently has beén accepted by higher| officials, and after this gathering of | titude toward the I'rench policy must|is leading in the direction of im- agreement” which would “give photo- be reviewed, perhaps revised. | measurable disaster. Secret commun- | play patrons art’ instead of what the {the thunder clouds there is apparent Cabinet Divided. ications are constanfly passing be-| parasites of the industry think is art.” {3 Tresoive to make it a real military | According to some of the political |tween the lcading British and con-| He made public several weeks ago |OcCupation. writers in the morning newspapers | tinental labor organizations and so-|his plans for grouping the leading M. Le Trocquer, the minister of the cabinet is divided on this ques-|cialist parties including German,|actors and actresses of the screen in a public works, returned to Paris last| tion especially as regards keeping the French and Dutch, | combination designed to assure them |€vening but General Weygand, Mar- | British troops in the Rhine zone. The continental workers are re- a free hand in making and distribu- |shal Foch's chief of staff, remained It is reported that Premier Bonar|ported to be looking to British labor | ting their products. behind. This gave rice to the report SPECIAL Women's Law favors the return of the troops|to lead in the movement by exert- Those in Big Group. that he was to supplant Gen. De- and that in this he is supported by|ing pressure upon the London gov-| The group includes himself, hie Boutte as commanding general but . goveral of his colleagues. Other mem-jernment to recall the British troops|wife, Mary Pickford; Charlie Chapnn_;!m‘h a change was officially denied | bers of the cabinet are said to feel on the Rhine and to refuse to coun-| Pola Negri and Harold Lloyd. It|at French headquarters. | {hat withdrawal at this time would |tenance further the IFranco-Belgian|plans to deal with no huge cinema ! Mistake I3 Seen. WOMEN'’S RUBBERS not only increase the tension by in-|policy, thus forcing abandonment of|corporation in-the production or dis- The French admit that the court- | Black and Tan Leathers volving the substitution of a French the Ruhr adventure and bringing the |tributionof its films but to transact martial at Mayence made a mistake Storm_and Plain Also Black Sati in permitting Fritz Thyssen to return Al Sizes. so Black Satin to the Ruhr as his arrival is be- R oge o . lieved to have been the signal for eport Gemany Mobll]zlng Relchwehr an attempted mobilization of secret 69c $2 49 organizations of young men in the ¥ Rhineland and the Ruhr. s { One hundred thousand Ruhr work- ors are said to be on strike today or| slightly less than 20 per cent of lh(“ total. | MEN'S GOOD SHOES SPECIAL Meanwhile the economic life of the - |region is at a standstill. The French | thus far after two weeks of the oc- | \ g o Children’s vs' dcupation have not been able to get| Black and Brown NEUS N Oy enough out of the Ruhr to meet the , SHOES |expenses of their military operauona‘ Goodyear Welt Black dO,‘; | ack and Tan with |and to maintain their troops. | Eapect Long Occupation. | sy Rubber Heels Rubber Heels “We are settling down for a long | occupation and aré bringing railroad | N $1 98 men from southern [‘rance and min- s $3 98 ers from Pas-de-Calais,” it was said | x officially at headquarters, “Something must give or crack. Germany or “wman | SFIF-SERVICE SHOE MART A few hundred pairs OXFORDS and PUMPS Nearly v X o | Nearly 200 Local People Take Ad- |} 509 MAIN STREET NEXT TO MOHICAN MARKET vantage of “Herald” Thrift Plan and Receive $1.00 for 50 Cents, “Save Money On Your Footwear By Our System.” There were 187 new accounts open- | [ed at the Durritt Savings bank through the “Herald” thrift coupon | plan during Thrift Week Each of | | these depositors received credit fof | 56 cents in addition to 50 cents de- Unconfirmed dis,.. ....cs report that Generals Von Hindenburg and Ludendorff have inspected posited. 1In order to Keep that 50| * L7 5 the Reichswehr, or German State Militia, which will be the first troops to face the French ige:ase cents they must make at least one| Fo’ oulc& Retams Use Hefald CICSSlfled Adfit‘. of armed outbraks. Ludendorff (extreme left) and Hindenburg (right) are shown inspecting this| i Tat apren, Mt e WMTY] type of troops. {the account before the last of June.