New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 2

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New| Haven Dairy Dealers.—advt. For Colds, Influenza and as a Preventive Take The First and Original Cold and Grip Tablet The box bears this signature DR. C. W, VIVIAN Tooth Extractions Dental X-Rays 52 MAIN ST. Oral Surgery Phone 703 workers. | [ the M FOR MERIDEN FIRM Edward Miller & Co, Stock Sold: 10 New Yorker Probably the PVEF COnSUIn At of yester of New York entive stock of Meriden, Feb, 1 argest eash transay mated in Meriden wg ay when ftex J brought practically the Edward Miller & company 935 » or $10 per share over par, Al egether My, Cole seeured 93 per cent the 40,000 shares yesterday, which neant a cash payment of §1,35,000, It was 10 the faet that Bdward | Miller stockholders 1o be| given the oppertunity ef selling ||un| gs on the same terms as he sold | t the actual transfer of the | stock was delayed to allow due notice | given all the shareholders, Yes ‘ st share lesived a terday Mre, Miller had the satisfaction but two per cent of the! k sold for cash at 40 per cent above par, Mr, Cole, in the spirit of | his agreement with Mr, Miller, will {Lbuy suech portion of the oulsun-lmgl stock as is held by those who have indicated a desire to sell, but were un- to make the transfer at this t soaing all | st | time My, Cole yesterday also completed negotiations for the purchase from the neral Electrie company of the Du plex Lighting Works at ¢ West Forty- |eighth street, New York, This con- {eern was a sales division of the Gen- |eral Electric company where the Du- plex Lighting fixtures made by Ed. ward Miller and company were dem- onstrated, sold and distributed, Combine With Miller Co, This concern will be combined with Fdward Miller and company and in |the future both the local plant and the sales division in New York will be operated under the name of Edward Miller and company. Rex. J. Cole, the new head of Ed- {been associuted with the General Electric company in the development of better lighting, will continue these activities in a most constructive man- ner. Associated with Mr, Cole in the management and control of the, busi- ness of Edward Miller and company will be Michael Schwartz, who has been actively connected with the busi- ne for a number of years, and Guy P. Norton, who has been associated with Mr. Cole in the management of the Duplex Lighting Works of the General Electric company. Retain Present Staff Edward Miller takes just pride in the development and growth of E ward Miller and company, and in the fact that those, who through the past years, have supported his administra- tion, have so generously profited thereby. The business of Tdward Miller and company will continue with its present staff in every department. ROBBER IS IDENTIFIED | Suspect Held At Albany Said To Be Man Who Stole Half Million Dol- lars Worth of Jewelry. New York, Feb. 17.—The man known as “Marshall” under arrest in Albany as the alleged ring leader of the trio who on New Year's eve rob- bed Mrs. Irene Schoelkopf of Buffalo | {of $500,000 worth of jewels, early to- day was identified as the occupant of West 58nd street apartment in the daring robbery occurred. identification was made by Frank Barrett Carman, who was host at the party which immediately pre- ceded the robbery. “That's the man who ‘had the apartment under mine,” Carman said, | on being shown a photograph of the ! Albany prisoner, whose real name local police declared to be Matthew D. Biddulph, member of a well | known family of Rye, N. Y. He was arrested by New York ¢ity detectives after a six thousand mile chase that extended to the Pacific Coast and re- |turn, to Canada and ended at Albany. Two other men in custody may be connected with the case, the police said. They are George I'. Daley, of Albany, and Charles Curtis, arrested | here last night in connection with a $50,000 jewel robbery last July. SAVE SHIPWREGKED CREWS Coast Guard Cutter Today Gets 29 Men, Last of the Who Were on Four Vessels Lost At Sea. which The attle, Teb. 17. (By Associated Press)—On a rock in Barcelay Sound, ¥, 29 men, the cued from four were waiting to be taken off to safety and comfort today. One hundred of the 125 rescues were placed to the credit of the coast guard cutter Snohomish. She was waiting this morning for the 29 men marooned from the steamer Tuscan Prince which went ashore on the rock. | Already aboard the cutter were 14| {men who completed the Tuscan Prince’s crew. | The Snohomish Thursday night landed at Port Angeles, Washington, | the 34 men of the steamer Nika, which burned to the water's edge af- ter reporting herself rudderless off Umatilla Reef, On her way back to Port Angeles today from the wreck | | of the Tuscan Prince, the Snohomish | was expecting to take from the beach | at Carmanah Point, east of Barclay Sound the 23 men of the crew of t | steamship Santa Rita which struck |the rocks there early Thursday while | she was trying to respond to an 8. O. | 8. from the Nika. ! AUTOIST E Bridgeport, Feb, { Phelan, in a finding today James J. Miller of Ne ONERATED. 17.—Coroner J. T, exonerated York from | Klinman, aged 8, of Greenwich, who was killed on February 12 when his sied colilded with an automoblle ORE THAN MILLION | | ward Miller and company, who has 3 ‘Peck, circus attaches, and W. V, Hill, | responsibility for the death of George | Ned McLean, the son of My, and Mrs, Edward B, McLean of Washington, who is popularly known as “the million-dollar-kid” because of the vast wealth he will inherit, is shown here with his physical instructor, Jerry Murphy, at Palm Beach. WOULD INCREASE NEW ! “AGENT” WON'T ANSWER BRITAIN'S POPULATION mendment to Tmmigration Bill, Now | Declines To Put By Balin, Alias DBalanow, Reply To All Question 0 Pending, Would Add Mar Prosecutor. £ Chicago, Feb. 17.—Cross examina- fon of Albert Balin, allas Balanow, confessed ngent, provocateur, and paid informer, had been completed and Al- len O, Myers, chief of the W. J. Burns International Detective Agency, radi- cal bureau, was ordered today to con- |{tinue testimony in a deposition being recorded for use in defending 22 al- leged members of the communist | party. Balin's cross examination yesterday ended in a sensation. The state of Michigan, represented by O. L. Smith, assistant attorney general, attempting to show that Balin “betrayed” his own ptople, the Jewish race. But Balin at times protesting vol- ubly and then refusing to answer questions neither denied nor affirmed the attorney's implications. The attorney asked Balin if he h gathered material on which Henry present trouble of admitting Assyrians | Ford's magazine, the Dearborn Inde- and Armenians who flee to this coun-|pendent, based its anti-Jewish arti- try from the Turks, only to be told at|cles. » FEllis Island that their country's quota | Balin, who jiad previously testified X .d and they must re-|R€ is a Jew, remained silent. :‘l?:...bee“ Sronldod et AT Then Balin was as¥ad {f it was not New Britain and vicinity is said toja fact that while collecting Jewish have thousands of aliens who are dg-|material in employ of C. C. Daniels, sirous of bringing members of their (@ brother of Joscphus Daniels, and families here. an operator for a New York detective A LR LRIy lagency, he sold duplicate reports to AFFECTIONS AT $100’000 ‘Norman Hapgood, author of articles Residonts to This City, The population of New Dritain will be materially iner od if an amend- ment to the immigration bill, now he- fore congress, goes through, according to Former Mayor George A, Quigley. The amendment now under consid- cration would so change the present bill as to permit the entrance into this country of wives and families of alien residents, regardless of the quota from that country. As it now stands the bill ba entrance into the United States wives and families of residents here, unless the residents are citizens of this coun- try. The United States, according to Mr. Quigley, wants the aliens to re- main, and may permit them to bring their wives and families here. It is thought this amendment would help considerably in overcoming the s from of "Jew Mania” that appeared recept- ly in Hearst's International magazine. ! “I'll dare you to answer my ques- tions,” challenged Mr. Smith. “I'll tell you nothing,” HASN'T HIT ZERO Today Boston Has Coldest Weather of Winter and It's Only Two Above, Boston, Feb. 17.—The official ther- mometer at the weather bureau in this city has tried hard several times this winter to hit the zero mark, but without success. Early today it reached the lowest mark of the win- ter, two above zero. The lowest officially reported in New England was 18 below at North- field, Vt., the recognized cold weath- er station of this section. From many places word has come of suffering in the protracted cold this week because of the coal short- age. Many street car lines are block- ed by drifts from the succession of snowstorms. This Is Value Mrs, AL G. Barnes| Stonehouse Puts On the Love of Her Husband, Circus Man, | Los Angeles, I 7.—The affec- tions of Al. G. Barne Stonehouse, known in circus circles as “Al G.| Barnes” are valued at $100,000 in a suit on file in court here by his wife, Sarah Jane Hartigan Stonehouse, against seven persons whom she ac- cused of alienating hfs love. The defendants are Albert 'l house, her husband’s brothe | wife, Thersa; Richard Busteed, her| husband’s attorney; Harley Styler, Murray A. Pennock and William shouted Stone- | Albert's her husband’s friend. | She alleged the defndants opposed | her marriage to Stonehouse and after the ceremony did everything in their power to induce him to leave here, Stonehouse filed suit for divorce in Nevada more than two months ago, charging she chased him about the circus Jot, tried to run over him with an automobile and taught his chil- dren to swear. She is his second wife. SCENE FROM MAR: PICKFOR i “LITTLE LORD FAUNTLERO | driven by Miller in Greenwich, FOX’S-—Next Thurs., Fri., Sat. ' LINTON _ BROTHERS .|fee charges are the highest in any | p Declared Semator Is Not Big | e Make Suggestions He ¥as N' i Forih, Rome, Feb, 11 —~Ratification of the | | Washington conference agreements by the Italian senate yesterday Irul marked by a speech by Premier Mussolipi, in which he touched upen ‘uvenl toples of international inter. est Mussolini characterised United ftates Senhtor Borah's propesal for an international conference as too exoessl The premier said that Mr, Borah's position did not give him sufficient prestige to compel the ae- ceptance “of his cellection eof more or less fantastio appeals™ He expressed pleasure over the Anglo-American debt settiement, Turning to the Ruhr question Mus- | solini denied that Ialy was mediat- ing between Germany and France, CARD OF THANKS The Polish Orphanage of the Su- ored Heart church, extend their heartiest thanks to Chief Willlam J, Noble, Capt. James Crowe, Lioutenant | Thomas Hinchey and firemen of Co, No, 4, for their risky and bravest at- | tempt In trying to savge our home on | North Burritt street when it took in Feb, 16, early in the morning. | We are very sorry and sympathize | with the whole company and espe- | cially Capt, James J. Crowe and | Lieutenant T, Hinchey who were in- (Jured at this fire and hope that their recovery will follow quick!ly, FEES HIGH ENOUGH, Durham, N, H, Feb, 17.—Present tuition fees at New Hampshire col- lege “probably represent as much s the traffic will bear,"” says President Ralph D. Hetzel in his annual re- port, made public today. ‘“The in- come from fees and tuitions for the year ending June 30, 1918,” the re- from the samec.source for the year ending June 30, 1921 was $81,080, At the present time our tuition and state supported institution of learn- ing in the country, except the univer- sity of Vermont. $2 POLL TAX FOR WOMEN 1S PROPOSED BY BAY STATE Boston, Feb, 17~A poll tax of $2 for women is proposed by a special commission of the legislature appoint- ed to conslder means of raising reveue for municipal purposes in the state, The report was flled with the legisla- ture last night. In addition to plact: women on the same basis as men is paying poll tax, the commission advo- cated a gasoline tax of 2 cents and a local tax on automobiles in cities and‘ towns. TRAIN SERVICE HELD UP. Worcester, Mass, Feb. 17.—Train service in both directions on the Boston and Albany railroad was held up four hours this morning after five eastbound freight cars loaded with pig iron piping jumped the tracks at North Grafton. The con- tents of the cars were scattered over both tracks. No one was injured. BRUSSELS FIRMS FAILS, Brussels, Feb. 17.—The Antwerp company, Comptoir Wegimont, deal- ing for the most part in grain and wool, has suspended payment. The liabilities are given as 14,000,000 'atterds Utmost Protostion PREVENTIVE for MEN Cast of Broadway Principals We still want to impress on you that you Will SAVE money by using our A “SAVE” LIGHTS | (ELECTRIC) : HERBERT L. MILLS HARDWARE 336 MAIN ST. WALL PAPER — 1923 STYLE — The new year’s newest patterns in WALL PAPER are here, . We invite you to come in and see them now. Never before in the city has such a remarkable array of Beautiful Decorations been shown. We can show you Papers as low priced as any in the United States. 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