New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1923, Page 1

' DEMOCRATS IN SENATE LOSE INBATTLE TO HAVE VOTERS NAME P. U. COMMISSIONERS \ ) i § News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Measure Defeated 22 to J After Hot Argument in| Which Personalities Play Prominent Part Templeton Names Cheney : for Prison Director—Sev-| eral Are Given Back Their | Rights as Citizens. Hartford, March 2.—The nomina- tion of Willlam C. Cheney of Man- | chester to a state prison director for | four years beginning July 1 next, was{ sent to the senate by Governor Tem- pleton today. | Demands Roll Call ‘When Senator Wilder moved re- | Jection of the house bill for election of | public utilities commissioners by the | people, Senator McGrath of Water- ! bury, protested and got Iis fellow democrats to vote for a roll call. He declared that the commission should | be responsible to the people. He sald “We are responsible to the people who elected nus. The question simmers | down to this: whether or not the peo- | ple are competent to govern them- selves. T have faith the people would exercise the right of franchise in a proper way as they have in the past.” | Hot Arguwment Ensues 1 Senator Brooks said that any legis- ' lator who advocated any measures | merely to get elected again was un- | wise; that such a legislator who plays | for popular support by advocating certain things merely to get a re-elec- ' tion is not going to get it. This bill would provide for election of a eom- mission every two years. The present | law provides for appeintment of a commissioner every two vears and prevents the entire commission being thrown out at once. The present law has the right principle. This idea of shaving judges and commissioners elected by the people, the senator said was like the direct primaries fallacy. Scores Direct Primaries “The direct primaries have been the rutnation, or will be, of the country,” = /Senator Brooks said, “Today there are i thie federal corgress republiean ' senatord who are responsivle to: the = yépublicanparty; democratic senators | (Continued on Page 21.) { EIGHT NEAR DEATH AS TRAIN HITS JITNEY BUS Engine Rips Off Part of Auto at East Main St. Crossing | Eight passengers had o narrow es- -cape from death or serious injury through the gates being out of order at the East Main street railroad cross- ing last evening resulting in a jitney ! bus being struck by a Hartford bound train. Slight damage was done to the truck. Respongibility for the accident is) put on the crossing watchman by the jitney driver and on the jitney driver by the railroad man. Railroad offi cialg are investigating. There was trouble with the gutes and they were not working on the crossing all day yesterday. Last night wt 9 o'clock jitney J-93, in charge of Alvin Cavswell, was headed toward the center, and wag flagged on the cdst side of the crossing by the cross- ing watchman, Charles Erickson, to let a southbound freight go b, When the freight train had cleared the crossing, Carswell claimed he received a signal from Erickson to go ahead | and that as he reached the ‘tracks he Afpund himself dircetly in front of & north bound passenger train. Swerv ing sharply to the right and making a U-shaped dive across the track, he | barely escaped being struck head on, ossed just as the train grazed car of the bus, ripping off one Loa'rd. The engineer of the passenger train saw the jitney on the tracks in time to apply his air brakes and slow nup | the train, but not in time to stop it en the south side of the crossing. Had | jitney driver or enginecer been a few | seconds slower in action a serious | catastrophe could not have heen| averted. Carswell, in a statement this morn- ing, said he received a, rignal from | ¥rickson to go ahead just as the) freight train cleared. He ®aid e went back later and asked Krickson why he gave him a signal to go ahead and that the latter told him he did not sce the passenger train, 9o Railroad offic.als stated this morn. | ing that Erickson had continued giv-| ing the jitney the same signal, swing- | ing his lantern as he had done, and that the jitney driver went ahead be. fore he could be stopped. i Most of the passengers did not realize thelr danger until it was all over, but several men in the front of the bus attempted to jump off. Fverybody was shaken up. The train proceeded without coming to a full stop, after it was scen there was no damage done. The railroad officials claim that their crossing watchmen are hothered all over the city by careless drivers Just a day or two ago a man driving down the hill en Curtis street, at a rapid speed, who later admitted his lireaks were not in good shape, was compelled to drive into a snow bank to keep from striking a freight train | | Occupation Forces Seize Bank, Exact | ‘he aesessed by order of Géneral De- | where m NEW BRITAIN NEW BRITAIN; CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, Pola “Too Happy to Sleep” After Patclaing up Scrap With Charlie Their Engagement OFf Six American Star Out Hours, Is on Again and||| | ¢ Funny-Feet 1Is Again||| in Tennis Tourney “Happiest Man in the, World.” ‘ Daylight Saving on N. H. Road Probably Will Begin April 29 b= New Haven, March 2.—The date for the change in the train schedules on the New York New Haven and Hartford rail- road has ben tentatively set for Sunday, April 29, when-daylight saving time is expected to go into eftect in New York and Mazsachusott; s, S N tables will b-s" r that date, sit last year, Los Angeles, March 2,—Cupid was | king again in Hollywood today and | romance lived a new for Pola Negri, | Polish tragedienne of the silver sheet, ples Chaplin, screenland's | us comedian, oth plighted over again hour desolate break, Miss i1 Was "too happy to sleep” when she reannounced it is the small hours ! of the day, and Mr. Chaplin was the typical “happiest man in the world,” when she entered his limousins after a conference of conciliation in which | the new queen of make believe sald he told her he “loved me and could not live without me.” | All Honey-Pie Again ! . e & “We have made up,” sald Miss MOLLA MALLORY Negri, "I believe that is what you call | Monte Carlo, March 2—(By the it here in America, Mr. Chaplin cgme | sggpofated Press)--Mrs. Molla Mal- to my home early last evening and he | 5;c American womun lawn tennis GERMAN TOWNS ARE HELD RESPONSIBLE French to Exact Penalties for Further Obstruction Measures BOCHUM HEAVILY ASSESSED and we are quite reconciled and en- gaged again. I am so happy I cannot go to sleep.” tournament here today, losing to Mrs, Satterthwaite of England in straight Mr. Chaplin denied to her that he .et&:tw,fil:unld’,“ the had told a newspaper he was “t00|champion's defeat in the singles, poor to mary just now; that this I8 | \ijen occurred at the semi final a work-a-day-word and we've all got| match this forenoon, there was in- to stay busy and keep away from|tenge interest in the remainder of the climaxes of sentiment. day’s play, as Mrs. Mallory and her It was that which precipated the | prench rival, Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen breaking of the engagement. Miss | were to face each other across the Negri read the accredited statement.|iennis net for the first time since Without reference to Mr. Chaplin the | wimbledon last July, when . the agreement to jwed was terminated ;’ French girl defeated the American abruptly. 4 3 | star for the world's title, 6-—2, 6—0. Weeps as She Writes | Although the rivals were not to A typewritten statement said the | meet in the singles hiere, the mere ap- newest star in America’s movies con- | pearance on the program of an- sidered herself “too poor to marry | Nouncement that Mlle. Lenglen and Charles Chaplin; he needs a wealthy | Miss Elizabeth Ryan, the former Cali- woman.” Tears, her own, not the ap- | fornian, were to compete in the wom- | plied glycerine of the profession, roil- | en's doubles against Mrs. Mallory and | ed down Miss Negri's cheeks as the | Miss Hewitt of England at 3 p. m. | | caused the Monto Carlo tennis fans | | to arrive early. (Continued on Third Page) Regarding Mlle. Lenglen's failure to | | play in the singles hepe, the ‘TELEfiRAP ?uluh issued the followihg statement, i H flPERATuR of Monto Carlo declargs it never an- | \ | nounced that Mile. ‘«%nne Lenglen would play in the sin$fes during the { tournament beginying} February 26, | knowing she was coming to Monto ! Cario only throngh cofirtesy.” Mrs. Malloey 568 patch showed Went to Wgrk TBU T LSt far bk e fionr ot S Nig]‘lt, Left Be‘ol’e 2 out-played in okt departments by Mrs, This Morning ! American 35,000,000 Marks Penalty — Teuton Officials Sent to Prison — French Control Railroads. | — CLAIM GERMANS MUST ! | i i PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE 5 ated Press)—In German sources it is alleged that all workmen registeying for em- ployment on., the militarized railway iines are required . to sign a formal declaration stat- ing: “I pledge mysell to perform the following labors for the I'rench Rhine republic.” 1 g Essen, March 2. (By Associ- en, March 2. -~ (By Associated regs)-—Citics and towns throughout the Ruhr valiey iee to he held respon- sible hervaffer tor sabotage or other etk ol dinere o S dest A0 Ay the French and Belgiaw armies of oc- ‘Satwcrthwaite, whe was apparently % near the top ejdrer game. The American champion made sev- eral double faults and also lacked control in the rallics, BRISTOL WORKER KILLED cupation, and fines will cordingly goutte, the I'rench military chief in the district, it was announced today. German officials of such towns will be liable to arrest and trial by court martial in serious cases, Bochum Heavily Fined The town of Bochum, which has been the scene of troublesome inci- dents iately, has been fined 35,000,000 covered about 2 o'clock this morn- marks as an outcome of German civil- {ing that he was missing. He investi- jan attacks upow French and German!gated and found that all the money civillans, it was announced. '@ the cash register was also missing. The fine was quickly collected. Members of the raiiroad auditors| I'rench troops swooped down on the|staff were calicd in today by Station lathaus yesterday, took exactly the|Agent Max S. Sugenheim, and al- amount of the fne, and left without|though no dcfinite information could further incident. | be obtained, it is said that $150 has Two news dealers were heaten by ! disappeared. a crowd of Germans who resented the George Ryan, train dispatcher at men's efforts to sell French news-| Hartford, told the “Herald” that little | hag shovelled away the coal on papers. e H o is known of “Madison.” He applicd hody, Salg served throughout The town of Ketiwig, near lssen |ror work a short time ago and was| world War in the na 'y telephone wires had gned to the Berlin depot. He been cut, was fined one million marks. \ont to work last night for the first This sum has not yet been collected. | yjme, M Officials Tmprisoned | It is expected that the railroad au- In Duesscldorf, Herr Wenzel, as- thorities will have a warrant issued sistant dircctor of posts and tele- | for “Madison's” arrest. graphs, was sentenced to six months, imprisonment, | e L The French and Tielgian forces of | occupation are adding to their rolling MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT ‘ stock for the operation of the German [ yailroans IFronch | Coventry Man, Living in Representa- | Babson ,s Sarvey A tclegraph operator who gave his name as Joseph I, Madison went on duty at the Berlin railroad station |Jast night at 11 o'clock and was sup- posed to remain at his key until 7 o'clgek this morning, l.ouis Holt dis- | New Departure Manufacturing Com- pany Man Soffccated Under Several Tons of Coal at Factory. Rristol, Conn,, March 2,—Otto Salg, an employee of the New Departure manufacturing company was killed today when he fell into a coal chute at the company's plant and was { buried under several tons of coal. his HAD ALCOHOL IN CAR. Stamford, March 2.-—Nicholas Com- eta and I‘rank H. Somma, both of Springficld, Mass,, were arrested here |today for a traffic violation. TIn their |automobile was found 200 gallons of alcohol. They were turned over to ‘the federal authorities. Yesterday at Mulheim, s TR i tive's House, Hit by Bullet Fired (Continuved on Page Twenly-Two) Throngh Window This Morning. Coventry, Conn, March 2.-—State | police today began an investigation of | the shooting early this morning o® Woman Shot and | William Christenson, who was hit by la bullet which came through a win- | dow while he was alone in the house STODDARD FINED $30 FOR rnite e was aione in e houre [SSIJING WORTHLESS CHECK —While | put out the light, but there was no | yow Britain Man Pleads Nolo Con- He was not able to get ‘Wildwood, N. J., Killed While She Holds Her Infant | of Baby in Her Arms, i Wildwood, N. J., March 2. holding her seven months' old infant| further shot. in her arms, Mrs. Emma McKeown @ telephone eonnection until severa? was shot and killed in the Fremont | hours later. The state pofice were| * hote] today. I°red llinger, accused of | notified and Christenson was taken to Killing,-cscaped. The baby was-un- | Manchester for medical treatment, | harmed. He has a slight wound in the side.| tendere When Arraigned in Hartford Police Court, W, C. Stoddard of this city pieaded | . ® I nolo contendere before Judge Solo- Refusal by Mrs, McKeown to leave s Christenson has _bfr‘n H\'lng. alone Inf o0 Eisner in the Hartford police her husband and clope with Eliinger, | th¢ ho I8 Sor several days, Vinton be- | ot ‘this morning, when ralgned prompted the deed, police said. | ing ill, and staying with relatives else-| " charge of tssilng a fraudulens £X , o ;\\-hvrv. Last fall Christenson for 50 o the state AULOMO. | wounded in the arm while working commission and was fined $50 — | bit { i the Wouds Here, Byl (WS TH0BENS n:\‘t costs. He was represented by Eclipse of Moon Is it yer David 1. Nair of this city. was caused by a stray shot rromclm\ {a hunter's rifle, Mis fine was paid VEibIe in émericg | iT““ arly This Evening || by ONESSA VETOES SALARY RAISE FOR E. J. DANBER [ NAUGATUCK WINS, | ew Haven, March 2.--The second 1da play in the Yale interscholastic basketball tournament for Connecticut Chicago, Marc eclipse will be v America tonight. stayed late. I have taken him back 'champion was eliminated in the tennls | tennis | “The committee of \La Kesta club | He was dead when fellow workers | the | Better in antral West Section Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 9’1 74 February 24th PRICE THREX CENTS HERAL 1923, ~TWENTY-FOUR PAGES e FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE IS FIRM IN DECLINING TO ACT UPON HARDING’S PROPOSAL THIS SESSION i Hughes Surprises Sena- tors by His Prompt Re- | ply, But Some Do Not " Consider Answers Com- in Door and Escapes. ‘ THREE, THEN RACES ON plete Patrick Dufty, known as “the skip- Blood Spattered Car Found |Secretary Calls Especial At- Wrecked Later—Phila. | tention to Non-Compul- Society Man Is Held \' sory Clause of Protocol Creating International Court, Duffy Narrowly Escapes Death In j_r:e on Raiqu_ad Arcade Paaned in by Plames and SPEEDING AUTO KILLS Smoke, He Breaks Glass | | frpr,” employed as a hostler by James | F, White, had a narrow escape from |serious injury today in an early morn- |ing fire that did about $2,000 damage in the store operated by B, Horen- steln at No, 1 Rallroad Arcade, and in a harness storage room of Mr. | White. Duffy was taken to the New Britain general hospitai, suffering from ugly cuts and gashes about the arms and hands, sustained when he was breaking his way out of the smoke filled room, The blaze evidently started, accord- {ing to Chief William J. Noble, in a |small room at the rear of the Horen- Philadelphia, March 2,—~Two wom- en and a man were killed early to-| | day when an automobile, travelling |at a high rate of speed, crashed into | them as they were alighting from a , ! trolley car in West Phnudelfihla. Tne | YVeshington, ‘March ho: floniee | driver of the machine did not slacken | 10n not to act at this session of con- his speed, but rushed away’ as his|gress on President Harding's proposal victims were hurled 50 feet from the |for American membership in the in- spot where they were struck. {ternational court of justice was re- Twenty minutes later Henry G.| 4 2 affirmed by the senate foreign rela- stein store. It spread rapidly, both|Brook, banker, clubman and member through the store and downward into|o0f a widely known Philadelphia | ions committee today after it had Ithe White storeroom. Sergeant|family, was found four blocks from |t€ceived a further explanation of the {Michael J. Flynn on hearing the paign and Appoint Committees— i J. §. North General Chairmgn. ' it/ Wowking Him—11 Arrests, RILL IN PRLPARATION, new and more acceptable bill is being prepared for action by the legislatu the house today rejected a measure to tax property owned by the state and used for residential 8. Representative 1. W, of this city explai that the bill has some merit, but 1t the tax commissioner has gone inio-the mat- ter thoroughly and favors the bill | shortly to be offered. NEW REPORTS GIRL MISSING Mrs. Priscilla Jackson Tells Police Her Nicce, Ethel Robinson, 2y Left for Parts Unknown, ley Finds Business Hearing;?nv Charter Amendments Planned (Quoted Locally Only by The Herald), | Chicago, March Roger W. Bab- son toc weleased the tnied | ment of his annual survey of busi- ness condiitons in the United States and Canada. He here-in trea what he calls the ‘Industrial West'- that great section immediately tribu- tary wo Chicago, including Indiana, insta UPHOLDS ATTY, Haven, March 2 FitzGerald today answered re- ALLING kless driving. |4uickly at a meeting called by Chair- l“' at 3:15 o'clock. | | of questions sent to the White House ened by the smell of smoke. He found | Surprised at Hughes While breaking the glass he sustained | daughter, Mrs. Clara Hart. Mrs. | |senators said they wouid not consider /GOAL OF §50,000 SET FOR ) the acident despite the articles found protocol creating the court of intérna- { Corporation Officers Discuss Cam- ,n “automobile while intoxicated. Toagreo heforshand ' duopliaese nient of the semate as clearly defined b orporsti 2% this , A ommuniin gorporution "y L Fade ot {Mob-—They Shoot Throngh [f.cazie of Nations protocol creating fittbe SOOI affecting them as compulsory in all jand lodged in the Alachua jail after | committees were appointed: IMnance ford; team captains, . W. Peltoni| More than fifty shots were fired by | be appointed within the next week. ing through the doors and windows. § Be Candidate for Good- arrested and lodged in jail. A special! | place on the school committee to suce Has to a query by the “Herald," street, colored, complained to the meeting of the common ¢éouncil, to a house in the castern part of the | Rutherford's name will be sybmitted both of whom are roamers. ed a councilman from the second Business Reported About Mayor A. M. Paonessa is planning ry) time position. He served in that that all the proposals be thoroughly | ¢ representatives in the general as- Mayor Da-|[created, he was one of ex-Mayor O, ricultural, out are rapidly changing Which he refused to remove the |has just been completed | the scene of the killing, standing be- iudmlnmrution's pufpose from Presi- shouts of a colored hostler rushing}shlo a blood-spattered ent Harding and Secretary Hughes. ost from the alleyway ieading to the | wrecked against a pole, The committee took its position {hundlng. gounded an alarm from Box | rested on a charge of rei i A fur neck piece worn by one of man lLodge after he had received a When the firemen arrived, they|the women was found wedged be-|brief note from the president trans- |found the rear of the stors a seeth- | tween the mud guard and the radiator |M/Hting a long and technical letter |ing mass of flames. Duffy, who was|of the car. A barrette was embedded [Tom Mr. Hughes in response to a list |asleep in the storage room, was awak- | in the radiator. | The dead are Mrs. Ellen O'Donnell, | ¢arlier in the week the doors leading into the place lock- | 65 years old, Leo O'Donnell, 29, her | Later Senator Lodge had the twe fed, and in the dense smoke, he ex-|son, and Miss Mary Murphy, 18. | letters p]aceq in the congress record | perienced some difficulty in reaching | The three were returning from a | Without reading. |the door leading out into the yard.|birthday party for Mrs. O'Donnell's g | Privately, Senator Lodge and others |several cuts. The firemen were kept|O'Donnell was a widow and the |CXPressed surprise at the promptness |busy at the piace until 4:15 o'clock | mother of eight children. Miss Mur- |Of Secretary Hughes' reply, and some {before the recall was sounded. phy was a high school senior, s ld they movld b fone | Brock, who admitted that he had ‘;Z:;‘:’;‘s‘g;‘:&i‘:“yi“ e g dra ome ale, 1 viedge b rank some ale, denied knowledge of |"SG LIS TR CERRNC L 0 of the | on his car. APRIL GOMMUNITY DRIYE i § tional justice was again called to the A ! Brock was held without bail on a ; dn nomicide charge. He was also held [2itention of the senate by Secretary in $5,000 bail on a charge of driving| ' o5 ? jurisdietion of the court over interna- !tional disputes, the secretary conced- LYKGHI“G FR,USTRATED {ed, would be contrary to the senti- i | ; it G ny. occasions ‘in the past. . No {. At a mceting of the officers and| 3 e O, P9 cutive 4¢ e < Unitei! Flovidg Sgerif® Slams Doox Shat in [$uch agreement would. bhe necesaary, exocutive scommitter of the dp st i35 sy 5 a \ ritai lub it wis | r;oz‘;lni ‘:lt :,:‘:t ’::r‘ 13'(:::";(: ‘::,‘L.m:,! the court gave participating nations ;‘;g‘“fl whith quuw,“ o Apeil. 3, | an opportunity to elect beforehand i 7 2 /| ¢ W rcisions f balako, Tla, March 2:—(By the whether they would regard decisio James 8. North has been named | Associated, Press)-—FBleven members | oo chairman of the campaign and at|of a mob were captured early today | the luncheon today the following | being repulsed by Sheriff Hagan | C. J. Law, F. G. Vibberts, . M. when they attempted to storm the Whiteman; publicity, H. C. Wilson, J‘ Putnam jail here and get a negro| . . Loomis; speakers, W. C. Hunger-| prisoner, | EAT "N S[;H[ml BUAR" luncheons, T.. A. Sprague, H. A. [Ir-|the mob into the jail, one striking‘S win and E. J. Porter; church notices, | Hagan in the left arm. The :rherlfi; P. F. King. slammed the jail door in the face of | o The teams and team captains Wit the mob which retreated after shoot- | Former Representative May The full quota not raised last| A fifty foot rope was left behind. vear but the workers this year plan| A telephone message to the Alachua =iy RiE to go over the top. authorities atter the mob retreated re- win’s Position s sulted in 11 in their number being grand jury is expected to be called| Arthur N. Rutherford who has been immediately. All of the 11 are white | prominently identified with city and el | state politics for the past 10 years, | will probably be a candidate for a ceed E. Clayton Goodwin, resigned. ends of the former city and state official have discussed the subject with him, he this morning in answer and he is giving consideration to the subject. Because the resignation can- Mrs. Priscilla Jackson of 812 Stan- not be acted upon until the March policé today that her 186 which will be but a few weeks betore nicce, Ethel Robinson, was m election, it is not likely that a sucs from her home. The complainant, cessor to Mr. Goodwin will be named said she believed the girl cither went | by the council. It is likely that M, | city or left town. Mrs, Jackson also | to the republican town committee for \ . » N “‘“XT" that :*h'""‘”'":"‘l the girl to be | action at the spring primaries. Car Loadings 15 Per Cent in company with two girls, hailing| 'he prospective candidate entered from Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, | public lite in 1913 when he was Over Year Ago—General ward He resigned April 2 1914, and on May 1 of that year he wus appointed to the office of building in- - (), or Nor spector, which ha st been made i 1 Pel (,ent 0\@1 A\Ol mal sy or, which had just been a one or more hearings on proposed | ,pacity fite years, resigning August et amendments to the charter before 1919, to engage in private cons they are taken up for action in the (. cting business. In 1921 he began legislature. Fhe mayor is anxious|yig gervice as a member of the house understood by the public before the |gembly, and during his term of office IPRIIAHICS. B OIS in the legislature was a member of the committee on cities and boroughs. When the building commission was Curtis's appointees. He scrved as Illinois, Towa, Missouri, Michigan and | cent charges made by the New Haven |secretary of the committeo and did a Wisconsin. trades council against State’s Attorney considerable amount of work on the “These states were once wholly ag- A. A. Alling, issuing a statement in |revision of building ordinances which irto an industrial section. New fac- | state’s attorney from the New Haven! Upon the death of Building Inspec- tories arc springing up every da board of education, as requested in a [tor John W. Allen, he re ed from the younger genetation are leaving | petition from the trades council. the commission and acted for several farming for building, manufacturing months as building inspector. When hecaura _ the. With the exception ,of the total eclipse of the sun on Sep- tember 10, next, visible only in California and Mexico on the continent, the moon's eclipse will be the only occultation visible this year in North America. i Edwin 1B, Frost, director of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis, said the first faint trace of the eclipse can be seen at 8:28 central standard time with the northeastern portion of the moon hecoming obscured. The height of the eclipse will be réached about 9:32 and the shadow will leave the north- western portion at 10:35. Explains He is Opposed 'To Adding To ! City Expenses Not Included | In Budget Mayor A. M. Paonessa has exercised his power of veto in the resolution (passed by the common council at its | February session to increase the sal- ary of Emil J. Danberg, clerk of the city and police courts from $1,5600 to $2,000. The vetoed resolution win come up for action by the council Wednesday evening, March 21, The mayor explained that his ac- tion was taken as a matter of policy as he disapproves of the practice of adding on expenses not provided for in the budget. !schools got under way this morning | with a game between Torrington and | Naugatuck High schools, Naugatuck | High won, 28 to 21. South Manchester High defeated Simsbury 32 to 21. Commercial High, | New Haven, won from Stamford High 31 to 8. Wilby High, Waterbury, deefated Meriden 18 to 7. 25 0 - o e mes | THE WEATHER —l'orecast Vicinity: and Hartford, March for New Rritain and Fair and warmer tonig) Saturday; southerly winds, i WANT HIGHER WAGES aiam, Mg March 2.—~One of the largest local; feder- and trade. Yet the total idea under cultivation continues to hold its own. Car Loadings Gair “Every section of America,” says Mr. Babson, “has its best barometer of business. For New England it 1s the number of spincles in operation— for Pennsylvania the number of blast furnaces, for New York the total for- eign trade, ete. The best barometer | for the ‘Industrial West' is the total ar loadings at Chicago. These since | January 1. 1923, arc running well | ahead of the corresponding weeks of | *¢T collar manufacturer, a director of {1922 and compare well with the|George P. Ide and company, incorpor- |total car loadings for the entire|ated, died suddenly today. He was count For the current month of |born in Troy in 1850 and was gradu- iwz: the net ear loadings were about ated from Williams college in 1871, of the American F ation of textile operatives in this city has voted to instruct its officers to negotiate with the Naumkeag Steam Cotton eompany management for an | Increase in wages. No definite amount | has been set. COLLAR KING DEAD, Troy, N. Y. Mar, 2—Jas. M. Ide, pion- |entering the collar business two years (Continued on Second Page). |later Inspector John C. Gilchreest was ap- |pointed, Mr. Rutherford accepted a | place 1n the state police department ns a special inspector of public build- ings. He has been a member of the rter revision committees of the ast two years and was at one time a member of the board of compensa- tion and assessment, He is also president of the Smith school Parents and Teachers' associas | [ion. j Mr. Rutherford is engaged at press ent in the contracting business. Be« cause there is an elaborate program of schaol building extensions now be- fore the school hoard and there are no practical builders on the commit- tee, friends have urged him to seek the place now vacant. i i o~ e